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The broad ax., 1905-08-12
the DRoAD Ak.

10 for sale At the following ns~S
stands:
The Afro-Amsrican News oncs.
800 STATE strsst
Richard Webb. 9642 1-2 State st.
Cigars, Tobacco and News stand.
Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions
and News Stand, 131 W. S1st street
Richard Pinn, 1856 State street
J. c. CampbsEl. cigars. tobacco ana
fancy groceries. I71o STATE StrOsl
Edward Rslixas Cigar Store. 90
Soth street. n. n Corner Armour Ava
T. D. Hall1 Ci0R Store aAA
Laundry once. 1s1 3StA q
W. 8. Williams, Tonsorial ParlOr.
3ss 31st st.
e. H. Green Shoe Polish Manuafct-
urer 271S State st.
James II. Porter's Barber shop,
1898 State St
Turner Williams Shaving Parlor
and News stand, 1908 Armour ave.
Mrs.. B. Williams, Cigars. Notions
and News Stand. 1854 stats GtrssG
n Davis, cigAEs, tobacco, and con
feeHonsry. SSS3 State st
M stat3oasEy. 1sIe scats SRssG
The Afro-American News Co. 4ss
w. s5th St, New York City, N. Y.
Simpson & Mitchell, Cigars. Tobacco
and News Stand, 1902 State St
Jones News Stand. 1897 State st.,
Phone Gray $3.50.
The Informer News Co, 1SS Ran
dolph St, Detroit, Mich
News Itsms ana advs-taSsnsnts -
n thsss places WA md thsAR -
into ths columns q II DEoA4 A
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GROWING JET-RLAcK ROSES
Secret Long Sought by Florists Has
Been Discovered by an Eng
lishman.

Florists in New York were greatly
interested In the recent announcement
that an Englishman has discovered
how to grow jet black roses, feat
which has been vainly attempted for
many years. II q dozen Of them could
be offered for sale to-day in the city,
says the Baltimore Sun, leading florists
agreed that there would be no difficulty
in obtaining $1,000 for the bunch.
On a few estates along the Rhine
practically black roses have been
grown for the last ten years, but all
efforts to eliminate Q reddish tint In
the center Of the bud have 50 far
failed. No secret has been more close
ly guarded by the German gardeners
than this one Of developing even q
comparatively black flower. Visitors
are allowed to look at the bushes and
buds On special occasions, but what
ingredient has been put into the soil
to bring about the abnormal color has
not been told even to Gloss frisndA
In California q specialist has also
been partly successful IN producing
roses practically black, but, according
to announcement in London, It re-
NAMED for a peddler Of shoelaces to
attain perfection. 1t was said to-day
by New York florists that undoubtedly
the color is the result Of q chemical
introduced in the soil
The same principle, however, is said
to be. involved Is in the development
of blue hydrangeas, which are pro-
duced by putting iron into the soil In
which the plants are grown
The black blossoms would be most
popular IS Indications Of mourning.
but it was agreed By florists that the
day IL yet distant. when any one Of the
freaks viii be seen In their Window
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AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS
WANTED.

The Broad Az desires to engage
Agents and regular Correspondents In
all the leading cities and towns
throughout the country. The highest
commissions paid 20 live husuers.
Sample copies furnished free. For
further information, address julius y.
Taylor Sa4s Armour avenue. Chicago.
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LADY AGENTS WANTEDI

To Solicit For . Toilet Preparation
In Connection With The Broad Ak.
Two or three live, active and wide
awake lady agents, either white or
colored, wanted to solicit for q high
class Toilet Preparation In connec-
ton with The Broad Az. II you mean
business, can or address julius ,.
Taylor, 500 Armour avenue, Chicago.
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Arkansas River.

The Arkansas river Is the only water
course in Oklahoma ever nayigAted BY
steam. II has diminished year after
year hy pouring its waters into the ir-
rigating bitches Of arid and western
plains, until now often in the summer
Solstice It is possible for . pony to pass
from bank to bank without wetttng .
aaddlegirth.
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n.nIAn,t Identify Himself.

The body Of an unknown man was
aound In Carthage, No., recently. TWAS
hastily identified - that OF Q certain
oarthaGtnian. he was o man Of grim
humor. Hearing the report he went 70
the morgue, looked at the BODY WIN
care, then solsmnly and positively 40
elared the dead man was not himself
n. 7. Tribuna
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Easily Arranged

THE lady amt got the money now,
saId Bridget; but ye kin Fave the Ice
an she'll pay on Saturday"
But" protested the new iceman,
"s'posin' she amt got the money thenr
%WeIl, II she Amt ye kin take yer ies
hack."-PhIladelphia PreaA
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WONDERFUL GROWTH or HAIR.

