The Broad Ax

THEODORE W JONES, ACCUSES REV. JASPER FRAUD THOMAS, OF ENDEAVORING TO ROB OR DEFRAUD THE MEMBERS OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH OUT OF TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED "Is Thy Servant a Dog, That he Should Do This Great Thing." Editor Julius F. Taylor. VOL. VII. In a recently published article intimation was made that an element of dishonesty had crept into some of our churches, principally in connection with collections raised for charitable purposes. If suspicion is directed toward the clergy they have no one but themselves to blame. What right has a preacher to receive or hold money for any purpose, he is not the treasurer. I hold that a collection taken up for a public charity should be turned over at once to the committee entitled to receive and receipt for the same; and that the Deacons have no right to pay such funds over to the preacher, to be retained by him as has been done in the past. If this plan were adopted and rigidly adhered to an object for public or private charity would receive promptly whatever assistance the public desired to give it. Heretofore people have often been obliged to spend time and carfare in hunting up the preacher or else wait an indefinite period for the money collected for them. Indeed cases are not wanting where money has been "trimmed" and some collections cut in two by the preacher, before being turned over to a committee, or its rightful guardian. There are also instances in which individuals—poor and needy—have appealed in vain for their proper share of the revenue entrusted to the preacher for its sacred distribution. Right here let me say that there seems to be a deep-rooted feeling in the minds of some of the clergy, that the churches in Chicago are rich, and therefore a preacher is justified in asking any salary that he can induce or compel his Deacons to pay him. The question of his fitness or success not being taken into account. The chief aim, of a minister's pets, on the various boards, seems to be not how much money can be paid on the church debt, but how much money can be paid to the preacher for making the debt. Now I believe that a minister should receive liberal compensation for his services, but I believe also that he is entitled only to the salary agreed upon and fixed by contract, and not whatever he can obtain by graft, fraud, loot and theft. I understand Rev. J. F. Thomas charges me with "slinging mud" at the clergy, and says that if I was not a coward I would designate a preacher by name. In answer to this, I would say that if he holds an honest statement of facts to be mud throwing then he does not know the meaning of that term. If he is looking for a lawsuit I am willing that he should trail his record in any court. Hence I will address myself to this Caesar in person. Now, Rev. Thomas, neither your morals nor your reputation need be assailed in order to prove your incompetency and unfitness for leadership, although both of these have been most grievously attacked. It is, however, enough at this time to stop and inquire as to your honesty in handling the people's money. I will ask you, sir, if you did not "go down on" one whole collection during the absence of the treasurer in the old Harmon Court Church? I will ask you also if a little later on you did not borrow about $200 from the officers of the church which you have never repaid? When the $6000 was raised Jan. 1st, 1902, I will ask you if you didn't try to borrow more money? Didn't you say the Deacons should lend you enough money to enable you to go away and take a rest? Now what had you done that would justify anybody in giving you the people's money? The people gave the $6000 out of their hard earnings. Don't you think they are the ones who need a rest, and that they need a rest from you most of all? When the foundation for the present structure was being laid, didn't you ask the contractor how much there was in it for you? Didn't he tell you that he was the lowest bidder and that he could not afford to give you anything? Didn't you come back a few days later and say to him "that you were getting old; that you would probably never build another church; and that you must get $200 out of the foundation and $2,500 out or the main body of the church?" Didn't the contractor say to you that $2,700 would exceed his profit on the job, but rather than have any trouble with you he would willingly give you a small amount of money out of his own pocket?" Didn't you, Mr. Preacher, refuse to accept less than the $2,700, and didn't you tell the contractor that "he could more than cover that amount by a bill for extras; and that you would guarantee to have the church pay any bill that he presented, no matter whether they owed it or not?" Didn't the contractor refuse to become a party to this fraud; and didn't you then tell him that he would never get his pay while you were pastor of Olivet Church; and havent you spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars in lawsuits to prevent this man from securing his money and to gratify your personal ill will toward him at the people's expense? It is claimed by a prominent politician that in May last he gave Rev. Harris, a colored Baptist preacher, a check for $10; that within 24 hours thereafter he received a note of thanks from the officers of the church. The same gentleman also claims that on the same date he gave Rev. J. K. Thomas of Olivet Baptist Church, a check for $10, and he has never received the scratch of a pen from any officer of the church in reference to it. Since this money has not been turned over to the treasurer. Will Rev. Thomas please tell what he did with it? I will ask you, Rev. Thomas, if you don't know that every word and statement of the above is true? Yet you have the "gall" to talk about "mud slinging;" who would waste ink in throwing mud at you? What kind of a leader, and what kind of a minister are you, sir? Who needs to attack your morals? Don't yon know that one cannot touch you anywhere with a pen and then write anything decent without first having the pen fumigated? Now, Mr. Editor, it may be that the public press as well as the church, would like to take a hand at this investigation. I would not have my word taken for anything, except in so far as it may be corroborated by others. If the newspapers would like to know something about this preacher's attempt to borrow enough money with which to "Go away back and sit down," let them ask the Deacons. In there is the least doubt concerning the proposed $2,700 graft, go to the contractor, J. M. Higganbothan, 226 25th st. In order to verify the statement respecting the miscarriage of the $10 check ask the treasurer of the church if he has ever received it. I am perfectly willing that the falsehoods and sentimental absurdities which have or may eminate from the pulpit, shall stand beside the candid declaration of these men—the most reliable in the community. Since it must be apparent to all that great scandals attach themselves like leeches to the administration of some of our preachers the proper officers should have the courage of their convictions and demand in each and every case that the preacher shall make a clear explanation and show himself innocent of wrong doing or tender his resignation at once. Hypocrits, thieves, grafters and money changers have been driven out of the temple in the past and they will continue to be driven out as long as the souls of Christian men and women shall be inspired by the example and teaching of the lowly Jesus who said: "My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." THEODORE W. JONES, 2209 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago, Ill. CHICAGO, JULY 12, 1902. The Chronicle observes that many of its esteemed contemporaries at the south are quoting with approval the words of Rev. W. W. Lucas, colored, as follows: I have decided that the only way to get rid of the "Jim Crow" car is to get rid of the "Jim crow" Negro. If I could use 200,000 bars of soap on the unwashed Negroes that travel on trains and hang around depots I would solve the Negro problem about 20 per cent. Lazy, ragged, barefoot fellows, longing for silver slippers and long white robes and counting themselves worthy, neglecting to provide a home for their families on earth and yet claiming a house not made with hands in God's heaven. The white man is trying to make this earth blossom as a rose and the Negro is getting ready to die! The white man is organizing business enterprises and the Negro organizing societies to turn out at their funeral! Now, I object to a $100 funeral for a 50-cent Negro. There is much homely truth in what this minister has to say. It harmonizes very well with the utterances of several of the most celebrated leaders of the colored race and it embraces