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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-17

Is it not tue2 Women suffer- feel the very life crushed
out Of them, grow old before their time. Each morning
wake determined to do much before the day ends
and yet
Before the morning very old the dreadful BACKACHE
attacks them the brave spirit sinks back in arght
matter how hard they struggle the clutch is upon them
and they fall upon the couch crying:
"Why should suffer 500 What can do9"
The answer is ready your cry has been heard, and
is able to restore you to health and happiness
Backache is only symptom of more fatal trouble
heed its warning in time.
Lydia E.. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound will
stop your torture and restore your courage Your pains
come from unnatural menstruaton arrangement
of the womb Let those who suffering read Mrs. Nor
toms letter and be guided by her experience.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-17
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BY THE VCHE S S.
CHAPTER XII.

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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02

will produce the thrce-act farce. Captain
Racket" The company consists of J. r.
Mckinnon. Vim. II. Cole. Fred Dew. Harry
Graham. Chas. Phillips. Tynea Everett. Ar
lin Palmer. Marie Boyd and Myrtle Colson.
Specialties will be introduced.
For the coming week at the Suburban an
entirely new vaudeville bill is announced,
headed By the Nawns. Tom. Hattie and Ka-
tie. In two sketches. "A Touch of Nature"
at the matinees. and Pat and the Genii"
at the evening performances. Barnes and
Sisson will present The Marriage Broker"
The Harmony Four will give evidence OF
their ideas on their title. Clayton. Jenkins
and Jasper-the mule must not be forgotten
will give the audiences plenty to amuse
them during their turn. and Kelly and Ash
by Will present an entirely new acrobatic
act. The ballet. "A Spring Idyl." will CO.
tinue another week. with Mile. Maverofer
as premiere in o,d-school solo dancing
With the resumption of the ountain the
living pictures will he put on aEain. under
colored lishts. Ia the evening after the the
alter. In the annex the many Incidental
attractions are in full b.ast. while the
scenic railway has resumed It's old popular
ity among the young and not a few of the
old.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02

twenty-minute comedietta. and these. with
Vernon and Vernon. musical artists. and
Henry Page. a monologue artist and parody
singer. comprise the other performers on
the long programme.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02

Bellevue Garden will open its eleventh
season tonight. The dramatic company. I'M
der the direction Of McKinnon and Cole,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02

even II 1t caught you unprepared, Barr's
IS full OF summer goods. summer costumes
ready TO wear, shirtwaists and the hats
that are to be worn with them. in fact, all
over the big store summer fabrics and dress
accessories are ready for purchasers.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02
PLOT TO KILL SPANS KING.
Anarchists Said to Have Planned
an Assassination.

Barcelona. June lit Is said that the Can
tain General has been warned OF n foreign
anarchist plot TO kill the King and Queen
Regent
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02
.HEMETTAWA


KINGS Ill., ONIAnIO.
On the north shoSe Of Lake Erie. an hours ride
from Detroit: the most beautiful summer re<or.
on me Great Lakes. Nine-hole golf links, bath
ing, boating. fishing. etc. superior accommoo
JUNE II.
For full particulars. terms. etc. address the
proprietor. W. r. Boyer. Hotel Ste. Claire. De-
troft. Mich.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

forces Of acquaintance, of regard for the
opinion and estimates of neighbors, of the
dread of shame to hold them back.
Such immigrants may be compared to
those good Americans who go to Paris and
misbehave themselves shockingly because
with the crossing of the Atlantic they
leave behind them the restraints that
make 1t difficult for them to lead other
than moral lives at home. They are not
unlike the ruralist who goes to New York
on business errand and takes advantage
Of his temporary mergence in that human
mass, one unnoticed grain Of sand in a
hill, TO give way to the diabolism that
lives in the soul of every man and pro
tests and rebels forever against the laws
and habits of the better part of his ma
ture. 1t is not that the immigrant Is
hopelessly bad that he sometimes makes
such bad citizen, but that he is human
and subjected to extraordinary tempta-
tions just at the time that, by force Of
circumstances, he is deprived of the re-
Inducements that supported him against
the mild temptations of the old home
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
The IMMIGRANT Is ONLY HUMAN

