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[* to the courts, puiish the offenders, tuke care S [ . PRT THRE, e e THE OMAHA TWENTYSECOND YEAR. BLOODY HIGHBINDERS Diabolical Methods That Terrorize Chinese ° Residents on the Coast. MEN KILLED FOR OBEYING THE LAW The Ohinese Millionaires of S8an Francisco and the Rich 8ix Qompanies. MORE THAN 8225,000,000 SENT TO CHINA What the Six Companies Are and How They Rule Celestials, OPENLY DEFY STATE AND FEDERAL LAW Ohinese Lotterlos Which Not 820,000 & Day ~WHhat it Costs to Smuggle a Pretty Chinese Mald—Abject Chi- nese Slavery, SAN Fraxcisco, Cal., May 20.—[Special to Tar Bre.]—One of the most interesting men in the United States at the present time is Hon. John C. Quinn, the United States col- lector of internal revenue for the southern district of California. Heis the man who has been muking the fight in California for the restriction of Chinese immigration and who, had Secretary Carlisle not withdrawn the provision that the Chinese must register themselyes by photograph, would by this time have practically stopped the immense amount of smugeling which is continually going on by the organized Chinese of ' America. Probably no man in California knows as much about the Chinese as M. ¥ Quinn, and certainly no one heretofore has had the nerve to enter into a day and night fight with them for the preservation of the ) American laws. 1 had a long chat with him the other night about these people and the wonderful power that they hoid on the Pa- | cific slope. Said he: The people east of the Rocky mountains . do not understand the Chinese question as it exists here. This is the battle ground of the races of the Occident and the Orient, and San Francisco is the head of the govern- ment of the Chinese of America. 1t is here that their rulers live and it1s here that they look for law and punishment. They have no respect for American iaws and they do as their Chinese rulers dictate. Right here in au Francisco the Chinese own property which is worth more than $75,000,000, and of the ready cash in circulation on the Pacific coast they control at least £15,000,000. They furnish more than one-third of all the labor we use, and they have 8o woven themselves in and out through our industries that we are almost dependent upon them. When the Geary act compelling the Chinese to register themsclves was passed it was my duty to en- force the provisions of the bill. Isaw that we had to keep the Chinese that were now here, for a time at least, and at the same time keep out the hundreds of thousands of coolies who were trying to get in. As soon a8 the act was published a cry went up from the sand lots, or the hoodlum eclement, that the Chinese must go. At the same time there came word from tho vine; fruit growing districts of California that the wholesale deportation of them would ruin all such industries, The result was the problem how to keep out the coolies and keep in the present laborers,” The Chinese as Frult Growers. “I should think that you could have gotten outside laborers for the vineyards,” said L. “The thing has been tried,” replied Mr. Quinn, “but no workers secm to bo as good as the Chinamen, | Down in Fresno not long g0 8,000 negro men and women were brought from Tennessee and Alabama to work in the vineyards there. The Chinese were dis charged and the negroes put in their pla In less than a mouth there was not a ne; able to work, and the raisin growers h lost thousands of dollars, fell back again on the Chinese. © I'he picking of grapes in Cali- forni by no means an easy job. The sub- lerigation of the soil and the hot sun, which runs as high as 108 degrees in the shade, makes the work so terrible that only coolies oan stand it, and it wilted the negrocs. It is the same in the orchards. Train loads of boys and girls were sent to the country to take the place of Chinese fruit pickers, and In two weeks the orchardists had houses full + of sick children and the Chinese again at work among their trees. On the deserts in southern California and Ariz the rail- roads have to use Chinamen as section hands, as white men cannot stand the terrible sum- mer sun, The Chinese know that there is a certain class of work here that they alone can do. They are not fools and th k and get as high wages as white labo) How the American Chincso are Ruled, ‘Tell me something about the Six Com- panies, Mr. Quing,” 1 said, “The Six Cowmp: was the reply, constitutes the mosy lerful organization I have ever heard of, It rules the destinies of every Chinse in America with an iron hand. 1t has defied for years and is now openly defying the United States govern- ment. During this rrrsn-ul trouble it raised £125,000 in contributions of &1 each from the Chinese in less than thirty days, and this money was asked for and given with the un- derstanding that it was to be used to defeat the operations of the Geary law.” “When were the Six Companies formed?" T asked. No white man knows,” was the reply. And I doubt whether very many Chinese could tell you. You can't find the records of the companies and no one but their presi- dents aud secretaries know where they are. efr books are kept in 4 cipher which can be read only by themselyves, and all their work is done in secret. The Chinese in America, you know, como from six different districts in China. They are in reality six different people, having no more points in common than the different Indian tribes. 1 am told that the Six Companies were organ- Ized at first to carry on the business betwetn the different tribes of Chinese in this coun- try, to settle their disputes without recous 0 of the sick, and above all, seud bones of the Chinese who died 1 America back to China. This they do today, but they have grown from a small organization to & great power and great wealth. They have the power of life or death over the Chinamen here. Were Ito tell you that the Six Companies have sentenced rot one but twenty men to death, and that the sentence in every case has been executed, I would tell you only what such men as C. P. Harton, a newspaper reporter, who has made work among the Chinese a specialty for ten years, has time and again published over his own signature,” Millions for Chiua, do these Six Companies stand in ‘*Ho Chinat” “They are recognized by the Chinese eramont as the real power of thut empire in this country. The Chinese consul general is an ex-ofticio member of their executive com- gfi- and counsels with their president. companies have for years Anm of the moneys of the Ching Pacific slope from Alaska to Guatemals and of the United States, and they have con- - Blantly on deposit an' enormous amount of here. Their deposits in the banks of M-uo often run up us bigh as $3,000,- OV~ taken pse of the 000 of gold coin, and within the last forty years they have shipped out of this country to China the enormous sum of §225,000,000 in gold. - This money was made up of the sav- ings of Chinese laborers and the profits of Chinese merchants, and if “today the Chi- were sent out of the United States they uld carry away with them more than £50,000,000 of money. My figures for these sums are from the banking houses of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and from the different offices of the Six Companies. They are an under estimate father than an over estimate, Organized Crime In San Franc'sco. “How do these companies work?" I asiked. “They do their work openly to a great ex- tent,” replied Mr. Quinn. ‘“Fhey act as a court for the Chinese, and the Celestials come hundreds of miles here to San Fran- cisco to have the presidents of these com- panies settle their troubles. There is no ap- peal from them, The Chinamen who refuse 10 obey them will certainly ‘disappear,’ and no one but the Six Companies will know what has become of them. As to their business there is no doubt but they have been engaged for years in smuggling opium, the importing of Chinese women for immoral ]mrlmsm\ and the importing of Chinese aborers in deflance of the exclusion act. Tt is estimated that a handsome Chinese girl of 12 to 14 years of age is worth when landed in San Francisco clear of the customs officers £3,500. White men are hired to perjure themselves in swearing that these girls were born in America, return to China for an education and then come home again, Hundreds of women have been brought in this way and the Six Companies pay the per- Jurers and hire the lawyers to defend the cases, The reporter Harton, to whom I have already referred, ran two white men to the earth about six months ago. They had just landed a Chinese girl aged only 10 years. The men were arrested and the girl was found at a disreputable place where she had been taken immediately after being landed, The perjurers and the girl were bailed out of jail by money furnished by the Six Com- panies and a Juwyer was paid by the same organization. It'is estimatea that it cost the companies between £5,000 and £6,000 to land this givl and the companies stick to their own people to the last. They spare no expense to accomplish their ends and they are honest in carrying out the most immoral of their contracts.” The Great Chinese Lottery. “How about the Chinese lottery?" I asked. ““This is one of the great sources of rev nue for the companies. They run lotteries in every city and town in the United States, Canada, Mexico, British America aud Alaska. The lottery is honest as far as the drawing is concerned. 1t is a Chinese affadr, and a man can win, if he happens to mark the right number of spots on his ticket, $10,- 000 for the payment of 25 cents. A drawing is held twice a day, morning and evening, and it is estimated that the ¢ Companics make 220,000 a day out of it. This lottery is corrupting San I'rancisco. The whites as well as the Chinese engage in it. The police have tried 10 break it up, and both the city and state have passed laws against it, but it does a greater business today than ever.” Something About the Highbindors “Suppose a Chinaman refuses to obey the Six Companies, Mr. Quinn,” said 1, “What happens then? “In the first place he is ostraciced,” was the reply. Next begins the persecution will ruin his business if heis a mer- chant, or cost him his place if he is a laborer, All help in time of sickness or financial trouble will be denied him, and fourth, his bones will huve to lie after his death in alien soll instead of being boiled, cleaned, scraped and polished and sent back to China. This means disbarment from the heaven of Con- fucius forever, So much for lawful persecu- tion. It his crime of disobedience is im- portant enough it may cause his death, and this will be brought about by the highbinder societies of the Chinese,or the tongs, as they are called. The Six Companies claim that they have no connection with the tongs, but not long ago when two of these societies were engaged in a murderous war upon each other and the Chinese consul general and the Chinese merchants Joined with the po- lice to stop their murders the Six Companies refused to do a thing or give a dollar to hin- der the crime or to punish the guilty.” Killed for Obeying ths Law. “What are the highbinders?” [ asked. “The Chinese highbinder,” was the reply, “is a Chinaman who never works, but lives off of the earnings of bad women and the proceeds of blackmail. He doesn’t need to have a man’s fecret to threaten him, but he has merely to go to him and say, *Unless you pay the highbinder society $00 or more the case may be, before Saturday night, we will kill you." There is no half-wiy measure about, it, and shoutd the merchant thus black- mailed cause the highbinder's arrest his doom is sealed. The highbinder cares noth- ing for th w. Clothing himself with a coat of mail made either of fine steel chains orof twenty or thirty thicknesses of ne: paper quilted together and made into a ga ment that covers the entire body from the throat to the thighs, he arms himself with a long barreled revolver and knife and goes into_vhe street and waits for the man he to kill. When the man comes along he be- gins his work, regardless of the prese the police, and he finishes it, though know he is to hang for it the u aa, sounds horrible, but such things have done in San Francisco, and w be done again, Only these men named Le man named Yik with sight of him. e black bean of the society, which sentenced him kill this man Yik, and he killed him. There were four men killed by the highbinders because they had registered themselves and had urged other Chinamen to do the same—in other words, to obey the laws of the United States. The highbinder society held a meeting and drew lots as to whe should kill the men, and they were all killed according to the drawing. Do you wonder that the Chinese are afraid to fight theirown people rather than the laws of the United States? I have had opposition of this kind to contend ith ever since I have been inoftice out here, 1 have promised to protect the Chinamen who obey the laws ; but what can you do? It is an outrage, but how can you hielp it! You have to fight or- ganized crime and organized mum:‘y." “I suppose the Chinese of this city are very wealthy?" Twenty Chineso Milllonalres, “Yes; there are at least twenty million- aires among them, and the 27,000 Chinese of San Francisco have their hands on all the Chinese money in the United States. As to rich men, tuke, for mstance, Wong Fat, one of the twenty Chinese millionaires of Franciseo, He owns a little