Array m>>. NUMBER 36 NELSON, B. C. CANADA. PRICE: 10 CENTS AUGUST, 1906 We have no record of Adam turning over a nsw leaf. LOWERY'S CLAIM Is devoted to Truth, Humor and Justice, and is published monthly at Nelson, B. C, Canada. It ls sent, postpaid, to any part of the world for $2. a year. Advertising rates are $2 an inch each insertion. Lowery's Claim has never been raided by the sheriff, railroaded by an indignant populace, nor bulldozed by the brokers who issue tickets on heaven for a consideration, lt does not believe in the fall of man, near the hydra-headed god waved before a long-suffering public by those who peddle theologic dope, and subtest upon the fears and superstitions of the human race. It ���believes in everything good, and hopes that a method will yet be discovered that will smelt all evil out of the world and leave nothing but gold in the heart of man. If you believe as we do send in as many subscribers as possible so that we can keep the press running until a process is discovered that will jar all misery from this universe and annex lt to the flower gardens in the New Jerusalem . R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. You must mix brains with your business or you will never succeed. The world Is -growing better. The street cars now run in Winnipeg on Sunday. Noah must have been a great poker player. He had a pair of everything in the Ark. As an angel of peace the mosquito has never been anything else but a rank failure. For one dollar twelve back numbers of Ixiwery's Claim are sent to any address postpaid. Poor pay, hard work and long hourse are the principal reasons why boys leave tbe farm. Shooting off fireworks ls one of ths foolish ways that civilized savages have of wasting their money. In Africa a wife can be bought for a packet of hairpins. These prices beat even a Mormon settlement. Better know a man before you hate hlm. For particulars about headstones and monuments write to the Kootenay Marble Works, Nelson, B. C. A great poem was never written on a full stomach. A blue mark here indicates that your subscription is due. and that the editor would like to see your money. Do not put any more black upon the devil you hnve never seen. If whiskey was free there would be no drunkards in a short time. No intelligent man who is sane believes in the mummery of priestcraft. Brides in Australia are pelted with rose leaves. This backs the rice habit clear through the snowbanks of custom. This is the season of the year when camp meetings prevail and the birds look down from the trees upon many strange sights and sounds. Some of the most religious people hate soap ancl water, and the more grease under collar tlie louder they will pray for Jesus to wash their sins away. A scientist says that the majority of people who live to be 80 keep late hours. That may be so, but not on the front end of their lives. . Tbey are always finding out something in Paris. The latest ie that by working around lime kilns you can cure consumption in a short time. The man with the little mind always wants to see the paper suppressed that he cannot understand or that expresses The booster who always boosts and the knocker who always knocks are very tiresome and obnoxious individuals and should be shunned hy the rational. A variety of creeds are necessary to liberty while the world is too weak and Ignorant to do away entirely with so a philosophy beyond the comprehen- ! called religion. Under the domination slon of mentalities that have nervier passed the dough era. , i I of one church the world would speedily lapse into mental and moral darkness. The Lead Pipe In ail ages the power in authority, both church and state has persecuted honest reformers and made them sic down whenever possible. Christ, Bruno, Galieo and thousands of others who have clamored for truth, liberty ana justice were made to feel the blows, cowardly blows, of the ignorant brutes in authority. The postoffice department of Canada has grown afraid of Lowery's Claim and strikes it a blow much the same as a sand bagger hits you with a lead pipe when you are not looking. The department notified us last week that our journal would not be permitted to circulate through the mails, owing to the objectionable character of the reading contained therein. Oh, dear! Lowery's Claim fights for everything that is good. It is against graft, dis- honestty, corruption and the wrong life. It shows up the evils of church, state and society and helps the under dog every time. It is against the human parasites who rob the poor and fatten upon the sweat of the workingman. It is a friend to love, mercy, justice, honor, truth and liberty, and an enemy to hate, envy, jealousy, malice, revenge and general hellishness. Then why has the Laurier government undertaken to cause its editor financial loss by denying him the privilege that any little French rag has in Quebec. Because we are British, live in the west and dare to speak the truth must we be bounded by tbe slavish minions of pope and parson who chance to have a say in the postoffice? Is there to be no treedom of speech or thought in Canada? Are our most independent papers to be suppressed, and hellhounds like the Frenchman Brothier given his freedom? Why does the postoffice of Canada allow some of the vilest and most obscene literature of the age to constantly pass through the mails, and then attempt to ruin Lowery's Claim because its editor has a free soul? The withdrawal of the mailing privileges will not cause the Claim to suspend publication, although the expense of circulating the same will be vastly increased. Friends can help by blowing the horn for liberty, We ask no quarter from our enemies, the cheap cent-belted postoffice department of Canada may hurt us in a temporary financial sense but the law of compensation makes all things right, and the damphols who cannot appreciate the light of our mental plane will be able to do so after a few more reincarnations. The butterfly must pass through the caterpillar stage. IX)WKRTS CUeUH Too Much Money. Pittsburg Is a city ot smok*.-. steel, Iron and fast people. The thoughts of its upper circles to an alarming ex tent run to wine, lobsters aud love that is only hip high, its ncwrich people delight in making a puddle out of vice and wallowing in it up to their necks. The men in Pittsburg's formation ot vice, gold studs and diamonds are evidently troubled with satyriasis and the women to a great degree are so nymphomaniacal that a young man is not safe within reach of their morbid and agitated anatomies. For years Pittsburg has been sexually insane even in church circles. It was in that city not long ago that a Methodist church wiped away its debt by the proceeds of a stocking social which which we described in the April number of this journal. The Corey scandal, the Hartje scandal, the Thaw scandal, aud the dozen other scandals affecting high life in the Pittsburg plutocracy���what do they mean? Is it a fact, after all, as the moralists have asserted, and as all of us have of- girls. It is said that aome scores ot tnem are now making for Europe and other distant points, to esc ape suopoena in the Thaw trial, where they uiigm ue asked to testify as to what they knew ot Thaw's habits, incidencaliy auord ing a glimpse oi their owu. is there uothiug better the American people can do witn tbe wealth tney aie willing to throw away tnaa to snovel it out to these pigs of Pittsburg piu- ta-crats, who know of no -other way to use money than to convert it into a mire and then wallow in it, u.ny and unashamed? Wouid it not be better to throw these millions into the seas thsu to deliver them over to these occidental lurks, wbo make serfs ot their workmen anu playthings of their workmen's daughters and wives? Harry Thaw, who so dellberstely shoi White to a red finish in New York not long ago is a victim of tbe rotten social conuiuous prevailing amongst the new rat ic. parvenus ot Pittsburg' Thia young man was spoiled by au indulgen< mother wbo loaded the cub with coin until .--.a upper slope became filled WtUi nothing but cigarette smoke, flying champagne corks and visions o�� lost all thought of the consequences ot his mad act upon the lives of others if he had thought at ail upon the matter he must bave known that tbe same bullet that snuffed out his victim's lire would also shatter tbe life of his mother liis act is a warning to all rich men to make their sous earn their living lu stead of throwing their money at win**, cigarettes and grlsettea. This young Pittsburg degenerate will not be executed or punished to any extent for ihe crime he so rudely committed. The powSr of money is ^ grt?al in the courts of the lrnltect Slates that Justice Is always stifled by the greater power, iki nol get off at Pittsburg! It will sometimes take a man 4e years lo find out what is hurting htm. If Jesus came to Canada upon Sunday would Shearer let him lu before midnight? There is more danger in having a small aud narrow soul thun there is in diversity of thought. _ Many a man has rushed to the penl- IsnTnntMnklTigly mp^tedTthftt tfr-VfrnI -WW** i* ****** V****}*' Ipstead ol: feed- j tent bench and "hollared' for Jesus riches, unearned, if not dishonestly acquired, carry in their train no blessings? Pittsburg is the citadel of the indus- i trial plutocracy of the country. ln Chicago and New York and other wealthy centers are multitudes of million aires, made such by speculation and i th>n *�� ParlH of cour8e lo make th* gambling, by driving enterprise, by pro- j play come right Harry had to marry an moting schemes, by sheer monev-earn I actress, one ot lhe prettiest In ihe land, Ing Harry upon spuds mixed with oai-jWI)en all he needed was a ehme of salt*- meal and making him play solos with __ a bucksaw the young accident was ai-1 An insane greed for one of the op- lowed his own wicked way. He became | posite sex la not love. Juki a mad pa> blase even with the variations oi ne*|l|oa that dies with the mortal Lots as It Is displayed In smoky Pittsburg ana j ^ Pt��hnal and cannot be angry or sel nad to iinlsn his degenerated euuca- flap. The wreck of tbe Mitchell* In Seattle ..��� .......... . through Insanity roused by religion ing power, and in other recognized ways, i with what the world calls a stain upon ^1^ one lndlued to thluk that th��* But in Pittsburg are the millionaires, j the lily-white of her soul. Tbe siory goes tnat Stanford White bad met sweet Evelyn when she was poor, beautiful and spotlrss. Baiting his hook with gold and his speech with the honey oi seeming love he captured Evetyn > priceless gem only to throw her awa> when propinquity made hiin grow wear) eif her charms. A common ending o: scores upon scores of them, who have grown suddenly and Immensely rich,, not by any particular degree of enterprise or by daring plunging or a talent for money getting, but by systematic and wholesale exploitation of tbe whole American people and the particular oppression of the American wage-earner Holy Rollers should be ��� llled ll����i> Terrors. This power to exploit ihey have gained. | romances, for too much honey, espec* not as Rockefeller gained It by a tran-|ially when taken sub ro��a, is.dead car* scendent genius for monopoly organise- tain to nauseate one or both of the tion, but through the medium of a pro- participants. If you would have a \**r tective tariff which, by shutting out peiual honeymoon spread your love this competition, bas enabled them to plun- and paste in your upp^r stops lhe lac der the American consumer almost at lhat a surfeit of anything is a foe to will, and at the same time dictate the serenity. However, as you have read wage of their laborers. They have con-1 ihe ciaily >ellows you know how Tha* Baseball has to lie opened with pray er when played on a Sunday In New York. If there la anything in prayer football should always Ih* Opened, and dosed with It. tributed to the financing of the party that supports this vicious system, they have maintained John Dalzell and their spokesmen In congress to protect their interests, and the party that benefited has rewarded them with tariff schedules on iron and steel that are mountain high. These tariff schedules, dipping into the pocket of every citizen, have collected millions upon millions of dollars annually and poured the sum, unearned tribute, into the laps of these Pittsburg plutocrats. And the plutocrats have been playing high jinks with it, shining especially In their plunges, at Monte Carlo, in the divorce courts, and in their bacchanalian orgies for the wholesale debauchery of young got his man, proving that when males fall out there Is generally a petticoat somewheres around the scenery. In this respect modern codfish, and steel-plated society Is just like the rooster In the backyard. He will fight when the other cock gets too gay with his hens. It may have been right according to some lines of thought for Tbaw to have killed White but the way in which be did It was extremely rude and cowardly. He should given White a show to "heel" himself and then had the fighting occur in some spot where the spurting of blood would not shock unwilling spectators. The rude and cowardly manner In which White was killed proves that Thaw was a neurotic hog or a degenerate loaded with dope, who bad 1 There Is really little difference between powdered I'earl of Nob Hill *ni1 painted Maud of the Bad Land* Ue>��-- love dogs, keep late boms, and delight to see the corks fly upward We have mi desire to knock Sew York but It would not surprise us lo aee au earthquake Ilk- thst of Kri*-> within the next two yean*. Timid people will probably now sell out in V'* York and put their money In >���'* Denver, a city where the thieves never break through anel steal, and the coming of an earthquake would tie a ac- deled advantage to ibe inhabitants. Blalrmore muat lie a wicked city. Harry Howard and some other chap* shook the dice tn lhat town U* <**"J day and the court fined them *20 ant costs. If a man was caught P��j"}; poker In Blalrmore he would probauiy be sent up for life provided bis triai came off in Frank. For working on Sunday a chap would get a rope, a yank and the dead silence that comes from hanging ln the air. LOWERY'S CLAIM. An Able Writer. P. T. Thompson Is still an able writer, although it is years since he done Ireland for the Toronto Globe. Wheu we first knew him he had just graduated from Cobosouk University and was knowu aa Jimuel Briggs. Although he was never a partner with that great philanthropist, Johnny Bengough, he had quite a reputation as a humorist, his humor was often too deep for the Scotch, for even George Brown could not appreciate Jimuel's work and once made him pay for one of his own jokes. The other day Thompson had a letter in the Western Clarion In which he rules the tinsel off of a couple of Canucks ae follows: The conclusion of the Preston-Jury investigation at Ottawa recalls the old story of the first case of a newly appointed Dutch justice of the peace. Hans had a quarrel with Yawkoh, resulting in a fight and a summons for assault. "Veil, Hans," said the J. P., "Be you'fustian London music hall that had a fleeting popularity many, many years ago, "The Pretty Little Rag-Catcher's Daughter." There was a certain snap about the tune, and the piece being "patriotic" iu sentiment caught on and came into vogue as "Canada's National Anthem." simply because there wasn't any other, and its vapid sentimentaiism came right down to the level of the popular intelligence. This encouraged good Mr. Muir to write other poetry in the same strain, and jingoism being in the ascendant, he won a widespread literary reputation. His death was, of course, made tbe occasion for a jingo carnival and the elevation of a very ordinary, well-meaning citizen to a high place in the Pantheon of little tin gods. The most noticeable feature of this apotheosis of toiumyroi is the cowardice and servility of the -so-called intellectual class. Every man of ordinary good education and culture knows that "The Maple Leaf Forever" is not poetry, that it is, lu fact, sorry and common place Yet because lt is "patriotic" i, The word wickedness is a scarecrow whereby the weak are protected from temptation. If Christ ran a paper in Canada he would have it shut out of the mails beyond a doubt. Have mercy on your children. Do not teach them any religion until they are 16 years of age. If Horace Greeley was alive today he would have to say: Go west and grow up with Canada! Charley Claus ran a paper in Rat Portage 25 years ago. The editor of Lowery's Claim would like to know how he died; guilty?" "Nien, I vash nod guilty.' and popular, not one of them dares to ������Yawcob, be you guilty?" "Me, vy no. | say ��>. Economic determinism again! Tbe 'dltor who would size up "The Maple Leaf Forever" at its true literary value would lose his job. I haven't any Ich don'd vas guilty." Veil, veil dot vos funny, ain'd it Den dare ish nobody guilty! Der case vos discharged, und dot lawyer man vat makes all ells! to lose, so I say what I please, voollshness bays der goats!" So. after .PHILIPS THOMPSON. all these charges and counter charges. ��� vilification and perjury, letter stealing beyond hlm and grafting, our Ottawa solons hav�� The N>w York Ttt)Une thlnks that mu8l. formally declared with the old Dutch- oal criticism has gained a new and pl- A band of capitalists can make millions by building tourist hotels in Kootenay. It is the coming summer resort for thousands of wealthy people. In Canada the people are still like children. It is still deemed necessary to punish them for doing work on Sunday much the same as youngsters are whipped for playing hooky. In Canada upon Sunday you must not make any noise that wiil disturb divine worship. No provision is made for stopping church bells or th enoise made by church choirs upon that day. .