Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1900 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1900.

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UNION PACIFIC RFFAIRS

lUMiltAL OVnilTl HMNCi SAID TO BC is ijtOGKi:ss ox tiiksl: lim:s. Carer Cnln In PaMfngfr Traffic of the niK Four Vnnilalln Sinke av Remarkable Hun to St. Louis. The long-expected assault upon the old officers of the Union Pacific has broken out. Superintendent of Motive Power McConal. who has been with the company twentyone years, has been removed. Samuel Hutchinson, assistant general passenger agent, after fifteen years service, has been asked to resign and tendered his resignation taking effect July 1. and it is Faid other eld officers -will go soon, especially General Manager Edward Dickinson. Dickinson has grown up with the Union racific, having first been with the road In the capacity of section man, . later as telegraph operator, etc. These changes have come about as a result of the orders of President Burt Jew blood 'is being substituted in head of flees as rapidly as possible. In many retpects office forces have been materially cut down under the direction of Mr. Burt. The successors of the old officers are, with few exceptions, old Northwestern employes, from -which road Mr. Burt was taken. A significant feature is that in some Instances old Illinois Central agents are being employed. Especially 13 this true of come of the Joint agents, notably at Sioux City. The Western railroad world sees In this the general managing hand of the fyndicato behind the Union raciflc-North-western-Illlnols Central allied Interests. This 13 provoking a great deal of comment. The Illinois Central, for Instance, has expended 0.000 in building an approach by whlch It could enter the Union Pacific depot here where the original plan contemplated entering an entirely different depot. The through trains of the two roads have identical schedules and the alliance between the Northwestern, Union Pacific and Illinois Central appears to be exceedingly Close. Protest Afcalnst w Classification. A meeting of representatives of commercial organizations and members of the Southern classification committee was held In Chicago yesterday. Arguments protesting In detail against the action of the classification 'committee In again advancing numerous items In the merchandise classes of freight were presented and filed. ,The Merchants Association, of New York, opposed the advances In Southern freight rates. Its representative, James M. Lang ley, said that It was not believed that the transportation conditions In Southern ter ritory justified the exaction of higher rates. Mr. Langley quoted the rates In ef feet from New York to Chicago and the rates from New York to Atlanta, the mileage in the latter ease being less than in the former, while the rates in the latter case are much higher than for the longer distance. In support of the shippers' contention. Mr. Langley filed with Chairman P. J. McGovero, of the Southern Classification Com xnlttee, a lengthy detailed statement of articles classified by the former and pres ent houthern classifications as compared with the trunk line classification, which 13 known as the official, and said he had found that thirty-two articles had been advanced from second to first class, thlrtyeignt rrom third to second, sixty-nine from fourth to third, thirty-six from fifth -to fourth, one hundred from sixth to fourth. and forty-six from sixth to fifth, and many others which had been raised two or more classes. A Record-Breaker. Harry Miller, superintendent of the VanJrtalla. is croud of the sneed record made on inuuudj uy in-? special -wnicn carnea me . a . a i & & . . Tammany Hall party from Indianapolis to ßt. Louis, the train, which consisted of one combination, two dining and six sleeping cars, leaving Indiananolis at a. m . am) arriving at St. Louis at 1:03 p. m.. covering xne ivy miles in nve hours and is minutes, excelling all records with a train of its length. Engine 36, P. Daily, engineer. nauiea tne iram irom Indianapolis to Terre Haute, and Engine 177. C. Booth, engineer, from Terre Haute to St. Louis. The run from Effingham to St. Louis was mad in 106 minutes. At several places a speed of ninety miles an hour was attained, and the nine and one-fourth miles from Greenville to rocahontas was covered in eight mln utes. Bis Passenger Business. The Big Four lines handled en the sys tem in June 605,743 passengers, against 560,736 In June. ISM. and acainst S10.U2 in .Tun. 1SDS: increase this year over 43,009; over tune, y.,tKi.. Personal, Local nnd General Notes. It Is said that Rten ma- tu t a Iron tn tac ie legality of excess "fares now being fruaifce-u on iasi trains. On several divisions the Rnnthom Ttn tray on July 1 voluntarily advanced the ;wses oi us employes i'j per cent. On Julv 1 the Chlracro Ar Vnrl Vit am Occupied its new offices at Chicago, said to ie tne most eiegani ana complete In that city. M. E. Incalls. nresldent of thA Tiff VmiF vho has been abroad several weeks, landed in New York yesterday, accompanied by bis wife. All fast freight line offices and the city xreignt ciepots win be closed to-day, and me ouismo oiuces ai noon, Local freight: will not bo run. ' To-day the Indianapolis & Vlncennes spe cial will be held until 7 modate persons who come to the city and B a. . . . . . . co noi wisn to go on me earner train. E. D. Kenna. first vir nrrsMpn arA fan eral solicitor of the Santa Fe. who has been critically ill at St. Luke's Hospital. Chicago, has bon pronounced out of dansrer vy me pnysicians. Walter Webb, an engineer on the east division or the .Michigan Central, has been maae traveling engineer to succeed Danle! McBain. who on July I became master mechanic of that division. President Canlff. of tho xirki rii General Superintendent E. W. Johnson and subordinate officials are maklntr an 4nenos tlon of the line. President Canlff traveling in ms new private car. F. Zimmerman has been appointed aü elstant general freight agent of the Mich igan Central Railroad, with offices in Chi cage, and C. Howe also assistant genera lreight agent at Buffalo. R. A. Stanert, who has been air brake inspector or the vancialla for tho past twi years, left last night to take a simlla position with the Pressed Steel Car Com pany at McKee s Kock, Pa. At Rochester. N. Y., the railroad men win lo-nay nave an exhibition similar that to be seen this nflprnnnn at ihn fairground, two locomotives to collide wnen running inrty miles an hour. F. D. Miller has ben appointed travel lng passenger agent of the Illinois Central with headquarters at Atlanta. Ga.. sue ceeamg u. . Mioyer, w ho has been civ ren a position wnn me company at Chicago. D. W. Robey has been appointed co ntroller or the i-eahoard Air-line, vi e J. v . Chamberlain, who has been appoint assistant eeneral nassenirer :nr.nt t te. 1 the road, with headquarters at Jacksonville J. A. McCoy, who has hen the Burlington at Ft lea since 1:V. has been transferred by the company to the position oi signalman in trie new Uurlington-W bash tower at the crossing of the two roa in Chillicothp. John W. Sherwood. formrIv ads uperlntendent cf the Big Four, the last tlv . e jears euperjnienueni vi trie Toledo, Louis & Kansas City, has accepted' position of division superintendent on Baltimore & Ohio. St. the the The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton w .11 utilize me tract or ground it recently n i;r chased at Lima. O . by laying an extens cvstem of eidf tr;iks th hnlnc it dve his rolnt having so Increased that more roo has become a necessity. m The conmittpo appointed by the prcrldents of the Westrrn railroads has decldel that the payment of commissions to tourist egenciea rnu.t cra.e after Jan. 1. A

commission of about 6 per cent. Is now paid to the tourist agencies.