the philosophy under which white people always have and always will determine the character and standing of each other. There never has been any difference of opinion in this or any other civilized country as to the treatment which should be accorded men, either white or black, who were dirty, ragged, lazy and generally offensive, but there is a very decided difference in some sections of this country on the subject of the status of black men who, in their appearance and conduct, are the reverse of these things. Most of the newspapers at the south which approve of Mr. Lucas' remarks have shown very recently that they are quite as intolerant of black men who may be clean, well dressed, educated and industrious as they are of the sort who are so amusingly described by their ministerial brother. The incentive which white people have to be clean, well informed, industrious and respectable in appearanc is found not only in the esteem which they gain thereby from others, but in the even greater satisfaction that they derive from selfapproval. If white people are to flee from a colored man, like Booker Washington with the same horror that they manifest when they turn from the filthy and worthless loafers described by Mr. Lucas the remarks of that person and the indorsement which they have received in so many southern newspapers lose their point entirely. Jim crow white men generally find their level in Jim crow places and among Jim crow associates. The Negro who can lift himself out of the Jim crow class ought to find some reward in the increased respect shown for him by people who may never have been in the Jim crow category. The Chronicle ventures to set forth this opinion as a logical alternative to Jim crow, with no reference to encourage anybody's daughter to marry a "nigger."—The Chicago Chronicle. Rev. W. W. Lucas, is one of the field secretaries of The Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress, which convines in Atlanta, Ga., August 6-11, 1902, and his utterances respecting "The Jim Crow Car and the Negro," are in line with Prof. Booker T. Washington, and like Prof Washington Rev. Lucas, is engaged in holding his hands cut begging for more money and in order to persuade the Southern whites to give him more money he favors "Jim Crow Cars." This so-called Holy man of God, refers to the Negro. Spending all his time in planing on how to get to heaven but Rev. Lucas falls to mention the fact that for the past 35 or 40 years the burden or the refrain of the Negro preacher, has been to his followers "you do not need wealth nor education, nor to build your home here on this earth for none of these things will save your soul which is worth more to you than all the things in this world." These false ideas implanted in the mind of the Negro by his preacher, is the reason why he is not in favor of organizing business enterprises; it also accounts for the reason why he fails to provide a home for his family and spends all his money on funerals and churches, and we verily believe that the Negro would be ten million times better off if his large crop of preachers were turned out to grass for they have been, and will continue for many years to be the greatest load stone around the neck of the Negro, for the simple reason that they fail to teach him morality, honesty and economy. HOW TO SLAUGHTER USURY. Were all the reforms now called for adopted, and money left in its present condition, mankind would be little benefitted, because, no matter what may be made by statute the sole legal tender would be monopolized (were it of limitable quantity.) No matter whether paper, gold or silver. The money should be a legal tender, not the sole one, and it should issue by the nation and be to all services just the same as the postal stamp is to postal services. No such money could ever be over-issued because its issue and cancellation are done on the rendition of the service, or purchase or payment effected. The source of this only true money is exhaustible as the demand and supply of the nation. For example, suppose a railroad to be made that must cost a billion dollars. This money issues to pay for it and is returned into the treasury for taxes and carrying services and cancelled. It can never over issue of course. Say in time four more tracks are built and the service quadrupled and four times the sum issues. What does that matter? This money has no relation to any ever issued because all forms of paper have either been non-legal tender, or sole legal tender, or based on specie or lands, etc., and issued without system or provision for proper cancellation. Our greenbacks and the French assignates were with laws Mississippi paper the worst of all forms of paper issues. The little P. O. stamp ought to teach us what the true money is. A nation can stamp its power on a card "Good For All Services" as easily as on one "For One Service Only." THE FIGHT'S ON. Old Ham Carter's Libel suit against Julius F. Taylor, was called up before Judge Dunne Friday morning, and our attorneys, Albert B. George, and Edward H. Wright, and our witnesses, were all in court ready for trial, but Judge Dunne continued the case until Monday, July 21. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lohr, leaders of the smart set of New York City, gave a swell dinner at Newport last week in honor of a large good looking monkey, many prominent society ladies attended the function, and it is said that the monkey conducted himself, while going through the courses, better than any of the ladies and gentlemen who sat at the banquet table, until they gave him too much strong wine and whiskey to drink, then he conducted himself just like half-drunken men and women. This incident is further proof that the Darwinian Theory is true, and that vain, and proud man did descend from the monkey, for we come in contact with many two-legged monkeys every day and we believe the time will come when many Ladies will marry monkeys instead of men for they will be able to cover up their dirt and fool the monkeys much easier than they can fool some of the men. Ross C. Hall, Esq., candidate for the State Senate in the twenty-third district, resides at Oak Park, and for many years Mr. Hall has given employment to a female member of the Afro-American race. At the present time Miss Lulu Woods is employed by Mr. and Mrs. Hall, and Miss Woods will endeavor to get all the Afro-Americans residing in Oak Park to vote for Mr. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Coppage, 338 Swan St., are the happy and proud parents of a brand new bouncing baby boy. Mr. Charles A. Plamondon, James F. Bowers, Rev. George D. Heldmann, and John W. Low, will continue to serve as members of the Library Board. Ex-Alderman Wm. F. Brennan, was on Monday night appointed by Mayor Harrison, and confirmed by the City Council Deputy Commissioner of Public Works. Rev, Longreen Murray, what was the name of that good looking lady that you assisted on the cars at 28th and State streets Saturday night at half-past one o'clock? What has become of M. C. McDonald, the ex-boss gambler of Chicago? Has Col. Mike gone into his hole and pulled his hole in after him, or is he sporting with Old Ham Carter? Mr. John Hogan, the only son of Mayor and Mrs. D. J. Hogan, Geneva, Ill., who is a student at Harvard, is home on his vacation. Mr. Hogan is clean cut, is quite sensible and he has a bright future before him. Mayor D. J. Hogan, Geneva, Ill. "The Broad Ax is all right; it has become a fixture in our home and my wife and daughter always read its contents with much interest and I am sure it is doing good work for Democracy." Mrs. Thomas Motley, 2406 Wabash avenue, is a very warm friend of The Broad Ax, and she is of the opinion that it is accomplishing much good among all the people. Mrs. Motley is a strict tight-laced Presbyterian but she can stand The Broad Ax. Thomas Brenan, George W. Claussenius, C. A. Marks, D. R. Cameron, Joseph Stolz, Dr. W. A. Kuflewski, and George J. Thompson, were re-selected as members of the Board of Education by Mayor Harrison; Christian Meier. was chosen as Civil service commissioner. The Star of Zion, which is published at Charlotte, N. C., was destroyed by fire last week. The Star of Zion is a good paper and is extensively read and Mr. J. M. Hill, its business manager, states that it will rise from its ashes in a few weeks greater and better than ever. Mrs. Emeline Hall, mother of Dr. George C. Hall, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Smith, 6213 Morgan street, last Friday morning at 8 a. m. The funeral service were held Sunday morning, Revs. Harris and Jackson officiating. Interment was at Mt. Greenwood cemetery. Rev. Jasper Fake Thomas, says 'he intends to give us a slugging for referring to his second wife Sally,' and Rev. Jasper and old Ham