THE WAGEWORKER
By W. M. MAUPIN
UNCOL1I,
NEBRASKA
The Right to the Land.
The rioting In Roumania, with which
the civil war began last month, grew
put of the struggle of the peasantry
for control of the land, a struggle sim
ilar to that now in progress In Russia
and Ireland. Until 1864 the peasants
of Roumania were serfs. The land
was owned by the church, the monas
teries and the noblemen. The peas
ants cultivated it, and paid a tithe
of the product to the proprietors.
They also had grazing and fuel rights
In the pastures and forests of the
proprietors. When, in 1864, the law
was passed for the emancipation of
the serfs by the distribution of the
land among them, the fuel and grazing
rights were extinguished, and the peas
ants, although each household re-
rctlveri tltlA tn frnm seven to fifteen
acres on easy terms of payment, had (
to continue to work for the old pro
prietors to get money to pay for their
fuel. They were soon at the mercy
of money-lenders, who exacted usuri
ous rates of Interest. Many attempts
to improve their condition have been
made, either by increasing the amount
of land which they could own, or by
the establishment of an agricultural
bank to deliver them from the private,
money lenders, but these attempts
have not been wholly successful, says
Youth's Companion. Large tracts of
land have been leased by syndicates
and sublet to tenant farmers at high
rates, and the taxes on the peasant
owners have been heavy. As a re
sult, great suffering has been caused
among the sons and daughters of those
who were surfs only a generation ago.
The ignorance and improvidence of
the peasants, combined with the op
pressions of the money-lenders, have
led to conditions which the peasants
think can be relieved only by resort
ito violence. They have been wrought
upon by designing politicians with dis
astrous results. The government has
announced its purpose to remit some
of the heaviest tax and to 'reform the
land system.
Alexander Graham Bell, who one
morning when he wasn't very busy
invented the telephone, which has
saved his fellow mortals thousands of
steps and has enabled them to dodge
creditors who called up to- say they
were coming, now asserts that It is
only a matter of a very short time
until we shall be able to airship to
Europe in 20 hours. That has been
the dream of man ever since he saw
the first balloon ascension, but up to
the present time no one has actually
shown the world how, unless it is
the Wright brothers, and thus far
'their invention is protected by a pat
ent or a high board fence, which is
just as annoying. Of course, if some
one will Just establish the principle
and turn the inventors of the world
loose on it, the machine will be here
soon, ready to back up to your door
and take you to Europe, Africa, Japan
and all intermediate points, but as yet
you must be content to go over on a
liner, unless you get a chance to work
your way on a cattle boat.
Through an appeal for funds to com
plete the restoration and repair of the
Church of St Michael and All Angels,
In the parish of Dartmoor, England,
an almost forgotten bit of history has
been called to light. The church,
standing on the rugged heights of that
wild country which Blackmore made
so familiar through "Lora Doone," is
the most elevated house of worship in
all England, as the village In which it
stands is the highest inhabited village
in England, and the parish, which
contains 60,000 acres of moor and
heath and stream is the largest in
England. But it is in its origin that
.the church is most interesting, says
jYouth's Companion. Built in the early
years of the nineteenth century, the
.stones of which it is made were quar
ried and put in place by the labor of
French and American prisoners of war
(held there in exile while Europe shook
with the thunders of the Napoleonic
wars. The graves of many of these
exiles still cluster round the old
church.
If Germany should make war on
England, neither the uncle nor the
nephew would be hurt. It would be
the common people of both nations
who would suffer. What a pity it Is
that those who make the quarrels can'
not be made to be the only ones to
fight, after the fashion of the old song,
which would have no belligerent men
abroad or weeping women at home.
It is announced now that Japan,
which has just launched the 18,500-
ton battleship AkI, is to build two 21,-
500-ton battleships with a metal dis
charge from their guns half as heavy
again as the Dreadnought. Huh!
Who's afraid?
The Irupi dance of the Babaka tribe
of the Hood peninsula is performed by
seven girls, who walk up and down.
gracefully swinging a cord about threo
feet in length, to which a small netted
bag is attached.
