The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. WHY NEGROES INFERIOR? The following logical editorial is reproduced from a late issue of the great New York Journal, and it reflects or expresses the same ideas or sentiments respecting the disqualifications of Prof. Booker T. Washington as a bold and fearless leader of the Negro race, that we have been setting forth through the columns of this paper for the last four or five years, in relation to the servile attitude which Booker T. Washington assumes on all questions effecting the civil or the political rights of the Negro in America. (From New York Journal.) We call your attention to what seems to us an important phase of the Negro question. Undoubtedly the objection is often well founded. The primitive Negro, being very near a savage, has not acquired the faculty of controlling his natural impulses. We have a way of thinking that honesty is inborn, that a peaceful disposition is inborn. As a matter of fact, honesty, truthtelling and a law-abiding spirit are the results of long centuries of cultivation. They are artificial, not natural, qualities. The Negro, close to the primitive stock, is less able than the white man to control primitive instincts. In the North the Negro is disliked by a foolish and inferior class of whites, for the reason that the black man sometimes falls sufficiently to admire the white man and yield to his decisions. We wish that this northern complaint were well founded, that there were better reasons for inferior whites complaining of the Negro's insubordination. All improvement in the world is based upon the intelligent dissatisfaction of the mass of the people. The great danger which the Negro question involves, in our opinion, is this: The Negroes are rarely dissatisfied at all, and never dissatisfied intelligently. Mr. Booker T. Washington is the best example of the Negro intellect in the United States. He is undoubtedly a superior man. But he gives the impression, as quoted by Mr. W. D. Howells, that he shares the Negro's willingness to accept his inferiority. Booker T. Washington feels that "perhaps" an American aristocracy like the English aristocracy may be all right, proper and acceptable. He feels that among the very rich, "where there is so much liberality, there must be kind hearts." He thinks that it is all right for the nation to be divided into servers and served. He would not object to a population in which an entire class should resignedly look upon themselves as permanent and eternal inferiors. He would not view with horror ten million black men forming a class-half way between the ox and the human being. The burden of his refrain, address- Don't try to be a white man. Don't try to think yourselves. Learn to dig and cut and plant intelligently. Learn to be good waiters. Learn to be good servants. Make a place for yourselves by being useful, humble and obedient. Very different was the opinion of the splendid, white-haired old man, Frederick Douglass. This Negro viewed differently the duty of his race. He said that if a slave would always fight the man who attempted to whip him, there would be no whipping. He himself fought and beat his master. But Frederick Douglass had more white blood than Booker Washington. He was more nearly white than black. And his views were nearer to white. It need not be said, we trust, that this newspaper entertains only feelings of respect and friendship for a man like Booker Washington, who is doing his best to help along his fellows. But we say emphatically that every believer in republican institutions, every real democrat, should view with deepest apprehension the establish- ment of a permanently servile class, whether it be black or white. No amount of money, no piling up of unjust laws, no industrial combinations, will ever succeed in establishing an aristocracy in this country, as the population now stands, and for just one reason. Among the millions of white human beings in America, there is no class that can be made a foundation for an aristocracy seeking to establish itself. There is no considerable class of men willing to lick the hand that supplies bread, or even good wages and fine clothes. Eternal dissatisfaction, the everlasting assertion of the fundamental idea, "I am as good as you; or, if I am not, my child shall be as good." must guarantee the permanency of republican institutions here. The Negro, according to Booker T. Washington's interpretation of his character, might afford the foundation for the establishment of aristocracy, of an idle, arrogant, permanent plutocracy. He almost succeeded in doing this during the days of slavery. Only the Civil war destroyed the work of the black slave, and made the South American and democratic by making labor honorable below the Mason and Dixon line. If passive submission to authority is really ingrained in the Negro character, the fact makes the Negro problem more serious by far than all the outbreaks of the savage lack of self-conrtol which now lead to lynchings and other brutality. NOTES OF THE MIDDLE STATES AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EXPOSITION Tuesday afternoon Aledmens Leininger, Hart, Dever, Kuester, and Alling held an interesting and very important confrence with several members of the Ways and Means Committee or the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Exposition which will be held in this city from August 14 to September14, and Alderman Leininger, who is the right man in the right place and the other members of his committee were highly gratified to learn that a great deal of hard work had been accomplished by the Ways and Means committee in the way of making the exposition a grand success, and before the conference came to a close chairman Leininger, assured those of the Ways and Means committee, that the Aldermanic committee would at once urge his Hon. Mayor Carter H. Harrison to appoint a committee consisting of many of the most prominent business men to raise funds and to further assist in planing and caring on the work of the exposition. Word has been received from Mr. W. H. A. Moore, who was delegated by the Ways and Means committee to visit the Charleston, S. C. Exposition for the purpose of securing exhibits, that he has succeeded in securing well on to six car loads of exhibits which will be shipped to Chicago shortly after the close of the Charleston Exposition June 1: Beginning with the first of the coming week the Ways and Means committee will be located in its permanent headquarters, Room 701 Stock Exchange Building, 167 Dearborn street, which will be kept open during business hours and friends of the project and visitors to the city are invited to call and receive enlightment pertaining to the exposition. Judging from the number of letters the committee is receiving daily from all parts of the country from distinguished men and women the exposition cannot fail from being a great success. NORMAL NOTES. Dr. E. S. W. Hammonds, Dean of Walden University, spent a part of last Sabbath at Normal. He made a very encouraging talk to the students and teachers which was great appreciated by all. Our commencement exercises will be held on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of this month. All are looking forward to this event with much pleasure. Bishop Turner of Atlanta, Dr. Boyd of Nashville and Dr. Morris of Helena will deliver the addresses to the graduating classes. [Name] WILLIAM HOWARD FITZGERALD, THE BRAINY EX-ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL OF CHICAGO, WHO IS ONE OF THE LEADING LAWYERS OF THIS, THE QUEEN CITY OF AMERICA. WILLIAM HOWARD FITZGERALD, Who Ranks with the Most Successful Lawyers of Chicago. William Howard Fitzgerald, the subject of this sketch, was born in this city May 22, 1867, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzgerald, were WILLIAM HOWARD FITZGERALD, CORPORATION COUNSEL OF LEADING LAWYERS OF THIS, among the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Chicago. The parents of Mr. Fitzgerald were fully determined to give their son the advantage of a thorough education and while he was nothing but a small lad they saw to it that he attended the Haven Public School where he evinced an aptitude for learning, and in the course of time he entered the North Division High School from which he graduated with the highest honors. Immediately after graduating from the South Division High School, William Howard Fitzgerald became a student at Yale University, and after laborious work and hard and deep study on his part, he graduated with the very highest honors from that great seat of learning in 1888. In 1891 Mr. Fitzgerald was admitted to the Chicago bar and he stood at the head or highest in the class which was examined at that time. The late Gov. John P. Altgeld, in 1894, appointed Mr. Fitzgerald as a member of the State Board of Education, and while serving the people of Illinois in that capacity he displayed rare wisdom and mature judgment and before relinquishing the duties of his office he won the confidence and the high esteem of his associates on the State Board of Education. