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VOL. VII. PATHETIC PLEA OF A PREACHER. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax: I wish to inform you, and through the columns of your valuable paper, to inform the public, that Rev. J. F. Thomas, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church of this city, made a plea to the membership of his church to stand by him in support of a scheme which all honest men must denounce. There have been many occasions when the pastors of Olivet, both dead and living, have given expression to the loftiest aspirations and noblest ideals of Christian men, and their words, their wisdom and their work have been endorsed by the church. But unhaplly the present pastor is not one of that goodly number. His scheme is, in short, to refuse to pay the claims against the church, to permit it to be sold for debt, to abandon it; and then with the $6,000 recently raised, ostensibly for the purpose of finishing the church, and with the other assets unencumbered to organize a Baptist church under another name and thus defraud the creditors of Olivet. This vicious proposition will be seen in its true light, when it is known that one of the principal creditors of Olivet is not only a colored man but a member of the church, and one to whom Rev. J. F. Thomas with his own hands has administered the holy sacrament, with the scriptural injunction: "Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you." Now let us look at this nefarious proposition from a business point of view and see if either the scheme, or the schemer can be trusted. I am informed that after the sale of the Harmon Court property, several years ago, Rev. Thomas had upward of thirty thousand dollars with which to build the church free from debt. Did he do it? If he was unable to do this with that amount of money when property, labor and building material were cheap, what can he do now with only six thousand dollars, when property, labor and building material are very much higher? At that time the credit of Olivet Baptist church was good, its name stood for something; but now with its credit destroyed, its mortgages foreclosed, its building sold, and its very name abandoned, who will extend a helping hand or even trust a preacher whose administration has brought this wreck and ruin? Pastors of other churches, who are comparatively strangers in this city have gone out among white friends and raised thousands of dollars for their respective churches. If Rev. Thomas has ever raised a hundred dollars, I should like some one to tell what he did with it. Because of the positive statement by Rev. Thomas that if the church raised $0,000 by January 1, 1902, a gentleman of means would pay off the indebtedness, put in a five thousand dollar organ and finish the church, I contributed to that fund. Since the money was raised and the time has expired, I should like to know of Rev. Thomas why the gentleman of means does not finish the church, and put in the five thousand dollar organ; and why he allows the property to be sold for debt, when he expressly agreed to pay the debts? Again I wish to say in passing that at the annual sermon of Occidental Consistory on May 18th, Rev Thomas asked for a public collection to aid the West India sufferers, to which I subscribed, and $20 was raised. After returning home I read in the morning paper that no more funds were needed. Now I would not infer that Rev. Thomas knew this when he raised the collection, but since it was a public collection to be donated to a particular public charity, I think the public has a right to know what Rev. Thomas did with this money. I hold that the financial condition of any well regulated organization is known to its members; that the salary of its officers is not a matter of doubt; that when moneys are paid out receipts are on file; and that if the thing is alive and pretending to do business reports are regularly made. Now I have been informed that there is not a half dozen members of Olivet Church who know anything about its financial condition; who ever saw a receipt for moneys alleged to have been paid out; or who ever know the amount of the pastor's salary. It would indeed surprise many to know that there has not been a business meeting of the church for one and a half years; that the people's money has been recklessly squandered in lawsuits without their knowledge or consent; and that instead of the church owing the pastor, the pastor is heavily indebted to the church. It must be apparent to all that a new church, for which Rev. Thomas appeals, would soon be financially as unsubstantial and shaky as the present one. Rev. Thomas may be sincere, but I believe he is in endeavoring under the guise of a sheperd to lead his flock in a path of which they know not; and by a way which their deliberate judgment and conception of right and duty forbid them to go. Again there are other reasons why the membership of Olivet will not abandon her and take the step contemplated by her pastor. Some have bought property and become fixtures in the locality. The name of Olivet is held sacred by uncounted numbers who have been married within her quiet precincts or from whose portals they have borne away their sainted dead. There are children who have become identified with her Sabbath school, have given their hearts to God and will refuse to leave her sacred altar. Many people in the presence of a great crisis know not what to do, others are in a state of mental confusion similar to one who is between the devil and the deep sea. But none should be blind to his own interests like a horse in a burning stall, or so incapable of judicious action as to stand still and see his church sold over his head. It will be no matter of surprise therefore, if a large portion of the substantial membership of the church should call upon Rev. Thomas for his immediate resignation and thus adopt the most obvious and the most sensible way of saving their property. The present pastor makes it his Sabbath duty to scold, lecture, reprimand, contradict and reproach all who do not conform to his questionable methods. He reminds one or a volcano in a state of eruption, and should be left alone to pour out fire, wrath, tobacco smoke, whisky and other defilements to his heart's content. It is a sad sight to see a young man in a perverted way, but sadder is it to see an old man and a preacher whose hair is tinged by the frosts of age and whose every act is markd by the zeal of a perverted mind. It is the plain duty of all Christians to turn their backs upon this man and endeavor to pay their righteous debts. Instead of moving the church I would suggest to move the preacher. If the wountain will not go away from the people, the people should go away from the mountain. Now, Mr. Editor, for Olivet Baptist Church to be lost to this city, in the way contemplated by the pastor, I think would be a public disgrace. If her members and others can prevent such an occurrence, undeniably they ought to do so. It seems imperative that the officers of the church should take some action with a view of applying the needed remedy I disclaim any intention of being drawn into a controversy with Rev. Thomas. I apprehend that he will say in reference to his scheme that it is none of my business. He thinks that his actions do not concern the public, and that even the church has no business to call him to account. I hold however, that a preacher is a public man; that he is not only charged with a sacred duty but that he holds a public trust, and hence is just as amenable to the public for his behavior, actions, conduct and morals as the mayor of this city, or the governor of this state. State Senator Barney J. McGuire feels confident that he has all of his senatorial opponents on the dead run. One or two of the boys who are in the undertaking business were going through the district boasting that they had Barney, the old warrior, laid out or put to sleep for good but he fooled them and they are now running for their holes. HEW TO THE LINE. JUDGE WILLIAM H. BARNUM. In all probability there is not one lawyer within the state of Illinois nor in any part of this great country, who is more favorably known than ex-Judge William H. Barnum, of the law firm of Barnum & Barnum, whose law offices are in the New York Life Building. Judge Barnum, was born in the great state of New York, but in his infancy was brought by his parents to Belleville, Ill., in his boyhood days he attended the very best institutions of learning and in the course of time he graduated from the Michigan University The EX-JUDGE WILLIAM H. BARNUM, Vice-President of The Iroquois Club, who is pre-eminently qualified in every way to serve as one of the new judges of Cook County. with the very highest honors, after being admitted to the bar he opened an office in Chester, Ill., and his reputation as an able barrister within a very short time spread far and near and before removing from Chester to Chicago in 1867, Judge Barnum served two terms as master in chancery, to which position he was appointed by Judge Silas L. Bryan, the father of William Jennings Bryan. In 1879 Judge Barnum, who is an eminent jurist was elected to the Circuit Court bench, and he presided on the chancery side for three years and three years on the common law side, making six years all told. At the expiration of that time Judge Barnum, resigned to resume the practice