Hans Sfjat (HutBt tmb
By NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D.D.
AES for territory curse even the victor.
Wars for liberty and justice react and ennoble nations.
Progress does not ride forward on a powder cart.
The leader whose light is a war torch and a blazing town i3
9 devil leader, guiding his nation toward its decline and fall.
Selfish wars and rulers create more problems than they
solve.
A nation that feeds itself on war and its fruits is like a
man who tries to satisfy his hunger by eating red-hot coals.
W
To honor a leader who loves war for its own sake is en
throning a madman in a palace and a legislative hall.
It was of an unselfish soldier that Isaiah said "his sword is dipped
in heaven."
Two wars there are that ennoble nations.
The first of these wars is fought for self-defense. The first law of
the individual is the right of self-preservation that inspires the house
holder to oppose the burglar. Extending that law, many householders
in a city have a right to preserve themselves through the police, that op
pose a multitude of burglars and thieves of all kinds. Then the militia
for the nation is simply the spirit of the republic, preserving itself and
guarding the national home against the national assassin and traitor.
Thus brave little Holland defended her homes against bloody Alva and
that monster Philip the Second of Spain. These Spaniards were mere
guerillas, cutthroats, political assassins, who heard that the Dutch burgh
ers had made much money through their looms and trading ships. And
the Spanish army went forth against Amsterdam and Leyden as Cortez
went with firebrand and sword through the towns and cities of Mexico
in his murderous thrist for gold and silver. That war reacted on Spain
and ruined her. Beginning as the one first-class nation in the world, lo,
Spain is to-day a tenth-rate power; while brave little Holland's war for
self-existence reacted and turned her
educator of Europe. .'
There is another war that ennobles
the war waged, not for self, but to
downtrodden. The old knight that
poor and the weak returned a hero.
willing to lose his own life to secure
ended a man of oak and iron, all but
emancipated.
National itfotuir an&
Hnturaai ffear?
By ANDREW CARNEGIE.
testants is far from being the .whole cost of war. The derangement and
losses entailed upon the "disinterested" and innocent are enormous.) We
may be disinterested in the issues over
are vitally interested in the conflict.
are coming to be recognized as on a
We might be asked to guarantee a fair field and no favor to two nations
who want to fight,, if their fighting did not break our own wind ws and
trample down our own gardens. But the world is getting to be like a
workshop in which it is an impertinence and an outrage for two men to
drop their tools and engage in a fisticuff and a scuffle to the distraction of
the whole shop and the destruction
them.
It is said that "honor" often
quires nothing but uprightness.
"Honor" does not constrain a
ness of its own opinion. Bather, it forbids this, and suggests that a disin
terested tribunal be asked to pass on the question. Do we not all know
how biased our judgment is likely to be by our interest,
no matter how honest in intention and pure in desire
we strive to be ? It is so, by the necessities of nature,
in international disputes. History is full of impressive
lessons, not only of the fallibility of the arbitrament of
war, but of the fact that nations have frequently real
ized in after years the error of the conviction for which
they went to war. They were sure they were right,
and in that surety they recklessly brought down upon
two lands, and not only so, but upon all men, the suf
ferings of armed violence and when it was all over
they saw that they had been mistaken.
Painting HtfirIpO0l
By BARON ROBERT DE DOBLHOFF,
Painter of Portrait for Peace Temple at
The Hague.
sittings. These were sufficient, but of
not believe the executive head of your
half hour altogether.
I caught the sketches, as it were, on the fly. Mr. Roosevelt walked
up and down the studio, talking and listening every minute. With each
change of conversation the change of
Mr. Roosevelt permitted me to
he was receiving guests. It was during this time that I decided on the
Expression to impart to the countenance, for I discovered that the presi
dent of the United States is a man of great force, kindliness, shrewd
ness and tact.
