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FOR .BOYS AND GIRLS
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
Dorothy Mundo and the Terrible Thing
That Happened to ' Ilor riiiythln ? *
That Can It Mailo from AeoriiH , I'op-
l lcs and IJaiMlcH Cleveland Clillclrci
I :
fen I.ovo.
I love the sen It's spicy h.ilm
Forever waft through l > rni and calm ,
Fresh no the blossoms on tlie lea.
Yet old uu gray eternity :
A mystic scent , whose potent thrill
Tlie hand of art can ne'er distil
From hidden root or llower fair.
Or aught that wood or garden be.ir.
With spicy glee
It takelh me ;
I love the wild , the witching sea.
I love the sea the glfu ? it brings
From viewless depths , and laughing Illn ;
With merry heart and lavish hand
Upon the shifting faithless sand.
Rare shells from ocean caves below
With ( | ualnt and tender tints aglow ,
Till grace and beauty richly blent
Would make Titanla's heart content.
With favors free
It wlr.neth me ;
I love tlie are , the regal sea.
T love the sea its bosom deep.
"
\yiiercin a myriad mysteries sleep.
I listen to Its wistful sighs
That stir my soul to sad replies.
'I marvel at Us wondrous sheen.
Now blue , now pink , now opaline.
With which It hides In depths below
Its wild unutterable woe.
Whate'er shall be
Of grief to me
I love the sad , the sorrowing sea.
-G. M. Peck.
Plaything" .
It's the most natural thing in the
world that little children should grow
tired of wax dolls and mechanical tops
at this season and want to play out
of doors , and kind nature , as if realiz
ing this fact , has been good enough to
provide any number of playthings with
which to keep her children's minds and
little fingers occupied during these
Jong , glorious summer days. Did you
ever know that from acorns you can
make a perfectly fascinating little t
set , such as our grandmothers used to
take delight in making when they , too ,
were little girls , long ago ? For this
tea set you must gather , if possible ,
two kinds of acorns large ones , hav
ing fit , shallow cups , and the smaller
ones , with rounder , deeper cups for
the shallow acorn cups make the sau
cers and the smaller ones the cups. A
charming teapot is made from a big
acorn by adding a nose and a handle
from a piece of match , and by cutting
off the top to make a cover. For the
cream pitcher and sugar bowl take two
more acorns , cut off the tops , scrape
out the inside of the nut and put on
'handles in the same way you did for
the teapot. When completed you have
a set fit for a fairy queen. Of course
there are lots of little mothers whenever
never see the use in anything unless it
can be converted into a doll , so I think
they will be interested in knowing how
to make poppy dolls. First get a poppy
that has gone to seed , and outline a
face in ink. You will not need to pro
vide a hat for this doll , as the poppy
is already provided with one in the
shape of a fluted green ridge , which
' ! I makes a very becoming piece of head
gear. A strip of bright colored tissue
paper forms the dress and another lit
tle piece the cape. Two pieces of match
can be inserted for the arms. Very
pretty flower dolls can be made from
hollyhocks and daisies. Pick one of
the hollyhock flowers , take off the
stem , then take a small bud , selecting
one in proportion to the body , and
make eyes , nose and mouth with ink.
The head can then be fastened to the
body with a long pin or a piece of
broomcorn , which also serves to fasten
a gay little bonnet made of a pink or
any other flower you may wish to use.
All you have to do to turn a daisy into
a doll is to make the face on the yel
low center with ink , then pull out
some of the petals around the sides ,
leaving enough on top to look like a
bonnet and two petals below for
strings. By adding a paper gown you
will have a typical old lady in her sun-
bonnet.
Dorothy Mamie.
Early in the afternoon Millicent ,
hugging her doll , slipped out of the
back door and sped as fast as her lit
tle legs would carry her down the
garden path and out into the lane be
yond. Nobody saw her , or she would
certainly have been brought back , for
she was not allowed outside the gar
den alone ; but everybody happened to
be busy at the moment. Only Wasp
heard the pattering of the little feet on
the gravel and the click of the gate
as it swung to after her. Now , Wasp
was not at all the sort of a dog to go
and tell tales , and , besides , so long as
lie was with his little mistress , what
harm could possibly come to her. So
he just jumped at the idea of a walk ,
and before Millicent had gone more
than a couple of yards down the lane
he was beside her , dancing round on
his hind legs and making playful little
snaps at the doll. "Oh , Waspie , "
cried Millicent , "I never said you
might come. But as. you have you
may as well hear what we are going to
do. Only , it's a great secret , and you
musn't tell anybody. Do you hear ?
