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oarb in Joliet. come addicted.
While the en-
ployer traded on the board of trade it
was always for customers, never for
himself, nor did he know that the
young man whom he had raised from
not but much more than an Office boy
to position of trust was interested
in the rise and fall of grain.
Buy wheat for rise to-day" was
The instructions the young man heard
The employer give to one of the firms
buyers. He knew not what was be-
bind those instructions, but he had
confidence in the judgment of his en-
ployer. He also needed ready cash.
His accounts were $4,000 short; $4,000
of his employers money was the price
he had paid for becoming entrapped
in the nets of crime. Another thou
sand would not be missed for few
days more, and with it he bought
margins on wheat for rise.
The instructions the employer had
given his buyer were those trans
mitted by him from a customer and
did not express his own views Of the
market. He did not expect wheat to
rise that day, and it did not. When
the board closed and the time Of set
Element came the whole terrible tale
was brought to view.
That day it lacked but six weeks Of
being five years from the day when he
had first ridden to the city in the
smoking car with his employer and
witnessed a game Of cards for money.
At tho end Of that six weeks the
young mans name had been ex-
changed for q number, and he was
wearing convict's garb at Joliet.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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But people throughout the entire
country seem to think that they have
placed both their lives and their repu-
tations in jeopardy il they get with
in hailing distance of the western me-
tropolis, while the truth is that nine
times out of ten they could find as much
wickedness to the square foot in their
own villages as they could find in
Chicago.
l have friends residing in the east,
who started on trip to the west some
time ago, and when heard of where
they had gone l chided them for not
having called upon me while in Chi
cago on their way west, supposng, of
course, they had passed through the
city. as it lay within their most direct
route.
But we did not pass through Chi
cago on our way west" said the letter
which / received in reply. "We trav-
eled west by way of Springfield and
Quincy, so as not to expose Harry to
the wickedness of Chicago
Harry is l4-year-old son whose life
has been spent in village in New York
state. He missed seeing the sights of
great city because his parents were
afraid of exposing him to the contain
mating influence of the cfty's wicked
ness. The sights he would have seen
on every corner; the wickedness he
would have had to search for. But the
incident illustrates the character of
Chicago's reputation, whether 1t is de-
served or not.
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Miss Collier Writes for
Mrs. Pinkham's Advice,
Receives it, and is Made
Well. Read Her Three
Letters:

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-I have read
in paper Of a young lady who was
cured by the use of Lydia f. Pink
like your advice in regard to my case.
have taken medicine, but do not see
that it has helped me much. l have
such dreadful cramps and pains at
time OF menstruation that 1t seems
sometimes as though I could hardly
stand it. would be SO thankful if |
could find a cure for my trouble.
Please tell me what to do."-MIss
LILLE NJ. COLLIER, Pigeon Run, Ohio,
April 8, 1896.
~ received your letter in reply to
mine and followed your kind advice;
have taken four bottles of your Veg
etable Compound. l think it has
helped nae a good deal. How many
bottles will effect cure ~ Miss
LILLE NJ. COLLIER. Pigeon Run, Ohio,
July IL, 1898.
81 again did as you advised me and
now feel it my duty to tell you what
Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. For five years
/ suffered untold agonies at time of
menstruation. l have now taken
twelve bottles of Compound and used
three boxes of Liver Pills and am en-
tirely cured of the dreadful pain l
used to suffer. / advise all those who
suffer with female weakness to write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. -
Miss LILLE NJ. COLLIER, Pigeon Run,
Ohio Nav TO- 1890
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young man as a
participant had be-
o IN e a regular
thing each morn
ing. But the young
man was not sure
that the employer
would approve of
his course in hav-
ing played for him,
and did not men
tion it.
When { h e en-
rloyer took his ac-
customed place in
I h e game t ii e
morning after his
return the young
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which these young Young "a"'
men are caught, in which the Chicago
sport is born, are numerous. This shall
be the true story of but one incident
that will illustrate but one way.
At the time our story opens, as the
fiction writers would say, our hero, il
such he may be called, was but II
years of age. In fact, our story deals
with but five years of his life, from
II to 90, but in that five years he lived
a lifetime.
This young man was the son of mod.
erately well-to-do parents. The father
was working on salary for large con.
cern in Chicago, but they had never
known the pinch of poverty. At II
the son had secured the best schooling
the public schools Of Chicago could
give him. He had learned something of
the .hree RS and had dabbled in the
fads, and when graduation day in the
high school came he felt that he was
equipped for his life struggle.
So much for his education. Morally
he was an exemplary young man. Not
Of the extremely good kind, but good
enough SO that no one need have been
ashamed to associate with him. He
took an interest in church work in the
suburban town in which he lived,
though he was not church member.
And then at II he stepped out of school
into the counting room of a big grain
commission company and began his
life work.
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vi 81, puO III INA l
time he had risen
to a position of
trust in the house
for W h i C h he
worked, and con-
siderable sums of
money were en-
trusted to h j m.
The card games on
the train were con-
tinued, but the en-
ployer k n e W of
none of the other
vices to which tie
young man had be-
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ward. show an interest
in HIS employer.
Before the first month had passed he
had lost his interest in his employer,
but continued 10 ride in the smoker,
that he might enjoy the fumes from
an after-breakfast cigarette and watch
the card game. When the employer no.
ticed the cigarette, he advised the
young man to throw it away and ac-
cept cigar which he offered. The
young man accepted the advice-and
the cigar. The employer also called his
attention to few good hands which be
held, and the young man showed the
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one were TO take
size into oonsidera-
ton, c h ! C a G o
would not be found
to be much worse
than the major
ity of the villages
throughout the en-
tire country. The
wickedness of any
great city is great
by Q o IN p arison
with the smaller
t o W ms, because
only the vice, ard
not the difference
in population, is
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Two More Women Who
Acknowledge the Help
They Have Received from
Mrs, Pinkham.