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, in 1898, appointed Mr. Fitzgerald assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, which position he very creditably filled and held until Jan. 1st, 1902, at which time he resigned to become senior member of the law firm of Fitzgerald and Orr, who occupy an elegant suite of law offices on the fourth floor of the Reaper Block, Washington and Clark Sts. and many of the best and the wealthiest citizens of Chicago are clients of the law firm of Fitzgerald & Orr. Possessing a clear cut or a well trained legal mind, and being indowed with a high sense of honor, Mr. Fitzgerald has a host of warm and loyal friends who maintain that not many years will roll by before the leaders of the Democratic party will honor him with the nomination for Judge of the Circuit Court. Ernest Hummell, the honest ex-City Treasurer of Chicago, will, if all signs do not fall, be nominated and elected Treasurer of Cook County. REV. A. LONGREEN MURRAY IS LIVING IN A FOURTEEN- ROOM MANSION ON WABASH AVE. About the first of this month Rev. A. Longgreen Murray who was considered a black-sheep in the fold while he was THE BRAINY EX-ASSISTANT CHICAGO, WHO IS ONE OF THE QUEEN CITY OF AMERICA. preaching at Indianapolis, Ind., concluded that he did not want to live among the "niggers" on Dearborn St. any longer, so he is now living in a big fourteen-room mansion at 2806 Wabash Ave. right in among the rich white folks. The officers of Bethel have lavishly refurnished the fourteen rooms for Rev. Murray who always likes to get in among the good looking sisters and his family. We suppose that they, the officers, have also fitted up a whisky and wine room on the side for Rev. Longreen Murray. Of course the wash and scrub women who-belong to Bethel are willing to dig up the money so that Rev. Murray, who should be following the plow, can live like a white millionaire, for if they fall to do so he will prevent them from going to heaven and send them all to hell. SALE OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. Tuesday, May 27, at 12:30 o'clock sharp, at the Real Estate Board Building, 59 Dearborn St., the Olivet Baptist church will be sold to the highest bidders for cold cash to satisfy the holders of the second mortgage notes, which call for twelve thousand col- lors. Ed. Morris, attorney for the Gamblers' Trust, was nominated for the Legislature at Arlington Hall, Tuesday evening. Judge E. Pat Hanecy, in presenting the name of Morris to the convention, declared that his friend Morris was the embodiment of all that is high and moral and that he is the only individual who is able to represent the "niggers" at Springfield. Some claim that Morris will not accept the nomination when he returns home from Europe but that he will step aside so that his Pal, Ed. Green, can be sent to Springfield to do the bidding of Hanecy, Morris, Dixon, McDonald & Co. Many of the Afro-American Republicans in the first Congressional District intend to fight the above combination and now is the time for the leaders of the Democratic party to wake up and do business in the first district for they can do it if they will nominate an Afro-American Democrat for County Commissioners. --- Ex-City Attorney Andrew J. Ryan is still being favorably mentioned for Judge of the Superior Court. George C. Callahan, Esq., the prosperous and wide-awake South Water Water St. commission merchant, would make an ideal County Commissioner. P. J. Murphy, who made the run for Alderman in the 31st ward last spring, has many friends who want to see him selected as one of the County Commissioners. American beef at 24 cents a pound in New York and 14 cents a pound in London rather tends to puncture a few republican theories about the high price of beef.—Ex. Arthur McLaughlin and Rep. E. M. Cummings, are at it hot and heavy in the 30th ward and the adherents of both candidates for the Legislature claim that their man will hit the bull's eye. No matter how tightly a woman's hand at a store is squeezed into her kid gloves, in almost nine cases out of ten she will frown and declare to the clerk that they are "a mile too big for her." Rev. Johnsing F. Thomas will you please stand up in your pulpit and answer this one question: "Did you not spend one to two hours with two other gentlemen in Parson Davies' saloon, 85 South Clark St. several years ago?" The friends of Illinois Club will give their ninth annual May party at the Masonic Temple, Randolph and State Sts., Tuesday evening, May 27. Prof. Armant's full orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion. Prof. Hall Prompter. Admission, fifty cents. Bishop Alexa der Walters was arrested last week at Hackensack, N. J. He is being charged with criminal assault upon Miss Sadie Billings, who is a close friend of Rev. J. D. Carrothers, whom Bishop Walters also had arrested on the charge of conspiracy. Edward J. Rainey, of Rainey Brothers, undertakers, 834 35th St. is an active candidate for the State Senate in the 9th Senatorial District against State Senator Barney J. Maquire and the fight between these stalwart Democrats promises to be lively from the start to finish. It is the duty of democrats everywhere to give general support to their jocal papers. The so-called "country weekly" fills an important place and the result that may be accomplished by the good efforts of these papers, if they are properly encouraged, cannot be over-estimated.—The Commoner. Alderman Thomas Carey, chairman of the Democratic Committee of Cook County, is heartily in favor of nominating high-grade men for the various positions on the County ticket, and Chairman Carey thinks it would be good politics to select a worthy Afro-American Democrat for County Commissioner. Mr. Jacob Feinburg, lately succeeded Wm. Loeffler in the wholesale and retail provision business, 31st. and State Sts., and in every respect Mr. Feinburg conducts a strictly first-class establishment and it affords The Broad Ax much pleasure to command Mr. Feinburg and his place of business to its many readers. Sunday morning, May 25, Prof. M. M. Mangasarian closes his lecture course at the Grand Opera House for the season. His subject being, "A Personal God." On May 31st, the Prof. with Mrs. Mangasarian sail for Europe and the Orient where they will pass the summer and their thousands of friends wish them a pleasant voyage and a happy return. The state of Mississippi has discovered another advantage in disfranchisement. It seems that in certain counties of that state the liquor traffic has been somewhat checked recently, and now the whites are claiming it comes about through the suppression of the Negro vote, and that therefore, good has come out of disfranchisement. The good people of that mighty commonwealth might have reached the same result by killing off all the Negroes; would they have, therefore, justified murderers?