Commencing with Saturday all offices of he Pennsylvania lines at thl3 point will close at 3 p. m. on that day. W. J. Lvnch. general passenger agent o the Big Four lines, passed through the city yesterday, returning from Chicago, and . P. Deppe, assistant general passenger agent, passed through the city en route for St. Louis on the noon train. The Southern Indiana Railroad is now free to enter the Union Station at Terre Haute. A rieht of way has been Fecured as far as "Wabash avenue, and from that point the Southern Indiana trains will use the Vandalia tracks into the station sheds. Bert Bvers. who has for the past eight een months been acting as train dispatcher for the Big Four at Kankakee, has been appointed chief train dispatcher for the division. He assumed his new duties at Kan kakee yesterday and succeeds . C okinner, who has been transferred. Western lines have practically decided to refuse to grant rates for tie various Labor day parades and celebrations which may occur in their territory. A recommenda tion to this effect has been made by the executive committee of the association and is being voted upon by the lines composjng that body. The Indianapolis division of the Central Association of Railroad Officers has decided to go to Louisville via Cincinnati to the annual meeting of the national organization, which will be held in Louisville July 17 and 18. At Cincinnati the Cincinnati division will join the Indianapolis division and go to Louisville by boat. In the month of June there were handled at the Union Station 76.412 pieces of baggage, against 72.240 In June, IS'jO, and 55.440 in June, 1S0S. The number of pieces handled last month was the largest, with one exception, of any month In the history of the station, that being the month the Knights of Pythias held their conclave In this city. It is stated that the shipping agents of some of the large wholesale houses in New York are demanding reduced rates for their shipments of goods to Western points. The New York shippers argue mat unoago and St. Louis shippers are getting the bene fit of cut rates, and they insist mat me loads should give their New York custom ers equally good terms. Charles Riley, general foreman of the L. E. & W. shops at Lima, on Saturday severed his connection with the company. Mr. Riley Is a son of P. Riley, deceased, who was relieved as superintendent of motive rower Just before he was taken ill and died. H. B. Minnlck. of Wellsville. where he was connected with the Pennsylvania road, succeeds Mr. Riley. Citizens of Wabash, Ind., will take organized action to secure the erection by the Big Four of a new station in that city. Plans for a $15,000 pressed brick and stone station and office structure were prepared by the engineering department of the system three years ago and the promise was made that with an increase in the earnings of the road the Improvement would be made. William W. Wike, of Conemaugh, a veteran Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, made his last run on Saturday and was retired on a pension after a service of forty-three years for the company. He is seventy-one years of age and began work when the Gallitzin tunnel was being dug, having been continuously In the service on police duty and as brakeman, fireman and engineer. Frederick Dunne will sail from New York to-day to take charge of the construction of a railway across the Andes mountains. The lines have been projected for many years and the government of Ecuador has issued bonds to the amount of $16,000.000 to complete the work. Over 2,000 men have been employed in this country and part of them are now on their way south. The road runs from Guayaquil, on the Pacific roast, three hundred miles cast and presents engineering problems of great magnitude. E. C. Hawkins, general manager of the White Pass & Yukon route, writes the Journal as follows: "On June 8 our line reached the river at White Horse, N. W. T., and within the next few days we will be operating both passenger and freight trains from Skagway, Alaska, to White Horse, a distance of 112 miles. Owing to some very heavy construction work around Lake Bennett, we are at present transferring freight and passengers across the lake, a distance of twenty-seven miles, but expect to have this division completed very shortly." BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS. Unique Slethods In Management of a Gigantic Business. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. The Baldwin locomotive concern, which is one of the largest and most important manufacturing institutions in the world, has resisted the craze for trusts, stock corporations, bonded mortgages and other modern forms of Industrial organization, and still remains what it was when it was first started an old-fashioned firm with four partners. They have never been tempted to water stock, and It h..s never been necessary for them to iss'ie bonds, although they employ 7,250 men in the very heart of Philadelphia, not more ihan five minutes walk from the City Hall, and are turning out an average of ten locomotives a day. During the last year their locomotives went to seventeen different foreign countries, and were sold to twelve different national governments in Europe, Asia, Africa. Australia and in North and South America and the West India islands. ! The Baldwins have a peculiar way of managing their great factory and selling their products. Every one of the 7,000 mechanics and machinists in their employ is engaged In piece work and is paid for what he produces. Only their bookkeepers. clerks, foremen and other employes of that class receive monthly wages. Nor will the company bid for contracts. They sell their locomotives for what they actually cost. plus a fixed percentage to cover interest on the investment, insurance and other ex penses that cannot be itemized, together with a reasonable pront. Two engines made exactly alike, by the same men, and of the same material may differ in cost, and the purchaser will have to pay accordingly. As a rule locomotives of similar weight and pattern can be constructed for approx imately the same amount of money, but sometimes accidents and delays occur which increase the expense. An account is opened on the books with every locomotive as soon as it is begun, and the nrm have a record of the cost of each one of the thou sands that have left their shop. Locomotives are staple goods, st as much as sugar or sheetings. Railway must have them. They can use their old onc?s just as men can wear their old clothes and can economize in the consumption of sugar. but rolling stock must be renewed sooner or later. Locomotives are growing bigger and heavier and simpler every year. None but a "Jay railway company nowadays or ders forty