Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1898, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1898-24 PAGES. HUCKSTER'S HUT, ON THE SAQUI. THE SHINING METAL sss Spain’s First American Gold Taken Home by Columbus. RIVER OF GOLD IN SANTO DOMINGO Centuries of Colonial Conquest Have Impoverished the Dons. PUERTO RICO KLONDIKE Written for The Evening Star, Now that the last of Spain's possessions in America has been wrested from her; now that all save the Spanish habitudes, language and traditions are to be blotted from the western hemisphere, leaving ner no mate holdings, she may weil believe that Columbu than her beneficent saint and savic has battled and toiled, and sweated the very hfe blood of her people, for nearly four centuries past; yet what remains to her now Nothin: n nothing; for she h: impov land that her colonies migt a land itself rich in material res capable of support Breater pepulation than it does ed with ted estates, filled with beg- Ps nd perishing with the dry rot of cor- rupt burea was her evil genius, rather She poured out treasure away vorse rished her thri n the first gold arrived t n thither by Ce mbu: ome may be n the high al at Burgos arnest of milli 1s to come spent, moralized yon her ec w me ¢ or everything. n from her hen thes i hi all haste to reach it. of the Indians of that section, made Co- Jumbus a present of a cotton girdle, at- tached to which a mask, with ears, nose and tongue of beaten gold, he felt sure he had reached, at last, the country of Cipaago. For, when questioned as to the location of the region whence they got the soll, the natives pointed westward and uttered the magical " It may have sounded like Cipango; at all events Columbus took it to be the same, and made He was, in fact, on way to visit Chief Guacanagari, who jon the shore of Cane Haitian’s great when his flag ship, the “Santa Maria,” ran on a reef and became a total wreck. The Indians saved all the wreckage possi- River of Gold. It is known today as the Yaqui, and the place wrere Columbus an- chored {s not far from Monte Christi, on the north coast of Santo Domingo. He did not stop then to explore the river valley, but continued on, finally arriving in Spain. He returned with a large fleet in Nevember of the same year, found the gar- rison massacred he had.left at Navidad and the Indians dispersed. In December he laid the foundation of the town of Isabella, on the north coast of Santo Domingo, seiect- ing the site not because it was favorable or {ts harbor good, but Lecause it lay nearest to Cibao, or the gold region. As soon as possible an expedition was sent over the mountains to the valley of the Yaqui, and the gold it brougkt back was sent to Spain by the returning fleet in 1494. ‘The city was not long occupied, and little remains now to tell of its existence; but I myself have found on its site the ruins of the “king's house,” where the treasure was kept, and fragments of the crucibles in which the gold was smelted. Early in 1491 Celumbus took 400) of his choicest troops and set out acrces ccuntry for the valley of the Yaqui, anc after a desperate march finally reached-the land of Cibao, or Ci- Ppango—the “country of the golden stones."” It is more than four hundred years since these forests rang to the music of drum and trumpet, since the gay cavallers of Co- tumbus pranced through them on their nery chargers—the first time horses were ever used on an expedition in America. The gap in the mountains through which they made their way into the Yaqui valley is still known as “El Puerto de los Caballeros,” or the Hidalgos’ Pass, and through it today winds the narrow trail which I was com- pelled to follow in order to reach the same region of gold they then discovered. They had called the Yaqui the “Rio del Oro,” or River of Gold, from the circum- stance of finding there the gold of the year before, and soon they proved it to be well named, for in the streams constituting: its headwaters they found, besides jasper and porphyry, flakes and grains of gold. When the resident Indians learned that Columbus desired gold they conducted the Spaniards to the various water courses and from the sands sifted large quantities, one of the red men bringing a nugget an ounce in weight, which he joyfully exchanged for a _hawksbell, about an inch in diameter. When I visited Santo Tomas, not long ago, I found the few wretched inhabitants there living in as shiftless a condition as their aboriginal predecessors, for when they wanted a little gold they merely went to THE SAQUI, CROSSED BY OJIDA AND CAONABO. ble and the cacique took the Spaniards to i