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- VIRTUE VS. VICE.
Battle in the Northern Pineries
Won by the Former.
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The Vast Woods No Longer Filled with
Stockadee in Which Helpless Women
Are Kept Prisoners and Chased
a i by Savage Dogs. in , ‘4
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In the northwest forests where but a ‘
few years ago vice most hideous boldly
paraded itself in the public gaze and
almost to the present lurked but little
concealed in the neighborhood of p0pu-
lous communities, experienced search
«fails to find any vestiges of the deprav-
ity that formerly prevailed. Occasional .
discovery of haunts like those that
once infested. the entire northwest re-
gion now raises a. decidedly indignant
outcry against such monstrosities of
the past. .
And yet, says the Chicago J ournal. it
was only eight or ten years ago that
every settlement in the pineries and the
mining camps of the northwest vied
one with another in infamous and law-
less practices. Citizens of more than
one locality in Michigan or,Wisconsin,
after pointing out the improvements of
a decade in the appearance of their
thriving city, conclude a tribute to the
moral standing of the place and its citi-
~ zens with the statement that a score of
years ago this was by reputation “the
most disreputable town in the United
States.” ‘
» In every lumbering town was to be
found from two to a. dozen stockades,
dens of infamy where womanhood was .
held as cheaply as in‘any harem of an
oriental prince. At first these stood on
frequented streets, later in by-ways of
the city, finally retreating before the
advance of "public decency to the cover
of the woods. half a mile from‘any
highway. Hither were brought young
girls enticed from Chicago, Minneap-
olis, and even more distant cities.
Every dive had its procuresses in every
city within reach. Under the control
of brutal men and hardened women
.the youthful victims were inducted into
their lives of shame, never to be re-
leased until death came. High walls
of sixteen-foot timber placed on end
, surrounded the rude huts. At the
barred gawway was kept a kennel of
fierce bulldogs, trained to pursue only
the unfortunate women that might at-
' tempt an almost useless’fiight. .
' The disappearance of even the very
walls that sheltered these iniquities is
something marvelous. Some . were
razed to the ground by woodmen,
wearied of the immorality they fos~
tered. All have vanished excepta few,
which stand decaying and deserted re~
minders of the old strongholds. One of
these is in the pine woods across the
Menominee river from Norway, Mich.
It was one of the most notorious resorts
of the northern region. Within the
stockade stood a commodious two-story
frame house. The stockade itself was
of planking, sixteen feet high, with a
strong gate facing the front entrance
of the house. on either side of which
was a kennel of dogs. The escape
of a woman, disguised as a man
in order to deceive the dogs, was the
means of bringing -to notice the char-
acter of the place and its tenants.
She had been lured to the place with
assurances of reputable employment.
Twice before she had attempted
to escape, eluding the dogs by her
change of appearance, but had been
overtaken by the keeper of the place;
A prominent lawyer in Norway swore
out a warrant against the slave master
and secured conviction and a heavy
fine. A,few repetitions of this treat-
ment convinced him of the advisability
Of a change of business. He betook
himself to the copper mining country
on the shore of Lake Superior and en-
gaged in legitimate business. He is
now the possessor of a fortune of five
hundred thousand dollars.
‘ ‘ The house he once occupied when en-
gaged in his soulless business still
stands, dilapidated and tenanted only
by the horrible associations, and per-
haps by the suffering spirits of the past.
0n the decaying framework of the
stockade still hang the long planks,
separated by wide gaps, through which
may be seen the desolation within. The
gate and the kennels are gone. The
doors have fallen and the thin parti-,
tions are broken through. It looks
what it really is, one'of the last of its
kind. ,
Exaggerated stories occasionally
reach the public of the revival of these
old haunts, but their untruth is evident
from the character of the inhabitants
that now make up the population. Like
all sections of the country, there is
more or less- immorality permitted in
. thenorthwest towns, but the old-time
stockades have disappeared. So, too,
have the gambling. resorts, around
which so much lawlessness centered.-
The stirring scenes that made these
localities so interesting from a distance
are unknown now, succeeded by the
tameness of business enterprise. Ob-
servance of the Sabbath and of the
civilized customs of Christendom is not
on the Puritan-order, but does not dif-
fer from that of any section oi the pro:
gressive west._ These parts have lost
their wellaearned reputation as “the
toughest in the United States.”