�� . �����.��w k i���k t,.,ju..�� ..��� i ��ho i The law it seems has not been made that "nobody Ish guilty ���and the quan, lf.rm from captain Bullock, a western |for ^^ peopie# country pays the costs. The govern- frontiersman and captain of the forest ment, as has been repeatedly said, simp- rangers of the Black Hills. ty dare not discharge Preston���he i captain Bullock was the guest of the knows to much. There Is no telling;president at a r-peent White House musi- who might not be hopelessly besrair- icale. At the close of the program of clas- ched If he were to disclose who partlcl- steal music some one asked him how ne pated In the rakeoff on the enormous j had liked the entertainment. sums paid to the North Atlantic Trad-1 "1 am afraid," he satd dryly, avoiding Ing Co. Poaaibly Clifton Slfton grew suddenly wealthy on the salary of a cabinet minister, and he might show that there is a good deal more than honor and glory in the job of a I/ird High Commissioner. But there is very small chance of any such revelations, for Preston will be taken care of. In fact he will probably be promoted to some better paid birth, for few officials ever did the dirty work of our capitalist rulers more thoroughly, whole-heartedly and with less shame or scruple. He Is aliout the most perfect typ9 of a finishi d and serviceable political Intriguer without the faintest notion of honor or conscience, and with a veneering of the .religious hyipocrlsy, whioh ds always so valuable an asset ln public life, that Canadian politics hss ss yet developed. Alexander Mulr Is dead. He was a kindly genial old soul and a good teacher, but he had one falling. He thought he could write poetry, when he couldn't make passable veree. There was no particular harm in this���many equally worthy men have cherished a similar delusion. One day he worked off some verse about the Maple Leaf. There was neither rhyme, rythm nor originality about them���in fact, they were utterly commonplace���but he aet them to catchy rag-time music, adapted from a the earnest look In his wife's eyes, "I'm afraid li was a spell too far up the gulcn for mt." There Is one god point in the new Sunday law. Those big yellow balloons called Sunday newspapers cannot be brought In from the States until the next day. By that time the smell of the murdered art and truth in them has weakened with age. FROM THE GREAT POEM. And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitt.��r look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword. Four hours a clay is long enough for men to work at. smelters. Do not put all your money on one card; if it lost your heart might break. To go through life tied to a corpse cannot be recommended as a tonic for dyspepsia. The cancerof graft is slowly eating away the heart of Canada . If this country is to be saved man must be elevated higher than the dollar in the commercial and political world. Anybody who places the dollar above tbe man should be damned. Manager Orth. of the Bell Telephone company, New York, is a mean old thing- he Is! He has issued an ukase against fly-net waists, half sleeves, ami ah-there hosiery���he has! He declares if she would hold her job she must dress her doll���he does! And countless hello throats will sweetly chorus, "Oh hell!" Even the most beautiful women prefer the blinds pulled down at certain momenta. No need for Torrey and his spiel on hell in the west this summer. The atmosphere is warm enough without them. Made so. perhaps, by the same power that made the earth quake in some sections of America. In the darkness of bis vision the ls eternal and cannot be angry or sells one of his deadly enemies. The church has always sought to keep the poor ln subjection to their masters aiid the workmen of this age would never advance If they waited for the church to lead the way. The laboring man has to carry many a burden and one of the most useless Is the church, filled with a lot of creed boosters all telling the wage slave to keep bis neck in the halter and his eye on Jesus while they pass around the plate ln search of the overs. ,...,, iVjtfv, Lowaars claim A Noble Phoebe. Bob Smith was raised ln Macon, Missouri, and he was big and stout when more than 20 years ago he lett the land of sunshine and stuck his cornet Into tbe pretty city of Spokane. Intent upon making a living for himself and his crippled brother BUI. whom he had left amid the corn. Bill waa called Phoebe around where he was born and the* sobriquet stuck to him all through his life like the perfume of musk to a broken vase. After a few years had rolled down the canyon of time Bob had saved enough of money to make a home for his crippled brother, and Phoebe turned away from old Missouri to be with him whom he loved so well. Bob was a musician and obtained a lease on the Theatre Comique, where for a time all went well until a woman in scarlet walked his way. Bob fell In love with Mllle Raymond and married her.. Mille was a strenuous dam&el who wanted to run Bob and the theatre her own way. She had played at commercial love so long lt just seemed impossible for her to chain down her polyandrous nature. The postmaster of the city got tangled In the skein of passion and Mille'a wanton eye gathered him in just like the old press dispatch in the Bible. The Sunday Sun got next to Mille and the stamp buster. Those who were around these parts a decade ago may remember the Sun. lt was a pink-colored journalistic prostitute published in Spokane and its editor was like a buzzard. He Iivnel upon the fear and weakness of men and women. With a muck rake in one hand, and a club in the other he blackmailed all who were afraid that he would through the sewer columns of his vile rag tell the world of amours sub rose, llie jackal scribe kept sensitive Bob Smith on the gridiron until be hsd him on the hike. Bob did not want the world to know tbat bis wife was a trifler and broke himself paying blood mon��y to the hellhound who ran tbe Sun. All things come to pass, so one day the postmaster could not make good the money he had stolen to buy hilarity and diamonds ior the two nickea wrecker of three lives. The postmaster took the gun route to oblivion and the world soon knew lt all. Ruined in heart and pocket Bob took to drink and the alcoholic waves rapidly washed him against the rocks of degradation. This was hard on little Phoebe, for left sn orphant at an early age Bob had mothered hlm and shielded his weak frame from the slurs and gibes of a cruel world. So to Phoebe Bob was a god. an Idol without the stain of clay, and sad was his heart. It was at this time that Kaslo felt the breath ot its second boom and Phoebe driven to desperation succeeded in getting Bob away from his old haunts in Spokane, and, amid the beautiful scenes of Kaslo happiness tor a time at least waa his'n. Years passed on, the pulse ot Kaslo weakened, and Bob drifted back to Spokane where death soon dealt htm the cold message ana lett Phoebe, broken-hearted, to stumble on alone. Phoebe took the bar on the steamer Kaslo, plying between Nelson and Kaslo. He was brave, but animated with a single hope and thought in lite. He would save his money, buy a big lot for Bob and himself tn the cemetery at Spokane and when hie time came he would be buried beside the brother he loved so well. On the Bteamer he had a deep friend In McKinnon, the purser. Times became dull on the lake and nearly four years passed before Phoebe had sufficient money to carry out the wish of his life. Laat month while his friend McKinnon was In Spoksne. Phoebe went to that city, re-buried his brother in a large lot, erected a monument to his memory, and remarked that he did not care how soon he was laid beside him. The next morning along with his friend McKinnon they started for home. The train went over a trestle in a deep canyon and through the wreckage of the buffet car the life blood of th* cripple and his friend trickled until It reddened the waters of Beaver cre*k. In a day or two Phoebe, mained In life and death was laid beside Bob and the last leaf turned In one of the most tragic, tender and pathetic stories of the new west. BEHIND OUR BACK. A gentleman In Wisconsin, writing to a friend in Canada, says: j I hope our friend Lowery will make | barrels of money In his new location, but the adage tells us that "a rolling stone gathers no moss." Perhaps he might respond to this by citing the other adage about a sitting hen never grows fat. He is making eo many changes in his camping ground that I am reminded of the Illinois pioneer wbo removed so frequently that whenever his hens saw a covered wagon coming down the road they laid upon their backs to have telr legs tied together. But wherever he goes I wish him tbe best of luck, for he Is one of the pioneers of a real civilization that Is coming In the fullness of tlm**. although we may not survive to see It. Supeiaitlon ls surely losing its grip, but like all other reforms this Is of slow growth for we sre an unthiuklng anel unreasoning people, who finds It easier to travel in the old rut than to leave lt and make for ourselves a new road. Nevertheless there are a few who see the beginning of th eend, and wbo have the courage to acknowledge It. In a magazine called The World Today, published. In Chicago, ls an article which says among other truths: 'The Protestant church conventions of the year have been without positive results. . . Men continue to grow Indifferent to the church. . . (Unites* w-e (mistake, organized Christianity Is standing at the parting of the ways. If honest, tolerant, earnest men do not interfere at once the theological world may drift off Into academic Investigation, and the churches themselves grow to he clubs of bourgeois tblk, possessed ot no idealism, ot no earnestness in the settlement of questions of economic and social morality out of touh with culture and out of touch with all that Is making t he future. We may aa well look the msiter in the face. A Christianity that does not dare preach Immortality. . . That prefers orthodoxy and good collection* to self-sacrificing devotion to the poor and the cultured alike. . . . surh a Christianity can not endure, n wl|( very properly shrivel up." And It la shiivlllng up In spite of the efforts of Its blind supporters to prolong ita life by Instituting great "re- vlvals" of this so-called religion, which ia simply superstition, as every well- informed person knows, having no relation to real religion, which Is doing to others what you wouild have them do to you. This is whst Christianity pretends to do, but doesn't come within a million miles of It In practice, ami it never will so long as we leave this matter in the hands of the priesthood. The Sun Spots. Astronomers and others tell n* thut there haA lieen no perceptible differ* no- m uie* iegnth of our days, nor In the amounl of light and heat we receive from .!>������ *���-��-- (>>r thousand* of years. They also tell uh (bat | we hsve an average* amount of beat and cold every summer and Winter. Al ihe same lime our climate i* constant l> chang* Ing. We are not now having here me same sort of weather we iid When I ��� ���"��" to Itttfgeon 1U> .** years ago I ���< course you know that the maanetlc \*o\>*i are ���"���* t-aaiiti>i .changing, tho neouio e*wma|ng slowly westward for a term of years, -""> then swlngtna hack towards the east, anel this variation must be taken Into account by surveyors, navigator*, an.l others'WW depend upon the compass Ii i< hig��'��> probable that it Is this *htf��lnK ol it" "><>.- netlc pole which settssa th*- change of en�� mate Indeed I have no doubt th'" UHl ��" is the tn Kplanatlon, for m m> opinion, our heat, sold and all atmospheric an turbances have th.ir origin In msgneiism. In a former letter I Invited your Montio" to th.. fact ��h��t the SO ealled "Manitoba ���*auV' com. to um from lhe rtlresilon.o ih. magnetic pole, srbtch I* �� '";' 1; Imiisg soothwesl et tb. geographical i��" ��� This Is a -dunIrt.anl fact, and yel I na never known any ..f our scientist- to * it the least attention. Our ooW * ,rill. does not come from the north, but from the northwest, and the coldest Ma*"! ture experienced anywhere Is In he ctnlly of lhe magnetic pole. It il in locality that the earth Is tfOSan Mi aa���� known depth-eerislnly for at -�����* feet, and never thaws except for �� inches upon the aurface. It must be ev�� dent to you that this deep fTOSt ��� ^ cauaed by external cold, for WW temperature goes down to Wl below a this could not possibly *"****!%hft��� more tban two or three feet dcepe th does a temperature of 40 degrees, am * we sometime, have here. Thei only po��n* explanation Is that of magnetism, and cold is caused by the aetlonof the a^ magnet upon the earth-magnet. LOWWRY'f CLAIM this slow change ln the climate which llnally tho wed out the mas of ice In' which was embedded the mammoth discovered ln Siberia toward the close of the eighteenth century. That mammoth was one of the many thousands which were living In a warm climate when a change* In the polarity of the earth carried them suddenly Into what Is now thc polar region, after which they were Immediately frozen. The one of which I speak was land-ed in a body of water which was frozen solid, and was thus kept lu nature's refrigerator for many thousands of years until this slow climatic change caused the Ice to melt. When It was release*d from its icy covering It was iu such an excellent state of preservation that wild animals fed upon its meat. It is v\ id.ut that if this mammoth had died in the warm region when* it had been living. Its ile-sh would have decayed and at most only its bones would have survived. Its companions appear to have been drowned In a valley which Is now the* bed of the HAretlc ocean, and there were many thousands of them, for an immense number of tusks have been thrown upon the shores of that ocean and have lieen mar- kete-d. In about two years some ituni pairs of tusks from Siberia were entered at the Liverpool docks, and this Ivory harvest has been going ou fe>r more than a hundred year. During the time of the St. Loutsf air. one or two mammoths were discovered In the Klondike region, these al^o lieing well preserved, one of them being found in a cliff of Ice. anel It was then proposed to attempt removing this wljh Its icy covering to St. Louis for exhibition, but the scheme hail to be abandoned, probably In consequence* of Inadequate transportation facilities. Doubtless It is this climatic change which Is having its effect upon the Mulr and Other glaciers. I lind ln the latest Issue of the Chicago Journal sn article by Wallace Rice in whieh he refers to the change in climate Which ha.