storeon Duj street, and the room he occupie 20x50, 'but he bas branches in overy town in southern Californis, aud he has establish- ments in Denver, Salt Lake, Kansas Ci Omaha, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Indianapolis and New York, H branches in these other towns have small. branches radiating over the whole country, and he gets reports frow every one of them. The Chinese in New York 1 Wash- ington report to the Six Companies here just the same as the man who lives a few doors away from the company’s ofices. Wong Fat himself controls more than 2,000 laborers und the most of these have been smuggled into this country. It costs a Chinaman $600 10 be smuggled into the United States, and he pays this money over to the Six Compa- niesout of his wages. He is lundea and rented out by the companies to one of these rich Chinawen, Wong Fat rerents him at $0 a month to some one else and of the money he earns the laborer gets only from §6 Lo # a month till the $600 due the Six Com- panies is paid. If heis sick, however, he is taken care of, and if he dies his bones ure sent buck to China, The Mistake s to Photographs. “Ithink that the greatest mistake that has been made iu_ the Geary act wus the removing of the provision requiring photographs. A China- wan will maim himself in any way in order to fit nu{‘ description needed, and one of the most skillful Chinese doctors in the United States was employed to help along the smuggling. This was Dr. La £o 1ai who had a practice of something like $100,000 a been i1, I doubt not, few weeks ago one of Sing killed a China- three policemen in had drawn the to nt 15 only year, about ene-third of which he got from white people. La Po Tai made mol scars and Lips 40 Lold bis countrywen in this SUNDAY BEE. PAGES 17-20. A AR A A A AN s s s SR . AATPNPAIOD He disd only a fow woeeks ago and | he was buried with great honor. The | photographs, however, beat the Chinamen. eing of nearly the same height and looking much the same they can make themselves correspond to other men's passports, but they could not make themselves look like other men's photographs. The smuggling of them nets the Chinese large fortunes every year, and I don't wonder that they fought the law, What will be the end of it I can't tell. What I have said to you is nothing in comparison with what I might say. ‘The whole situation is an outragé upon America ana American civilization.” F'RANK G. CARPENTER, —_— LABOR AND INDUSTRY. The strike in the Cherokee coal district of Kansas throws 5,000 men out of employment. A folding steel measure composed of o number of folding links of different lengths pivoted at the end is a new invention. One-cent pieces are being introduced in Oakland, Cal., for the first time. The smalil- est legal tender formerly used was 5-cent pieces. According to reparts, the explorers of the Nile have already unearthed enough to show that a large number of our great modern in- ventions are simply lost arts rediscovered, The strike at Hull, in England, which has lasted for some months and has necessitated the employment of the military to supvress violence, has ended in exactly the same n ner as the yet more famous ana more widel, spread Australian strikes of 1801 and 1802— the defeat of the strikers, Wood pulp is rapidly becoming one of the most universally used of manufactured arti- cles. Not only %s it found available for mak- ing many of the necessities and conveniences of man's life, aside from newspapers, but it is also appearing in artistic cofiins in which to bury him. It is interesting to note that there are very fow arcas of spruce lumber in the United States west of the Adiron- dacks. The experiments which are being made in the use of anhydrous ammonia as a motive power seem to indicate that the new system will prove one of the most economical yet tried, The expanding power of ammonia, when the liquid is converted into gas, is far greater than thatof steam, and the com- parative cheapness of the former commodity serves to render the ammonia process an economical one. An English rainmaker now operating in India has an apparatus consisting of a rocket capable of rising to the height of a mile, con- taining a reservoir of ether. In its descent it opens a parachute, which causes it to come down slowly. The ether is thrown out in a fine spray and its absorption of heat is said to lower the temperature about it sufti- ciently to condense the vapor and produce & limited shower. The iron capacity of American furnaces is cussed by the Iron Age in o penetrating article which points out that while the ag- pacity of all the furnaces is 14,- 550,708 gross tons, only about 9,000,000 tons of this can be kept going with No. 1 iron at $14 a ton, so that at current prices this is the capacity of the furnaces. There is 2,000 more which can be produced at $15, and equal amounts at $16 and #17. Practjcally, then, the live capacity is 9,000,000 tons. The Lalke Superior Iron company has by timely hberality established relations with its employes that canno® result in anything but mutual prospevity. Until recently tho wage carners on the company’s rolls toiled for ten hours h day and received what was generally regarded as satisfactory recompense. With that condition the com- pany might have been content, but it was not. It proposed a reduction of each work- mg day to eight hours, and, strangely enough, did not propose’ any reduction of pay. Very cheerfully the scheme iu- dorsed by those whom it was primarily in- tended to benefit. for they held a meeting and notified the management that they would endeavor to do as much work ia eight hours as they had previously done in ten. A very pretty effect is gained by printing a photograph on marble, which can be done in the following way: An unpolished plate ot marble must be coated with a sclution of benzine, 500 parts; spirits of turpentine, 500 parts; asphaltum, fifty parts, and pure wax, five parts. When this is dry the plate is ex- posed under a negative, which will take in sunshine about twenty minutes. Develop with spirits of turpentine or benzine and wash in plenty of water. The next step is to cover the plate where it is intended to be left white with an alcoholic solution of shel- lac, and immerse the same in any dyve which is soluble in wat After awhile, when enough of the coloring matter has entered the pores of the marble, it is taken out and polished. The graduating class of the Kansas City High school numbers 117, At the coming commencement of Roanoke college, Virginia, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian, said to be one of the best speakers in his class, will be graduated, sociation of aduates of the Rens- Polytechn] Institute will meet in 1o during the week commencing July 81, the engincering congresses being held at that time. 5 Some important changes are contemplated at Cornell next yea: The one that will at- tract most attention is the decision to change the policy toward graduate students and hereafter charge them tuition. The change will go into effect o year from next fall, -Governor Ames will present to the town of Kaston, Mass., & new high scnool bulding which wiil cost about £60,000 when completed. It will be built in the colonial style, and besides the recitation, ante and dressing rooms it will have a chemical and mechanical laboratory. John D. Rockefeller has given $150,000 more to the University of Chicago in order that Martin A. Ryerson's gift of £100,000, conditional on the raising nffl\m.