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The precocious four-year-old Illinois
boy who reads the newspapers and
standard authors may develop into an
able man, but tbe chanoes are against
Jim. The law of nature is that ex
treme precocity is followed by early
death or weakening of the mental aud
physical powers.
We of this generation hardly realize
how recently private warfare, in the
Bhape of the duel, has been suppressed.
There are people living who remem
ber when men of sensitive honor could
with difficulty keep themselves, or be
kept, from fighting, whenever they
were insulted. Yet the duel has been '
practically abandoned by the English '
race, and is little more thau a form i
among other peoples. In England ,
and the United States not even sol
diers and sailors tight duels; elsewhere I
serious duelling is confined to the j
military class.
A rather amusing ease in the inven- I
tion line comes from London. A truck
driver for a chemical house was ar
rested for driving through the streets
at night without alight. In court his
employer pleaded that whereas the
city ordinance required a light, the
general act of Parliament prohibited a
light under the circumstances as the
truck was loaded with an inflammable
Bubßtance—petroleum. So the one
regulation counteracted the other.
Out of the necessity of the case, how
ever, a safety lamp for such purposes
Fas ju3t been invented, and it has !
keen approved by the London County
Council.
Not only have our exports of agri- j
•nltnral implements increased to Ger- J
luany, France and other parts of Eu
rope from a little more than $2,000,- |
000 in 1897 to nearly six and a half
millions in 1899, but those to the
United Kingdom have advanced from I
$612,317 in 1887 to §1,372,393 in 1899. j
In builders' hardware, saws, tools,
etc., the increase has been from sl,- ;
585,009 in 1898 to $1,833,369 in 1899; j
typewriting machines from $731,152
in 1897 to $1,051,060 in 1899; leather j
manufactures from $7,511,770 in 1897 i
to $9,595,306 in 1899; paraffin and
paraffin wax from $3,126,011 in 1897 j
to $1,010,111 in 1899. So it runs j
down the list, and it is no wonder Jhat [
farseeing Englishmen are sounding
warnings to their countrymen to "get
up aud hustle."
Quick Recruiting in New York.
The prinoipal recruiting station in
New York City is iu Third avenue, |
opposite Astor Place. Here an aver
age of fifty men are enlisted and
shipped daily to San Francisco, en |
route for Manila. One day at 2
o'clock one of the men enlisted at this
station was a wanderer in the city's
highways. At 2.15 he stepped into
the station and said he wanted to be
come a soldier. At 2.30 he was ex
amined by the surgeon. By 3 o'clock
he had passed all his examinations,
physical aud mental and moral, and
his application was approved. At 3.15
he took tho oath as a soldier of the
United States army. At 3.30 he drew
his uniform, sold his old clothes, hat,
shoes and all, for seventy-five cents to
the ancient Jew who for fifteen years
has hung abont the station for this
purpose. At 3.45 the ex-wanderer
dtood forth in a spick-and-span uni
form, an American "dough-boy,"
which is to say, an infantryman. At
4 o'clock he marched away with his
fellow recruits toward the Grand Cen
tral Station, bound for Manila, there
to join one of the regiments of regu
lars.—Leslie's Weekly.
Anecdote of Robert Burns.
Robert Burns was once standing up
on the quay at Greenock when a weal
thy merchant belonging to that town
had tbe misfortune to fall in the har
bor. A sailor plunged in, and, at the
risk of his own life, rescued the mer
chant, who could not swim. When
the rescued man was restored to con
sciousness it was found that the fright
and tne wetting were the only bad con
sequences of his mishap. Calling for
the sailor, his preserver, the merchant,
presented him w'tli his thanks and a
shilling. The crowd loudly protested
against such shabby conduct, but
Burns, with a scornful smile, begged
them to be silent, "for, said he, "the
gentleman must know best what his
life is worth."
Batferefl and bare on tne sand It lay.
Jn*t within raaph of the turning, tide,
Wbfirs tjjewhjrllng acl<JJes In sportive play
In glee through its g&plng side.