— Ex. Jesse Shearwood, ex-member of the Board of Education, and one of the big cattlemen at the Union Stock Yards, is the only citizen residing in the 32nd ward to be spoken of for County Commissioner. Mr. Shearwood stands well with the Afro-Americans of Chicago and many of them would vote for him for any office which he may seek. More than two hundred Democrats of the 3rd Primary District of the 12th ward assembled at Fox's Hall, 12th St. and Sawyer Ave., Wednesday evening and among those who addressed them were Col. A. D. Gash, and Attorney Henry E. Murphy. Col. Gash, who is being freely mentioned for Probate Judge, delivered a strong speech which caused the boys in the pit to shout and holler long and loud. Rev. Alex. Jack Carey, while attempting to preach in Quinn Chapel last Sunday morning, said, "that the Methodist Church was bankrupt, that it had no money to pay its bishops." This is nothing new, for many years have not the high officials, the bishops and the smaller theologians belonging to the Methodist church squandered millions of dollars of the poor people's money in ritorious living? Ex-Congressman Ben. T. Cable, of Rock Island, chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic National Congressional Committee, arrived in this city from Washington, D. C., and the East Wednesday morning and the writer had the honor of being presented to Mr. Cable by ex-Mayor John P. Hopkins, and while in conversation with Chairman Cable, he stated "that he expected to have his congressional headquarters going in full blast in this city by July 1st, that it was his intention and the other gentlemen composing the Congressional committee to wage a vigorous campaign all along the line." SPANISH PHILOSOPHY. Ask too much to get enough. All is not lost that is in danger. The best cast at dice is not to play. That which covers thee discovers thee. Better be alone than in bad company. Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. What three knows, everybody knows. Truth, like oil, always comes to the surface. In the smith's house the knife is wooden. The bad man always suspects knavery. The fertile field becomes sterile without rest. Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution. Fools and the perverse fill the lawyer's purse. He who keeps his own secret avoids much mischief. A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled. Never advise a man to go to the wars or to marry. When a Spaniard sings, he is either mad or has no money. You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself. Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it. The rich man transgresses the law, the poor man is punished. Three things kill a man—a scorching sun, suppers and cares. Wounds from the knife are healed; not those from the tongue. If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one. He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living. The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion's. Where there is no want of will, there will be no want of opportunity. Four things put a man beside himself—women, tobacco, cards and wine. REASONINGS. Doggerel verse is the groaning of puppyhood. Wine is an enemy to the buyer and a friend to the seller. Love doesn't laught at the smith who repairs automobiles. Words of wisdom seldom fall from the lips of the person who smokes cigarettes. THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Parliament, Infants, 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 fixed. The Broad 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; also on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): One Year.....$2.00 Month.....1.00 Advertising sales made known on application, through all communications to THE BROAD AX, 6040 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO SULAUS S. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Wonder if Prince Henry has got his sleep up yet. Possibly the man who went crazy over ping pong didn't have far to go. Most every woman listens for the silken rustle when she walks past another woman. War is not only what General Sherman said it was, but it is expensive. Is it not, J. B.? It must be a hard heart that feels anything but sympathy for the poor little boy King of Spain. The contention that after all Kansas City girls have the biggest feet is hotly resented by Chicago. Iowa need not think it at all necessary to compete with Texas as a raiser of early spring tornadoes. Mr. Edison very kindly informs the other inventors just how he would build an airship if he had time. The real "sporty" person is perhaps the man who has a ping-pong ankle, a golf-stick shoulder and a baseball eye. The Western railroad that carried cattle for 108 hours without food or water deserved to be fined more than $100. David Robinson, a gifted Boston bootblack, is to be sent to Paris to study music. He hopes to shine in a new field. Women seem to make pretty good lawyers. Two of them have sued a wealthy woman client for bills of over $9,000 each. The next war of any consequence, according to the scientists, will be between the San Jose scale and the Chinese lady bug. It would be a good idea to have the cruiser Chicago do its sailing in waters where the police understand the language of its tars. A coal strike in the summer would not be so bad if we were not reasonably sure that we will need to burn some anthracite next winter. The golden calf was a cheap article in comparison with what the ordinary carcass of veal is likely to be if things don't change for the better soon. One of the popular romance writers has undertaken the difficult task of converting Aaron Burr into a dignified, law-abiding and peace-loving patriot. A Louisville court has awarded a woman one cent for a hug that was administered against her will. The supply must exceed the demand in Kentucky. Madam Calve says her voice cannot stand our climate. And yet, with all due regard to the lady, we really must decline to enter into any agreement to change it. Russell Sage thinks some men are not fit to have money. That is why Uncle Russell has devoted his whole life to the benevolent work of taking it away from them. There is something wrong in the adjustment of things if it is true, as reported, that enough food is wasted in Argentina annually to feed a dozen starying Russian provinces. King Edward will distribute 40,000 medals during the coronation exercises. This will make them so common that the barbers can afford to throw one in with every shave and haircut. Now it is Germany that fears it cannot stand for American jockeys because they put new ideas into the heads of the stable owners. Europe finds that the American jockey is an acquired taste. The valued Baltimore American says: "The snake stories have started well. They average six feet in length and are all as thick as a man's wrist." At that rate they may be called novelettes. The beef trust alleges that its sales have fallen off 37 per cent. But it need not expect the public to pass around the hat and take up a collection for it. Our sympathies are not to be played upon. The San Jose scale is to be met, charged, and conquered by Chinese ladybugs imported for this purpose. When we find it necessary to exterminate the Chinese ladybugs we will import something from Japan. --- Establishment in Nantes. The city of Nantes, France, has evolved an inexpensive method for supplying food to the destitute. For several years the city has maintained kitchens where persons without money may present tickets and procure a warm meal. A dormitory has been added to one of the buildings where about fifty people can be accommodated. For three nights these beds are free to the same persons, when they must make way for others. During the stay at the dormitory each one is given two meal tickets a day. The kitchens themselves are only open from Oct. 15 to April 15 each year, but the dormitory is open all the year round. Tickets entitling the holder to anything on the bill of fare are placed in the bakeries and tobacco shops throughout the city, where they can be purchased by charitably inclined persons to be handed to the applicants for aid. Meats, fish and eggs on the bill of fare cost 2 cents a plate. Beans, rice, etc., are 1 cent. The expense of these kitchens has been growing less each year, says the Municipal Journal and Engineer. The total expense for