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standpoint loss of serepect and indie
pendence. AND I KNOW FROM THOUSANDS OF EXAM
PIES THAT THE POOR-MEN, WOMEN AND LITTLE
CHILDREN-THINK A GREAT DEAL OF THEIR SELF
RESPECT The problem, them how to help this class and at the
time have them maintain their self-respect
This be done. How? HELP THEM TO HELP THEM
SELVES. Eliminate the word charity your dealings with them
In whatever have done this direction this has been first
In the awful winter of 1894 when the poverty and suffering in
New York simply ndescbae opened lodging houses all
the city bed and meal could be obtained them for five
Now know that they the OF saving from the
streets thousands especng who would have walked the
streets all night rather than from charity free bed II they
had not the five they would work until they got it.
have had the with the distribution OF sterll
lied milk made that the lives of thousands OF little
babies could be saved if they could milk These milk
stations have been established The milk sold low
Much of in fact distributed gratis But the element of charity
has disappeared and the but Independent and serepecng
mother ashamed OF the opportunity benefit her children
without accepting charity.
Another thing. IF YOU WANT TO HELP ANYONE, THE
BEST TIME TO DO IT IS BEFORE HE IS DOWN. RATHER
THAN RUN TO HIS ASSISTANCE WHEN HE is IN De
SPAIR HELP HIM BEFORE HE FALLS INTO THE DEPTHS.
Don't until he hospital prison He will helpless
then to help himself
Above ALL don't the soul unfortunate by long
abecy Of his condition The deserving real
TO speak of his condition.
Remember that the of assisting
brother GAN OUNCE OF PREVENTION is WORTH A TON
OF CURE Therefore practical philanthropy will prevent rather
ills.
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for example, fixed upon the "west side
of the Manica plateau as their COM
mon frontier in MasNona Land, find
ing later that there is no such plateau
and that some other definition for the
boundary line must be made, or they
would be as badly mixed up as we have
been with Canada in the Alaskan
boundary muddle. Then the British
and Germans fixed upon the Rio del
Rey from its source to the sea-" as the
boundary between their possessions
fronting on the Blight of Biafra. They
We're slightly up tree when they dis
covered that the Rio del Rey is not a
river at all, but is merely an inlet of
the sea and not much of one at that.
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the great papers of Chicago the press
of every other city in the land black
en- their pages with 'scare headings
chronicling the doings of the wicked
in Chicago.
Throughout the length and breadth
of the land is the tale told until the
good people of other places fear to
visit the western metropolis, and the
lovers of evil seek it out as the place
they have long sought.
Some weeks ago a business man of
the city was returning home after an
extended trip through the coast
states of the west. He felt better
with every revolution of the car
wheels that carried him nearer the
city of his choice. The stories of a
reign of crime in Chicago that had
penetrated to every part of the coun-
try did not disturb him in the least.
He knew that he had walked the
streets of the city day and night for
close to so years, and neither thief
nor thug had molested him, that in
the half century of his residence in
the city divekeeper had never en-
ticed him into his place of crime,
that he had visited during his west
ern trip places where vice and crime
were far more common, population
considered, than in Chicago. But the
same was not true of felow-trav-
eler who occupied the upper half of
his Pullman section. He had read
the "scare-headed" tales in the news
papers and believed them.
"Does the train must take for the
east leave from the same depot this
one enters?" he asked, producing his
transportation to show the line he
must continue his journey eastward
from Chicago over.
"No; the two depots are half a
mile or more apart" replied the Chi
cagoan.
"What will be the safest way for
me to get from one to the other?"
asked the stranger.
"'Safest?' What do you mean by
safest?"
"Well, you see, I have quite a little
sum of money with me, and do not
care to take any chances with the
footpads and thieves with which Chi
cage is Overrun. l had hoped to be
able TO get sleeper straight
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had reigned over several million peo-
pie who paid tribute to them. Great
kings they must have been, some of
them, for there are many evidences to
show that the civilization of those
days was something worth while. In
area the island is about the same size
as Holland or Belgium. 1t is 271 miles
long and 1877 miles across at extreme
breadth. Its area is 1896 square
miles. In Singalese the island is
LanlSa. Its later names were Serendib
and Taprobane.
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GEOGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY.
Ludricrous Mistakes Made by Writers
Who Are Unfamiliar with
the Country.