of his profession. While severing as Judge he displayed great wisdom and rare judgment, in adjucating many important causes, which were of great magnitude and interest to the public. As jurist, citizen and patriot Judge Barnum's name is without tarnish. He is the true personification of Jeffersonian Democracy, and his nomination as judge of the Superior Court on June 14, would meet with the highest approbation of all the voters throughout Cook county. JUDICIAL MATERIAL The folloing gentlemen are constructed of the right material to preside as judges of this city and county: structed of the right material to preside as judges of this city and county: Ex-Judge Wm. H. Barnum, Chas. M. Walker, Geo. Mills Rogers, Israel Cowen, Major E. B. Tolman, Ex-Judge Thos. A. Moran, Edward Osgood Brown, James G. Condon, John F. Clare, Jeremiah B. O'Connell, Edward W. Cullen, Stephen A. Douglas, Charles Werno, Col. John F. Waters, P. A. Hines, Capt. Wm. P. Black, Hon. Miles J. Devine, Major Lawrence M. Ennis, William Howard Fitzgerald, Timothy J. Fell, Nicholas R. Finn, Justice John Fitzgerald, Col. A. D. Gash, Hon. John P. McGoorty, P. McHugh, Ross C. Hall, Joseph A. McInerney, Frederick W. Job, P. J. O'Keefe, Hugh J. Kearns, John C. King, D. J. McElherne, Chas. H. Mitchell, Ex-Judge J. E. Ricketts, Justice John K. Prindiville, Ex-Judge Wm. Prentiss, Justice M. J. Quinn, Hon. Robert Redfield, Wm. Ritchie, Ex-City Attorney Andrew J. Ryan, Justice A. J. Sabath, Hon Chas. S. Thornton, M. L. Tackaberry, Lawrence A. Young, Harris F. Williams, John F. Geeting, and Henry Schofield. These gentlemen and lawyers are deserving of the highest consideration from the hands of the County Convention, and there is no doubt in our mind but what all the new judges of Cook county will be selected from this list of high-class lawyers. PLAYING FAST OR LOOSE IN POLITICS. One of the colored men who has for many years been employed as a messenger or as a janitor in the South Town office, and who endeavored to secure the nomination for South Town clerk on the Republican ticket, in March, 1902, is a candidate for county commissioner on the Democratic ticket, and several so-called leaders of the colored race who are ever ready to blow hot and cold at the same time, providing they can get one or two dollars for doing so, are spending much wind and gab in booming or in shouting for this colored messenger o: janitor of the South Town office who was never known to attend a Democratic meeting, nor to expend one hour of his time nor to contribute fifty cents to further or to aid the cause of Democracy. The Broad Ax will not entertain the idea for one minute that the leaders of the Democratic party will ever be guilty of nominating a colored man for county commissioner who is simply a common messenger, janitor or servant, one who has been ever ready to play fast and loose in politics. If the leaders of the Democratic party want to win in Cook county this fall let them select an honest, upright, intelligent Afro-American for county commissioner, one who stands well with the better class of colored people throughout this city and county, one who can add strength to the ticket, one who has had the courage for years to raise his voice in behalf of Democracy, and that Afro-American Democratic is Lawrence A. Newby. REVOLT IN THE SECOND WARD AGAINST HANECY, MORRIS, DAN, JACKSON & CO. 2945 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., June 2, 1902. Mr. Julius F. Taylor Editor of The Broad Ax, My Dear Sir: You will notice that the Republicans of the 2d Ward organized a Stalwart Republican Club," at 281 29th street last Wednesday night. This club is to go against Judge Hanecy and to defeat Ed H. Morris for the legislature. President of the club, W. J. Matthews; secretary, A. Jones; treasurer, T. B. Hall; committee on political action, Wm. Dade, B. W. Fitts, T. T. Allain, S. B. Turner, W. M. Hall, S. C. Selby, John Grey. The members of this club are the men who defeated Hull, Hanecy and Morris in the election of delegates to the State, County, Congressional, and Senatorial Conventions. Member of the committee on politican action. Mrs, V. N. Blackwell, 2906 Columet avenue, who is a prominent member of Chicago's Afro-American four hundred, gave a party at her new home last Thursday evening, and while dancing was going on and classical and rag-time music was floating out into the street from Mrs. Blackwell's lovely piano, a policeman rapped on the door and threatened to call the patrol wagon and pull the house if the music and dancing did not cease at once, and now Mrs. Blackwell and her friends are hot after the scalp of the policeman who is evidently from Missouri. Dan Jackson, the big bruiser, had his trial Tuesday before Justice John M. Moore, for smashing S. B. Turner in the face the day prior to the last Republican County Convention, and Col. B. F. Moseley, who seems to have a strong pull with the courts represented Mr. Turner, and when he finished orating to the court Justice Moore closed his eyes and simply said "twenty dollars and cost," and big Dan came near jumping up to the ceiling. The Justice taxed Dan's daddy five dollars and cost which caused his eyes to pop out of his head. S. A. T. Watkins endeavored to save Gilbert King, who assisted Dan and his father to beat up S. B. Turner, but Justice Moore called his hand for five dollars and cost, and King and Watkins turned real white in the face. Justice Moore deserves to be commended for taking the wind out of Dan Jackson's sails for he is a big bully and a coward. Ex-City Treasurer of Chicago Ernst Hummell seems to be in the lead for Treasurer of Cook county. Mrs. Perry Bates, who is one of the best and neatest housekeepers in Chicago, lately removed from 4943 Dearborn St., to 5001 Dearborn St. Light Corke Joe Schran, who looks and acts like a cheap skate, should be turned down as a member of the County Committee from the 30th Ward. Congressman George P. Foster struck town last Monday and will remain in the city for the next ten days for the purpose of fixing up his congressional fences. B. C. Evans, 31st Ward, is an active candidate for County Commissioner. Mr. Evans is well known throughout the Town of Lake and the chances are that he will walk out of the county convention with a prize. Attorney Israel Cowen, who lead the judicial ticket in 1900, is a profound lawyer, a cultured gentleman, and one who is free from race prejudice and in every way he is just the man for one of the new judges of Cook county. Mrs. Joanna C. Snowden is sueing her husband, Samuel R. Snowden the sport, 3022 State St., for separate maintenance. Mrs. Snowden maintains that Mr. Snowden lavishes his money, all his love and attentions upon other women. Mrs. Lizzie N. Randell, the hobby dressmaker, 4836 State St., will open ice-cream parlors today, which she will run in connection with her dressmaking establishment, and she will make a specialty of serving ice-cream each Sunday during the Summer. Lawyer Edgar L. Masters, whose law offices are in the Aashland block, is a candidate for state senator in the Fifth Senatorial district. Mr. Masters is an excellent lawyer and an honorable gentleman and he would make an ideal state senator. Mr. Theodore Oehne, head of the Seipp Brewing Co., is a candidate for Treasurer of Cook County. Mr. Oehne is very popular and a firstclass business man and the leaders of the party would make no mistake by honoring him with the nomination. Enos Bond, who is the oldest AfroAmerican Democrat in the Town of Lake, has for the past two months been confined to his home, 6241 May St.,from sickness, but Mr. Bond is now on the mend and within the next two weeks he hopes to be able to resume his labors. The painting of Roosevelt at San Juan Hill, exhibited in a Paris salon, fails to show the presence of that Negro regiment. The fact that the Negro regiment was there, however, accounts for the presence of so many "Rough Rider" heroes in the United States.—The Commoner. To-day the county Democracy gives its annual picnic at Northeastern Grove and Mayor David Rose of Milwaukee, Ex-Mayor Thomas Taggert of Indianapolis, Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland, Ex-U. S. Senator David B. Hill, Mayor Carter H. Harrison and several others will furnish the oratory. Oscar E. Leinen, of the 31st Ward, is a candidate for one of the new judgeships of Cook county. Mr. Leinen has been endorsed by all the Democrats of his ward. He also has been endorsed by all the Trade Unions. He was a staunch follower of John P. Altgeld and he would make a good judge. Alderman J. C. Patterson, president of the Lincoln Club, and one of the leaders of the Republican forces in the city council, was never known to turn his back on his friends and Alderman Patterson, in order to keep up with the times peruses The Broad Ax each week at his home, 43 Campbell Park. Miss D .Andree White, an Afro-American of Tennessee, is a clever elocutionist. Miss White recites her own compositions only. Her manner on the stage and style of reciting shows that she has justly won the reputation accorded her. She makes the originality of her compositions show up in a much better way than by reciting the works of others. Ex. NO. 33. Through the untireing efforts of Frederick W. Job, chairman of the State Board of Arbitration, the difficulty which has existed between the packing house bosses and their drivers and the misunderstanding