Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1894, Page 17

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: UR Hig Chamb! or 16th cheval ers, wol week ¢ L\~H\ - nice _Hanging Lamp for $1.75; worth A fine Lamp for $10.00. Hang $4.65, W rth B]Zh Comforts, Wi\‘nu\v SHADES, Lace Curtains, Curtain Poles Silk Curtains, Chenllle Cov Silkaline, 19¢. SII.\ Heavy and price, Alarn EASY TERMS. $10.00 worth of Goods, $1 week $2 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER C.\Rl‘l Nice Brussels Carpets, desirable patterns; a special drive. For this only, 48c Ingrain Carpets, est style, Thi per worth double. NITURE hly polished r Sets, antique Century finish; or square dress- rth $30.00. This nly $18.7 WooL BLANKETS PA\IKL()H SUITS. Handsomely ered, latest 16th century or an- tique finish, worth $40.00. This week only $23 N uphol- style, lat- week yard; BH“I\‘ CAS Ladies’ Desks, Combi- nation Library Cases, Parlor Desk Office Desks, ete., we offer at prices’ which we guar- antee to be from 10 to 50 per cent belc prices quoted else- where, i OLDING ies, \ F BEDS— Fifty-six different styles. Ask to see our $5.50 Mantel Folding Bed and_our §$1 Upright Folding Bed, in antique or 16th cen- tury finish, Quick MEAL CASI_]LINESTOVES DING— & S ENTS < T.\I‘)IJ‘.\‘ 3 i Dining Tables Kitchen T Extension T: and all other equally low. e, e Single Lounges, $3.85; worth $7.50. Bed Lounges, $6.45; les $3 Y ; worth $12.00. tables A Chenille Couches, £ $7.20; worth $16.00. Pillows, $1.95. Blan| Spres Bolst Pillo Wort. kets ads, 6ic ers, $1.25, w Slips, 17 h double. NER SETS DI Plush Chairs, $1.90. Bedsteads, $1.25. Springs, 85e. y the largest stock of Crockery Glasware in the cit ERWARE - A\' IMMENSE building, with a large warehouse In the rear, stored from cellar to roof with everything necessary for house- keeping. y Plate Knives Forks, usual 505 this \-,..11‘ With every purchase of §25.00 and over, a m_Clocks, handsome framed plc- t-Day Bte. 3 QIL;H\,r;AT_ERSi or $6 month. $1.50 week or $6 month, 00 worth of Goods. $50.00 worth of Goods, $2 week or $8 month. $75.00 worth of Goods, 2.50 week or $10 month, $100 worth of Goods $3 week or $200 worth of Good $4 week or $15 month. 12 month. | Jaj St thi to en, THE CGIANT OF THE EAST Japan's Military Prowess No More Astonish- ing Than Its Industrial Advance, A NERVY RIVAL IN COTTON SPINNING es Tt En ra th Uncle Sam and John Bull in the Far East | ~The Rallwuy Postal Systems of Jupan—Facts About Its Newspapers., fo th trl | up &r U (Copyrighted, 184, by Frank G. Carpenter.) The wonderful advancement which Japan has made in military matters is surprising the world. The advancement which she is also making in manufacturing is not so well | known. Her army has whipped the Chinese, Her laborers promise to beat the whole world in turning out new goods and good goods. 1 spent some weeks among her factories last summer, and I found smokestacks going up | all over the empire. The city of Osaka is | nearly as big as Chicago, and it Is the Pitts- | § burg of Japan. It has about 1,000,000 people, and It is a great business and manufacturing center. It has always been noted for its fectories, but within the past ten years it has been introducing modern’ machinery, | and, as I told you in my talk h Count | Ito, it has now forty-six cotton mills, with 600,000 spindles. New machinery is being put in every day, and by the end of this year it is thought that the number of spin- dles will be more than 1,000,000, and it may yet be the chief exporter of cotton to China, Indla and even to the United States. The | Japanese are the greatest colorists of the | world. They are a nation of artists, and| they can make designs which we cannot produce. Already they are shipping a great amount of cotton here, and we are now buying Japanese rugs by the millions of | yards every year. A great deal of the cotten used in the Japanese mills is of American growth, and 1 was told in Yokohama that Japan used $14,000,000 worth of American | cotton every year. I asked our consul gen eral how this could be when we sold only about $3,000,000 worth of goods to Japan yearly. He replied “I will tell you. It comes through Eng land. Just think of it! Fourteen million doi- lars worth of our raw cotton is used here every year, and England gets a profit out of the sale. We first ship it to Liverpool, and it is then sent here via the Suez canal. It ought to come direct from America, and our | trunk lines could make a good thing if they would cut down their freight rates low enough to compete with England. It we could have this cotton sent direct, we would have the balance of the Japanese