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THE DARK.

The dark came out of his dim retreat
Where shadowy hem.ocks spread;
No sound he made with his gliding feet
As he passed through the village street
Where the trembling Twilight fed.
And sthe children. caught in the edge of
night,
Sped home with thrill of fear;
s'The Dark is coming!' they cried in fright,
And scampered away to the cottage light
That sent them a ray of cheer.
And the Dark passed on, and he gently
stepped
His shoes were as soft as down;
AS the tired people and flowers slept,
The cool, thick plumes from his helmet
swept
Far 5yer the resting town.
TIE children slumbered till dawn grew red,
And the Dark kept watch till day;
He kissed them all, as they lay in bed,
And not the curl of single head
Did he harm ere he stole away.
Hattie Whitney. in Youths Companit1.
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A Little Knowledge.

A very notable duke, who has estates
in the three Kingdoms, and who holds al
most princely sway over many workers,
had occasion the other day to dismiss
laborer for some slackness of INSIDE
meanor. The man was angry at beins
sacked" and-having nothing further
to fear or to hope-wanted to say some
thing very hard and hurting to his mas
ter He could think Of nothing much Of
the kind, for the duke had been good Ia
him and to his. He was turning away
when he suddenly remembered that the
dukes LADY" held a position At court
with the queen. That was his chance
and his cue. so he turned round on the
duke "oh, yes, your grace" he said
I'll 60 home. But though I'm a mo-,
man. thank God never had to send ~,
missis out to service, as you had The
duke smiled.-St. James Gazette.
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wild Beasts ON the Sea.

A French scientist has made some
interesting observations as to the love
of different wild animals for the sea.
The polar bear, he says. is the only
one that takes to the sea, and is quite
jolly when aboard ship. All others
violently resent trip on water, and
vociferously give vent to their feelings
until seasickness brings silence. The
tiger suffers most of all. The mere
sight of ship makes him uncom-
Portable, and when on board he whines
pitifully, his eyes water continually,
and he rubs his stomach with his ter
rible paws. Horses are very bad sail
ors, and often perish on sea voyage.
Oxen are heroic in their attempts not
to give way to sickness. Elephants
do not like the sea, but they are
amenable to medical treatment A
good remedy is a bucketful of hot
water containing three and a half
pints of whisky and seven ounces Of
Quinine.
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ditions below 16 years, to attend school.
It is the duty of truant officers to en-
force this law, but children improperly
dressed cannot be sent to school. 1t Is
case of where exceptions must be made
to fit conditions. That the conditions
might be made to fit the law the School
Children's Aid society was organized in
1887. Each year the children Of the
schools, of whom there are more than
300 900 in the primary grades, are asked
to contribute to this fund. The contri-
button is asked for as Thanksgiving
koffering, and is collected the day before
THANKSGIVING day. The pennies, the
nickels, the dimes and few larger coins
contributed grows a fund that in the
aggregate amounts to about $4,000 an
nually.
With this sum sufficient clothing was
purchased last year to enable 1878 needy
children to attend school. To them,were
given suits, skirts, dresses, undercloth-
| ing, shoes and stockings. No applicant
was turned away empty handed, though
not all could be supplied with all that
| was asked. With the fund new clothing
| is purchased. For boys ready-made
clothing is bought, and for girls the ma
terial for dresses and skirts, this being
made into garments by different church
sewing societies and the Needlewoman's
guild.
From this fund the society distributed
last year 1868 pairs Of shoes and stock
ings, asa dresses and skirts, S31 suits for
boys, 433 extra trousers and fleece-lined
underwear to all that needed 1t.
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BEAUTIES OF OXIDATION.
Changes Wrought In the Appearances
of Certain Articles by the
Peculiar Process.

