The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX VOL. VII. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S SON NOW IN A PRIVATE SCHOOL The many friends of Booker Tallafro Washington hereabouts will rejoice to know that he has so far overcome his objection to the higher education of colored people, as to send his elder son to an aristocratic private school out in classic suburban Wellesley. The school is a very private and exclusive boarding school, under the management of Dr. George Rantoul White at Wellesley Hills, where only 21 other boys, all sons of wealthy families, are being prepared for college. Young Mr. Washington is 14 years old, tall and large for his age, and devoted to out-door sport, football being among his favorite pastimes. His name is not "Booker T., Jr.," but Baket T. Washington. The boy, like his sister Miss Portia Washington, who is a student in classic Wellesley college, where she has become a pronounced favorite has ingratiated himself securely with his boy companions at Dr. White's school, and there is talk already of organizing a football team there, in which he shall play a prominent part. Young Washington is said to have been prepared for his entry to the Wellesley school by private tuition by his father and mother at their home, just as his sister, Miss Portia Washington, was tutored for her entrance to Wellesley college. Like Miss Washington, her young brother has shown himself to be modest in demeanor, reticent and retiring, yet equal to all occasions excepting that of being interviewed. "Nothing to say from me, but you might see my sister," is the response young Baker T. Washington gives invariably to reporters. At Dr. White's school excellent reports are given as to the lad's habits and deportment. Dr. White himself speaks highly of his rather distinguished pupil, and another one of the tutors said to a Post reporter. "The boy has been heer only a week and he appears to be in every way qualified for advancement in whatever he may undertake. "Our school is not large in the num bers of its pupils, but the purpose is to give every one more of private tuition than one might procure at the ordinary boarding school. "Young Master Washington appears most exemplary in his habits and deportment, and he seems more than eager to learn quickly, yet thoroughly, everything he can." The school in which young Washington is studying is situated on Chestnut street, Wellesley Hills, in an aristocratic district, and Dr. George Rantoul White, who founded the institution a year ago, is well known as an educator in his section. Miss Portia Washington, sister of Baker Washington, when seen, said: Baker Washington, when seen, said: "Of course, it is a great pleasure to have my brother so near me, and I know that he will be treated just as nicely as I have been in Wellesley. I find everything and everybody most delightful here. No one could expect more kindly treatment than I have received, from the time I entered Wellesley. "My brother Baker will not fall, I am sure, in proving his ability, and I know already that he is greatly pleased with his surroundings at Dr. White's school. other; for of music he says. in his book "Future of the American Negro." "One of the saddest sights I ever saw was the placing of a $200 rosewood piano in a country school in the south that was located in the midst of the Black Belt; I should have deferred those lessons about 25 years." And of the higher training he says: "In tbo many cases the Negro began his education at the wrong end. Boys have been taken from the farms and educated in law, theology, Hebrew and Greek—educated in everything else but the very subjects they most needed." Nuff Sed.-The Guardian, Boston, Mass. One would naturally think after reading the above article that Prof. Booker T. Washington would not have the gall nor the brass to set himself up as the infallable leader, instructor, or educator of the Negro race, or does Prof. Washington want to establish a Negro aristocracy in this country with himself as its King or Prince? CONGRESSMAN WM. SULZER TO THE FRONT. Recently our liberty-loving friend, Congressman Wni. Sulzer, of New York City, introduced the following resolution into the lower House of Congress. "That we sympathize with the heroic Boers in their struggle to maintain their liberty and independence, and protest in the name of humanity and civilization against the continuation of war which outrages the feelings of all liberty-loving people; and that, the Congress of the United States, being committed to the principle of arbitration for the settlement of international disputes, the President is hereby respectfully requested to urge upon the government of Great Britain the wisdom of adopting this policy for the purpose of stopping the awful atrociates now going on in South Africa; and that the President is hereby directed to maintain a strict neutrality between the contending forces, and prevent the shipping of contraband goods from ports in the United States to aid the British soldiers in South Africa, and respectfully inform the British government that, if the war in South Africa is continued, it must be conducted in accordance to the rules of civilized warfare and the provisions agreed to and adopted by the Geneva convention and The Hague peace convention." NORMAL NOTES Easter services were appropriately celebrated. The chapel was beautifully decorated. Special Easter anthems were rendered. In the morning Rev. Sheaf, of the Seventh Day Adventists, delivered a most eloquent sermon. Many prominent ladies and gentlemen of that denomination were present and spent the day. We are making preparations for our commencement. The annual address will be delivered by Bishop Turner, the industrial address by Dr. R. H. Boyd, and the commencement sermon by Dr. E. C. Morris. Reduced rates have been secured over the L. & N., N. C. & St. L. and Southern lines. DEATH OF MILLIONAIRE NEGRO. Philadelphia, April 7.—Colonel John McKee, aged 81, one of the wealthiest colored men in the country, died last night. His estate is worth about $1,500,000. At one time he owned more than 1,000,000 acres of land. He conducted a restaurant in this city until 1866, when he retired and engaged in real estate operations. At the time of his death he owned between 300 and 400 houses in Philadelphia. He was the founder and owner of McKee City, N. J. Last Saturday evening Miss Starr, who was one of the society queens of Palos Park, was united in marriage to Mr. Julius Salomon, ex-collector for the Town of N Chicago. Mr. James J. Gray, mem'cr of the Board of Assessors acted as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Salomon have many friends who wiab them unhounded joy. ann happiness CHICAGO. APRIL 12, 1902. MILES J. DEVINE, EX-CITY AT- TORNEY OF CHICAGO. Who Is an Able Lawyer, and a Friend of All Humanity. The above named person, who is well-known throughout the country, owing to his great legal attainments, and as a member of various societies is a native of this marvellous city, A. M. for he was born on what is known as the west side, where he resides unto this day. His father, Patrick Devine, was a native of Ireland, coming to America in 1846, and shortly after landing here he married Miss Elizabeth Conway, who was the sister of Very Rev. Father Conway, Vicar-General of the Chicago Diocese, he became one of Chicago's well-known and most highly respected citizens. affairs with great ability. While serving as City Attorney he himself and his assistants presented Major Franklin A. Denison with an elegant sword which he used while serving his country in Cuba. Mr. Devine journeyed to Springfield on that occasion, and at the same time he presented Major Denison with a saddle horse, which was the gift of Mr. John G. Drennan of the Hlinois Central and several Miles J. Devine, was intended by his parents for the priesthood, and his early education or studies were directed in that channel or direction until 1885, then they were switched off to the law. Mr. Devine was blessed in the way of receiving a thorough education in 1876; he attended St. Patricks Brothers' School. His uncle, Father Conway, being the priest of the parish, two years was spent by him at St. Francis' Seminary, Bay View, Wis., and four years of his younger days were passed as a student at the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, at Niagara Falls, N. Y. In time Mr. Devine continued his studies at the Lake Forest university, and after receiving the finishing touches in that institution, he entered the Chicago College of Law, from which he graduated with high honors in June, 1890. Immediately after being admitted to the Chicago bar he linked his fortunes in the law with Mr. Jeremiah B. O'Connell, and the law firm of Devine and O'Connell, whose law offices are on the third floor of the Reaper Block, Washington and Clark streets, has become a household word, for this reliable legal firm enjoys an extensive and a lucrative practice. In 