Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 May 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER,

BY H. J. FJELTtfc.

.BLOOM1NGTON,

INDIANA

James G. Bliss will sail to Europe June the SthonthesteamshipEuisof the North German Lloyd line. He will be accompanied by his wife and two daughters. - rk death of Justice Woods has made the first vacancy on the Supreme Bench to be filled by a Democratic President since the appointment of Nathan Clifford by Buchanan in 1S53. VmL.voELPHiA leather dealers supply 1,000 pounds of calf skins per day to the 180 convicts in the Kansas penitentiary . The weekly output is 1,700 pairs of shoes. '- The Legislature of Connecticut has just passed a law restricting factory labor to ten hours per day, or sixty hours per week, for women and children The Maine legislative labor committee has reported a bill making the first Monday of September a labsr holiday. . - - - . The son of the founder of the Mormon Church ispreaching against; polygamy, which, he argues, is opposed to the principles of the Book of Mormon. This looks as though the Edmunds bill has had the desired effect and convinced the Mormon leaders that they have to give tu one of two things either polysemy or their liberty

Bismarck has announced that if Boulanger mobilizes the French araiy this

fall, the German veterans wfll also be

called out for a trial campaign. With

naif a million men under canvas in

France and an equal number in a simi

lar condition in Germany, it will not re

quire much imagination to conjure up

war rumors and scares. Neith er side

would like. to disband without first having a little practice of a business-like

character. -

,., The trial of a number of men at Buffalo on a charge of conspiracy to destroy the business of an. oil refinery xun independlyof the Standard Oil Com pany) is

developing: interesting facts concerning the methods employed by the great monopoly to accomplish its ends, among which bribery of employes holds a prominent place. It is time the great monopoly received a check in its efforts

to strangle all competition, and this case

at Buffalo may be the beginning of the

end; of its domination of the oil trade.

There are considerably over 50,000

persons confined at the present time in

prisons in the united States. This is nearly nine times the number of

prisoners in 1950, so that, even making allowance for increase in population, crime, or at any rate punishment for crime, Is much more general now than then. That one person out of every 700 should be in prison in 1887 while in 1850 the ratio was only one to every 3000 is far from being a cheerful reflection and it is not remarkable that others besides.philanthropiste are con-

ewering me prison pro Diem, witn a "view to make the system more preventive if not more curative. The WeBt compares very favorably wi tli xhe East in regard to proportion of prisoners to

population,' and Massachnsetrs seems the favorite home of the habitual criminal. In one county of that State one inhabitant out of every 270 is in jail.

. .... Cleveland Saving His Salary. , Washington letter to the Savannah Ne.vs; President Cleveland is said to be saving three-fifths of his salary, rhis is a thrifty showing for 5 a newly married man, to say the least of it Despite all the talk one hears about the insufficiency n( ilia Ptaoianol mlo .Si.

doubt that-it is not only ample for all the requirements of the office, but sufficiently large to allow of the saving of a snug little fortune every fyear besides. - He has no bills to payi: lor rent, heating or lighting, and the staff of messengers and doorkeepers provided at Government expense is sufficiently larger to obviate the necessity f hiring many servants out of the Presidential poise. The five State dinners required to be given each year are comparatively speaking, inexpensive affairs. Probably -none of them ever ccst over $300,or $400 at the outside. The flowers, 'which are ordinarily a matter of considerable expense, are furnished by the White House conservatory and the hot-houses of the Congressional gardens; and the music is furnished by the Marine Band. At the receptions nothing is served not

even ice-water. There is absolutely no expense whatever attached to them.

little money out of his salary . Mr.Cleveland will retire at the end of his term with not less, certainly, than $120,000. That is doing better, probably, than any of his predecessors did. It assuredly is more than he would have made at his practice in Buffalo in four years. On

the whole, therefore, it can be said -with

out much fear of contradiction that the Presidential office is not half so bad an

investment financially as most people have been led to believe by the state ments appearing from time to time in

the newspapers.

. A Successful Robbery. "

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v tF'v.f1 wou-imown citizen, and quite wealthy, was entered by the side door, which was partly open, Friday evening, by thieves, who succeeded in securing about $17,000, which was on top of a little bed in a sleeping-room up stairs, loosely covered. Spayed is about fifty-five years old, and was wedded only a year or so ago to Eliza Boyer. She was out riding, and, returning home about 10 o'clock, found her husband in a doze, sitting in a rocking-chair. On slipping up stairs she discovered the -money was goneNrad gave the alarm. It was a terriableblow to the old man, and he has not been able to sit up since; the wife is likewise in great distress. i-Che reason for keeping the money at home is said to be that it was their intention to move, shortly, to Duluth, Minn. . 11; is reported that Mr. Spayed was drugged. " " English, roa &novr." The tenants of Wentz & Cta, operators of the Hazelbrook collieries in Pennsyl

vania, and owners of all the hand thereabout, have been evicted, and are refused permission to get supplies at the company stores. All persons living in the company's houses are? forbidden to

harbor the evicted families, and some I of them are camping ont on the hillsides, and are in great distresa I

