THE NORTHWESTERN.
BENSCIIOTKB ft GIBSON. Ed* and Pub*
LOUP CITY, • - NER
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Anton Dvorak, the Bohemian com
poser, has been made a member of the
Austrian house of Lords.
LI Hung Chang probably would be
willing to pay the Indemnity himself
if the empress dowager had not been
so rude to him in the earlier stages of
the game.
President Schwab of the steel
trust will have the most luxurious pri
vate ear in the country. That alon*
should sell several million dollars
worth of the common stock.
Green and yellow chartreuse may no
longer be manufactured in France if
the bill against religious associations
goes through, as the head of the or
ganization of Carthusians, the monks
of the Grande Chartreuse, is situated
outside of France.
Detroit will soon celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary of its founding
by Cadillac. Eastern people are apt
to forget that there is so old a city in
the west. In the story of the settle
ment and progress of Detroit much is
revealed of the history of "the north
west under three flags."
The latest Paris idea is to pave the
streets with glass, and experiments are
now being tried to that end. Accord
ing to the Telegraph's correspondent,
pure glass is used without admixture
of cement, but subjected to a special
treatment, called devitrifaction. The
result is a hard, smooth substance,
opaque, absolutely non-porus, absorb
ing no foreign matter, and thus re
taining no dampness or unpleasant
odors.
The varied character of the Manila
population is shown by such items as
these, taken at random from one issue
of a local daily: "Sim Viaeo, a Fili
pino, ran amuck on Calle Anda on
Thursday night and attacked Du Tang
with a heavy scantling. Mandarin
Chang Quing, son of Carlos Palanca,
the Chinese millionaire of Manila, has
been appointed ambassador to Mexico,
and is expected by his father to visit
Manila about April 1.”
Ex-Empress Eugenie has given to
the municipality of Paris the cradle of
Prince Douis Napoleon, the only son of
Napoleon III. and the Empress. Prince
Louis was killed in the Zulu war in
South Africa in 1879. The body of the
cradle is made of rosewood and is dec
orated with enamels in antique silver
and chiseled bronze. The frames are
of silver. A statue holds the imperial
crown, in gilt and bronze, over the
pillow, which is of white satin em
broidered in gold with the letter "N.”
The cradle was originally a gift from
the municipality of Paris to Empress
Eugenie.
Farmers of Wabash county. Indiana,
are building good roads by co-opera
tion and at much reduced cost. They
have an agreement among themselves
on road-building, each owner of land
abutting on a highway to be improved
pledging in work or cash $1.50 per acre
within half a mile of the road. Pay
ment may be made within three years,
and the burden thus distributed is
hardly felt. The work is done in dull
seasons, and gravel roads have re
placed the old mud highways over
many miles of turnpike. On the com
pletion of a road the task of main
taing it is assumed by the county au
thorities.
The general design for the naval'
arch, which is to be erected at the
Battery, New' York, has been approved
by the trustees of the Naval Arch As
sociation and the organization of the
finance committee for the collection of
the funds, with which to construct it
will be effected at once. The design
was prepared by Krnest Flagg. It is
estimated that the arch, including the
statuary, will cost $S50,000, while the
sea-wall, beacons and monuments will
cost $300,000 more. In organizing the
committee for the collection of the
fund, every care Is to be taken to
make it as representative as possible,
in order to give perfect confidence in
the project.
The French military authorities,
after protracted experiments, are said
to he so far satisfied with the value
of the motor car in war time, that
they are making arrangements
to acquire, if necessary, the whole of
the auto-cars for military service in
the event of the army entering the
field. Notices are said to have been
sent to owners of auto-ears, asking
them if they are disposed to sell their
vehicles to the government whenever
the country should find itself threat
ened with war. and also requiring
them to fix prices of the cars. The ac
tual purchasing price will be decided
upon by the military authorities when
the vehicles are handed over after
taking into account the depreciation
they may have undergone in the mean
time.