Mr. Vaux’s Lawn Roller.
The late Richard Vaux, of Philadel-
phia, was a believer in progress and
had little reverence for antiques as such
——his hat to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. A relative told recently how Mr.
Vaux received a well-preserved section
of one of the pillars of the Pantheon at
Rome. It wassent to him by a friend
who had some trouble in securing it,
and considered it an interesting relic.
He expected, on his return to America,
to find the broken column standing
upon the lawn of“ the Vaux resi-
dence, perhaps covered with ivy and
lobking dewn the ages rather scorn-
fully. at the degenerate civiliza-
tion of the nineteenth century.
He was horrified to hear, however, that
Mr. Vaux, not being in need of a
broken pillar just then, had turned it
into a'lawu roller. It did duty in that
capacity for a long time, and-is still in
possession of the family.
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PEASANTS STILL FLOGGED. f,
Tolstoi Denounces with Vigor a Plan for
Only Partial Reform. 7
Count Tolstoi, in a characteristic let-
ter to the Bourse Gazette, gives. his
views on a question which is causing
*~
ent in many circles of Russian official
and private life—namely, that of the
abolition, in whole or in part, of the
punishment of flogging in its various
forms. . ' ' --=‘
The provincial zemstvos of a'" large
number of provinces, as well as several
highly placed officials in Asiatic Rus-
sia, have formally decided to petition
for the exemption from this degrading
penalty of all peasants who have
learned to read and write. Count Tol‘
stoi, with the ardor natural to the
artistic temperament, cries “Shame!”
upon their niggardasking, and, in an
article headed with that word, very
broadly hints that, while the peasant,
for the last'three-quarters of a. cen-
tury, has. been steadily advancing, his
masters have in some respects failed to
keep their place in the van of the march
toward civilization. >— an“
Count Tolstoi is a foremost authority
on the life of the peasant, and the spec-
imens he gives in this article .of the
abuse of the power of flogging by the
small fry of oflipialdom are certamly
uniform, but, when engaged on official
duties, wear some kind of outward and
large medal. For “speaking his mind”
to one of these village-“elders” who
happened to have the sign,of oflfice on
at the time, a fellow villager was duly
flogged, although his only fault' ap-
pears to have been that be overlooked
the medal which converted an ordinary
neighborly difference of opinion into
an insult to the czaIr! The poor fellow,
'l‘olstoi relates, consoled himself with
the , remark that “Christ suffered
stripes, and bade us suffer, too.” At. Q
There are, however, many in Russia
who think that the moujik is still suf-
ficiently brutal to make the entire
abolition of flogging a measure of mis-
taken humanity,.and Tolstoi’s cry of
“Shame” upon the moderate reform
proposed by certain zemstvos will,
doubtless, be met by the not unnatural
reply. that Tolstoi is before all a lit-
erary artist, with all the artist’s native
scorn for practical measures which fall
short of the ideal aimed at. The par-
tial exemption from ,fiogging .whic‘n
practical men desire -would certainly
prove a very powerful stimulus toward
popular education, even as compulsory
service in the army keeps the Russian
universities filled to overflowing with
men who, in a large number of cases,
would do the state better service in
other ways than by learning discontent
in a sphere unfittied to their natural
capacities or station in life—London
Standard. . _4‘ - _ r
ATHLETICS" AT ATHENS.
The Great International Contests That
“'ill Take Place in April.
The principal part of the festival
will be at the ancient stadium on the
Athenian plain near the city. Here.
were once celebrated the games of At.
tica and her 'allies. A wild waste for
many centuries, it was excavated a
few years ago by King George of
Greece. Now it has been restored in de-
tail for 'this occasion by the generosity
of Georgius Averoif, a rich Greek of
Alexandria, Egypt, at an expense of
600,000 francs, so it will appear in its
old. splendor of white marble. The
amphitheater seats from 50,000 to 70,000
spectators and incloscs a course 070
feet in length by .109 feet in breadth.
giving a level area of 8,100 square yards
for- the gymnastic and field sports,
with a broad foot-race track as well.
One of the most- interesting features
of the games will be the long-distance
race of 20 miles, from -Marat-hon to
Athens, in memory of the brave courier
who died of exhaustion after he had
brought tidings of Miltiades’ great vic-
tory over Darius. To the victor, M.