** taken place during the past ages In Asia, this variation having turned into a de��ert lections of country which were formerly agricultural regions, supporting a large population. I elo not -fount that these climatic changes are- duo to the relative positIons in the positions of tlie planets in our sober system. We know that when Jupiter approaches the sun there is always a violent disturbance on mat body���an outbreak of sun spots or sun storms���and thnt this disturbance n-sults in tornadoes, cyclones and other storms on the earth. This takes place n*gularly about every eleven years corresponding exactly with the revolution of Jupiter around the sun. Jupiter was in conjunction -.Mill the sun on the loth of June and Is now slowly moving away, but it will be more than a year before he is so far distant that his disturbing Influence will cease. As he approached the sun there was an unusual outbreak of sun spots, one of these last year being eighty thousuud miles long and ten thousand miles wide. This accounts for the many cyclones we have had and violent storms of various sorts. The conjunction of Jupiter disturbs the electric equilibrium of the sun ancl this In Its turn affects the earth. Whon 8aturn and other planets are in conjunction at the same Omo with Jupiter this disturbance ls greatly Increased, is was the case about twenty years ago, at which timet then? was a eon-Junction when takes place only once In about 400 years. It all of the planets had the same movement everyl year li Is evident that wc should havo the same weather every year; but owing to their varying orbits the atmospheric conditions are constantly changing, no year being like any other, nor can there ever be any two just alike. When the sun, tne earth, the moon and the other bodies In our solar system are In certain relative positions we have rains; when they are In other relative positions we have droughts, winds und other meteorological conditions. You will therefore see the utter futility and absurdity of praying for rain tn a time of drought. To do so Is to ask lhat the various planets shall not be In their natural positions, but that this whole universe shall be disorganized in order that our crops may be watered. Ancl yet. so unthinking and unreasoning are we that It Is a common thing for the churches to unite In praying for rain when It has been long withheld. As a matter or course this appeal Is never made until the drougnt has continued for so long a time that the conditions are nerlous. and as all droughts are eventuality broken lt sometimes happens that soon after these prayers have been offered the conditions have so changed that rain follows; whereupon we are assured that "God has answered our prayers." when as a matter of fact the rain came simply because the relative positions of the sun and planets had brought about favorable conditions. Does any reasonable person believe that If alt the priests on earth, together with their congregations of dupes should assemble In Death Valley and unite In prayer for rain that even one drop would ever fall? Certainly not, but the fprlests know that in other regions rain Is sure to come sooner o later, snd that they are therefore safe In praying for lt. Kvery Intelligent astronomer knows that what I have said Is true, and yet none <flf them ever discoeirage the senseless e*ustom of praying for rain -probably for tbe reason that they fear to offend the orthodox by telling the truth and thus exploding a common superstition. At the same time there arc astronomers and other so called "scientists" in high standing who pretend to a knowledge which do not posses*, and who have formed theories which T believe to be entirely unwarranted. In the New York Sunday Herald of July I, Is an article by A. Russell Bond concerning Halley's comet, which is now returning towards us and Is expected to pass around the sun on May li 1910. The period of this planet Is about 75 years, its last appearance having been about the middle of November, 1835. at which time ��avs Mr. Bond: "It paid Its compliments to the sun and then hurried off again to the dark and frigid outposts where the lonely planet Neptune treads Its solitary beat. Out in this remote region. 2>W OOO.eWi.miles from the sun everything la dark as night. The sun Itself appears -but little -brighter than a star, nor do the stars look one whit larger than they do to us. The cold In this region Is almost beyond our comprehension. Tf we could gather together all the heat that the planet. Neotun* receives In three years It would hardly exceed the heat which Is shed on us in a single day." T believe not one word of all thts. On the contrary T do not doubt that on Neptune the sun looks as large as It does to ua, snd It Is also prebebtn thst It g��ti as much heat from the sun aa we do, ln spite of its immensely greater distance. It is an accepted theory amongst astronomers that the planets nearest the sun are warmer than those further away, but I deny that this naturally follows. Each planet has Its surrounding envelope of atmosphere which determines the degree ot heat which It receives, and it is highly probable that nature has so regluuted the atmosphere of every planet that It receives all the warmth lt requires, distance making uo difference.. There are times, as you know, when th.; sun appears to us several times larger than It does at bther times, the atmosphere greatly magnifying It. Why then may not the same effect be produced by the atmosphere of Jupiter, Saturn. Uranus, Neptune and other remoter planets; and since the heat we get from the sun is magnetic, why may not Neptune receive as much as wc, since it Is subject to the same laws, and is attracted and repelled by the sun just as we are, although it is so far distant that its orbit is 164 of your years? Mr. Bond suys: "Everything is as dark as night in the region of Neptune." How can that be possible- when that planet is shining just as brightly as any other In our solar system? If it were as "dark as night" Is it not evident that Neptune would be invisible ito us? Here is a planet 37.000 miles in di- -ameter. nearly live times the diameter of the earth, and -brightly shining in spite ol its great distance, and yet we are asked to believe that it gives no light to its surroundings. Is not such a declaration absurd on its very face? And this is only one of the various ridiculous "theories" inflicted upon the suitering world by men who pose as scientists. Some of theso intelligent gentlemen tell us that the Sun Fran-deco earthquake was caused by "sun spots," while others declare that it wai? a movement of the earth in that vicinity to fill up some imagine--! cavity, and thai probably that region will slide off into tho l'aellie. There is not an atom of evidence in favor of either theory. Undoubtedly that shock, like every other earthquake, was caused by volcanic action. All of that region is underlaid with benls of sulphur which have long -been burning, and it is the explosion of sulphuric gases or superheated steam which causes these convulsions, just as they caused the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and Mont Pelee. At the time of the San Francisco disaster Mount Tacoma was active, as was also a volcano in New Mexico, and it was probable one or both of these which gave San Francisco its shaking up. A few days ago this New Mexico volcano caused an earthquake In Its vicinity, but we shall probably be told that this disturbance was due ito sunspots or another earth slide, although i there will be some difficulty in explaining where the earth slid to. it being far from the Pacific ocean. At latest advices there had been 104 earthquake shocks in San Francisco since thc disaster of April 18. from which lt would appear tbat lt is taking the earth a long time to 1411 up that imagined cavity, while strangely enough there has been no surface Indication of any subsidence. The Roman Catholic church is more commercial and political than it is re- 1 lgious. __ Musicians frequently become degenerate, through too much music. LOWBRY'S CLAIM THEAWFELSIN ��� Bj Geo. A. Windle.l Staete's attorney Healy having put an end to the sort of kings in Cook Couty, now seeks to abolish the social evil in Chicago. Mayor Dunne takes issue with Healy. He believes in the policy or repression and restriction, but does not think absolute prohibition possible. Mayor Dunne is right. Healy is an sss. You can no more abolish the social evil by law than you can extinguish tbe fires of bell with a garden -lose. You can by prosecution and persecution drive scarlet women from one district to another, out of one city into another, but wherever they go they contaminate, degrade, destroy and damn. Society gains nothing by scattering these moral lepers through resident districts. Opposition to the segregation of vice in large cities is absolute idiocy. In obedience to an immutable law, "birds of a feather flock together." The segregation of vie e is therefore perfectly j natural. Mayor Dunne simply recognizes this fact His critics are dreamers. Any official act or edict is superfluous. The mayor might as well command water to run up hill, or order Chief O'Neill to enforce the law of gravitation. When Healy abolishes the social evil in Chicago, he can cause Pike's Peak to bow its bead in the dust at hie feet, and command the sun to stand still, and it will obey. The pee-w.ee reformers who hold up hands in holy horror at Mayor Dunne'**-* position, like all descendants of Balaam's "automobile" wear their ears above their seldom brains, and are mentall} so narrow that they can look with both eyes through a key-hole at one glance. Your average professional reformer it so obtuse that it would require a sur gical operation to get a full grown idea into his head. In the government of s great city like Chicago, the advice o short-haired women and long-hairec men is not worth a tinkers dam. When a similar aggregation of cantankerous- cranks called upon the late "Golden Rule" Jones, and requested him to drive all the bad women out of Toledo, he replied: "I am willing to help you save them. Christ did not set the bloodhounds of the law yelping at the heels of the Magdalenes of his day and neither will I. They have the same right to live somewhere, ancl all who think know that they are capable of less harm in the "reel light" district than anywhere else. If it were possible lor Hsaly ; n:l his associate bunco detle s to banish "scarlet" women fro DiCi c.".c*> md demolish every house of .11 suape" In ths city, decent wives, m itlieva. and friste*s and d.* ighlers irauul be in ton- fold more clanger thin ihey ;tre to lay. Ter thousand new traps would be set for their ruin, and every device the dcMl could invent would be use] to lure their footsteps to the primrose path of dalliance. As it Is, God knows, enough of them tall from tbe empyrean heights of true womanhood down to the dark and fathomless abyess of vice trom which rescue is impossible. The raging fires of passion will find material on which to feed. The wild beast in man too often leaves its natural haunts to prey upon the pure and innocent The leash with which civilized mau holds this beast In check is a slender thread. David, a man after Go.IN < >vn bean, let slip the dogs of lust nn i Uriah died in the forefront of battle, while "Saint" Dav Id and' his wife were smashing the seventh commandment to smithereens. Innumerable* instances could be cited to prove that Josephs areseldom found In real Ife. ahd that the saints are nothing if not flekle. The "red light" districts in great cities serve as sewers through which the poisonous and deadly germs of moral disease and death may be carried away from decent homes. In this article I shall try to describe conditions as 1 find them, not as 1 would have them. Man must lie dealt with as he is, not as he should be Roc*.tuition of facts is the first esseuti.il ��'<p lu the! progress of practical reiorm. Reformers who seek to make men, and women good by law, would ac- com pi ish more if they ceased entirely tei concern themselves with the hopelessly lost and address their energies! to the task of preventing the fall of others. An 6unce of prevention is bet- i ter than a ton ot cure. It Is better! because little folk while able to han die the ounce, find the ton a little un wleldy. Besides as a rule professional reformers try to administer thc whole ton at one dose, and fail. While I can boast no wings, not even I a pin feather, yet I hold the man who; first leads an Innocent woman astray, to be a monster, an inhuman, incarnate fiend. He deserves to have the letters which spell demon burned in fire upon his brow so that all who read may shun him as they would a leper. Could 1 speak to all women, especially young girls, I would say: "In all your relations with men remember that love and lust cannot live In the same heart. No man who truly loves a woman would think of degrading her In his own eyes. This is the supreme test. An Indecent pio- posal by your sweetheart is absolute proof that he does not love you. Your own existence Is not more certain than this." Knowledge of these facts cannot be to often Impressed upon the min els of young girls* Ignorance is a veritable devil. Enlightenment through experience conies too late to save. But after all Is said, poverty Is the principal cause of prostitution. More women sell their honor for bread than sacrifice their all on the altars of love and passion. ��� Every reformer worthy the name is trying in inaugurate economic and industrial conditions that will in a large measure abolish poverty. This would forever close hell's principal recruiting station. In this land of Canaan flowing wit lithe milk and honey of plenty, there should In no mendicants and millionaires, it should not be necessary for women, especially young girls, to work for wages. Poverty degrades.' Failure brings despair. Poverty and failure murder hope. When hope dies a legion of devils seize the ��� pi soul and hurry lt toward perdition. Danger to the soul lies at the extremes of poverty and riches. Society is therefore rotten at both ends. In the middle class, or common people, there Is hope. Wrhlle the social evil cannot be entirely eradicated, all should do their utmost not to hound lost women to their graves, but to close as many of lhe devil's recruiting stations as possible. The attractive young lady who becomes a stenographer, treads every hour on a shelving precipice. There Is ever a yawning chasm at her feet fringed with flowers.thst tempt and lure. I do not mean to insinuate that there are no virtuous female stenographers, but simply to state as a fact that for thousands of young women, stenography ls the open road to ruin. Some run the gauntlet and reach the goal with garments white ss snow and honor uncui- Hed. They are jewels. The very angels lift their crowns when the names of these poor girls are spoken on earth. In Chicago, as in every other great city, respectable villiana by the thousand are enlisting an army of young women for the levee districts. Not infrequently these scoundrels are church officials and are found leading crusade* against their victims wh��n they become 'Ted light" graduates. There are many business and professional men of honor with whom a virtuous girl Is perfectly safe, but I fear they stand In relation to the other kind, at the ratio of about 16 to 1. Behind the practice of "trading type-writers," there Is a story that would make the master of a Turkish harem turn green with envy. This story we reserve for our next Issue, iin the meantime think on these things, and don't fail to read carefully the foiling poem by Tom Selby. written for this magazine. It is a description of "The House of Shame." and paints the most vlved picture to be found In all llieraturc. Kvery woman who is tempted to clepart from the straight, and narrow path should commit these lines to memory: Ail night, within the secret house of shame, The rout of ribald revelry went on: The Bsme procuress smiled or fawned upon The libertine snd victim as tb^y came: Flash mirrors flaunted back thc lights thst shone Resplendent o'er the compost of Ill- fame. All night the strident music strove to make The noisy mirth as It were light-heart glee* The painted bawds, disembltng o'er their fee. Gave up their flesh as if for pure loves sake��� ' Eager to have their sodden Infamy The care-free guise of carnival partake. And all night long, ln negligent undress. The wantons wrought in unclean dance and song; Sated the profligate, unmanned the strong. Seduced the fool with lecherous caress, LOWERY'S CLAIM. Delved down in degradation to prolong The saturnalia of rottenness! And all night long, while honest people slept, And while the peace of God lay o'er the earth, The horror grew: then, wheu the morn had birth, The sunk-eyed revellers���self-loathing ���crept Shame-faced away, anel in tbat house of "mirth" Sad, wasted women cursed, and thought, and wept And when the glorious sun bad fairly risen It peeped Into the shuttered house. and there The erstwhile sirens���slovenly and bare��� Lay In their squalor���faded, pale, and weazen; And somo cursed angrily���-it meant a prayer! Anel some sobbed softly In their fetid prison. And aome.thesaJXeir who slept uneasily Dreaming, perchance, of happy, other days. When all the* world was sweet���a golden maze Of sunshine, roses, love, and childish glee��� When mother taught them little song* of prise, And kissed thein as tbey nestled on her knee. And Hum* there were who. by anguish, thought Of days lull Innocent, when Love first came With sweet deceits that paved the road to shame: And some remembered bread so dearly bought That "honor" and starvation meant the same! And some there were���ah, many such as these!