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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26
MISSIONARIES LITTLE JOKE.
He Heightened the Day by Several
Hours for q Korean Village.

The Koreans In the vicinity Of Seoul,
the capital city, and around the treaty
ports are fast losing their early guile
lessness in trying to follow the march
of western civilization. In the noun
tains of the interior, however, condi-
tions are much the same as In the
days when Korea could Justly be
termed the Hermit nation" and the
inhabitants knew little and cared less
about Occidental progress.
Among the American missionaries
who were in the habit of making pro-
tracted trips in the interior OF the
country there was one who, In addition
to being a jealous worker, was also a
good deal Of wag.
On the occasion of one of his inland
journeys he found himself at nightfall
In a small village, where he was to
spend the night IN the straw matched
dwelling Of one of the native converts.
The sleeping chamber was the usual
tiny room, heated by a system of fiuas
beneath the mud floor and rendered
nearly alright by closely fitting oil
paper windows and doors.
1t was fearfully hot, and about mid
night the American could stand It no
longer; so he strolled out in the open
for q breath of air. The village was
wrapped In slumber, SO just for a joke
and with no Interior motive the mis-
sionary let out lusty imitation of a
ROSTERS crow. This was Immediately
taken up by wakeful bird in court
yard near by, and In a few minutes
every fowl was adding his morning ga
Lutte to the general chorus.
Now, watches and alarm clocks
were an unknown luxury in the vii
lage, and the people we're accustomed
to time their rising hour by the roos-
tiers. In a few moments, therefore. the
sleepy Koreans came struggling out Of
their little huts, and after starting the
fires on which to boil the morning rice
lighted their long bamboo pipes and
sQuatted round in little groups to wait
for sunrise.
Their amusement can be imagined
when the hours went by and still there
were no signs of light in the east.
'Irun chame." said one to another.
a. with open mouth he pondered over
the phenomenon.
Years have passed since then, but In
at least one village in Korea all events
still date back to the night when the
morning didn't come."-Youth's Com
panion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26
THE STORY.

rHE wonderful golden image which
the Wing had canaed ~ ha .at nm
had for tbe moment been forgotten
and the thrones NJ naon,a which had
been Gathered 10 nav homage to the
treat gIitterinr thing Of eold we're
surging about the place where the fur.
mace had been built, and in which now
q raging fire burned. II was the same
furnace in which the metal for the
great image had been smelted but a
few days before, and that day the fires
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26
THE GOLDEN
IMAGE
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~ THE HIGHWAY AND AWAY


Daniels Book Accreditsd.-Ws know
from Josephus that the Jews In Christs
day recognized Daniel ~ In the canon.
zechariah. Ezra and Nehemiah refer to
r. Jesus refers to II In his characters
do designation: "son OF Man." Matt "a:
- (Dan. 7:lO; also expressly by name.
and az q prophet" In Matt. A:15 (cf.
Matt. 2A:z. with Dan. I'll, stc.); and In
the moment that decided his life Matt.
NOD. or death, when the high priest
adjured him by the living God. Also. in
Luke, 1:10-26, Gabriel II mentioned,
whose name occurs nowhere else In
Scripture save chapter S:16; s:21. Be-
sides the references to II In Revelation,
Paul confirms the prophetical part of IT,
as to the blasphemous king dan. 7;s, rs;
1880, In Cor So; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4; the
narrative part. AZ to the miraculous de-
liverances from the lions" and the fire,
in Heb. 11:sS, 81 Matt. 21:A. would be
an enigma, II It were not for a reference
to the stone that smote the image
(Dan. 2:s4, IS. a. 4b). Thus the New Tes-
cement sanctions chapters ., 3, 9. Z.
Scripture authority-Daniel. chap.
ter 3.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26
sERMoNETTE.