or fifty ton engines, such as wcro in common use on the great trunk llnei twelve and fifteen years ago. The standard sizes now are 100 and 120 tons, according as they are required for low or high grade, but as a rule the modern engines, with all their increased weight and improvements. do not cost much more than the old-fash ioned light ones, because the Improved ma chinery and methods have enabled the ma chlnists to do more work nnd better work in the same time. The introduction of electricity has reduced the cost of manu facture more than all the rest of the causes combined. The Invention of electric lathes and other tools has revolutionized some of the departments of the shops, and two electric cranes In the erecting shop at Baldwin's "are now doing the work that former ly required 300 men. But no one has been thrown out of employment. The pay roll grows longer every year, and the men do better work and get bigger piy because of the new methods and machinery. Why noosevelt Chanced His Jllml. Philadelphia Times. The question now on every side is in rela Hon tn thA mlehtv forc exntrrlr n r terlc. which led to this revolution In the mind or Roosevelt and decided him to a cept an office which had been spurned wit A 1 - 1 . M A 1 1 . cine anrupme? oi inr i a r u nman rain than with th ronrtlv air of th noUtJrln er Hoosrvlt hlmlf l.Tiitrhs at th tntlmn Hnn that he changed his mind because of the desires or threats or any boss or any ele ment. A moment previous to his departu for home after the convention nrilonrm re ed he said to one of hi? closest friends, a sena tor or the i nlted States: "I did it partly on account of the boy rrom me west, wno demai ded that I a cept. and partly becau i have evolv some new ideas about the urovinro of t ed he Vice President. Wait till I get there. I convince you that I can make even the vi II 'e presidency a pretty tnmg to look at a something thrilling to touch." nd Chance for the Antl. Tip." In New York Press. The British have peculiar ways of ex pressing things, notwithstanding the fart that their colloquialisms are more to the point than th" slang of any other people. In a standard reference work under the heading "Hulers of Civilized Countries." I nnn uns paraeraDh: "United States (Amitr

ica) William McKinley, President: b. IS March, 137; acceded 4 Mar. 1S07." Over here we would say "inaugurated." as we have grown up to use "accede" in the sense of elevation to a throne, though the word has a broader significance. The Atkinson antl-imperlallsts ought to ring the changes

on this McKinley "accession." iney are frightfully hard up for campaign material. sssMSsassssa av(BMBBSBaHSMS)ssssMssi THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. The Secret of Her 3InJesty Vitality at Eighty-One. London Mail. If you turn up a page in your WThltaker you will find a great array of names of doctors of the Queen, though not all of them have a royal practice. In the men upon whom such honors have been bestowed the sovereign has been fortunate. They form a splendid array of all that has been best and cleverest and in every sense worthiest In medical and surgical science for nearly a century. Worthiness Is not the least necessary quallC-rrrTon for such an office, for If a doctor were ever so bril liant end distingulvtted in his knowledge and practice he could never aspire to at tendance upon her Majesty If any tongue could cast upon him the least reproach. In this matter she is characteristically punc tilious. If It be not lese majesty to say so, the Queen has not always been an ideal patient from the doctor's point of view. With her, permanent good health always seemed to be assumed till she suffered the great bereavement of her life, and then for the first time she showed a disposition to fully avail herself of the resources at her disposal. For a long period she has followed a few rules of life which the late Sir William Jenner laid down for her guidance. Their essence is simplicity. A part of them is a simple and careful diet; another is regularity, and a third is open-air life. These rules her Majesty has observed, but the last one not very long ago was rather too much observed, and many an anxious time did the royal doctors experience when their sovereign would persist in risking the dangers of weather of such inclemency that would severely test most constitutions. However, a few autumns ago at Osborne she received a fright, and has since exercised more care. Perhaps you think you would like to live acording to the royal rules of life the rules that bring you to eighty-one, hearty and well. You may. The Queen's doctors will tell you that a queen is but flesh and blood, and that they can do no more for her Majesty than for any other. I asked Sir Francis leaking, one of the rrost eminent of those who have attended upon her Majesty, to tell me some such rules of life, the conditions being just normal. While he reflected for perhaps five seconds, he took a cigarette from a wellfilled case and lighted it. This prevented the enlargement of the question for the benefit of the multitude who are wholly or partly convinced th?t alcohol and nicotine have a lot to do with it. Then said Sir Francis, deliberately, "Do anything you like, but do nothing to excess." "it Is rather a well, brief r,ule," I said, with a hint at inadequacy. "Yes," he replied with decision, "but ti it not a good rule? And it Is complete. People nowadays will put themselves lo extremes, and they become ill by excesses and not by deficiencies. Moderation should be the rule of life." A distinguished colleague of Sir Francis, Sir Samuel Wilks, physician extraordinary to the Queen, to whom I put th5 same question, gave an answer which was practically the same one expanded. "It is a difficult question." he said. "Habit is a great deal; it is second nature. A man accustomed to walk twelve miles a day cannot do without It. In different men organs seem to take the place of each other. Every one has a natural temperament. Follow that and avoid excesses. That's all. A quack may tell you you must eat an ounce of albumen, so much starch, so much waterand so on. and what should you do? Go and have a nice chop. The instincts of people are right. Jenner would have said to you, I never walk at all, except from my house into my carriage. I hate walking, and if I could I would get my servants to carry me to bed.' That was Sir William Jenner, the Queen's eminent physician; and what about exercise then? In the last three or four centuries we have done better intellectual work than ever before, and these have been the times of tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol. What can you make of that? It is surprising. What can you make of that? It is surprising. Again I