trade, and, as it is, England gets the bulk of it.”" “How much do we buy from Japan every year?' I asked. “About $17,000,000," was the reply, ““How much does England buy *About $3,000,000, “How much does she sell to Japan “About $17,000,000, and $14,000,000 worth of this 1s American cotton. You see, Japan [ has to have the American cotion. The India | | nu fre ot shi el fe ik = w st th fol of Jul G th de Ia it |t St m th thi el a o | ki ho sh W sh tr it and Chinese cottons are short staple, and the best long staple cotton comes from the United Btate: We ought to have the trade.” ENGLAND AND FOREIGN TRADE England is very anxious to have the United Btates and the other countries of Europe act a8 the cats by which John Bull as the r.on- Key pulls his commercial chestnuts out of the celestial fire, China has a forelgn trade of about $300,000,000 a year and England gets the bulk of it. It naturally does not like to see this paralyzed by the war, and it will be very glad it Uncle Sam or the Russian Bear | T will atep In and quiet matters for it. As far as commerelal matters are concerned, it 18 the hog of the far east, and the business methods of some of its people are by no means %0 clean as they might be. One of the meanest tricks upon record—and this is upon record—occurred In Yokohama shortly before l arrived the It was In connection with ‘contract for rallroad locomotives. The w is Is su h A This America, day Americans the iron engine had been tampered with, not placed able to get the locomotive into fairly good | she was, they beat the English, on figuring the lowest possible cost price, in- United States, the builders found that they could not compete as to pric contrac an adulterated cheek. dates back W had been warned to keep out, and some of and thero was a French ship and a Dutch | one als: Britain then attacked the forts and silenced them. thing equally gave back the seven hundred and elghty odd theusand dollars to Japan had not been injured at all, as did also Fr said that she would liks the | and he Yokohama but the to devote hama an pelled to issue to su anthroplst, Japan. derful Japan. every FORMERLY PEOPI.E’S MAMMOTH INSTALLMENT HOUSE. Write for Baby Carriage and Stove Catalogues, mailed free. Send 10 cents to cover postage on big 94 catalogue, panese are very friendly to the United ates, and the government when it found at it had to have new engines sent word our consulate and asked that some of our gine-building firms would compete. request was forwarded to and one of our chief tablishments sent a locomotive to Tokio. here was to be a competitive test of the nglish and American engines and on the before this was to take place the | tried their locomotive anl it n very well. It was ofled and put into orough shape, but, not thinking that ey were dealing with a set of prefes | race-course sharpers, the Ametic to leave a jockey engineer to sicep | night previous to the race with their horse. ‘The next morning, however, r some reason or other—I can’t tell why— ey concluded to give the engine one more lal before entering the race. They fired p and turned on the steam. There was a | ating and crashing, and the engine stopped. examination It was found that the and that a which was of such a nature that it could have come from no other source than the English competitors, had been in one of the valves. *They found her things misplaced, but fortunately were which the country will probably get from |cups and about ome quart of tea the Chinese there will be an enormous in- | sum of 5 cents, crease in all kinds of public improvements. | can money. Such During my stay in Japan I met many of the chief railroad men of the country, and I was told that the revenues of nearly every railroad there was increasing. The govern- ment roads gave a net profit of more than 2,000,000 in 1893, and the increase in pas- senger receipts over the year preceding wa: more than $300,000. There was an increas of $100,000 in freight receipts, and this was an increass of more than 14 per cent. There is a line running from the capital, Tokyo, to Yokohama, the chief seaport, which has trains every hour, and these are as well run as those between Philadelphia and New York. The passenger receipts | on this road increased 15 per cent last year, and on the main line, which runs from the capital te western Japan, there was an increase of 15 per cent. The Japan stock is not watered, as ours is, and there is no cutting of rates. The only thing that pays a profit to the United States gov- ernment is the patent office. We are losing millions now on our postofice contracts. Japan is making money on everything, and