Carter, who both love their 'whisky and women, have now joined hands and they claim that they will send us to the penetentiary within the next ten days. Edward M. Lahiff, who got into a fight in 1900 with several of the delegates to the senatorial convention which was held at 145 Randolph St., has a mighty slim chance of being elected clerk of the Appellate court, and if any self-respecting Negro votes for Ed. M. Lahiff, he should be sent to prison or the insane asylum. Rev. G. A. Sissle and wife, Indianapolis, Ind., are visiting with Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, 4764 Armour avenue. Rev. Sissle is Presiding Elder over the Indiana district of the M. E. church, and Mrs. Sissle is one of the able teachers in the public schools of Indianapolis. They are both greatly enjoying their visit to this the windy city. The Enterprise, Omaha, Neb., is lamenting over the fact that the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress closed up shop, and that every bill which was intended to benefit the Negro was either killed or shelved by it. It also says "Shame upon such men who call themselves Republicans and expect the support of all Negroes in the North-west." That is the old song by such servile papers as The NO. 38. Enterprise between elections but just as soon as the Republican band begins to play The Enterprise will cuss and damn all Negroes who fail to sohut for the G. O. Lily-white party. Dan Morgan Smith, Jr., Democratic candidate for Congress, Third Congressional District, is making many new friends every day among Republicans who have promised to work and vote for him, and Mr. Smith who has always been friendly to the Afro-Americans, is winning many of them who reside in his district, over to his side of the fence. "The Negro is utterly incapable of comprehending our system of government," writes Bolton Smith, a Northern man residing in Tennessee, in a pamphlet advocating the repeal of the Fifteenth amendment. Mr. Smith thereupon demonstrates, unconsciously, however, that at least one white man is in the same predicament.—The Public, Chicago. Gov. Richard Yates decided last week not to permit the Eighth Regiment to become a part of any brigade. The action of Gov. Yates in this respect ought to cause all the members of the Eighth Regiment to throw their caps high up in the air and exclaim: "Long live Dicky-bird or Dicky-boy Yates, the little-big Republican of the great state of Illinois. One year ago an effort was made to induce Mayor Carter H. Harrison, to select a worthy Afro-American, as a member of the board of education or the Library board, but his honor, for some cause or other failed to give the matter the slightest consideration while on the other hand he appoints representatives of all the other nationalities as members of these two boards except the Chinaman, and the Negro. The 'cinch head" Negro preacher, paraphernalaled in his musty, threadbare clerical suit of overcoat material, with his sweat stained celuloid cuffs and collar of '89 model, who is now disturbing the serenity of the industrious farmer by his Sunday and Wednesday night "pintments" in which he howls himself hoarse in showing (?) "my race how to live," when in fact the least progressive member of the congregation is 50 per cent ahead of him in all the elements of a true citizen, should be allowed to pass on. Such parties, to say the least, are generally hot air generators.—Ex. If you will fall in love look before you leap. It isn't every Panama hat that is paid for. Simon Sam has arrived at Paris and will now proceed to blow it in. Compared with Nurse Jane Toppan, Sairey Gamp was a ministering angel. Kipling will do. A man who, single handed can stand off a mob has the real stuff in him. "As girls grow older they think less of love and more of money," says the "Pointed Paragrapher" of the Chicago News. Good sign. Perhaps this "higher education" is doing something for the girls, after all. A French army officer has perfected a device which suppresses the flash, sound and smoke of a rifle or cannon. Now if he will go a step farther and suppress the bullet and shell he will do the world a real service. Emperor William says that when a German can look into the eyes of the empress he ought to have inspiration enough to last him a lifetime. How nice it must be for her if the emperor talks like that when company is not present. Some eighty French soldiers are alleged to have deserted to the Chinese during the recent campaign in the far East. Some were made officers in the Chinese army, but returned later to their regiment, and were let off with nominal punishments. The Chinese are commonly supposed to be peace-loving and harmless. The Zeitschrift fur Missionskunde, however, declares that China is the greatest warlike nation in Asia, and that they are in warfare worse than the Huns. Will presupplate and at all times uphold the principles of Democracy, but Farmers' Union, Protestants, Knights of Labor, British Mormons, Republicans, Friends, or any other can have their say, no less so their language in proper and responsibility in fixed. The Brand Ax is a downspur whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the attitudinal right to speak its own mind. Sue Jory.....$1.95 Melissa.....1.95 A writing union made known on application, did not all communications to THE BROAD AX, 10040 ARMOUR AVENUE, OXFORD. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Portugal won't let Britain have Mozambique, unless Britain takes it. The shak of Perseia still refuses to look pleasant in any of his portraitz. Love letters are writs of attachment, and there is no dodging the service. Why should there be any flurry in financial circles? Pierp. is still able to be up and around. Speaking of an army, King Wheat calls for 10,000 harvester recruits in Kansas and Nebraska. A season of protracted drought is reminding the Texas people of Gen. Sherman's opinion of war. The breaking of college ties is sad, but not half so melancholy as the counting of subsequent ties. What, asks the college boy, is the good of co-education if the girls are going to take it over in the next block? One of the latest and most sensible fads in New York this season is the throwing of stones at automobile racers. It is feared that one result of the Ruhlin-Sharkey fight will be to bring the Hon. Jim Corbett before the public again. Brooklyn advertises a "reliable bug exterminator," which may be of use to any one who wants to exterminate reliable bugs. Mr. Bull understands himself to be the victor, but he will have to put his South African farm in order at his own expense. King Alfonso needs a guardian worse than ever, for he will probably fall in love with some nice lady aged about 45 years. After facing the perils of a mob Rudyard Kipling no doubt wonders how Poet Laureate Austin has managed to escape so long. By the time man has the forests thoroughly subdued he will have found, doubtless, some way of getting along without wood. Kansas farmers are dragging tramps from freight trains and compelling them to work in the harvest fields. It is such acts as this that make freedom shriek. Bicycling is said to be a craze again in the East. It must be unsatisfactory sport, though, for enthusiasts who have been running their automobiles over people. Herr Most has sounded the deathknell of a free press in America. It is certain that he will not take any more liberties with it for the next twelve months. Joseph Chamberlain and the colonial premiers are having some trouble in whittling out a zollverein for King Edward's empire. They might try getting up a turnverein. The woman who has petitioned for a divorce on the ground that her husband expected her to embrace the "new thought" and see ghosts ought to have her freedom. A Pueblo Indian whipped his wife, was promptly castigated by his mother-in-law and in his mortification committed suicide. There is no use in trying to civilize an Indian. A theater treasurer has nearly died from erysipelas contracted in handling money. There are probably, however, more cases of grip than erysipelas in handling money. King Alfonso of Spain is hunting for a wife. Any good-looking princess who begins to get boxes of chocolate and cut flowers from Madrid should understand what they mean. It is reported that William Waldorf Astor is going to give his daughter $20,000,000 when she gets married. William Waldorf must think that is about the price of a good, serviceable duke. "As girls grow older they think less of love and more of money," says the "Pointed Paragrapher" of the Chicago News. Good sign. Perhaps this "higher education" is doing something for the girls, after all. A French army officer has perfected a device which suppresses the flash, sound and smoke of a rifle or cannon. Now if he will go a step further and suppress