Recent experiments by railway offi
cials in Berne with an automatic ticket
machine, invested by a Swiss, have
given entire satisfaction, says a Berne
correspondent. The machine is simi
lar to the ordinary automatic ma
chines, but the glass cases contain the
tickets on which are printed the names
of fhe stations and the price of the
ticket. By dropping in the right
amount and pulling a handle the ticket
Is set free. The machinery is so well
:onstructed that an insufficient sum or
any base coins will not work the
ipring.
rs NOT RECIPROCAL.
DEFECTS OF THE SPECIAL
TRADE TREATY PLAN.
ContlDfliif Rcttnu Why t.ie Propmwl
Schema of Unrestricted llrclproelty
Would Not Operate to the Advantage
of tlie United State*.
In the concluding portion of the sec
ond lecture on ‘ Economic Aspects of
Reciprocity,’’ delivered by Mr. John
P. Young of the San Francinco Chron
icle, before the College of Commerce
of the University of California, various
phases of the practical workings of the
reciprocity plan in the United States
are presented with marked clearness
and force. The lack of certainty in
the matter of revenue production
which attends the operation of special
uaue lieu I it's m urged aa uu luipuiwui
objection to that process of enlarging
aur trade with foreign countries. The
question of revenue is held constantly
in view by congress when engaged in
the enactment of a tariff law, ar d the
schedules are so adjusted as to Insure
with reasonable accuracy an amount
of revenue which, added to that de
rived from internal sources, will meet
the requirements of the government.
Not so in the case of schedules altered
in miscellaneous fashion through
special commercial conventions. If,
under these treaty arrangements, the
duties on certain articles are materi
ally diminished, so must be the reven
ues. Moreover, the consequences of
this kind of tariff tinkering may
prove to be mischievous, for as Mr.
Young points out, if we reduce the
duties on Russian beet sugar to please
the exporters of American machinery,
how shall we deny similar reduction of
duties to other sugar producing coun
tries without exciting jealousies and
retaliation? If, in order to escape this
kind of friction, we make the reduc
tion of sugar duties uniform with all
countries, as we must in the long run,
what then becomes of the revenue
from sugar duties?
Another point of the utmost import
ance is emphasized by Mr. Young in
this connection—namely, that while
tariff laws may easily be repealed or
amended at any session of any con
gress, commercial conventions consti
tute contracts and obligations very
difficult to retreat from and which of
ten continue in force long after their
workings are recognized to be in
jurious. At best the process of abro
gating commercial treaties is a slow
and tedious one, and the effect is to
create rigidity in a direction where
flexibility i3 highly desirable.
A reciprocity treaty is not necessar
ily reciprocal. It may prove to be
quite the reverse. Mr. Young cites the
supposititious case of wine producers
and prune growers who were promised
protection for their industry and are
as much entitled to it as are the mak
ers of machinery. We enter into an
arrangement with a foreign country
which contemplates an increased pur
chase on our part of foreign wines
and prunes and an increased sale on
our part of machinery. This may or
may not prove to be the outcome un
der the arrangement. It is quite pos
sible that the foreigner will send us
an additional quantity of wines and
prunes without in turn taking from
us an additional quantity of machines.
The practical workings of reciprocal
trade arrangements may thus prove to
be far from reciprocal. Mr. Young
raises the question whether it is not
an economic blunder to assist our o\er
grown Iron concerns by means of spe
cial trade treaties to market their
surplus product In foreign countries,
and thus prevent the creation in unde
veloped lands of facilities which would
enable the peonies of those lands to
supply themselves with articles of
iron, and at the same time compel the
domestic consumer in our own country
to assist in this work of spoliation by
charging him more for what he uses
of the product thus forced out than
the foreigner i3 compelled to pay.
Herein is suggested an aspect of the
reciprocity idea which the trust
smashers have certainly overlooked.
Of course, so thorough and deep
searching a student of cause and effect
in economics as Mr. Young has shown
himself to be w'ould not pass by the
pertinent point concerning the true
definition of reciprocity as expounded
in the national Republican platform.
He directs attention to the fact that
in their platforms the Republicans
have always insisted that true reci
procity consists in the exchange of
non-competing products. This fact
Is Ignored by the advocates of tariff
tinkering by trade treaties with a per
sistency that carries it out of the do
main of accident and places it in the
category of intentional suppression.
