LOWERY'S CLAIM NUMBER SIXTEEN. NEW DENVER, B. C, CANADA. PRICE: TEN CENTS SEPTE01BES.1902 Lowkry's Claim is published every month at New Denver, B. C, Canada. It is devoted to Truth and Humor. It has no press or trust list, but is sent free to all persons over 100 years of age. It is a Sham Crusher, and will fight all frauds to a red finale. It costs $i a year in any part of this world, but lack of mail facilities prevents it being mailed to Mars, Hades and other out-of-the-way places. All agents can make 25 cents upon each subscrption obtained. Advertising rates are $2 an inch each insertion, and no cut is made for time or position. If you desire this journal do not depend upon your neighbor, but send in your white or green dollar before the thought grows cold. The same editor shoves the pen on this journal and The New Denver I<edge, so do not confound your orders when sending iu your collateral. R. T. LtiwRKV. New Denver, B. C. A blue, mark here mean.** that your miharrtpUoti Ml expired. Ah credit i-> not given, you arc requeatcd to renew before another month i��uwes a 101 if*. Actions are the result of wise or foolish thoughts. False economy has caused the 0. P. R. to lose* many a dollar. Emeition, without reason, is the greatest factor in the* church teniay. Push a good work along by getting a friend to read this journal. mines is a greater crime than the killing of Christ. He could have saved himself but the boys cannot. In America we feel so sorry because the heathen worships au idol made of wood. Theu we bow clown to a book made of paper and think that we are cutting the proper caper. Such is the egotism of man. Never mind the knocker. Like a fiog amid the slimy waters of a stagnant pool, he is bound to make a neiise, especially in the dark. In these days when combines are so COmmon it is becoming fashionable to e*all a matrimonial alliance a merger.. The Empress of Russia recently paid $5,000 for a dress, while, in her country there are thousands of women who do not even know what lingerie means. Mother Jones says that the crucifixion of little boys in coal To prevent perjury the kissing of tbe bible may again be introduced in New Jersey. Killing chickens is still used for the same pnrpose in China. Telling the truth through fear is probably better than not telling it at all. J. Pierpont Morgan, judging ftom his remarks, has never played poker. Then with all his millions he has never tasted of that supreme pleasure, of that ecstatic joy that comes to him who tills a bobtail with the cuter when only threes are in the hand of the man who has just gashed a fat jackpot. White bread is a starvation fooel- A dog fed on whole wheat bread and water will live right along, but �� dog fed 011 nothing but white bread and water will die in twelve days. Eating white bread is only a waste of time ancl stomach space. People should some clay lie wise enough to find this out. Children often make strange remarks. In Boston, the other day, says the Herald, a little girl overheard her parents talking about the high price of meat. That night there was an increase in the family and the little tot went around telling the neighbors that her mother was so good because she had bought such a big baby when meat was so high. Wisconsin intends to do away with liars. A bill will be introduced into its next session of legislature making it compulsory for all fishermen to weigh every fish that exceeds a pound. If a man tells a fish story he will have to back it up with a government certificate. This much-needed reform will be hailed with delight by all in that state who are advocates of truth in all its ramifications. It is said the women who love die young because their hearts die out, while the flirt lives on sipping the honey from every flower. This may or may not be so, but the fact remains the lighter the love the lesser the pain. He or she who lianks everything on one individual is like the gambler who bets his fortune on one card. To win may unhinge the mind with joy, while to lose is hell grown personal. The world gives signs of drifting back to barbarism. The recent coronation of King Edward seems like a leaf plucked from the history of pagan days. Such a ceremony is entirely out of keeping with the progress of the age, and should be put away with the musty things of a dead past. In the bright light shed upon modern life by science and education such mummery is out of place. The float of other days might awe the ignorant, but it only serves to make the intelligent smile at the material pomp and pumps of church and state. The Japs are rapidly becoming Americanized. In the city of Osaka, Japan, a bank manager has got eight, years in jail for fraud, while another in the same city has been arrested for forgiug an $80,000 note. In another city all the council, including the mayor, have lieen jailed for corruption. There are 300 editors in jail, but it cannot be learned for what cause. From this record it would seem that the little brown men are becoming too civilized and something should be done to keep missionaries and American literature out of the country. S4* LOWER Y'8 CLAIM. [SSFfSMfeBt, ISt* Straws of Death W. 0. fieenan in Argonaut \& \& \& ^ ^ ^ The regiment was settling down for the night with some grumbling and much profane jesting, for Western volunteers possess a sense of humor superior to the most trying conditions. Somewhere in the darkness in front, the Filipinos were taking pot shots between their cigarettes, as au occasional zeu ! attested. 4'There go the damn typewriters," cried a young private. " Fir- j ing at fire-flies, as usual. No sleep tonight." '' Put your mouth on the safety notch," ordered the captain from the right of the company. '��� They're sending out the outposts. Get their bearings, so that you can shoot around them if the It-all opens up." Two men were receiving final instructions from the colonel, previous to venturing into the hostile country in front. "Sneak out] about two hundred yards," ordered) the officer, "and lie low. If you i see any signs of an attack, try to j get back and warn us. If you j can't get back, you must warn as somehow, and take your chances. no need to tell you to lie careful. \ You hold the lives of many men in your hands. Good luck, boys." This sort of work is called Cos- i sack outpost duty, and men detailed I upon it should not be meu of family or nerves. A few nights previous two uervous men were detailed upon it. One of them fired at a white pariah dog. The shot caused the Filipinos to concentrate a series of voileys, lasting thirty minutes, in the direction of the outposts. The Americans awakened from a sound sleep and let go several unauthorized volleys. Consequently the two nervous men, lieing between two tires, were riddled with two kinds of ammunition. The two men detailed for this evening's work were of a different metal. " Morituri te salutamus, colonel," said one with a reckless laugh. With the easy nonchalence of veterans they gave the rifle salute, and, sliding over the top of the trench, disappeared into the night. "Therego two good men*)" observed the colonel. The two men tiptoed across the dry rice paddies, each holding his rifle at the ready. There was no sound except the occasional hiss of a random bullet, or the faint and distant pop of a rifle. ''Guess this is far enough," said one of the men at length ; "here is a little hollow.' Why it is almost as safe as a trench." The other acquiesed with a faint murmur, aud they sprawled upon the ground facing the enemy's territory. " It's a queer freak of fate that we two should be detailed on this together," observed the shorter of the two, "after avoiding each other so successfully." 11 It's damned queer, Osborne," returned the other, "but we'll have to stand it." " It's not that I would want a better man for a tight place, Wade," said Osborne, '���but there is that one thing." " Yes, I know," wearily, : "that's the trouble. If you were not as good or a better man than I, there would be no danger of Helen Bart- lett caring for you." " We were good friends in the old clays," said Osborne, rather huskily : "if one of us only loved her a little less." " No go, Tom," replied the other. " It is either her or hell for me. Our friendship was a holy thing, but she is aliove that. Would you-" "No, you are right. It is no thoroughfare. My God ! I wish it it were ended, one way or the other." " What can we do," queried Wade, with studied composure. " We can't gouge each other with bayonets out here, ancl Spring- fields at two yards is a bit unique. Osborne laughed harshly. " We might draw straws, the looser speedily to meet an accidental death." " No, thanks," replied Wade. " I am willing to take my bullet if it comes, but not that way. One of us might get it decently at any time." " You're right Wade," snid Osborne. " You're a good fellow." "Sameto you," returned Wade. " Let's quit chattering and attend to our work." For some time they lay silent, staring into the darkness looking for things they could not see, even had they been there. Only the intermittent popping of musketry and the occasional zeu of a Mauser bullet broke the silence. Now and then they could see through the blackness a faint, momentary glare " Confound them," observed Osborne, "the Filipinos can smoke anyhow. I'm dying for a cigarette." 44 If you light a match here," said Wade, "we'll lie targets for aliout four thousand rifles." 4'That's true enough," agreed Osborne with a soft chuckle; "cigarettes are rather expensive out here." Another period of silence followed. 44 Wade," inquired Osborne sud deuly, "sre you willing to try a wild scheme for settling this matter forever?" "Anything fair and reasonable," replied the other. " What's your plan?" 44 Draw straws," said Osborne, briefly, "the man who gets a short one to stand up and light a match and���go to his fathers." Wade caught his breath anel was mute for some time considering. 44 Not so l��ad," he observed, after a time ; " but we are on duty now." "Oh, the devil," said Osborne, lightly : "tbe Filipinos wouldn't attack for all the loot of Manila. An outpost here is merely a matter of form. Besides, one of us will lie left.'' '"That's so," returned Wade, "and I see no objection." 44 You fix the straws then," said Osborne quickly. "I'll draw." He lieigau to whistle softly iu a nervous fashion as men do when they are close to death. Wade fumbled silently with some fragments of rice straw. His movements were slow anel mechanical. Some men are constituted that way. "Here Tom," he said, stretching out his right fist. " May the letter man get it." Osborne extended a hand that trembled slightly, aud lingered the disclosed ends of straw for a brief time. Suddenly he clutched one and pulled it out. At the same instant there was a strange, soft thud, ancl Wade fell upon his face. Hi* limbs moved convulsively foi; a ���-��� ��� August wa.) LOWERY'S OLAIM. ���48 moment; then he lay motionless. "For God's sake, Billy I what's up?" cried Osborne in an agonized whisper. He laid his hand on the man's face, but jerked it away horrified, for it touched something warm and wet. '^She's mine I" he muttered with fierce triumph ; then, "Poor Billy." A thought came that caused him to gasp and shudder. He hesitated, reached for the dead man's hand, and loosened his clasp from the other straw. It was several inches longer than the one he had drawn. " What shall I do?" he moaned. 440h, Billy!" he cried, shaking the dead man's shoulder as if to rouse him. " What shall I do?" Only the far-off popping of the rifles broke th 3 oppressive stillness. 