1893 Miles J. Devine was selected as assistant prosecuting attorney by Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Sr., and he continued to serve as such under Mayors Harrison, Hopkins, and Swift. until the latter part of August, 1895, then he resigned for the purpose of devoting all his time to the practice of his profession. Mr. Devine has always been greatly interested in politics and in 1894 the People's party nominated him for state senator from the fifteenth senatorial district, but he declined the honor. Being a life long Democrat Mr. Devine, was urged by the leaders of his party to make the race for Congress from the Fourth Congressional ```markdown ``` district in 1896, and he made a brilliant campaign for himself and the entire Democratic ticket. Further political honors were in store for Mr. Devine, and in 1897, the Democracy of Chicago chose him as its standard bearer for City Attorney, and he was elected to that office by an unprecedented majority, and he conducted its DEVINE, orator, influential citizen, who is pop- affairs with great ability. While serving as City Attorney he himself and his assistants presented Major Franklin A. Denison with an elegant sword which he used while serving his country in Cuba. Mr. Devine journeyed to Springfield on that occasion, and at the same time he presented Major Denison with a saddle horse, which was the gift of Mr. John G. Drennan of the Hlinois Central and several other gentlemen; in many other ways Mr. Devine, who is free from race prejudice has displayed his friendship towards worthy Afro-Americans, and many of them are clients of the law firm of Devine & O'Connell, and if the leaders of the Democratic party should honor Miles J. Devine, with the nomination for judge of the Superior Court, it is safe to say that he would receive the votes of many thousands of Afro-Americans. For many years Mr. Devine, has served his party faithfully, and the people have always had faith in him. and they have never failed to select him as a delegate to the City, County and State Conventions. He has also served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the County Democracy for six years, and has been a member of the executive committee for four years. Mr. Devine is also Treasurer of the West Side Driving Association. He is a prominent member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Irish National Alliance and the Knights of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Devine, who is highly accomplished, and their interesting family have for many years regided in a lovely home at 57 Macallister Place, and all the doors of their home always swings both ways for their many friends. Rev. Andrew Jimson Carey and a parcel of other preachers held forth in St. Mary's church, 50th and Dearborn street, last Sunday afternoon and they whooped and hollored like a pack of wild Indians, and just at the time when they succeeded in getting the brethren and sisters worked up to a high pitch of religious excitement, they scooped in a large collection. then Rev. Carey and his associates, who are in the soul-saving business, departed. ```markdown ``` Rev. D. P. Roberts, of St. Louis, is said to be a candidate for Commissioner General of the Negro exhibit at the proposed exposition. Mr. M. P. Byrne has been confined to his home through sickness for the past ten days, but he is now improving and within a few days he will be rushing into business. Attorney Frederick W. Job, chairman of the state Board of Arbitration, is spending some time in Evanston, Wyo. He will return to the city next Thursday. Hon. Thomas A. Smyth, president of the Drainage Board, possesses preeminent executive ability, also a clean and an untarnished record, and Mr. Smyth would make a first-class candidate for county treasurer. Mr. Joseph P. Junk, the big South Halsted street brewer, would make a tip-top candidate for state treasurer. He is a progressive German-American, and his nomination as such would be pleasing to all classes. Thomas M. Ryan, president of the Wattita League, has even been faithful to his party, and it would not be surprising to The Broad Ax to see Tom Ryan selected as one of the commissioners of Cook county. Prof. Charles W. Pearson, late of the N. W. university, Evanston, who relinquished his professorship on account of his religious views, will lecture in the Grand Opera House Sunday morning on "The Bible and Modern Thought." Police Officer A. Howens, who is stationed at 75th and Halsted street, and whom we are proud to number among our numerous friends, is proving himself to be one of the best men in the police service, and officer Rowens is strictly honest and very attentive to his duties. Rev. Father D. J. Riordan of Saint Elizabeth's church, 41st street and Wabash avenue. who has been sojourneying in Southern California, for the benefit of his health, the past winter, is rapidly improving, and he will return home and resume his duties shortly after the 1st of May. Col. A. D. Gash, who is one of the able lawyers of Chicago, is being groomed by his west side friends for the nomination of Judge of the Superior Court. Col. Gash in one of our oldest and best friends and we would be overjoyed to see him selected as one of the judges of Cook county. Ex-Alderman Charles J. Boyd is getting in line or preparing to contest every inch of ground in the 30th ward with Alderman M. McInerney next spring, and as it will be a hard-fought battle it is hard to tell who will ride the aldermanic horse in 1903, Alderman McInerney or Ex-Alderman Chas. J. Boyd. Kansas City, Mo., is the proud possessor of a young woman who within the last few years has made wonderful progress in her chosen line of work. Miss Victoria Overall, dramatic reader, impersonator, Delsartist, danseuse, and actress of wonderful versatility, is a rising-star in the galaxy of America's noblest type of Negro womanhood. Miss Ella Sheppard Moore, Mrs. Jennle Jackson DeHart and Mrs. Georgia Gordon Taylor, are the sole survivors of the famous Fish Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Miss Moore is still connected with the institution; Mrs. DeHart lives on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O., and Mrs. Taylor at Nashville. It may not be true, but we have been very reliably informed that on the afternoon of the late election that George J. Terrell said "that word came down the line to him from Ald. Thomas Carey, demanding him to switch from work for John J. Bradley, to M. J. Walsh," and its maintained that Terrell before the polls closed did work for Mike Walsh, and against John J. Bradley. Will Reynolds a Negro of Tuscumbia, Ala., killed three white men and mortally wounded seven others, at that point last Sunday, and in turn the Negro's body was riddled with bullets, NO. 25. and one thousand white men grabbed his body and threw it into a burninf building, which they had set on fire. It appears that Reynolds refused to be arrested by Sheriff Gassaway, and that was the cause of the trouble. Saturday evening, last, we made a flying visit at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, 6800 Justine street, Miss M. D. Trust, 1809 West 69th street, and Mr. Irvine E. Sproul, 7056 Emerald avenue and all of these friends are still interested in the success of The Broad Ax. Mr. Sproul, says "it contains some awful good editorials." and Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, their children and Miss Trust, say "they could no think of getting along without it" Miss Cornelia Bowen, Principal of the Mt. Megls School of Waugh, Ala., has built a dormitory for the girls. The girls live within a radius of fifteen miles but too far away to go home each day. As they are unable to pay for their board in cash, Miss Bowen has the parents of the girls bring, at the beginning of each month, uncooked "rations" for the month, including what the girls would have at home, even to the soda, salt and pepper. $2,391.69 was gathered in at Quinn Chapel Easter Sunday, notwithstanding this fact Joseph A. Grenier of Cleveland, Ohio, has secured an execution against Old Quinn, for $1,479, which amount is due on the pipe organ, and Mr. Grenier, says "he will sell Quinn Chapel unless he receives his money By April 22." It makes no difference how much money Quinn chapel owes its creditors, Rev. A. Jameson Carey must have his twenty-five dollars a week as table money and thirty-five dollars must be begged to pay his house rent, so he can maintain his servants. At the meeting of the Council Monday evening, many of the newly elected aldermen and some of those who were re-elected were rememberd by their constituency with beautiful floral offerings. Ald. John J. Bradley, 30th ward, was presented with an Anvil and a locomotive; Aldermens P. J. O'Connell, Wm. C. Kuester, Beilfuss, were not forgotten by their friends; Thomas Carey received a large flower Indian from the Wattita League, and after the meeting of the council Representative E. M. Cummings and several