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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-20
Murdered by Burglars.

Carey, O., Sept. 13.-W. C. Johnson
was murdered by burglars at one
o'clock in the morning, He had sold a
cal of celery Tuesday and the robbers
demanded the money secured for it.
After killing johnson. his wife and five
children were bound and tortured till
all the money and valuables were Sc
cured. The proceeds from the celery
had been deposited in bank and Mrs.
Johnson showed the bank book. AS
soon as the oldest son released himself
the alarm was given, and a posse is in
pursuit.
Lands on Penang Island.
Georgetown, Island of Penang, Sept.
13.-Field Marshal Count Won Valdez
see landed here Tuesday, proceeding
TUESDAY afternoon.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-20

The letter P, like the selfish friend, is
first in pity and last in help.-Chicago Daily
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-20
WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. D.
What He Wanted,

What He Wanted.
She-Take care, Alfred; that isn't the
remedy for seasickness. Don't you see the
bottle is marked poison"
He. (groaning)-That's the one I want
N. Y. World.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-20

Permit Erection of American Church.
Berlin, Sept. 13.-The local author
tiles have finally granted permission
for the erection of the projected
American church after modified plans
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-20

Chicago, Sept. 13.-Dispatches from
a great many points are to the effect
that organized plans for the relief of
the Galveston sufferers are under way,
and the indications are that princely
contributions of money, clothing, food,
etc, will be forwarded Immediately.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
TRADE WITHOUT MONEY.
A Sooisty in London Aims to Abolish
Poverty.

That money is the root of all evil is
a view which has recently found favor
a'7cng political economists. Most PEG.
pie think it is the want of it that mat
ters. Now some cooperative reform
ers have started an experiment to dis
cover what amount of truth there is in
these two views. The scheme in ques-
tion is the work of the Cooperative
brotherhood Trust, Limited, and they
have hit upon a very ingenious plan
for trading without money. Before exc
planning what this is, however, it would
be vel to state their reasons for adopt
ing it. which are something more than
merely sentimental objections to cur
rent coin.
one result of our present systems Of
currency is that money has a value far
beyond any of the commodities it rep
REGENTS. The demand for it has in
creased more of late years than has the
supply, and the result is that man
who has no money at all stands to-day
but a poor chance of getting any and
a fairly good one of going under"
though he may all the same be able to
do useful work that his fellows need.
To-day there are some thousands of
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
The Fickleness Of Public Favor.

Ada G. Sweet, onee Pension Agent in
Chicago, tells this story of Grant as IL
Illustrating Dewey's state of mind
ut was just after General Grants
return to the United States from his
Journey around the world. He was on
joying a visit in New York from some
old friends from the West One Of these
friends warmly congratulated the Gem
eral upon the magnificent reception
given him in this country, and upon
the general enthusiasm and love shown
for him by all classes of people. ] can
never forget General Grants earnest,
quiet, deliberate reply to these felicita-
lions. He said:
=" I have been fl5.ttered more and
praised more than any man alive, and
have been slandered and abused by
the same people WI did the praisinc
and fiattering. On one day l have be Il
cheered and on ano Their day / have
been Kissed, and by the same poop e.
And all was undeserved, extravagant
praise and extrayaeant blame. l have
found out just how much reality there
Is in popular favor.
"These words were said before the
last agonizing exper ences of defeat bo-
gan-those which gave Grant his
deathblow. Although he had measured
the value of popular esteem, and popr-
lar disfavor, he suffer red fearfully when
the worst storm came, in his days o.
poverty and sicknesg, Again he was re-
viled and hooted at by volatile peo-
pie, and again-but upon his death
bed-he was exalted to the heights of
universal love and respect, and there
death found him."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
a WONDERFUL TOP.
1t Is Capable of Spinning More Than
Forty-three Minutes.

