The Broad Ax

OLD HAM CARTER, REVS JASPERFRAUD THOMAS, ANDY CAREY, LONGREEN MURRAY, JAMES GAMBLING MILLER, F. L. BARNETT, THE KENTUCKY ELDER, WARD & CO. PUT TO FLIGHT BY JULIUS F. TAYLOR. VOL. VII. For the past month several of our close friends have endeavored to impress the idea on our mind "that Revs. Jasper Fraud Thomas, Andy Carey, Longreen Murray, Old Ham Carter, James Gambling Miller, who got tangled up in a bolt of silk in Cincinnati, Ohio., the Kentucky Colonel, who attempts to run the Old Church Organ, Ward & Co., were urging Assistant State's Attorney F. L. Barnett, who is a colored man and whose reputation for honest dealing is not the very best, owing to the fact that many poor ignorant people claim that he bested or done them up while he was pretending to secure their pension money for them; to resusrect Old Ham Carter's libel suit against Julius F. Taylor." At first we did not take any stock in these reports for we were loth to believe that F. L. Barnett, who was selected to the position which he holds to look after the interest of the people, and not for the purpose of wasting their time in fooling with whiskey-blots, dead-beats and "graftin preachers. But after these reports continued to come to us we finally decided to employ a detective for the purpose of shadowing the movements of the most prominent conspirators and the first act performed by the detective was to trace Old Ham Cater to the office of Little Ward, who claims to be a colored lawyer or llar; then he tracked Ward over to the North Side and stood near him while he was talking to Barnett about having the case put on the call. Barnett thought it was the right thing to do for he said, "that Old Taylor ought to be yanked up and made an example of for he has no business or right to fight Revs. Thomas, Carey, and Murray for these devines are more than worthy to be cannonized as saints." Barnett also exclaimed loud enough for the detective to hear him that "he had spoken to Mr Deneen about having our case called up which was untrue as we shall prove later on. The next move made by our deteritive was to follow close behind Barnett when he ordered Mr. Atwood to put the case on Judge Horton's callander, which was contrary to the instructions of Mr. Deneen, and when he assertained that the preachers, Old Ham Carter his other things or creatures were working through Barnett in order to take out their revenge on us, he was greetly surprised and astonished. The night of the same day that these scenes were being enacted on the North Side, which was Tuesday, July 8, our detective tramped through the mud and rain out South as far as 49th St. and Armour Ave. and he arrived in front of Rev. Jasper Fraud Thomas' house at eight o'clock. Not many minutes after our detective had hid himself close up by the side of the bedroom window, which is occupied by Elder Thomas and his second wife "Sally," the side-whiskered Col. or Elder who runs the Old Church Organ, ran up the steps all out of breath, and after rushing into the presence of the mighty (?) Elder, the Col. who left his wife in Old Ky., exclaimed: "Thank God, Elder Thomas, we have got old man Taylor at Last! For his case was shook down today and our good old Methodist friend, Judge Horton, will send him to jail." And Elder Thomas was so elated over this good news that he raised his slimy hands heavenward and said: "Amen, thank the Lord on high for I thought: He would answer our prayers." But for some cause or other Mr. Deneen, who has treated us like a gentleman, had our case transferred from Judge Horton's court to Judge Dunne's court who set it for trial Monday, July 21. This did not suit Old Ham and his gang of preachers, gamblers and crooks, so they had the case transferred from Judge Dunne to Judge Smith, as they want to have us tried before a Republican judge, one whom Barnett thinks he can reach or fix. This new move was made by Old Ham and his gang of hell-hounds Tuesday after our chief counsel, Albert B. George had left the city for a few days. At 10 o'clock that same evening, however, our faithful detective called at our humble home to inform us of the new movement of de gang, but Mrs. Taylor would not permit him to enter until after he gave the counter sign; the detective went on to say that "our case, No. 914, would be called up in Judge Smith's court Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock." So on Wednesday morning after sleeping as sound as a silver dollar Tuesday night, we walked into Judge Smith's court at 10 o'clock and shortly after that hour Mr. P. J. Carey, assistant state's attorney, wanted to know if all the witnesses for the state in the Ham Carter libel suit were present. At that moment, Little Ward, who dearly loves his tody, marched in with his little band of witnesses who were bent upon sending us to jail without any further delay; then from that time until 12 o'clock nothing was doing, but in the meantime Barnett, who looks like a hungry wolf, sneaked into court; Rev. Longreen Murray, who resembles a big stall-fed ox, and Elder Jamison Carey, who looks like a blcated white gambler or millionaire, followed suit and these two fat-faced hypocrites occupied seats in the jury box, away from the common herd. Old Ham Carter, Jim Gambling Miller, who beat The Broad Ax out of one dollar, and the others connected with the case formed a lovely dark back ground. Rev. Jasper did not appear in the court room, but we understand that he was around the building awaiting developments. Just as Judge Smith, who is a polished gentleman and who accorded us the greatest consideration, was getting ready to adjourn court for the noon hour, he inquired as to the status of the "Taylor case." At that point, single handed and alone, we stepped up in front of the judge, presented his honor with our card and informed him as to all the facts in the case. Then Assistant State's Attorney Carey stated to the court "that Revs. Carey and Murray were present as witnesses in the Ham Carter libel suit, but as the attorney for the defendant was absent from the city he did not know what to do." Judge Smith did not pay any attention to the two big small preachers, he simply said: "Mr. clerk, please strike case No. 914 from the call." That made Old Ham Carter and his gang of cowards and slaves howling mad. We left the court room while all the dumb boys were fighting and quarreling among themselves, but while we were waiting for the elevator, Rev. Longreen Murray stepped up to us and wanted to know what we had said about him "assisting a lady on the cars at half-past one o'clock at night," we requested fat Longreen to go and read the item for himself and if it was not true to go on to the courts with his troubles. By that time Rev. Slipher Carey strode up to us and shook his fist in our face and declared "that everything which had appeared in The Broad Ax about him was a pack of lies, that if the courts failed to punish us, he would take the law in his own hands and give us a good beating." He also claims that "he would run us out of town." We admonished Rev. Snary to keep cool that the weather was too warm to get so hot in the collar. Then Old Ham, Slim-Jim Miller, Little Ward, Rev. Carey, Longreen Murray and Co. and the writer all piled into the same elevator and Carey showed the "nigger" in him by quarreling with us while the elevator was descending to the second floor, where they alighted for the purpose of calling on Mr. Deneen, and they were all cussing and damning, whooping and hollaring and making more noise than a pack of bloodthirty savages or wild Indians. JAMES C. BLANEY'S SPLENDID WORK AS BOILER INSPECTOR OF CHICAGO. The City Boiler Inspector has just completed its annual inspection of the two hundred fifty-six school houses, containing in all about 1,500 boilers, also all boilers have been inspected in pumping stations, house of correction, John Worthy School, City Hall, electric light plants, intercepting sewers, cribs, isolation hospital and public bath houses, for which certificates of inspection will be duly issued. Mr. Blaney, the chief, has come to the wise conclusion that all city plants should have certificates of inspection as well as the private plants. This is the first time in the history of the department that they have been issued and proper records kept of each plant inspected. Jas. C. Blaney has been at the head of the department on year and has more than doubled the business of his predecessors which turns in a handsome revenue to th city. Mr. Blaney has also installed a few reforms in the department such as compelling manufacturing establishments to notify when and where they have sold boilers, etc. Mr. Blaney is probably the most pleasant city official to come in contact with, always there with a smile and the glad hand for the public, but he finds a little time to spare in the 30th Ward where he is always greeted as a hale fellow well met. NEGRO RUNS RUG FACTORY. J. A. Lomax, Chillicothe, 0., has discovered the secret and to the loyalty of true principles has applied himself In 1878 he began with 35 cents; today he owns a large rug factory, employing daily eight persons, and holds the distinction of being the only person to manufacture the India Oriental Rug in the country. He manufactures awnings, parlor stools, tents, cuts, sews, renovates and lays carpets. His place is equipped with nearly $1,800 worth of machinery. He cwns real estate on 4th and 6th streets. What he has done, others can do if they will begin right and continue. Mr. Lomax is rated between eight and ten thousand dollars.