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The Poor Voter on Elrrtlon Day. The proudest now is but my peer. The highest not more high; Today, of all the weary year. the pc-ople'o hall, box my throne. )day upon the list I he ballot and dainty hand' eve! with the poor, - strong today; broadcloth counts no se My stubborn right abide; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. Today shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand. While there's a grief to seek redress, Or balance to adjustt Where weighs our living manhood less Than Mammon's vilest dust; While there's a right to need my vote, A wrong to sweep away, I'ji clouted knee and ragged coat! A man's a man today! John Q. Whittler. When Work Meeoniea Toll. Like animals, man eats, sleeps, loveB, reasons. How like a young animal Is the baby, and how unlike in this the play of the young child and the play of the young animals. The young ani mal's play is purely physical diversion. The play of the child is physical di version, plus creative activity. The child is creating something. Its very dreams are constructive. There is method in the madness of its riotous imagination. Even In infancy it weaves and fashions and forms creates some thing. We call It play. It Is work, tremendous, Intense work. It is not toll. Toil comes later. The child Is father to the man. As Is the child, so should the man be. A creator, a work er, never a toller. Work becomes a toll, when there 1b no pleasure, no pur pore, no creation in It. A friend de clares that thee are no lazy men. The jaluggard is only a man doing some thing he doesn't like. Give him the thing be likes, and Instantly he is awake. Just here Is the curse of the development of the factory system of doing the world's woik. The piece work system Ib enough to bring up a race of sloths or imbeciles. Apparent ly there Is no escape from piece-work. The more's the pity. In dollars and cents it is unquestionably the cheapest way of making things. In Intellect and manhood. Its cost is terrific. Just now I am merely H 171 In a great fac tory of well on to 5,000 workers. All or nearly all doing, day by day and year by year, Just one process In the making of a well-known product. The men are not, or need not be, machin ists only machine tenders. The think ing has all been done by the Inventors of the machines and of the product to be fashioned or formed. As H 171, I a-in a truck hand, delivering shop orders to and from the store room to the men at the machines. The ma chine tender gets $2. 60s a day for ten hours' work. He earns It not so much in what he does, as in what he sacri fices. All the creative activity of childhood is sacrificed. It Isn't hard, muscular work to tend and watch a machine turn or bore, or bush something, but the horror of it is CiAt there is a man the Lord God made, to have dominion over land and sea. getting smaller every day. The law of life is use or lose. I see a great many young men, many not over sev enteen It's a big thing for a young fellow to make $2.50 a day. I'm not so sure. The odds are he U bigger the day be began that he will be in a year, a decade or a lifetime. He has laid down In a Procrustean bed, that cuts 'off the growth of the mind. To a young man. with a machine, "Whit s that you are making?" "That's more than I know." "How long have you been making them?" "Two weeks." "What is It used for?" "Search me If I know." A truck hand has many com pensations for his smaller pay His work Is so varied that be can not rest, la handling the various products I work op all sorts of muscular com binations, that are nearly as good as gymnastic exercises Bat there is one thing in the truck business that Is too much for me. I can't count Teach ers' certificates and a college diploma I have had. but I can't count a me jji tnglest mass of pins or pistons or coupling studs, screws or bolts To ait for an hour and a half, saying six, twelve, eighteen, is of all bard things the hardest My mind plays bookey. The other day I got lost and all mud died up. The man who had made these things a lit;-, brass bushing , veT mad and distrusted. He called to the boas In great disdain and sar rasa to send a man with that fellow to help him count. I was duly hu- , animated After I bad a chance to pull myself together and- reflect I ceased to be sorry and became thankful, thankful that I can't count. I'm truly sorry for those who have been dwarfed until they can count right. The soul of man is like acetylene gas, very harmless and useful when not com pressed, tut along about 143 pounds pressure It becomes unruly, blowing up at the slightest pretext. I do not wonder (I'm not excusing, only ex plaining) the madness of men. The man whrse soul has been kept under daily pressure of meaningless toil Is as dangerous as dynamite. Some day there will be an explosion. The most natural, the most logical thing for a man, who for ten hours exists but doesn't live; who makes, but does not create, the natural thing get drunk; to take some the moment of intoxlcati the dwarfed soul feel big cusing, only explaining, is to go and thing that In m will make I'm not ex- when I say that dissif irom unnu i is natural reaction contraction of the na tive powers of a man. Apparently there is no help for the piecework patch wc rk system. I say apparently, for I'm not so sure. One of the most intelligent men In the factory, who has an easy job