The Broad Ax

MRS. D. E. SUBLETT AND MRS. MARGARET BROWN, OF QUINN CHAPEL, CALLED ON JULIUS F. TAYLOR. VOL. VII. Much to our surprise last Friday evening Mesdames D. E. Sublett and Margaret Brown, who are two of the most worthy stewardesses of Quinn Chapel, visited our humble home for the sole purpose of ascertaining our reason for writing as we have recently respecting Quinn Chapel and its pastor, Rev. A. J. Carey. For various reasons the writer did not ask Mrs. Sublett nor Mrs. Brown if they had been sent out as apes by Rev. A. J. Carey, or All Hash Roberts, but we assume that they were. These two ladies were very anxious to ascertain if any person had ever requested the writer to assail Rev. Carey, or to bombard or write against Quinn Chapel. In reply to these and to the many other questions which they propounded, we gave them to distinctly understand that we had never been approach by any one with that object in view, that what had appeared in The Broad Ax from time to time was written by ourselves, and as the editor and publisher of The Broad Ax, we were entirely responsible for everything which appeared in its columns concerning Quinn Chapel. That plain statement on our part rather staggered the ladies for several minutes, then Mrs. Sublett, who did most of the talking, wanted to know if we did not think it was wrong to degrade their church and its members in the eyes of the many thousands of white people who are readers of The Broad Ax. Our answer to that question was that all that had been stated was the absolute truth, that no one could honestly deny it. Then Mrs. Sublett declared that she did not think we possessed any conscience, for the reason that we experienced so much joy in slandering the women of our race. Mrs. Sublett and Mrs. Brown were very emphatically informed that at no time did we slander the women of our race nor the women of any other race, that in our articles we refrained from mentioning any woman's name who was at the present prominently connected with Quinn Chapel. Then Mrs. Sublett maintained that we were a traitor to our race for no other reason than being bitterly opposed to Negro preachers. In responding to that charge we asserted in the most positive language that in our opinion the Negro preacher has always been the greatest load-stone around the neck of the Negro; that the vast majority of the Negro ministers were perfectly willing to permit the rank and file of the race to grow up in ignorance providing that they, the preachers, can rob and bleed them out of their hard earned money for the purpose of maintaining them in luxury and idleness. Mrs. Sublett and Mrs. Brown were both horrified and shocked at these expressions and they exclaimed that if we knew so much about the law in relation to the locating of saloons so near the churches, and if we were in favor of reform in conducting the affairs of the churches, we ought to join the church and assist in carrying on the Lord's work. We intimated to the ladies that the churches do not want reformers, that if anyone connected themselves with the church with the view of advocating reform in the conduct of its affairs, they would be thrown out of it through the window; that it was our intention to work or labor for the moral and intellectual advancement or improvement of the Negro race outside or independent of the churches; that no race of people can ever make any permanent progress as long as it is swayed or controlled by religious superstition. These ideas did not take very well with the ladies. Then they contended that they thought "it was immoral or wrong to state in our paper that All Hash Roberts was in favor of holding on to Rev. A. J. Carey's shirt-fall, that that was not nice reading for little children." The idea was conveyed to them that if the parents of children who belonged to or worshiped at Quinn Chapel, never used more demoralizing nor derrading language in the pres ence of their children than shirt-tail, their childreh would be forever blessed. At that juncture Mrs. Sublett spoke up quite sharp and said that if we had maintained that "her husband wanted to hang on to Rev. Carey's shirt-tall that Mr. Sublett would have ended our life by filling our body with lead and powder from his revolver," or words to that effect. No doubt Mrs. Sublett labored under the impression that by unbosoming herself of such expressions that it would frighten Mrs. Taylor and ourselves and that from henceforth we would not have the courage to write one line pertaining to Quinn Chapel nor Rev. A. J. Carey, but right here we want to inform Mrs. Sublett and others that there is not one drop of the blood of a coward in our veins, and that as long as we continue to breathe the breath of life we shall always adhere to the truth in all things regardless of the drivel of men, devils or Gods. As Mrs. Sublett and Mrs. Brown were in the act of bidding Mrs. Taylor and ourself good-bye, Mrs. Sublett further asserted that "God would answer their prayers. That it would be only a question of time before we would be punished by God for writing against his chosen people." We have nothing to say against Mrs. Sublett, Mrs. Brown, or any one else for honestly believing that God will pour out his wrath upon our head for our past or future deeds, and at this time we will only cite two instances to prove the unfruitfulness of prayer. The immediate successor of Mahomet marched at the head of his army which over-ran Syria and Asia Minor, and when he arrived at the gates of Jerusalem all the Christians marched out against him fully expecting to retard his onward march by singing, shouting and praying. But such was not the case. The gates and the walls surrounding the city of Jerusalem were battered down by Mahomet, and his soldiers, the churches were destroyed, the sepulcher of Jesus was demolished, his cross was carried away with shouts of laughter and sold as priceless relics. But amid all those scenes, God, who is supposed to answer prayers at all times, sat still and motionless in the heavens and did not raise his little finger against Mahomet, and his followers. His ears were sealed to those who prayed and piped unto him, and all the prayers which have been uttered for over 1400 years by those who believe in prayers and miracles have not caused their God to compel the Mahomedonions to depart from the land or the birthplace of Christianity. July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot in Washington, D. C., by Guiteau, and for many weeks thereafter he lingered between life and death. A short time prior to his death Acting President Arthur urged all the people to assemble in their various places of worship and petition God to spare the life of the wounded President. But God hearkened not unto their prayers and James A Garfield was snatched from this life into eternity. Therefore all rational or reasoning beings must conclude that the Gods do not answer prayers, that they, the Gods, do not interfere in the affairs of men. Two years ago while a meeting was being held among all the candidates on the democratic ticket of Cook county, one of the leading candidates who always receives a big vote from the colored voters, and who is a practical politician, suggested to his fellow candidates "that some effort ought to be put forth to induce the Col. voters to support the Dem. ticket." As soon as these words were uttered Henry Stuckart, who was a candidate for member of the Board of Assessors, exclaimed "To hell with the niggers!" and all we have to say to Mr. Stuckart at this time is that in case he should succeed in getting on the county ticket this coming fall that there are many thousands of "niggers," as he delights to call them, who are ready and waiting to get a chance at his flighty brained head. HEW TO THE LINE. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH IS STILL HARRASSED WITH LAW SUITS. The Oivet Baptist church has not made a settlement with its creditors, yet the litigation continues. W. Morava, one of the sub-contractors, filed a new suit against the church within the last two weeks for about $3,500. But no one JOHN J. The new Alderman of the 30th Ward an opponent last Tuesday, in spite of his own party. [Name] JOHN J. BRADLEY. The new Alderman of the 30th Ward who triumphed over his strong Republican opponent last Tuesday, in spite of much opposition within the ranks of his own party. The new Alderman of the 30th Ward who triumphed over his strong Republican opponent last Tuesday, in spite of much opposition within the ranks of his own party. has heard one word from Rev. Thomas about it and it is not true that he has always informed his congregation of every legal step taken by J. M. Higginbohan, and at the same time used the most condemning language against said Higginbotham. Other legal steps have also been taken by other creditors and he never says anything about it. Why does he discriminate? This suit calls for their lawyer to go into court and thus they continue to spend the people's money in court. But what does Rev. Thomas care? It don't cost him anything. He says to the people, "Come on with your money." It has been reported that the church's lawyer pays Rev. Thomas a commission on all the money received by him from the church as attorney's fees. It has also been said that Rev. Thomas said that he would be willing to loose the church if he could keep Higginbothan out of his money. And it is said that it is the cause of the delay in the settlement. It has been said also that Rev. Thomas informed his congregation that the whole affair pertaining to a settlement was out of his hands and that it is controlled by the white man who gave the money. But we have been informed by parties who are in a position to know that the white man who gave the money has nothing to do with the settlement. All he will do is to pay the creditors when he gets the proper orders from the church to do it. So according to this version the whole affair as far as settling with the creditors, is still controlled by the church and not by the white man who is ready to square up with the creditors of Old Olivet. Gov. Burke of North Dakota, spent four or five hours inspecting the work at Normal on the 26th. He made an able address in the chapel. Mr. Lucas, of Gammon, gave a highly enjoyable reading this week. Bishop Turner will deliver our annual address May 26th. Dr. R. H. Boyd will deliver the annual address to our Industrial Graduating Class May 26th. President Council receives letters almost daily from leading white men, white debating societies, etc., in all parts of the Union, asking his opinion on the great race questions. ```markdown ``` NORMAL NOTES. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? Those who have been inclined to look with some misgivings at to the attitude of The Guardian and its politics will see by the following editorial comment, which is quoted from the Boston Evening Record of March 14, that The Guardian is right and that they owe this BRADLEY. who triumphed over his strong Republic-much opposition within the ranks of paper an apology. The Record is a paper printed by a white firm and cannot be supposed to have any of that jealousy of the success of Mr. Washington which colored papers are said to have whenever they criticise him for playing politics. This is what the Record says: "Booker Washington is making a mistake going around and getting colored office holders to pledge themselves to deliver Roosvelt delegations in 1904 as a prerequisite for reappointment to the places they now hold. We have believed, from the start, that Col. Roosevelt will be nominated for President in 1904. He is in just the position Arthur was and he has no Blaine against him. But he will not be helped by such dragooning of colored office holders as Booker Washington is represented as doing in the case of J. W. Lyons of Georgia, register of the treasury, and, as for Booker, he will kill himself and the cause of Negro education which, up to this time, he has served so successfully." This looks very much like an endorsement of the position which The Guardian has already taken, and whether it is or not, it is very clear from the Record's position that the whites are willing to endorse Mr. Washington as long as he preaches the doctrine of the Negro's abstaining from politics. But as soon as he seems to have a little something to say in things political they see that he is going at once to the bow-wow. Washington had better take The Guardian's advice and stick to his school only if he does not wish to outlive his own notoriety.—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. The Annual Charity Ball given by the Triangular and Inner Circle Clubs on last Monday night, at the 1st Regiment Armory, was a grand success. The grand march was led by Mr. Wilder and Miss Palmer of the West side, d was well worth the price of admission alone. The boxes were well filled, and among those present were Rev. A. Lealtad, Mr. and Mrs. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. De Koven Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Cuff and Mr. and Mrs. Smiley, Jr. and Sr. The north side was well represented as well as the west side... From the number present it must have been a great financial success: CHIPS. Alderman Wm. F. Brennan some howor other, fell on the outside of the breast-works in the 12th ward. During last year 39,870 persons emigrated from Ireland, which was 7,237 less than left the country in 1900. Sunday Morning Prof. M. M. Mangasarian lectures in the Grand Opera House on "Thomas Henry Huxley." County Commissioner R. B. Organ, left for Kansas City, Mo., Monday night where he will spend three or four days with friends. John M. Harlan and the miss-reformers came very near treading on the heels of Aldermens H. L. Flck, 9th ward, and Wm. E. Kent, 4th ward. The Closer we come in contact with many of the men who endeavored to do, or to play politics last Tuesday, the high opinion we entertain for respectable dogs. Mr. Henry Lutzenkirchen, private secretary to Robert E. Burke, and secretary of the Department of Public Works, has been granted a six months' vacation without pay. Alderman N. R. Finn, 20th Ward, who has made a magnificent record in the city council the past two years, made a home run Tuesday, and Alderman Kinn is safe for two years longer. Eddie J. Novak, who is classed by the reformists as one of the long, hungry gray wolves, much to the disgust n: the better element residing in the 10th ward, will continue to misrepresent them in the city council. State Senator Bernard J. Maguire, who is known to all the live ones in the 9th Senatorial District, will go into the next senatorial convention stronger than ever, and the senator is a sure winner for he is an all around campaigner. Alderman William C. Kuester, 26th Ward, who is always true to the interest of the people, ran like a wild deer Tuesday, and the election returns show that the people of the 26th Ward still have faith in Alderman Kuester. If Mike Walsh could have succeeded in getting out the Republican vote the chances are that he might have broken into the council from the 30th Ward, for he came within 368 votes of defeating Alderman-elect John J. Bradley. Over seventy per cent of the Colored voters in the 1st ward voted for John J. Coughlin and our reason for not liking Alderman Coughlin, is that heretofore he has looked upon all Colored men as crap-shooters. Policyplayers, gamblers and whisky heads. It is a mighty good omen for the Democratic party at large that Grandaddy U. S. James K. Jones, of Arkansas, was defeated for re-election to the U. S. Senate for that means that the party will have a new chairman of the National Committee in 1904. The Broad Ax was sorry to see Alderman Charles Martin routed in the 5th Ward for as far as we know Alderman Martin has always been true to his friends, but many of his supposed friends and John M. Harlan was the cause of his downfall. Alderman-elect John J. Bradley put up a hard fight all along the line Tuesday, and he won out, and as long as Alderman Bradley, who received the votes of many Afro-Americans, remains true to the interest of all the people, he can have the support of The Broad Ax. After July 1, 1902, the only kind of pistol that can be used lawfully in South Carolina will be a formidable affair twenty-two inches long and weighing not less than three pounds. There will be some bootlegging in pistols done in South Carolina after that date. Ex-Police Inspector Luke Kalas, who is well and favorably known to all the people of Chicago, is now established in the wholesale liquor business at 729 Milwaukee av. The firm of Kalas & Co. carry a large stock of high-grade whiskies, wines, and liquors, and their business is rapidly increasing. Col. Thomas Rees, manager of State Register, Springfield, Ill., has been honored by the Democratic party of Sangamon and Morgan counties, with the nomination for State Serator for the 45th senatorial district, and Col. Rees NO. 24: who is decidedly popular with all the newspaper men throughout Illinois, will surely be elected to the state senate. Mrs. George W. Plummer, 2039 Kenmore avenue, who is very prominent in club and reform work among women and who is a splendid type of the best product of American womanhood, gave a luncheon at her home Tuesday in honor of Mrs. J. S. Yates of Kansas City. Several other ladies were present and had the pleasure of lunching with Mrs. Plummer and Mrs. Yates. Mr. S. D. Fowler has tendered his resignation as president of the South End Sunday Club, which meets at St. Mark's M. E. Church, 47th and State streets. His administration has been generally pronounced a success, and it is unfortunate that the good work of the club should be interested by the disturbances which hae recently occurred at its meetings. The Leading Afro-American club women of this city entertained Mrs. J. Silone Yates, of Kansas City, at a dinner given in her honor at the Institutional church, 39th and