—Ex. Mr Robert J. Roulston, member of the wholesale grocery firm of McNeal, Higgins Co., is one of Chicago's best business men, and although Mr. Roulston has been a life-long Democrat but this fall he intends to support Roy 0. West for member of the Board of Review. P. P. Schlacks, Ex-boller Inspector of the City of Chicago, is now working for the Sargent Steel and Iron Co., 59th and Wallace streets, and he resides at 6116 South Carpenter St., and while calling at his home last Saturday evening we had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Schlacks, and her sister, Mrs. Carroll, who are both friends of this paper. State Chairman John P. Hopkins, and Roger C. Sullivan have gone east with the object of inviting ex-United States Senator David B. Hill, Hon. Richard Olney, ex-Gov. Robert Pattison, and other prominent eastern Democrats to assist in helping to open the campaign in this state. The Broad Ax is truly glad that Messrs. Hopkins and Sullivan and their associates on the State Committee will not invite Old Ben. Tillman, the S. C. Anarchist to speak in Illinois the same as Chairman Watson, Boss Burke, and Uncle James K. Jones did in 1900. Rev. Jasper Faking Thomas, who seemingly is not above stealing pennies from the eyes of the dead, still claims that he "will give us a good beating just as soon as he runs across us." We desire to warn Rev. Jasper Fake not to be too cock-sure about that for it may turn out to be a two-handed game, and if this fighting, grafting preacher continues to make these threats against our life, the first thing he knows we will crack down on him with the law and compel him to furnish a bond to keep the peace for one year and one day. Alderman J. C. Patterson and family, 43 Campbell Park, are summering at South Haven, Mich. Dr. Majors addressed the Sunday Lyceum at St. Marks' Church, 47th and State Sts. last Sunday afternoon. "On Force," his talk, was very instructing. S. A. T. Watkins, assistant prosecuting attorney of Chicago, attended the K. P's. convention held at Danville this week. Don't worry about hell. The place will be so full of gun-powder-gospel preachers and imperial bishops that there will be no room for ordinary sinners.—Ex. Representatives Johnny E. Doyle and E. M. Cummings will have smooth sailing in their respective districts, and they will assist in helping to make laws at Springfield next winter. Col. A D. Gash, Oxford Building, is kept so busy these days with his law business that he will be unable to take his vacation this summer. Col. Gash is one of the many successful lawyers of Chicago. L. A. Newby, George W. Hardy, Rev. J. W. Robinson, Major Tervalon, Col. R. A. Ware and Albert B. George were some of the big Knights who cut a wide swath during the K. P. convention at Danville. Congressman George P. Foster will have no trouble in being re-elected to Congress from the Fourth Congressional District, for during the past four years he has been a faithful servant of the people. Richard E Burke is one of the best and brightest young lawyers in Chicago, and he will be elected to the legislature from the Nineteenth District, and it is predicted that his running mate J. F. Prendergast will also pull through. Wm. H. Weber, the pains-taking secretary and member of the Board of Assessors, is one of the few candidates before the people who feels sure of his re-election. Mr. Weber has in the past stood by the people and they will stand by him next November. Next to Gambling Jackleg Terrell who beat The Broad Ax out of three dollars as subscription to it. Edward W. Tidrington, who is a member of Englewood Lodge 4230, G. U 0. of 0. F., is the greatest or the biggest liar in Chicago. Hon. Rollin B. Organ will be the next president of the Board of Commissioners of Cook county, and Messrs. Flanagan, Engall, Gallagher, Daley, and Thielen will also be elected and they will assist in upholding the hands of Rollin B. Organ. Through the laborious efforts of the Hon. Frederick W. Job. chairman of The State Board of Arbitration, the great strike of the freight handlers of Chicago has been settled satisfactorily to all the parties concerned. Mr. Job is pre-eminently qualified for chairman of the board. It is reported that Jake Harris, head scullion or chamber-maid for Boss Robert E. Burke, who called the writer a s—— of a b—— in front of Justice Everett's court in May, 1901, and who appeared before the Grand Jury for the purpose of assisting Old Ham Carter to get us indited, will shortly be married to Miss Daisy Johnston, 3851 Dearborn street, and it is said that Jake, who is very deceitful, and his new bride will reside on Calumet or Forest avenues. Rev Andy Carey, who was never known to turn his back on a large glass of Kentucky bug-juce, is reported to have said Sunday night in Quinn Chapel that if the members of that church would raise ten thousand dollars he would raise fifteen thousand or leave town. If the members of Old Quinn should decide to raise that amount of money we would advise them not to turn it over to Rev. Andy Carey, for if they did he would light out of this town with the money between the setting and the raising of the sun. THEODORE W. JONES CONTINUES TO TURN THE SEARCH OR THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ON REV. JASPER FRAUDULENT THOMAS OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. A Business Proposition. The officers and members of Olivet Baptist Church of this city have expended a large sum of money in erecting their present house of worship. The location itself is admirable and the building when completed, promises to afford ample room for valuable service to the community. The work, thus far, has not been done without serious interruption, and now the way to the completion of the building under the present administration seems entirely hedged about. Since the desire to finish the church is legitimate and praiseworthy, and the extension of its usefulness desirable for the public good and the pastor alone stands in the way, the question before the people is; should further concessions be made to him or in other words, is it not time that another be called to complete the edifice, and to pour oil upon the troubled water? This is strictly a business proposition, and calls for the best sense and judgment which the church can muster. With a view of solving this problem let us ascertain first what the church has done for Elder Thomas; and, secondly, what Elder Thomas has done for the church. The church has steadily raised his salary, until now he receives the princely sum of $32.50 per week. Probably this is more than double the amount earned by 90 percent of the male membership of the church. When this income seemed threatened by garnishment proceedings the church very obligingly transferred the salary to "Sally," thus making impossible that operation of the law. In order to carry out his wishes the church has extended the time for a business meeting from one to eighteen months and longer; and in addition has practically annulled that provision which gives the deacons the right to call a meeting at any time. When Elder Thomas came to Olivet he found an admirable arrangement by which the treasurer, instead of the preacher, paid all bills incurred by the church. Notwithstanding this he made several radical changes which have been productive of scandals, and rumors of scandals, and the end is not yet. Elder Thomas has publicly declared that his officers must stand by him whether he is right or wrong; and whoever has dared to dissent from this ignoble position has thereafter been of few days and full of trouble. Elder Thomas has been regarded by many as the great I AM. The church has reproved her trustees, deacons and Sabbath-school teachers alike for his sake, practically saying: "Touch not mine annointed, and do my prophet no harm." That this man has so successfully covered his tracks as to evade suspicion for years, is nothing: for it is written, "There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Earthquakes, pestilences, revolutions and volcanic eruptions are the judgment days of nations, but God owes it to His own equity to appoint a day of reckoning for men. It does not appear that any of the changes wrought by this man were justified, but the people had no desire to be arbitrary and perhaps spoil a desirable preacher by being very exact. If the service which this man has rendered is of real value to the church, then the deacons ought to permit him to remain at its head. On the other hand if he has been weighed in the balance and found wanting, he is entitled to no consideration whatever. Now let us examine his work and worth with extreme care. It is enough to state that when Rev. J. F. Thomas came to this city, he found Olivet a united church; a great compact body of Christian men and women. Today they are rent by dissensions, and distressed by law suits. He found a mortgage of $5,000 on the old property, and today there is one of nearly $25,000 on the new property. For the Harmon Editor Julius F. Taylor. Court property $80,000 was refused time and again by the advice of Elder Thomas until at length an offer for about $30,000 was accepted and the property sold. The people have given more money under this man's administration, than under than of any other preacher of Olivet, yet the debts have steadily increased, instead of decreasing. Rev. Thomas has stubbornly refused to go to work and solicit funds to meet the pressing obligations brought into existence by his own slip-shod method of doing business. And if anyone has ever gone out of his way to give this man a check for the church, I would like to know when he ever reported it without being hounded right down to the last ditch. If Rev. J. F. Thomas had any love for the church he has pastored, or one iota of self-respect, he would not stand in the middle of the road deliberately planning to defeat the will of the majority, and thus hold his pulpit by force. While this so-called minister is from Sabbath to Sabbath pretending that he is willing to resign, if that is what the people want, an old Gospel tramp from 47th St. is, without rebuke from the pulpit, turning every known trick, in order to thwart the popular clamor and have Thomas retained. Does God endow such men as these with power from on high? I am persuaded to believe that if this pair of twins ever become angels, or