Not anybody. " Wasp's tail began to
wag briskly , and he did his best to say
in dog language that any secret was
safe with him. "Well , then , I'll tell
you. Dorothy Maude has never been
christened isn't that dreadful ? and
she hasn't really got a name at all ,
and we're going to the well by Farmer
Young's field , and I am going to christen , -
ten her , " and Millicent looked very
important , indeed. Wasp listened at
tentively , then gave a bark , and ran
on , as if to say , "Come along , then ! "
The well was reached at last , and then
a great difficulty presented itself. The
water was not , as Millicent had ex
pected , level with the top of the well
but far enough out of reach. Indeed
Millicent , as she leaned over the open
ing , could hardly tell whether there
was any at all. "It feels very damp
though , " she said. "I think there
must be some water. But how am I
to get" It ? " Then suddenly catching
sight of the bucket , she seized it and
let it swing over the opening. "Now , '
she said to the smiling doll , 'you sit
there while I let the pail down , " and
she sat her on the brickwork of the
well with her little feet actually dang
ling over the side. "Now for the han
dle ! " cried Millicent , and putting forth
all her tiny strength , she managed to
turn it a little way. Wasp , who had
been sitting quietly watching , sprang
up as the chain began to creak , and
with his paws on the edge of the well
began sniffing the air to find out what
ever was making that curious noise.
"Get down , Waspie ! " cried Millicent ,
letting go of the handle , and making
a rush at the dog , but alas ! all in an
instant she slipped , made a clutch at
the well to save herself , and in doing
so jerked poor Dorothy Maude from
her seat. The next moment Millicent ,
looking over the side of the wall in
horror , was greeted by a faint plash
from far below. She stood staring
down into the darkness for some mo
ments before she could realize the
dreadful truth that her precious doll
was drowned. Then as it gradually
dawned on her that if she had been
obedient and stayed in the garden the
dreadful accident would never have
happened , she burst into tears. She
remembered , too , her mother's words ,
"Above all things , child , don't go near
the well. There was nothing to be
done , and very sadly she turned home
ward. Wasp trotted at her side , feel
ing rather guilty , for had he not been
the innocent cause of the mishap ?
Presently he tucked his cold nose into
her hand to show her how sorry he
was. "Oh , Waspie , " cried Millicent ,
"it wasn't your fault , you dear thing ;
it was all my doing , and now we shall
neicr have Dorothy Maude to play
with us any more , " and her tears burst
out afresh. But they did. For when
the sad story was told at home , and
Millicent's mother saw that the little
girl was really sorry for her naughti
ness , she sent the gardener to see wha't
could be done. He went off to the
well , and with the help of a long fish
ing-rod succeeded in bringing the
dripping doll to the surface. All her
beauty was gone , and the pale cheeks
of her favorite served as a constant
reminder to Millicent that disobedience
and all other kinds of naughtiness
have to be "paid for" sooner or later.
She served as a warning to Millicent
to be more obedient in the future.
Cleveland Children ,
Little girls and boys who object to
the rule and routine of home life
should spend a few days with the three
tiny daughters of ex-President Cleve
land and his lovely wife. Miss Ruth ,
who is perhaps the best known and
most talked of baby who ever lived in
tee White House , is now past the age
of babyhood , and is quite her mother's
companion and adviser. Esther is a
demure maiden , who preserves her an
gelic look through the wildest prank ,
and wee Marion follows closely in the
footsteps of her sisters , whatever they
may do. Lessons occupy most of the
morning hours ; the nursery dinner is
eaten just after the family luncheon ,
with a quiet-faced governess to watch
over manners. Drives cr walks and
play fill up the afternoon hours , and
then the nursery supper comes , with
mamma to preside at the table and cut
bread and butter , as much as three
hungry little mouths can demolish. The
loveliest hour of the day to the three
little girls comes after this , when they
may tell mamma all they have done
and hear her advice , reproof or blame
on the subject. Sometimes a fairy ,
story ends the evening hour , or some ,
of mamma's own experiences are re- .
lated. Then three little girls toddle off
to bed. No parties , no going out into I
grown-up society and no excitement is
the rule which Mrs. Cleveland follows
a
closely for her three girls , who lead
simpler lives than hundreds of Amer
ican children who deem themselves ill
used at two hours of lessons each day.