Tho favorite theory of British Cob
denites and Free Traders that if we
wish to trade with foreigners we can
only hope to do so by buying from
them as well as selling to them is dis
posed of by Mr. Young as scarcely
worthy of serious consideration in
view of the facts of commerce as dis
closed in the statistics of our foreign
trade in the last four years of ade
quate protection. “Such a conten
tion,” says Mr. Young, “scarcely de
serves a serious answer. Individuals
and aggregations of individuals known
as nations do not buy things to please
the persons purchased from; they buy
because they need the things bought.
To buy for any other purpose would
be absurd; to buy merely to make
trade brisk world be uneconomic and
therefore silly.” Emphasizing this
point, Mr. Young brings his lecture to
a close by an illustration borrowed
from an article which appeared some
months ago In the American Econo
mist. and which he quotes, as he aaya,
“in the full confidence that the ap
positeness and humor of it will dc
more to suggest the faRacies of the
advocates of reciprocity treaties than
any arguments 1 have been able to
produce.” The story quoted is that of
a merchant In a small New England
town who kept a little store whoss
chief patrons were children. The
shopkeeper, wishing to stimulate busi
ness and to establish reciprocal rela
tions with his little customers, pro
ceeded to distribute gratuitously
among them one hundred pennies.
The result was a marked increase in
business activity. He distributed an
other dollar in the same way. Result,
more briskness. When, however, he
came to take stock and count the
money in his till, he found that the
money had not increased perceptibly,
while his stock of candy and trinkets
had materially diminished. As he
glanced at his depleted shelves and
thoughtfully rubbed his head, he re
marked: "Gee whiz! There wasn’t
much profit in it; but there ain’t no
denying that it made trade mighty
brisk w’hile it lasted.” That little an
ecdote might furnish food for thought
on the part of those who so strenuous
ly advocate the employment of artifi
cial means for the extension of for
eign trade.
THE PUZZLE OF ECONOMISTS.
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Free Traders Won'd Itednre Trade Bal
ances by Importations.
The newest puzzle for those who are
called economists is the outcome of
the Republican policy which, in three
years, has enabled us to sell the rest
of the world $1,819,825,819 more than
we purchased during the three years
which ended Juno 30, 1900, to which
must be added $750,000,000 for the fis
cal year which will end with next
June. After they have accounted for
all of this cash debt which the rest
cf the world owes or has owed us,
they find that a large portion of it has
not been paid, but has been loaned
abroad. Economists, as they are
called, often arrive at peculiar con
clusions, but thus far no one of them
has expressed the opinion that Amer
icans are giving foreigners the world
over hundreds of millions of dollars
annually. The puzzle is, how is Eu
rope to liquidate the indeterminate
amount of money standing to our i
credit? One of them, who is a Free- j
Trader, suggests that the only way j
the volume of our exports can be ,
maintained is to so adjust our TarifT ■
that Europe can liquidate a much j
larger portion of the favorable trade I
balance by selling us merchandise
which we are now manufacturing at j
home in sufficient quantities to abund
antly supply the home market. This
means that wo must close our fac
tories of certain lines of merchandise j
and turn their employes to idleness |
and their families to want in order to j
enable foreign nations to pay the j
trade balance in merchandise. That |
would be economics with a vengeance, j
There is reason to believe that there ;
is no present cause for fear about the j
inability of Europe to pay us what it |
owes. During nearly a hundred years !
the trade balance of the world was j
against the United States. It was not ;
a large amount each year, but it was <
from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000 an- j
nually—enough to drain all the bul
lion the country produced and much
of the cotton. For years this drain
upon the contribution of this country
to the world's stock of precious metals
made money scarce and the rates of ;
interest much higher than those of
Europe. For years we purchased most
of our Iron, woolens, glass, crockery,
etc., in Europe, and paid them out of
the money, stock and materials that
should have been kept at home. Now
the situation has changed. Under the
Republican policy the country came
to produce in abundance the articles
we used to make an adverse balance
of trade by buying. For years we
I paid iiiftii ui auciroi uu tuia
amount of our indebtedness for goods
purchased abroad over the value of
those we sold. Then we were a debt
or nation and paid the penalty of such
disadvantage, and would be paying it
now if the self-styled economists
could have their way. Now we have
become the world's creditor nation.