it has as cheap postal rates and telegraph rates as we have. Nearly all the railroad stations have telephones or block signaling | instruments. All have telegraph stations, | and they carried last year nearly a million messages. Their railways of English construction, with one single exception. This is a line 200 miles long, which runs through the island of Yezo, and which was built by American engineers with American rolling stock. It was opened in 1880, and it is, I am told, paying very well The Japanese are now going to make their own engines. They have works at Tokyo and Kobe, and they have been building freight and passenger cars for some time. I am told that fifty new rallways are con-| templated, and that the charters for these | bave been applied for, and a number of | them already granted. | A RIDE ON A JAPANESE RAILROAD. The Japanese cars have three classes— first, second and third. The first class is | almost altogether like the English coaches, | | except that you enter at the end instead of at the side of the cars. The cars are di- vided up into compartments, with doors run- ning through them. The first-class fare | is about 3 cents per mile, The second-class, 2 cents per mile, and the third class, 1 cent per mile. All these fares are in silver, which is just half the amount figured In American | money, so that Japan has about the cheapest fares in the world. The second-class cars are for all the world like an American street car, with wide cushions running under the windows. They are well upholstered and comfortable. They are | seldom filled, and are used largely by | the well-to-d0 Japanese. There are doors at the side, nesr the end, and these open di- rectly on to the stations and not on to a | vestibule, as with us. You find all classes within them, and you may ride for hours with pretty Japanese girls, Buddhist priests and the thousand and one characters which make up the life of Japan. Many of the Japanese women squat on the seats, tucking their long gowns under their knees and ex- | posing about an inch or two of bare skin between their little foot mittens and their kimonos. You meet many Japs in European | clothes, and now and then one will take off | shortly visit this country for the his Japanese clothes, pull a foreign suit out | inspecting our battle ships and crui of his bag and dress in the car right before | your eyes. No one pays any attention nor | seems to think it strange. | THE THIRD-CLASS CARS. | The third-class cars are uncushioned, and they are filled with the poorer classes, who trot through the stations in clogs, many of them having their dresses pulled up to their knees, They carry their baggage on their backs, and push and crowd in. They patron- | ize the Station restaurants, and every time the train stops there are peddlers of cooki and tea who come %o the car windows, You buy all sorts of food very cheap, and you can | International Navigation get a teapot of Japanese tea, with a teacup | the Messrs. Cramp. on top, anywhere. I remember riding one he rudder-plates day with Mr. John Thompson, a Washington banker, and when the hour for lunch came we coneluded to buy two pots of tea. I got them and offered the man 10 cents, He looked rather queer, and I thought I had not given | JAPANESE RAILROADS, him enough, and was about to hand Speaking of locomotives, there is a won- [him out 20 more, Wwhen, to our sur-| railroad development golng on in | prise, he gave me back 5 cents, and our New roads are being extended in | guide told us that we were to keep the pots | direetion, nd with the indemnity | and the cups. a teapot at proportionately cheap. the world where yon can more cheaply than in Japan place where you get s0 muc There are good hotels everywhere, best hotels of Tokyo, Yokohama o | are equal to the best $4 to §5 a da | these amounts money portionately cheap, about, you know, from '10 cents to 15 cents an hour. THE “HELLOA GIRLS” OF when reduced and carriages about Afty of them, with | ceivers about their cars, answers over the wire. bo Don more than 5,000,000 telegraphic The country is, in fact ut, 4 publishes almost as as we do, now many om in Tokyo alone, ape before the trial, and half-crippled as The United gotten the contract, but ates would have uding the heavy freight rate across the about with bells in their they ring as they call of ~ their journals, paper has had “one or in Corea, and illustrations by ground. Some very high prices, and the dif- rence was so great that the English got the out Nearly more {0GGED" OUR PRESENT TO JAPA Speaking of the English, the new pier hich is now being built at Yokohama, and hich, T am