()&l) more, might become available. About $100,000 has been raised already, so that there now re- mains but §150,000 to complete the §500,000 needed as an equipment fund. Joseph S. Spinney of Brooklyn, whose will bequeathed one-third of his entire estate, after some minor bequests were paid, to0 Wesloyan, was not a graduate of the College, but he had for years been in- terested in its welfare, and at the time of his death was a trustee, The regular sopho- more Greek prize was sustained by him, The 143da anniversary of the birth of Stephen Girard was celebrated in Philadel- phia on Saturday last as Founder's day at the college which perpetuates his name. [t was a holiday and a fleld day for the colle- gians, us well as for the alumni, and the pre- sentation of a national flag to the institu- tion by Lafayette post, Grand Army of the Republic of New York, gave a touch of real patriotic spirit with the memorial interest of the time, ‘Well, how do you like going to school, Wendelline?” inquired her mother. *The in- tellectual discipline pleases me very much, mamma,” replied the aear little Boston girl who had just returned home after her first day at school, “but the methods are some- what crude, and the teacher impresses me as one who has not wholly succeeded as yet in the struggle to overcome the disadvan- tages necessarily resulting from defective early education.” The forthcoming annual register of the Johas Hopkins university, compiled by Registrar T. R. -Ball, will give some in- teresting statisti howing the progress and widespread reputation of the university. The total number of studeuts is 551, an in- crease of four over last year. Of these 347 are graduated students already holding degrees. The faculty shows au increase of seveu teachers, the total number being seventy-Lwo, or au average of one for less than eight students. T — An explosion of a storage battery is de- scribed in the Electrical R\'ol'hl Seven Jju- liens cells being charged witha 10-ampere current at 110 volts were disconnected while in circuit in order to put in another cell, At the instant the counection was broken there was a id flash, followed by a loud ex- plosion. The middie cell was completely wrecked, and several persons standing nea were thrown back and covered with acid. The explosion was due Lo the spark caused ll;{ breaking the circuit, igniting the uncom- n ed bydrogen and oxygen gases in the cell. OMAHA. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY HONORING THE SOLDIER DEAD Keeping Frosh tho Memory of the Men Who Fought for the Union, ORIGIN AND MEANING OF MEMORIAL DAY A Hollday the Like of Which No Other Nation Possesses—An Object Lesson in Loyalty and Patriotism—Touch- ing Stories, In one of the most impressive Decoration day addresses ever deliverod these words were uttered: “When the war was over, in the south, where under warmer skies and with more poetic temperaments symbols and emblems are better understood than in the practical north, the widows, mothers and children of the confederate dead went out and strewed their graves with flowers; at many places the women scattered them im- partially also over the unknown and un- marked resting places of the union soldiers. As the news of this touching tribute flashed over the north it roused, as nothing else could have done, national amity and love and allayea sectional animosity and passion. It thrilled every household where there was a vacant chair by the fireside and an aching void in the heart for a lost hero whose re- mains had never been found; old wounds broke out afresh, and in a mingled tempest of griefand joy the family cried, ‘Maybe it was our darling?’ ‘Thus out of Sorrows com- mon alike to north and south came this beau- tiful custom. But Decoration day no longer belongs %o those who mourn, It is the com- mon privilege of us all, and will be celebrated as long as gratitude exists and flowers bloom.™ N Thus Chauncey M. Depew, in his Decora- tion day address in 1879, told briefly of the origin of the custom of strewing graves with flowers, and John S. Wise, in a speech made some years ago, declared that the tenderest and most touching legacy of the war was that sentiment of common pity and hu- manity to which the women gave expression in a southern cemetery when they decked the grayes of confederate and federal sol- diers with impartial hand. The custom was at first rather slo: taking root, and it was not until the ( Army posts throughout the union, by com- mon consent, fixed upon the 30th day of May, the time of the blossoming of the fiowers, as a day when they shoula dedicate themsel ves to a simple ceremony. of paying tribute to their lost comrades by strewiug their graves with flowers. The cu$tom met with such popular approval that one after another the legislatures of the different states set apart the day legally for such observance, and now, as Henry Ward Beecher said only a year or two before his death, there is prob- ably not a cemetery in'the lana which will not reveal on the ‘eve of Decoration day, either by little flags or, flowers, that it con- toins tho dust gf ono who gave'his life in the civil w The suggestion that upon the battle fields of the south there shofild be piots of ground consecrated as burial places for soldicrs who fell upon those ficlds seems to have been spontaneous. It was a popular demand rec- ognized by congress,’and logislation was early procured, as a yesult of which a na. tional cemetery lies coptiguous to every bat- tle fiel:l of importande. Appropriations aro made by the government every year for the maintenance of these cemeteries, and visit- ors see in the little ‘marble head stones— thousands and thousands of them—at Fred- ericksburg, in the Chickahominy region, at Chickamauga, at Arlington, at Gettysburg, the visible evidence of the terrible mortality which this stupendous contest involved. No other country possesses. such a holi- day, On the 2,260 buttle fields of the civil