President Roosevelt is by far the
ed a portrait of. He is a living whirlpool of ideas and action. Ho is
distinctly representative of the great American tensity of nerve, of the
high pressure, ever ready man of business. He is wholly American from
head to toe, and had I been looking
could not have found a better one.
boys into heroes and made her the
,
the people that wages it. That is
secure liberty for the oppressed and
rode forth to right the wrongs of the
He began a crude youth who was
liberty and happiness for others; he
idolized by the poor whom he had
De Bloeh has devel
oped impressively the
consideration of the
ruinous cost of war. It
is tending to become so
expensive that it will be
impossible. Iut only now
are we beginning to. take
to heart the truth that
the part paid by the- con
which the conflict is joined, but we
The rights of neutrals therefore
par with the rights of belligerents
of machines and of products upon
requires resort to war. "Honor" re
nation to be the judge of the correct
When the commission
for painting a portrait
of . President Roosevelt
for the Peace Temple at
The Hague was given to
me I did not in the least
realize the importance of
the undertaking.
The president was able
to give me only three
the most unique character. I do
country sat still for more than a
express on was great.
sit in his office for several days while
(
most interesting man I ever paint
for a subject tj-pical of the people I
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WORN TO A SKELETON.
A Wonderful Restoration Caused a
Sensation in a Pennsylvania
Town.
Mrs. Charles N. Preston, of Elkland,
Pa,, says: "Three years ago 1 found
that my housework
was becoming a bur
den. I tired easily,
had no ambition, and
was fading fasti . My
complexion got yel
low and I lost over
50 pounds. My thirst
was terrible, and
there was sugar in
the kidney secretions.
My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but
as his medicine was not helping me,
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
They helped me at once, and soon, all
traces of sugar disappeared. I have
regained my former weight and am
perfectly well."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
QUEER KINDS OF CURRENCY.
China and Parts of Russia Have the
Most Unique.
Chinese money is traced back three
thousand years before Christ. One
emperor objected to copper coinage,
gathered a whole issue together, bur
ied it deep into the earth, and threw
in. on top the workmen employed In
diging the pit. The pu and tao cur
rencies were struck in the form of
scraps of cloth of knives for barter,
and were in existence from about the
seventh to the second century before
Christ. The commonest - of Chinese
money is the cash, a round metal disk
with a square hole In the center; a
thousand of these are worth barely
75 cents. One's cook in China goes
to market with great strings of this
heavy money round neck, shoulders,
and waist, but even when weighted
with as much as a strong man can car
ry, very little of our money Is repre
sented. On the Russo-Chinese borders
green tea pressed Into bricks has been
the money of the country for a thou
sand years. Sunday Magazine.
Yale University Wealthy.
Accordng to the Yale Alumni Week
ly, the property of the university in
New Haven which is exempted from
taxation, is appraised at $9,431,150, an
increase of $255,000 over the apprais
ed tax exemptions of last year, though
this increase does not necessarily rep
resent actual additional values sub
tracted from the New Haven grand
list. Of the totai exemptions about
$1,370,000 belongs to the Sheffield Sci
entific School. The old campus, as
land, is valued at 11,033,400, and the
buildings on this campus at $2,483,500.
The appraisals are high on many of
the buildings, as compared to actual
cost. The valuations are placed, and
as they are , exemptions there has
been no occasion to appeal for their
reduction. .
An Accommodating Peg.
One of the disadvantages of mod
ern shoe-making machinery is that
the peg won't fit Itself into the hole.
Time was, according to Mayor E. P.
Brown, of Marlboro, Mass., when it
was much more accommodating.
"One day," he recently informed the
Bopt and Shoe club, "my father, a pi
oneer in the business, hit the peg and
It flew up. What happened? Proba
bly you won't believe me, but it's a
fact all the same. The peg hit the
ceiling, came down exactly into the
hole and was driven In. But, yon
know," added Ma?or Brown, with a
smile, "we don't peg shoes 'that way
nowadays."
Chilean Editor In America.
, Senor Carlos Silva, of Santiago, edi
tor of El Mercurio, the oldest daily
newspaper in the republic of Chile,
is visiting this country for the first
time, and is accompanied by his wife.
