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Girl a Member Of a Stock EXCHANGE,

800 SeSSN @NSItdIINSs
From the Memphis News-Scimitar.
Miss Leah Klein, aged Is. who cast a
vote in the Merchants exchange election
this week, is perhaps the only woman
member of an exchange in the United
States. il not in the world. She represents
a Chicago grain company She goes on
change and buys and sells with as much
ease and composure as the oldest veterans.
and her ventures are generally successful.
Miss Klein came into prominence with
the exchange recently. A grain company
called it's manage to Chicago some time
ago and left Miss Klein temporarily in
charge. Another manager was to have
been sent to take the place of the former
one, but SO we'll did Miss Klein perform
her duties that the company has failed to
send another man. and she is now the
general manager.
The members of the exchange became
aware of the fact that Miss Klein would
cast a vote for her company and prepared
for 1t. AS soon as she had voted and was
ready to leave the hall a committee com
posed of II. B. Sculss and r.. E. Andrews
escorted Miss Klein to the stand, and
President Harry p. Johnson presented her
with u diamond ring.
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nist's. Now he is served. Now he is
returning at full speed. Now, gentle

nist's. Now he is served. Now he is
returning at full speed. Now, gentle
men. he is here-Kouros!'
"IINcellency!' the servant responded,
and amid an intense silence he entered
the room with the cigars in his hand.
Most of the guests praised highly the
unwavering diligence of the Greek
servant, but an old pasha, slipping his
thick black coffee m smoking his
hubble-bubble. caressed his long white
beard thoughtfully and said:
This that we hav seen is very
fine, but discipline among the servants
of the faithful is quite as good, and
perhaps Il little better. With my own
servant Ali 1 will now duplicate his
Grecian feat
Accordingly he summoned Ali, gave
him money, and dispatched him to the
tobacconist's for cigars.
"Then, watch in hand, he, like the
Greek, said:
"'Now he leaves the house. Now he
runs through the street of the Minarets.
Now he crosses over. Now he is re-.
turning. Now he is here-Ali.'
"'Effendi!.' Ali answered, quietly en-,
tering the room.
where are the cigars?' .
Ellis e~Xcellency's slave said Ali,
bowling, has not yet found his Slip
perS,'"
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Monkey Victim of Theory.

III IN SAAASa60
A new victim OF the lack of the pro
stationary marriage recently limited at
by a university professor is the CHM
panzee at Hagenbeck's. His mate, who.
was at no time congenial, died recently,
and now the beast refuses food and is
dying. Had the professors plan been
followed the mismated pair would new
err have been united and the tragedy Of
a broken heart, eliminating in the.
death of a simian Of rare promise, I
would not nave taken place.
Unfortunately the pair was sent over,
together by una beings imperfectlyt
versed in 9TH Origin of Species" and!
the mental skill attributed to the UNI
evoluted ancestors. according to the,
keeper who is watching his remaining,
charge die. The keeper asserts that the
pair never were congenial, the female,
showing no liking whatever for her
spouse. Two weeks ago the disdainfuli
chimpanzee died.
AS had been lone with a chimpanzee
or:ce in a like case, it was suggested
that he be given a pig as a companions
He resented this. The pig he looks on,
as an inferior and the insult stung him
to despair. He refused food and now,
he is in the last stages of starvation.
In a few days all will be over. Had!
the professors idea been known by
those who sent the animal 1t would
have saved the how $1,000.
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1t changed. changed rapidly. Now. one
would be beaten to death and ~despoifed

