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they proposed to develop the resources of the country. It is the old story of European trade in barbaric countries. Selling beads and Bibles at the mouth of cannon.
 Belgian traders, escorted by Belgian soldiers, have squeezed" the country and shot down natives by the hundred.
 Stanley's great march across Africa was a story of death England's march through Zululand was a story of death i; Germany's advance to the Mountains of the Moon from the East Coast was a story of death. and Italy's. of course, meant death Trade, colonies and the Christian religion. From the West Coast. where the Congo empties; from Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza, where Smin Pasha lived to collect his bugs and bats; from Uganda, where Livingston died and pr. Peters established Germanys claims to territory, the dark-skinned people hear the story of peace be with you and yours." Behind it the request for rub Der or ivory and the search for diamonds and gold. It is the way Christian nations say to the heather: 'Hands up; your property or your life!"
 The charge at present is made by an American. He says the Congo Free States are practically under martial law, and that Major Lothani. the Belgian of- ficer, on one expedition for rubber. killed nine hundred natives in six weeks, and a lieutenant three hundred in three weeks. No resistance was made or of fence given. Thousands fled from their villages, and their trails could be fol- lowed by those who fell. perishing with hunger.
 Will the Christian world stand for this? !? Who will call the gay King of Belgian to an accounting? Shall the name of Christian become a by-word among the millions of Africans as 1t became in America among the Indians7
The age-herald., 1901-11-17
BY CHARLES MANoEvlLLE.

N RULY, the barbarian who deals VH with Christian people, may say.
 What rascals these Christ
 S ians are!
 This time the story comes from the Congo. The same old story of reckless, wanton cruelty. In the olden times the slayer, flying first the British and after ward the Spanish flag. cast anchor in the broad river Stanley followed across Af- rica. Whenever the slayer made down the river and out to sea, between decks lay grooming its human cargo For 8 thousand miles the news spread that the ship had come or the ship had sailed. Its coming brought terror; its sailing left despair. Man, born free under the tropi- cal skies to live his own life. with his own people, in his own way, soon learned that he was a commodity sought by the white man, whatever the flag he might fly. Like beasts pursued by the hunter, they fled into deeper recesses of unknown forests to suffer death, perhaps; yet be free on deathbeds. Then came a change. The slave came no more.
 One day the blacks heirs to lands owned by their forefathers were infarm- cd that they were free. That all the white men in their own countries had agreed among themselves to preserve the peace of the Congo. To promote the in terests of the blacks, to secure them from the greed and rapacity of men, whether white or black, a government would be given them. and it should be under the direction of the King of Bel gium. They were urged to become Chris tians, traders and an industrious people.
 But the hearts of the white men had not changed. Slavery they set aside, but
The age-herald., 1901-11-17

e USTIN Mccarthy, the well known
 historian. calls attention in a re- niI cent article to the large number O of European monarchs who are afflicted with maladies of some kind or another and attributes the diseases that are making their lives miserable to the long-continued practice of inter-marriage among royal families. At present." says MT. Mccarthy, there is hardly a European imperial royal family which is not oppressed by serious and boding ill., ness of some kind. and it Is only reason able to say that some explanation of this fact may be found in the system of in- ter-marriage."
 It is not a little curious that Thomas Jefferson discussed the same question nearly a century ago. Writing on the subject in the year following his retire. ment from the Presidency he said: While in Europe I often amused my self with contemplating the character istics of the then reigning monarchs of Europe. Louis XVI. was a fool, of my own knowledge. and in despite of the answers made for him at his trial The King of Spain was a fool, and of Naples the same They passed their lives in hunting and dispatched two couriers a week one thousand miles to let each other know what game they had killed the preceding days. The King of, Sardinia was fool. All these were Bourbons. The Queen of Portugal. a Braganza, was an idiot by nature And so was the King of Denmark. Their sons. as regents. ex- ercised the powers of government The King of Prussia, successor to the great Frederick, was a mere hog in body as well as in mind. Gustavus of Sweden
The age-herald., 1901-11-17
BY JUSTIN GREY.