TbOy laughed in their play and seemed to
~*tiv say:, ■ ,t, iv> >'
Hal Ila! we remember quite well the day
When you olunged to the grasp of a wuit
ingeea; .
And you spurned U9 aside with impunity.
You were bravely decked out on that natal
day;
You joyed in your strength, so brave, so
freo;
Little you cored if some did soy
That danger lurked on the shining son.
You laughod at the wall in another's tale,
Who had seen the glories of life grow pale;
You were eager to rush in the llorcest
strife,
You chafed at delay in your fresh, new life.
Then came the day with your sails so
white
Spread,to the gentle summer breeze;
You felt so brave in the glad sunlight
As you sailed away for the unknown
seas.
You dashed the spray with your prow
away,
"The sea is ray slave!" you seemed to say. .
Then the storm king noted your vaunting
pride,
And calmi# his coming time did bide.
| THE PARSONS WIFE, THE CHIEF OF POLICE. gf
BY JAY BENSON HAMILTON, ID, ID. OS
first Methodist
Parson's wife in
this town became
CV*W¥ f ' le of police.
\ \ x ,.' V|hL | Would you like to
fi ear bow it came
about?"
My host in a
Western oity had
■*- mf4}Wt}iS been discussing the
rjUjjl! woman question.
We had attended
the session of the Methodist Annual
Conference then in session in the place,
and had listened with great interest to
the debate upon the admission of
women to the General Conference.
The Conference wns i. about equally
divided, and the discussion was stir
ring and vigorous. My hoßt was
strongly in favor oi the admission of
women, while his wife was earnestly
opposed to it. After dinner my host,
jokingly, said as ho looked at his wife,
who had not only had the best of the
argument, but the last word:
"My good wife is afraid it will de
grade a woman to elect her to a Metho
dist General Conference, but you can
not convinoe her that it degraded the
parson's little girl-wife to make her
chief of police. I was a young man, ;
and lived here when tho first Metho
dist sermon was preached in one of
our saloons. Tho saloon was
into a chapel, and quite a vigorous
society was organized in a few months.
"The town was filled with excite
ment ono day by the word flying from
mouth to mouth:
" 'A woman came to town to-day!'
"It was a great event. There were
but six women in the place, and they
were a hard lot. To have the female
population increased to seven, and the
latest comer to be a modest, pretty,
young girl, as she was said to be, ex
cited an interested remark from every
man who heard it. The former pro
prietor of the saloon which had been
turned into the Methodist Church en
tered a saloon when the matter was
under discussion. He was greeted, as
every one had been who came in, with
the remark:
" 'Say, did you know another wom
an came to town to-day?'
"One-eyed Jack, as he was familiar
ly known, instead of being surprised,
said, rather carelessly:
"'I was introduced to her an hour
ago.,'
''A roar of laughter from the in
credulous crowd made the stolid face
a trifle redder than usual, and the
single eye gleam with a fiercer light.
Striking the bar with his huge clinched
fist until tho bottles and glasses leaped
and clattered he repeated his remark
with a terrible oath:
" 'I was introduced to her an hour
ago, as I have already said once. She
is the parson's wife. She is one of
the nicest and prettiest little women
your ever saw. She treated me as
politoly as if I had been the Prince of
Wales. The fellow that ever speaks
disrespectfully of the only decent
; woman in town had better select his
weapon before ho speaks, for he will
have to fight me at sight,'
"There was little need of Jaok'a
threat. The parson had so completely
| won the rough element of tho town by
j his genial tact and fearless bearing
I that every man would count it au
! honor to fight to the death for him at
| tho drop of a hat. To know that the
; bold, powerful man whom they so
| greatly admired had a young and
j beautiful wife stirred to the heart's
j core every man. who had a spark of
manhood romaining.