"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM-The doctor
says i have congestion of the womb,
and cannot help me. There is aching
in the right side Of abdomen, hip, leg,
and back. If you can do me any good,
please write" MRS. NINA CHASE,
Fulton, N. Y, December 20, 1897.
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM-I followed
your instructions, and now ! want
every woman suffering from female
trouble to know how good your advice
and medicine is. The doctor advised
an operation. I could not bear to
think OF that, SO followed your advice.
got better right off. took six bottles
Of Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and used three packages of
Sanative Wash also took your Liver
Pills, and am cured. ."-MKs. NINA
CHASE, Fulton, N. Y, December 12,
1895.
"DKAR MRS. PINKHAM-Have been
suffering for over year and had three
doctors. At time Of menstruation I
suffer terrible pains in back and
ovaries. Ihave headache nearly every
day, and feel tired all the time. The
doctor said my womb was out Of place.
Would be SO glad il you could help me-. {"
-MRs. CARL Voss, Sac City, Iowa,
August !. 1898.
"Please accept my sincere thanks for
the good your advice and Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done me. l did everything you told
me to do, and used only three bottles,
and feel better in every respect
MRS. CARL Voss, Sac City, Iowa, March
20, 1899.
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they rode to the
city on the same
train. The EN-,
ployer rode in the
smoking car, that
he might enjoy an
q I t e er-breakfast
cigar and play a
sociable game of
cards for small
stakes with con-
genial friends. The
young man rode in
the same car, that
he might, when oc.
C q S on offered,
ebn~ nm sptoract =
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man held back until one of the friends
asked if he was not coming in," and
offered an explanation. The employ
er told him to come in" If he liked,
and the young man came"
That morning the employer won,
and it took half of the young mans
salary for the week to pay his losses.
That day he ate no lunch at all, but
his pride would not permit him to tell
the other men what his employer al
ready knew, though he thought moth
ing nor cared nothing of the circum-
tance, and the young man continued
to play, and to often go without his
luncheon and other necessities and
luxuries which his salary should have
brought him.
The employer was not a sport. He
was respected business man to
whom game of cards was pastime,
and who cared nothing for the small
amounts he won or lost, but he had
unconsciously taught the young man
to love q game of chance. His church
companions were forgotten, and in
their place he made friends with the
class who knew all too well the paths
OF crime, and these he followed. His
Saturday afternoons were spent at
the race tracks, at the gambling
houses and the pool rooms, his even
ings at the theaters devoted to the
prize ring.
Starting from game of cards in n
smoking car he had, in two years
time, become a sport in all that the
ra.,., s,-,,l;ae &, rb;,,-1
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a brilliant O n q
promising young
fnan in its nets and
carries him down
toa life of debauch-
ery. and ruin is
equally true. But
SO it does every
where, either in
village or city. The
number that are
caught in Chicago
is greater because
there are more to
catch.
he ways in
which these yOunO
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Women
Remember
I his Fact