WONDERFUL GROWTH or HAIR.
Il had typhoid fever and my hair"
-aII came out I used three bottles or
~Tord's Original oxonizsd Ok Mar"
row. and now my hair Is nine inch"
"es long and very thiok and nice and"
~str7ight Most every one seeing
how GOOD the Ozonixed On MARROW
"dons my hair. they to are annous"
'for It. Ny hair II IN example to"
everyone"
yours respectfully"
ELLA BYE"
"s1S 8. Matlack ST., West Chester,
Pa"
March 80. 1906.
Ford's Original OzoniEed OK Marrow
has many other good QUALITIES, too.
See their advertisement In this paper.
Frics only SOC q bottle at druggists or
dealers, or send ~ fifty cents and We
WIN mail you Q bottle postpaid. Al
dress osonized Or Marrow Co, 70 We
bash Avenue, Chicago. Illinois.
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India,a Foreagn TradA.

India has three and one-third times
- much foreign trade IS Japan; three
times Is much as China, easily beating
Italy and Austria, also Belgium, and
surprising the Russian empire b. -
nAr oank.
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the men Of the east, the north, the west
and the south should feel that they had
friends, if not homes, when they were
travelling.
Il The man on the road realizes that
he is taking risks for himself and his
family and fund for the support of
a member who is disabled by an ac-
cident, and another that will provide
for his widow and children naturally
appealed to the generous side of the
travelling men. i. :
AS avowed- by the articles of incor-
poration Of the order, filed Jan. 16,
1883, at Columbus, Ohio, the purposes
were to be:
The Fundamentals.
''To unite fraternally all commercial
travellers Of good moral character.
@ "To give moral and material as.
sistance to members and those Deepen
dent upon them; also to assist the
widows and orphans of deceased mem
bers.
~ ".To secure from railway companies
and hotels just and equitable favors
For commercial travellers as class.
".To elevate the moral social stand
ing of it's members.
The plan Of organization was tina
the subordinate councils should be es
tablished in all commercial centers, AM
that there should be grand council, O
governing body, composed Of repre-
seatatives Of the subordinate councils
In short, the organization was simila
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destinations. that. lure your hubby from
the domestic hearth these cold nights.
! There are many secret societies, but
most Of them are built along the same
lines. The variations are in the mys-
teries of the initiation. Every secret
order has, first of all, a. solemn and
binding obligationathatE enjoins mem
Der from ever revealing it's awful
gets this the first thing. Then hav-
ing bound himself that5he won't tell on
'em, his newly acquired. Ebrothers pro-
coed to have fun with him. =. -
He must always undergo a test to
prove his bravery, and he III have to go
it blind. A hoodwink is placed over
his eyes and he must believe what he
hears and not what he sees. =, 49, -
- Before the hoodWinka shuts out the
light, he observed that she was stand
ing in an anteroom confronting an
ordinary door, the only popularity
about which was that it had a peephole
in one. Of It's upper panels. A wonder
full transformation suddenly occurs fol
he understands from the. following con
versation that he is about to enter
some mysterious abode built upon the
plan of dungeon deep; .,..''.
There are raps, upon the. door anc
a husky voice from within inquiries, al
if much provoked by The intrusion.
"What impudent. stranger dares tt
approach our sacred gates and has in
truded upon holy ground ~ g."
This is evidently sfrom1'the sentinel
who can: be heard later explaining t.
some one else within that "a strange
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THE ANNUAL LOVE FEAST
Minneapolis Council No. 6s Leads All
Others in Memb ership,