the bullet and shell he will do the world a real service. BLOODHOUNDS NOT FERODIOUS English Animals of Pure Blood Are Harmless Creatures. The idea that the English bloodhound is a savage and particularly ferocious animal is a very common error, in no small part due, perhaps, to the bloodthirsty stories most of us have read in "Uncle Tom'a Cabin." The hounds mentioned by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, however, as used in the southern states, were crossbred animals and related to the Cuban hound, with a blending of mastiff, bulldog and hound blood, and were quite savage and have little, if any resemblance to the English specimen. These dogs were first known in the West Indies in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when a number were imported, probably from Spain, for the purpose of suppressing the Maroon insurrection, but the natives were so inspired with terror at first sight of the animals that it was found unnecessary to make use of them. Until some fifty years ago bloodhounds were often used in England for tracking sheep stealers, and also by keepers and herders in all the large forests where poachers gave trouble. Some idea may be had of the value of these dogs in such a cause when I say that they have been known in England to follow their quarry across water. There are many theories regarding how the scent is carried on the water, says a writer in Outing, but the one most generally accepted is that it is held in the bubbles which remain on the surface of the water after the swimmer or wader has passed. ROUSED EDISON'S ANGER. What Turned the Inventor's Mind Toward Incandescent Light. It was anger, said Thomas A. Edison to a friend recently, that first impelled him toward the invention of the incandescent light. It was in his earlier days, when Edison was the inventor we read about—poor, enthusiastic, never sleeping. He occupied a mere hovel with his apparatus. All his money went for his experiments. Suddenly, one day he faced a crisis with the gas collector. The man nad been to the house often, but Edison, hardly heeding his business, waved him away, saying: "Don't bother me." But the last call of the collector came. His instruction was peremptory. He must turn off the gas. "But, man," said Edison, "I can't quit this experiment to-night. I'll pay the bill. I'll telephone to the office—anything. I must finish this work to-night." The man was a gas collector. The lights went out. "That night, as I sat in the darkness," said the inventor, "I swore I would make an electric light that would ruin the gas companies." AN EMBARRASSING ERROR. Arrogant Guest Sought to Patronize "Lion" of the Evening. No other anecdote concerning the late Paul Leicester Ford shows better his innate courtesy and self-possession than the following: It was at a literary reception in Brooklyn. A number of "ilions" of greater or less magnitude were there, among them a clergyman whose somewhat arrogant manner made him unduly conspicuous. As he came forward, blinking near-sightedly, to greet his hostess, he noticed a short, slight figure standing at her side. Without looking more closely at this second person, whom he supposed to be one of the boys of the neighborhood, the clergyman slapped him familiarly on the shoulder, crying: "Well, and how are you, my little man?" "Very well, thank you," replied the other, politely, amid a general gasp from those around them. "Fine lad! Who is he?" queried the clergyman, turning to his hostess. "It is Mr. Paul Leicester Ford, the guest of honor this evening," she answered. The long drought in Queensland is still causing immense loss to farmers, and the cattle for want of water and grass are dying off in their thousands. The number of sheep has dropped from 22,000,000 to 9,000,000, and that of cattle from between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 to 4,000,000. There is at present a large demand for frozen meat in Pretoria, Kimberley and Capetown, but Queensland is unable to meet the demands. The effect of the drought must also be felt in England; since the price of frozen meat will go up. Inquiries at the Queensland government agency showed that this is the most serious drought since the colony was established. The cost to the farmers can only be estimated as "millions and millions of pounds." It has thrown the country fifteen years back, and practically everything is at a standstill. There is no gold prospecting, and business in the town is stagnant, since the shopkeepers draw their custom from the squatters, who have sustained the chief losses. H. H. Fry is a candidate for county treasurer of Berks county, Pennsylvania, and premises in event of his election to supply the hospitals of Reading with potatoes free of charge during his term of office. He has also made a bet with a friend by the terms of which he is bound to do the same thing if defeated. So that, come victory or defeat to Candidate Fry, the hospitals will have free potatoes for three years now. New Flag Is to Float Over President's Ship (Special Letter.) THE GREAT SEAL. of vulgarity astonishing enough in the representative of the most ancient royal house in Europe. His widely opened eyes were almost fierce in their expression and his manners were brusque almost to rudeness. He cared nothing for letters, nothing for art; music bored him; and he used to say with a laugh that he had rather any day look at a sewing machine than at the finest work of Benvenuto Cellini. His son has the clear-cut features of his aristocratic house, with a soft, almost dreamy look in the beautiful eyes belied by the strong lines of lips and chin. He is short of stature and slender of build, but there is no hint of weakness either of body or mind about him. "I was on the Paris when she ran on the rocks off the English coast, a couple of years ago," said a Philadelphia traveling man yesterday, "and in the panic that ensued there is an incident that stands out in my memory, illustrating the slender thread between the tragic and the ridiculous. We had a fellow on board who had managed to keep pretty well loaded all the way across and when we struck the rocks he was in his usual condition. When everybody thought for sure we were going to the bottom, he sat down at the piano in the saloon, and what do you suppose he began playing? 'Home, Sweet Home.' Somebody went to him and begged him to stop. Immediately he switched off from the doleful strains of the old song to the rollicking melody of 'Down Went McGinty.' The absurdity of the thing seemed to strike everybody at once, and a general laugh followed. The tension was relieved, and there was good order after that."—Philadelphia Record. The widow of the late President is now living at Canton. Mrs. McKinley is, it is stated, now in good health; better, in fact, than she has been for many years past. She is strong enough to sign all cheques, writes autograph letters and transacts a considerable amount of business. Formerly she was unable to attend to any of these matters. The terrible ordeal through which she passed during her serious illness in California, and at the time of the assassination and death of her husband, it is said, had the peculiar effect of restoring her nervous system to something like its normal condition. New York's Pulp Mills. The average daily output of the New York State pulp mills is 2,000 tons, or nearly half the total American production. HEN next the President of the United States steps aboard a vessel, be it steam launch or man-o'-war, pleasure boat or troop ship, there will float from the must a new flag. Not all new, but so changed that many who have for nearly forty years been familiar with the President's banner will question the ownership of this fine new one which to-day hangs in an office in the navy department, not quite finished. The design on the flag is not changed excepting the "crest." It really isn't a crest at all, according to heraldry technicalities. The sunburst above the eagle's head in the American coat-of-arms had to have a title, and so "crest" is its signification. But the colors are changed, and, many believe, much for the better. The President's flag, in plain "United States," is the coat-of-arms of the United States on a blue field. The seal or coat of arms of the United States was adopted by the continental congress June 20, 1782. There was a long discussion over the design, and many of the eminent statesmen of the day presented their ideas of what should figure upon the seal. Finally "Dr. Franklin, Mr. John Adams and Mr. Thomas Jefferson" were appointed a committee to prepare a device for a great seal for the "United States of America." So many designs of merit were submitted that the committee authorized Jefferson to combine the various ideas in one design, which he tried to do, and on August 10, 