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1 YTj financial V. VOLUME XXXV. CniCAGO, SUNDAY MOKNTNX. SEPTEMBER 1006. SUNDAY CLOSING LAW DISGRUNTLES FRANCE SOCIALISTS SPLIT BRITISH UORITES THREE EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH IDEAS OF WHAT IS FUNNY ACCORDING TO ARTISTS OF LONDON PUNCH, THE AND THE SKETCH 7 on i i People Find Measure They So Urgently Demanded If Going to Do Harm Instead of Benefit to Work-ing Classes of Country.

AMERICAN LABOR LEADERS BLAMED FOR PREDICAMENT Government Officials Declare People Were Unwisely Persuaded to -Favor Measure by Siren Voices of i John Mitchell and Others. pectal Dispatch to Th Inter Ooms. PARIS. This Isn't Boatoa or York, write a Bary number ot tha Chamber of Deputies to Ptrli newspaper la dit- cussing the Sunday closing law. whole truth th faot la thai ear labor leadera have, been mlalead by thoee of ha new world, where conditions entirely different from those of Parle.

Now that our labor leadera hare got what they hare howled for tor ao many year, they plainly ee that the new closing rule cannot be put Into practice without hurting instead of helping the very clasa that they meant to protect. a matter of fact, all this one holiday In aeven. Sunday closing of placea ot business, and day of rest for labor can be traced back two years to the time that certain American labor leadera came to town and Indulged In a lot of Incoherent talk at the labor exchange, which the excitable French temperament took as really having some meaning. The result la we find ourselves suddenly saddled with a law which nobody wants." Blame LalaV Asaerleaaa. The president of the Pari chamber of commerce save mora moderately: "Labor put up a bluff to capital.

Capital called that bluff. Now labor sees that It has got Into hot water. It will lose far more than one-seventh of Its weekly receipts. I think hereafter we shall listen less to the siren voice of the supposed happy American laborers. When John Mitchell, the- American labor leader, was here two yeara ago, he strongly advised this campaign for Sunday closing, though he said little about It In bis public speeches." Being bound to blame somebody, the Trench labor- leader blame Mitchell.

It la safe predict that the end at the agitation will be. that each trade or profession 1rltT tear the law to piece in each a way that It will leave the situation practically the same as It waa before, while scrupulously observing what appears to baits meaning. Thlo week brought immense relief to the great body ot partlsana through giving them a certainty that their favorite Sunday aft- ernoon diversion of dining will not be taken away. After a number of stormy meetings the syndicate, which includes nearly all the principal restaurants and eafes. decided that no matter what the government says It will disregard the Sunday closing law.

Rtilxrtiti Will Evade Law. main argument has been a piece of casuistry turning on the real meaning of the word hedbomalr. Literally thia word means once a week, they say no particular day. but Just one day weekly. On one day a week the law compels them to give each man they employ a holiday, but the law does not amy which day this must be, nor doea it say that all employes must have the same day in a certain company or syndicate.

The cafe syndicate aoes a loophole D9re to giving all employes a day off each week without forcing the restaurants to close. Gen. Booth Tells How to Be-Active Jo Ripe Old Age Salvation Army Commander Advises People to Eat as Little as Pos- sibte. 5 ftaactaL Cable Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. LONDON, Sept.

8. Seven pithy precepts for the attainment of old age. war given by General Booth yesterday, la explanation of hta surprising activity and vigor at the age of seventy-eight. He said: "Eat as little as possible. The average man eats too much.

Instead of nourishing his body he overtaxea it. compelling his stomach to digest more food than it has capacity for. "Drink plenty of water in preference to adulterated Water Is wholesome nourishment. "Take', exercise. It Is Just as foolish to develop the mind and not the body as it ia to develop th body and not th mind.

Perform some manual labor; dig, walk, chop wood, or, if you can talk with your whole body, why. then talk; but do It with all your might. "Have a but do not-be a slave tha'-syttcm. If my hour to rise Is a. m.

and at that time I haven't had sufficient rest. I sleep longer. "Do not nil your life with a lot of silly and sordid pleasures, so that when you come to die yon will find you have not really lived. "Abstain from Indulgences which overtsx 'the body, and injure not only yourself, but the generations that com after you. "Have a purpose In life that predominates above all else, that Is beneflclent to those about you.

and not to your own greedy self It there Is on thing for tallica I am. glad It Is that I have found a purpose which Involves not me alone, but all humanity. v. Eviuvnce of the general's enduring atrength was shown when he delivered four addresnes on his trip from Weston to From. It was estimated that he spoke 25,000 word), af XeveiT WlkUK Htiaaelf.