of testing gauges, tells me that he can't test as many in a day as when he began. This man Is an exception to the rule. He has been rotated, and can do many things, sqjbetimes for a couple of days h? w-ks at a lathe. Then, when he comes to his gauges, he says that he can dig in and do better, than where continuously doing the same thing. I know of one very successful factory that, at a matter of policy, rotates all its men, giving to each one widest ex perience and mental development. The truest thing that Froebel ever said the cere of his philosophy, the magical secret of the kindergartens is this: 'The human organism develops by creative activity." If there is no bet ter way than the minute subdivision of labor, then there is an added re sponsibility for some one or ones to do something to save the man from mental and moral decay. In cases of poisoning it is customary to keep the patient winking to shake off sleep. Sleep were death. Something must be done to shake off mental sleep, the sleep of death. Happy is the man who has a hobby. There Is one cardinal consideration, ten hours of such mean ingless toll precludes doing anything for the toilers. Eight hours is the maximum. I have in mind a man who for years has sat with several thou sand Iron handles at bis side. He takes one up, drive a drift through the eye, simply that and nothing more. How meaningless the creation prelude. "In our image." How mocking the mem ory of childhood's divinely creative play. "Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor." Can the world's work be done in such a way, that we all may come to the "fullness of the stature of a man?" The problem of social evolution is to crown the common man with the glory and honor of manhood, as God planned it, as the baby reveals it. Geo. L. McNutt, in Indianapolis News. Compulaory Arbitration Law, Speaking of the compulsory arbitra tion law of New Zealand the Shoe Workers' Journal says: "Because it has proved to be successful In New Zealand It does not necessarily follow that such a measure would be benefi cial to the unionists In this country. Many mistakes have been made by jumping at conclusions. If such a measure were introduced In a legisla tive body in this country we have no assurance that when it was referred to a committee we should be able to rec ognize it when it comes from the com mittee. It is likely that any effort along that line would result in giving us a law which would render the con ditions of the worker far more intol erable than they are now. There are two sides to the question of compul sory arbitration as well as to all other questions. Not a single prominent American trades unionist has advocat ed the New Zealand compulsory arbi tration method, only a few so-called reform papers and a few labor papers, whose editors lack practical knowledge of industrial conditions, are praising It We see no reason why under the plsn of voluntary arbitration the prin lple of arbitration will not be ad vanced as rapidly as the Intelligence of all parties will permit Under no clr cumstances does organized labor care to have its hands tied, and least of all by those who profess to be its friends." TaitUe Work era Low Ware. E. C. Havens of Jamestown, N. T., was in Chleaf". recently seeking aid for the ttriklnt, 'utile worker of that place. The striker., were employed in the worsted mills of Hall ft Co and asked for an increase of S cents a day In wages. They were receiving from 65 to 85 cents a day. The Increase was refused and the strike followed. Only I nine W. C Ds is. a member of the execu tive board of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Iron and Steel Workers, re ports that the steel rail mill of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chi cago Is the only union rail mill in the United Statea. How about that diary you started In keep last January? YOUNG BEFORMEBS. CHINA'S HOP LIES IN GENERATION, NEW Boron Mast tome Sara Mm ma Wu Tine fmjig Uu l!riuK About Mow state of Affair la the Ancient Em pire. "Some heve a tendency to say that the present troubles in China arose out of the missionary question. This is an extremely narrow view, and it indicates that the one who holds it knows i curred i present of the ( ack of what has oc e past year. The are tne last efforts rvatlves to preserve bich have existed In usand years. I have ids among the young ond, third and fourth a number of 1 scholars, first. graduates. They are young men wi.o have studied English, and who have started English schools. Their schools have been destroyed by the Conservatives, and for the past two years they have been out of employ ment. All of them, so far as I know. are still pursuing the same line of study, confident that conservatism is a thing of the past, that reform must come, and when it does come they will be ready for it. Such men are of the class of Minister Wu Ting-fang, Lo Feng-lo and Mr. Yu, minister to France, who called upon me a few days before he sailed for France. During our conversation I alluded to the at tempt he had made to entertain some foreigners on New Year's day, and to serve them with tea, coffee, wine and cakes. The Conservatives of the Ex-Empress j Evigenie y j In a little village in Surrey, Eng., as remote from the great world as a desert island, the ex-Empress Eugenie, widow of the third Napoleon, is spend ing the evening of her days. Her home, Farnborough Hill, is so