44 What would you have done?" he asked in the same strain. " By God!" suddenly, "you were a good man. You would have kept the compact. I lost fairly. Bear witness Billy, I am as good a man as vou." He laid his hand for an instant on the dead man's forehead. Then he rose slowlv and fumbled iu his pocket. At length he found a match. For a moment he stood irresolute, inhaling strong breaths of air. Already he had begun to feel the horror of being shut out fiom it forever, lt was hard to give the sigual for his own death. His teeth came together with a click, and, scratching the match and played very cautiously, for he I asked the driver. was quite sure that the players, or ! " Don't yer know that?" ans- at least some of them, were cheat- wered the conductor. " Why that's ing. One solemn-faced Scot, he one of them Indians that worships was especially sure, he caught ; the sun 1" cheating a number of times. He " Worships the sun?" said the began whistling a part of some j shivering driver. "I suppose'e's vagrant tune. The Scot who had come over 'ere to 'ave a rest." been cheating arose from the table This recalls the reply given on and threw down the cards. I one occasion by an Eastern poten- " What is the matter," the j tate to Queen Victoria, who asked other players asked. i him whether his people did not "I'm gangin'awa'," the Scot | worship the sun. answered, glaring at the stranger. " I'll play cards wi' no mon that whustles on the Sabbath."���New York Journal. " Yes, your majesty," answered the Oriental, "and if you saw him you would worship him also.'' on his shoe, he fore his breast. held the Maine be- Just Pound It Out. Gee whiz ! What a fine tiling it is To be a Presbyterian baby To-day 1 But say, It wrasn't so gay In the old way. Well, I guess not; When we got It hot. No matter what Injustice it was to us, Wbo were too little to raiBe fuss. We hadn't done a thing To anybody. And it wasn't our fault That we were liorn, Was it ? Of course, we had some show To go Up if we stayed alive long enough i ror(| Gems of Thought. Of moral purpose I see no trace in n it ure. That is an article bf exclusively human manufacture, and very much to our credit. Theology makes God a tyrant, a slave; credulity a virtue, thought a crime. Everything is demanded���obedience, faith, meek- I ues- the only reward; Well done, good and faithful servant. Every- ! thing is promised except liberty,��� R. Gr. Ingersoll. By morals 1 mean the doctrines a | of a special kind of pleasure or displeasure which is felt by the human mind in contemplating certain courses of conduct, whereby they are felt to be right or wrong. The maxims of ethics are hypothetical maxims, derived from experience and based on the assumption of the uniformity of nature.���W. K. Clif- A Conscientious Sabbatarian. A commercial traveling man landed at Edinburgh, Scotland. Saturday night, too late to get out Of town for Sunday. The next day he found that there was actually no form of amusement iu the whole city to assist him in whiling away the day. He went to the proprietor of the hotel to see- if he could suggest a way of passing the remainder of the day. The landlord took pity on the stranger aud took hiin to one of a good story of the weather. The the rooms in the house* in which a scene wa* a Strand omnibus. A number of Scotchmen were playing' leaden sky was overhead, the rain a game called nap, which is a "sort; poured ciown uncompromisingly, of modification of seven up. They \ mud was under foot. A red- capped were playing for a shilling a point, Parsee, who was sitting near the so that the game was a pretty stiff dripping driver, got down as the oue- conductor came up. The stranger got in the game| "What sort o'chap is that?" But it was p. d. tough On us if we didn't. Ancl lots of us didn't. We weren't to blame, But we got it just the same, And It took The Presbyterian Pops Two hundred and fifty years To find it out. Gee Whiz ! How slow some Presbyterians is ! ���W. J. Lampton An Unknown God The Manchester Guardian tells In order to induce belief one should require accounts from eyewitnesses directly and account* which do not contradict each other. If we were told by one that the risen Jesus was not spirit but flesh and bones and was able to eat, and eat a dinner of broiled fish, bread, and honeycomb, and could be handled and touched, and then we were told by another that Jesus came and disappeared suddenly, and passed through closed doors, we would say that one or the other story may lie true, but both cannot lie true. For whatever passes through a closed door, whatever it may or may not be, is not a body of bone and flesh. If we were examining the question today, we should require the witnesses to be independent and unbiased, whereas the gospel records gives us the witness only of deciples.���Rev. C. E. Beeby. S44 LOWERY'S CLAIM. fSaPTBMBKB 190| A Paper RopnanGe By the Bdilor 'S^'S'S'^^^^*^ Six years ago the Slocan was boiling over wdth business. The crowd attracted by the glitter of gold in the iron caps around Rossland had swept along until it surged through the silver belt like coons at a chicken coop. Times were swift, even in New Denver, and the fizzing of wine vied in uoise with the roaring of the lake. The jack-pot roosted high and the woman in red flashed her colors in every camp. Sandon was clamoring for a paper and every time I struck tbe long lean street in that gulch town the citizens would turn their vocal batteries upon me and fairly shriek for something to quench the " long-felt want," I stood tbem off from time to time, for although I desired the trade of the sunless city, I felt bashful about opening up any more newspaper cemeteries. I was safe so long as no thick-souled printer wandered down the canyon, packing a bag of type and an army press. But the day came at last and it was up to me to load the hole or throw away the powder. It came about this way : Seneca G. Ketchum had wandered into the formation over the tie route. I had often heard of Seneca. I knew he was a desperate man and had committed many acts of humor between the two seas. He was wanted in many towns for having shaken the gravity of the inhabitants, and had a most ^talented way of sipping the juice of com when it was aged and yellow in the glass. So when I heard that Seneca was in the hills around the Lucerne, I felt a desire to capture him and place him behind the gun in a newspaper oflice at Sandon, while I counted the dollars and held the tape on the financial column. The day came at last when Seneca walked down the the trail.and lit up the Lucerne with the rosy redness of his handsome physog. I was counting a few thousand dollars that I had just taken in when the shadow of his Apollic form fell athwart the door. I started for my cannon when my gaze rested on his face, but hastily put it away when the silvery notes of his rhythmic voice floated against my auricular appendage, like drops of rain to a parched soul. He stated that having been a great reader of Sunday school tracts he had often heard of me, and had called to see if I would assist him iu a great work for the benefit of humanity. He was desirous of starting a paper iu Sandon but only had 00 cents capital, and would I give him a few days' work until he could pull things into shape. Certainly I would. Then I assayed him and found that his pile looked more like 30 than 00 cents, while his breath showed a trace that might have been float from a brewery. Four days wore away from the shore of time and we had the plot hatched. Seneca was to get the contracts for the ads, I was to put iu a plant, and on a fat salary he was to hold the pen in Sandon until Bright's disease swallowed him up or the citizens killed him. But, alas 1 how easily are the plans of man blown into chaotic oblivion. A stone will turn the course of a mighty river if dropped near the source. Seneca went to Sandon in the young of the clay, but by night he was caught in an alcoholic cyclone and wired for more money. I went to his rescue and found that in one short spasm of six hours he had had a hundred drinks ancl taken something less than $.'H),- 000 worth of ads. Taking so many ads in such a rapid manner had dazed him and when I caught up to him in the Bucket of Blood saloon I was convinced that the high altitude, coupled with such a rush of business, would not agree with Seneca. So I led him out under the stars, handed him not more than a thousand dollars and requested him to let me know by mail how many ties there were between Sandon ancl Kaslo. He has not written me yet. The Sandon Paystreak was launched under other auspices, while Ketchum became chief of police in Nelson. He was one of the kindest officers that city ever had and it is said only made one arrest during the nine months of his reign. The memorable break in his placid record was the day when he ran the mayor in for saturating the ozone with too much sulphur. After making a fortune out of the Paystreak I turned it over to Wm. Mc A dams, who has succeeded in planting its name across .the continent. Willie has recently returned from a judicial course of instruction at the coast, in which he learned that a Slocan pat hand will not always beat threes���on the bench. Prudish Ignorance. Against the stupidity of the ignorant or prudish it is difficult to find protection. In New York not long ago Mrs. Craddock was sent to jail because she published a book dealing plainly on sexual matters. Some of the highest authorities upon morais and literature said that her book was a blessing to the people, but the judge could not see it that way. His mind probably had mud splashed upon its windows. In one of the middle states a man is serving 15 months in jail because he sent pictures of the nude by express to customers. The truth even in nature must wear fig leaves in Missouri. In the little town of Home. Washington, where the saline breeze* of the Pacific flutter the foliage, then' live* a lady, old in body but young in an indomitable spirit that ever strives to lift the human race out of the slime. She print* a paper called "Clothed with the sun," and her bank account can be pushed through the eye of a needle without any clanger of catching on the sides. Her name' is Mrs. Lois Waisbrooker, and the suns of 75 summers have shed their light across her earthly path. Hei paper and her literary work is largely devoted to placing woman in her right sphere. If her teachings were followed out there would be no need of jiils, judges or churches, for heaven would lie here instead of away off somewhere', and shut up to all without creed tickets. She believes that love is greater than law in se��x relations, and that the woman who eonsu- inates her love without legal sale does not sin and there are no fallen women in the sense the world uses that term ; they are knocked down. Thinking people know she is right, but that did not prevent the law from seizing her in that glorious land of the free called the ._-__. SKMKMBE1, WW.| LOWERY'S CLAIM. 