��� Who started up in honor from their rest, With si an ing eyes and madly pulsing breast, Tortured by dreams of festering disease The doubt���the certainty���the loathsome pest That naught but kindly death can e'er How Christ befriended one poor Magdalene? Did He revile her���gloat upon her woe? And are ye holler than the Nazarene? ni i ��� .. *. . an ��������� ni A MODERN SERMON ON THE MOUNT Blessed are the poor in spirit, for t heir's is a life of perpetual imposition. Blessed are they that mourn not. for I fthey did they would never be comforted. Blessed are they thst demand their due, for thelr's is the attention of the whole household. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness of their children, for they will be sure to follow their natural born propensities. Blessed sre the merciful, for they shall be called the shielders of iniquity. Blessed are the impure in heart, who succeed In covering their impurity, for what the eye seeth not doeth the heart no harm. Blessed are the i>eace makers, for they shall be called meddlers in other people's affairs. Blessed sre they which are persecuted, for rightousness sake; for thelr's is a seat to sit on���away back. Blessed are they that are spoken falsely of. for thelr's is the laugh on the j other side, when the truth is discovered. Better an hour In a fool's paradise than ages in the desert of indifference. The friends of liberty have a chance now to make a few remarks about Lowery's Claim. Keep your children away from all religious teaching until they are 16 year.* old. Before that age the power of judgment is not developed and the mind easily warped .by any kind of foolish mummery about God. man and the devil * Political and social life in Canada Is rotten to the core, and everywhere we hear the cry against graft, loot, dishonesty and corruption. The government does not want a paper circulated that exposes all kinds of grafts, so It shuts Lowery's Claim out of the mails. A DANGEROUS MINE. Austin Lewis Is evidently not stuck on the "glory holes" of Phoenix, judging from the following: At Phoenix I visited a great untim- bered mine from the ledges supported by the pillars of which pieces of copper ore and lumps of errant, debris fall persistently and at. regular intervals upon the heads of those who labor many feet beneath. All references to the sword of Damocles will henceforth seem very trite and inadequate to me. When 1 want to imagine the limit of nervous anxiety I shall picture those miners at Phoenix piling up surplus values for thc company and all the time at the mercy of a lump of copper ore which would break a limb or pierce a skull with the certainty and completeness of a rifle bullet It is a deadly hole, is this mine, an unutterable disgrace to those who maintain it. as well as to the community which allows it to be maintained. It was the written words of Tom Paine that won the Revolution and made the United States a nation. Yet when the Age of Reason was published all was forgotten, and those who had ���Oiowned htm with roses -turned the hose and deluged him with the sewage of hatred that flows from minds blasted by the curse of religion. Even at this late day that big game sport Teddy Roosevelt abased the memory of Paine with his muck rake and called him a "dirty little atheist" The slur of Teddy's does not hurt Paine for his name will live long after Roosevelt's ashes bave been dumped beside his Dutch ancestors and forgotten. The martyr in one age becomes a god in the next appease. O ye who rail, and piously bemoan The sins of this poor fallen sisterhood ; Ye priests aud ministers; ye saintly- good With seats reserved beside the heavenly Throne; Ye whose small faults are cleansed in martyred blood��� Come! Who among ye dares to cast a' stone? And yet, with mind and body both unclean, Ye hound these fallen sisters to and fro. Ye self-sufficient bigots! Do you know THK RUNNING MATE My pa ain't never got Sent where conventions go, But still I tell you what. He's not so very slow; They didn't pick him out To be a delegate, And go and whoop and shout - But he's ma's running mate. it Is not a good omen for Canada when one man is given the power to ruin anyone's business provided he wishes. The postmaster-general of Canada is attempting to do that now with Lowery's Claim because he daes not agree with its arguments for the betterment of the human race. If a resident of Kansas, would you be radical or conservative? It is merely a question of shirt tail���more or less. It is the great issue of all issues tn the campaign now on iu that state. The radicals contend���their pulpits urge, their press demands and their orators prove by facts and tigures���that the addition of just one inch of sail to the Kansas shirt will cure all the ills to which national economics are heir. The conservatives cry tommy rot and set up the plea that Wie pursuit of happiness including the longitudinal latitude of tho aforesaid are sacred privilege's guaranteed under the constitution, with which no man, nor legislative body either for that matter, may monkey, and that In matters of this sort It were well to let enough alone. The radicals admit that Kansas raises no coton; but urge this reform as tending to bring about an increase in consumption with consequent raise In price of the product of her neighbors���in whose behalf and along the lines of mutual benefit this strange device is emblasoned on their banners. The conservatives point out the danger attending thc adoption of this arbitrary rule���in case ot drought or failure of the crop for other cause, by reason of which the* line might be drawn, perforce, above rather than below the belt���and insist that no man wants to bo placed In a position whereby he might as a law abiding citizen be forced .mine day to wear a shirt confined to just collars and cuffs. No, dearie, nobody has even suggested, as yet, that your sex figures in tho light a LOWHRT S CIJUM A Pen Roast. Dick Maples waxes hot. and goes after the meat barons as follows: If "cleanliness is next to Godliness," then we have some idea how near the proprietors of the packing houses of this count ry are to hell, as the history of these nasty, revolting, nauseating establishments is so disgusting and so. terrible that the pen of man fails to lay bare their filth. Not being satisfied to make an unreasonable profit by cornering the meat market and selling wholesome meats to the masses, the Swifts, the Armours, the! Morrisses. the Cudahays and otheis who are in the "meat combine" sunk! so low in their orgie of greed that they took decayed, maggotty carcasses of'; both animals and fowls, and deodorised the meat and sold it at unreasonable prices to be consumed by human beings. Chickens which were so far along in j a state of decomposition that the feath-j ers could not be taken off, nor the intestines removed, were placed in refrigerators and frozen so that the feathers and intestines could be removed without the flesh falling from the bones. After this process had been gone through with, these chickens were "doctored" by powerful drugs and the smell removed from their carcasses, and then were canned up or made soup of and sold to the American public at unreasonable prices, and this was done In America, by a set of as heartless hell- ians as ever managed to keep out of the penitentiary by stolen money. Cows that w.ere diseased were slaughtered, if they did not die before they reached the slaughter pens, and their diseased carcasses sold to the American public: as "prime beef." and it is further stated that many, yea, many cattle, which died before they reached the slaughter pens, were used by this dastardly, unprincipled gang of ghouls and sold to the American people at unreasonable prices. Not only did these packers use cattle which died of disease, but when killing a cow which contained sn unborn calf, these calves were also canned up and sold for potted chicken, and this was done in America. Hams that were returned on account of being rotten by those to whom they had been shipped, were deodorized and painted to give tbem a natural color ���rn 0 iid at an unreasonable profit, and this was done in America, and done by men whose political hirelings select the ��ien. Mr. Voter, that you have been voting for, for the past quarter of a cen- ��� uiy. Upon undisputable evidence, it Is said that men working around vats full of lard In process of rendering, would slip upon filthy bloody floors, and almost within the twinkling of an eye, these poor wretches would have their flesh cooked off their bones, and this human flesh, as much as possible, would be dipjied out of these rendering vats and the remaining contents of these vats would be sold to the public for "prime leaf lard/' and this was done In America. We oould go on and enumerate more revolting and awful nastiness, but should we undertake to depict In our columns what the packers of this country are guilty of, this journal would be debarred from the mails, as it is said that Immorality in these establishments is ao ramdant that virtuous girls cannot hold a job, and all this is done in America, wl|h those who perpetrate these crimes unwhlpped of justice and are today as* free from punishment ss you. Mr. Reader; but you must bear in mind that they are millionaires, and it seems as though the arm of the law is too short to reach this class of damnable scoundrels, and you cannot expect that ��� ��� m to be lengthened so long as the laws of our land are both made anel executed by the hirelings of millionaires? Upton Sinclair wrote a book some time ago. entitled "Tbe Jungle." and laid bare a part of the awful history of the peeking hottsese of this country, and the millionaires in general rose up as one man and declared Upton Sinclair a liar, a perjurer, and s llbeler. but the government, upon the strength of Mr. Sinclair's statements, ln Febmary. sent a commission to Chicago to look into the charges made by him. anel to use Theodore Roosevelt's own language. their report was "revolting," and it. was so "revolting" thst it was beyond Mr. Roosevelt's comprehension, snd he sent a second delegation to make an investigation, ahd the report of his second commissioners was more "revolting" than the report of the first but still there Is not a Morris, nor a Cudahy. nor a Swift, nor a Armour that has ever been arrested for the heinous crime of poslonlng the people of the nation, but upon the other hand the packer* of this country have both in congress and the United States Senate, men���No. no! not men. vllllans! who sre trying to discredit the report msde by Mr. Roosevelt's commissioners, and trying to clear these packing house demons of their guilt, and upon the heels of the report of Mr. Roosevelt's own commissioners, comes the news from Washington that Theodore Roosevelt, is going to pursue a conservative course In regsrd to this national scandal. Ah. It is hy the conservative tactics of our officials such devils as the meat packers of this country are^permitted to commit crimes which astonish, not only this nation. but all the' elvlliz-ed nations of the world, and then go scott free and unpunished of. their awful crimes. Scan the page* of the criminal history of this*or any other civilized land and you will not And a single page so black, so awful snd heinous as that painted by the "meat trust" of this country, and if th're are degrees in hell. methinks that all of the criminals that have ever reached that torrid clime since the creation of man will occupy seats so high above the packing house criminals of America that should a millstone be dropped from the seat of the vilest criminal in that sulphuric region, that It would take a million year* for It to reach the pit of these villians who compose the "meat trust," but still there is not today a single Armour, a single Swift, a single Cudahy, or a single Morris gazing through the grated windows of a prison cell, nor has there at any time since the crimes of these monsters were lound out, been a single republican or democratic, official demanded that these scoundrels be arrested for their crimes, but still we live in America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave.'* These packing house villains were permitted by the system which is now in vogue in this country, to crowd out the small butchers of every city so that they would have no compel It lou, and alter these small butchers had their business ruined, then they were compelled to buy their meats of the packing houses, and siuce these demons accomplished the ruin of their competltois. men uiey. lu order to build their obelisks of wealth higher, sell your wife and your babies, Mr. Reader, meat that buzzards would refuse, but still you aro voting a political ticket whicb the Armours, the Cudahya, the Morrises, the Swift* and their millionaire criminal friends put up for you damphools to support With a sick wife tossing upon her cot at home, or with a sick baby whose little body needs nourishment, you. Mr. Voter, In order to provide that wife or that baby with a delicacy that will help to woo back health and restore thc roses to their cheeks, rack your brain in order tu lind something tliat will be appetizing and which will help to restore that wife or baby whom you would die for, go to some store and purchase* some supposed delicacy pui up by tin' "meat trust" not. knowing thai perhaps that can of potted chicken, or thai can of chicken soup, or that can of beef f*a, was made from the putrid and de cayed carcass of sonic diseased animal 01 fowl. Oh, for men who will vote? to rid themselves Of a system which will permit a few millionaires, not onlj to rob them of their earthly substance, but to poison them and lb' Ir offspring. by selling them food which carrion fowls would pass by unnoticed. It ls an established fact. Mr. Reader, that the "beef trust" has becn selling, for fabulous prices food to the American public which your dog would pass by with a contembtible suarl upon his lips, but still the president of the United States, and the Congress of the United States, and the Senate of the United StateH tell we American Jackasses that they are going lo deal wiih these arch criminals In a conservative manner. Look out Isiys. as It won't lie very long until you will find the preachers of your millionaires trying to smooth their crimes over for tbem, and make us gaping yaps believe thai it Ih all right because the bible says so. as we imagine it will only be a few Su inlays until they will be quoting a part of tlie. 21st verHe of the 14th chapter of Deuteronomy, which roads as follows: "Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of Itself; thou shall give It unto the stranger that ia in tby gates, that he may LOWBRY'8 CLAIM eat it; or thou mayest sell It unto an alien." Now what' are you going to do about that, for don't the Bible ssy that these damn whelps can do just what they have done?