BEHOLD ALSO THE SHIPS

Or. Talmagc Pays an Blottont. Tribute to- the D8ilIhg of Our Seamen. 'Their Iovotion to Loyalty Their Defonso of the Flag Unlike the Soldier, They Uavo No Burial Place No Eulogies No Flowers. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday from the text James iii,, 4., ''Behold also the ships." He said: ; t It this exclamation was appropriate about 1.S0O years a$o, When it was written concerning the crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate in an age which has launched from the dry docks for purposes of peace the Arizona of the. Gftibh Line, the City ot Richmond of ;-tne..In-man.Line.the. fiiirf; of the National Line, th5 uermanic of the White Star Line, the Circassia of the Anchor Line, the Etruria of the Cnnard Line, and the Great Eastern, with linll HSO feet long not a failure, for it helped lay the Atlantic Cable, and that was enough glory for. one ships BSiQt&rf&r-and in an age which for purposes of war has launched the screw sloops like the Idaho, the Shenandoah, the Ossippee, and our ironclads like the Kalamanoo the Boanoke and the Dunderberg, Una those which have already been buried in the deep; like the Monitor, the Uousatonic. tho Weehawken and the Tecuraseh, the tempests ever since sendin g a volley over their watery sepulcherg, and the scarred veterans of Wftr: shipping, like the Constitution, or the Alliance or

the 'Constellation that have sVdhginto the. naval $ardft to end their last days, their decks now all silent of the feet that trod them, their rigging all silent of the hands that clung to tlmy their port holes all silent o the brazen throats that thnndafeu out of them. If in the first fcentury, when war vessels were dependent on the oars that paddled at the side of them for piopulsion, my test was suggestive, how much more emphasis, and meaning, end overwhelming reminiscence we Ban cry out, as we see the rtearsage lay across the bows of the Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had better keep their hands off our American fight y or as we see the ram Albemarte,of the Confederates, running out in the Roanoke, "Behold also the. ships." A t the annual decoration of graves, North and South, among Fedrefe and Conff derates, fuUiwstitfe has been done to the .menror oi those who fought on the lahd in our sad contest, but not enough has been said of those who on ship's deck dared and suffered all things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea,help me in this sermon;l Spy y admirals, commodores captains, pilots, gunnersj boatswains, 8ailmakers,surgeons,stokers, messmates and seamen of all names, to use your own parlance, we might as well get under way and stand out toward sea. Let all land lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four fcelW Never since the sea fight of Lopanto, where three hundred royal galleys, manned by fifty thousand warriors, at sunrise, September 6 3571, met two hundred and fifty royal galleys manned by one hundred and" twenty thousand men, and in the four hours of battle eight thousand, fell on one side and twenty-five thousand on the other; yea, never since the day when at Actium, thirty-one years before Christ, Augustus, with two hundred ships, scattered the two hundred and twenty ships of Mark Antony and gained universal dominion as the prize; yea, never since the day when at Salauiis the twelve hundred galleys of the Persians, manned by five hundred thousand men, were crushed by Greeks with less than a third of that force; yea, never since the time of Noah, the first ship captain, . has the world seen such a miraculous creation as that of the American Navy in 1861. There were about two hundred available seamen in all the naval stations and receiving ships and 'here and there an old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade thirty-five hundred miles of sea coast, greater than the whole coast of Europe, and, besides that, the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi and other great rivers, covering an ex tent of two thousands more miles, were to be patrolled. No wonder the whole civiliaed world burst into guffaws of laughter at the seeming impossibility.' But the work was done, done almost immediately, done thoroughly arid done with a speed and consummate skill that eclipsed all the history of naval architecture. What brilliant achievements are suggested by the mere, mention of the names of the Rear Admirals! If all they did should be written, everv one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that shonld be written. But these names have received the honor due. .... The most of them went to their graves under the cannonade of all the forts, navy-yarda and men-of-war; the flags of all the shipping and capitals at half-mast. But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval heroes who have not yet recei ved appropriate recognition. "Behold also the ships." As we . will never know what our national prosperitv is worth until we realise what it cost, I recall the unrecited fact that the men of the navy ran especial risk. They had . not only the human weaponry to contend with, but the tides, the fog, the storm. Not like otner ships could they run into harbor at the approach of an equinox, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, because the harbors were hostile. A miscalculation of a tide might leave them on a bar, and a fog might overthrow all the plans of wisest Commodore and Admiral, and accident might leave them, not on the land ready for an ambulance, but at the

bottom ot the sea, as when the torpedo blew up the Tecumseh in the , Mobile Bay, and nearly all on board perished. They were at the mercy of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which have no mercy. Such tempests as wrecked the SpahiBh Armada might any day Bwoop upon the squadron. Nchiding behind the earthworks. No digging in of cavalry spurs at the sound of retreat.

Mightier than all . the fortresses on all the.coasts in the ocean when it bombards a flotilla. In the cemeteries for Federal and Confederate dead are the bodies of most of those who fell on the land. But where those are who went down in the war vessels will not be known until the sea gi ves up its dead. The Jack tars knew that while loving arms might carry the men who fell on the land and bury them with solemn liturgy and the honors of war, for the bodies of those who dropped from the ratlines into the sea or went down with all on board under the stroke of a gunboat there remained the shark and the whale and the endless tossing of the sea which cannot rest." How will you find their graves for this national decoration? Nothing but the Archangel's trumpet shall reach their lowly bed. A few of them have been gathered into naval eenr eteries of the land, and you will garland the sod

mat covers them; hut who will put flowers on the fallen crew of the exploded Westfield and . Shawsheen, and the sunken Southfield and the Winfield Scott? Bullets threatening in front, bombs threatening from above, torpedoes threatening from beneath and the ocean, with its reputation of six thousand years for shipwreck, lying all around am I not right in saying that it required a special courage for the navy? It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a war vessel going out through the Narrows, sailors in new rig singing: 1 A 1 ife on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep!".-.. The colors gracefully dipping to pass

ing ships, the decks immaculatelv clean

and the guns at Quarantine firing a parting salute. But the poetry is all gone out of that ship as it comes out of that engagement, its decks red with human blood, wheel-house gone, the cabins a pile of shattered mirrors and destroyed furniture steering-whr el broken, smokestack crushed, a hundred-pound VVithworth rifle-shot having left its mark