T WI BciliChhcli dt oHc llIUe eN-
 ceedingly conspicuous in the
 Democratic party together
 with a long list of lesser lights had the bitter modification of having their political advice contemptlousIy spurned by the Democratic voters in the recent elections. One was ex-President Cleveland and the other his former Sec retary of the Navy William C. Whitney
 The distinguished citizen of Princeton earnestly supported the Democratic nom- inee for Governor. It was the first time in several years that he had opened his lips in favor of a candidate of the party that had honored him with two elections to the first office in the gift of the people, probably it was the first Democratic bal lot he had cast since he last voted for himself. If New Jersey had gone the way MT. Cleveland recommended 1t would have been a very great personal triumph for him. and by this timo we should probably have what is left of his former worshfppcrs clamoring that he be again placed at the head of its broken columns. If he and his friends enter tained hopes of this character they have been cruelty shattered. The ponderous advisers words fell on ears that were deaf to his appeal. and the candidate he championed was 50 badly beaten that his political career, like that of the ex-Presi- dent himself. may be considered closed. At last we have the exact measure of MT. Cleveland's influence with the masses
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city are loaded with the germs of con- tagious diseases. especially of diphtheria and consumption. Women sweep them up in their skirts, take them home and spread death about them. Shorten the skirts, diminish the danger and live.
 When smallpox, cholera and yellow fever appear in epidemic form there is hue and cry. The greatest scourage in the United States Is consumption. It Is favored by our climatic conditions in the East, and on the lake fronts of our great interior lakes. It annually causes more deaths than all other diseases added together. It not only kills it's victims, but it taints the blood of the offspring. It is the worst of hereditary diseases. Victims of consumption go about incapac- itated, expectorating disease germs in every direction. In many cities. as for in
The age-herald., 1901-11-17
WISE MEN DISCUSS CURRENT TOPICS.

stance New York, local health boards prohibit splitting in public conveyances. This is a mere acknowledgement of the fact that death germs are spread by ex- pectoration.
 Now Meigs comes forward and practi- cally says You cannot stop a percentage of millions from splitting, but you can and taking them home.' Meigs is right. Nothing is more incomprehensible, more amazing than to see Broadway pave ments swept by the skirts of minimizing and foolish women A law forbidding women to wear dresses within two inches of the pavement would not be only a good law, but one which would make a vast difference in the health records and vital statistics of every town and city enacting it All honor to Meigs.
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once the young mothers rallied to the support of Meigs, and the young ladies declared for skirts so short that there could be no chance for the disease-bug to spring upon them. Resistance comes from the spinster of uncertain age. They say Meigs Is interested in hosiery.
 Grave editors who are so far removed from Bayonne and the attractions of its hosiery display that they are beyond sus- picion, applaud Meigs as an apostle of sanitation. They advocate the erection of monuments to Meigs and declare his mis- sion on earth has been fulfilled. Men are praised for the discovery of anaesthe- tics, and yet all will admit that preven- tion is better than cure. Meigs does not come forward as the disciple of Cure, but the Apostle of Prevention. He says in so many words: The streets of town and
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way of tattered hat-went in swimming because he wanted immediate facts on the condition of a wrecked railroad bridge. The camera fiend was long way off at the time the thing occurred, but Captain Sibert was fortunate enough to later secure a photograph of the exact spot in which his iliustrious superior of ficer took the plunge.
 Everybody remembers when General Wheeler climbed a tree just before the battle of Santiago in order to get above the tops of the bushes so he could se- cure an unobstructed view of the Span ish lines. The idea of an old fellow be- yond sixty. and a majorgeneral, shin ming up tree. raised a great laugh at the time, but the veterans who had served with Fighting Joe" said that 1t was a trick to which he had often re- sorted durikg the civil war.
 The maneuvcr in the Philippines. hew-
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om the washington Post