1776, presented this compact seal to the congress. Congress laid it on the table, and it is there yet. May 17, 1777, the committee reported another design, which looked like a cracked Chinese plate on one side and the body of the scrub brush on the other. This is also on the table where it was placed 123 years ago. For three years longer the committee permitted the United States to get along without a seal. (Obverse.) Then a new committee was appointed, consisting of Henry Middleton, Elias Boudinot and Edward Rutledge, who, in April, 1782, undertook to provide a design. They copied the old ideas, and the design submitted by them May 9, 1782, lies on the table with the others. Congress then referred the matter of a seal to its secretary, Charles Thompson, who got a Mr. William Barton of Philadelphia to help him design a seal. Its insignificance was complicated, and it followed the others on to the pile of tabled devices. Mr. Barton of Philadelphia then produced another design, which is much like the one finally adopted, but it escutcheon, a glory, or, breaking did not suit congress. Messrs. Middleton, Boudinot and Rutledge in some way appeared as a committee again June 13, 1782, and reported Mr. Barton's device with some modification. It was referred to the secretary of the United States, and June 28, 1782, the secretary of congress, to whom was referred the several reports of committees on the device of a great seal, reported the following, which was adopted, and is the same to-day First President's Flag. that it was a century and nearly a quarter ago: "Arms—Paleways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a chief, azure, the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, 'E Pluribus Unum.' "For the crest—Over the head of the eagle, which appears above the through a cloud, proper, and surrounding thirteen stars, forming a constellation, argent, on an azure field. "Reverse—A pyramid unfinished. "In the zenith, an eye in a triangle surrounded with a glory proper. Over the eye these words, 'Annuit coeptis.' On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters, MDCULXXVI, and underneath the following motto: 'Novus ordo Seclorum.'" The eagle of the design adopted by the congress of 1782 is of the lean and hungry type, modeled after strict heraldic ideas, doubtless, but the proud bird of freedom which soars at the main royal to-day when the President takes to the water looks well fed and prosperous, while its "sierce gray eye and bending beak" are nothing like as rapaciously and revenously depicted as in days of old. The President's flag is a century-old institution, and has practically been in existence ever since there has been a nation. Some ten years ago, when the late President Harrison went up the Atlantic coast on the Dolphin, with the "President's flag" flying at the main, the writers for certain newspapers severely criticised the over a century old custom they had never before observed, probably because latter-day Presidents, up to Harrison's time, had gone boating but lit President's Flag With New Grest. President's Flag With New Great tle, yet it had been the custom up to 1865 for the blue field of the flag, known as the Union Jack, to be placed on the main when the President was aboard the ship, and all other flags were struck till the President left the vessel. Congress has never legislated on the President's flag. It was established arbitrarily by the Secretary of the Navy, and presumably the changes made in the device upon the always blue field have been made at the suggestion of the President. The President's flag is used only at sea, and the last time it was used was on a recent visit to Annapolis. Victor Emanuel and His Fathen. Victor Emanuel III. of Italy is curiously the reverse of all that his father was. Humbert was a very ugly man; his irregular features possessed a sort ANUWIP EUPTIS MOE CURVE ROVUS ORDO SECLORIS Relieved the Tension. Women of the Flowery Kingdom Who Rule Their Conjugal Partners Depravity of the Young of the Human Race Diamond Merchants to Send an Expedition to the West Indies "Chinese humorous literature abounds with reference to henpecked husbands," said Prof. Herbert Allen Giles, of the University of Cambridge, in the closing lecture of his course at Columbia University. Then he went on to tell a sample story culled from this branch of Chinese literature. "Ten henpecked husbands resolved to form a society to resist the impositions of their wives," he said. "The ten wives heard of the plan, and while the meeting for organization was in progress entered in a body. Nine of the rebellious husbands incontinently bolted, but the tenth one retained his place, quite unmoved by the frightful apparition. The ten ladies, merely smiling contemptuously on the one man left behind, returned to their homes satisfied with the success of their raid. The nine husbands thereupon returned and resolved to make the heroic tenth the president of the society. When they went, however, to inform him of the honor it was found that he had died of fright. "Women have a few privileges that men have not," continued Prof. Giles. "They are exempt from the bamboo punishment; no woman can be bam- Depravity of the of A fond father says that nowhere is there to be found as well-developed a brand of natural depravity as that which animates a 6-months-old infant, and he tells this story in confirmation of his opinion: The other evening he was left alone with his tiny son and heir. The youngster's mother went to the theater. His aunt went out also, and so did his nurse, and the man was left in full possession of the field. About 7 o'clock, with sublime disregard for modern rules, which say babes must be put upon a bed and left to go to sleep by themselves, the father began to rock his child to sleep. And he rocked and crooned and walked steadily from that time until 9. Then, the infant having finally succumbed to "nature's sweet restorer," he arose, and, as if walking on eggs, carried his burden steadily to the bedroom, put it down as gently as possible, and withdrew. Alas! however, in closing the door it squeaked a bit, and Mr. Baby was as wide awake as LOOK FOR PRE Diamond Merchants to the West The latest London mall advices convey the information that De Beers are about to send an expedition to the scene of the recent volcanic disturbances in the West Indies to look for diamonds. It is recalled that a few years ago, some large octahedron crystals were found in Barbados which were later identified as white spinels, which are frequently unearthed where diamonds are, although by themselves, and even when colored, are often very valuable. The French crown jewels contain a spinel ruby of $56\%$ carats, and another which was valued at 50,000f. in 1791, one of 4 2-5 carats and another of $3\%$ carats, being each valued at 300f. Small spinels fetch from 6f. to 13f. per carat; specimen stones fetch WHY THEY AROSE EARLY. Explanation of the Action of a Brace of College Presidents. Something more than a year ago the last meeting was held in Washington of the committee on national university, a project which found its conclusion in the Carnegie institution. It so happened that quite a number of membeers of that committee left this city on the same train. Among these were President Elliot of Harvard, President Draper of the State University of Illinois, Prof. (now president) Butler of Columbia, and Dr. Canfield, now librarian of Columbia, and one-time president of the State University of Nebraska. In the morning President Draper and Dr. Canfield were the first of the party to rise. They were dressed and sitting in the smoker of the sleeper, reading the morning papers, when Prof. Butler came straggling in to complete his toilet. Close upon his heels was President Elliot. Prof. Butler began a good-natured tirade upon the two gentlemen who had preceded him for their unreasonably early rising. Presently Elliot raised his face from the bowl and with his eyes shut and the water running down, protested: "You ought not to find fault with Draper and Canfield for their early rising, Butler. They have been presidents of agricultural colleges so lov that they still think they must get up and milk!" And the two early birds laughed as long and as loud as the others.