j "The rude shanty which was the
; temporary parsonage was on the main
Btreet, and within a few doors of three
of tho worst saloons in the place. The
day the parson's wife arrived and
moved into her new home, a street
| fight occurred in front of ono of the
I saloons and ended at the door of the
parsonage. One of the fighters, a
! worthless and villainous ruffian, fell
1 against the parsonage door bleeding
[ from a enzen terrific gashes. The par
. sou's wife had been l a witness of the
! whole affray, As the last vicious
thrust of a huge bowie-knife ended
tho fight, with a cry of terror she
: sprang to the door to prevent if pos
sible what she fully believed was mur
der. As she opened the door, the
huge form of tho desperado fell into
| the hall-way at her feet. His face was
| white, his eyes were staring, and his
j blood was streaming from a sov'ered
J artery in ghastly spurts. She stepped
I over the body of the wounded man,
I end nried to the standers-by:
THE WRgCK.
And £O, when your lire seomed ohl so fair.
You had tasted success—poor foolish
thoughtl
When your lightsome heart know never a
oare,
Each moment of life with joy was
fraught,
Down caino the blow that laid you low,
And changed your joy to a wailing woe;
And you drifted u wreck on the shifting
sand.
"You spurned us once," the ripples say;
"You dashed us aside in your day of
P'.'lde,
And now we toss you in our play;
"We sport with your woe with each turn
ing tide.
You're not alone In your pr.de o'orthrown,
l'or the moan of the lost is a ceaseless
moan;
And there's never a day but the murmur
ing tide
Toys with the wreck of some lost one's
prldel"
All strewn with wrecks is the shore of Ills;
Poor human wrecks that life's fleroo tide
lias crushed and choked, while its strife
Has laugh at the puny power of pride.
You turn away in disdain to-day,
All puffed with pride you will go your way.
But time in its turn will strike you low,
Aud the higher the pride the deeper tho
woe.
—Charles W. Hird, in Boston Transcipt.
" 'Kuu for a dootor, the man is dy
ing.'
"When the doctor arrived, he found
the parson's wife had checkod the flow
of the blood as skilfully ca any sur
geon could have done. She was white
as marble, but as cool as ioe. Her
little hands were bathed in blood, but
she had saved the cur's life. The
dootor examined her surgery, and said:
" 'Madame, I could not have done
so well myself. I presume you are
the parson's wife. Permit mo to say,'
as ho lifted his hat aud made a formal
bow, 'the parson is to be congratula
ted, and so is this villainous ruffian.
A few seconds more would havo ended
his worthless life. I doubt, madame,
whether it was worth staining your
white hands to save it.'
" 'His soul is worth a thousand
worlds like this,' she replied, quietly.
"'I presume you are right, but I
fear his sou], if he has one, will never
be saved. He might as well die atone
time as another so far as saving his
soul is conoerned. But, madame, if
you desire to continue your mercy
and save this man's life, you will have
to play the part of a nurse as well as
that of a surgeon. He cannot be moved
for a day or two. I am sorry that
suyh an experience should mark your
first day in our place.'
"Thus two more of our citizens had
been introduced to the parson's wife
the first day she arrived. A few days'
nursing brought the injured man
around all right so he could be moved.
He was flush with money and offered
a princely Bum for the care he had re
ceived. The littlo woman refused the
money with the air of a queen. She
advised him to send his money to his
friends at home. She said as he wns
about to go:
"'lf you wish to repay me for my
trifling service,try to lead a better life.'
"She saved him, I think. He never
tasted a drop of liquor after his part
ing from her. As soon as he had fully
recovered ho left town. We heard
that he had gone homo and settled
down to a decent life.
"Before the parson's wife had been
in town a week another fight occurred
in front of the parsonago. A hundred
men were looking on with delight as
two enraged men were beating, bitiug
and gouging each other like savage
beasts. A woman's voice clear and
strong, with a ring of scorn and dis
gust, thrilling every word into fire,
startled tho mob. Tho parson's wife
stood in her open door;
}J' 'And you call yourselves
njen, shame on you! What a
ipouly thing, indeed, it is to stand
and encourage these beasts to
abdse oach other like that. Shame on
you! Shame!'