If our debtors cannot pay at once let
them pay interest, as did the United
States.—Indianapolis Journal.
L’ENFANT TERRIBLE.
Miss Free-Trade—It is perfectly dls*
i gustlng to see how that child persistii
in getting fat on the wrong kind of
i nourishment.
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Sun Didn't Shinn.
In 1897 Grover Cleveland officially
Informed congress that there could b<
no speedy return of prosperity. Poor
I old Grover, he had been afflicted with
a congress of incompetents aad ther«
1 was no silver lining to his cloud. Tba
sky lacked the sun of Protection.—
1 Clinton (Mo.) Republican.
, The South Hop. "Not W«.p,
1 No regrets are being expressed in
. the South over the defeat of Dryan.
. ' The prudent men of the South are sat
, j lsfled to get double th.s money for
- their cotton that they would have re
1 ; celved under a Populist admlnistra
2 : tlon.—Camden (N. J.) Post-Telegram.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON XI.. JUNE ie, REVELA
TION I, 0-20.
Golden Teit: .levin I'hrUt the Sams
Yesterday, and Today, and forever—
ll#l>. 13. 8.—Jesus Appears to St.
Johu.
9. I, John, who also am your brother,
arid companion in tribulation, and in the
kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,
was in the isle that is called I’atmos, ter
the word of Hod, and for the testimony
of Jesus Christ.
10. 1 was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet.
11. Saying. 1 am Alpha and Omega, the
first and the last; and, What thou soest,
write in a book, and send it unto the
seven churches which are in Asia; unto
Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Per
gamos, and unto Thyatlra, and unto Sar
dis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Lao
dicea.
jg. Ann i turnon to see wiv
spake with me. Ami being turned, l saw
seven golden candlesticks.
13. And In the midst of the seven can
dlesticks one like unto the Son of man,
clothed with a garment down to the foot,
and girt about the paps with a golden
girdle.
It. His head and his hnlrs were white
like w'ool, as white is snow; utid his eyes
were as a flame of lire.
15. And his feet like unto line brass, as
If they burned In a furnace; and his voice
as the sound of many waters.
16. And he had In his right hand seven
stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp
two-edged sword; and his countenance
was as the sun shlneth In his strength.
17. And when I saw him. 1 fell at his
feet as dead. And he laid his right hand
upon me, saying unto me. Fear not; I ain
the tirst and the last.
18. 1 am he that liveth, and was dead;
and, behold. I am alive for evermore.
Amen; and have the keys of hell und of
death.
19. Write the things whirh thou hast
seen, and the things which are. and the
things which shall be hereafter.
20. The mystery of the seven stars which
thou sawest In my right hand, and the
seven golden candlestoeks. The seven
stars are the angels of the seven
churches; and the seven candlesticks
which thou sit west are the seven
churches.
The almost unanimous opinion of an
tiquity assigns this book to St. John, the
Beloved Disciple, "who was known In the
early Christian church by the beautiful
name of Epistethios, the leaner upon
the breast.' " (Milligan.) The term, "the
divine,” In the title Is not found in the
most ancient manuscripts. It mentis "the
theologian,” "the preacher.” The discus
sion as to whether the same person could
have written the Revelation that wrote
the flspel springs from the great differ
ences in the style of the Greek, and from
differences in the literary methods and
underlying thoughts of the two. The sec
ond set of differences Is probably a nat
ural result of the difference In theme, and
the tirst differences, those of language,
would spring from the second, and also
might have been caused by a long lapse
of time betwen the two compositions.
Gosoel, Epistles and Apocalypse were all
written by St. John, the son of Zebedee.
The Revelation was written on Patinos,
or at Ephesus after John's i«durn from
exile. Patmos is one of the Sporades. 24
miles from the coast of Asia Minor, Mile
tus being the nearest city. It Is the tra
dition that John, having been plunged In
boiling oil. and came safely from that
torture, was condemned to work ther> In
the "mines,” that Is, the marble quar
ries. Banishment to small islands was
common, and Patmos Is only 15 miles in
circumference. It is of volcanic origin,
and is extremely rugged and barren. Pat
mos, now called Patirio and Palmosa. con
tains about five hundred houses, and a
massive building, the monastery of St.