—New York Times. Parisian theater managers have resolved for the future not to admit dramatic critics to dress rehearsals. booed. And a woman is a source of anxiety and misgiving to magistrate and counsel in any case in which she may be a party, for no Chinaman will enter into an argument with a woman—not from any feeling of chivalry at all, but from a rooted conviction that he will get the worst of it." Prof. Giles continued to reveal masculine secrets by describing something which he said really took place at a dinner at which a number of high-class natives and important foreigners were present. The host, addressing himself to the latter, inquired: "Do you fear the inner ones?" Upon inquiry he explained that he meant their wives, and added, with unconscious pathos, that many Chinamen stood in constant fear of their wives. "Now, for example, he does," said the host, naively, pointing to a solemn and rotund magistrate, who had impressed everyone as filled with a sense of his own importance. At this all the Europeans present burst into uncontrollable laughter, which rather surprised the Chinaman, who had been seeking to acquire information on what they thought were serious matters.—New York Tribune Young the Human Race ever, and he remained as chirpy as a 17-year locust until his mother came home at 11. Next evening—and here's where the depravity comes in—mother was home and aunty and all the rest of the family; so Mr. Baby went off so sleep at 6 o'clock as usual. At 8 he rell out of bed with a dull thud that went to the maternal heart like a dagger. But he didn't even stir. His fond parents picked him up and carried him to the light, fearing all sorts of things, and then, and not until then, did the youngster open his eyes and smile a cherubic smile into the anxious faces bending over him. Then he went off to sleep again, none the worse for his accident. "But why," asked the bewildered man, "why will a baby who is aroused by the slightest creaking of a door one night, when his mother isn't home fail to even wake when he falls out of bed the next?" And it is a problem, now, isn't it?—Baltimore News. ECIOUS STONES to Send an Expedition to best Indies even more. A stone that a New Guiana gold prospector recently exchanged for a bottle of saccharine pellets was sold in Sydney, N. S. W., for $300. A peculiarity of the spinel is that, no matter what be the color of the stone, the light which is reflected from the depth of the gem is always a pale yellow. A blue spinel has been consigned as a sapphire, and was returned to the consignor, who had it cut and received more for it than it would have made had it really been a sapphire. A spinel collected by Dr. Heron is said to weigh forty-nine pounds. When spinel crystals are very fine they are considered gems, and De Beers think, having been found in large quantities in St. Lucia, it is not unlikely that they will be found in Martinique and St. Vincent. WHIM OF QUEEN VICTORIA. She Didn't Want Any Advice from Her Private Secretary. The queen's interest in and oversight of public affairs did not cease with the prince's death, although, in the first years of overwleming sorrow, it must have been difficult to carry out her conception of duty. All important resolutions were taken by her; the personal notes in the "court circular" were written by her own hand, and were seen by no one else. When Sir Henry Ponsonby became the queen's private secretary, she said to him: "Remember this: No advice! I am older than you are and have had more experience." In after years historians will have much to say upon the queen's personal share in the government of her dominions. All her papers have been most carefully preserved and arranged, and some day perhaps will be accessible to the inquirer. On the other hand, there is not a single paper belonging to George III. which is known to be in existence.—Prof. Oscar Browning in Century. Bridge Builders at Fault What a pity it is that the designers of some of the bridges over the Harlem river did not study carefully the best things in the noblest arches above the Tiber and the Po, the canals of Venice, the currents of the Danube and the Rhone, the Seine and the Thames. What room there was for grand achievements and how many regrettable disappointments are now conspicuous—New York Tribune. Chicago has 15,000 members of the Masonic order. WIFE'S GRAND PLAN OF REFORMATION A FAILURE. Unfortunate Call of Her Fellow Members of St. Cynthia's Guild Upset Well-Laid Plans—And the Brute Laughed. The Capitol Hill young woman whose steel-jawed mother had so often told her that the only way to plank a husband was to nail him to a board and simmer him before a slow fire right from the jump, got after her husband on the cigarette smoking question about a month ago. They'd then been married about two months. "You promised me that you'd give up the horrid things—that you'd give up smoking altogether, in fact, after the excitement of getting married was ever." "Did I?" he inquired, yawning cavernously and lighting a fresh one. "Well, I must have been smoking when I said that." "But that was one of the conditions of my mairying you," she said, looking so much like her steel-jawed mother as she said it that her husband suffered a slight chill and pulled down the open windows. "Um—maybe so," he responded, puffing away comfortably. "But we're married now, you know, and—er—what's the use of chasing a street car after you've caught it, so to speak?" "Then you don't intend to stop smoking those awful cigarettes?" she interrupted in a hard tone. "Maybe I'll think it over after they stop making 'em," was his reply. "Vairy well, then—vairy well," said she, suddenly closing up like a patent trousers stretcher. Her mother had also taught her that a married woman has a heavenborn right to do any old thing that her husband does, and she was foolish enough to believe the same. "Once more, vairy well," she mused, sullenly. "I'll just see how he will like a No. 2 cigarette smoker in his family. Poor, dear, abused mamma's teachings shall not go in vain. I'll just turn the tables on him and get him where I want him by smoking cigarettes myself, so I will." Wherefore, when her husband had departed for the office on the next day, she fared forth and purchased a little package of the paper-swaddled Turkish smokettes. "Now, when he rings the bell," she said to herself—he had to ring to get in for the reason that she didn't allow him a latchkey, fearing that he might go out alone some evening and remain until a quarter past eight—"I'll just go to the door puffing one of these things, and I'll be just as bold and brazen as I can be, and blow the smoke in his face, and that'll be such a lesson to him that he'll never smoke another one of them as long as he—" "Whang!" went the front doorbell, and she hastily touched a match to her second cigarette. "There he is now!" she said to herself, and, with the cigarette stuck jauntily between her teeth and a a ba-ad, I-dare-you-to-slap-me-on-the-wrist expression in her eyes, she yanked the vestibule door wide open. Then the four spinster members of St. Cynthia's Gulld, who had called around to confer with her about ice machines and flannelette nighties for the Zulus, took one long, frozen look at their fellow-member as she paralyzedly, automatically and helplessly puffed cigarette smoke in their faces. Then, with four individual sniffs and a quartet of outraged tossings of the head, they marched down the front steps without a word. The young woman's husband entered the front gate just as they were coming out, and they never noticed him. He didn't understand until he entered the still open vestibuled door, and found his wife sitting, horror-struck, on the edge of a hall tabourette, with the still burning cigarette in her hand. Then the brute sat right down on the floor and howled. He had a howl coming, at that; but she couldn't see it, and she blamed the whole thing on him. She doesn't belong to St. Cynthia's Guild any more now, and he's still smoking 'em. Missed One of Them. Dr. Abraham Jacobi of the College of Physicians and Surgeons believes that too many young doctors are let loose upon an unsuspecting public without giving due study to the diseases of children, says the New York Times. Now, pediatrics is Dr. Jacobi's specialty, and in that connection he sometimes tells this story: A friend entered the office of a young physician and said that he had just been delayed by two funerals. "And whose funerals were they?" asked the physician. "They were those of the patients you saw yesterday," replied the friend, "That can hardly be," said the young doctor. "You remember, I had three patients yesterday." Building a Balloon in Cuba A new railroad under construction in Cuba by American and Canadian capitalists has been graded, for seventy-four miles out of Santiago and the track is laid for thirty-five miles. The right of way has to be purchased, as no concessions can be obtained by corporations in Cuba at present. Five thousand men are engaged on the work. Track layers receive $1.50 a day and graders $1, American money. Thus far the road has penetrated a sugar-raising country, with rich, black "gumbo soil." Ties are obtained in the united States and shipped by way of New Orleans and Mobile. WORTHY OF J. P. MORGAN. Boy Exhibits Qualities Which Stamp Him as a Coming Financier. He was only a small boy, but in the eight years of his existence he'd learned to be terribly mean. "I'll give you this nice big apple," he said one day to a pretty little damsel of his own age, "if you'll let me kiss you twenty times with your eyes shut." She was a shy and modest little girl, but the apple was a temptation, and she succumbed. "Mind," said the boy, "if you open your eyes you don't get the apple." The apple-bought maiden closed her eyes. "Smack! That's one," said the boy. An interval followed. "Smack!" Another interval. "Smack!" "Willie is making them last out," thought the girl. At last the twentieth kiss was given. "That's twenty; may I open my eyes, Willie?" asked the little lady. "I'm not Willie," replied the boy who'd just given her a full-sized smack. "Willie's down the street, selling your kisses at two apples a time. You'd best not open your eyes yet, as he's taken in a heap of apples and the next six boys are awful ugly." Saved the Daby. New Providence, Iowa, July 7th.