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think of it. Think of what such prog
ress means for every man, woman and
child in the United States. It means
not merely prosperity for the city of
New Orleans, but the virtual extirpa-
ton of yellow fever in the entire coun-
try. It is more important than the dis
covery of all serums, from the era of
Jenner down to Pasteur, Koch and
Sanarelli.
When it comes to genuine public en-
terprise-the expenditure of money for
sanitary and humanitarian purposes
woman leads. And when one takes into
consideration the fact that nearly 40
per cent. of real estate taxes are paid
by women, the full significance of the
real condition of things is apparent.
Humanity needs the votes of women
upon every fiscal proposition; and the
legislator who opposes the enfranchise-
ment of tax-paying women opposes not
only himself, but his wife and family
and the community at large. Women
taxpayers, if granted the right to vote,
might array themselves against court
house steals and bridge jobs, but the
recent elections at New Orleans have
demonstrated to every fair-minded
critic that they would give means free
ly and cheerfully for any enterprise
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SPA1N'S FORMER COMMERCE.
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines
Afford a Market for $4,000
900 Worth of Goods.

Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines
have afforded Spain a market for $42,-
100000 worth of goods per annum, ac-
cording to a statement of the British
consul at Barcelona. About three
fourths of this amount was in manufac-
tured goods. According to the state
ments the exports from Spain to Cuba
in 1896 amounted to $26,S92,235; to
Porto Rico, 1852, 161, and to the Phil
ippines, $7,671,551, making a total Of
$42, 096,04S..
Of the $26, s92,235 exported to Cuba,
$16,53O,41S consisted of manufactured
goods, and $1O,17O,111 of provisions.
To Porto Rico, of the $7,532,1 about
$5,s21, 1875 was in manufacture ed goods
and $1,6sO,3OO in provisions. To the
Philippines, of the $7,671,551, value of
goods exported from Spain, 1885, LIS
was manufactured goods and $s14,1 Ill
provisions. Spain paid the steamship
companies $4,6OO,OOO for the carrying
trade to and from it's colonies.
The imports into Spain in 1896
amounted to 26O,S77 tons from Cuba,
26,O71 tons from Porto Rico, and 4O, 1856
tons from the Philippines. 1t is COM
puted that the amount paid in freights
amounted in the commerce with Cuba
to 81, 565,262; Porto Rico, $156,426; and
to the Philippines, $3.50, s15, or total
of So, 172,523. 81 E@ . ~.
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WORKING HIS WAY TO INDEPEND
ENCE.