3*5 United States, and taking her before the court in Tacoma. An ignorant jury found her guilty and she was fined $100. The judge did not agree with the jury, but himself a slave to law, he had to fine her. The old lady fainted during the trial and to psy her fine it took the last cent she had. Half of the fine went to the human serpent, Inspector Wayland, who worked up the case. I have more admiration for a maggot that sucks its mush from the rotten dead than I have for such men as Wayland. He is an ulcer upon the name of man, a walking effluvia into which some puke of nature has blown guts and a stomach. I blush for the chivalry of men in Tacoma when within the walls of that city such an injustice was perpetrated upon an old and feeble lady. If gentlemen cannot lie found to sit upon a jury in Tacoma an effort should be made to procure men. It is an outrage to allow mixtures of mud and manure to try any case, even in Washington. The blot is on Tacoma. Sunday liauus Religion as it is practised iu Canada is binding aud has chains. The Lord's Day Alliance is attempting to get the people of the west to discard oue kind of bond- and accept another. At a meeting in Nelson the other day many so- called good people were in favor of having laws passed to prohibit by force the closing on Sunday of cer- taia things that a certain number do not like. Force seems to be the great thing with some people. They would kill a man in order to make him good according to their views. Take all the Lord's Day Alliance talk about helping those who toil, what does it amount to ? Simply that a certain number of misguided cranks wish to curtail the liliei ty of the people in order to suit their own narrow ideas of goodness. liy force they wish to stop work on Sunday ancl by force they wish to stop play on the sams day. Their scheme is to force people into idling oue clay iu the week or to put in their time listening to the various schemes of creed boosters for keeping out of hell. There are thousands of people in Canada who do not like the noise made by churches on Sunday, but they never think of getting the legislature to pass laws preventing it. One is as reasonable as the other. This dictating to your neighbor how he should live is the height of egotism and the cause of more hell than heaven on this earth. Sunday and all its laws are the product of men, past and present. Constantine, a pagan ruler in Rome, passed the first legislation in reference to that day. There is no difference in days, as nature teaches us, and nature is run by God or whatever you choose to call the power that no man cau or ever has been able fathom. All nature plays, sings or works on Sunday the same as other days. Then why should some men set themselves above God and wish to drag their neighbors by law in the same direction? Becausesuch men are devoid largely of the divine nature and require to be re-incarnated several times before they will understand what God or goodness means. They may require prayers and find it necessary to tell the Supreme how wicked they are. but they should not place all the world on the same plane. The wicked think they should go to church on Sunday, but the good will become better by healthful amusements in the open air. Only the wicked should sit in musty churches listening to discussions upon the two-sided nature of the man-made God. It is no place for the good. The atmosphere is too stifling anel the teachings inclined to make a sane man wonder how God continues to deal the game when so many chubbers are pulling at His arm ancl whispering pointers in His ear. The success of the Lord's Day Alliance in Canada means a curb j upon liberty and a boost for hell. Likes and DisliKse. The mere emot'onal plane is the childish plane of life. Because a child cannot control its mind and regulate its thoughts, it is governed by the emotions of the moment. It likes those who give it toys and candies, and dislikes those who would not let it eat candy if it were not good for it. Mankind, as a mass, are on this childish emotional plane. The most popular religion is that which appeals to their emotions; but emotional religion is feeding people on spiritual candies, and the penitentiaries and the insane asylumns are full of the victims of this kind of religion. In nearly all the affairs of life the masses are controlled by their emotions or, in other words, their likes and dislikes, without exercising their reasoning faculties. Likes and dislikes are poor educators. How many there are who like those things which degrade them, aud entail endless miseries upon themselves and others ; while they dislike that which is the best for their welfare and upbuilding. The leaders of men today are those who appeal to the emotions of the masses���to their likes and dislikes. Most people think that to use reason is to defend what they like. But any one who thinks can readily see the detriment of adopting^-hta standard as the ultimate of existence. Everything that has any real valuo requires much thought and toil to be expended upou it. Neaely all evils are due to the desire to have emotions of a pleasant or exciting nature. Even in the New Thought there are people who long for that which feeds their emotions. They highly com mend a paper a one time for feeding their likings, and the week after, they want their paper stopped for some of its ideas had aroused unpleasant emotions.-L. M. Malloy Sarnia, a river town in Ontario, is loaded with small ideas. A ferry boat that permits passengers to ride all day for the same fare provided they do not get off the boat, has been prohibited from doing business on Sunday, and the town has acquired that Sabbath gloom that is so hateful to all who love freedom. It is awful to live in a town where the people are so wicked that they will deny themselves fresh air and papers. And this is the town from which Billy Mc Adams came. Ah ! What a mistake the Victoria judges made ! If they wished to punish Billy real hard they should have sent him home for six months. He would have found jail in Victoria a paradise to living in such a town of bine laws as Sarnia. Recently Mrs. Fleming of Victoria, while laboring under religious mania, killed her daughter with an axe. Both were devoted church-goers. This is a result of emotional religion. S4S LOWERY'S CLAIM. [SirruiBKR 1009 About the Artistic not persuade himself that all iH well with the age that has a petty and pallid taste in arts ancl letters. | He recognizes the sway of the arti- By Vanee Thompson in The Philistine. >& ^ ^j filial in the admiration which the I modish art critic professes for Bot- The trouble with the, arts today! It would seem that the natural tieelli. He acknowledges sadly is that they are anaemic. They are .man loves all that tends to expand that it is the mode to admire the deficient in red corpuscles. This is ihis emotions, and that his art isi degenerate, etiolate, the smug, the true of the drama; it is true of mu- merely the expression of his joy in j caduque, the petty things of this sic, painting, sculpture, poetry��� all the arte. George Moore used to have a phrase for it, "Art teniay lacks gut," he would say. * And so it does. Wrere I to use my own phrase I should say that what we all lack is the Rabelaisian spirit. Perhaps it is not quite easy to define this spir- pressing his virile it in exact terms���unless one should i emotions. expansive life. Whenever life has ! day or the grimacing Bymbol*���out gone strenuously, when he found ��� of which all meaning has faded��� himself in a great age���in the! of the days gone by. stormily magnificent fifteenth cen- But personally 1 believe that art tury, in the sturdy and subtle sev- i is passing aw ay from this evil fash- enteenth century���he has made \ ion. �� believe there is dawning for himself au artistic instrument, \ upon the world a new lustiness. I resonant, beautiful, capable of ex- \ like the echo of these war-cries. 1 and individual have faith in the wliolesomeness of i the scarlet energies of battle. And use Luther's alliterative phrase��� I Great art is always virile. equally I believe that out of more but your idea of it is clear enough. The slim pallidities of Fra Angc- strenuou*- days will come higher Iu every age when art has a strong lico belong to a day of degenerate j ideals for art, nobler books, more accent, when it displays vigor, in- and monkish thought. ! vital paintings, realler inusir, stat- ventive force, power of hand, orig- Rubens' great blonde women are ues worthy of warriors, inality, you find something of this I the solaces of the eternal fighting It needs only a whiff or two of Rabelaisian spirit. It sparkles in man. power to blow away all the petty. Aristophanes. It flaunts itself And if the great artist has always primping ideals of the modern magnificently across the Renas- been virile and wholesome, he bas schools of art and letters. Then cence. It laughs with you in the also lieen the broad, spendthrift, will come some new art ancl litera- mirth of the Canterbury Pilgrims. Rabelaisan man���spendthrift of his ture ancl an appreciation of what just as it beckons you from the in- golden fancy, his wit, his heart, was sane and great in the work of sol ent canvas of Titian. Shakes- his intelligence. He has not close- the past. Perhaps I am over-hope- peare had it, and his contempor- led a sonnet-like Mallarme, and ful iu this matter. Be that as it aries. It sat with Jan Steen in his called himself a great poet. Like'may. 1 cannot persuade myself cabaret among blowsy girls and Homer, like Shakespeare, like that it is the critical person's busi- ragged lads. It was conspicious in ; Goethe, like Titian, like Rubens ness to write only looks that will Goe'.he's life and letters, as in and da Vinci ancl Angelo. he has never lie read, of plays that will Fielding's and Wagner's, Rubens' poured forth a rich and golden never be seen, of pictures and maraud Balzac's. You can't get away stream, which only death can dam. hies that the future will willing)} from it. WTherever and whenever j I do not think that there is a bet- neglect. art and letters attain virility, vital-' ter example of the essential prodi- Of late it has been a bad fashion ity. force of hand, strength of ere- gal ity of the great artist than Rub- to exalt the second-rate men of the ation, there you find this Rabelais- ens���not even Shakspeare, who past - perhaps as a subtle compli ian spirit, which is, indeed, the j dowered the world with so much ment to the me��n of the present, spirit of the natural, wholesome j intellectual magnificence. And I I think it is about time that we man, who loves and laughs, labors ! like to think of Rubens sitting in . were aliout done with this affecta- and prays, and is unashamed. his garden ( while his handsome tion and pose. It is a poor form of There is just a trifle more to this wife sat near, and his handsome wit to sneer at Shakespeare. It is children frolicked with the pea- j a mark of unintelligencc to shudder cocks), stretching out liefore break- j at red blood corpuscles, fast a masterpiece There has l>eeii too much of this. What a great, flamboyant energy j Who are the popular writers of was here! I the day? Caduque persons. And bottle at the devil (the stain is to When one thinks of Rubens! the popular dramatist? Smug gen- be seen on the wall in Eisenach to \ there is a measure of discourage- j tilities like Pinero and Grundy. It this day) and routed him glorious- j ment in looking at the art and let- j is woeful and true. Even the play- ly. This was well done of Martin. It j ters of the present day. I fear it is goers, who assume the attitudes of superior persons, get no higher in their liking than the pallid ratiocinations of Ibsen or the empty dogmatism of Henri Becque. And all this is mint and annis and cummin. There can be no drama-- there can he no vital of any sort���- until there has grown up an appreciation of the Rabelaisian spirit, than was hinted in Martin Luther's phrase. "Wine, women and song," he wrote, ancl after he had written the words the devil appeared to him. Martin Luther threw his ink gives us reason to believe that he'a little generation, dear Lord, a would not have objected to an j dyspeptic generation, which emendation of his phrase, which whimpers pallid roundelays. When should make it read: "Wine, wo-,a hirsute and Rabelaisian person like Walt Whitman passes, a shudder runs through organized society, so monstrous he seems and gross. men, song and religious fervor." And this perhaps is���as near as one* can get it���that state of the natural man which is described as Rabelaisan. And this, as I have said, disquiets the thinking man, He can- Skptktou. 