—Little Helen Moon, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Moon of this place, had a narrow escape from death. Her mother noticed she seemed to be very clumsy and complained when she was rocked. Her limbs and face were bloated badly. A doctor was summoned but she got no better. He said she had Kidney Trouble in the worst form. Two other doctors were called in and they agreed that there was very little, if any, hope. She was bloated all over, her eyes being completely closed and her abdomen bloated until it was purple. They bought six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and she commenced to improve at once. She had used nine boxes before the Dropsy was all gone. The treatment was continued and now she is as well as ever. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved the little one's life. Concerning the Number Seven. Numerous are the queer beliefs concerning the number seven, says the St. James Gazette. From the very earliest ages the seven great planets were known and ruled this world, and the dwellers in it, and their number entered into every conceivable matter that concerned man. There are seven days in the week, "seven holes in the head, for the master stars are seven," seven ages for both man and the world in which he lives. There are seven material heavens. There are seven colors in the spectrum, and seven notes in the diatonic octave, and the "leading" note of the scale is the seventh. Be it noted that the seventh son is not always gifted with beneficent powers. In Portugal he is believed to be subject to the powers of darkness and to be compelled every Saturday evening to assume the likeness of an ass. Homeseekers Tickets to the West. Homeseekers can buy excursion-tickets via the Great Northern Railway to points in Manitoba, Montana, Washington and the West, at about one fare for the round trip, on first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October. Tickets and information from all Railway Ticket Agents, or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul. Essay on Animals. Congressman Lacey of Iowa has contributed to the Congressional Record an essay in which he says: "The buffalo was the noblest of all the wild animals that inhabited this country when America was discovered. He was a gentleman among beasts, just as the game hog is a beast among gentlemen." White States. It is the opinion of a German oculist that the use of ordinary slates by school children tends to produce short-sightedness. As a substitute he recommends pen and ink, or an artificial white slate with black pencil. The latter have been introduced in some of the German schools. Homeseekers' Excursions. Great Northern Railway sells home-seekers' tickets, St. Paul or Minneapolis, to all points West, including Montana and Washington, on the first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October, 1902. Rate, one fare for the round trip. Information from all ticket agents, or F. L. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul. DELIGHTFUL EASTERN TRIPS. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. has just issued a new summer book, "Lake Shore Tours," showing a selected list of eastern resorts, with routes and rates. Copy will be sent on application to C. F. Daly, Chief A. G. P. A., Chicago. The average person who picks up a railroad time folder does not realize the enormous amount of work which the preparation of such a publication involves. The big Burlington System, for instance, has a general time folder made up from sixteen different division operating time tables. The folder contains 2,000 names of towns, gives the schedules of over 500 trains, and whenever there is a change in time, sixty thousand figures have to be carefully checked and corrected. Stockholm has practically one telephone for every ten inhabitants. Too Energetic with His Pen. There used to be a picturesque North Carolina mountaineer named Wiley Shock, in the capitol, says the Washington Post. He was a doorkeeper, or something of the kind, and his quaint sayings and his blue shirt made him quite famous. One day he wrote a long letter to a newspaper, in which he scored President McKinley rather severely on the civil service question. The letter was so clever that it attracted wide attention. "Who is Wiley Shook?" asked the president, speaking to Senator Pritchard. "He is a constituent of mine who works at the capitol," said the senator. "Well," said the president, "if any friend of mine attacked you, I wouldn't keep him near me." Senator Pritchard needed no further hint and Shook was literally shaken. He went back to North Carolina, where he became a deputy collector. He is now in trouble again, for he has written a letter personally attacking Senator Simmons, and the latter has demanded his scalp. Mr. Shook seems to be entirely too energetic with his pen. Studio in a Tree Trunk In Golden Gate park, in San Francisco, Cal., is the trunk of a gigantic tree, which is being put into the very odd use of a sculptor's studio. It offers plenty of room for stands, models, mounds of clay, and spectators, for the immense tree butt has been hollowed out till it forms a room a little over thirty-five feet across. The outside diameter of the trunk is thirty-eight feet nine inches. When standing in its native glory the tree was over 325 feet high. Its trunk is now a relic of the big Midwinter fair, held in Golden Gate park in 1893. Round Trip Homeseekers' Excursions to the West. The Great Northern Railway sells homeseekers' tickets to Manitoba, Montana, Washington and all points in the West, on first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October, at rate of about one fare for the round trip. Information from all ticket agents, or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul. Heat From Cold Water Heat from cold water seems fabulous, but it is an established fact. The water is decomposed by electricity into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. When these gases are reunited the act of combination causes the evolution of intense heat. The well-known limelight is an example of this. $20.00 OCEAN TRIP Chicago to New York, through Virginia Mountain and seashore resorts to Norfolk, Va., thence Old Dominion Line steamers. Meals and berths free from Norfolk. Address N. W. P. Agt., Chesapeake & Ohio Ry., 234 Clark St., Chicago, Ill. No Bank Failures in Kansas. 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I cannot thank you enough for my cure." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna is not a guess nor an experiment—it is an absolute scientific certainty. Peruna has no substitutes—no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. A free book written by Dr. Hartman on the subject of catarrh in its different phases and stages, will be sent free to any address by the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Catarrh is a systemic disease curable only by systemic treatment. A remedy that cures catarrh must aim directly at the depressed nerve centers. This is what Peruna does. 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 gratia. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. WHEAT There are but starch. Defiance is the best starch rest. Other starche which work harm rot them and break. Defiance DEFI STA ly pure. 