Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1894, Page 17

% { PRI STABLISHED JUNE 19, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, CHINA'S GREAT CANAL| Eoenes Along the Great Artery of Mongolian Traffio. TRIBUTE RICE AND THE IMPERIAL BARNS A Look at Chinkiang and Other Big Chincse Cities, HOW THE CELESTIALS TREAT PIRATES How the 8lop Coolies of Nanking Brought a Maxdarin to Time, AN ANCIENT RELIGION GONE TO SEED Characteristic Scenes in the Narrow, Crooked Btreets™of Chilnese Citles—How Countless Acre Enrins Are Thled and Irrigated —Carp's Exclusive Letter. (Copyrighted 1804 by Frank G, ¢ CHINKIANG, May, 1594.—(Special Cor- respondence of The Bee)—I write this let ter at Chinkiang, a walled city on the binks of the Yangtse river. It is about 150 miles from the seacoast, and Is at the point where the Grand canal crosses the Yangtse, This canal Is one of the great wonders of the world. It is now in bad repair and a_large part of it fs going to rufn. But it has been one of the greatest waterways of the world, and it extends from Peking south to Hangchow, some 200 odd miles below this point, ruaning through the great plain from north to mid- dle China, a distance about as great as that between New York and Chicigo. It cuts its way through a territory containing 170,000,000 people, or nearly three times as many' as the whole United States, and it taps some of the biggest citios of the world. . (Peking, where it finishes its course at the palace, not far from the American legation, is a city of more than 1,000,000 people. Tientsin, below this about efghty miles, is stiil larger, and as it ruis further south the camal is dotted with walled cities and great towns all along its course to the Yangtse river. Chinkiang 18 about as big as Minneapolis. Yang- chow, the next big city on the canal south of here, contains, I am told, 500,000 people, and Suchau and Hangchow, each have say there Is a wall city conta’ning many something Ilike 750,000 souls. At cvery thirty miles along its course It is safe to say there 1s a walled city, contalning many times 10,000 people, and the country back wof it is & garden dotted with clumps of trees, each clump shading a Chinese vil- lage. The canal at Chinkiang cuts right around the city, forming the island upon which the main’ part of it is located. It runs from here northward for 850 miles without a_lock, but above this, I am told, there are numerous slulces and locks, and in some places the water s carried through the country on great stone embankments twenty and more feet high, and the stream at some of these places is fully 209 feet wide. It has stone ‘flood gates managed by sol- diers, and it is here and there fed by creeks and rivers. At one point a river was conducted into it in times past, and the Chinese say that 300,000 men were em- ployed for seven months in turning the water of this single stream. It cuis the Yellow river, and it is below this that the stone embankments above spoken of are located. The parts which I have seen are those which run near here, through the Yangtse valley, and those about Tientsin and Peking. Here the canal Is more like a great ditch than anything else, and there is now a little army of men employed in keeping it in repair. It was In existence more than 1,000 years ago, and Kublai Kahn lald out the line upon which it now runs. The chief use for the canal in times past has been -that of a trade artery from north to south. It taps by its connecting canals and rivers every part of the great plain, and it s used for the transportation of the tribute rice to Peking The government taxes of China are to a large extent collected in kind, and every year the farmers send about 133,000,000 pounds of rice from here to Peking for the emperor and hic officfals. At Nanking I saw actes of great barns which were filled with this rice awaiting shivment, and every town along the canal has its government barns. Just now the rice is being taken to the north. Of late much of it goes by sea, but a vast deal is still sent by the Grand canal, and at every town there ate hundreds of craft of every kind, and these government junks sometimes block the canal for days. Hun- dreds of men are employed in towing and pulling the boats, and at places they are dragged along by means of capstans. The canal winds about like a river in place and nayigation through it is so slow tha some of these rice boats have started in April during the past few years and have not arrived In Peking until September. Parts of the canal are closed to traffic ex- cept during the carrying of the tribute rice, and the condition of it today is such that it will hardly be used again as the great water- way which it has been in the past. Li Hung Chang has asked the emperor to allow him to build a railroad along it from Tientsin to Chinklang, and this will eventu- ally, be done. A RELIGION GONE TO SEED. The boats along the canal are much like those I have described as lylng at the months of the creeks of the Yangtse. In passing up it you are followed everywhere by crowds, who look with wonder on the forelgn devils, and every here and there you meet bdats containing begging Buddhist priests, who stick out long poles at you. These poles have bags fastened to their ends and into these the Chinese drop cash or rice. This part of China is full of priests, There s in the Yangtse river, just opposite where I am now writing,-an Island which 18 just