and entertained them with sting, in order to divert their the Spaniards passed their first | Atserican Christmes oa shore; but in the jafterncon Cacique Guacara made a visit of state to the little Nina, and while he was aboard his simple subj<cts one by joy in its ; | in the garb of natu: rmed around th vel in their du hold up nug- chug chi hed to bar el ch made vished their uns tieated ears Seeing that the gold gave on, r, until now, it ch "No greater yas a sailor arried the soldier of rs - new world, i who pi ntezuma and the the 24th—we andered Incas. lebrated o it was claimed fon of Mr. Heetion of curiosi- the ri and American gold taken by Co- Iso seen the first obtained at and when 1 i | | | | Guacara | proverb | burdersome when you want to rest, | [his two subchiefs did ; Columbus on th assured Columbus that if that was all he Wanted he would guide him to a region where the ver: ere of the precious metal. At the same time he pointed west- ward, and told his ne at the heart of the golden country was Cibao—by which name it is called today, and the subsequent find’ng there of goid to the amount of mil- lions proves that old Guacanagari was no liar. At the banquet which he gave to fellowing day he wore a golden ccronet (according to report) and rothing else, until the commodore present- ed him a shirt and a pair of gloves. proved the truth of that old about a crown be'ng particu: y by coronet, after he had im- draughts of fire water, and the same; so that “shucking” bibed several | when Columbus wrote his sovereigns, sey- | eral later, that he fully expected the | men he left there to collect a ten of gold were whence it came to the south and west. So | hen he later made the north tuba, was ever mindful of the | curing his absence, he had every reason to believe they would do so. The wrecking of the Santa Maria threw A NATIVE HUT. gold region. and gave instructions to captain of the expedition he sent into the interior to be sure to ascertain from the Grand Khan (whem he supnosed to re- side there) where it was located. But he discovered no gold in Cuba, other than a few pieces wrought into ornaments, and it was not until he and his caravels had arrived off the coast of Hayti, in the lat- ter part of December, 1492, that he heard of the region rich in gold. He had been all along, and still was, sail- ing towards what he supposed was the country mentioned by the learned Marco Pelo (mo relative of our recent visitor of that name} as the kingdom of the Grand Khan, and known as Cipango. And when, im the bay of Acul, on the north coast of Haiti, the hospitable Guacanagari, cacique | the | all the crews—save the forty men left to garriscn the fort they had constructed— into the small caravels, Nina and Pinta, and as Columbus feared they might run short of provisions on the homeward voy- age, he did not accept the invitation of the subchiefs to visit their province of Cibao, but instructed the men in the fort to do so after he left. ‘Taking final leave of the gallant Guacan- agari, the Spaniards sailed westward, and on the evening of the 4th of January, 1493, 345 years before the Giscovery of gold in California, while filling their water casks at the mouth of a river, they noticed par- ticles of gold adhering to the hoops of their casks. The sands also glittered with gold, some of watch they collected, and Colum- bus named the stream “Rio del Rio,” or j tained what seemed to them a vast tres the stream and washed it out of the sands. I secured several dollars’ worth in this w. myself, by washing the sands in a shallow wooden dish, whittled out of a pine slab, and which was loaned me by an accommo- dating negro, ¢ The Iden Flakes Easily Found. aniards found a great deal of gold in the river sands, as well as in pocke but nearly all were mere surface indica. tions, and they never even touched the real sources of the treasure. As in the Yukon and Klondike districts today, what as found was o the washings frum the reat gold sources in the heart of the hi and mountains. Humboldt himseif ed that the Spaniards, though they ob- ure of gold, from the West Indies und Mexico, South America and the Spanisn main, and their great galleons went home laden with nuggets and dust from many mires—yet the fountain-head was never tapped. He likened their surfa cumu- ns to the scattered flak storm, and what remained to the vast siow fields banked against the mountain side Without fatiguing my reader with de: is, J may mention that I myseif found ow. ti rich indications of vast deposits, and I purchased from one of the natives a nug- get weighing half an ounce— t pure gold, that