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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1896. orm No. 168, THE WESTERW UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. —————— INCORPORAT © 21,630 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE S This Compaoy TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on cond~ions limiting 128 liabillty, which have been —u‘;’r by Errars can | I trapsmission or after the message with the Company This s aa UNREPEATED MESSAG od against ouly by of Unreneated for transuission. E- and 1s delivered by’ RECEIVED a 8an Francisco, Cala. Ch. 30. Mp. My San Francisco Press . 36 Paid GOV'T, ERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. . repeating a me e back to the send| station for com; . and the 1 D0t itself liable for ervers or dalays S Crsaen beyo the amgunt of oL Bais heroos, ace Ln sy cass whars the el o Do et e e ey ‘requeat of the sender, under the conditions‘hamed above, THOS. T. EGKERT, President and General Manager. 8:22 a.m.standsra Time. Washington, D. C., Dec. 27, 1896. Club, San Francisco, Calif. The President will be very glad to avail himself of your kindness, to have a floral offering placed on the bier of Kate Field for him. Henry F. Thurber, Private Secretary. representatives of the Governor and of the National Guard and of the Federal Gov- | ernment, all in full uniform, joined the line of mourners. driven to Odd Fellows’ Cemetery and there in the littie chapel of the crematory the people once more gathered round the bier. There the Jast words of the service were spoken. A handful of earth was thrown among the flowers as the ‘‘dust to dust, earth to earth and ashes to ashes” was repeated, and before the cover was drawn over the bier the rector raised his hand | and pronounced the benediction. As he did so the sun came from behind a cloud and set the stained western wine dows aglow. The soft light touched the casket tenderly and lit up for a moment the violets and the nodding lilies and the faded, withered edelweiss. Then the cover was drawn, the wail of the organ died away and the people left the place. In the little square of sunlight on the bier was laid the bunch of wnite roses from the President, but the faded, withered edelweiss were allowed to stay on the casket and mingle with the ashes of the dead. e SERVICE AT THE CHURCH. An Impressive Cerec mony—Appro- priate Music Rendered by the Cholr. Long before the hour of 2 o’clock, set for the commencement of the service at the church, a large number of people pa- tiently awaited the opening of the doors, and immediately afterward the church was crowded. Of those present there was probably not one attracted by no deeper sentiment than mere curiosity. The ma- jority, it is safe to assert, were there as mourners, and the personnel of the spec- tators included many of the most promi- nent and highly respected citizens, both of San Francisco and of the State. The occasion was one which forcibly appealed to every class in the community capable of admiring genius and regretting its un- timely removal from a sphere of useful ac- tivity. The fact that the death of Miss Kate Field is regarded and deplored as a Na- tional loss was eloquently indicated by the presence of a floral offering from Presi- | dent Cleveland, who, through his private secretary, Henry F. Thurber, wired the San Franciseo Press Club in the following | terme: The President will be very glad to avail him- | self of your kindness to have a florat offering placed on the bier of Kate Field for him. These directions were complied with after the coffin bad been transferred to the crematory, a tasteful wreath of white roses being the silent tribute from the Union’s chief executive. .8imilar of- ferings from Governor Budd on pehalf of the State of (California, from Colonel Shafter on behalf of. _the officers and men at the Presidio, from Mayor Sutro and Mayor-elect Phelan, represent- ing the City of San Francisco, were also among the most conspicuous of the pub- lic tokens of sympathy. But these were buta few of the many exquisite floral embiems received from the | friends and admirers of the deceased. The chancel of the church, which still retained its Christmas garb of foliage, was a mass of glorious color early in the day, and ad- ditional bouquets and wreaths were re- ceived within a few minutes of the com- mencement of the service. Promptly at 2 o'clock the officiating minister, Rev. George E. Walk, entered the church at the head of the funeral cortege, which had assembled at the un- dertaker’s. As the coffin, escorted by twelve pallbearers, passed slowly up the aisle the solemn strains of Beethoven’s funeral march were heard from the organ, at which Dr. H. J. Stewart presided. The choir then sangan appropriate se- lection, after which the officiating minis- ter read the lesson from the First Epistle of Bt. Paul to the