told, is of no earthly good, is instance of their hoggishness and un- The story of this pler the fight at the Shimonoseki in which our gunboat, the blown up. Foreign vessels | of and 1 have had They have their reporters every I was interviewed a dozen times stay in Japan, and I met a | editors. raits in 1863, yoming, w e old Daimios had concluded to shell all reign ships coming through these straits, have been warn pended if they made | Editors are now premature fired upon, rica, France, The combined Holland and fleets | Amy Great pear in the papers, Not a single British ship was in- | published as those of the but in the settlement of the case | Britain aid she must have a part of indemnity, which amounted to some- | like $3,000,000. This was divided among the four powers, but the mand was contrary to {oternational w, and the United States, feeling that was an unjust one, by an act of congress | red, reat o a month, the paper gets into trouble, sentence the court them by the papers on, last. that may very and, England, which | kept its money, nce and Holland. Japan, in the money from the United of course, very grateful, but o to put it Into some emorial representative of the kindness of e United States, and an attempt was made | rough an American connected with the for- gn office In Japan to have congress endow hospital, or a school, or something of that nd in Tokio, which’ should be known as American school. This was not done, pwever, and Japan was told to use it as he pleased. Here John Bull got in his fine ork. He had the bulk of the shipping, | thought a big breakwater or pler at would be a good thing for his hips, and if it was made by English con- actors it would put money into his people's ckets. How it was done I do not know, Inglish got the Japanese government this money to building that Yoko- | pler, and the contract was given to Englishman, and now that it is about ympleted, it is found to be of no good hatsoever, At the same time John Bull jingling his $785,000 in his pockets, and sending over some of the remains of his urplus to buy the bonds which we are com- port our reserve in the reasury department Ob, he's a e phil- he is! Remember how strongly e came in on the opium deal with China? nd remember—but I am writing about king back ates, felt, e a— A MONSTER PLATE. American Steel Plants Equ World, famous English naval attracting other side of “the pond."” not only in this country, but was turned out recently by the | Tron and Steel works at Chester, by 130 inches wide and 134 inc were %0 of Esgep the Welln welghing Germany, \an company. 000 pounds, The for the or about 2% cents in Ameri- home cost at least 25 cents, and other things were There is no place in travel better and and there is no for the money. and the and Kobe hotels in New The hotel rates at the best houses are from in_silver, which is just half to American | Clothes and other things are ~you in jinrikishas—cost you JAPAN. Japan has now a number of “helloa girls and in the “'Central’ station at Tokyo I saw black rubber re- screeching Japanese The telegraph tem Is also growing, and Japan sent last year dispatches. growing so fast that it is impossible to keep track of it, ne in proportion to its people. are more than 200 different journals published and Japan issues more than 200,000,000 copies of newspapers a_year. Every one reads the newspapers, and I have seen | dinrikisha men pull papers out of their pock- | | ets and sit down and read while I went in to make a call. The newspapers pay fairly well, and they are circulated by newsboys, hands, the spapers who go correspondents nearly all of them have had their speclal artists on their artists command illustra- tions for my letters made by the best of them, vhere, during my number of the The government has, however, had a very rigid censorship of the press during | the present war, and a number of the papers 1 that they would be sus- reports. puzished nearly every day, and the real names of the editors do not ap- The names which are editors represent | poor scribblers, who are paid from $20 to $30 and who expect to take the blame it They are ready | to be dragged off to'prison and serve out any impose for the improper statements published pravided their salaries go they don't care how long their sentences Kk B, Cauntss I to Any In the The announcement a few days ago that a commander purpose of rs indi- cates that our great shipbuilding plants are a good deal of attention on This visit is called to mind owing to the information lately fur- nished that the largest steel plate ever rolled, in the world, Wellman Pa. Qimensions of. the plate are 450 