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WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
New View Advanced by DR.. Emil
Reich on French Aid.

DR.. Emil Reich, in North American Review.
Like other peoples, Americans have been
accustomed to regard their own proves as
the real cause TO which they owe their in
dependence, and they have been prone 10
keep in the background facts and names
which might discredit this view. The name
of Lafayette, for instance, is householo
word I'm America, whereas few Americans
have ever heard of Fergennes or Beau
marchias as factors of influence In connec-
ton with the war of independence, though
the services of the two latter to the Amer
lean cause were infinitely greater than
those of Lafayette. The British view or the
war of independence naturally harmonizes
with the American view. inasmuch as 1t
suits the British vanity to represent tnat
the British people, when they were beaten,
were beaten by men of their own blood.
DR.. Reich expresses a mild amusement at
the supposition that the Americans In OPP
posing Great Britain were animated by
ideal motives of right and law. The under
lying and most potent motive, he holds, was
a subconscious purpose to possess the vast
hinterland stretching across The continent,
and they took up arms against the mother
country at a time when the British govern
ment had practically defed Europe and was
on the eve of conflict with France, Spain
and Holland. 1t is to France, DR.. Reich
says that America owes its Independence
and, taking all the circumstances OF the
revolutionary war into account, IL must be
regarded as an incident in the great national
rivalries of Europe. DR.. Reich thus writes
of the services of Beaumarchias in the
early stages of the war:
ut was this frivolous Frenchman' who
had long made up his mind TO avenge his
country on England and to wipe out the
shame of the treaty of 1763 in the most
terrible loss ever caused to Great Britain.
He clearly foresaw the war long before 1t
actually broke out BY means of incessant
memorializing the French, and later on the
Spanish government, too, he inspired Yer
gennes, the great foreign minister of
France, and likewise Arada, Vergennes
colleague in SPAIN and prevailed upon them
to join his vast plans. AT first two. then
more, million francs were placed at the
disposal of the author Of Figaro by the
two Bourbon governments, and Beaumar-
chais, almost two years before France and
Spain openly declared against Eng
land, established his headquarters at lie
Havre, under the name of Rodigue Hortales
ct Gle. 1t was from Havre that Beaumar-
chais sent to the Americans vast stores of
tents, provisions and equipments OF all
kinds, among others. 10000 rifles, over 200
cannon, ETC., in HIS and III His fleets,
as he called them, were In constant COLI
nection with the colonials, and his lieuten-
ants, more particularly De Kalb and the
Indispensable Steuben, were organizing the
army of the colonials.
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CHIMMIE FADDEN'S
VIEWS
As TO REFORMERs. AND THE P0lICE.GAMBLERy>
COMBINE.

If IL wasn't for de police-and- gamblers
combine what would New York talk about ?
Noting. Say, ever since was kid on de
Bowery I've heard police and gamblers,
read police and gamblers in de papes; and
parsons, clubs, reformers, kickers and visit
ors has preached. scolded and put up all
kinds OF fancy and plain hollers about
police and gamblers. like If dey didn't talk.
and preach. and holler and scold about 'em,
dey'd bust. / guess dey would.
But listen: IL dere wasn't so much hot
air blowing. dere wouldn't be no combine
Of police and gamblers. De rake off dat
now goes to de captains. apd higher up.
would go to de City Jeans, and de Alder
men would have so much long green to
spend dis City would have Paris beat to
death as a show place. 1 ought to know.
I've been TO Paris.
Hark! Dere never wasn't no time in de
woild, since anything was doing. when dere
wasn't gambling. know dat, because Mr..
Paul told me so: and what he doesn't know
hasn't happened yet.
Yes, ChamesS' he says to me, "since de
foist pawn OF acknowledgements 1
suppose when Adam hooked his winter fig
leaf in de spring-"man has been trying to
shake something out OF de box dat he didn t
put dere. De chances is" he says, ''dat
Noah beguiled de dull hours in. de Ark by
trying to locate de pea under de right she'll
De distinguishing trait" he says. using dose
long woids to get a run for his money, ''of
de human breast is dat he's de only beast
dat will walk into a trap, knowing 1t is a
trap. If we sets a trap for de stupidest
beast dat grows its own furs or fedders, we
tries to hide de trap. If you is next to
me course, you see what I'm steering at.
You don't have to hide man-trap-just
bait it,
wit a gold bait" says, getting next
'Wit smoke he says. "Wit droam, a
dope book. wit any old kind Of a bait dat
comes handy. Even de promise of a prom
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material goes true de MILL a sucker and
his money is soon parted; and all de laws
made in Albany and Mulberry street can't
prevent de parting. Why? Because de
CRATER isn't no more keen TO get hold of
de goods dan de sucker is to get rid of de
goods It's good rule dat woiks bote
ends and de middle
Paul" says Whiskers, who heard him
say dat, I'm astonished It's wicked to
gamble. Commissioner Greene should be
give de right to drive all gamblers into de
Harlem river, and sink a coal barge on
top of en-
Sir says Mr.. Paul. giving me de wink,
''you speaks like reformer. 1t is wicked.
indeed to gamble. l spoke in jest, sir
You know dat Whiskers is Mr.. Paul's
fadder-in-,aw. now, and he cuts two cou-
pons 10 Mr.. Paul's one, and Mr.. Paul is as
polite TO him as Duchess is to Miss Fannie
when Miss Fannie is getting rid of a lot of
old hats and gloves.
Well. Mr.. Paul didn't say noting while
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WHERE BABYLON WAS.