Corinthiuns, chapter xv, beginning with the twentieth verse. Mrs. Millie Flynn Wratten gave an ex- quisite rendering of Handels feeling aria, “Angels, Ever Bright and Fair,” the, pure soprano tones of the vocalist peing admirably adapted to the devotional nature of the solo; the rector and the congregation of mourners joined in prayer, the choir sang “Abide With Me,” and the first portion of the ceremony was con- cluded. Dr. Stewart played Chopin’s funeral march as the cortege re,formed and con- veyed the coffin to the hearse outside. The choir quartet was composed of the following: Mrs. Olive Reed, contralto; Mrs. Millie Flynn Wratten, soprano; H. M. Fortescue, tenor; Osgood Putnam, basso. The pallbearers were, with few excep- tions, members of the profession with which Miss Kate Field was so honorably connected during her lifetime. They were: C. M. Coe and W. C. Bunner, rep- resenting the Press Club; F. C. Roberts, the Posi; J. P. Booih, the Report; J. 8. Tyler, the Bulletin; Henry James, the Examiner; H. S Scott, the Chroricle, and W. F. Burke, THe CaLr, and W. H. Mills, James D. Phelan, Henry E. High- ton and A. W. Fos: AT THE CREMATORY. Impressive Rite Concluded. Miss Fleld’s Ashes to Be Preserved. The final and perhaps the most solemn and impressive portion of these obsequies took place in the crematory at the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery on Geary street. The conclusion of the beautiful and touching Episcopal Church ritual was read by the Rev. George E. Walk, after which the casket containing the mortal remains of the deceased was lowered to the incinera- tion chamber beneath the chapal and quickly reduced to ashes. The casket was in the first place raised in an elevator from the basement of the crematory to the chayel above, where it rested within a polished railing during the service. At the close it was noiselessly lowered with its melancholy burden to” the room beneath., There the casket was removed The The carriages were | | and the body consumed within the retort. The musical partof the service at the crematory was provided by the Odd Fel- lows’ Cemetery quartet, composed of J. L. | Marshall, Mrs, J. H. Sievers, Miss Eisie Smith and Miss Bertie Smith. Miss Elsie Smith acted also as organist. The President’s bunch of white roses was placed upon the bier almost at the last moment., The remainder of the floral emblems were symmetrically disposed behind and on eitber side of the bier. The mourners assembled in the chapel to the plaintive strains of Chopin’s Fun- eral March, and soon afterward the Rev. Mr. Walk began to read the latter portion | of the burial service. ‘“Dust to dust, earth to earth and ashes to ashes.” As the speaker nttered the last words of the ritual, G. R. Fletcher, the superinten- dent of the crematory, gave a siznal, the cover was drawn over the bier, hiding the cotlin from view. It was then lowered to the recption-room beneath. | With the exception of the attendants | four persons only actually witnessed the | incineration. They were Bishop New- | man, W. H. Mills, A, W. Foster and | James D. Phelan. At the moment when the body was placed in the retort the choirin the chapel above sang “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and the ceremony was over. It 1s understood that Mrs. H. E. High- ton will take possession of the urn con- taining the ashes of Miss Field and will convey them East at an eariy date. Mrs. Highton herself desires to thank the mem- bers of the S8an Francisco Press Club and the Women’s Press Association for their kindly sympathy and effective assistance, She feels that the newspaper profession as represented in California has done everything in its power to show that the death of Miss Kate Field is regretted by citizens of the State generally and by lit- | erary men and women in particular. e THE FLORAL OFFERINGS. | Magnificent Tributes From Friends and Admirers of the De- ceased. It would be almost an impossible task to describe the floral offerings in de- | tail, they were so numerous. Conspicuous among such, however, were two floral urns, one from the staff of the Chicago Times-Herald and the other from H. H. Kobisaat, proprietor of that | journal; a floral cross from Mr. and Mrs. | H. E. Highton; also tokens from the sev- eral San Francisco newspapers, and more | especially a superb cross of violets and lilies of the valley from Mrs. M. H. de Young. Mrs. Highton’s cross was no less than eight feet in height, composed of ivy rising from a base of calla Llies, a beauti- ful wreath of La France roses bein thrown over the center. On the car which accompanied the above appeared the words: “She being dead, yet speak- eth.” Mr. Kohlsaat’s floral urn was composed of smilax and violets, and that from the staff of the Times-Herald of white chrys- anthemums, roses, violets and maidenhair ferns. The inscriptions accompabpying these offering were respectively ‘‘Semper Fidelis” and ‘‘She represented the best elements of the press and of the country.” Governor Budad sent a beautiful wreath of valuable orchids, and from the £an Francisco Press Club were received two pieces—a bouquet of roses and a laurel wreath. Miss Lillian Whiting of Boston sent a bunch of roses and the significant message, “Pax Vobiscum,” which was cremated with Miss Field’s remains. Mrs. Highton, acting on behalf of Mr. Kohl- saat, the personal friend of the deceased and the executor of her will, has had charge of all the funera! arrangements. The winemen of California contributed | an orchid wreath, the cara accompanying it bearing the following verse, signed by C. Bundschu, and dated December 27: Thy spirit, strong in will and free of thought, Has championed our canse I fearlesy sirife! Eternal re-t supplants the battle so well fought, | " Ana graticude enshrines the memory of thy life! The casket itself was covered by a pall of California violets, a tasteful tribute of affection offered by Mrs. George Crocker. One of the most touching and beautiful offerings came from an unexpected source. A workingman, Albert Johnson by name, sent a bunch of edelweiss—a pretty flower found only at lofty altitudes—to Mrs, | Highton, with a letter of explanation, stating that he had himself procured these blossoms from an Alpine summit, and now contributed them as an emblem of liberty and purity, qualities which, he added, were so well represented in the person of Miss Field, of whom he had al- ways been an admirer. This heartfelt offering remained on the coffin to the last, close to that other tribute from the political head of the nation eloquent commentary upon the true s of democratic institutions. Mr. Johnson’s letter was as follows: 8AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27, 1896. Mrs. Henry E. Highton, Palace Hotel: As the {friend of her who is remembered in the love of friends, after deaih, will you please put these little edeiweiss flowers on her coffin to- day? They were nurtured in the everlasting wantle of snow high up in the Swiss Alps, an by the breath of liberty. A tribute from a workman on the dock who admired her writ- ing and character. Very respectfully, ALBERT JOHNSON. The Women’s Press Association was also alavish contributor to thedisplay of floral tributes, and individual friends of the de- ceased sent similar evidences of sympa- thy. The following is a Iist of those con- tributing in this manner: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Highton, floral cross; M. H. de Young, vioiet cross; San Francisco Daily Report, floral urn; Miss Liiian Whiting, basket of white roses; Mrs. Sol Smith, laurel wreath; Miss Kate Wilcox, laurel wreath; Mrs. F. Boyd, Iilies of the valley; Press Club, roses and laurel wreath; H. H. Kohlsaat, Chi- cago, floral urn; winemen of Californi; wreath; staff of Chicago Times-Herald, floral urn; Evening Post, wreath of violets; San Francisco Examiner, wreath; Guvernor Budd, orchid wreath; Miss Marion G. Bunner of Current Literature, violets; the National Press Club. Cremation Society, Women’s Press Association, Colonel Shafter, Mayor Sutro and Mayor-elect James D. Phelan. Eseiie S WHO WERE PRESENT. A Representative Gathering of Mourners Fills the Church. Though San Francisco was not the home of the late Kate Field the fact that genius recognizes no geographical bound- ary was strongly emphasized yesterday by the Jarge and representative gathering of mourners assembled to pay their last re- spects to the memory of one of America’s brizhtest specimens of womanhood. The chiet mourners at vesterdav’s obse- quies were Mrs. Houpt, & cousin of the de- ceased, and her son Frank Houpt; Miss Aia Van Pelt, Miss Ina Coolbrith and Mrs. Leman, representing the California Press Association; Mr. and Mrs. H. . Highton. The latter was a close personal friend of Miss Field, and has in fact had lv charge of the remains since their arrival from Honolulu. The State of California waa represented by the Governor’s staff, consisting of Brigadier-General Barrett, Colonel Peeler, Colonel Bergin, Colonel Andrews, Colonel Harrington and Colonel J. 8. Young—all of whom were in full uniform, Major - General James and staff and Brigadier-General Warfield and staff of the National Guard of California repre. sented that body, and appeared in fatigue uniform. I e G A GLOWING EULOGY. The Lesson of Kate Fleld’s Life Told by Mr. Highton. The great lesson of Kate Field’s life and death is- her intense patriotism, which now, above ail other periods, shouid com- mand universal respect. She was an American to the core—broad, tolerant, without fanaticism or bigotry of any kind— and devoted to human freedom on our constitutional basis. Like General Grant, ske had traveled widely and had met the most distinguished thinkers and states- men of Europe; but, like him, she re- turned to her own land even