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city reside in
flats, but for the past year or more
there hnd seemingly been a tend
ency away from this class of resi-
dences, and separate houses were
coming more and more into demand.
To-day, because of the coal famine,
there is a mad scramble for flats, and
rents in the great apartment build
ings are soaring skyward. Five, six
and seven-room apartments that
would have rented last May at from
SIS to $35 per month cannot now be
had for a third more than that. 1t
is the landlords harvest.
The unhappy mortal who is fated to
dwell in climate where heat is nee
essary finds it much more pleasant to
back up against a heated steam coil
in fiat building than to attempt to
get heat from a radiator from his own
fornace for which he must supply the
coal; or to swear fuently at the JAM
tor and order him to dig deep into
the landlords coal bin, instead of Dig
cling deep into his own at time when
the replenishing of the coal supply is
one of the uncertainties of life.
Altogether the fiat dweller is not
greatly to be pitied, especially this
winter. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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DUE TO INDIFFERENCE.
Ascribed to Excessive Frank
ness and Honesty.

Somebody has discovered that the
decadence in modern manners does
not necessarily denote our increased
the feelings and needs of other people.
1t is balm to the soul to be assured of
this fact.
We have admitted to ourselves for
some time past that our manners have
not the repose which should mark the
caste of We're de We're, and that we are
indeed frankly discourteous to each
other. We also know that many men
are no longer particular how they act
or what they say in the presence of
women, and do not even observe the
small courtesies of life where mem
bers of the opposite sex are concerned.
Men no longer hesitate to let woman
wait on them, or to push her aside in
crowd, or to smoke in her face unapolT;;
ogetically. as if that were their natural
right. We certainly are less polished
and ceremonious than were our fore
bears.
Facing this fact, it is pleasing to be
assured that the change is not due to
selfishness, but is simply the express
sion of our desire to be honest, to avoid
shams Therefore, if we sometimes
overstep the limit and cultivate un-
pleasant freedom of speech and ac-
ton, manifest unrestrained rudeness,
we are to be excused on the ground
of our excessive frankness and hon
esty.-Chicago American.
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a satchel in miniature. The next bag is a
chatelane equipped with safety hook and
fashioned of steel beads, with mounting of
oNdized silver No. is of suede in deep
shade of gray, with establishment in the
form of steel beads in fanciful design. The
next bag is an ordinary type of chatelaine
in the finest grade of seal with gun metal
mounting, while the last bag in the group
is of black velvet with silver mounting,
just the sort of bag to carry With the velvet
costumes that are so fashionable at the
present time. There are bags and bags
and the woman who does not carry wrist
bag or chatelane these days is an excep-
ton, for these modish little receptaclss
into which are crowded purse, handker-
chief and the multiplicity of belongings
which the average woman takes along on
a shopping or visiting trip, admirably fill
the place Of the discarded pocket.-Brook-
Ign Eagle.
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Chicago at the present time, coal that
is for sale-to the right parties; coal
that is for sale at a fair price-to the
right parties. To those who are not
right" 1t is practically unobtaina-
Bile at any price, and in all probability
will remain SO throughout the win
ter.
The way is this.
1t is the large wholesale dealer who
has the coal; the man who ships it
from the mine in trainload lots, and
who sells it either by the carload or
the half-dozen tons to the small re-
taller or direct to the consumer. The
small merchant, the man who buys of
the wholesaler and deals not with the
mines direct, is practically out of bust
ness and has no coal to sell, the whole
saler is providing him with none, and
he has no standing with.the mines
Go into almost any portion of the
city where reside the working classes !;
the people who are dependent upon
daily, weekly or monthly wages of the
stores and factories, and you may see
a number of these small coal offices
closed up. 1t is useless for them to
keep open; the proprietors have not
sufficient coal to heat their own Of
fees; they have nothing to sell at
any price. Their trade has. been among
families, whose demands were for heat
ing. fuel, the combine of the larger
merchants has not allowed them tic
sell to the factories, and so they have
sold but. little except anthracite, but
now it is almost impossible for then
to get even soft coal so great has the
demand on the part of their larger
competitors become.
What is the result of this SO far as
the small consumer is concerned?
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a long chance at death under the reet