between the owners or the managers of the large department stores and their drivers has been adjustel to the entire satisfaction of al the parties concerned and the late great strike in Chicago is a thing of the past. ```markdown ``` MR. V. E. CERVENY, The Energetic and Enterprising Manager of the Monarch Brewing Company, and One of the Wide Awake Members of the City Council. Robert T. Sims, who is a worthy and a hard working Afro-American, was recently nominated by the Socialist party for County Commissioner. Mr. Sims ran for Alderman this spring in the 30th Ward on the Socialist ticket and he made a good showing. The Republicans and the Socialists have both nominated colored men for County Commissioners, and if the leaders of the Democratic party want any colored men to vote the Democratic ticket this fall let them nominate a decent and respectable colored man for County Commissioner. In Montgomery, Ala., the other day, a handsome mulatto woman had a white man arrested for forcibly kissing her upon the street. His attorney asked for the dismissal of the charge that the action alleged was no more prejudicial to public order than that of the President, in dining Booker T. Washington in the Whits House. The judge accepted the plea and discharged the prisoner. Humorous as this incident seems on its face it has a really tragic side, for the attractive, light-colored girl in a southern city has no little difficulty in defending herself against the white men of loose morals.-The Guardian. Boston. The great Chicago American, in speaking of Alderman John Powers president of the County Democracy, maintains that "The reason he desires to break into the state senate is that he believes that there will be something doing at springfield next winter." The American also takes a good rap at Captain James H. Farrell, and it classes the Capt. of the Cook County Marching Club with the cheapest and most disreputable tools and chattels of the corporations that have so far disgraced the legislature of Illinois. The editorial in The American on "The County Democracy and the County Ticket" was hot stuff, and it was mighty good reading. Old Ham Carter, who wanted to make speeches for McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900, but was turned down by the head of the Republican National Committee, is starting out as a preacher. Last Sunday he in company with Rev. A. Longreen Murray, Rev. Jasper Fussy Thomas and the Elder from Kentucky who runs the Old Church Organ spoke at Butler's Mission on 47th street (and if there is a God which we gravely doubt) then all we have to say is that he must be playing in hard luck if he is compelled to employ, the likes of Old Ham Carter to preach his Holy name to little children and to act as his agent here on this earth. The literature of the world contains nothing more pathetic and touching than the ungrammatical, ill-spelled letters of the dying Coal Creek miners to their wives, scrawled upon odd bits of paper by the waning light of miners' lampe with inevitable death only a few minutes away. THE BROAD AX. Will proinvalidate and at all times uphold the pure principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Athletes, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is 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; into only on one side of the paper. Year..... $2.99 Month..... 1.99 Overliving rates made known on application Does all communications to Cuba richly deserves to be happy and prosperous. As usual Uncle Sam's sympathy took the cash form at once. One thing the meat trust can't put up the price of is newspaper roasts. Haiti is not a volcanic island, but it is having a lively eruption all the same. The Queen Regent of Spain may now put away her crown and catch up on sleep. Santos-Dumont is about to run the greatest risk of his life. His engagement is announced. Herbert Spencer, the only man who has found out everything, has just sent another book to press. The trouble with most of the inventors of air ships is that they leave needy families behind them. King Edward is a regular attendant at the opera in London and keeps tab on the fellows who go out between the acts. The Florida jackass who killed his sweetheart, four other persons and himself began at the wrong end of the series. If King Alfonso is like most boys of his age, it will not be long before his head is too big for the crown of Spain. The Shah of Persia is again to visit Paris, and the disinfecting corps of the city is being strengthened and restocked. Gen. Uribe-Uribe has been whipped again. We fear that the doughty general is the Gentleman Jim of South America. Queen Wilhelmina is now the only woman ruler on earth—that is, if we wish to be technical about a matter of this kind. If we can limit the height of a building by legislation, why cannot the size of a jackpot be prescribed in the same manner? There is comfort in the thought that for obvious reasons Hetty Green may not keep loaded the pistol that she is permitted to carry. King Alfonso's next hurrah will occur as soon as the old, bloodless ministers of state decide on the girl they want him to marry. Mr. Morgan might be able to contribute something of value to the general safety of the world by undertaking a volcanic merger. If French titles are to be abolished later on it might be well for the American heiress to hustle in quick and secure a few bargains. Emperor William is perfectly willing to let the mailed hand of monarchy meet the hand that can sign a million-dollar check in friendly clasp. Russell Sage is probably another who hopes there will be no rush to overwhelm the volcano victims with more money than they may need. Old Ben Franklin was a vegetarian from choice. Had he lived in the present day his vegetarianism would have been a matter of necessity. School children in Elizabeth, N. J., are to be taught how to exterminate mosquitoes. There's nothing like fitting them for the battles of Jersey life. Yermoloff, the Russian minister of agriculture, says he profoundly sympathizes with the starving peasants. However, mere sympathy will buy no beefsteak. The Wisconsin man who has invented a musical scarecrow that is operated by a windmill has the sort of talent that ought not to be hidden on a back country farm. When last heard from the Haytien navy was fishing from the bow of the boat and sternly refusing to join either side until somebody could show the color of money. An Omaha school principal has decided that where shistwaists are concerned there is no question of equal rights. The girls have all the monopoly on wearing privileges. Tenosynovitis is the name of a new disease caused by excessive devotion to the game of ping pong. It will be more fashionable this summer than golf sunburn or bridge whist brain ting. THUNDER MOUNTAIN, IDAHO, A MINERAL TREASURE HOUSE Thunder Mountain, the new Idaho gold field, is the most promising mineral region in the United States. The richness of this country was not known until late in the fall of 1901, after heavy snows had closed all avenues by which the region might be reached except upon snowshoes. Notwithstanding this fact, Colonel W. H. Dewey of Idaho, and others who have had wide experience in mining, have expended vast sums in the purchase of undeveloped claims. The surface indications are marvelously rich. These gold bearing ledges, from 100 to 300 feet, will run through a mountain parallel to each other. In the Dewey mine, this vast deposit has values running from $7 to $4,000 per ton, and the plates of the 10-stamp mill which runs on the ore have to be cleaned of their accretions of gold every six hours. In a few weeks two miners last spring cleaned up $7,500 in placer gold, using a small cotton hose to wash the gravel, the water coming from a small reservoir on the mountain side. The mineral zone covers a large section of hitherto unexplored country, and is about 175 miles from a railroad. There are five routes leading to the Thunder Mountain country, viz.: via Ketchum, Mackay, Boise and Weiser, Idaho, and Redrock, Montana, all on the Oregon Short Line railway. A great rush to this mecca for miners is predicted, and "On to Thunder Mountain" will be as familiar as the old watchword, "Pike's Peak or Bust," as soon as the snows disappear so that the camp may be reached with supplies, which will probably be between May 15 and June 1. A scarcity of provisions at present keeps miners away, as flour at $50 per sack is considered somewhat of a luxury even in the golden land. Surrounding Thunder Mountain is a large section of country adapted to agriculture and stock-raising. D. E. Burley, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line railroad, at Salt Lake City, sent an expert to report upon that country, and will cheerfully give any information required as to the routes and general conditions in and around the great mining camp. TABLE MANNERS IN OLDEN TIMES Tracing the Growth of Our Present Ceremonious Etiquette. The Romans took their meals while lying upon very low couches, and not until the time of Charlemagne was a stand used, around which guests were seated on cushions; while the table only made its appearance in the Middle Ages, bringing with it benches and backs. The Greeks and Romans ate from a kind of porringer; during a portion of the Middle Ages, however, slices of bread cut round took the place of plates. The spoon is of great antiquity, and