arch-angles, it will be in the kingdom of "graft." There is a certain amount of respect due the office of one who has been ordained to preach Christ's gospel, although the particular incumbent of a pulpit may be unworthy. The calling of the ministry brings a preacher into direct contact with the domestic relations, and sacred interests of the peopleple. Indeed, far too often, he is called upon to stand between the living and the dead. Accordingly a minister should at all times not ony be absolutely above the breath of suspicion, but also free from censure, or reproach, in any particular, whatever. Now I ask in all candor, does a man fill this sacred office with acceptance who drinks wisky until he becomes drunken? Who fills the entries and halls of the church with the foul fumes of tobacco? Who uses the most obscene and profane language? Who compels his officers to uphold him in wrong doing, and who cheats his creditors and defrauds his friends? Let me repeat, does a man fill this sacred mission with acceptance who is a liar, a grafter, a thief, and a robber? Were a reform movement to be started in Chicago, one preacher, at least would be without an appointment, and one pulpit without an incumbent. The church has for year been the dumping ground for men either too ignorant or incapable of making a living elsewhere. It has been publicly charged that one of these ignorant pretenders is today preying upon a certain Baptist church of this city, and trying to throw dust into the eyes of he people, by requesting those who desire him to remain to rise. Thus members and non-members, saints, and strangers are induced to stand. But this trick deceives no one. It is, however, the plain duty of the deacons to call a business meeting of the church and investigate all current rumors, charges, scandals, and their effects upon the church, and to lay the blame wherever it rightfully belongs by a public report. THEODORE W. JONES. 2209 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, Ill. Mr. James J. Gray, who is the strongest and most popular Democrat in Cook county, has ably discharged his duties as a member of the Board of Assessors of this county, and Mr. Gray can have the hearty support of The Broad Ax at every stage of the game, and if he wants to run for mayor of Chicago in 1903, all he has to do is to say so and The Broad Ax will fall it: time for him. NO. 39. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the two principles of Dementry, but Farmers, Lutheran, Protestant, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Dependicana, Priests, or any he also can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; also on one side of the pulpit. Fax..... 9.99 Months..... 1.99 Prewriting notes made known on application differences all communication is JULIAUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher The man in the moon must have had oceans of trouble with his canals. Mrs. Langtry is now a mother-in-law. The world is no longer at her feet. Germany, Austria and Italy assert that the triple alliance is still of XXX quality. Mr. Schwab, having money to burn, gave $5,000 of it to Pittsburg for fireworks. Sweet may be the uses of adversity, but sour are the uses of prosperity. Wide pickle trust. Some one has named a cigar after Mary MacLane. It emits a blue flame and sulphurous smoke. A Kentucky man who proposed to a girl in a joke a few days ago has been accepted. Serves him right. The fellow who stands on his dignity may discover that dignity is just as slippery as a banana skin. That Russian prince who has been sued by his butler has bumped up hard against the hired-girl problem. If the trusts had made coal as cheap as they have made matches there would be far less antipathy for them. It is Sir Charles Wyndham now. It is pretty safe to guess that this actor will never play one knight stands again. There is no limit to the possibilities of a country that can have snowstorms in June and sunstrokes in January. When the steel trust advanced the wages of its workmen voluntarily it gave the anthracite coal trust a dreadful shock. The young king of Spain appears to be quite a sensible child. He is permitting the old men to keep on running things. If a seaman's hail caused trouble in Venice, what would be the result of a good, live yankee college yell?—New York Tribune. In employing an Italian composer to work on his libretto Emperor William may have hoped to set the dreibund to music. America will have to hustle around and develop a case of perityphitis. It will not do to be behind Great Britain in this respect. At first it was thought that the Kansas wheat crop would be a failure. Now there is not enough binding twine to tie it up. The report that Andrew Carnegie has a pseudonym for use on his stock certificates proves that there may be millions in a name. When a man sits in the shade and watches those at work in the sun, he prefers being called "critic" to "loafer."—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Alfred Austin may have a chance to write another coronation ode, but there is small reason to hope that he will be able to do any better next time. Science is doing the world a good turn every day. The newest discovery is that the ashes of the West Indian volcanoes are not good for fertilizing purposes. While we are on the subject of statues and monuments it may be well to note the fact that many of the graves of our notable men are unmarked and almost unknown. While the Ph. D's, D. D. D.'s and LL. D.'s are flying around these classic days, the C. O. D.'s also have their innings at nearly every man's door after his wife gets home from a shopping tour. A man who had married the heiress to $17,000,000 died suddenly in Boston the other day. Even if he has gone to mansions in the skies how can he be expected to find it much of an improvement? The Moorish representative exclaimed on leaving England for his own country, "I am glad I am returning to civilization again." Which once more emphasizes the fact that it's all in the point or view. The philanthropist who thinks it is necessary to teach youth the art of play probably hasn't had the experience of trying to keep a small boy's knee trousers and ribbed stockings in an unperforated condition. TELEPHONE LANGUAGE. "Why is it that men and women persist in using language over the telephone which is not permissible under other circumstances?" asked a man who is a stickler for good form in all the walks and relations of life. "It is a curious fact that men and women will say things to each other and ask questions over the telephone which under other circumstances would not be allowable. Really they would not think about saying such things. Suppose a man, for instance, would walk up to the front door, ring the bell, and, when the woman of the house appeared, he would ask, 'Who are you?' what do you think the woman would say? What would you say to the man who called you out from a cozy corner in your home just simply to find out who you are? Why, you would feel like booting him over the fence, and no man would blame you for it. Most men would feel the same way under similar circumstances. Yet we allow men and women to do this very thing when it comes to speaking over the phone. "When a man calls at a strange place he is generally polite enough to ask if Mr. So-and-So lives at the place, or if Mr. So-and-So is in, or something of that sort. He would not think of asking the man who he was. But mark the difference when it comes to using the telephone. 'Who is that?' a fellow will shriek, when the call is answered. Now, I object to this sort of thing. It doesn't sound exactly right from the way I look at things. 'Who is that?' The practice is positively vulgar, and when a man hurls the question at me he generally gets a sharp answer and one that means it is none of his business particularly, and I am not particularly polite in my way of reminding him of the fact. Why do men and women persist in asking 'Who is that?' Why can't they have the decency to ask what number it is, or whether this is Mr. So-and-So, or some other question which would at least approximate the decencies of the occasion? "The mere fact that a man is talking over the telephone does not give him the right to override the little niceties which are usually observed in conversation. So far as I am concerned I object to the liberty, and I have a quarrel nearly every day on account of the practice. 'Who is that?' Well, I really lose my temper when I think of it, and it is in my opinion distinctly and thoroughly ungentlemanly, impertinent and several other things which may not be mentioned in polite society. 'Who is that?' Think of it. It is a low down piece of vulgarity, and men and women ought to quit using the expression."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Suicide on the Increase. The mania for self-destruction is on the increase. Life certainly presents, in most countries, many more agreeable features than it did a generation ago. Yet the desire to abandon it increases yearly. The total number of suicides is swelling enormously. Is it increase of the greater prevalence of nervous diseases? An English alienist, Mr. Styles, has been at some pains to investigate this subject, with wholly discouraging results. The story of his discoveries may best be expressed in figures. Some forty years ago the average number of suicides was, in Sweden, one to every 92,000 inhabitants; in Russia, one to every 35,000 inhabitants; in the United States, one to every 15,000 inhabitants, and in the great cities, like London and St. Petersburg, one to every 21,000 inhabitants. It is plain that we made a dismal showing even then. In France, chosen for illustration because it offers the most startling revelations, Mr. Styles found for every 100,000 inhabitants, during the years 1841 to 1845, 9 suicides; from 1846 to 1850, 10 suicides; from 1861 to 1870, 12 suicides; from 1871 to 1875, 15 suicides; from 1870 to 1880, 17 suicides; in 1889, 21 suicides; in 1893, 22, and in 1894, 26. From 1826 to 1890 the proportion of suicides in Belgium has augmented 72 per cent; in Prussia, 411 per cent.; in Austria, 238 per cent.; in Sweden and Denmark, 72 per cent., and 35 per cent. respectively, and in France 31 per cent.