covered with Buddhist temples, and which has no inhabitants but priest Massive granite terraces, decorated with stone llons, lead up from the water, and the temples shine out of green trees and flowery gardens. In Nanking I visited a temple which contained 10,000 images and golden statues of Buddha, and I have photo- graphed a dozen or so of the priests. In the Nanking temple 1 got a priest to kneel and put his hands in the attitude of prayer while I took a time exposure of his devo- tions, and I am inclined to think there is much hypocrisy about the profession. Th priests are fat fellows, in long gowns of gray or yellow linen, and they often have on three-cornered box-shaped hats of black They shave thelr heads and faces and are but little respected by the people. They are, 1 am to'd by the best of authoritics here, Ignorant, low and immoral. The most of them are oplum smokers, and they are the contempt and ridicule of the better classes of the Chinese. Buddhism in China 18, In fact, a religion gone to seed. It hal its run In'times past, and about a thousand 0dd years ago the greater proportion of the Chinese were Buddhists. It was then the ceuter of culture and learning, and now there are few so poor to do it reverence The Chinese are full of superstitions, but thelr religion s more a system of morals than one of theology, and they have ag many pure Infidels and agnostics as any people in the world, HUMAN ANT HILLS. Speaking of Chinese morality, I belleve there is as little crime here to the popula- rpenter.) as a rule, well behaved, and T am sur- ter and touch both walls with your two ts, and the crowd which moves through them is of all grad mandarine fn chairs, wh front of them bearing the titles of their There are coolies wheeling great theif backs and others which they have hung to the ends of poles. would include a fight on every block. there is nothing of the kind the gentleman The scholar If they are not the trades unions A striking instance of this recently things as sewers, all of the slops of each lected every day by men and the country to be s as llquid manure. of A fertilizing , and siops have their re bought and ctors of these slops are the most offensive charac They go about rried out into vats and after- Not a drop fixed price in the market and with two four-gallon buckets ened to the ends of a long bamboo pole, them a smell worse than they belong of the people. LABOR STRIKE. The other day one of these men was idly walking through Nanking when he demanded that unfon objected ar carriers struck people of Nanking had no way to get rid of their slops, and the danger of an epidemic uppose you should, for instance, for a week stop up the sewers of your city you could then appreciate some- thing of the state of Nauking at this time. Nanking, however, was far wors has no sewers at all. mandarin was so besieged free and remitted 1 find that the Chinese have a fair idea of They will fight against wrong, and of a democracy here in was imminent. The result was that his prisoner g there is as this respect is no place where debts are so punctually paid and credit is so easily gotten classes of people. are above par in China, and foreigners teil that they would business man in the world. He never goes back on his spoken or Mr. Ewen Cameron, one of the leading di- bank, an_establishment which does the big: gest banking business on the western Pa- cific and whose capital amounts to millions, on leaving China not long ago said that in the dealings of the bank with Chines chants for a years, and in some aggregating hundreds of he had never met with millions of dollars, a defaulting Chinaman. this statement was made the bank Chinese cashier. the statement In general, THIEVES BEHEADED. The penalties of the law are often very se- Chinese frequently punishment into their own hands. the Grand canal and the Yangtse you may see at the villages here and there boats cut in half and placed upon ends. these were, and was told that they were the who had been The criminals had had their heads cut off, and their boats were thus set up as a_warning to others. I asked what caught stealing. In Shanghat great boards four feet square and weighing as much as forty pounds each fastened about their necks so they could their hands were thieves. who goes about on the stumps of his legs, which have been cut off just below the knees. He was caught several times stealing, and this was the penalty of his crime. parts of the empire a man is punished with death at his third conviction of theft and pirates are always beheaded. are, however, well preserved, and I believe Law and order here as they are in America. ACRE FARMING. A large part of the farming of this region is done by irrigation, and the water rights of the Chinese are as full of complications of Colorado. no fences to mark the lines of their prop- they work away after generation. ful how well they work and how much they get off the land. no means uncommon, and if an; failure of crop is secn the seed for another Is straightway sown. Three crops a y sands of heldings in China which than aw acre, and some are even as small is estimated that an acre of land will in the better parts of the empire support a family of six, and a on~ Chinese The use of fertilizers is universal, and, though there are practically no horses tle, there is no land which is so e but gather up bits matter and sell rofuse of a rich famlily will bring more