"Before a word could be spoken
she walked deliberately into the
Crowd, and seizing the man who had
the advantage of his antagonist and
Was savagely pounding him, Bhe
daßhed him aside with a vigor that
atnazed the mob. Standing between
tho panting, bleeding combatants she
spoke with cutting sternness that
made them both flinch and drop their
eyes abnshed. Her presence and
words had surprised them into sobri
ety. One of the men who had boon
very seriously injured began to sway
unsteadily, aad then suddenly fell in
sensible at hor feet. Looking the
other Btornly in the face, she said:
" 'Are you n man or a beast? Did
you have a woman for a mother? Oh?
How could you so far forget your man
hood as to sliamo even a brute with
your cruelty?'
"The man, startled and cowed,
slunk away into the crowd without a
word. The parson's wife turned to
minister to the man at her feet. She
found him as holpless as a log and
very dangerously hurt. She spoke in
such tones of command that none
though of refusing to obey:
" 'Piok him up and carry him into
the parsbnnge!'
"Upon the same bed from which the
other injured man had just risen this
one was laid. He was carefully and
tenderly nursed back to life and
strength. The day ho left he kissed
the little woman's hand and cried
like a child. Sho made him kneel
down with hor while she prayed for
him. He went out of the house with
a new light in his eye. Ho went
straight to the saloon where he knew
ho would find the man who had beaten
him. The crowd made a ring for an
other fight as soon as they saw him
enter. He quiokly said:
" 'Bfiys, I hftve'bsn nursed baok to
life Dy an angel wno prayed to God
five minutes ago to help me live a bet
ter life. She brought me baok to my
innooent boyhood days when I Unelt
at my mother's knee. My mother
died with her hand on my head, pray
ing to God to keep me from sin and
help me meet her in heaven. When
the parson's wife put her hand on
my head and prayed for me,
she used almost the very
words my mother uttered with her
dying breath. My heart went all to
piecos. Boys, I have done with all
this wickedness.'
"Turning to the man who had so
cruelly abused him, he said:
" 'Tom, old chum, I want to ask
your pardon before all the boys. X
was in the wrong. I began the fight
without any cause. I deserved more
than I received. You know, pld fel
low, my long life-friend, if I had not
been crazy-drunk I would not have
struck you. I have always loved you
as a brother. Give me your hand,
Tom, and say you forgive me. I'm
going home to begin a new life.'
"The two men clasped hands for an
instant as the tears poured down
their bearded cheeks like rain. They
were boyhood playmates from the
same neighborhood in the East. They
left the saloon together and went
home the same day.
"The parsonage was named the
hospital the first week the parson's
wife came to town. These two inci
dents did more to preserve the peace
than a dozen policemen could have
done. The moment two men began
bandy words which threatened to end
in blows some bystaudor would shout:
" 'Boys, here's another fellow who
has engaged a cot at the hospital!'
"The good-natured jeer was taken
up by the crowd and others would re
ply:
41 'Run and tell the parson's wife
to send ber stretcher for her next
patient!'
"The fight was off at ouce. Street
brawls almost wholly ceased. Even
the rude, profane aud obscene lan
guage, which before the parson's wife
came polluted the very air iu every
part of the towu, was almost com
pletely banished. The pluoky little
woman had the habit of appearing un
expectedly wherever a crowd of men
had gathered. She accepted with a
sweet smile and a gracious bow the
deference of the rough, coarse men,
who always said as she approached:
" 'Hats off, boys, the parson's
wife!'
"She came to us like an angel to a
mob of demons. We had forgotten
God; we had lost our manhood; we
had almost lost our respeot for the
womanhood of our mothers and sis
ters. This little woman, soaroely
more than a girl in size or years, was
as fearless as if she felt that she was
surrounded by a legion of angels.
She rebukod sin with words that
stung and burned like living fire.
The sinner could not get angry. He
knew that if he wero to get sick or be
injured, the first person to minister
to him wo\ild be the little woman.
Many a poor wretch was taken to her
best room and as tenderly nursed as
if he had Men of royal blood. She
WBH as skillful in dressing a
wonud as the best trained surgeon.