From the Washington Post
 - oUIsvILLE, Ky, November g.
 II A very important incident in the JA Philippine career of Gen. Joe N Wheeler. the distinguished vet eran of two wars has been overlooked by the newspaper correspondents in Uncle Sam's new possessions. Capt. William L.. sibert, now in charge of the Louisville office of the United States Engineering Corps. was the only eye witness to the episode. At the time he was chief en- gineer of the Eighth Army Corps, then operating In Northern Luzon. Official record of the incident appears in General MacArthurs recently isued reports.
 The particular page of history here for the first time revealed tells how General Wheeler, costumed in the garb of good Father AdaEa-with a supplement in the
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ever, more than double discounts the tree episode. At Tarlac. on November IS, 1899, General Wheeler went swimming for the purpose of Investigating 8 railroad wash out. A portion of the debris lay in wa ter feet deeE part of which was a swiftly running stream. If there is any other major general who, at the age of GA, dlvested himself of his uniform and plunged into q treacherous stream aander similar circumstances, history has failed to record 1t.
 General Wheeier's report says on the subject: T walked across 1900 feet of overfowed railroad track. at the end of which found that the track and roadbed were entirely gone for a distance of about 25O feet. The first 30 feet of this break was a rapidly running stream varying from 8 to 8 feet in depth. By exploring the bottom of the river I Found a part of what had been span of a bridge. the
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ker literally pervaded this region. At Thirty fourth, Thirty-second streets and Third avenue live many of his old school mates and cronies. Here arose the influ- ences that made him. Here he met Mo Cabe and Sheridan and Bernard Costello Here he first came under the notice of James O Brien, and, In after years, of John Kelly, and here he first discovered and the fact has been of tremendous import to the city of New York-that the leadership of a gang had political value.
 Crokers first situation was that of chore boy to a railway shop force at $2 a week. The first week he got nothing, being on trial. It is easy to get a de- scription of him as he was at that time. He was heavy and stupid. His associates called him Dick" It IS still recalled that during his first week in the shops he almost broke another boys jaw with a blow of his fist. That was always Croker's way. He never said much. He was big and weighty, ragged and un- kempt. They laughed at his awkardness Croker knocked them down. He never argued a point with his mates. He simp- ly knocked them down. By the time he was 20 Croker had,f by virtue of his strength and his fists. achieved recogni- tion as subleader in the Fourth avenue tunnel gang.
 The Fourth avenue tunnel gang was as its name implies, a union of choice spirits, with the then partially developed Fourth avenue tunnel as headquarters Of course. Croker was not immediately admitted to full membership in this league. He had to win his spurs Even up to 1860 Croker was not permitted to rule this gang Indeed. it may be said that the gang. unlike the city of New York, never gave itself up to Croker's absolute sway. Its members were idle mechanics unemployed hackmen, and street roughs They terrorized the Twen- ty-first ward.
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Fights Rival for Leadership.

The most famous member of the Fourth avenue tunnel gang wAs B chap named Ed Quigley. He was a giant In strength, a tyrant in disposition, and mechanic by trade. He hated Croker and many a fist fight the two had. They were rivals, with Quigley in the lead. The present boss of New York used to be kicked from one corner to another by this man. Visit
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The age-herald., 1901-11-17
BY HENRY DAWSON.

7 USTIN Mccarthy the well known
 historian. calls attention in a re- HjI cent article to the large number S of Euronean monarchs who are
The times., 1901-06-23
orts for April:
Western renorts for Anil.
THE MARKETS OF EUROPE.
Depression in English Railway
shares During the Past Week.

LONDON. June 22.-As usual on sum
mer Saturday. all the financial markets
were neglected. American securities
went above New York parity in the early
trading, but closed easier on realizing
sales.
Paris exchange on london unchanged
at 25 fr 20izc Berlin exchange l pfennig
higher at 2Cm. II pfg. Vienna one-half
point higher at 23.971a f.
Taking the week as a whole, business
has been the idlest of the year. The one
really noteworthy incident of the mar
kets has been the depression in English
railway shares1many of these, as the
table below will show, having fallen two
points or more. This week. real holders
of the shares have been selling freely, on
their knowledge that the half-yearly reve-
nue. reports will show enormous decrease
in gross earnings. along with very little
diminution of expenditure.
The effects of this unpleasant position
on the public mind are being aggravated
by disclosures of a bad system of finance
practiced by many companies Items
which ought without question to he
charged to working exp nditure have for
years been debit=d to capital account.
Present indications, how ever, favor stag
nation in the market for these properties,
rather than renewed depression.
Following are today's closing London
prices of important Government, rail-
way. and miscellaneous securities, com
pared with the prices for the same Sc
curities last Saturday, and for the cur
rent date in 1900:
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TIE CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Corn and Oats the Principal Fea-
lures of the Day.