Many color changes are due merely
to oxidation, and degrees of color are
oftentimeS measure of the extent Of
this oxidation. The metal copper, fox
example, goes through beautiful play
of colors as oxidation proceeds, until
finally it is black. 1t may be pointed
out, however, says the London Lam
Get, that the intermediate stages of col
or, like the colors of the soap bubble
are due to the mutual interference oi
the. light reflected from the two sur
faoas of the thin film of oxide formed
over the metal Iron, again. IN moist
air, will first present blackish-greey
film and finally it becomes bright red
as in the familiar rust. Zinc rust ID
white, mercury rust is red, silver rus
is brownish black, and all are simple
examples of oxidation. AS a rule the
higher the degree of oxidation the
more intense is the color. The ordinary
oxide of manganese and potassium are
respectively light brown and white:
when they are still further oxidized IL
company an intense green product II
obtained, while still further degree d
oxidation produces a brilliant purple,
as is seen in permanganate of potas-
SUM.
The change produced IL the color Of
certain shell fish by boiling is probably
also the result of oxidation being pro-
NOTED. The question is often asked,
without a, satisfactory answer being
supplied, why do Holsters and certain
shrimps and prawns turn red on boil
ing. One reason, it may be. is that
the black pigment of the lobster or
the brown pigment of the prawn is an
iron compound in the lower state of
oxidation. On boiling. the black pig
ment turns to red perhaps because the
iron in it has in the process of boiling
been oxidized to the higher state much
In the same way as metallic iron turns
to rust or proto-salt of iron to per-
salt on boiling. 1t is easy to understand
that continuous immersion in sea water
would keep the black iron pigment per-
manent. On the other hand, the change
in the iron compound may be one of
hydration. Hydrated oxide of copper Is,
for example, green, while the dry oxide
is black, and on simply boiling with
water the hydrated green oxide of cop
per turns black.
Red human hair is said to owe its
brilliance to iron existing in the higher
oxidized state, and by means of reduc-
ing agents such as pyrogallic acid or
nut-galls. which are often ingredients
of hair dyes, the color may be modified
so long as the use of the dyes is con-
tinued. In short, oxygen Is a great
painter, so to speak. though, of course.
it is not the only element which fulfills
that role. Oxidation. at any rate, prob
ably accounts for the beautiful au-
tumt pal tfnts of plant life, which are lost
soon after the leaf reaches the ground,
where it rots, and reducing, as CD
posed to an oxidizing, process begins
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of them out. Onethat has withstood the
pressure of the commercial interests is
the First Methodist, and this may in time
become to Chicago what Trinity is to
New York, though at the present time
it is in no sense an Institutional church.
At one time the leader of the denomina-
ton In point of membership the First
Methodist has to-day but little more
than 200 communicates, though the
value of its property, a business block
at Clark and Washington streets, in the
center of which is its auditorium, is
worth considerably more than half
million dollars, an average of something
like SO GOO for each member. Some idea
of what this enormous property valua-
ton means may be had by comparison
with the Englewood Methodist church,
which has a membership of more than
1 900 communicates and owns property
to the value of $45,0 900. The First Meth
odist proposes in time to replace its pres
ent structure with large sky scraper
business block, and in this new building
considerable space will be reserved for
class rooms, club rooms and other fea-
lures of the institutional church
Grace Episcopal, now just on the edge
of the business district at Fourteenth
and Wabash, was once the fashionable
place of worship of that denomination,
and though it's membership has removed
to other sections of the city it proposes
to stay as haven for the element that
has grown up around it. To enable it to
do this an endowment fund of 500 900
is now being raised. The doors of this
church are now open every night in the
week, and it is the bright spot in an 9TH
erwise dark district
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Rick.haw Going Out I'm Japan.