-���Let's4 sing something and be dismlsshed. The Other Foot. Vou are neit very sympathetic," said the lady's friend. she was Mrs. Spencer, I have been hurrying through the wind anel rain���almost distracted- thinking all the time that when I reached your flat I should hear a few words of comfort I never felt so utterly alone before. The whole world seems grey and drear.*' The lady arranged ber pink silk tea- gown, and held her head a little higher in the air. She was Mrs. Poynter. I am sorry for you. of course," she said, In a mechanical sort of way. "but somehow or other l cannot be v��ry sympathetic to women whose troubles are caused by their mts-nisnaged husband*. Mrs. Silencer shuddered. Then you think It be all my fault?" she asked. "Undoubtedly*" said her friend: "you were always too sweet to your husband, loo meek and trusting aliout everything. No man can live on X>ints. my dear! He likes entrees and things sometimes for a change," "But p'-rhnps my husband Is no worse than other men." said Mrs. Spencer. After all. he only took a dancer out I to supper and gave her a diamond bracelet" (inly!" said her friend. In horror- stricken times "I don't think a woman wil hany pride would put up with such a thing for one moment!" She glanced quickly at Mrs. Spencer, and was glad to find, judging by her consternation. that her words had taken effect. "Hut what can I do?" faltered her friend, "l don't see th��* use of making < fuss now that the mischief la done; besides, I love my husband more than my life." Mrs. Poynter shifted uneasily in her e-halr. annoyed by the extr��nie earnestness of her visitor. Love of any sort bad always been quits incomprehensible to ber. "The woman who makes a god of her husband, Is making a god of an Idol of clay." she replied, with a good deal of sarcasm, "and the awakening always comes sooner or later." Thero were tears in Mrs. Spencer's eyes. "In future, my dear." said Mra, Poyn- '��r. "follow my advice, and rule your husband with a rod of Iron. He will rather like it after a time, anel will tell all his friends that his wits Is a woman Of spirit Or. If you Intend to put an end once and for all to aucb scandalous conduct, then bring a divorce action ugalnst hlm, and I will be one of your witnesses. I could not do moro for my own daughter." "I could never divorce the man I love beyond all reason," sobbed Mrs. Spencer, as she held a lace handkerchief to her eyes. "I know your advice is meant kindly, but I wish you would tell me to forgive him instead." "Rubbish!" said Mrs. Poynter. as she flung another log on the fire. "If you want foolish advice, you should go to a fool for It When I was married, 1 drew up some golden rules as to the management of a husband, and I have followed them closely ever since, with a most excellent result, as you know." Mrs. Spencer stretched out a hand in appeal to her friend. With her, jealousy was conquering love; she thought of her spoilt life, of the degradation she bad suffered. "Oh, please tell me." she said at length, "and In future I will always try to take your advice." "Well, then." said Mrs. Poynter, "never pay him a compliment���men are, quite conceited enougn as it is." "Never praise him lor what hedoes, or he will Immediately cease to do anything that merits praise. "Never be affectionate to hlm; a man has far more respect for a cold Iceberg sort of a woman." She looked across at her visitor, and she saw that sbe was staring hard-eyed Into the flre. "Never give him such good dinners or he will make a fuss and complain If anything should happen to go wrong with thc cooking." she continued. "I need to take great pains to give hlm a nice dinner every night." said Mrs. Spencer, iu a depressed tone. "And what was the result?" asked Mrs. Poynter. "He shows his preference for restaurants, nnd for the society of dancing women." "There seems !*�� bs a great deal of wisdom In what you say, ' said her friend. "And when 1 think of the abominable way in which he has behaved. I feel very tempted to try for a divorce. as you suggested." "But you must tirst ascertain his movements." said Mrs. Poynter. "Ancl of course that can only b�� done by employing a detective. There are very few men���believe tne���whose lives will bear the searchlight of investigation. Now. I tell you wha twe will do. Fortunately my husband is away racing, so we will go together this afternoon, and arrange for a detective to watch Mr. Spencer. Her friend, whose feelings towards her husband were hourly becoming more chaotic, meekly consented. A few minutes later tbo ladies loft the flat, and made their way down Uing Acre and (-Jan-irk Street into tbe Strand. Passing the hotel Magnlflque. Mrs. Poynter suddenly clutched her friend's arm with sue-h violence that she called out. "Good heavens!" she said. "<li<i you thai cab coming oul of the hotel I mean that cab going to- see courtyard ? wards Charing Cross Station, with two portmanteaux on top? I will swear * .. i i.i... *��-na mv liiiuhnml! tha? ��he man inside was my husband! Rut who on earth could the yellow- hatred woman with htm havo baan You are probably mistaken," said her friend. "London is a large city, there must be many men like Mr. Poynter. "I will swear it was my husband!" said the lady, almost in hysterics. "Oh what am I to do?���what am I to do*>" "Don't worry yourself till you are sure," answered Mrs. Spencer. "The man may only have been Mr. Poynter s double. You hear of such cases every day." "I must know for certain!" gasped the lady. "Suspense of this kind would drive me mad! I know what I'll do! I'll go to the hotel���you'll come with me���and I'll ask If my friends Mr. and Mrs. Poynter are staying there. If it was my husband, they will tell me they have only just left. Dno't you think lt is a good idea?" "Yes," replied her friend, "so long as he stayed there in his own name." Mrs. Poynter realised���should her doubts prove true���that she had received the hardest hit in her life. With her lips strangely white, and her heart beating like a sledge-hammer, she had made her way into the hotel courtyard, walking quickly through the grey dusk. "Are my friends Mr. and Mrs. Poynter staying here?" she asked at the bureau, and there was a break in ber voice, "They have been, madam," was the reply, "but they left a few moments ago. The yoften stay here for a few days." The lady almost staggered out into the Strand. "This Is the end of the world!" she gas ned. But the world still goes round.��� Nomad's Weekly. THE GREAT SCIENCE. It ls reported by the medical fraternity that 40 per cent of the deaths in .lollet Prison are from tuberculosis. The first thing they do to a sinner when they get him there is to vaccinate him. Iu the Kansas City Journal of May 15th appears the following: During the last year three members of the Journal have had appendicitis. In every case the doctor? urged an operation. In two cases the patient objected and no knife was used. In the third the knife was used. The patient that was operated on was buried last Sunday. The two others attended his funeral in good health." Great is medical science! He may be a good man who gets to church once on Sunday, but the sharp who goes twice needs watching, and it is advisable to have no 'dealings whatever with the fellow who is found there thrice on the one day. The world in what are called civilized countries is largely insane. As evidence read the dail papers for a few days. The false teaching of the church is largely responsible for the insanity, coupled with the superstition of medicine and the greed for mud or its variations. -.- 10 LOWBRY S CLAIM BILL BARLOW tin Sagebrush�� What a wealth of philosophy is contained in the quaint old saying "What people don't know don't hurt them." lt is a panacea for countless social and business ills, even if it is impossible from the standpoint of the moralist���out of line with what preachers tell us is thc divine plan, perhaps, and yet how practical as applied to the affairs of every day life. Harry Thaw married Evelyn Nesbitt-artlst's model, chorus girl and celebrated beauty. He knew Stanford White���noted as man-about- town who could and would advance ambitious foot light fairies If they proved com- plaisaut und willing* to pay the price. He knew, also, that Miss Nesbit had been a favorite with White, that he had given her continued financial aid, and that common report classed her as his mistress. .Doubtless Evelyn assured Hary that she was still a good girl, and believing he married her. He knew everything���but one thing. They lived together happUy, apparently, and doubtless would have continued to the end had the woman had sense enough to keep her mouth shut. But somehow���probably believing* in bis aasurancae that his love would overlook the fault if confessed and tbat he would forgive���as a result of persistent pleading that sbe. tell him the truth, and his oath that sbe would ever be held guiltless if wronged, loved all the more if lhat were possible���the poor little fool fell victim a second time to masculine persuasion, and told���admitted that White had seduced her and tbat prior to hcr marriage she had long been his mistress. Thaw shot aud killed White���pre- meditatively and without wanting���at the Madison Square roof garden the other night and is now an inmate of the Tombs fronted with the charge of murder, lila defense is: "He ruined my wife." "What people don't know don't hurt em." I am well aware that file quotation in itself, is wicked and the -sheerest sophistry���and yet, alter all, isn't horse sense'.' In this case confession haa neither salved the woman's conscience nor saved her soul. Instead, it has sent a libertine to judgment unshriven, taken from a wife that good name she could still claim and deserve, and brought the man she really loves to the gallows -to say nothing of the .shame and distress of family and friends, and the millions which muat now go to swell legal and corruption fund coffera II Harry Thaw la saved from the hangman. Nothing is gained, and everything is loat. You and I agree, 1 am sure, that Thaw never ought to have known-she.- never ought to have confessed other than within the shrine of her inmost soul-and him living and loving. It was a mistake���a crime���an unpardonable sin. There are many Evelyn Nesbit* in thia world of ours who, too. are wearing a wedding ring. She has told before under stress of loving entreaty, and will again- only to ibtterly regret It forever after. Torn with doubt and fear and goaded to desperation by that love and desire which counts the world as naught beside the sole and undisputed possession of one woman, other husbands have begged for the truth. With a heart overflowing with true affection they have sworn te forgive and forget ���and so saying believed that they would and could���and she���who away back yon- edr somewhere repented ln sackcloth and ashes and has been an honest woman since ���is dually convinced that it is for the best and sobs out her secret���betrayed a secotici time with consequences far more terrible to her, and for him. Some men do forgive, but none worthy the name can forget. Too often love, and with lt respect take wings, and a happy home becomes a living hell. Always there is suffering���at best the honey of life has lost ita savor���and Anally wo read that some poor uevll has brooded over the wrong done hlm as he believes until nothing short of blood atonement will serve, and has hunted dowu aud killed the seducer in cold blood, as this man did. Confession is good for the soul���sometimes; but it ls a virtue only as it serves to make amends���and as pertaining to the one high crime ln the masculine mind, a luxury which only tho woman who is ready to bid farewell to all hope of wifely happiness hereafter can affoid. Man ls too hellish-tor. proud of his right as lirst and last In possession If he be a man and truly loves her���to absolve as father toufessor. He may suspect; but he must not know. And���homely and crude If you will, but rock-ribbed ��� "What people don't know don't hurt them." Theatrical bussards who fatten ou female flesh might make note of thu fate ot Stanford White. There ls no atecret about It. in certain theatres and certain companies uo girl can get a place in front row or be assigned a prominent pr.rt unless she becomes the mistress of the manager, or some of his friends. Many a young woman of promising talent who is assigned a minor position during her lirst season and who righteously maintains her chastity in spite of every temptation, is frankly told that unless she oenscnts to become one of the harem she will not be re-employed. If She yields she is advanced for a time, and if she has ability to interpret her lines she can retain her position as long as she pays the price���If she refuses her stage career Is ended. She has ambition, and feels and knows that with op- portunity she can win thc coveted laurels of competency and histrionic success. Add to this knowledge tho lure of the golden apple as personified In those aliout her whom sbe knows have sold themselves��� and alas too often the, recording angel weeps as he writes���and the man monster makes an entry ln his diary, as did White, that he did on a certain date rob another young girl of her womanhood. And some day. please God. these beasts will get what isc oming to them as he did. ian Francisco has discovered a positive cure for suicide. Beforo the earthquake and flre the average was twelve mortuary shuffles a week���ascribed, as usual, to love affairs, poverty. Illness, financial reverses and the like. Since, there have been but three all told���to the disgust of the coroner and the astonishment of the statistician. The cure? Everybody is at work. It was a Detroit woman who did her hair, manicured her nails, put on her prettiest frock, apent her laat half dollar for white rosea and asaumlng a plctureaque pose drank the dose. She left a note explaining that she simply could not work for a living. Behind that mental degeneracy which led her to suicide waa a eense of shame-a mistaken Idea that honest labor meant humlllatlon-in which many Ban Franciscans would doubtless have shared only that for once there waa no such thing aa caste���neither social lines nor a leisure class���It waa the end of oue world und the beginning of a new, ln which everybody had to huatle. Sho had been reared In Idleness and suddenly found herself without home or friends. She saw but one way out of her troubles; but had she been a resident of 'Frisco's tent town at the time would probably -be alive and comparatively contented today. But work! ���of course she couldn't. Foolish, laty. empty headed creature. Doubtless she really thought It was her duty to die��� and who shall say her nay? ln truth the man or woman who deems it either hardship or humiliation to earn his or her own living la at home only when the coroner calls. In the suicide of this woman pride had a place; but as a matter of fact she was a victim of lunacy due to laslness. Cine doesn't have to be a specialist on mental malady to know that idleness breede the bug cerebellum. The healths* mind and body go hand In hand with the busy life. Lack of occupation leads to introspection���little troubles and disappointments soon become fearsome inflictions and back -breaking burdens���we brood until we are off balance. From lack of wholesome mental exertion the brain loses vitality. Medical science cannot supply the requisite stimulant, nor rebuild when ossltted