Minneapolis Council No. So, which
was organized twelve years ago, now
has q membership Of Ito, the largest
of any council IN the country, and a
ladies' auxiliary Of 100 members.
Saturday it will hold it's annual love
feast at Masonic Temple, when a class
of approximately 100 new members will
be initiated. A banquet followed by a
ball and social session will be given.
That there will be g doings'' can be sur
missed from the following extract from
the invitation for the occasion:
"On this night, the annual roar of
the mightiest unclaimed lion Of u. G..
Tism will be heard echoing thru
the vaulted arches of the great temple,
striking terror to the hearts Of the long
line of trembling candidates who stand
shivering on icy pavements and tremu-
lousy and fearfully await the command
to begin the ascent of the awful mount
ain range. Their glazed eyes wander
helplessly, tearfully. and wistfully
round the horizon, appealing for help
they can never have. The cruel guide
by prod and spur urges them on and on,
o 'er unsafe bridges, thru rocky defles
and gloomy glens, stumbling along the
verge of fathomless precipices.. Yet
onward and upward, they laboriously
climb until they reach the mountain top,
where, bursting out in rich effulgence,
! the bright sun Of Unity, Charity and
: Temperance, Eghtens up the broad, fer
tile and beauteous valley of Fraternity
where dwells peace and plenty and all
the fruits and flowers Of that congenial
cline. That land where all men are
brothers. - - g.. $50. s,"f
The following are the committees in
charge Of the affair: -. =
Reception-James F. Jordan, J. A. Shepard,
E. 9. Walters, D. G. Clinton, J. Smeltzer Err.
! nest Grant,, W. G. Byron. William Amour,
r. F. Lewis, Walter Johns, August Johnson,
James F. ELS. r.. -
Entertainments. W. McClatchie, chairman;
j. L. Gable, Fl. B. Jessup, T. M. Gilfllan
Refreshment-The Ladies' Auxiliary Of Min.
man. Assistants-W. NJ. Booth, Fred Smith
F. s.. Poole, W. S. Gilkerson, E. S. Jones
I. W. Carey, w. NJ. Burns, G.. B. Thorne.
+ Floor Committee-E. W. French, chairman
| W. S. Henniker, R. q. Braden, A. J. Brech
| tel, Fl. e. Ellis, Ira Farr E. W. Heinke, G. f.
Boyer, D. A. Mcintosh. J. A. Kline E. T. viii
cox, G. r. Glockner, Walt Clark, w. NJ. Burns
H. II. Elverum. e. II. Zimmerman, F. S.
Poole, W. s. Gilkerson, e. T. Yale, W. II
Barber, Herman JONES' j. F. Wallerius j. II
ESchoonmaker, H. J. Defoe, P. e. Pearson, Pau
Jennings. ta ~
Page-G. E.. Tisdale. Assistants T
Jones, L. Sherling.
sentinel-Fred Smith. Assistants Davis
W. schlenker.
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Sanity City Items.

Edward J. Murphy, with McKibbin,
Driscoll & Dorsey, who was injured in
football game Nov. IS, is willing
the game. should be made less strenu:;
Gus. "' - ...~@2 :
Abel Anderson, after rest at Pine
City sanatorium, is much improved in
health. g. r. T." !;
L. H. Filiatrault, formerly manager
of the Storms Paint company at St.
Paul, is now manager and principal
owner of the American Paint Manu-
featuring company, 26 E Third street.
Thomas B. Cayou, who travels for
Foley Brothers & Kelly, is laid up at
the Pine City sanitarium, but is i'm
proving.
s. j. Truesdale is once more with
Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co., as spe-
>cial representative Of the sewing ma
chine department.
Adolph: Hirschman is back from Eu-
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News of NOrthWeSt'S
Commercial Travellers
What the u. C. T. Has Done to Elevate the Vo-
cation of KNIGHTS of the Grip---No Longer
..Drulmmers" or ''Peddlers.'