many specimens are in existence that were used by the Egyptians so early as the seventeenth century B. C. The knife, though very old, did not come into common use as a table utensil until after the tenth century. The fork was absolutely unknown to both Greeks and Romans, appeared only as a curiosity in the Middle Ages, and was first used upon the table of Henry III. Drinking cups—in the Middle Ages made from metal more or less precious, according to the owner's means—naturally date from the remotest ages. An Enforcial Order Thomas, tenth earl of Dundonald, at his death vice-admiral in the English navy, tells in his "Autobiography of a Seaman" of an incident on board the Hind, on which he served as midshipman. The pet of the ship was a parrot, the aversion of the boatswain, whose whistle the bird learned to imitate exactly. One day a party of ladies paid us a visit aboard. By the usual means of a "whip" on the yard-arm several had been hoisted on deck. The chain had descended for another. Scarcely had its fair freight been lifted out of the boat alongside when the parrot piped, "Let go!" The order was instantly obeyed, and the unfortunate lady, instead of being comfortably seated on deck, was soused in the sea. Luckily for her, says the Youth's Companion, the men were on the watch and quickly pulled her out, and luckily for the parrot the boatswain was on shore, or this unseasonable assumption of the boatswain's functions might have ended tragically for the bird. This most fascinating, clearest and interesting description of Colorado will be sent free by John Sebastian, G. P. A. Great Rock Island Route, Chicago. Also: "Camping in Colorado" free, if you want it. Tells about camping in the Rockies, with full details for the inexperienced. Information about Colorado Hotels and Boarding Houses gladly furnished. It will be worth your while to learn the details of the cheap rates to Colorado effective this summer by the Rock Island. A postal card will secure as much of this information and literature as you wish. Not Good Enough for Society. It is stated on unknown authority that aristocratic New Yorkers have decided that ping-pong is only middle class, don't you know. It is doubtful, however, if this will seriously interfere with the sale of the fascinating game. ONE FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP.—Chicago to Boston, Mass. Selling dates, June 12, 13, 14. Chicago to Portland, Me., selling dates, July 5 9. inclusive. ONE FARE PLUS ONE DOLLAR FOR ROUND TRIP.—Chicago to Providence, R. I., selling dates, July 7, 8, 9. For limits, time tables and further information apply to Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P., & T. A., 135 Adams St., Chicago, Ill. English is studied by 95 per cent of the students attending the higher schools in Egypt. KING DROUGHT. And strewn with the blind white sand, Beside me suffering dumb world moans, On the breast of a lonely land. On the rim of the world the lightnings play, The heat-waves quiver and dance, And the breath of the wind is a sword to slay. And the sunbeams each a lance. I have withered the grass where my hot hoofs tread. I have whitened the sapless trees, I have driven the faint-heart rains ahead, To hide in their soft green seas; I have bound the plains with an iron band, I have stricken the slow streams dumb. To the charge of my vanguards who shall The dust storms follow and wrap me round, The hot winds ride as a guard; Before me the fret of the swamps is bound, And the way of the wild fowl barred. TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD 25 DL REWAP 25 DOLLARS REWARD TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD It was late in the autumn when Mrs. Kinch, a raw-boned, tall, angular woman, came with her two children to the neglected log house that had once been the home of Hermit Peters. She had rented the eighty acres from him, paid for six months in advance and meant to "work it," because her twenty years of womanhood in the backwoods had made of her a better farmer than most men. But even her dull hopes and worn-out fancy suffered a temporary shock when, after driving five hours from the little river town of Horning over fallen trees and through shallow pools that blocked the unused forest road, she came upon the squalid hut, the abandoned fields and the utter desolation of her new "home." Her son Zeke was a scrawny lad of twelve, dressed in threadbare jeans, weazen from hardship, silent and alert. Her daughter Maria, puny even for ten years, was prettier, but her flimsy calico and faded shawl seemed already too slight a covering against the cold breeze which moaned through the leafless trees and blew the fog of the river into her peaked face. It was a cheerless house-warming they had that first frosty night, but by dint of heroic lifting, dragging, chopping and sweeping the one-horse 5.0 SIMONS SETTING HIS TRAP. SETTING HIS TRAP. wagon was unloaded of its burden of old household goods, the pallets were stretched on the moldy floors, the old horse was stabled and fed, and the coffee pot was steaming on the rusty stove. Then began the oft-repeated struggle to establish a home for herself and her little ones. It was too fate to put in a crop, and the best the widow could do was to stock her shanty with piles of fire wood for the coming winter. Zeze, keen with the woodsman's inbred instincts, left the tree felling and the housekeeping to Marla and his mother. His father's heavy rifle, a rusty axe and a scarred Barlow knife, became his implements, and never a day passed that he did not bring home a few rabbits or squirrels. Before the first snow flew he had whittled some rude "figure fours," and at last, creeping down to one of his --- ```markdown ``` I drop the whips on the loose-franked steers, I burn their necks with the bow; And the green hide rips and the iron sears Where the staggering lean beasts go. I lure the swagman out of the road To the gleam of a phantom lake; I have lain him down, I have taken his load, And he sleeps till the dead men wake. My hurrying hoofs in the night go by, And the great flocks bleat their fear, And follow the curve of the creek burnt dry. And the plains scorched brown and sere. The worn men start from their sleepless rest With feces haggard and drawn; They cursed the red sun in the west, And they curse him out of the dawn. They have carried my outposts out and out, But—blade of my sword for a signal— I am the Master, the dread King Drought, And the great West Land is ruins! —Will H. Ogilvie, in Macmillan's Magazine. traps by the river, he found an imprisoned otter. That settled Zeke in his choice of activities, for he worked far into the night, long after his tired mother and sister: had gone to sleep, hewing, hacking and whittling at the rude flat boat which he hoped to make from the worm-eaten planks of a dismantled chicken house. In the morning he dragged the results of his labor to the river's brink, and there for days he toiled like an inspired elf till the clumsy vessel seemed fit for launching. His mother, well aware of the practical value of his bent, and little Maria, already a precocious little housewife, helped him to shove the boat into the deep and sullen current of Black River. His little sister cheered as he pushed out into the stream, and proudly tested the efficiency of his heroic handiwork. But the mother, ill shod and poorly clad, went back to woodchopping and toled till her body turned hot with the fever, and the axe fell from her hand. Then she went into the loghouse quaking with the ague, and to bed helpless and almost delirious with the malady of the lowlands. From that day Maria, big eyed like a gnome, baked and washed, made coffee, scrubbed and slaved that her mother might thrive and that Zeke might ply his lonely trade from the gray dawn until the night fogs rose from the dark, mourning river. But though the girl waxed trailer and sadder and the boy brought home many pelts of squirrels, otter and even a few mink, the wasted mother felt the first breezes of spring wafting in at her open window and was not able to face even the thought of plowing her narrow fields for the spring corn planting. She noticed that Zeke, always taciturn. said less and less. When she praised him for his success and sought with caresses to make amends for the busy, almost heartless days when she was well enough to work, he would shuffle out of her gaunt embraces and vouchsafe no boyish stories of his work along the river. She guessed that he had some secret, and for the first time sensed the sweet sting of a mother's tender jealousy. If she had known that since the early days of her illness her boy had kept up a singular partnership with a bearded stranger who slept in the woods like a hunted animal, she would have wondered more. For coming down to a trap from which his quarry had invariably escaped, Zeke one morning had found a stranger calmly pocketing the captured rabbit. "Till give it to you kid. If you fetch me some bread and coffee, said the man, glowering at the scared boy; "but don't tell nobody you saw me. If you do I'll lift every dang hide or feather you ketch." The boy only stared, but the man smiled at his amazement and said: "Tell you what I'll do, kid. If you fetch me some bread and coffee every day, I'll watch them traps o' yourn at night." And as the man gently held out the rabbit Zeek agreed. Thereafter he stole many handsful of ground