say, follow your instincts." In one sense this is very reassuring, in another it is disappointing. No Spartan methods are necessary for octogenarianism. It Is the easiest and pleasantest thing In the world to keep these rules of life, for they are simply that you please yourself. One would hardly have expected that from the highest of the medical profession, the doctors of the Queen, when your village M. D. always impresses you by his omniscience. Instead, you would fancy the Queen's doctors to know about all the new poisons that lurk in potatoes and beef and rice puddings that those of lower degree wot not of. SENATOR HOAR. A Loyal Republican Who Has No latience vrith the Democratic Party. New York Evening Sun. It really wasn't necessary for Senator George Frisbie Hoar to announce that he would support McKinley and Roosevelt. The heart of the veteran has always been true to his party. Those who did not know him conceived the idea at one time that he had quarreled with it, and was on the point of Joining the Democrats, or going over to the anti-imperialists, but Mr. Hoar Is neither a Wellington nor a Schurz. He is one of the original Republicans, the men of 1S56, whose party ties are as strong as those of family. Mr. Hoar thinks for himself, and does not believe that the purpose of language is to conceal thought. If he speak3 his convictions bluntly, it does not follow that the spirit of revolt moves him. He distinguishes between tho policy of hla party and its capacity for good. He is not willing to desert because he might choose another rath through a complication than that which the party is following. In common with all thoughful Republicans, Senator Hoar has no confidence in the patriotism, good Intentions and competency of the Democratic party. He believes it lacks principle, character and public spirit. He was brought up to think so. and observation tells him that his teaching was sound. In no emergency would he Intrust the government of the country to It. Whatever the issue, he is a Republican when it comes to voting. He prefers to remain in the ranks and try to bring the party round to his way of thinking always reserving his privilege i to admonish and even scold It. It is gratifying to hear the old senator say: "Does anyone believe that the American people have changed; that the great North has changed; that the Republican party has changed in a minute, in a day, in the twinkling of an eye? Liberty Is not elead. Justice is not dead. Men will differ. Good men will differ. Good men will sometimes err. Parties are not infallible. But I am confident that the great free North, which achieved and established liberty at home, will surely and very soon establish it abroad." It is gratifying because Mr. Hoar in his great oration in the Senate on the 17th of April gave his hearers the impression that he thought the Declaration was at least in a state of suspended animation. His admirers were pained, but consoled themselves with the reflection that Mr. Hoar was carried away by his own eloquence. He now talk3 like a statesman who has hopes for the Republic and confidence in the good intentions of his associates. As an optimist Senator Hoar is one of the most attractive of public men. Dogs' Freaks. New York Tribune. "Superstition exists among dogs, I am convinced," says a woman who Is particularly fond of animals, "for we once owned a dog that was a cross between a retriever and a Gordon setter, and he always ran away If he saw a box of matches, lie simply could not endure to see the match Ignited against the box. He seemed to think it uncanny. In the same way this dog always sneezed when he saw tobacco smoke. I have seen him with his nose up against the closed window, and If my brother, who was smoking Inside, came near the glass and blew out the smoke from his mouth to tease the dog. Bounder would sneeze at once several times. It must have been an hysterical affection, as the smoke could not reach him.'-

YflNG-TSE MISSIONARIES

EACH OXC CONVERTS ABOUT THREEQUARTERS OF AN ADl'LT YEARLY. Where They Succeed and Fall Rationale of Chinese Opposition and of the Religion They Prefer. II. W. Lawson, in London Telegraph. It is a Chinese proverb that "A young woman worships the goldsmith and an old woman worships the priest." Terhaps the middle-aged have the same preference for the missionary. Proselytism is said to be easier and more frequent In those provinces of the empire where Buddhism is an effective and living faith, and, therefore. In Sze-Chuen missionary enterprise has been specially successful. Where the population is indifferent to all religious influence the Christians find their task almost hopeless. Altogether the Protestant societies claim to have made half a million converts between 1S52 and 1SD8. On the other side, the anti-missionary party deny the figures altogether, or say that they are merely "rice Christians" coolies who have turned their coats or their conscience for their daily bread. Mr. Morrison calculates that each missionay converts about threequarters of an adult each year. The opponents allege the effect of ill-tempered enthusiasm has been to Irritate the officials against Europeans generally, and to Incite the population to riot and murder. Undoubtedly the mandarins have a genuine contempt and utter dislike of what they call "the foreign joss house." For this hostility there is some genuine reason. It is notorious that some sectarians, particularly the Roman Catholics, interfere largely with the administration of justice and the course of litigation for the protection of their coreligionists. These converts are mainly drawn from the lowest classes of the people, and tho officials resent this as a kind of social upheaval. Very few educated Chinese ever leave their national religion, however little of religion there may be In it, and there Is no question that the half-equipped hot gospeler is no match In casuistry or logic for the Chinese literati.. It will be remembered that 150 years ago a Manchu Emperor publicly rebuked the Roman legate because he dared to denounce the Idolatrous practices that had grown up around Chinese Catholicism, and had been tacitly admitted by the Jesuit fathers in Chinese that made the court officials smile. "How do you dare to interfere with Chinese life when your very language moves the Chinese to laughter?" In the same way missionary Chinesa is said to be a peculiar and esoteric language, while their knowledge of the Chinese classics is of the slightest character. Subtle differences of sound convey the deepest difference of meaning, and one of the commonest and most offensive ways of ridiculing the Christian faith on Chinese placards and caricatures is derived from the blundering pronunciation of a sacred