Dearborn street, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Yates is the President of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and she is highly educated and one of the foremost women of the colored race. Mrs. L. A. Davis very gracefully presided over the affair. Alderman John Minwegen and Jimmy Quinn didn't do a thing to Boss Burke and his band in the 21st Ward. Alderman Minwegen was returned to the council by 1,245 majority and Jimmy Quinn is tossing his hat high up in the air over his great victory, for in spite of the money which it is claimed Boss Burke blowed in Tuesday for the purpose of laying out the City Sealer, the latter gentleman has got the little fat North side statesman on the run. Shortly after Mr. David L. Frank decided to attempt to brake into the city council from the 1st ward, his political manager, Freeman, stated in our presence that the money he expected to expend for Mr. Frank, would be spent in saloons and not with newspapers. It's true that that cheap skate Freeman and his assistants, worked the saloons but that did not elect Mr. Frank and as far as we were able to see there was no difference between the methods employed by the would-be alderman and the tactics adopted by Alderman Coughlin to secure votes for both candidates to their greatest ability debaued the electorate of the ward with fighting or kill-me-quick whisky in order to get them to cast their votes in their favor; it is revolting to think that men claiming to be decent are every ready to dehumanize or beastialize their fellow creatures. Like John J. Coughlin and David L. Frank did in order to hold an office or acquire political prominence. SPECIAL NOTICE. Our article on Messrs Robert E. Burke and Fred E. Eldred will not appear until the next issue of The Broad Ax. It is a long lane that has no tin can. Life is one grand toboggan slide and every fellow has to pull his own sled uphill. It is easy to convince a man of error, but hard to make him acknowledge that he is convinced. Most of the fellows who rail against the trust are kicking because the trust won't.—Baltimore News. Don't preach unless you practice. Deeds are more convincing. Don't groan over the wickedness of this world, but mend your own. Don't confound hauteur with dignity. One wins dislike, the other resnect. FOR RENT. Four room flat on the North Side, modern improvements, rent $12 per month. 10 Chestnut Place. For further particulars apply to D. C. Smith, 3128 State Street. Will presentigate and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Athletes, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is found. The Bound Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; its only on one side of the paper. One Year.....$2.00 Two Months.....1.60 Advertising rates made known on application affirms all communications to THE BROAD AX, 1849 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. The Louisville crusade against limburger cheese is up against a strong game. There are twelve Paradises in the United States, but most people seem to prefer New York. A new club in London is called the "Columbia." Perhaps Sir Thomas Lipton suggested the name. The best suggestion King Edward has made for coronation week is the proposed dinner to London's poor. Banker Andrews of Detroit has again shown how easy it is to make a splurge when other people furnish the money. Mr. Mary E. Wilkins will find it quite trying to live up to the standard of some of the husbands in his wife's books. The peanuts which Texas is sending to the Boston markets this season are said to have a pronounced flavor of petroleum. A Baltimore man was stricken dumb while cursing his wife. This should serve to further popularize southern chivalry. A Kansas philosopher announces that "living is a nightmare." He should try the brand they have at some other blind pig. 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. Sir Thomas Lipton has begun building Shamrock III., and may as well begin thinking of plans for Shamrock IV. right away. Wireless telephones are about to materialize. Eventually the entire business of the country will be done by means of air signals or ozone waves. British farmers want reasonable freight rates. The railroads are willing to give rates to them, but insist on determining themselves waat is reasonable. A dozen coeds of the University of Chicago tried to quiet the cries of a baby, but failed dismally. Any one of the number might have been more successful. Andrew Carnegie is finding friends throughout Christendom. Mexico wants only $4,000,000 for libraries. That's what comes of a man's wanting to die poor. A bit of wisdom like the following could be located only in China: "There are things which can never be imagined, but there is nothing which may not happen." Duke Karl Theodor, in Bavaria, the oculist prince, recently performed his four thousandth operation for cataract at his clinic in Munich. His wife acted as his assistant. Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear, because no giant scrt of dredge machine has yet been dipped by Pierpont Morgan there. The Washington Times is responsible for the statement that limburger cheese makes drunkards. And there is considerable limburger cheese to strengthen this statement. A cable dispatch says that Venezuelan revolutionists have just won an important victory. Unfortunately, however, the correspondent neglected to report which revolution these revolutionists belong to. Chicago commission men have discovered Wisconsin chickens with gold in their gizzards. The proof of an ambition on the part of chickens to lay golden eggs is highly commendable. They should not be discouraged. An Iowa woman has sued a dead man for breach of promise of marriage and recovered $6,000 damages. The poor fellow is left with only a small balance of $50 to start housekeeping in his present location. It is announced that the new president of the National Congress of Mothers has children of her own. It is safe to say, therefore, that she has neighbors who don't believe she knows the least thing about the business. An ex-cabinet officer and a few friends plotted to drink Minister Wu under the table. With a sweet, sad, sober smile Wu helped each and every one of them to bed. Here is the only "Yellow Peril" worth worrying about THE DISAPPEARANCE OF AUNT LOU. A man and a woman stand in front of a house, with a man kneeling in front of them. The woman is standing on the left, wearing a dress and a hat, while the man is standing on the right, wearing a suit and a hat. They appear to be engaged in a conversation. A GUN SHOT FROM THE WINDOW INTERRUPTED HIM. Two dwellings, peace, are thine. One is the mountain height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the realm of shadows—fine, And far, and clean—where advent of the Means only glorious nearness of the stars, And dawn, unhindered, breaks above the bars That long the lower world in twilight keep. Thou sleepest not, and hast no need of sleep, For all thy cares and fears have dropped OLD Miss Louise Bovet had been missing for two months when the case was put in the hands of the Pinkertons and McKnight of the Pittsburg office came up to Brevador, Ill., to begin what he meant should be a systematic search for her. He had his instructions from old Pierre Bovet, a rich farmer living near Altoona, the brother of the lost spinster, and he knew enough about the family to hope for their best help. Louis Bovet, of Brevador, younger brother of Louise, met the detective at the little station, and as they drove out together to the farmhouse which the old woman had left to be seen no more, Louis explained all that he knew of his sister's disappearance. "Aunt Lou come up from Altoony last December to spend Christinas with us," he began. "You know she was allus visiting Pierre or me or my brother John, who lives near Omaha. We're all farmers. Well, she was took down with pleurisy in January, and Easter come round before she was fit for trav- A GUN SHOT FROM THE WI eling. Me and Mirandy, that's my wife, drove into Brevador Easter Sunday morning and left Henry, that my boy, to home with his Aunt Lou. They was to drive in town in the evening in time to say us goodbye and catch the train for Omaha. We was spending the day with Pete Hugginses' family and was for staying over Easter. Well, about 7 o'clock in the evening I seen Henry, that's my boy, coming along in the buggy driving the roan mare, and Aunt Lou sitting aside of him. I was up in the attic room, but I come done to help Lou out of the buggy. When I got down they were gone, and I allowed that Lou was for buying her railroad ticket first before saving us good-by. "But she never come back," resumed the outspoken farmer, with a sigh. "Hezry showed up at Hugginses, near midnight. He'd been skylarking around town. I sat him where was Aunt Lou, and he says she got out of the buggy at Hugginses' gate and, spite of my explaining that I'd run down to meet her, and she wasn't there, he stuck