Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 337, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1900 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1900.

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locks For your inspection. Come bring tbe children to see the great Christmas store. Come while the stocks are complete and make your selections and avoid the great rush and hurry of the last day. . Pettis Dry Goods Co. OUR Large Stock and Large Business enables us to undersell all others. CEO. J.MAKOTT, 22 lo 28 East Wash. St Second largest Shoe Store In the World. ' EVERYTHING F'OR ... AND Prnit Cake ATTTHE N. A. MOORE CO. Fancy Grocers, 162 and 164 North Illinois St. Tel. 892. AMUSEMENTS. Jessie Bonstell Is negotiating for Maurice Campbell's version of "Mistress Nell," In which to make a starring tour. xxx Sousa's band will play In New York on Watch Night at the great meeting of the Red Cross in Madison Square Garden. xxx Mary Mannering will make her debut In New York as a star next Monday night In "Janice Meredith" at Wallack's Theater. ' XXX When "The Sprightly Romance of Mareac" opens in New York the role of the adventuress will be handled by Miss Ffoliot Paget, formerly with Joseph Jefferson. . , xxx, Edna May Is to have In her supporting company in "The Girl from Up There," Miss Louise Monte, who has been studying the past year in Paris under the famous Shriglia. XXX Helen Lord, who attained celebrity as Edna May's successor In the role of the Salvation Army lassie In "The Belle of New York." is the latest acquisition to the ranks of vaudeville artists. xxx Alma Webster Fowell, a young American scprano singer, a native of Brooklyn, appeared last Monday night in Breslau, Germany, as Valentine in "The Huguenots," scoring a great success. xxx Friends of "William Faversham, the prominent Frohman actor, will be pleased t learn that there is a fair prospect of his recovery from the severe surgical operation through which he passed recently. XXX Clyde Fitch witnessed the revival of his revolutionary drama "Nathan Hale" In Merlden, Conn., Thanksgiving night, and expressed himself as delighted with the splendid company Manager W. M. Wilklson has brought together, which Is headed by Howard Kylo and Miss Nanette Comstoek. XXX Henry E. Dixey ha3 signed a contract to play- the title role in "The Burgomaster," the musical comedy success of last season at the Dearborn Theater. Chicago, which Is to be given at the Manhattan Theater, New York. In an engagement opening New Year's night. xxx The Sire Brothers assumed control of the New York Casino last Friday, but the run of "Florodcra" will not be interrupted by the change of management. When tha "Florodora" engagement ends the houe will be entirely renovated and a new production, probably "The Belie of Broadway," put on Immediately. xxx " Melbourne MacDowell is reported to be contemplating a separation from Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Brune for the alleged reason that Mrs. Bruno said that she must be chaperoned by her husband while appearing In Mr. MaeDowell's company a remark which Mr. MacDowell took as a reflection upon hi character. Mr. Bruno does not act in "Theodora." xxx "The Girl with the Auburn Hair" broke all records for long runs of vaudeville acts In Chicago at the Masonic Temple Theater roof garden last season. This act is booked for the closing week of the stock season at the Grand, opening next Monday night. Seats for the entire week, including the matinee performances, are now on sale at the boxoffice of the theater. xxx English's Opera House is to have the splendid Whitney & Knowles production of "Quo Vadis" all week with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, beginning tonight. Practically the same powerful oast that Interpreted the great Stanislaus Stange version of the Slenkiewici novel many weks last season In New York, will be seen here. The scenery employed is said to be of surpassing beauty and richness. XXX There will be a great outpouring of stock company admirers at the Grand to-night to witness the first presentation of this season's elaborate revival of "Camille," the play that seems destined to never gro'w old All the women In the audience will be given group photographs of the members of the stock compiny, and it is said that thee pictures will constjute the handsomest eouvenirs yet glv?-..way at the Grand. xxx lime. AdelcMe Herrmann and the Burke d Chafe Polite Vaudeville Company will this afternoon open what promises to be an crcrptlonally interesting week of enter-Ui-mient at tht Park Theater. Charles If. Vale's majnlficent spectacular production c: "The Forever and Ever Devil's Auction"

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dianapolis theatergeoers at popular prices. xxx The lay mind might be a trifle puzzled to understand Just how the New York Tele graph was able to learn of the Grand Opera Houso being leased to the vaudeville trust before the information became public In In dianapolis. The Telegraph paid in its Satur day morning edition that Indianapolis nas long been sought for vaudeville purposes, presenting as it does an important strategic situation, since with no Sunday shows, attractions will be enabled to reach Cincinnati in timo for the Sunday matinees in that city. xxx Vaudeville and burlesque of more than ordinary merit are promised in the engagement of Heuck & Fennessey's Ramblera at the Empire Theater this week. The company opens with a matinee at 2 p. m. today. The company has been carefully selected and according to reports it is a model organization of Its kind. One of the features is the burlesque, "The Queen of the Holland Dames," which closes the performance and in which Miss LIda Dexter, -a very handsome woman, appears as the chief burlesquer. The management of the theater specially invites women to attend the matinee performances, promising that there will be nothing offensive, but on the contrary the entertainment will be clean and bright. James E. Hennessey, well known here. Is at the head of the organization. . XXX Preparations of the most extensive kind are: being made to give "Monzuma," the chimpanzee, a rousing reception when he arrives at the Zoo to-day. The coming of this rare animal 13 looked upon in the light of a distinct event. It