ROME, Sept. 8 A chemist who lives in a village in the neighborhood of Florence boasts that' he has not taken a bath nor Washed himself tor more tbsn thirty years. He ascribes his perfect health to his extraordinary habits. sJ 1: fe 1 MM X. jLg Sbah -I WAS TIUXKIXC OF GETTTXG OKE OF THOSE THIXCS FOR XT PEOPLE.

TTmLm- CiUt -ilY bt- FJCi-LOW TAKE TIIIS ONE. (.1 I JI GETTING ANOTHER SOIIT. THAT ONXY GOES BACKWARD1." Indignant Actor iwho hA just been ancaced my dear, sir shillings a Agent: Ah FATHER WERNZ, A GERMAN PRIEST, IS THE BLACK POPE Congregation of the Company of Jesus Elects Noted Writer-General of the Jesuits in Sifccessrort ft the Late Louitar i pial Cable PUpatch to Th Inter Ocean. ROME. Sept.

The congregation of the Company ot Jesu today elected Francis Xavier Werna. a German, to the head of the order. In succession to Father Louis Martin, the late general. Following the election a messenger was Immediately dispatched to the Vatican to inform the Pope ot the choice, which, to become effective, requires the papal sanction. Although' the strictest secrecy waa observed.

It Is learned that two ballots were taken before the final choice was made. At th conclusion of th decisive balloting announcement that a jaw general of the order had been chosen was communicated to th outer world by the ringing of a bell, which waa the signal that the meeting waa at au end. Formal announcement of the election then was made to the rector of th college. When th Rev. Alfred Maertens.

the messenger to the Pope, was received by the pontiff, he expressed great satisfaction over the selection of Father Werna. Pap Plaa Pleaae "With Elect loa. "He la Just th man fitted for. th position," said the Pop when he had heard the message brought by Father Maertens. He charged Father Maertens.

to take to General W'erns the apoatolie benediction and an affectionate letter of greeting, which he wrote to th new general: In th meantime General Wernx waa receiving congratulations from members of the order and many othera at his own room In the college, where he went Immediately after the -announcement of the election. Father Wernx comment upon his election, according to a story which came from the council chamber; mad Immediately upon the concluaion of the balloting, was "God. I am not worthy; but thy will and that of St. Ignatius be done." No time ha yet bee fixed for the election of assistants to the general and for other officials, including a aecretary and monitor. MORAL CRUSADERS IN GERMANY CRITICISE A FAMOUS PAINTING Dress Wara by Qaeea LsaiieThej De- clare, la Toa Cllaarlata; la Bad far Bar ta L.6aat At.

T- Special Cable Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. BERLIN, Sept. 8. Not content with denouncing a Immodest the picture of the Empress of Germany in a lownecked dress which hangs in the schools, the moral crusaders have turned their attention to a pic-lure ot the famoua Queen Louise, the beloved or Prussian youth and a great heroine in her Her picture bangs ia thousands of schools. But the dress she wears Is said by -the moralists to be too clinging and bad for boys to look 1' In East Prussia an inspector noticed on th wall of the school a picture of the famoua Ststlne Madonna.

He congratulated the teacher on his taste, and was certain the picture must exercise a benlgn'tnfiucnce on the "Oh. It la not for thst reason I hung it up," said the teacher. "Do yon tee thos little cherub heads! look silly, don't they? Well, when any ot th girls look particularly silly, I Just point to that and then they know' what they look like and behave themselves at once." The sensitive Magdeburg police fined a nursemaid CO centa for permitting the child ia her charge to public morale." Th aura went Into a ahop. leaving th perambulator at tb doorw In her absence th Infant, In aheer Joy of freedom, kicked himself free of all bis (trappings and then th polio came along. Earaae'a Arasy Mile La a.

Special. Cab Dispatch ta The Inter PARIS, Sept. t. A statistician has calculated that there are In Europe at this moment 9,600,000 men under arms. It they were all lined up the line would be miles long.

lo play "Hamlet. Shyloch, Macbti. etc. 'week I It starvation 1 I but ha constant A-Zt- The Rev. Francis Xavter Werna waa born at Rothwell.

Wurtemburg. on Dec. 2. 1M2. and at IS yeara entered th society of which he today wa eboaen head.

After a long course of preparatory work, he took up the atudy of canon law at Dlttan all and In 1883 received an appointment aa professor la th Gregorian university. Ha alao hat been rector of the university elne 104. In 1897 Father Wernx began the publication of a series of books dealing with the most profound questions of canon law. Four volumes of this work already have been published. He is a consulting member ot th congregation ecclesiastic, extraordinary affairs, and Index council.