1001] LOWERY'S CLAIM. S47 until we dare to face our passions; until we are unashamed of the riot of red corpuscles, until we are frank enough to be what the dear Lord made us���lusty, joyous meu and women, lovers of apples and flagons, carnal and unabashed. It was Heine who pointed out that the Berliners are moral���lie- cause they sit in snow up to the naval; and this is the morality of art ancl letters today. It is an artificial and unclean morality, It is the insincere modesty of the fig leaf. Ah, for the frank, sweet innocence that used the fig leaf as a fan. If the drama is to be what it has beeu, if the arte are to get on their legs, we shall have to get into some of the old, open Rabelaisian spirit. smne of the unabashed recognition of appetite and sex and the wholesome vulgarity ofthe natural man. ���As George Moore said bluntly, "Art today lacks guts!" And so it does. But it lacks just a trifle more. You remember my emendation of Luther's motto? It ha (something to do with religious fervor. Before there can lie any sincere art we have got to get over the absurd mock-modesty of denying that we ual fashion oitwcWreoajle* ago, made for the pse "do-scientific pose of irreligion. A great many people persist in this fashion���as though they were to wear coats or lionnets of 1870. There is a beautiful sincerity, a magnanimous and salutary egotism in assuming that you have an immortal soul. You may not hav���� one; I do not say you have. But. if you are going to accomplish anything in art, you have got to lielieve you have. The art of the future? Ah! my pallid and anaemic friends���play writers, poets, musicians, painters- we need have no fe��ar of that if you will but get out into the open spaces of life, let your blood riot and your passion blaze uncheekc��d; let your natural and wholesome egotism have its way, even though it should lead you to the whimsical conclusion that you have an immortal soul. Read Rabelais, mes amis, and lie- come Rabelaisan, for of such are the kingdom art. Always and everywhere is the shadow of the priest, the mystical, magical dispenser of the favor of heaven! We look to the dayB when religion shall be purified of such conceptions, when no one shall venture to staud between a man and his conscience, or claim to pos- ?ess powers unattainable by other men, or pretend that the favor of heaven can be purchased by any other means than those indicated by the prophet of old, and no less by the conscience of mankind���a life in accordance with righteousness; that is, a life in conformity with the moral law.���W. R. Sullivan. From a mother's Heart Daughter, daughter, marry no man, Though a king's son come to woo, Ifhebenot more than a blessing or ban To the secret soul of you." | " Tis the Kings son, indeed, I ween, And he left me even but now, And he shall make me a dazzling queen, With a gold crown on my brow." 4'And you are one that a golden crown, Or the lust ofa name can lure? You had better wed with a country clown. And keep your young heart pure. "Mother, the king has sworn, and said That bis son shall wed but me; And I must gang to the prince's bed, Or a traitor I shall be." 4,()h, what care you for an old man's wrath? Or what care you for the king? 1 had rather you Hed on an outlaw's path, A rebel, a hunted thing." "Mother, it is my father's will, Por the king has promised him fair A goodly earldom of hollow and hill, And a coronet to wear." "Then woe is worth a father's name, For it names your dourest foe! I had rather you came the child of shame Than to have you fathered so." "Mother, I shall have gold enow, Though love be never mine, To buy all else the world cau show Of good and fair and tine." 4,Oh, what care you for a prince's gold, Or die key ofa kingdom's till? I had rather see you a harlot bold That sins of her own free will, "For I have been a wife for the stomach's sake, And I kuow whereof 1 say; A harlot is sold for a passing slake, But a wife is sold for aye. "Body and soul for a liftime sell, And the price of the sale shall be That you shall be harlot and slave as well Until Death sets you free." ��� Richard Hovey, in, Songs from Vaga- bondia. The Price. Haggard and stained and pallid, The grace of her beauty fled, Here, at the last forgotten, She lies in her hovel, dead! Scarred with the stress of passion, A wreck of the fevered days, She who had trod so lightly The careless, rose-strewn ways��� She who had burned with longing Thro' seasons fed with flame, She who had loved so many, Tho, brief each term of shame; Here by the world deserted Where gloom and death steal in, Unloved and alone, in silence, She pays the wage of sin; Pays it thro, lips of anguish That show one burning stain, Clasping an empty vial That held the last, quick pain. And the garnered fruit of sinning That the ternrof years shall yield Is the dust of a nameless woman Who sleeps in the Potter's Field! ���Frank K. Evans. Only a Pair. <4This is tough luck," said Ham, mournfully,as he leaned over the side of the ark. "What's wrong now?" queried Sheni. ������Why, all this water to fish in," replied Ham, "and only twofishin' worms on board-"���Ohio State Journal. Practice f-leeded. '���Ah got no use fo' de man, said Charcoal Eph, in one of his philosophical turns, "dat donates er thousan' dollahs t' de heathen fund ob de fashionable church wid one han' an' raise de rents on his tenement houses wid de udder. Ah 'spec' he bet-tan begin practisn' crawlin' fro' de eye ob de needle, Mistah Jackson.���Baltimore News. ' t Wonderful. "I read today," remarked the observant boarder, "that a man in Maine was seized with all the symptoms of intoxication after eating a bologna sausage." "I don't doubt it," commented the Cross-Eyed Boarder. "Strange phenomena are continually occurring in prohibition states."���Pittsburgh Chronicle. Soda water is uot allowed to be sold in Montreal on Sunday, but holy water still goes. S48 LOWERY'S CLAIM. (SSfTOMBKB, 19CN ARether on Bowie Suy Reed, in Reed's IsoRomy^^;^ >��>&&&�� It is the Isonomy's duty to keep after the rascals, and we try to stay strictly next. John Alexander Dowie, a noisy Chicago blatherskite, is one that we've been watching a long, long time. Dowie's been busy of late pumping words through the slot in his face. He's paid for it, of course, or the pump would soon get out of whack. He claims to be a divine healer, whatever that means, and thinks God has made him his special deputy��� a 1902 Christ. Like the rest of the wind-jammers, he is strictly out for cash. He's one of the most arrant old fakirs* and greasy hypocrites ou the American pulpit today. He rears on his hi nel legs and bawls out at the Almighty like an auctioneer of thunder-mugs. He thinks he's a second Christ. He isn't of course, but as this is one of the many features of his tr form of insanity, we simply let him go on thinking it. He'll come to after a while���a long while. Meanwhile he's fooling suckers and I getting rich at it. It has ever | been a mystery to the writer how otherwise intelligent people can permit themselves to be bamboozled by such an unctuous old humbug��� what state of heavenly hypnosis he throws into them that makes them appear so gullible. The old hypocrite should be chased out of Chicago. In playing his hand out, he permitted his daughter to die rather than call in a docter. The young lady had been seriously burned, aud was suffering untold agony. While enduring excruciating anguish she piteously pleaded for relief. The obdurate father otily prayed for her���refused to let a doctor interfere. He rejected all offers of liodily ministration, yet the woman expired in the throes of suffering unspeakable. Dowie simply knelt by her bedside ancl prayed. While the wretched daughter lay dying the father pumped air through his face. His heartless negligence was horrible. A physician's care would at least have soothed her sufferings, even had it failed to save her. Yet Dowie emphatically refused it. And the sole effort he put forth to save her was a double diurnal prayer. Yet the swinish yokel has thc superlative gall today to claim that he is divinely inspired. This probably accounts for the malodorous calumny that was recently puked through the columns of his driveling paper on the heads of Southern people���his defense of the negro rape fiend ! Doubtless it was inspiration���direct from the mouth of the devil 1 The dread of the merciless rape fiend overshadows Southern women like an awful cyclonic cloud���threatening with terrible portent the very citadel of austrine chastity, its moral world. Yet this impious old impostor has the insufferable insolence to attribute his defense of this Stygian demon as prompted��� as inspired by Almighty God ! What a libel on the I)eity! And will people passively permit this blasphemous old skunk to continue belching forth his foul eructations, in the faces of tlieir noblest women ? Surely not! They should stop his slanders, else tear from bis swinish body the priestly robe he disgraces ancl flay him from his so-called Zion as Christ once scourged the usurers who desecrated the temple and fanes. Such an imposition on the public should summarily be brought to an end. The feelers of the devilish octopus are reaching out everywhere. One of them is exuding its vicid venom even in a Texas city-���Georgetown. A father and mother there are believers in Dowie's preposterous claims as a healer���in the efficacy of long- winded prayer. A few days ago their little child was stricken with erysipelas and serious fever, and with its little arms turgid with inflammation, suffered and writhed in agony. The parents only prayed for her! Rejected every offer of help, and forbade auy physician to attend. The poor little victim cried pitifully ���its torture was terrible. The parents continued to pray : the child continued to suffer, and its condition quickly grew worse. A sensible uncle, outraged at the father's and mother's negligence, interposed on behalf of the little sufferer, and implored the callous-hearted parents to permit him to bring a physician. They angrily refused. He reasoned, entreated, beseeched them. They remained obdurate. The uncle was a real man. Rather than let his niece needlessly suffer longer, he brought suit in the local district court for custody and care of the child, the petition alleging that the parents were improper persons to lie entrusted with either its treatment or care. Pending a hearing, Judge I Vim granted an injunction restraining the patients from preventing a physician's attendance. The uncle; J. W. Smith, in coinpany with Dr. E. M. Thomas and the sheriff of Georgetown, repairenl to the baby sufferer, ite parent* objecting angrily. These people, A. L. Smith and his wife, Mrs. Mattie Smith, scoffed at material efforts for relief, ancl relied entirely on their lielief in a pseudo-divine healing. The three-year-old child, Beulab, is evidently in unworthy hands, ancl should lie remanded to the care of her uncle. This humane action on the part of the human-hearted uncle me��rits the admiration and respect of everyone iu the country ; it argues him a noble-hearted man. In opfiosiug his brother in the interest of the little girl's wellfare, he acted eminently proper and right. Such a right is God-given. It belongs to any man. And he who will not interfere with anyone���fiend, devil or whatsoever, for the happiness or life of a little one, is un worth v of the name of man. It is a wonder how men and women can be- oome so susceptible as to believe iii and profess such a doctrine a* Dowie's absurd propaganda. It is simply ridiculous. Yet it serves to rake in the shekels, and that card is Howie's long suit. He bleeds his congregation, his admirers and followers for every dime they can call their own. As a result, he rides in a carriage while his proselyte* toil along on foot. His income from ignorance anel credulity has grown so great that he even employs a bodyguard, hires vassals to go with him and protect him. Yet his members will shout his praise and continue' to believe he's the Messiah. And while they're praying and shouting and likewise paying for it, the old hypocrite rakes in the gold. Tracy, the notorious outlaw, made a mistake when he went into Hkptbmmr. 10W1 LOWERY'S CLAIM. 