Is claimed to be absolutely the only genuine specimen of the chimpanzee alive in this country. A large gathering of physicians is expected to assemble at the Zoo to-morrow to examine and studyttho curious animal. An unusually attractive arenlc programme has been arranged for the week. The act3 which will be given each afternoon and evening include the singing of the popular song "Ma Tiger Lily," with a bit of vivid accompanying realism in the form of a huge, ferocious. Bengal tiger displayed amid dazzling effulgence poured forth from the calcium machine. Baby Marguerite will appear In her pretty tableau. "A Bird in a Gilded Cage," and also in an exhibition of her trained quagga, said to be the only one in this country. Prof. Jose Barrios will put his fierce forest-reared Hons Emerson, Gladstone, and Leo, through a set of new evolutions. XXX "Sylvia's Daughter" is the name of the. play adapted from the Scandinavian of Henrtck Chrlstlernson by Alice Brown, of Boston, which Mrs. Flske will produce during one week of her month's engagement In Chicago. This break In the continuity of Mrs. FIske's season In "Becky Sharp" was made necessary by the contract under which she secured the new play, which made Imperative a week's production within the present season. Less than two years ago "Sylvia's Daughter" was produced simultaneously In Stockholm, Sweden, thts home of Its author, and m Copenhagen. Denmark, and made such an 'impression that It went at once to the Berliner Theater. Berlin. ' Within a few months it wvs presented in a score or more of theaters In the principal cities of Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia, and was adopted as a special vehicle by several stars who played In it at various European watering places in the Intervals between regular theatrical seasons so great and general was its popularity. It Is still running in Vienna, where It is known a3 "Dolly." REAPPORTIONMENT. Shall the Provisions of the Constitu tion lie Nullified f To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: If it turns out, as It is, said it will, that a righteous reapportionment bill cannot be passed at this coming short session of Congress; and It is true, as It must be. since Senator Allison says it, that a re apportionment bill of, some sort is one of the measures the failure to enact which at this session will make necessary an extra session of Congress; then certainly wo should have the extra session and a reapportionment to meet the demands of the Constitution, with no trace in it of makeshift subterfuge or compromise with wrong. It seems that not many take the trouble to discover exactly what the constitutional provisions are which should determine the features of the new apportionment of representation for the Southern States. which have deprived a percentage of their citizens of the right of suffrage. Those who havo not done so cannot know how flagrantly wrong would be the indorse ment by an administration fresh from the people of such action. To keep them to a means of Judging rightly the second sec tlon of the fourteenth amendment to th3 Constitution Is here given: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the wnoie number of persons in each State, ex eluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President or Vice President of the United States, representatives in congress, the executive and Judicial of fleers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or In any way abridged. except for participation in rebellion 01 other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced, in tho proportion which the number of j?uch male citizens shall have to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years ofage in such State." . This is the supreme law of the land governing this question, made so by the direct vote of the people of the United States and not by the action of Congress only. It appears to bo what the learned lawyers call mandatory. That is. It commands that if a certain specified thing be don-?, which. It therein concedes, may be legally done, a certain specified consequence shall follow. It Is notorious that the specified thing to which the penalty is attached has been done in some of our States, with a full knowledge of the penalty, and, therefore, lo should be presumed, in full expectation that It would be enforced. Such action in those States may fairly, in case the constitutional provision is observed )n its integrity, be regarded as an experiment looking to the solution of a very dilUcuit question, but a failure to enforce the penalty will rob it of the experimental feature, put the sanction of a Republican administration upon the nullification of a section of the Constitution, incite other States to similar action, and put a premium upon irregular and illegal ways of righting wrongs, real or ImaKinary, quite at tho will of Tom, Dick or the devil. We should not have needed Mr. Booker Washington to tell us that ono lynching makes ready for another, and that they who rob the black man of citizenship will, when it meets their needs to do so, and they can, rob the white man of it too, Of lynchlngs we have had enough at homo o teach us that safety lies only in the impartial execution of the law; while the Kentucky spectacle shows that not race, nor color, nor previous condition of freedom can -avail. In the critical hour, to protect him who does not make his eternal vigilance include his brother. O. W. SEARS. Indianapolis. Dec. 3. CITY NEWS NOTES. The entertainment to be given by the children of Woodruff Place will be given on Saturday night, instead of Saturday matinee, as previously announced. Miss 'Louise Fhllputt left yesterday for Bloomlngton, where she will gie a piano recital to the ladles of the faculty of the State University at tho home of Miss Juliette Maxwell. The Murphy League yesterday elected the following officers: President, Ualle Cximpbeil; flrst vice president, A. J. Veregge; second vice president, D. A. Jenkins; chaplain, Robert Clark; treasurer, Samuel Johnson; secretary. W. B. Harris. The Kappa Alpha Theta Club will meet with Mrs. John T. Barnett, 2001 North Delaware street, Saturday, Dec. 8. A paper on-"The Cost of College Education" will bo read by Mrs. Daniel T. Weir, followed by conversation, led by Miss Emma Tweed Erowder.

