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THE OHIOAOO HS-A-GHLiE, KMING LETTERS SELDOM SHOW NEED. By tu Htctirtn. 1 ' J Hoggin letten tre a drear waste, somotlmes B of imposture, sometimes of ahlftleasness, and oe a caalonally of fonulne need and undeserved mis N err, but tola province has alto a charming oasis. B Thero ta the man whose father uaed to be an W usher In the church where your father once had X a pew, and bad, that Is the father of your cor Hh respondent, the highest respect for the command IHbbJ lng appearance and courteous manner of the other father, that Is your father, on the strength of which the son, being under the weather for the first time In his Ufa, through no fault of his own, feels sure that you will lead him, by return post, $6, to be repaid by four monthly Installments. There Is also the man who was born In the town where 70a once lived Ave years of your life, and that In the days of your childhood, who has followed your career with tlio highest pride over since tboso morning days, has ofton thouaht of writing to you by way of encouragement, and ren of coming to take you by the hand Just for tlio sako of days of Auld Lang Syne, but has been hlndorcd by that mlrlt of dlffldcnco and exccsslvo modesty which has alt long been tbo drawback of your correspondent, who now 2 a business dllllculty casts himself upon his townsman's d and socks n loan of $900 for thrco weoks. The most disappointing letter I ever received although my hopes bad not roached tho boiling point was ono without a signature, Informing mo that the wrltor had boon to touched by the sentiment of ono of my stories, and was genorally so much Impressed by my remarkablo lltorary ability, that bo had placed $5,000 to my credit with n bank s a token of gratitude. As I have nevor board Anything more of this generous gift, I am driven roluctnutly to tho sad conclusion that tho letter was written In n spirit of unworthy sarcasm, and that Its author doslrcd to convey the lmprosslons that ho thought meanly both of raysolf. and my work. Ho wns entitled to his opinion, but It was cruel to trlflo with the worldly hopos of a struggling literary man and to lead htm Into tho cxtravaganco of a now coat when tho old ono would havo dono perfectly well for anoth er winter. "--" kBmZV$lVu".i WWWWXtSfm HPusfrSziMHftL. WHIPPING IN SCHOOLS HELD WRONG. Rev. Or, Seorgt ft Hall. "Is It Right for Teachors to Whip?" In answering this much-discussed quos itlon oil-band most persons would say, "Yes. If It's the othor fellow's kid; no, if It's mine." Human nature Is about tho same tho world over, and It cannot bo changed In a day. But tho spirit of gentleness Is becoming moro marked each docade and the big, brotherly heart of humanity moro tender. Fifty years ago It was almost universal for teachers to whip. A hickory switch for tho smaller children and a good, stout for rule for tlio big boys and girls wero con Idercd almost as necessary In tho arcrago teacher's equip ment as n kuowledgn of reading, writing and the rule of three. But times havo changed and a good teacher will no more think of whipping n pupil nowadays than a physician will think of blistering or blood-letting. The teacher who favors whipping except in extreme Instances Is a blunder buss and should be denied a placo In modern school rooms. It Is wrong for a teacher to whip; first, becauso It can not be dono without dovoloptng anger, both In the teacher and the pupil, and anger is a curse physically, mentally and spiritually. There may be occasions when the whip ping of an unusually obstreperous or brutal pupil Is neces sary for that pupil's control as an example to others, but u a rule I bellovo whipping does a hundred times as much harm m it ever does good. Its psychic effect is demor alising. It embitters, paralyses, blights. In the second place, whipping is wrong because It cre ates animosity on the part of parents and Impels lack of co operation. Most parents believe their children undeserving of punishment at the hands of a stranger. And In this they are right. What moral right has some fidgety school marm or cranky principal to lay hands roughly on