davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The age-herald., 1902-05-07
K. OF.P, ORDER IN
 FINE CONDITION Hundreds of Delegates Attend Grand Lodge in Montgomery REPORTS ARE INTERESTING Fixtures Show Order to Be In Better Financial Condition Than In Many
 Previous Years-New Off
 cers Are Elected.
REPORTS ARE INTERESTING

Montgomery, May 6.--(Special) )-The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias con vened in annual session in the hall of the House of Representatives today. There was an unusually large attendance of delegates from the different lodges, and the order was shown to be in a most prosperous condition. It is said that there were more delegates present who had never before attended a Grand Lodge than in the previous history of the or ganization. The Grand Lodge degree was conferred upon about 100.
 The first order after the opening cere- monies was the reports of the Grand Lodge officers for the past year. Grand Chancellor W. H. Wilder made a splen- did report of the work done by the Knights of Alabama during the year just closed, and showed the order to be in a more flourishing condition today than ever before. His remarks were lis- tened to with a great deal of interest by the members, each and every one of whom showed that he had the good of the order at heart and was willing to aid in any way possible in the great work which the Pythians are doing in the state
 Interesting Reports.
 The reports of all the grand officers were listened to with much interest, and were made in a brief and concise way which made them both interesting and instructive to the members of the body The report of Grand Keeper of Records and Seal John H. Donahoo upon the present state of the order in Alabama was exceedingly interesting, and showed from actual figures that the state of the order was never better than at present. An extract from his report Is as follows; Membership statement, January 1, 1902 Number members January l. 1901, 1853.
 Initiated durng the year. 12S5; rein stated, 251; admitted by card, POS.
 Deductions-No. suspended, 943; with drawn. BIO; died 96; membership; Jan uary 1. 1902 S22
 Summary of rank:
 Past Grand Chancellors, 21; past chan cellors, 1724; knights, 63S2 esquires. 51; pages, 43. Fourteen lodges were instituted during the year.
 Financial statement subordinate lodges
 Cash on hand January 1. 1901, $19,642. 79. Receipts during the year, 53073.55-$72, 716.34
 Disbursements-For sick benefits, s. 690.2l. Funeral benefits, $3.977.9s; current expenses $25 4o5. .95.
 Paraphernalia and supplies s249S.90. In- vested during the year $S,3SS.44. Cash on hand December 31 1901, $2,206S6-$72,- = 7l6.34
 Assets of subordinate lodges-Cash on hand January 1, 1902 s22, 706.S6, parpher- nalia, furniture etc., $S7, 552-$110, 25SS6.
 Officers Elected.
 Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: w. c. Black, G. C.; J. B. Ellis, G. V. C.; F. P. Nichols G. P i; J. H. Donahoo, G. K. of R and S.; J. M Ia of
The age-herald., 1902-05-07

No family should be without Schillinger's famous Lager Beer.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11
Wben Children Smoke.

Jorevin de Rochefort, who published
in Paris in 1871 an account of his trav-
els in England, tells the following.
'"While we were walking about the
town (Worcester) he asked me if il was
the custom in France as in Enpland
that when the children went to school
they carried iii their satchel with their
books pipe of tobacco, which their
mothers took care to fill early in the
morning, it serving them instead Of
breakfast, and that at the accustomad
hour every one laid aside his book to
light his pipe, the master smoking with
them and teaching them how to hold
their pipes and draw in the tobacco
In England at the time of the great
plague it was reported that no one ,iv
ing in tobacconist's house fell sick of
the disease. This caused a great Do
mand for tobacco. Hearne saws in b;s
diary, Il remember that I heard for
merly Tom Rogers, who was yeoman
beadle, say that when he was 4 school,
boy at Eton that year when the plaona
ragged all the boys of that school waro
obliged to smoke every morning, and
that he was never whipped SO much II
his life as he was. one morning for NOT -
smoking. ."-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11

