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kind tested mans bravery fully as much
as to charge seemingly impregnapie
battery. Our brave DR.. H. escaped, though
many others offered up their lives. Broken
in health he retired to his native county
and in few years passed over the river.
His wife and two daughters survived.
The youngest daughter secured position
in the North and gave OF her slender
means for their support. nearly all she
made Four years ago she was taken.
sick, and since then has been an invalid.
Her mother died years ago, and recently
the elder sister died, leaving the younger
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r. 3. .
the Boys would break in with De-
mand for Second Helping OF Caul!-
flower. Or else the Prize Blacksmith,
In well-meaning effort to be Hospi-
table would urge the Lady Opposite
to pitch in and Eat some more.
After Dinner It often happened the
Ma would tout the Accomplishments
OF the Young Ladies. Accordingly
they would be urged to Play some
thing. At which, they would hang
back and smoker. and do a Sis Hop
kins Speciality.
AS soon as the last unhappy Guest
had escaped into the Night. there
would be a large-sized Roas wait
ing for the whole Tribe. Ma would
sit up until o'clock reminding them
OF all the Horrible Breaks they had
made. She said that sitting around
in the Kitchen cracking Hickory nuts
was about their Size when It came to
playing the Society Game. She allow
ed that they would be more at Home
II they moved out to some Ranch and
associated with the Live Stock. When
Ma got riled she forgot her Culture
Club, training and handed out a. very
Tabasco Line Of Conversations.
She said she was good and tired
OF trying to make Ladies and Centle-
men out of a Flock of Yaps who took
after their Father.
At this. she would get a Rise out
OF Father. He said he didn't propose
to strain himself being Polite to lot
OF Four-Flushes, who owed him
Money. That was the Trouble with,
Father. He was President of the
Company, and seemed to think that
his Official Position gave him Right
to break Crackers into his Soup. He
refused to wear White Tie with his
cheap Department Manager had set
the style. %
AS for the Offspring, they were too
mullet-headed to get wise to Mas
magnificent System of doing the
Heavy. When 1t came to a toss-up he
tween Pink Tea and Variety Show,
they put their Spending Money on
the Coon Song. Any time that Ma
dressed them and took them out to
meet the Elite, they hung back.
At last Ma saw that tho only Hope
lay in shipping the whole Pack away
to heightened Schools In the East,
For several Years the Rising Gen.
Grafton put terrific Crimp in
Fathers income, but at last they
came home all speeded up, and then
they were so Fly that Father could
not travel In the same Glass, and even
Ma could get few Pointers from
them.
At present they are tearing up the
Scenery in their Touring Cars. and
they have the Nerve to, tackle any
kind of Society.
Moral: A patient Woman can Edu-
cate any ono except her own Hus-
band.
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err" and so forth should like to use an
Americanism. and ask: Now. pray.
what's the matter with father?''
cannot help thinking that children
would grow just as sensible IL they some
times heard word of praise bestowed
on their fathers, instead OF being loaded
with an endless litany of all the virtues
of Mother-Mother's love. Mothers de-
votion, Mothers this and Mothers that
Now. Father does exist, and occasionally
makes himself useful enough to stand in
no need of an apology for daring to exist.
He generally loves his children. and
sometimes feels that he cannot compete
with his wife in their affections, simply
because she monopolizes them. not only
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are manipulated by such machinery that
n child could operate them.
In the Gun Shops.
Notice some of the guns as they lie
on the floor Of the shop! Their barrels
are go large that twenty-pound baby
could crawl through them, and the weight
OF each is SO great that 1t would take
100 horses to haul them 500 how they
are handled They are carried from one
end of the shop to the other more easi-
ly than you bring in aii arinful OF wood
to the fire. That little man under the
roof touches q button and twelve-inch
gun is picked UP by a travelling crane
and carried from one end of the shop to
the other.
If we had week we might study the
making of the guns. The iron is kneed-
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wllo:e villages OF them. some composed
of beautiful cottages with gardens and
lawns. others of sanitary tenements about
parks not far from the works and others
K OF little houses for those too old TO work.
There are altogether about 420 apart
ments, renting from 500 to $50 a year. In
addition there are also more expensive
buildings for the foremen and officers OF
the works. and altogether collection OF
the most wonderful workngmen's homes
of this continent.
In the krupp enements.
The first colony visited was near the
works. 1t is composed of three and four
story buildings, situated along wide
streets shaded by forest trees. The
streets cross one another at right angles.