more deeply imbued than before with the spirit of our institutions, in their happy combination of individual sovereignty, State antonomy and National unity, The last aspirations of her soul, as expressed orally and in the solemnities of her will, were that ber ashes should mingle with her native svil and that her individuality should be respected by the flag. A writer of unusual power, she never unsexed herself, but, dealing with impor- tant questions for fully a quarter of a ce tury, she discussed them as an American woman, intellectual, cultivated, refined and, under every condition, true to Na- tional ideals. She was familiar with the best literature of the world and conveyed the loftiest thoughts and the purest senti- ments of the ages in language so clear and so telling that many of ner phrases have become part of that popular education of which she was so euthusiastic a cham- pion. Women of her type and character trained and armed the heroesof our revo- lutionary war. In the darkest years of the Republic such women consecrated their children to their American concep- tions of freedom and of independence; and though toward the closing years of a century patriotic education has dwindled in its extent and earnestness, that type of American woman is not extinct, but, in any National emergency that may arise, will be revived and reinvigorated by the example and by the life of Kate Field. To this State her services were at _once valuable and unique. - She spread the story of our achievements and of our re- sources all over the Union. With a prac- tical sagacity that shamed many of our citizens she anticipated and preuicted the migzhty future of the Pacific. She boldly repudiated all narrow or transcendental views, which thwarted our progress and injurea our local industries, ana she bore her testiznony to our capacity for indus- trial, moral and intelleciual development by pervading the most definite facts with the blénded power of phiiosophy and of patriotism, 1t is fitting, therefore, that the obsequies of this noble and gitted woman should have been marked by National recogni- tion and peculiarly appropriate that they should have been celebrated in the State of California, to which much of her best work during her later years was conse- crated. When the unanimity and fervor with which the last honors to her memory have been paid is correctly realized it will prove that not only here but through- out the Union, not only throughout the Union but throughout the world she, “being dead, yet speaketh.’’ HEesry E. HieaTON. CUBANS HOLD COUNCIL Local Leaders .Decide to Remain Passive Uatil Paima Speaks. New Recruits Are Criticized by Local Spanish Pap:rs and Loyal Leaders. A number of young men interested in the movement headed by Messrs. Jones and Mascherini for the liberation of Cuba met at beadquarters, 2006 Mason street, at 2 . M. yesterday, for the purpose of considering plans to hasten their move- ment. i Many of those assembled had an idea that arrangements would soon be periected to move against the Spaniards, but‘a little talk dispelled that idea. It was concluded to do absolutely nothing until word is re ceived from Estreda Palma, leader of the Junta in New York. “We wrote ten daysago,” Mr. Mascherin said, ‘‘and if we do not hear by Tuesday we shall telegraph to ascertain whether our message reached him.” The purpose of the leaders of the new movement is to discourage any great pub- licity or agitation of the movement until they receive definite instrnctions from Palma. Their efforts are now directed to nolding the enthusiasts in abeyance until word can be received concerning the definite service that might be rendered by American volunteers. A strange feature about the movement, even in its present uncrystallized state, is the willingiess men evince to surrender zhegr vocations and go forth to fight for uba. There was much rejoicing at head- quarters over late news that the Spanish Government is in financial distress, those present taking as much pride in the news :i. x‘.; they were actually insurgents in the eid. A feature that is making the new move- ment interesticg is the fact that the leaders have already been bitterly de- nounced by local Spanish newspapers and by those loval to their hume Government. If the friends of the Junta continue to grow in strength as they have done lately, and if, furthermore, they express them- selves on the streets, as they have lately doue, there iz likely to be'a bitter feud between them and the more hot-blooded Spaniards, who are already becoming restive under the criticisms of those am- bitious to join the rebel forces. ————————— A clergyman at Cradock, Cape Colony, advertises in the local paper that heis repared to undertake the tuning of piano- fortes .I“ o give pianoforte lessons. MRSTOCRATS WHO BULE THE RODST Very Few “Junkers” Se- cure Commissions in the Army. Poor Germans Have No Chance Against the “Divinely” Caste. This Grasp Also Extends Into the Lower Regions of Wil'iam's Adm nistration. [Copyright, 1896, by the United Associated Presses] BERLIN, GErMaANY, Dec. 27.