CHICAGO, June 23.-Wheat opened low
er on the 7s41d decline at Liverpool, and
aul%4c decline at Paris. Long wheat
came out freely. Prominent shorts were
disposed to cover and the strength in
coarse grain brought about Ac rally.
Primary receipts We're less than a year
ago Clearances were light, 225, 900 bush
els. The cash demand was slow. The
visible supply is expected to decrease
moderately fQ
Corn started off weak with wheat, and
traders sold literally upon their receipt
of damage reports from the Southwest
from excessive heat, following the late
cool weather This and the crop be
ing In a backward condition started shorts
10 covering and bulls to buying, under
which prices recovered quickly. The close
was at the best prices Of the day.
oats opcned lower with other grains, but
turned firm and advanced with corn.
There was scattered selling of September
and uquidation of July early, but com
mission houses absorbed these offerings
and were good buyers the rest of the day.
The cash demand continues poor.
Under a general demand for lard, pro-
visions reacted sharply, recovering most
of Yesterdays decline, and closed firm.
The times., 1901-06-23
The New York Curb Market.

NEW YORK, June 22-The curb mar
ket was comparatively active, with
good demand for several issues today.
American Locomotive stocks were a fea-
ture the, common stock ranging from 3412
to 33la. and the preferred sold at SO and
S9Is. Consolidated Tobacco bonds were
steady. opening at 69Iz and later selling
around CO. Denver common sold at 70h
and the bonds at So
Seaboards continued active The pre-
ferred was heavily traded in from 53A to
The times., 1901-06-23

Henry Clews. in his weekly letter. says
Of the outlook for the market, and for the
community OF interests plans:
Values are still chiefly under control
OF the community Of interest idea. which
is yet in process Of evolution. The closer
relations developing between St. Faul and
Union Pacific place the market where it
was when led by the Mort hern Pacific
Great Northern and Burling on deal and
remove it from the panic disturbance
which followed the latter. The -cOmmuni-
ty of interest idea is now stronger than
ever for the Northern Pacific quarrel
simply showed the strength of both sides
and effectively demonstrated the necessi-
" for harmonious relations. BY this pro-
cess Of unihcation, three great transcon-
tinCntal routes are being developed; the
Great Northern-NOrthern Pacific and Bur
lington route, the Union Pacifc-St. Paul
and Missouri Pacific with their Wander
bit connections, and the Pennsylvania
Atchis0n and Rock Island r0uis. These ar
raLgemCuts make permanent through con-
nections between the Atlantis Ind Pacific
oceans; and with the great future devei-
opment Of commerce with the Orient.
where two-thirds Of the worlds pOpula-
tiBD is to be found. not to speak of our
connecting roads are sure to he an i'm
poftant factor. Our shrcWdest railroad
managers appreciate the greatness Of
such opportunities, and are actively pre-
pairing To secure their share of this new
commerce. and its demands upon Ameri-
can industry and capital. For an iadcfi-
mite period. therefore, the market is like
~ to be influenced by these negotiations,
rising and falling. according TO the pros
poets Of success and failure. AS these gen
tlcmen are not likely To show their hand,
except al tneir own convenience, all re-
ports Of their doings and conclusions viii
have TO be accepted with a certain degree
OF reservation.
Ordinary influences affecting the mar
ket are Of a favorable nature. The crop
situation continues good. and a big wheat
crop means good times for the farmer.
Railroad earnings maintain their large in
crcases with surprising steadiness Cen
cral business Is IN excellent shape. and
there is every prospect OF a good fan
trade Even the textile trades which
have been the slowest 10 respond are
The times., 1901-06-23
Tn The Mountnins Near-py.