assistants toted it over to the Boston Oyster House, where they feasted and jounched Tom Carey's boom for sheriff of Cook County. Last Sunday the South End Sunday Club was ordered by the board of trustees of St. Mark's to vacate or move on to some other quarters to hold its meetings or prize-fights in, and now that the club must give up holding meetings in St. Mark's Church owing to the bad conduct on the part of Rev. Peters, Emmick, Webster and company, we would suggest that these three shining saints or lights and its other members rent the rear end of Billy Piper's saloon, 141 West 47th street, for the purpose of holding meetings in. Billy Piper and George J. Terrell could preside over the meetings and lift the collections, while Rev. Peters Emmick, Webster and Co. could do the knocking down, dragging out and the praying. The colored men and women of today have but very little time to be worshiping idleness, for there are too many burdens heaped upon us as a race to be carried. To unload them we must work, save our earnings, think and plan on basis of honorableness. It is greatly necessary that our leaders must be honorable. We must sooner or later come to the conclusion that too much hypocritical religion, with the backing of little money and business, will convert hells of torment into homes causing nothing but poverty and sin to seek our castles in disgrace. Let us begin to erect some houses of business enterprise and cease building churches in communities too many in number just in order to satisfy some little one horse fellow who has license of a divine and I promise you that our race will be on a much stronger plane of increase, religiously, morally, financially and in a business way.—Ex. Will presubmit and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Antiforests, Protestants, Knights of Lobac, Inhabit, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any so also can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Brand Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, over claiming the editorial right to speak for own mind. SUBSCRIPTIONS (SOURCES): One Year..... 0.16 A Month..... 1.64 Everything rates made known on application, address all communications to The sale of Limburger cheese has been forbidden in Louisville, Ky. Hoch, Louisville! Philadelphia expects to have a subway under construction within a year. Philadelphia is not so slow! An Omaha man has invented a whisky tablet. Take two in a glass of water, and the earth is yours. The new society recreation called progressive peanuts is not the first shell game introduced into society. Colorado's legislature has adjourned, in order that the rural members may put in more time boring for oil. If Joseph Chamberlain is not a blank liar what kind of a distinguished statesman is he? Ireland pauses for a reply. If John L. Sullivan has really quit drinking for good, it means an awful loss to the breweries and distilleries of the country. The principal motive in writing a novel nowadays seems to be that the author may get the benefit of the dramatization. Young Mr. Havemeyer, who sent his coachman to represent him in court, discovered that the law is no respecter of millionaires. To a photographer belongs the distinction of being the only man in America who succeeded in making the prince look unpleasant. The story of the tramp who stole a bar of soap is preposterously conflicting. Either he was not a tramp or he did not steal a bar of soap. A Baltimore man was suddenly struck dumb while swearing at his wife. It is not stated whether she used the rollingpin or a flatiron. The growth of the concentration idea has induced the invention of the whisky tabloid. Eventually the invitation will be to take a chew instead of a drink. Colombia evidently wants to impress the world with the idea that its revolution is to be taken seriously, for it has issued orders that all news must be censored. A big piano factory in New York has just burned down. Of course, when the company gets keyed up to the right pitch they will have a new factory on the string. It is said that there are more than 2,000,000 brands of cigars on the market. The campaign cigar, however, always smells the same, no matter what name it goes by. The Bacon enthusiasts will sniff, of course, when they hear that a quarterly magazine devoted to Shakespeare and Stratfor-on-Avon is about to appear in London. A bigamist in Lima, Ohio, has asked the police to arrest him because he wants to be punished. A jury might decide that the poor fellow has suffered enough already. Congressman Moody's declaration that he hardly knows the bow from the stern of a war vessel is frank, at all events. And he hasn't begun hitching up his trousers yet. A gentleman of the name of Moss has been seated in the national house of representatives from a contested district in Kentucky. Congress proudly points to the fact that it gathered him. In a city in Russian Poland students set fire to the schools and attempted to lynch the teachers. The Chicago small boy who has supposed that he held the record will have to give up the competition. Two men have declined the assistant postmaster generalship with its salary of $4,000 a year. It isn't likely, however, that the office will have to be left vacant permanently because of a lack of applicants for the job. After the Brooklyn women got through hugging and kissing Fiddler Kubelik he was so limp that he couldn't walk alone. It is beginning to look as if the poor boy may in future be able to fiddle only under police protection. An Illinois teacher inflicted corporal punishment on a pretty girl pupil, and then they were married. The sudden development of love on the part of the teacher is understandable, but how about the girl? Are we to understand that that is the proper way to woe? C. E. Borchgrevink, Who Reached the Most Extreme Southern Point Ever Gained, Relates His Experiences. ICELOCKED IN THE ANTARCTIC. C. E. Borechgrevink, who commanded the British antarctic expedition of 1888-1800, which penetrated to latitude 78.50, the most extreme southern point ever gained by explorers, is in New York city, busy with plans for another expedition in search of the south pole. In speaking of the perils encountered in his recent expedition he gives the following graphic account of the hardships undergone by the explorers: "In the antarctic there is no mammal within the coast line and the traveler must entirely depend upon what he brings with him in the form of preserved food, and preserved food packed in tins, is at best, in my opinion, unfavorable. "The antarctic night, which lasts for seventy-one days at Cape Adair, is longer than the night at the same latitude in the north. Like an evil, sneaking spirit the antarctic, night wraps the traveler in its black, cold clasp. No one who has not faced these midnight winters fully realizes what a depressing effect the lack of sunlight has upon the human mind. The awful monotony, the roaring silence are matters for realization rather than description. Covered by snow in a hut fifteen by fifteen, we ten ploneers in the antarctic continent spent many trying days. The antarctic gales had laid a white blotting paper over that little black spot which we formed on those vast, vast white fields. "It was difficult to do any work at the wooden table which we used in common. There we were, glaring at each other with eyes at once vacant and intense. In a way we hated each other. We were sick of each other's company. When anyone opened his mouth we knew exactly what he was going to say. The music box which we took along got us into trouble very early in the antarctic night. One of the members set it to playing a tune which another one hated and the row which they started became general. "The penguins, especially those which inhabit the continent in great numbers, remind one of a human community. In endless strings they walked after each other. With their black backs they looked at a distance on the snow like a comical illputian funeral procession. When they discovered us they came to us, not knowing the blood thirst of civilization. They walked around us, evidently taking down their zoological notes about us and taking us for a new sort of penguin. "They came back to their nesting places at the cape, where their old nests, consisting of small pebbles, were still lying about from the previous year, although somewhat disturbed by the heavy gales. "On warm days the male bird stood erect in his nest, his beak toward the senith, uttering a series of hoarse screams, the female listening attentively to his antarctic love song. They had a busy time love-making and nest-making, in both of which occupations they were studied most attentively by my bachelor staff. "We ate the penguins from the time they first came. They were, however, very blubbery. We boiled them first, then we roasted them and then we called them plarmigan and managed to eat them with better relish. They were fresh food, at least. Then the