Recently some one came to the defense
of the foreign element in the great cities
and asserted that it was not they that
made our American cities so bad govern
mentally and otherwise, but that it was
the cities that corrupted them At any
rate it was shown that these people come
from countries whose cities show no such
specimens of municipal misrule as can
be so frequently found in America.
An explanation of the moral deterior
alton which takes hold upon so many of
our new citizens after they reach this
country is given by Jacob Riis in his fas-
cinating book, The Making Of an Amer
lean" He says that it is simply the nat
ural consequence of the breaking off all
the ties and associations of the old home.
In the interval before new ones are firmly
established in the new home the immi-
grant is without those salutary restraints
that arise from the occupation of a fixed
place in the established order of things.
We do not fully appreciate how much
environment of the right kind makes for
goodness in the individual, just as environ
ment of the wrong kind makes for evil.
The man who lives where his fathers
lived before him, who has only to go on
in the way they went, who is known
from babyhood up by all the members of
the local community, who knows that his
misdemeanor will be village or neighbor-
hood gossip, and that his least moral Of
fense will be a scandal, who feels that he
is not outside but a part of the social
system, is under very weak temptation to
depart from the standard of behavior gen
orally accepted as passable. Take this
man Of average excellence, of moral con-
duct, amputate him from his community,
pick him up, mix him with thousands of
others, likewise cut off from their old,
fixed life and transport them across three
thousand miles of sea and drop them down
in the midst of the temptations Of our
American cities. OF course they feel that
there are no eyes jealously watching
them; that they are responsible only to
themselves for their actions; that what
they do can neither concern nor injure
any one that they care for. What differ
ence does it make what we do? expresses
their feeling. There are none of the
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14

central reserve bank is an individual en-
terprise, free from subservience to poll
ticians. 1t has the primary function Of
obtaining, holding and protecting against
depletion by expectation or otherwise, the
gold reserve of all the banks, without any
direct compensation. 1t keeps a very large
percentage Of its liabilities as a gold re-
serve. The Investments and loans bear
ing interest of the Bank of England ag
gregate three and half times it's capital
and surplus, while the investments and
loans bearing interest of the other banks
aggregate seven and one-half times their
capital and surplus. A central reserve
bank has an income from it's circulating
notes permitted by the government
against government and other securities
and gold, specifically pledged for the Sc
curlty CT the notes. Services in the col
lection and disbursement of government
revenues are paid for and contribute to
the profits. The bank would keep As per
cent of reserve as a regulator Of tie
banking business. Such a bank is debtor
to every other bank, holding and protect
ing the nations reserves as is the case
with the Bank Of England. There is no
government supervision or public exam
iaers. for the other banks do the watch
ing and each bank may demand payment
CT its balance in gold. Mr.. Stickney be-
lfeves that such banking system would
be developed in this country, if the restric-
tions of our banking law were repealed
Tae central bank he champions would, in
his opinion, be produced by evolution
and controlled by the natural laws of
trade" instead of by partizan, ill-consid-
cred legislation. He thinks another cam
paisn of education would make the propo-
sition OF free banking possible of reaIiza-
ton. 1t does not look altogether clear
now that it will.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14

The current number of The Outlook
contains an exceedingly well-written and
vigorous article on Minnesota and the
Railway Trust" by w. D. Washburn, Jr.
In this article Mr.. Washburn says:
Treating the matter on broad, general
principles, Minnesota is against the rail-
way trust.
Because it is against the law
Because the people believe it to be an
economic and commercial evil
Because they believe it involves rev.
olutionary and unlawful transactions that
are wrong against the state and against
the United States.
Because they believe it embodies So
Geological principles that are opposed to
democratic government and the existing
civilization"
The opposition to the railway merger
has not been stated more forcibly than it
is put in this article by Mr. Washburn.
Speaking of the attitude Of the people.
he says: at has been recently intimated
that the people Of Minnesota do not un-
derstand their own interests in this mat
ter, and that they should leave these alb
struse questions in the hands of the ex-
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
Little Journey to the Home of the
Biggest ScoundreI in Town.