The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times informs his newspaper
that "the Cape to Cairo line of the Afri-
can Transcontinental Telegraph COM
pany has been constructed as far as
Bismarckburg, Togoland.'' This may
read all right to anyone who knows
nothing about the geography of Afri-
ca, but if he should try to illumine the
statement by using a good map he
would begin to suspect that something
was wrong. The news is about as in
telligible as though it read: '"The tele
graph line between Chicago and ST.
Louis has been extended as far as
Portland, Ore" The route of the Cape
to Cairo telegraph line passes through
central Africa, while Togoland is a
German possession on the west coast,
Bismarckburg being a settlement in
the interior of the colony.
Such blunders are quite eXcusable as
long as Africa is comparatively little
known, says the New York Sun, but
some people continue to perpetrate
them when they should know better.
"A SS1looA SSoSAo PiS aSSo III oNie@SA
land contained this statement awhile
ago, and perhaps it does yet:
''The inhabitants of the six New
England states are Yankees"
Perhaps some American school
teachers who visit the Alps have put a
flea in the ear of that writer of geog-
raphies.
Treaties between various nations
relating to boundaries will probably
never again contain so many blunders
as has been the case within the past
20 years, while the world has been
clearing up nearly all the geographical
mysteries. AT least dozen ludicrous
blunders were perpetrated by Euro
pean governments in their African
treaties. The British and Portuguese,
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Jealous Artists.

A certain set of English artists are
jealous of the decorative work done
abroad, in France and in Germany. At
a time when British artists are re-
ceived we'll in all countries, it is very
regrettable that lack of fair play
should be shown by Englishmen to
continental painters and craftsmen.
Not very long ago, when England was
powerfully influenced by French art.
many Frenchmen believed that moth
ing good in painting or design could
be done by Englishmen, and now that
this error has passed away, section
of the English public becomes hostile
to French artists.-London Studio.
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especially in other cities.
During the time of his visit Mr.. Steads
found nothing good in Chicago that he
could put into his book, but throughs
his pessimistic eyes he saw all, and,
more than all, that was bad. He saw
the streets given over to criminals and
fallen women; he saw the buildings oc--
cupied by the lowest classes OF dives
breeding every form of vice and social,
corruption; he saw the homes OF the
people invaded by the gambler and the
drunkard; he saw the great business.
houses conducted by rascals and.
cheats.
No doubt Mr.. Stead found much to.
condemn, but did he need to come SO far
to have found it? Could not he, with
less investiga ton and with less trouble.
have found even worse conditions in,
his own city of London? In London
New York, Chicago, San Francisco,
everywhere where there is gathered to-
gether modern settlement, whether
it be large or small, there is to be found
both clouds and sunshine, both NOR
ality and immortality, and it savored of
llSC lOl tlllS Sledl
to pick upon Chicago, city no worse
than others of its size, a city outside the.
boundaries of his own land, and holdit
up to the public gaze as the very heart
of the criminal wickedness of the
world.
Chicago was then, as it is to-day, a.
city. 1t had then, as it has now, it's,
share of criminals, of fallen women, of.
dives and dive keepers, but it also had
then and has now churches, schools, mis-
sions, charitable institutions, Chris
tian homes and all that makes for the.
best in our modern civilization, but
these latter things Mr.. Stead failed to.
see.
Statistics will speak more eloquent
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the little private apartments in the
saloons where two or more may con-
gregate for convivial purposes with
out attracting the notice of every
purchaser of drink at the bar, that
are particularly in disfavor and have
been legislated out of existence by
the city fathers.
But this serves merely as sample
of Chicago's virtuous periods, and
the spasmodic efforts that are made
to raise the level of society and make
of Chicago a desirable abiding place
for the law-abiding, law-respectiEg
citizen. At times these virtuous
streaks affect merely certain sec
tons of the city, or certain depart
ments of the city government. Some
time ago whole block on State
street was purged, and the dives
which that particular block had har-
bored knew them no more for pc
Rod of some three weeks. Following
that came a so-called cleansing of one
of the departments of the municipal
government. Half dozen small sal
aried clerks were sacrificed that an
object lesson might be offered the
people. To prove that party politics
is not accountable for these things
it is but necessary to remember that
the same things have been happen
ing for years, at times when repub-
lican mayors occupied the municipal
throne in the city hall, when indie
pendent mayors, men elected on citi-
zens' tickets, reigned over the des
TIMES of the city, and at times when
the voters of the city had rolled up
majority for the democratic party
and chosen a follower of Jackson to
look after the welfare and interests
of the people. No, it is but the way
of Chicago-the Chicago of yester-
day, of to-day and of tomorrow. The
thief, the thug, the dive and dive
keeper cometh and goeth; they tarry
not long at time, neither do they
depart never again to return. They
have their innings for time, and
then it is the peoples turn at the
bat, and SO the game has been going
on for an innumerable number of in
nings, and the score is as yet tie.
1t is not fit that the great power
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Science ana statesmnnship.