from nonuse. Finally tbe sufferer is In a bad way���eventually he or she goes the Detroit way. or some other equally certain fo results. It Is the penalty of rust. No mechanic willingly consents that a machine shall stand Idle for long, for he knows that It means a loss In efficiency. Neglect to exercise thc machine Oesl made means corrosion and decay as well1 -neglect to use the mind means a loss of working force and unconscious but damning melancholia as result of distorted vision. And the rule applies to society and all government as well���nonuse spells evil, always. There is hope and happiness In duty, and life in labor. The Chicago dub woman who advocates the doctrine of "serene attitude" means well: but It Is the philosophy of toads and turtles. Thelr's Is the perfection of repose; but Deity evidently created us to other purpose. Worry Is often the rtpur of effort, and discontent does not necessarily spoil despair. Intercut lu anything means action���and action Is an Infallible panacea for most Ills. Countless volumes of damnonsense havc been and arc being written on the subject of labor���Its thraldom. Its pain and degredatlon. lt Is branded as a hardship���a calamity and curse���and roseate prophesies nre made concerning an era when all men will be free from its galling shackles. Pity the day! Labor transforms���creates and ex- halts���turns dead clay Into virile manhood. It Is the essential element which banishes savagery ��� which points to divinity. It developcH and builds character, gives color and form to aspiration and vigor to nerves and muscles. Tt cannot humiliate ��� ior every man killed because of It. thousands have perished mlnerably for want of It. And lack of labor, whereby the mind and body Is kept In order, brethren, has debased and ruined more than all other aids to human wretchednesa and misery and crime combined. Keep your mind aright, your body whole- -1 LOWHRYfl CLAIM 11 ���erne snd yeur soul awake through use. TrtuMes are seldom so serious and the world s oftlled with woe that it cannot be endured somehow. The woman who Is too good appaUs-ehe who la just a little bit bad appeals. A The attention of my e��Seemed friend and valued co-laborer In the moral vineyard, Mr. Anthony Comstock of New York. Is called to tho fact that a grave clanger threatens-that that unspeakably depraved creature Anna Held la preparing to Invade our Men again in October atyhe head of as bewitching a bunch of parleyvoo buda as2ever bumped the tin foil off afxiule or played a midnight matinee. The vehicle wftere-by the awful Anna b> to get the money this time la termed "The Paris Model." and they do say that It not only ajforda opportunity for the display of revising gowns and lavish legs and lingerie but comprises an impossible plot voluptuous scenes and sensational situations, and some songs which she herself admits with a wink of the wanton are downright wicked. On the occasion of the hist visit to thia country by the Held hussy 1 both wrote and wired Mr. Comstock concerning the outrageous conduct of herself and associates���protesting against the home dairy drvollette-feat which judging from such reports as came my way muat have -been something fierce, and the general bad- landlan character of the people and the play. A Dougtastte who happened hi New York at the time assured me cm his re turn home that he had recognised Anthony as occupying a seat In the shade of the first violin during at leaat two ot these shocking performances: but Mr. Comstock wrote me afterwards that he was bobbing for eels down on Chesapeake bay at the time, or tt never would have happened you bet. "Thc Parts Model" would seem to be what the ungodly and morally all-in would term a posthumous pippin. The Held woman. I g����t from the Paris papers. Is to wear a hippodrome hat. and a series of wonderful costumes Including a long shot at an occasional waist, high water hosiery and slippers with diamond studded heels. The play abounds In suggestive dances and poses, laerlvlous lines snd altogether songs -the whole exemplified In ph>sleal perfection staged In glad gowns and set to the seductive frou-frou of silken petticoats, it Is calculated to do great harm, particularly among the Innocent and unsophisticated -Uothnmltes, and I trust that Mr. comstock will see to It that the outfl is barred from the theatres of the city and run out of town���headed west. having to do only with antmala, I hasten to add���which organisation haa also appointed a committee which Is to sorter hold hands with Uncle Sam's agents, and the- whole to comprise an advisory board In what these damphools are pleased to term the semi-official department of eugenics���meaning the scientific breeding of man. Then, too. maybe you saw in form of a recent cable from London that the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Rlpon. in an address on the subject of marriage, regretted exceedingly tbat while Immense pains are bestowed upon training the young men for law and medicine, and where great Issues of state are Involved, there la no training for those about to undertake far more responsible duties toward human beings. "Some sort of educational home, where engaged persons may learn to fulfill their duties, seems to be necessary," he aaid, "and it will be welt if there la provided alao a home of rest for betrothed couples, after an educational course on the eve ot marriage." I take It that these people are all in��� mentally, and not forgetting physically. Nobody with an ounce of brain or a drop of blood the which was working would seriously attempt to interfere with the plan ��� evolved by Adam and Eve as pertains to [the origin and Increase of the human family, or hope to regulate and dictate the mating of men and women by law. There can be no other way. without first corralling: and hog-tlelng Cupid���or running the risk of arreat on the charge of keeping a disorderly house. Exact science has accomplished many things for which wc doff a thankful tile���haa achieved the impossible along many lines���but as pastor and pro- ehpt of the Red Corpuscle Push. I protest. Life without love tantalizing, teasing��� terrible! Take from the human pharmo- copeela that divine ellxer which creeps through all the senses as the perfume of the flower���which soothes and thrills���and which floods the brain with sweetest bliss and the heart with flre! Take away the kiss���the deity of desire and the red wine of possession���that consciousness of true affinity which sometimes so surpasseth all understanding that It counts the world well lost for a few short hours In what is set down on the maps of conventionality as a fool's paradise! Destroy the source of insplrntlon-the origin of every noble attribute and beautiful thing! Tell him he must keep off the grass and shady lanes and that he cannot longer differentiate hot air as he squoaes her hand! The selection of a partner for life merely,--*./*, matter of a place ln line and the wink of a one-eyed clerk through a window! The hold state of matrlmany boiled down to a rain check! ����w.. a..tv.rtm��>ut of eugenics bedamned. of plants and animals, but lt ls so Important that science and religion should join lt��� with the object certainly ot conservation and possibly of construction.". Guarded ���very-4ntt coming as it does frofi the secretary of the American Breeders' association lt Is but natural ts�� surmise that the next thing will be a schedule of brands ages and weights���and then a stud book. And then���behold the blue ri!>boh. Concerning the training school for engaged couples urged by tbe good bishop of Rlpon, I persume the less said the better. A curriculum which would pass muster, or the selection of a faculty acceptlble to all interested would seem to be impossible. A home of rest for these unfortunates prior to the final catastrophe is likewise impracticable, ln that the need of for something of that sort ls never felt until after. While the scientific breeding of plants and animals has really accomplished marvellous results, yet my congregation may be able to gather from these few rambling remarks that I am not inclined to accept Mr. Hayes' scheme as worthy of even semi-serious consideration. It won't work so long as Cupid's shingle swings at the same old stand���he brooks no interference with his business. Eros is as active, buoyant, warm, gushing and blind as ever. And anyway these dried ups needn't worry��� As civilization advances romantic love��� which Is the Inspiration of marriage and deity's sweetest flower���will increase in potency and purity���because men and Women are human and the general tendency or the race is upward all the time. They cannot be mated as are the beasts of the field. But say���if they ever should be, it would sure be twenty-three for you, Mr. Race Suicide. Anent this crusade against tainted meats, haa anyone thought to look Into the condition of auch hams as are nightly exposed for barter and sale neath the proscenium* of an appreciative Christendon? Possibly you saw in the public prints not long ago that Assistant Secretary Hayes of the Department of Agriculture bad named a committee of scientists to investigate heredity In man. with a view to the general upbuilding of the race by the elimination of tha weak and vicious strains ana the preservation of all that ia beat in tne species." Mr. Hayes, in addition to nw governmental distinction. Is the ���^7""* of tbe American Breeders* association- Th*- departmoiit of cugenH* ..Th, �����*.�� of ��.-����� 2*ri^5 psychologists, is a iu ab8oluteiy instinct." Josso And Jt Ma ruled the world since Adam and , proposed to *^^$*mi* classes, and worn ^ ^eti. Breedcrs' and a license ^.^^rlage-heretotore association. Behold ���r',Ag rnmCntal ""Ml ESSEEg&S and P���� agencies on a coia.ro (preat re_ Biological basis- Jus. n��T Mr Hayes -- ��l =r=.::.".:.' = TH�� CONQUEROR. Drunken with victory, their hordes surge by; Prone wit hthe dead am I; but through the smoke Glimmers the face of Truth, for whose dear sake I fight, or die, or wear the csptive's yoke. ���L. H. Hammond, in Harper's. Canada is a wonderful country filled with what they call religion, and yet its jails are full, and the people are so thirsty ln some places that the. saloons have to keep open all night/ Per* haps it Is the food, for nearly all food and drink sold in Canada is adulterated. Man grown to the adult period of life does not believe seriously in Santa Claus. He looks upon old Santa as a harmless delusion of his childish days. Why does man regret Santa Claus and hold on to a sill belief in bible gods; holy ghosts, myths, miracles and the Jesus spook? Simply because be does not think, and Is worked for a soft thing by a class of parasites who make their living by peddling theological dope. ���mw��m^mmm^w^mwmmrm^mwim^mm^��^^mm^^*m��n*3*9 Owing to the fact that Lowery's Claim is not permitted to use the malls In -Canada and that I have to send it by express it has become necessary for me to raise the subscription price to $2 a year. My friends can thank the, Laurler government for the vaise, .* n LOWERY'S CLAIM. WMf ������e*" ���-*-��� #�����.����������* The Great Eddy* .. Recently I spent two days at Concord, Kew Hampshire. I stopped at the Eagle Tavern where Franklin Jfierce used to make his home. I slept on the bed that president Pierce used, being charged fifty cents extra for the felicity. How many of these beds the genial host has, I did not ascertain. We have had twenty-six presidents���we will have more. Every American born boy may be president, we are told, which, of course, is not so. Mathematics forbid; Concord Is the home of Governor Rollins, who Inaugurated "Old Home Day,".a Yankee Inspiration, now borrowed by all the Eastern, Middle and Southern States., Webster used to practice law here; his form In bronze is in the public square, and nearby is a fine statuo of the husband of Mollie Stark, who was not a widow. Senator Galligher lives at Concord and he is a better man by far than Pierce ever was. Gallinger is a doctor, and the only physician in the United States senate. Gallinger has been re-elected three times, succeeding himself without opposition. Gallinger enjoys the listinction of being one of the very few men in the senate who are not rich. His income is his salary and nothing more. Dr. Gallinger came back to Concord when 1 lectured there���not to hear the Goou Stuff, I am sorry to say. but to attend a case of obstetrics. The mother was finicky and as Dr. Gallinger had looked after her successfully on three similar occasions, she insisted on the Senator this time. He came bringing with him his senatorial courtesy, and charged no mileage. The bill passed without opposition. The Doctor was in a happy mood when I saw him, his work being done. "Yes." he said, "we have had some pretty good men In Concord, but the place will be remembered for a woman." "One of your patients?" I asked. "Oh, she might have been years ago��� I know her well���I really believe I taught her a few things���by antithesis!" Dr. Gallinger had only words of praise for the woman who has landed so severely on the solar plexus of his profession. "A very great and noble personality," he repeated. There Is an adage that a prophet ls not without honor save in his own country. An adage la aofetlmes true and sometimes not. In the case of Mary Baker Eddy the adage just quoted goes awry. Mra. Eddy has the good will of Concord and very many of the leading men and women of the city are Christian Scientists. The christian Science church at Concord cost upwards of two hundred thousand dollars, and was the gift of Mrs. Eddy. Over the entrance, cut deep in granite, are the words, "Preaented by Mary Baker Eddy. Diacoverer and Founder of Christian Science." Aa to the atatement that the truths of Christian Science have always been known and practiced by a few, Mrs. Eddy issues her direct challenge. In ej-fr her.-literature she seta out the unqualified statement that she Is the "Diacoverer and the Founder." She is not apologetic���she assumes no modesty she does not feel���she speaks as one hevim authority aa did Mosea ef old, ��� "Thus saith the Lord!" She enters Into no joint debates; she does not answer back. This intense conviction which admits of no parley ia one of the secrets of her power. Up to ten years ago the Billingsgate Calendar waa sent suddenly on all occasions In her direction. Now Mrs. Eddy has won, and legislation and courts have whistled ln their hounds. Your right to keep well in your own way is fully recognised. Doctors are not liable when they give Innocent sweetened water and call lt medicine, nor do we place Christian Chi- entists oa trial If their patients die. any more than we do the M. D.'s. Mrs. Eddy has tinted .the entire ao called sciences of both medicine and theology. Even those who deny her and nolsly discard her are debtors to her. Homeopathy modified the dose of all the Allopathlsts; and Christian Science has nearly eliminated the Hahnemanlan theory of attenuations, it having been found that the blank tablet cures quite as effectively as the one that is medicated. Christian Science has made greater head In the thirty years of its existence than Christianity made in ita first thousand years. The statement of Heine, that Christianity was a religion of sorrow, waa a point well made. Christianity was founded by lowly, unsuccessful, whlpped-out, depressed people. Ita cries of triumph are hysterical, Its joys pathological, its shibboleth pain. Christian Science docs not shout, rant, defy or preach. It Is poised, silent, and the flagellants, like thc dervishes, are noticeable by their absence. The Rev. Billy Sunday is not a Christian Scientist. The Chriatlan Scientist does not cut into the grape; specialise on the elevated spheroid; devote hia energies to bridge whist; cultivate the scandal microbe; join the anvil chorus or shake the red flag of wordy war. fare. He is diligent In business, fervent In spirit, accepts what comes without protest. Indeed the extreme placidity of many a Christian Scientist Is rather exasperating, and If the cult ever goes into decline it will be because It splits upon the rocks of smugness and success. My opinion is that Christian Science will survive every foe but prosperity. Mary Baker Eddy has.lived a very human life. Through her manifold experiences she has gathered gear���she Is a very great and wise woman. She la ao great that ahe keeps her own counsel, recelvea no vl8ltora,makea no calls, haa no Thursday, writes no letters, and never even goes to the church that ahe preaented to her native town. She has becer, *?. it but one* and that was when no service waa held and she sat alone and read my ".Essay on Silence." thus carrying out the dictum of Bernard Shaw that you should not go to church when the preacher Is there. Tier home, hearing: the simple name or "Pleasant View." is a well bull* house ���...r, .