Ha is at present in Washington.
Working For Christian Endeavor.
Dr. Francis E. Clark, of the Chris
tian Endeavor society, is visiting the
West Indies, Panama and South
American republics in the interest of
that organization.
The people of Colorado are so con
fident that publicity pays large divi
dends that they are going to spend
a fund in advertising the state's re
sources. Some people, after expressing the
wish to do unto others as they would
have others do unto them, let it go at
that.
Pretty Lamp Shade.
A pretty lamp shade can be made
with wire net Interlaced with gold
cord and beads. It is necessary to cut
the net in circular shape, making an
opening to go over the lamp chimney.
The disk must be cut so as to form a
funnel shape when fastened together.
With gold thread run the threaded
needle through the net meshes,
placing a bead on each stitch, and
form a short fringe of small beads In
bright colors around the bottom of the
shade. When completed, finish the
top with a row of big round beads. It
will be necessary to run heavy wires
across the top to prevent the shade
from touching the chimney. i
Apple Omelet.
This makes a nice accompaniment
to roast pork or broiled spare-rib. Pare
and core six or eight large cooking ap
ples; stew in preserving pan till quite
soft. Mash, add one cupful of sugar,
an ounce of butter, and seasoning of
cinnamon. Let apples cool, put In
beaten yolks of four eggs, and stir
well together. Beat the whites to a
stiff froth, add to the mixture, pour all
into a shallow pudding basin, and put
into hot oven to brown.
BOY HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD.
Pretty Phrase That Waa Moat Woe
fully Misunderstood. .
1 That the effect of a choice and ap
propriate phrase is sometimes lost
and ofttimes woefully misinterpreted
is well illustrated in an incident con
nected with the death of a Virginia
lawyer.
. During the man's illness the wires
were disconnected which attached the
bell to the old-fashioned pull ' knob
on the front door.
A messenger boy came to the house
one morning and began pulling at
the bell. There was no response.
He continued to jerk the ancient knob
vigorously. A white-haired gentleman
finally appeared, who raised his hand
warningly and said: ,
"My boy, the silver cord has been
Bevered." '
"Is that so?" exploded the boy.
"From the way It acted I thought the
whole darn thing was busted." N. Y.
Times.
ITCHING RASH 18 YEARS.
Girl's Rash Spread and Grew Worse
Under Specialist's Care Perfect
Cura by Cuticura Remedies.
"When my daughter was a baby she
had a breaking out behind the ears.
The doctor said that she would out
grow it, , and it did get somewhat bet
ter until she was about fifteen years
old, and after that she could get noth
ing that would drive it away. She was
always applying something in the way
of salves. It troubled her behind the
knees, opposite the elbows, back of
the neck and ears, under the chin, and
then It got on the face. That was
about three years ago. She took treat
ment with a specialist and seemed to
get worse all the time. We were then
advised to try the Cuticura Remedies,
and now I don't see any breaking out.
"M. Curley, 11-19 Sixteenth St, Bay
City, Mich., May 20. 1906."
Shoemaker's Last.
The following is taken from a hand
bill Issued by a provincial bootmaker:
"The shoemaker is a man of great
learning. He is a doctor as well as a
surgeon, for he not only heels but
performs many cutting operations. He
is a fishmonger, for be sells soles and
heels. He is a schoolmaster, for he
gives good understanding. He is a
good speaker, for he always works
the thread of his argument, waxes
warm to his subject, and holds all to
the last."
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His Classification.
"Oh, I don't Intend to be scrupulous
about the way I get on," said the
young lawyer, who thought himself
the greatest ever. "I frankly intend
to rent out my head to anybody who
wants to make use of it." "Then, if
you advertise it," replied his cynical
friend, "they'll put you under the
heading of Empty Flats." ,
There air always 4.000,000 people at
sea.
' Any woman can make a dollar go so
far that her husband will never see it
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" 'T K
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A nervous irritable woman, often on
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Such women not only drive hus
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The ills of women act like a fire
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