True faith throws one unre-
servedIy upon the mercy and
care Of God.
Note that Il was not question
with these three Hebrew serv-
ants az to whether or not God
would give them physical deiIv-
eranca from the awful peril
which threatened them, rather
did the whole question Of con-
duct hinge upon the one
thought, "What 10 the right
thing to dor"
Do right whatever be the con-
sequences, 10. the uncompromls-
Ing law Of God.
The man who would attempt
to bargain with God, making his
obedience to the Divine law con-
tInoent upon Gods comforting
upon him certain lmmunltIes
and blessings, 10 the man who
10 serving for the loaves and the
fishes and who never knows the.
deep Joy Of doing right for
rights sake.
The true servant Of the king
Of klnas 10 never abashed be-
fore tho presence Of the kings
Of the earth. Listen 20 the words
Of these mon a. they place Al
leoIance TO God before every
earthly claim. "our God whom
we serve 10 able to deliver u.s."
but even though II should not be
his will to deliver " from thy
hands, know thou, oh, king, that
we will not serve thy gods nor
worship the golden image.
What . blessing these three
Hebrews would have missed II
they had feared to have stood
with God. They did not know
II at the time, but that furnace,
heated 90 hot that those who
threw the three men Into lie
leaping flames were struck dead
by the heat, was to become the
vestibuIe Of heaven, and the
trystino place where God In the
person Of his blessed Son was
waiting to receive them.
The fire Of Northumberland
could burn on the letters with
which he had bound the serv-
ants Of God, but II could reach
no further. So with the fires
Of persecution which assaII the
Christian. They come az a re-
filming flame separating more
and more from the letters which
would cIrcumscribe and bind
the soul In Its fellowship with
Its Lord.
The soul that dares to stand
alone for the right very soon be-
comes conscious that he 10 not
alone but that there Is another
presence with him In the fiery
furnace Of affiictlon, the very
presence Of God.
The man who fears to do
wrong 10 the man who knows
not the fear Of man.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

- HICAGO.-The biggest busi-
ness In the country Is rail-
reading
II all the railroads in the
- country (there are $500 Of
them) could hoard from day
to day the money they gather in for
moving passengers and freight, at the
end of year there wouldn't be q dol
lar left anywhere else in the country.
Every piece OF metal and paper cur
rency In the country would be In the
railroad treasures.
The railroads earn in year five
times the whole worlds output of
gold, thirty times this country's gold
output; they take in four times as
much money as the Steel corporation,
five times as much money as the gov
eminent itself-more money than Is
represented in all our trade overseas.
It's big business that takes in
$4,000, 100000 in year; this Is $1,000
900 day--seven million dollars a
day!
And $3,500,000 of this money, every
day of the year, goes into the pay en-
velopes of the workers. For half the
money gathered in by the railroads
half Of this $4,000. 100000 year-is
the workers share of this biggest of
American businesses. So in two years
the railroad workers receive In their
pay envelopes as much money as
there is In circulation in the whole
country.
Big figures these! There Is the
humble trackman, usually an alien
from the slums of Europe, who dog
gedly obeys the orders of the track
foreman. Out of every 500 gathered
In by the railroads, six dollars goes to
him-flve times as much as goes to
the railroad officials. The figures are
the bottom or the top.
Let us see what becomes of every
800 received by the railroads in their
two-and-a- half-billion-dollar business.
Workers on railroads q, 700 900 men)..$ 40
Dealers in railroad materials Chiefly
the steel and coal trades).........". y
The state ltaxes) .............,...........
Creditors hundreds Of thousands of :.
The " owners 100000 investors. 1890. L
For the surplus Improving the prop
erty) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800
Workers actually get $50 out OF
every 800, for from the $2b paid for
materials trails, cars. engines, build
ings, etc., $40 goes to workers In
these industries. Every time you
spend a dollar at railroad ticket OF.
nee or freight once. you are paying
80 cents for wages.
A Billion Dollar Pay Roll.
Now let's see just how the $40 oat
of every 800 Of railroad revenue "a
distributed among the railroad work
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

est item on the list-$28, 600, 900 paid
in wages to telegraphers and dispatch
ers. an army Of 10000 men "at the
key" This is more money than all
the telegraph companies in the coun-
try spend In wages.
And then the item at the top of the
list-$210,00 100000 in wages to shop
men. You know, perhaps, that rail-
roads have shops, where they mend
broken wheels and put new paint on
cars. But did you ever know that the
railroad shops of the country employ
an army of 100000 men earning $780,
100000 year in wages? This repair
end of the railroad business Is bigger
than the business Of the Steel corpora
ton itself-more men and more
wages.
The army of shopmen has big job.
In the shops Of the big railroads loco
motives and cars are built as well as
repaired. The smaller roads buy their
equipment from the Independent build
ers, but there is no road so small but
that 1t has its shops for repairing
equipment. The railroads own 2,200,-
900 cars-of which $4,000 are pas
senger cars. Made up into one train
these cars would stretch around the
earth, and to every fortieth car there
would be locomotive, for the rail-
roads have $4,000 in service. You
could carry every man, woman and
child in America in this train, allow
ing only 40 passengers to a car. It's
the business of the third of a million
shopmen to keep these two and a
quarter million cars and locomotives
in running order.
A bigger army still Is that on the
track-430,000 men, made up Of $4,000
section foremen-the bosses-and 1885,
900 humble workers, the lowest paid
men in the service, averaging eight
dollars a week. But they take six dol
lars out of every 800 OF railroad rev.
enue, or 50.0OO,000 year, and no
small part of this money finds It's way
back to the old country" Many a
good American citizen of to-day
earned his first money in this country
as a member Of track gang.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