closely hidden by trees that at no point can the all-pervading tourist gain a glimpse of the quiet gabled bouse. The empress, a sad, white-haired woman, almost crippled with rheumatism, spenda her time chiefly in prayer. Close to her home she has built the pure white mausoleum, with its dome and many Bplres, that can be seen from all points of the country for miles around. There black-robed Benedictines pray constantly for the good estate of the souls of Napoleon III. and the prince Imperial. The empress Is too Infirm now to sit, as she used to, In the sanctuary of the great white church; mass Is said, gen erally by the prior, at her own house. Under the church, in the crypt, are two great sarcophagi in red granite, covered with wreathes of Immortelles Russia's Corner on Sugar Each year the Russian minister of finance fixes the amount of sugar ilch shall be produced in the empire 9'l sets the prlco at which it shell be old. The average domestic consump tion Is about 1,000,000.000 pounds. This is announced as the legal limit of pro duction which shall be put upon the market during the year. In addition to this, It Is allowed to manufacture 180,000,000 pounds more, which la placed in storage. The 1,000.000,000 pounds, as it is sold, pays an excise tax of 2 cents a pound. If at any time through Increased demand sugar WHAT A DOLL DID. Plaything- Had Soothing Influence I'pon Warlike Apaehe. A strange story is to'.d of bow a child's plaything once had a soothing Influence upon a warlike Apache trib3 and was the means of avoiding a seri ous war. It happened that Mr. Bourke was iu Arizona with Gen. Crook. The general was trying to put a band of Apaches back on the reserve, out could not catch them without killing them, and that he did not want to do. One day his men captured a little Indian girl and took her to the fort She was quiet all day. raying not a word, but her black beads of eyes watched every thing. When night came, however.she broke down and sobbed Just as any white child would hawe done. They tried in vain to comfort her. and then Mr. Bourke had an idea. From the adjutant's wife he borrowed a pretty doll that belonged to her little daugh ter, and when the young Apache waa made to understand that it was hers to keep her sobs ceased, and she fell asleep. When mo-nina; came the doll waa still clasped In her arms. She played with It all day and apparently all thought of ever getting back to her tribe had left her. Several days passed and as no overtures shout the return of the papoose had been made by the tribe, they sent her. with the doll st.'ll in her possession, back to her people, air. Bourke had no Idea of the effect his benevolent act would have upon the Indians. When the child reached them, with the pretty doll In Its chub by hands. It made a great sensation among them, and later on Its mother came faecfc to the post with It She waa kindly received and hospitably Tsungli Yamen would not allow you to entertain the foreigners on New Year's day as you wished?' I said. 'No,' he replied, 'but this thing will not con tlnue. The world is rapidly slipping out from under these old men's feet. There are not any strong men among the young Conservatives. They are simply hangers-on, and when these few old Conservatives die, China can easily be reformed.' The wife of Mr. Yu is a Eurasian woman. His two daughters dre6s in European clothing when they go calling in Peking. They converse freely in Japanese, Chinese. French and English, as do also his sons. On one occasion some of the j old Conservatives went to the Empress Dowager and said to her: 'Do you I know that the man whom you have had as minister to Japan, and whom I you are about to appoint as minister to France has a foreign wife?' 'Has i he any children?" the old Dowager ' asked in return. 'Yes, indeed, he has grown sons and daughters.' 'Then it is late in the day to report him to me. Why did you not report him before? We cannot separate a man from his wife and family even though Bhe is a "foreign devil." ' It could not add much interest to the readers of this paper to describe in detail the other leaders of the Conservative party. They are Prince Tuan, Li Ping Heng and Tung Fu-Hsiang. Princa Tuan is I the son of the fifth prince that is, j the son of the fifth brother of the hus band of the Empress Dowager. This husband was never heard of until his son was selected to be the successor to the son of the Empress Dowcger in stead of Kuang Hsu. His greatest vir tue Is his conservatism, which Is a vice. Also his ability us a warrior has baen greatly over-estimated." I. T. Head land in Ainslee's. PATHETIC DFR. OF GLORIES FR.ENCH REMIN THE OF THE EMPIRE and cards signed by many royal hands. The emprcus who, even at the height of her glory as a sovereign and a beautiful woman, was renowned for her charity, is now a benefactress to the poor roundabout Farnborough, She often drives In the very plainest of black broughams with servants in deep mourning, and when she was in better health it was no uncommon sight to see it drawn up at one or other of the humbler cottages in the neighborhood. She entirely supports and has endowed the monastery at tached to the church. There Is a private way from Farnborough Hill to the mausoleum. A small wooden gate with a peculiar catch used to connect the two properties, but the empress is hardly ever able to use It now. The anniversary of the prince Imperial's