last year was about $9,264, and the receipts $7,720. The privilege of taking meals at these kitchens is not restricted to the destitute, but many workmen take their meals there on account of the moderate prices. A moderate substantial meal can be obtained for 5 cents. HEALTH OF CITY AND COUNTRY. Statistics Show the Death Rate Is Lower in the Former. The census statistics that have been recently published by the government have revealed the surprising fact that the death rates of cities are relatively less than those for the country. The proportion of deaths to population has decreased 10 per cent in the last decade and the improvement is confined almost entirely to the cities. This can be traced to the improved methods of sanitation observed in all the progressive cities, but almost ignored in the rural districts. The deaths from consumption form a good example of this attention to health. In 1899 there were 245 persons per 10,000 inhabitants afflicted with this disease, but in 1900 this was reduced to 190. Deaths from cholera, typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., were reduced to a remarkable degree, but fatal cases of pneumonia increased from 189.9 per 10,000 in 1890 to 191.9 in 1900, being due to epidemics of "grip" and influenza. Cancer, kidney and heart troubles also increased. The decreased number of deaths from consumption, says the Municipal Journal and Engineer, has had the most to do with the increased length of life of the average American, which has risen from thirty-one and one-tenth years in 1890, to thirty-eight and two-tenths years in 1900. NAME A COMMON ONE IN ENGLAND Shakespeare as a Family Name Not All Popular. It may come as a surprise to some folk to find how common a name that of Shakespeare not only is, but was long before the birth of the poet. At least three thirteenth century Shakespeares are known, and there is a possible fourth. In the next century there are notices of bearers of the name at Penrith and Nottingham, where a John Shakespeare was a plaintiff in 1357 against Richard de Cotgrave, spicer, for deceit in the sale of dyewood, and recovered damages; in Warwickshire—"Thomas Shakespeare, felon, who had left his goods and fled"—at Youghal, Colchester, Pontefract and elsewhere. Fifteenth century occurrences of the name are also fairly numerous, and when we come into the succeeding age, immediately preceding and partly including the poet's own era, Mrs. Stopes shows plainly that there were Shakespeares all over the country. The frequent occurrence of the name is, of course, a warning of the valuelessness of the attempts which have been not infrequently made to connect the poet with this or that family on the grounds of similarity of name. Needed a Nerve Boother A middle aged woman called the other day at a chemist's shop in London, and asked for morphine. The shopman replied to her request with "What do you take it for?" "Must I tell you that, sir?" "You must, or otherwise I can't supply you." "Well, then, don't you think that a woman forty years old, who has had her first offer of marriage less than an hour ago, naturally wants something to quiet her nerves and give her a good night's sleep?" The druggist thought so, and she went away with the nerve soother. Mr. Moody, the new secretary of the navy, is a connoisseur of rare books, his collection of works on law being one of the best in the country. He frequently prowls around second-hand book stores and often picks up prizes which have been overlooked by other book lovers. Street corner story-tellers still earn a good livelihood in Japan. In Tokio alone 600 of them ply their trade, provided with a small table, a fan and a paper rapper to illustrate and emphasize the points of their tales. What a Lead Pencil Will Do. "Allowing for breaks and scratches," says a statistician, "the lead pencil will write fifty-five columns of solid matter, or an eight-page paper of seven columns to the page." ATTORNEY LAWRENCE A. NEWBY, WHO IS ONE OF CHICAGO'S LOYAL AFRO-AMERICAN DEMOCRATS Lawrence A. Newby, favored by a number of Democratic leaders for the Afro-American representative on the ticket for County Commissioner was born on a farm in Orange County, Indiana, June 19, 1868. At the age of six he came to Indianapolis where he attended the public and high schools and the Indianapolis Business College. While a student in the high school of that city he was apprenticed with the Indianapolis World where he learned the printers trade. At the age of 17, he was made city editor on the above paper which he held until September 1888. August 6th of the same year he successfully passed the Civil Service examination for letter carries heading a list of 200 applicants. He was appointed a letter carrier September 1. LAWRENCE A. NEWBY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 1888, which position he held until June 30, 1894, when he resigned to become managing editor of the Indianapolis Courier, a paper in which he owned an interest. Mr. Newby disposed of his interest in the Courier March 1, 1895, to accept a position with the Indianapolis World as its business manager, being associated with Paul Laurence Dunbar, the poer, who was at that time its editor. June 15, of the same year he came to Chicago, seeking a newer and broader field for his talents. During the same year and the year following he was a space writer on the local dailles. January 1, 1897, Mr. Newby purchased an interest in the Chicago Leader and was made its managing editor. The Leader was converted into a Democratic paper and as such did effective work for Carter H. Harrison during his first campaign for the mayoralty; it being the only AfroAmerican newspaper in Chicago that supported the entire Democratic ticket. In June Mr. Newby took the Civil Service examination for Water Inspector in the local Bureau, standing fifth in a list of one hundred successful applicants. He received his appointment as Water Inspector Sept. 1, of the same year. He was also appointed a street and alley inspector Jan. 1, 1898, which position he declined. In politics Mr. Newby is a staunch Democrat, having cast his first vote for Grover Cleveland in 1892. Since taking up his residence in Chicago he has been active in every campaign as a worker for the success of Democratic principles. He was secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Democratic League from 1896 to 1898 and is at present its assistant secretary having been elected to that position at the last bi-ennial convention held in Kansas City during the National Democratic convention. At the annual election of the Colored Democratic League of Cook County held in May 1898, Mr. Newby was unanimously chosen its president and as such he re-organized the colored Democrats of Cook county into one organization having a membership of over 500. He was re-elected in May 1899. During his administration the League maintained its own headquarters at 2952 State street and held regular monthly meetings. Since Mr. Newby relinquished his office in the League, it is a significant fact that several organizations have sprung up at the opening of each campaign, only to sink into oblivion after election. At the opening of the second Harrison campaign at the suggestion of the mayor himself, Mr. Newby was selected by the secretary of the Democratic Committee to conduct Mayor Harrison's campaign among the Colored voters. During that campaign, under his management 52 meetings were held, in 14 different wards where colored people live. He sent out 10,000 circulars to the voters besides manning 75 precincts with workers from the central committee rooms. The election returns showed large gains in the heavy colored districts amply justifying the work planned and carried out by him and his assistants. Mr.Newby was again placed in charge of the work among the colored voters at the opening of the national campaign in 1900. His vigorous work is familiar to all who remember the bitter battles of that campaign. Besides getting together the largest number of colored voters that ever marched in a Democratic parade in Chicago, he managed the monster Bryan