949 I I 4 the retail robbery and murder business. He should have organized a merger, backed by thousands of unthinking human machines and gone after some small, weak nation. Then he could havc cut the throats of thousands, stolen millions and bathed the earth in blood until his wild soul leaped with joy as do the imps in hell when a corrupt aud drunken judge is forced upon a people, and'the material world would have made him a titled hero with a bank-roll for life. But Tracy did not do it and his fate should lie a warning to all that a combine is actually necessary if success is desired in the gun, sword or hold-up business. Pepperonie Spray. A Kentucky editor wrote* a nice little puff for a milliner in wbich he said he was glad to see her "stocking up." Meeting thescribe on the street, she soaked him with her parasol and threatened to tell his wife. The unsophisticated editor has never lieen able to tell what was wrong with the item. A Texas editor found an elastic on the street and after gloating over it for several days, advertised for the young lady who owned it to call aud get her property. The looks of supreme judgment pictured on his face when she called and slipped it over her Oxford Bible can lietter lie imagined than described. A newspaper man is an enemy to bulletin-board advertising on general principles, but there are occasions when a bulletin board may bring better results than a paper. The editor of an exchange remarks that he observed one in front of a store in his city not long ago. which read: "B 4 U Buy Pant* Come in and See Ours." He went in ancl there was not a confounded man clerk in the store, so he fought a fan and walked out. A Kansas paper says this card of thanks actually appeared in a country paper in that state not long ago: " We wish to thank those who helped out during the last illness of our departed husband and father and gave a hand at the funeral. We expect to sell off the stock, farm machinery and household goods and move back to Missouri. Everything will go dirt cheap for cash ; date of sale to be printed later. '0. why should the spirit of mortal be proud.' Peace to his ashes. A free lunch will be served at the sale." An eastern editor says that a man got into trouble by marrying two women. A western editor replies that many have done the same thing by marrying one. A northern editor says that quite a number of his acquaintances found trouble enough in barely promising to marry and not going any farther. A southern editor says a friend of his was bothere I enough by simply being found in company with another man's wife. AS We Think. The future is too big to lie credited by our undersized brains, they even refuse to accept the present; they must haggle over every fresh development, looking around it and over it to find out if it* claims cannot be disputed. But here and there are big intellects bursting through all the belittling beliefs of the ages, and coming out into the light of such powerful truths as fairly dazzle them. This class of brains project their observations into the future ; tbey are not satisfied with the present and they have turned away from the past entirely. It is a great thing to break an old tie; every one broken liberates to a certain extent. If people would only keep on breaking ties the life-saving truth would be sooner discovered. But new in this transitional period between the ages when "Dad's say so" was our say so, and the future when Dad's say so will become a joke, we are breaking ties, we lie clown in weakness and die. People think they get tired even of breaking ties. In reality they should be rested by this style of iconoclasm. Every tie broken is a conquest gained, aud every conquest brings a fresh influx of strength. But as a man believeth so is he; and so long as a man limits his advancement by his thought it is as if a thousand tons weight were tied to his ankles. All tiredness, like all disease originates in the brain. Thought makes people tired and thought makes them rested. If thought is spirit then the race is spiritualizing more and more every day. It is refining and strengthening, and through this process making a Decline towards the conque��t of tiredness and of disease and death. -Helen Wil- mans in Freedom. Rev. J. G. Shearer has becn stumping the country in aid of the Lord's Day Alliance, claiming that Sunday should be a day of rest for those who toil. Like most of agitators who tickle the ozone in Kootenay, he appeals to labor in backing him in the work. If Mr. Shearer is willing that working men should spend Sunday fishing, playing ball, going to church, theatres or in any way that suits their fancy, we agree with him that one or two Sundays a week of that kind may be all right, but if he does not, then we do not see much sense in a transference of power. Man might as w��U have his neck in one yoke as another. Judging from the working of Sunday laws in the east the people might as well be under the tyranny of greedy capital as the tyranny of knife-blade creeds. We find the real and counterfeit in everything. Many sincere men are no doubt in the pulpit conducting what might be ealleki a legitimate theological business. Then there are others who, seeing how eagerly the masses flock to a noise with Jesus as the catchline, take advantage of man's emotional tendency for taking myth in large doses, and go into the business in pursuit of wealth. These theological counterfeit* operate in tents ancl cheap halls, wherever they can get a crowd to dig up. Their existence is a blot upon the intelligence of a community. These fakirs should be hived in a building with pieces of iron across the windows. Charles Rubsam, of New York, while suffering from religious mania, killed himself and wife. The ravages of religious mania are becoming serious, and something should be done in the matter. Societies should be formed with a view to preventing weak-minded people from going to church and being driven insane by the hypnotic ravings of creed boosters. Emotional religion is an ally of the jail aud the lunatic asylum, and the evil should be abated by argument, if not by law. 950 L0WERY'8 CLAIM. MRarGhy- AtheismF^Sfcrrte By J, E. M. i��� MiRd. v*^^^^ ^ ��&.% s^rtswa TK ... .. u , K * ** W YS ^! discernment In the atheistic mind? I he ease with which a valuable moitlmhMJi ils it not ackinir heram.-*. -v..-. and benificnt principle may J ���Staj^TafiT^ a"*" ^^^^MS. carried to extremes i.s well Hub- process ianot 111. , ��� 'Jg dow" ' b->' tt tyrannical Church in IcThp trated in the so-called atheist and' ,��� * aIwaj's h,,ld��n- I with �� despotic fiK cfiSS the anarchist���those modern types',,.."JM��ro���in- however, we fre-! that enslaved the minds of the ������ ! I-UITIUIHU Oil WMM-B W of negation and reaction. In such the 4 philosophic " type, who may serfdom r minds the concept of individualism be described as an economic agnos- As worship of the symbol sup- hecoms grossly exaggerated and fa ffe <��does not know" of the planted religion. eeclesiastieism be- clominaiit; it colors all their j existence of a righteous govern- gan to ape the methods of royalty ment anywhere, and is unwilling i *"fI *> MOpt the militant idea and to concede the possibility of estab-1 P,H��- But wJ|at degree of success lishing one ; hence, he is more fer- has followed Luther's attempt to tile in constructive suggestions rescue from the oblivion of formal- is egotistic brother who! ism and rorrm-c,**.. #1... ,...-* -.^r-MuuBj -cur .nm. wic oonvion of formal- than is his egotistic brother who JMn ����d corruption the primitive preaches the gospel of destruction.! *���tbs of Ctorist's religion? The Their states of mind are identical,! historic institutiou still flourishes, havinff a flomnwia ,Kai."�� ����� > .*��.. 1 mi 1 thought, renders the mere personality aggressively obtrusive, ancl precludes any idea of the natural law of relationship. The anarchist, like the atheist, is first of all an egotist, due to a morbid brooding upon a single sub- , wic IWIIfKaMj, ��.o��mu iiujwiuwon still flourishes, ject���his imagined self-importance, having a common cause aud source, minus the Inquisition, side by side As the former resents the existence j,ut tm��v tijffe|. in tnejr methods of wifch an orthodoxy that subscribes of authority, govermental or per- expression. Their doctrines are*0 hundreds of varying beliefs; sonal, even when constituted l>y wholly negative, even when ap- *! ����d the "proofs" thus offered to the common consent of his follows, | p\lei\ t<> H positive condition and in the sceptic have neither increased so the latter repudiates the sugges- the light of the proved essential ^ number nor improved in kind, tion that there may exist anywhere positivity of every creative art. While the Protestant world rein the universe a Being superior to The revolutionary socialist is more frains from idolatry, technically so himself. These apostles of ������free- j rational and consistent : he would called, it make* a fetish of a Book ; dom" are themselves the veriestIdestmv oniv fe�� K..0.1 �� ������ ���������' -1- sUves-to a form of vanity tlVat^ I ^unS on v AlurmAnf-orl ;.. ^..i.*:i:a_. i jOll cannot ........... na iii.iiii- fested in anarchism, it has an impelling force that leads its victim actually to court death at the hands of the public executioner as a means of gaining notoriety; while in atheism it varies from the desire to lie considered"eoeentrie" to self- glorification, as in the caw of the editor of an infidel weekly in Ken *. 1��� �� .... to build anew. Yet *"d, when one considers the quali- ���- -1 --you cannot overthrow falsehoodM^8 ���ecribed SO Deity by some of only augmented in subtil ity by|by negation," as Robertson says, M*8 official representatives, the scholastic education. As mani-|oDat \ty establishing the anta- vanity of the atheist that lends him f.,^,.,1 :" l* gun ist le truth." Progress is to regard himself as a vastly su- achieved through affirmation, not perior lieing does not seem so denial. monumental. The alliance of the "Everything has 0 cause." This Church with at least the "world" applies to the unreal or passing *��d the "flesh" is by no means conditions as well as to the reali non-existant today? The institutes of life. What directs the mind tion is not far behind in the race of the anarchist towards the exclu- for wealth and power. It* "organ- ��� ��� sive contemplation of his personal Iwrtton" has been largely diverted tucky who prints his own portrait i comfort, his restricted license, and *�� commercial uses, and many of in every issue of his paper. bis individual importance and ele- it* teachings are based upon the Perverted mental appetites, like vat ion? Is it not due to the art.fi- demands of a refined but sordid physical one*, grow by feeding, eial distinctions in human society ; materialism. It Peeks partieipa- Certain kinds of pabulum, fed per- to the survival of caste aud privi- tioM ft,,(i emolument in matters sistently to either mind or body, j lege ; to injustice, oppression, and that are not properly within its tend to create a necessity for them- the greed of those who have seised Mope, ��nd that through it* inter- selves. Bodily indulgence is al- the natural resource* of wealth and " frrence often operate to the dised- ways preceded by intellectual dis- the reins of power ; to the denial vantage of the community ancl the sipation, which may outpicture of human rights that are instinc- infringement of natural rights. itself in the form of mental abbera- tive ; to monopoly of thc natural It is such spiritual and economic tion as well as in that of physical opportunities to life, liberty, aud conditions as those above outlined disease. Sometimes a single thought, j mental development-���in a word, that have given rise to the New- incident, or emotion will give rise* to the pathetic egotism of enforced Thought, which is in reality a new to this propensity, which if un- ignorance? These and similar ques- reformation. By virtue of its free- checked may dominate and nullify tions are irresistibly thrust upon dom from tradition, preconception, the usefulness of a life. Why it* the attention of our social and po-' dogma, and personal authority, it Oil I'lii! SCI- Ut'O in....*..'.! �� ��� - ' ,... . . ^ . . r . , . ��� . .._��� L���a a,. ��������� litical ecommiists. some ol ul. .... .... ,,,......! ....*��� �� the usefulness of a life. \Vhv ita impulses a,e invariably in the di- rection of iconoclasm is one of the problems of phycology; Vet L those capable of discerning an ulti mate purpose of good underlying human events that have even the I-1 + ww.l ��� " ~~ *"' "*w�� ���...