to that Of all successful fraternal and
secret bodies having national scope.
How successful this order has been
can be judged from its growth and
strength Of membership. There are
now 800 subordinate councils, repre-
senting nearly as many, with total
membership Of $4,000. Minneapolis
council, No. So, which has the largest
membership Of any council in the coun'
try, has Ito members and from it has
sprung Minnehaha council No. al,
with membership of $50. Sanity
City council, No. so, of st. Paul has
membership of 1913. In the northwest
there are councils at Duluth, Fargo,
Grand Forks, Winona, Owatonna, Crook
ston, Austin, Sioux Falls, Mankato,
Huron, Aberdeen, Winnipeg, Mitchell.
Albert Lea, Minot, Watertown, Regina
and Calgara with total membership
for Minnesota, the Dakotas and Mani
toba that approximates 5000.
Carries Best Insurance.
Practical results speak louder than
words as to the beneficial branch Of
the order. Each membership carries
with it insurance for $4,000 in case Of
death by accident, and $25 a week, for
period Of one year, in case of disabil-
ity, besides the following accident in.
surarce benefits: Loss Of both eyes,
$4,000; loss of both hands, $4,000; loss
of both feet, $4,000; loss one hand and
one foot, $4,000; loss of one hand,
$3.50; loss of one foot, $3.50; loss Of
one eye. $1,000. In the seventeen
years Of its existence the order has
paid indemnity claims to the amount
| of $1,193, 456.O5, and to widows and or
phans Of deceased members in distress,
! $74,27O.27. What has been especially
gratifying is the slight expense to
which members have been put in thus
providing protection for themselves
and their families against the dangers
" of life on the road. ~ :,r.-
The great benefit derived, however,
is one of which no statistics cam be
furnished-the fraternal feature. The
wearers Of the GU. G. To button who
meet on trains, at depots, in hotels need
no introductions. They recognize each
other as brothers. Active social life is
maintained in all the councils. There
are social sessions, ladies' nights, smok
ers, balls, parties and picnics. To these
pleasant affairs all members are invited
with their wives, children or sweet
hearts, and this includes the visiting
members who happen to be in town fol
an evening, and whose membership il
the order vouches for their social stand
ing. When the father or husband il
away, his wife and family are included
in the social doings of his council. ,Ac
quaintances and friendships are thu
cultivated in these gatherings where
mutual interest breeds mutual sympa
thy. 49, - '. +
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emo. So" Personals.


Ed G. Walters, one Of the prominent
workers of No. 63,> is able to be on
deck again. His broken shoulder and
arm still trouble him, but his mouth
works all right.
Donald A. Mcintosh of the Mime
apolis Paper company, has recovered
from his illness and is calling on the
trade as usual.
H. w. Virts, who was severely in
jured in the Northern Pacific wreck at
st. Cloud recently, is able to be up and
around the house. Brother Virts had
a close call.
William P. Armstrong, member of
Aberdeen council, U. G. T., died on the
morning of Dec. q, at San Diego, Cal
Funeral on Wednesday, Dec. 81, al
the Fremont, Avenue Congregational
church. He was for many years with
Wyman, Partridge & Co.
D. II. Hunt, at one time grand re-
gent Of the Royal Arcanum, died at
Colorado Springs, on the 10th inst, OF
consumption
G. s. Wilson of Winston, Harper
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Let him have guards to accompany
him and pilot him on his way. Remove
his shoes and provide him with sandals
give him a steed that he may ride tc
save him from fatigue
Quickly his shoes are off, and he feels
himself lifted upon the back of the
steed.' His feet are placed in
stirrups and he is told to grasp the
hair of the animal and hold on. Then
he gets a. wild ride. The steed turns
out to be goat of gigantic size that
has the bucking habit. It runs in cir
cles and has swaying motion. Were
it not for the care Of the faithful
guards who run by his side and hold
him on, the candidate would be GER
tain that he would get tumble and
perhaps fall into some bottomless moat.
i. 4 4
The journey is over and the candi-
date is on his feet once more. Appar-
emily they have arrived at some kind
Of gate for there is more knocking,
and then querelous voice calls out:
"sWho is it without who awakens me
from my peaceful slumbers9' >~
One Of the guides responds, "Vener
able Sire, we are guards sent with the
password to protect this stranger on
his way to learn the secret of ou1
sacred order. He desires entrance and
your blessing.
His venerable sireness commands the
guard to come forward and give the
password. This done, the candidate
feels hands placed upon his head and
voice quavers something to this
"Oh, venturesome stranger, attend
Thou must grope, in darkness until the
pathway is reached where. the beacon
of Truth lights the way to the Castle Of
Understanding. Be brave, be resolutt
and the reward of virtue will be yours
So mote it be- =. =. .-..~..
q ESQ mote it be,' respond the guards
in chorus, and the journey is resumed
And such journey! A pricking, lik'
| that of a thousand needles afflicts thu
candidate 8 feet, and makes him dane
as if ON the surface of a red hot stove
! Shrieks of demoniac laughter, and a
other times dismal groans lombard hi
ears. Something strikes him in the fac
which the guard explains was only tn
wing Of "feeing bat, fear not,' an
at another time he feels the coils Of
huge snake about his neck.
He keeps on, thanks to the thought
full attention Of the guards, who accelel
crate his pace by jabs with their spears
| During the course Of his trip he ride
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in a boat, climbs series Of steps that
give way beneath his feet, Urawls thru
a narrow tunnel on his hands and knees
and then he is told that he has arrived
in the presence Of the High and Mighty
Judah Paste, whom he must salute by
bending low. '
AS he bows he feels himself stricken
from behind with a paddle in way
that reminds him Of his boyhood days
Then his fortunes are over. The High
and Mighty Judah Paste makes him
swear by everything that is above
ground that he will never reveal any OF
| the secrets, the obligation being taken
while the candidate is humbly kneeling
and repeating word for word the most
blood curdling oath imaginable. Then
the hoodwink is removed and the can
didate finds he is confronted by an indi
| vidual who has bushy white whiskers
who sits on throne, wearing robe
of purple and is attended, on either side
by armored knights. ~ ' h..
j. !. !.
This isn't all Of it, not by a jugful
for the candidate is taken before sew
eral other & stations, !" where are seated
other bewhiskered; and solmeH worship
fuls. They deliver along rigamoroles il
which they pirate Of charity, justice ant
indulge in high platitudes dealing will
virtue and truth. Then he is allowed tt
retire to the anteroom, puts on hi
shoes and straightens out his wearing
apparel. ~
He is returned to the lodgeroom
where he finds no traces Of dungeons
valleys Of death or rocky roads. Seated
about the room on divans are the mem
bers of the lodge and the officers.
The latter have no whiskers thi
time, and what is more, they talk sense
It is explained that the various ordeal
! to which he was subjected-and ther,
arc very apt to be many more, AM
more strenuous than those that hav'
been specifed-were meant to impress
upon him certain great truths; to teacl
him that he must be brave; that hi
tumbling in the darkness was symbolic
of the darkness of wickedness; that hi
hard journey taught the difficulties tina
beset one who seeks by the narrow patl
Of righteousness to avoid the pitfalls o
temptations, and that his restoration
to sight was Indicative of the grea
light of truth and wisdom that will il
the end reward him, ETC., ETC., etc.
/. Finally he is instructed concerning
certain mystic signs, grips and raps
and is full-fedged member, on tn
lookout for some one else whom he ca
induce to make the journey.
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Cushnnan Motors on Exhibit.