She knew more about medicine than
any dootor in town. She was never
excelled as a nurse. No disease had
any terrors for her. You can imagine
that it did not take long for her to
becoino the idol of suoh God-forsaken
ruffians as we were. In one month
she had but one title. It was be
stowed upon her by a unanimous vote.
Everybody ca)led her *tho chief of
police.', I ' —Neiy York Independent.
Frightened Oat of tils Hair.
In the Progres Modioal M. Bossier
relates the following remarkable case,
whiijh is an addition to the group of
cases in which sudden loss of hair or
change of its color followed mental
shook. The subjeot whs a vigorous
peasant, aged thirty-eight years, who
was not of a nervous temperament be
yond being slightly emotional. His
hair was abundant and of a dark
chestput color, and not even slightly
interspersed with white filaments.
On& evening, as he was returning
hotpe, preoeded by his mule, on
which was mounted his Bon, aged
eight years, the animal slipped and
the ohild was thrown off and trampled
on several times. He was only se
verely bruised, but the father thought
he was killed, and, in endeavoring to
save him, was terror stricken. He
trembled and had palpitations and a
feeling of cold and tension in thefaoe
and head. On the following day the
hairs of the Mad, board and eyebrows
commeuood to fall in quantities so
that after eight days he was absolutely
bald. At the same time tho skin of
the face and head became paler.
Without delay the hairs began to
grow again in the form of a colorless
down. Boon ull the affeoted regions
were covered with finer, more silky,
and a little more thinly sown, com
pletely white hair. The hair of other
regions was not affected. —London
Lancet.
Found a Fair of Lord Fairfax's Foots.
Among the valuable antiquities left
by ex-Governor F. W. M. Holllday,
who died at Winchester, Va., recent
ly, has been found a pair of riding
boots which belonged to Thomas,
Lord Fairfax, who owned the entire
Shenandoah Valley and who was the
founder of Winchester. The boots
have been in the possession of the
Holliday family since they wore given
by will to £>i\ Mackay, Governor Hol
liday's grandfather. The boots were
worn by Lord Fairfax on special occa
sions, and they were considered the
handsomest pair of boots in those
days. It is almost impossible to de
scribe their odd appearance. There
is enough leather to make soveral
pairs of riding boots. At the request
of the late ex-Governor they will be
> sent to the Virginia Historical Sooiety.
! DUBIOUS PROSPERITY
ARE WE GETTING RICH OR GET
TING POOR.
A Carefnl Examination of fho "Evidence*
of Prosperity" Shows That They Have
a Weak Inundation—Testimony on
the Other Side.
Are we, the producers, getting richer
or poorer as a result of the gold stand
ard, the trusts, the war taxes, the
Dingley tariff, the Anglo-American
alliance, etc.? A writer in the Single
Taxer of New York discusses the pro
and con of this question in an ap
parently impartial manner, and fails to
find the prosperity.
If the question were not one which
touches us all so intimately, the dis
cussion now occupying the columns of
the press as to whether we are or are
not enjoying an era of prosperity
would savor of the broadly humorous.
That conditions are more tolerable
than they were during the crisis of the
last panic is universally admitted, but
whether this constitutes for thorn a
Just claim to the title prosperous is
gravely argued. Many of the "straws"
consulted to help the solution of the
question are extremely dubious.
Reduction in the number of failures
proves nothing, for ail the weak con
cerns were wiped out during the period
of shortened credit. Neither does ac
cumulation of bank deposits and cash
on hand. The organization of numer
ous and colossal trusts cannot bo re
garded as much more than insurance
on the part of the main stockholders
against future depressed conditions.
Rut in the worst of times the people
whose condition is reflected by these
statements enjoy a very large share
of comfort, if not of luxury. They be
long to the great class who feel that
they are "ruined" if compelled to work
for a living or to contribute in any
active way for their own support.