your little boy or girl? When you hear that such a thing has happened you instinctively feel that your own flesh and blood has been grossly Insulted, and you have a right to feel so. It makes one's blood boll to read of a lot of cross old maids and dyspeptic males of tho teacher class getting together and passing resolutions in favor of whipping tho little ones. Let them take mora exorcise In the open air and warm up their blood. What man or woman of 40 or 50 does not look back to their childhood with fond memories, recalling, porhaps, Just one teacher who used to romp and play with thorn at recess tlmo or after school hours? Lovo is tho keynote The toacher who cun master tho fino art of govornlng by love, sympathy and the power of gcnulno manliness or woman llncss will nover need to whip. Huch a tcachor is an In spiration. Ills pupils admlro htm almost' to tbo point of roreronce and parents everywhere rise up and call him blosscd. In after years when tho-budding young geniuses hnvo rlponed into manhood and womanhood, honorable and honored largely because of his magic touch at tho begin nlng of life's long raco, they will crown him with blossomj or atrecuon wortn rar more than tlio ransom of a king. 0 Da O. V. IIALL. THE TERRORS OF CHILDHOOD. By It. b. MrrlotUWtton. Tho age of childhood is proverbially inter preted as tho ago of hnpplncss, yet childhood has Its dark passages, Its hopes and fears, and its hours of despair. Tho emotionalism of the child exposes htm to tragic visitations. Tho Incoher ence of a mind In which realism and romanco aro ever at war Is tho sourco ut onco of all his pains and all his pleasures. The Ilkonoss to the sarago llos lu this. The prlmltlvo man lifts up his eyes to the hills and transmutes them to tho homo of terrible gods. Devils swim In streams and out of tbo woods stalk superhuman croatures wearing tho gutso of familiar animals. Tho child's fancy, though capable of brooding theso awful droams, Is yet more deltcato. A mountain at tlmos may even bocomo a valley, and strontus may dry up at will. Tbo scale of the achievements doslgned In a child's mtud is colossal. Thoro is no barrier concolvable to his Imagination. Dragons escape out of books, and creatures of tho air give you friendly ndvlco. Childish tears dropped upon broken toys rend the llttlo honrt as severely as a grown man's hitter sorrow tears his own. It Is a mlstako to supposo that children do not suffor proportionately, though, happily, their woes aro not enduring. If any ono can from' tlio cold dlstanco of his adult manhood look back upon that ago ho will surely recall remarkablo contrasts. Tho sun shines for tho m'ost part brightly on that plain, brighter than In after years, but clouds throng tho sky and round tho corner thero Is always some unknown terror. Thoro Is no daakness Uko tho dark ness of childhood. What watts upon the stairs In tho gloom roady to leap out? What horror comes punctually at dusk to haunt tho donlos of tbo long gardon? What nameless panlo is It that strikes tho familiar streets to the likeness of a savage, threatening wilderness when the nurse has disappeared Into n shop? Tho child alona knows, and the child eannot tell. IIo suffers like tho dumb ani mals, and has no language but a cry. But In tho twinkling of an eye the sun is out and the gardon is alight again, and the horrors of that small and delicate mind are gone. merged into that past from which It is slowly emancipating d useir. TSUMOUt, LAHB VISW !. HENRY E. BRANDT, Paints and Wall Paper, ' e -sj-sjej bincoin AYfinuo rintlxur Prhs.nsjrinpjr and X-rtin. LUTHIN LOOMNt Praaldant WILLIAM LOOMIt Vloa PrMidant MS. A. MOOAN v Oan'l Mgr. and ' ILLINOIS STONE CO.. Dimension and Hubble Stone QUARRIES AT LBflONT. Main Office, cor. 22d and Lumber Sti. ruenoM caiui m. Ymrit Ma. I. Yari-I Ha. S). faad Lumber Sta. CHICAGO EIiIor It., 1 1lk. Iirlfc Oliltlii Tl. Canal 136. Tl. Monro 601. WM. LORIMBR, Proa, and Treaa. J. J. McKBNNA, Vlco-Pros. WM. J. MURPHY, See. Murphy & Lorimer Brick Company Tweed & Rau MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE Glass Signs ahd pine Advertising Frames 298-300 W. Madison Street, - - CHICAGO . TELEPHONE MONROE 1370 FRED W. UPHAM, President. O. O. AdLER, Sec'y and Treas- Fred W.Upham Lumber Co. WISCONSIN HARDWOOD 215 Dearborn Street 'Phone Harrison 4280 Hi 1 1 H-H-M-Hi-n ! - 639 Rookery Building, Chicago Yards Archer and California Ave. Telephone Office, Harrison 933. WAR 8PIRIT DEVELOPMENT. rowers Not Jl recti y Engag-Hl Affected by tlio Contest. The gradual development of tbo war spirit between two nations, as In the prosent contest butweon Russia and Japan, furnishes an interesting psycho logical study, suys the Uoston Trans cript Thoro is not only the growth of prejudice and hosttlo feeling which has led to tho beginning of physical warfare, but also a marked radiation of waves of suspicion and alienation which spread to powers which aro not directly involved. The nation, In ethi cal quality, Is only tho, great multiple of the averaRO Indllvdual, oven though it is popularly supposed to be higher. Nothing will moro quickly attract a crowd of Interested spectators on the street than a tight botweon two men, or even two doss. Tho evolutionary residuum of animalism, though cov ered by a thin veneer of repressive con trol, is stirred into sympathetic vibra tion and breaks through upon slight oc casion. War not only is "hell," but it Is the breeder of moro holL The Immcdlato effoct upon tbo whole world of tbo opening of hostilities in the Far East Is strikingly in evldenco. In splto of strongly avowed neutrality, old International prejudices are rapidly awakening and differences, supposedly obsolete, rekindling. Each nation bo gus to strengthen its dofensos, in crease its fighting equipment and inci dentally wishes to send its observers and even its ships to "look on." Un der the convenient plea of a "protec tion of our Interests" we must become at least Interested spectators. We must have a "linger In tho pie," or at least nave It so near as to pull out a plum if any excuso offers. Even if tho actual merits of tho conflict be quite ovenly balancod there Is llttlo or uo calm and dlguldod neutrality, but plenty of prej udice and sensational misrepresenta tion. The prevailing thought of it is about as abstract as It would be in tbo case of a groat game of football. The human element, which really Is all In clusive, Is left entirely out of consid eration. VICE-ADMIRAL MAKAROFF. torpedo boat they succeeded In blow ing up the Turkish vessel and, It was claimed at the tlmo, thereby mado the first successful demonstration of tho usefulness of torpedo boats In naval warfare. It was Makaroff who originated the idoa of constructing the famous Ice breaking steamor Ermak, which was built on tho Tyno from bis designs. It Is tho largest lco-crusblng steamer In tbo world, and has mado sevoral trips into the Arctic regions. Admiral Makaroff paid three visits to tbo United States, tho first in 1803. Ho mado a tour from California to New York In 1800. and in March, 180S, made a flying visit to Detroit with a party of ltusslans who were looking Into tbo possibilities of Ice-crushtng steamers on tho great lakes with the ond in vlow of constructing several for the Russian government. Admiral Makaroff was born In 1848. IIo served ntt an ensign for two years and as Untenant for six. During tho Russo-Tiirklsb wnr ho commanded the ft i5jSBBBBli''A , ssss ajK Vst a llSlPPfl W&rfrtfiSxjOBBBBmMtyiA fraffitf a& JkmiBwZ'M!.i 1 ts4saSBBBBBSW-'SBBBBBBBBBBBBBV -f dfl f7ljnSBMSBBBBWsBBBBBBBBBBBK'S? SaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBBsBTn! mr 'SBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBHBBBBBBBB.f ADMIRAL UAKASOrr. Death of the "Cowuck of the Bess' a Great Loss to Bnssla. Tbo loss of tho battleship Petro pavlovsk Is a trifling misfortune to Russia in comparison with tbo loss of Vlco Admiral Makaroff, Tho Czar has none too many sea-fighters, and noue at all who aro worthy to rank with tho "Cossack of tlio Seas." Until Mnkaroff arlved at Fort Arthur the Russian naval operations wero characterised by bungling and Indecision, No sooner had he taken command than tho remnants of the fleet began an aggressive cam paign that forced a radical change in the Japanese methods of