from port to starboard, the shpudssrenji away, ladders spliiiteted aid aecFi rdoe'd tip, atia smoke-blackened and scalded corpses lying among those who are gasping their last ,?asp far away from home and kindred whom they love as much as wo love wife and parents and children Not waiting until you are lend to put upon. jrhur graves a wreath of recognition, this nctir we put ttri you living broW ihfc garldfed of a nation's praiao. Oh, men of the Wes tern Gulf Squadron, of the Kastern G ulf SQuadronj bf the South AtlantiH -i3Usdron, of the North Atlai'uic Squadron, of the Mississippi Squadron, oi the Pacific Squadron, of the West India Squadron and of the Potomac Flotilla, hear our thanks! Take the benediction of. our Churches, Accept the hospitalities of tup hHtioti; It we had bur wav we would get you not only a pension hut a home and a princely wardrobe, and an equipage ana a banquet while you live, and after your departure, a catafalque, and a mausoleum of sculptured marble with a inodel of the ship in Which oii won the day. It is considered a gallant thing tylieh i.h a naval fight.theagsHlp witn its blue ensign jceS alieaa up a river or into a bay, its Admiral standing in the shrouds watching and giving orders. But I have to tell you. O veterans of the, .AmcHcWi

navy, if yqn,ar a3 loyal lb Christ as you were to the Government, there is a flagship sailing ahead of you of which Christ is the Admiral, and Ho watcheB from the shrouds, and the heavens are the bl ue ensign, and He leads you toward the harbor, and all the broadsides of earth and hell cdn hdt damage Jrouj rihd ye, whdse gaVnntB wrB rJhee red with

yoii- wn biood, shall have a robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Then strike eight bellst High noon in hea ven With SSch anticipation, 0 veterans of the American navy! I charge you bear up under the achos and weaknesses that you still carry from the war times. Yon are not as. stalwart as you tyohld have been but for that hrvdus,strajiht.and for that terrific exridsUre. Lot every ache and p'&ih, instead of depressing, remind you of your fidelity. The sinking of the Weehawken, off Morris Island, December 6, 1863, was a mystery. She was not fire. The sea was not rough. But Admiral Dahlgreiij from the deck of the flag-nl6aiiier Philadelphia, saw her gradually sinking, and finally struck the ground, but the nag still floated above the wave in the smht .of the shipping. It was aftRrwrd found that she sank froih weakness through injuries in previous service. Her plates had been knocked loose in previous times. So you have in nerve, and muscle, and bone, and dimmed eyesight, and difficult hear ing, and shortness of breath, many intimations .tliat yOfi aie gradually going down. ... It is the service of twenty-three years ago that is telling on you. Be of good cheer. We owe you just as much as though your life-blood had gurgled through the scuppers of the ship in the lviyer expedition, or as though you had gone down with the Jdel ville " ojf Hatteras. Only keep your flag flying as did the illustrious free hatvkeht , Good cheery m boVs! The memory of man is poor, and all that talk about the country never forgeting those who fought for it is an untruth. It does forget. Witness how the veterans, sometimes had to turn the hand organs on the street to get their families a living. Witness how ruthlessly some of them have been turned put of office that some bloat of a politician might take their place. Witness the fact that there is not a man or woman now under thirty years of age who has any appreciation of the four j ears1 martyrdom of 1861 to 1$85 inclusive. But while man may forget, God never forgets. He remem

bers the swinging hammock, members the forecastle. He bers the frosen hands of that tempest. He remembers the tion without sufficient ether.

He re-remem-January amputa

te re

members the horf ore of that deafening night when forts from both sides belched on you their fury, . and the heavens glowed with the ascending and descending missies of deatb, and your ship ouaked under the recoil of the one-hnn-' dred-pounder, while all the gunners, according to command, stood on tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the concussion Bhatter hearing or brain. He. remembers it all better thah you remember it, aiid in some shape reward will be giyen. God is the best of all paymasters, and for those who do . their wnoie duty to Him and the world, the pension awarded is an everlasting heaven. Yonder is the flagship Wabash, Admiral Dupont commanding; yonder, the flagship Minnesota, Admiral Goldsborough commanding; yonder the flagship Philadelphia. Admiral Dahlgren commanding; ybnuer, the flag ship San Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding; yonder the flagship Black Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding; yonder the Hag steamer Benton. Admiral Foote commanding; yonder the flagship Hartford, David Glascoe Farragut commanding, And now all the squadrons of all departments, from the smallest tugdaoat to the mightiest man-of-waij are in procession, decks and rigging filled with the men who fought on the sea for the old flag ever since we were a nation. Grandest fleet the world ever saw, sail on before all ages! Run up all the colorsi Ring ail the bells! Yes, open all the port holes! Unlimber the guns and load and fire one great broadside that shall shake the continents, in honor of peace and the eternity of the American Union! But I lift my hand, and the scene has vanished. Many of the ships have dropped under the crystal pavement of the deep, sea monsters Bwimming in and out of the forsaken cabin, and other old

crafts have swung into the navv-vards.

aud many of the brave spirits who trod their decks are gone up to the Eternal

Fortress, from whose casements and em

brasures may we not hope they look

uown xo-aay wnn loy upon a nation in

reunited brotherhood. .. .