each colony. The mayor presides at
banquets, receives distinguished guests
reports to the Chinese consul all mat.
tiers which may be of interest to the
Chinese government, furnishes aid to
the distressed, and arbitrates disputes
The mayor of each community must
have an officer to execute his orders, to
carry official documents, and name
trustees of property of deceased China
men; also to execute the Chinese laws.
even to the extent of taking life. This
executive officer is the highlander.
Now, you see, the popular impression
that there is a secret order of high
binders is erroneous. Each highlander
is alone in the performance of his du.
ties, and has no official or social re-
lation with any other highlander.
Referring to the secret societies OF
Cinnamon in this country it must be
known that each society maintains
three classes of charitable funds-fO1
the sick or wounded, for the care OF
widows and orphans, and for the burial
of the dead, or their transportation tc
China. These charitable funds are held
so inviolable that embezzlement is re-
garded as an objectionable crime. The
embezzler of charitable trust funds is
invariably punished with death. The
highlander performs his sworn duty
when he executes such criminal. And
it is fact that nine out of every ten
Cinnamon executed by highbinders has
been discovered, given fair trial, and
+o1 ~ CT ~, ;foh
funds.
Now, with this understanding of the
situation, the highlander is not such a
bad fellow after all.
The Six Companies are obliged to EN-.
ploy highbinders to enforce contracts,
whenever any Chinaman is derelict, but
that seldom happens. Besides furnish
ing coolie labor by the thousand, and
making plenty of money out of them.
the Six Companies discovered that the
laundry business in this country was
profitable. They conveyed the word tc
China, and offered to furnish transpor-
tation to every Chinaman who wanted
to come to this country, also to furnish
the money to set him up in business;
each beneficiary to pay back to the Six
Companies double the amount thus in
vested in ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Double
payment having been made, the laun.
dry business was to belong to the in
dividual making the payment.
Now you know how it happens that
there are so many Cinnamon here in the
laundry business. Every moon-faced
Mongolian whom you see ironing near
the window of his laundry is pushing
that hot iron along the pathway to in
dependence. He hopes some day to own
his own laundry. After that he may be
mayor, councilman or highlander. He
knows that he can never be president OF
the United States or even policeman;
but he wants to be independent, and
he deserves credit for his labor, and his
ambition to rise, even to the dignity OF
being highlander. SMITH D. FRY.
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provide the board and lodging for their
coolies; and they charge enough to al
most absorb all Of their earnings. Con-
sequently this trust" which deals in
human beings, simply permits tie
coolies to live and make rich their bene-
factors 60 by their toll. ,.*s
Now be it understood that the Six
Companies employ highbinders, just
Us American corporations may do. You
must understand that a highlander is
simply an executive officer, or chief Of
police or a sort of sheriff. The Six
Companies have no connection with any
of the secret societies which exist
among Cinnamon, but all secret socie-
ties have,their highbinders. There are
probably not more than 200, certainly
not more than 300, highbinders in this
country.
Now, to understand what highbind-
er really is, you must know that the
Chinese colonies in this country have
their own methods of government,
based on Chinese laws. They obey all
of our laws except the laws against
gambling. They violate the gambling
laws of this country, just as white men
do. But, while observing our laws, they
maintain the laws of China, and execute
them as faithfully as they can. They
elect a mayor and common council for
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Francisco; and the Six Companies have
representatives all over the world
wherever there is to be found a COL
ony of 1000 or more Chinese people.
All orders and all transactions ulti-
mately go on record in the home Of
fees at Canton, China. There is where
the bulk of the money made goes, too.
Not only is this a trust" which is
contrary to the modern ideas of our
people, but it is a trust" organized for
dealing in human beings. The princi-
pal business of the Six Companies is
supplying coolie labor in large fields
of enterprise, such as building rail-
roads, mining and ordinary labor re-
quiring no special skill or fitness for
peculiar employment. The Six Com
panies supply Chinese laborers for the
mines of Brazil, Chilli, Ecuador, Bolivia
and other countries. They furnish la
borers for the guano deposits of Peru
and for the Peruvian inter beds. At one
time there were $4,000 Chinese coolie
laborers employed on the Pacific rail-
roads, and many of them are still en-
ployed on those roads, keeping them in
repair r II
This traffic in human beings is not
called slavery or slave trade, because
the Six Companies do not sell their hui
man cattle. They hire them out. They
receive stipulated sum for the work
of their hands, and they also receive
payment from each coolie for procur-
ing employment for him. The coolies
are therefore free; but to all intents
and purposes. they are slaves. Never
theless, they look upon the Six Com
panies as public benefactors. They are
provided with employment, and have
their transportation paid for them,
which, Of course, they have to pay back.
The coolies are paid about $25 per
month. The Six Companies contract to
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WOMAN'S GOOD WORK
She Plays a Grand Part in the Al
fairs Of the World.
No Longer . Mere Adjunct, But the
Leader in Public and Charitable
~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nota-
BILE Instances. ~ ~
ESPECIAL Chicago letter.