name. The educated Chinaman regards these propagators of a foreign faith much as a good Catholic regards the antics of the Salvation Army. FOR WHAT THERE IS IN IT. The first question that arises In regard to conversion from the religion of the East to that of the West is what proof exists of sincerity of disinterested motive. If all native Christians are "rice Christians," where Is the spiritual gain? Mr. Morrison quotes the report of a mission at ChungKing, in which the "evangelistic work" for the year consisted of the contingent conversion of one old woman, who promised to become a Christian as soon as there was a vacancy on the nursing staff of the mission hospital. "This talk is far from the truth," says the missionary; "all over the empire there is constant proof given of the deepest sincerity In the trials of constant persecution." A preliminary and allimportant test to any but the lowest Chinese is that the convert loses his family status and is apt to be turned out of his trade guild. In Chinese society the system of grouping by family, by clan and by industry is all in all, so that this loss, if general, would be very important evidence of good faith. But it does not seem that it necessarily follows. Supposing a Chinaman becomes a Christian and refuses any longer to subscribe to the religious rites of his group, the missionaries, often guarantee on his behalf an equivalent subscription to pome good local charity, and their offer is accepted In place of the old payment. So, too, in regard to the man's livelihood. If he be robbed of the custom or employment that he had before, the missionaries endeavor to find him a place for his Christianity which will secure him at least as much "chow" as he enjoyed in his heathenish darkness. The best cases that the evangelists can show is where Christian converts have fought well in defense of their pastors and been put to tho torture by the riotous crowds. Such cases have not been uncommon, and they have sufficed to prove that there are some men of real faith among the small bands of Christian Ch'nese, men who have been tried, literally, by fire. . CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. In the way of education the Protestants have effected some valuable results, but the Catholics seem to have paid more attention to the practical side of the question. At Hankow there is, for example, an admirable orphanage, hospital and girls' school combined, which is in the charge of a number of Italian sisters resembling those of Nazareth House, In Kensington, who devote their lives to the training of Chinese girls and women. They take them as Infants, and, since it Is a great object In China to get rid of female children, these ladies find no difficulty in filling their institution. In summer they have as many as 1,000 at one time, and never less than 800 for the remainder of the year. These girls are separated into different classes, according to age. in clean and well-ventilated rooms, built round pleasant courts more or less in an Italian style. They are well fed and taught the habits of decency and cleanliness that a Chinese household so much lacks, and are brought up to useful trades, such as silk lacemaking, cotton reeling and ribbon weaving and many other means of livelihood, not practiced outside by women workers. When the children grow up they are married, where possible, to Christian youths, educated by the Jesuit fathers. Altogether, these devoted sisters are performing a noble and selfless duty among the poorest of a cltv population, for which they deserve the highest admiration. It is only fair to sav that at Shanghai there are Protestant Institutions of which all men speak well, and one only wishes that more of the money rent by the pious to China went in the same helpful direction. HOW RIOTS START. All sects and denominations have undergone sore trials, and persecution Is not by any means at an end. It seldom comes from the unlnstructed Impulse of popular fury. As a rule It Is Inspired by some mandarin or his hangers-on. and is always likfiy to occur in remote stations where the city is full of students and of classmen who are passing or not passing for the most part from one stage of "elegant learning" to another. Among them is the com bustible material out of which riots flare tip. Missionaries only fight when their lives are actually in danger, in the first place. when rumors of trouble ate rife they fiee to the nearest Important yamen and claim the protection of the official. Usually the mandarins dare not refuse it for fear of the board of punishments If the disturbance results In effective action on the part of the country to which the victim belongs. but It may happen that he cannot give pro tection and that the yamen is sure to be stormed by the mob. Then the missionary takes refuge in the house of some convert and Is hidden there until he can be secretly spirited away. In the recent riots in SzeChuan some men had marvelous escapes One of them was in the middle of an excited crowd already trampling on him when one of the notorious ruffians of the place asked that uieir prey should be handed over to him to bo finished off. The amicable crowd agreed to this proposition, and. feigning great brutality, he got the mis slonary out of the way and over the city wall. He owed the missionary a debt of tratltude for having saved him from a dls

gustlng punishment for thieving and he paid him back. '

In another case a missionary spoke Chi nese so weil and looked so like a Chinaman that ne misled the mob when they came to the very Junk on which he was trying to escape. They actually asked him to dis close his own whereabouts and he was able to misdirect them. As a matter of history not a single life was lost in the many riots that were got up in Ste-Chuan in lr6. Prov idence 13 not always so kind. Last year not forty miles from Ichang a Jesuit priest called 1'ere Victorin was the victim of a horrible murder. He had escaped from his house and was hiding in a cave in the hills close by, but the conspirators seized his "boy, who was trying to furnish him with food, and tortured him until he revealed the priest's hiding place. Thereupon they smoked him out and kept him three days dying under the most frightful torments. I saw the photograph of the corpse in Its coffin and heard the account from the En glish naval officer who had to view the body. There was not a single limb that was not cruelly mutilated. On a hill not far from Poyang lake there is a cross to commemorate the crucifixion of a Catholic priest within the last few years, and the riots at Tien-Tsin in 1S70 resulted in outrages which even now have not been forgotten. RELIGION PREFERRED IN CHINA. CHINA. It is beyond doubt that the hatred of