Victor Breal, of the French institute,
has offered the prize of a silver am-
phora or wine vessel. The general
prize of each contest is a silver olive
wreath, to commemorate the simple
wreath of wild olive that in ancient
times wasthe only token of victory.
In addition to the athletic games and
field sports it is proposed also to rep-
resent an ancient drama in some well-
preserved classic Greek theater. The
dances of to-day, believed by many
scholars tithe relics of the classic age,
will be rendered by peasant dancers in
costume, and various musical societies
will furnish the music for the festival.
For the inauguration the date of
April 6 hasvbeen selected, as it is the
75th anniversary of. Greek independ‘
ence. The middle month of spring,
too, is the most delightful in the Greek
year—much, like the American-June.
The Athenians have completed exten-
sive preparations for making the mod-
ern revival worthy of the ancient fame
of the Olympic games and for the en-
tertainment of visitors. It is pleasant
to note that the first to send a contri-
bution to the festival committee was
Mr. Alexander, the United States min-
ister to Greece, who. isknown to be
an enthusiast in Hellenic studies—G.
T. Ferris, in St. Nicholas.
Living for Self Alone.
The man who lives to himself be-
queaths his own folly and poverty and
meanness for his monument. He has
benefited nobody, while he has dwarfed
and warped his own powers, and
senseless stone or marble, however lav-
ishly supplied to mark his resting
place, does him no honor. He has lived
all that he leaves in memory of himself
speaks no word of praise in his behalf,
no word of justification. This is no
true life. It is the worst- of failures.
There are glorious opportunities in
this world for service. He who wisely
uses them enriches both his race. and
himself, and dying leaves a monument
which outlasts granite and is brighter
than polished brass—DetrOit Free
Press.“ :, . . r.»
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considerable agitation of mind at pres- '
striking. These insignificant members.
of the lower governing ranks have no
visible sign of authority, generally, a.
-on the top of the pump barrel.
in himself, he has died in himself, and p
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Great Times for the Natives When the
Bells sound the Alarm. ,
Si Larkins, of El Paso, Tex., was
standing at the door of the Arlington
rtalking with a Washington friend a
few days ago, when a fire engine and
hook and ladder rushed past with a
great clanging of bells on mute to the
fire. .
“Great spectacle, that.” remarked
the lVashington mam .
“Yep, considerable show.” responded
the Texan. .
“Never see anything’of that sort
down in El Paso, I s’pose?” said the
Washingtonian, with a questioning in-
flection .in his statement...
The Texan turned and gave his friend
a searching look, in' which pity and
contempt seemed to struggle for the.
mastery, and then proceeded to give
him a few pointei‘s on fires and fire def
partments as he knew them at home. I
“Why," snorted Mr. Larkins, “if we
couldn’t get- up a better show and more
enthusiasm than that when a. fire broke
out in our town we’d let her burn
down and move over into Passe del
,Norte and live in ’dobes ” with the
greasers. Talk about a ‘great spec-
tacle!’ You’d think it was a universal
panorama if you could see the fire dc?
partment of El Paso turn out once.
"‘Why, man, it is counted the greatest
honor that. a- man in our town can have
conferred on him to be elected a mem-
ber of the fire department. All the best
citizens belong. When the big bell
strikes you bet everything else stops
until tha t fire is put out. It is the only
occasion when the deal stops at. the
faro banks, and when a fire comes on
Sundays that teachers all dismiss their
congregations with a mighty short
benediction and hoof it-for the scene
of the confiagrntion.
“Then you ought to'sce our engine.
She’s a daisy, and don’t you forget it.
Double handles at each side. and room
for four men at each handle. Every-
thing paintcd red and a brass eagle
We
keep four Spanish mules standin’ in the
stable all the time, harnessed and
ready to pull out at a moment’s n0-
tice. Hank Tompkins, the "driver, is
the slickest man in his business in the
whole southwest. When he pulls out
for a fire you can bet your last simoleon
everything else has got to stand from
under. He turns the corners so fast
that the boys on Red Betsey, as they
call the engine, have to hang on to the
outside curve to keep her from upset-
tin'; sometimes she goes clean over,
but not often, and it only takes amin-
ute to right her agin. Sometimes the
lLOyS do it before Hank gets the mules
to a dead stop,'a.nd off they go agin.