eggs, which were laid in the beginning of November, were, of course, welcome. I myself devoured fourteen of these eggs the first day, notwith- C.E. DONGHREVINK standing the fact that they were twice the size of an ordinary duck's egg. "I shall not forget the moment when it was announced to me that the penguins had laid their first eggs. I told the doctor, who generally looked after the menu, that we shouldn't have eggs the next morning. He, however, implored me not to eat the eggs nor to let any of the members eat them just then. He was making a study of us at the time, tapping us for blood, making microscopical investigations thereof, taking our pulse by the pulsometer and was afraid that eggs, the very thing we required, would upset our health and thus spoil his valuable investigations. "It was an enthusiasm which I appreciated as highly as he himself appreciated the eggs the next morning. "The best food supplies which the antarctic traveler, has are the seals and the fish. The fish constitute one of the most remarkable discoveries we made, as more than eleven varieties of them are absolutely new to science. DIGGING THROUGH THE ICE TO GET MAIN FOR FOOD The seal flesh is coarse, but I ate it raw and occasionally drank the blood from the hole made by the seal knife. It is very oily, especially after passing through the layer of blubber, which is often more than three inches thick, but I regard it as a great remedy against disease. The fish were delicious. Strange to say, we never caught any by bait, but always got them by means of the Norwegian pilk, an application like a bright little fish, of tin, to which two hooks have been fastened at the nose. We molded this appliance in wooden carved shapes in which we poured THE ANTARCTIC. melted tin. This, fastened to a line, was moved rapidly up and down in the water. "All fish are curious, and I presume that the antarctic fish is even more so than the arctic, not having seen so many wonders of men's handiwork. So we hooked these fish easily. One of the 'Laps' caught as many as fifty in an hour. "I have often been asked why women should not join in arctic explorations, to cheer the members KUT BURIED UNDER SNOW. during the long dark months. The plan would, of course, be impracticable, because women are lacking in the necessary physical strength and wou'd become a burden instead of a help to the explorer. All the same, I may say that the absence of them to a great degree accounts for the melanoholy which often takes hold of members of polar expeditions." One Writer's Wrath. "Some time since," said an author recently, "I went out of my way to criticise, by special request, the manuscript of a story by an unknown writer. I was candid with him and pointed out certain defects, as he had said he wished me to. After I had returned the manuscript, with a letter, the writer met a friend of mine, to whom he expressed himself as follows: "'I have no use for that fellow Blank; he's nothing but a darned red-headed genius!' "'Why,' said my friend, he hasn't red hair at all!' "Well,' replied the writer, 'if he hasn't, all I can say is—he deserves to have.'"—Atlanta Constitution. Miami Indians Dying Out. Gabriel Godfrey, "the grand old man" of the Miami Indians, of which only a remnant now exists in Butler township, Miami county, Indiana, is gradually growing poorer and poorer. At one time he owned 500 acres of land, the best in Miami county, and now there remains in his name only a forty-acre tract, on which he and his family live and on which there is a mortgage. Gabriel Godfrey's father was Francis Godfrey, the last war chief of the Miami tribe. Mortality of Maryland Horses. Investigation by the state veterinarian shows that the high death rate among horses in Maryland is due to cerebro-spinal meningitis. The disease is the result of poor food, had drainage and generally insanitary environment. ```markdown ``` SOME WONDERFUL CROSS IN WESTERN CANADA. The Territorial Government Reports Regina, Assinibola, Canada, January 10th. At the Agricultural Statistics Branch of the Department of Agriculture for the Territories, reports are now being received from grain threshers throughout the Territories, for statistical purposes. The reports are somewhat delayed this year, owing to the extensive crop and the delay in getting it threshed. The Department of Agriculture is leading the way in a new departure, with regard to the collection of crop statistics. In the older provinces, crop estimates are based entirely on the opinion of persons interested in the grain business who ought to be, and no doubt are, well posted upon the probable yields. Still the reports are simply a matter of opinion, in which a mistake may easily be made. The Territorial Department, however, has adopted the system of returns of crops actually threshed, upon which to base their reports. The accuracy of the reports cannot, therefore, be gainsaid, for they represent a compilation of actual threshing results. In this connection, it might be mentioned that the Department is organizing a system of growing crop returns, which will be in operation next summer. The information thus obtained, with estimated acreage, will be available for business men, banks, railway companies, and other interests which have to discount the future in making provision for the conduct of their business. The crop reports already to hand show some remarkable cases of abnormal development. In the Regina district, many returns are given of crops of wheat running from 40 to 45 bushels to the acre. J. A. Snell, of Yorkton, threshed 28,000 bushels of oats from 450 acres, an average of 63 bushels per acre for a large acreage. W. R. Motherwell, of Abernethy, threshed 2,650 bushels of wheat from a 50-acre field, an average of 53 bushels per acre. In the Edmonton district, T. T. Hutchings threshed 728 bushels of wheat from a ten-acre plot, an average of nearly 73 bushels per acre. S. Norman threshed 6,950 bushels of oats from 60 acres of land, an average of 116 bushels per acre. The publication of the actual yields or grain threshed will likely open the eyes of the people to the great capabilities of the Western Canadian prairies. $25.00 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 Coast at less than One Cent Per Mile going one way, returning another. An exceptional opportunity to visit any part or all parts of the Great West for pleasure, education or business. People with interests at various points will show you attention. Address a postal to W. G. Neimyer, General Agent, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Rys., 193 South Clark St., Chicago, Ill. 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. 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. Under a recent order the nearest range allowed for target practice in the Mediterranean fleet (British) is 5,000 yards. The maximum is set at 10,000 yards. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Chilblains and Frost-bites. At all druggists and shoe stores; 25 cents. The French Ava assign to Marechal Villars, taking leave of Louis XIV., this aphorism: "Defend me from my friends. I can defend myself from my enemies." Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.—George Ellot. It's a poor plan to promise to pray for your pastor and then to pinch him on his pay. "TIRED ALL THE TIME." Women in the Springtime Need a Tonic. Spring Fever is Spring Catarrh. Peruna Cures Catarrh. Lena Hilton A Beautiful Club Woman's Recovery. Los Angeles, Cal., 539 S. Olive Street, May 5, 1901. Gentlemen:—"I suffered with pain in my right side for over eight years. Doctora said my liver was affected. My complexion was dark and yellow, I had a bad taste in my mouth, and was tired all the time. I took a great deal of medicine, but nothing seemed to do me any good. I read in the paper of Peruna, and decided to give it a trial. I felt better before the first bottle was gone, and after taking three bottles I was cured, and I have enjoyed perfect health since." LENA HILTON. Miss Lena Hilton, is President of the Wednesday Whist Club, of Los Angeles. With every $25.00 purchase of our stock, at 2½c 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 GOLD STANDARD OIL CO., Houston, Tex. With "U=PIN=IT" Skirt Hook-and-Eye You never do any sewing. Instantly fastened or removed. Adjustable at will. Holds skirt firmly. Equally valuable for children's garments and ladies' waists. New idea for washable garments. No rust stains. $800 Given Away in Premiums. Write for particulars. "U-PIN-IT," That's All. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT. Patented Nov. 6, 1900. THE VICTOR O. MILLS CO., Monadnock Block, CHICAGO, ILL. GOOD WEATHER FOR DUCKS IS GOOD WEATHER FOR YOU IF YOU WEAR THE GENUINE TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR YELLOW WET WEATHER PROTECTION IS GUARANTEED UNDER THIS TRADE MARK. OUR FULL LINE OF WATERPROOF CLOTHING IS SOLD BY REPRESENTATIVE TRADE EVERYWHERE. A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. 