That in addressing Mrs. pipkham
vo, nre communicoting with , Woman
"a woman whose experience in treat.
;pr ,rn,nnp'S Ills is Trcoter ,hnn thnt
of any living nrrsopomale or female
A woman can tail, freely to wo-
man when II * revealing 10 relate her
nriv,te troubI,s to :, man
MANY women suffer In silence and
drift along from bad TO worse. know
inr full we'll that they sboula have
immediate assistance. but n natural
modestv impels them to shrink from
eyposinr themselves to the questions
and probable examination of even
their family physician. II is unreccs.
sarv Without monev or nrice Won can
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Chicago is no better and no worse
than any othor large city. In fact, If
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A Well Learned Lesson,

by the time the employer returned
from Europe the card game with the
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About q Good Young Man,

That crime exists in Chicago in large
quantities is true; that it entraps many
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Road That Led to Ruin.

The employer of this young man
ived in the same suburban town, and
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Changed Check. for stripes.

BY the end of three years the well
trained boy of II had become the sport
of % hut in that
The evening times., 1900-04-07
ASSOCIATED PRESS BEATEN.
The Motion for IA Rehearing In the
Inter Ocean SUIT Denied.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, April THE SUI
preme Court yesterday denied a rehearing
in the suit of the Inter Ocean Publishing
Company against the Associated Press
This decision affirms the ruling Of the SUI
preme Court given few weeks ago. when
it took the view that the Associated Press
was a common carrier and must supply its
Associated Press at once entered motion
for rehearins Of the case. asserting that
it was not a common carrier but private
enterprise. comprising membership who
entered into a mutual agreement to OBJ
serve certain rules The decision given
yesterday finally disposes of the question
at issue between the parties
CHICAGO. April THE formal declara-
tion in the suit fled February 20 by the
Inter Ocean Publishing Company FOR
$500, 600 damages against the Associated
Press has been registered with the Clerk
OF the Circuit Court. The claim of dam
age set forth is that in consequence OF the
action of the Associated Press In barring
the Inter Ocean Publishing Company
from receiving it's news reports the plain
tiff has been compelled to expend for cor
respondents service $4,000; for telegraph
tolls $50. 600. and for court costs and at
torneys' fees $4,000. The publishing com
pany further alleges that its loss in re-
ceipts from circulation aggregate $4,000,
and it's loss of advertising patronage
amounted to $50, 600. In addition to these
claims. the plea is advanced that it has
otherwise been greatly injured in its good
name. the total injury being placed at
$500 900
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Perpetual Copyright.

Mark Twain has been discussing the
perpetual copyright question with the
House of Lords. He claims that the time
limit should be removed. and that if this is
Gone the cost of books will not be ma
terially increased, while the profit to the
author and his descendants will. Com
7nenting on this. the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser says that the grandson
OF a great author does not need this, be-
cause he can live handsomely on The pro-
Ceeds OF his grandfather's old clothes. au-
tographs. and facts never before made
public.r
OF course he can, but it seems as if 1t
would be a little more dignihed for him
10 refrain from hawking his grandiatheTs
honored name about the streets. Aside
from the feelings or dignity Of the de-
scendants. perhaps the ancestor might
have something to say in the matter l,
may be that he would like his relatives
TO be secured against any such necessity.
. Most men leave behind them. when they
die. facts and documents which they would
prefer not to have published to the whole
world. and if in their present state of eX-
istence, George Washington. Benjamin
Franklin. and other great men know what
some OF the relic-hunters have routed out
of rat holes and published in biographies
they must have lost all human feelings ii
they do not writhe little. Mark Twain
would undoubtedly contend that an author
or any other great man, has just as good
q right 10 a few secrets as anyone else.
These secrets need not, of course. be
discreditable. Some of the beautiful and
sacred things in life lose half their beauty
il spread out for the world TO see. There
was much criticism when the son of Rob-
ert and Elizabeth Browning published, in
two large volumes, the love letters of lis
father and mother. Many people declared
that they did not wish to read the cor
respondence at all; that they would fee
as IL they had rifed a private writing
desk and were reading letters not intended
for their eyes-as, OF course, these letters
were not. II is difficult to see why the
mere fact of a mans being dead should
give any person a right to take his love
The evening times., 1900-04-07
STREAM MEASUREMENTS.
An Interesting Publication by the
Geological survey.