than that of a poor one, and the slops of the for- elgn part of Shanghal are farmed out an- nually for a sum which gives the eity the most of its educational fund. ings, the parings of finger nails, the shavings of the head, form parts of the fertilizing material, and this Is usually put together in do nothing els Potato peel- The manure is kept in great vats, and the farm s watered like a garden. plat gets its daily food and drin ot water, and the mixture is poured in at the roots of the plants. All throughout this fertilization a year Is sometime and from $20 to upon an acre of land. The tools used are crude In the extrame. I see men working in the flelds near here long-handlcd chtork, and each tooth Bk also use grubbing hoes or mattocks, and they have a sort of spade with a cross plece of wood two inches They push the spade down Into the ground by pressing the bare foot against this cross bar instead of on the iron itself, as we do. Their plows scratch the earth and are not The buffalos mud and straw houses are made, and do all sorts of at work they are minded by the little chil- their backs and who have a wonderful control over them. the buffalo, who bends its head for them. its head and the boy will slide down its.neck until he has a firm seat just behind (s shoulders. he will stay all daye-ahd I have seen little tellows of 6 and 6 years sound asleep upon the backs of these animals, dangerous and ugly in thelr actions toward A good buffalo tion as there is anywhere, 1 find the peos | $20, and farmers uften enter a sort of farm- who are often ers’ loan assoclation for the use of a com- mon fund of money from year to year by which they stock their farms. DRINK HUMAN MILK. I have seen some cows, but their milk 18 not used as food. The Chinaman does not think milk fit to drink, and he only uses it as medicine. When he does that he prefers the human variety and gets a wet nurse. This fs by no means an uncommon thing, and the er dowager, when she was sick not long ago, put herself upon a diet of this kind. I venture the old lady did the milking herself. The mutton of this part of China is very fine and its flavor is sald to be much Improved by feeding the sheep on mulberry leaves. The hogs are of the lubberiy black Chinese varfety, the dirtiest and fiithiest animals of their kind. They are always minded by a girl or boy when in the fields, and I saw today a little girl of 10 whose feet were bandaged so that she seemed to be walking on red hot irons as she tottered about whipping the hogs. The pigs often sleep in the houses, and you find them grunting around in the busfest of Chinese cities. There are lots of chickens, ducks and geese everywhere, and the sclen: tific raising of poultry by the Chinese would make a letter in itself. They are sold by the pound by peddlers, who carry them in great baskets of bamboo open work, and are shipped by the boat load from the country to the citfes. Eggs are used by all classes, and the favorite egg is from 20 to 30 years old. It is cooked before it is put away, and when brought forth it is as black as your hat, and it tastes like chalk. Ducks are pressed and dried, and the cooked ones I see in the markets are oiled so that their picked skins shine as if covere with var- nish. They are not at all bad to eat, how- ever, and those which I have had in the native restaurants are fully as good as any you get in America. q‘\'rwlfi l\. C,«\A{Mn: —_— B st CONNUBIALITIES, Cupld is always represented as a baby, be- cause love never lives to grow up. He—They are not on speaking terms, -you know. She—Why, they are dead in love with each other. He—For that reason they don’t speak; they just sit and gaze at each other. Mlle. Lasserle, daughter of the historian of the Grotto of Lourdes, Is to be married at that place to M. d’Arrast, son of the ex- plorer of that name, and whose mother is a grandniece of Washington. The emperor of Annam, Bun Law, is a youth of 14, with a precocieus tendency to get married and a faculty for getting into awkward escapades in consequence. He is likely to have an annam mated time of it. One of the prettiest weddings last week was that of Mis. Mary Josephine Thomson, daughter of Chief Engineer Jares W. Thom- son of the United States navy, and a member of the trial board appointed for the United States cruiser New York, to William Hamlyn Duval of New York City, which took place on Tuesday evening in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, Camden, N. J. A wedding will soon be celebrated at which the groom will be in Pottsville, Pa., and the bride on the other side of the At- lantic ocean, more than 3,000 miles away. Louis Thompson of that place is the hero of this marriage by proxy, and Margerita San- tos of Gibraitar is the heroine. The young people have been lovers for a long time, but the young man is unable to cross the ocean and ‘wed his sweetheart. Geneva, a little town in southern Alabama, close to the Florida line, is agitated over a social sensation. Edward Cowart, a promi- nent young man, and Miss Lizzie Linwood, a popular belle, were to have wedded. All arrangements were made, the preacher and the guests had all arrived and the wedding supper was spread, but the bridegroom wa missing. A delegation was sent after him, but he declined to come, saying he had changed his mind. The bridal party was notified accordingly. The assembled men provided themselves with masks and again called upon