24 G & J Bicycle Tires You Judge the worth of a tire by its speed, good wearing qualities and ease of repair. G & J TIRES are made from the best rubber; are light enough to be used and giving enough to be durable, and easy riding, thus ensuring comfort and safety. (witness at your agent's or by mail. G & J TIRE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. Also makers of G & J Tires for Motor Bicycles, Carriages and Automobiles. $25 ON We make all kinds of scales. 5 TON Also B. B. Pangeo and Windmill. BECI MAN BROB., DES MOINES, IOWA. As a spring medicine Peruna is a paper falling away. It cleanses. never failing remedy. It cleanses the blood t rough digestion, and gives tone to the whole system by increasing the nutritive value of the food. "Spring fever," as it is sometimes called, which prod ces a tired out, sleepy feeling, and inability to do much mental or physical work, is the result of a sluggish digestion. The great popularity that Peruna has is due to the fact that in all such cases it at once correct digestive derangements and enriches the blood by purifying this very important source of that vital fluid. M a. J. E. Finn, 83 East High Street Buffalo, N. Y., writes: "A few years ago I had to give up social life entirely, as my health was completely broken down. The doctor advised a complete change and rest for a year. As this was out of the question for a time, I began to look around for other means of restoring my health. "I had often heard of Peruna as an excellent tonic, so I bought a bottle to see what it would do for me, and it certainly took hold of my system and rejuvenated it, and in less than two months I was in perfect health, and now when I feel worn out or tired a dose or two of Peruna is all that I need." MRS. J. E. FINN. 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, O. Not one life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.—Owen Meredith. The Best Insurance Vogeler's Curative Compound furnishes the best insurance at a very small cost. The cures which it has made of blood, nerve, skin, liver and kidney diseases, are most marvellous. It insures protection against the development of those every day allments, which are a menace to life and happiness. A few doses of Vogeler's, when dyspepsia, constipation, headache, or nervousness appear, will insure good health. A free sample bottle will be sent on application to the proprietors of St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, Md. Sold by all druggists. PROVIDENCE ROAD, GORLESTON, GT. VARMOUTH I have used St. Jacobs Oil for several years for lumbago and sprains and find it the greatest pain reliever before the public. I had a severe sprain on my right ankle which I received last week, and by using half a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil it is thoroughly cured. It acts like magic. All my friends in Gorleston, through it having cured me, are using it when occasions require, and say it is worth its weight in gold. CREAM MILK Separates ALL the Cream, without attention or labor on your part. SELF-OPERATING, CHEAPEST, BEST. Highest points scored on Butter, Catalogue and particulars FREE. AGENTS WANTED. BUCKEYE CREAM SEPARATOR CO., OBERLIN, OHIO. "YOUR MONEY IS NO GOOD" and will be refunded to you if after using half a bottle of MATT.J.JOHNSON'S 6088 RHEUMATISM and BLOOD CURE you are not satisfied with results. This is our guarantee, which goes with every bottle. For sale by first-class druggists or direct from manufacturers, MATT J. JOHNSON Co., 151 E. 6th St., St. Paul, Minn. LIFE SAVER and NERVE BUILDER NERVUTINE FREE Pamphlet sent for the asking. Write TO-DAY. Cures absolutely Weakness and all Nervous Troubles. Young and old should use it. One bottle often cures. Price $1.00, or six bottles for $5.00. Send for bottle today. Should your druggist not have it, send to GERMAN MEDICINE CO., Nervutine Dept. B, 100 Randolph St., CHICAGO, ILL. 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. 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 name and address to COMMONWEALTH MEXICAN PLANTATION ASSOCIATION, R 508, I15 Dearborn St., Chicago. A Tropical Farm Pays Far better than farming here. Choose a strong, well-managed company, with years of experience in growing rubber. SUGAR-GAME, CORK and COFFEE. 1966 THE OAXACA ASSOCIAT ON, of Chicago, and invest now and then in its $10.00 Guaranteed 40-Year Income First Mortgage Bond, paying 75% as high as 48% later on. Can be resold by 100 at $30 to $40 per bond sale. ROYAL GUARANTEE & INVESTMENT CO. Royal Insurance Ridg., Chicago. PILES are CURED BY THE BRINKERHOFF METHOD WITHOUT CUTTING. Address 1107-1108 Steinkway Hall, CHICAGO, for information, pamphlet and references. Dividend Payers 35 monthly, $15 yearly, now paid by the Ohio, California & Eastern Consolidated Oil Co. Inc. So and 400 a share respectively. Each $1.00 per. Belt Co.'s starting worth and investment guaranteed. Drier postal for propositions. MARSHALL NEW & RUNDR. PISO'S CURE FOR Blood Thirst, All the Yellows, Blood Ought Byron, Sensation Glove, This In Time, Sold by the side. CONSUMPTION UNCLE SAM'S DEBTS. LARGE SUMS DUE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. The Floating Indebtedness Amounts to Probably $25,000,000—Calmants Have a Hard Time Collecting the Amounts Due to Them. In estimating the national debt of the United States consideration is never given to the large volume of floating indebtedness, the sum total of which runs into millions of dollars. The government owes this money to its citizens and many of these debts date back to the foundation of the government. The United States is an elusive debtor, and it has often been said that if the government were an individual and conducted its business as it does as a government it would soon get into the penitentiary. Claims against the government are proverbially hard to collect. The United States cannot be sued under the ordinary forms of law for the collection of an account against it, and the machinery for such collection through legislative channels is so complicated that vexatious delays are inevitable. The number of claimants who have accounts against the United States and who are seeking relief through legislation and who have bills before the Fifty-seventh congress exceed those of any prior congress since the close of the civil war. Although the session has but fairly commenced over 1,100 bills have been presented in the senate and referred to the committee on claims for action. An equally large number, most of them, of course, being duplicates of the senate bills, have been introduced in the house. These bills embody the claims of a large number of schools and churches, and of many corporations, and aggregate in amount over $13,000,000. This $13,000,000 represents only those claims which have been put into the form of bills and presented to congress for consideration. The claims growing out of the recent war with Spain, the Chilean war claims, and others not yet before congress represent an additional alleged indebtedness of the United States amounting to probably $25,000,000. It is probable, therefore, that the United States has a floating indebtedness, not yet adjudicated and some of it of doubtful legality, amounting to nearly $50,000,-000. THE FLOWER SUPPER A NEW FAD. The flower supper is the prettiest and among the most fashionable of this season's entertainments. It has been the rage among well-known actresses, and society women have not been slow in emulating their example. It is a bit expensive, just at this season, but this fact makes it perhaps the most desirable. Each guest finds at her place a bunch of her favorite flowers. Of course the tastes of the guest must be cleverly found out previously and the chosen blossoms secured. Violets usually predominate at these little spreads, for of all flowers this blossom is the most popular. Its insidious perfume appeals strongly to a woman's heart. There are boutonniere bouquets for the men. Carnations are in high favor with them, and although the white blossoms have held reign this winter, the ones of brilliant crimson are again coming into the extreme popularity they held a few years ago.. For a supper of twelve covers there may be found a great diversity of tastes in flowers. There may be roses, honeysuckle, orange blossoms, lilies of the valley, daisies, orchids, violets, trailing arbutus, magnolias, pansies, American Beauties and lilacs. The favorite flower of each guest may be hard to procure, but upon the obtainment of them all hangs the perfect success of the flower supper. Diplomacy and Truth. Apropos of a point he desired to make, Hamilton Mable told this story at the Aldine Association the other evening of an old negro, who experienced religion, and of his master, whose conversation was punctuated with profanity. It was just after the civil war. The negro had been the colonel's body servant as a slave, and remained in that capacity even after receiving his freedom. He joined the Presbyterian church. "Look here, George," said the colonel, "tell me about this predestination and the elect. You don't believe your old master is doomed to hell, do you? Don't you think he will go to heaven with the elect?" Respect and love for the old swearing master did not overcome the newly acquired religion, but there was cunning and diplomacy in his answer. "I nevah heahed of nobody," replied George, "who done got elected who wuz not a candidate."