A marvellous top, capable of spinning
forty-three and one-half minutes and
then remaining erect and still, has been
constructed by Prof. Charles Jacobus.
for many years superintendent of the
New Brunswick, n. j., public schools,
but now of Springfield, Mass. The in
ventor of this top guards it carefully
and never allows it to pass out of his
hands. He has spun it scores of times
before scientists in New York, Phila-
delphia and many other cities. He
spun it short time ago before the
Boston Society of Civil Engineers, who
devoted one hour to watching it, The
inventor calls it a scientific top, and
when it is not in use he locks it up in a
case and carries the key with him.
The wonderful top is made of bronze
and looks like the small sized humming
top the boys buy in the stores for five
cents. 1t was constructed under the
direction of Prof. Jacobus, who had
the pieces made by several different
mechanics The top is spun by a
string, and the inventor always spins
it on a plate. He has a small piece of
bronze. which he places over the upper
end of the rod while he winds the cord
around the same as is done in hum
ming top; then he places it on the
plate, holds it firmly by the little
bronze attachment at the head and
pulls the string. AS the string leaves
the top he removes the attachment
suddenly and the top spins on.
The point of the top, upon which 1t
spins, is about as large as the head of
a small needle. and it is so true and
delicate that the resistance is kept at a
minimum. The inside of the top is so
balanced that when the top ceases TO
revolve it will remain erect, unless IT
is Jared. The rod that runs through
the centre is about an eighth of an
inch in diameter and five inches from
the sharp point on the bottom to the
small cap on the head. The top BODY
Is three inches in diameter
The whole secret of the top is be-
lieved to be in the perfect balance and
the weights inside Of the bronze BODY
The entire top weighs about four
ounces, and is wound with about ten
inches Of string.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
YOUNG ROCKEFELLER.
Personal Sketch Of the Son of the
Standard Oil Maunet.

While many in Wall street were
chuckling over the accepted report that
John d. Rockefeller. jr.. had lost heav-
lily in his initiative investments on the
Street" through the medium of
Leather common, the reported lamb"
was jotting down on his own private
books the results of a calculation which
showed that he had gained a cool mil
lion.
Whichever way the Leather dealing
went, the fact that he has entered the
Street" marks the beginning in tire
career of man whom the veterans
from now on will watch, with due re-
gard for his millions and the way they
will influence the market
Mr.. Rockefeller was elected d.
rector of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad Feb. q, 1899.
The fact was chronicled as his launch
ing into business.
Rockefeller was prepared for college
by private tutors. He entered Brown
University when seventeen years old.
and graduated with honors and with
out single escapade during his course.
His habits are extremely simple, and
he uses neither tobacco nor alcoholic
liquors
AT college ne Jolnco Alpha Delta PM
one of the most exclusive of Greek let
ter fraternities. In athletic sports he
was mild enthusiast, playing with tn
scrub" at football and acting as treas
urer of the varsity team.
He entered his fathers office imme-
| diately after his graduation two years
ago. Here he served the apprentice
ship for the work before him. He APP
| piled himself assiduously and gained
the confidence of his father With his
election as a railroad director came a
secretary and a clerk. He now has a
private office with his father on the
fourteenth floor of the Standard Oil
Company building, on lower Broadway.
Principally at 10 o'clock he appears
at the office Shortly before / O'Clock
he lunches at Broadway cafe and re-
turns to his desk and works until 8
or o'clock. He is easily accessible to
any one with legitimate reason for talk
ing up his time. But he dislikes to be
annoyed for trivial reasons, as he is a
hard worker.
He has never been on the floor of the
"Change," because he is not a mem
Der, although his father and Uncle Will
liapl are the possessors of seats He
confines his business to the private
transaction of his father and himself
and is not personally interested in
Standard Oil, it is said.
Few are the hours that he spends
away from business or his home, No. !
West Fifty-fourth street He plays
moderately well on the violin. Society
has never claimed him simply because
he refuses to be drawn into social life.
He is somewhat Of an equestrian. pre-
fering morning rides in the Park
His religious training was most care
full, and, as his father did formerly,
so he now teaches a class of boys in
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