with large playground and park In
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out their terms In the shops and hayS
pensions. There is regular system OF q
insurance and pensions. by which the
men, after a certain term. get s15 and
free Of rent. The most Of them have
other incomes from their savings. This
section is made up OF neat one and one
dens and filed with flowers They are
OF brick and stucco and have what the
Germans would call all modern conveni-
ences
There IS one family to the cottage and
the cottages are kept by the widows OF
the old men after their death Il ls
tant Of Which, hs Il over sixty town Of
old men and old women, fairly well
dressed and apparently contented.
For Aged Widows and Widowers,
In addition to the cottages there are
club-houses for old widows and old
aged ;e,ds who have no families or who do not
want to keep house, In one OF these clubs
raj OF them. One told me that he had
worked nd S,t for RuRR ssvnSs e had fe oa
house. rent costs him nothing. and he
can. he says. live. quite comfortabiy on
this amount; asked hinr II he did not Of
smith for twenty years; am I,ai SIX x
old n9w ysd an sIttn am FAX TAKE
take a sea seat. It suits me very well.
Among the widows sound some me a miee
$3.50 s7a Yo' month, and that it kept her very
we'll She cooked her own pre ths IA an pa
eAiln part noe Of the pensor fund is furnished
tho 6se e but k yenr nSSe
in this respect alone his charities an-
nually amounted to, about quarter OF
million dollars.
The Krupp Stores.
The company stores Of the he u snt a3
| fine capitalists. The Krupps have esta p
| iished cash stores for. the heneft o. the
men. There are fifty-four different stores oi''.a
and shops great and snail here Se yt ars
s aIl managed an,a by the establishment and are
run on co-operatsv,e. p, PRINCIPE q the
fsptal heB Begond ths divided
the customers according to the ,a amou ny,
OF their purchases, In's 81 P tbat q q ma
sn az e 500 at the store he receives 81
e or ss back at the close OF the year i,
These stores R TSsy ernbraee butohers.
b k t,aa and ad'' candlesticls makers. They
and even Undertaking establishments.
The The mar, who belongs to Krupp's works o1lss
can have coffin at his deat I'M, a reeeive
ss ne r cent. on the purchase, y ooo oon
The Tn Krupp bakeries make 40 soo eSoDs
, T,tIr else is proportionately large AL
sales are made for cash. and q I, everytnlngs
is sold cheap Is Or =, an 1e5is eneapes
'' ma = = FRANK G.. CARPENTERS 5
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tects and Kr,,pp workmen. and In one
quarter you will find the beautiful VII
lagos which Krupp has erected for his
men who are too old to work. There
are scores Of Krupp stores. Krupp facto-
ries and Krupp Fairgrounds for the
children.
The heart of all this Is the steel mills.
whose sixty factories and furnaces are
ever sending their volumes of smoke Into
the air. Their buildings cover an area OF
a dozen good sized farms They extend
on and on along wide streets. so that II
weartes you to walk from one end OF
them to the other. They have many
windows blackened with smoke and the
dense clouds OF carbonized wapor which
hang above them are ever dropping SCOT
Here and there n gate opens Into one
factory or another: but every gate has
It's guard, and strangers are not adj
mitted. Indeed, Ia Is only through my let
ters from the United States Government,
which show that have nothing to do
with steel and iron. that I am guest
Of the works. and am thus enabled to
give an inside view OF this, the cheif
Industrial institution Of continental Eu-
rope.
Come with me and take glance at
the works. We might spend days and not
go through them all. See this yard filled
with steel rails Just from rolling mills
There are miles Of them. They are being
shipped to different parts OF Germany
and also to Russia and the South Ameri-
can republics. Further on 10 an, enclosure
full of mighty cannon. The unmounted
guns are scattered over the sod an thickly
az the leaves OF valomprosa. Nextgdoor
are steel plats for ships. and there at the
right are bridge materials ready to start
out for all parts OF the world The Krnpps
have their drummers on every continent
and in almost every country. have met
them in South America. in Japan and in
China, and they are now working every
part OF South Africa.
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have an hour and a half at this time.
and then work on until 4. Then there is
another fifteen minutes for rest and cof-
fee. or beer. when they go back and work
on until g. putting in OH the average a
ten hour day.
The men are paid by the hour and not
by the day. ana they are glad to work
as long as possible. There are. i am told.
no trade unions connected with the works.
and SO far no trouble as been had with
strikes. Wages are much lower than with
us. not only In the foundries. but also
in other branches Bricklayers. for In
stance, receive from s to cents an hour.
and common workmen cents. Foremen
get s1.50*a day.
& The men are well treated. Every foun-
dry has its wash-house and bathhouse.
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THE TIMES DISPATCH. RICHMOND VA SUNDAY APRIL