At this annual comrnemoation I bethink

that most of you who were in the naval . i. .s .. - ii .

servicn aurmg our uite war are now in

the afternoon or evening of life. With some of. you it is two o'clock, three

o clock, four o'clock, six o clock, and it

will soon be sun-down. If you were of

age when the war broke out you are now

at leastrortv-eight. Many oi you have passed into the sixties and the seventies;

therefore it is appropriate that I hold two great lights for your illumination the

example of Christian Admirals consecrat

ed to Christ and thei r country, Admiral

Foote and Admiral Farragut. Had the Christian religion been

cowardly thing they would have had nothing to do with it. In its faith they lived and died. In our Brooklyn navy yard Admiral Foote h eld prayer meetings and conducted a revival on the receiving

snip jNortn varonna, ana on sabbaths, far out at sea, followed the chaplain with

reueious exhortation. According to his own statement, Farragut was very loose in his morals in early manhood and practiced all kinds of sins. One day he was called into the cabin of his father, who was a shipmaster. His father said: "David, what are you going to be, anyhow?" He an

swered: ."lam going to follow the sea," 'Follow the sea said the father, "and be kicked about the world and die in a foreign hospital?,, "No," said David, "I am going to command, like you." "No," said the father; "a boy of your habits will never command anything," and his father burst into tears and left the cabin. From that day David Farragut started on a new life.' Ye veterans who sailed and fought under him take your AdmiraVs God and Christ for your. God and Christ. After a few more conflicts you,, too, will rest. For a few remembering fights with sin and death and hell make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray; hang the sheet chains over the side. Send down the

top-gallant masts. Barricade the wheel. Ring the flying Jim-boom. Steer straight for the shining shore, ard hear the great commander of earth and hoaven as. He cries from the shrouds: ''To him that ovorcometh will I gi ve to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."

iul fcijfa of kiiikx: Wages Low, Employment Plenty How Tjaad is Held and. Taxed. Nv York 811.0. "rTo strikes aha ho discontent in thj

boreieh4ente;er Msknown in Ciiiha:'

'Jiiat. rat,uer astounding stalemenj, made by Mr. lieu; of the, bhinecbhsulat'e; in ah interView rceeritiy published in the Sun, seemed to the writer of that interview an inviting field for further inquiry and Mr. Lieu being again questioned on the Bubjeet, saidi "Ijabofeiiji Clrjna are . content he? cauob they do not lack employment, get what th ey earn, and can support themselves in a way that satisfies them upon what they get. The lowest class of labor earns in the cities 10 cents a day, and in the agricultural districts where the work is hardei and the hohrft of labor longer' St) cbhts. Those arb average figures. Sometimes the very lowest class of laborers earn as much as $1.50 or $2 adjay,biit that is only Vheii tHecarH'

people on chairs, up to ancestral shrines or on other business, into the mountains. That is terribly hard work, for the carriers arc expected to go rapidly all day long, and theyjjhould be well paid for it. Artisans of all Classes earri frbm 3d to 16 b'erlts a dajT. The carver and the house pnihter have much esteemed occupatjoii th'it cdmiiihe ttie iitiiftarian dhd artlstiS, and We enabled to earn as much as 90 to 70 cents a day. No laboring man in southern China, in the regular pursuit of their vocations, get more than the latter figure, but in northern China tha ivaes are just a little higher. THoSe eafhihb's ieem sibail to Americans, no doubt,but it must be remembered that a cent in China goes as far as a dime here, and a dime in China buys as much as a dollar here In the light of that fact it will be featiliy underslobd that the Chinese laborer's toil is well remunerated. If the mad .ttho eitrnd 30 or 4o ceht a day shdsl5 cents for his three meals he will be as comfortably fed as is the New Yorker who pays 75 cents a meal. He will not have the same things, to be sure, but he will have what he appreciates and wants. Many things that the $ow Worker has learned to regard as necessities, tke Chinaman never heard of, or, if he does know of their existence, he has no desire for them, Vegetables are abundant, excellent and cheap in

China. Pork, which is very low in pricoi iS the universal meai althbiigh bete f i eaten id a considerable extent in northern China and a good deal of mutton is consumed. Beef and mutton are not wthin the ordinary reach of the common laborers, nor is venison, which is raised in preserves and is looked upon as a luxury, but pork is cheap enough for nil. i'hen, beyond eating.

the artisan hrids an allowance of five cents a day sufficient to cover his rent and clothing. Even if he has a family, his thirty or forty cents a day will enable him to lay by something all the time for old age, "rainy day," or investment And as the Chinaman is by nature abstemious and frugal, spending little in amusement and less in dissipation, he saves his money ai fbw other toilers do. The great ambition of his life is to own a bit of real estate, and there are immense numbers of the artisan class who live in their own houses. "Another thing that is of still greater potency in keeping content among the toiling masses of China is that they are to such a vast extent their owu employers. hey have ahiohg them no vast manufacturing companies, where hundieds, or even thousands of men are employed in similar work, are all but parts of a gigantic machine, and subject to the same conditions of existence, with perhaps, an equal hopelessness of ever attaining any other position than that of subordinate dependent There are very many thousands of men who earn their living by some sort of manual labor in China, who carry on business on their own account., whoinherita little business from a line of ancestors, and whose personalities are representative of generations of contented workers. If individuals have been so fortunate that the demand for their work by reasoh oi its exellence, or cheapness, or for any other reason has oome to exceed what they and their children can supply, they employ their relatives. A man's children, grandchildren and nephews are not likely to be ill treated in the matter of employ ment by him, or to organise labor unions to protect themselves against him, or inaugurate strikes to cripple his business, and injure both him and themselves. The working man has no trades' unions, and do not need them. The only solitary feature possessed by some of those organizations, that should be of use, viz.. beneficiary character, they already have, in great perfection. In every Chinese city, town or village there are societies to care for members in case of sickness and bury them when they die. Generally these are local, but even if they have some wider sort of organization as in the case of the Sam-Yic, which is by far the largest and influentcal of all they are free from all questions concerning labor interests, and are not secret. Secret

organizations are not deemed respectable in China. There are secret societies, it

is true,but what their objects are or how

they are carried on I do not knew." "How is land held in China?"