It I predicted that the choice of Father Wernx as general of the Company of Jeaua will result tn the' Infusion of new lit into th organisation. He ia recognised In church circle as a progressive man, of present day ideas, and extremely energetic Aaclest Predictfaa FaUf tiled. An Interesting anecdote of Father Werns'a boyhood, when a gypsy aoothsayar predicted his later success In life, Is recalled In connection with his election today. According to the story, when th old XTPr fixed her eyes upon the boy she raised her hand above her head, exclaiming: "There is a man of th future. He will be pope of the Moaslgnor apoatolio delegate to Cuba, today waa consecrated Titular Archbishop of Sardl at Castle Gandolf by Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, assisted by Monslgnore Kennedy, rector of the American college, and the American student.

Destasitrstars-Are Bstksa. Interest In' today's function was heightened by a recently announced decision of anti-clerical aocletlea to make a demonstration today against Cardinal Merry del Val and the policy of the Vatican. The police interfered with the proposed arrangement to the extent of forclngthe demonstrators to hold their meeting in private, and the ceremony at Castle Gandolf was marked by no outward incident. Yankee Bride Is Robbed yand Left Stranded by Baron Young Woman Appeals to Paris Police, bat Fails to Secure dress, Special Cable Dispatch to Thm Inter PARI9, Sept. 8.

A young American woman, known as the von Downers Marck. -ia at this moment stranded at the Grand hotel in Paris In a pathetic situation. On the 10th of this month her husband rifled her baggage of all her cash, jewels, steamer ticket, and other things, and then decamped. Shocked and dismayed. the.

bride for the couple were on their honeymoon called in' the but from them she has had no assistance, aa the French law does not recognise It as a crime for a husband to take a wife's property. It appeara the couple met on a voyage from Hong-Kong to Manila, and were married on June at Manila. Tb bride was wealthy, and the "Baron had telegraphed to his uncle, ao he said, to place $2,800 to Ills credit at Naples, and the couple decided to return to America by way of Europ. tVarkaes Slagrer Attracts Kaiser. BERLIN.

Sept. 8. On his recent visit to Essen. Emperor William discovered among the workmen who sang patriotic songs for him one whoshas a remarkable tenor voice. He expressed a wish to have the man trained for the Imperial opera-house, and Bertha Krnpp's fiance promptly provided the poor workman with money enough ta take music lessons is Berlin.

i i i Mas. Muchcam aamMd'br oae-aT tha "eld nwuo, an whw got thr we lound they ware alTJeao, AHTS 111 MARRIAGE FLIGHT cloud of Insects two miles LONG INVADES Millloas af the Malee Pariah la Straage Ceriraieir Wall 4aeeat Start Xaw Calaalas. 1 Efwclal Oabia Dispatch to The later Ocean. LONDON. Sept 8.

Myriads of black winged flying ante settled like a tog on Sandwich yesterday. The River Stour was black with -the floating lnsecta. while the streets in the neighborhood were thickly carpeted. Pedestrians fled before the awarm with handkerchiefs over their heads; when they reached shelter they were covered with th anta. The ants hung in the air like a'column of smoke between Sandwich and the sea, two miles away, and over the marsh lsnds near the estuary of th river from wher they ar supposed to have come they were flying In enormous Plasjaa Last Several relief was found by throwing water oa the streets; but several hours elapsed before the plague abated.

The heat waa Intense at the time, and the myriads of insects rose In the air la clouds. The phenomenon waa a marriage flight of anta, such as always takes place In the summer. "The ants thus swarming were young queens and winged males. In these marriage flights countless millions ants take part, yet the noise of their tiny vibrating winga is acarcely aa loud aa the bum of a bee. So frail are their dens columns that a little puff of wind w.111 dia-perse them out of sight.

Comparatively few of the myrlada which come forth from their nests into the air Ilva to enter a nest" Millions' 7-perish through cxrosure, and a marriage flight of 3 anta Is a banquet to which the birds quickly Praetlcnllr All Xalea le. -'Practically all the males die, lonely and shelterless. The surviving queens found new communities, or, entering old nests, ar at once taken care of by the worker, and atart new colonies In their old The pathetic Irony ot th untimely end of so many millions of ants which take part in on of then wonderful marriage flights ia that for weeka beforehand they have all been tended with aa much solicitude as la hown to an Infant prince. es Titled Women Adopt -Nonude Plumes Eben Princesspt Wales Travels as Countess of Killarney and Princess Christum as '-C Countess Gravensteiru Special Cable Dispatch to Th later Ocean. LONDON, Sept.