The Vouth of Famous Folk.
John Ericsson , the celebrated navi
gator , inventor and builder of the
Monitor , ' was born in the province of
Vermeland , Sweden , in 1803. His
father was .a mine owner , and his
brother was a civil engineer , who be
came chief of the Swedish railways.
As a boy , therefore , young Ericsson
had a chance to learn all about ma
chinery , and he early displayed great
interest in it. Before he was 11 years
old he made a miniature sawmill- and
was able to draw plans of all sorts of
mechanical contrivances which he had
not the materials or the tools to make.
His interest in war was encouraged by
one of his teachers , a German en
gineering officer , who had served with
the celebrated Swedish officer , Gen.
Bernadotte. The boy's plans attracted
the attention of Count Platen , a cele
brated engineer , who secured him an
appointment with the Swedish corps
of mechanical engineers when he was
but 12 years eld. When 17 years of
age he entered the Swedish army as
an ensign. After he had served sev
eral years in the army he removed to
England and made'some unsuccessful
experiments with an engine to be run
by steam. In 1833 he discovered the
important use of the screw propeller in
navigation. He came to America in :
1840 , where aid was offered him in :
putting his inventions into practice ,
tie built for the government the iron
clad steamer Monitor that successfully
fought the Merrimac in Hampton u
Roads in 18G2 and practically revolu-
Lionized the navies of the world , as it
made the introduction of ironclad ves- tj
iels necessary. He died March S. 1SS9.
DEMOCRACY'S CHANCE.
CAN GET FREE TRADE WITH EX
PANSION.
The Party Seems to 15o Agnlnvt Unre
stricted Foreign Competition Regret
In Advance tlio Opportunity to Fight
Next Year's Campaign on Old Llurn.
New York Tribune : This is just the
time of all others , cries a stalwart free
trader , for the democratic party to ac
complish the overthrow of protection
with ease. After battling for genera
tions on that issue , is it conceivable
that the party will run away from it
precisely when the best opportunity of
its whole history comes ? This was
the one question on which it won suc
cess with Cleveland , and it would be
amazing folly now to abandon it for
the one question on which it sustained
its most complete and humiliating de
feat with Bryan. With new posses
sions which produce sugar largely ,
some radical alteration of the tariff
will be unavoidable , and it will be all
the more easy just now to overthrow
protective duties , because the great
industries have gained a hold on for
eign markets , and want protection no
longer. Such , in substance , is the
reasoning of sundry democratic jour
nals which seems to have been sug
gested by certain pithy remarks of
Senator Morgan in the same vein.
That senator will be treated with re
spect by all who appreciate a genuine
Americanism , but if this particular
suggestion were found afloat without
his name attached it might be attrib
uted to those whom that senator holds
in deep contempt as enthusiasts of
things foreign. Where has the senator
learned that American industries no
longer want protective duties , unless
from foreign journals printed on both
sides of the ocean ? He would not find
his constituents about Birmingham of
that mind , ncr the sturdy wool-grow
ers of the west , who have done at least
their full share in maintaining the
honor of the flag. Nor have the wool
manufacturers made so much as a re
spectable beginning in the way of in
vading foreign markets , and they well
know that another Wilson tariff would
mean for them , and necessarily for
wool-growers , another four years of
extreme prostration. But the question
will , in fact , be decided , not by the
manufacturers , but by the millions of
workers who knew what it was to hunt
in vain for work at low wages under
Cleveland. It is exactly because the
democratic party did succeed once on
that issue with Cleveland that it was
ready to run away from it , even into
populism , defeat and disgrace.