coffee from home, filled his pockets with bread and was glad of his compact when he saw his traps, reset and baited at night, yield a double harvest of fresh meat and peltries. If the secret burdened his little conscience the young trapper bore gamely to his pact, for he knew that the time was come to put in the corn, and that it would not be put in. Upon his frail shoulders depended even the hope of providing flour and bacon and medicine for his mother. What must happen when the rent came due, was an enormous problem which even the worn mother dreaded to confront. If they only had a few neighbors, some plan might be contrived for planting a crop, but the nearest house was in the outskirts of Horning, and for twenty miles upstream there were no dwellers but isolated trappers and lumbermen. It was late in March when Zeke, mounted on the scraggy horse, with his pile of pelts behind him, set out for town. He drove a famous bargain with the furrier, traded some hides for quinine, provisions, powder and ball, and a pair of shoes for little Maria, and was about to set out for home with nearly $11 in his pocket, when in the wagon yard where he had left his horse, he saw a placard. : Twenty-five Dollars Reward : for Information Leading to : the Arrest of Jason Manning, Lumberman, Who Murderously Assaulted Marshal : Topping Last December. Description: Tall, Cark, full beard, etc. It was Zeke's mysterious partner! The boy cealthily tore down the placard, stuffed it into his pocket and trotted homeward with a new light in his shrewd gray eyes. The next morning before daylight he was at his deadfall in the Moccasin bend. His partner, bending over a trap, was disentangling a fat raccoon. "Morning, Zeke," he growled, without looking up. "Mornin'," said the boy, tittering like a little mannikin as he delved into his jacket pocket for the placard. "Is Marshal Topping dead?" gasped the man, his face gray and his eyes leering with ugly venom at the lad. "Nope." "Yer goin' to give away on lac, alr you?" "Nope." "Sure you ain't, Zeekie," whined the man, doubtingly. "Topping hit the first. I didn't mean to—" "I ain't a-goin' to peach on you! What d'ycu take me for?" The boy's sallow face grew red with anger. Then he grinned, and, laying his small, brown talons on Manning's sleeve, said: "Do suthin' for me, Mr. Manning?" "You bet your life, kid. I'll do anything you say. Spit her out!" "Come up and put in the corn fur mummy?" "Is that all? With all them corn cakes thrown in? Why, Zeke, it's a puddin'."—John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Record-Herald. A Missing Adjective. What Artemus Ward would have described as a high-handed outrage in Utica was perpetrated recently, the victim being a gentleman who prided himself on his grip of the English language. A treacherous friend induced him to undertake to name four adjectives ending in "dous." "Why," began the expert cheerfully, "hazardous, stupendous, tremendous." At this point he stopped to think. He is still thinking. To the three certainly three more may be added—jeopardous, pteropodous, and nefandous—though the third is obsolete, as well as ugly and unnecessary. Some six more have been suggested, but they find inadequate support in the latest dictionaries.—London Globe. Once when dining quite by chance with Dr. Creighton, the late Bishop of London, at a certain club, Lord Rosebery remarked : "Ah! my Lord Bishop, what a nuisance this dinner is! Two things I absolutely dread—a long dinner and a long sermon! I think that a sermon and a dinner, however good either may be, ought never to last more than a quarter of an hour, or twenty minutes at the most." "Well, well," said Dr. Creighton, musingly, "could we not arrange matters this way, my lord? Knock, say, ten minutes of the sermon, and put it on to the dinner."—From "Men of the Morsent." There is no community in which scores of business men are not losing splendid opportunities by their lack of knowledge of the power of advertising. This is a prosperous time, and a certain amount of trade will find its way to nearly all establishments. To the courageous advertisers the volume of trade is greater, and by advertising freely at this time, when they can well afford it, they insure to themselves a profitable business when a duller time shall come. HOSPITAL SECRETS. A Nurse Says: "Peruna is a Tonic of Efficiency." W. H. MRS. KATE TAYLOR. Mrs. Kate Taylor, a graduated nurse of prominence, gives her experience with Peruna in an open letter. Her position in society and professional standing combine to give special prominence to her utterances. CHICAGO, ILL., 427 Monroe St. "As far as I have observed Peruna is the finest tonic any man or woman can use who is weak from the after effects of any serious illness. "I have seen it used in a number of convalescent cases, and have seen several other tonics used, but I found that those who used Peruna had the quickest relief. "Peruna seems to restore vitality, increase bodily vigor and renew health and strength in a wonderfully short time."---MRS. KATE TAYLOR. In view of the great multitude of women suffering from some form of female disease and yet unable to find any cure, Dr. Hartman, the renowned specialist on female catarrhal diseases, has announced his willingness to direct the treatment of as many cases as make application to him during the summer months, without charge. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. 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. B, 109 Randolph SL, CHICAGO, ILL YOU CAN DO IT TOO Over 2,000,000 people are now buying goods from us at wholesale prices—saving 15 to 40 percent on everything they use. You can do it too. Why not ask us to send you our 1,000-page catalogue?—it tells the story. Send 15 cents for it today. Montgomery Ward Co. 3 CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. REAL ESTATE. Bargains in Illinois—Improved Black Bottom Farms. Don't overflow; investigate. Write Box 65 Hull, Ill. FOR SALE—100 FARMS in Knox Co., Ind., and Lawrence Co., Ill. Special Bargains— 160-acre Farm, and 175-acre tract and 200-acre tract $42.50 acre. 100-acre Marsh Land, $52.50 acre. 388-acre fine Wabash Bottom Farm, special bargain. BEN WHEELER, 405½ Main St., Vincennes, Ind. For Sale! FARMS—400 acres in Lincoln Co., Neb. $10 per acre; 370 acres Wayne Co., Ill. $10; 170 acres Door Co., Wis. $10; 500 acres adjoining city of Eau Claire, Wis. $10; 600 acres Menominee Co., Mich. $31; 160 acres Juneau Co., Wis. $30 per acre. All good land, nearly all under cultivation, with good improvements; some of the farms have machinery and live stock; long time, with 5% interest. What have you for Chicago vacant and improved? For particulars write Fair Lawn Farm, Potter's Mills, Wis. LAND IN CALIFORNIA FREE FOR YOUR LABOR. A clear deed to one-half the land you plant to grapes and bring to bearing (3 years) in the heart of a 7,000-acre Colony. Sacramento Co., California; 700 acres already planted. This is the best fruit land in the State of California. No irrigation needed. No malaria. No alkali. No brush or rocks; rich valley land ready to plow. FOR SALE. Also other tracts of 5, 10, 20, 40 acres at $40 per acre. Easy terms. Write for map and full particulars. WHITAKER & RAY, Galt, California. ORCHARD, Vineyard and Farm Lands near San Francisco, Cal. Address H. C. KAAP, Martines, Cal. FREE!-List offering 390 acres for $1,100 and 200 other bargains. Higginbatham Bros., Faulkton, S.D. LAND in Otter Tall County. Best county in Minnesota; known as Park Region, for combined stock and grain raising. Half is rich rolling prairie, balance timber land and fine lakes. Water pure; crops never fall, plenty of rain, 265 schools. Best farro land worth $15 to $35 per acre. Timber land $7 upwards. Send stamp for pamphlet, state and county maps. Lake & Lowry, Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Idention this paper when writing. IOWA FARMS FOR SALE In the Bluegrass belt of Southern Iowa. All sites. Write for list of Special Sales. C. H. MOSKINSON, Winterset, Iowa LANDSEEKERS! Central Eastern Colorado offers great opportunities for investment in Cheap and Productive Land, in tracts to suit, good for all farming purposes, especially for Mining Stock of any kind. Land values everywhere are increasing. Send for our list of bargains with full information. The Kit Carson Land Company, Burlington, Colorado. Gold. Standard Hydraulic Mines, located in the celebrated Murray Gold Belt, Idaho. A limited amount of shares at 30c. Will bring you large returns. For full information address Gold Standard Mining Co., 817 Carleton Building, St. Louis, Mo. HAMLINS WIZARD OIL RHEUMATISM PISO'S CURE FOR BURT WORK ALL THE WEEK. Bust Knock Brenn. Tastes Good. Use in times. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION BALLADE OF LOVE'S WORTH Lordly lovers of yesterday, Prince or peasant, poet or poet, Pray you, speak from your beds of clay, Give us tidings of grief or cheer; Pagan—Puritan—cavalier— By lips you kissed, by eyes you knew, We, the living, are fain to hear— What did your loving profit you? Lovely ladies, or grave or gay, You who lived in a yesteryear, Princess and marquise, maiden, say; You who of old held love most dear: You who of old herd love most dear. Now that your eyes at last are clear, Now the pain and the pleasure through, We, the living, would give ear— What did your loving profit you? L'ENVOI Prince, what matter the yea or nay? While we question we turn to sue Turn unheeding, the while we pray What did your loving profit you? —Theodosia Garrison, in Life. FLASHAES OF FYNA He—"I'm afraid if I play ping-pong with you much more I shall lose my heart." She—"Yes, it is hard on bric-a-brac."