will assay hig! yet brought from the Klondis Ke. Ss na tive had a double handful of nuggets, the of which weighed five ou » and he would not sell, he allowed te to - tracings of the largest four. here, on or near the spot where the uy post Was 2stablished in Santo Domingo, four centuries ago, gold is found in paying quantities by the natives with their primitive appliances. I found an old half-Indian goldsmith, living in a thatched hut, with a bench and a stool as its only furniture, who had accumulated quite 2 fortune by purchasing the gold flaies and dust brought him by his neighbors. They are so improvident that thy, wh-n they need anything, merely run down to the river, wash out gold enough to last them a week or so, and swap it for stores at the shopkeeper’s own price. _ They and thir ancestors have been do- ing this for centuries. They have but other scant means of livelihood. And I thought, looking at these lazy miners and. their hand-to-mouth mode of life: What would this region become if it could be exp-oited by som? live Americans? Fortress Filled With Gold. This expedition of Columbus was the first probably in which horses were used, and the natives fell down before them in terror. But when they saw that all the strangers wanted was gold they took them to the sources of their supplies. Gold was so abundant there that Columbus erected a fortress, which he called Santo Tomas de Yanico, a few stones being all that is left of it, on the bank of a clear-running stream half-hidden in rose apple trees. When com- pleted this fortress was placed in charge of a noble Catalonian, Pedro Margarite, a knight of the Order of santiago, one of ‘the bravest in the Spanish army.’ After the departure of Columbus the fort was in- vested by the brave Caonabo, cacique of the mountain Indians, and but for the timely arrival of Alonzo de Ojeda with five hundred men, Margarite and his garrison would have been massacred. Santo Tomas fs in the region of pines, which indicates a high elevation, in an is- Jand so far south as Santo Domingo, and the air is sweet and pure. It is an ideal location for settlement or for mining, ex- cept that it is far away from all routes of travel, the nearest town to it being that of Santiago, on the banks of the Yaqui. The people here live most wretchedly, even though surrounded by a tropical exuber- ance of vegetation. As I have said, they mainly’ depend upon the gold which they wash out of the streams for their daily needs, and they seem to have difficulty in summoning strength enough even for that. ‘They live in little huts in the fields; frail Shelters, open at both ends and thatched with layers of palm leaves. From the raft- ers they swing their hammocks of native grasses, and in them they pass most of the time, indolently swinging to and fro. Their flelds and gardens produce, almost spon- taneously, tobacco, pumpkins, bananas, plantains, etc., and all varieties of tropical fruits grow in a half-wild state. And yet so poverty stricken are they that I have been folowed for miles, over the horrible trails of that interior country of Santo Domingo, by half-naked children begging for a penny or two with which to buy bread Sands of Gold Still There. Such is the country in which the first gold was found in America, four hundred years ago. I have said that different con- ditions would prevail if this land were a possession 9f the United States, but on sec- ond thought I am reminded that we have recently come into ownership of another island very similar in our acquisition of Puerto Rico. Again, the incidents attend- ant upon the finding of gold for the first time in the latter island were similar to those in Santo Domingo; and, further, the same conditions prevail in both islands. The precious metal is found in the sands of rivers. It was very abundant in Ponce de Leon's time and still is found, but in less- er quantity. The mineral resources of Puerto Rico have not been fully exploited, if we may judge by. the merely superficial investigations that have been made in past four hundred years, For when De Leon arrived here, boutt509, many of the rivers poured down,sands of gold; yet no- body has ascertaincg. thei source. The “Historia dé Puerto Rico” says: Signs of Gold have been found in many dis- tricts of the island, ang, auriferous sands in such rivers as the Luquillo, Sebuco, Da- guao, Mayaguez, -Manarog and many others. Traces of gold in the neighborhood of San German, Ye at the port of which, Guanico, our troaps first ‘landed in Puerto Rico, and throughout ail the terri- tory of Coamo, in.such. quantities as pre- suppose a vast abundance