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For particulars address IEDW. RIMERMAN, Paris, Mo. Montana Stockanches are better than Gold Whan. Special bargains, all sizes, write for when you want. JOHN SHORKE, Jr., Melena, Mont. Boys and Girls WATCHES, RINGS, Btn., FREE 200,000 premiums given away last year. Write to day for catalogue. SUPERIOR WASHING BLUE CO., Dept. 1., North Adams, Mass. AGENTS WANTED to sell our Tanker Kalifo Sharp pump. Sample on receipt of 190. Home Supply Co., Ran 184 &, Meriden, Nana MISCELLANEOUS Graphology-Character Reading by J. Kemp. Interpreter of character from hand- writing; four-page reading by mail. 81.00. Ten days required for reading. J. KEMP. 17 West 42d St. New York City. FOR SALE 4,000SMARKS OF VALUABLE STOCK in the BATTLE LAKE TUNNEL SITE MINING COMPANY. This stock is owned by an estate and must be sold to close the estate. V. L. COOK. 1150 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois. Farmers Buy your fence posts direct from the manufacturers and cut out the middleman's profit. Ad. P. McDonnell, 210 South High St. Columbia, Ohio. Ladies! How to obtain a fine Taffeta Silk Under-skirt any color silk, absolutely free to you. NURFOLK SILK CO., 220 Dearborn St. Chicago. ARTIFICIAL PAPER FLOWERS only for immediate shipment. Chrysanthemums. Carnations. American Beauty Roses. Rosewhille. etc., for flower paintings and general decoupage. Catalogue free. Chicago Artificial Flower Co., 322 Nixon Ave., Chicago. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 28, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Blindly Mention This Paper. JM. thi6éinbothan ®testertes -staewanonmnee COmtractor | Ee es a Sermon: eae wilh. 4 Sgt ones e iver ayer. 2 Re ———— Gat been co to the cigarette all ‘aatgh( be forgiven. aafford those juxuries. *Tkia is mo more than right. They “were worth $250,000 to bim. Erysipelas ‘was communicated by a ‘Bank ‘note in Chicago. There is no end to the perils of wealth in band. eileen Andrew Carsegie used to be a tele ‘raph operator, and the wires still chant a very“merry. song in his ears. ‘ng ‘for harvest bands find that an amen »ald with a sboigun helps mat- ters. See ee Russell Sage indignantly denies the ‘truth of the report that he isn’t go ‘ing beck to Wall street to try to get Mr. Carnegie’s present rate ts one Mibrary a day. This is his summer alt; ti winter his pace is materially @ncreased. ‘The Apaches are reported to be Woking fof trouble. As Gen. Funston ‘= near the reservation, thes will prob- ably find it Wt remained for a Cleveland (Ohio) Breacher to declare St. Peter a victim ‘Go the fisherman's traditional vice of @verztatement. ss 7 ©n account of prejudice, Capt. Drey- vas is unable to rent a fiat in Paris. ‘This is carrying ostracism to its most extreme limit. ‘Senator Depew is said to be the ‘most popular American in London. ‘Sven an Englishman can see the point of a Depew joke. A peculiarity of Mr. Carnegie's bene- factions is that be makes all of the favored communities loosen up in the way of annual taxes. ‘The-automobile isn't the only thing ‘that is likely to give one the earache. ‘There are one or two. senators at Washington. for instance. ‘Those English professors who are stadying American mining methods Should bear in mind that selling the stock is the most important process of -all. ‘The .census rises to remark that SR.235,158 are invested in making meedies .and pins. And no one has ever found out what becomes of the product er nos ve me ‘writes a feminine poet, in eet ‘the drum beat. First, how- ever, Jet. us.be sure that the cannon is not doaded. Sebi ciaayeiintnesiee tame And wow the college graduate will proceed to upload a cargo of theory and settle Gown to the practical ques- tion of-earning three seals a day and a@ place to sleep. ‘The bost-rocking idiot added three lives to.bis score 2 Ludington, Mich. ‘Wat is meeded ir to have this fellow look long and eac~estly into the barre! of an “unloaded pistol.” _A teign of terror prevails in Hayti, cand the Venezuelan rebels have just gained a substantial victory. Things seem to be running along in a normal condition Gown that way. Clark of “Montanz, who has lots of hhalr and can eat pastry, is a riche: man than Rockefeller. But they are mean ones who like to make others anhappy. Tt pains a6 to read the story of Mr. ‘eas openly Genounced St. Peter as “a ‘ying old fisherman.” ‘But why this tautology? Why not say “fisherman” mma tet fi-go at that? 4 Now let the Kansas farmers who weed ten thousand men in the harvest Selds follow. the example of one of their number and offer a daughter to ‘the man who docs the most work, and see what the harvest will be. A woman on & New York street car yesterday Sourished a quarter and loudly prociaimed that Ruseell Sage ‘Bad given ber. the money. -The other passengers on the car comsidered her — ‘There can be no doubt about ~ fJenor Villegas, the Filipino sen- fer viacng ‘his oath of allegiance to serve ax a fretclass object lesson to his ‘fellow-islapdéere. + ‘The news that King Alfonso'’s mmother bas advertised for bids for a ‘Gaughier-in-law causes the sad realiza- tion that the youthful ruler of Spain is denied the autocratic flirtation priv- eS Secon seer emai Britain takes it © Phe shah of Persig still refuges to ook pleasant in any of bis portraits. ‘Love letters are writs of attach- ment, and there is no dodging the ser- vice, : ——_———_—_—— ‘Why should there be any flarry in financial circles? Pierp. is still able to be.up and around. Speaking ‘of an army, King Wheat calls for 10,006 harvester recruits in Kansas and Nebraska. A season of protracted drought is reminding the Texas people of Gen. Sherman's opinion of war. The breaking of ties is sad, but met, Maik ew scams as the counting of subsequent ties. ‘What, asks the college boy, is the good of coeducation if the girls are going to take it over in the next Dlock? One of the latest and most sensibje fads in New York this season is the throwing of stones at automobile racers. g It ts feared that one result of the Rublin-Sharkey fight wil! be to bring the Hon. Jim Corbett before the pub- Me again. | Brooklyn advertises a “reliable bug exterminator,” which may be of ase to any one who wants to exterminate re heaagas wane’ Mr. Bull understands himself to be the victor, but he will have to put bis South African farm in order at his Owr expense. King Alfonso needs a guardian worse than ever, for he will probably fall tm love with some nice lady aged about 45 years. After facing the perils of a mob Rudyard Kipling vo doubt wonders how Poet Laureate Austin bas man- aged to escape so long. eee | By the time man has the forests thoroughly subdued be will have found, doubtless, some way of getting In Toledo ping-pong sets have been placed in jury rooms for the use of jurors who find it difficult to agree. Verdicts ought to come quickly now. A Cincinnati court has: decided that yelling in church is a punishable of- fense. How this will affect the female soloist in the choir remains to be seen. Kansas farmers are dragging tramps from freight trains and compelling them to’work in the harvest fields. it is such acts as this that make freedom shriek. 5 . Bicycling is said to be a craze again in the Bast. It must be unsatisfactory sport, though, for enthusiasts who have been running their automobiles over people. Herr Most bas sounded the death- knell of a free press in America. It is certain that he will not take any more liberties with it for the next twelve months. Joseph Chamberlain and the colonial premiers are having some trouble in whittling out a zollverein for King Edward's empire. They might try get- ting ap e turnverein. The woman who has petitioned for a divorce on the ground that her hus- band expected ber to embrace the “new thought” and see ghosts ought to have her freedom. King Alfonso of Spain is bunting for 8 wife. Any good-looking princess who begins to get boxes of chocolate and cut Rowers from Madrid should aun- Gerstand what they mean. (a A theater treasurer has nearly died from erysipelas contracted in hand- Mug money. There are probably, how- ver, more cases of grip than ery- sipelas in handling money. | A Pueblo Indian whipped his wife, was promptly castigated by his motb- -erintay ‘and in his mortification com- mitted suicide. There is no use in trying to civilize an Indian. King Edward eS was sincere when he tHe Boers upon their. bravery. It cost Great Britain 900,000,000 to find out the fighting qualities of the vanquished people. It Is reported that William Waldort Astor is going to give his daughter $20,000,000 when she gets . married. William Waldorf must think that is about the price of a good, serviceable duke. Reeme for Rent. Elegantly furnished rooms for rent with bath and gas at 3232 Webaesh avenue. - ROOMS. FOR RENT. Two comodious micely furnished ‘quire at 2623 Wabash svenue. wm} ovem = - RRMA B TOON ATTORNEYS AT LAW " gurTB 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Ciack and Wathingtoa Sts Telephone, Mala MG CHICAGO. a. D.Gask, - AtomeyarLaw. ond 06 Le Cotte Gt, Suite 625 te Ga. Peiophoss, Mas IT Chiesa. ORR E. OWENS Attorney at Law, Serra 6s: Aswiane Biocx, Be & Clerk Owen, - - CHEICAC® FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW TT “nmteoae — CHICAGO LAWRENCE A. 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