would be beaten to Heath and ~despoifed
by N clique OF fellows: again. weak OF
rash one would be cut OF Iii siren
uous battle. Often. most often, scnns
too-powerfui or too-arrogant member
would be secretly assassinated by q
jealous associate or by a committee o,
internal safety. OF course. l do not
NEAR literally assassinated, but as.
s~assinated. cut off, destroyed, in the
sense that a man whose whole life IL
wealth and power is dead when wealth
and power are taken from him.
Actual assassination, the crime o.
murder-these gentlemen" rarely did
ANYTHING which their lawyers did no.
advise them was legal or could be made
legal by bribery of one kind or an
other. Rarely, | say-not never. YOU
will see presently why l make than
qualification.
l had my heart set upon membership
in this band-and. as l confess now
with shame. my prejudices of self-in.
terest had blinded HE into regarding il
and its members as great n usefui
and honorable captains of Industry"
Honorable in the main; for. not ever
my prejudice could blind me to the all
most hair raising atroeity of some Of
their doings. Still. morality is largely
a question of environment. l had beer
bred in hat environment. Even the
atrocities I excused on the ground hat
he who goes forth to war must be pre-.
pared to 10 and to tolerate many acts
the church would have to strain a point
to bless. What was Columbus but q
marauder. a buccaner? Was not Drake,
in law and in fact, a pirate? Washing
ton a traitor to his soldiers oath Of alA
legiance to King George? 1 had much
to learn, and to unlearn. I was to
find out h a whenever a Roebuck puts
his arm round you, it is Invariably to
get within your guard and nearer your
fifth rib. 1 was to trace the uglies
deformities of that conscience of his,
hidden away down inside him like a
dwarfed. starved prisoner in al under.
ground dungeon. 1 was to be astound-
by revelations of Langdon. who vas
not a believer, like Roebuck, and so
not under the restraint of the feel
ing that he must keep some sort of
conscience ledge-s against the inspec-
ton Of the angelic auditing commit
tee in the day of wrath.
Much to learn-and to unlearn. 1t
makes me laugh as l recall now how. on
that May day, I looked into the first
mirror 1 was alone with. smiled de-
lighted as an idiot with myself and
said: Matt. you are of the kings
now. Your crown suits you and, as
you've earned 1t. you know how to
keep it. Now for some fun With your
subjects and your fellow sovereigns."
A little premature. hat %preening!
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Progressive Matrimony.
From the Kansas City Jour,

FrOm the 1AanSaS CITY Journal.
You can always tell q young husband
from an old one by the way he acts when
he goes after a bucket of water says
Uncle Hiram. Three months married,
he swings the pump handle, whistles, and
casts covert glances at the house as
though some one were looking at him
from the window. One year married, he
swings thu pump handle more slowly,
smiles occasionally, and seems to be an
noyed because the meal is late. Two
years married, he looks sour and glum,
kicks the cat over the c~oal~housc, and
ooks at the house as If he would like to
choke somebody. Three years married.
he sits on the door step, and smokes
while his wife works the pump handle"
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Norwegian Fisheries.

Consul e. S. Cunningham reports
from Bergen that winter cod appeared
off the Norwegian coast rather earlier
than usual this year.
The catch was about the same as in
1905, and the quality equally as good,
both seasons furnishing a particularly
fat and fine quality. The winter fish;
ing closed in May, but the spring cod
in Finmarken was still to be had in
June, when one week SHOWED a catch
of over 100000 fish. The total num-
Der caught was 44,116.0O0, of which,
10, 10000 We're hung n 27,404, 900 salt
ed. The by-products amounted to La
073,257 gallons of medicinal cod liver
44,S97 gallons OF roe. The foregoing is
an incomplete report. being only to,
about June 8. The total catch at the
close of the year 1904 was Is, SOC. 900,
and in 1905 $4,000 900. from which was.
derived 490,275 gallons medicinal cod
1904. and 1,1OG,97s gallons of oil, and,
S43,265 gallons of roe in 1905. The pro-
duction of cod liver Oil, the only by
product which concerns the American,
market, is slightly above last year,
though the increase is small. 1t is but
oil production is of the crude oil, and
when refined there will be an estimated
loss of 10 per cent.
Of this years production of medic
inal cod liver oil, all excepting about
221 900 gallons is from the winter fish
ings, which is said to be the best. The,
quality OF the Norwegian cod liver oil
is recognized as the best in the worlds
market. The season is said to occur
at the best time for producing the high,
est grade of oil. TIE food of the cod.
here may have something to do with
the quality of oil; her the fact that;
the manufacturers can obtain as their
raw material absolutely fresh livers for
steaming is sure to produce a better oil,
than when they are caught at more re-
mote distance from shore. Let the rea-
son be what it may, the Norwegian
cod liver oil brings the best prices on
the market, and from this consular dis
trict over 5000 barrels We're shipped
direct to the United States in 1906, in
addition to shipments from Christiania
and Norwegian oil bought in other,
European markets. The price OF me-
dicinal cod liver oil has declined since
the production could be depended upon
being so good. AT present oil is quoted
at SIS to SIT per barrel of ZIG liters.
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CAME A