The White Boat company of this city
has secured the agency of the famous
Cushman Motor company, makers of the
finest two cycle high speed gasolene en-
gines.
After Jan. l q full line Of these mo
tors will be on exhibit together with &
complete line Of Old Town canoes an6
White launches at the company's ware
rooms, SO Third avenue S.
This is. the only place in the west
where full line Of oars, life preserv
ers and marine equipments OF every
kind can be found.
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL

Fisher company, and G. Il. Grandy of
Max Crosse g. Co., are looking forward
with fear and trembling to Saturday
nights big initiation at Masonic
Temple.
The " Rev. Jake Smeltzer, with the
Eliel Drug company, is now driving
his old black horse again, calling on
the trade. Jake was too dangerous
with an automobile.
John Keatley, the flour king, >
was honored Tuesday night by an cleo
ton to the presidency of the Mime
apolis City Statesmen IS association
w. S. Gilkerson, the genial repre-
sentative Of the cigar department Of
Winston, Harper, Fisher & Co., reports
Christmas trade way up.
w. s. Henecker, the bald-headed rep
resentative of the National Biscuit
company, is much in evidence this
week, among the trade.
Edward Tisdale of Council So, for
many years with the Paris urton COM
pany, is now secretary and general
manager of the Boston Candy company.
l.. A. Cosner of the Brunswick
Bake company, is the prize nimrod
of 63. He returned lately from the
nOrGn SnOre OF Lake superior with Two
full bucks and doe as evidence of
his proves.
Walter Jacobs Of Aberdeen, S. D..
grand counselor of Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and Manitoba, will
be present at the big U-zC. T. meeting
in Masonic Temple, Dec: 80.
August johnson, a past sounselor OF
60, representing Foot, Schulze & Co..
of st. Paul, is spending the holidays
at home.
James F. Ellis, our, genial 'tJim,'
for many years connected with the
Diamond Publishing company Of this
| city is now one of the main ttguns,
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the National School of Salesman.

in the National School of Salesman
ship of Minneapolis. i
Alex w. Crozius,: secretary of So, is
a grass widower. His wife and little
daughter Katherine are spending the
holidays in Indian Territory; = =:
H. j. Mousch of Minneapolis left
last evening to spend Christmas, in
Louisville, KY. -. -; ..-..@.
The boys of 60 are attempting in
some way to dodge the constitution,
so as to admit Miss. Caroline: Hanson
(the popular assistant Of the secretary
to membership in the order. She is
in spirit now a member and should be
in fact.