in reserve, but mostly in the south and. west. Now, this report was made ig the.year 1788, or more than one hundred years,.ago; yet it holds good in substance, and. prospectors who purpose going to Puerto, Rico will do well to “paste this in their hats” for future ref- erence. ‘Though there may not,be-any large area of crown land thrown open to newcomers, and though much, if not most,-of Puerto Rico’s lands are taken up, yet there will be a chance fbr the prospector, and possi- bly. great discoveries, may be made. His only expense, if he pursue the. primitive operations of the natives, will be a wooden dish, costing a few cents, and the food necessary for his subsistence while wading the tropical streams. F.-A. OBER. penne eee SALARIES THAT KINGS GET. Vary From Twenty-Four Thousand Dollars to Eight Dollars a Day. From tbe New York Herald. “How much do a king g2t?” asked one of Mark Twain's odd characters, and the an- swer was not very satisfactory. If we ap- ply the title “king” to each of the chief ex- ecutives of the great nations, there is no wonder an answer was difficult, for th> pay of rulers varies greatly end is governed by no apparent rule of proportion, unless ‘t is that the pay increases with the liability to ssassination. The extremes of salary are illustrated by the pay of the Czar of R and the President 0f Switzerland. The te mer gets $24.000 a day, while the latter is happy and satisfied with $7.02 ec! four hours. ‘These figures #1¢ ba3ol on ” working days in the year, for menazchs are supposed to be always working. Now, these executives—of Rus: itzerland—are at the extreme rulers’ payroll, the fi year and th> other $3 extremes the cther eleven nations consicer- ed are scattered in a haphazird mauner, with no uniform relation between the amount of yearly salary and the number of persons who must pay it. he Emperor of Austria, with his $4,380,000 annually, comes under the Czar of ail the Russias, while President MeKinley, with his $50,000, comes next above the Presid2nt of little Switzer- land. After Austria comes Germany, which psys Emperor William ; then the King of Italy, with $2,425,000; sia, $2,335,000; Queen Victoria, $1 King of Belgium, $632,000; King of Norway and Sweden, $560,000; Queen of the Nether- lands, $292,000; King of Greecs, $253,009, and the President of France, 9,000. Presi- dent Faure receives but little more regular salary than Prosident McKinley, but he has fixed perquisites that bring his income from the state te the amount given. The amounts of the salaries of th2se hon- ored men and women bear very odd E tions to the number of persons for whose benefit they are supposed to administer laws of their own or the people's making. Now, each subject of the czar has to annu- ally pay seven*and four-fifths cents to his ruler. and stands eighth on the list; while the Persians, each of whom pay to the ah thirty and three-qi cents, h2ad it. Switzerland, with the €st population and Salary, does not pay the pita, for the United States, with undredths ef a cent for cach i is at the bottom of the list. S being next with eight one- Turkey, with twenty erland hundredths o cents for each subject, naturally comes next below Persia, and Greeee, h eleven and two-fifths ¢> Then, in the Gescending scale, come Austria, with ten and two-fifths cents fer each subject to pay to the ruler; Belgium, ten and one-fifth ents nine cents{ Norway and Swe- t can a, then Ger- nts; Holland, Great Prit- then Switz- Figu harlly convey to ordinary a of ths amcunts of some of Take, for instance, the $8,- annually by the czar. Put in silver dollars, and perhaps y more of a meaning. It would tons of silver, and if the dollars in a single column they would en miles, or if placed edge to edge would extend 207 miles, one-half of the distance from St. Petersburg to Mosco' Put the annual salary of the Pr nt of Switzerland into silver dollars, place the: eige to edge in a single line, and they would reach over 362 feet; while President McKinley's yearly pay, treated in the same ranner, would form a silver band a little less than one mile and a fifth in length. ———_--e+— Lincoln's Fondness for Grant. From the Pittsburg Dispateh. An amusing and possibly instructive an- ecdote, in which Lincoln and Grant figure, and showing the latter's estimate cf c alry, is related by Mr. William O. Stoddard, for some time one of tlc former's private secretaries. The general had not lor been in command of the Army of the Pot: mac, when one day ~. Stoddard asked Lincoln's opinion ef hin. “Grant.” re- plied the President, the first genet I've had. He's a general!’ Remen.bering ne high esteem in which McClellan, Burr side, Hooker and Meade had been held, M Stoddard asked Lincoln to explain, and this is what he said “You see, when any of the rest set out on a campaign they'd look over matters and pick out some ene thing they were short of and they knew IT couldn't give ‘em, ard tell me they couldn’t hope to unless they had it; and it was most gen erally cavalry. Now. when Grant tonic bold, I was waiting to sce what his pet jm- possibility would be, and I reckoned it would be cavalry, as a matter of course, for we hadn't horses enough to mount e what men we had. There were 15,000 or thereabouts up near Harper's Ferry, and no horses to put them on. Well, the other day, just as I expected, Grant sent to me for those very men; but what he wanied to know was whether he could disband ‘em or turn ’em into infantry! He doesn’t ask me to do impossibilities for him, and he's the first general I've had that didn’t.” or She is Learning Subtraction, Aliso. From Puck. “Yes, sir,” proudly exclaimed the haughty Castilian, “Spain is adding nobly to her his- tory these days.” “That's true,” remarked a mor2 thought- ful senor; “but doesn’t it strike you that she is not doing the same thing by her geography?” see Freedom From a Terrible Slavery. From the London Saturday Review. At last, I am thankful to say, the opera is dead. No longer shall my soul be cor- roded by the thought that I ought to be in my stall and am not; no longer when I am in my stall shall I writhe in anger to think of the stupidity of wasting my time so. Blinke—“The sun’ll be over the yard-arm in tan minutes. ‘Then we'll have a drink.” think I'll have one while I'm THE FUTURE OF CUBA Plans for Educating the Ignorant Natives of the Island. Y.M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS IN HAVANA American Priests to Succeed Span- ish Church Officials. — CURRENT RELIGIOUS NEWS Written for The Evening Star. General. Thomas J. Morgan, who earned distinction in the civil war, has been United States commissioner of Indian affairs, and is now secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, urges that our na- tional government, through its commission- er of education, take immediate steps to cover Cuba with a complete public school system. He points out the wisdom of se- lecting such a man as Dr. A. S. Draper of the University of Tlinois—using Judge Draper's name simply to make clear his meaning—to go to Cuba and supervise the entire work. ‘Such a man can,” says Gen- eral Morgan, “solely because he knows how, do in a year what the Cubans cannot themselves do in twenty-five years, if at all. And if it is now organized, as quickly as possible, such a tem will remain. Without education for tne common people there is little hope for Cuba. With it there is great hope. Of course, there are to be church educational plans, but Cuba needs the public educational plan, the best plan made up from good points out of Michigan, Iowa and Massachusetts . for ex- ample. I hope some way act, and that without a moment's del: No Sectarian Rivalry. General Gomez has sent to the United States Mr. Jose de Arm: a well-to-do Cu- ban planter of high standing, charging him with the duty of consulting with managers of church mission boards, with freedmen’s and other aid associations, and with lead- ing men in this country concerning the re- ligious and educational future of Cuba. He has already arrived, and has told some of the persons indicated that he has not come seeking money so much as methods. He says that he wishes to ask those moral forces which sent battle ships to Cuban waters to free Cuba what is best to be done next in order to make the most of freedom. Mr. de Armas also he de- sires to see the secretaries of those Meth- odist, Congregational ard other societies which undertook work among the colored and poor white people of the southern states at the close of the civil war. Gen- eral Gomez is sure they mus ve learned by experience. He wants the benefit of that experience. Mr. de Armas has already met several of the commitiees enting the —Metho Raptis and Quaker societies which contemplate educa- tional work in Cuba. He is highly grati- fied to fearn that these soc ‘are to ob- serve comity in entering mission fields, and as far banish sectarian rivalry. Y. M. C. A. in Havana. The Young Men's Chri: through international committee already taken preliminary steps to open in Ha iati re unc ciation thin a reasonable length of time, some local support, or whether it must be sup- ternational ation ana an i ported indefinitely from outside sources. If the former prove to be the outlook, the