The idea that the tariff must be re
constructed because new possessions
grow sugar is presented by Senator
Morgan with his accustomed zeal , but
not with his usual studious examina
tion. If he had reviewed the history
of his country with reference to this
question he would have found that it
had been decided before , and not as he
supposes. Possessions of the United
States do not become part of the
United States until they have been
brought within the union as states or
territories. The tariff is to-day en
forced respecting imports from Porto
Rico and the Philippines exactly as if
they had in no sense become property
of the United States. President McKinley -
Kinley is well advised in declining to
abrogate a law on the supposition that
congress will make such disposal of
new possessions that the tariff will no
longer apply to them. It is a marvel
{
that Senator Morgan seems ready to
assume that Americans will request
the mixed and colored races of the
islands to help Americans govern this
country.
Were it determined on any ground or
.
for any reason to admit the sugar of
Porto Rico free , as the sugar of the
Hawaiian islands has been admitted ,
it does not follow that the consequences
quences would be of large importance.
Porto Rico is not of unlimited size , nor
has it such a supply of unoccupied land
aud available labor as would promise
any vast outcome of sugar. The sup
ply from that island has fallen off ma
terially , to this country more than half
since 1872 , and was never large enough
to all countries to compare with the
quantity received by this country from a
Hawaii. But it may be added for the
enlightenment of free-traders that any
reduction in the revenue derived from
importations of sugar would assuredly
be followed by heavier duties upon the
manufactured articles which this coun
try is able to produce for itself , in or
der to secure further development of s
home industries as a result of the col
lection of a higher revenue for a time.
This country has not done growing yet ,
is not inclined to stop developing its
industries and is not in the humor to
return to the theories which brought °
disaster under democratic rule. :
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Find Out the Cause. ,
;
Some people believe or pretend to believe
n
lieve that commercial affairs have their
ups and downs without any reference
to our governmental policies. The people -
ple who profess such a belief put them ti
selves outside of the nineteenth cen-
iury enlightenment by thus denying , as
n effect they do deny , that there can be ;
no effect without a cause. A little
study would assure them that all sci-
jnce and investigation declare that
jvery effect has a cause. A few years ,
ar even months , in any commercial
louse run on business principles would
ir
soon convince them , if they have minus
apable of being convinced , that in the
ommercial world most especially is >
there a close relation between cause
ind effect.
Business prosperity or business fail
ure are each due to very distinct and >
well-defined causes. The successful
Dusiness man doesn't get success if
hrough chance , but through following
nit well-settled plans carefully laid out
by sound judgment. What is true of
an individual is true of a nation. There
la a cause for every season of national
prosperity and a cause for every period
of hard times , and the way to keep the
country prosperous is to find out the
cause of the prosperity and then to
stick without wavering to the policy
which is responsible for it. Our whole
history as a nation has demonstrated
that the protective tariff is the cause
lying at the basis of our prosperity. We
have always had prosperity when we
have had a protective tariff. The fact
that we have never had prosperity
without it is about the strongest evi
dence that could be offered , and there
h very good reason to believe that the
American people have accepted it as.
conclusive. The protective tariff policy
has come to stay.
Repression anil Snppresulon.
The free trade literary bureau occa
sionally makes an absurd misfit in the
stuff it supplies to Democratic and
Populist papers in various parts of the
country. For example , we find float
ing around in the columns of rural
weeklies this paragraph , dated July 28 :
"Evidently the tariff is not accom
plishing its alleged purpose to foster
competition and advance wages when
the tin plate trusts are united in a com
bine and wages are not advanced. The
Republican talk about the tariff being
for the benefit of the wage earner has
always been the thinnest kind of pre
tense. "
Ten days or two weeks Tjefore this
piece of free trade "news" made its
appearance the wage controversy be
tween the tin plate mills and their
workmen had been satisfactorily ad
justed , and a substantial increase
granted to all employes. Still the lie
sent out by the free trade literary bu
reau has gene the rounds , and it is too
much to hope that it will be followed
up by a statement of the truth.
It is safe to say that the fact of a
large advance in the wages of tin plate
operatives will not be promulgated by
the free trade literary bureau. Never
theless , the country as a whole is well
informed on the subject. It knows that
since domestic industries began to feel
the tremendous spur of activity follow
ing the restoration of the regime of
protection and prosperity wages have
advanced all along the line , and that
for the year 1899 the gross sum paid
out by employers to wage earners in
the United States will exceed by hun
dreds of millions the sum paid out in
the corresponding year of the free trade
administration of 1893-97.