—The pre- tensions of the German aristocrat, espe- cially the army officer, recruited as he alwags is from the junker families, to be treated as of a divinely constituted caste, &re undergoing the severest exposure and criticism from the progressist and inde- pendent press. The question is being dis- cussed whether the army is national, except in the sense that the peopie con- tribute the rank and file, pay the money to support it and allow the aristocrats to monopolize every post above that of non- commissioned officer. The notion that a career of advancement is open to any man of ability applies least of all to the Prus- sianregiments. Progressist papers, analyz- ing the condition of the army, show that in forty-six Prussian regiments there is only one officer not drawn from the nobil- ity; thatin the cavairy, with 173 officers, only one can be regarded as taken from the bourgeois, and that in the artillery there is also a single isolated and probably most uncomfortably situated officer who does not belong to what is called a ‘‘noble family.” This grasp of caste upon office extends beyond the army into the lower regions of administration, where it might be supposed the junker would not seek employment. Since the Tausch process opened to the vublic view some of the secrets of the se- cret police service it has been ascertained that the greater number of the political police officers are, like Tausch and Luet- zow, scions of aristocratic families. The same preference extends throughout all branches of the aaministration. The dead-beat aristocrat, the ruined spend- thrift and other wreckage of the upper classes found refuge in some Government post. The Kaiser Wilhelm I centennary fetes begin on March 22, which day will officially be declared and everywhere observed as a national holiday. The Berlin celebration programme opens at 10 o'clock in the morning with services for the Protestants in the Reichstag and Landtag in the cathedral and for the Catholic Reichstag- ers in Hedwig Church. The impenal family will attend special service in the royal court chapel. At 11:30 o'clock a grand military function is to be held near the schloss in front of the national monu- ment. Combined battalions, squaarons’ and butteries of all guards, regiments and of the body regiment of William I will form a square and line from the castle through the Lustgarten to and around the monument. A salvo of 101 guns will be fired and the bells of all the Berlin churches will be rung. Tue veterans of 1866 and 1870 forming in the Thiergarten will head a procession wherein will be represented academic stu- dents in historic costumes and trades and guilds also in historic array. The proces- sion marches through the Brandenburg gate and Unter Der Linden to the monu- ment, where they will salute the Kaiser, Kaiserin and princes, who will be there to receive them. At 4 o’clock in the after- noon & banquet is to be held in the castle, to which representatives of all classes, Reichstag ‘members, excepting socialists, nobldosand trading citizens are being in- vited. “Commers” will be general throughout Berlin and other centers. At8 . M. pala periormances of the historic play ‘1812 will be given at the Royal Opera-house, the Royal Play-house and Kroli’s Theater. To all three hou-es the Kaiser invites the soldiers of the Berlin garrison and the of- ficers will feast them. ‘The Kaiser will deliver a political pronunciamento at tue castle banquet. The coming general elections for the Austrian Keichsrath are the most seriously interesting to-all parties in Germany. The dissolution appears likely to take place without the Prime Minister, Count Badeni having decided upon issuing a programme upon which the eiectionscan be contested. He is practically sitting on the fence and watching whether clericals, anti-Semi:es or German Liberals may gam strength enough to be worth_cultivating as Minis- terial supporters. Pledged when he en- tered office to oppose the anti-Semites and to give at least a Itberal tendency to the ministerial policy, Count Badeni now awaits upon the resnit of the elections, and frankly cansesit to be known thatthe Government will bnild its programme on the character of ‘the new Reichsrath. He will shape his policy according to the ma- jority, and as every informed forecast shows the coming Reichsrath to be cleri- cal and anti-Semite, the next Badeni pol- icy must be reagtionary. The new pro- grassist German party, whose platiorm can be summarized in a few words as Ger- man solitarity, liberal, economic and so- cial reforms, is .conducting an active propaganda, which bide fair to create a political group so formidable as 1o _make it an important factor in the new