meeting that was held in the south side Turner Hall at the close of that campaign. Mr. Newby is a lawyer by profession having entered the Chicago Law School Nov. 1, 1898, graduating with honors with the class of 1901. He successfully passed what has been termed the most rigid bar examination ever held and was duly admitted to practice in all courts in the State of Illinois by the Supreme Court, December 10, 1901. Mr. Newby is a prominent Knights of Pythias, Vice President of the Alumni of the Chicago Law School, Secretary of the Negro Democratic League of Illinois and a member of various social organizations. He is also a close student of municipal problems and did much during the late aldermanic campaign towards explaining the Municipal Ownership and Referendum questions to the colored voters of the 30th ward, where he then resided. Mr. Newby was married, January 1, 1899, to Mrs. Annie L. Curtis a prominent St. Louis school teacher. His residence is at 2623 Wabash avenue, in the second ward. His law office is at 128 La Salle street, room 6. It is admitted at the present time by all hands that if the leaders of the Democratic party would have nominated an Afro-American Democrat for County Commissioner two years ago, all the commissioners in Chicago would have been elected instead of only, six, and for the success of Democracy we hope the leaders of the party will not get the big head this year, by thinking they can carry this county without reckoning with the Negro vote, and the best way to do that is to nominate Lawrence Newby for one of the commissioners of Cook county. Almost every day some tar-seeing person succeeds in getting his name in the papers by predicting a war between Russia and Japan. It is reported that the porters of railway sleeping cars will demand an increase of wages. Does this indicate a falling off in the giving of tips? The torch of Liberty in New York harbor has been relighted, but the flame just now is feeble and flickering. It should blaze out in dazzling splendor. Every boy inherits his father's big appetite; but every girl, unfortunately, doesn't inherit her mother's knowledge of good cooking.—Atchison Globe. The duke who is in line to succeed Queen Wilhelmina is 26 years old and unmarried. Unfortunately for our American title hunters he has money to "clog the sewers." Some of the Vanderbilts have accepted a sultan's invitation to hunt the tiger in India. The family has had practice in hunting "young Corneel" and his less than millionairy wife. Three members of the Castellane family—including Count Boni—are now members of the French chamber of deputies. They ought to manage to keep the chamber in an uproar most of the time. The latest fashionable physical alliment is the "ping-pong ankle." It may be observed that any unusual development that grows out of the games affected by the "smart set" never affects the head. J. Pierpont Morgan earned $12,500,000 during the first week of his vacation, and may, if he has any kind of luck, make it an even $25,000,000 before he has to come back and settle down to work again. Mere man has been informed that, while his money is all right when presented in the form of a membership fee, his presence as a member of the National Federation of Women's clubs can and must be dispensed with. The Brooklyn street railway manager who offers to employ several hundred college graduates this summer as conductors and motormen offers an assurance to Cecil Rhodes' Oxford Americans that they will not live in vain. Under the present administration of the Sunday laws the Boston editors inform us that Bostonians can't buy even a gum drop in that tight-shut city. But what do Bostonians want of a frivolous and decadent gum drop? These mile-a-minute railroad trains are slight competitions in speed for some Americans. A Wisconsin man met a girl in Chicago Sunday; married her Monday; they parted Tuesday, and he applied for a divorce on Wednesday. Before sailing for Europe M. Santos-Dumont said that with $1,000,000 he could construct an airship capable of carrying 100 passengers across the Atlantic in two days. And perhaps 100 people would be found willing to risk their lives in it. HEADACHE, BACKACHE, DIZZINESS "I am perfectly well," says Mrs. Martin, of Brooklyn. "Pe-ru-na cured me." Mrs. Anna Martin, 47 Hoyt street Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "Peruna did so much for me that I feel it my duty to recommend it to others who may be similarly afflicted. About a year ago my health was completely broken down, had backache dizziness and irregularities, and life seemed dark indeed. We had used Peruna in our home as a tonic and for colds and catarrh and I decided to try it for my trouble. In less than three months I became regular, my pains had entirely disappeared, and I am now perfectly well."---Mrs. Anna Martin. Miss Marie Johnson,11 Columbia, East, Detroit, Mich., is Worthy Vice Templar in Hope Lodge No. 6, Independent Order Good Templars. Miss Johnson, as so many other women also have done, found in Peruna a specific for a severe case of female weakness. She writes: "I want to do what I can to let the whole world know what a grand medicine Peruna is. For eleven years I suffered with female troubles and complications arising therefrom. Doctors failed to cure me, and I despaired of being helped. Peruna cured me in three short months. I can hardly believe it myself, but it is a blessed fact. I am perfectly well now, and have not had an ache or pain for months. I want my suffering sisters to know what Peruna has done for me."—Miss Marie Johnson. Miss Ruth Emerson, 72 Sycamore St., Buffalo, N. Y., writes: "I suffered for two years with irregular and painful menstruation, and Peruna cured me within six weeks. I cannot tell you how grateful I feel. Any agency which brings health and strength to the afflicted is always a welcome friend, and SAVE YOUR MONEY past twelve years in Chicago, and we have decided to extend it to the country trade. Send for our FREE CATALOGUE of Everything in the Housefurnishing Line and and see the liberal terms we offer. Our prices will astonish STRAUS & SCHRAM, 136-138 I Reckon the REVENUE of the POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT for the year ending June 30, 1902 will be $120,000,000. I figure it will be about $120,500,000. What do you Estimate? VALUABLE INFORMATION: To aid in forming your estimates, we furnish the following figures which we obtained direct from the Post Office Department at Washington, D.C., giving the gross or total revenue of the department for each and every year from 1887 to 1901 inclusive. The fractional part of a dollar is not considered. 1897 WAS 982,003,402 1898 WAS 89,012,618, INCREASE 7.68 PER CENT 1899 WAS 95,021,384, INCREASE 6.75 PER CENT 1900 WAS 102,354,579, INCREASE 7.72 PER CENT 1901 WAS 111,631,193, INCREASE 9.06 PER CENT Send your estimate and 12c in postage stamps to the PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, DETROIT, MICH., and we will send you a copy of our Catalogue, and a certificate which will entitle you to share in the prizes. If you wish more than one certificate, send additional estimates or guesses. You are entitled to a certificate for each 10c received. NOW DON'T FORGET Don't forget when you order starch to get the best. Get DEFIANCE. No more "yellow" looking clothes, no more cracking or breaking. It doesn't stick to the iron. It gives satisfaction or you get your money back. The cost is 10 cents for 16 ounces of the best starch made. Of other starches you get but 12 ounces. Now don't forget. It's at your grocers. MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG. CO. OMAHA, NEB. MRS. ANNA MARTIN. to-day the market is so filled with useless and injurious medicines that it is a pleasure to know of so reliable a remedy as you place before the public." Miss Ruth Emerson. It is no longer a question as to whether Peruna can be relied on to cure all such cases. During the many years in which Peruna has been put to test in all forms and stages of acute and chronic catarrh no one year has put this remedy to greater test than the past year. Peruna is the acknowledged catarrh remedy of the age. Dr. Hartman, the compounder of Peruna, has written a book on the phases of catarrh peculiar to women, entitled, "Health and Beauty." It will be sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O 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. by buying your FURNITURE, CARPETS and HOUSEHOLD GOODS at WHOLESALE PRICES. Our liberal credit system has met with marvelous success during the Few Wild Animals in Ireland. A curious fact about Ireland is the comparative scarcity of wild creatures. No less than twenty-one species common to Great Britain are unknown to Ireland. Among these are the mole, adder, shrew, water-vole, wildcat, polecat and roedeer. Sadies Can Wear Shoes Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Coal from India. India's output of coal, which has doubled in five years, is now 6,118,000 tons per annum and she imports half as much more. If men were all to be judged according to their merits some people would be surprised at the small number of changes that would be effected. 