to it, and no mistake she had got out at Huggenses' gate. Of course she might have done it, but I'll swan she never come near the house. She must have just walked away. Of course we thought she must have caught the train for Omaha, but along comes a letter about a week after, and John asking, 'Where's Aunt Lou?' We wrote down to Altooay asking brother Pierre if Lou was there. No, she never showed on there. That's all we know. We've ```markdown ``` The night's fatigue, the fever-fret of day, Are far below thee; and earth's weary wars. In vain expense of passion, pass Before thy sight like visions in a glass. Or like the wrinkles of the storm that creep Across the sea and leave no trace Of trouble on that immemorial face So brief appear the conflicts, and so slight The wounds men give, the things for which they fight which they fight. Henry Van Dyke, in Harper'a Magazine. EARANCE AUNT LOU. ast everybody in Brevador and nobody seen her after she left the buggy." "Did anybody see her leave the buggy?" asked McKnight. "Only Henry. But a-plenty seen her coming along in the buggy with Henry. See, it was just coming dusk when they driv in town and everybody along the pike knows Henry and the roan mare. Most of 'em knows Lou and seen her setting along with Henry that evening coming to Brevador." "But nobody has seen her since!" "No. Seems as if she was clean swallled up, wiped often the face of the earth." Louis Boyet introduced the detective to his wife and son as soon as they reached the farmhouse. At supper they regaled him with all they knew about Aunt Lou. She owned the half of the farm upon which they lived, but she exacted no rent. Louis owned the other half and was beginning to prosper. Aunt Lou had loaned him money, he couldn't remember how much—perhaps $800—she would take no interest and never mentioned the loan, he said, the tears in his big brown eyes. "Why should she?" rasped Mrs. Boyet, who was small and cross-eyed. "She has your notes, hain't she?" Henry, the boy, said he was sixteen, "going on seventeen." He had a round, sullen face, tousled yellow hair and no trace of the frank gentleness of his father, but he was a dull witted cub, apparently, though he told McKnight all he seemed to know about Aunt Lou. After letting her down at Hug- NDOW INTERRUPTED HIM. gins' gate he had gone on to town, driving about for a while, and then putting his rig up at the livery stable. McKnight spent a day at the farm without gaining any headway. Then he went to town and began to cultivate the marshal. He quizzed the livery stable keeper, and found that Henry Bovet had put up the roan mare about 10 o'clock. The boy had admitted "driving round for awhile," and McKnight began to suspect that something might depend upon where he drove. He inquired assiduously of the townsfolk, but nobody could remember whether or not they had seen Bovet's boy riding about Brevador on Easter Eve. He spent hours with the station agent trying to get some hint that might lead to a positive statement as to whether old Miss Bovet had waited for the Omaha train or whether she had boarded it, but the station agent stuck to his positive and reiterated statement that "Old Aunt Lou never come near the deepo that night. Certain sure she never bought no ticket to Omaha nor no place else." McKnight was beginning to think that the mystery was too much for him. After all his investigation he could not fix even a shadow of suspicion on anybody but Henry, the boy. That guess was wholly unjustified, improbable and, he admitted, incredible. Besides, there was no sign of evidence upon which to build even a hypothetical case. He thought he saw sign of possible devilment in the face and manner of the ill-favored wife of --- Bovet, Henry's mother, but she had not been out of her husband's presence since the disappearance of the old maid, and therefore could not have made away with Aunt Lou, no matter what had been her evil wishes. The town marshal, who tagged after McKnight in evident admiration of the "city" sleuth, was full of suspicions against Henry, the boy. He had caught him once with a wagon wrench, known to have been stolen from Jones' blacksmith shop. The rest of the plunder had been found buried under a pile of manure. McKnight considered this a trivial argument against the lad, and it increased his contempt for the marshal. "And did you ever land the 'Jones robber?' " grinned McKnight one evening as he and the local officer sat in the back room of the town saloon. "Nope,"drawled the woozy marshal; "that's one of the town mysteries—the second. The murder of old man Kissner was the first. We never ketched them fellers. The Jones robbery was the second, and now comes the Bovet case. One more and my rep will be gone for shore," and the baffled guardian of the law drank deeply. "About the Kissner case?" suggested McKnight, pricking up his ears; "how about that?" "An old miser, supposed," sald the marshal, "lived over on the north edge; disappeared last fall, a year comin'; found him in a well, and his house, a old chack, ransacked, blood all over everything; found the weapon that killed old Kissner myself—a blacksmith's hammer." "Was it one of Joneses?" the detective was crowding the slow story-teller. "By ging, I never thought o' that. Lessee. Nope. The Jones robbery come after'ards." "And you found the body in a well?" "Xep. Hic." The Pittsburg detective was at Louis Bovet's farm early the next day. He had two strangers with him, and his coming seemed to surprise the farmer and displease his wife and son. "How many wells and cisterns have you on the place?" asked McKnight. The farmer said he had only one well "left," that he had filled up the old one in the cow lot, and that the new one and the cistern was just alongside the house in the side yard. McKnight set his men to work draining the cistern with a hand-pump they had brought out. He expected some objections from the wife, but she, seemed so pleased to lend a helping hand that he quit the task and attacked the well. She bade Henry take turns and watched them with a furtive twinkle in her queer eye. "Perhaps we'd better stop this," said McKnight, watching the woman, "and begin on the OLD well." Her skinny hand flew to her mouth, her face flushed red as she almost shrieked: "They ain't no old well, you idjit!" "Mirandy!" cautioned old Bovet, "what alls you? Don't sass him, he's only 'tending to his—" A gunshot from the window interrupted him. He looked up in time to see Henry, the boy, peering along the barrels of an old shotgun. McKnight, peppered with bird shot, jumped for the house door, the woman tried to stop him, but he frushed her aside like a wasp, and leaped up the back stairs. "He never done it," the mother was screaming, when Henry was dragged out, kicking and scratching his captor, "I done it myself—leave my baby go!" But the handcuffs were on her "baby" in a trice, and in ten minutes she was fast to the seat of the surrey which bore her and her son to Brevador. The found Aunt Lou in the well with 100 pounds of smithy junk, old horse shoes and anvil scraps tied to her body. Poor old Bovet couldn't believe the boy had done it all alone, nor understand how his old sister was lured back to the farm after riding all the way to town to "say us good-by." The boy explained everything to save his mother, who persisted in claiming all guilt. He had shot his aunt as she sat beside him at a deserted place in the road to town, and had not only sat calmly beside the corpse all the way to Huggins' house, but had driven back in the dark to the old well into which he tossed it. At 10 o'clock he was back at the Brevador stable, and within a fortnight Farmer Bovet had innocently covered up all trace of the crime by filling the well which had long stood unguarded, a menace to his cattle. John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Costly Discipline. A popular Cleveland doctor tells this story of a bright boy, his own, who had reached the mature age of nine after an early career marked by many wild and mischievous pranks. His restless nature has made him somewhat of a torment to his teacher at times, and one afternoon not long ago she kept him after the others were dismissed and had a serious talk with him. Perhaps she was a little afraid that her admonitions were falling on stony ground. Anyway, she finally said: "I certainly will have to ask your father to come and see me." "Don't you do it," said the boy. The teacher thought she had made an impression. "Yes," she repeated, "I must send for your father." No kissing ever occurs in Japan except between husband and wife, not even between a mother and child. A Noted Knight Templar Owes His Health to Peruna. Suddenly. It injures the nervous system to do so. Use BACO-CURO and it will tell you whon to stop as it takes away the desire for tobacco. You have no right to ruin your health, spoil your digestion and poison your breath by using the filthy weed. A guarantee in each box. Price $1.00 per box, or three boxes for $2.50, with guarantee to cure or it all good Druggists or direct from us. Write for free booklet. ALABASTINE THE ONLY DURABLE WALL COATING With every $25.00 purchase of our stock, at 2¾c per share, we give FREE a Warranty Deed to one lot of Oil Land, 25x75 feet in size, in the heart of the great Texas Oil Field. The greatest oil proposition ever offered. AGENTS WANTED. For prospectus write to HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 oz. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG Co OMAHA, NEB. Yellow, musty looking linen can be avoided by using Defiance Starch, which whitens the goods and makes them like new. Ask for the 16 oz. package Defiance Starch. All other starches weigh 12 ounces. Don't forget it—a better quality and one-third more of it. THE STANDARD CATTLE COMPANY has 17,000 AUMES of the richest land in the West, and will receive applications from tenants destring to lease land. We also want men with families to work in beet fields. Correspond with STANDARD CATTLE COMPANY, Ames, Nebraska. Colonel T. P. Moody, a prominent Knight Templar, is well known in every city in the United States west of Buffalo, N. Y., as a Jeweler's Auctioneer. In the city of Chicago as a prominent lodge man, being a member of the K. T.'s and also of the Masons. The cut shows Colonel Moody in the costume of the Oriental Consistory Masons, 32nd degree. In a recent letter from 5000 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Ill., Mr. Moody says the following: "For over twenty-five years I suffered from catarrh, and for over ten years I suffered from catarrh of the stomach terribly. "I have taken all kinds of medicines and have been treated by all kinds of doctors, as thousands of my acquaintances are aware in different parts of the United States, where I have traveled, but my relief was only temporary, until a little over a year ago I started to take Peruna, and at the present time I am better than I have been for twenty years. "The soreness has left my stomach entirely and I am free from indigestion and dispepsia and will say to all who are troubled with catarrh or stomach trouble of any kind, don't put it off and suffer, but begin to take Peruna right away, and keep it up until you are cured, as you surely will be if you persevere. "My wife, as many in the southwest can say, was troubled with a bad cough and bronchial trouble, and doctors all over the country gave her up to die, as they could do nothing more for her. She began taking Peruna with the result that she is better now than she has been in years, and her cough has almost left her entirely. The soreness has left her lungs and she is as well as she ever was in her life, with thanks, as she says, to Peruna. Yours very truly, Catarrh in its various forms is rapidly becoming a general curse. An undoubted remedy has been discovered by Dr. Hartman. This remedy has been thoroughly tested during the past forty years. Prominent men have come to know of its virtues, and are making public utterances on the subject. To save the country we must save the people. To save the people we must protect them from disease. The disease that is at once the most prevalent and stubborn of cure is catarrh. If one were to make a list of the different names that have been applied to catarrh in different locations and organs, the result would be astonishing. We have often published a partial list of these names, and the surprise caused by the first publication of it to all people, both professionals and nonprofessional, was amusing. And yet we have never enumerated all of the diseases which are classed as catarrh. It must be Baco Curo A man and a woman in a room with a large picture frame. The man is standing and pointing at a picture of a Christmas tree, while the woman is sitting in a chair holding a baby. 3 Col. T. P. Moody, of Chicago, Had Catarrh Twenty-Five Years and Was Cured by Peruna. Col. T. P. Moody, of Chicago, Had Catarrh Twenty-Five Years and Was Cured by Peruna. confessed, however, to see even this partial list drawn up in battle array is rather appalling. If the reader desires to see this list, together with a short exposition of each one, send for our free catarrh book. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. STOP TOBACCO The nervous system to do so. Use BACO-CURO to stop as it takes away the desire for tobacco. In your health, spoil your digestion and poison the filthy weed. A guarantee in each box. Price boxes for $2.50, with guarantee to cure or direct from us. Write for free booklet. CO., - La Crosse, Wis. ASTINE BLE WALL COATING Kalsomines are temporary rot, rub off and scale. SMALL POX and other disease germs are nurtured and diseases disseminated by wall paper. ALABASTINE should be used in renovating and disinfecting all walls. NY, Grand Rapids, Mich. -FORTUNES IN OIL stock, at 2¾c per share, we give lot of Oil Land, 25x75 feet in size, Field. The greatest oil proposi- NTED. For prospectus write to CO., - Houston, Tex. Great Northern Railway 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 "Flyer." 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. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn. Travelers Going To New York 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. Solid comfort is provided while passengers are whirled through the most beautiful scenery in the East. Any railroad agent can give information or anyone may write to Geo. A. Cullen, Gen'l Western Passenger Agent, 103 Adams St., Chicago, who will be pleased to respond to inquiries. The passion for going heavenward is spreading. The latest aeronaut of distinction is the Archduke Leopold-Salvator of Austria. His enthusiasm for ballooning is shared by his wife, a handsome and clever lady who, although practical in most matters, takes a delight in literally building castles in the air. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure you get the genuine it is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Drugists, prices 750 per bottle. Government Built Vessels In the last ten years the government has built in its own yards four vessels of 19,389 tons, at a cost of $7,200,000, and all of these were laid down more than a decade ago. INSIST ON GETTING IT. Some grocers say they don't keep Deistance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Deistance Starch for same money. Creatures with Big Eyes. Horses, giraffes and ostriches have the largest eyes of land creatures, cuttlefish of sea beasts. WHY IT IS THE BEST because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. Only 80,321 of the 700,000 British subjects who died last year had anything to leave by will. FREE KIDNEY AND BLADDER Mailed to all Sufferers from Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder, Bright's Disease, Rheumatism, Gravel, Pain in the Back, Drones, etc. The following letter from Hon. I. A. Hopkins, Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, Elsworth, Kan., tells how Alkavis cured after he made up his mind that he had but a short time to live. Continues: "I believe and know that I own my life to Alkavia. I had been troubled with Kidney and Bladder Trouble for years. My limbs were swollen with Rheumatism so that I could hardly walk. I had to get up every hour of the night to urinate. I passed great quantities of blood on account of hemorrhage of the Kidneys and Bladder. Atdied and had been trying everything in the ```markdown ``` Mrs. Mary Fox, Seymour, Louis, shape of Medicine for Kidney Trouble that I could think of or that the Doctors recommended, but nothing helped me. I made up my mind that I had only a short time to live. I sent to you for three bottles of Alkavig began to take it, and before I had taken it one week began to get better. My Kidney Trouble and Rheumatism were soon gone and I am in good health now. I have recommended Alkavig to a great many people and all have been benefited by its use. Gracefully yours, I. A. HOPKINS." Mrs. M. A. Francis, of Moorcrow, Ind, writes: "She had been bothered with Kidney and Bladder Trouble ever since she was six years old; did not get any rest day or night, and had to be up fifteen times a night at times. Was also troubled with Rheumatism, Female Complaint and Irregular Menstrua, also symptoms of Dyspop. Tried many physicians but received little benefit. Two years ago took Alharvia and was completely cured and states she will answer any letters that come to hand concerning the wonderful medicine." Mrs. Mary Fox, Geymour, Iowa; Msu Viola Deering, Petersburg, Ind.; Mrs. Jas Young, Neot, Ohio; and many other ladies join in testifying to the wonderful curative powers of Alharvia in various forms of Kidney and allied diseases, and in other disorders peculiar to women. That you may judge of the value of this Great Discovery for yourself, we will send you one Large Case by mail only, only asking that when owned yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a Pure Specife and can not fail. Address: The Church Kidney Care Company, No. 626 Fourth Avenue New York THE TRIUMPH OF SUCCESS: The energy that goes to waste In every summer thunder shower Should in a cell be straightly placed For use as light, and heat, and power, The unscored music of the spheres, The songs the morning stars intone, When modulated in amperes, Will entertain by graphophone. The horseless cavalry will wheel Like clockwork on th' asphalted plain. The cannot be automobile, The warrior's sword a memory vain. The warrior's sword a memory vain The automatic pistols need The automatic photos need But to be pressed and pointed right. When, lo! entire armies bleed Or prudently fade out of sight. The sun that shirks on rainy days, The moon that's but three-quarters seen, Must furnish ohms, instead of rays— Or give way to acetylene. And ye—yield place, ye patient sparks, "That nightly climb the ancient sky," To incandescent stars, or arcs, By wireless currents fed on high. —Harper's Weekly. Mrs. A.