war over 100,000 were killed, 71,000 lost their lives in the prisons of tfe enemy, 200,000 more died in hospitals from wouuds or dis- case and 125,000 others were so wounded in battle that they dscd after being discharged as no louger capable of service. It is the memory of these thousands of heroes that the Grand Army recalls in its ceremonies of Tuesday. The first formal order establishing the day was issued on May 5, 1868, by General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of tho Grand Army of the Republic. New Jersey was the first state to take legislative action on the day and New York the first to declare it a legal holiday by the government. Congress adjourned as o mark of respect to the memory of the illustrious dead. s now a legal holiday in California, ) o, Connecticut, the Dakotas, Iowa, 1llinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, n. Nevada, New Hampshire, New New York, Ohig, Orezon, Pennsyl- vaaia, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Nebraska ani Wyoming. st formal and national observance day was the occasion of much fine at different points, but looking back over the list of speakers it will be seen that only a fe 3 that occasion, May 80, 1868, General Garfield—afterwards p dent—was the orator at Arlington, where the flowers were so profuse that it wis said they had rained down from heaven. The teacher-soldier safd on that occasion, among other beautiful senténces, these memorial words ; “1f silence is ever golden, it must bo here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant than ' specch, and death was a poom the music of which can n be sung. L love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost; that tho characters of men are molded and inspired by what their fathers have done; that treasured up in American souls are all the unconscious influences of the great deeds of the Anglo-Saxon race from Agincourt to Bunker Hiil. It was such an influence which led a young Greek 2,000 years ago, when he heard the news of Mara- thon, to exclaim *The trophies of Miltiades will not let me sleep.’ The object lessons of history are better and more instructive than thoe written his- tories wiich must remain to many but scaled books. There is nochild, no foreigner unknowing our lnngungo who will not understand the tribute of flowers and flags on a soldier's grave and so learn by intuition a lesson of love and loyalty to patriots. Many touching stories have been told of scenes witnessed on Memorial day, says the Detroit Freo Press. One of these is of a family that *‘adopted¥ a grave and went cven to the lemgth of removing the headstone higl contained only the words, *‘Fedepal i Soldier, Name Un- known.” They then substituted the name of their own soldier ' of whose place of buial they had no record—his remains never having been brought home—and they finally consented to the belief that he whom they mourned really slept in that grave, Per- haps the boy who found an unknown sepul- cher far from home has not slept unwatched there. “And had he not high honor, “The hillside for his patl, To lie In stute whilo angels wait And stars for tapers tall, And the dark rockpines like tossing plumes Over his bier to wave, And God's own hand in'that lonely land To luy him in the grave." There is another story of a little old woman in & widow's dress who, on Memorial day in a certain well known cemetery, goes about among the soldiers' graves, measuring each one, and when ' she fluds one just the length of “‘Harry's" height, she empties the basket of flowers she carries upon it and sits down beside it, and guards it flercely from every invader. She is attended by a military look: ng man who wears the empty sleeve, and when any one would disturb her he touches his forehead significantly, and they leave her in peace. <At the old farmhouse where they used to scrape ling, or “sew on Sunday,” as they tell with bated breath, they are ¢ngaged now in the more peaceful avocation of picking flowers and sorting them for Memorial day. T'his is no transaction of commerce. These flowers are plucked with the dew on them, by rosy-cheeked maidens to whom war is but a remote sound, but loyalty to their country’s dead a vital principle. It was a0 Athenian custom 19 wreathe 98, 1893—TWENTY PAGES with flowers the monuments of those who had fallen in battle. It Is a happy fate to lle entombed In the deep recesses of a well beloved land." Memorial day can never degenerate into a mere pleasure-loving observance with such a historic background to preserve our heroes’ memories, “Sleep, ¢ mrades, sloep and rest On this field of the grounded arms, Where foes no more niolest Nor sentry's shot alarm! Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be, As sentinels, to keep Your rest from danger free, Yoursil, u nt tents of green _We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering beer The memory shall bo ours. gl Mhchublocd ODDS AxD ENDS, Ex-Congressman John A. Bingham of Ohio, who took a leading part in the im- peachiment Jroceedings against Androw Johnson, resides at Cadiz O.,and at tho age of 77 is in full possession of his mental and physical faculties. He has been out of pub- ic life since his return from Japan in 1885, to which country he was United States mia- ister under Mr, Arthur. Among the distinguished citizens of Phila- delphia past 90 years of age Rev. Dr. Fur- ness is one of the most remarkable of person- ages. He takes long walks like a boy with out fatigue. He hears well and can read at night even in the cars without glasses. Abcut the only evidence of age he experi- ences, and that does not bother him much, is the familiar one of the loss of the sense of taste. **0ld Glory" illustrates its power anew. A railroad corporation attempted to confiscate a piece of the yard belonging to a widow in Chester, Pa. "I'he relict, more power to her, nailed the stars and stripes to a tree, and shouldering a gun invited the raiders to *‘haulit down if you dare.” They daren't. At last accounts the widow and the flag re- mained in possession, Fanny Davenport having purchased the Dura Wadsworth house at Duxbury, Mass., one of the oldest editices on the south shore, has had it razed to the ground and will build on the site a summer house at a cost of about £30,000. The house Miss Davenport occupied at Canton, Pa., will be sold, but the home- stead whero her father lived and where, for many years, the Davenport family reunited in the summer, will bo kept in the family. Miss Mary Abigail Dodge, known as Hamilton, " and Ler sister, Miss Dodge, aro ng a visit to Carlisie, Pa to collect information regarding the ancestry of James G. Blaine, whose biography Miss Dodge is to write. Coloned Ephraim Blaie, the statesman’s