“Oh! I tell you it is agrand sight to
see Hank comin’ down the street with
his whip a—cracl:in’ and then two little
blue leaders just a-sta-ndin’ on their
hind feet and clawin’ out at the air
like. When he passes it takes half an
hour for the dust to settle where he
went along. An’, then, you ought to
see the crowds. Why, you never see
anything like it. Men, women and
children all turn out to see, the boys
lick the fire.
’Dobertown Hank mes’ always runs
over two or three greaser kids; they’re
always so slow ’bout get-tin’ out er the
way. And dogs, oh, Lord! - I’ll bet I’ve
seen 400 if there was one all runnin’
an’ rippin’ an’ barkin’ bchin’ Hank
and the engine. Sometimes Hank runs
over eight or ten of ’em, but- he can’t
stop for dogs or nuthin’ else for that
matter. \
“Say, pard, ’de-ed you never have seen
a fire turnout in this town, if that
which just went by is a sample.”—
Washington Star.
SPIRITS OF TURPENTINE.
Some of Its Uses in the Arts and Mann-
factures.
Very few people have any correct no-
tion of the number of uses to which the
products of turpentine have been put.
Let us mention some of the different
ways spirits of turpentine enters into
the arts and manufactures. Many who
read this article by gaslight will re-
member when they read their news-
papers by the smoky light furnished by
“camphene.” This was before the in-
troduct-ion and use of petroleum. Cam-
phene is prepared by mixing the recti-
fied oil of turpentine with alcohol. Al-
though kcrosene is now so cheap, the
rectified spirits of turpentine is still
used for illuminating purposes in some
baclairood sections of the south.
5‘3 Perhaps the most common uses of the
spirits of turpentine are those in the
arts, where it enters into the prepara-
tion ofpaints and varnishes, and es-
pecially in the manufacture of india-
rubber goods. The paint and varnish
industries take about 5,000,000 gallons
annually, while the rubber industry re‘
quires about 3,500,000 gallons a year. '
: But spirits of turpentine has other
uses not, so well known to most readers.
How many would enjoy their salad oils
and other vegetable oils if they knew
that they were adulterated with turpen-
tine oil? How many invalids know:
that their medicines contain spirits of
turpentine, or that the liniment or
ointment which relieves their aches and
pains is largely composed of turpen-
tine ?—Lee J. Vance, in Appleton’s Pop-.-
ular Science Monthly. ' I
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‘ _SLAsnnB is the solace of malignity.
——Joubert.
,::B‘1' searching the old learn-the new.—
Japanese. . . . .
J No LEGACY is so rich as honesty.—
hakespeare. _
, THE sea drinks the air and the sun
the sea. +Anacreon. ‘
THE truest self-respect is not to think
of self—Beecher. ' ‘ . .
UNBEAsoNABLE' haste is the direct
road to error.—-Moliere.
EDEAB weeps but once; cheap al'ways
weeps.—Hindoo. -
HABIT is too arbitrary a master fer
my liking.—Lavater. _
SIN is a basilisk whose eyes are full
,' of venom—Quarks.
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ADVANTAGES or; LIBERIA.
Prof. 0. F.- Cookz Speaks" of the African
Bepublic.‘5 ‘ ‘
Prof. O. F. Cook, of Huntington, L.
I., who has spent the winter in Liberia,
Africa, studying the plant and animal
life of that region, has returned to His
home. He says, according to the Repub-
a place of residence, even for the white
Liberia is naturally no more unhealth-
ful than other tropical countries, in
which civilization has taken root, such
as India. and Scuth America, and, as in
these cases,_the healthfulness increases
as the forests are cleared away and bet-
ter conditions of life rendered possible
through improvements in transporta‘
tion. Mr. Cook has spent several sea-
sons in Africa in pursuing his investi-
gation in ”the interest of the American
and the New York State Colonization
societies, with a view to ascertaining
the possibility of resuming, under new
plans, the colonization of Liberia with
negroes from ‘the United States. He
says former movements in that direc-
tion have failed through want of proper
any insurmountable difficulties inher-
ent in the idea of colonization or in the
nature of the country wheresett-lements
of American negroes were attempted.