in- ternational commitiee announces its inten- tion of establishing an association in Ha- vana just as soon political conditions will warrant. It is purposed to begin in Havana, but 2 will be planned for other cities if I apport can be had. he better The condition of young men of class in the island is imperative need for ociation e American Priests for Cuba. High officials of the Church of Rome are already acting in regard to religious work in Cuba and Porto Rico. The private retary of Archbishop Corrigan of York went within a few weeks as chaplain on the transport “Relief,” which led to the rumor in both this country and in Cuba that the Catholic Church was acting through New York. Such is not, however the case, a prelate of the church fully cog: nizant of its affairs saying this week that it is as yet too early to tell what is by to be done. He indicated the progr events to date: “Archbishop Corrigan as you know, in episcopal control fairs in the Bahamas, anything to do with Catholic affa of is, of af- but has never had West Indies. The archbishop of outranks in seniority any Americ: bishop. We expect to Cuba, in ten years, an English-speaking island. Hence we think it wise at this early date church there with American e they know American ways. are ri American best in since the are any event, church there must be unsupported by the ate, and the Engiish-speaking priests of Europe are unfamiliar with thg system. We look to see the priests now Cuba sent back to Spain by the authorities at Rome and American priests sent to take their places. Correspondence is already passing concerning the best plans to adopt.” From the Ranks of the Army. The army and navy Christian commission is taking steps to gather into the churches those soldiers who gave their names to the secretaries in the camps as being desirous of leading Christian lives in the future. No estimate can be made of the number, but it is known to run into the thousands Around each tent in the various camp there were organized Christian associations similar to those in all our cities, the ma- terial being obtained in the regiments. it was found that a very considerable number of men enlisted in the war for the sole purpose of doing evangelical and personal work among other enlisted men. Enough of these were available in many r to form local associations. kept the names and home the men who had made solve. In most cases these names were given to the regimental chaplains, and it has now been found that in almost every case the chaplains have, with all of their other duties, found time to communt- cate with home pastors and put them into communication with men who may be per- suaded to become identified with a church organization. All names are being canvass- ed, and every possible effort is making to reap what has been sown. - A Metropolitan Charch for Mr. Moody. The plan is again brought forward of building in New York a great institutional church for Dwight L. Moody. This has been discussed for the last two years, and ene man of millions has been approached to give one of them toward the project. Mr. Moody is known to favor such a plan, no* to become his permanent field of labor, but to be a center for the evangelical efforts of the whole country, under Mr. Moody’s di- rection. ‘The New York plan is revived at this time through the efforts of Brooklyn to erect such a church. An erroneous im- Pression has been given ‘concerning the Brooklyn undertaking, that being in reality nothing more than a suitable place for Moody and similar meetings. Brooklyn is, like many cities in this country, without such an auditorium, it being one of Mr. Moody’s complaints that he can find in few cities places large enough to accommodate his congregations. Those who actively as- sist Mr. Moody in the management of his projects are opposed to a headquarters be- ing erected in Brooklyn, with the idea that it may become the national center. They say that such center can only be located in Manhattan. The aim would be, were such center founded, to bring famous preachers from abroad, to provide for Bible instruc- tion dn a large scale, to get together choruses of great size and to make an evangelical headquarters, the influence of which would be felt throughout the whole country. It is said that the money to build such a metropolitan church is available, but that its support afterward, and espe- cially at Mr. Mog@y’s death, has not yet been solved. The Northfield - enterprise Priny sperowee En el 0,000, the other being raised by ‘Mr. ‘Moody's efforts. men addresses of the new re- ADVERTISED LETTERS. The folowing is a list of advertised maining in the Washington (D. C.) Post-office 8: urday, August 20, 1808. .To ‘obtain any’ of these letters the applicant “Advertised Letters If not culled for within two (2) weeks they will should call for ters _re- be sent to the Dead Letter Office. LADIES’ LIST. Abbott, Carrie G Miss Allen, ‘AD Mrs Allen, Dera’ Allen, Grace A Mrs Anderson, Annie Miss Anderson} Bessie Miss(2) Kan Anderson, F Maud Miss Anderson, Lillian Miss Anderson, L i Mrs Anderson, Mamie Miss Austin, Mary L Miss Archer, Mary Mrs Rarter, Ella Mrs Barbour, Hannah Mrs Barnes, EK L Mrs Barret, Resa Mrs Baylor, Annie Miss ‘A R Mre E Miss Beall. 