The other three-quarters Is spent on
various materials, coal and steel being
the principal items. The coal bill for
the locomotives is the biggest single
item-$185, 100000. Besides the coal
bill, there is spent for locomotives
$10,000.000 on water, $4,000. 900 on oil,
tallow and waste, and 100000 on
other supplies-more than 500, zoo. 900
in all. The tie bill is big-$40. 000, 900,
bigger than the rail bill-$26, 000, 900.
Stationery and printing costs $4,000
900. advertising 100000, wrecks and
other damage $22,000,000. clearing
away wrecks $4,000, 900, killing and in
juring people $18,000.000, insurance
$500, 000-and so on through score
of items all In the millions.
Share Of the Owners.
A glance at the table at the begin
ming of this article shows that after
the railroads pay out of their revenues
40 per cent for wages, rs per cent for
materials, ETC., and three per cent for
taxes, there is still left 80 per cent. OF
the revenues. The creditors-that Is,
the bondholders, spread all over the
face of the earth-owning 10000
900 Of American railroad obligations,
get 10 per cent. of the revenues. This
nets them 81 per cent. on the par
value Of their bonds. There Is still 10
per cent. left. or this IL per cent.
goes to the charlottesville half mil
lion owners. They receive 100000, 900
a year out OF the $4,000. 100000 earn
ings, which nets them only SO per
cent. on their $4,000. 600. 900 Of stock.
The other seven per cent. Of the earn
ings goes into surplus.
Such, in brief, is the story of the
country's biggest business, the opera
ton of 100000 miles Of railroads.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

The average yearly earnings of rail-
road workers is little more than
5000. A ten per cent. wage advance
means only $50 for each man, but 1t
adds 500, 900 to the billion-dollar
pay roll-a sum equal to third of all
the profits distributed to the half mil
lion owners of the railroads in the
most prosperous year in their history.
Similarly, ten per cent. advance In
freight rates, such as is now proposed.
would add $3.50, 5000 to the revenue
Of the roads, or more than two per
cent. on all the outstanding $4,000, 000.-
900 railroad stock. The business Is so
big that fractional changes in receipts
or expenditures. II spread over the
country, produce results of astounding
proportions.
Dividends to Shareholders.
Having taken a look at the railroad
business from the viewpoint Of the
100000 workers, let us see how 1t
looks to the $4,000 owners. The rail-
roads earned last year, gross. $780,
100000. The small end OF the railroad
business Is the passenger traffic. The
receipts from s00.000.000 passengers
were $4,000, 000.t The average rate
paid was a triie over two cents a
mile. The figures show that the aver
age American made ten railroad trips
in the year of an average length Of 80
miles, paying $3.50 for the service-so,
800 miles appears to be the average
yearly travel of the American on the
railroads. The railroads also received
more than 800, 000, 900 carrying mail
and express matter, mostly on pas
senger trains.
But the 100000 freight cars are the
big earners. They brought in $1,000,
100000 last year, 30 times as much
money as all the gold mines of the
country produced, Az times as much
money as all the gold mines Of the
world produced. Great is the Ameri
can freight car, even IL 1t does GO
banging along on fiat wheel! II
earned this huge amount Of money by
sheer work, for It charged only three.
quarters of a cent for carrying ton
of freight q mile. But even three-quar'
tiers OF cent a ton runs into money
pretty fast In the big way we run our
railroads. A 50-ton car, at this average
rate, earns 371a cents mile; this is
$1S.75 a mile for a 50-car train-and
in the 3,OO0-mile journey across the
country. this runs up to $4,000. Big
cars and long hauls make possible the
low American freight rates.
Where Freight Comes From.
A word as to where all the freight
comes from. More than half Of all the
tonnage carried on the railroads is
the product of the mines-a third is
coal and coke. The soft coal tonnage
is enormous-a quarter Of all the traf-
fic-because this is the great fuel In
industrial plants from coast to coast
Hard coal-the householders' fuels
big item in freight. but not nearly
so big as soft coal. Manufactures
stand next to mine products In i'm
portance, with about seventh Of the
total tonnage, and In this class the
steel Industry takes the lead. Lumber
and other products of the forest ranh
third; agricultural products fourth
with merchandise and miscellaneous
freight last. A 1.000-ton train, loaded
with freight in the proportions IN
which the country's freight tonnage II
divfded would carry:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

Scripture authority-Daniel. char
tor 8.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

aries paid the heads of transconti-
mental roads. The average daily earn
ings of the officers. and men Of the
railroad forces Is here shown:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26
Third largest Railroad Army.