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. The average wages of women in France are only about one-third those of the men. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. The City of Mexico has a population of nearly 376,000. MISS BONNIE DELANO A Chicago Society Lady, in a Letter to Mrs. Pinkham says: "Dear Mrs. PINKHAN:—Of all the grateful daughters to whom you have given health and life, none are more glad than I. "My home and my life was happy [Illustration of a woman with curly hair, facing left.] MISS BONNIE DELANO. until illness came upon me three years ago. I first noticed it by being irregular and having very painful and scanty menstruation; gradually my general health failed; I could not enjoy my meals; I became languid and nervous, with gripping pains frequently in the groins. "I advised with our family physician who prescribed without any improvement. One day he said,—'Try Lydia Pinkham's Remedies.' I did, thank God; the next month I was better, and it gradually built me up until in four months I was cured. This is nearly a year ago and I have not had a pain or ache since."—BOXHIE DELANO, 3248 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill.—$5000 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine. Trustworthy proof is abundant that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saves thousands of young women from dangers resulting from organic irregularity, suppression or retention of the menses, ovarian or womb troubles. Refuse substitutes. The Doctor—"One layer of paper is bad enough; you have three here. Baby may rearrange, but cannot thrive." ALABASTINE Wall Paper is unisexual. Hexacombs are temporary, red, rub off and smale. ALABASTINE is a pure perfume and artistic wall coating, ready for the brush by mixing in cold water. For sale by mail deserts everywhere. Buy in packages and bearer of worthless imitations. ALABASTINE CO. Grand Rancho, Mich. 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 position. 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 to C. J. Broughton, 967 Monadnock Block, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6. "Big Four" Bidg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, $0 Law Bidg., Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. WE WANT YOUR NAME IF YOU HAVE PILES Simply send your name and address on a postal and we will mail to you full particulars of our method of curing plies permanently before you pay one cent. NO KNIFE. NO INCONVENIENCE. NO LOCAL APPLICATION. DOCTORS DRUG CO., 82 Star Bldg., CHICAGO. PISO'S CURE FOR CINES WHEN ALL ARE FAIL. Best Cough Syrups. Stiffness Crack. Use In time. Balm by drugstore. CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH. The virile fingers once that thrilled The harp song to sweet delight, Their earthly mission have fulfilled, And now are wrapt in night. This gentle hard whose songs so pure Came trembling down the naves of rhyme. Has left a fame that shall endure Throughout long years of time. "Sweet Alice" was the song he sung From out the echo of his heart, When life was new and life was young, And had no touch of smart. "Sweet Alice" was the name that, died In tones of ecstasy and joy Upon his lips—and o'er the tide He sailed again, a boy. —H. S. Keller, in New York Sun. IN A FACEIOUS VEIN "If man sprang from a monkey, what did woman spring from?" "Don't know." "Why, a mouse."—Chicago News. A friend in need is a friend indeed; And yet it may depend On whether you're the one in need, Or whether it's your friend. Philadelphia Record. Mr. McCall—"The woman I expect to marry must be beautiful, cultured, sweet-tempered and—" Miss Passay (coyly)—"Oh! you flatterer."—Philadelphia Press. Mother—"Edward! Edward! What are you doing to Willie?" Edward—"We're playing housecleaning, and Willie said he'd be the carpet if I'd do the work."—Chicago News. "De habitual kicker," said Uncle Eben, "doesn't do his se'f no good. He simply goes aroun' remindin' folks dat he ain't smaht enough to have his own way."—Washington Star. "The greatest race across the Atlantic that I ever heard tell of," began the old racing skipper. "Is the Irish, of coorse," interrupted Hooligan.—Catholic Standard and Times. "Mamma, here's a letter from the Dead Letter Office," said intelligent little Clarence. "How do you know, dear?" "It has a black border all around the envelope."—Judge. "Speak gently! 'tis a little thing," She said, but he alack! Imored him good advice because "You frankly confess that your novel failed because of a lack of literary skill?" "I do," answered the author. "The man who wrote the advertisements was no good."—Washington Star. Briggs—"Kate used to say that Fred was as good as pie." Griggs—"She still thinks so; but she has a different way of saying it now: She now says that Fred is crusty."—Boston Transcript. Author—"Say, 'I'd like to make an arrangement with you to pay me my royalties on the basis of your published advertisements of the sale of my books." Publisher—"Good heavens! Do you want to force us to tell the truth?"—Life. Pat—"Yez may say wot you plaze, gintlemen; it's not onywhere ye'll be foindin' braver men nor th' Irish." Banter—"Come off, Pat; it was only the other night that I made five of them run." Pat—"Was it long catching ye they were?"—Tit-Bits. "Don't you find it very trying," she asked the great man, "to have to furnish your autograph to so many persistent people?" "Oh, no," he answered, "most of them send stamps, and I return the autograph on a postal card."—Chicago Record-Herald. The English Peerage. Not one representative in the male line of any one of the Barons who signed the Magna Charta now sits in the House of Lords, while, although many of the earliest Knights of the the Garter were subjects of the English King as feudal lords in his possessions in the south of France, not a single title in the peerage is taken from any place south of the Loire; and two French duchies, three principalities of the Holy Roman Empire, one or two imperial countships, and the Spanish, Portuguese, and Netherlands titles held by the Dukes of Wellington and Portland and Lords Albemarle and Clancarty, probably all but exhaust the list of foreign honors held by any persons in the British peerage. Our monarchs, as Queen Elizabeth once said, have always preferred to decorate their own dogs with their own collars, and perhaps the results are to be commended. After all, as Talleyrand remarked, Lord Castlereagh, who was undecorated, looked the most distinguished man at the Congress of Vienna.