a long chance at death under the feet
of the truck horses. Her business is to
provide fuel for shivering brothers and
sisters at her one-room home, and
without fuel life is worse than death.
In fact it is doubtful if these chill
dren of the tenements ever think of
the terrible chances they take; death
to them has no terrors when COM
pared with a freless winters day.
70 these little cleaners the lessened
supply of coal means lessened oppor-
tunities. From every car of coal, from
every wagon-load of the fuel, SO many
Jumps must fall, but when the cars
come not from the mines, when the
wagons stand at the stables for lack
of something to haul, the Jumps fail
to fall and the fires cease to burn.
Along the tracks of the railways
coming into Chicago from the east
have been faNorite cleaning grounds
for this class of the popula ton in other
winters. But this winter the bump
and jar of the trains fail to loosen
the small black Jumps and send them
over the protecting sides in any con-
siderable quantities for the reason
that these roads are carrying into the
city but a comparatively small guam.
tity of fuel.
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The price rather ''as s"e So.. ~ WV :
surprises him, it is
much lower than was to have been eX-
pected.
"Will you send me out about ton
or two?' asks the would-be purchaser
of the black diamonds.
"Of whom have you been buying coal
before?" comes the quick reply from
the man with coal to sell.
"From man / knew out my way.
He used to run coal office, but he is
out now'
"Well, we can't supply you now at
any price. We have only enough coal
to take care of our regular customers.
If you had been buying coal of us be-
fore we would be glad to take care
of you now, but, you see, we have to
look after our regular customers"
Either the would-be purchaser gets
some such an answer as that, or he is
turned away with the information
coal delivered some time during the
coming summer. In either case he
must make the most of an empty coal
bin with the thermometer at dam
gerously low point.
And SO it is that the large dealer
is sowing the seed of fruitful harvest
another year The purchasing public
will take no further chances, for a
year or two at least, with the small
dealer. They will buy from the man
who can supply their wants in times
of emergencies, should they arise
again. In the meantime they econo-
mize on the pickets of their back
yard fence and hope for an open win
ter.
| There is yet another class on whom
/ the cnnl fanina haS fa Ian vii IA nrant
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ketN7 HILE pocl1etless gowns remain in
kEN favor and, they decidedly hold first
~ = III place at the present time, wrist bags
@s'A1y and chatelaines are likely to remain
IN favor also. The chatelaine has been
somewhat crowded out of late by the
Smarter wrist bag, winch pleases the fancS
of Young women much more than the
chateaine, although some exceedingly
handsome specimens of the latter variety
are turned out by the jewelers., and with
their gold, or silver mesh and mounting of
same metal embellished with precious and
semi precious stones are veritable works of
art These and the more elaborate wrist
bags are, however, for special occasions
and dressy wear not for everyday use to
which the bags in the accompanying illus
tration are put. No. | represents handy,
serviceable bag of stamped leather, while
No. 2 is hand grain morocco receptacle of
the type known as the handkerchief bag.
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though there is a
great diminution
in t h e a t a ii
times, meager har-
vest, and for this
reason the fresar
burning unusually
| o w throughout
the cherries ten
ements.
In every winter
one of the great
est calls upon the
charitable organ
izations is for fuel,
and f.hiswinterthe
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tracks and in the streets. They are
the cleaners Of the city. With bag and
basket they travel the railway right
of way, or the streets, and watch for
each stray bit OF coal that has dropped
of the poor who are engaged in this
search for fuel. No bit is too small
to escape the eager eye of the half
frozen little girl as she lodges in and
gu, among the railway cars, OF takes
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1t is not possible to disbelieve these
figures, secured after months of care
full research and by competent in
vestigators, and yet they show less
than seven per cent. of the total that
can be attributed to drunkenness, and
only a trife over three per cent. that
may be attributed to Incidence.
1t is figures such as these that give
encouragement to organizations like
the Salvation Army, the Chicago Bu-
reau of Charities, the Relief and Aid
society, and dozens of others. They
show that the organizations are work
ing for the unfortunate, rather than
the willfully indolent or the drunkard.
And it is not the drunkard, or the
drunkard's family, among the poor
upon whom falls the shortage of coal
in the greatest numbers. Even though
provided with the necessary money,
this class of people cannot buy coal of
the dealers who have it to sell under
present conditions, and they must be
and are being supplied by the charity
organizations who are finding the
fuel question the hardest they have
had to meet in years of labor among
the poor.
But "'tis an i'll wind that blows no.
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PAR1s1ANs LIKE HER.
Duchess de Ia Rochefoucauld, Once
Washington Belle, Now
Leader Of the FaubOurg.