ed Ike dough. After It comes from the
furnace the red hot mass IS pounded into
shape as a blacksmith pounds a horse.
shoe. The hole is bored into 1t as east
~ as boy bores ont a pop-gun. and the
fore he died the Kaiser was here examin-
Ing some new guns. and only thirty we're
present when the tests were made.
The Krupp workmen are Of all classes.
1t takes an army of clerks for the offices,
and there are hordes of commercial tray
l,ao mechanics In his building depart
ment, and dozens Of architects and sub
architects. The thousands of men In the
shops are dressed In blue jeans, and many
wear wooden clogs. They appear we'll fed
and more than ordinary intelligent. They
are up to the best Of the French laborers.
and better lookin gand better dressed
than those of Sheffield and Birmingham.
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europe's Greatest Gunmakers.

Among the great products OF this. fac
tory are guns and munitions OF war. The
Krupps have been making guns for moro
than half century. Alfred Krupp. the
grandfather OF the man who died few
months ago. made cast steel cannon as
far back as 1s47. and in 1850 old Kaiser
Wilhelm gave him his first order for4 the
German army. AMI told that the first
cannon were not success, but those
which followed were. and the Franco
Prussian war was fought with materials
supplied by the Krupps. To-day Ger
many gets the most of It's war supplies
here. and krupp guns are used by the
Russians. the Turks. the Italians, the
Japanese and. In fact. In almost every
port OF the world M
was in Germany at the time bf the
Dusseldorf exposition where the Krupps
had samples OF their best guns as we'll
as the great armor plates which have
been penetrated by them The guns were
OF all sizes. some small '.nough to he
mounted on the back Of a mule and 9TH
ers which sent forth steelNprotectiies, a.
foot thick and MS high as your waist.
weighing half ton. To-day the Krupps<
make single guns which weigh Ro tons
and which. notwithstanding this weight.
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and across the bay the site q tho manor

and across the bay the site ~ the manor
house of William Fairfax, cousin of Lord
Fairfax. The Gunston estate borders
the river for two miles, The mansion
Is of brick with cut stono trimmings
and contains twenty rooms. 1t Is fine
specimen of colonial architecture, uniting
strength and stability with simple lines
of beauty. and received Its name from
ona of the family places In England
Many associations cluster around It's
walls. Here the sage of Gunston Hall
wrote his famous Declaration of Rights,
Washington and Jefferson often met
here to discuss great questions of State
Lafayette visited Gunston Hall also.
Tho gardens and terraces often illed
with gay groups of the "pleasure-loving
yirginians," as the Puritan colonists
sometimes called them. met for fox hunt
or drive across country. and ending
their revels no doubt With the stately
iminuet.
The carved woodwork of the interior OF
Gunston Hall Is particularly
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-26
YOUNG LADY's NOBLE DEED

She Sacrifices Social Pleasures TO Care
for an Invalid,
Editor of The Times Dispatch:
sr.-"Nor shall your glory be forgot"
etc. These lines suggest to the writer
that brave and generous action performed
by private individuals should not be for
got; hence this story. Norfolk, Va, was
visited by scourga OF yellow fever In
1861. Her citizens died by the score.
Many of her heroic physicians faced
death fearlessly and persisted. There was
a dire need Of medical aid. and among
the number who volunteered. for this
hazardous duty was a certain Dr. III. To
fully appreciate this act of bravery we
must remember that at this period medi-
cal science had not reached It's present
proficiency and to respond TO a call Of this
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Hours Of Work.