preserves the pudding from becoming
stale. Partaken of by itself, it burns
and corrugates an otherwise happy
dispositions; yet withal, it has its value
in moral economics, and is but a condl-
tion induced by certain phases of ex-
perience, necessary in themselves. Ex-
perience is the sum total after all.
We can only be guided by advice. We
cannot absorb another's experience.
The experience must be our own. The
saving clause is that "the perspective
is constantly changing" otherwise we
would suffer degeneration settle into
a dogmatism, obdurate and unap-
proachable, or into something infinitely
worse-the content that knows no
higher ideal.
The pains and burdens of all expert
ence are fully atoned and paid for
when their meaning and purpose are
fully understood. Because we cannot
trace in detail the connections between
causes and effects, is no good reason
for arbitrarily denying that such con-
nections exist. Because we see from
one point of view, is no reason why
we will not be able to see from another
when we get there. We commence
our schooling in the lowest grade, and
we must learn the lessons of each class,
if we are to comprehend the teachings
of the next higher one. We are not
able to accept the teachings of the
higher class while we are still strug-
Cling to understand those of the lower.
But that does not detract from the
positiveness of higher wisdom or from
the truth that there is an unknown
algebra beyond the present arithmetic.
Man'needs his life experiences. He
cannot attain the heights except
round by round, oftentimes by weary
travel. If he could be lifted thereto,
without having gcSaaed the right by
overcoming, he could not remain; nor
would he care to. He could not adapt
himself to his superior environments;
he could not appreciate and enjoy what
he had not won by conquest neither
would he be worthy. There is no un-
earned increment in the economics of
intellect-no more is there value in
the simple knowledge of another's ex-
perience.
Dependence, moral, social or reli-
gious, is benumbing in its influence,
and initiates against a just discrimina-
tion in the personal experiences of daily
life-the winnowing of the chaff from
the grain. Through severe hardships,
travail, battling with adverse fortune,
under the lash of oppression, hu-
manity will eventually struggle to a
position of absolute self-poise aid
equilibrium; and with it he will recoe-
nize in all its entirety the value and
significance of each and every indi-
vidual experience. KIN
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11

out halfway decent sort of fellows, if
it were not for the fact that unthink-
ing cads-like you-raise them upon a
pedestal, and bow down before them,
and worship them"
When the old man had delivered this
scathing denunciation of self-made
men and their worshippers he paused
to refill his pipe, while five of his re-
naming six hearers held short con-
sultation. Two were in favor of tying
a stone around the old FOOLS neck and
drowning him in the Mississippi river,
while three considered it foolish to
risk-their necks on account of an old
fogy who was fifty years behind the
times. So they took an unceremonious
leave and scampered off in different
directions presumably to hunt butter
nuts. l would have followed their ex-
ample, but the old man-to make sure
of one auditor-laid a gentle, but re-
straining hand on my shoulder, and
said, "Let 'em 60, Hiram. The fool
fleeth from counsel. Be you not like
them. What / told them is the plain
truth, and they know it, but haven't
the courage to acknowledge it, and
therefore they fly from it. And there
are others like them. There are in this
free country men holding positions of
honor and trust, who would not only
put me behind prison bars, but even
hang me for the truth have uttered
this .afternoon-if they dared! They
fear the truth, because it is inimical to
their material interests. AS for your
babbling, golden-calf-worshipping COM
panions who have fled to the woods,
the sooner you cut loose from such
associates the better it will be for you.
I believe there is some good in you
only a little good, perhaps, but it may
grow, if given a chance. Take this bit
of advice: Think before you speak,
but when you speak, speak the truth and
d-n the consequences. Let's 60
home" H. SLOWGO, JR.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11
Incomplete.