grandfather, who was com- missary general of the revolutionary army, is buried in the old grayeyard ceded to the town of Carlisle by John Penn. The old Blaine family seat is about & mile north of the town. A pilgrim from Posey county, Indiana,comes to the rescue of Chicago and effectively re- futes the charge of universal extortion at the World’s fair. He shows that a visitor may live on the fat of the White City and do the show for 60 cents a dav. This is exclu- sive of lodging, but as the Posey county tourist is of economic bent, a bench on the lake front will not increase the total. Food, the chiof enemy of a big purse, he cireum. vented by securing, gratis, milk at the milk exhibit, fresh rolls at the yeast exhibit and buttered crackers at the butter exhibit. Joseph Francis, who died a few days ago at Osage Lake, N. Y., has been buried be- side his wife at Minneapolis. The tablet over his body bears ‘this inscription: ‘*Joseph Francis, the father and founder of the United States lif ving service, 1812, Founder of the American Shipwreck socioty, 1842, Inventorof the corrugated metallic life car, lifeboat, otc. Received the thanks of the Forty-ninth congr Honored by the Fiftietn congress for services to human- ity. Honored, decorated, rewarded and knighted by the crowned heads of Europe. Born March 12, 1801; died May 10, 1893.” Speculation regarding the significance of the disappearance of the name ‘‘James Gordon Benuett, proprietor,” from the columns of the New York Herald 1s set at planation in that paper. we are told, “isat the height of its prosperity.” Financial reasous are not, therefore, the cause of the change. The proprietor has in view *‘the formation of a co-operative society, one for the sole benefit of members of the Herald staff,” which is explained to mean every employe of the paper, from the managing editor down to the porters. By this menns Mr. Bennett proposes *'to avoid auy postuorten mterference by politically biased courts under the guise of proccedings for the legal construction of a will.” ————— A Hint Wai sufficiont, ““You don't call on Miss Cutting any more, I hear, Blubber.” “No." id she reject you?” ‘Not exactly, but when I first began call- ing there was s mat at tho door with the word ‘Welcome' woven in it and a motto on the wall thatread “Let Us Love One An- " Later I was changed for one that suaid Feet' and a motto declaring that ‘[arly Bed and Early to Rise Makes You Healthy, Wealthy and Wise,’ had taken the place of the other.” il Harriet noticed that the door-mat e Your ‘W — Winter's Prize Fosition. Contentment is a virtue, but even in the matter of virtues it is necessary to beware of counterfeits, A fond fath was (ues tioning his son about his standing at school. *Oh,"” s Bobby, I have a good deal bet- ter place than 1 had last quarter,” “Indeed! Where are you?” “I'm fourteenth.” “‘Fourteenth, you little lazy bones? You were eight last term. Do you call that a better place?” “Yes, papa; it's nearer the stove,” —_——— The Average Pate Yankee Blade: “How are you finding business, doctor?” was usked of & physician. ‘“‘Capital,” he replied; “I have all I can attend to," “Ididn’t understand that there was much illness about.” “No, there isn't. But we physicians do not depend upon sickness for an income, Oh, no; most of our money is made from people who Lave nothing the matter with them.” —_— The Appeal to Statistics. Harper's Bazar: “I am told, dear, that Jack Rattlepate spent most of his custern vacation in your back pavlor. Aren't you giving him rather a dangerous amount’ of encouragement ! Why, no, dearest, he is merely a boy, To be sure he is a year older than I, but I ‘shall be out next winter, while Jack has two mor years in college, and it will be six ye: after that before he is able to earn much ¢ anything, So practically he is six years younger than I, and that makes him 12, It is absurd to talk of encouraging a boy so young as that, —_— Diminished Coolness, Washington Star: The lump of ice was very small, and as he tenderly received it into his own hand Mr. Barxon remarked to the man: ‘‘There's one comfort about it all, to any one who likes to be on good terms with his fellow men, “'What's that?" “There ain't near as much coolness be- tween us as there used to be,” _— In Holland the following names for the months are in use: January—Lauromaand, chilly month; February-—Sprokelmaand, vegetation month; March—Lentmaand, spring month; - April—Grasmaand, grass month; May—Blowmaand, flower mon Zomermaand, summer month; July— ymaand, hay month; August—Qost- maand, harvest month; September—Herts- maand, autumn month; October—Wyn} maand, wine month ; November—Slagmaand’ slaughter month ; December—Wintermaand, winter mouth, e — The valedictorian av Yale this year will be Willam Reyuolds Siegg of Headersonville, ANNEXATION WITH CANADA Disoussion of the Question of an Alliance with the Dominion. WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO BOTH COUNTRIES Great Difficulty Experienced in Getting an Monest Expression of Opinion on the Sunject—England Could Aftord the 1 Owmana, May 26.—To the Editor of " Bee: When a Canadian visits this country one of the first quesiions he is asked is, ““‘What do the people over there think of an nexation?” Americans are almost univer- sally of the opinion that Canada will sooner or later come into the union, but there can not be said to be any movement in the United States in favor of political union of the two countries. Americans arocontent to wait until Canadians manifest a desire to substitute the stars and stripes for the union Jack. Among Canadians there is, of course, a great diversity of opinion, although it is generally admitted that annexation would bring to Canada increased prosperity: that it would enhance the value of her real estate; that it would lead to the development of her mineral resources; that it woula enable her farmers to get better prices for their agricultural products. One would imagine that to convince the people that annexation wonld add to their material prosperity would be all that would be neces- sarp in this commercial age to make annexa- tionists of them, but such is from being the case, It is probable that av ieastv vwo- thirds of the people of Canada are thoroughly convinced that the country would be more prosperous if annexed to the United States, and yet 1t is extremely doubtful whether one-third of their number could be induced at the present time to vote for the change. The attitude of the politicians and political leaders is no less anomalous. 