—St. Lopis Star. Tip to Boarding Houses Wood is to be the newest food, says Heinrich Reh, a professor of chemistry in Berlin. He has secured a patent upon a form of animal fodder which has sawdust as its chief ingredient. He argues that animals have a decided liking for young shoots, roots of shrubs, tree bark and other heavy food of the same nature, and, since experiments have proved that the nutriment contained in such growth remains in it even after it has become wood, he observes that with a little salt and water added to it the sawdust will prove to be a highly nourishing diet. He has statistics to prove it. Pine, birek, poplar, alder accacia, beech and walnut woods and straw have been analyzed chemically by him, and he finds that the wood has vastly more albumen, nitrogen and fatty substances than the straw. The inventor claims a very cheap cattle food can be prepared in this manner, to which may be added potato peelings, corn husks and shells of grain, and the residue from the sugar beet after the sugar has been extracted.—Answers. Peru's Purchases. Peru bought last year from England $3,359,000 worth; from the United States, $1,981,000; from France, $1,580,000. Nearly half her purchases, in value, were fancy articles, groceries, cottons, woolens and furniture coming Footsore and travel-worn and faint, The veteran ranks, in faded blue, Turned from the highway's blistering track And the old banner fluttering free, To greet the welcoming breezes fain, Was stained through all its field of stars, And rent by showers of fiery rain. "Halt!" Swift and sharp along the line They heard the ringing order pass.— "A lark's nest!" Lo! the mother bird Rose startled from the trembling grass! "March!" Moved as by a single will, The column parts. Untouched between The young larks in their downy bed Nestle amid the clustering green. A fearless thrill of half-fledged wings! A scarlet flash of opening beaks! And eyes that looked undimmed on death. Rain sudden drops down furrowed cheeks! Ah! true the poet's lips that sang. The bravest hearts are tenderest! And safe the land whose heroes spare To trample e'en a wild bird's nest! —Youth's Companion. A Difference in Usage. BY WARDON ALLAN CURTIS. (Copyright, 1992 by Daily Story Pub. Co.) (Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) The Rev. Philetus Carson of the diocese of New York had at last secured a parish whose income made him feel warranted in asking some one to share his lot. It had been a long time coming, this parish with a comfortable salary, twenty-two years, and Carson was now forty-four. There was no time to be lost. "In fact," said Carson to his friend, the prebendary, "I already feel the habits of a bachelor growing on me and fear that if I do not marry soon they will so far have fastened themselves on me as not to be shaken off." "Yes, I think they will begin to grow on you quite soon, now," said the prebendary, who had been married twenty years. Almost coincidentally with Carson's investiture in his new parish, came a diocesan convention at Saratoga, which in those ante-bellum days was the summer social capital of the country, and the unnumbered rivals that have arisen since were unknown. Carson came to this scene of galley with his heart fluttering like a girl's, dreaming of meeting his fate there among the throngs of women from all over the land. It was on the second day that he met Miss Miriam Manigault of South Carolina, who attended all the sessions of the convention, a devout churchwoman, whom the bishop, apparently divining the matrimonial aspirations of his now eligible subordinate and resolved to further them, had taken particular pains to introduce to Carson. Carson fell in love at once. Not quite at once, but after not over five minutes debating with himself whether a native of anti-slavery Vermont ought to marry a South Carolinian and thereby lend countenance to the continuance of black bondage. Why did it devolve upon him, one person, to endeavor to put down the peculiar institution? Answer, Miss Manigault was perfectly charming. Was the North right, or the South? Answer, Miss Manigault was a lady to her finger tips. Might not all the trouble be due to Northern ignorance of Southern conditions? Answer, Miss Manigault dressed with a daintiness that was exquisite. Furthermore, Bishop Hopkins of his own Vermont had but lately published a book proving that the institution of slavery possessed Divine sanction, and to complete the chain of argument Miss Manigault was apparently thirty-six or seven, just suited to him in age. By the time the minute hand had moved A five spaces after the bishop had uttered the words of introduction the Rev. Philetus Carson was in love with Miss Miriam Manigault. The convention was over, and still Carson lingereo and sat on the broad piazzas with Miss Manigault and talked day after day. There came the afternoon of the last day of his stay. It was now or never, if he was to learn the state of Miss Manigault's affections. He talked of his approaching departure and studied her bending over her sewing, to observe the effect of his words. ```markdown ``` "I reckon I'll be going soon, too," said Miss Manigault. "My people will want to see me again. My boy Ike will be awful anxious to see me." Carson almost fell from his chair. More to cover his confusion, his agitation, than anything else, he blurted out, "You have a boy Ike?" and he heard himself add, "Mrs. Manigault?" Was she wife or widow? The bish- Was she wife or widow? The bishop had surely not said "Mrs." "Miss Manigault, if you please. I have always been Miss Manigault. Yes, I have five boys. There's Ike, and Jim, and Joe, and Ed down there A "What, marry a nigger!" on my place, and I have another of my boys with Cousin George for awhile. But that is all right, for he's George's boy." If the fact that Miss Manigault might be or might have been married had struck a cold chill to Carson's heart, what was his horror to hear her confess herself the mother of five boys and cut off all palliating speculations by saying she had always been Miss Manigault. Why, it was monstrous, this terrible, this awful, horrible thing. She, so dainty, so sweet, still a girl, despite her years, a soft pink still in her cheeks, her fine skin marked by a few gracious wrinkles, the record of smiles and sweet sympathy, none of her virgin slenderness gone over into matronly plumpness, none of it passed into old maid slimness. To see this woman, lovely embodiment of delicate purity in her outward seeming, and then to hear brazen declaration of shame! Tears gathered in Carson's eyes and only by a supreme effort did he keep them from bursting forth in a flood. He had never loved before, he had never allowed himself to love before. He knew he should never love again, but drag out the rest of a barren existence, with his dreams tenanted by the ideal being which he had once imagined Miss Manigault to be. He would have fled at once, but though his connection with Miss Manigault as a man was over, there remained his duty as a clergyman and he rallied to it. In his capacity as a spiritual pastor and master he addressed her. In a voice whose hardness astonished him, he said: "Did your Cousin George ever ask you to marry him?" "Why how frank you Northern people are. No. He's twenty years older than I am." "Did the father of Ike ever ask you to marry him?" "Ike!" cried Miss Manigault, springing to her feet. "Do you think I would marry a nigger, degrade myself—Oh, how could you!" "Far better, madame," said Carson, rising to his feet, "to have married this negro and in honorable wedlock borne him your son Ike than to have brought Ike and the other four into the world as you did." Miss Manigault shrieked, but it was as much a shriek of laughter as of rage or injury. There were tears, but they, too, might have been tears of laughter. The man before her was suffering as she had never seen a man suffer before, and it was for love of her. Whatever she might have said or done in anger, whatever she might have said and done in perversity, though plainly perceiving his mistake and his sincerity, was profoundly modified by this. "Sir, Ike and the rest are my negro slaves, mine all except the one at Cousin George's, whom I haven't completely paid for yet. Boys, we call them, and I see you have never heard them called so. What have you to say in regard to the terrible insult you have offered me as a man, to the reproof you were starting out to give me as a clergyman?" and again there was a ring of merriment mixed with the anger in her voice and the eyes she tried to make stern twinkled. "I have offered you most grievous insult and I cannot think of proper amends. I have heard it said that to offer love is the greatest honor a man can do a woman. To atone for my outrageous offense, may I in deepest humility offer you my hand in marriage? But what right have I to call that an atonement, to ask the unspeakable happiness of union with you and call it balm for my affront? Oh, such is the agony of my self-reproach that I could throw myself under the feet of yonder approaching horses if it would be an atonement." "Would you do it?" asked Miss Manigault, clasping her hands. "Yes, gladly—except for the fact that such an act by one of my cloth might create a scandal and be used by the enemies of sound religion. Oh I could throw myself down from the roof of the hotel to atone—if my cloth only permitted." "But, tell me, how could you believe it of me?" "Because you yourself said it. All this time I have so builded love and admiration and trust in you that even when I thought I heard you declaring yourself utterly abandoned, I believed, I believed