John. On the mountain side is a natural
grotto, where, it is said, St. John had his
visions. A small church is built over it.
From Patmos (Tristram) "the distant
range, under which nestled Ephesus, was
just visible: and the aged exile, when
uttering his words of warning, could trace
the outlines of that province.the churches
of which he had tended so many years”
The ancient tradition declared that John
was banished during the reign of Doml
tlan (A. D. 81-96). Some scholars, how
ever. assert that the differences between
the Greek of the fourth Gospel and that
of the Revelation are so great that no
man could write both books without the
Intervention of many years between the
two. Since the- Revelation Is written in
very imperfect Greek, they say It must
have been written as early as the reign
of Nero (A. D. 54-68); while the Gospel
was written toward the close of St. John’s
life, after a long residence in the Greek
city of Ephesus had rendered him fami
liar with that language. Some competent
scholars, however, deem It possible to as
sign all John's writings to the last decade
of the first century.
The Revelation Is a marvelously writ
ten volume. Milligan says; "No book
probably ever proceeded from the pen of
man all the parts of which were so close
ly Interlaced with one another." It Is
written throughout In the language of
symbolism, which is as definite as any
other language, when once we have the
key. Four keys have been proposed: The
theory that the book describes events al
ready past, contemporary with the seer;
that all its scenes are yet to be unfolded,
at the Lord’s coming; that the book em
braces. In outline, the world's history,
from John's time to the end of the world;
that the Revelation Is a picture of con
flict between the forces of good and those
of evil, exemplified and fulfilled by many
events, past, present, and future. The
last view seems most probable anil profit
able.
The Revelation consists of (1) an Intro
duction; (2) the epistles to the seven
churches: and <3) a series of visions, the
chief of them being those of ilie seven
seals, the seven trumpets and the seven
bowls. These visions picture the struggle
of the church against evil, of Christ
against anti-Christ: they seem several
times to arrive at the climax of judgment,
and to revert again to the beginning, un
til at last, after this varied review, John
is permitted to see the millennium, the
final judgment, and the new Jerusali m.
Throughout the book there is the fullest
use of the Old Testament, and especially
of Daniel's visions; there is also a re
markable parallel with our Lord's dis
course in Matt. 2t.
The Revela Hon was doubtless written
for an Immediate as well as an age-long
object. The immediate purpose was to
console and strengthen the persecuted
Christians of John's day with assurances
that Christ was alive, and that his cause
would ultimately triumph.
Mineral ReconnoWmnce of Cuba,
Three expert geologists from the
United States geological survey have
been detailed to make a geologic and
mineral reconnoissance of the island
of Cuba. They are I)r. C. Willard
Hayes, T. Wayland Vaughan and A.
C. Spencer. Messrs. Hayes and Vaugh
an have reached the island and taken
up their work, after conference with
the military governor. It is expected
that these geologists will accomplish
results of distinct economic value to
the island.
WON PHYSICIAN’S HEART.
HIM Honor* Patton Will Parry Hr.
\V 1). Oro** tu P«nn*Tl van la.
Miss Honora Patton of Curwensville
this state, was taken ill about a rear
ago while studying in Paris, says the
Philadelphia Times. This circum
stance gave rise to her acquaintance
with Dr. William D. Gross, an Ameri
can physician practicing in the French
capital. As a culmination of a pretty
romance conics the announcement that
the young couple are to be united in
marriage. Miss Patton h:s been in
Philadelphia the last few weeks mak
ing final arrangements for the wed
ding, which will take place at Cur
wensville, and nwaltlng the arrival of
Dr. Gross. The wedding will he one
of the most elaborate affairs ever ar
ranged in that part of the state with
in years. Music for the occasion is to
be furnished by the Pittsburg Orches
tra and a Philadelphia florist has been
engaged to decorate the grounds and
home. The ceremony will take place
in June. Miss Patton is a tall, stately
brunette, and since her debut In society
some years ago she has been much
sought after and admired. She is ac
complished and talented in many
ways. While at Wellesley College sho
obtained high honors. After graduat
ing Miss Patton made a tour of the
world, and later settled in Paris in
order to complete her musical educa
tion and study the language. Being
devoted to her work. Miss Patton en
tered little into the gaieties of society,
and as a consequence of too confining
study her health broke down in Febru
ary of last year. For many months
she was under the constant medical
attention of Dr. Gross, and during that
time the personal charms of Miss Pat
ton so fascinated the American physi
cian that some months later they
became engaged. After a complete re
covery Miss Patton returned to this
country, and a formal announcement
of her engagement was made. Dr.