1t is perfectly safe to assert that a resolution favoring political union would not receive the support of half a dozen members of the ( 1 House of Commons,and yet the writer of this article has been assured by more than one member of parliament that the opmion that annexation would bo a good thing for Canada held almost universally by the libe: bers of the house, butis shar Jority of the conservative membe In their public addceesses those men grow eloquent over the glory of British connec- tion, ve the old flag that has “‘waved a thousand years the and the br and denoince as traitors the politic whose eyes are turned toward Washington In the seclusion of their club rooms they laugh as they recall the language of their public utterances, and wonder how long it will be before they dare say what they really thinl. About a year agoa pol was held “in al union meeting one of the towns of western Ontario, and among those who were ex- pected to deliver addresses was a local politician ~ whose sympathy with the annexation movement was well known, He prepared o specch stling with facts and arguments how how annexation would benefit th nadian farmer, and took the manuscript along with him to the mecting. Just before the mect- ing opened, however, he was shown a letter from his political chief at Toronto in which it was intimated that the success of their party at the next election might be imper- illed should any of 1ts prominent members come out openly in favor of annexation, and a change of front was consequently decided upon. He buttoned up his manuseript in an inside pocket. and to the dismay of those of his friends who were not in the secret he dramatically began what turned out to be an intensely loyal speech with the words: “A British subject I was born, a British sub- jeet T will die.” As a matter of fact it is very dificult to get an honest expression of opinion in regard to annexation. The Canadian people love Canada and her institutions and have no reason to complain of British rul T'hey suffer from none of the evils that are sup- posed to cxist in monarchical countries. The governor general, as the representative of the sovereign, opens the Dominion parlia- ment with impressive ceremony and is sur- rounded by a certain amount of state at all power and never nd the government of 1y in the hands of the nugly word and to times, but ho has 1o tries to exert any, the country is 1 peonle. Disloyalty is od of it under any cireumstances is nt, but where it implies a w allegiance to a queen, who is in reality de beloved, and a government that aliows s complete civil and religious liberty, full of ach.. It s not hesitate to give expre: surprising, the that m cony part ore, ion to their rd 1 union, n politi however, there nd strong current in its favor. Ata meeting held in Montreal a few months ago to discuss the future of Canada, a vote was taken which showed that 1,600 favored independence, and 1,000 political union with the United States, which realey meant 2,600 for annexation, as indevendenc would undoubtedly lead to that and is advocated mainly by those who desire to express their discontent in regard to present conditions, without coming out to politic squarely in tavor of political union. A short time ago the president of the Simcoe Liveral association, a county political organization, tendered his resignation upon the ground that he had bec P an annex- ationist and felt that the president should not hold political views antigonistic to those of the majorivy of his fellow members. In the discussion that followed one member after another arose to state that although he had never said much about it his own Vic corresponded with those of the president, and when some one, bolder than the s finally suggested that o vote be taken, the startling fact was disclosed that every man of them was an annexationist, It is ncedless to say that the resignation was not aeecepted, Americans seem to have the 1dea that the loss of Canada as a dependency would be a to England ~ that it would be d upon as the signal for a general dis- solution of the British empire, and that the consent of the mother country to the po'iti- cal union of C and the United St would be given grudgingly, if atall. This is probubly all wrong. A careful study of the situation must convince any one that Canada adds greatly to the burdens aud re- sponsibilities of Great Britain, mother country derives few saling advantages from the connection Canada has neither army nor navy, but must be protected, and to protect 4,000 miles of open frontier is no small matter, Then, 100, hev disputes ‘with the United States about boundaries and fishories have been a constant source of trouble between England and this country and have disturbed the harmony that would otherwise have existed between the two greatest nations of the world. Canada pays to England no tribute, contributes nothing toward the support of the imperial army and navy, and has never manifested any desive to assist England in her wars. Inaeced, when England was en- gaged in a life und death struggle with the first Napoleon, instead of being assisted by Canadian troops, General Welling- ton, as he marshaled his forces on the plains of Waterloo, deplored the fact that some of his best soldiers were on the other side of the Atlantic, engaged in that unfortunate conflict known as the war of 1812, Nor does England derive any com- mercial advantage from her political - tions with Canada. She no longer coutrols the colonial markets, and British goods, when they enter Canada, are subject to the same duty as though they came [rom some other country. Little by little Canada has been asserting the right 1 manage her own affairs, aud the ties that bind her to the mother country are gradually parting. The supreme court of Canada has much of the Jurisdiotion that forwerly belonged to the British privy council. The right fo negzotinte her own commercial treaties has been all but granted to the colony, and about all that now remains to suggest the idea of a dependency is the ape pointment of a governor gweneral to act ns & figurenead in the colonial government, and read at theopening of Parliament the spoech that has been written for him by the prime minister, But in considering this question of annexa- tion Americans naturally ask whether the advantages of such a union would not be alt on one side. Without going deeply into the subject it may be sald that trado is nover one-sided, and that if annexation opened uj a better market for Canadian products i’l would be because Americans wanted to buy those produc! Moreover, it would give Americans an extended market for their manufactures and southern fruits. Then, too Canada has great mineral resources to which American capital would gladly obtain access, and which, if developed, would benefit the whole continent. Nature has supplied her with all the cconomice minerals cxcept