TRYING TO GROW RUBBER

EXPEnmn.vrs o farms is cen tral AM CHI CA AND ELSEWHERE. The "World's Derannil for More Rubb er Lack of Knonlfdffe About the Tree Other Troubles. New York Sun. It may surprise many people to learn that there is still a raw product which man finds Just as difficult to obtain as it was a hundred years ago; in fact, it is harder to obtain than ever before. This is the milk of a very insignificant looking tree, growing In great quantltltes throughout thousands of square miles. The tree itself is' entirely generous; a few blows with a knife, and a thick white liquid follows the Incision; a wait of twenty-four hours for the milk to harden and a man has the equivalent of a day's wages. This white liquid after exposure to heat with many species, to that of the sun alone and without any further treatment gives C3 per cent, of its bulk in pure rubber. Despite this, the world cannot obtain a tithe of the supply it needs. The simple reason for this state of affairs I3 that the tree, although generous itself, elects to grow In regions which for the most part are death to white men, and are removed from civilization by thousands of miles of swamp and Jungle. To alter this condition of things two sets of men are working on opposite lines. They are, engaged in a sort of race, for a very high stake an unusually high stake, Indeed, as the best rubber is now selling for something more than $1 a pound. One set are chemists, who have been trying their best for the, last twenty-five years to find a substitute for rubber. So far there has not been an unqualified success among their attempts, and there are experts who go so far as to say that chemically it is Impossible to combine for the market a substitute having the different properties of pure rubber. Be that as it may, hardly a day passes but the long-expected perfect substitute is brought forward and the company formed to exploit the perfect substitute of the year before goes into the hands of a receiver. The field of activity of the other set of men is very different. It is found in a few farms in Mexico and Central America, and in a few government experimental stations, notably in Jamaica and Ceylon. There are a small number of farms where something like a systematic attempt is being made to farm rubber on a large scale; some half-dozen In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and a very few more probably not twenty-five In all In Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the rest of Central America. OTHER DIFFICULTIES. The difficulties which confront this handful of farmers are peculiar. In the first place, no one ever tried before to make rubber grow as a crop for the market. There are no data, no facts of even the simplest kind, to tell these men whether their ideas are the right ones. The natives of the country take no interest in things outside their own particular business, and a man about to establish a plantation has had to start fresh with only his own ideas to guide him, and these latter cannot be said to have become as yet authoritative, for none of the farms is more than six years old, and the tres must be up that time before the question of growing them profitably can be settled. Rubber planting, then, is not only an absolutely untried undertaking, but there has been no body of tradition or general knowledge of the subject with; which to make a start. If rubber were a delicate tree, or difficult to cultivate, the outlook would be disheartening indeed. Second, the general conditions are against the planter. The nature or the country throws him entirely upon Ids own resources, and the climate is apt to be enervating, to say the least. Transportation is a great problem. Labor is scarce and not easv to handle, the native peon of Central America being a mixture of childishness and independence, and a hard drinker to boot. Although strong and active as young men. excellent axmen and better with a spade than any other laborers In the world, they become debilitated very rariv in life. They have no constitution and must be cared for like children, furthermore, they look to the patron, or owner, for the settlement of every ill. spiritual and temporal. You must keep them sober, get them cut of debt, make peace between them and their wives, arrange any infelicities that may occur between them and their neigh oors' wives, doctor the whole firmly, and eduate the children. If you have time For the peon is essentially .1 creature formed for the patriarchal .wstem. With a chief or employer whom they know und respect the better class of peons become in manv essentials ideal laboreus, steady, care ful, hardworking, quick to catch an ide.i, faithful to follow it out, entirely honest; their employer's interest beojmo thoir own. But In order to obtain this desirable state of things a farmer shoull re a first rate Judge of capacity and character, a lair lawyer, physician and man or business. GOT A NEW WIFE. There Is nothing the peon will not tell you or consult you about. As an Illustra tlon consider tho following incident, which took place on a Central American farm The owner of the farm, an American, hai got his laborers licked Into very good shape, but the women remained a very great trial, for, as a rule, they are shrewish, always stirring up trouble between the men. and their tongues are very evil. The wife generally a courtesy title of one of the men had been particularly obnoxious, and the owner determined to get rid of her. so he called the man up one evening and said: "Chlco, I cannot have your woman here any longer, and then he recited her wrong-doings. "You must send her back to the interior, and 1 will forward $10 a month out or your wages to support her. The man had not a suggestion to offer. nor was he angry. He felt the Justice of the patron s remarks and was satisfied. "Bueno, senor," he said, calmly. "I am going to the interior next week," continued the owner, "and I will see if 1 can't get you another wife." "Bueno, senor." "That's all," and the man moved off. Although one who has succeeded in the face of rather unusual difficulties, the American said he was never prouder of a niece of work than his choice of Chico's new wife. He brought her down to the farm, Chlco was at the station to meet her. and they have served as a model to the married couples ever since. Such condl tlons as these make it necessary for every one with a thinking part on a Central American farm to be a foreigner. The third problem before the farmer of rubber is where to plant. Castilloa elastlca. for practical purposes the only rubber In Central Amerlcn, has an extremely varied habitat. It is found at all elevations up to 2.00G feet and In a great variety of soils and locations, with a consequent variation of rainfall. So here again the farmer must make a choice, and one upon which his success will probably depend, with