t1OurS OF WORK,
As went through the shops I asked
something as to wages and hours OF
work The usual day begins at 8, and at
s the men stop quarter OF an hour for
rest and cup of coffee. They then work
on Until noon. when their wives or
children bring their midday meal. They
and each man has locker for his cloth
es. Hot water for coffee is free. and
every employee has all the advantages OF
the Krupp libraries and Krupp stores,
which describe further on.
The Workingmen's Colonies.
spent day in going through the
worklngmen's colonies which Krupp has
built especially for his men. There are
large sections of Essen given up to such
colonies. The ground is laid out by the
Krupps and the buildings erected to be
rented out to the workmen. There are
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hard metal is planed down as carpenter
planes a board. The krupps take fifty
tons of the toughest metal and handle
1t as easily as the blacksmith, the car
penter and the boy handles their tools.
Everything must be scientifically correct.
It takes long time 70 make gun,
and the biggest of them. II rightly re-
member. cost as much as 10000.
Among the krupp Workmen.
But cannot begin to describe the pro-
cesses. The machinery Is that of thou-
sand workshops under one head. Krupr
has his own school OF inventors. where
men are always experimenting and as
saving. He has a number OF laborato cries.
and at Mappnn there arr large expert
mental grounds. where guns and pro-
3ectiles are practically tested. Shortly be-
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What New Thoughts.
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

CERTAIN LITTLE magazine
which prldes itself upon its
scientific wisdom devotes
page or two each month to
sneers and sarcasm concerning
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"NeW Thought, Mental" and "Chrls-
tlan Science" and all the other phases
of the modern wholesome religion which
is replacing the old melancholy creeds of
the past, l
In It's latest Issue this magazine pub
fishes three portraits or pictures OF three
types OF men. One, the broad-headed
man born with abnomally developed ac-
quisiuveness, who cannot help being q
financial success. another narrow-headed
failure. who cannot acquire wealth. be-
cause that portion OF his brain Is lacking
and degenerate type who cannot COM
prehend morality, from the same causes
Then the editor breaks forth as follows:
prof Weltmer "a New Thought adj
yocate0 asserts as follows; u can do
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CONFESS that l am a little
tired. and I will say so frank
~. y of continually hearing
such phrases Us Whats
Home Without 4 Mother?"
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Especial Correspondence OF The Times-Dis-

<oaaotay ne Tho 'IimeS-
w.
Patenl
ESSEN. ON THE RuHR, April FL
am In the heart OF the Prussiah 5iack
Country, where the foundrles ana rae
tories are as thick as IN 1he Black Soun-
try OF England or IN our own Black Goun-
try about Pfttsburg The land Is under
laid with coal and iron, ana upon IT has
grown one of the greatest steel centers
OF the world. l rooe mere through forests
OF sinokestacks. There are cities and VII
lagos all about me which have steel and
iron mills. Solingen. the Sheffield Of Ger
many. is not far away. and within d
hundrcd-milc radius are towns making al
most everything under the sun. There
are wooden factories and cotton factories,
Blk mills and velvet mills There arc
glass works. steel works, and great shops
for the equipment OF railroads. steam
ships and every other steel thing under
the sun.
The heart OF this region Is Essen and
the soul OF 1t is the Krupps. The chief
Krupp is dead: but his spirit remains, and
Essen goes on as though he were alive,
The town was practically founded by
Krupp, 1t was built by n Krupp. and the
Krupp estate supports 1t to-day.
Whom the first Knapp began work In
his little foundry 1t was a village. Along
ip the tO's. when the second krupp had
.aa s' ,. 70 MAKE sue s.tei cannon; u aau ong
than !, h,ndrad tho,,sand irhahiian,s an,
nInatv.n,po h,,ndredthaA cf these oro Gun.
nortnd bv ,ba Kr,,nna
aoaroir ~ ,,i,inp ,,o,, a., ,doo,,4o ,o,.
rant,a,, ~ ~ axtert ~ ~. staa,' ,,,,s,
nous ,,hi,,, h,s han, ,,a,a,ad s., 80
,,,an ann i. 49,, e,,nad ~, 49,, ,aa, ~.
rrha ,,,nra t,-,,,,, T., -,a,, -, ~ ~. ,,,o,.
~ uau,a ,iana,,, ..rnrna,, -. "a, ~
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-26
By GEORGE ABE.

Copyright. 19os, BY Robert Howard Russell.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
s..t Meal In Alaska for 30 Cent.

Have you tried the Merchants Lunch at Board of Trade Cafe, from ll;3O a. m. to D. m.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
EYES
Don't Delay Attending to
 Your Eyes.