you. Had anyone else, my dearest friend, my brother, whispered aught against you, I would not have believed." "You would have fought him, you would have called him out?" "I would gladly have fought him, leaving the arbitrament to whatever deadly weapons he might choose, however unskilled I might be in their use—if my cloth had only permitted." "You are a true South Carolinian, if you are a Vermonter," after the utterance of which paradox Miss Manigault let Carson take her hand, hiding this junction from the eyes of possible curious passers-by under a newspaper spread out over their two laps. Politicians' Barracks 'Politicians' Barracks,' is the name which Senator Hanna laughingly conferred upon the new dormitory at Kenyon college at Gambier, Ohio, of which the cornerstone will be laid on June 25," said Mr. Jacob Ehrhardt of Cincinnati at the Arlington the other night. "It will stand a monument to his spontaneous generosity, which was demonstrated to be of a quality possessed by few men. The dormitory will be built with a check for $60,000 given by Senator Hanna, who attended an alumni luncheon at the college in 1901. He made a little speech which followed that of a man who had pointed out the great need for a dormitory. "Without any preliminary intimation of his intention, Senator Hanna quietly remarked that he would be glad to write a check for $60,000 for a new dormitory to be called 'Politicians' Barracks.' His offer dumfounded the alumni present for a moment, and then they burst into applause. "The hall will be called Hanna hall, in honor of its donor, who, however, in his modesty, would prefer that it be known by the title he jocosely conferred upon it."—Washington Times. Printed 39 Miles Away. The most destructive fire in the history of Saratoga, N. Y., broke out last Monday in the Arcade Building, the principal business structure in the town, and in a short time $300,000 worth of property was burned up, says the Editor and Publisher. Five persons were burned to death and several badly injured. The office and printery of the Evening Saratogain were destroyed. As soon as it was seen that the newspaper plant was destroyed, the manager wired the management of the Albany, N. Y., Argus, and received from the Albany company a tender of its plant for the evening edition of the Saratogian. The staff of the Saratoga paper quickly covered the fire and gathered up other news and advertising copy to fill the paper, boarded a train for Albany, which lies thirty-nine miles away, and the stuff was written and set up in the office of the Argus. A big edition of the Saratogian was run off on the Argus presses, put upon a train for Saratoga and distributed in the latter city on time. At last accounts the Saratogian was still getting out on time with the aid of the Albany plant. Maggie's Apology. William Pruette, the singer, was one of a group of married men who were discussing housekeeping and servants the other evening in a Philadelphia hotel corridor. He told of a girl who served him and Mrs. Pruette well enough while they were living in a New York flat several years ago, and who one day went to Mrs. Pruette in tears and asked permission to go home for a few days—she had a telegram telling that her mother was ill. "Of course, go," said Mrs. Pruette—"only, Maggie, do not stay longer than is necessary. We need you." Maggie promised to return as soon as possible, and hurried away. A week passed without a word from her, then came a note by mail, reading: "Deer Miss Pruete i will be back nex week an plese kep my place for me. mother is dying as fast as she can. To oblidg. Maggie."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. PATHETIC TALE OF AN OLD TIME MINING CAMP. Reduced Sport, Old and Penniless, but Nothing Behind the Deal. Bravely Joins the Ranks of the Great Majority. In 1897 there were flush times in the Slocan. The overflow of the Rossland boom swished through the silver camps and coated them with gold. The wash struck Sandon the hardest, and for months the town had its Cairo-like streets literally paved with dollars and playing cards. Sandon is built in a gulch between high mountains over which the sun occasionally peeps at the burg. In those days it was a hot locality. All night long the pianos were thumped "below the dead line," while above it the booze factories had no keys and the clinking of glasses kept time to the rattle of chips and the cries of "That's good!" "I'm pot!" "Put in with you!" etc. These were the days when it often cost many a plunk to look at your hole card and chubbers were under the table. Gamblers were thicker than coons at a cake walk and a flash of sunlight made the lower end of the camp look like a railroad switch yard with all danger signals turned on. The town never closed up; it was one long carnival of wine, women and cards. When one shift went flowery another took its place, and Canada's Monte Carlo never blinked an eye. About this time Morris Butterman hailed the camp. Morris had no yellow in him and packed more than sixty years on his broad back. He had been a gambler for nearly half a century. He had faced the tiger in Montana, shot craps in New Orleans, dealt stud on the old Mississippi and peeped from behind four in many a draw game. So when he hit the camp he was not afraid of anything in sight. He dealt faro in the Bucket of Blood saloon and kept his shirt bosom ever white. For a long time his meal ticket made Sandon look like a dirty deuce in a new deck, and the old gambler went up the hill to cook for a while, but he did not suit and wandered back to town again, broke, but sad, silent and proud. Several of the boys noticed that he did not eat regularly and proffered him aid, but he shook his head and stood pat. One day, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, he passed through the Bucket of Blood to the stairway at the rear on the way to his room. As he mounted the steps he turned and took a long look at the bar and Handsome Jack. Late the next afternoon Jack went upstairs to the old man's room and found him dead. He had put on his best clothes, got under the blankets, took a swallow of poison and cashed in. And thus Morris quit the game—a philosopher. Old, broke and nothing behind the deal, he preferred to pass up rather than burden his friends. Just a dash of tragedy in the fever of mining camp life.—Denver (B. C.) Claim. LIFE AFTER DECAPITATION French Physician Asserts That Death Is Not Instantaneous. Considerable attention has lately been given in France to the old question as to whether death follows instantaneously upon decapitation. A French physician asserts that it does not. In his opinion the blood which flows after decapitation comes from the large vessels of the neck and there is hardly any call upon the circulation of the cranium, says the London News. The brain remains intact, nourishing itself with the blood retained by the pressure of the air. When the blood remaining in the head at the moment of separation is exhausted there commences a state, not of death, but of inertia, which lasts up to the moment when the organ, no longer fed, ceases to exist. It is estimated by the physician in question that the brain finds nourishment in the residuary blood for about an hour after decapitation. The period of inertia would last for about two hours, he thinks, and absolute death would not ensue till after the space of three hours altogether. Possibly this may be some consolation to those about to be guillotined. WHY SHE WAS SORRY. Unpopular Preacher Regretted Having Asked the Question. A certain author, having explained the nature of his occupation to an old Manx woman, was hardly prepared for the comment: "Well, well, what does it matter so long as a body makes his living honestly?" the words being evidently meant to put him on better terms with himself. But worse still fared an English clergyman, for some time vicar of a Manx parish and from ignorance of the people and their ways, not a very popular one. Having received preferment elsewhere, he started on a round of farewell visits, but without hearing a single regret, says the London Saturday Review. At last one old woman told him she was "mortal sorry." In his delight the vicar let curiosity outrun discretion, and he asked for her reason. "Well," she said, with touching candor, "we've had a lot o' pass'ns over here from England, and each one has been worse than the last, and after you're gone I'm afeared they'll be sen'in' us the devil himself." The vicar left hurriedly MERRY SIDE OF LIFE The Indispensable Equine. Oh, the flying machine some day will fly And through the ether roam, But on its collapse The horse, perhaps, Will be asked to haul it home. —Washington Star. He Didn't. "Do you believe in dignity?" "No. A dentist's sign reading 'Teeth Extracted Without Pain' fell the other day, just as I went under it, and knocked out two teeth of mine?"—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. --- "The Eminent lawyer's Client. "What," asked the eminent criminal lawyer, "is your friend's defense? "That depends altogether on you," replied the friend of the accused. "If we had one we would be consulting a cheaper lawyer."—Indiaapnolis News. A Wife. Benedict—"Give me a few pointers on how to manage a wife, old chap." A Wife Meeks-"O'Can't, my boy, but I can give you no end of advice on how to be managed by a wife so that you'll think you are the manager."—Brooklyn Life. No Help From Her. "Miss Freibie — Ellen, love," said young Mr. Gallagher, timidly, "I have lost my heart." "I'm sorry I can't help you, Mr. Gallagher," replied the maiden, not unkindly. "I haven't found it."—Detroit Free Press. In Return. "What did he do that for?" "Jest 'cause I kicked him."