In my suite in the Textile building,
just off The big main room with the
b~lackboards and tickers, I had a small
office in which l spent a good deal
Of time during Stock Exchange hours.
1t was there that Sam Ellersby found
me the next day but one after my talk
with Roebuck.
8" want you to sell that Steel Com
mon, Matt" said he.
It'll go several points higher" said
I. Better let me hold it and use my
judgment OF selling"
81 need money-right away was his
answer.
That's all right" said I. LET me
give you an order for what you need"
THANK you. thank you" said he so
promptly that I knew I Ia done what
he had been hoping for. probably count
ing on.
I give this incident to show what our
relations were. He was a young fellow
of good family. to whom / had taken a
liking. He was a lazy dog, and as out
of place in business as a cat in a choir,
I had been keeping him going for four
years at that time, by giving him tips
on stocks n protecting him against
loss. This purely out Of good nature
n liking; for I hadn't the remotest
idea he could ever be Of use to me be-
yond helping to liven things up at a
dinner or late supper. or down in the
n or on the yacht. In fact, his
principal use to me was that he knew
how to beat the box" we'll enough to
shake fairly good music out of it-and
l am so fond of music thai I can fill in
with my Imagination when the per-
former isn't too bad.
They have charged that I deliberate
ly ruined him. Ruined! The first time
I gave him a tip-and that was the sec
end or third time I ever saw him-he
burst into tears and said: you've
saved my life, Blackjack. I'll never tell
YOU how much this windfall means to
me now" Nor did I with deep and
dark design keep him along on the
ragged edge. He kept himself there.
How could I build up such a man with
his hundred ways Of wasting money,
including throwing it away on his w
opinions Of stocks-for he would gam
bic on his w account in the bucket
shops, though l had shown him that
the Wall street game is played always
with marked cards, and that the only
hope Of winning is to get the conf
dence Of the card-makers, unless you
are big enough to become a card-mak-
er yourself.
AS soon as he got the money from
my teller that day, he was rushing
away. l followed him to the door
that part of my suite opened out on
the sidewalk, for the convenience of
my crowds of customers. I'm Just
going to lunch" said l. Come with
me-"
He looked uneasily toward a smart
little one-horse brougham at the curb.
"Sorry-but l can't" said he. I've my
in her trap
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ODE Deluge
BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
Mn Y