operation. Admiral Makaroff was appointed to the command of the Russian Pacific fleet on Fob. 20. He was one of the heroes of tho fighting on the River Danube during the Russo-Turklsh war. Makaroff and Skrydloff, who have since raspy times bten honored by their fOTernmsnt, wire at that Urn lieutenants Is the Russian najjr and volufMNd to EtUks a tight attack on a ptwamT fafttsh btacUd, Wlta a gunboat Grand Duke Constantino, which was armed ond equipped ac cording to bis doslgns. At the ond of tbo campaign no was made captain and was gtvon the title of adjutant to the late Cmpcror of Russia. In 1881, Makaroff commanded the guard-ship of the Russiau embassy at Constantino ple, then was appointed chief of staff with the Raltlo fleet, and In 1608 com manded that Hoot In the following year Makaroff was appointed commander-in-chief at Cronstadt, which post he bold until February of the present year, when ho was sent to the far East as commander-in-chief of tho Russian Pacific fleet. Makaroff was an officer of rare ability, possessing more than usual Intelligence and a physical presence which gave him u splendid powor of command. Venison In Germany. Venison, which Is difficult to get lu American markets, may be obtained nearly overy day In the restaurants of Germany at a price llttlo exceeding that of beef. Mrs. Bugglns I don't feel at all comfortable lu these new shoes, Mr. Bugglns What's the matter) don't they hurt? Philadelphia Record. A true hero Is a man who fights for bis country and refuses to wrap with kis wife. A GENTEEL ANARCHIST. John Tnt-nsr, the English Anarchist Now In This Country. Most people class social reformers among tho freaks In personal appear, nnce. Long hair, red neckties, disor derly clothing, shaggy beards and Irregular meals nro supposed to marie anarchists In partic ular. John Turner, tho English trades union Ion dor and anar chist, now In this country, Is not son satlonal. Neither in his looks nor In his John TUiisEii. gpcocb docs ho an swer to common notions of nn anar chist. So mildly has ho spoken as to be almost suspicious. Rut when he Is seen faco to faco, the mildness Is found to bo unassumod; It Is tcmporamontaU Ho has blue eye, smiling and qulztl cnl; a humorous mouth, closo cut fair beard and hair; nnd a goucral well groomed appearance. Soon after his rcloaso on ball from the cago on Ellis Island In which Mr. Turner spent tho enrly months of bis visit to this country be was tho guest of honor at a meeting in Boston. Ous of tho speakors, Lloyd (Inrrlson, re marked Jocosoly: "I begin to understand why the American government considers Mr. Turner a very dnngorous character. The calm and studious manner in which he presents his views might well 'I give causo for alarm because of his moderation, nnd thus may woll be con vincing to other calm and studious' minds." Speaking of his arrest, Turner said: "It Is pathetic to think that a groat people Uko the Americans, with the sweep and breadth of their groat laud, and their varied peoples, cosmopolltau or native, should becomo potty, It Is peculiar wbon tbo reformer, tho dream er, who has in mind the Ideal state of society a hundred years In advance of ours, Is classed among criminals and degenerates. Why, historically, Amer ica Is Indebted to anarchical luoos for its very Independence, You bad anar-il cby here during the whole hereto per lod, 1778 to 1787, the first eleven years of your cxlstenco as a free country." Caso of Vory Bad I.uok, ' uld you over ask your hutband not to bot on the races?" "Once," answered Mrs, Torklns. "Didn't It do nny good? "I should say It didn't. That was tbo only day bo over got a tip on a horse that actually won." Washington Star. Not an Extensive Edition, "I think," said tho first author, "that I shall write a two-volumo novel ua my next effort" "Yes?" smiled his rival. "Yet, I think that will be a large enough edl tion." New York Dally News. Hwallows' Nests. Swiss schoolmaster who has made a special study of swallows has found sight nests built in bedrooms, four la schoolrooms and one in a tavern. jSSBRTGSSfe CEMENT PAVING . 177 LA SALLE ST. 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