Inches long hes thick. is intended as a rudder-plate for one of the new ocean greyhounds contracted for by the company large months of inquiry developed the fact there were only two mills havipg the cap ity to make them and assume the risk. of these was the famous Krupp establishment and the other that of huge was placed heating furnace and remained there all night and part of the following day, when It was Thls was two leapots, two | removed to the table and successfully rolled. F_NGLISH o $5.45. S‘H!',HH\IHN - A Solid Oak board, finely finished well made, This week only $11.75. Other houses would consider it cheap at $18.00. C\I.I ET: On a bill of $10, $1 cash and $1 per week. Special and mo able a on larger beautiful 0 would York. Ideal Years Before t Early Comb) pro- ride At the recent Nat at Buffalo, N. Omaha delivered the To undertake to e tory of fraternalism sys- and_it aners | open such a feld o tion as to result in a destroy any lucid evolved, | & doubt, the birth which names every man to throw off t infant struggles tow ton. the era we see evidence men. They sought re and who subjugated the vassals and slaves. lives | and invented marks | were able to prove them when desirable government, also ad | figures and peculiar protection. An Is scarcely any ancle sanctuary might sionally or wholly nor any among whom | rites civilized times, were taught which w and purer faith, forn in advance of the fa herent in the human RITES C has been w upon Much rites of Eleusls of agriculture of the earth after th the sacred mysteries novitiate approached having trod on the was finally ushered initiated and feasted The Samothracian as having an influen ates from the perils rites, with its Initiates to endure thi fire, enduring hunge they might be the confidence of thi would the The into the best known ternity of the early fraternities with mo It with ternalism, 400 the historians chroni soclations of men fr a writer has sald, tion in all ages has gether for mutual that that One ingot, in the | sary.” Glimpses of legen firmation here and EVOLUTION OF FRATERNITY W. 0. Rodgers' National Congress at Buffalo, INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE SJBJECT | History Traced from for Protection, years of research and theorizing which would and an absence of realism Sufficient for the subject before us s to make the bare statement that, existent with the first attempts of primitive bondage and savagery and actually begin his Hundreds of years before fretted under the iron rule of petty chieftains, their wretched condition, at the risk of their they banded together in small numbers The ruling element, gether the chosen ones for mutual help and | anclent not closed were not celebrated it has been obse which taught by illustrating the revivication eighty degrees, proven philosophy of Pythagoras other system of fraternalism Following the more anclent or 600 years for the attainment of some common purpose for which the support of numbers was neces confirm the accepted theory that in frater- 25, 1894, CIHZVH Cl Prices as follows T OV ES—Wo this weck Base Burners, Oil H Cannon Sto 5-hole Ran 4-hole Rang Worth doubl ot ve forr S'I‘lr\\ PIPE This week on Stove piy Elbows, § Hods, 14 Boards Dam R(\n KERS od Rocke Rockers Iren’s Tapestr Plu Linole Door Rugs Stalr Rag Carpe Oil Cloth, Mats, $1 F)"I With every of $10.00 and very pretty Rug, with a several hun select from, With every purcl of $.00 and ove decorated cup and sauc pen Moaday and Satarday Evenings. T 1 nalism grandest man found a means to teach doctrinies of good living and future 1if: Mutual protection demand | secrecy and thus necessity made the sec | fraternity the most ancient of all forms Address Bofore the | association of men. But we have less | do in the consideration of the evolution | fraternity, as applied to the purely soci | convivial ‘or semi-religious fraternities, th with beneficlary fraternities, such as a represcnted in the National Fraternal | gress, which leads me to accept the | authenticated origin of beneficiary nalism as being from the guilds, of wh we find well defined evidence of having ¢ isted hundreds of years before the Chrl tian era, as Hundreds of he Christian Era— inations of Men GUILD DEFINED, A guild is defined as “A voluntary assoc tion of those living near together who joir for a common purpose, worshipping together, easting periodically, helping one another following address: | | ana”poverty,” etc.” The distinction ven sketch an ideal his- | the collegia of Rome and the guild would be a task involving ional Fraternal congress 0. Rodgers of | toget is dil cult to determine, both having