There goes the Biggest Scoundrel in this
Town." remarked a citizen who was well
versed in municipal affairs, pointing across
the street after the retreating form of a stout
looking, middle-aged man Of alert aspect
AS some interest was expressed in the
scoundrel. I learned details Of his official
position and CLEANED some particulars of the
methods he was supposed to use, but which
could not be proved against him, in robbing
the public.
Some time after this was obliged to hunt
up this man In business way He had a.
document which I wished to get. He said
that 1t was at his house but that he would
let me have 1t If 1 would jump into his
wagon and ride out with him. 1t was s D.
m. and he was just on the point of going
home.
On the ride the talk turned naturally to
politics and l was surprised TO note that the
Biggest Scoundrel in Town had a good word
for nearly every one mentioned, even his
opponents. 1t was clear that he was not
'knocker.' Possibly his success in getting
office was due In part to this popularity of
his disposition. There are many good men.
morally upright and honest in business; who,
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14

gentleman who advertised for "a girl to
do office work, experience not needed; begin
at $4 per week." received the following letter
among number equally interesting:
l noticed your ad. in the paper. l was told
by a Dalmest last Wednesday to watch the
papers and that / would find place in an
office inside of a week & that that or art
work was what I ought to do instead of
housework as | have been doing; it is too
hard for me & I need something l can be
off my feet / suffer with rheumatism terra
bly, on washdays, when in drafts. & even
in the summer with mercury up to 109 de-
grees & doing nothing l was miserable, am
subject to dropsical effect ever since l had
typhoid fever IL or 13 yrs ago G. other trou-
bles so | am not strong people think
look to be & to be over the stove hustling
around getting meals alone & for company
& bending over scrubbing floors l suffer with
these awful sick headaches, as l am today
| thought had got a good home here where
] am in family of two for the winter: but
last Tuesday when she paid me, 1 was told
after this wk. she expected to do her own
work. have been looking for a place
could feel was home as l am an orphan &
same no friends in this world they all seem
to be selfish or untrue, but have not found
one yet any would feel like going to the
work is too hard for me. Seeing your ad
thought no harm writing to you & will
address & what your work is l am to leave
here Tuesday or Wednesday, but hardly feel
like it until l get another place.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
The Case of Gov. jenkins.
Kansas City Journal.


The removal of Mr.. Jenkins from the COVER
norship Of Oklahoma by the president is
serious blow to Jenkins, but this outcome OF
the mess in which the governor found him
self involved has not been problematical since
the main facts were disclosed. The presi-
dents attitude in the matter will have the
effect of inspiring a still higher sense Of the
responsibilities of public Office The original
indiscretion Of Governor Jenkins was almost
as amazing as his admissions, though the
latter had the virtue Of candor. With the
example Of his disgrace before them, holders
Of public Office under this administration will,
for prudential reasons II nothing more re-
gard their trust in a more serious light. Any
man who takes Office under President Roose-
welt with the idea that he has a snap or can
work a graft will probably find himself
where Mr.. Jenkins finds himself this chill
December day-on the depot platform start
ing for home minus his peacock feather and
his yellow jacket
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14

lacking this characteristic, fail to become
popular enough to get the suffrages Of their
fellow citizens People naturally suspect
man who is unable to see any good in any
thing.
Arrived at his house, a little girl 3 or
years old just fell out of the house and
grabbed the Biggest Scoundrel in Town by the
legs, hugsing him 1oyfully and crying out
"Papa's comet He picked her up and kissed
her and she rode into the house on his
shoulder.
Hello dad said 1O-year- kid in the
yard. The Star Star Brlghts licked the
Yellow Kids Is to to-day"
Bully for you" said the Biggest Scoundrel
in Town, II knew you could down those fel-
lows
neatly dressed lady greeted the Biggest
Scoundrel in Town with a kiss and he in
troduced me with an air Of pride to his wife.
After ! got the document and started for
town | noticed that the horse whnneyed when
the Biggest Scoundrel in Town came out to
lead him to the barn, and l saw the Scoun-
drel, instead of kicking the horse in the ribs,
pat him on the nose.
| walked away thoughtfully. Sometimes
think that even the Biggest Scoundrel in
Town has his good points Possibly he is
not the party he has been taken for.
A. j. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
ABOUT MACHIAVELLI