House, Der Confektionser asserts that 300 Ger- man factories have resumed work since McKinley was elected President of the United States, and that about 300 factories have increased their hands. The factories resuming include 28 woolen-goods mills, 15 cotton-goods works, 23 gentiemen’s out- fitting works and 18 carpet factories. All of these have been closed ior several years. The social functions for the winter sea- son have to a certain extent commenced, although they are not yet as lively as they will be aftter the Emperor's birthday, which occurs on January 27. The impe- rial family and the court are fuily aware of the prevailing hard timesamong trades- men and the general distressamong the poorer classes, and it s now evident that it is their intention to. give impetus to trade by bolding a rapid succession of brilliant fetes. T'he series of official and dipiomatic dinners began on Monday last with a banquet given by the Austrian Embassador, M. de Szogyeny-Maricl, in honor of the new French Embassador, the Marquis de Noailles, and on Tuesday Sir Frank Lascelles, the British Embassador, ave a grand dinner to Prince Max of aden Baden, Prince and Princess Ari- bert of Anhalt, Prince and Princess Vic- torie of Schleswig-Hoistein and several foreign Embassadors and Ministers. On Thursaay the Italian Embassador, Count Lanza di Busca, gave adinner in honor - of the Marquis ae Noailles, at which a large and brilliant company of guests was present. The city is fast filling up with notabilities from ali parts of the empire. The last few days before Christ. mas brought a large number of urllto-lddl.v in the coal mines of England. cratic families, among them Prince Salm- Relflamheil-]syck. grince and Princess Bentheim_ Tecklenburg, Prince and Priucess Frederick of Wied; Count von Furstenberg-Stammbeim, the Emperor’s chief cup-bearer; Count von Puckler, Count von Assenbergh-Faulkenstein, the Prince of Carolath Beuthen, the Prince of Schonaich-Carolath, Count von Lehndorif, Prince Max Egon of furstenberg, who is now the head of the house of the Fursten- bergs; Prince George Radziwill and the Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, who is the claimant to the principality of Lippe. In addition to these arrivals other society leaders, including the Princess Bichette Radziwill, the Hohenhaus, the Donhaus and the Assenburgs, of whose circle the Emperor is an habitue, is expected. Since the scandal which resulted in the dual between Court Chamberlain Liebe- recht von Kotze and Baron von Schrader, the court master of ceremonies, in which the latter was killed, the Kmperor's par- ticular circle has been broken up, but it now promises to bhe brought together again, which guaranteesa brilliant season. Prince Bismarck gathered around him at Friedrichsruhe on Christmas day his entire family, consisting of his son, Count Herbert Bismarck, bis wife and c: ild of the son, Count William Bismarck, his wife and children, his daughter, the Countess von Rantzau, and ber husband, Count von .Rantzau, and his confidential friend, Dr. Schweininger, who arrived at Friedrichsrube on Tuesdsy. The ex- Chancellor 1s in excellent health consid- ering his advauced age, and takes part in the work around his home daily. Empress Frederick, who 1s now visiting her son, Prince Henry of Prussia, and his wile, Princess Irene, at Kilel, will arrive in Berlin on New Year's eve and remain six weeks. Her Majesty has promised to attend the principal court fetes during the season and will entertain, lavishly. Among her guests in Berlin wiil be Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia, the Prince and Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe, the Prince and Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Prince and Princess Frederick Charles of Hesse-Cassel, Througnout the pres. ent season the court of Empress Frederick will be the scene of the most brilliant re- ceptions that have been nheld there since the death of her husband, Emperor Fred- erick II1, on June 15, 1888. The strike of the Hamburg dock labor- ers is likely to assume an entire new phase. The non-union laborers who have taken the places of the strikers are them- selves threatening to strike unless they are paid seven marks a day for day work and fourteen marks for night work. They have already made demands upon their employers for the payment of these rates and have been informed that they may expect the same resistance to their exac- tions that was given to the old hands. A meeting of the strikers was held on Satur- day which was addreesed by & number of speakers who advised the men to continue to hold out against the employers. In the meantime agents of the employers have sounded the local agents of the strikers in regard to arranging terms of settlement of the dispute upon which the strike was made, Reliable advices from Constantinople say that the agreement of the powers for the enforcement of reforms in Turkey is complete with the exception of the mat- ters of the methods to pe pursued and the time of putting the measures of the co- ercion agreed upon into operation. Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chan- cellor, will celebrate his golden wedding on February 26. The accouchement of the Czarina (for- merly Princess Alix of Hesse) is expected to take place about the end of February. It has been arranged to have the event occur at Tsarkoe-Selo. Jobn Gregory Smith of Vermont is among the Americans visiting Berlin. Miss Leonora Jackson, the American violinist, recently performed at a concert in Kroll’s Theater, and was especially honored by the presence of the Empress. Interested in the Tarsff. WASHINGTON, D. C., Deec. 27.—The hotels are rapidly filling up with repre- sentatives of the various manufacturing interests who are here to appear beiore the Ways and Means Cominitiee to advo- cate increased duties ‘on their respective manufactures. The wine men will be heard ty-morrow. Thus far none of the wine men have-arrived from California, and unless they put in an appearance by to-morrow Representative Barbam will go before the committee in their bebalf. Mr. Jacoby’s memorial bas been received, aud will be presented by Loud. SO o Air John Brown Dead, LONDON, Exa., Dec. 27.—Sir John Brown, one of the firsi in Great Britain to advocate the plating of warships with armor, died at Brighton yesterday. He was Mayor of Sheffierd from 1862 to 1863, and master cutler there from 1865 to 1866. He was formerly proprietor of the Atlas steel and iron works at Sheffield. —_— Denied at Stockholm. STOCKHOLM, Swepey, Dec. 27.—A semi-official denial is given to the report from Paris that M. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish engineer and chemist, who died at San Remo, ltaly, a shori time ago, had teft hix foriune of $10,000,000 to the Stock- holm University. Execution on a Judgment. PHILADELPHIA, P, Dec. 27.—Exe- cution was issued yesierday on a juag- ment note for $40,241 against Samuel Lee's Sons, dealers in dry goods. The firm made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities are placed at $100,000. The amount oi the assets is not stated. QUICK SAWMILL WORK. ‘What Machinery Was Able to Do in Slicing Up Lumber in Chicago. Two splendid sawmill exhibits were made at the Chicago Fair in 1893 by the Stearns Manufacturing Company and the E. P. Allis Company. They consisted in each case of a band mill and a complete set of finishing and conveying machinery, and were in operaticn for short periods every day during the {fair, affording thus, admirable demonstrations of what can be accomplished in this lize in point of work- ing speed. The sawing exhibition was al- ways_witnessed by a greatly interested crowd. The rate of sawing the stock boards, usually 12 inches wide and 16 feet long, was from twelve to fourteen boards per minute, once it is claimed by the Allis men reaching fifteen boards*This is a gpeed hitherto una:tained with the band saw, sixteen boards per minute being the highest record with the circular saw. The running speeds of the Allis eight-foot band mill and the Stearns mill were about the same, being 400 révolutious per min- ute, making the speed of the saw 10,000 feet per minute—the usnal speed for white pine. The log carriage, which wonld weigh, with the log, about two and a half tons, was propeiled 1n each direction by a steam cylinder of 9 inches bore and 28 feet long. Fourteen boards per minute gives 4.8 seconds to the sawing of each board, the actual sawing time for each board being about 2.3 seconds This leaves two saconds for gigging, reversing and setting over the log for the rext board, thus mlkinmthe sawing speed about 260 feet per mihute, and the gigging speed about 500 feet per minute. This is more like the action of a vegetable cutter slicing up turnips to feed stock than the old way of sawing boards. The marvel was to see the man remain on the saw carriage while it was shot to and fro. He did his work at the proper time, kept his place as if he were part of the machine; a fly on the wall was not more at home than he. ——————— Big Funeral Gathering. At Moonlignt, Dickinson County, Kans., seventy-two relatives attendea the funeral of aged Mrs. Katherine Bert and spent most of the day in the ceremonies, paus- ing at poon to partake of a feast and lin- gering at the grave after the lowering of the coffin to witness the filling in.—Chi- cago Chronicle. ————— On sn average five persons are killed JIPANS WEALTH 1S INCREASIN This is Shown by the Late Returns of Income- Tax Payments. Tactics of Rival Contracting Firms Cause an Ugly Fight on the Tama. During the P:st Month-There Were Five Thousand Cases of Smalipox in the Kingdom. TOKIO, Jarawn, Dec. 13.