Literary Digest.

Literary Digest.
Prof Friedrich Delitzsch of babel and
Bible fame, recently delivered another lee
ture In the presence OF the German En-
peror and Empress. but confined himself
this time to report OF personal observa-
lions during his recent six months journey
In Babylon, and comparison of condi-
tons to-day with those OF Biblical times.
From the Allgemeine Zeitung of Munich we
extract the following data given by Profess
sor Delitzsch:
Ancient Babylon was the alluviaI land of
the Euphrates and the Tigris region. about
equal in size 10 the Italy OF to-day, and was
the granary of the ancient world. with a
phenomenal wealth of vegetation and palm
forests and olive orchards and vineyards
Canals Dug in various directions served ~
store the waters and to irrigate the land,
and at the same time were the avenues OF
commerce and trade. Indeed the Babylon
of the biblical period the Holland OF
antiquity. Every king found his glory in
the extension OF the waterway system, and
from the days of iammurabi through many
centuries the>work Of the ruler I'm this re-
gard proved TO be the greatest blessing TO
the country. The whole country was prac-
tcally one vast garden. northward from
Babylon, between Hillel and Bagdad. ac-
cording to the wonderful reports OF Keno
phon, Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus,
the last mentioned finding as late as the
fifth Christian century vast vineyards and
olive groves throughout the land. In the
times OF the carly Arabian califs no fewer
than $50 cities and villages are mentioned
by name along these canals, ana the DOOty
in gold taken here was many hundred
weight. Pliny declares this 10 have been
"the most fruitful land in the East
Now. the other hand, it is a dreary
desert the playground OF the storms and
winds. In the southern portions there are
still some remnants of the canals left. but
the two famous rivers, Euphrates and IT,
girls, are no longer connected and between
Ba gdag and Bassora a few English steam
boats can scarcely force their way. The
country Is depopulated. poverty and sick
ness prevail among the kurds and the
Arabs and no physician is TO be found for
many miles The localities IN southern
Babylonia that were once the centsrs OF a
great caravan trade are now entirely de-
ad
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1 pulled de plug out of a pint and filled
DER glasses; but when he'd trun tautful
lip over de edge of his glass, to see was
it de same brand dat mama used to buy,
he says, careless like, TO Whiskers: How
was de market to-day. Sir?''
Whiskerss whiskers was nearly hid by
de glad smile dat shifted over his mug like
a show girls when she sees Number One in
de orchestra. and he says. Il caught EN-
bote ways. to-day; going and coming
Good woik." says Mr. Paul. 'Dere was
a chicken in de tree, Ell?
1.-TWO on 'em, says Whskers. ST bought
Zinc preferred at sixty-tree and a half at de
opening. and sold at five at noon. 1T
1t reached five and quarter, which seemed
little expensive, in view of something I
heard, / sold short at dat, and covered
before de close, at four and matt, clearing
on de day a little to de good of five tousand.
Fannie, me DEAR" he says, you may
order de music room decorated as you was
wanting, and de new wenty-hve-hundred-
dollar rug for de library"
Miss Fannie smiled, and says, Tank you,
papa" and shook her head at Mr.. Paul not
to take fall out of Whiskers. But he
wouldn't see her, and says, LAS you was
remarking, Sir, de gambling fever must be
checked If it has to be sunk in de Harlem,
wit barge on top of it to keep it COOL
"Quite So" says Whiskers. People must
be protected from all temptation to risk
DER money in desc ne-faro-us schemes OF
chance. People must be taut dat it is not
only sinful, but bad business, for to seek to
gain wealt except by hard, honest TOLL
You is more dan right" says Mr.. Paul.
"You is all right. BY de way" he says,
what was doing in liner
"Oh, noting much" Whiskers says, COM
Portable like. AZ heard de rumor of a
dividend, and bought. Den a director told
me dere would be no dividend. but dat dey
wouldn't send a denial into de Street until
few of us could get out, and go short
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PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.