No more beautiful nor healthful section can be
found than that of the Bluemont country, along
tba line ~ the Southern Railway from Washing.
ION TO Bluemout. Many beautiful locations
mountain homes. and villages. Reasonable rates
for summer boarders Low Communication tariff
Excellent and ample train service. You will en-
joy an outing in ibis delightful section.
The times., 1901-06-23

spa. c. l. Hudson & Co. sold. New York
Transportation. which has been decidedly
strong since the payment of the 10 per
cent assessment, sold at 1875 and 1il2.
Standard Oil sold at IA. Detroit and
Southern sold at H. About 600 Otis E,le-
Yator were traded in at 351h
The times., 1901-06-23

The question as to what solid basis ex-
lists for this new demand for the stock is
an interesting one. The story that there
is likely to be a combination, taking in
the Mergenthaler, the LanstCn, and the
Monoline is not considered worthy of
much consideration by Mergenthaler peO-
pie. The management of the latter COM
pany has said many times that it does not
need anything that the Lanston owns.
The times., 1901-06-23

The movements of prices during the
past week and in the present month are
shown in an interesting way in the fol-
lowing table 1t will be seen that there
has been a considerable irregularity. and
that the movements, taken as a whole,
do not show much that is remarkable.
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Todays trade was moderate and
scarcity of offerings until the advance
was well established was Il feature.
The times., 1901-06-23

The little boom that occurred few days
ago in Capital Traction, on account of the
story of new party seeking the control
of the lines. has worn itself out complete
ly. The price of the stock had no move
ment during the week. and but few trans
likely that nothing further will be heard
of the rumor until next autumn at least
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This week. Last week. Last wear.
wn,htnrton Stock exchange.

sales-U. S. Fs:if$1, ,9GOa1C9k; Capital
Traction: 15ae1021k; Lanston Monotype: 90
ala: American GrapHopbone Co., common
iOOd95s American Granhophone Co. pre-
ferred: 1OOalOs4, 100d105s.
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The advance to 80 bid ''ex" dividend for
Real Estate Title Insurance stock was due
to che increase in the dividend from ) to
per cent per annum and to the reports
from the insiders that the merger plan is
progressing favorably. The other title
stocks had no movement. There is reason
to believe that there viii be no consum-
nation of the merger for two or three
months at least. one of the chief pro-
moters of the plan will sail for Europe
shortly to be gone until autumn. it is
said
The times., 1901-06-23

The chief matter of interest in the mar
ket this week regarding the securities of
the Washington Traction and Electric
Company has been a new demand for the
underlying first mortgage bonds. It will
be noted that while the collateral bonds
OF the company have declined during the
week, the opposite has been true of the
underlying bonds. Metropolitan 5's have
advanced from III TO lis bid; Columbia
6s from 116 to III bid, and Electric Light
certificates have advanced X point. \
bid of % was made for City and Subur-
ban bonds, on the late days of the week
a most uncommon occurrence. 1t is not
remembered that a public transaction ever
occurred in these bonds in this city The
Inference is unavoidable that the renew
ed interest in these securities. when the
general market is so dull. means that
somebody is thinking shrewdly along the
line of a possible dissolution of the Wash
ington Traction and Electric Company Ii
should be noted that whatever the fate of
the syndicate may be- the security, under
most of these bonds, is of an excellent
character. Nothing was heard from the
Committee on Reorganization during the
week.
The times., 1901-06-23

The furry in Lanston on Friday was
the topic of conversation generally in the
street yesterday. Sentiment regarding the
stock is for the moment inclined 10 hope
fulness- The impression seems to be gen.
eral that the buying of the stock has been
for important people, and that it is gen.
uine investment buying. One story that
obtained currency in conservative quar-
ters yesterday was that an order TO buy
5,009 shares has been given, with the price
limited to around II perhaps. 1t was sug-
gested that If such an order is to be ex-.
ecuted il is likely that no further at
tempts to buy will be made Immediately
price. Some time this week or next. when
the street is less eager over the Lanston
situation. the price may drift back to 13
and a fraction again, and then ii would
not be difficult perhaps to complete the
order. For the moment all the floating
stock has been gathered in.
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EARNINGS of uo;Iwaxs.

NEW YORK. June 22-Railway earn
ihgs reports received today were as fol-
lows:
Gross for tho saoond :, ,ooi in T,ne.
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Chicago Grain and Provision Market.

Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs q Co., men,
bers of the New York Stock Exchange, l4lo +