—Notes and Queries. No Music in His Soul. Mr. Finley, of South Carolina, makes no concealment of the fact that he has no ear for music, but he turned this lack of tuneful information into a joke a few days ago when a friend invited him to attend a concert. For the sake of old times Mr. Finley consented to sit through a varied program, which naturally afforded him little amusement. "Don't you know that piece?" inquired his friend, when he seemed in- different to inspiring strains. Venetian Population Venice is increasing very rapidly in population. It had 17,000 more people last year than it had in 1891. OLD FOX WITH ITS TEETH DRAWN Unique Name Given to an English Temperance Resort. "The Old Fox With Its Teeth Drawn" is a remarkable title for a public house, but that is the name of a small inn which is to be seen at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire. At one time it was simply known as "The Old Fox," and the story of how its name came to be changed is an interesting one. Bricket Wood is not far from the residence of the Hon. A. Holland-Hibbert, who is a son-in-law of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the well-known temperance reformer. Mr. Holland-Hibbert is also a keen temperance worker, and when some time ago an opportunity arose for the purchase of the Old Fox Mr. Holland-Hibbert availed himself of it, and turned it into a temperance public house. Only tea, coffee and non-intoxicating beverages are sold, and as alcoholic liquors are absent, The Old Fox obtained its new name, "The Old Fox with Its Teeth Drawn." Other people besides teetotallers laugh at the amusing alteration of the signboard. London Illustrated Mail. Held off to a Chair. Palmer, Mo., May 19th.—Mrs. Lucy Compton has for the past eight or ten years suffered a great deal of pain and sickness. She had Kidney Trouble with an awful pain in her back, which was so bad at many times that she could scarcely get about at all. "I have been down with my back for the past eight or ten years," she says, "and sometimes so bad that I could not get around only by holding on to a chair or some other object. "Dodd's Kidney Pills have given me more relief than anything I have ever used. "After I had used the first box I was almost entirely cured of this dreadful trouble. "I can truthfully recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to any woman suffering as I had suffered for so long." Mrs. Compton's cure was certainly a remarkable one. Black Eyes Were Natural Senator Millard of Nebraska has very bushy and very black eyebrows. When he sits in a certain light the eyebrows shade his eyes to such an extent that it looks as if he had a pair of artistically blackened eyes. One morning recently the peculiarity was especially noticeable, and half a dozen senators started towards him to ask him whether he had been fighting. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurses in the Children's Home in New York. Cures Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Cecil Rhodes' Last Words. "M. B." writes to the London Times: "I wonder how many of your readers are aware that the last words of Cecil Rhodes were from Tennyson's 'In Memoriam,' stanza lxxiii: "So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be." The colonies and dependencies of France cover an area (1901) of 3,740,000 square miles, with a population of 56,000,000. The area of German colonies and dependencies amounts to 1,027,120 square miles, with a population of 14,687,000. Sensible Housekeeping will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Two Ways of Climbing There are two ways to climb in the world: one is to go higher than your friends; the other to have them go lower than you. ALL UP TO DATE HOUSEKEEPERS use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better and four more of it for same money. If the fool-catcher attended strictly to business, some people would have to sprint in automobiles. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. It is often impossible for a man to go ahead after he is sure he's right. WHEN YOU BUY STARCH buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. A wonder lasts only nine days—but a woman's curiosity goes on forever. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. "Calamity is a man's true touch- stone."—Beaumont and Fletcher. S20 A WEEK AND EXPENSES to men with rlg to introduce our Poultry goods. Send stp, Javelle Mfg.Co., Dept.D, Parsons, Kan. The efforts of some people to look pleasant are positively painful. "Friendship is the greatest bond in the world."—Jeremy Taylor. For frost-bite, chiblaina, sore and lame joints, stiffness of muscles—try Hamlin's Wizard Oil. It won't disappoint you! Truth is always mighty enough to hurt somebody a little. Write for my daily market letter. Geo. H. Phillips Commission Merchant, Grain, Provisions and Seeds. Obsignments Solicited. 231-235 Rialto Bldg. Chicago Orders for future delivery executed on margins. All business transacted through & confirmed by Irwin Green & Co. My daily and weekly market letters are published in full in the Chicago Evening Post, also the Chicago Evening Journal. Will send either paper, free of charge, to anyone interested in the market. Dispatches from Madrid announce that a Spanish bank bill has been passed. We wonder whom it was passed on. Probably some countryman from the rural districts was in town to see a bull fight. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. "Liberty is the right of doing whatever the law permits."—Montesquieu. Laid Up for Sixteen Weeks. St. Jacobs Oil and Vogeler's Curative Compound Cured Him. "I have been a great sufferer from Rheumatism for many years. I was laid up with Rheumatic Fever for nine weeks in 1894, and again for sixteen (16) weeks in 1896. I tried many medicines I saw advertised and others I was recommended; finally I was induced to take Vogeler's Curative Compound, which did me more good than all other medicines. In fact, I feel quite a different man since I have been taking the Compound. All my neighbors and friends are quite surprised to see me about and looking so well. I can only say that Vogeler's Curative Compound taken internally and by using St. Jacobs Oil outwardly acted like magic in my case. I had been taking medicines for years without obtaining benefit, but Vogeler's has practically cured me. I have recommended Vogeler's Curative Compound to a lot of my acquaintances, and they tell me that it has worked wonders. "Wishing you every success in the sale of your Vogeler's Curative Compound and St. Jacobs Oil, I remain, gentlemen, "Your obedient servant, "GEORGE CLARKE, Gardener, "23 Beechcroft Road, Surrey." Send to St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, for a free sample of Vogeler's Compound. SAVE MONEY Buy your goods at Wholesale Prices. Our 1,000-page catalogue will be sent upon receipt of 15 cents. This amount does not even pay the postage, but it is sufficient to show us that you are acting in good faith. Better send for it now. Your neighbors trade with us —why not you also? Montgomery Ward Co. 2 CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. 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 men should use it. One bottle often cures. Price $1, or six bottles for $5. Send for bottle to- day. Should your druggist not have it, send to GERMAN MEDICINE CO., Nervutine Dept. 8, 109 Randolph St., CHICAGO, ILL. "YOUR MONEY IS NO GOOD" and will be refunded to you if after using half a bottle of MATT.J. JOHNSONS 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. WRITE TO ENGINES BORDEN & SELLECK CO. 46-52 LAKE ST. CHICAGO. DO YOU INTEND TO BUY A FARM IN SOUTH DAKOTA this Season! If so, you should see us, as we have large lists of well selected lands; our own or under exclusive agency. Twenty years in business here. Also 6% net on conservative loans. On a large line, not a dollar in default. In last 10 years not one forclosure. BROWN BROS., Aberdeen, S.D. MANAGER WANTED—Every Large County— "Game of Skill" nickel slot machine for drinks and cigars; strictly lawful, takes place of forbidden slot machines, thereby filling a long-relt want. Rented or sold on easy payments. Sells at right. Forty thousand now in use. CONRAD JACKSON DESK CO., Cincinnati, Ohio. $25 on 5 TON IS WHAT YOU CAN SAVE We make all kinds of scales. Also B. B. Pumps and Windmills. BECKMAN BROS., DES MOINES, IOWA. 10,000 AGENTS WANTED to send 15e for Electro Polishes silverplate, nickle, tin, tableware. Star Supply Co., Dept.B, 419 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. AGENTS WANTED to sell Mining Shares. Good company. Good commision. Send for prospectus. Comstock, Co., Saratoga, Wye. TRADE MARK. 