—New York Journal. "They tell me Maude Burlocks is going to be married." "You're misinformed. Miss Burlocks is going to marry the man who is going to be married. Your difficulty is that you don't know Miss Burlocks." -Baltimore News. "What would you say," began the voluble prophet of woe, "if I were to tell you that in a very short space of time all the rivers of this country would dry up?" "I would say," replied the patient man, "'Go thou, and do likewise.'" Christian Register. "Before giving you my reply," she said, "let us have a direct understanding. If I am to consider this seriously I will have to say 'No,' but if it is only a summer resort engagement I shall be pleased to accept you for the time being."—Chicago Post. Honey Thought. Mr. Toppin—"As long as I can remember, I've heard people talk about that fortunate time when the office will seek the man." Mrs. Toppin—"Not having been able to find the man, why would it not be a good idea for the office to look around for the woman?"—Boston Transcript. "Don't you suspect that a great many people seek you out because they have axes to grind?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "Once in a while a man succeeds in his selfish enterprise; but in the majority of instances I simply take possession of the ax."--Washington Star. Couldn't Be Guilty of That: "Never," said the person of good advice to the delicately nurtured Boston youth, "never say 'I can't.'" "Indeed, sir," responded the intellectual lad, "I trust that my diction is not so open to criticism. If you will but be attentive to my conversation you will observe that I say 'cawn't.'"—Baltimore American. Pet's Mistake. "Hello, Pat; have you seen Mike lately?" "Yes, begorra; Ol thought Ol saw him across the street other day, and he thought he saw me, but when we got up in one another, bedd, it was neither of us."—The King. MUST SURRENDER SWORD. As the Accused Naval Officer Had None, He Had to Rescue Naval red tape is as stringent as that existing in the army, and sometimes the enforcement of the regulations leads to ludicrous results. Some years ago, when the late Admiral Skerrett was a captain, an officer who had been charged with an offense and ordered under arrest presented himself to be arrested. The regulations provide that on such occasion the officer shall be in full dress and wear a sword. The officer wore his uniform, but had no sword. "I can't arrest you," said Captain Skerrett, looking for the missing sword, "unless you come prepared to submit your sword to me." The officer explained that he had not received his sword from home, although it had been expressed to him. "Well, you'll have to get one," was the reply. So the officer skirmished about in the navy yard for someone who had a sword to lend. Finding one, the offender returned to Captain Skerrett and was promptly and regularly put under arrest according to regulations. A Fortunate Postmaster Kirk, Ark., July 14th.-Mr. William S. Drennan, Postmaster at this office, counts himself a very fortunate man. Mr. Drennan in addition to being postmaster is a Justice of the Peace, a member of the Christian church and a highly respected and useful citizen. He has suffered for some time with what some people would call "ricketts" or "rigors" of the kidneys—kidney disease in a very painful form. He could not sleep, he had a dull pain over his left kidney, was continually restless, could not lie still, and had to get up through the night several times and was also troubled in this way during the day. He used a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, a remedy recently introduced in this state and advertised as a cure for Kidney Disease, Rheumatism, Malaria, etc., and in a short time was completely restored to vigorous, good health. He is very grateful to Dodd's Kidney Pills. Good-By to "Tipping." After the lapse of some years, a fresh effort is now being made in Berlin to stamp out the system of tipping waiters at hotels and restaurants. An "Anti-Tip league" has been formed, the members of which blind themselves on joining never to give any tips whatever to waiters in cafes, restaurants or hotels, nor to the conductors of tram-cars and omnibuses. In case any remonstrance should be made by those accustomed to receive gratuities of this kind, they are to be advised to lodge a complaint with their employers and to demand an increase of wages from them. Supreme Court sustains the Foot-Ease Trade-Mark Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunction, with costs, and a full accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder called "Dr. Clark's Foot Powder," and also against a retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark's Foot Powder, which is declared, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of "Foot-Ease," the powder to shake into your shoes. Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy, N. Y., is the owner of the trade-mark "Foot-Ease." Similar suits will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trademark and common law rights. A. Mean Interruption. "My friends," exclaimed the eloquent lecturer, "were the average man to turn and look himself squarely in the eyes, and ask himself what he really needed most, what would be the first reply suggested to his mind?" 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The Contest was started for the benefit of the Auditorium, that the money yet required to complete the building in every detail may be quickly raised, and in a way that will be burdensome to no one. Every one likes to take a chance to win a fortune or a lesser amount, especially when the object to be benefitted is a worthy public enterprise, as is demonstrated daily by church and charity fairs and the numerous other meritorious enterprises. In this case it is to finish a beautiful place of entertainment and recreation for the citizens of Omaha, South Omaha, Council Bluffs, and tributary territory, and when completed it will stand as an object lesson of the enterprise of the builders—"The People." The "guessing" Contest as shown on the page advertisement of this issue is very simple in its operation and readily understood after reading the Rules printed therein. A ticket is sold for 25 cents, which is exchangeable for a share of Common Stock in the Auditorium Company. With this ticket goes two free guesses, one on the New York election, the other on a certain Special sum of money. The contract, or top portion of the ticket is retained by the purchaser and the premium coupon is filled out and sent in to the office of the Auditorium Company, room A, N. Y. Life Bldg. If a receipt for the Premium Coupon is desired, an enclosure of a 2 cent stamp will procure it. Those who may wish to participate in the Special Prizes will be furnished with a Special ticket free with the purchase of a regular ticket. This Special ticket must be made out in the same manner and address as is given on the regular ticket, and must accompany same when sent in for filling, and have the same number as the regular ticket. When these tickets properly made out are received at the Auditorium office, they are placed in metal boxes made for the purpose, in order of the estimates to await the time of the awarding of prizes, those on the election, until November, and those on the Specials until the day following the 15th or last day of each month. To show the detail of the making up of a Special Prize, the first Special was made ready by Mr. Sam'l Rees, who will act for the printers. Mr. Rees had the amount of the prize made up in bills, gold, silver, nickles and cents, and placed same in a promiscuous heap. From this pile he took the money without counting, placing a larger bulk in one sack than in the other. The sacks were then tied and sealed. In this manner Mr. Rees could not possibly tell what sum had been placed in either sack, nor even approximate it. 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Care and careful counsel is what the expectant and would-be mother needs, and this counsel she can secure without cost by writing to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY In a dainty little booklet, 25 out of some 3000 bright boys tell in their own way just how they have made a success of selling Pictures of the boys letters telling how they built up a paying business outside of school hours. Interesting stories of real business fact. We will furnish you with Ten Copies the first week Free of Charge, to be sold at Five Cents a Copy; you can then send us the wholesale price for as many as you find you can sell then next week. If you want to try it, address BOYS' DEPARTMENT The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia AGENTS WANTED to make $10 a day selling the Cyclone Retary Hand Fans; greatest seller known; big profits. Write to-day for agents' terms. Sample postpaid 25c. Enterprise Co., corner Lake & La Salle S.; Chicago. SALESMEN, AGENTS! If you want a good seller, with large profits, which all lines of business use, write French Novelty Advertising Co., Eastern, Pa. $25 ON 5 TON IS WHAT YOU CAN SAVE We make all kinds of scales. Also E.B. Pumps and Windmills. WHERE YOU PRESENT BECKMAN BROS., DES MOINES, IOWA. MYSTERIOUS Double-Faced MIRROR Your picture visible when held to light. Send photo and O1. Satisfaction guaranteed. Greatest novelty cut. Photo returned unharmed. Chicago Transparent Mirror Co., Chicago. Afflicted with sore eyes, use. Thompson's Eye Water PISO'S CURE FOR PURE WHEN ALL THE FAILS. Bulk Compound. Trusted Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` You can buy of us at wholesale prices and save money. Our 1,000-page catalogue tells the story. We will send it upon receipt of 15 cents. Your neighbors trade with us—why not you? Montgomery Ward Co. CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. Mail Order Agents—Learn to remove white spots from table tops. Material and instructions, 10c. Zauzabar Co., 56 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill. DON'T STOP TO TOLL Suddenly. It injures the nervous system to do and it will tell you when to stop as it takes away. You have no right to ruin your health, spoil your your breath by using the filthy weed. A guar- nance of $1.00 per box, or three boxes for $2.50, with all good Druggists or direct from us. Write to CHEMICAL CO., - La C 1000 in Gold— Contributed by the FIANCE STARCH Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, to Omaha Auditorium with 1,000 other PRIZES for the best estimate for ALL candidates for Governor of Neb- held Nov. 4th, 1902. SEMI-MONTHLY CASH P $500.00. Free guess as to the amount, also STOCK of the Omaha Auditorium Compan- NETS, 25c EACH. On Sale f to October. Win $5,000 for 25c by purchasing an Au- ticket. On list, or remit direct to F. E. Nettleto- rium Company, Omaha, Neb., giving es- mount estimated for the Special Prize, and send you. Votes that have been cast: 1891, 1,165,088, 1,359,190; 1900, 1,556,520. 