death is a day of great anguish to the empress. Hers Is one of the saddest faces It can fall to one's lot to know, and compared with the radiant por trait of her by Wlnterhalter, for in stance, Its pathos is tenfold Increased. The Government Fixes the Amount to bi Produced, Also the Price. becomes worth more than the price fixed by the government, the 180,000.000 pounds in reserve are allowed to reach the market free of excise duty. If this Hces not supply the market at the le gal price the government Itself will buy from foreign countries enough sugar to supply the need for a bear In fluence upon the price. This has been done in Russia twice during the past ten years. This system, of course, pre eludes any export business in sugar, but the Russian government does not believe that the exporting of sugar from Russia can be made profitable or advisable, so it does not encourage it treated, and through her the tribe was soon afterward persuaded to move back to the reserve. The Balloon Bunt. The most dreadful aeronautic posi tion, perhaps, which it Is possible to conceive Is that described In "Memoirs of Sir Claude de Cresplgny." Burnaby, a noted "erocaut. was making an as cent from Cremorne with two French men, one of whom was the inventor of the balloon in use. When they were about a mile and a half high, tue appalling discovery was made that the neck of the aerostat, which should have been left open to allow the gas to escape, was still tied up with a silk handkerchief. The balloon was now quite full, and the atmospheric pres sure was rapidly decreasing is the aeronauts ascended, while the gas, having no exit, continued to expand. It was impassible to get at the neck and lo sen the fatal handkerchief, and to make disaster doubly sure, Che valve-line was out of reach. The only thing the men could do was to sit still and await the bunting of the balloon and the fatal dash to earth. Within a few minutes the balloon burst, and instantly began to rush earthward with Increasing velocity. But by a piece of wonderful good fortune, the balloon In Its downward course met the resistance of the air In such a way as to form a huge parachute, and the happy aeronauts landed unhurt in a field Just outside the city. Mother Eve may hare Invented curi as) ty, but she Is the only woman oa record who never turned around to fee what the other woman had on. WOOING SLUMBER. 6HAH SLEEPS WHEN PATTED ON THE HACK. Greek Brigand Who Waa Sent to Slvep by a Qold I'lera Dropping froaa tfae Koof of HU (are to a Carpet Be neath. Sleep, Oh, gentle sleep, how have I frightened thee?" asked the distracted king in Shakespeare's play of "Henry IV," an-i It is a question which '.hou sands of weary mortals both before and after that soveteign's t'me have been in the habit of framing, though no answer has been forthcoming. That several ingenious persons have, how ever, solved the problem of inducing sleep, the following peculiar methods of counteracting insomnia will clearly demonstrate: His imperial majesty, the bJiah of Persia, was a martyr to insomnia for a long time, until in a happy moment of inspiration, one of the court physicians hit upon the ex- i traordinary notion of patting the auto . crat on the arms and back until sleep : weighed down his eyelids. So admir I able was this specific found to be that : it was Immediately adopted by the I shah, and It Is stated that the suite winch accompanied him to Europe contained among other functionaries, two "patters," whose sole occupation took the form of helping to send their master into the realms of the drowsy Morpheus. At the Paris exhibition there Is shown the model of a cave once occupied by a famous Greek brigand, who was in the habit of be ing sent to sleep by the dropping of piece of gold from the roof of the cave on a carpet beneath. The gold thus dropped presented some of the booty that had been acquired from passing travelers, and how dear had the sound Disappearance of Gold For various reasons, gold disappears quickly in all countries but nowhere else does it pass out of sight so rapid ly as In India and China. Sc rapidly does the precious metal vanish in these two Oriental lands that they have come to be known as gold graveyards. It is estimated that in the regency of Bombay alone there are 12.000,000 gold sovereigns hoarded. Hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars lie In the hiding place of the famine-stricken land. All classes are afflicted with the incurable habit of hoarding gold. The splendid Maharajahs are shrewd enough to use banks of deposit, but there is still barbaric display of jew eled Idols in the strongrooms and of golden vessels In the princes' apart ments. But India and China are not the only countries which absorb gold without ever giving it back again. As a matter of fact. In all countries there Is a tendency on the part of coined TOO MUCH TO LEARN attrrliant Knew (ountry Boji Wi.nl. I "See" tba Towa. The carefully reared young man had left his native village and gone to the city to And a situation and a career. His acquaintance was small, and be cause of that he simply went about from place to place, seeking whatever fate might throw In his way. He wanted to get Into a wholesale grocery house, and of course he only visited houses in that line. He was almost rudeiy turned away from the first three or four places. ut ha finally found one wheTe the proprietor him self received