think the words that are sweetest
Are the words that are never said:
And the moments that pass the fleetest
Are the last ones with the dead.
The thoughts that are truest and bravest,
Are the ones that are never expressed;
And the tender love thou cravest
For fear is never confessed.
know the friends that are truest
Are those we see In our dreams;
Though we feel the one that is newest
Is very near what he seems.
The rose that is sweetest and fairest
Is the bud that is killed by the frost:
And the love that Is dearest and rarest
Is the true love we just have lost.
-Ex,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11


n canoe of individual separate
i ness, individual being of the
self-hood appeal to one; and
with it the complex unity of all other
individuations, inseparably united in
what appears to be an inharmonious
whole! Yet humanity in the concrete
is working out its salvation toward
mundane perfection, despite an ap-
parent preponderance of will.
An abridged retrospection of human
events, which have occurred during
the past two thousand years, will prove
convincing argument in favor OF
such statement. The assertion that
humankind is on the retrograde, can
only be ,classed as the yaporings OF
some disgruntled, choleric individual,
prone to dyspeptic intervals; or whose
moral liver needs a purgative in the
shape of a dose of optimism raised to
Hthecninths power. 1t cannot be denied,
however, that pessimism is a necessary
ingredient; it often saves man from
SNUG contsnted complacency that is
nothing but Information. It is more
than that--it. is true degeneration
Pessimism is the brandy-sauce to the
optimistic pudding. Itadds flavor and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11

Micro spectroscope analysis of Chin
ney SCOT has shown that it contains
iron. calcium, nickel, manganese. cop-
per and silver.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11
The Value OF Experi'
enCe.

Each soul must find expression incomplete
Until it knows the Great Eternal Truth
That it itself, is All, and All that is,
Is but part of it!''
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-12-11

Tow often does the true signifi-
Il canoe of individual separate
ness, individual being of the
Self-hOOd appeal to one. and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-26
Interesting Reports Presented and
Addresses Made Impressive Me-
mortal Service Held at
Afternoon Service.

Baptist church. then sang abide With
Me" with beautiful effect after whicn
Mrs; st9eksnberg the 81 speaker FAX prres,dent o, %
announcing as her subject The ChanYe
Of Thought Among German Scientists @ IN
presented the old, old story OF the growth
and evils OF the drink evil from a sci
entiic standpoint
Touching In beginning on the question
OF the lack OF knowledge of the alcohol
question from n scientific point of view
the speaker showed that the alcohol prod
lem is a very different problem today
from what IL has ever been before. She
then gave interesting information con-
cerning the history. the development IN
the use OF beer and It's relation 10 the
health. the intelligence and the morals OF
German people.
Modern inventions and the concentra,,
tion OF capital" she said. have produced
such floods of beer. seeking purchases as
10 arrest. thoughtful attention. especially
from the professional men, brought into
contact with masses Of men: In partcus
lar the physicians In hospitals, asylums
and prisons and the medical investiga-
tors in universities" Mrs. Stuckenberg
then quoted at length the opinions or
prominent German professors and physi-
clans concerning the alcohol problem.
'An authority on this question. Dr VIII
liam Bode.' she said. reports In the ar
ticle on drunkenness I'm the Encyclopedia
OF Political Science that a survey of the
comparative drink tables OF European
lands shows that Germany consumes more
distilled liquors per capita than even
Russia so notorious I'm this respect.
Again." she said, Or A. Baer OF Ber-
lin pronounced the best authority on the
German drink situation, reports that in
1885 1874 cases OF delirium tremens were
treated I'm the hospitals OF Germany ana
Prof. Won Bunge calls attention 10 the
! fact that only the minor number OF such
cases are sent to the HOSPITALS and further
states that chornic drunkenness and de-
lirium tremens are increasing there at
frightful rate.
"Dr. Rinz. professor i'm the University OF
Bonn saws in a pamphlet on alcohol drink
ing: This daily beer drinking. for hours
at n stretch customary among great mum.
bers OF the lower and middle classes OF
Germany. I regard IL all as a national
evil whether considered from the hyeenic.
economic or professional standpoint DR..
Won Birch Hirschneld, professor In the
University of Leipslc. says. Based upon
my anatomical and pathological expert
ences. have come TO the conclusion that
in Leipsic. as In other large cities, very
great proportion OF our laboring men. per-
haps one-half OF our male population. -
wears old or more. manifest more or less
organic injury resulting from the use of
alcohol"
Continuing Mrs Stuckenbsrg quoted
many other celebrated German authori-
| ties 10 prove the change Of thought among
German scientists In regard to alcohol.
| Her address was listened to with deep at
tention and at It's close Miss Johnson gave
| another solo. after which the meeting adj
| fourned
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-26
The Danish West Indies.