*��, iiiiii ll* OUIIIH .lU(IMMil\ . Ill hticai economist s, some of whom is prepared not to antagonize but* 1 already discern that the scientific avail Itself of the discoveries of way to suppress anarchy is to estab- modem science. To these it has WhliT' 1 , , ��� contributed its own lieneficent What leads the atheist to scoff quota: knowledge of the law of W religion, to deny its necessity, mind, of the spiritual constitution *. SRPTSMBBS, IM-M LOWERY'S CLAIM. ssi ��� of man, of the immanency ancl impersonality of Cod, of the mental origin of disease and other ills, of the reality of the ideal, and of justice as a natural principle. In this teaching is emhedded a platform that can lie made to serve as a rational and scientific common ground for humanity, individual and collective ; and it* wider adoption will aliedish every excuse for the existence of either anarchism or atheism, fer its advocate* will be enabled acceptably to affirm the opposing truth. Rational Teaching Regarding Sex. Any one who has once realized how glorious a thing Love is in its essence, and how indistructible, will hardly need tc call anything that leads to it a sacrifice ; and he is indeed a master of life who, accepting the grosser desires as they come (xi his body, ancl not refusing them, knows how to transform them at will into the most rare and fragrant flowers of human emotion. Fntil these subject* are openly put before children and young people with som���� degree* of Intelligent and sympathetic hHiidling.it can scarcely lie expected that anything but thcMitniost confusion, in mind and in morals, should reign in matters cf sex. That we should leave our children to pick up their information about the most sacred, the most profound and vital, of all human functions, from the mere gutter, and learu to know it first from the lips of ignorance and vice, seems almost incredible, and certainly indicates the deeply-rooted unbelief and uneleanness of our own thought*. Yet a child at the age of puberty, with the unfolding of it* far-down emotional and sexual nature, is eminently capable of the most sensitive, affectional, and serene appreciation of what Sex means (generally more so, as things are today', than it* worldling parent or guardian ); and can absorb the teaching, if symjiatheti- eally given, without any shock or disturbance to its sense of shame��� that sense which is so natural and valuable a safeguard to early youth. To teach tbe child first, quite openly, its physical relation to its own mother, its long indwelling in her body, and the deep and sacred bond of tenderness between mother and child in consequence; then, after a time, to explain the relation of fatherhood, and how the love of the parents for each other was the cause of its own (the child's) existence ; these things are easy and natural���at least they are so to the young mind���and excite in it no surprise, or sense of unfitness, but only gratitude and a sense of tender wonderment. Then, later on, as the special sexual needs and desires develop, to instruct the boy or girl in the further details of the matter, and the care and right conduct of her or his own sexual nature; on the meaning and the dangers of solitary indulgence���if this habit has been contracted ; on the need of self-control and the presence of affection in all relations with others, and (without undue asceticism) on the possibility of deflecting physical desire to some degree into affectional and emotianal channels, and the great gain so resulting ; all these things which an ordinary youth of either sex will ea-sih understand and appreciate, and which may be of priceless value, saving such an one from years of struggle in foul morasses.and waste of precious life- strength. Finally, with the maturity of the moral nature, the supremacy of the pure human relation should he taught���not the extinguishment of desire, but the attainment of the real kernel of its dedication to the well-being of another���the evolution of the human element iu love, balancing the natural���till at last the snatching of an unglad pleasure, regardless of the other from whom it is snatched, or the surrender of one's body to another for any reason except that of love, become things impossible. Between lovers then a kind of hardy temperance is much to be recommended���for all reasons, but especially because it lifts their satisfaction and delight in each other out of the region of ephemeralities (which too soon turn to dull indifference and satiety) into the region of more lasting things���one step nearer at any rate to the Eternal Kingdom. How intoxicating indeed; how penetrating���like a most precious wine���is that love which is the sexual transformed by the magic of the will into the emotional and the spiritual 1 And what a loss on the merest grounds of prudence and the economy of pleasure is its unbridled waste along physical channels 1 So noth ing is so much dreaded between lovers as just this���the vulgarization of love���and this is the rock upon which marriage so often splits. There is a kind of illusion about physical desire similar to that which a child suffere from when, seeing a beautiful flower, it instantly snatches the same, and destroys in a few moments the form and fragrance which attracted it. He only gets the full glory who holds himself back a little, and truly possesses who is willing if need be not to possess.���From " Love's Coming of Age," by Edward Carpenter. Rubberi Over in Nicholas county the other day a young gentleman was driving along the road with what in Pendleton county is known as his "best girl" seated contentedly beside him in the buggy. The horse had been allowed to select his own slow gait on the cool highway. The young man's arm had stolen gently around the young lady's waist, and there you had a picture of sweet content but seldom witnessed. Presently the couple became aware that a farmer passing along the road in the opposite direction wa* staring at them. The young gentleman in tbe buggy instantly flashed defiance at the intruder. 4'Rubber!" he cried, sarcastically. "Rub her yourself," quickly replied the farmer, "you'vegot your arm around her.'' Vefse of Taj Mahomed. When first I loved, I gave my very soul Utterly unreserved to Love's control, But Love deceived me, wrenched my youth away And made the gold of life for ever gray. Long I lived lonely, yet I tried in vain With any other joy to stifle pain; There is no other joy, I learned to know, And so returned to Love, as long ago. Yet I, this little while ere I go hence, Love very lightly now, in self-defense. ���Laurence Hope. All but the 'Aft. "How fast they build houses now," said Jones. "They began that residence over there only last week, now they are putting in the lights." "Yes," exclaimed Smith, "and next week they will put in the liver. zrrW*&&mm*mlslGQBK^ ii. UMPM *5* LOWERY'S CLAIM. (SSirBMBEft, lflOt Scissors and Paste What Keeps Hen Alive We translate the following frum Figaro, one of the leading dailies of Paris^France : "The twentieth century finds the peoples of Europe iu the midst of a tidal wave of new discoveries, and irresistable currents are drawing our civilization to try the occult and invisible ; but, in the battle of conflicting interests and ape- tites, scientists should remain attentive to all the manifestations of the unknown forces of life. " As a contribution to this re was taking all this in, but he wus a Chuckawalla and a Waster and had to go way back. This put him on his Ear at the Wise Guy and he denied, and the religion** of men IffSjS* * *> h���� .��P ���* ***** are of the intellect, mile up of the a Shm,ng Tj,ght of hlm- He ���"* led Wisey on the Trail near the Main Drag aud put a Face on him that was Unfit for Publication. Then Miss Dovey got next to his collar, called him a mean thing and letter of interpretation and forms ; these religions being impotent to save the world from its own self- destruction. Now, this is the most material- iBticofallage-s; b��au�� the body I ����"* gheTK Wtey and form const, ute the aapirat.on, , |f d th ^ \ the standard of all measureineuts, the goal, the sole motive power that gives the formation, sustena- tion and perpetuation of the civilization of the world of this age. Furthermore, the religions of an Old Chump and left him at the ie nt they are now Traveling liaek to search, we present to our readers *heff civilizations are wholly and the case of Mademoiselle Bouvenal, who lives in a cataleptic state without eating, now going on eighteen years and six months. Mile. Bouvenal still live* with her mother in the little village of Thenelles, near St. Quentin. " No one is debarred from visiting her, but what a sight to see ! "On a damp, ground floor, lying on a poor lied, with the immobility of one dead, is a human being with the appearance of a marble statue ; it is neither life nor death; it is a dream. Her eye* are sunk in Double Harness with the Stay Chains down and are eating out of the same Nose Bag. Moral���Don't try to uppercut your way into a woman's heart.��� Fad in Searchlight. deeply in their socket*. The mouth! w. nrv ""�� .,u"uwn ��inrn �� "?��"! is closed and without any salivary, of ***!S^ ** ."*���.; that secretion, the teeth are tightly ��**? "&eSpu*lof God^ is again i i i ^j *i.��� ..u:. :. .1-.. ...'i broodintr over the eleen and a solely submerged in the falsities the delusions of the material and Death in High River. its phenomena, rendering all in- terpretations of tin Written Word It pains us to have to record the in material significations and these ! death this week of the well-known renderings have made all people ; and highly-esteemed cowpuncher, who adhere to these systems of re- j Peter Moran, who has worked this ligious, idolaters in word and deed. : range for a number of years. He Thus it is seen that this is the! passed away peacefully, laden most materialistic of ages, having j with honors and full of booze, deified matter, the body and form j The new High River Methodist above all( Joels in heaven and earth. | minister, Rev. Mr. Elliott, visited But the unconsciousness of the Mr. Moran and tried to soothe his world's le-aeling teachers, in society, j last moments ou earth ancl prepare stat*> and church, is now seen, and j his soul for good company. " My poor friend, are you prepared for the coming of tha grim visitor I" 4- No! I���" 44 Fven now he is knocking at the door." 44 Let em knock." 44 With sickle keen without." 44 Hand me that gun and move to see this condition shows a state ng over trie <ie��ep New Spiritual Age is now here. L. Emeric, Lecturer. he wait* locked, and the skin is dry anel cold. The beating of the heart is scarcely perceptible; but is very regular. If one lift* her arm it! remains in the position it is left in. ��� �� Fable in Slang. 44 Mille. Marguerite Bouvenal] When Miss Dovey lit from the was Ixirn the 20th of May, 1864; it! Stage and the < Jang of Rubbers had I t\w bureau against the door. Who is now eighteen years and six sized her up she had the whole [git anyhow?" months that she has taken no Camp Coppered. She looked like nourishment, not even a drop of | the Cherry in a cocktail or the Cu- water, anel still life continues ! i ter in a Double Ave flush after the 44 Professor Cahu, by recent ex-: draw. Kvery Gazabo in (amp periences, shows that peptones, | polished up his Chin Music anel alone or in combination with ali- sent to Montgomery Ward for Win nientary substances, are not assimilated ; as for more than five years Mille Bouvenal has been < 'ord, ancl sent her Candy in Water given peptones by injection." Barrels. But one by oue they ^ Wore euit until the contest nar rowed down to the Big Husky that An Age of Materialism. ha(i tiiie (<amp Buffaloed and the In an age of materialism, the| Little Wise (Juy who could Waltz ly and form is everything ; j like a dream and handle the Atmosphere like the Duplex blower. He would collar Miss Dovey and pour Hot air into her Shell-like ear till she Voted hiin the only Pay Streak in the Ledge. Big Husky "The Angel of-death." 44Oh that's all right. Let him in. I thought it was Jerry Boy ere with his bar bill." Thus passed away Peter Moran, one of the liest heel ropers in the ning Ways in Carload lot*. They j country.- Kye Opener, made Codfish eyes at her by the ^ body these lieing deified anel worshipped above all qualities, attributes and powers ofthe mind, heart and soul. In an age of materialism, God, the suul aud its imuiurtality are Comfortless Philosophy In " Facts and Comments," which Herbert Spencer says he "can say with certainty will lie my last book," that distinguished author give* his final view uf immortality. He wrute : 4'After studying primitive beliefs, the finding that there is no urigin fur the idea uf an after life save the conclusion which a savage draws from SSPTSlfBEK, 1001. J LOWERY'S CLAIM. 