Thousands of mocroscopists are en-
ployed in Germany to prevent trichi-
nosis by detecting diseased pork; but
if tenth of the money thus expended
were used in dissuading people from
eating raw meat, the desired result
would be attained more completely.
A medical journal uses this illustration
to show how Science outruns states
manship." Perhaps it should be re-
minded that science can deal with
things as they ought to be, whereas
legislators move slowly because of the
interests, habits and prejudices of the
people as they are.-Science.
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Adventists ......... 6 Indep,d't churches 9
Christian 8 s M fNHa Epis :1zs
Chr. Cath Dowie) I Methodist Prot. /
Christn Scientist. 4 N. Jerus. (Swbgn) S
Congregational ...lO2 Presbyterian ...... 60
Cumberrd Presbn 8 REID CHI. (Holland) 4
Dunkard ........... 2 Reid CHI. In Am. 8
Episcopal .......... 46 REID CHI. in u S.. s
Episcopal Reid. z Reid Pres. Cow /
Ethical Culture. ! Latter Day Saints
Evangelical Assn 10 Roman Catholic 116
Evangelical Luth. 81 Ind. Polish Cath.
Swedish Ev Miss. II Salv. Army depots %
German Evangel. % Vol. of Am. depots
United EVangel... Z Unitarian .....,,
Union Evangelical 81 United Presbyt'n..
Free Methodist. 9 Universalist ....... S
Greek church,. q Miscellaneous -. 10
Nor do the church statistics tell all
of the bright side of Chicago. Look at
the great public school buildings Of
the city, $50 of them, with their
thousands of pupils; look at the
institutions for higher education,
the universities, colleges, acad-
emies, etc, % of them without
counting many of the technical schools
where the various professions are
taught; look at the 80 free lsindergar.
tens and the dozens of private ones;
look at the 10 free schools for deaf
mutes, and at the Is university extern
sion centers scattered about the city.
Nor is this yet all that makes life
bright in Chicago. There are the char
tiles. The charitable organiza tons,
are almost without number, but con,
slider only those that maintain asy--
lums for the weak, the crippled, the
aged, the infirm. Sixty institutions OF
this class are helping make life in
Chicago bright. There are the social
settlements, of which there are sew
eral, the great free Libraries, and to
these things may be added an almost
endless list of others to counterbal-
ance the dark side of Chicago, ofwhich
the public are so often told.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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Therefore in this article I shall speak from
my own experience.
First, then, do not like the word
"charity." 1t was beautiful word in its
inception, but its constant association with
poor unfortunates has almost taken from
it it's original meaning. At present, if
worthy but unlucky citizen is forced to
apply to an institution for assistance, the
first words that stare at him from the door
are CHARITABLE OR A N Z A
TON"
Now l KNOW that there are thou
sands of people in New York in dire dis
tress who will not accept "CHARITY.,
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Chicago Is Not as Black
as She Is Painted