reasoning from the meaning of the fire.
quently used proper adjective, "Machi-
avellian," persons who know nothing Of
the life and work of the old Florentine po-
litical philosopher-and that includes most
OF us except students of political science
assume that he was very devil in
carnate. To say that an act or a policy
is Machiavellian is to mean that it is
faithless, treacherous, cruel, crafty and
utterly selfish. Therefore, Machiayelli
must have been these things himself. But
while Machiavelli was doubtless lacking
in any strong moral sense, as were all Of
his age, he has been misrepresented by an
ad1ective-so has Nautilus been misrepre-
sented by 'Malthusian." In discussing
"The Political Theory of Machiavelli," in
the December number of the International
Monthly, William A. Dunning of Columbia
university comes mildly to the defense Of
the philosopher.
Mr.. Dunning explains that Machiavelli
in his THE Prince" and "Discourses" dis
tinguished between ethics and politics as
they had never been before. In fact, he
was the founder Of political philosophy
as separate from ethical philosophy, He
did not at all deny the excellence Of the
moral virtues, but he refused to consider
them as essential to or conditions of the
political virtues" The necessity Of
preserving the state is the first principle
of his philosophy. Where the safety of
no in
his "Discourses,' ''there must be no con-
sideration of what is just or unjust, merei-
full or cruel, glorious or shameful; on the
contrary, everything must be disregard
ed save that course which will save her
life and maintain her independence" In
other words, the state is moved by no
consideration of morality, as is the citi-
zen. 1t is all well enough for the prince
or the republic to be good but, when 1T is
necessary to maintain authority, they must
be ready to lay aside their goodness at
any moment. Proceeding along this line
Of thought, separating morals from poll
tics, he tries to demonstrate that for the
sake of maintaining political power, de-
ceit and hypocrisy are indispensable.
Much as the Machiavellian philosophy has
been inveighed against it has been the
philosophy practiced by the European
powers for most of the time since his age.
Frederick the Great, Talleyrand, Ma
poleon and Bismarck were followers if not
advocates of the immoral philosophy, and
diplomacy has been synonymous with de-
ceit. In our own time Russia is generally
held to be the best exponent Of Machi-
avellism. That it still has a strong hold
in our own country is demonstrated by the
phrase, MY country right or wrong,
and by the frequent justification Of inter-
national aggression upon wholly immoral
grounds, upon purely selfish considera-
tions of whether the territory or the
power to be gained by such aggression
will strengthen the state militarily or
commercially. Indeed, the philosophers
are still debating the question, Is a ma
tion bound by moral law? Most states
men would still answer that when it is a
question of national existence, there is no
consideration but that Of success, be the
means what they may.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
The TARIFF WILL SAVE Us FROM
THE TRUSTS

Congressman Serene e. Payne has at
last done what was sure to be done by
some one sooner or later. He has under
taken to prove that, far from breeding
trusts, "The main hope of destroying
trusts or rendering their operations harm
less is in the competition which results
from the natural laws of trade, fostered
when needed by the protective tariff =
Again he says that "a protective tariff
tends to foster and build up competi-
tion." This is surely an important con-
tribution to the discussion of the trust
question. Don't dream Of taking the tar
iff off steel products, the congressman
teaches, because there Is q steel trust,
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
ADJUSTMENTS
Gertrude CoghIan In "COIinette" at
the Metropolitan.