—"My husband is positively impossible; he knows nothing." Mrs. Bee—"Mine 's simply unbearable; he knows everything."—Tit-Bits. She bought a chafing dish last week With which she's having fun, While I alas! am sick of it— Town and Country. Vanbibber—"Who got the annual booby prize in the Automobile Club?" Vanpelt—"Slowgo; he ran over only fourteen people during 1901."—Offic State Journal. "The man who borrows trouble is very foolish," said Dodda. "That's what he is," rejoined Thornton. "He is compelled to pay such a heavy interest on the loan."—Judge. Death stared a lady in the face, May—"Yes, I'm going to marry Jack White." Maude—"My! from what you've always said I thought he' be the last man you'd ever marry. May—"And I hope he is."—Philadelphia Press. Counsel for the Defendant (sarcasticly)—"You're a nice fellow, aren't you?" Witness for the Plaintiff (cordially)—"I am, sir, and if I were not on my oath I'd say the same of you."—Tit-Bits. He—"Do you know, dearest, that I think you are the sweetest girl in all the world?" She—"Why not? All the other gentlemen who have had the opportunity have told me so."—Boston Transcript. Little Elsie—"Mamma says you are a self-made man, Uncle George. Are you?" Uncle George—"Yes, my dear." Little Elsie—"You must have made yourself in the dark, didn't you?"—Chicago News. "I wonder what 's the origin of the expression 'to laugh in one's sleeve?" "I don't know, but the fact that the funny bone is concealed there may have something to do with it."—Philadelphia Press. Blewblud—"It isn't generally known, but my ancestors came over on the Mayflower." Numskill—"Oh, that's all right, old man; don't be afraid of me telling anybody, because you can't help what your ancestors did."—Chicago State Journal. Claribel—"I wonder what that creature meant?" Lizzle—"What creature?" Claribel—"Why, Tentwortn, of course. When I told him everybody said I was improving 'n my singing he said he was delighted to hear it."—Boston Transcript. The Sun is Seldom on Time The sun does not keep good time. He is almost always too fast or too slow. Once about the middle of April he is just on time, then not again before the middle of June. At the beginning of September he joins the clock a third time, and lastly once more late in December. Now it would seem as if he were startled at the way he had neglected us. In February he fell back until he was fifteen minutes late. By the beginning of March he had made up five minutes of his loss, and before the month is over he will have caught up to within five minutes of the schedule. Meanwhile the days have been growing longer very rapidly. We begin March with our nights longer than our days. We end it with our days longer than our nights. In the one month we have added to the length of our day an hour and twenty minutes, a bigger gain than any other month can show.—Professor F. C. Schmucker, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Bring Your Own Ability. If one brings the ability, the world will provide the opportunity. Sooner or later, if we go the right way about it the world gives us a fair rate of exchange for ourselves. But, of course, much depends on how we place our goods on the market. Gifts in themselves are not enough. We must know how to manage our gifts. More than half of success lies in the proper management of our gifts. The gifts are hardly more important. Of course, there are people who expect success, without gifts, or work, or anything; idle malcontents, who seem to think the world is in debt to them for honoring it with their presence, thriftless camp-followers in the battle of life; a strange race of man and women, at whom one can only look with curious wonder.—Success. AN EXPENSIVE FIGHT OVER A CAT. Lawsuit That Promise to Become a Celebrated Case. A dispute as to the ownership of a cat has reached the state circuit court in Sioux Falls, S. D., and it promises to become as noted as the celebrated Iowa calf case, says an exchange. Ole Finstand and wife claim to have loaned the cat to Mrs. Lewis, a neighbor, for the purpose of ridding her house of rats. Mrs. Lewis afterward declined to return the animal, and the claimants asserted that she had appropriated it to her own use, and was holding it by force of arms, contrary to the statute. Finstad tried to regain possession of the cat by force of arms, contrary to the statute. Finstad tried to regain possession of the cat by force, and Mrs. Lewis had him arrested for assault and battery. A justice imposed a fine upon Finstad, but the defendant refused to pay it, and appealed the case to the circuit court. Thus far $30 in costs have been charged up to the county in settling the ownership of the cat, and this promises to mount up into the thousands before the case is terminated. The cat is an ordinary one and would not bring over fifty cents on The cat is an ordinary one and would not bring over fifty cents on the market. Bright's Disease Cured. Sullivan, Ill., March 31st, Mrs. Kitty F. Seaney was very ill for months and notwithstanding the best possible medical attendance she got no better. The doctors said she had Bright's Disease, and gave her little or no hope of ever being well again. She suffered great pain in her back, which nothing seemed able to relieve, till at last encouraged by the reputation Dodd's Kidney Pills have attained in the community as a cure for Kidney Diseases, she began to use them. The result was a surprise both to Mrs. Seaney and the physicians, for soon after the treatment was commenced her kidneys threw off large quantities of dark diseased matter and she improved rapidly. She used in all ten boxes, and has completely recovered good health without pain or symptoms of the Bright's Diseas. The university of Paris has 245 professors, seventy-six of whom belong to the medical faculty, while fifty-two teach literary branches, forty-nine natural science, etc. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a plenty of this prodigally prolific millet. 5 to 6 Tons of Rich Hay Per Acre. Price 501 bcs. $1.90; 100 bcs. $8. Low freights. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. W Value of Irrigation. In Colorado last year sugar beets grown on irrigated land averaged $80 on acre, and on non-irrigated land only $16 an acre. THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. If women looked like the picture in fashion magazines every man would take to the woods. Sweat or fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Sold by druggists, 10c. package. An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.—Howell. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kilne's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. E. H. KLINE, Ltd., 601 Arth St., Philadelphia, Pa. France has 16,000 physicians; their incomes average but $600 a year. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.--W. M. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. "Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry."—Cromwell. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Stealing is not confined to taking the product of men's hands. If You Suffer From Rheumatism try a bottle of MATT J. JOHNSON'S 60S. Guarantee goes with it. Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise. No trouble to prepare quick breakfasts if you have Mrs. Austin's famous Pancake Flour. Ready in a moment. To be happy in the world one must learn to hold on. "None but the brave deserve the fair."—Dryden. LIFE SAVER and NERVE BUILDER NERVUTINE FREE BUILD'S YOU UP. Pamphlet sent for the asking. Write TO-DAY. Cures absolutely Weariness and all Nervous Troubles. Young and old should use it. One bottle often cure. Price $1.00, or six bottles for $5.00. Send for bottle today. Should your druggist not have it, send to GERMAN MEDICINE CO., Nervine Dept. B, 100 Randolph St., CHICAGO, N.L. Man's Mission on Earth. Medical Book Free. 