Three-quarters OF the land in StCroix
belongs 10 Americans and North~of-1re-
land men who are strongly In favor OF
the sale, says the March Great Round
World. summing up an article on the
transfer OF the Danish West Indies. They
look forward to free trade with the
United States. but they also expect the
new order to bring prosperity from many
directions. They are proud OF the Islands.
They await only the more complete ex-
ploitation OF the natural resources, and
they will accomplish for us all that their
energy Is capable OF
The strategic value of the islands is,
however. the main consideration with The
United States government and per-
haps, IL the secret history OF the negoua-
tions is ever written. II will be found
that IL we had not stepped In to take the
islands. they would have passed into tho
hands of an aggressive European power.
The position of the Danish government
I'm regard 10 the transfer OF the Danish
West indies is considerably mixed up
with politics The islands have been ed
ministered virtually as a crown colony
for the past thirty years, the revenues
being tucked into the public chest in Dem
mark During that period, and, until re-
Gently, the King has had Conservative
ministry. But the Lower House of the
Rigsdag has been controlled by the Lib
| erals, and the result has been that year
after year the regular budgets have been
| rejected and affairs have been carried on
under provisional budgets which the King
! has power 10 authorize. The annual deb
| its OF the Danish West Indies have.
| therefore. not been authorized by the
, Danish Rigsdag and have accumulated
! TO about $500, 900. The last two Conser-
vatfve ministers were anxious TO sell the
/ islands I'm order TO secure the money 10
/ wipe out these debts without applying
! 10 the Rgsdag.
: But last year the Liberals carried the
! elections 10 the Lower House so over
| whelmingly that the King was obliged "a
appoint a Liberal Ministry, the first the
/ kingdom has had In forty years. The Lib
| erals are now anxious 20 consummate the
sale for economic reasons, while the Con
servativcs. now that they are out of tho
box, are opposing IL on so-called patriotic
grounds. but really In order TO make th'
| question a failure In the hands OF tn,
Liberals.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-26

Do the omens that have Invariably been
noted at coronation ceremonies presage
with any degree OF accuracy the for
tunes of the reigns that follow? If the
heavens should weep and the winds blow
on the day that King Edward VII Is
crowned King Of England, will his maJes-
ty have therefore any ground for appre-
hension? Consider the sequence between
omen and fact as recorded in the histories
of the long line of Edwards predecessors.
Edward lis coronation was a complete
fiasco. The confusion OF the affair is be-
lieved 20 have been prophetic OF the mon
arch's entire reign. although the person
directly responsible for IL was Piers
Gaveston. the kings unworthy fayorite,
to whom was awarded the high honor Of
bearing the crown and Of supervising the
ARRANGEMENTS OF the day. The death OF
knight, Sir John Bskewell because of
the tumultuous crowds. was the most in
auspicious OF the omens OF this unhappy
day. In the case of poor little Edward
vi there fell out an occurrence en-
blematic OF much that happened later in
the course of history. When the three
swords. for the three kingdoms, were
brought TO be carried before him, the
king observed that there was yet one
wanting and called for the Bible, which
he called the sword OF spirit"
James III displayed humorous forebear-
ance at the supreme mischance which be-
fell his coronation festivities. 1t was at
the coronation banquet, and the king
champion had just flung his challenge TO
the world. He had dismounted from his
seat, and was advancing toward the
king,s seat 20 kiss James hand Through
7 awkwardness ne stumbled and fell down
the fell length, equipped in complete
armor. The queen consort, Mary of Mo-
dena, exclaimed, See, you, love, what
weak champion you have" To which
the kin gsaid nothing, but laughed, and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-26
Biggest Railway Station.