1902, WHAT? Suddenly. It injures the nervous system to do so. Use BACO-CURO and it will tell you when to stop as it takes away the desire for tobacco. You have no right to ruin your health, spoil your digestion and poison your breath by using the filthy weed. A guarantee in each box. Price $1.00 per box, or three boxes for $2.50, with guarantee to cure or all good Druggists or direct from us. Write for free booklet. $5,000 in Contribu DEFIANCE S of Omaha, The Omaha A to be given with 1,000 other PRIZ vote to be cast for ALL candidates election to be held Nov. 4th, 1902. EIGHT SEMI-MONTH from $50.00 to $500.00. Free guess s OF COMMON STOCK of the Omaha TICKETS, 25c E A Chance to Win $5,000 for 25c The Write for prize list, or remit direct Omaha Auditorium Company, Oma election and amount estimated for be made out and sent you. Here are the votes that have be 1896, 1,424,046; 1838, 1,359,190; 1900, 1,556 money refunded. At all good Druggists or direct from us. Write for free booklet. EUREKA CHEMICAL CO., - La Crosse, Wis. to be given with 1,000 other PRIZES for the best estimate made on the vote to be cast for ALL candidates for Governor of New York at the election to be held Nov. 4th, 1902. EIGHT SEMI-MONTHLY CASH PRIZES from $50.00 to $500.00. Free guess as to the amount, also ONE SHARE OF COMMON STOCK of the Omaha Auditorium Company. TICKETS, 25c EACH. On Sale from July 1st to October 28th..... A Chance to Win $5,000 for 25c by purchasing an Auditorium Stock Ticket. Write for prize list, or remit direct to F. E. Nettleton, Supt. The Omaha Auditorium Company, Omaha, Neb., giving estimate on the election and amount estimated for the Special Prize, and tickets will be made out and sent you. Here are the votes that have been cast: 1891, 1,165,085; 1894, 1,275,671; 1896, 1,424,046; 1898, 1,359,190; 1900, 1,556,520. 1902, WHAT? A Chance for Everybody. Mention this paper when you write Address THE AUDITO $5,000 IN C For 15 Trade Ma Packages of DE paper when you write. Agents wanted as THE AUDITORIUM CO., Omaha 000 IN GOLD— 15 Trade Marks Cut from kages of DEFIANCE St Mention this paper when you write. Agents wanted in every town. Address THE AUDITORIUM CO., Omaha, Neb. $5,000 IN GOLD-FREE For 15 Trade Marks Cut from 10 cts. Packages of DEFIANCE Starch everyone who will go to the Auditor- Co. or the De- Starch Co., Neb., 15 trade cut from 10 ct. oz packages of DEFIANCE STarch will be sent an torium Stock Guessing ticket sells for 25 cts you a guess the great contest $5,000 or some one of the 1,000 other prizes of your grocer we will send it to you ticket upon receipt of the price o The Defiance Star $5,000 IN GOLD If the 1,000 other prizes. If you cannot get we will send it to you express prepaid ceipt of the price of the starch. Fiance Starch Co., Omaha or some one of the 1,000 other prizes. If you cannot get Defiance Starch of your grocer we will send it to you express prepaid including one ticket upon receipt of the price of the starch. The Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebraska. FOR SALE One of the best FRUIT FARMS in the State of Washington. Over 60 acres in Italian Prunes in full bearing. For particulars, address H. C. BOSTWICK, Fishers, Clark Co., Washington, Owner. COME TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS the land of Fruit and Sunshine. Have FARMS for sale from 20 to 300 acres. Liberal terms arranged. Send for list to R. OSBORNE, Tamaroa, Illinois. THE BEST IOWA FARMS for sale in Greene and adjoining counties; careful selections. Prices and terms right. Send for list. Address Black & Wilkinson, Jefferson, Iowa. Montana Stock Ranches are better than Gold Mines. Special bargains, all sizes, write for what you want. JOHN BOHEB, Jr., Helena, Mont. FINE FARM—164 acres—near Vincennes, Indiana, cheap. Will include rent of crops if sold soon. W. C. Chancellor, Vincennes, Ind. ARTIFICIAL PAPER FLOWERS ready for imme- rate shipment—Chrysanthemums, Carnations, Ameri- can Beauty Roses, Snowballs, etc., for flower parades and general decorating. Catalogue free. Unicong Artificial Flower Co., 3022 Elston Ave., Chicago. DEFI EFIANC DEFIANCE STARCH 16 OZ. 10CTS. It is the purest, cleanest starch made. It is free of injurious chemicals. It can be used where ordinarily you would be afraid to use starch of any kind. That's Defiance. Your grocer sells it. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. Baco Curo To everyone who will send to the Auditorium Co. or the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Neb., 15 trade marks cut from 10 ct. or 16 oz packages of REAL ESTATE. MISCELLANEOUS. At Sacrifice MALF INTEREST in Valuable Fab ent Right at great bargain. Folding crates and boxes. Johnson Bros., Cripple Creek Colo. South American Infallible Core for Mosquito Bites; mailed free for 10 cents, coin or stamps. Address Room 8, 221 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, IL. 160-ACRE S. DAKOTA FARM (fenced, 6 wires, abundance good water, good buildings, orchard, etc., worth $4,400) to person guessing correct or nearest correct number beams in Arm and Hammer Soda Box. 2d Prize—60 Shorthorn Cattle, $2,400. 3d—17 Splendid Horses, $1,600. 4th—30-acre Fruit Farm, N. E. Ata., soft water well springs and stream, good buildings, high elevation, summers cool, 2 miles from R. K., $1,20. 5th—20 Good Sheep, $1,000. 6th—Good House, Barn and Two Lots, 1 block from Court-House, $400; rents for 4 per month in advance. 7th—Farm Machinery, $300. 8th—Household Furniture, $200. 9th—Chickens, $190. In case of ties, prizes will be divided. Those who take part in this contest must send $1 for recipe of Fever Syrup. Positive cure for all kinds of Fevers, Colds, Pneumonia, Billious Colle, Summer Complaint, and Calf Scoura. Good in Measles, LaGripppe and Heart Disease. Fever Syrup has saved many lives and doctor's bills and much suffering. One family of 12 has used it about 30 years, without a failure. As soon as we have sold 12,000 recipes, disinterested judges will fill the box, count the beans, and we shall award the prizes. One guess allowed for each $1. Send F.O. order on Kimball, S. D., express money order or bank draft. Reference, Kimball State Bank. Mr. & Mrs. George S. Wilson, Coyle, Brule Co., S. Dak. TOP TOBACCO A nervous system to do so. Use BACO-CURC to stop as it takes away the desire for tobacco, in your health, spoil your digestion and poison filthy weed. A guarantee in each box. Price boxes for $2.50, with guarantee to cure or direct from us. Write for free booklet. O., - La Crosse, Wis. Gold—Free Used by the STARCH CO., Nebraska, to Auditorium Co. DES for the best estimate made on the for Governor of New York at the HILLY CASH PRIZES to the amount, also ONE SHARE on Auditorium Company. ACH. On Sale from July 1st to October 28th. Buy purchasing an Auditorium Stock Market. To F. E. Nettleton, Supt. Thesha, Neb., giving estimate on the Special Prize, and tickets will be cast: 1891, 1,165,085; 1894, 1,275,671; 1900, 1902, WHAT? Agents wanted in every town. RIUM CO., Omaha., Neb. GOLD-FREE rks Cut from 10c FIANCE Starch If you cannot get Defiance Starch you express prepaid including one the starch. Co., Omaha, Nebraska. WHY NOT LEARN OSTEOPATHY THE PAYING PROFESSION? Success from the start. No starvation period. Legally incorporated, and give diploma and confer degrees of D. O. The course is second to none, and we want you to investigate. You may have the complete course and two years in a regular medical college for the one tuition. We have a Best Graduate Course for physicians. We have a Post Graduate Course for physicians. Send for new catalog-free. Under our supervision is the Ravenswood Osteopathic Sanitarium 496 Sunnyside Ave.. Chicago. In a most beautiful suburb, within a few minutes from heart of city, but very restful and quiet. All classes of cases treated without medicine or knife. If you are nervous or ill, write for particulars. Illinois College of Osteopathy, 494 Sunnyside Ave., Chicago. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 29, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. ANCE DEFIANCE STARCH will be sent an Adultorium Stock and Guessing ticket which sells for 25 cts giving you a guess in this great contest to win W. H. Clark, who has for almost six years been connected with the Corporation Counsel's office, has come back into the fold and Mr. Clark and The Broad Ax have shook hands or buried the hatchet, and The Broad Ax is willing to admit that W. H. Clark is a good Afro-American Democrat, that he stands well with the big politicians and the courts of Cook county. Why is it that Negroes will feed and clothe any kind of Jim Crow Negro minister and not contribute one penny to a Negro newspaper. It comes with ill grace to hear a colored minister announce from his pulpit that he will not trade with a white firm that refuses to employ a colored laborer; when he himself does not patronize those of his race engaged in legitimate business. Wonder if the parson thinks all the colored people in this neck of the woods are fools?