nothing to guide him in the making. As regards loca tion. It is conceded that Castilloa needs a tropical climate, a rainfall that can be de ponded upon, a good drainage, and an elevation of less than 1.500 feet, but these con ditions leave great latitude of choice. UNSETTLED PROBLEMS. The most Important of the questions relative to the method of planting rubber is the one about which the farmers are most divided, and is probably the most vital connected with its cultivation. It is the open, or under forest shade. The advocate of the former system says 'that in any other part of the world, if one wants to get a particular crop, it is customary to question whether to plant In groves. In the give the tree or plant all the chance possible. One clears the ground, turns it up, and after the tree is planted keeps all weeds from encroaching upon its light and food space. Why not apply thtse ele mentary principles to rubber, and plant in ploughed and open land, in groves, like an apple orchard? The advocate of the forestry system points, however, to the manner in which the tree grows naturally, and says that rubber is found thriving best under shade. In a cool, wet spot, and by "thrives" he says he means gives the most rubber. The tree will grow, it Is quite true, faster in the open than in the forest, and you will get your groves of rubber trees more quickly, but the question is. will you get the milk from them? For it does seem to be a fact

that rubber found In open pastures will not vield so much milk as those trees

growing in the forest, where it & cooler and molster. If it could be ascertained exactly what function the milk of the tree performed, one wouia probably be a Die to tell how much sun and how much rain would produce the tree with the largest quantity of rubber. The milk is not a sap. but a latex which is carried Just uncer tne outer bark, and the slightest nick from a penknife will be followed by a thick liquid, which, if caught on the finger, dries at once, leaving a shred or two of pure rubber, like small elastic bands. Now. If the tree thrives best when tho woody tissues are kept cool. It is probable that putting it in the hotter, cleared land would tend to lessen the flow of rubber. But if the milk is actually a rubber coating to protect the soft wood from rotting and from the Inroads of ants, or if it is simply one of those enigmas, like the poisonous Juice of the manzllleo. perhaps, whose use in the economy or nature we have not yet discovered, there would seem to be no reason why it should not flow as freely in the sun as In the shade. The former method would then be the better, as the tree would certainly come on more quickly and In greater numbers. OPPOSING METHODS. There are farms established by exponents of each theory. One can see in Mexico rows of young trees In cleared open land, in every respect like a coffee or orange plan tation; and, again, in Costa Rica the farm consists of rubber trees planted in among the forest trees, only cleared where the growth is very thick, though, of course, the bush Is kept down by cuttings twice a year. Those who are following these two theories will be relieved when they get their first crop. But at present they are having rather-an anxious time of it, for, on the one hand, it will be expensive business, not to say impossible, to plant shade among those trees In the open, and the rubber may be ruined before the shade comes up. But this course would be imperative should the advocates of the orchard theory find themselves in the wrong. On the other hand, should the forestry people be at fault it will require considerable skill for the owner of the rubber growing In the forest to cut .out the trees and let in the sun without injuring the rubber. Ringing trees tit the right phase of the moon, seme eminent scientists to the contrary, will go far toward solving the problem for the grower of rubber in the forest and makes his position the stronger of the two, on the whole, in that he runs the lesser ri-k, as it is easier to cut out the shade than put It back. , Still, there is a fourth problem. Should one decide to plant rubber as a crop to be cultivated In the open, why not plant A catch-crop, cocee or chocolate, as well and make the farm pay from the start? Or could not the plantation, if made under the forest shade, partially thinned out, also serve as a pasturage, after the young trees are a year old. and so keep down the weeds unu biuss; iina wny not. unaer ciiner system, plant bananas which keep r.he ground moist, and rubber likes plenty of water? 'At the present moment it would be mere assertion to do more than state these questions, as there is a great difference of opinion and no proof In support of any. It seems to be probable, however, that bananas will be found most desirable as a side crop, being very profitable and suited tu growing with rubber. THE WILD FORESTS. One way in which the rubber supply of the world m!ght be increased has not been mentioned because the best judges agree that nothing can be done materially to Improve the present condition of affairs. -It is by the increased development of the Immense tracts- of wild rubber throughout the valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, and in tropical Africa. There is no question that there is enough rubber in the thousands of . miles of river swamp In Brazil alone to supply the world for a long time to come. , But those who should know. most about it consider the natural disadvantages under which the trade must be carried on insurmountable beyond a certain point, and they say that this point has been reached. One sees, however, in the newspapers, cheering items concerningcolonization schemes to take 5,000 negroes from one of the. Southern States and start them at work cutting rubber on the headv.aters of the Orinoco. Now, of course, anything is possible if you try hard enough, and it's worth enough money. But how much effort and how much money will find labor that can work ten hours a day in mud and . water, always to the ankles and often to the waist, in a climate which steanuv or broils, or does both? And if, -after 5 wir inen 'have collected a dollar's worth of rubber, they can sell it at a better price to another trader and you have no control over them, do you think they can be counted on to bring it back to you? These same writers are apt to strengthen their case by talking about "the law preventing the illicit sale of .wild rubber," or stating that "the law already forbids the killing of the rubber tree" or vine, as the case may be. "The law," Indeed! Speak to the Portuguese agent of police, lying in his hammock 1,600 miles from the rubber forests you have pre-empted, nbout the law! He might bo tempted to reply in a paraphrase of Mr. Kipling: You couldn't raft a Bobby up the Nile To guard you in an Equatorial swamp. As for the