Gross is a graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania and is recognized as
the leading American physician in
Paris.
CAUGINQ TIDES IN CANADA.
Acc-umte Survey of Those In Tower St.
Thw ranee Completed.
The Canadian Marine department
has just completed an important sur
vey of the tides and currents of the
St. Lawrence River, says a Montreal
dispatch to the New York Sun. The
survey is based on extended observa
tions, taken during a whole season of
navigation, throughout the St. Law
rence estuary from Quebec to Point
de Monts, a distance of 300 miles.
Tidal instruments of the latest self
recording type were placed at eight
different points throughout this region
and a continuous record was secured
day and night of the form, height and
time of the tides. This method large
ly made up for the shortness of the
season as it secured the information
in the most complete form. The record
was also simultaneous throughout the
region, in which the tide increases iu
height from five feet at the mouth of
the estuary to eighteen feet at Quebec.
The changes in the tide can thus he
easily followed and its rate of prog
ress and other data required for prac
tical purposes can be correctly ascer
tained. The work of the Canadian tidal
survey is now being extended to the
Pacific coast and this year tide tables
based upon direct observation will be
issued for Victoria, B. C., and the
Gulf of Georgia. These are the only
tide tables issued for the Pacific coast
between Astoria and Port Townsend
in Washington to the south and Sitka
in Alaska. Steps are being taken to
bring other western ports into relation
with these tide tables.
nnilding Churches la Chicago.
There Is an unprecedented activity
in the building of churches in Chica
go, at the present time, and, in spite
of the labor difficulties which extend
ed far into the fall of last year, twen
ty-one churches have been built since
then or are still building. Among the
buildings in course of construction or
already finished, are some rather
pretentious structures of brick and
stone, costing from $25,000 to $75,000.
One-third of the number are Roman
Catholic churches, and the rest are
almost evenly divided among the
Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian.
Baptist, Evangelical and Jewish de
nominations.
A man expects rounds of applause
when he begins to climb the lader of
fame.
GONE BEFORE.
“It singeth low in every heart,
We hear it each and all —
A song of those who answer not.
However we may call.
They throng the silence of the breasV.
We see them as of yore—
The kind, the brave, the true, tho
sweet,
Who walk with us no more.
" ’Tis hard to take the burden up
When these have laid it down;
They bright nod nil the joy of 1-ife,
They softened every frown:
But oh! 'tis good to think of them
When we are troubled sore!
Thanks be to God that such have been,
Although they are no more!
"More homelike seems the vast un
known
Since they have entered there;
To follow them were not so hard;
Wherever they may fare;
They cannot be where God Is not—
On any sea or shore;
Vhate'er betides, Thy love abides—
Our God forevermore.”
an historical location.
JTorthwnt World'* F«lr Sit* A**oelatloi»
rbrovtn Interesting Fact*.
The officers of the Northwest
World’s Fair Site association claim to
havo made a discovery which they
think will have much weight in tho
selection of the site for the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. They say the homo
place of Gen. William H. Clarke, gov
ernor of the territory of Missouri, i9
located on Goodfellow avenue, In
northwest St. Louis, and covers part
of the vast property on which the as
sociation has obtained options for tho
benefit of the directors of the World's
Fair. Secretary E. T. Grethcr, Presi
dent Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer J. M.