Matte Elizabeth Mitchell, daugh-
ter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon,
was married to Francois Alfred Gas
ton de la Rochefoucauld, duke de la
Rochefoucauld, duke de Liancourt,
duke d'Anville and prince de MARCH,
lac, about ten years ago. Her hus-
band is head of the first branch OF
the large house of la Rochefoucauld,
which was founded in the eleventh
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shortage. 1t is
bio wing tenants
and dollars to the
la ndlords o f
cheated flats.
Just as New
York is a city of
hotels, and Brook
Ign and Philadel-
phia are cities of
homes, SO is Chi
cago a city of
flats. More than
one-half of the
population of the
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been the cry, year
after year, of a
coming coal fam
inc in Chicago. and
much like the eli
max of the old IA
BILE the f a m i n e
came. afte T t h e
public had ceased
to fear it, and has
found tho S e o n
whom,it falls heav-
lest the least pre-
pared.
There is some an
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Baths Made of Glass.

Glass is being used in the manu-
facture of bathtubs. The glass is about
three inches thick, and annealed to
make the tub durable. The effect is
clean and beautiful. The idea is
German one, and is rapidly gaining IA
vor in this country.
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There is yet another class on whom
the coal famine has fallen with great

severity. a cl a S s
who have never
been buyers o f
coal, and yet. who
have dope n d e d
upon it for such
heat as they could
get. They are the
very poor; t h e
denizens of the
tene IN e II t d is
tricts.
The fuel supply
of this class has
been pick e d u p
t.-..
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He goes to the
man who has coal
to sell. to the man
who brings it from
the mines, to get
a much-n,e e d e d
supply, and is pre-
pared to pay a
high. price for the
necessity.
"What is Goa
worth ?" he asks.
Eight dollars a
ton" is the reply.
The price rather
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century and has figured prominently
in French history. During her resi-
dence in Paris this American woman,
as leader of the Faubourg Saint
German, has enjoyed peculiar prom
inence. In the first place she is IA
nous for her beauty, but back of her
loneliness she has an abundance of
originality. She is active in both so
cial and charitable affairs. She is
childless nAEa
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States The public is familiar with financial history Of
these roads, 1t remembers that through
OF reorganization which have the the
original subscribers There hardly railroad in the system
spanning the American continent which another has
not passed through period vcissude resulting
of dividends and there has been
complete by bonoers which accompanied
by usual stockholders and the diminishing
Iss altogether of the principal invested in the original shares
There time when millions of shares of stock in such Aeri
railroads held in England This
been foated by plausible who enabled by social quail
ties and by good noducons ngraate the conf
dence of the moneyed class England many instances
greet has this confidence been misplaced that but natural
that having been taught such lesson the English should be
bit chay OF American schemes until they have Investigated them
thoroughly and become assured of the genunenes of their character
and the financial and moral responsibility their promoters
IT, however, Engshmen become convinced that proposition
emanang from America other good they dis
posed to take up, encourage develop quickly if it
native born
OF England cherses great national PRIDE
and all conditions equal would be inclined give the
Engishmen This national spirit Of the buwarks of Engands
greatness and is thoroughly implanted in the British character
which I you there many admirable traits.
The unsuccessful usually lessons in
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-24
Coal Famine
in Chic go
HAffects Both the Middle Glasses and
The Very Poor. Il "A HorveSt for the
OsOner of .S1eom-Heafed Flats. ~ 81 -