"In what would be deemed very small

tracts in this country. The unit o

the measurement of land there is what

is termed the mow, which is 600 x 60 feet. The holder of 4,000 mows is deemed a large landed proprietor. There

are a good many who possess that

much, but genorallv the holdings are

quite small, often not exceeding in

whole districts about the amount that

an individual agriculturist would lease

from the large owner say seven or eight

mows, or possibly ten. No lands, except

the portions used for governmental purposes, are owned by the government, only made lands along rivers and other

bodies of water, and these are sold,either

to the proprietors between whose property and the water such lands lie they

having the first right of purchase or to

anybody else. A man who owns ten mows of land can live on the income from it, which is at the rate of about 8

per cent, on its aost of $400 or $500 per

mow in the best agricultural districts. Chinamen think a great deal of the own

ership of land, and arc always struggling to attain it, and when they get a bit let

go of it very reluctantly. There are no speculative investments in land, only solid investments. A great deal of land is held by family associations. Those

hearing the same family name in a town Hi felt ieKgue ill emselves together in a beneficiary organization knowil a'S dU 'ancestral temple,' and in their corporate capacity, as such,5nvost their accumulations of capital in the purchase of lands whicli are held iri eomtnon and the pro ceecis of which are either devoted to charj table vises dr a4 f& applied otherwise for tlie geiieral good o fthe members fil the temple. These lands may be leased to anybody, but are rarely, if ever, sold. There is in their holdtng a constant process of accretion, and sometimes they get to own sevral hundred acres. But the i ut!H?aUoii o'f . the la,rid is lit small, subdivisions. In agriculture, ii! in everything else in China, production is diffused, not centralized as in this country, and is consequently the basis for comfortable support for the many, not the means of aggrandisement of the few. The jfortioit of larid thit may be regarded as trie b aai6 Unit erf tiitnsactions of exchange in the cities ii dhe-frjttfth of a mb w, Mtid its Yaiue subject to mod-

iacationS, bdt not very gredt dries is about $1,000. Rents are low, as the ntifflbers housed on a given space of ground in China are much more than in the United States; our buildings for the masses are not generally costly, and the taxes, titodgii almSst wholly laid upon the land, are not higii. "There is ho tax oh personal property, none on pirodtiei ibii, florid clfi income, and only 1 per cent, on land. We hae one species of tax in addition, however, that is not looked on with favor by the

best judgment oi the country, and that

will probably be modified, if not alto

gether abolished. That is the inter-

provincial tariff on goods crcfssing the boundaries of the provinces of their production into other jrovinceB, That tax is about onedialf of 1 per cent., and may, if goods have to cross and enter different pfovihges, be imposed two or three timed. The systek, whicb was created ai the ticfle of the Tae-ping rebellion, about thirty years dgb, htiM been modified considerably from time to time and will doubihtss before Song pasB away altogether. Our tariff upon importations from abroad is low, the highest imposition is that upon opium, which amounts to 7$ per ceht Such a thing as a high iariff ib'r thh protection of heme industries we have as yet never resorted to, Imt it is possible ere long our government may deem something of the sort advisable to protect cotton goods manufacturing that is now' about starting. The dutv on importation ofdotton goods is oiily I per Heiit., &M At that England has easily understood our liafid:manufactured cotton cloths. Now, machinery has been taken to China from this conntry, and cotton mills have been established in Shanghai. To protect the in-

fancy of that enterprise China may increase her tariff On oottoil goods for a

time." "Is there imprisonment for debt in Chinar1 . "Yes: but the familv to which the debtor belongs, if ho has any familyeV1 ties the matter by paying an agreed-upon percentage of the debt. A very poor fellow, one who demonstates that he really has notriing and can command nothing to pay with, hi jet go After a nionth or two imprisonment. Speculation in bankruptcy is an unknown enterprise in China, and the payment of debt among Chinamen, is ft matter of their religion. That one may blamelessly lose his means through misfortune, and, however honest, be consequently unabie to meet his obligations, they concede, and they dd fldt deeni it fight to punish such a one for his misfortune. When hej on New Year, goes to his creditor and pays all that he possibly can, though the amount may be insufficient, the creditor strikes his pen through the remainder of the indebtedness and the credit of the debtor is as again, immediately, as good as it ever was before, blit they believe that there is a heavy punishment in tie hereafter for itillfal rascality. How to Get Kioh, Bismark (Dak.) Tribune. A boy fthe only son of a widowed mother, wa's lost near Ashland, and

while wandering around the prairie he found a 10c piece. W alking in to Ash

land, he told his story to one of the

manv generous real-eatate agents, who

sold him an option on a lot. On the following day the boy sold the property and purchased a controlling interest in

a railroad ana matte nis mother a present of a diamond necklace, which he ordered from Paris. The boy was only 8 years old or he might have invested his 10c to much better advantage. A young man 10 years of age purchased a suburban lot and house in Sioux CXty. He went out ti look at the lot. He halted on his journey to get married. When he reached the property he found a cozy little home for his wife and family, the only event to mar the pleasure of the trip being the burial of his little granddaughter, who died from exhaustion. Two men became engaged in a quarrel oyer the ownership of an option of five minutes on a piece of Duluth property. While they wore quarreling the option expired and a boor bootblack made the purchase. In i he evening the "bootblack sold the property, and after making arrangements to build an elevated railroad and construct a railroad bridge over Lake Superior, he loaned the men bail monoy to get them out of jail. Ve publish this to show the folly of quarreling and the value of time.

Every thing Has Its Uses. Springfield (Mais.) Union. Never let your energy and enterprise

go for naught if you can help it. A California woman undertook to make a cradle for heir baby. It wasn't a first-

class success as a cradle, but it was a mighty good orange box, and now she

has a big f actory and make nine-tenths of the orange boxes used in California. This reminds us of a friend of ours who invented a new kind of baking powder on scientific principles. He made up a big lot of it before having it tested practically. Unhappily, it wouldn't raise bread at all, but it made a first-rate concrete for sido walks, and so was put where

it would do the most; wood.

Mankind in Three Divisions.