rubber planter's profits, nothing definite can be said about them as yet. A man might buy a thousand acres of good rubber land for JT,000, and he might plant It and bring it to production for $45,000 more; $50.000 in all. But now, as to the returns, it is like figuring on the chicken industry; one becomes alarmed at the rate chickens, eggs and profits pile up. In the same way It is estimated that rubber will produce a handsome return every year at the end of the sixth j-ear from planting. Any one can work out for himself the following sum in multiplication for the profits of the eighth year: One thousand acres, with 200 trees to the acre, one pound of rubber to the tree each year, sold at a net profit of 50 cents a pound. REMARKABLE ENLISTMENTS. Ynle Ph. D. Una Joined the Rejrnlara nnd a French Diplomat the Mllltln. New York Herald. According to the recruiting agencies, college men are continually applying for enlistment in the United States army. The latest one to come into general notice on this account is Henry W. Bunne, son of tho Rev. Dr. A. C. Bunne, of the Episcopal diccese of Long island. Ho is a graduate of Yale and has also taken a post-graduate course and obtained a degree of doctor, of philosophy. He was professor of Greek and English literature in St. John's Military School, at Manllus, at the time of his enlistment, but found the duties of a teacher, distasteful and determined to enter the army. Nothing was 5ald about his enlistment until some time after he had gone with a squad to Fort Wrood, and the Impression now prevails among his friends that he already is on a transport bound for the Philippines. Prof. Bunne was counseled In his determination to adopt the life of a soldier by Major Ira Quinby, U. S. A., retired, who went to Albany with him and afterward promised to forward his ambitions. He passed an excellent physical examination, with the exception of his eyesight, which was defective and necessitated a special permit tc enlist him. Washington, SaturdayFor the first time Ii the history of the National Guard a foreigner of birth and one affiliated with a foreign embassy has sworn allegiance lo the United States, shouldered a gun an! donned the uniform of a private In the volunteer militia' of the national capital. Jean Felix P. des Garennes is the young French attorney who came Into prominence when the French government, at the request of Ambassador Cambon. conferred decoration upon him in recognition of aervices rendered the French nation. M. des Garennes has been known since then a3 the legal' adviser of the French embassy. He Is a native of France, an American by choice; has studied American law and beeu admitted to the bar in the national capital. Ills latest evidence of allegiance to the United States Is to become a private of the National Guard. M. des Garennes speaks English fluently, as does he also Spanish and German. Although a Frenchman by birth, habits, tastes and education, he has won no little renown as a public speaker in the different c!tie3 of the Union. The organization he has affiliated himself with is known as the Gould Rifle, named ns an honor to Miss Helen Gould in recognition of her work for that company during the Spanish-American war when it was known as Company D, Fifth Battalion, under the command of Captain F. Penrose Smith. While M. des Garennes never had any soldierly training in his native land and 1 not versed in military maneuvers, he ?a an enthusiastic swordsman, being a member of the fencing club here In Washington. " - -

FEAST OF LIT SING GUNGj

TninXNIAL FESTIVAL OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IX CIIIXATOWX. More Than f 0,500 Spent In the Weird Ceremonials of the Temple San Francisco' Great Temple. San Francisco Chronicle. The oldest and largest and ri;hest Oriental temple In America is in San Francisco's Chinatown. It Is the outgrowth of the shrine that was established over fifty years ago, when the first Chinese came to California's newly discovered gold fields. From a small beginning the institution has developed during the decades until now It is the biggest and wealthiest Chinese religious concern outside the Imperial empire. Under the name of the Ning Yung Society It has gathered to Its support more than 15,000 Chinese and has accumulated city property and a cash fund aggregating many thousands of dollars. It owns real estate on Commercial street and tha fine three-story brick building and the lot It occupies on Waverly place. Last week the society devoted five days and nights to the celebration of an important ceremonial that is observed but once in three years. For that one prayerful festival the thrifty Celestials contributed about $6.500. The result was the attainment of the most elaborate and important season of worship ever known to a Chinese colony in a foreign country. Entire walls and hallways on the business floor of the society's building were completely covered with little red paper placards showing the names and offerings oi the various contributors. In oire high ball were 2.S00 of these slips, each representing a 50-cent donation. Two walls of the assembly room, where they were not occupied by huge pictures and other ornate decorations, were red with some ö00 of the dollar slips. Along another wall by a stairway leading to the holy chambers were hundreds of $3, $5 and 520 slips. There, where all might read, were the names of the men who had given money to the cause. And all who came looked over tho array of apparently similar records to lind their own or to observe those persons who had been ablo to give more liberally. This special occasion was practically a triennial season of prayer for the dead. Five hired priests performed the mystic rites. One of them chanted the peculiar ritual. In a sing-song tone he uttered what his followers know must be an address and an appeal to the departed relatives of the subscribers. But none was so wise as to know the exact phraseology used. These priests compose "their own prayers and grind them in verbal agony from a little handbook. At other times the head functionary would sins tiresomely while proclaiming in a mumbling monotone the long list of names of those that had paid to have their dear ones reminded of the thoughts of the living. Three times a day tho peculiar whining chant of tho priest would sound for nearly an hour as he stood or crouched before the, smokescented altar and addressed the heathen gods. About 10 o'clock in the forenoon, about 2 in the afternoon, and about 7 in the evening were the favored hours for the nasal recital, with its accompaniment of weird Chinese music. Every afternoon a band of eight players clashed and .clattered its cymbals and beat upon its pigskin drums excitedly, and snarled with its one-string fiddles, squealing with its asthmatic clarinets. After five days of these periods of prayinir and nlavine the great festival wa3 con cluded with a midnight burning in the street of the thousands of duplicate sups of those pasted on the inner walls. Hundreds of little, fires blazed along the nar row paved thoroughfare. The sidewalks were thick with the men wno naa come to witness this final tribute to their dead relatives back through centuries. REVERE THEIR DEAD. The Chinese reverence their dead. Next to 'this national regard for the spirit of the departed kinsman Is the devotion 'Of the Chinese to his parents. 