Much like the tabled cry of wolf!
Wolff" when there was no wolf, has
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~ study of law is the feminine gift for detail
B1 Many people, looking law the outside think of
something large mysterious, instead of which
legal find multiplication of def
Titles dealing with which their native ordenes,
and passion for going into particulars ecialy suited
Under presenday conditions practice neenhs of legal
work. While succeed office practice that they
appear particularly gifted In drawing and the
search references the preparation of thorough
conscientious patience them N good stead.
The fathfuness reliability
ferred stenographe make them lawyers proficient the office
Indeed numbers have passed into law senogapy
Having learned the routine of lawyers they attend
gain theoretical understanding of the make themselves
valuable to their employers from this they serious study
of the profession
In New York the number of engaged in the practice of law
eases slowly steadily of these women quiet and
3rusive, but progress is substantial
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Briggs-Where are you going?
Diggs-To my drawing lesson. I'm
in the dental school Harvard Lam
poon.
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Our Invasion of England
BY CEIAS. T. YERKES,


do not agree with the statement that the Brit
ish public is opposed to the so-caled aggression OF
American capital in England, neither do think the
English people resent the idea of Americans pro-
noting their schemes in Great Britain, providing
they good ones. On the contrary, l believe
they are inclined to adopt favorable attitude to-
ward such propositions, provided they have assur-
ances of their aightforwardness and reliability.
Many years ago the English people put a great
deal of money in the wildcat railroads OF the United
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demand is greatly increased through
no fault of the city's poor. In fact,
of all the charity that is dispensed in
Chicago, but little goes to those whose
misfortunes are of their own making.
1t is customary to attribute to drunk
enness about 80 per cent. of the pow
erty met with in the tenement dis
tricts, but this is mistake. The lead
ers of several of the larger organiza-
lions for charity made a careful study
of causes of poverty during the past
year, and out of 2,41S cases carefully
investigated are able to give us accu-
rate information and percentages as
follows:
Inability to secure employment. ..... .4T
Insufficient or poorly paid employment. Isl
Chronic i'll health or physical defect. g!l
Death 200
Accident or sickness Temporary disable
DeStrtlon 20
Old age l 80
Lack of properly directed energy......... s.
Preference for dependence. ............... "
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There is, this winter, no diminution
in the number of these cleaners,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-24

The unsuccessful usually you lessons in
winning than he who has successfully competed with the world
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-24

But "'tis an i'll wind that blows no.
body good,'' and so it is with the coal
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What is the result of this SO far as
the small consumer is concerned?
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WIN Women Make Good Lawyers
By FANNIE HALLOCK CARPENTER,


0NE of the things that drawing increasing number of
~ to the study of law is the feminine gift for detail
1 Many people, looking law from the outside, think of it
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- 7INCE last September about $4,000 children have
- cluded from New Yors's public schools for dis
s559 many of the eyes, skin hair. Early in the
of wna to- do thaca
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05
Two Glimpes of Joseph Chamberlain

himself thoroughly at home and displayed q
keen interest in the woman's talk about her
household troubles.
When he saw us he greeted us warmly
and asked me not to write anything about
meeting him there. 1 refused to promise,
saying that it ought to be known.
at would correct the popular impression
Of you" the parson added.
well, it's my own affair" said Mr..
Chamberlain. 9TH public has nothing to
do with It,"
This side Of Mr.. Chamberlsin's character,
which is better known in Birmingham than
in London, goes far to explain his pop
ularity in the great midland city.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05
New Preparations