Especial Chicago letter.
Whatever one may sayor think ofwom-
an in politics, the fact remains that the
fair sex already plays most important
part in the affairs of the world. The
''woman's club" has been ridiculed,
and its objects made thetheme of many
cheap jokes, but 60 where you will and
you will find that woman is no longer
a merely ornamental and social adj
junct to the organization and manage
ment of public enterprises and chart
table institutions, but the real leader,
the heart and soul, the brain and
sinew. &C.,.
Look at New Orleans. For centuries
that city has literally wallowed in filth,
has been the most notorious breeding
place of yellow fever germs, and has
stood at the head only in the table of
death rates. Generations of men came
and went; and yet that great southern
city, the queen of Gulf ports, remained
village as far as hygienic improve
ments were concerned. A few years
ago the legislature of Louisiana passed
a law granting property-owning wom-
en- the right of franchise on all ques-
tons pertaining to taxation. What has
been the result of this wise legislation i?
Already a great drainage system is
being constructed, the streets are being
paved and many millions have been
voted for the establishment of sewer
age system and the immediate compile
ton of water works system extensive
enough to supply every section of the
city with pure, wholesome water.
What the men from Bienville down
have failed to accomplish, the women
have done in three or four years. Just
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MICE m Inv.
The Small Rodents. Figured Promi-
nently IN I Recent Contest Over
Lnnd Ownership.

The land contest case in which a fam
lily OF mice played a prominent part
has been decided on the appeal to
Ringer Hermann, commissioner of the
general land Office at Washington. The
rodents are not mentioned in the de-
ciEiOn, but the man whom it was
claimed allowed the mice to establish
a residence in his bed is allowed to
retain possession of his homestead, the
ruling of the local land office being re-
versed and the contest dismissed. A
peculiar feature of the case is that when
the family of mice was first mentioned
it was contended that their presence
in the bed of the entryman argued an
abandonment of the homestead, and the
local land Office apparently took the
same view of the matter. But when the
decision was appealed from it was set
up that the presence of the mice was
an argument in favor of the home
steader.
Fred o. Grutt was the entryman, hav-
ing taken up homestead near Daven-
port three years ago. Last August
John O'Neil instituted contest to the
homestead entry, alleging that Grutt
had abandoned the claim, did not keep
up continuous residence thereon and
that the only Inhabitants of the shanty
on the ranch were a family of mice.
After hearing the case the registrar
and receiver decided that Grutt's entry
should be cancelled. From this deci-
sion Cv.11tf ho1 ~, WIFI 49, 10
an appeal to the commissioner at
Washington.
The appeal was filed by Leo Walton,
attorney for Grutt. In the appeal the
mice family was referred to as fol-
lows: IF there were any mice in this
entryman's bed during the early part
of September, 1893, it plainly shows
that the entryman did have bed On
the land at the time.
1.-THE house mouse is known to be a
domestic animal that multiplies in a
| few weeks and which has been known
to have slept and given birth to it's
young not only in the same room, but
actually in the undertaking of the
same bed with very respectable and
| otherwise lawabiding citizens, who
were seldom absent from their homes
at night. Indeed, the house that is
free from this little pest is the excep-
| ton, and, as a rule, would speak elo-
quently for the service rendered by
the feline members of the household.
The careful housewife who moves a
small piece of furniture or other article
in her rooms which has been permitted
to remain in that position for a few
days and who has not been compelled
to hastily mount chair in the mid
die of the room and remain there I'M
til rescued, by reason of the sudden
appearance, or, rather, disappearance,
OF mouse, must always have been a
resident of Mars-that being one of the
very few places which, the naturalist
tells us, is not adapted to mice or stray
beds. "-Spokane Review.
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clothes are then fumigated and re.
turned to them the following morning.
Thus contagious diseases are avoided
and the strict standard of cleanliness
which characterizes every part of the
home is maintained.
The money paid in by the dodgers is.
of course, insufficient to defray the ex.
penses of running the, house, but thus
far the management, at whose head
stands DR.. Sarah Hackett Stevenson,
has not experienced insurmountable oh.
stacles in raising the necessary funds
from benevolent individuals and the
various women's clubs of the city.
The writer has cited this lodging
house not because it is 'grand" insti-
tuition, but because, on account of its
obscurity, it is an eloquent testimonial
to woman's business ability and be.
cause it's very existence proves that
women's clubs are of more value to
humanity than the clubs of men. AS in.
dlviduals men club members contrib.
ute literally to charity, it is true, but
their organizations as such do very lit.
VIZ AoA AAhANAAAu. lucy dIc, dluOSt
without exception, purely selfish bod.
les; while there is not single woman $
club in Chicago which does not help
along some public establishment like
the lodging house, or the social settle.
| ment and industrial schools in the pov.
! erty and vice-infested sections of the
city.
And all of these enterprises are man.
aged economically and carefully. The
benefit which the public derives from
them in improved moral and social con.
dltlons is not to be computed in dollars
and cents, but that the good they &C.
complish will live long after their
founders are forgotten cannot be doubt.
ed. Therefore it can be reiterated with.
out fear of successful contradiction,
! that instead of being ''joke'' the av.
erage woman's clubs blessing, spread.
ing light and intelligence not only
among it's members, but Frightening the
existence of the poor and friendless and
contributing generously to the eleva-
ton of mankind at large.
G. W. WEIPPIERT
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hence an entire days. work entities 8
slodker to several nights refuge. The
chief object OF the establishment is to
take care of women only until they can
secure employment elsewhere. Two
weeks is the limit Of residence in the
home, but, according to the matron,
Mrs. Anna Livingston, many women
who love its sheltering walls try to get
around the rule by remaining away
for one night and then returning to
claim new right to another fortnight's
shelter. The matron and managers Of
the home are constantly striving to
secure work for the women, most Of
whom can do good work as housemaids,
scrubbing women, washerwomen or
seamstresses. &EF a2. -,
Meals are not served to the dodgers,
but they are permitted to do light cook
ing for themselves, and many break
fast and dinner consists of cup of COT
fee and a small bit of meat cooked on
the single range owned by the estab-
lishment. The dining-room has large
cupboard, consisting Of a number OF
LOCKERS, III WuAcA lASss cups, plates,
knives, forks and spoons necessary for
one woman are deposited until she
needs them for the next meal. Many OF
the meals are obtained at the Hull
House kitchen, where, for a few cents
excellent food is furnished to all who
may call for it. When the applicant is
entirely destitute, the management OF
the lodging house issues orders On Hull
house; and with few exceptions these
poor creatures remember the obligation
and repay the matron as soon as they
have been able to obtain employment,
The house is furnished plainly, but
comfortably, by several of the woman's
clubs of the city, among them the Chi.
cago Woman's club; the South Side
Woman's club; Englewood Woman's
club; Catholic Woman's National
league; West End Woman's club; Will
mette Woman's club; Friendly Aid So
ciety; Ravenwood Woman's club; An
mabel Circle of Kings Daughters;
Archie club, and Klio association.
Upon entrance the women are asked
to battle themselves, and are the1
given night robe and slippers anc
| taken to an adjoining room. Their day
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having in view the betterment of man