the bridegroom, carried him into the woods, buckled him across a:log, and lashed -him unmercifully, the blood being made to flow from the back. St He Had o w Sel ne. A man came down Franklin street last evening carrying a satchel, says the Buf- falo Express. A young fellow who stood on the corner of Niagara street stepped for- ward and said: ‘Say, boss, have you got old clothes to' sell?” No,” replied the man. “Want your satchel carried?” No. I'll_shine your shoes for & cents.” “Don’t want a shine.” “Want to buy a paper?” The young man looked with well simu- lated surprise at the man carrying the satchel and said: “Well, I can clean car- pets or pack furniture.'” aven't goi any carpets to clean or furni- ture to pack “Want your lawy mowed?"" ow, st here sald the man who was carrying the satcl turning fiercely cn the young man who had stood on the corner, Hwhat in bla you following me along like this for? Quit it or ['ll c:ll a police- man." “Well,” replied the young man, “I was only trying to impress on you the fact that I am_ willing to work before I asked you for a few cents to get a night's 1Wdging.” He got a quarte e SEEIN' THING leld In Chicago Record. or toads, or bugs, Eugene I aint afeard uy snake: or worms, or mic An' things 'at girls are 'skeered uv I think are awful nice! I'm pretty brave, I to go to bed, For, when I'm tucked up warm an' snug an when my prayers are said, Mothers tells me “‘Happy Dreams,” an' takes away the light. An' leaves me lyin' all alone an' seein’ things at night! an’ yet 1 hate Sometimes they in the corner, some- times they're by the door, Sometimes “they're all a-standin’ In the middle uv the floor; Sometimes thev are a-sittin' down, some- times they're walking 'round So softly and so creeplike they never make a sound! Sometimes they are as black as ink, an' other times they're white, But the color ain’t no difference when you see things at night! Once when T licked a feller 'at had just moved on our street, An' father sent me up to bed without a bite to eat, I woke up in 'the dark an' saw things standin’ in a row, A-lookin' at me cross-eyed an’ p'intin’ at me—so! Oh, my! I wuz so skeered that time I never slep’ a mite It's almost alluz when I'm bad that T see things at night! Lucky thing [ ain't a girl or I'd be skeered to, death! Beln' I'm a boy, T duck my head an’ hold my breath An' I am, oh! so sorry I'm a naughty boy, an' then I promise to be better an' I say my prigyers again! Gran'ma tells me that's the only way to make it right When a feller has been wicked an' sees things at night! An' so, when other naughty. boys would coax me Into sin, I try to skwush the Tempter's volce ‘at urges me within; An' when they's ple’ for supper or cakes ‘at’s big an' nice I want to—but I do not pass my plate £'r them things twice! No, ruther let starvation wipe me slowly out o' sight Than I should keep a livin' on an' seein’ things at night e Dr. J. A. Gilbert of the Yale psychologi- cal laboratory has just completed some tests regarding the mental and physical develop- ments of the puplls of the New Haven pub- lic schools showing thac boys are more sen- sitive to welght discrimination, that girls can tell the difference in color shades bet- ter than boys and that boys think quicker than the other sex, CO-OPERATIVE HOME BUILDING | —a Effect of Restriotive Laws in New York, New Jersey and Kentucky, SOME HARD RAPS FOR THE NATIONALS Growth of Mutual Assoolations In Ohlo, Missourl and Califorsin—The Chinese System Explained—Assocla- tion Notes. The national system of bullding and loan associations is meeting with hard knocks on all sides. New York, New Jersey and Ken- tucky are among the latest states taking de- cisive action to curb thelr methods and re- duce them to a legittmate business basis. The last legislature of New York passed a bill, which the governor recently approved, codifying and claritylng previous laws regt- lating bullding and loan assoclations. It was drafted by the state league of local as- sociations, and its passage by the legislature as well as the executive endorsement is a great compliment to the authors. The new law provides for adequate inspection and regulation by the state banking department. 1t does not prohibit the operation of national associations incorporated In the state prior to its passage, but practically prohibits the organization of new mssociations on the boundiess ‘benevolent” plan, The effect of the law will be to eliminate the speculative element and confine the business to purely co-operative assoclations, The legislature of New Jersey did not enact a new law, but & committee which in- vestigated all assoclations incorporated in the state made a report which lays the foundation for adequate laws in the near future. Jersey is a nursery for all manner of corporations and trusts driven out of adjacent states by restrictive legislation, There they enjoy unlimited freedom and prosper amazingly for a time. Business adventurers of every grade flock to the favored region, and, like mushrooms in @ night, develop into corporations with allur- ing titles and unlimited capital on paper. Speculative associatitms are conspicuous among the number of get-rich-quick con- cerns, There are three grades of building and loan associations in the state—natfonal, state and local. The first class mspire to fence in the country, the second confine themselves to New Jersey, and the third limit business to the cities