—New York Times. Vienna's Trade in Horse Meat. The horse meat butcher shops of Vienna, of which there are no less than 185, present a clean and attractive appearance, and are in no way distinguishable from the shops where the usual kinds of meat are sold, save by the sign announcing their specialty. Restaurant keepers who serve horse meat must designate this fact in a special column on the bill of fare offered to patrons. Few people ever really want a thing until they see others chasing after it. ALABASTINE Near the center of the city of Seoul there is a beautiful marble pagoda that was brought from Pekin about 1300 by one of the Mongol Queena, who came as a bride to Korea. Her people at that time were shaking the whole known world, and, under leaders like Genghis, Kublai and Tamerlane, were upsetting all the thrones of Asia, so that Korea still speaks of them with bated breath, and the smallest children know them by name. The marble pagoda still stands, a silent witness before the world of the great Mongol conquerors; but past its stony ear whizzes an American electric car every ten minutes at ten miles an hour, regardless of all the Mongol shades. Along this main street of Seoul, one of the oldest streets in the world, stretch Western wires charged with something that defies all the curiosity of the east to pronounce upon. A few days ago a broken strand hung temptingly from one of the poles, and the Far East determined to get hold of it to investigate, with the result—one live wire, one dead man. A government notice was posted up: "If anyone is caught fooling with these thunder and lightning strings, let him be padded."—The Outlook. Threw His Cane Away. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., April 7th. Mr. C. L. Smith of 309 Anne St., the Secy. of the Trades Council has written this startling statement for publication. "I feel it my duty to make public the facts of my recent illness and recovery. I was very sick and sore, and had to walk with the aid of two canes. It was a very painful attack, but I don't know what it was. Some said it was Lumbago and others that it was Sciatica or Rheumatism. "I was told to take Dodd's Kidney Pills, and began a treatment. After I had used one box I could walk with one cane, and after two boxes were used I could walk without any help. I kept on and three boxes cured me completely. "I am now well and happy without a pain or an ache and I can very truly say that Dodd's Kidney Pills are worthy of my greatest praise." Hot Milk as a Tonic. The stimulating effects of hot milk are not yet sufficiently understood. One metropolitan physician uses hot milk and nothing else as a gargle in cases of acute tonsilitis. For an anemic person, or one recovering from an illness, nothing better builds up and restores the tone of the system than a cup of hot milk between meals and before retiring. The milk should be hot, but not boiling, and should be drunk as soon as it is heated. $33.00 TO PACIFIC COAST Chicago & North-Western R'y; during the months of March and April $30.00 from Chicago to Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Ogden and Salt Lake City; $30.50 Spokane; $33.00 Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, Victoria and a large number of other points. Tourist Sleeping Cars daily to the Pacific coast. For maps and particulars apply to nearest ticket agent or address W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, Ill. His Request Tacitly Withdrawn A tramp rang the door bell of Dr. Mary Morrison's house the other day, and when a pleasant-faced woman came to the door he asked her if she would be so kind as to ask the doctor if he had an old pair of trousers to give to a needy man. "I'm the doctor," said the smiling woman. The tramp fled.—Philadelphia Times. We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, she undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially-able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 50 per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best Bad Effect of Charity Work According to the London Lancet, it is quite exceptional to find in a child bred in parochial charity institutions that healthy individuality which is characteristic of children who have been boarded out in the freer and more natural atmosphere of family life. Sensible Housekeepers. will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. The largest library for the blind in the country is said to be in Philadelphia. It contains about 2,500 volumes. The membership is at present 200. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. When you have made a child glad you may have made a man good. SURGICAL OPERATIONS How Mrs. Bruce, a Noted Opera Singer, Escaped an Operation. Proof That Many Operations for Ovarian Troubles are Unnecessary. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Travelling for years on the road, with irregular meals and sleep and damp beds, broke down my health so completely two years ago that the physician advised a complete rest, and when I had gained A. sufficient vitality, an operation for ovarian troubles. Not a very cheerful prospect, to be sure. I, however, was advised to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash; I did so, fortunately for me. Before a month had passed I felt that my general health had improved; in three months more I was cured, and I have been in perfect health since. I did not lose an engagement or miss a meal. "Your Vegetable Compound is certainly wonderful, and well worthy the praise your admiring friends who have been cured are ready to give you. I always speak highly of it, and you will admit I have good reason to do so."—MRS. G. BRUCE, Lansing, Mich $5000 forfelt if above testimonial is not genuine The fullest counsel on this subject can be secured without cost by writing to Mrs Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be entirely confidential. Advantages of Ping-Pong. It is interesting to find ping pong hand in glove with the teetotallers. Thanks to the game, it is no longer possible at most dinner tables for men to sit over their wine as formerly, as the table must be cleared for action—in other words, for ping pong.—New York Evening Sun. Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Good Roads Are the Cheapest One main fact of the whole good roads question deserves to be emphasized—the permanency of the highways after they have once been well built. The first cost seems large, but the money is in the end wisely invested. EARLIEST RUSSIAN MILLET. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a plenty of this prodigially prolific millet. 5 to 8 Tons of Rich Hay Per Acre. Price 50 lbs. $1.90; 100 lbs. $3. Low freights. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. W When a woman makes up her mind to be logical she brushes her hair flat and sits primly in her chair the way she does when she is expecting a call from the minister. 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. Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some one single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.—Johnson. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. He who drinks much thinks little, and he who thinks much drinks little. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color more goods, per package, than any other. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. When you have the devil under your heel don't be scared by his bellowing. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6. 1900. Dynamite can't blow a man in public life so high as too much talking. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.—Plutarch. Hamlin's Wizard Oil battles successfully against pain from any cause whatever; why should you be without it? Being a financier is letting somebody else make money for you. If you love your wife, make it easy for her to get breakfast. Take home Mrs. Austin's Pancake Flour. Let thy discontents be thy secrets.— Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.' For children toothing, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cares wind colic. See a bottle. Genius is infinite painstaking.— Longfellow. Sold by 63 Douglas Stores in American cities, and the best retail shoe dealers everywhere. Caution! The genuine have W. L. Douglas' name and price stamped on the bottom. Notice increase of sales in table below 1898 = 749,708 Pairs. 1890 = $95,183 Pairs. 1900 = 1,259,754 Pairs. 1901 = 1,566,720 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled In Four Years. THE REASONS: W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.00 and $4.