—Life. Church—"I see Dr. Cuttum has got an automobile." Gotham—"Couldn't kill 'em quick enough, eh?"—Yonkers Statesman. Mr. Westside—"Is Briggs still paying attention to your sister?" Eastside—"Naw—they've been married this two mont's!"—Brooklyn Life. "Do you ever advise your patients to take exercise, doctor?" "Oh, yes; it's perfectly safe to do so. They never take it."—Indianapolis News: St. Peter—"Who are you?" New Arrival—"I'm the paying teller of——" St. Peter—"You'll have to get somebody to identify you."—Town Topics. He has the chance which most men crave To make great wealth his willing tool. And if he does they'll call him "knave." If he does not, they'll call him "fool." —Washington Star. Visitor (kindly)—"How old are you, dear?" Little Girl (with great dignity) —"I'm not old at all. Granny's old, but mother's young, and daddy's young and I'm very young."—Punch. "Tis in good humor he is the day." "Oh, yes! The market's all right today, Pat." "Yis! To think av him sittin' there makin' money as fast as you an' me could shpind it!"—Puck. Good luck makes some men glad, but O! It makes their gladness double "John is so domestic in his tastes," said the Billville matron. "He is?" "Yes. He's been all day in the hot sun trying to kill a rattlesnake to get a rattle for the baby!"—Atlanta Constitution. Ostend—"They ought to use fly paper out at the baseball grounds, mamma." Mamma—"Why, my dear?" Ostend—"Because I heard papa say so many files came toward the bleachers."—Chicago Daily News. Little Bobbie—"Willie Smith wanted to fight me, maw, an' I wouldn't do it." Proud Mother—"That was perfectly right, Bobbie." Little Bobbie—"You bet! I did fight with him wuncet an' he licked me."—Ohio State Journal. "You should get your ears lopped, O'Brien," said a "smart" tourist to an Irish peasant whom he was quizzing, "they're too large for a man." "An' bedad," replied the Hibernian, "I was just thinkin' yours would want to be made larger; sure, they're too small for an ass."—Tit-Bits. "How is your boy getting along at school?" "Splendidly—splendidly! I tell you, my friend, this boy of mine will make his way in the world, don't you fear. During the time he's been going to school they have had thirty-two examinations, and he's managed to dodge every one of them."—Glasgow Times. Curiosity Unsatisfied It was in the Register of Wills' office. "I want to see the will of Mrs. Henry Jones," said the woman who had just come in. "Yes, madam; when did she die?" politely asked the clerk. "Oh, she isn't dead," answered the woman in a matter of fact tone, "but I hear she has made her will, and I should like to see it, if you please." "But the will is not here if she is not dead," said the surprised clerk. "Why, isn't this the place where wills are kept for public inspection?" "Yes, madam, but not until after the testator is deceased." "Oh!" said the woman, as she turned away with a disappointed expression; "then I can't find out whom she has left her diamonds to, after all. How annoying!"—Philadelphia, Times. Helen Keller's Blind Spelling. The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a beautiful doll. After I had played with it a little while she slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." I was greatly interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Then running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letter for doll. In the days that followed I learned to spell a great many words, among them "pln," "hat," "cup," and a few verbs like "sit," "stand," and "walk." But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name—Helen Keller, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Charles Henderson of the steamship family of that name, was one of a party of seven at Van Keuren's smothered chicken dinner the other day, and when another guest expressed a preference for legs he told this story: "We were touring Europe and had stopped at Lepsino, a short distance from Athens. The landlord of the small hotel served with every meal a large dish containing a sort of stew, the principal ingredient of which was turkey drumsticks. For days we thrived on drumsticks. They were good, but we began to wonder why he never gave us any other portion of the turkey. It was finally left to me to make inquiries, so I approached with some trepidation, not caring to seem officious, the head of the house. When I intimated that he might have saved the breasts, wings, etc., for some special occasion he looked at me and laughed. 'You like them?' he asked. 'It is all yours. In Greece we eat only the drumsticks.' He then showed me three or four of the fattest young turkeys, weighing from seven to nine pounds, from which only the legs had been removed. I captured them all, and during the rest of our stay we lived high."—New York Times. A Care for Dropsy. Ashley, North Dakota, June 2d.-J. H. Hanson of this place has found a cure for Dropsy. For years Mr. Hanson himself has suffered with Rheumatism of the Heart and Dropsy, and of late has been so bad that he could not work. He has tried many remedies, but nothing he could get helped him in the least, and he was growing worse and worse. Finally he began a treatment of Dodd's Kidney Pills and to his great delight he soon found that the Dropsical Swelling was gradually going down and that the Rheumatism of the Heart was also disappearing. He says: "I have taken seven boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and am feeling better than I have for five years. "I am able to work again and if the Dropsy or Heart Trouble ever comes back I will use Dodd's Kidney Pills at once." New Settlers for the West It is said that no less than 102,000 new settlers have passed through St. Paul this year. Twenty-eight thousand were over the Great Northern and Northern Pacific to points west of the western line of North Dakota, 39,000 stopped off at Dakota points, 13,000 settled in Minnesota, 10,000 located in South Dakota, while the Omaha and Wisconsin Central roads hauled 12,000 into Northern and Central Wisconsin. Might Have Saved Time. 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Many a man who proposes offers a woman an old moth-eaten love with a record of fire escapes, but he expects a bran new triple-plated article in return. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. More than half a million visitors passed through the gates at New York's zoological park in 1901. WHY IT IS THE BEST is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third, more for 10 cents. Hazlitt, after the necessary work of preparation had been concluded, wrote one lecture a week of the series "Lectures on Authors." The Czar is devoted to literature treating of occultism, thought-reading, hypnotism and kindred subjects. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Brazil has a coast line of nearly 5,000 miles, with fifty-two sea ports. DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. 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The recent purchase of this group, of Mines was effected by practical mine operators and Engineers of rare intelligence and experience, and having invested their own money on the rich assays and other showings, and organised this Company for the active prosecution of serious work. It is now proposed to sell 100,000 shares of Treasury Stock at the low price of to erect a fifty-ten Smelting Plant. After this block of stock is sold (possibly heats) the price will be much higher, so that investors, and particularly small investors, should lose no time in applying for their allotments. A depth of 240 feet only had no far been reached, and get there is ore IN SUGHF to the value of more MORE THAN $100,000. Our ore is a lime gangue, free-smelting ore and will reduce to "bister" Copper of 90 per cent purity. Fifty tenns of 12 per cent Copper ore, reduced, equals 12,000 pounds of Copper, and 12,000 lbs. at 12 cents per pound amounts to OVER $1,400 NET PROFIT PER DAY. Disinterested Mining Engineers say we have a veritable mountain of such ore. We have ores that amount 40 to 50 per cent Copper, 20 ozs. of Silver and 610 to 775 in Gold, worth altogether from $15 to $25 per ton. But in our estimate of profits we have taken only medium grade ores on basis—not the heat samples. We invite the closest examination into the real merits of our proposition, and, believing that it not only a safe but a rare chance for investment, ask the public to join us in developing the property. We honestly believe that the stock which we tender to day is 55 cents, will be worth per, or 81 per share on the market within the year. Our managing Board of Directors consists of able and honorable financiers and business men of California (mostly residents of Los Angeles), and their names are so follows: A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. I have berries, grapes and peaches a year old, fresh as when picked. I used the California Cold Process. 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Japan Tea. 99 11 b best Table Chocolate. 25 18 stone-pail pure Apple Butter. 19 11 b can pure Black Pepper. 25 ½ lb each, Ginger, Cinnamon, Mustard, Allspice and Cloves. 