men all able to produce something y.
benefit to the community, and yet all Of
them idle merely because they lack
money.
Take the case of one of these. For
the time being all the vacant jobs are
full and he is unable to get employ
ment.
Now, unless he has money enough
to set himself up in small business,
or money enough to extensively adver-
tise his goods, it is useless for him
to produce any. He does not know
how to get any one to buy them if he
does. Accordingly he drifts and drifts,
and finally becomes a member of what
is apparently the surplus class.
Only apparently, however, for really
while he is unable to find people who
want his goods there are plenty who
are only too willing to consume them.
Only. like himself, they cannot pur-
chase, because for the time being, at
any rate. they are without money.
The result is that both the potential
consumer and the potential producer
have TO stand idle, though both have
labor force and both are capable of
producing something of use to one an
other. Without money, however, they
cannot do this, and what happens is
that an artificial poverty seizes both of
them and their energies are paralyzed.
II is this artificial poverty that the
Cooperative Brotherhood Trust, limit
ed, have set themselves to abolish, and
they do this by bringing the idle con-
sumner and the idle producer together
and exchanging the labor of one for
the labor of the other.
They manage to effect this in a very
clever way. In connection with the
trust an exchange circle has been
started, and this is the medium through
which all the labor products are ex-
changed, and in the following manner:
We will say a carpenter has become
one of the unemployed. He is out of
work and has not enough money to set
Up in business for himself, but he joins
the exchange circle and puts his name
down on the directory.
lie offers to supply tables, chairs or
whatever it is that he can most easily
make, and offers at the same time to
do odd jobs.
When some other member of the
circle who is in need of the thing he
offers buys it, and pays him, not in
money, but in barter notes and to
which he has become entitled by the
work he himself has executed for q
third member of the exchange circle.
These barter notes not only entitle
the bearer to as Tnuch as their face
value of the goods in the circle, but
also to such goods as are in the store,
and these include groceries and pro-
visions, clothes, hosieries, furniture,
athletic requisites, and nearly every
thing except alcoholic beverages.
If the holder of any particular barter
note desires to realize it in cash the
committee endeavors to oblige him.
But it is, of course, preferable that he
should take it out in food made by
other members, as only in this way can
the circle be self-suppQrting.
Of course, the success of the circle
largely depends on the number of peo-
pie joining it. Obviously the goods
cannot be exchanged without at least
a fair number of exchanges. But,
though yet in its infancy, it is vigor-
ously developing, and the fact that
traGesmen are accepting barter notes
instead of cash augues we'll for it,
Pearson's Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
SLAVE SYSTEM.
Rules Under Which English chorue
Girls Are Trained and Hired Out.

GHls Are framed anG Hired Out.
A suit Just brought before Judge Cole
In the United States Circuit Court, in
Boston, and dismissed for want of jur-
isdiction, has all the elements for a
sensational hearing if it ever comes Ia
trial. 1t was in the nature of a bill in
equity brought by John Tiller anu
George Sheldon, of London, under the
firm name of Tiller & Co, praying thar
Sire Brothers be declared indebted to
the compliments in the sum Of SS,710
for the alleged breaking of an agree
ment relative to the employment of
eight girls known as "mascots," who
are appearing at the Columbia Theatre
in Boston, and who are in the employ
Of Sire Brothers.
The Tiller Company has an establish
ment in London for the fitting of girls
for the stage. They are taught dancing
and singing, and as soon as they are
considered competent to perform the
duties required of them the company
secures engagements for them indiyid-
ually, or in groups, in theatres all over
the world. Hundreds of theatres are
said to be thus supplied. The girls are
in a state of virtual servitude, subject
to the will of their masters, and COM
PEELED to so wherever they send them.
When employment is obtained for
them a large percentage of their sal
aries goes to the masters, and is paid
directly to them by the person who
contracts for the girls services.
The arrangement is one sanctioned
and protected by law, and care is TAX
en- to accept only such pupils as are
either by themselves or their guardi-
ans competent to make contracts for
the sale of their services.
l.. S. Sire, of Sire Brothers, when seen
at the New York Theatre, said tlaf
sometimes girls are hired from masters
and brought over to this country in
numbers. I'm England" he said,
there are schools for chorus and ballet
girls, and these girls are bound to the
masters for certain periods. The mas
tiers give the girls enough to live on
and get all of the money. They plac-
tically own the girls for the time The
girls get some advantage, as they are
poor girls, and in this way are able to
get an education. The system IS cm
mon in England. and the hiring Of cir s
from these masters for the pniU
bringing them to the United 6 ates
does not conflict with any contract ls
Dor law, as it comes under the artists
law. The Boston suit was dismissed,
partly because the plaintiff did not
properly represent the London firm,
and partly because we did not owe the
latter anything
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
THE GRAIlD ARMY.
1t Will Soon Be Memory of Good
Deeds and Brave Men.