having in view the betterment of man.
kind, physically, morally and mentally.
In quiet way the women of Chicago
and other cities have for years labored
assiduously to promote the welfare of
less fortunate sisters. Here in Chicago
we have the Hull House settlement,
several university settlements, hotel
for working women, retreats for I'M
fortunates-all of them maintained
through the efforts of elf-sacrifcing
men and women-mostly women. All
of these semi-charitable enterprises are
worthy of co11nendation, but none
more SO than the Chicago Model Lodg-
ing House for Women, an institution
located at 253 Ewing street, very near
the Hull House settlement.
The lodging house is in a neighbor-
hood where distress and poverty reign
supreme. Mothers with crying infants
in their arms and tiny children cling
ing to their skirts have learned that the
house is refuge when the drunken
husband and father is too free with his
lists and, according to a sympathetic
writer who recently visited the house,
many bruised head and beaten body
are soothed within it's walls. Married
women aud widows are more often the
inmates than unmarried women, and
they are, as a rule, grateful for their
place of safety and shelter. Fifteen
cents entities ledger to bed Fl or the
night. If she has no money, two hours
work is accepted in payment. There
are no regularly employed servants
about the premises, all the necessary
work being done by the inmates For
those women whose services are re-
CURED during the day two hours work
is considered the equivalent Of IS cents
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AUSTRALIAN STAMPEDE
Needed to Cheek the Rush
Of Cattle.