—Ex. Some time ago we had occasion to call attention to the misfortune (?) which recently befel the Harriet Beecher Stowe Institute, Danville, Ill., by the building being struck by lightning. Since the publication of that item a gentleman has called at our office and informs us that the bolt would not have been a second Mt. Peele disaster, as he found on a visitation there that only one child was being educated (?) in the institute, and the principal was, as usual, in Wisconsin soliciting funds for the support of his establishment.—The Advocate, Milwaukee, Wis. No matter what the scoffers say, the fact remains that the girl graduate is as clever as she is pretty, which is saying a good deal. It is not difficult to trace the origin of King Edward's alliment. He was a member of twenty clubs, most of which had men cooks. The first winner at the international yacht races at Kiel was the Uncle Sam. There's something in a name now and then. Richard Harding Davis says the Spanish empire is not tottering. King Alfonso's legs must be a good deal stronger than they look. An Indiana justice who married 6,000 couples, mostly elopers, is dead. He died a natural death. Strange to say, none of the 6,000 killed him. We are not likely soon to forget that King Edward remembered the poor of London even while the surgeon's knife placed his crown in the balance. Patrick F. Sheedy has gone abroad to form a company to engage in the mining of emeralds. He cannot break himself of the habit of working with green things. That Cincinnati woman who is urging her sisters to adopt a reform dress that costs $1.25 is in a fair way to become very popular with the sterner sex. An Englishman traveling in Siberia was astonished to find that "all Irkutsk should have gone out of town for the summer just as if it were New York or Naples." Now that a learned judge of Jersey City has defined the making of goo goo eyes as an attention without intentions the world can go on with a new sense of security. Lily Langtry's daughter has wedded a British lawmaker. To make a proper show of appreciation to mamma, he should add to the statutes a new ground for divorce. The Chicago milkman who disproved the charge that he sold poor milk by exhibiting in court half a dozen fat babies fed from his dairy product knew the value of circumstantial evidence. The New York state minister who sued for a $6 funeral sermon fee and proved that his effort was worth $5 must have put on the pedal when he used the adjectives descriptive of a deserving life. Frankfort, Kentucky, is somewhat alarmed over the wonderful preponderance of female babies there. This is the first intimation ever given that such a thing as too many Kentucky girls could be possible. The definition of a scholar as "a gentleman fitted for the best society who keeps out of it" should be pasted in the hats of the thousands of college graduates who have gone out into the world to show how to run things. John T. Wilson, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen of America, has refused a $5,000 salary and a $25,000 bonus because he prefers to devote his attention to the organization of which he is the head. This is one of the few cases where duty's call is louder than money's talk. rath lost his ear in a duel; but it was his tongue that got him into trouble. New York doctors who do business in fashionable circles are getting ready for an epidemic of perityphilitis. Having received your semi-annual dividends, are you going to buy a yellow automobile or a porterhouse steak? Fortunately the reading public was prepared for the worst before Poet Laureate Austin's coronation ode was printed. King Alfonso wants to visit the European capitals in search of a wife. Unfortunately his wish is likely to be gratified. If the woman who asserts that Russell Sage gave her a quarter is declared insane will Russell get his money back? There are doubtless many men in this country to-day who would not mind swapping their $10 Panamas for 75-cent umbrellas. A Chicago man has been elected president of the American Whist League. Yet they say the people of that city are noisy. The Minneapolis police situation surpasses that of New York in that the trains have to be watched least the force run away. Edward Ffuhl of Wilkesbarre, Pa., wants the court to let him change his name. It would surely be a fool court that denied such a petition. Sunday is said to be King Edward's unlucky day, a discovery that ought to admonish him to try the experiment of spending it as other persons do. Why not speak a good word for Alfred Austin? His coronation ode contains nothing that could bring the faintest blush to the cheek of modesty. Rev. Mr. Scudder of Jersey City advises the clergy to "eat more ginger." If some of them would eat less ginger and more fish it would more to the purpose. The way the young king of Spain is behaving toward his mother seems to show that the maternal slipper was not properly exercised in his earlier years. A trade journal reports that the visible supply of caviare has been greatly reduced. This is a calamity that most persons can view with stoical indifference. An Indiana lover who sang "Good Morning, Carrie," beneath his sweetheart's window was shot by irate neighbors, who claim they thought it was a tom cat. The New York judge who has decided that $9,000 a year is the least possible income that will support a society girl must have daughters who are spending the summer at a fashionable resort. Eskimos claim to have found the remains of Noah's ark away up near the arctic circle. Can it be possible that Noah started in search of the pole without first having a relief expedition provided for? The czar has decided that hereafter he will meet all classes of his subjects and hear their grievances. This will likely prove much better than to allow the "classes" to take the initiative in securing interviews. The announcement that an Eastern railway has provided a special ticket six feet long leads to the fear that the traveler of the future will need an extra piece of luggage in which to carry his transportation permit. No matter how many canal companies are incorporated in New Jersey, Uncle Sam is likely to handle the pick and shovel when it comes to actually digging through the isthmus. The biggest corporation in this country is the people. Sportsmen from the northern part of Wisconsin report that it is so cold the fish are wearing pond lily leaf mittens on their fins, but allowances must be made for the effects of disappointment on the general nature of the complete angler. The Chicago girl who wants $100,000 from the man who tampered with her affections charges up $50,000 of it to loss of social prestige. Still, she may not have been a society belle. Fifty thousand dollars doesn't in these days of millions take one very far into the swim. Elegantly furnished rooms for rent with bath and gas at 3232 Wabash avenue. Two comodious nicely furnished rooms for rent to gentlemen only. Inquire at 2623 Wabash avenue. Plastering Contractor . . . CHICAGO William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, - CHICAGO EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER BROOKLYN, 954 Turner Ave. Lawrence M. Ennis, ```markdown ``` SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sts. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH, Attorney-at-Law. 86 and 88 Lq. Calite St., Suite 615 to 624. Telephone, Main 8077. Chicago. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, Suits 61: ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 R. Clark Street, - - CHICAGO FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW BOS 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. MOINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO ORIANA HOUSE CHICAGO Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St, Bown Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 553 Harrison. TEL. North 16L ADDISON BLAKELY ...LAWYER... SUITE 1202 ASHLAND BLOCK. RESIDENCE 321 WEBSTER AVE. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 S. HALOTED STREET, .....CHICAGO S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. LAWYER. 428 Ashland Block, Chicago. — T. L. M. 2025. — Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO Suite 621, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2522. Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 720 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sts. TELEPHONE MAIN 1762. AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From now until further notice The Broad Ax will be on sale at the following 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 columns of The Broad Ax. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. Established 1893. Capacity 200,000 per day. Geraghty Mfg. Co. Manufacturers of CAMPAIGN BUTTONS AND BADGES.... 61 La Salle St., CHICAGO Telephone Main 4495 R. G. BELL Dealer in Coal, Wood, Feed Ice Terms Strictly Cash on Delivery 137 W. 47th St., - CHICAGO Telephone Bina 284 ALEX I. WYATT, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN Manufacturer of OPTICAL AND REFRAOTING 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 STORBS 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. 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IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1107 Millwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. CHI ON TO C The Middle Mississippi Va TO BE HELP 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 TO CHICAGO The Middle States and Mississippi Valley Expo TO BE HELD IN CHICAGO 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 PRO ation's first big event of the twentieth century and most hospitable city in the United States inner 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 RAIR The 14th of August to the For information address THE COR BARNEY House and MOVER of HEAVY MA SPECIAL RAILROAD RATE 38th of August to the 14th of September, 1 on address THE COMMITTEE, 610 Garfield BARNEY BENSO Fire and Fire Wrec 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, HEAVY MACHINERY. 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. CHICAGO k, DOM ERS CHICAGO JOHN P. MERATON LIST TABLE. Horse CHICAGO, IA