0 These two traits, together with the custom of paying all, debts before the Chinese New Year day, suggest a little of the ancient morality still practiced by the oldest state in the world. With such instinctive customs forming part, of the framework of tho religion of China, It is not surprising that the 400.000,000 people in the unprogressive old empire are satisfied with their religion, and they generally object to the assumption of the younger civilizations that a handful of misfit preachers are destined to improve the moral' tone of the followers of the tenets of wise old Confucius, who taught hundreds of years before Christ was born. The Chinese re ligion is suited to the Chinese. Many of its elements are such as exist in all creeds. It differs chiefly in the manner of mani festing its presence. Members pay no dues or fees to the so ciety. They contribute according to their means whenever there is a great ceremony. Some of them, when departing for China, make a money present to the institution. In this way the concern is maintained. Incidentally It derives an uncertain and variable auxiliary income from the sale of punks and sandal wood to tourists and other visitors who enter the Josshouse and find themselves confronted on the altar with a very Occidental sign suggesting the purchase of a paper of punks for 25 cents or a little sandal wood ior 50 cents. By making a larger donation they have the privilege of being continuously on the rolls of the society as among.lts supporters and entitled to the regular prayers of the Driest. The punk purchasers receive but the one prayer. When that is offered no one knows. There is a strong suspicion here of acquired Western methods and a commercial instinct. Considering . its size and cost, this temple is seldom used for religious functions of note. The triennial festival Just ended and the semi-annual celebration In honor of the idol, Quong Kong, are almost the only occasion on which the Ning Yung Society becomes the center of religious Interest among the 23,000 persons composing the Oriental population of Chinatown. Not even the priests are a part of the big temple. They are hired to come and perform the rites. There are ten professional priests In Chinatown. Five of them were engaged for this recent demonstration. They were apparently assisted by seven little boys corresponding in function to acolytes in the Roman Catholic Church. Each youngster was merely a figurehead attired to represent the gold button men, or certified graduates of a government school in China. While the head priest was solemnly chanting and accompanying his rhythmic delivery with tappings on a little metallic plate, the richly gowned boys were cavorting behind him on the matting and mature men among the close spectators laughed occasionally in the halfhearted, perfunctory way peculiar to their stoic race. Only to the busy head priest Is the ceremony solemn. He sings drearily on, his brows puckered, his eyes with a far-away focus. At times the other priests get down on their knees and bow their foreheads to the matting. At other times a hardly noticed clarionetist wails a peevish accompaniment to the rapplngs of the busy but abstracted man, who, seated on a pigskin drum, plumps out dull sounds with a little stick and punctuates them at Intervals with a clashing of cymbals. A man comes along and relieves the drummer, who moves off to prepare the meal for the priests and the altar boys, and the tapping and cymbal slashing continues, with the muttering of the head priest. The little boys poke each other and grin and frisk about in their stocking feet. But the priest never hesitates nor turns until he has finished his duties beforo the altar. CURBSTONE SHRINES. When the inside ceremony Is ended the priests and boys file down Into the street and begin a pilgrimage of tho stations where the spirits of tho dead are publicly told that they are wanted within the temple. There are three of these little curbstone shrines. Each has erected over it a flimsy pole and a crossplece, from which la suspended a big Chinese lantern. Punks burn in a little box at the bottom of the pole. As the head priest chants the invitation to tho spirits his assistants form an Irregular chorus, and each clasps his hands before him and bows to the libation ot tea that a menial is all the while pouring upon a tr.yful of rice and other edibles. Finally the crouching servant pours tea upon a flaming paper that has nerved

as a sacrifice, and, gathering up his tray, moves cn to the next station. The little procession, led by part of a noisy band, follows in a picturesque column. The head priest wears a long wine-colored silk gown;

the others are attired in maroon siik. uui the boys, except for their curious black caps and scarlet crowns, are nearly all in diversely colored gowns of rich silk. Aside from the ceremonv and the COStumcs and the chanting and the unlovely music, the temple is remarkable ior itself. In It are collected bronze and brass vases of odd shape and elaborate finishing, mammoth ornamental things of polished pewter and shining bra?, all wonderfully finished; hand-embroidered silken banners and chair coverings, rows of or namental brazen spear heads, and many other things of interest to the artist, the decorator and the collector of curios. One grand urn stands seven feet high and glistens all over until its surfaces reflect surrounding objects in the most grotesque shapes. In this big receptacle are placed the offerings, and from the nostrils of the ugly animal on the top spouts the smoke on its uncertain way to the celling that Is blackened with the records of hundreds and hundreds of burnt offerings. All about are lesser shrines with tapers burning before them, and punks in beautiful bronze bowls filled with sand. The air is laden with the perfume of sandal wood and aromatic punks. Little columns of bluish smoke twine lazily upward in corkscrew curves from the different altars, until the upper air Is a stratum of hazy obscurity. Sacred as the inmates of the building hold this realm on the third floor, they have but to pass to the story below to free themselves entirely from the effects of religious Influences, and there, within constant sight of fantastic but hideously inartistic conceptions of Chinese court scenes, they go to the other extreme of Oriental character and nurse