THE Journal is in frequent receipt OF In
quiries of a personal character. the re-
sponses to which seem hardly suited for
insertion I'm its regular column of CUES
lions and Answers" Replies have common
~ been made by mail where addresses Were
furnished. but have now been placed in the
hands of a special editor, well qualified as a
general adviser. and answered in sepa-
ra1 department Correspondents wishing
to communicate with this department will
piease address "Fidelia," care Of the Jour-
nall
Emma No, postal card can hardly DC
considered a confidential communication
even though 1t is marked private, az
yours was. stiIl. the habit Of reading Other
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hesitate to say that one of your marked
traits is carelessness and another self-con-
ceit. Otherwise you would write more
legible hand and you would not be thinking
about your characteristics.
Will you advise me as to what kind OF
clothing / should take-thick or thin-on a
trip TO northern Michigan? And do l neeo
elaborate gowns?-Marie.
You are more likely to need thick than
thin garments, and certainly should not be
without a warm wrap, especially II you
expect to be much on the water. A thin
gown or two and several thin shirtwaists
will not be amiss, however, for wear in the
middle of the day or at dinner. Elaborate
dressing is not necessary at any summer
resort, although you will see much or IL
at the big hotels but even there simple
and quiet costumes meet all requirements.
Sensible wcmen do not make dress pa
rade of their summer outings.
XXX
have a horror of deceit and think people
ought to be perfectly frank in their COM
munication with each other-that one ought
not TO gloss over a trait or an act or his
friends that he doesn't like, but should say
plainly what he thinks. Don't you think
this is the proper course?-W. l..
If you wish to get yourself thoroughly
and universally oisliked, make habit OF
being perfectly frank on all occasions.
1t is an infallible recipe. A judicious re-
serve leads to happier relations with fami-
ly and friends and will do no harm to your
own character.
I am nineteen years old and / think L
know myself pretty well. i have dear
friend, r young man, and mamma thinks L
am encouraging him, but ! am sure we
neither of us wish to be anything more than
friends. Don't you think platonic friend
ship is possible?-Minnie.
Nay. Minnie. nay; not at nineteen years.
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peoples postal cards when occasion offers
is not proper course
Do you think it's safe to believe a girl
when she says things that sound as IL she
thought you were all right-hints that she
thinks you are gocd-looking and pretty
nice all around and that sort of thing you
know. Honestly, i never know whether 70
believe what girl says or not.-F. l.. @.
Far be it from me to intimate that girls
are consciously or unconsciously deceitful
CT untruthful; nevertheless, son, don't be too
trustful and credulous. She may think she
means what she says. yet be mistaken In
herself.
What would you consider the strong
points OF my character, judging by the
specimen of my handwriting that 1 send
you?-George.
l am NOT a sraphologist, but ! do mol
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
THE JOURNALS POETS,
Sometime.