tin, bu the artificial barriers to trade which exist bes« tween the two countries deprive Canada of the greater t of the benefit which she would otherwise deriue from them. Polities ally it would add to the groatness of the United States, and give to the inhabitants of the continent an almost absolute security for peace. Thelarge accession to the votin population of the American n-ummnnwcl\ltg would cause no serfous disturbance as the peonlelof Canada are perfectly familiar with democratic institutions, and for years have been discussing and voting upon ‘practically the same questions as the people of the United States Annexation would mean imply the reunion of the two sections of Iinglish-speaking people of America, that, but for the historical accident of our havis chosen to remain a colony when the other declared its independence. would never have been separated. A. Huam HirpLe. B AT A CATASTROPHE. Somerville Jowrnal She sweeps the bow across the strings With deft and facile grace, Beneath hor chin the violin Rests in anest of lace. Her dr yos, with wondrous depths, Lishpe hide, A ppt oxpression IRt hier faco Till It seewms glorified. Her rounded arn; Her slender, graceful form, Her soft brown hair, surpassing fair, Her lips with color war Make her a picture as she Lost in the dreamy thing - Of Liszt's she's playing—Hi! what's that? By George! she snapped a string! e it CONNUBIALITIES, Oregon papers report the marriage of Mis 3 Penney to William Nickel, He nted change. The wedding of Miss Marie Daisy Huclk, daughter of Mr. Louis Huck, to Marquis Spinola will take place Junc 8 at the bride's home in Chicago. Mrs, Newlywed half-hared to view, ands, And do you always trust your husband implicitly? Mrs. Experience nthusiastically) —Indeed Ido! "That is to v, 01 course, to a certain extent, The vital statistics published by the state board of health in Kunsas show that there were 13,653 children born in that s year and that there were 10,143 marr An Ohio couple, parents of fourtcen chil- dren, are in the divoree courts after u mars ried life of thirty-nine ye Isu't thy statute of limitations applicable in ths case Mrs. Brooks—There isn't a gnm\Nphow- graph of my husband in the hou one of them have a appy expression. Mrs, Rivers—Didn't “he cver have any taken before he was married? Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine has become ene gaged to _be married to her physician, Dp, William I, Bull, who attended her recentl! when illat New York. The wedding wlfi take place in the carly part of June. Mrs. Pardee of Warren, Pa., is certainly entitled to a divoree. She declarés that she has had but one bonnet in thirty-four years, has never been permitted to go a-shoppi % or to attend church, or even to be present af her father’'s funeral, Husband—Do you know that every time a woman gets angry she adds a new wrinkle to her face? W No, T dia not; but if it is s0 I presume it is a wise provision of nae ture to let the world know what sort of a husband the woman has Stopford Brooke, the Boston clergyman, and Miss Helen Illis, also of that city, are to be married June 5 at Mr. Brooke's own chareh on Berkley street. Immediately after the wedding they will sail for Europe* where they ave to pass the summer monthg of the surprises of the present matri monial season in Washington is the recent anuouncement of the engagement of Miss Mary H. Eastman and Passcd Assistant En- gincer I M. Bennett, U. S. N Miss Easte man is the only daughter of the late Captain Robert L. Eastman, U. S. A, A thrifty and doubtless happy father of Junction City, fa., who cannot altogether be blamed for the which he h manis fested, has written to Atltorney neral Olney asking whether thegovernment allows a bounty on twins, andadding that he is the proud progenitor of three sets A citizen of Ohio has sent to the Postoffice department a protest against the continu- ance in his town of a young woman who has been postmistr and “done all her courte in the postoflice for seven years. The inwardness of the kick 18 that the ker wasone of the muils she handled without gloy A Dansville preacher says he attended the funeral of a husband once, and when he re- turned to the house of wolruing to console the wife, the first opportunity sne had she remarked: “Well, Brother ——, T'll give youa jobthat will pay vou betler before lon And, sure enough, she got married soon after. "Truly, a man doesn’t amount to much when his wife is a widow. The_engagement of Irederick F. Ayer of New York to Miss G Morgan of Aurora, N. Y., has recently been announced, Mis Morgan is beautiful and wealthy and lives most of the time i Paris with “her grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Case, who have a peautiful hotel on the Champs Elysces. Sha is now the guest of her future sister-in-law, Mrs, Frederick Pearson, the widow of Coms mander Pearson, U. S, Hot Whisky, Indinnapolis Journal: “Whisky in Kansas, an' all them prohybition states {s a corker,” said the man with the ginger beard. “So I've heerd,” assented the grocor, “I'll tell you, OnctIwas 4 soitin' in ole Doc Suwson's drug store out there, when & feller £'m up the crick come in un’ asted fer some of old Doc's best, Doc, he says: +How much **Oh, 'bout a gallon of that there dollar g00ds," the feller ‘an' if you don't mind, I'll take a drink of it right here. *Doc, he at he dido’'t mind, and the feller poure lug of the stuff, and what do ) That th booze was u think? 80 flery that the heat of it comin’ through his neck set his Sally Liloyd collar on fire, an’ nigh most burned his head off 'fore he could put out the blaze e The British householder soems to be & queer bird. The London Electrical Review remarks that the fe lighting companies which have undertaken to exploit the residential districts have been far less suc- cessful than was anticipated. The house- holder had his house wired and the lights installed, and then it appeared that the height of his ambition was to keep his elec- tric light bills as small or smaller than his gas bills. Consequently he has stayed at home every evening and devoted his time to following servants around to muke sure that all the lights were turned off as soon a8 they were no longer needed. This was by no means satisfactory from the point of view of the central station man's load curve, and 80 the companies, it seems, are holding on and waiting with as much patience as may be for the householder to get tired, s0 as to rmit the load curve to rise, A Mau of Addre: Mamie Wilkiss—Don't you think Mr, Whirlsfare is a man of tho most charming wanners and aadress ! Young Vanderloin—I don't know about his manners, but he gave me bis address and ivs 100 absurd for anything, hivk of du “Chicago, The Eartu.”