Monetary Times.

There are three classes of people in

the world. The first learn from their

own experience these are the wise; the

second learn :from the experience of

others these are the happy; the third, neither learn from their own experioncfc nor the experience of others these ariii he fools.

MISCELLANEOUS NOtiS . Experiments with a hermetically seal ed rubber b'Sttte of water show that

Inuia rubber is not absolutely water

tight ;

Thoae who are in the habit of indulg

ing lii raw onions, says a medical man,

mat hi consoled for the social disadvant

aged nich ensue by the fact that onions

are ab'otit the best fiervifie kfiowm No

modici ne is really so efficacious in cases

of nervous prostration, and they tone uj

a worn-out system in a very short time.

Their absorbent powers are almost in

valuable, especially in times of epidemic. At trie forthcoming American Exhibition4, ftarl'g Court, tondori, thefft is to be exhibited d villa1 made of strawtimber, that is to say, oi air aw compressed into an artificial wood. 'J be villa will be two and a half stories high, of artistic design, and both fire-pi oof and waterproof, Every part of it wails, forirtdatiofiSi floors, roofing, chimneys-

is to bS made from stfdWi . In an an ti-coefciofl speech in Boston, on Monday evening, John Soyle O'Keilly said that at a titt estimate there were sent from Boston f o80,W)$ and from New York $1,000,000 each year by the Irish to their relatives in Ireland. "Not to make their homes happy, not to make the people comfortable, but to pay to save their lives, to save their little shelters, to fceej) the roof over their hedda"; and to keeji them from the torch of Ulenbeigr2.,v How dear to my purse is the new fashioned bonnet, the hat that I bought as a gift to my wife; a small piece of straw with an ostrich plume on it, the

last one 111 btty while I still have my

life. The ha with & bfiffl and a big swinging f eiither and f olderol traps that

I can't even name, With staffed birds and ioses and pieces of heather, and a

bill from the dealer as long as my frame? that stylish spring bonnet, that new fashioned bonnet, that fancy priced bonnet, with gew-gftw8 and traps that I cah'lj efefi hs'ihe; That interestifljf potefttaie,' Kalakaua, King of the Sandwich Island, fe Shewing his conformity to the customs of civiliza? tion by drinking himself to death. In the gratification of his regal: appetite he hasi already appropriated all of the money he 6otild find in his dominions. He recentij Celebraled his fiftieth birthday anniversary by & festitai toward the wind-up of which there was scarcely a sober man left on the islands. His Parliament has voted him a loan of $3,000,000, and he proposes, provided he tan get the money, to go on a right royal spreoV It is a peculiar iadt tfijtt a . person's gait is indicative often of his Character, difiposition and habits, and also that by it Ms occupation can frequently be discovered. The usually Bhort, jerky steps Of the average merchant are easily rectfghised; t)octorS druggists and dent ists usually hat'a a sort of dyspeptic walkp which at once gives fiiwtij'' the profession to which they belong. Tailors and shoemakers are, to their gaits,somewhat similar, and move along with a "stitch in time saves nine" style, peculiar raly to themselves. lawyers have an earnest, decisive step,anid technically speaking,-gain a point at every step. Men of leisure, real estate men and Aldermen walk as if they owfied the earth and had a first mortgage on the sun. The way they plank down their feet, heel and toe at once, and with their tool turned out at an angle of 45 degrees,is not noticeable in any othei class of men. Ministers and literary men have a soft, angelic tread at times, while at other times their careless shuffling gait bespeaks the absent mind. FASHION BOTES. 'Che full, open Bleeves of a fashionable tea, gown reach to the floor. It is a fashionable necessity that after dinner coffee cups should now have ttoree legs. 'She birds exult in the gradual disappearance of wings from the fashionable hat ; Bomeiing new for the breakfast table is a large china eoflee urn that looks like a Chinese vase. 'rhecost often tons of flood hard coal is represented in a fan of point lace wi th pearl sticks inlaid with gold. A pin is made like a jockey cap, enameled with any favorite colors, with a tiny gold peak ineruated with diamonds, Ball slippers are now worn entirely plain, unless the dress ia. embroidered, when the front of the slipper is made to match. A pretty bonnet is of old gold Byaantine lace, trimmed with gold and vieux rose velvet and satin bows, with high feather aigrette. An evening wrap is in embroideries of colored crystal on silver net, lined with rose colored satin and trimmed with wide Mechlin lace. Colored etamines will be much used for babies and little girls. For this purpose they are either plain or in Bmall designs trimmed with embroidery. Many women send pieces of their gowns to Paris glove makers so that they may insure a perfect harmony of tint between their hand gear and their costumes. This season the eheap imitation Chan-

tilly lace has been replaced by a new fabric, machine made but all of silk,and following closely the patterns of real ls-ce. The newest shades are telegram blue (which just the color of the dispatches sent by the pneumatic system in Paris), peach kernel color, and new shades of dark blue, known as lapis laisuli, and moss green.

A most truly spring like coBtume was seen the other day. It was composed of pale tan color, with a lining showing here and there of pale, budding green. The bonnet matching it was of coarse tan colored straw, trimmed with much dainty green foliage, with a few pale yellow blossoms. A walking toilet of bengaiine in a light color has a draped skirt opening over a panel, trimmed with steel beads on the leftside. The waist is shirred bias on one side and flat on the other. A steel buckle is at the point of the waist. The straw hat worn with this costume is much trimmed with field flowers. Pino Pisapeariiiff. The soft pine tree is rapidly becoming extinct, and at the rate it is being consumed at present, it will only be a few years before it will bo entirely rooted out. The hard pine ;ind other native timbers are fast takin its place, and, as far as I have been abll t. ascertain, are

Ailing the vacancy with gaod satisfaction.