Williams and others have been visit
ing the different property owners for
the past two weeks, spending hours
daily in interviewing the oldest In
habitants and looking over old muni
cipal documents in an effort to get his
torical data. It was while on these
expeditions that they gathered data
which they assert shows conclusively
that on tho identical spot where now
stands the Goodfellow mansion, Good
fellow avenue and Natural Bridge
road, formerly stood the residence of
Gov. Ctarke, at which place, known
to the Indians as Council Groves, the
Indians met to make their treaties,
and from where started the Lewis and
Clarke expedition. Directors Fred
Deibel, Jewett Wagoner, John Fitz
gerald, H. H. Ellers, Judge David
Murphy, Ed Wr. Greer, J. L. G ret her.
Edward H. Bickley, George P. Pren
dergast, W. S. Brawner, M. M. Fits
gerrell, Fred Spangler, H. B. Schilling.
W. J. McDonald, W. H. Redemeyer,
Sidney E. Davis and Charles H. Fil
ley, the executive committee, will go
before the World's Fair site commit
tee to state that the Goodfellow place
is singularly appropriate for a fair
site and that the natural conditions
surrounding it fulfill all the require
ments. The history associated with
this place, they will argue, could well
be pceserved by permanent buildings
commemorating the exposition,
Lunii'ii Wool.
The new beverage, so-called, that Is
being Introduced under the name of
"lamb's wool,” is as old as the hills,
Victor Smith says. It is nothing more
than the juice of apples roasted over
spiced ale. Every Irishman should
know it. A great day for it used to be
the feast of the apple gathering called
"la mas ubhal,” pronounced "laramas
ool.” The corruption Into "lamb’s
wool” was easy.
Teachers an;I Oltl M title Preferred.
A farmer's wife, writing to th?
American Agriculturist, says that it
has been her good fortune to take sum
mer boarders for the past seventeen
years, and she sums up her experience
thus: "I have had boarders of all ages,
from the baby with its nurse to the
aged grandmother, but my favorites
are maiden ladies and school teachers.
They are most always contented.”
Fino feathers may not make fino
birds, but they make soft pillows.
"COMMUNITY OF INTEREST."
Borne of the Effect* of the (ireat Kail
road C hange* Which Are Occurring.
‘’Community of Interest” seems to be
the watchword among the great rail
road corporations, nowadays, and cer
tain persons who are apt to decide
upon topics of general Interest, especi
ally new ones, without thinking upon
the facts, have supposed that this
meant an arrangement of interest only
to the railway companies participating
in the deals, traffic arrangements,
leases, etc., which show in the stock
transactions and engage the thought
and ability of traffic and passenger
agents. It Is undoubtedly the financial
Interest of tlfe corporations which
moves their officers to enter into con
tracts, but the consideration of this
topic necessarily Includes that of the
convenience, comfort and attractions
which they can offer to their patrons.
If competition be less intense, and rate
wars be relegated to the dead past,
it means that more attention will be
paid to those Inducements which will
bring business to up-to-date lines of
transportation.
An instance of the early profit of the
public is most worthy of mention. Un
der the plan of arrangements known
as “Community of Interest” very close
relations have been established by the
Missouri Pacific System with the Den
ver and Rio Grande railway, the Rio
Grande Western Railway and the
Southern Pacific Railway and other
lines diverging from Junction points.
So that now, for the first time in the
railway history of the country, a pas
senger may take train at St. Ix>ui3 and
remain therein until he has reached
San Francisco. The route is one of the
most popular because of its great
scenic beauty, and because it gives the
traveler Die benefit of variety of al
titude and climate, taking him across
the smiling plains of Kansas into the
wonderful canyons of Colorado, and
through her most noted mining locali
ties, and by the great inland salt sea,
where a great religious organization
has builded a city of magnificence in
an oasis of the desert, and whose po
litical power lias been maintained in
spite of the objections of the concen
trated power of the United States and
in the face of ail the obstacles which
have ever, from the dav.n of Christi
anity, contended against its establish
ment by any sect or creed.
These places arc of great interest to
the traveler of today, and since they
may be visited with s n h ease in tho
magnificent trains of this monster sys
tem of railway, the tide of tourist traf
fic is belli-; turned to them by natural
selection. The Missouri Pacific and
the Rio Grande rnarh all points in
Colorado, Utah and the West, and thus
‘•Community of Interest” among the
railroads already benefits the public in
such un everyday way as to convince
the thoughlh rg person that he must
revise his hasty judgment. *.