in which they are organized. Reviewing the operations of the assoeiations in the state, the legislative committee assert that the national and*state classes discrimi- nate unjustly against and extort unusually high premiums from the borrowers, and that they appropriate money by invesfors who pay their shares for 4 nymber of months and then are unable’ to' continue payment, thereby losing the ayiunt -already paid. Another objection is thut there is no count- ing of expenses, which it is thought are larger than they ought to be. The com- mittee recommends that' legislation be had putting all associatioris on a uniform basis, the same as eavings and state banks, and they should be under the supervision of the banking and instirance departments, KENTUCKY = GATES CLOSED. The attorney generdl’ and secretary of state of Kentucky are énforcing the law re- cently passed taxing foreign building and loan associations doing business in the state A test case has been appealed to the su- preme court, meanwhile the following asso ciations which decline to pay the tax of 2 per cent have been prohibited from doing business in the state: The Equitable Loan and Investment associition of Bloomington, 1lL; the Lower Market and Equitable Loan and Building and the Fifth Ward building and loan_associations of Cincinnatl, and the Indiana Mutual Bullding and Loan associa- tion of Indfanapolis.. The secretary of state has given public notice that any one who solicits or transacts any business for them will be liable to a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $100 for each offense. The building and loan inspection law enacted in_Illinois a year ago is being vig- orously enforced and has resulted in much good. Several badly = managed concerns have been wound up:iu Chicago. Most of these, according to the /Tribune, were of the “national” order. The -“locals,” with a much less expensive piahner of conducting their business, havebeen more fortunate, Indeed, there is hardly any comparison be- tween the expense accounts of the two methods, It is for that reason that the “locals” predict that when the examinations shall have been completed the ‘“‘mational” organizations will be much fewer in number than they are now. Facts like these show the wisdom of the action of the Nebraska banking department in excluding foreign assoclations from doing business in the state, OHIO STATISTICS. The bureau of building and loan associa- tions of Ohio has issued a summary of the report for 1893 now in the hands of the printers. The report shows 741 assoclations doing business in the state, an increase of twenty-seven over last year. Their total assets amounted to $79,538,300, as compared with $74076,434 for the previous year. These assets inclfided $68,469,433 loans on mortgage security, $4,712,048 loans on stock, $056,131 real estate. Running stock and dividends amounted to $19,776,919, as compared with - $47,081,004 for the previous year. Paid up stock and dividends thereon amounted 1o $15,046,012, against $13,500,464 for the previous year. = Receipts for’ the year amounted to $65,250,230, against $63,919,021 for the previous year. On run- ning stock dues were paid amounting to $21,260,680, and on paid up stock $5,043,627. Loans repaid aggregated $13,711,443; interest on loans, $4,140,632; premiums on loans, $961,229. New loans made during the year on mortgage security, $19,793,609, and on stock security, $3,102,500. Withdrawals of running stock amounted to $16,798,706, against $15,011,254 fof ‘the previous year; $3,237,607 of paid up stock was withdrawn, against $2,506,667 fop the previous year; withdrawal of ‘deposits, footed up $11,018,645, against $16,864,115. Dividends were paid to the amount of $2,241,817 as compared with $1,865,792 for the previows year. The num- Der ot -shares of atodk| [ force at the ber ginning of the year was 904,772, The num- ber issued during thefyedr was 307,430. The number withdrawn :iu £60,616. The pres- ent number of runmjng \shares is 1,011,656, being an increase of 46,514 over the previous year. In addition to: these there were 84,981 shares of paid up stock at the begin- ning of the year, to which has to be added 51 issued during the year, less 21,730 canceled, making the mumber of pald up shares now In force 114,002, an increase of ,021 shares during the year. The number of shares of stock of ‘all kinds now in force Is 1,122,688, an increase of 72,935, The number of shares loaned on at the beginning of the year was 276,000.. The total amount of earnings was $5,676,969, against $4,865 521 for the previous year, The dividends distributed to running stock amounted to 86,063, and to pald up stock $990,080, Depositing members number. 