The Democratic mayor of Milwaukee
was right when he said , not long since ,
that it is folly to undertake a "cam
paign of education" for the benefit of
the Democratic party in 1900 in the
face of all the blazing facts of pros
perity and progress. The free trade
literary bureau should act upon this ex
cellent hint and repress itself ; still
better , suppress itself.
Trusts in Kngland.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press , writing from London , says that
the trust movement in England has
reached great proportions. Some of
the commodities which are controlled
by English trusts are gunpowder , iron
bedsteads , steel tubes , dynamite , salt ,
tin plate , rails and coalwhile , the trans
portation rates on all English products-
are controlled by railroad and ship
ping trusts. Not only is this the case ,
but it is also true that there arc great
corporations which monopolize many
of the necessaries of life.
It is strange , perhaps , that such
things could happen in free trade Eng
land , in view of the positive statement
of Trust King Havemeyer that there
would be no trusts here but for the
protective tariff. Yet the truth is the
tiuth , and there is no getting around
it.
As a matter of fact prosperity , and
prosperity alone , is responsible for the
organization of trusts. Without indus
trial activity engendered by a great
and growing demand for manufactured
products , there would be no incentive
to great combinations of capital.
The trusts are a menace , but the tar
iff is not responsible for them. That is
fact which will be made more promi
nent if the Democrats want to make
the tariff an issue in the next cam
paign. Cleveland (0. ( ) Leader.
AVhat He Wnulil lA'.te.
What Mr. Havemeyer would like to
see is the free admission of raw sugar
ind a good-sized duty levied upon re
fined sugar , thus giving his refineries
absolute control of the American mar
ket. After crushing the domestic pro-
luction , Mr. Havemeyor and his asso
ciates would certainly have a good
hing. The great injustice of the pres-
(
jnt schedule lies in the fact that it en-
xbles the southern cane-growers and
he western beet sugar factories to
nake a profit which really ought to go
nto the pockets of the sugar trust.
Mr. Havemeyer is a sadly abused man
ind the best way to do him exact jus-
Ice will be to carry his free-trade
deas a step further and admit refined
LUgar free. Seattle ( Wash. ) Post-In-
slligencer.
Sclllah Demagogues. J
The American people are not likely I
o be easily hoodwinked by the cry of
Ur. Havemeyer. that the tariff is the
nether of trusts , which is being ro
tated parrot-like by the free-trade
otirnals of the country. Instructive
bject lessons in free trade and pro-
action are of recent date and are too
veil remembered by business men.
rhey like the latter , because of the
rosperiiy it has brought , and they are
lot likely to give it up at the behest
demagogues whoe motives are so
ransparently selfish. Grand Rapids
Mich. ) Herald.
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THE TARIFF AS AN ISSUE.
Answer to the ( Jucntlon. "Why Not
Abolish 1'rotectlon ? "
Postmaster General Smith , in an in
terview published in an Omaha paper ,
is credited with having used this lan
guage :
"The tariff is not an Issue of the
same importance as in the past. The
policy of protection aimed to build up
our industries to a point where they
could stand independent on their own
feet. This object has been accom
plished. Protection has established
the complete industrial independence
of this country. More than that , it
may fairly be said that It has substan
tially established our industrial su
premacy. This truth has been demon
strated within the last two years , as
we are now beating the products of the
Old World on their own grounds.
"With this development of our home
industries to the point where they
completely possess the home market
and are able also to reach abroad , the
protective issue has not the same vital
force it had during the period of strug
gle and development. "
This prompts the Chicago Chronicle
to ask : "Then why not abolish pro
tection ? "
The answer is manifest. It is be
cause , without protection , all that has
been accomplished would be destroyed.
While here and there some industry
has under its aegis so thriven and de
veloped as to no longer require the
paternal assistance of the government
and should be placed upon the free
list , instead of being an argument in
support of the abolition of the policy
under which the manufactures of
America are fast reaching the happy
stage of independence , this happy re
sult rather stands as an object lesson
calculated to impress every lover of
his country with the wisdom of that
policy which has brought wealth , hap
piness and prosperity to an entire peo-
pie.