8. Queen Alexandra one stayed In Paris as Mrs. Stephens. Th Queen of Norway, when Princes Charles of Denmark, used to make Journeys on the continent with her governess under the single cognomen of Mis Miiis. Princeas Louis (Duchess ot Argyll) calls herself Lady flundridge, using one of her husband'a subsidiary titles.

Princeas Christian stylei herself Countess GravtnsUln. Princess Henry of Battenberg adopt a tb title of Lady Carlsbrooker.rom her official position as Governor of thfal of Wight. The Princess of Wales travela as Countess of Klllarney; th Duchess of Connaught as Countfss of Sussex, Empress- Eugenie as Count' ss Fierreionda. 'S CLOCKS ALL HALF All H0UR1EAD Every Timepiece Sandringham Palace Grounds Kept Exactly Thirty Minutes Ahead of Hour by Special Command of Edward. g'pk-lat pptta'tVH(rler Tdeaaa: LONDON.

-Sept, iurlng tb summer reason, when the. King and Queea are away from Sandnngiam and the park and grounds ar occasionally open visitors, th platform of Wolfarton, the Station for Sandringham. Is now and again occupied by bands of people who complain angrily that they are half aa hour to soon for their train. They, have not discovered In time that all th clocks at Sandringham ar kept half an hour fast. Share Faaer With Kahlaa This Is a curious fancy which th King hare with several of his friend.

Lord Pembroke, for instance, whose clocks at Wilton house are all half an hour fast. At no place, however. Is the scheme carried out 3ire thoroughly than at Sandringham, where all the clocks in tb house, stables, and kennel, and even the church clock, ar kept ezaetly half aa hour fast. Scleattlst Dlaeaairaaa Paaetaallty. A well known scientific writer visiting Sandringham recently from Hunstanton, and finding himself at th station with the thirty minutes of leisure, occupied them in aa interesting discourse to some fellow sufferer on the Influence of human beings on clocks and on other objects which would not suspected by the ordinary human being of having "I dar wager." be said, "that in the private rooms of a punctual and businesslike roan such as the King th clocks do not lose or gain a minute a week.

Pot the same clocks In the roomeof an untidy, erratic, unpucctual man, and even If does not alter them every day on pretens of their being wrong they always will be Jewels Affected by Owaer. la nothing unueuaj In this. You know how th hsalth and moods of a woman will affect the Jewels which ahe ia wearing, ao that her paarlc or opals will ta radiantly whit and clear one day when ahe Is In good health and spirits, and dull and sickly looking the next. You know how the clothes of a weak and alckly man look shabby and fadad at once, how silvar tarnishes in bia pockets, and his top hat always declines to shine. On could multiply Instances ad Infinitum of th effect- of personality on Inanimate ob ject.

"IX I hear a maa or woman complaining of a watch or clock not keeping time, I always wonder which wants regulating most the clock or its MONK FALLS OVER PRECIPICE. Oa af Member af Order Expelled Fraat Frame Meets Tragle Death. MADRID. Sept. 8.

Th body of a monk expelled from Franc under the new laws has been found at th bottom of a precipice near th village of Hengul in th Pyrenees. The monk, belonged to a monastery near Toulouse, which, when broken op by th French government, scattered Its. Inmates la all directions. Th dead monk tramped across th frontier and was aeen on th road begging for a shelter for th night. was refused admission, at several bouses, and although evidently very fatigued, eontlnued his way through the mountains.

It it supposed that he missed his road la th dark and went over the precipice. This Is the third body of a French monk found dead In this neighborhood during the last four weeks. DECLARE SPORTS RUIN VOICE. Parla Physlelaaa Attribate Dearth af Tesers ta Violent EiereUe, apecial Cable IM patch to The Inter Oc-aju PARIS', Sept. 8.

Recent examinations at th Perls Conservatory of Music show that good tenors are steadily getting acarcer and that hardly any ot the applicants has been able to reach the high or even the flat, of the Physicians think the deficiency of tenors Is due to violent exercise's young men indulgd in under the guise of sport, which ruins th vocal chords. KING Rushing Through of Their De- manas in rade Congress Pre-; sages Division of Party Into Conservatives and Radicals. COUNTESS "QUEEN" OF LABOR SCORED BY SOCIALIST SISTER Delegate -Tells Titled Speaker Who Appears Lavishly, i Gowned That She Had Better Dor! Something Practical. Special Cable Dispatch tn The Inter Ocean. LONDON, Sept.