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This is the purest, sweetest, most speedy, permanent, and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humours, rashes, irritations, and chafings, with loss of hair, of infants and children, and is sure to succeed when all other remedies fail Millions of Mothers Use Cuticura Soap Assisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, the great skin cure, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin of infants and children, for rabes, itchings, and chafings, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of Women use CUTICURA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and exorciations, for too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many nasty, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers. CUTICURA SOAP combines in ONE PRICE at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and complexion soap and the BEST toilet and baby soap in the world. Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour, Cuticura THE SET SI. Consisting of Cuticura Soap (25c.) to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle; Cuticura OINTMENT (50c.) to instantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and heal; and Cuticura RESOLVENT PILLS (50c.) to cool and cleanse the blood. A Single SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring, and humiliating skin, scalp, and blood humour, with loss of hair, when all else falls. Sold throughout the world. 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FOR more than a quarter of a century the reputation of W. L. Douglas' Shoes for style, comfort, and wear has excelled all other makes. They are worn by more men in all stations of life than any other make, because they are the only Shoes that in every way equal $5.00 and $6.00 shoes. They are the standard of the world. This is the reason W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.50 and $3.00 shoes than any other two manufacturers. A trial will convince you they are the best in the world. W. L. DOUGLAS $4 SHOES CANNOT BE EXCELLED. Sold by 63 Douglas stores in American Cities and best shoe dealers everywhere. CAUTION. The peninsula have W. L. Douglas name and price stamped on bottom. Shoes by mail, 25 cents extra. Illustrated Catalogue Free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Cond. 270 There is a prejudice in the navy against giving a woman's name to a war vessel of any type. It is believed to be unlucky. The newest lighthouse on the French coast shows a beam visible at a distance of thirty-nine nautical miles in clear weather. The City of Mexico, in its great preparatory school, has replaced Latin by English and made it a four years' obligatory course. Cooper is said to have written "The Spy" in less than six months. Most of his stories were founded on legends well-known in his neighborhood. People usually live longer in islands and small peninsulas than on continents. Barbadoes, Greece, Maderia and the Shetlands are all favorable to long life. Ten years ago ten of every seventeen physicians in Berlin did not earn more than $750 a year, and only 250 earned more than $2,000. To-day the situation is even worse. GERMAN SAYINGS. The belly is a bad adviser. Sloth is the key to poverty. Better half an egg than empty shells Beauty is a good letter of introduction. 'Tis the mind enobles; not the blood. There is no good preaching to the hungry. War is pleasant to those who have not tried it. A cat has nine lives as an onion has seven skins. A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. It is better the child should cry than the father. Better free in a foreign land than a serf at home. Everything would be well were there not a but. The eyes believe themselves; the ears, other people. Better a friendly denial than an unwilling compliance. Fortune is like a woman—loves youth and is fickle. A blind horse and one's own spurs make shorter miles. A single penny fairly got is worth a thousand that are not. Fish should swim thrice—in water, in sauce and in wine. Like blood, like means and like age make the happiest marriages. Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst. THOUGHTS FROM VICTOR HUGO. No ambition is fully realized, least, not in this nether world, and no paradise becomes earthly in our paradise becomes earthly in our je. Children accept at once and familiarly joy and happiness, for they are themselves by nature happiness and joy. The instincts of woman comprehend and correspond with each other more quickly than the understanding of men. Excessive* grief, like excessive joy, being violent in its nature, is of short duration. The human heart is incapable of remaining long in an extreme. Love is like a tree—vegetating of itself, striking deep through all our being, often ruining to grow greenly over a heart a sin. And, inexplicable as it is, the blader is this passion the more it is tenacious. It is never more firmly seated than when it is without a shadow of reason. SOME COMPLETED PROVERBS. De reason some folks wants de gospel ter fly is kaze it's mightily in dey way w'en dey wants ter run wid de devil. If Gabrul wuz ter blow his trumpet termorrer, some er de fault-finders would rise en tell 'im dat his musical eddication had been neglected. If dey wuz a free excursion ter heaven some folks would make excuse dat dey don't like ter ride in a crowd.—Atlanta Constitution. "Be virtuous and you will be wealthy" says the venerable Russell Sage, enjoying a retrospect of his own speckless career. Newspaper writers are at last making a concession to ordinary readers and talk about steerable balloons instead of dirigible ones. Now it is a Worcester man that is at work on a flying machine. The aerial bacillus is getting in its work all around the country. A Philadelphia medical journal concludes that Rhodes was insane. An infusion of the Rhodes kind of insanity might do that paper some good. Prince Henry seems to have carried home with him from this country the reprehensible practice of riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., has bought the fastest automobile in the world. Get out the bandages and keep the surgical instruments handy. Paderewski wept when he started for Europe last week. Perhaps he was afraid that before he could come back again Morgan would have it all. A Chicago man lost $8,000 playing the races on "tips" that he received from spirits. It's a wise spirit that knows just how the jockeying is to be done. A Kansas man has named his baby daughter E. Pluribus Unum. He isn't as crazy, however, as might at first be supposed. She is his eleventh, and the other ten are living. Herr Most caused a riot in New York Sunday evening. As a public nuisance Herr Most has already broken all records, and there is no reason to hope that he is anywhere near through. The decision of the American Alkali company to reduce its capital stock from $30,000,000 to $3,000,000 seems to be a sensible move. There are other corporations whose capital should be divided by ten. Nicholas of Russia has bounced his minister of war and foreign affairs. He gives no explanation. That's one nice thing about being a czar. He needn't give explanations if he doesn't feel like doing so. After two farewell tours and a "final" farewell Actor Mansfield says he will leave the stage and devote himself to writing plays. What will some of our critics do when he is no longer behind the footlights? A New York doctor argues that indigestion is at the bottom of the lying habit. If pepsin tablets may be prescribed as a cure for prevarication, the manufacturers may be justified in announcing a considerable rise in prices. Another dividend has been declared by the Standard Oil Company, which shows profits of 30 per cent on its $100,000,000 capital for the past six months. People who own Standard Oil stock will continue to have meat on the table. Senator Clark of Montana, though once "chucked out" for corruption, is put at the head of the millionaire list in the senate, and Kearns of Utah comes next. 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