The tariff can no longer be made the
all-absorbing issue of a political cam
paign because the benefits of protec
tion are so universally recognized that
its most persistent enemies have no
longer the courage to assail it. Four
years of contrast under the operations
of each of the two opposing systems
have been fraught with an experience
which the people are unwilling to un
learn. Suffering , beggary , starvation
and bankruptcy , which had settled on
the nation like a pall , have given way
to the most phenomenal era of uni
versal prosperity that ever glorified
and uplifted an afflicted continent , and
the masses refuse absolutely to ex
change the material benefits of a safe
and salutary policy for the promises of
an illusive chimera which had brought
in its train but disaster and ruin.
This is the truism that Postmaster
General Smith announced , and that his
declaration is to go unchallenged is
made evident by the solicitude with
which the leaders of the democratic
party jealously avoid all reference to
the tariff issue. Four years of a de
velopment which has firmly establish
ed our industrial supremacy affords a
practical illustration of the virtues of
a protective tariff which even Mr.
Bryan is content to respect. In this
sense , not only is the tariff no longer
an issue of the same importance as in
the past , but it is in every essential a
dead issue. New Orleans States.
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"What "Would Happen. ,
The London Economist has given
a tabulated list of 187 healthy , robust
trusts now existing in free trade Eng
land. Of these 132 are more than five
years old. In the latter class are 1G
iron and steel combinations , 17 textile
fabric trusts , four paper combines , and :
12 railway rolling stock combinations.
According to the stock quotations and
reported dividends none of these big
;
concerns are at all lank or spindly , not tl
withstanding the absence of a tariff tle
mother to furnish nourishment during a
the period of infancy. All these little at ;
items of information in regard to the fta
extent of the trust system abroad na a
turally suggest an inquiry as to what C
would happen if we complied with the -
Democratic entreaty to "take off the
tariff and bust the trust. " Well , for one atl
tlw
thing , we would be sure to furnish a w
mighty promising field of operations It
Ittt
for the trusts of England , Germany and tttl
the other European nations which are tl
not engaged in the busting process. :
Sioux City ( Iowa ) Journal.
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It Is Different > ow. C (
From Chicago comes the announcement frT"
'
ment that more pianos have been T"
shipped west and southwest in the past
three months than in five years before.
This looks as though the people of the tc
west were able to indulge in luxuries , tcra
and it tells a somewhat different story ra
from that with which the country be rab
came so familiar during the dark days b (
of Cleveland and the Wilson law. Then
the reports from the west told of hard C2
ship , of the giving of mortgages on th
farms and on homes , and of struggles thb
to raise money to meet the interest on b ]
mortgages and debts. Farmers and cl
si
artisans were not buying many pianos
thin
in those gloomy free-trade times.
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Ilavemeyer's Animus. fo
The Democratic press is trying to
make some capital out of the state fii
ment made by Sugar King Havemeyer ,
that "the tariff is the mother of
a
trusts. " The facts are Mr. H. is sour pi
because he did not succeed in securing aj
a higher tariff on sugar , so that his ajw'
trust could not be interfered with. The pa
pawi
policy of the Republican tariff is to give wi
consumers the commodities of life at th
the lowest possible price consistent Pi
with the demands o * revenues and the
protection of American labor. No one.
Democrat or Republican , will have any ru
sympathy with Mr. H. when the ani cit
mus of his expression is understood. it
Waterloo ( Ind. ) Press.
Free Clothing Catalogue.
Ready now. Hoyden Bros. ' clothing
catalogue showing samples and lates.
Mailed fr * .
styles and lowest prices.
on request. Send postal to Hayden
Bros. , Omaha , for prices on any goods
you need. Make yourself at home In
the Big Store when in Omaha.
The Long Island railroad has adopt
ed the rule that passengers are to
'cave the cars by the front door anil
enter by the rear door.
"Circumstances
Alter Cases. "
In coses of scrofula , salt rheum , dys
pepsia , nervousness , catarrh , rheumatism ,
eruptions , etc. , the circumstances may be
and enriching the
altered by purifying
blood'with Hood's Sarsapanlla. It ts tne
all and both sexes.
great remedy for ages
Be sure to get Hood's , because
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Iuys 81,000 a Day for License Fee anil
HUH Muilo Sa.OOO.OOO.