their opium pipes In the little booths fitted up'for the purpose. It must be clearly understood that the Ning Yung Society and the Ning Yung Temple are not one and the same thing. The temple is a part of the society, but the opium den Is not a part of the temple. Be it understood, too, that on this second floor are the rooms of the officers. To the Chinese vlstor in the temple there is more of interest in the allegorical pictures on the walls and upon the banners than there is in the real works of art In substantial metal. The pictures and the heroic figures of men and horses, made especially for the great ceremony, are ridiculous and seem like the work of another people when compared with the skillful turnings and carvings upon the bronzes that make this Josshouse one of the places of public interest In San Francisco. THE "BED LIGHT" DISTRICT. Where Everyone la Awake at Night Trying to Do" Someone Else. New York Letter In Cleveland Plain Dealer. There were two of us, and wo set out for an afternoon's cruise amid the dangers of "the red light district." At the Eldridge-street police station right in the heart of the Ghetto, with Chinatown, Little Italy, Stanton street and the Bowery as Its outlying territory a polite sergeant with Hibernian features and a pleasant way about him told us all we wanted to know. He has been busy in this way for some days, for this is the section of the East Side that has sprung into sudden fame, because of the anti-vice crusade opened by Bishop Potter and his associates. 'Why Is It. called the Red Light district?" I asked him. "Just because It was a taking name and happened to be slapped on at tho right moment and stuck. It was the same way across town. A police captain who had been for years out In the suburbs tramp ing grasr. and shooting goats was suddenly transplanted to the most important hotel and theater district of the city. When he bid his boys good-bye he said: 'I've been living on the neck pieces ior a long time; now I am to have a bit of the tenderloin." And It has been the Tenderloin district from that day to this. "And so over here. A few of the eating houses and saloons happened to have red lights before their places. The number in creased as time went by, and this suggested the name, which the newspapers began to use, and so I suppose that it is fastened on us for good. "I suppose a policeman doesn't have much to do here in the Ghetto? The peo ple are, as a rule, sober and quiet, are they not?" The officer would have grown red In the face lr he had not been that by nature He would have sworn a little if discipline had not been stronger than desire. "Quiet! An easy time!" he echoed. "Do you know, my friend, how many people there are to an acre of ground right about us here? Well, I'll tell you. There are Just 853. You know how small a piece an acre is when seen In meadow land. Well, you house nearly nine hundred people on that and let every man, woman and child lie awake nights hatching up some new way or getting ahead of the others. and you won't find the quietest time in the world in keeping a fraternal guardianship over tnem. . "No. they don't do so much fighting or cutting as do the Italians, and they don't spend as much money on whisky as they äo in Hell's Kitchen, nor play craps or draw razors as tney do on Thompson street; but, when it comes to schemes to cook up two dollars where 10 cents grew before, well it was too much for words. The officer lay back in his chair and breathed heavily. "Let me tell you of one case that we disposed of only ten minutes ago," he con tinued. "There was a young Russian Jew who worked for a merchant down town. He delivered some goods and collected $30, which was to be turned into tho store In the morning. About daybreak the young man and his father and mother came rushing in here, acting like crazy people. The boy had given the $30 to his mother to keep lor him over night, and a burglar had broken in and carried it away. "The man who owned the money was sent for. Several experienced detectives were set to work. We were all forced to the conclusion that the burglar was one of the dream kind, and that the trio had .salted the money away for future use. What else could be done? It bad been reported to the owner as lost, and there was nothing left for him but to swallow the loss and send the young man on a vacation. "Another day a man came rushlrg in in great haste. There was a very sick woman at his house, who must go "to the hospital immediately. I said we would send a man around to ev No, he must have an ambulance immediately. "And what do you suppose our man found out? The woman was as well as I am. He was a landlord who was evicting her for nonpayment of rent, and he "simply wanted the hospital to come and haul her away without expense to himrelf. "The Chinese are pretty good at tricks, but they would lose even their pigtails if they came over on Hester fctreet and tried to do business." Broken boxes, old barrels of all kinds and fragments of boards and other woodwork, never accumulate in the stores of downtown districts. They are dumped out on the sidewalks and are smashed into pieces and carried away before a policeman can come along and raise an objection. A lot of picturesque Italian women make this picking up of wood a regular business. They pass along the streets with watchful eyes, and when they see a stray board or barrel hoop they pounce upon it. All of them are bareheaded; some of them are clean. They wear long aprons. As soon as a bundle is made up and securely tied, off comes the apron, which is made into a little pad and placed squarely on top of the head. The big load is then laid upon it, and with her arms upon her hips the woman marches away with back straight and head erect. The wood Is piled under the kitchen table at home and used for fuel as needed. A big fire, or an explosion like that of Tarrant's drug store, is a godsend for these scavengers of burning fuel. Fe-rr Congrrnifn Win Distinction. Ainslee's Magazine. The average length of a career in Congress Is four years. At the beginning of every Congress about one-th:rd of the members of the House are new to the business. It Is a rare thing for a member to make nny sort of a mark in legislation before he has been in the House at least two full terms, and those who have forced themselves above the surface before the close of a single term can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand. The ordinary congressman comes and goes and leaves no trace behind him, except on the salary vouchers. The man who stays in the House for more than two terms has a fair chance of wielding a little Influence. He gets his name Into the Congressional Record once In a while; he Is recognized by the speaker occasionally, and If he is unusually lucky the n p .' n ri r rs take him un mn-.i tnma-lmi give him a headline all to himself.