It is to labor conditions, then, we
must turn for a true index of the gen
eral situation. Here we are met by re
ports of increases in wages all over
the country. Many of these statements
are contested, however, as only being
half-truths. From Johnstown comes
the statement on the word of a man
on whom we can absolutely rely, that
the so-called raise Is only a return to
the wage scale in force at the begin
ning of 1897. From some of the weav
ing districts news comes that the in
crease of wages means a reduction of
the force employed, the number of
looms which each operative is sup
posed to look after being nearly dou
bled. This fact is offset by the state
ment of the employers that owing to
Improvements in machinery is no
more work involved in caring for five
looms now than for three under the
old conditions. Of course it necessi
tates the employment of fewer hands,
Rome operatives are turned adrift, and
these go to join the threatening army
of the unemployed, whose existence, in
the words of the general master work
man of the Knights of Labor, is the
greatest menace confronting labor to
day.
From Nebraska come 3 the news that
labor is so scarce that the railroads ac
tually have to avail themselves of
tramp labor, a report which needs ex
planation in view of the commonly ac
cepted belief that these men tramp,
beg and starve simply because they
prefer to do so, and a job as bank pres
ident would haVe no attraction for
them if they could not drink stale beer
out of tomato cans with serrated edges.
About a year ago, when a section of
the press of the country had been talk
ing up prosperity with a nearly equal
assiduity to that displayed in talking
It down a couplo of years previous, a
western commercial man went East
with the idea that he could do a big
business in his line there because of
newspaper reports which informed
him of the rushing business which the
East was enjoying. When he got there
he found the eastern papers full of the
same reports about the section that he
came from. He concluded that from
that time on he would be guided by
conditions as he individually found
them.
Real prosperity cannot be said to
flourish in a community like that of
New York today when labor organiza
tions report 31,000 members unem
ployed. Who will attempt to estimate
the number of unorganized unem
ployed? Conditions among the em
ployes of the surface roads of New
, York are such that a strike has taken
j place, and yet nobody questions that
an army of men stand ready, even at
the risk of their lives, to take the po
sitions of the men who strike, so in
tolerable and unnatural is the condi
tion of a large element of our popula
j tion. Of course after the men who re
place the strikers have held the job for
I a while the conditions will seem in
i tolerable to them, too, and the men
i whom they replaced, hungry and re
j vengeful, will be only too eager to get
back on any terms. And so with end
-1 less variations the struggle goes on.
Here is a partial list of the strikes
that punctured the tires of our na
tional prosperity in one week of July:
Street car strike at Cleveland, another
at Brooklyn and still another in New
York. Messenger and telegraph boys
i in Cincinnati and New York; ten thou*-
| sand tailors in New York city; pud
dlers at Pittsburg. These last have
been replaced with imported negroes.
The ore handlers on Lake Erie also
struck. Strikes were never so numer
ous and widespread as in this month of
July, 1899.
The Iron Age, the leading organ of
the American iron and steel manufac
turer®, says regarding America's pros
perity: "Prosperity has come, but it
Is a prosperity that Is based upon a
permanent reduction of wages."
Can such a state of things exist
alongside of genuine prosperity? Even
for employers of labor such conditions
tend merely to that terrible bugbear
of superficial economists—overproduc
tion. The immense stocks of goods ac
cumulated by the help of improved
machinery with less human labor will
eventually have to be sacrificed at a
fraction of their cost, confidence will
get its periodic setback, and the panic
will be upon us again. We have no
need to be instructed as to how
this endless chain works, or it would
be more consistent to compare it with
an inverted spiral, where the ball of
trade tends to revolve in continually
shortening circles and with increased
rapidity. The next panic will be upon
us within a much shorter time than
that separating the former from its
predecessor, and it is the opinion of
men competent to judge that it will
exceed that of 1893 in duration and
violence.
FROM OTHER PAPERS.
Victims of gold contraction and
trusts are often heard to say, in ex
tenuation of their oppressors, that they
themselves would be monopolists, if
they were able to do so. This may be
true, but we desire to Inform them
that the men who are now their op
pressors would soon overthrow all
monopolies if they were not themselves
the beneficiaries. Some men know
enough to resist oppression and rob
bery, and some do not. —National
Watchman.