60 2 lbs California Yellow Peaches. 30 2 lbs California Raisins. 20 1 lb best Cleaned Currants. 6 1 gal pail Chow Chow Pickles. 40 5 lbs largest size California Prunes. 45 5 lbs largest size Silver Prunes. 49 Total $ 689 And every Distressing Irritation of Skin and Scalp Instantly Relieved by a Bath with Your merchants charge you $18.00 for this order. We save you $9.17. Goods are the best. We guarantee quality to please the most particular people. Enclose one dollar, and write us you want this list of groceries. No. A. X. 411, and we will send it complete by first freight for your inspection. If on examination you find the goods to be worth $15.00 as represented, pay your agent balance of $7.83 and charges. If not, refuse the order and we will return your dollar. We sell more groceries and better groceries than any mail order grocery house in the trade. Write for catalogue of Bargains No. 161, also for premium list giving one eight dollar clock free with $11.99 worth of groceries including a bag of sugarat 3c per pound. Cuticura SOAP RANDOLPH MERCANTILE CO., Wholesale Grocers, 20.22 Michigan Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. Reference, Fort Dearborn National Bank, Chicago. 16 2 CENTS A DAY Is it worth that to you to seize one of the greatest opportunities of the century to make money? $5.00 per month will buy you 200 shares in a mine already in rich ore. Neighboring mines are paying 3 per cent. per month. Stock will double in value in 90 days. And a single anointing with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. This treatment, when followed in severe cases by mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS, to cool and cleanse the blood, is the most speedy, permanent, and economical cure for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humours, with loss of hair, ever compounded. $25ON 5 TON IS WHAT YOU CAN SAVE We make all kinds of scales. Also B.B. Pumps and Wipdmills. WHOSE PON PRICES BECKMAN BROS., DES MOINES, IOWA. Afflicted with sore eyes, use! Thompson's Eye Water Millions of Women USE CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, 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, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and inflammations, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women and mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odours. It unites in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and baby soap in the world. Cuticura The Set, SI Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP, 25c., to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle; CUTICURA OINTMENT, 25c., to instantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and heal; and CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS, 25c., to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, and scaly skin, scalp, and blood humour, with loss of hair, when all else fails. Sold throughout the world. British Depot: 27-28, Charterhouse Sq., London. French Depot: 5 Rue de la Paine, Park, Potter, Drug and Chem. Corp., Sole Prince, Boston, U. S. A. CUTICURA REGALUM PILLS (Chocolate Coated) are a new, tasteless, odourless, economical substitute for the celebrated liquid CUTICURA HUMOUR, as well as for all other blood purifiers and humour cures. Each pill is equivalent to one teaspoonful of liquid RESOLVENT. Put in screw-cup packet vials, containing 60 degrees, price, 25c. CUTICURA PILLS are alternative, soothing, tonic, and digestive, and beyond question the purist, sweetest, most successful and economical blood and skin purifiers, humour cures, and tonic digestives yet compounded. FREE Hand BOOK ON NEW PROCESS of Cleaning Paints & Vegetables Mrs. W. T. PRICE, 1427 Penn Ave., N. Minneapolis, Minn. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 23, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Faxes. J. M. Higginbothan Plastering Contractor POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Never hit a man when he is down. Jump on him. One way to get rich quickly is to make haste slowly. Girls who have no diamonds say it is vulgar to wear them. With some people prosperity is the advance agent of adversity. A sitting hen constantly broods over the probable outcome of her mission. The average American citizen is willing to die for his country—in office. The average young man manages to squeeze a lot of enjoyment out of a waltz. If kissing were a disease all young doctors would lean toward homeopathy. Woman's mouth either shows her own character or exposes another woman's. A penny saved is a penny earned, and a dollar saved is a dollar you didn't loan. You can't believe everything a woman says who compliments another on her beauty. A wise man knows the value of silence when a child begins to cross-examine him. The majority of purchasable things may be exchanged—but experience isn't on the list. Unfortunately a man's epitaph comes along too late in the game for him to live up to it. A pretty girl who fences is all right if she happens to be on the young man's side of the fence. Nine times out of a possible ten a proud spirit in a woman is mistaken for a sour disposition. Tell a woman she looks fresh and she smiles; tell a man the same thing and he is sure to start a rough house. Water will not extinguish the spark of love—and it takes something stronger to scent the breath of suspicion. Marriage is often a failure because neither of the interested parties has sense enough to take an occasional vacation. There is probably more real enjoyment in a Chicago kiss than there is in a Boston interlabial combustion. Chicago Daily News. HEAND AMONG QUAKERS. The golf-player should be lynx-eyed. People who are invited to a poker party must expect pot luck. The hardest work in connection with a political job is getting it. "Our sins," says a society woman, "are like undesirable callers. They always find us out." The follow who rushes out of the theater between the acts seldom comes back breathless. It can scarcely be said of people who wear squeaky shoes that they have music in their soles. Maybe it's because a woman is always eager for the last word that she reads the end of a book first. Some men are kept so busy talking about what they are going to do that they never find time to do anything. Commencement days will soon be here, and the young-doctors will be starting on their pill-grimage of life. "If you must drink," says the man with the impressionistic nose, "be sure you are right and you won't get a head." "Married life is sometimes one grand, sweet song," observes the Cynical Bachelor, "and sometimes it's ragtime." APHORISMS. You never lift up a life without being yourself lifted up.—Emerson. To ease anothers heartache is to forget one's own.—Abraham Lincoln. 'Tis far better to love and be poor, than be rich with an empty heart.—Lewis Morris. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.—Goethe. God doesn't care for what is on the outside he cares for what is inside.—Rev. M. Babcock. Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss, if it issue not in a resolution to do so no more.—Bishop Horne. The next time you are discouraged, just try encouraging some one else, and see if it will not cheer you.—J. R. Miller. Sin is never at a stay if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it, and the farther on we go the more we have to come back.—Barrow. Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes—these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble, and are fighting their unseen battles.—Dr. John Hall. WIT, WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY Some people think they look very wise, when they only look disagreeable. Put a Yale lock on your purse when a fellow slaps you on the back and calls you his best friend. It's a touch down. The editor of a newspaper is, generally speaking, a moral man, because he hasn't time and is too tired to be anything else. Here are some questions about things you've seen every day and all your life. If you are a wonder you may possibly answer one or two of the queries offhand. Otherwise not. What are the exact words on a 2-cent stamp, and in which direction is the face on it turned? In which direction is the face turned on a cent? On a quarter? On a dime? How many toes has a cat on each forefoot? On each hind foot? Which way does the crescent moon turn? To the right or left? What color are your employer's eyes? The eyes of the man at the next desk? Write down, offhand, the figures on the face of your watch. The odds are that you will make at least two mistakes in doing this. Your watch has some words written or printed on its face. You have seen these words a thousand times. Write them out correctly. Few can do this. Also, what is the number on the case of your watch? How high (in inches) is a silk hat? How many teeth have you? What are the words on a police man's shield? How many buttons has the vest or shirt waist you are wearing? How many stairs are there in the first flight at your house? How many steps lead from the street to the front door of your house or flat? What is the name, signed in facsimile, on any $1, $2, $5 or $10 bill you ever saw? You've read dozens of those names. Can you remember one? WISDOM FROM RECENT BOOKS. Selfishness in public life is a crime against one's highest ambitions.—The Conqueror. It is as easy to escape from death as from a woman when once she's after you.