When Napoleon was about to crown
hin1self-so 1 have somewhere read
they submitted to him the royal gen.
ealogy they had faxed up for him. He
crumpled the parchment and flung il
In the a Of the chief herald, or VINO
ever it was. My line said he, dates
from Montenotte." And so l say, my
Tine dates from the campaign that
completed and established my fame
from Wild Week"
I shall not pause to recite the details
OF the obscurity from which l emerged.
1t would be an interesting, q romantic
story; but it is a familiar story, also,
In this land which Lincoln so finely
and so fully described when he said:
"Ihe republic is opportunity.
One fact only: I did not AXE the
aame Blackjack.
was born Blackjack. and christened
Matthew; and my hairs being very
black and growing so that a lock of it
often falls down the middle of my fore
e is a coincidence. The malicious
n insinuating story that l used to go
under another name arose., no doubt,
from my having been a bootblack in
tny early days., and having let my GUS
lomers shorten my name into Matt
Black. But, as soon as 1 graduated
from manual labor, l esumed my
}tghtful name and nave borne til
think I may say without vanity-in
Nonor to honor.
Some one has written: ut was a
frea day for fools when modesty was
made a virtue" 1 heartily subscribe
70 that. Life means action; action
means self-assertion; self-assertion'
touses all the small, colorless people to
The only sort of action of which they
are capab1e-to sneerfng at the doer as
egottstical. vain, corrected, bumptious
and the like. So be it! I rave an In
ffvidualfty, aggressive, restless and,
Ike all uch Municipalities, necessarily
q the lime light: 1 AVE from the be-
ginning lost no opportunity to impress
that individuality upon my time. Let
nose who have nothing to advertise,
md those less courageous and less
tuccessful than I at advertisement, jeer
and spit. I ignore them. l make no
apologies for egotism. 1 think, when
ny readers have finished. they will de-
.Rork to do, n that I did it in the
only way an intelligent man ever tries
70 do his work-his own way, the way
Natural to him!
Wild Week! It's cyclones, rising
SlIry on fury to that historic climax Of
thaos. sing their mad song in my ears
again as l write. But I shall by no
neans confine my narrative to busi-
Tess n fnance. TAX a cross-sec-
uon OF life anywhere, and you have a
tangled Intervening Of the action and
FACTION OF men upon men, Of women
epon Women of men n women upon
-Sne another. And this shall be a cross
lection out Of the very heart of our
he today, with its big and bold ener-
$1es n passions-the swiftest and in
ensest life aver lived by the human
sace.
To begin:
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in this country. 1t is believed that
the first United States flag manufac-
tured from genuine American bunting
was made at Lowell, Mass. That flag
was raised over the capitol at Wash
ington in February, 1866. Previous to
that time English bunting had been
used for that purpose.
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The NV Board.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
"What do you think of the new board
OF directors?"
II think it's about a tie. Half OF
them look capable % anything, and the
other half ..ook capable of nothing"
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PIONEER DEVOTES
!. L|FET 0.R[YHNGE
NEBRASKAN WHO SWoRE ETER-
NAL ENMITY TO INDIANS.
HIS SEVEN CHILDREN SLAIN
Terrible Massacre Of Young Ones of
Henry Wiseman While He Was
at War-Has Lived Only for
Vengeance.

Omaha, Neb.-Fifty miles west of
Sioux City, high above the Missouri
river, among the wild, picturesque hills
of northern Nebraska. lives an extraor-
binary man, whose life has been thrill
ing romance, full of tragedy, revenge
and hatred.
The story of Henry Wiseman is ia
miliar to all the Inhabitants in and
about Cedar county, Neb., where the
strange man lives, and will be handed
down from father to son for generations
to come.
man whose boyhood was spent with
in few miles of Wiseman's home can
never forget the powerful effect of the
tale upon his imagination when it was
first unfolded to him.
Henry Wiseman was one of the first
white inhabitants of Cedar county, set
Ting there before 1860. He hailed from
kentucky, and possessed the strength
agility and courage characteristic OF
Kentuckians.
He was over six feet tall, and
straight as the barrel of his long car
bine, fact we'll known to his enc
mics, both in Kentucky and the west
He was an aboliti0nist, who left his
southern, home because of slavery
When he went to Nebraska he had a
wife and six children, number later
increased to eight by the birth OF
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Ye O'eryyrouEht Scribe Craclxeth His
Heels Unto His Own
UndOinE.