8. Th British trad union congress, sitting thia week Liver pool, was captured by tb aoclalist-labor men, led by Keir AH the most ad vanced socialist demand wer rushed, reck lessly through, and the Labor party ta which belong half th labor members' of 1 Parliament, th men who ran the forme congreasea found themselves swamped. Th socialist majority, among other things, passed resolution "In th lnterestt of unity" that the labor members who sit and act with th Liberal party la tb House) of Common aboald eros th floor and takd their placea under Heir Hardle la permanent opposition to all governments. The result of these proceedings must in evltably a split in th Labor party, tha xtrem sections under Kelr Bardl be com -1 log frankly tb socialistic partywhile lesgJ advanced men will work with the radicals. Waa; Deanaads Seare People.

Ther Is no doubt tb adoption of such' a proposal aa minimum wages at for! all government employes scared even sympathize with labor reform. But It waa'-carried by the congress, though Labor members warned it that Parliament would ret usa to look at ouch irrational demands. Th Countess ot Warwick, th "queen cf appeared at the first two dajs' meet Ings attired lavishly in Worth creations, and delivered socialistic platitudes la her most1 Interesting manner and most musical tones. The hardy, rongh apun labor anion men sat rapt in admiration at this vision of beauty; from another world as ahe told them not to the first time how the suffering that she dured socially for their cause pained hr The women trades unionists were lesscaptl va ted. and vn whispered somewhat leal-oualy of their superfln rival.

Werna Caldea Qaeav af Laber." After, her second speech, during, which th -men had agreed that ah. wa fas ad awe, th finest woman In th movement, a womao. socialist approached tha Countess aad apprised her tn biting accents that it was about tlma aha stopped posing and began to in something practical for socialism. Th Countess did not aoadeseend to reply, but gathered op the skirts of her Paris mad confectlona and swept out of the hall and n-tred her luxurious motor. She complains bitterly that all through life women's JeaU ousy has spoiled her existence and that Lancashire cotton operativea are Juat aa petty In their envy as Mayfair aristocrats.

HINTS TO STEPMOTHERS WRITER TELLS HOW TO DEAU WITH CHILDREN. Eaaaltr Bhaalal Kat -Be Berae at UaU rarest'! Bee-aaat Msrrlagt. Special Cable Dlnpatch te Tb Inter Ocean. LONDON, Sept. 8.

It la upon the youna wlf who has married a man with daughter who have left school that public criticism) is most severe, writes B. Willougbby Sella in the. Parent Review. Given a woman, however, of a certain: breadth ot mind and good feeling and on whj 1 determined to maintain her rightful poaklon without violating th Juat claima of thoee whose privilege it baa been hitherto to hold the keys of offlc her bappinesa under, these circumstance will nearly always depend upon herself. CklltMB't Heaeataaeat la No aenalble woman will nouriab In enmity th not -unnatural outburst of resentment and Indignation that follows the dreaded announcement, "I am going to be married again.

Thlnga said and done In the first daya of animosity toward the one who ha dared to take their mother place, ahould never be recorded. much leas counted againat the sons or daughters whose feel ings have probably received the severest ahock of their Uvea, you know that thia animosity exists, ignor It, and ahov all things, keep tt to yourself." Find out the Interests, hobbies, and talent a -that rule the Uvea of those committed to your care. The reserv that exist at first between the stepmother and her husband'a children will be tenfold that of the ordinary barrier that so often kills confidence In. -family life. To attempt to break through a reserve of thia kind by other than the most veiled and delicate perception Is sheer folly." By one false step th opportunity ot a lifetime may be lost.

Sprtlaar View Shaald Be Takes. In aom Instances there Is such a total lack of philosophical feeling and ao obstinate a refusal to take a "sporting" view of the new. condition ot things that th situation ha been rendered practically beyond any worn-an'a ability to tackle. What remains? Nothing but to thrust aside every prejudice that rankles, -draw veil over the unhappy Incidents of th past; and bury thfoa silently, discreetly, and forever. BRUTAL ARMY MEN PUNISHED.

Foir Grrmi Offleera Seat ta Jail fee Fatally lajarlaa: Soldier. BERLIN. 8ept. 8. A court-martial at Ho-cenzila has Just found four unier officers of an Infantry regiment guilty on charges of and has sentenced them to differ-ent terms la prison from nine months to three years and three months.

The prisoner, by name Kanlng, Weiderchtgcn, Koenikev and Schennlke, assaulted Private Klimkewiea with their side arms. The maa tiled later from his injiiriea..