through so 1 would not have had to-
have gotten off the train in the place
at ALL
The Chicagoan told the man few
plain truths, and when the stranger
reached the city he walked from one,
depot to the other, and, more, re-
NAMED over for a day that he might.
enjoy the sights of the city. Nor did
he so much as see footpad or a.
thief.
Some seven or eight years ago that.
great English reformer, editor ands
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the purpose of
e X C u S in g the
shortcomings, the
sins, of either
persons or mu-
inequalities, n o +
d O w e e X cuse
them, but should
Chicago be held
up to the world
as the one great
center of wicked
ness for all this
country? Taking
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Relieved.

Book Agent-You would better buy
a copy. 1t contains valuable informa-
ton, sir, and will be sure to pay for
itself in a short time.
Merchant-Will it? Then I'll take
a copy. l was afraid I'd have to pay for
it.-Harlem Life.
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pessimist, w. T.
Stead, came to.
Chicago. He. re-
manned some four
or five weeks and
then returned to-
London and wrote
a book. 1t was a.
pessimistic o l.
ume entitled IF.
Christ came to Chi
cago," and o n e.
that received con-
S i d e ia BILE atten--
ton at that time
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Villages OF he Not See.
country will do so, but the diff
ference in the size of the con-
gregations must be compared. The
village congregations will number
at most but few hundred,
while the Chicago congregations will
often number we'll into the thousands.
The following table showing the num-
Der of the Chicago churches contains
practically every denomination of the
Christian churches known in this coun-
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Every now and again Chicago goes
in for virtuous season. A time

when the thief,
t h e thug, the
criminal of every
sort, as we'll as
the make T S O f
C r j m j nails, the
divekeepers, come
in for a share of
undesired public
attention that is
u n p rofitable to
them.
Just a t t h e
present time it is
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cago. Take the
churches and mis-
sions, for instance.
There are 907 of
them within the
city limits; one
for each 1873 Of
the populat i o n.
There are but few
large cities that
can show a bet
ter average than
that. True, the
smaller cities and
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None Too Liberal.

"Mr. Linger spends great deal Of
time with you, Molly" said Miss Kit.
fish to Miss Frocks.
EYES," but that's all that he does
spend" -Detroit Free Press.
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of our fathers and mothers, or we
have new and improved methods
Of expressing it.
LOVE. WHAT is IT?
There is not one young man
or young woman Of the really
swell sets" in a hundred who
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HELP OTHERS TO
HELP THEMSELVES
BY NATHAN STRAUS,
MERCHANT
By NATHAN STRAUS,


my helping others to help themselves have value
extending in that line
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1t is not fit that the great power
of the press should be utilized for
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Statistics will speak more eloquent
" than words of the bright side of Chi
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ern civilization