-.-.u-Mi f.-r,r��> ��h" enter of tbe town. The bnck of the house Is to the road. i*iHa bulletin? \* not nestle nor "retentions. Tt did not cost as much ns the low eranlte w��lt tr-a* r��n* alone In front with the rtone arch, with the word EDDY carved In ih* Vnvfi��onA that stand-* In front. T sat on the steps of the south plusaa. nmi awied on the ereat wide stretch of meadow, dotted with Hewers: the winding invar, thi plaalej pool, tha pratty -dimmer house and the dark grove ot pines Just beyond. From her window Mrs. Eddy can see the site ot the houae where she waa born. Mra. Eddy, aa I aaid, sees no visitors, and of course, sensible people^do not seek to press themselves upon her, and the Others are not Interested. But. every day In the year at exactly one forty-five, no matter what the weather���rain, hall, snow or sunshine, the big* barouche Is brought around to the front of the houae and Mra. Eddy walks down the steps and enters the carriage. .^4 Delegations and parties of pilgrims no longer visit Pleasant View, but those who come alone or in pairs are quite weicom-- to wander ln the garden, over meadow, or through the woods of Mrs. Eddy's larm at sweet will. I stood With alx others on the lawn When the driver stopped the carriage with the big brown horses at Ihe south door or Pleasant View. On the minute the door opened and Mrs. Eddy walked down the Steps, unattended, and with no hand on'the railing. Mrs. Eddy's step Is light, hcr form erect���a slender, handsome, queenly woman. She is fifty you would say. The fact is she was born In 1821, and although she keeps no birthdays, she might have kept eighty-five of them. Her face shows experience, but not age. The corners of her mouth do not turn down. Her eyes are not dimmed nor her face wrinkled. She was dressed all ln white satin and looked like a girl going to a ball. Her hat was a milliner's dream; her gloves came to the elbow and were becomingly wrinkled; her form Is the form of Bernhardt; thc rich embroidered white cloak carried on her arm cost eight hundred dollars. Her secretary stood at the carriage door, his head bared. He did not offer his hand to the lady nor seek to assist her .into the carriage. He knew his business-a sober, silent, muscular, bronze.!, farmer-like man. who evidently saw .verything and nothing. He closed the carriage door and took his seat by the side of the driver, who wore no livery. The men looked like brothers. The big brown horses started slowly away; they wore no blinders nor check reins��� they, too, have banished fear. The coachman drove with %a loose rein ��� looking straight out ahead. The next day I waited on Main street to see Mra. Eddy again. At exactly two- fifteen the big, brown, slow-going horses turned Into Main street. Drays pulled Into the curb, automobiles stopped, people stood on the street corners, and some, the pilgrims, uncovered. Mra. Eddy sat back in her carriage, holding In her white gloved hands a big spray of apple blossoms, the same half smile of satisfaction on her face -the mil* cf Pope) t/co -XlYl. The woman Is a veritable queen, snd some of her devotees, not without reason call her the Queen of the World. Home doubtless pray to her. which Is as sweetly reasonable aa to pray to Jeaus or His Mother. Mrs. Eddy knows more than either of them, or both ever knew. Why not���they lived two thousand years ago. She has met problems that never came to them: done things of which they never dreamed: surmounted obstacles which they' never guessed. Mrs. Eddy has heen married three times. First to'Gilbert <��lover. an excellent and worthy man. the father of her one -on On tha death of tttevir-. LOW&RY'S CLAIM It the child was taken by Glover's mother and secreted so effectually that, his mother did not pes him until he waa thirty- four years old, and the father of a family. Her second husband was a man by the name of Mudd. who was not only a rogue, but a fool a flashy one, who turned the head of a lone tern youug widow, who certainly was not infallible in judgment, ln two years the wife got a divorce from Mudd on the grounds of cruelty and deser. tion, at Salem Massachusetts. Her third marital venture was Dr. Eddy, a practicing physician-a man ot much intelligence ami worth. From him Mrs. Eddy learned the so called aclenee oi medicine, which she soon saw was no science at all. Mrs. Eddy haa stated that her hubaand was her first convert, and he gave up his practice to assist his wife in putting before the world the unreality of disease. That he did not fully grasp the idea to shown ln this that he died of pneumonia. This however did not shake the faith or Mrs. Eddy In the doctrine that sickness waa an error of mortal mind For a good many years Mrs. Kddy drove the memory of her two good husbands tandem, hitched by a hyphen, thus: Mary Baker Glover- Eddy. Many women have joined their own names with that of their husband, but what woman ever before ao honored the two men she had loved by coupling their names? Getting' married to a bad habit, Mra. Eddy would probably say, but you have to get married to find It out. fn 1K71 Mrs. Eddy organized the first Church of Chriat, Scientist, and became its pastor. In 1881, being then sixty years or age. she founded "The Metaphysical College" ln Boston. For ten years she had been speaking In public affirming tnat health waa our normal condition and that as a man think, th in his heart, so la he. From her fiftieth to her sixtieth year h^he was gia.l to speak for what was offered, although } believe even then she hkd discarded the good old priestly habit of taking up a collection. The Metaphysical College was started for the purpose of preparing students to teach Mrs. Eddy's doctrine. Thc business ability of the woman was shown In thus organUIng and allowing no one to teach who waa not duly prepared. These students were obliged to pay a good stiff tuition, which fact mad. them appreciate- what they got. In turn they went Out and taught, and all students paid, and do yet, I believe, the tidy sum of one hundred dollars for the lessons. Salvation may lie free but Christian Science costs money. The genua piker to eliminated, and thus Christian Science ia a religion ot quality, Mrs. Kddy always claimed that It wsa better to slve her the hundred dollars thasi It was to - give It to a doctor. Possibly she is right-I dare not say. The fee is double 'what la coats to join the Elks. Unkind critics have said that Christian Aclenee* to a scheme for selling a book. If so, It is a good one. ��� Mrs. Eddy makes no pretence of living the rife of Jeeue. He representa one side of truth and ahe another. She saya come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you a book bound in doth for threo dollars; calf, five dollars, and levant alx dollars. Mrs. Eddy never saya "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them -Dot.!'-for how couU ahe take the youngsters on har knee with that satin robs and the broldered surplice.' Mra. Eddy owns and holds the most beautiful monopoly the world haa ever seen. She manages the best methodised institution in the world, save only the Roman Catholic church and the Standard cjti company. How many million copies or j Science and Health have been sold no man lean say. What percentage of the money I from lessons goes to Mrs. Eddy, only an : Armstrong committee could ascertain, and iit is really nobody's business, but hers. | That Mrs. Eddy has some very skiirul ��� business managers and advisers goes without saying. But here is the point: she j selected them, and she ia-supreme. And jnote the greatness of the woman in keeping herself free from all details, living here in the country in seeming sylvan calm, and yet with her fingers on the pulse of millions. The shrewdness of Mrs. Eddy waa shown In this���that she used Christianity to build upon, not asking her "students" to discard tbeir old faith, but merely to extend it. Thus does she disarm the wary. Her votaries are those who have come out of the old orthodox churches. That the student who pays a hundred dollars gets his money's worth, I have no doubt. Not that he understands the lessons, or that any one can or does, but he gets a feeling of courage and a oneness with the whole which causes health to flow through his veins and his heart to throb with joy. The lesson may be to him a jumble of words, a mystical gibberish, but he expects soon to grow to a man's science���she knows 1 And it la good because It la good-this to a aclenee sound enough for anybody, only it ia not tho aclenee of Darwin, Spencer or Haeckel. Christian Science is scientific, but not for the reasons that its promoters maintain. Male Christian Scientists do not growl and kick the cat. Women Christian Scientists do not have either the grouoh or meddler's itch. Among them there are no dolorosos, grumperinos, beggars, gamblers or drunkards. -They respect all other denominations, having a serene faith that all will yet see the light���that is to say, adopt the doctrines of Mary Baked Eddy. The most radical among old school doctors could not say that Mrs. Eddy's own life is not conducted on absolutely scientific lines. She never answers the telephone, nor fusses nor .fumes. She hires big safe people, and pays them big wages. She pays her coachman fifty dollars a week and her cook In proportion, and thus gets people who giv her peace. She goes to bed with the birds and awakens with the dawn, ln summer at five o'clock in the morning she works in her garden or walks alone across the fields, tbe very fields over which she strolled and played in childhood. Often she walks a mile to a certain big rock where she sits to watch tho sunrise. But very recently, on finding a party of pilgrims there ahead of her, who had timed her habits she changed her program and now follows the winding river or goes another way as inclination prompts. At seven o'clock she is at her desk die- point where the lines are luminous, in tatlng aasWSfetJ ^^JS^SflS the meantime all he knows is that where- her ^^^^jto^Au* She has breakfast at nine o'clock���eats anything she likes, taking her time and Flet- cherizlng. After breakfast she works at her manuscripts until it is time for the dally drive. At four o'clock she diPdes��� two meals a day belngithe invariable rule. Occasionally she goes out and talks to the men tn the fields and visits, the All Baba who has charge of the *arn. She knows her horses and cows and sheep by name and gives requests aa to their care, holding that the laws of mind obtain aa to dumb animals the same as man. Dogs she does not care for and if she had an a Version it would be cats. Her servants she culls "my helpers," Every (real Institution is hut the length-* and while the outside*public and all Inter- shadow of B man, says Emerson. ' viewers are excluded, her helpers go to her Science Is but the lengthened at will and tell their troubles if they have Her spirit pre- any or are afflicted with trouble belief. Christian Scientists very naturally believe tn the equality of sexes. When girl bablea are born to them they bless ,God as he was once lame he can now walk. Even the most bigoted and prejudiced now agree that the cures of Christian Science ure genuine. If a man has hreumatism or thinks he has it, and you can convince him that he hasn't got it, you have benefitted him, and the question of whether he had it or not ls not material or relevant. People who think they have trouble have It, and it is the same with pain. Imagination is the only sure enough thing in the world. Mrs. Eddy's doctrines abolish pain and therefore abolish poverty, for poverty In ArneHca Is a disease of the will. ened Christian shadow of u great woman, dominates and runs threuigh every "Reader" and "Student." Mrs. Eddy's cbiet characteristics are: First: Love of beauty as manifest in bodily form, In dress and suroundlngs. Second: A seal for system, order and concentrated effort on the particular business she undertakes. Third: A dignity, courage, self-sufficiency and self-respect that comes from a belief In her own divinity. Fourth: An economy of time, money, materials, energy and emotion that wastes nothing, but which continually conserves and accumulates. ��� ��� ! Fifth: A liberality, when advisable, which 1 sonly possible to those who also economise. Sixth: Yankee shrewdness lh looking out for number one. Great common sense, all just the same aa when boy babies are born. Indeed they bless God for everything, for to them all ia beautiful and all ls good. There are more women "readers" than men. Women apeak from their pulpits with words of authority. Paid preachers they do not have; they do not believe in priests or certain men who are*, nearer to God than others. All have access to Eternal truth, and thus to the ecclesiastic excluded.- To eliminate the theological middleman la well, .and. aa for the church Itself, surely Mra. Eddy has eliminated It also, for she never-enters a church, or at least not once a year, and then it Is ln deference to folks, not God. . She worships by the river banks; ln ths is LOWERY'S CLAIM. into the east and the darkness flees away. She prays at her dask. aa she rides slowly in regal state through the public streets, at the barn with her cows, or ln the hay- field talking to the sweating laborers. A Church! Is it necessary? For hersell Mrs. Eddy says, No. But for others, ahe says, Ves, a church to good for those wno need it. , Mrs. Eddy to the most .successful author In the world, or that the world has ever seen. No author ever made aa much money as she, none to more devoutly read. Shakespeare .with hia fortune of a quarter of a million dollars fades Into comparative failure, and Arthur Brisbane with his salary of seventy-five thousand a year , to an office boy compared with thia regal woman who gives a hundred thousand a year to the people of Vermont for good roads. Mrs. Eddy reads no newspapers, nor to any ever carried to her house. She to a life member of the American Academy ot Immortals, and her secretary told me that she reads the Choice Stuff with pleasure. because lt makes her tough. 