JEXTBAVAGANCE INFUKEEAL8. Undertakers Who Qtow Quite Rich Through t he Pride of the "Poor. SISw York tetter to Washington Post The dtnef day as I was passing through the pooref rtfter of the eity 1 met an uncanny little white hearse,

driven by a tough-looking citisen Who wore a black stove-pipe hat, smoked a cheap grocery store cigar and diffused a 9AAid air nl tnncrhnesfl and mm. In-

side tnC riearse was a tiny white coffin that was pitiful to loo opon. Ten carriages followed the hearse and were filled with Italian laborers dressed in their blouses and overalls. They smoked pipes and lolled out of the windows. the haby 1 learned from a policeman with whom 1 fell in conversation, was

exactly rae day old. Hia mother was a

ragpicker. The cost of the funeral was not less than 8100. tfbe poor of Kew York are the most extra vagilfil people in

the world in the management of tlir funerals, though they are reasonably careful about other expenditures. When

a death occurs the hawks descend upon

the house in flocks. The richest undertakers are in the tenement-house districts and they have agents and wires innumerable. Many of them count their fortunes in six figures, though they live in squalor and apparent poverty. They own livery stables, grog shops and tenement houses, and every tenant, employe and political "heeler" is expectect to work for the undertaker who patronizes him. The manufacturers of moV toes, wreaths, shronds, memorial pictures, wax flowers, texts and all th other catchpenny devices and schemes that hang upon human woe are in close accord with the undewaker. They manage to milk the teat with ajj vengeance when they once begin.

The Undertakers extendi their lmc across the river and out to Calvary Cemetery, on the outskirts of Brooklyn. Here the tenement-house dead are buried, coffin on top of coflln, tffl as many as ix bodies rest "in one grave. All along the dusty road to the graTOyard are rumshe jw and beer saloonsmere speculations on the part of the undertakers. Their drivers stop at thee places in turn on the way to and from the grave, and thus keep business booming. As many as one hundred and fifty funerals a day pass over the Thirtyfourth street ferry on the .... way to thia burying-plfce of the dead. An a verage of ten carriages to a funeral, and counting four mourners untd the driver 1jo each carriage, makes between aeven and eight thousand people a day for the undertakers and their agents along the line to draw money from. When a death occurs in the family of one of the local politicians the funeral taes on the air of a festival or a picnic, and the whole ward turns out to io honor to the dead. The rick nndertakers of Kew York are legion in the poorer districts. Uptown it is the custom to conduct funerals with extiordinary privacy, and when the ceremony can be performed in a country house the dead is conveyed out of town without any formalities at all. The one idea of poor New York in to make a show of the dead, while rich New York abhors it. THE MAID AND THE LIONS.

LITEK ABT FKOFLE.

Mark Twain is a gul0TttejM church. v. . ....; Thomas Bailey Aldrich U ip mpr for months on a single poem. Anthony Trollope was 40 before hia boolcs made any noise in the world. ' Samuel P, Putnani, the poet aad Ieturer, is about 40, but looks onger. r Walter Besantythe novelist, a dysv peptic, ami lives on brown brH? 4 pepsin. ; . . ; I: -n' ':

Edmund C. Stedinan received his nrBt poem. He was years old at the : ' . BoVBnrdette is 4tt years old. He was

a private soldier fern 186 to th ad pf

the war.:, ' . : ' : .7-

are long and flowing. He 'wears 'the . Byion style of collar and loostf fitting clothes, and carries an old fashion d cane with a corlat the top. : i2

M. Taine lives the life of a hermit

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Sensational Hypnotic Experiment, in Paris in a JDen of Man-Batew. f Herald Cable. . . - - . 7 A highly sensational hypnotic experiment was achieved at a private performance yesterday at the Folles Borere, Paris. The curtain rose and revealed a large cage containing three lions. Signor Giacomettij the lion tamer, then enteired thai cage and made the lions jump about and roar. Then a pretty yOttng lady In a white dress appeared and was hypnotised by M. de Torcy according to the methods of Dr. Charcot Be Toray fold his hypnotized young ladiy entered the cage, the animals being kept in check by the lion-tamer. De Torcy compelled the young lady to fall on the lipnfl back, and to place her head in a lion's mouth, held open for the purpose by the liontamer, .:-,S.-: v.The seance wound up by the young lady who had been put in a rigid acute atideptic stateresting with her head on one stool and her feet on another, white the lions jumped over her. One

lion placed his paws on the patient's

thighs, and caught in its mouth a piece

of meat attached to acord, thereby firing

a pistol fastened to the roof of the cage, the lions all jumped about and roared furiously, and in the midst of the excite

ment De Torcy brought the patient out

of the hypnotic trance, and removed her from the cage. . . .... The Prefect of Police has not yet allowed this performance to be given in public, but the private perfonnence wf so vociferously applauded that it isbeliened the restriction will soon be removed

n,n seiaom sees a numan csouaivi' ? ,

outside of his own home. One ofc ihej ;

few persoZ'S he visits is Princess Mat'bdJ

de .Bonaparte.-, i, '.. , :.r f-: K

Mrs. Mary L. Barr.the writerof Scolchr

dialect stories, never wrote anything iilK Bho was 54. She was i bo wife oi a ni!i-

tary Governor of TexaeT, and: lost hi r husband and seyeu ehildreir inthespai o mm miVb w fever; "

Verdi is hard at rt wa M fll of composiuon-hiidren880n time ago he made a proniise tp'theichildnm of St Agathn his country-ft--

that he wonld viite some m usic - or their favorite flpogs anpV gamest , fi declares that it in no easy task and' is fair more-troublesome than somif of;: the most famous passiiges in his operas." When Mr Harriet Beechc Stowe received her pay--$50 for ncie Tom's Cabin." tho heck was nade pay

able to her hu sidered quite the proper things y alf the? parties interested thatit should, fee for v . m those days it would have sadly outf rsged the conventionalities fore woman, .

as long as she had a natural protector; tc receive nerseli. the money, she

earned.