It is not anti-trust talk, but anti
trust action, not anti-trust planks in
platforms but anti-trust legislation,
which can be effectively enforced, that
the people want. The national conven
tions of the Democratic and Populist
parties will not satisfy the people by
merely denouncing the trusts—the Re
publican convention, under lead of
Mark Hanna, will do as much —they
must indicate the methods they pro
pose to adopt to crush the trusts.—
Jerry Simpson's Bayonet.
The war department has announced
on several occasions that the volun
teers were anxious to re-enlist. The
Nebraska regiment has just returned
to San Francisco from Manila, and
Col. Mulford says "just one man in
the entire regiment re-enlisted." Once
again stern reality contradicts the ad
ministration lies. —Wilmington Justice.
Cheer up, comrade; your brother has
gone to the Philippines to be killed
and you may get his job. This salva
tion army prosperity is the great hit
of the administration. See the phil
osophy? Just look at the statesman
ship! Here's a condition. It is two
men and only one job. How shall we
find labor for them? Oh, that's easy—-
just kill one of the poor devils. Any
fool might have thought of that; won
der how Grover missed it.—Coming
Nation.
A St. Paul savings bank has passed
Into the sweet subsequently, leaving
the depositors to hold the sack for a
paltry million dollars. This system is
the most practicable one that can be
devised and postal savings banks would
be anarchy.—Appeal to Reason.
It is only the main stream, not the
bordering eddy nor the backwater, that
knows the way to the open sea. Are
you in the main stream of the universe,
or in some transient backwater or
swirling eddy? The main stream's
other name is this: The righteousness
which works by love. —Minneapolis
People's Paper.
The imperialism of today is but the
logical outcome of the "imperialism" of
the trusts, combines, and monopolies;
the "imperialism" of the corpora
tions, the "imperialism" of the firms,
and the "imperialism" of employers.
This "imperialism" all results from
and is based upon the industrial bond
age of the people; and the people are
in industrial bondage because they can
not freely and independently produce
the necessities of life. —People's Press.
There is a perfect epidemic of
strikes —strikes everywhere and in
every line of private employment. It
is but the great unrest that permeates
the masses all over the land giving ex
pression to itself in tP"t form of pro
test. The strike is no remeuy; it set
tles nothing. These now taking place
are but the outposts opening the fire
for the great battle that is to come. It
is nearer than most of us think.—Ap
peal to Reason.
A Railroad Trust.
The pretense of "competition" in
railroad management is about to be
ended. The New York World pub
lishes an outline of a proposed railroad
trust, 10 include all the great lines.
Many economies are expected to re
sult from the plan of a central manage
ment. Rates are to be "maintained,"
advertising is to be largely discontin
ued, salaries of freight and passewger
solicitors are to be saved, and The
labor question is to be settled as far
as possible."
This is a forward step, and will
finally result in good. There is, and
can be. no real solution of the railroad
problem by competition or regulation.
Now that the ownership and manage
ment of these great highways is to be
openly and avowedly in the hands of
a great central monopoly, every argu
ment against governmental ownership
and operation has disappeared. If
there must be a central management of
this great industry, then every instinct
of self-preservation demands that that
management shall fce the people's.
! FARM FOR A DRINK OF WATER.
; A Selection of Rich Brnzo* Bottom Land
For u Thirst Quencher,
i A section of land which constitutes
one of the finest farms in the fertile
' Brazos bottom of Texas once sold for
a drink of water.
It was about fifty years ago, accord
ing to ex-Lieutenant-Governor George
; T. Jester, that- a crowd of froutiers
| men from off the Brazos came to Cor
| sicana on a trading expedition. Cor
sicaua at that time was not as great a
town £3 it is now, siuce it threatens to
i rival the most productive oil region of
Pennsylvania, but was a typical fron
( tier village or trading post. The
grandfather of Governor Jester was a.
Methodist circuit rider, and lived at
that time in Corsicana. He occupied
a two-story double log house. Hie
house was a rendezvous for people
from far and near, who came trading.
In those days land certificates were
used as circulating medium, as money
was rarely seen.