183,983, and bor- rowing members 08,993, The total member- ship is 886, MI'SOURI LOOKING UP. According to the reports of the labor comy missioner of Missourl the condition of build- ing and loan associations Is very encourag- ing. He says the tables of llabilities and agscts foot up §35,519,883.24, while the state binks report assets and liabilities of $115,- 196,502.08. The assoclations have outstand- ing loans of §$29,326,679.74, while the loans of the banks amount to $99,998301.48. The authorized capital stock of the assoclations is $179,410,000. That of the banks is $21,- 010,8 The capital stock of the associa- tions In force is $97,822,792.45. That of th benks paid In is §21.010,645.06. The receipts and disbursements of the assoctations for the year aggregated $12,247,275.08. The receipts $170.96 for each member in the assoclation, JUNE 10, 189~ TWENTY PAGES. ey o “WIERE ROLLS THE OREGON” yOu must say foot, and two footses is feet. total number of shares of pald-up stock is 10,010, number of all shares Is 433, ber of free shareholders is 55 borrowers 16,7 dead letter, been given to your father to post Meanderings of the Mighty Stream Which Drains the Northwest, The totul membership is CO-OPBRATION IN CHI Teacher—What is a skeloton? Can you Trank Carpente without any meat on him SCENIC WONDERS of mutual financ one of his letters to The Bee. transplanted the Chinese. IMPLELIES, The system of America— Glimpses of the Surrounding Country The Congregationalist Storrs retired from the pulpit the other day assocjation, sary of its organization his robe, Dr, a large armc the dominant idea of these assoclations, lled his attention to in the corner of the pas- A Chinaman who needs a little twentg-four of forms them himself elected tre: Each member eontributes $20 and the entire sum s turned over to the treasurer for his ery fourth Sunday his acquaintance roelation and tive and beautiful resorts of Amer- As he did o, filling it to its utmost ity and throwing his have tired of going abroad will satisfy thelr nair fn which Rich for a change of sconery and sur- “That s the Quick as a\flash, Saint's Rest dues are put up at auction. meeting the successful bid is, member, excey ful bidder and the treasurer, shall con- At the second spots of our own dear Lo idea of the saint's eternal rest from sitting in that chair.” Washington from the regular dues of ing these $500 of outstanding bills d drained by called the Oregon, money collected at any one meeting. It will be seen from this that the treasurer twenty-four which he repay Columbla river, formorly The southern tributaries of this gre of the head- waters of the Rio Colorado, one branch, the meandering Idaho, where it dashes down an abyss 220 the rate of $30 {330 8 | "' Deacon—For flowers, decorations, The successtul bidder at the second meeting ve the use of twenty three times $24, from the treasurer, making Thereafter his dues will be eting and at the end of the belng at last frec from a_total of $582, $30 at every m Farther on this branch is joined by the Owyhee, source of the Hum= source of the Rio in California that does not believe in wearing the ‘Columbia heads near Returning to the lite, he will have repaid § other word: interest of nearly 15 per cent on the money den—There ought to be no trouble in getting converts. Hew would you do it? northwesterly, by a thousand creeks and rivulets from tho leaves the United I territory, and then for instance, putting the successful bid again at $6, there will be collected §30 from each of twelve members, or §360, and $24 from twelve mem- bers, or $285, a total of $648, must himself contribute had recelved his wife's millinery bill. States and enters Brit swings back tributary of this great stream heads as far north as latitude 63, where the waters seem will run to- the Arctie sked to a crisp and the po- have left undone the Thenceforth balancing up comes he will find that he has altogether about that he drew out. done, and there is no health fn them.” through the Colu northern tri name of the origin n, Is also joined by another large tribu- tary known as the Koote Re-entering the the same sum the Pacific ocean. member who waits until “Is your rector high church?” st meeting prize remains. will_have contributed about $582 to relieve the needs of his assoclates and they in turn will hand over to him § every member will be on the §30 list. All is well for the treasurer {f the members are faithful to their obligations. any prove delinquent the treasurer must, by the articles of assoc’ation, advance the nece:- sary funds himself and take such steps as he can to collect them on his uwn account from the delinquent members. This Is the way the articles of assoclation “The origin of the beneficial asso- Duke Pang, the object be'ng to give aid to those who are in fir cial stralts, and to enable others to put their Now we are indebtel to the kindness of our friends for the organiza- tion of this assocation with the view of put- ting this principle into practice. “It is of the utm the affairs of the a suppose he calls He calls it a piycho- ““Higher than that. logical eccentricity. States near the northeast corner of Washington, the Colum- runs southerly for then westerly abcut the same distance, and then southerly and around the famous re- glon known as the Big Bend, and finally joins tho Snake river nearly 400 miles by 1 meanderings from the British line, Below its junction with the Snake is found has burst its mountains about Here this mighty away the rocks 0, for by that time Rev. Dr. Doxology—My dear Mr. Ruggles nearly 100 miles, sadly in need of a little change. Ruggles—Yes, 1 agree with you, but we do not need change in the plate A change in the pulpit. i e D as badly as we nee clation 18 trdced One out of every 500 of the population of miles further Italy is an evangeli were about Northwest India conference in 189 There are eighty missions of va in operation in the slum districts of Phila- al Christian, miles further on magnificent Willamette river rises ta in California, enters which by this time has of a Missis<ippi. ributary to this great water course in both Oregon Tmd Washington are some of the