Japan is finding that electric trac-
ton and the "rickshaw" are incom-
patible, and the result is that over 1000
human horses in Toxic have given up
the unequal struggle with the electric
car, and have decided to emigrate in a
body to the Hokkaido, there to engage
in the fisheries and other callings. 1t
seems a pity, for there are few pleas
anter ways Of travelling on a good road
than behind a couple OF stalwart
kuruma-ya who do their eight miles an
hour with ease. From the national
point of view the disappearance of the
kuruma-ya may have important con-
sequences. In physique they form al
most a class apart, and though their
calling does not conduce to longevity
they were a valuable asset in Japan's
military system, as they, proved in the
war with China. In country where
horses are poor and scarce, man power
traction was formerly necessity. The
motor car win now probably take it,
place.-Londou Chronicle
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princess, from which marriage win
Jordan was born, is one of the 70
mances CT the west
After reaching the plains, Col Jor-
dan became government Indian scout,
and in this manner became well ac-
quainted with Chief Red Cloud. Later
he met Red Clouds niece, Wee-Washte
(Pretty Girl and fell in love with her.
Jordan talked Sioux like a<native and
the courtship was carried on in that
tongue.
But, says the Brooklyn Eagle, when
the consent of the old chief to the
marriage was asked an almost insur-
mountable difficulty arose. No white
man had ever been married to Sioux
princess, and it was necessary to get
the consent of the entire tribe,
council was called to consider the mat.
ter. Red Cloud had become very much
attached to Jordan in the years III II
the two had been known to each other,
and he used his powerful influence in
favor of his white friend so success
fully that the consent Of the tribe was
given, with certain provisos. Wee
Washte must never learn one word OF
English; Sioux must be spoken in her
household and in that of her children
forever; the children were to be per.
mitted to speak English while away
from the house, but the moment one en-
tered the home English must cease. And
although Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan have
been married 25 years or so, Wee
Washte knows no language but her ma.
tive one. Her children are well edu.
Gated, but they speak Sioux in their own
home.
Some weeks ago Will Jordan, on
reaching his eighteenth birthday, was
given the name of Red Cloud" after
his uncle. Ut is customary for an IN
dian to take new name when about
Is years old. The accompanying pho
tograph of him was made at that time
He is wearing scalp coat" of the
Sioux, given him by old Chief Spotted
Tail, whose enemies scalps fringe the
sleeves and edges of the buckskin coat
All the scalps were taken from the
heads of Crow Indians with whom the
Sioux were at war for hundreds of
years. The exact number of scalps
used in making the fringe cannot be
discovered, but not less than 100 were
necessary, while perhaps $50 were
used. Years ago these scalp coats
were common, but to-day very few are
known to exist.
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hiiine ho>het Feoi this religious de-
mand four of the large packing plants
at the stockyards employ Jewish rabbis,
the chief of which force must of neces-
sity be a member Of the cabinet of the
Rabbi Acct of the United States, Rabbi
Ridwiz.
Rabbi Ridwiz is newcomer to Chi
cago, and a new head Of the church.
When he reached the city Rabbi Album,
the chief of the Jewish meat slaughter
ers at the stock yards declined to rec
ognize him, and a ban was pronounced
upon stock yards meat. This brought
about a boycott Of stock yards meat on
the part of the Jewish Butchers associa-
ton, which lasted for some two weeks.
The packers, seeing they were losing
valuable business, proposed peace over
lures. Rabbi Album became a member
of the cabinet of Rabbi Acct. Ridwiz,
the boycott was raised and the slaughter
OF approved kosher" meat again goes
on as before. The product is sold large
| ~ in the Ghetto district.
WRIGHT A PATTERSON.
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couples added the item of girls wages
to their estimated household expenses,
many mechanical tradesmen, Office
clerks, small merchants and others who
had never before employed household
help were in the market for girls.
With the increased demand it was in
evitable that wages should go up.
The competent girl, who a year before
had been content to work for $3.50 a
week soon found that she could get So. so.
Another employer would give one dollar
a week more than that and still another
would offer a raise of another dollar,
and so it went until the limit was virtu-
ally taken off entirely, until eight dol
lars per week was not unusual, and still
the supply was inadequate.
Such has been the condition for some
thing like the last five years. Wages
have been constantly going up, but now
the tide has turned and wages are going
down again. The Want" columns of
the newspapers now contain more in
quiries for places than there are places
to fill. For this there are possibly two
or more reasons. One Is that there has
ucSu Ill luCIcdSe III Tic uuIuUeT VI gins
coming to the city from, Europe. The
high wages have attracted an increased
immigration from Sweden, from Ger
many and other countries of Europe
which supply our servant girl popula-
tion.v Another is the closing of nearby
manufacturing plants such as the laying
on of large number of men at the
South Chicago steel mills The girls of
the families of these discharged men
must now become wage earners. and
they are turning to house work, and SO
helping to solve the vexed servant prob
lem.
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OF them are pecu-
! | ar a n d some
scarcely worthy of
recognition by a
charitably inclined
public, but unique
among them all is
the School Chill
dren's Aid Society,
the object of which
is to clothe desti-
tute children SO
that they may at
tend school.
The compulsory
education law of
Illinois theoretical
ly at least forces ev-
cry child below the
age of IA years, and
under certain rom.
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scalp SElrt.j
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on his Indian
mothers side from the ''bluest" blood
among the redskins-from no less per-
sonage than Maqpe-Luta, Red Cloud,
the most famous Indian chief of west
ern history. And on his white fathers
side the young man can trace his de-
scent back to that of John DeCoursey,
lord of Galinger, who carried the stan
dard Of the English and Irish hosts in
one of the Crusades, and who, in that
battle on the banks of the Jordan river
between the Christians and Saracens,
was given the name Jordan" by the
English king because of his gallant
conduct and prowess. The ruins of
Castle Jordan are still to be seen in
County Meath, Ireland.
The Jordan family, or at least part
of the family, came to the United
States 200 years ago, and the father of
young Will, Col. Charles Jordan, drift
ed out on to the great plains many
years ago, during the great Indian
wars.
Col. Jordan's marriage to an Indian
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INSURANCE OF WORKMEN.
System That Is Being Operated with
Great Success In Hum
gary.