1 hope the secretary meant to be complimentary, although 1 did not care to follow, the subject further. On the occasion of my lecture at Concord, Mrs. Eddy sent ten dol- rlas down to the local Major Pond for tickets. The Major was jubilant; he called me up by telephone In nervous haste to tell me the glad tidings of great joy. Mary Baker Eddy waa coming to hear me speak ���it was the first time she bad ever attended . a lecture for twenty-two years- hurrah! or words to that effect. But Mra. Eddy was not there; she gave the tickets tocher helpers. She did not even send her regrets, because she never regrets anything;*, ��� . Th vftM-y boldness of Mra. Eody's claims create! an Impetus that carries conviction. The woman believes In .herself, and she also believes ln the Power, of which she is a necessary part, that works for righteousness. She repullates the supernatural, not by denying miracles, but by holding: that the so called miracles of the bible that really occurred were perfectly natural ���al according to Natural Law which to the Divine Law. And the explanation of the Divine Law la her particular bualnes. Thus does she win to her side those too timid in constitution to forsake forms and ceremonies and stand alone on the broad ground of Rationalism. Unltarianlsm and Unlversallsm straddle the fence; Mra. Eddy removes the fence and invites ua to enter a wide grassy lawn, beautiful, peaceful, harmonious, dotted with flowers a whits summer house near, a rippling stream dancing over Its rocky bed just beyond, and all around the green hills covered with sombre pines. Christian Science to not a religion ot fight, stress and atrugle, hence the placidity and amile of content. Isn't lt better to relax and rest and alow divinity to now through us than to alt on a sharp rail and call the paaseraby names ln falsetto? May Irwin's motto, "Don't Argufy," isn't so bag as a working maxim, after all. between a Roman Catholic and an Episcopalian. But Christian Selene* to a complete departure from all other denominations, and while proteasing to be Christian to really something else, or If lt to Chriatlan, then orthodoxy la not. Christian Science atrlkes right at the root of orthodoxy, since it divides the power ot Jesus with Mary Baker Eddy, and atnrma that Jesus waa not THE Saviour, but A aavlour. This to the position of Thomas Paine, and all other good radicals. Christian Science places Mrs. Eddy's work righl alongside the bible. Mra. Eddy boldly calls her book "A Key to the Scriptures," and then tells us that without this key the scriptures are closed and locked. No denomination haa ever put out a volume stating that the book waa required ln order to make the bible intelligible. No denomination has ever put forth a person as the equal of Jesua. Thia has only been done by the unbeUevers, atheists and free thinkers. Christianity is at last attacked in its own houae by Its own household. i It to thoroughly understood and admitted everywhere that there are two kinds or Christianity. One to the kind taught by the Nasarene, and the other kind the Institutional denominations which hold millions upon millions of dollars' worth ot property without taxation, and parades its ritual with rich and costly millinery. The one was lived by a Man who had not where to toy hto head, and the other waa an acquirement taken over from pagan Rome and continued largely ln Its pagan form even unto this day. Christian Science to neither one nor the other, and the obvious pleasantry that it to neither Christian nor scientific, to a jest In earnest. Christian Science to a modern adaptation of all that to best in the simplicity and asceticism of Jesus; the common sense philosophy of Benjamin Franklin; the mysticism of Sweden bor g. as you belong you are fettered, riveted wrist to bar, bound to the Institution. Christian Science to not Anal. After it haa lived Ua day, another religion will tei low, and that to the Religion of Coaunea- aense, the esoteric religion whioh Mra. Eddy herself Uvea and practices. As for her believers, she gives them the rettgtou of a Book���two Books, the Bible and Science and Health. They want ijrm aiid ritual and temples. She gives them thjise things just as doctors give sweetened water to people who still demand medicine. and as if to supply the aealoua converts. just out of orthodoxy, their fill of ecclesiastical husks, she builds ln Boston the finest church edifice In America���a churcn rivaling the far famed San -Salute ot Venice. Let them have their wtoh-Pagan- tom ls ln their blood���they are even trying to worship her. Let them go on and eventually they vlll evolve a point where they can live the life of the soul, and worship, not in temples nor on this mountain, but ln spirit and ln truth, just as does. Mary Baker Eddy, the most aucesstul and the greatest woman in the world today. ELBERT Hl'BKAHl). and the bold pronunclamento of Robeec jibe fireflies All Christian denominations are very much alike. Their differences are microscopic, and recognised only by those who are Immersed ln them. Martin Luther only softened tbe expression of the Roman Catholic church, he Ola not change its essence. Benjamin Franklin declared he could not tell the difference Ingersoll. It to a religion of affirmation with a denial of matter attachment, lt la the religion of this world. ( Jesus was a Man of Sorrows, but Mary Baker Eddy la a Daughter of Joy. And as the universal good sense of mankind holds that the best preparation for a life to come, if there to one, to to make the best of this, Christian Science ls meeting with a fast growing popular acceptance. The decline of the old orthodoxy ls owing to ita clinging to the fallacy that the world's work is base, and nature a trickster looming us to our doom. Mra. Eddy reconciles the old Idea with the new and makes it mentally palatable. And this to the reason that Christian Science la going to sweep the earth and In twenty years will have but one competitor, the Roman Catholic church. Orthodoxy, blind, blundering, stubborn, senile has got to go���the undertaker to at the door. Indeed, the old idea of our orthodox friends that they were preparing to die was literally true. The undertakers name and business address attached to the front of many a city church to a sign too subtle to overlook. Not only was the undertaker a partner of the priest, but he is now foreclosing hia claim on the whole affair. Both Orthodoxy and Christian Science are religions of authority and will have to die. Mankind muat be free. The person who belongs, why, he "belongs" and aa long A SPINSTER -SAYS THAT A man and a strange umbrella very often go without saying. All men are equal the day they are born and the day they are burled. The bachelor leads a single life but the married man to often led. Some men grumble because they can't find anything to grumble about. I havn't much confidence in a man whose dog refuses to follow him. When a man atarts out to paint the village, he never uaes water colors. Anyway, no woman can toco herself aa tight as a man can drink himself. AGAINST THE OPEN SHOP Tbey sat on the ruatlc bench counting "Darling." he whispered softly, "may print a kiss on your cherry lips?" The beautiful girl stared at him searcb- ingly. "Do you belong to the Printers' union if" ahe asked quickly. l In FRANKLIN TOWNSITE. Ijots now on the market Prices range from |65 to $135. Terms, one-third down; balance six and twelve months. This town Is beautifully situated, 42 miles from Orand Forks, on the banks of the North Fork ot the Kettle River, and la.aurrounded on all sides by the largest and richest copper showings in British Columbia; namely the McKinley, Gloucester, Banner, Jumbo, Maple Leaf, M. 8., Victoria, and many others. The townsite streets are cleared. Wagon road ia -finished, and tne Kettle Valley railroad is rushing construction to thia camp. The Great Northern surveyors are in the field, and it la definitely announced that sixteen miles.of the road will be built thia summer. Hotel and store buildings In course of erection and a waterworks system. ia being Installed. From one to two stages leave Grand Forka daily. For full Information address A. ERSKINB SMITH ft CO., Qrand Forks, B. 0, L0WBRY8 CLAIM. IS TRUST 18 WILLING After the Trust had wrung tribute from the public for many years, the head wan of it became alarmed for his soul aud asked the Church what he should do to be saved. -Give me money with which to convert the heathen and teach them to live like Christians." aaid the Church. "With all my heart," aaid the man. perceiving lhat If the heathen were to live like Christians, his truet would be able to wring tribute from them also.��� Life. One should love the truth earnestly and with one's whole heart; and therefore, unconditionally, without reserve; before everything, aud, In case of necessity, even to the defiance of every- t hiug���Schopeuhauer. THAT WASN'T GEORGES REASON A blue dtoomnd recently passed through the New York customs bouse that was valued at $70,090. my love. " ���Who was It for, dearr* ��� The lady's name to kept a secret, my love." ���You wouldn't get that kind of a diamond for roe. would you dear?" No. my love. 1 wouldn't." And you know you wouldn't, don't you?" i think I do, my love/* "Yes. you dear boy, of course, you know. It a because I'm a brunette and blue don't harmonise with my complexion. The blabop of Gal way says there wuuld be leas lunacy in Ireland If the children were fed more on potatoes and oaimeal and less on tea. This Is one of the best sermons we have ever heard a bishop accused of speaking. The Reception Hotel IN CAMBORNE Gives all Us patrona the purest rood, drink and cigars. JAMES LINDSLEY, Proprietor Phoenix ls so high up ln the atmosphere that some of the inhabitants, in- | eluding the "judge," can, by standing on their toes tipped see St. Peter at the big gate pointing tbe politicians to tbe lower entrance. He that loves life overmuch shall die The dog's death, utterly: And be thst much less loves it thnn he hates All wrong-doing that is done Anywhere always underneath the sun Sliall live a mightier life than time's or fate's. ���Swinburne. The reward in Canada for publishing a paper that will make people think Is to get shut out of the malls. Twelve back numbers ot IXnVKRVS CLAIM, and a copy of Float are sent postpaid to any addre*s in this world for ONE DOLLAR. Buy a bunch and strengthen toe hand that ghts the world No one ever feels helpless by tbe aide or the self helper; whilst the self-sacrl- flcer ls always a drag, a responsibility, a reproach, an everlasting and unnatural trouble with whom no really strung -soul can live. Only those who have helped themselves know how to help others and to respect Iheir right to help themselves.���G. B. Shaw. It Is a curious paradox thst precisely In proportion to our own Intellectual weakness will be our credulity to those uiyat.��rtoua powers assumed by others; *nd in those regions or darkness snd ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there wa shaft ever find that a blind belief In teats that are far beyond tboae powers haa taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived and pro-; ouced the richest harveat to the knavery of the decetver.-Colton. A blue touch hers means that this is a sample copy, and that your are requested to send a dollar for a Year's subscription. The Fernie Ledger FERNIE. B. C. to the best newspaper In the Crow'a Neat Pass coal region. Two dollars a year. D. V. MOTT, Editor. Sharp & Irvine Mining Brokers Active minin gstocks bought and Bold, Drawer 1082, Nelaon, B.C. Rooms 306-6, Peyton Block, Spokane, Wash. The Windsir Hotel OF GRAND FORKS rulers to miners, mechanics and smelter- mem, i A. B. SLOAN, Manager. THE HOTEL SLOCAN THREE PORKS, B.C. Is the leading hotel of the city. Mountain trout and game dinners a specialty. Rooms reserved by telegraph. HUGH NIVEN, Proprietor S. J. Mighton CRANBROOK. B. C. Has the largest stock of Pipes, Tobaccos, Cigars and Smokers' Sundries in the interior of B. C. Mail orders receive prompt attenUon. Cranbrook Hotel Cranbrook, B.C. U convenient to all depots, telegraph offices and banks in the city. Special attention paid to tourists, commercial and oterwlse. The cuisine is excellent, and all guest, receive courteous attention. Touch the wire when you want rooms served. When a new religion takes possession ��J a people It never destroys the mass of the beliefs which have taken root ln their hearta; It fortifies them rather by adapting itself to them. To conquer Paganism Christianity was obliged to transform itself; lt became Latin ln Latin countries. -German In German countries, Mohammedanism in Persia, in Hindustan, ln the Island ot Java, serves simply aa a vestment and a v��ell tor the old Zoroastrlan, or Brahman, or Budd- fclitic belleta-eM. Quyau, Hoggarth * Hollini. Proprietors Kooteoay EogiDeering Works Nelson. B. C. Founders, Machinists and Iron Worker! Makers of the Crawford Aerial Tram- Castings. Builders Materials, Mill and Mlolng Machinery. B. C. TRAVIS P. 0. Boi 4M MANAGER. IHtOQTENAY SALOON SANDON, B.C. Has a line of nerve bracera unsurpassed in any mountain town of the great west. A glass of aflua pura given free wRb every shot of spirits menti. ^--������-n-, PACIFIC COA8T BEEPS FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, GREENHOUSE PLANTS, Floral Work, Home industry. Catalogue free. HENRY'S NURSERIES Seed House and Greenhouses, 3010 Westminster Road, Vancouver, B.C. 00 Pitfier & Leiser Victoria, Bole Agents. Munro's Old Highland and Whlteley's Llquer Whiskies are the beat Cfias. Burt Agent, Nelson. ���5 16 LOWERY'S CLAIM Tbe agents of the government In ���Canada are often rude in their treatment of the public. All public servants who are discourteous should be reported as some officials get the swelled head and lasy movement when too long iu possession of a soft snap. The wise men of Paris now tell us that appendicitis Is caused by three different kinds of worms and that the use of thymol will cure the disease. These worms are largely roused through ��ating vegetables grown in soil upon which sewage has been used as a fertiliser. Another argument against Chinese vegetables or fruits. The wise men also say that an operation for appendicitis is never necessary except when a cherry stone or something similar gets in the appendix, and this Is an exceedingly rare occurrence. If the above be true thousands have been butchered in ignorance. When you want a monument or headstone write to the Kootenay Marble Works, Nelson, B. C. "Some British Columbians have their kidneys encased ln scale. Their joints creak with rheumatism; their bladder is stopped with petrified deposits; yet their upper shelf is so dusty with mistrust of local enterprise that they have not yet telephoned to No. 60, Nelson, for Thorpe's Llthia." About Float. Float is not a periodical, It la a book containing 86 illustrations, all told, and ls filled with sketches and stories of western life. It tells how a gambler cashed in after the flush, daya of (Sandon; hoar it rained in New Denver long after Noah was dead; bow the parson took a drink at Bear Lake In early 'days; how justice was dealt In Kaslo in '93; how the saloon man out prayed the women in Kalamazoo, and graphically depicts tbe roamlngs of a western editor amongst the tenderfeet in the cent belt. It contains the early history of Nelson and a romance of the Silver King mine. Tn It are printed three western poems, and dozens of articles too numerous to mention. Send for one before It is too late. The price Is 25 cents, postpaid to any part ot tbe world. Address all letters to R. T. LOWERY, Nelson, B. C. ��� THORPE'S 3 GINGER ALE It Equal to Any Made ln the World. Factories at H Victoria NELSON Vancouver '3 ���mTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT HOTELS OUT WEST The Kaslo Hotel !'��� '^.VT In the city. COCKLE & PAPWORTH. Tremont House S^S & %$�� lean and Kuropean plan. Nothing yellow about the house except the gold In the safe. MALONE X TRECHLLU8. THE Newmarket Hotel ft, th���e.i tSSt tots and millionaires, visiting New Denver, B. C. ,. * HENRY STttUE. St. Elmo feSL ���!'"<?"* Bow " JAS. DAWSON, Brop. J. D. ANDERSON Civil Engineer and Provincial l*and Surveyor TRAIL, B.C. Still retains ita aupremacy as the best hotel ln the Kootenays. OSTERMOOR MATTRE88E8, CLEAN LINEN. GOOD COOlilNU. Excellent hunting In season. Good trout dishing lu th eElk river and neighboring streams. Addresn all communications to Thomas Crahan, Manager MICHEL, B. C. Starkey & Oo. NELSON. B.C. Wholesale Dealers In Produce nnd Provisions P. BURNS & CO. Shops In all leading towns. Contracts solicited to supply armies and railroads. HEAD OFFICE Calgary; Alberta. FRUIT LANDS J. In 10 nnd 20 nc*re�� Block! ON KOOTENAY la km For sale on easy terms. ANNABLE NELSON, B.C. P. F LIEBSCHER MERCHANT TAILOR SILVBRTON. B.C. **IMJW��M����wV The Strathcona Hotel Is situated on a slight eminence, just a block from tue busy scenes on Baker Street, and Is within easy touch of everything in the city. From its balconies can be seen nearly all the grand scenery that surrounds the beautiful city of Nelson. Few hotels In the great west equal the Strathcona, and tourists from every land will find within its portals all the essentials that create pleasant memories within the - " mind of those who travel B. TOM KINS, Manager, NELSON, RITISH COLUMBIA
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