PRESS POINTS. J i

A good thing " to Ue tp-r-a- hitching-- J post. :t: , . : . al ... :'',.W',-l An editor makiS;attincome.hen he. makes his ink ham, ; The man who strnck an atUtnd bis WU Af.'itao avrobtd -:":'- I .';?

A. detective isone of thf ininfornp,, aS people in the world.-' vJ i . Russian men are very. tail. They frej quently walk overPoleso . I 1 "Oastor oil is ejisy to giveyhnt awf ul ,; '"m hard to take." 3B6 is advice. ; . y ? y Truth lies at the bottom of yXhe th-r ''i'm mometen Harper b Bazar; 'J .X-Jr M The justice of ike police com t aba g nian in more senjies-than one;- !--S The man with the most Jyice has alwaya the least ull change! Pages m-waithigM3S. hehl oyerby--' ; - j the magazine pnhlisher.-Tex tojsi. , Giving too much attention to .abft -hands indicates a .soft head.rCexas 9lg$itoA nags. , v , ':ifr "". M Every man he'B his way' with;: -hia own ac and hfr acter. '- -,, . . i :. . .. . '". Al fireman on locomotiye, no matter " ; 4I how hard heartoi ny be,ia atil tender man. H? ;; J,:.x ijjm The donkey k a pious-looking animal : m Me i always hh9ri'm: "Let us bray!" ;V4; ....( . 1, fl ft seema paracloxica hnfc it iff true : ; that floating debts; will sink a eorpw 1aon.--TidrBttBf 3 ' -- The barber fenerally manages : - make 4. living; e W alwavs- v." working at cut rates- ' ;"' v '1 There is no lar to , ' prevent a.man?s t: -

making a fool of himself. If ere wasy jome men wonliljbe at aJoeBjt toBS

Der iassportto der tayfel's boaMing-

house vas rnm, dnd he gifsyou Bnbbir of miBeQvimsitchL v

tings. Carl Pretzel's Weekly.

Omaha World. .y;.-, .: - ; : . yOmaha Man-Are you making a" fair living out of ypdr Kansas farm? v : - v - Kansas Maa--Living? Why, Pm rich. -You see there vras a littie pie of poor ground back of the dugont wiiich ; was not fit for anything Wellj one dax brother Bill :reain under it, and the next whing ofiered me$100 for i onriong o;, course, for heiadn't any money : : soldit.M V' . ?;,:-v?V i ''".f''

"Well; brother Bill heard of JakeV1

dream and boaght the lot Jdm- . $1,000. ihe same

Then I got scared and bought lfcbaclctpr

FatH Rather Bored Him. Milwaukee Sentinel. last week the President went to th opera twice. He heard Patti in Italian opera "Traviata" at $7 a head and Emma Abbott in 'Trovatpre" at $1 for the best seats in the house and 75 cents i n th A rftiw circle. He announced to a

friend a day or afterwards that he enf joyed Abbott's singing the most. Itwas undoubtedly a perverted taste, or at least a lack of cnltivation, he said, but he always did prefer to hear people sing the English language. While Al Vott was not the most graceful and sylphlike creature in- the world, her voice was good enough for him, and he would go to hear her any day in preference to Patti in Italian opera. ; v

The Effect of Smoking. The Argonaut. Dr. Chndnowski recently experimented on twelve Bussian soldiers with a view to discovering the effect of cold applications to the epigastrium on the rapidity of digestion. !Each soldier was regaled heartily; his pigastrium was properly refrigerated, and the exciting contest began. Unfortunately for lovers of the weed, the competitors were divided into smokera and non-mokeis. The rival teams digested their very hardest, but the non-smokers outdistanced the others by the space of one hour. . ' . Very Good Advice. Buffalo Courier. . The way to abolish poverty is to turn up something instead of waiting for

something to turn up.

m m

s mm m

ft5;000. Then I sold it to Bill for $10,000.

and so it went and! a few dtoysago,when I got the lot ain and sold iq Jako for $100000. Just thinks of ife No more farming for. m&f?-. But what fiecority have yon to show for all that valneif Ja vfWhy, 1? ve got a mortgage onoJfc

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Vanderbllii'a mperaiice Views. Indianapolis K0vs.: 5 ;,. : .-if: - Cornelias "V anderbiit is one of the-unr compromi8ih$totalabBtilenc6 tam ot New York, ro of stores is to ; be v built this Buiimet-bniite Grand Central Depot. Of cburse, the

situation makes the place desirable forr"

restaurants to; catch travelers, but no rum is to be fold there, andj youniah; derbilt has provided in the .deeds for

perpetual pre hibition of the liquor tralflc, so far as that W leet of street-f ron . , k

is concerned, wIf there is one spot v Tn

where there ought not to be any saloons, j.. f he said, in answer to my inquiry, Jg&M

within sight of a railroad station I have ,

observed that men waitinir1 for a train,-

especially in a strange city,' are prettjr

sure to wander into a grocery if they f see one from the station. If X had - mj way about it I would' prohibit by law :

the sale of in toxicants within an eihtT

of a mile of railroad staUpny7 ,

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NotXet. a: - '

WaU Street Nexre. .""

"Does this road desire to be exempt

from the lon i-and-shortrhau 1 . provisions

of the Inter state bill?" asked the re?

porter as le entered the; president's

oflice. - " ?. f V . :.

" Well, n6' quite ; yet. Vfe are now v

engaged in s tealing three miles of street and four acsjs of ground : ofhet;B .

have fifty-two suits for injnries to passengers to defend, and we are' not exactly prepared tojneet the Commissioners yet.

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