Mexico has a Monaco which outdoes
the sensational marvels of ftfonte Car
lo , reports the New York World. This
gambling palace Is situated in the
center of the city o ? Mexico , nt No. 2
Gante street , its proprietor and man
ager , Don Filipe Martel , is not only a
self-made prince , but a phenomenal
character.
For Don Felipe is not only the king
of gamblers , but a devout churchman
and the chief backer of the municipal
treasurer. Mexico City is almost de
pendent tfpon this one citizen.
Martel was a rich man before the
Mexican government decided to abolish -
ish gambling houses. Many influential
Mexicans objected so seriously to the
absolute stopping of their favorite
pastime that the authorities thought
they would achieve a clever compro
mise by demanding from every gamb
ling resort a daily license tax of $1.000.
No one supposed that tlie gambling
spirit would be strong enough to rise
above this obstacle. This proved to
be the case and one by one the gamb
ling houses closed their doors.
When the field was clear Don Felipe
Martel approached the authorities
with $1,000 in cash and demanded a
day's license. In a few hours his
place was thronged. At a single stroke
he had won the patronage of Mexico
and his doors have never ban closed
since. The daily outlay of $1,000 is
not missed from the daily revenue of
thousands.
It is not remarkable that Don Fe
lipe's personal fortune should have
reached $2.000,000 in spite of the con
stant lavish expenditure. His chief
establishment is as glitteringly ap
pointed as a palace. Liveried attend
ants minister to guests and refresh
ments and cigars are served at the
host's expense. Mexicans find no
amusement more alluring than a visit
to No. 2 Gante street.
Don Felipe's strong religious ten
dencies are so well known that nobody
was surprised when he built recently
in the village of San Angel a church
that cost more than $50,000 . The poor
people of the vicinity and many of
the rich as well have come to regard
him as a sort of fairy prince. His
own style of living encourages this
belief. The Martel mansion in Mexico
2ity , is a magnificent affair , constantly
filled with guests. A curious feature
is that it contains forty windows the
number of cards in the Mexican deck.
M Chinamen.
Philadelphia Press : When contri-
jutions were asked in San Francisco
o pay the expenses of the reception
jiven to the returning California regi-
nents it was noticed that the China-
uen were among the most liberal giv-
rs. Each one of what are known as
.he Six Companies contributed a lib-
jral : sum. the total from this source
ilone being $4,782. This is mucn bet-
er than some American companies
'ully as able did. It is as gratifying
is : it is unexpected. The fact that the
Jhinese in California are willing to
lelp glorify an American army return-
ng from the Philippines so recently
innexed to the United States proves
hat they become
can Americanized as
veil as any other class of immigrants ,
t shows also that
they are not averse
o this country gaining a foothold in
he Western Pacific ocean near to
hina. During the past ten years there
las been an evident subsidence of th *
irejudice against the Chinese , whica
vas once so strong in all the Pacific
east states. Part of this has come
rorn the restriction on immigration ,
vhich has checked the rapid increase
if Chinamen in this
country. LJut a
arger share has come from the demon-
tration that much of the opposition
the Chinese was bused on false
grounds. It has taken some years to
nake this clear , but it is gradually
aaking itself felt , and the result is the
etter feeling between the tv.-o peoples.
The Baker boys of Kentucky , not
aring to be killed in the feud in which
hey are entangled in Clay county ,
rtiere they are largely outnumbered
y the opposing faction , prefer to take
hances with the Filipinos , who do not
hoot as straight nor fight so hard as
he Kentuckians. They have , accord-
ngly , enlisted in the Thirty-first vol-
nteer infantry. This makes about
orty Bluegrass fighters Hatflelds.
Vhites and Bakers in the Thirty-
rst.
rst.A
A Houlton , Me. , man recently took
very good photograph with a simple
asteboard box and a dry plato. An
perture was cut in the box , over
'
hich was pasted a piece of black
aper in which a small hole was made
ith the point of a pin. The box was
hen taken to a dark room and the
late securely fastened inside.
Pekin now has an electric railroad
inning from the south gate of the *
ty to the steam railroad station and
is hoped that permission to enter
ie city itself may be obtained soon
be road is built by a German firm "