Tgiat something is possible, he says,
is demonstrated by the fact that many
colonists who left America 15 or 20 years
ago with nothing have now coffee
farms, yielding incomes greater than
their owners can spend, while others
hare achieved independence in much
less time.
MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
President McCosh’s Novel Method of Com-
plying with a Request. .
President McCo-sh, of Princeton, is
the subject of this story, says the New
York Call, which is vouched for by old
Princeton men: “The venerable doctor
was accustomed to lead the morning
exercises in the chapel every day, and
during the exercises in the chapel gave
out the notices to the students. The
closing exercise was a. fervent prayer
by the doctor. One morning, after he
had read the notices as usual, :1 student
came up with another notice. that Prof.
Karge‘s French class would be at nine
o’clock that day, instead of 9:30, as
usual. Dr. McCosh said it was too late,
but the student insisted that Prof.
Tiarge would be much disappointed if
the notice was not read. The exercises
went on, and the doctor forgot all about
the notice. He startedto make the final
prayer. He prayed for the president of
the United States, the members of the
cabinet, the senators and representa-
tives, the governor of New Jersey, the
mayor and other officials of Princeton,
and then came to the professors and in-
structors in the college. In'the mean-
time Prof. Krage's notice came into his
mind and the assembled students were
astonished to hear the venerable presi-
d‘ent say: ‘And, 0 Lord, bless Prof.
Karge, whose French class will be held
this morning at nine o’clock, instead of
at 9:30, as usual.‘ ”
CH EERFUL PROSPECT.
What a Young Minister Had to Inspire
Pleasant Thoughts. . ‘
A nervous young minister, in visiting
a neighboring village, had an unpleas-
ant experience. The old lady at whose
house he stayed, in showing him to his
room, said:
“It ain’t anybody I’d put in this room.
rl‘his here room is ,full of sacred associa-
tions to me,” she went on. “My first
husband died in that bed with his head
on these pillows, and poor Mr. Jenks
died sitting in that corner. Sometimes
when -I come into the room in the dark
1' think I see him sitting there still. My
own father died layin’ right on that
lounge right under the window there.
Poor pa, he was a Spiritualist, and he
allus said he’d appear in this room after
he died, and sometimes I am foolish
enough to look for him. If you should
see anything of him tonight you'd
better not tell me. It’d be a sign to me
that there was something in spiritual-
ism, and I’d hate to think that. . My son
by my first man fell dead‘of heart dis-
doctor, and there’s two whole skele-
tons in that closet there belonged to
him, and half a dozen skulls in that
lower drawer. If you are up early and
want something to amuse yourself
cupboard there and you will find‘a lot
of dead men’s bones. My poor boy
thought a lot of them. Well, good-
night, and pleasant dreams.”
EXERCISE A NECESSITY.
Early Decline ot Physical Powers Due to
Neglect of Athletics.
Beyond the age of 40—at a period
when so many arephysically lazy—the
superior value of exercise is apparent,
butt ordinarily this is just the time
when the hygient of athletics is neg-
lected, aptly observes Rev. 1". S. Root.
There is no reason why apunchirg bag,
rowing machine, pulley weights anrl
other apparatus should be relcgzztu‘. to
college boys and clerks. But, l..:vlng
done a good deal of work in his time,
it is almost impossible to persuade a
vbusiness or professional man turning
40 to give any sort of attention to phys-
ical culture if such training has been
previously neglected. It is an inexora-
re'tain our bodily or mental powers by
a matter of choice, but of necessity.
Drinking by Instinct.
in scientific journals on the question
Whether newly-hatched chickens‘ will
drink water if the mother hen does net
set them the example. Mr. H. W. El-
liott, in a letter to Science, answers
positively that chickens will drink of
their. own accord. He has frequently
placed a dish _of water before a brood
hatched the day before, and observed
the chicken-s, without any maternal
teaching or assistance, putting their
bills into the Water and lifting up their
heads to-swallow it, in the manner of
. fullsgrownfowls.» .‘ . .
lie, that the advantages of Africa as ~
race, are but imperfectly understood. -
management rat er than on account of.
ease right where you stand. He was a.
with before breakfast just open that
ble physiological law that we can only‘
properly using them. Exercise is not 4
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