pots nature has given to money at interest, slght of Mount Sha the Columbla rive t importanca to manage clation carefully from beginning to end, so that not only one pel son_ but ‘all members will therefrom; for the kindness of all who come to one another's aid ought not to be Alexander Hamilton mostattractive s deacon of Worcester. efght Protestant the Congo region. over an area of 1,500,000 square miles, con- talning a population of 50,000,000. In 1895 Japan I8 to have a parliament of religions” in" Kf6to™In connection with of the establishment of Following the line of the Great Northern the city of Seattle or Spokane, in the state of Washington, to its crossing of the Columbia river, we find the village of, Wenatclpe. trales.ons railway, elther from ASSOCIATION NOTES. el The State League of Local Assoclations of Missouri has approved o draft of a bill for to the next changes adopted are to the effect that by- Jaws must be presented to the state super- visor, who will submit them to the attorney general; that all bonds shall be filel with the superintendent of the insurance departmont ignated; providing for state inspection; providing that the expenses shall not be more than 5 per cent of the earnings, and making so’that any one may understand them; giv- ing the state inspector the authority to insti« tute legal proceedings for the dissolution of any association found to be losing money. The annual statement of the Schuyler, Neb. capitulation of six years’ business and shows among other items total loans amounting to $88,95 $17,950; cash in treasury, $12,501. A decision has been rendered by the su- preme court of New York holding that where the articles of association provide that after notice of withdrawal of shares the amount thereof shall be repald to such member as soon as the necessary funds are in the treas- ury, the association cannot lend any of its funds while the withdrawal notices are on file, and the right of the withdrawing mem- ber to receive payment is not affected by a resolution of the board of directors that only half of the rece'pts of the assoc'ation sha'l by applied for payment of withdrawals and that the other half should be loaned to members. The articles of association control tract between the members and the tion and the directors have change or limit such obligations. Here large steamers h the Great Northern raflway Columbia to 'a Deautiful lake known as Lake Chelan. Land- ing at a polnt two miles from the lake, the tourist goes by stage to the town of Cheldn, Which is situated on a level plateau overs The Chelan valley 100ch anniversar: Lrne A at city as the GApTtal of the Miss Fanny Edw ot Loulsville, K: 1,000 souls In Ohio and Indiana. years of age and lets her long hair hang down over her shoulders. The late Dr. Bigandet, late Roman Catholic bishop of Ramathar, in Southern had a keen appreciation of what is be in Buddhism, pressed that opinion in his writings. It has been deé¢ided that the deaconesses Methodist chureh the girl evangelist is reported to have saved or department de: gently sloping sides and with a dense growth of bunch grass, ex- cept where the farmer and orchardist has changed it to a productive fleld. The tops of the ridges or mountains are covered with giving a pleasing con- trast with the open country below and the lake in the foreground. hounteously bestowed The valley and terraces of the assoclation is a re wear black loans paid off, white cuffs, their hair if they desire to do so. The Southern Presbyterian general assem- bly at Nashville, Tenn., reversed the action of the Charleston presbytery In the case of Miss Sadie Means, an employe of the Charles- ton Telephone exchange, who was expelled *trom church for working on Sunday. George Willlams, the founder of the Young association, knighted the other day by Queen Victori is still hale and hearty, and takes an absorb: everything relating to welfare and progress of the association. At a gathering of Presbyterians collars and They may “friz” to the culture of fruit. prunes, apricots, apples and all small fruits are profitably grown. the spring and early part of summer the valley and mountains are covered with a profusion of exquisitely variegated and timid wild flowers. Upon a thousand hills are feeding kine, the lake prolific ordehards yleld Their fruits, and golden grain from many a Is gathered, and the products of the vine, _Steamers of the Lake Chelan Railroad and Navigation company ply upon the lake its Northern railway steamers at the foot of the trains for the mines at its head. Ascending the lake the mountains finally they "raiso shore for hundreds of feet, and then sweep back and up until the eye is bewildered in viewing the craggy peaks, the long stretches of ever green forests, the immense glaciers in the in the summer sun, and the streams of water hing and foaming down the precipitous se plcturesque mountains, ay be seen gray peaks standing like great sentinels overlooking the beautiful lake, along whose shores these scenes are mirrored as perfectly as the original, ad of this lovely lake we find its principal inlet, the Stehekin river, rising within a stone's ‘throw of the branches .of flows Into Puget r the source of this river, and made an addres: to be a Bood Presbyterian because he had through a sermon an half long in the old parish church of Leith. recelved from missionary vessel Robert W. Logan for more than eight months, and so it is