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Adams, St Anyooe Dr ‘Allen, ‘Isaiah fr Altaffer, Prof Anderson, Alex i very, 1M Balch, Wm C Baldwin, EWC Banaghan, Patrick Banks, Daneseld Buptista, A J Barnett, Jno Bartholomus, WH Rassert, Bens G Bayles, Wm B Bendle, Wm Benkard. Geo & Co Herbert I, L Beituinte Briley, € L . Edward J . Ino H Brown, Briddie (2) Brown, F Jackson Brown, Geo H_ Hor Brown, Brown, Brown, Lindsey, Robert Burroughs, Jno Rey (2) Calohan, James Camp, It W Campbell, Alexander Carlson, Albert Carrick, Wim M Carson, C Carter, Thos Caskey, Rollin Caton, Geo 2 ter, Morrette N Stephen Rev Coben, Will Coffee, Geo. W Coleman, WY Master Collips, Themas Corcoran, T J (2) Cornell, Edward Cory, CC & Co Costello, M Coughlin, Jno Gen Cowins, Geo Cox, Fred Leonard Cruser, Harry Curtis, Geo W Darner, Jno Davis, ‘Pred Davis, Wm H Deana Aun Deunell, De Lipman, M (2) Digges, RT Diman, Walter G Dismond, Richard Disney, Owen Dodge,’ JH Dorsey, Henry Dorsey, Joseph ington, W Duran, Merrill & Co Dupuy, Geo R iter Francis CF Foss, WJ Foster, John 1 Fex, Newman Frank, W nd, A Fulton, Jno Furman, Chas Gale, Frank H Gaston, Elias Gilbert, JL Gillmore, Benjamin C MT Andrew Capt Gookins, JF Gwynn, it Lee Haas, Mo I . Joseph Haiese, Davis Prof Hamilton, ¢ Harries, W Harris, D Dr Harvy, Henry Hawkins, Jeremiah Hendersiott, RW. Henson, Jno W Hepb Herbst, ter Herron, W RB Hiatt, ‘LM Prot Hil, Charlie Hil, Richara Hoe, WH Dr Holland, L J Holmes, Bennie Holmes. E'S Hopkins, Charlie Houk, Chas Hovey, HP. Howard, Coulbus Humbles, Wm Humphrey, T 5 Hunter, Geo Hunter, HC Hunter, Moses H Rev Jefferscn, Elt Jefferson, W_ Park Joknson,’ Andre Jeknson, Joseph Johnston, ER Jones, A’ A Jones, P it Jones, Robert Karmdl. W H Keen, J M Laing. "DT Stajor , D Tandermath, WH Land! a Tracie a, i Simpron, James Singer & Ebner mares, James Smead, Oliver Smith, ¢ mith, Wm 8 ‘The encer, ) Rebert Navarro D Gabriel Nelson, C L James Robert FW IE Wm W Francis c ex F . Albert Ryan, Wiliam Robinson, C Rey Wey. Lawrence RearJon, Cornelius Rav Limas bout. Harry K Schneider, J A breuborn, A warr, B Scott, AB tt, John Jeseph Rey mon TH ws ue Whitties Widy 4 Wigand, 0 Wiitam: Wilson, Wilson, Wise Wilse wi Wilson Wood, "J Wey, 2D York vert B Young, E Young, JW ma HL Augusta AD James E be Wm Hom Wc R ore, 8. xte Shannon, Henry haw, Win hirdia, Jno S Simmons, G W STATION A LADIES’ LIST. Keeling, Ct ‘TLEMEN’S LIST. Lant, M STATION D. Harrison, Miss Mamie Williszos Miss Ela BEAT The Fate of a Sceret Socicty in Ching. North China Herald. further development of the (secret society) movement h: at least a temporary check in the the chief agitator. He Fengling, where most been. Rumor of his insecu him and he thought it be the way seemed ever, late, for he mile from the town ere he was upon by a score of lusty farmers been promised a handsome reward -£: for his capture. A few of the leading ¢ “winking loudly” movement now came forward isted in his delivery to the cit A certain neither-in-nor-out- and decidedly out-at-elbows weiyuan, dent e Village, sought to claim th tive, but this welyuan’s conduct had sufficiently lacking in loyalty to his perial majesty, the emperor, that the w neighborhood had classed him as the leader of the secre ciety. Such is Lead From the The H Kolao s received arrest of aught n success was ar has had reached pe while olve, how- it: t to open. His re came too ad not got a pounced who had 0. try who had before been at the a and magi: -offic re cap- common report on the spot and generally accepted there Anyhow, his re- quest for poss the prisoner was so Promptly refused that he is said to have bowed to each of the gentry in turn and begged them not to implicate him in r. s to the unfortunate ive, he hurried without loss of time to the city 4 there almost immediately brought up for trial before the city magistrate. His at- titude was boid and defiant. He neither de nied the accu: laid against him nor tried to excul if. When threat ened uid be avenged ot the