Workmen's insurance in Hungary is
obligatory only SO far as sickness is
concerned. The law of 1891, with refer
ence to insurance against sickness. was
followed by the law of 1900, which
created a fund for agricultural work
men, although this latter, unlike the one
of 1891, is not obligatory, says report
translated for Public Opinion by Maui
rice Bellom. The first of these laws
commanded insurance against sickness
on the part of workmen in general, leav-
ing the liberty of choice among series
of funds called district funds, factory
funds, construction funds, corporation
funds, society funds, etc, while the sec
ond law established a relief fund for
agricultural workers and specified that
this fund was to be fed by the workmen,
the employers and the state, the work
men being divided into three classes,
according to the amounts Of thir con-
tributions. Of these classes the first
only has the right to the full payment,
the payment for natural invalidity, for
old age, and for non-accidental death
being reduced one-half for the workme n
of the second class, and completely sup
pressed for those of the third. The en-
ployers contribute 120 hellers per work
man at the beginning of the year, and
the state gives an annual fixed subsidy
of 100000 crowns by the law of 1900 and
$50 900 crowns by a law passed in 1902.
The later law has further provided for
an insurance in case Of death ranging
from go to 200 crowns and an annuity
of from IS to 215 crowns per year, de-
pending on the length Of membership.
The statistics for insurance against
sickness in Hungary show that the num-
Der of insured increased from 635 $50 to
637,3 43 in 1901, the Importance Of the
services rendered by the various funds
appearing from the figures for that
year, during which time the expenses
of the different funds increased to $3.50, :
900 crowns, of which 5000 900 were for
pecuniary indemnities, SOC, 900 hospital
expenses, 1,S90,000 medical expenses,
2,190, 900 medication, and 800 900 funeral
expenses. The number Of sick days was
z,716,971 and the number Of patients
treated was 245,627.
The greatest importance Is attached
to the project recently prepared, at the
request of parliament, by M. Joseph
Szterrayi, and presented to the cham
Der in May, 1903. This project Is very
far-reaching and provides for obligatory
insurance In many industries employing
a minimum Of IL to 20. The bill states
that employers are to be formed into
groups according to indust- and
these again into an association which
shall provide for injured workmen, the
association being administered by the
employers themselves with the aid of
local commissions and of board of d.
rectors and general assembly. Pensions
are also to be granted widows and other
dependents Of the persons injured and
one-half of the annual salary Is given
to a person whose carelessness, or even
intoxication, has made the accident pos
sible. The state is to contribute from
SOC, 900 to 1000 crowns to the fund.
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little demon. Make the head of kneaded
breadcrumbs or Of wax. The body Is
made of a small cork. The limbs are
made of toothpicks or matches whitfield
into the shapes shown in Figure C.
Figure B shows the complete body.
Having adjusted the toothpick appa,
ratus on the foot of the tumbler, place
the little figure on the end of the middle
toothpick, as shown in the picture.
Now light match and set fire to ons
end OF the apparatus. When the fire
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ROMANCE OF THE WEST.
Descendant of English Nobleman
with Proud Pedigree Now an
Indian Chief.