One of the braves: standing armies"
in the world is dying out. The Grand
Army of the Repu bic, that band of
gr2y-haired warriors whose pride and
dearest recollection it is that they once
served their countr:r, is shrinking with
appalling swiftness to the point where
it will be only memory of good deeds
and brave men wh) have done them.
Statistics as to the membership and
death-rate of the organization tell
story as touching as the tenderest flu
neral sermon. They show that in a few
years more the roll-call will be an
empty ceremony-the summons to the
national encampment vain appeal to
the heroes of 81.
Within twelve months-the year of
1S9S-according to 6 report just issued,
more than 1900 members of the Grand
Army died. This death-rate was more
than double that OF the previous year.
If the past year qS9O has shown a
corresponding decline in membership,
the friends of the organization have
ample ground for tie concern they ex-
press as to it's future.
The high water mark of the Grand
Army's prosperity was not reached I'M
til some time after the death of it's
founder, Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson.
1t is set down to the eternal credit
Of the Army that It originated one of
our most inspiring national holidays
Memorial Day. THIS is the most inter-
esting act in the history of the Army
and by all means the most popular act
of Gen Logan's administration.
This holiday, which has been cele-
brated with such fervor for thirty
years, was originally the suggestion of
a citizen of German birth whose very
name has been for gotten. It was es-
tablished by Gen. Logan and the lead
ers of the Army an a few years later
made by congress legal holiday
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

English tpye. with this difference, that
the hicks in the former are to the right
and out, while those of the latter are
UP. The type is cast at Yokohama and
Toxic, from type metal and with an
American trade mark. The sticks
chases, planners, locks, imposing stones
galleys. all are just as in ordinary
American job offices.
The new paper is called Chung sal
Vat Pc, which means Oriental and
Occidental Daily News"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

the Sunday-school of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church, of which the Rev. Viii
liam H. p. Faunce is pastor. His circle
of friends is large, but intimates are
few. He is of medium height, rather
stockily built, with steel-blue eyes
and brown hair. His face is long, with
compressed,fips and a firm chin, denot-
ing tenacity.
He inherits to a degree the energy,
foresight and sagacity that have
brought his father millions
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
otter and Eel In Deadly EIGHT

An intere ting spectacle was seen the
other day on the banks of the River
Soar, England. A young otter and d
huge eel were found in deadly strug-
gle. The otter had evidently caught the
eel, which had reta lated by windin :
itself tightly around the formers neck.
The fight lasted several minutes, The
otter eventually fleeing itself and
making of with part of the eel, which
1t had bittcl in two.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
I ALNOND-EYED CHINESE
ley Are Getting to Be a Pow
er in San Francisco.
AVE A DAILY PAPER.