man who When asked what he m by F ting this society and who were its members, he told the mag trate that he (the magistrate) knew ail about it, he bei member of the Kolao Hui. Upen this the magistrate seems have lost his temper and ordered the pri oner to be beaten to death. Much beating cid not kill him, and once more the magi is said to have r 1 out orders ff. seemed nd, secing the magistrate t, other measures were unfortunate man soon breathed in si ir erim and the his last. his breach of Chi se law will, it is be- lieved, get the mz te into serious trou ble, and the taotaj at one time was on th point of suspencing him awaiting orders from Hangehow, hon the ground e man without tor- onfcssion out of him the ground of cruelty! It is a pity that th magistrate, Yeh, lost his temper, for during the last eighteen months he has proved himself a capable and fair-dealing officer In the meantime the new hsien €d and, being the permanent offi will take over the privileges and responsibilities of the office. What will be Mr. Yeh’s fate and what the new hsien will do to quash the Koloa Hui we shall soon learn. One « the principal men of Fengling has collected and delivered up quite a number of cer- of membership, but thc are but a small perce delivered. Anothe bids his following gp he dec e delivered ase of those still un- an in the same j ain their certific Ps the officials favorabl the movement. The has had considerable experienc Tonkin and su little French and some English, so We are hoping to country quiete down. Possibly his southern exper Ip him even more than the two 1 Anyhow, it is a pleas to wel- come a magistrate of such att , inments to Wenchow. — A REAL HEROINE. The Man Who Goes to War Does Not Show a Finer Cournge. A Detroit Free Press repor: at a counter of a Woodward avenue the other day giving a very fair imi of a man trying to match a r was sitting store tion ce of dry goods, when his attention was attracted by the very earnest manner of an oldish farmer who had incidentally mentioned the upper peninsula in the course of. his re- marks to the young lady who was waiting on him, albeit most of her time was oc- cupied in listening to a lot of interesting things be was telling her. Evidently she was from that part of the state from which he had brought her such a budget of news. “I just got back from a week in the up- per peninsula, part of the time at Negau- nee,” he said, “and you know Biank that lives up there?” Yes, she used to be Sarah Jones. She was married about two years after you come down here, wasn’t she? Well, the man sh? married was the no-countest chap that ever followed a dog rabbit hunting, and he didn't do any more toward supporting her than he could heln, Nobody round there knew how they mat. aged to get enough to cat to keep body and soul together. The furniture they had in the little house they hved in was hers and the clothes she wore was what she had managed to save up from her wedding out- fit. Just the same, though, she loved the good-for-nothing slouch as much, if not more, than she would have done if he had been a real good provider and nice man. She praised him to the skies and lied about how kind he was and what he was going to do after a while, and a lot more talk like that, and people just pitied her. Her mother began to suspect that she was not being treated right and went up to see her, stayed at her house a week and came back perfectly satisfied that her son-in-law had been libia& She knew as well as any- thing that her daughter had plenty to eat and she knew of four new dresses she had been making while she was there. “That's what she told us down home, and we believed it as she did, but when I went up there I found out that the wife traded her watch for extra things to eat for her mether, and as fer the dresses, she had simply had the goods sent up on exam- ination, telling the merchant that her mother wanted to see them, and then took them back herself and told her mother that she had taken them to the dress- maker's, who was so busy that she could not possibly get one of them for two weeks. Of course the old lady thought it was all Tight, but ain't it dreadful when a nice woman like Sarah is will tell lies for the sake of such a miserable excuse for a man that husband of hers is? It’s a kind of immorality, in my opinion, that the Chris- tan 3 religion never was intended to grapple with.” —__+ e+ Looked That Way. From the Somerville Jcurnal. Little Ethel—What kind of a boat is that one out there with sails?” Uncle Tom—“That’s a catboat.” be Little Ethel—“And is that Httle one truil- ing on behind a kitten boat?”.