jects and being co-existent for turics, The exis acter are easily traced down the centuries all the countries of the earth. We traces of them in England from the laws Ina (seventh century) down to the “‘Doom of London in the tenth century. utes of the old London peace gulld provid for: “A monthly meeting with a banqu the remains of which were to be bestowed | alms; on the death of a member brother gives a loaf or pays for the singi of fifty psalms. Each member pays 4 pen | for commen purposes, towards sort of insurance fund, from which the gu makes good the losses of members and many ce conjecture and specula- | chaotic condition of mind s0 marked as to theory which might be beyond of fraternalism was co- he fetters of intellectual ard the goal of clviliza- the Christian s of fraternalism among | lief from oppres:ion, they | suit of the thief,” ete. BARLY SOCIETIES The evolution from the callegia, eranci guilds to burial clubs was but natural. burfal of the dead from the earlie has been a ceremony which the suryive have made a notable event. The Britanni states that: “In China there are bur ™ them | of | weak and made Secking amelioration and signs by which they | their fraters and hall or necessary to do so. | both In religlon and in | dopted signets, symbolic | ceremonies o bind to: eeks the Romans derived th The Teuto) om the C traternities of a similar kind, in like manner had their guilds, Whether t English friendly soclety owes its origin the higher degrea to the Roman or Teuton influence, can hardly be determined.” It is stated that there are now 10,75 friendly societies in Eugland alone with pnt people in which some | total membership of over 7,000,000, o be found either occa- | society having 855,000, and another 472,00 to the multitude, [ In France the total membership of | some secret or nocturnal | friendly societies is 1,065,507, The amount In early or semi- | money distributed by these friendly societl ved, doctrines | aggregates into the hundreds of millions ere the germ of a higher | dollars. It is claimed that there fs in e 1ing a primitive creed far | istence Ise ideas which were in- | nated in 1168, race."” istence since that date )F ELEUSIS. before the Engish secured > ~ mysterious | Charta. While this statement . G50 | evidence of the in the fifteenth writer said: “There and has had a continuous e This was a centu their Mag may bo have positi existence of similar societi and sixteenth centuries. O founded in 1666 is still in existence; anoth started fn 1703, and the soclety of Lintot 1708, are still flourishing. The early friendly societies were compos of an odd number of members, such as ¢ 81, 101, etc. In the English statutes 1819 friendly socleties are defined as institution whereby It Is intended to vide by contribution, on the principles mutual insurance, for the maintenances assistance of contributors thereto, their wiv or children, in sickn infancy, advanc age, widowhood, or any other natural sta or contingency, whereof the occurrence susceptible of calculation by way of average A few years afterward, Belglum, France ar Germary adopted laws for the regulation similar socleties, which had multiplied ra) 1dly. o death of winter, and of s of Isis in which the| the confines of death and threshold of Proserpine into tne presence of the royally. m\»lvrn’i are spoken of ce to guarantee its initi- of the sea. The Mithraie compelling its tests of passing through cold and thirst, that worthy of recelving eir fraters. The sublime | which crystallized | and most numerous fra- times, furnishes modern pre symbolism than any er, forms of fra- before Christ, icle the existence of as- om whence came guilds, “The spirit of associa- induced men to join to- beneft or pleasure, or OF LEGITIMATE ORIGIN, Thus is demonstrated the legitimate here ity of the fraternal beneficlary socleties this generation. Instead of being an growth of life insurance companies posite Is the truth. Until about 1840 thing as a life Insurance company known, Life insurance companies were dently concelved from the experience of t friendly socleties. The genlus who evolved the scheme calculated from t such was u dary history, with con- there in authentic facts, the best frater- aying contribution in sickne between similar ob. ence of organizations of this char- The stat- | v each contribution of a shilling towards the pur- periods | societies in almost all the towns and villages today a friendly society which origi- “An | pro- | out the of evi- mortality experiences of the ancient socleties, been rerly them with in the land, st $1.25, Rocke y Rock- sh Rock Wash_Boiler Tea Kettle: Potts' 10¢ Irons, And