Stream Measurements is the title OF a
volume just issued by Frederick II.
Newell. the photographer of the Geolcgi-
cal Survey The publication is a report
upon the highly important work of gaug-
ing streams which the Survey has been
doing for several years in all parts of the
country The recent development OF cleo
trical power from waterways has caused
a careful enquiry from capitalists as to
the stream capacity during low water
periods. data which it has been very diff
cult to acquire. and there has been great
demand for official figures of the Govern
ment.
Mr. Newell states that in the South At
lantic States particularly, instances where
the power from small mountain streams
can be brought to central point for
operation. capital. before investing cent,
REQUIRES figures of undoubted accuracy as
to the capacity of streams.
The particular feature of the publica-
ton consists of figures and diagrams COW
ering periods OF four, six and in some
cases eight years of consecutive stream
measurements, showing the variation of
flow during the years, and from year to
year. and in some cases a steady de-
crease in flow, year by year, thus afford
ing valuable statistics for proposed man
ufacturing plants.
The difference in flow between flood and
law water periods in some of the rivers
is startling. Taking for example, the
comparatively small Black Warrior River,
in Alabama. Mr.. Newell shows in this
case that in March, 1898. the flow reached
5S. 600 cubic feet per second, while by the
1st of May it had receded to about
1 500 cubic feet per second.
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letters and private correspondence with
his friends and publish them in hoax.
II. when alive. he gives his permission
that this should be dcne, and either allo rs
the editor to use his discretion or himself
selects the material for the book, that is
a different matter of course. Anything
priyate which is brought to light in that
case is given to the reading world fully
and freely. II. in such book we hnd
things which II seems hardly delicate 10
give to the public, We blame the author;
in the former case We commiserate him.
Ii we are to have any hereditary aristo-
cracy in this country, ii would be well to
have il peerage of testers. The tradi-
tions of literature are well worth preserv-
ing. and though the descendants of great
writer may not amount to much in the way
Of authorship, they are generally worthy
people. talented and cultured in one way
and another. The perpetual copyright
might make II possible TO preserve the
homes OF some of our notable authors. and
relies associated with them; and that would
be a good thing. But it is matter OF
doubt. after all. whether it would prevent
the selling of facts never before MADE
public by the descendants Of any great
man. Some people never have enough
money. and when they are in financial
straits they would dig up the bones of their
grandfathers and sell them to a dime mu-
scum. il the price were large enough.
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TRADING WITH AUSTRALIA.
American Merchants Do Not show
Enough Persistency.

In a report received at Sthe State De-
partment under date of January %, George
W. Bell, United States Consul at Sydney,
Australia. makes some interesting and
pointed comments upon the methods used
by American manufactures and merchants
i'll disrcsing of their goods in foreign mar
kets. The report deals especially with
the sale of American cotton goods in Aus
iralia but the conclusions drawn by Mr..
Bell are applicable to the American for
eign merchant in general.
According to Mr.. Bell Americans dealing
in Australia have net shown enough pc
sstence in catering to the market They
have made great progress for time, but
changes in the Industrial conditions at
home bave at different times driven them
from trade. He declares that prosperity
at home when goods manufactured in this
country can be sold almost at the door
of the factory so raises prices abroad that
foreign competitors who do net have the
same increase to handicap him can under
sell the American and secure his trade
which il has taken years to establish.
Mr.. Bells report, dealing as it does with
the means of increasing Americas foreign
commerce.. and ccf1iiifg at a time when the
country seriously considers entering for
eign fields of trade. is regarded as being
OF more than passing interest.
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KILLED BY FILIPINoS.
The Death of John ~. Denny Learn
ed at His Home.

WINCHESTER. Va. April An ac
count of the death OF John II. Denny. Of
this city. who was killed in the Philip
pines while serving in the Army, has been
received here. and the following is taken
from the Manila Times"
Private John II. Denny. of Company
K. Eighteenth Infantry. was killed on
January IL while accompanying a small
ezccrt that was taking quili-quila load
ed with supplies for Lieutenant Wallaee's
Signal Corps detachment to Dao. After
passing Panitan the party was fred on by
a hand Of iusurrectos concealed behind a
dense nipa patch along the river banks.
Private Denny was just in the act of load
ing his rifle when a bullet struck him II
the shoulder. His body was taken on TO
Dao and there buried. He was much es-
teemed BY those who knew him best. The
Young man came from an excellent family
and had been in Princeton University two
years
Mr. Denny enlisted last summer from
san Marcos. Texas. He was a son OF Col.
william Z. Denny. and a brother of Rev.
Dr. Collins Denny of Vanderbilt UniyeFsf-
". Tennessee. Representative James W.
Denny, of the Fourth Maryland district.
yes a first cousin.