OF, ell the strange situations in
which scions of British nobility are
often found, there probably never has
been found one in a stranger position
than young VIII Jordan, who to-day
is chief of band of Sioux Indians,
but whose forefathers, centuries ago,
were lords of Gallinger, in Mayo. And
not only is Will chief among the
Sioux, but he is Sioux himself (white
men are sometimes made chiefs)-a
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comes particularly
hard. That Is to the
w o r k s Ok / n g
mother. To the wo-
man with a child
who must work that
both might live the
stringency in the
servant market has
been a boon.
T h e b a T d e S t
problem any large
city has to solve is
the care of home
less children. When
the child has a
mother and both
must be cared for
the difficulties of
A. nrohlnn, arni in
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Always Prepared for war.

Germany is always making prepare
tions for possible war; This is one rea-
son why it so readily overpowered France
in the last conflict. In the war depart
ment it keeps stock duplicates of all the
bridges in the empire considered likely
to be damaged or destroyed in case of
war 1t also has duplicates of a great
many French bridges, and of other coun.
tries in which it is interested
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Is growing. anu III
time may become
more deeply rooted
here than in New
FORK. Peculiar
among the churches
of this class at the
present time Is All
Souls, located on
lakewood boule-
ward on the South
side, and just now
erecting q hand
some new edifce,
more club house
than church.
Fifty years ago
many of the larg-
est and most infiu-
entail churches of
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odLAG1c1NOAO " 49,
mistress. The wave
ofprosperity which
struck Chicago a
f e W years a g o
brought with it a de-
mand for servants
which the supply
was inadequate to
fill. Families which
had existed f or
years W / t h o U t
knowing the lux
ury of a servant
suddenly found one
or more indispens-
able. Matrimoni-
80 =
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The Fir Tree treated with contempt the Brable that at its
foot Il high and noble uses said he boasfu
furnish taper pars ships the roofs palaces You
trodden desped by everybody you talk
finely replied Branibe all when feel
the applied you'll wish had been branbe
he more
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not small, and yet
such an industry
exists in Chicago
and is but little
known outside of a
limited circle. It
is the killing OF
Kosher meat at
the stockyards.
The Jewish relig-
ion demands that
all meat eaten by
the followers of the
church be killed
either by Jewish
rabis or under their
i n S p e C tfon. T @
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Many Varieties of Cheese.
Over $50 varieties Of cheese are made
in France. Holland produces over 40
varieties, Switzerland about As, Italy 200
kinds, and Denmark 60 brands.
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College Paper An French.

City college, of New York. viii pub
fish French paper, the first of its kind
published in any American university.
1t will make its first appearance On
December IL
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C1Othe Needy School Children.
The charitable organizations of Chi
cago are practically numberless. Some
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TOOTHPICK INTERNAL MACHINE

q ELECT five toothpicks. They must
- be as long as you can find, and
quite straight and without any i'm
projections.
Lay two crosswise on the table.
Lay third one on top of these two,
in such a way that it will divide the
cross formed by the first two, into two
equal parts.
Then adjust the two remaining tooth
picks across the ends of the others in
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4 Downtown Church

the city were located in what is now
known as the downtown district. but
hnsinesx has driven all but very few
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Chicago "KOsher'' Meat.
An industry that represents an out
put to the value of 81, 00O, 900 annually is
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A SERVANT PROBLEM
It Was a Stumbling Block in Chi
cago for Several Years.
SOLUTION is NOW IN SIGHT
Wages Are Dropping Back to Normal
Figures-The Churches of the
Business District Other
Chicago Gossip.

Chicago.-The servant girl problem OF
this city is solving itself much to the