953 the notion suggested by dreams, of a wandering double which comes back on awakening and which goes away for an indefinite time at death; and after contemplating inscrutable relation between brain and consciousness, and finding that we can get no evidence of tbe existence of the last without the activity of the first, we seem obliged to relinquish the thought that consciousness continues after physical organization has become inactive. But it seems a strange and repugnant conclusion that with the cessation of consciousness at death, there ceases to be any knowledge of having existed. With his last breath it becomes to each the same thing as though he had never lived." lies. If Christ ever existed and was not the creation of some dreamer of ideals brain, he was a socialist. The dream of socialism today is to have a heaven upon this earth. The socialist believes in using all the forces on this planet for the benefit of everybody, and not solely for the benefit of a lucky few. He preaches peace and a millenium condition. If socialists preached war, strife, greed ancl oppression of the poor, probably Bishop Quigley and pulpit pounders of his class would call them blessed, but when a bishop talks of crushing socialism by Christian principles he has formed a wrong conception of Christ and his teachings. Christ .... V..W.-T wat* a groat-Br socialist than any we elicieesc to fight the spreadoTaodal- j J1���1 ^)<ia >'�� and ^suppose if he was ism among the people. He is reported as saying : 44 The time has come for an organization under the auspices of the church for the insistence upon the sett lenient of social questions according to Christian principles." r a ��� a �� * - day is the wark of infidels, reform- Don't kick aliout the roaches. ers and martyrs. The church has We do not charge extra. ever sought to crush anything that Don't empty the sawdust out uf interfered with its set ways. If the pill ers. this is not fhe truth then history A Mistaken Bishop. Bishop Quigley, of Buffalo, is reported to lie organizing his entire Olexican Proverbs. He who never ventures will never cross the sea. There is no gain without pain. Flies cannot enter a closed mouth. Behind the cross is the devil. A cat in gloves will never catch rats. To the hungry no bread is dry. A book that is shut makes no scholar. No evil will endure a hundred years. When the river is passed the saint is forgotten. -, He who has little has little to fear. If the pill were not bitter it would not be gilt. Do not trust your money to those 1 . * a i/o uoii crust your money to those to walk into Buffalo over the tie who keep their eyes on the floor line, some of Quigley's modern (make an outward sign of piety). Christians might run him in the j xvinA 0.,.i a i.._i- j- ... cooler. Oklahoma Hotel Rules. If the bugs are troublesome you Wind and good luck do not last. A frugal rich father and a spendthrift son. No word is ill-spoken if it is uot ill-understood. A tongue may inflict a deeper wound than a sword. A clergyman upon introducing some new hymn books requested TL��� i . I .. - r -! ������ ���-.'�� ���"���*--��� air irouoiesome yOU Ihe bishop evidently means that; ean find kloroform in a bottle on socialism should lie settled accord- the shelf. !!n���Mt<>irh,m'haKPri"t;ipIe8t Which Q^te going to Imh! with their would lie on the side of the rich I boots on will be charged extra and ruling classes, for the church, Three raps at the door means ^penally the Roman Catholic, is\ that there is a murder in the house hi ways to lie found close to the and you must get up. I his clerk to give out the notice just money-bags Ihe church ha* led Please write your name on the before collection. The clerk forgot very Tew reforms for the benefit of wall paper so that we know that apd instead read out: "All those humanity. It get* in after the you've been here. who have children that they wish >attle and steals some of the glory,, The other leg of the chair is in i christened will kindly let me know but is too conservative and deeply the closet if you need it. wedded to myths, forms and CUB- If-the hole where the pane of torus to break of it* own accord glass is out is too much for you through the meshes of conventional find a pair of pants behind thedoor rossJIism, and lead the people to to stuff in it la a _ 1 V aaal . * higher ground. The church al ways opposes and then follows. People often any that the church Bhould not lie criticised, as it has done so much good in the world. This sentiment is always voiced by ignorant people, and is merely the echo turned loose by priest* anel parsons. The church has lieen and is teniay the enemy of progression. For* it* own pur-1 after the service." The clergyman was very deaf and added blandly: k4And I would say to those who have none that they may be obtained in the vestry any day be- The shooting of a pistol causes tween three and four o'clock, the no alarm. ordinary little ones at 20, and the If you're too cold put the oil- special ones with red backs at 35 a ��� . 4 a cloth over your bed. cents. 9/ Caroseen lamps extra; candles *��* free, but inusn't burn all night. People become drunkards be- Don't tare off the wall paper to cause they suffer from depressed lite your pipe with. spirits or monotony. The way to (Jnests will not take out the avoid drinking to excess is easy bricks in the mattress. j after you get used to it. Always If it rains through that bole ! be merry and seek the funny side -I ��� a 1 * -a a ^ �� ��� *r�� ��� ���*���*-*���-���*.. * vi ��� %���%-* "n ii uu ��� * ���* iimmu ��� ���������<'��� ���->_��� ��� nu��v * * y ��� \* ��� >* \\\\ \ i \ hum ov^C/Pa. I'l It7 1 111 111 y \?g\ \K pose it ha* always sought to bind overhead you'll find an umbrella of life and never eat meat. 'Good t lie IW-llti.1*. ii, . .1... 1 .... .....1 1...I.1 at.��� ..!.... tUluul knnUl. :.. ~ ����� a.l.��� j. .*_ ��� ���^ - - ��� - r ****��***��� *���*-*! *���-�����* *a-a�� ��� r a a a a *��� �� *.---��������-'.-�����-������- ��-���-- the people in chains and hold them under the bed. enslaved and submissive to the The rat* wont hurt you if they man behind the altar and the chase each other across your face1. bend-box, The liberty ami the Two men in one room must put freedom that the world enjoys to- ��� up with one chair. health is one of the surest safeguards against the booze mania. Live right and the system will never crave stimulants to lift it over the rough places on life's trail. 'V-MMMNHHMHNMBlBstt 164 LOWERY'S CLAIM. i i ��� Egotism iR Prayer By Marcus W. Bobbins ^^^^^^^^^ (SSPTSMBBB, 1901 ti m The Moving finger writes; and, having: writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of It. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling, cooped, we live and die; Lift not your hands to it for help��� for It As im potently moves as you or 1. ���Omar of Katydid The most outrageous example of man's egotism is displayed when he prays. The majority of men talk to the Infinite as if they were his next-door neighbor, ancl the advice that is often given to hitn is nauseating. Like the majority of man's beliefs, it is his egotism that has convinced him that the Infinite will interfere with the workings of natural laws at man's simple request, so a drouth, whether it lie in Central Africa or in the Mississippi valley, brings forth the same screams and contortions. The American rainmaker who cajoles the Infinite is merely a type of the breechless seer of the Congo. Drouth is not the only thing that brings forth invocations. When, the passions, greed and cupidity of mau cause him to make war on his neighbor, one of the first preliminaries is to call in a priest to bless the banners of the army or to invoke success for their efforts. Think what a great amount of embarrassment this must create. Here in our last war was the pope blessing and praying for Spain, while just as fervent prayers were being offered in behalf of the United States. When it was all over, did tbe victors give the credit to prayer? Not a bit of it. Some said it was 41 the man behind the gun." One favored this admiral a* the only hero, another that. The partizans of both fought a wordy war for months over who was the hero. In the end it was judicially decided that neither prayer nur *4the man behind the gun" nor either admiral was the cause of victory, but the individual captains. What was it tbat won the battle of Trafalgar? Prayer? No. Nelson's individuality. What conquered the Arbela? Alexander the Great's personality. At Marston Moor! The man, Cromwell. Did prayer call into existence 4' Hamlet," "Faust," "The Origin of Species," the Northern Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, vaccination? Hardly. If prayers are answered, why do people go to congress asking for aid to establish irrigation districts 1 If prayers are answered, why do you indict men who pray for the recovery of their children smitten with the smallpox instead of sending for a physician? If prayers are answered and you stand by the statement that "God knows what is best," why do you pray to be protected from the cyclone ? Is it not his hand that controls the elements ? What has prayer done for humanity? Nothing; for'to accomplish anything you must have effort. Effort alone is the moving cause of all results. Every one admits that you must have effort to do anything, that prayer will not remove mountains, but that dynamite* and the steam shovel will. So the average prayer is but a jumble of vain repetitions about life, sunshiny afternoons, all those in authority ; asking the Infinite to concentrate his power on the one who prays. So the Infinite is expected to cure colds, get the debtor out of bankruptcy, and to protect the widows and orphans generally. It may be asked, why do people keep it up? Like everything else, the causes are many. People are cowards. They wish to lean on some one, so they leau on the Almighty, and lean hard. Tbey are conservative for the simple reason that they lack originality and "faith." Thus they blindly imitate the past. It is ho much easier to take things for granted. Doubt and critical examination require the exertion of mental effort. How many of our fellows are intellectual tramps, holxies ; satisfied with the* mental 44hand-otits" that they receive from the church, too lazy and too cowardly for independent thought. The world has grown to despise the man who shirks physical labor. Is not the man who shirks mental activity as much to be despired ? Another reason can be illustrated by a simile. Every one has noticed the dog which is preparing to lie down to sleep takes a couple of turns ur su round and round. This action on the dug's part merely gues to shew that ages ago his ancestors lived in a prairie country, and as a consequence had to beat down the tall grass when he prepared to rest. So the modern dog does unconsciously what was drilled by necessity into his savage progenitor thousands of years ago. The majority of men are simply imitating the dog. When the race was primitive and lived in a cave, of the most essential qualities necessary to secure its survival iu the fierce competitive struggle with surrounding life was an intensely egotistic personality. This intense egotism of man caused hiin to make God in his own image. In those rude days the belief that there was a personal creator of life who took an especial interest in man, protecting him from injury, leading him to victory, heeding his call in time of distress, had much to do in insuring man s continued existence. For such a belief would have a subjective effect. That is, it would react on the man who thus believed in a powerful personality. But you are not a cave man. Now, all this may have been highly nece.