—Twenty-six and One. If the sentence, "Thy desire shall be unto him," was laid on Eve as a curse, yet her daughters have found their deepest happiness therein.—The Winding Road. The patron saint of bachelor girls is a saint of expedients. He has to be. He couldn't hold down his job or his halo if he were not.—The Misdemeanors of Nancy. While with mathematical accuracy two and two always make four, by adding a certain amount of personality the result will very nearly equal five.—The College Student. De meanin' of courage an' common sense must be understood. Many a man have died fom havin' too much bravery, but common sense never killed nobody.—The Black Cat Club. Women are fond of blaming the devil for their misfortunes, but after all they are his best ministers. He can generally be quite sure that they will do their best to help him.—The Story of Eden. If the ladies whom gallant gentlemen delight to serve could guess what scant touchstones of worth these same gentlemen sometimes carry into the adored presence many a handsome head would be carried with less assurance.—The Valley of Decision. THOUGHTS FROM MATTHEW HENRY. Dissembled piety is double iniquity. Omissions make way for commissions. Modesty is a great ornament to dignity. The sins of sinners are the sorrows of saints. Consideration is the first step to conversion. Grace is better than gold, for it will outlast it. What is asked in passion is often given in wrath. A lion in God's cause must be a lamb in his own. Perseverance wears the crown, though it wins it not. When passion is upon the throne, reason is out of doors. We are not born for ourselves, but for God and our country. When vice is daring, it is no time for virtue to be sneaking. Death wrenches from the hand the sceptre as well as the spade. Custom in sin is a very great hindrance to conversion from sin. Drunkenness, which makes men forgetful, makes them forgotten. One may easier deal with ten men's reasons than with one man's will. PHILOSOPHICAL Idle talk is always getting its work in. If things fall to come your way, go around and head them off. It is better to marry a crying woman than a hair-pulling one. No man admires a doctor's generosity in prescribing large doses. Two comodious nicely furnished rooms for rent to gentlemen only. Inquire at 2623 Wabash avenue. Plastering Contractor .CHICAGO ATTORNEYS AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington St. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. G. ASH, Attorney-at-Law. 81 and 86 La Salle St., Suite 615 to 618. Telephone, Main 3077. Chicago. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, NO E. Clark Street, CHICAGO FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW 832 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2310 Central CHICAGO LAWRENCE A. NEWBY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Room 6, 128 LaSalle St., CHICAGO RESIDENCE 2623 WABASH AVE ISRAEL COWEN ATTORNEY AT LAW 613 TACOMA BUILDING 'Phone Main 717. 9 CHICAGO JOSEPH A. McINERNEY SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE CHICAGO LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St, Down Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 2533 Harrison. William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO Tel. North 161. ADDISON BLAKELY ...LAWYER... SUITE 1202 ASHLAND BLOCK. RESIDENCE 321 WEBSTER AVE. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 S. HALSTED STREET, ....CHICAGO S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. ALBERT B. GEORGE 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. --- Jul. 24, 2025. --- Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2338. CHICAGO. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 728 Opera House Block. S. W. Canner Clark and Washington St. Telephone Main 1912. AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From now until further notice The Broad Ax will be on sale at the fellowing places: E. H. Faulkner, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3104 State street. B. W. Fitts, printing office, 2713 State street. A. F. Tervalon's cigar store and news stand, 2826 State street. S. Mitchell's news stand and cigar store, 4902 State street. News items and advertisements left at those places will find their way into the columna of The Broad Ax. Telephone Yards 702. Established 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In... 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. Geraghty Mfg. Co. Manufacturers of CAMPAIGN BUTTONS AND BADGES..... 61 La Salle St., CHICAGO Telephone Main 4498 UNDERTAKER Transferring and Moving to all parts of the City. Main office, 3155 State St. Branch office, 954 W. 63d St. Telephone, Brown, 724 Chicago. R. G. BELL Dealer in Coal, Wood, Feed Ice Terms Strictly Cash on Delivery 137 W. 47th St., - CHICAGO Telephone Blue 284 ALEX I. WYATT, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN Manufacturer of OPTICAL AND REFRACTING GOODS Watches and Jewelry Repaired, Prices Reasonable. Eyes Tested Free. ---- 98 E. Madison St. near Dearborn Chicago BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO. MRS. LIZZIE N. RANDELL Dressmaking and Plain Sewing..... 4836 State St. CHICAGO FOR BARGAINS IN Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishings and Shoes THOMAS & HARRIS TWO BIG STORES 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. Halsted Street WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best hair pomade for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only $4 cents. Sold by draymists and dealers or send us $4 cents for one bottle or $1.4 $ for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Bend postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Don't imagine that all hair preparations are alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fail to cure dandruff and make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the scalp producing new growth and stops the hair from falling out. Try a bottle and you will be sure to be pleased. Only 50 cents, express paid, to any address in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois ```markdown ``` ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER, SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., Cl N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HOHENADEL B HENADEL B HOHENADEL BROS. 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 3300 Manufacturers of... UNI Policemen, Firemen, Letter Carriers, Elevatormen, Janitors, Wagonmen GEO. C. CA PRODUCE Butter, Poultry, E 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, JACOB F Wholesale Provision Telephone 31st and State Street Jas. J. M SAMPLE IMPORTED WINES, LIQUOR 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET A. JOSEPH GREAT N SALE AND EXC Driving, Draft and G Alway UNIFORM CAR FOR Firemen, Barriers, Astormen, Janitors, Wagonmen, Street Car Employes, Telegraph Messenger, Railroad Employer, Bellboys, Water GEO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Etc. WATER STREET, COB FEINBERG Wholesale and Retail Provision Dealer Telephone 565 South State Streets as. J. McCormick SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HALSTED STREET, GREAT NORTHERN E AND EXCHANGE STA living, Draft and General Business Horse Always on Hand Manufacturers of... UNIFORM CAPS Policemen, Firemen, Street Car Employes, Letter Carriers, Telegraph Messengers, Elevatormen, Railroad Employes, Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Watchmen, Etc. Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Etc. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. JACOB FEINBERG Provision Dealer Telephone 565 South 31st and State Streets CHICAGO SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLE. Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Millwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. OHI ON TO The Middle Mississippi Va TO CHICA Middle States aissippi Valley Expo ON TO CHICAGO The Middle States and Mississippi Valley Exposition TO BE HELD IN CHICAGO From the 14th of August to The first practical demon the North of the development and section. A GRAND DISPLAY The Nation's first big event is the freest and most hospitable greatest summer resort in the we 14th of August to the 14th of September first practical demonstration ever given to the development and growth of the Negro ND DISPLAY OF RACE PRODUCTION's first big event of the twentieth century and most hospitable city in the United ner resort in the west. From the 14th of August to the 14th of September,'02 The first practical demonstration ever given to the people of the North of the development and growth of the Negro race in this section. A GRAND DISPLAY OF RACE PROGRESS The Nation's first big event of the twentieth century. Chicago is the freest and most hospitable city in the United States, the greatest summer resort in the west. Do Not Fail to Visit Chicago and the Greatest of all Race Expositions! SPECIAL RAIL The 14th of August to the For information address THE CO BARNEY House and MOVER of HEAVY M SPECIAL RAILROAD RATE 18th of August to the 14th of September, 1 on address THE COMMITTEE, 610 Garfield BARNEY BENSO Fire and Fire Wrecc MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES The 14th of August to the 14th of September, 1902. For information address THE COMMITTEE, 610 Garfield Boulevard. BARNEY BENSON, House and Fire Wrecking. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. OHIOAGO, HI