The city of St Louis now possesses the
distinction OF having the largest passen-
ger railway station In the United states
II Is $50 feet long and 6o0 feet wide. and
has 30 tracks. enough to handle ten i'm
coming and ten outgoing trains simulta-
neously. IL ls known as the Union station
and the territory owned by the company
operating Il covers q acres.
The city OF Boston has the next 20 tho
largest station for passenger service In
the country. The Union station in Boston.
on the north side has a length OF 500
feet n width Of $50 feet. and % tracks.
Both OF these huge stations are 10 be
surpassed by the new Southern Union
station IN Boston. upon which work was
begun in January. 1897. and which Is now
nearing completion. IL is designed 90 be
the biggest railroad station IN the United
states. The walls are built. the steel
work II all In place. and the material is
on the ground for the completion OF the
structure.-Ledger Monthly
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-26
After Pieters Hill.

Night fell terribly for the poor wounded
out there; one had better not think OF 1t;
yet. even after two years, In this cheerful
sunny MONDAY, the whole hill is shroud-
ed In a scented gloom, from whose depths
tired miserable voices call awfully and
necessarily, "Helpl Help. Ooh! Stretch
er-bearer-r-r." throughout the night,
throughout the years. forever, unless
memory will become as deaf as the ears
through which such unutterable sadness
walled into her.
All night, and all next day, and all the
night after. they lay there. l have talked
TO an officer who lay with them. an or
binary. gallant English gentleman who
lay I'm hell for forty hours with thirteen
wounds on his body. and fifty dying men
around him. What he saw Wiertz him
self would hesitate to put upon canvas;
what he said no British writer can tell TO
British people He used to- peep over his
stone and watch them dying, expecting
death every second himself. Prone forms
which twisted restessly at the first peep
would be immobile, their last contortion
stiffened to dirty marble, when he peeped
again.
IL seemed terrible private, that stony
slaughter ground. deserted by friends and
unyisited by foes, little unhappy world
OF it's own, its inhabitants quietly dying
and silently living behind the rocks, with
no word for each other, for no one knew
whether the pair OF legs or the top OF
the helmet he could see around the corner
did not belong to "a corpse, and I'm any
case, when the hope Is dead speech dies
also but the rumble-dumbe of delrium,
which occasionally murmured from some
invisible corner when the sun blazed out
next day, stopping and recommending like
the sound OF a distant threshing machine
on a dreamy summers day in old Eng
land
All OF which would not be worth telling
were II not true. terribly true, and but a
| tenth part OF the terrible truth. Mans
agony should be known, or at least
| guessed at by a world whose eyes have
been filled too long with unreal tears over
/ every "fopish lamentation" piping from
/ the circulating libraries and the commit
\ tee rooms of cranks
Here was something real. my masters.
Ye are singularly silent about IL, con-
sidering how loudly minor woes can make
| you cackle--the quality OF cocoa supplied
| TO your captured enemies, for instance,
| or the lack OF soap and sanitation for
! their families, who desire n wash but
seldom, and drains never.-From Two
Years After" by "Linesman." in Black
woods Magazi for February.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-26
Removing Ink Stains From Cloth,

The removal Of ink stains r. always a
problem. because inks are made by so
many processes. Soap and water viii
remove some inks. while strong chemicals
make little impression on others. The
sooner the stain is treated the more easily
A is removed. Washing and soaking I'm
cold water, or I'm sweet or sour milk.
will remove the greater part OF the ink
and frequently the stain. Spots on wash
able articles should be soaked In milk
or water. Rub the spot and change the
Iiquid frequently. After two or three
days. n stain remains, wet 10 with
strong solution OF oxalic acid and place
~ in the sun. After this rinse very thor
oughly.-March Ladies Home Journal.