cad They Are Highly Respected in
ollBusiness and Financial Circles
sa'How the Chinese Printer Dances
erAIl Day Around His Cases.
ot
heThe Chinese of San Francisco have a
hew daily paper. The noisy apotheosis
we the Kearney regime found its fitting
igtting recently when funds for the re-
'weption of the California Volunteers
efere being sought and Chinese mer-
vo,ants subscribed literally and were
urvited to and did take prominent
Ad honorable position in the great
)ooblic parade, while Dennis Kearney,
hanoticed, watched the Chinese ride
ilir him in carriages, and he so poor in
lille esteem of mankind that none was
Ietund to do him reverence"
nuOnly 20 years in the swift march Of
llone and the despi.ed Chinaman finds
)oiplace in the great arena of American
activities as distinct and lasting as
HAT of his erstwhile tormentor, whose
lief claim to notice was in his open
sfiance of all law, and his more than
ereathenish gospel that might makes
hight"
,ofThe intervening years since the man
2oearney waved hangman's moose be-
ire savagely delighted army of mall
otntents and preached the doctrine of
? hinese extirpation, and the present
my, may be called the period of recon-
y,tiruction of that outraged law and
.nNeat has been the transformation. In
:, ference to popular will, lawfully ex-
messed, national legislation has shut
Ut Chinese immis grafton in a large
oeasure, and time mas shown the wis
pm of the act. But the hundred thou
tu.ata 80 Cat,ennni, '' -, o% Vim" I'm tns
~ absorption and amalgamation, az
LEY apply to commerce and trade,
hoadually merged their interests with
a,iose of leading American houses and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

sssye,' WHITE GOODS,
all manner and textures = Plain, Plaid
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
NINETEEN CENTS.

NINETEEN CENTS.
Nineteen cents will buy you here pair
of Ladies' Fast Black Imported Hose,
double sole and high spliced heels, worth
every cent of quarter of dollar. The
quantity limited.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

NEW PERCALES
especially adapted to Boys and Ladies
Shirt Waists.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09
and Cords, Nainsook, Dimities, Cambrics,
Marseilles, Piques, Long Cloth, &C., DC.
WHITE QUILTS.

WHITE QUILTS.
Our line is unbroken from 48c to any price
above you want-all at the old price of
1898.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-09

GINGHAMS.
Frenchy colorings and textures.
The evening times., 1900-05-03
Another Porto Rican shirk.

While the Porto Rican infamy was
pending ia the Senate, IL was repeatedly
declared by Senators in the trust inter-
est that one Of the principal Administra-
tion reasons for pressing it wss to lay
foundation upon which a test case might
be made 10 deternaine whether or not the
Constitution extends TO our new insular
possessions, with the flag The measure
finally became a law on April II. since
which time the Administration. far from
trying to settle the matter in the way
promised. has been constantly struggling
to prevent any such case from getting to
the Supreme Court before the Presiden-
tial election.
1t had a splendid opportunity TO secure a
decision in few days. when Jorg Cruz, the
''alien contract laborer" sued out writ OF
habeas corpus in New York. The Admins
tration instantly lodged and ordered his
release. Now, when, in his suit for dam
ages for false imprisonment, the Govern
ment has been obliged to file an answer. it
attempts to eyade the issue by holding that
Cruz is neither an alien nor a citizen. but
a person whose political status has not
been determined
OF course such reasoning is puer.le and
contemplate. but we should be among The
last to find fault with it. The more Mr..
Mckinley allows his subordinates to eX-
pose his inside beliefs and fears the better
the object lesson will be for public alb
scrption. Cruz. under the Payne-Foraker
law is citizen of Porto Rice" He
claims that, under the Constitution. re is
a citizen Of the United States. The De-
partment of Justice, however, regards
him as neither Great is GriggsI
One Baez, and other Porto Rieans,
convicted before a provisional military
court, recently filed a petition in the SU
preme Court for a writ of certiorari, whicb
would bring up the action Of the island
court to the other for review. Again. the
Administration took fright and ran away.
1t ordered General Davis TO pardon the
prisoners in question. and so once more
avoided the issue. II is not a nice picture
to look upon, Half dozen convicts. pre-
sumably unsafe persons to be at large, are
given freedom to prey upon society. rather
than that their proper punishment should
lead 20 virdication of the Constitution Of
the United States,