Your frames as well as your glassoi must ft you or your eyes will be in- iured.
 We are in position to ft your eyes with frames and lenses. We are in position to give you Che best expert service, as we have the most modern instruments known tn op- tics.
 We give you a thorough examination and charge you nothing. TO after examination you decide you require glasses, our charges are req sOnable.
 We charge you no more than they would iu Chicago for same expert ser vice.
 fyou are too poor to buy glasses and your eyes require them, will give to you free Of charge.
 KEELAR,
 Broadway Jeweler.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
FACTS ABOUT ALASKA

The United States in 1897 paid ST. sOO.OOO for Alaska This was at the rate oi . cents per acre, but congress men quite generally agreed that the prlco was too high.
 The Alaskan salmon catch of l9O2 alone was worth s7,soOOOO, the price paid for che territory. In five years the Alaskan mines have sent Co Seat ,le alone slt,OOO,OOO in eold dust and bullion, nearly twice the purchase price oi the territory.
 In leOs the total output of gold in Alaska was sl9,S7o.O75 and in 1901 it was sl4,675.675. or for two years s5J,- G45,OOO- more than four time the amount paid Co Russia in lS67.
 Previous Co lSg7 we had taken slj,' OOO.OOO gold from Alaska also more than twice the purchase price. From 1888 Co lS97 the Alaska fishery products brought Us ;6S,OCOOOO The fur sale for twenty years after 1870 amounted to s33,OOO,OOO. The fur companies paid into the United States treasury s7,i6o,- OOO. Thu, one item of cash in the treasury was more than the price paid for the territory.
 Meantime, the gold mines are increaS' ing their output annually at rate oi 70 per cent, the copper mines are be- ing developed, railways are being built, and naval station ou the Aleutian isl' ands bids fair to become a great com mercial center.
 Alaska has paid for itself many times over. To |, doing so now almost every year. 10 has more than justified the expectations ot Nr. Seward. How sa- gacious today appears his policy in comparison with che puny wisdom of the anti.cNpansiou cougrcssmen. Post Intelligeuccr.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
Ordinance No. B.

An Ordinance Repesling Section (, Ar ticle 6, Ot Ordinance No. g.. entltled' An Ordinance to Define Misdemean- ors and Provide a Penalty Therefor and for Other Purposes" Bc lt ordained by the Common Council of the Town of Skagway.
 SECTION |, That Section of Article G, of ordinance No. g, entitled, "An Ordinance to De- ine isdemeanOrs and Provide Pen tlty Therefor and for Other Purposes, ' be and the same is hereby repealed
 SECTION 2, That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and alter its pass. age and approval.
 Passed the council July 20th, 1903. w. S. McKEAN, City Clerk.
 l.. ;. KELLER, Mayor and President of the Council
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
Ordinance No. 34.

An Ordinance Co Amend Section $, Ar tlcle {, Of Ordinance No. 32, entitled, An Ordinance Co Define Misdemeau- Ors and Provide a Penalty Therefor and for other Purposes Be .t ordained by the Common Council Oi the Town O; Skagway.
 SECTION l. That Section &. of Article q, of Ordinan- cc No. 33. cn i;iel, "Ordiuancc Co De fine Misdemeanors and Provide a Pen- alty Therefor. and for Other Pur- poses" be aud che same Is hereby amended by adding thereto che follow ing:
 That dogs are hereby and for .hepur- poses Ot thi, section are nude property and each and all ot tbe proyisiO of said section, include dogs within its prohibitions.
 SECTION .. This ordinance shall be iu force and take effect from and after iJs passage and approval,
 Passed che council July 20tb, 1908. w. $. MCKEAN, City Clerk.
 L- $. KELLER, Mayor and President of che council.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
ON US
Chilly Freezes H we no Effect
 on KirmsP.

The chilly breezes which blow down from the north have no effect on the Pioneer Jeweler. We are here all the year round.
 After others have gotten cold feet and gone South for the winter, you will be able to get good watches from us at the same prices they are offered now.
 The celebrated Vanguard movement, 2l jewels, in 2O-year guaranteed eases 335, on easy terms,
 All the other best Elgin and Waltham watches as cheaply as can get them any place. All goods sold with a guarantee that counts.
 Fl. D. KIRMsE, Pioneer Jewelor. Official Timekeeper for W. r. & Y. R.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-19
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