the Chinese against missionaries is much greater than their feeling against any other sort or condition of Europeans, and this feeling is social and not religious. It is the conservative aversion to those who wish to disturb the existing order, to interfere in civic life, and to curtail the In justice of the governing class. Religion in China resolves Itself almost entirely into the worship of ancestors, the Invocation of demons and the practice of magic. In the course of centuries the great religious systems have become utterly debased and have had to accommodate themselves to the incrusted superstitions of the masses. Buddhism, which In its essence is full of truth and beauty, has lost in China all that has attracted to it many unsatisfied minds. Of Buddhist temples there are plenty in every Chinese city, and on all the promi nent heights and pinnacles Buddhist monasteries have been built, but everything about them save their sites is grotesquely hideous and unimpressive. Tawdry pic tures and monstrous figures with panto mime masks whether at Buddhist or Taoist shrines, are not calculated to inspire reverence, and are given little enough of it by the Chinese, who treat the "josses" as so many personal demons, which have to be propitiated or beaten, as the case may be. Before each image stands a copper or leaden box full of gray ashes, Into which the worshiper may thrust his "jossstick, to be set alight and burned down so as to insure him luck in his voyago or venture. Buddhist services have everywhere, even in China, a curious resem blance to Roman Catholic or Greek ritual. The priests In red robes and crowned with mitres, the atendants bearing long gilded staffs, topped by some emblem of worship, and tho acolytes, with swinging censers in their hands, are of quaint likeness to the ceremonies of the Christian churches, and there is no doubt that the Chinese themselves recognize and appre ciate the resemblance. They like the gorgeousness of the Roman service, and they identify the virgin and the saints with their own deities. It is not unfair to say that Catholic priests make the most of this similarity. In a fine church recently erected at Kui-Klang the carving of the storje Is entirely the handiwork of Chinese workmen, and all the human figures on the col umns are unmistakable Chinamen, but the windows have been manufactured in Europe, and it is noticeable that all tho scenes of Scripture are represented as if the actors had been Chinese. It is not alto gether conducive to serious thought to find that the most sacred episodes and personages of the gospel narrative have been thus translated into Chinese characters. A Chinese St. Peter is a wonderful object, but perhaps, after all, he is not more intrinsically absurd than an early Christian in the dress of a mediaeval Flemish burgh er. In the temples adoration of the dead Is everything, and in them are tables or altars covered with paper figures of mounted men in absurd attitudes, and fantastic cuttings of houses, something like Christmas crackers, which the pious son burns In honor or in memory of his dead father or mother. , OTHER RITES OF WORSHIP. In every Chinese "street there are shops where these paper things can be bought, and the representation of a defunct traderas an ancient warrior in full' armor is a characteristically quaint notion. Both kinds of josshouse have other rites of a peculiar character, and it is needless to say that other sorts of ancient worship have been Introduced. If the Buddhists have made their josshouses unlmposlng and left them to fall Into decay and disrepute, they have always chosen for their monasteries .the highest crags and cliffs that the hills of China can boast. Many such are to be found, but, except on the borders of Thibet, there are none that command a finer prospect or fill a grander site than one or two opposite Ichang, at the mouth of the Yang-Tse gorges. One of them that I visited was built upon a narrow ledge with a sheer drop of 1,200 feet on either side, connected with the hill by which it was approached by an open stone bridge about three feet wide, cast over the chasm. From the iemple parapet could be seen all the splendid scenery around the city, and in the distance was tho famous "Needle of Heaven," rising up in the middle of the first gorge. Equally well chosen Is another place of worship and meditation, a temple and monastery In one, called by the name of the Dragon's Mouth, at the very entrance to the gorge. A huge cavern, with dark and winding recesses, has been made into a josshouse, and on the farther side a sheer drop overlooks the river hundreds of feet below. These old Buddhists must have had everywhere a great sense of the solemnity of nature and of the harmony between the grandeur of mountain scenery and the bounding Impulses of religious emotion. It Is difficult to say whether the national sentiment leans that way. The great teacher, Confucius, was a pure agnostic, who, like the Positivlsts of our day, preached a general philanthropy for its own sake, and asked with others of like mind what we know of a future existence when we know so little of the present. It is in the materialism that this leads to, coupled with the gross superstitions bred by ages of an arrested civilization, that the Chinese world moves and has its being. BRYAN'S FARM. A rieee of Real Estate of Which We Will Henr a Great Deal. Chicago Inter Ocean. Col. William Jennings Bryan entertained Congressman William Sulzer. of New York. ex-Congressman J. Hamilton Lewis, of Washington, several other distinguished guests, and a number of newspaper correspondents at his farm near Lincoln, Neb., last Friday. This information has been flashed over the wires, not as social intelligence, but as a scrap of agricultural news calculated to impress the public mind with the idea that the peerless leader has become to all Intents and purposes a simple-minded Western farmer. The dispatch goes on to say that Colonel Bryan proudly displayed to his guests his wheat, corn, oats and garden truck, and his chickens. The rest is left to the imagination of th American people in the hope that the incident may arouse In their minds recollections of Thomas Jefferson and Montlcello, lead them to the conclusion that history is repeating itself, and bring them face to face with the opportunity of placing in the White House a genuine son of the soil. We shall here a great deal of Col. William Jennines Bryan's farm during the campaign. We shall also see a great deal of It. It will be described and pictured in the campaign literature. The peerless leader will be represented sowing timothy, weeding onions, pruning gooseberry bushes and hoeing potatoes. We shall have snap shots of him. attired in Jeans and a strawhat, in pensive contemplation of a cabbage patch, and black and white drawings of him from life as he Is applying gargling oil to the off leg of his favorite plow horse. There will be half-tone, views in the illustrated newspapers depicting him poisoning chinch bugs with Paris green, and one of the most effective Illustrations of the campaign is likely to represent him on a load of hay of his own making. The farm will be made to do service als In the speeches that the Peerless Leader is to deliver to the pilgrims who will visit him during the summer. "If my own simple tastes were to be consulted." he can say. "I would rather be out In yonder garden stringing pea vines than receiving the homage of representatives of the crowned heads of Europe in the White House." or. "The dream of my life has been that I might be numbered with those who cultivate the land; that I might be known as