MARCUS flURELIUS LOW

ICASA' WHO MAY IIH SKT TO T1II2 UXITEIl STATES SENATE. Unlike Other Men Who Have Attained Political Honors, He Never Mixe with the Workers. Topeka (Kan.) Letter In St. Louis Tostl.if patch. For moie than ten years the people of Kans.-n wrestled with "the great problems of finance and transportation." New po litical partle were lorn, and new ieaders came to the front. The party which began its career by electing to the United States Senate as a successor to Ingalla a very serious person, with mental processes which defied analysis, first planted itself upon the doctrine that lawyers were a unfit for legislation as rich men were for the kingdom of heaven. Later it was universally agreed that no national banker should be admitted to the council of the people. But the one man who W33 to b denied all the rights which are supposed to be guaranteed all other citizens was the representative of that most Iniquitous of legal creations, a railroad corporation. After a decade of close application tho Kansas public, with surprising unanimity, decided that "the great problems" it had set about to master defied its best cffoits at solution. By mutual consent the people began to study men. They found In one person a lawyer, a railroad magnate and a national banker. - And It was discovered, too, that ho! had made farming pay. He even knew all about Angora goats and Houdan chickens. Before the inquiry had fairly start od somebody suggested that this person could be elected to the United States Senate if he only said he wanted it. This statement may or may not be true, but tho people of Kansas, who had suddenly takn on a new stock of ideas and dumped all the o'.d ones, believed it was true. No!ody stopped to count the votes or reckon on what the other fellow would do. When somebody announced that Marcus Aurxiius Low, tho composite representative of all the things tho peoplo could not begin to comprehend after a decade of study, could accomplish something else no proof was required. Kansas is now Low mad. Topeka is over ripe. Everybody is studying Low and everybody is talking,-save Low himself. Kansas has never-known anybody Just like him, and perhaps for this very reason clamors to possess him, like the human family Is supposed to seek the unattainable. Low ducks and dodges and tries to get away. The chase takes on added interest. All the men of affairs that Kan5as has ever known sought the center of the stage and posed in the calcium light. Kansas has discovered or thinks that It has discovered that all the others are merely actors In a case which Low has himself arranged. All of this he has accomplished in thirteen years' residence in Kansas. He came to the State when Ingalls and Plumb wero believed to be fixtures in the United States Senate and George R. Peck the dictator of state legislation. All that Kansas or Its politicians knew about him then was that he had been a railroad lawyer at Trenton, Mo., and th Rock Island Railroad had given him full charge of Its affairs In the State. He had an initial skirmish with the Santa Fe Railroad at the very beginning of his Kan nas career and won It without newspaper notoriety and little comment from the peopleIn 1SS7, while his headquarters were in Atchison, there was a bill pending before the Legislature preventing the construction of parallel ' railroad lines In Kansas. It was a measure which George T. Anthony, then a representative from Leavenworth county, had introduced fh the interest of the Santa Fe Railroad. Low came to Topeka and sought A. W, Smith, of McTherson county. Smith had organized forty farmer members of the House in a club to consider legislation affecting their interests. Low explained the purposes of the bill to Smith and asked him If McPhtrson didn't want a new railroad. Other members were interviewed by Smith. When the bill came up for cecnnd reading "Farmer" Smith asked that it- be printed and consideration postponed for three days In order that the members might study It. There had been no discussion and no general understanding of the scope or purpose of the measure and the farmers killed it before its friends thought the time ripe to urge Its passage. Mr. Low made no further effort to Interfere in the legislative affairs of the State. He quietly went about his business ot building the Rock Island Railroad and permitted the railroad attorneys and lobbyists to look after legislation. When the Western offices of the Rock Island were established in Topeka he brought his family to the city and boarded at the Throop Hotel. If he had any close friendships they were not apparent. He made no effort to cultivate the politicians or the people. His family of wife, daughter and son occupied a table by themselves, and the statesmen permitted him to pass through the lobby or In and out of the dining room without buttonholing or other Interference. His past, present and future were not matters of concern to the pot hunters who were trapping legislative sparrows. And now that they seem to be concerned. Low evinces only such an occasional Interest In them as he does In his Jerseys at Enid. And even the statesmen who thape. or think they do, the affairs of state apparently concern him less than his race horses and shorthorns at Horton. All over the State there are men whom he has learned to know through the management of his large personal Interests or the greater Interests of the big public service corporation he directs. Some nf these have Impressed him with their honesty. Others have lied to him. For or aRalnst- these be goes the whole length. He does not wait to be persuaded. When the time comes he goes out and docs things, as witness the surprising victory of Charles Curtis In the First Kansas district. Low alone did not defeat Bailey. John Seaton was a factor and Curtis bimsen was a power. But both would probably have failed had it not been for Low. And later, when Kansas was concerned in the selection of a national committeeman, everybody thought it' would surely go to Low. He hadn't said he wanted it or would take it. He threw his influence to David Mulvane. whose ability no one questioned, and whowe character will stand a searchlight. Somebody Is said to have asked him why he objected to Iceland a power In national politics at the time. The laconic reply was; "He's unfit." There is no proof that he was askcl the question or made the reply. But the story goes in Kansas because it Is credited to Low. So it Is now with the Kansas senatorshlp. The politicians and the people are raying Low will get It. But Mr. Low himself has not said so. No man In the State Is cloau enough to him to be quoted as authority on his candidacy, his probable acceptance or refusal. But he has avoided offic as h would an epidemic. Young men who have gone to him for advice have quoted him as saying. "Keep out of politics." Whltea and Blacks Arretted. The police last night called In their official capacity on the guests of the Fields Hotel on Georgia street and took twelve of them to headquarters. Three of the couples were colored, runnlr.c from lij;ht to black, and three were white. The nun took the situation more seriously than tho women, for some were married. One was a drug clerk, who refused to glv his right name and place of employment to a mnn he asked to furnhh his bond. Another was a traveling man. who claimed to have resided here for a numln-r of ye.irt yet did not know the reputation of tue house. Iirnornnee. Detroit Journal. , "The lgnnrai.ee of college graduates." observed the business man. "whin it comes to practical affairs, is painful! The other day, a young man. a bachelor of arts, came to me seeking employment, and freely confessed that he knew no such word as fail! Wholly unacquainted, it would seem, with the processes by which wealth is amassed I" From Snxar Beets to Pirklea Detroit Tribune. Anyone looking for an example of violent revulsion will ilnd it in those Indiana men who have abandoned the beet sugar buli.esfc and gone Into the production ct plcklt.