Some time we mean to rest awhile,
To seek green country ways where smile
Old-fashioned flowers that beguile,
With incense rare. our wand ring way:
Long dreamy paths we mean TO stray
With glad delight of truant play
Some time.
Some time we mean to seek release
From toll in welcome worlds OF peace,
All-pacified to find surcease
or pain and fretting human ills;
To forever cross the hills,
Hopes kindly that faith instills-
Some tina
Some time we mean to say goodbye
To grosser ways of life, and try
Our faults the harder to defy:
To ope our hearts to God and right,
And strive to win the pathway bright
OF heaven-aye, with all our might
Some time
-L'envoi.-
oh, Turing word of emptiness,
Vague "some time do you curse or bless?
Our poor. expectant hearts glad lisp,
For untitled promises you keep;
Say. toll you Joy sorrows knell
Fair, far-off 'some time"-will you tell
Some time?
Frank Bates Fianner.
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II God and the good of their souls, and
they do speak In prayer and con-
ession. yet come. after some years of ST.
ike pale. spectral automatons. alien to the
sunshine and the bright world. 1t seems
lard to realize that there are two Trappist
in this country, one In Ken
lucky, one in Iowa. The Kentucky monas-
cry has existed for something like hun
ired years, and this pathetic story of one
If Napoleon's old soldiers is connected with
is history:
The Last Question.
Napoleoni the name
That kings and nations rue,
The sun that set in fame
On stormy Waterloo.
Cruel beyond control.
Monster of hate and greed.
Without heart soul
Such is the critics rede.
But stayl-the truth is dim.
One thing all men may see:
None has been loved like him
Since COST OF Galilee.
And the endless ruin wrought,
And the bravest meath the sun
Lay on the field they fought.
Or wandered. crushed or dazed.
Across hooking world,
Bewildered, lost and crazed.
Since HE was downward hurled,
One wanderer sought and found
In the far and fertile West. :
In the dark and bloody ground"
The converts door OF rest. -
Those awful walls within,
In vigils. prayers and tears,
With a soldiers discipline,
He lived for, forty years. u
But he lies a-dying now,
And the abbot bends above:
81 loose thee from thy vow.
son OF my dearest love-
Speak, ere the shadow fall
(F'or death Ger his features crepO
THE dearest thought OF all
Thou hast In silence kept"
The flames Of life enkindle
In the wan and spectral face,
The years of silence dwindle
To point OF time and space.
What dearest thought OF earth
Is all things else above?
The mother who gave him birth?
The maid of his youthful love?
Or does his spirit shriven
Lose every earthly plant,
In the joy Of the opening heaven,
The rapture OF the saint?
What eager questions crowd?
What deathess memories strive?
His very soul cries out aloud,
rs the Emneror vet alive9,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03
FOUR MONTHS ALONE
Final Entry in Losbook of William
odca, Who Was Left to Watch
Wreck Of the Schooner Courtney
Ford on the Alaskan Shore.

San Francisco. July 3.-The fate of
William Odea, who was left behind as
La watehman on the wreck of the
schooner Courtney Ford, which ran
ashore on Izenbeck Island, Alaska, on
Sept. 80 last, Is told with dramatic real
ism in the leg kept by the unfortunate
.-ln. which has just reached here. 1t
was found beside his dead body by the
revenue cutter officers and covers n
period of four months from Oct. 4
down to the following February, when
in pencil. family traced opposite the
entries of Feb. and 4, are the words:
Death at last. -Four months alone"
He had set down the happenings Of that
quarter. giving a complete calendar of
events, all leading TO one end-extin-
suishment of William Odea, sailor
When the Courtney Ford was wrecked
the captain and surviving members of
the crew were picked up and landed at
Seattle. leaving Odea behind until re-
lief was sent him. This only happened
Il few days ago, when the schooner
Carrie and Annie, With wrecb,ng ap-
paratus aboard, left for Izenbeck Island,
too late, however. TO be of service To
the sailor, who had satched in vain for
relief
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03
NAY CUT orr ROUTES.
Bristow's Ruling Would Wipo Out
Many Rural Deliveries.

Omaha, Neb., July S.--The rural free
delivery OF mail thruout the west has
been practically wiped out by the re-
cent action of Fourth Assistant POST
master General Bristow. who has ruled
that no free delivery route shall be con-
tlnued unless 100 families are served
and 1900 pieces of mail matter handled
monthly. This ruling Is the result OF
Mr.. Bristow's recently announced posi-
ton on the rural delivery swstem, IN
which he declared that rural delivery
has been making too rapid strides ana
must go slower.
Superintendent Rathbone, OF the
western division, yesterday said:
"The enforcement of that order VIII
wipe out 80 per cent of the routes IN
this district, comprising Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Nebraska and Iowa, and VIII
also affect other western states In the
same way, especially Colorado, Mon
tana. Wyoming and Utah. On exam
fninr the routes in this district, ind
that few routes serve more than seven
ty-fiye families. We VIII make no at
TEMPT to enforce the order until the
matter can be taken rp with Mr.. Bris-
tow
All field men have beer called In for
consultation, and modification VIII be
asked The farmers thruout the states
affected are preparing petitions which
will be forwarded to Washington ask
ing that the rule shall apply to the
thinly settled western states.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03
Long Standing Case of Cancer
Reported Cured by Use of
Radium Rays.
MEDICAL CIRCLES INTERESTED
viennese Physician Said to Have Ef.
fected Complete Cure, Not Only of
Cancer, But of Tumor and Several
Gases of Red MoIe-Mysterious
Death of Actor PEPPER.