-sary when man fought tin** battle of life with the chance stone or club ; but, like the dog, he now has left the tall grass behind. Why can he not rise superior to the dog, ami quit turning round and round ? Kinqs and Crootns. Crowns, scepters and thrones, like fetters, stock, dungeons and thninb-screwH are relics of liarliar- isin. As some men still require fetters and prison bars to keep them in subjection to just laws, some nations require the glitter of crowns ancl glamor to make them tespect govern ment. They cannot conceive the possibility of stable government without a King, Emperor or Czar, and the circumstance and pomp of Imperial power. The presence of penal institutions is a reflection ein the morals of the class for whom they exist In like manner the existence of ruonarchial institutions is a reflec- SspTKitstB.l**.) tion upon the civilization and intelligence of the people who submit to live under them. The idea that Kings rule by divine right was conceived in superstition and brought forth in ignorance. It is a lying, demon- hearted, imp-faced spawn of hell, whose slimy trail can lie traced throughout the world. The only government that exists by divine right, is self-government. As self-government involve* the right to misgovern yourself, until you learn better, a people who are sufficiently ignorant to want a King are entitled to have oue. If tbey are so stupid as to consider a limited or absolute monarchy better than a Republic, they are entitled to have what THEY consider best for tbem. It would be wroug to impose a president on people who want a Czar a* to force a Czar upon people who want a president. Republics have no more right to exist without the consent of the governed than monarchies have. The imposition of any kind of government without the consent of the! governed, is tyranny. ResistanceI to tyrant* is obedience to God. Tbe devil never made a freeman. Cod never made a slave. Heaven never sent an oppressor into the world. Hell never gave birth to a Liberator. The theory of the divine right of Kings is based upon the divine! right of might: the divine right of might originated with the strongest savage in the darkest ages of the world's history. It is the philos- phv of crime. Monarchial Institutions were born when the earth was enveloped in a black pall of ignorance and superstition. Where superstition is rank and ignorance dense, monarchial idc��a* thrive. Intelligence may tolerate but it holds in altsolute contempt the preposterous pretensions of princes, potentates and Kings. The enlightened minds of Germany and Russia cannot help but smile when thev contemplate the absurdities of Kingcraft. I can understand how interested parties ���Rhodes, aSaulsbury ora Chamberlain can support the contentions Of the British throne*, but how a ,!ey�� a Spencer, or Darwin oould be induced to pay homage to such a ridiculous fetish is more that I can comprehend. I can understand how the Brit- isb m general could go wild over LOWERY'S CLAIM. 865 *���������' ' the prospective crowning of their had received a double education as King, but how it could have the it were. He had studied homeo- slightest interest to a citizen of a pathy, and was also graduate of a Republic will forever remain a "regular" medical school. "Oh! mystery. It was well for other dot was noding,l( said the farmer, kingdoms to send special embassies "I had vonce a calf vot sucked two to assist in the coronation cere- cows and he make noding but a monies, but it was an unpardonable common schteer after all."���Ex. infamous, treasonable crime for <P5> Prudent Rocaevelt to dispatch pPeeaution. such a commission in such an er- rand. It can only be explained "Mr. Grimes," said the rector to on the hypothesis that Teddy is a the vestryman, "we had better take monarchist at heart, or an egreg- UP th? collection before the serious ass. All true Americans, re- mon." gardless of party, should condemn "Indeed?" him. Imperial toad-eaters and "Yes. I'm going to preach ou sniveling snobs alone* can endorse Economy." bis un-American, undemocratic,. ������ damnable* departure from republi-l Why did Christ select Judas as Can precedents.���Geo. A. Windle one of his disciples, knowing that in Chicaga paper. he would betray him? Did he de sire to lie betrayed ? Was it his iu- tention to be put to death? Why did he fail to defend himself be��- fore Pilate? According to tbe accounts Pilate wanted to save him. Did Christ wish to l>e convicted? The Christians are compelled to say that Christ intended to be sacrificed ��� that he selected Judas �� with that end in view, and that he \ young doctor, wishing tomake refused to defend himself because* a good impression upon a German he desired to be crucified. All this farmer mentioned the fact that he is in accordance with the horrible idea that without the shedding ot of Couldn't Improve It Vlr>. Chug water: "I'd be ashamed to sleep in tin* church the way you do." Mr. Chug water: "1 can't help it. It's the only way 1 know how to sleep."'���(Chicago Tribune. All the Back Numbers blood there is no remission sin. ��� Ingersoll. ^ Rapid and more rapid is the onward march of progression. Whatever is progressing goes onward and onward. Whatever is not pro- Of L0WBRYS CLAIM grossing holds kindred with the .... . past���is stationary. Whatever are still in print, ex- goes forward, goes to the deity. cept the lirst num- JJJ would nctbeiri^ to be ten- 1 sea on the diilf stream of progres- ber Simile cooies si��n' f<) '>e wafted to climes of heavenly wisdom, where aroma a/ r are 10 cents. Six the sweetest is breathed that ennobles the soul ; where no turbu- niimbeiS, .ri(* cents, lent passion can reign, but where the mind will continue to expand P08tap;e t'wc tO any unti| tjme shall cease and eternity ... ii 1h�� explored. -Berenos. part of the world. k ^ Send a bundle to It is not by turning over libraries, but by repeatedly perusing and VOlir friends and intently contemplating a few great models that the mind is best dis- HcmmI their lives with eiplinoci.���Macaulay. happiness, R. T. Lowery New Denver, B. C. <��> There is a paper in Philadelphia that pays $200,000 profit a year. Can anyone show us the trail to Philadelphia? 856 LOWERY'S CLAIM. [SarantsBR, ww Mary is Roasted. Mary MacLane, of Butte, seems to be a bnte from the way in which she is being roasted for writing a book. Guy Reed clips her wings as follows: "The story of Miss Mary Mac- Lane, by the young lady herself, is a bird���the quintessence of erotic rot. Miss Mary MacLane is a product of Butte, Montana, although what Butte ever did to deserve such a punishment, the devil himself only knows. The story is unwholesome, immodest, devilish. It is a vulgar exposition of the grossest animalism; a prototype of the sensuous stuff that the priestess of passion, Hallie Ermine Rives, was wont to inflict on a suffering and long-wearied public���only, worse. What in the name of the entirely hopeless and useless ever induced this Miss MacLane to spill so much of herself on paper is simply incomprehensible, unless for the purpose of exploiting her shape and how badly she's stuck on it. For stuck on it she certainly is. She raves over the delicate transparency and fairness of her hide; her splendid breasts and the admirable contour of her shapely legs! In fact, it's "look at me; ain't I a peach?" To hear her tell it, Mary is a modern Pandemian Venus, the embodiment of personal passion imprisoned in physical form. She's "a warm baby," is Miss Mary MacLane. It is clearly evident tbat the young lady's guardian, if she ever had any, has long been drunk or absent���or, still more likely, dead. An irate parent with a good, strong slipper could work wonders with the young thing's longing hy plying it frequently and lustily on her bustle rest. This old-time manner of correction has cured many a case of fancied incurable idiocy. Like a convenient Colt's 45, it is a powerful persuader. If the story of Miss Mary MacLane has any redeeming traits, we have signally failed to discover them. After reading the book one feeds as if he had swallowed a belly-full of bilge water. It is bum I bum! bum! However, if one has a desire to flounder about in a stagnant pool of intellectual dope, we especially commend to him Miss Mac- Lane's account of herself. Nothing seems to delight the contemplative mind of this maiden so much a* the worship of herself; as auto- adulation of and passionate rhap sodies on her physical charms and attractiveness. She's an abnormal species of omphalopsychite that delights in gazing at its navel and senselessly worshipping it. In short, Miss Mary MacLane is a chump. Animal Instinct. M. F. Mury, in the Revue Bleue, of Paris, says that several letters were received from Martinique, stating that three weeks before the great eruption that destroyed St. Pierre, cattle passing in the neigh- borhuud uf Mt. Pelee gave signs of panic. Oxen broke away from their traces and ran away. Horses refused to go into the threatened districts, and dogs howled continuously, night and day. The snakes which were plentiful on Mt. Pelee, suddenly invaded the inhabited districts. Even the birds deserted the mountain fifteen days before the catastrophe. Yet the inhabitants of St. Pierre were not alarmed until just before the disaster took place, when the warnings from Mt. Pelee became too evident to lie any longer ignored. We are continually told that animals have no souls, but these animals were more soul-sensitive than the human beings were. Spiritual influences can warn animals (because they live nearer to Nature) often more readily than they can human beings who are soul-frozen. Send Him West. Events, an Ottawa publication, certifies to the accuracy of the following: "A judge in Montreal was asked recently to hand down a ���*******,-^^vvv^,**^*^vvvyv/^vy^vvvvv^^v-^^vN^^*v>�� Tourists Strangers and When in New Denver, will lind the Nkwmakkkt M<> iki. a p��ml |-l*i--i- to camp over night. Frui* it-, haleonh ���-. tin- ti it.--*! ���*���-���������. i > in the world van be seen without extra <li.nyc^_9^_��> ^j); J^��H^hJm|hJ��^ SMOKE BRITISH LION & MAINLAND CIGARS ^��^��*|m|^ judgment in a certain case he had heard about two years before, when he replied that he had never heard the case. The court record was produced to prove the contrary, and he then promised to give a judgment." Now, what should be done with judge* of that stamp? ���Vancouver World. Send him to British Oolumbia. Hadn't F&f to Go. William L. Hearne, son of Frank J. Hearne, presiden of the National Tube company, spent several months this year In Black Diamond, one of the new mining camps of Arizona. As it was his first experience in the West he accumulated a multitude of expressions and stories. " When 1 first went to Black Diamond," he said the other day, 44 there had lieen but one death in the camp. They buried the unfortunate in a lonely grave midway betweent the mine* and the cramp. Immediately they began to call the spot 'graveyard.' A few days after my arrival a miner named Cobb was taken with small pox. The manager was away and they telephoned to him for instructions. 44 Build a shack for him down near the graveyard, was the answer the wire* brought. " The orders were carried out tu the letter, and the shack wa* built right up against the grave. The patient was permitted to move himself ancl left tu light the disease alone. The next day an Irish miner hailed the shack from the trail. " 4I say, Cobb,' he cried, how areyuu coming un today?' 44 'Badly, rather badly,* wa* the weak reply from the sick man. " 4Don't yuu worry, Cobb,' answered the Irishman in a tune that was meant to lie en co; raging. 4Dun't you worry, you ain't got far to go anyway, if bad come* to worse an' that; J ist reinemlier you're living in the cemetery, already'." "Ah got no use fo' de man," said Charcoal Eph, in one of his philosophical turns, "dat donates er thousan' dollahs t' de heathen fund ob de fashionable church wid one han' an' raise de rents on his tenement houses wid de udder. Ah 'spec' hebettah begin practisn' crawlin' fro' de eye ob de needle, Mistah Jackson. -BaltimoreNews.
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Title | Lowery's Claim |
Publisher | New Denver, B.C. : R.T. Lowery |
Date Issued | 1902-09-01 |
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Language | English |
Identifier | Lowerys_Claim_1902-09 |
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Date Available | 2015-11-26 |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0082367 |
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