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Illustrated pamphlet sent on receipt of two cent stamp by S. A. Hutchison, Manager, 212 Clark street, Chicago. Crime Not Profitable Joe King, aged 28, who has spent twelve years in all, writes to the Anamosa, Iowa, Prison Press that crime is not profitable. The articles he stole had a value of $67 and in his twelve years of imprisonment he could have made $16,800 at the trade of a printer. WHEN YOUR GROCER SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 18 oz. to the package and :cells for same money as 12 oz. brands. Artillery can fire 7,000 yards on Salsbury Plain entirely over war office land. This is by far the longest range in the British Isles. won't shake out or blew out; by using Defiance starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. A keen sense of humor, as a means of making one happy, is equal to all the other senses combined. Mrs. Austin's Pancake Flour makes lovely Pan cakes, muffins and gems. So good you always ask for more. A man never does anything desperate if fed regularly. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. So a bottle. To-morrow is no time at all—it never comes. Hamlin's Wizard Oil is a friend of the afflicted and an enemy to pain—which it overcomes. Let us respect white hair—especially our own. Peculiar to Itself. This applies to St. Jacobs Oil used for fifty years. It contains ingredients that are unknown to any one but the manufacturers and their trusted employees. Its pain killing properties are marvellous, as testified to by the thousands of once crippled human beings now made well and free from pain by its use. St. Jacobs Oil has a record of cures greater than all other medicines. Its sales are larger than those of any other proprietary medicine and ten times greater than all other embrocations, oils and liniments combined, simply because it has been proved to be the best. Weak and Sickly Children Weak and Sickly Children Who, perhaps, have inherited a weak digestion, continually subject to stomach troubles, loss of flesh and general weakness, can be made healthy and strong by the use of Vogeler's Curative Compound. Every doctor who is at all up to date will say that Vogeler's Curative Compound will make the blood pure and rich, bring colour to the cheeks, and put on flesh where health demands it. Children who have been weak and sickly since birth should be treated with small doses of Vogeler's Curative Compound, from two to five drops, twice daily, most satisfactory results will follow. It is the best of all medicines, because it is made from the formula of a great living physician. Sample bottle free on application to the proprietors, St. Jacobe Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, Md. PIL-E-TUM Based Upon a Scientific Study of the Disease for Twenty-five Years by an Eminent Physician. HAS CURED HUNDREDS. IT WILL CURE YOU WHERE EVERYTHING ELSE FAILS. Piles arise from two conditions, i. e., congestion of the portal circulation (liver), whereby the blood becomes congested in the hemorrhoidal veins and depressed condition of the systemic circulation (lack of general tone), whereby dilation of the veins (piles) are the result. PILF-E-TUM relieves congestion, tones the system, aids digestion and curses chronic constipation. No knife. No disagreeable local treatment necessary. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST. Send for free pamphlet and samples, or 25 2-cent stamps for trial bottle. IT COOKS YOU ROOMING IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED. DOCTORS DRUG CO., CHICAGO. ALL SIGNS FAIL IN A DRY TIME THE SIGN OF THE FISH NEVER FAILS IN A WET TIME. THE PISH as a sign has a history. This is told in an interesting booklet which is yours for the asking. A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. Maker of WET WEATHER CLOTHING OUR GOODS ARE ON SALE EVERYWHERE. 1,213 BUS. ONIONS PER AORE. Salzer's New Method of onion culture makes 23 possible to grow 1,300 and more bus. per acre. There is no vegetable that pays better. The Salzers annually dis- tribute nearly one eighth of a million lb. of onion seed selling came at 800 and up per lb. For 16a. and this Notice John A. Salzer Soil Co., La Crosse, WI. 2 Mrs. Sophie Binns, President Young People's Christian Temperance Union, Fruitvale, Bal., Cured of Congestion and Inflammation of the Ovaries by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Eighteen months ago I was a pretty sick woman. I had felt for some months that I gradually grew weaker, but finally I had such severe pains I could hardly stand it. I had taken cold during menstruation and this developed into congestion of the ovaries and inflammation, and I could not bear to walk or stand on my feet. The doctor recommended an operation which I would not hear of. One of my friends advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, so I gave it a trial. Can you imagine my feeling when within two months I felt considerably better, my general health was improved, and my pains had entirely disappeared. I kept taking it six weeks more and am now enjoying the best of health, thanks to you. Yours truly, Mrs. Sophie Binns." $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "allgone" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE-500 acres underlaid with coal; good buildings; near R.R. R. JOHN L. CARSON, WARHINGTON, PA. FARM AND STOCK LANDS FOR SALE We have the finest lands for sale for mixed farming and stock raising to be had in the State. We raise excellent corn and our stock tops the market. Why while our lands can be had for % what such lands are worth in older States. These lands are advancing rapidly. Will trade for desirable property. For particuliers write JACKSON & LIGHT-NER, Roscoe, South Dakota. FOR SALE—BARGAINS in Farms, or part trade. Address, G. L. MEYER, Box 674, Greenville, Ill. CHEAP improved farms and wild lands in South Dakota. For maps, prices and terms write Philip Lawrence, Huron, South Dakota. FOR SALE—500 acres, underland with coal. Good buildings; near R. R. John I. Carson, Washington Pa. A SNAP—1760 ACRE STOCK FARM THAT IS MAKING MONEY. Only $20. Where corn and all small grain is raised. Write owner. R. W. MAX. WILLOW SPRINK Co. South Dakota. FARM LANDS! 80 acres in Kossuth County, Iowa. $88.00 per acre. 100 acres in Kossuth County, Iowa, well improved. $48 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 sq. upward. Also ask for map of Minnesota and Iowa. It is free. VARLAND, LAND CO., Globe Ridge, ST. PAUL, MINN. 416,100 ACRES in the famous Missouri River Valley, the corn belt of South Dakota, to be opened to settlement. I will send colored map of South Dakota showing location, information as to when it will be opened and law governing same, all for 25 cents (silver) or 30 cents stamps. Reference, any bank in Brule County. Address J. A. STRANSKY, Box 76, Pukwana, South Dakota. Every farmer his own landlord, no mem- brances, his bank account increasing year by year, land value increas- ing, stock increase- ing, splendid climate, expe- lent schools and churches, low taxation, high prices for cattle and grain, low railway rates, and every possible comfort. This is the FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE condition of the farmer in Western Canada—Province of Manitoba and districts of Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands of Americans are now settled there. Reduced rates on all railways for home seekers and settlers. New districts are being opened up this year. The new forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. F. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration Ctawa, Canada, or C. J. Broughton, 927 Monadnock Block, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, 20 Law Bldg., Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. CALIFORNIA FARMS FOR SALE FREE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE GROVER-HAMILTON & CO. LOS ANGELES, CA MISCELLANEOUS. THIN PEOPLE should take Dr. Schultz ALFALFA FACTOR and tote. Write for circu- lators and testimonials. ALFALFA CO., Wichita, Kans. FINANCIAL GOLD—SILVER—ASBESTOS, 10 payments, $1 each buys 1,000 shares Arizona mining, 30 claims. Stringer leading; into one "groupe" assays 1,100 ounces silver; assay from Indian "dump" shows $13.33 GOLD. Ladies, gentleman, agents, good wages for spare time. Commission paid monthly, cash or shares; chartered; guaranteed audible; prospectus furnished upon request. THE GLADY'S MINING & INVESTMENT CO. (30 days at) BIG SPRINGS, TEXAS, P. O. Box No. 128. THE BEST OIL IN THE WORLD has just been struck in Colorado. The Rocky Mountain Consolidated Oil Co. has the very best location in the CENTER OF THE OIL BASIN. For about 15 days, stock in this company can be obtained at 3 Cents Per Share. When the first well is down to oil this stock will be worth 50 cents per share. Write at once to THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSOLIDATED OIL CO., 705 17th St., DENVER, COLO. OIL STOCKS GREAT BARGAINS in Oil Stocks. W.M. B. KING & CO., Members of Houston (Texas) Oil and Stock Exchange, solicit orders. California Oranges Free Samples Gold Rock FREE to everybody. Do