songs of the past have place mod
civilization We still speak Of love, but either the love
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ened from a little steep-~tth tho gen.
oest possible words and ways She had
not at all the manner Of a nurse but
rather that Of an exceedingly tactful
and wen bred young doctor.
Este took the bouquet and very
Quietly cried orer It for some minutes
without discovering the note "hich
Il contained. She did not shy any
thing; she did not ask q question about
What Alden had said or done, whether
be bod gone away or wns still waiting
or whether be had seemed much dis
tressed by her misfortune. Brenda had
merely said that he bad called, and
that he had sent the vtolets because
they were Etsie's favorite flower. This
seemed 10 satisfy the girl completely.
Bretiia had supposed that she would
see the message at the first glance and
Indeed believed for some little time
that she had done so, but did not wish
to read It Immediately. Finding this
an error and fearing that the sudden
discovery Of It might starte her, Bren-
fa told Elsie that there was q message
and pointed out It's place.
Then she turned away. as If unwill-
ing to accept the chance Of guessing
from Este's face what the note might
contain When she Judged that tie
proper Interval had elapsed. she ap-
preached the bed once more.
Eisie's eyes wer shut. The tears
were drying on her cheeks. that were
as delicate as rose leaves, and her right
hand was against her breast. tightly
closed. Thus she remained until she
feb asIeep
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-TAas pot somctAta1 t*1o tAe@.'
brought up Joe Neete knows that
when a man 10 worried be talks, he
must talk to somebody. And the cap
would just as soon get your secret
out OF John Doe as out Of youa little
rather. tn fact. because then you
wouldn't know that be had Il Now,
Eve said enough to cost me my Job"
"Nothing you say 10 me will ever
cost you anything" said Alden I'm
not a talking mao By the wsN who
are your -
.introduce me-. said rE1mendod to
Kendall. and the doctor complied
~ am pleased to meet. yon, said
Alde, Offering hts hond II you find
ou. anything Importers b this case l
want you to tell 100 f1s& m mako II
worth yoor whise'
no. thank yout" sxtd Emendoef
hastily. IA q ruae I'm as coTrupt
90 the desfEbut noe ths dmA
Meanwhile Brenda bad deifvesed the
posies, q. Easts@RAm fskn:e4d wAle
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You're making a mistake" sold
Barnes and then backed out Of the
room, grinning like n monkey, as heo-
dali advanced toward the door.
Brenda replaced the note among te
flowers and gave her free hand to Az
den. bidding HIM good night
II shall not be fat away" he SAID as
the woman preceded Kendall out OF the
room. There's a lodging house next
door. I shall get a place to sheep there.
Sleep? Well. az least I shall be there.
You will not fail to summon me tiff
there should be any ason for NJ
"You may depend upon me- said
Brenda from the threshold where she
bod paused a moment while he spoke
Kendall went with her to the mouth
Of the kong corridor and then returned
10 the reception
"That man must be insane" be said
TO EnreniorE What did be mean by
coming lere with such absurdttee?
"IIa didn't believe in them any more
than you DO" replied the detective.
"IIc had no idea that there was any.
thing wrong With tho volets o. with
the note. lie uas simply ooeytns or.
derS"
.OrdersY- echoed Kendall WHO
could have ordered him 10 90 socn q
thlngr'
Il guess Mr.. Alden kDo~s," respond
ed E4nendorf. "Aod, between our
selves. | think Mr.. Alden should have
permitted the note to be read right
here. hope Miss Miller won't destroy
It."
Kendall hooked at Alden as n TO In
Quire whether such a thing was likely.
but Cleaned no answer. 'Aldens face
had resumed IT'S rigidtty. and the ex-
preston which IL wore wrs incense. bot
difficult to read
However" continued EimendorE IF
Il hadn't been that It would have been
something else. You're going 30 see a
good deal Of this sort Of thing IN the
next few days, Mr.. Alden"
"A good deal OF whatr' said Alden
X is tSuufSt&fs htOWh a hSooihS
trouble for a man. replied the de
tective. Il don't know why 1 should
put you on but rID doing II just the
same"
do you mean to tell me-" Demanded
Alden, that Captain Neale expects to
extort an important secret from me b.
childish trtcks Of annoyance soch Is
thisy'
Certainly not answered EDeo-
dorf. "Joe Neah is 10 such donkey.
Why. he's worth a quarter Of a NIL
hon dollars, aud It's q wise man VINO
can a as much as that IN a few
years out Of O salary Of twenty-five
hundred. By simple arithmetic r
would take a man tust q century TO
do Il II he lived meanwhile oo what,
the peigbbors ent 10 as they used to
say tn Massachusetts, where ! was