—That Japan's wealth is increasing is proved by the latest returns of income-tax payments. The tax collected this year has been about a quarter of a million yen more than that collected last year, which means an in- crease of taxpaying incomes to the extent of about 20,000,000 yen. In 1890, when the tax began to be levied, the total of the tax- able incomes was 81,000,000 yen. It is now 100,000,000. = Rivalry among the employes of two firn® of Japznese contractors led to an ugly fight on the 5th of December, near the mouth of the river Tama, which runs into the sea about midway between Tokio and Yokohama. Oae of the firms having obtained a contract to supply a quantity of stone for the construction of a coast- defense fort the emplioyes of the other conceived the idea of hiring all the boats available for carrying the stone, so that their competitors might not be able to fulfill the contract. The second firm dispatched a party ot stalwarts to recover the boats, and a three hours’ fight ensued. Forty men were wounded, thirty of them being police constables. Another of the school disturbances so common of late years in Japan has oc- curred at the Nagoya High School. The students objecting to the severe methods of a new director, struck work, and when, instead of obtaining redress for their sup- posed grievance, their ringleaders were expelled, the whole body—700 in all— broke out into open rebellion against the director and the principal schoolteachers, so that these latter haa to obiain police protection. An unusual feature is that the youths are backed by their sureties, who complain that the expulsions were made without reference to them, and the consequence is that Nagoya is'in a state of considerable ferment. The citizens of Tokio seem to be at lengtn waking up to the necessity of vig- orous action for the purposes of harbor improvement. Since 1880 the subject has been on the tapis in a desualtory kind of way; buat the difficuity of evolving a good plan and the heavy expense of carrying it out has hitherio proved deterrent. Ships cannot get within three miles of the city at present, and all goods destined for it have to be carried in lighters or junks. It is now thought that, in view of the growth of the city, the value of the land reclaimed in constructing & good harbor would cover the outlay. : « Smallpox prevails in several parts of Japan at present. Between January and September the total number of cases throughout the country was 3880, but b, the end of November it had increased to over 5000. In Tokio seventeen or eighteen fresh cases are reported daily. The district of Chungsan in Korea is in the anomalous condition of having two magistrates, neither of whom knows whether he is the right man. Both are named Pak Hangyang; both were in ex- pectation of an official appointment when the Official Gazette announced that *‘Pak Hangyang” bad been nominated Magis- trate of Chungsan, and both hurried off to assume the duties of the post without tak- ing care to establish their identity. The exact facts about the plot sa:d to have been recently discovered in Korea for murdering the pro-Russian Cabinet Ministers and carrying off the King from the Russian legation to his own palace have not yet been made public. As time goes by the general impression gains ground, namely, that the p ot was de- vised by pro-Russian Koreans in order to prevent the King’s removal from the lega- tion. Itis not pretended that the Rus- sians themseives were implicated in the matter; they are beginning to wish that the King’s residence in their legation should be brought to the speediest pos- sible termination. The prime movers were probably Korean politicians who be- lieve toat their tenure of power depends upon the King's remaining where he is, There are only fifty-two Euroveans and Americans residing in Chemulpo, namely, thirty-eight men and fourteen women. But the Japanese residents number 4053, namely, 3458 men and 1595 women. Appearances, said not to be deceptive, of a growing thirst for the acquisition of for- eign languages and sciences are noted in various parts of China. Men that can give instructions in these lines are de- cidedly in request at salaries sufficientiy témpting to a native of China. There are no signs as yet of a disposition to employ foreigners as teachers in the interior, nor is it at all likely thatanything of the kind will be seen for many a day to come, largely as was the practice resorted to in the neighboring empire of Japan. Still people speak of the things that are taking place as a most hopeful indication of China’s awakening. But if the masses of China are roused by intellectual contact with Western knowledge the first desire prompted by their new acquisition will be to overthrow the present dynasty. To effect that an immense number of props must be knocked away. Every offi- cial is a buttress of the present system, for under it he thrives and grows financially fat. 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