plain Farmer Bryan but you have disturbed It;" or, "Give me the peace of a dewy morning in this old homestead of mine, which I purchased at a mortgage sale last year, and I don't care who Is President of the United States;" or, "To me the ideal life is that which permits me to mingle with nature sixteen hours a daj and drives me to an humble but welcome cot at eventide, but you, my fellow-citizens, have decreed that I must sacrifice my inclination and comfort to duty;" or. "To each and every one of you who see me here content with my lot. I need not say that the chief magistracy of the Nation has no attractions for me, and that I will gladly welcome defeat at the polls next November. For when all is said and done, my fellow-citizens, the presidency would be but a poor exchange for these heifers, calves, Plymouth rocks; these onion beds, potato rows and corn hills these environments which." etc. etc., etc. The Bryan farm is, of course, operated by a worthy couple from the north of Europe, who doubtless responded to an advertisement reading: "Wanted, a man and wife to care for small farm near Lincoln. Neb., for one year. Owner will furnish everything but labor, and make reasonable terms with right parties. Address X, 4-11-44." But what Is the difference? The press agent can work It as he rleases, and Mr. Bryan does the rest. TWO BOXER PLACARDS.

Antl-ForelRn '-Literature" That Is Scattered In China. A Tien-Tsin letter to the London Standard, bearing date of April GO. gives an account of the anti-foreign propaganda then in progress in northern China, reference to which has already been made in these columns. The writer remarks that similar 'literature," as politicians would call it, was circulated largely in Hoo-Nan ten yean ago and led to the serious riots of that period. "At the present time," he continues, "we are naving a not dissimilar, if less violent, recrudescence of anti-foreign literature, of which the following are very good samples. The first of them is In rhyme of a peculiarly attractive form, the meter throughout representing two lines of three characters each and one line of seven characters. This is particularly easy to memorize. I know some Chinese Christians whose families can repeat It by heart after one or two readings, and they assure me that it is a style of placard which would bo universally memorized, whereas the prose placards are read, but make no lasting impression. I append a literal translation of the poem without any attempt at rhyme for fear of destroying the effect: " 'Gods assist the Boxers, The Patriotic Harmonious Corps; It is because the Foreign Devils disturb the Middle Kingdom. Urging the people to Join their religion To turn their backs on Heaven; Venerate not the Gods and forget the Ancestors. Men violate the human obligations; Women commit adultery. Foreign Devils are not produced by mankind. If you doubt this, Iook at them carefully: The eyes of all the Foreign Devils are bluish. No rain falls. The earth is getting drj This is because the Churches stop the Heaven. The Gods are angry. The Genii are vexed; Both are come down from the mountains to deliver the doctrine. This Is not hearsay, The practice will not be in vain To recite incantations and pronounce magic words. Burn up the yellow written prayers; Light incense sticks; To invite the Gods and Genii of all the grottoes (Halls). The Gods will come out of the grottoes. The Genii will come down from the mountains. And support the human bodies to practice the boxing. When all the military accomplishments cr tactics Are fully learned. It will not be difficult to exterminate the "Foreign Devils" then. Push aside the railway tracks. Pull out the telegraph poles. Immediately after this destroy the steamers. The great France A ill grow cold and downhearted: The English and Russian will certainly disperse. " Let the various "Foreign Devils" all be killed. May the whole elegant Empire of the Great Chlng dynasty be ever prosperous.' "The translation of one of the prose placards is as follows: 44 'The relatives and friends of all around notice recently that members of the Protestant and Roman Catholic religllons polfron the wells with poisonous powder, and that whoever drinks the water have their lungs and intestines rotten within eighteen days. Two men have been arrested by us at Liu-LI-Chuang, and we find they have poison all over their bodies. They are silent when questioned, and bold when tortured. Those who smell the poison will die Immediately. You must be very cautious in drinking water. Those who see this notice must make it known; it will avoid calamity befalling the people. It must by all means be done.' "Both these placards were posted up In a district called Talcheng, in this (Chih-Li) province, six days ago 1. e., since the last proclamation. Talcheng Is about one and forty II, or fiftj' miles, south of Tlen-Tsln. The dense and universal ignorance of the people makes these placards, silly and childish as they may appear to us, very dangerous and highly calculated to excite the wildest ideas and promote trouble. The people are just now pecullarlly In the mood, moreover, to be so excited. The autumn and spring rains have not fallen; the earth is lying hard and parched, and starvation stares them in the face. They cannot explain it, nor understand why the clouds gather but produce no refreshing showers, In their blindness they blame the foreigner. To illustrate the public temper of the day, I may mention that the wildest superstitions are now extant current about kerosene oil. Several large fires have occurred through the breaking of lamps, and tho people are now discovering that kerosene promotes scarlet fever, smallpox and plague, injuries the eyesight and otherwise brings calamity. Upon this overwrought state of mind such placards as the above act very strongly." The correspondent adds