On one occasion a character from
•ft the Brazos arrived in town, got on
a tear, and at night was put to bed in
the second-story of the Jester man
sion. About 1 o'clock in the morning
he awoke with a terrible thirst. No
water was in the room, and ho couldn't
find the way downstairs. Sticking his
head out the window he saw some men
asleep in the yard. He called to them
to bring him a drink of water, but no
one answered him. A second and a
third time he called with no response.
Finally he yelled out:
"One of you fellows bring me a
drink of water, and I'll give you 320
acres of land." This aroused one of
the sleepers, who called back that he
wouldn't climb those steps for 320
acres of land, and the offer was raised
to 610 acres. The man under the tree
drew a bucket of water and jugged it
upstairs and offered a dipperful to the
toper, but ho pushed it aside. "Give
it to me out of the bucket like a horse, ,p
ho said, and he put about half the con
tents of the bucket under his belt.
In those days a Texan's word was
his bond, and this fellow kept his
word about the land. Next morning
he made his benefactor a deed to 040
acres of Brazos bottom laud. This
land still belongs to the descendants
of the water carrier, and is one of the
finest farms to be found in all Texas.
It is now worth from $35 to S4O per
acre.
The Lady and the Cat.
"There's no accounting for the
moods of women," said a clever phar
macist who is employed in a promi
nent New York drug store. "The
other day a well-dressed woman en
tered the store carrying a dirty, starv
ing cat which was nothing but a col
lection of bones. The animal was
alive, but it was merely a question of
minutes before it would cease strug
gling in the cat world. The woman
was young, and her nervous organiza
tion was so fine that she could not
bear to see suffering of any kind. She
came to me and made the request that
I chloroform the beast, which, of
course,l politely refused to do. 'But
I am willing to pay you anything you
ask if you will only put the poor cat
out of its misery,' and the appealing
look in her eyes almost persuaded me
to do what I knew was unlawful. I
told her that to accede to her request
would cost the firm SSO, and that the
only course left open to her was to
take the cat to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Araiuials.
Tears welled in her eyes and she
slowly turned away, left the store
with the animal, whose condition was
enough to breed disease, still in her
arms. What she did with it I do not
know. I would wager she took it
home and made an attempt to restore
it to health, for there's no accounting
for a woman's mood."
The Trade In Caiuplior.
The annual export of camphor from
Japan in the crude state is an average
of 5,000,000 pounds. About one-quar
ter of this comes to the United States.
The production of this crude camphor
means the destruction of the tree, as
it is obtained by boiling the wood.
The Japanese Government nnd people,
like those of our own country, are be
ginning to see the danger of destroy
ing the supply. New trees are being
planted and carefully tended. There
seems to be no cause for immediate
fear, however, as the trees belonging
to the Government are capable of sup
plying the present average demand
lor twenty-five years. In one district,
there is a group of thirteen about one
hundred yenrs old, which are estimat
ed to bo worth 81(100.
The apparatus for obtaining the
camphor in Japan is very rough and
unscientific, but has beeu in use for
ages. The tree is cut iuto chips and
boiled in a still, tho vapor resulting is
conducted into a receptacle containing
Beveral partitions surrounded by cold
water. The camphor vapor condenses
and is deposited in crystals or grains
upon bamboo screens. This is the
crude camphor.—Farm, Field and
Fireside.
Will Exhibit a Glass llunse.
One of the most novel suggestion
for attractions at the Ohio Centennial
is one that has been made to the di
rectors by a Toledo man. It is noth
ing more or less, according to the
Toledo Blade, than the erection of a
glass house wholly by Toledo indus
tries.
It is proposed to erect a house at
least eight stories high, and com
posed wholly of glass, side walls, ceil
ings and floors, with glass water
pipes, heating pipes, glass stairs and
glass furniture. The idea is to give
the people some piwctical demonstra
tion o'f the use of glass in the present
age. It is well known that many
firms are now making glass pipes for
underground systems, both water and
sewerage, and that glass is fust be
coming one of the principal commodi
ties in trade of this kind.