The train crews, with 100000 en-
ginemen. firemen, conductors and
trainmen, make up the third largest
railroad army. but they head the wage
list with 1886. 100000 year. They get
more than a dollar out of every ten
received by the railroads.
Here is shown the makeup Of the
railroad army:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

When you look over this billion-dol-
lar NY tpll you,get an idea Of the big
ncss OF railroading. Take the small
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26

So much for how the railroads earn
q. 600, OO0, 900. Now let's see what Is
done with all the money. Two-thirds
Of all the money received BY the rail-
roads has to be spent to run them.
The railroads spent on operation last
year:
Running trains :::;..i.......'.$ y3 ooe c oo
Maintaining roadbed, stc.-..... - 10000
General expenses ...............s p'yuo.ouo
Total operating expenses. n. ~. 10000
Included in this billion and three
quarters Is the biIlion-dollar pay roll
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-17
MILEAGE BOOKS
USED FOR Cash
keokuk Travelling Men May be Able
to Take Advantage of Change
in Short Time.

The time may come, and probably
within a few months. that Keokuk
travelling men will be able to use their
mileage books to purchase meal, pay
for excess baggage, etc. The ST. Louis
Globe Democrat of today says:
The Universal Fare Ticket company
has been organized in this city for the
purpose of interesting the railroads
throughout the country in the use of
a form of ticket on money basis
which represents cents instead Of
miles in mileage books. Under exist
ing conditions various rates of fare
prevailing in several states, the new
form possesses some advantage. 1t
is also available in payment for par
lor car, sleeping car. lunch room or
hotel accommodations in cases where
railroad companies operate their own
facilities for travellers. 1t may also be
applied for excess baggage charges.
One railroad system has already adopt
ed the new form, accepting detach-
ments in payment of ticket fares. ex-
cess baggage, storage charges, hand
baggage checked in parcel rooms and
for meals and accommodations at din
ing stations and hotels 1t likewise
offers convenient form of inter-
changeable ticket The matter has
been submitted to all tae passenger
traffic associations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-17
THE SUBJECT
OF HAZING
What President James of the Univer-
sity of Illinois Had to Say
of the Matter.

In an address to the students of the
Illinois University some time ago,
President James had the following to
say regarding the practice of hazing:
There should be no misunderstood
ing on tle part of the student body
or the general public as to the atti-
tude of tht authorities of the Uni
sity of Illinois on the subject of
hazing. 1t is rule of the board of
trustees that students found guilty
of hazing shall be dismissed from the
University. Since this rule went into
effect. all students who have been
clearly proven guilty of hazing have
been dismissed.
Hazing is a violation of good man
ners and of tne right of individual
liberty. 1t is provocative of public dis
order. Public opinion throughout the
state has very properly set its seal
of condemnation upon it. On all counts
it must be put under the ban of the
University.
In its milder forms it is NONSENSE
cal and almost idiotic form of amuse-
ment, unworthy Of the support or ia
yor of any sensible university student.
1t was looked upon as a comparatively
slight offense perhaps twenty years
ago in small institutions. 1t is today
altogether unworthy of the traditions
and regulations of national institu-
tion sucl as this has become.
In its coarser forms hazing is vul-
gar, brutal, always demoralizing and
sometimes dangerous form of sport
which the University cannot counte-
nance or tolerate. 1t naturally leads
to reprisals and may thus become a
source of serious disorder within and
without the University In it's worst
forms, which fortunately have not pre-
vailed here, it may, not inaptly, be
compared with night-riding, white cap
ping and other similar forms of out
rageous interference with private and
public rights
Surely these are reasons enough not
only to forbid It's existence at the Uni.
yersity, but to use every legitimate
means to stamp 1t out.
All loyal and law abiding students
are especially requested to cooperate
with the authorities in putting an ab
solute end to this custom which in ad
dition to the evil 1t does within the
( University brings dishonor upon the
fair name of our alma mater through
out the state and country and natur-
] ally begets prejudice against us
watch influences unfavorably the pros
I perity of the institution.
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CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
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serving as a telegraph operator in
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war, Mr.. Waite was an editorial con
tributor to the Hawk-Eye. so that he
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Mr.. Waite has legion of friends in
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