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers. W. Douglas makes and sells more women's shoes by side with $3.00 and $5.00 shoes of other makes are found to be just as good. They will outwear two pairs of ordinary $3.00 and $5.00 shoes. Made of the best leather, including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt and National Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelashes and Always Black Hooks Used. W.L. Douglas 84 "Gill Edge Line" cannot be equalled. Shoes by mail, 25 cts. extra. Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. MISCELLANEOUS. From the Ballroom to Hell This famous book postpaid only 25c. Read by millions, endorsed by all. HOUSEHOLD SPECIALTY CO., R. St. Louis, Ill. PILES If you are a sufferer send for the ANO PILE CURE. Immediate relief. Prepaid 50 cents. ANO CO., CHICAGO, ILL. $12.00 per 100 made collecting names. Experience unnecessary. Position permanent. Blank book and full instructions mailed upon receipt of 150 postage. Cole Name Agency, 385 LaSalle Ave., Chicago. CONSTIPATION—A life time cure guaranteed, postpaid 10c. R. M. PARKER, Memphis, Teen. Send 50c at once for a fine piece of Mexican Drawn Work, sure to please any lady. SUTTON, 219 Belden Ave., Chicago, Ill. CORSETS Best on Earth, sent p. pd $1. Spiral spring side steel never break. AGENTS WANTED. N. DARLING, $2 N. Clark St., Chicago. WRITE TO ENGINES BORDEN & SELLECK CO. 46-52 LAKE ST. CHICAGO. $10.00 BUYS 100 SHARES in The Hercules Gold Mining & Milling Co., who own Crank & Crank No. 2 Mining claims, about 10 acres patented on Raven Hill, adjointing the famous Elkton Consolidated Mines in Cripple Creek which has been a dividend payer for some years. Spendid veins rich in oil recently opened up. Only a small block of treasury shares offered. Here is a very desirable investment. Shares 100 each. Orders for not less than 50 shares accepted. Particulars free. Address F. M. KEETE, Secy., Room 19, P. O. Bidge., Colorado Springs, Colo. SHEET MUSIC UP-TO DATE Sent Postpaid to any address. 3 Pieces, Full Size for 25 cents. 7 Pieces, Full Size for 50 cents. Vocal or instrumental. Write for List. Manufacturers & Publishers Distributing Agency, P. O. Drawer 158, Buffalo, N. Y. WE WILL TURN YOUR P ONE PENN of Beaumont, Texas. Capita SHARES, ONE PENNY EACH One Deal by Which We Market 240,000 Barrels of Oil. ONE PENNY OIL CO. of Beaumont, Texas. Capital Stock, $1,000,000 The contract was signed to-day by the One Penny Oil Company for the sale of 20,000 Barrels of Crude Oil per month, to be delivered at the Company's well on Spindle Top Heights, the first delivery to be made on or before June 1, 1902. This contract is to run for one year and is renewable at our option. Ward tract, for 4 wells; Hogg-Swayne syndicate for 2 wells; in block 39 all located on the famous We also own all mineral 8 miles north of Beaumon are all in fee simple; we alty, thereby saving a lar to our stockholders. Send for Prospectus. Write us for price on Oil. Reliable Agents wanted. HAS NO EQUAL DEFIANCE HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE OF QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 oz. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG Co. OMAHA, NEB. You get chromo starches under all brands and names, but they are all the same poor stuff and have to depend upon something to sell them. Use Defiance Starch. No premiums, but 16 ounces of the best starch for 10c. Don't forget it—a better quality and one-third more of it. SHEET MUSIC UP-TO DATE FOR SALE 180 acre farm, good buildings, train, all per acre. 80 acre 90; 120a. 850; 135a. 840. Genata Alden, Lawrence, Minn. FOR SALE A FINE ESTATE OR STOCK FARM In TEXAS of 7,200 ACRES. WITHIN SIXTY MILES OF THE ARMOUR AND SWIFT MILLION DOLLAR PACKERIES NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT FT. WORTH. Finely improved, improvements coating $20,000; located on a railroad. About 500 acres of rich black creek valley land in cultivation that will grow alfalfa. Subdivided into nine pastures, springs in every pasture. Six windmills and deep we is and 25% miles of running creek water. Fourteen tenant houses and large expensive barn. Fifty miles four-wire fencing and telephone connection. Located within the rain belt. Population of county $5,000, one of the largest farming counties in the state. Only one other large pasture in county. Farmers' calves are purchased from $5 to $10 and raised to three-year-olds bring $5. Cattle will winter without feed, or at cost of 50c per head. Has paid me $12,000 a year net profits past three years. Each survey has excess and I estimate there are fully 9,000 acres in pasture. Land in cultivation runs for enough to more than pay all running expenses, leaving growth on the cattle clear profit to the owner. SALUBRIUS CLIMATE AND FINEST GRASS IN NORTH TEXAS. Price $72,000; $22,000 cash down and $5,000 a year for ten years at 4% interest, or can arrange to suit. Considering its nearness to market this land is very cheap. All titles backed by patents and land is on the rise. Place will carry 1,500 head cattle with ease. Address 0720 S. HOUSTON, Owner, Stephenville, Tex. Pres. First Nest. Bank IOWA FARMS$4 PER CASH BALANCE CROPTIL BUILDING HALL WESTERN CANADA'S Wonderful wheat crop for 1901 now the talk of the Commercial World is by no means phenomenal. The Province of Manitoba and districts of Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta are the most wonderful grain producing countries in the world. In stock raising they also hold the highest post. tion. Thousands of Americans are annually making this their home, and they succeed as they never did before. Move Westward with the tide and secure a farm and home in Western Canada. Low rates and special privileges to homeseekers and settlers. The handsome forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. Apply for rates, &c., to F. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or C. J. Broughton, 827 Monadnock Block, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, 20 Law Bldg., Toledo, Cannaniel Government Agents. Map of Iowa. FREE with large list of Iowa farms for sale by us. This is the latest Map of Iowa published, showing every section of land, post office, village, railway, and stream. Send twenty cents for postage and packing. MEHAN CO., 209 Crocker Bldg., Des Moines, Iowa CALIFORNIA FARMS FOR FREE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE SALE HOMES IN OKLAHOMA.—Buy a home in the great Wheat Belt that has made Oklahoma famous. Come to Reeding, a new town on railroad, where you can get bargains in farm lands, also business openings and town lots. IRA MAXSON, Real Estate, Reeding, Okla. TAX SALE 7,000 ACRES extra good Farm Land in best part Kansas, in tracts to suit purchaser. On long time at low rate. J. O. SOUTHARD, Allen, Lyon Co., Kansas. Agents For our Double Rubber Floor Cleaner and Take-up (recently pat.) nothing on sale like it, easily sold, good profit. NEVIUS MFG. CO., 2226 CMAUTEAU AVE., ST. LOUIS, NO. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 15, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PENNIES INTO DOLLARS MY OIL CO. Total Stock, $1,000,000 Full Paid and Non-assessable Our Holdings. One Gusher in block 36, capacity 70,000 barrels; land in block 32, Keith-Ward tract, for 4 wells; in block 36, Hogg-Swayne syndicate subdivision for 2 wells; in block 39 for 2 wells; all located on the famous Spindle Top. We also own all mineral rights in 500 8 miles north of Beaumont. Our lands are all in fee simple; we pay no royalty, thereby saving a large percentage to our stockholders. You get chromo starches under all brands and for 1901 now the talk of is by no means phenomenal. The Province of Manitoba and districts of Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta are the most wonderful grain producing countries in the world. In stock raising they also hold the highest posi- 2 BARNEY BENSON, — _ HEAVY MACHINERY. . 3 Erected. Hoisting and Placing of. | “fins of Beats and Gide ig ) =a 5 Seairy ot pla : en ge ete 5 Now it seems sppropriate to call up Sees ity ‘BHI, “which. he e pred in the early days of Congress . Of Major Lawrence M. “Ennis, Com- mander Ill. Division Service men of * the Spanish war, organized the John _ R, Tenner Camp. service men of the » Spanish war, at the home of Col. John Senior vice-commander—Captain A. Thomas. Junior vice commander—Ooione! J. H. Johnson. _ Quartermaster—Major Dr. Allen A. ‘Wesley. x Adjutant—Lieutenant R. F. Ratcliffe. Judge acvocate—Lieutenani James 8. Nelson. - 3 Chaplain—Captain -Rev. Jordan ‘Surgeon—Lieutenant Dr. E. S. Mil- ler, — eis ae Sergeant major—Lieutenant Henry ‘Turnier. Officer of the day—Lieutenant John Allison. Sentinel—Lieutenant Stuart Alexan- der. State Commander Ennis addressed the camp, and highly complemented its officers and their men on their sol- dierly bearing and the fine record they made during the Spanish-American war. Major Ennis informed the writ- er that he “believes Camp John R. Tanner will become one of the best and strongest camps in the United States.” Big-Mouth Rev. Pie or Chicken-eat- ing Hubert assisted Rev. Jumping Car- | ey to administer the communion at Quinn Chapel two Sundays ago, and it’s a wonder to us that the deril did not come right down through the roof of Quing after Hubert, the foul-mouth- | SG agpiceiee pel oon lea ond Rib a0 sociates out of the Lord's house.