"a friend of mine, an overworked
editor said Senator Depew, took last
summer his first vacation in II years.
He went to a rugged New England
district, quaint village that nestled
at the foot of great mountains on the
shore of deep lake.
He arrived on a bright, fine morn
ing, and so greatly was he pleased with
the grandeur of the scenery and with
the pure and perfumed air that, setting
out for a little exercise, he soon found
himself leaping fences, running. sing
ing and dancing through the country
like child.
Suddenly, as he skipped around a
curve of quiet road, hand was laid
On his shoulder, and stern, angry face
looked into his.
"'Come with me to the station
house, harsh voice said.
"'Why, what for?' said the amazed
editor
g L am the town constable said the
other, and for the last half hour I've
been watchin' We jumpin' over the
fences an singin' an dancin'. No
sane man would act SO. an I'm goin'
to lock ye up for an escaped lunatic. -
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Benton, about this time-the captain
and most of his men being at home on
veteran furlough. ".Ould Stanton,s got
the DEVILS own grudge agiD him fur
turnin' up in time to spoil hangin'
all on account ay Ladue that's dead. %
1t was hardly felicitious, yet surely a
concise, way of settling the story.
Winchester settled the matter for good
and all. The president shook the other
hand of the tall. bearded Badger and
offered him two weeks leave and a
chance to go home until his arm was
out of the sling. Benton begged in
stead for chance to see Chiffon, and
the charges against him, and that very
day drove Stanton to the verge of ap-
ploplexy, for when shown the fatal
notebook he said he knew it well and
could swear it was all the work of
Paul Ladue and not that of Jack Chill
ton. Benton could not lift the gate
of Lafayette, whittier poor Jack had
been sent, but he shattered all chance
of their lifting the prisoner at the
loop of a rope, and this news, too, went
by devious. but still speedy ways to
Charlottesville, where again. on her
knees, by her fathers bedside, with
her arms about that fathers neck, Ros-
. allie Chiffon thanked God for his mer-
cies, and then found it harder than
ever to begin the letter she had long
meant to write to Elinor Benton, even
though now the sending of it might
be impossible. tttfA
One more ride had Benton near the
Iron Brigade, after long months of sep
aration from them, after many and
many day and night in saddle, mud
and rain, in sleet and snow, up the
Shenandoah, down the James river
canal, around Richmond, and then,
amidst volleys of chaff and catcalls,
around the rear of the entrenched Ar
my of the Potomac and out into the
dripping woods about Dinwiddie. One
vehement, relentless, resistless day and
night ride followed, along tormented
I flank, and then, that soft, sunshiny
April morning, after the weeks OF
gloom and rain, the curtaining cavalry
drew aside, revealing to the now hope
less eyes of the great confederate lead
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&|l'I6ts.szR!!z;s;,;5l
A..-~G o1&SV
A PROBLEM.

Have you ever watched fellow, when
he's working by the day
HOW his feet move more slowly when the
boss is gone away,
How hard he tries to save his hands by
using up his brains,
How the shady spots seem always to be
needing special pains, =
How resting spells come often, and how
long he eats at noon, t,HsG
How late he gets to working, though he
always quits too soon?
Just watch the next one, and you'll find
There's truth In what 1 say,
For he's working by the day-day-day,-
He's-worsing-by-t
Have you ever watched fellow, when
he's working by the job
How his violent gyrations fairly make
your pulses throb,
How he never stops to whistle and he
never stops to sing.
And no matter how the boys call, he
doesn't hear a thing;
How he gives the lick and promise" to
the work he's set to do,
And you think he's scarcely started till,
behold the fellows through?
There's no doubt the face of nature
VIII be marred by many daub.
For he's working by the job job, job
He's working by the job.
Lillian Townsend Taylor. in Success"
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BIG LION KILLS HIS f
UNWELCOME NEiGHBORS
King of Beasts Breaks Down Partition
Between Cages and Ferocious
Combat Ensues.

London.-A titanic fight took place
at Belfast the other day when lion
killed another lion and lioness in
menagerie. The victor was Duke, who
has the reputation of being the largest
lion in captivity, and his victims were
smaller lion and lioness. who were.
for the first time, spending the night
in the cage next to his.
Hitherto Dukes neighbor had been a
lioness named DucheSS-the two were
christened six or seven years ago by
the Princess Royal, when they were
exhibited as cubs at charity bazaar
in Edinburgh-but the exigencies of
the show had necessitated a rearrange-
ment of the animals. Duke bore the
change with apparent equanimity and
the thousands who thronged the me-
nagerie saw no suggestion that his
regal ire was reused.
But when the audience departed and
the trainers and keepers left the show
Dukes resentment got the better Of
him. He paced up and down his cage
thinking matters over, and each time
he shifted the scent of strange beasts
his wrath grew hotter and hotter. At
last it became uncomfortable. About 4
O'Clock in the morning he began to
attack the massive woodwork between
him and the aliens. Splinter after
splinter was ripped away and the other
animals in. the menagerie, realizing
that the king of beasts was on the war
path, roared and beloved until the
in, ;uhl =
wondered what was happening
Among them Mr.. bostwick was
aroused, and, realizing that something
was wrong, he rushed into the menag-
erie. He found that Duke had torn a