supposed that d to the fury of one of the ty- Pacific ocean while on her voyage from Yokohama to the island hour and a more abrupt, r from the League of Building and Loan Associations in week have strength of this movement for homes. present from she succumb the Southern ance, sparkling was_formed Lt & buiiding and I there are 150, 0 clubs in California. with assets of $20,000,000. San Francisco these societies have built up the suburbs, and have done more than any other single gambling manfa due to speculation in min- ing stocks and waste of money in thieving The American Sunday School union has re- during the past year $120,158, as against §$109 nized 1,785 new Sunday schools, teachers and scholars, reorganized 439 schools and aided 8,363, The memorial tower which is being erected by the Russians Mount of O.ives at Jerusalem i cral stories high, and but one more Is to be 3 15 to be 80 high that buth the Mediterrancan and the Dead seas can be seen from the top. Sophronius, vears of ag bishop for fifty-five year senior bishop of Christendom. come Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis, who was consecrated Pope Leo XIIL, who was consecrated fifty- In New Jerscy appeals has in the law to make fines levied upon stock- of building directors for dues liens upon either the stock or property mortgaged upon on the highi t point of the already sev- the richest mines in the world. The mountains’are alive with game, such most extenstve that they shall be such in the constitution of each asscciation, A PRATTLE OF THE YOUX streams are tesming The winters are mild, the mer= and the sum- of Alexandria, and who has been a is said to be the cury rarely reaching mers are not hot. A celebrated manufacturer from Philadels visiting Lake visited Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia. I famous resorts , but have never secn a place more grand and beautiful than its surroundings." our own land, which have bes cause of a lack many of our ow: Joy thelr vacation. Great Northern railway, I coming famous, this Geneva of Kate's clalms to beauty are ham- pered by a pair of remarkably large ears, which stick straight out from her head, and scem to get larger all the time, despite the tender offices of a fond mother and other ad- miring feminine satellites of the small dam- Kate has heard these large ears men tioned frequently, but does not seem at disturbed by their size and general aggi Oue afternoon the little maid ap- The Methodist churches of Canada united since their union Lake. Ghelsntand These beauty spots in 0 ikolated be- transportation have ciused people to go abroad to ens With the advent of the the results ship of the various Methodist denominations was 160,000, while the returns for the united church for this year show a membership of 0,000, being an increase of 90,000, Springfleld, Mass., a younger broth appointed archd white gowns. “Come here this instant and is simply grand, sublime and beautiful raptured admirer, little summer Massachusetts, comparatively The clergy who hold In charge of the slonary work of the district for which they are appointed. trustworthy figures Church of England adhere Monmouthshire 117 archdeacon opal church, are generally clously and bestowed the desired s Okanogan river, within about two an unwonted generosity, then she waved her small hands toward her head with bewitch- ing grace, and asked jocosely, “No wing: What's the matter with my ears?" freight and passengers can be landed, along the Columbla and Okanogan val bunch-grass covered, pecially adapted to the culture peaches, pears, apples, and By careful cuitivas obtained without frri= larger ylelds are had when the properly watered. or terraces loc ts in Wales r 6.6 per cent of the Nonconformis Presbyteria Salvationists, number 387, whole population of frult, such all the smaller varieties. “‘See those young ones!" exclaimed a little where some little girls were playing in the soft mud of the and several other bodie 218 per cent of the the whole number of communicants the lish church has 28.4 per c nonconforming bodies 7 Whipple, a Methodist minister who recently died in frontier preachers of ater altitude, ir= ssary, according a correcting tone, kindergarten and kecy their faces clean are children, but those dirty ones are just young Al R o i h ho ore belt extends across the northern many points Is very rich in gold and silver. Coal has been July?" said one small boy. It I don't buy anything I want, I'll have 25 cents.' “You can't have much fireworks for that.” buy enough clrcuit and faithtully filled his appoint- twenty-five miles from the Columbla, ally in these mines ard reason to warrant time many now Inaccessible will be reached by railroads and this mining reglon night to escape the prowling bands of Co- to get p 0 ok pay s and coura desperadoes who had banded together to dis- turb his camp meet interested." 80 near to the agri- ctable producing couns My sister likes you. ung Man (calling) like her too, very much. Small Boy—Yes, she sald she liked you be- cause you never came often and didn't stay S Quite an anfmated revival in labor circles wanderlngs o¢ from whore to shore; beem quite t of Columbia's | Where rolls the Oregon.' unions are growing rapidly ion label leagu in_membership. is one of the latest ad and President Gompers has been asked to appolut & label agitator for that towa. Small Boy (to mamma, tucking his sister in bed)—Tuck In my footses,