Gertrude Coghlan appears to much better
advantage IN the name part of "Colnette''
than as Becky Sharp. The explanation for
this is that Colinette is a perfectly lucid
character with no recondits depths that need
illumination She loves her husband. she
will make any sacrifice except that OF Her
honor to save him, and she brings into play
woman's wit to extrIcate him from Difficult
ties that threaten his life There you have
the whole story. Her nature Is pure and
sweet and simple. Even when she cozens the
kings commander OF police, the artifce is so
femininely transparent that one must be-
lieve the officer to have been very much In
love not to have penetrated It. Naturally
Miss Coghlan is more at home in the role OF
this impulsive, loving, simple-minded little
woman than in the far moro difficult role OF
the crafty and interruptions Becky. Colin
ette's nature lies on the surface. Becky's lee
so deep that none but q mature art aided by
natural intuition may reveal It
Miss Coghlan plays Colinette with spright-
ly vivacity that is good to see. She still lacks
in color She has not yet learned variety Of
facial expression. These are the faults OF
youth which experience-or, better still, SUI.
fering-will correct.
"Colinette," reconstructed from French
sources by Henry Guy Carleton, IS pretty
play-compact, full OF action and trioked out
with some very dainty comedy. But It was
Dadly played Dy Miss Coghian' s company IasL
night. One reason for this was a sudden
shift in the cast whereby two actors were
made to struggle with unfamiliar roles. This
marred the whole performance and caused Il
to go forward Jerkily. It was noticeable, TOO,
that many If not most Of the company were
guilty OF abominably bad French pronunoia.
tion. Madame was habitualy aocented on
the first syllable and the French nasa1s were
hopelessly wrong. Threa members Of the
company only deserve praise. Mr. Bertrarn
made a good impression with his character
ization OF the commander OF police, q COM
bination Of the detective and the courttee
whose only possible fault was too great q
youthfulness, Mr.. Duncan as Colinette's hpsr
band was easy Of manner and equally efsctivS
in the lighter and the more serious passages.
Mr.. Cooper made the hit OF the evening in the
last act by his picture Of the gouty but gal
liant king. 1t YVES full OF deft touches that
bespoke the good actor and the comedy Of the
kings interview with Colinette was delightful
w. B. Chamberlain.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-12-14
Sr1CKNEY's CENTRAL RESERVE BANK


Mr.. A. B. Stickney, president Of the
Chicago Great Western Railway company,
delivered an address to-day before the
Marquette Club, Chicago, on the subject
of a central reserve bank. Mr.. Stickney
has put forth, from time to time, in his
public addresses some very sensible and
practical suggestions in finance and eco
nomics. In October he addressed the
American Bankers association at Mil
waukee, on the subject of central re-
serve bank, and in the present address
he explains himself more fully, showing
that the bank he advocates is not CEN
tral government bank, but banking sys-
tenn resembling the Scotch English sys.
TEN.
Mr.. Stickney thinks 1t is beyond the
power of congressional legislation to es-
tablish system of banking, as the fun
damental principles Of banking are gov
erned by laws as tnexorable as the fun
damental principles of the steam engine.
He reviews the experience of England In
trying to legislate model banking sys-
tenn into existence, and shows how the
effort was relinquished and the discovery
made that adherence to natural law in
the construction Of banking machinery
will put into effect system
which makes a dollar Of reserve more eff
fective than any other system
the world has yet produced. This machin-
1011 OF Off re.
serve for $21 of bank credits, as COM
pared with our requirement of 81 of re-
serve for each 81 of credit. The British
system is one Of branch banks, which VOL
UNFAIRLY make the Bank of England their
reserve bank, where they deposit their
entire gold reserves in an open account
with the Bank of England. The entire
geld reserve of all the banks is massed
in one available pile, which is held by
the Bank of England. On the European
continent, the gold reserves are similarly
massed in one big available pile in cen
trail reserve bank.
Mr.. Stickney shows that in spite of
legislation, by natural law, the gold re-
huge pile in the treasury, and the ques-
tion is whether it is best that the reserve
be held by the treasury or by modern
reserve bank 1t is shown that the treas
ury Is purely government institution, a
great political power, and has frequently
engaged In speculations; has many
branches much political influence through
power of appointment, has been a costly
affair to the taxpayers through fiat money
issues; has ruinously speculated in silver;
has only $21, ,000,0 900 in excess Of It's re-
serves as the net result Of forty years of
imitation, and has been the tool for big
speculations under the direction OF con-
gress, and, after producing a strinEency
among the banks by absorbing their re-
serves, relief is given by buying bonds or
depositing surplus in banks. The replen-
ishing of the gold reserve is costly, as is
the business Of collecting and disbursing
the federal revenues
Mr., Stickney, after showing the work
Ing of the treasury system. points out the
advantage possessed through a modern
central reserve bank, holding and man
aging the reserves. restricted only by
the natural laws Of credit. The proposed