Vienna, July 3.-Medican circles here
are greatly interested in a report COM
to the Viennese Society of
Physicians to the effect that long
standing case of cancer has been cured
by raGium rays at a clinic OF the late
Professor Gussenbauer. The patient
who was 81 years old, had long suffered
from Il cancer of the palate and lip,
and had repeatedly been operated upon
fruitlessly. In the autumn of 1902, the
physicians of the Viennese hospital de-
clared that it was absolutely useless to
operate again. One physician deter
mined as last resort to try radium
rays, and treated the afflicted parts
by exposing them to the light of ra-
dunn bromide. the strongest radium
in existence. He was re-
warded by the gradual and complete
of the tumors.
Physicians at the same meeting re-
ported that radium had cured case OF
melanosarcoma (tumor containing
black or other dark cOlored matter),
and several cases of red mole.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03
TwENTY-oNE RESCUED.
'iremen Save Many Lives at Jsrssy
City Fire.

New York. July 3.-Twenty-one per-
sons. unconscious from smoke. were.
rescued by fremen from 4 blasting four-
story frame building at daybreak In
Jersey City. The fire, the police say.
was incendiary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03
CAUGHT BY A RAT
Peculiar Circumstances Leads to tho
Arrest Of Three Men for Robbins the
United States Mail.

Philadelphia, July 3.-Bethram and
Albert Laycock, brothers, and Charles
Fournier, employees of the Pneumatic
Transit Co., are under arrest here
charged with conspiracy to embezzle,
open and destroy letters in the United
States mail. The postal inspectors say
the men have confessed to having taken
special delivery letters from the car.
riers of the pneumatic tubes. The ar
rests were the outcome of chase after
rat A rat ran across Filbert street
toward the arches of the elevated
tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad. 7.
j. Mccarthy, telephone line foreman
gave chase. Seeing a large hole he
thrust in stick. No rat appeared, but
when the stick was pulled out 1t
brought with 1t two letters. Mccarthy
saw that they were registered and. adj
dressed to A. j. Cassatt and William
j. Thompson. Again inserting the stick
the man brought forth three more LETT
ters, all registered. Mccarthy notified
the postal authorities and the arrests
followed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03

noon. where McCue is being detained
under surveillance, She talked with
him for several hours, and then had an
Interview with a post surgeon who had
examined him. Just what was said
is not known, but when the interview
was at an end the little woman an
nounced her intention to return to her
father in San Francisco.
Army officials will do nothing with
McCue's case until instructions are re-
ceived from Washington. No charge
Of desertion will be placed against
him, and the charge of bigamy, which
will take tie form of conduct unbe-
coming a gentleman and a soldier
will be mitigated by the mans mental
condition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-03
GIVES DEMOCRATS A SLOGAN.
Former Gov. Pattison Revives Old Til.
den War Cry of "Turn the Rascals

Pittsburg, Pa, July 3.-The old slo-
gan of the democrats in the Tilden
campaign, Turn the rascals OUT prob
ably will be the war cry of the dem
ocrats in the next national campaign.
1t was sprung today by former Gov.
Robert e. Pattison of Philadelphia, in
a speech which he made before the con-
vention of the Allegheny county dem
ocratic committee.
The former governor declared that
there was no reason for the democrats
to be discouraged. Taking up the post
Office investigation. he said: How are
the rascals to be turned out of the
postoffice department IL not by the
democrats?
THAT department of the government
is disgraced by the thieving and ras-
cality. The administration has not yet
made particle of impression on the
machine domination in the republican
party and never will. 1t is UP to the
democrats to turn the rascals out OF
Office"