ware all_ other equally low. purchase over, a Smyrna hoico of dred to EASY TERMS, $10.00 worth of Goods, $1 week or $6 month. $25.00 worth of Good $1.50 week or $6 month, $50.00 worth of Goods, $2 week or 8 $75.00 worth of Goods, 2.50 week or $10 month, $100 worth of Goods, $3 week or $12 $200 worth of Goods. $4 week or $15 month. month, month. and shrewdly proved the chances for gain to those who could control the funds of cons tributors and appropriate to themselves tha profits likely to accumulate, The kindly impulses of our ancient pros genitors materialized in combinations of the chosen few, with a miniature government of mutuality. Little did they dream that they were laying the foundation of a plan of gove ernment which would overturn despotism | and fe alism, with the consequent intels lectual and physical bondage of their cons stituency, and that in the later centuries the it of liberty and equal rights would be trivmphant. We here witness in fraternalism four dise tinct evolutions, viz First. From heathenism of the collegi: Second. From the primitive collegia, guilds to the burial clubs. rom the burial clubs to a ded et of to of al an are on- ich X~ o to combinations ned | eranoi an her | “pjra, 58| friendly societies. Fourth. From the fri modern beneficiary societies of today. FRATERNALISM IN AMERICA, The success of fraternalism in Amerlca has been accomplished by much personal sacrifice, unflinching effort and brotherly | love. Its foundations have been deeply laid. Ignored at first by our state governments, it has demanded and received legislative super- ion. Scorned by capital and corporations, it has outnumbered them in clientage, and today it is the most powerful combination of | men on the continent Its mission is that of | peace and humanitarianism; its future re splendant with bright promise. Being of the people and for the people, It has no combinations for selfishness or power, except for the accomplishment of ends ins | spired by the purest of motives. Independent of religion or politics, its teachings are eles vating, and its aims ennobling. 115 meetingy are educators of the young and teachers of | charity, the greatest of all virtues. Born of necessity, cradled in obscurity, matured by liberty loving patriots, its history proves a steady evolution of advanced thought, noble attainment and human relief. the . \dly societies to the en- in of o ed et, in ng 1ce a ila a he rs ca | al | | Coins of Enormous Size, When the area and square inches of surs face is taken into consideration the largest coins ever issued by any government on tha were those put In circulation by during the sixteenth cens These mammoth pieces are neither round, spuare, oval or octa- gonal in shape, but are great, frregular slabs of copper described as “resembling pleces of a boller after an explosion.” The smallest piece fssued under the law which authorized this gigantic coinage was an irregular r tangular slab of abont twelve square inches of surface and about a half an inch thick. It was worth about 30 cents. The largest of the same serles was about a foot square and had a face value of $4. Each of these copper slabs are stamped in several places on the face, the varlous inscriptions giving the date, denomination, ete. The $4 pleca mentioned last above is nearly an fneh in thickness and weighs four pounds, lacking & fraction. ir ns he in iic a . 00, | ts of of 58 ry | na | ve | ne er | in e A. B. Kilpatrick of Fillmore misfortune to have his leg caught between a cart and a stone and badly bruised. Ordi- narily he would have been laid up for two or three weeks, but says: ‘“After using one bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm 1 began to feel better, and in three days was entirely, well, The peculiar scotling qualities which Chamberlain’s Pain Balm possesses 1 have never noticed In any other liniment, T take pleasure in recommending it.” This lni- ed | ment Is also of great value for rheumatism te | and lame back e | Do | Hon. Tim's Definition, Amos Cummings and Judge Campbell wi iscussing the hardships of a political reer, says the Washington Post, Hoth agreed it was a difficult place to fill, that of repre= senting a great constituency In the largest city on the continent. Cummings sighed for perpetual season of trout fishing. Mr, Il, more poetic, wished for a virgin in which to bury his identity. sald Cummings, ‘“‘what understand by a virgin forest?" Oh,” was Mr. Campbell's quick respon g place where the hand of man never toot.” Oregon Kidney Tea cur Lles. Tria) size, 26 cow's All drugglsts, Cal., had the ed | 61 of of or a ot o | a of a n- do yow first he