Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-11-01

uCiu IL AiihOiS IL IAS idct WcCA u LIZ
campaign
Attorney General Griggs has declined
President McKinley's Invitation to remain
a member Of his cabinet. Tears are not
called for.
The steady growth Of our subscription
list in other states, from Maine to Call
fornia and from the Lakes to the Gull
Of Mexico" gives us much pleasure.
The Prohibition candidate for Superin.
tendent Of Public Instruction in Nebraska
was Rev. BARLEY Blain, formerly OF Min.
nesota. He left the Republican party in
1884.
number Of former bartenders In Port
land, Me-, have donned overalls and gone
to work for living, since the Prohibi-
ton party elected it's candidate for sheriff
of that county.
Rev. s. B. Warner, formerly of Min
nesota, is reported as saying ut the meet
| ing Of the Methodist ministers of st. Louis
recently, IT would just as soon vote fol
Aguinaldo as for Woolley."
The vindicator, Owensboro, KY, was
excluded from the mails for time during
the campaign on various pretexts, but or
proving a subscription list Of $500 copies
its standing was restored.
OF course our copy of the anti-cantacn
law which was printed In large type or
the first page of the October number should
have named 1899 instead of 1869 as the
year Of it's passage. Did you notice the
error?
The movement inaugurated by the Ma
tional Young Peoples Christian Temper
ance Union to secure million signatures
| to an agreement to vote with no party nj
the recent election not committed to the
overthrow of the saloon, did not succeed
The national convention urges, however
that the canvass for signatures to sim
Filar pledge for 1904 be begun.
Miss Jessie Ackermann, who has twice
been around the world in the interest OF
the W. c. T. o., has been engaged by the
| Lewis Literary Syndicate to make third
tour. Through the public press she will
make known the progress of the temper
ance movement in all countries. Miss
Alderman will leave New York Dec. 1,
going first to Hawaii
Word reaches us that on the Satterlee
Trio's second night in Balaton the church
In which they had held forth on the first
night was refused them. Prohibitionists
then hired the hall and, despite threats
to throw the singers out of even that
auditorium, an excellent meeting was held
| and club organized. That sounds like
an anti-slavery story.
1t is alleged that three Of the Repub
lican bishops of the Methodist church are
bringing pressure to bear upon presiding
elders, preachers and members to destroy
the circulation OF the Pennsylvania Meth
odist because Of its attitude toward Presi
dent Mckinley and his army saloon, and
the brothels and official gambling appli
ances in our new territory. DIR. Swallow
Is editor.
| Life lies in the blood, Strength lies in the
! iron OF the blood. Diseases consume the iron
| all fever burns and destroys It, The urine be.
comes red or brown from iron which has been
deyitalized and secreted from the body
through sickness and disease. Fifty doses OF
81. w. Barb er's Iron Compound Il supply all
the iron needed for three pounds OF blood It
is the best remedy known to medical scer &c
| and recommended by physicians s. so cents al
drug stores or The 81. W. Barker Medical Co.
f bow Lake, MINI.
The New York express train by the
| Fort Wayne Route" Of the Pennsylvania
| Lines, now leaving Chicago at 1890 p. M
will hereafter leave Chicago Union Pas
senger Station at IL o'clock noon, every
day, reaching the new Twenty third street
New York Station next day at p. m
1t thus becomes twenty-sx hour train
from Chicago to New York and the ex
cess fare will be reduced $1.0O on each
point, making Philadelphia $1.OO, New
York $500. "Pan Handle Route" differ
entail fare $3.50 a. M. train will hereafter
leave Chicago Union Passenger Station al
1905 a. m.
Ticket Office, 24S s. Clark st., Chicago.
We employ none but the most sklllfu
operators. The L. III. Rheem Osteopathit