The great success attending the manu-
facture and production Of "Taka-Bita,"
"Feeda-Summa," "Chewa-Chunka" and
other ready digested foods has not failed
of effect upon the inventive genius of the
country. The following labor and time
saving products will soon be on the mar
ket:
Notta Jagga-A new whisky, whose In
toxicating qualities have been spent upon
a neatly contrived machine. You don't
have to drink 1t.
Canta- Fitta-Ingenious suit Of clothes.
You don't need to wear 1t.
Outa- Sighta-Marvelous achievement In
eyeglasses. 1t is not necessary to look
through them.
Grinna-Gonna-The latest form of break
fast-food joke. You don't have to laugh
at 1t. The manufacturers guarantee that
all the necessary laughing is done before
the joke leaves the factory.
Paya-Debta-A South American invention.
Through it's use it is possible to buy every
thing csc needs, and not have to pay for
anything. It's great.
Smoka- Butta-A ready-smoked cigar
Life,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05
Nice Hard Luck Story

Eyes, lady, I have seen better days"
mo doubt. You were once a proud and
successful business man. You held your
head as high as the highest. Then came
the defalcation of a trusted cashier and
the elopement of your only child with ,
bogus COUNT You were crushed, you toSx
to- drink. You became a vagabond. You
have nothing 10 live for-saye tolfnd the
man who wronged your trusting child. And
you ask me to help you on your weary
way"
Madam, you make me weep. Will you
please say that over again? I want to
learn 1t by heart-it's so much better than
the story l was about to tell you."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. !
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05

he replied. I'VE are not Jealous. On the
contrary. We ought to feel grateful to
America for reviving the fallen fortunes of
those distr used colonies. We are glad to
offer America a fair field in our possess
sions, and more than glad to welcome It's
entrance into the Geld of colonial enter.
prise, as / remarked in a recent article.
There is plenty of room for all of us in
the immense task of civilizing the tropics,
but, i fear, America will find the work a
great deal harder than 1t ever dreamed of.
In dealing with people like those in the
Philippines America will have to modify
the principles Of government materially.
/ see no hope for tropical civilization except
in benehcient, firm. practically despotic
government. Self government is a hopeless
proposition"
After some further talk, Mr.. Chamber
lain asked why the best men in the West
Indian colonies took no part in politics.
Because they are exposed to vulgar
abuse II they do" l replied. MUD is flung
at them by the bucketful."
He smiled bitterly. "If we thought Of
that would any Of us be in politics? I have
had mud flung at me from the days when
l first went into local politics in Birming-
ham,. A man must simply do his work,
disregard the abuse and never trouble to
reply to the lies told about him. That Is
the only way to get anything done. l
admire the public men IN America in this
matter. Probably Nowhere else is a poll
tician more abused; nowhere else are his
motives SO freely misinterpreted and his
character SO bitterly assailed. But Amer
ica's public men do not stop work on that
account. They disregard the gnats who
buzz around them" y
A few evenings later 1 met Mr.. Chamber
lain again under marke3cJ different cir
cumstances. l went dove to a Stepney
slum to take part IL an entertainment
given to the Submerged tenth" Coming
away in company with an East End parson,
I saw a man go into a-tenement house.
why that's Mr.. Chamberlain" 1 ex-
claimed, in establishment.
Certainly" said the parson. HE often
comes here. He is most charitable. He
helps lots OF people around here. He sup
ports a family in that house. The man
broke his leg, and they might star re but for
Mr.. Chamberlain.
Chamberlain" I calculated. Chamber
lain, the man Of iron! The man without
bowels Of compassion! The Mepbistopheles
of p~oliticsi Is 1T possible? What would
the radical papers say If they only knew"
"He doesn't want them to know" re-
piled the preacher. He likes to do his
good deeds under the rose. He puts on that
cold, passionless, unsympathetic mask
which the world knows so well; but at
heart he is the most benevolent and Chris
tian of men. In Birmingham and London
hi personally relieves an immense amount
OF distress. Let us go in and see him."
We entered the house and found Mr..
Chamberlain in a small room upstairs,
where the sick man was lying on a small
pallet. The statesman was talking cheerily
to the wife, telling her that her husband
would soon be we'll again. He had brought
food and money for her, and a bottle OF
wine and some cigars for the sufferer. He
asked after the children, by name, mado