—The | Broad Ax. | ow, ‘The Broad Ax wishes to know what the Advocate has to find fault with in| the Rev. P. E. Hubert. The matter is a little personal, but since the ques- | tion has been asked publicly we are | not afraid to answer it. It all lies in @ nutshell, or rather two or three nat- | shells. In the first place, the editor | id not find Mr. Hubert either « moral | or an honest man. These words are_ used advisedly, if mozality consists in | obedience to the moral law and if honesty means the paying of one’s debts. This said gentleman, after finding out that be was found out by} the editor of the Advocate, called at the latter's home, where he had been | stopping, and got his baggage, depart-_ ing without paying his bill—for board | ané lodging. Word was sent to the University. of ‘Wilberforce, which he was at that time representing or rath- et misrepresenting, but word was sent / Joack that he no longer was connected | therewith, ang so exit Mr. Hubert from Milwaukee —The Advocate, Mii- waukee, Wis. Mr. Advocate, it’s an unpleasant task but it is the duty of all honest newspaper men to tear the mask from the face of the grand Rev. rascals fiKe | Rev. Pie-Eating Hubert @ Co. ‘The principal motive in writing a movel nowadays seems to be that the author may get the benefit of the dramatization. ‘Young Mr. Havemeyer, who sent his eoachman to represent him in court, discovered that the iaw is no respect- er of millionaires. To a photographer belongs the dis- tinction of being the only man in America who succe' ‘din making the —— ‘The story of the tramp who stole ‘bar of soap is preposterously conflict: ing. Either he was-not a tramp or he did not steat a bar of soap. - A Baltimore man was suddenly wife. It is mot stated whether she used ‘the vollingpiz or a fiatiron. ~ | A Kansas man theorizes that Eve ‘was tempted by 2 man instead of a ser- pent. But why revive the old scandal stall? Think of the family mame! ‘The growth-of the concentration ides has induced the invention of the whis- Will be to take = chew instead of e oink. Colombia evidently wants to impresr ‘the world with the idea that its revolu- tion is to be taken seriously, for it has issued orders that all news must be censored. ‘ A big pland factory in New York has just burned down. Of course, when the company gets keyed up to the right pitch they will have a new factory of | tite string. ‘It 4s said that there are more than 2,000,000 brands of cigars on the mar ket. The campaign cigar, however, al- ‘ways smelis the same, no matter what name it goes by. ‘The Bacon enthusiasts wil! sniff, o! coursé, when they hear that a quarter- ly magazine devoted to Shakespeare and Stratfor-on-Avon is about to ap- pear in London. ~ A bigamist in Lima, Obio, has ask- ed the police to arrest him because he wants to be punished. A jury might decide that the poor fellow has suf-' fered enough already. Congressman Moody's declaration that he hardly knows the bow from the stern of a war veseel is frank, at all events. And he hasn't begun hitching up his trousers yet. Emperor William has taken a par- ticular Hiking to buckwheat cakes, but wait until brother Henry tells him about baked beans, codfish, Mulligan stew, terrapin and escalloped oysters. A gentleman of the name of Moss has been seated in the national house of representatives from a contested district in Kentucky. Congress proud- ly points to the sct that it gathered him. In a city im Rustian Poland stu- dents set fire to the scheols and at- tompted to lynch the teachers. - The Chicago small boy who has supposed that he held the record will have to give up the competition. Two men have declined the assist- ant postmaster generalship with its salary of $4,000 a year. It isn’t likely. howev«:, that the office will have to be left vacant permanently because of 2 lack of applicants for the job. ‘The news that Andrew Carnegie has refused to become Achilles Il. of Araucane shows how really great is the American millionaire who prefers to invest in libraries instead of spend- ing his fortune in coronation ceremo- nies. After the Brooklyn women ot through hugging and kissing Fiddler Kubelik he was so limp that he couldn't walk alone. It is beginning to look as if the poor boy may in fu- ture be able to fiddle only under police protection. _ An Illinois teacher inflicted corpor- a] punishment on a pretty girl pupil, and then they were married. The sudden development of love on the part of the tedcher is understandable, but how about the.girl? Are we to understand that that is the proper way to woo? The sultan of Turkey is giving away some of his wives to favorite pashas. ‘The sultan bas a large supply of old and slightly pesse wives that he can spare just as well as not, but hasn't he wit enough to see that his method of getting rid of them may be the cause of 2 good many of the troubles that are cropvine ont f© Terre? Don’t imagine that all hair prepara- tions are alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Mar- row has been on the market for so jong that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use ot their hair. It is most.deli- ately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fall to cure dandref an4 make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the sealp 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 ad- dress-in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., T6 Wabash Ave., Chicago. UMnols, Ss a ove JOSEPH A. McIHERNEY LAWYER Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Gourta. Main Office 6256 Halsted St, Down Town Office 260 5. Clark St, Reem 4at_ eee Bess =: William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Reem 402 Reaper Bick, - a Tet. North 161 ADDISON BLAKELY wt eae ea CHARLES HUGH LEECH COMMERCIAL LAW A SPECIALTY Room 216 Roanoke Bidg. | iciicelaaseee * aamtaea ALBERT B. GEORGE . LAWYER. 422 Ashiand Block, Chicage. — Tel M. 9ea5.— Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law ‘ Suite 9, No, 77 South Clark St, cmcAGo EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER _ Suite <2, 20 8. Clark 98. ‘Telephone, Harrisos 332. cEICaco. ‘Reseres cr, x: Tureer Ave Lawrence M. Ennis, soe tetedin ; Teanconteemee : Colorado's legislature has adjoura- |’ ed.'t order that the rural members | may put in more time-boring for ofl. | If Joseph Chamberlain is sot a blank Mar.what kind of a distinguished statesman is he? Ireland pauses for 5} If Jobe L. Sullivan has realty quit @rinkitig for good. it means an awful ‘tous to the breweries and distilleries of | the country, ee oe 5 eae Parte OCR Ber B= ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER, SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago, Telephone Lake View 270. ‘Telepbons Yards 72. ‘Reta diiebed L877 JOHN J. DUNN, Frboieeale and Retatt Coal - and - Wood, 5ist Street and Armour Avenue... Betton ca St aa as ee eg ALEX 1. WYATT, JEWELER 4%° OPTICIAN " Manofecteree of OPTICAL AND REFRACTING GOODS Watches and Jewelry Repaired, Prices Reascuable. Eyes Tested Free. ----. OSE. Madsa1St. «cer Dearbore Chicago WILLIAM LOEFFLER ; Provision Dealer 3ist and State ue es a CHICAGO Sa Se Cc.J.BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter "out aug eee ‘Tolephene Yards 4. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUF EET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AUD CIGARS A SFECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM MRS, LIZZIE W. RANDELL Dressmaking and Plain Sewing.... 4836 State St. CHICAGO a FOR BARGAINS IN Dry Goods, Gents’ Furnishings and Shoes THOMAS & HARRIS s208-3 Weare ame GRAAT NORTHERwW SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLE. Driving, Draft and General Business Horees Always on Hand Tana OHIOAGO, 1H GUS GEBHARDT Boots, Shoes and Rubbers Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods No. $046 SO. STATE STREET CHICAGO ! SAVE MONEY BY BUYING—= <==. YOUR PROVISIONS FROM ” ies oS : Staple and Fancy Croceries, Meats Best Brands of Flour, Teas, Coffees Baking Powder, Spices, Butter Eggs, and[11234 Gods, Ets. 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Fautkner, dealer in cigars 4 tobacco, $164 State street. B. W. Fitts, printing office, 2713 A. ¥. Tervalon’s ‘cigar store and ‘mews stand, 2826 State street. 8. e wa stand and cigar diore, 4008 Sante sina News items and advertisements left at those places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. en nee © Same « sx Paledsptie e aot ese! ° “Omaha man has invented a wing tae Take two in . fae ati oe