him with courtesy He stated his case briefly and clearly, as be had read in a guide book to young men starting out in life, and the mer chant looked him over. "Um." he said, thoughtfully, "you have had no experi ence in this business?" "No. sir," re sponded the applicant, "but I want to learn It." "Yes, I see. Do you chew tobacco?" "No. sir." "Do you smoke?" "No, sir." "Do you play poker?" "No sir." "Do you bet on thr races?" "No sir." "Do you drink?" ' No sir." "Do you run around at night?" "No, sir." "Um eh." hesitated the merchant, "and you have had no experience In this business?" "No, sir, but. as I said, I want much to learn It." "I'm sorry," said the merchant, shaking his head, "but I'm afraid you won't do. You see, your early education has been neglected, and you are handicapped now with so much to learn that the Lord only knows when the business would have a chance. Stay in town a year, and then come and see morning." New York Sun. Goo I Wlralee Teteg-eapby at I Panae. Marconi is ready to begin a new series of experiments with his system There are about 80,000 prisoners la the state penitentiaries of the union, whose average term of service cannot be over three or four years. This throws back upon the community from 20.000 to 25.000 hopeless criminals yearly. A few of them learn some of the simpler trades. But at the expira tion of their sentences they naturally find the world s-jspicious of their most sincere professions of reform. Mrs Maud Baiiington Booth has taken their needs upon her heart, and the only fear is that she may break down under the strain before being able to make permanent provisions by endow I Mrs. Booth's (are (or Pischdrgcii (unvias. of coin 1 but the t aoothe hi or many years in th that the with it a Somewhi pillow of a sachet of smell of which, he Je send him to sleep In minutes. Very pecuiiai lowing: A middle-aged had lived for many yen ward compelled to live, he the absence of the s a mui bed him of s.eep. He rhert up in his bedchamber an which was so constructed sound of the waves as they I the shore was most cleverlj Aided by this fictitious ap; engineer was enabled to slei ly and the apparatus con constant use until the day of some years later. In some ited. the lect in vail upon their friends to administer to them very sound floggings with bamboo canes. The pain thus sus tained Is supposed by the natives In same, there are few insomnia patients in this country who would resort to so drastic a measure for curng their complaint London Tit-Bits. In All Countries the Precious Met a. I la Soon Loat Sight of. gold to get out of sight and stay bid den. Of the vast amount of gold that Is annually mined and put into cir culation, there always remains a heavy balance unaccounted for, even after all allowance has been made for use In the arts, for loss by friction and for what would seem a fair amount to charge to loss by fire, by being sunk in deep waters and by hoarding. Since the resumption of specie pay ments in 1879, treasury officials esti mate that $300,000,000 in gold bas dis appeared from circulation in the United .States The Bank of England Is said to be poorer by (100.000,000 In gold than It was in 1897. France re ports an Immense decrease In gold coined and In reserve and other coun tries have similar stories to tell. Where all the vast missing treasure Is stored no one can tell, but It Is probably dis seminated in Innumerable places from which it never emerges. of wireless telegraphy at La Panne, on the Belgian roast. The apparatus baa been fixed from a bar at the top of a mast 150 feet high. Two wires reach the apparatus, the one running through a series of Instruments for In creasing the current to a Morse opera tor, and the other running to the ground. When it Is required to tele graph to a vessel within a radius of 200 miles the apparatus Is set to work I and any se hv 1 receiver will caicn tne message. Marconi has re cently succeeded In preventing any receiver other than that for which the message Is intended receiving the cur rent, a mast sixty-five feet high has been raised on the Ostend-Dover Bel gian mail steamer Princess Clemen tine. On the top of this mast Is the Marconi apparatus. The experiments will last all winter before any decision will be made by the government as to the permanent use of the system. Harry Turk Sherman. In Chicago Rec ord. Waa Well-Known la I'arla. Founder of the French Jockey the Count de Juigne. has ri n-ut! He was professor of one of the rgfst well racing stables In Franco. known on the English turf, and In particular, a familiar figure on the race course at Baden Among the richest landed proprietors In Brittany late for thirty d one of the tentlemen In rs old. he was i-ars. he was cons sccompllshei Though 7r man in Pa In the ligh Hn Parents who want t! be polite must hare themselves. ir children to good manners ment for her Hope Halls '' Two of these are now in operation, one in New York and one In Chicago, tba former having been opened four years since, and the latter only two. Be tween 8.000 and 9.000 men have been recelvedsheltered and encouraged to begin life anew by means of these In stltutions. Seventy-five per rent of those thus befriended have done well after obtaining employment The present expense of conducting the two halls is about $6,000 a year. All of thla sum Mrs. Booth has personally soltcltr- and obtained year by year. Chicaju Interior.