you want a home in this beautiful land of Sunshine and Oranges? Then get your income first by getting a few shares of our Monthly Income Gold Bearing Stock, and you can afford a home here and feast on oranges and sunshine the balance of your life. is the richest free gold mine in the world to-day, pays a monthly Gold Dividend of 50 cents m share, and every share is worth $100.00. We own the first extension of this fabulously rich gold mine. Cash enough in this rich gold belt to pay off the National debt. Our mine is paid for. We have no debts. No liability. We pay no salaries to our officers. Can't go in debt. Our directors are all successful business men, bank and railroad pres- dents and good men to follow. A few hundred shares will make you rich and pay you a monthly income for life. WII ONLY SELL 26,000 SHARES on this popular plan of 10 cents a share -2c cash and 2c a month for four months; 45.00 cash and 85.00 a month for four months will buy 500 shares of the best Gold Income Stock ever offered for ten times that money. This stock will go quick. If you wans any send first payment quick to Broadway Bank and Trust Co., or Treasurer WAR EAGLE MINING CO., 864 South Broadway, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 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 0.5 and accrued interest, security 3 for 1, finest 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 parve and address to COMMONWEALTH MEXICAN PLANTATION ASSOCIATION, R 508, 115 Dearborn St., Chicago. IDAHO GOLD MINING COMPANY Capital - - - - $150,000. We have more than $800,000 worth of ore blocked out by our 1,000 ft. of development work. We have within 35 years' time made $80,000 worth of improvements, besides paying most handsome interest on the capital stock. As soon as the lower tunnel is completed, thus oping up large bodies of rich ore, the stock will advance in price ten times. Will you buy now at the original price and receive 15g on your investment for my two years, and then have your stock sold at value ten fold, or will you buy Two Years and pay Ten Dollars instead of One Dollar now? For full particulars call or address A. K. Mikkell, Fiscal Agent, 65 Williams St, New York. GREAT BARGAINS IN OIL STOCKS! W.M. B. KING & CO. Members of Houston (Texas) Oil Stock Exchange solicits orders. FUR & WOOL The only paper of its kind in the world, devoted to hunters, traders, trappers, wool growers and poultry raisers. Only 50 a year, sample copy fo. FUR & WOOL, Bushnell, Ill. WRITE TO ENGINES BORDEN & SELLECK CO. 48-82 LAKE ST. CHICAGO. W. N. U. OHIOAG3, NO. 14, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Arody Mention This Paper. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. Milking streams of milk outside the pail. Overturning the ink bottle on the table-spread. Breaking the glassware by pouring hot water on it. Patching old clothes that should go into the rag bag. Throwing pieces of new cloth into the paper and rags. Occasionally throwing out a teaspoon in the dish-water. Using napkins for holders, dish cloths or wiping towels. Letting the suckers grow upon the apple trees year after year. Neglecting to keep the potatoes where they will not freeze. Using every small board about the premises for kindling the fire. Cutting in too deep when taking the rind from off the slices of pork. Not attending to the hogs' heads after butchering, before they spoil. Spattering water on the hot lamp chimneys and thus breaking them. Leaving pieces of hard soap in the tubs of wash water to be thrown away. Not squeezing the grease well out of the hot scraps when trying out the lard. Scraping iron kettles with silver knives, or toasting bread on silver forks. Letting the apples fall from the tree and lie upon the ground until they are spoiled. Making more tea or coffee at each meal than is used and throwing away what is left. Allowing the hammock to hang in the sun and rain until it becomes faded and weakened in texture.—Farm Journal. OUT OF THE TALL GRASS. Owing to the advance in the price of crackers and water this paper is forced to suspend.—Blaine (Kas.) News. They were so long without rain in Kansas that recently hatched chickens chased the raindrops thinking they were bugs.—Hooper (Neb.) Sentinel. Patrick Brown of Minnesota has shipped four carloads of pigs from here to his home town and says he is not through with us yet.—Hildridge (Kas.) Progress. A man in this town who spent a day cleaning out a filthy cellar and was sick a week in consequence says he will let his wife clean up next time.—Holbrook (Neb.) Herald. George Stevens, Ira Davis, Miss Maude Lawson and Miss Jessie Agnew will sing at the funeral. The family have the sympathy of the whole community.—Arapahoe (Neb.) Mirror. An up-country pastor posted on his church door this notice: "Brother Smith departed for heaven at 4:30 a.m. On the next day he found written below: "Heaven, 9:40 p. m.—Smith not in yet. Great anxiety."—Hooper (Neb.) Sentinel. The fellow who left open the back gate to Benschoter's pasture better never come back to town by another road.—Loop City (Neb.) Northwestern. For over a year our devil has been almost in control of this paper. Henceforth an angel will rule. We are married.—Arcadia (Kas.) Champion. Home keeping hearts are happiest.—Longfellow. If it were not for humor I should die.—Abraham Lincoln. I have found my greatest happiness in labor.—Gladstone. "Health and good humor are like sunshine to vegetation." "Worry makes its irreparable injury through certain cells of the brain life." Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.—Balzac. Blessed are the happiness makers, for they represent the best forces in civilization.—Dr. Hillis. Let him scatter his flowers as he goes along, since he will never go over the same road again.—Orison Swett Marden. One ought every day at least hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.—Goethe. If a man is wise one angry word doesn't lead to another. A word to the wise is often sufficient to get a fool into trouble. Take care of the children in summer; in winter "let 'em slide." A man has no more right to feel blue than he has to paint things red. Any father is an authority on the management of other people's children. The wise wife, instead of wasting her tears, reserves them for great occasions. The man who boasts of being high-spirited is nearly always a little off in the upper story. Courtship is apt to make a young couple so light-headed that they can dispense with gas. Dogs can't talk, but you always know what they mean. With some men it is different. After having reached the zero mark a society girl's age resembles the locomotion of a crab—it goes backward. Man was made to mourn, but probably it was never intended that he should spend so much of his time at it. A girl never really appreciates the attentions of a young man until some other girl tries to get a corner on them.—Chicago News. MAN-VAIN MAN. He laughs at woman's soda fountain habit—and keeps the druggist busy handing out cigars to him. He tells funny stories about how a woman drives a horse—and steers his automobile up a telegraph pole. He can explain the wireless telegraphy system to his wife, but he cannot understand her description of a new bonnet. He loves to tell of the splendid exercise of sawing wood—but he is willing to pay another man to enjoy the exercise. He picks flaws in the lectures of eminent scientists and discovers monumental wisdom in the lispings of his baby. He is above adding postscripts to his letters—but he uses the long-distance telephone to explain what he omitted in his business communication. He is not a seeker after public honor—but he is always on hand an hour ahead of time when he is one of 200 vice presidents at a political meeting. He writes cards to the papers against problem plays—and swears at the ticket window if he cannot get a front seat when the ballet comes to town. He used to walk four miles through the snow to school and carry his dinner with him—and he threatens to go to law because the new school building is not erected within four blocks of his home. He does not go to church Sunday morning because he wants to read the paper—but through the week he is satisfied to glance at the headlines on his way down town.—Baltimore American. SENTIMENT IN BOOKS. I've burned out the candle of the Lord's mercy an' blowed the ashes in his face.—The Sign of the Prophet. Some people, like some shrubs, must be crushed in order to obtain the real value of their essence.—By the Higher Law. It is as bad to slave at work as to slave at pleasure. But God may forgive what people can not help—Lazarre. In some matrimonial waters are the kind of fish that swallow the bait, but leave the hook untouched—By Bread Alone. Time has kinder uses for his scythe than cutting short human lives. His chief use of it is to cut off the tops of human memories -The Usner 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. 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