When a cattIe-rush comes in the
blacklist of the night, among thick
standing. Iow-Iimbei trees. with the
known and invisible. TO stem it calls
for the finest and fercesf quality Of
Workmanship. As he lodges. swerves
and clings in the saddle TO avoid mutt
lation from the rushing trees. he MUST
see to it also that the horse shall win
to the lead of that laundering multi
tude beside him. If hands and spur may
compass it. And when he does the
maddest of the danger is still 70 come.
The riders hands must do double duty
now as he let's loose the whip and
guides the horse as well. The roHf
must be turned and directed againsf
itself. The horse is dragged inward,
the whip misses and falls: the man. N
lent until now. opens throat and lungs
in the stockman's battIecry. IF the
leading cattle svverve and swing away.
carrying confusion among the resi-
and breaking the directness of the rush.
it is the finest moment of the drover's
life. AS the beasts that come thunder
ing blindIy on feel the scorehing of the
thong on head and flank. and hear the
note of mans supremacy that they have
feared since branding time, the eddy
spreads.
The blind rush becomes a EaaeIstrous,
the maeIstrom spreads info eddies Of
confusion-the clash Of horns and huge
muttering sounds. Then the herd SIT
ties down and spreads out When the
sound arises of big muzzIes blowing
and nibbling at the grass the horse
man knows that his danger is past
Low down in an eTnbrasure of the woods
white planet burns: it is the herald
OF the dawn.-Harper's Magazine
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GRAPHING FOR A CABLE.
1t Was Severed by a Swordnsh and
Recovered with Much
Difficulty.

To find the broken ends of a North
Atlantic cable is by no means an easy
matter, according to the reports
brought to this city by the British
steamship Manhattan, from London.
and the Red Star steamship Switzerland,
from Antwerp. Both vessels recently
spoke the cable steamship Nina during
her long search for the broken ends
The Nina has been able to locate the
b1eak, although it's approximate posi-
ton was known before she started on
her cruise.
The Switzerland sighted the Minia On
June "a in latitude All, longitude
51.4S, and the Manhattan on May % in
latitude 4S.O4, longitude $3.50.
The electricians on the Nina report
ed to the Manhattan that the break was
over $4,000 feet, or about three miles,
below the surface of the sea and that
they had not yet been able to pick up
the broken ends. The point at which
the cable parted was in midocean and
at one of the deepest spots in the At
lantic. The officers of the Nina
claimed that it was the greatest depth
at which the drags had ever been put
overheard from any vessel to grapple
the ends of lost cable.
The break in the cable, which crosses
from New York to Kinsale. Ireland, oc-
CURED last winter and it has been of no
use since that time. It was first
thought that the wreck of sunken YES
sci had dragged downward over the
cable, causing it to snap apart, but an
expert on deep-sea cables the other day
stated that it was more than likely the
work of swordfsh.
Before the Nina started on her
cruise two months ago the location of
the break was approximately discov-
cred by the resistance of the electrical
current on the dip of the needle of a
galvanometer. To pick up these broken
ends and splice them together is diff
cult if not an impossible undertaking.
and it may yet be necessary to go back
to shoaler water AID run out new cable.
-PhiladelDhia Record
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Scurvy.

Prior to the present century scurvy
was one of the most dreaded diseases
on shipboard. Armies were decimated
by it and navies rendered useless;
sometimes half ships crew would be
disabled by scurvy. Until the research
es of physicians showed that it owed
its origin to the lack of fresh vegetables,
it's ravages were frequent and wide
spread. In 1898 there was introduced
into the British navy the admirable
regulations of provisioning ships-of-
war drawn up by Blame. Since then
scurvy has almost disappeared. At the
present time it is seen only in excep-
,tional circumstances, such as have re-
Gently arisen in the k1ondike. Even in
the long, lonely voyages to the pole
our means of furnishing the crews with
vegetable food in various forms has
prevented any outbreak of Importance.
philadelphia. Medical Journal.
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Two Clever Wives.

Johnson My wife fooled me the
other night by asking me to stop the
clock when I came in, as it disturbed
her rest, and the next morning there
was the hour of my Homecoming star
ing Ime in the face.
Jackson-My wife asked me to start
ours when I came in, and the next
morning she figured out the difference
in time between it and her watch in
such a way as to prove me liar by
nearly three hours.-Jewelers' Weekly.