that there Is no doubt that these inflammatory placards have official sanction. RUSSIA AND THE ''BOXERS. Another Story ns to the Origin of the Chinese Society-. Leslie's Weekly. This secret society, if it may be so called, has existed for about a hundred years, and is composed of tradesmen who have been ruined by the extortion of local magistrates?. There Is nothing whatever in the original society which indicates any ill-feeling toward Christians or foreigners, as, indeed, there could not be, since both were exceedingly rare in north China a century ago. It is quite true that, since the building of railways commenced, the people in the interior were more or less agitated on account of the Feng Shui or air and water superstition, which dominates all classes, erpeclally that of the litterati. " who collectively form the administration. Still, railway building had proceeded with little or n disturbance, when suddenly, and without any apparent cause, this Boxer society appeared on the scene. It spread with on unprecedented rapidity, and from the apathy, if not favorable consideration which it received from the authorities the conclusion was derived that the movement was connived at by the dowager Empress. But. Flnce. the Russian minister, M. de Giers. possessed great influence with the Chinese government, ugly whispers circulated at Peking that these disturbances, if coincidences, were strangely fortunate for Russia's v-'-ns. At any ra;e, they ruined nil of Japan's prospects of being intrusted with the reorganization of army and navy, and of advising the Empress upon the remodeling of the government. Once assured of the connivance of the government. It Is but natural that the movement shr.uld exceed the control of its Instigators. Ilmce a merry carnival of arson and murder was Inaugurated, when the native Christians were among the first sufferers. These men had. to some extent, enjoyed Immunity from magisterial extortion, owing to the watchfulness and protection afforded by the mlssonarles. and had thus incurred the Jealouty and ill-will of those whom that same rapacity had ruined. It Is not probable that the moven ent was Intended to go beyond this, although the purpose was to bring such pressure to bear upon the dowager Empress th&t.she, openly declaring the offensivedefensive alliance with Russia, should Invoke the aid of that power to suppress the disturbance. For that purpose 14.000 men were held in readiness at Port Arthur. If these troops could be landed without over whelming opposition Russia had beaten

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There is no doubt that she has the men and the means to transport them: nor is there any doubt as to tho superiority or efilcacy or ner neet. ina mil In nnovt Inn la aa t r who shall FWUTfl possession of the Taku forts; even the oc cupation of 1'ek.ing: is or minor consicrralir Thor la nr nnrstlon that ItllSSl.T. would have seized them before this if fho had been in possession or tne r.eccs?ary flat.hnttnm! hnflts. Thfi XlhsmCC Of tllCSö means of trarsportation may change the course or events. FLAGRANT RED TAl'C Ladjauilth'a .Mayor Asked to Tax for Slesce Food London Mall. A flagrant exhibition of alleged governmental red tape is reported from Natal by the Central News. It is stated that during the plepe of LaflyMllllU V lit 11 l tui ' - - - 'necessarily thrown upon tho resources of tho imperial government lor supplies. The Commissariat Department wtre not authorized to feed the civilian population of Ladysmlth, which during the siege numbered about eight hundred, and so It was found necessary to ask the mayor of Ladysmith to give his personal guarantee that in case of a demand for compensation on the part of the imperial government ho would f. nd the money in payment for fho food consumed. Of courso it was never supposed for a moment that the imperial government would ever so far forget its obligations as to demand payment for tho supplies, but It now appears that this demand has been made in the most peremptory manner, and the mayor of Ladysmlth has been asked to pay several thousand pounds to the Imperial government. This extraordinary incident has created an intense sensation throughout Natal, and it is said that the governor, Sir Y llcly Hutchinson, has been npprrached. and is moving In the matter. jx. Dally Mall representative called at the Colonial Ottice yesterday to obtain confirmation of the report, but was informed that the Colonial Ofllce had no knowledge of the affair as reported by the Central News. At tho Natal government offices In Victoria tdreet the ofliclals would neither deny nor confirm the statement. The Missionary mid the Ilor., . Leslie's Weekly. While, the Kov. T. T. Headland was preaching: at the street chapel 1" Peking, half a dozen of tho turbulent clas known as Boxers cam Into the rhain l. brut upon creating a disturbance. Thy sat down In different parts of the chapel, and after a short time began talking aloud to each other across tho room. Thy were lirst told kindly that this was contrary to tho customs of tti Christians. To this thy paid no attention, but continued to make remarks. They were then toli they must not do so, but, continuing their conversation, they were asked either to ooar-e talking eir leave the room. As tlie-y went cut ore of thrm reviled Mr. Headland, his father, his mother. Hnd all his ancestors, and as he was reviling. An Young, a city deteetive, and member of the rhurrh. tooic the lioxer by the shoulder and said to him. "Who are you reviling?' He slapped the detective In the fare, saying. "Do jou know I have official busine. s?" An Your.g whipped a small detective's chain out from under his coat and twirling It around ths Lexer's neck, hl?lncr In his fr.rr, "Ar.d da you know I have official burlness. too?-' The detective took the Uoxer to the policy station, and then came back for Mr. Headland to go and explain t the police what had happened. The official. An. and tha assistant pastor decided that th Uoxer should be chained to the chape 1 oor for three days and nights, and cn:p(.lkd to tell everyone why he was there. The FIrat Rnbalyat Sale. Irish Times. The story of the first edition of Fitr-rer-aid's celebrated translation of Omar Khayyam is interesting. The book was l.-?u.l anonymously, and found no buyers. Accordingly the author went to I'.err.ard Quaritch's shop, dropped a heavy parcel of 2ul copies of the "Hubaiyat," and s.nld: "Quaritch. I make you a present of theso books." The famous bookseller offered them first at half a crown, then at a shilling, and. again descending, at sixpence, but no buyers came. - f n despair, he reduced the book to one penny, and put copies into a box outside hU door with a ticket: AU these at one penny each."