The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRAN01806 CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1900. D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e~ ions to W. S. LEAKE, Mana: SANAGER'S QFFICE ..Telephone Press 204 PUSLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201, JOHN Address All Communici EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevcmson St Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Centa Per Week. single Cop! Terms by Maii Postages CALL (including A WE subscribers in ¢ change of address shoul to give both AND OLD ADDRESS in order « prompe and cer liance with their request. CAKLAND OFFICE. ves+.1118 Bromdway C GEOR KROGNESS, ger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.”) ENT: KPW YORK CORRESPOND) Eea . Heraid Square CARLTO YORK REPRESENTATIVE: 30 Tribune Building NEW STEPHEN B. SMITH.. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Premont Hcuse: Auditorfum Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: oria Hotel; A Brentano, fI Union Square! Waldort-. Murray HY WASHI C.) OFFICE - ...Wesllington Hote. ON £. CRAN Correspondent. Montgomery, corner of Clay. open open untfl 9:30 o'clock, 685 ck. 615 Larkin, cpen untfl BR A YW OFFICES 27 ortl] 3:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, M o HINESE PHILOSOFHY. (2] profi Chinese 1+ Boxer, erwent the ex- There was the same and pow the same mar- er; wvar of class upon ougho race recoiled and re- t Occident. h s the velopment the cessary to its Like selfishness o-day. istens to mie e t ountzin must some be as the o cometh my S ut ozk must bend. ¢ evidence furnish ed by the life his country, chaeology g es tes- i of Chinese pow Far down below the modern excavations a Chinese city. 1d articles of utility in in great abundance, of Chi- e v sire reached there ruled, beic not Orn: er things R re Persia ern bight of the Mediter- Remains of the race are nd Siberia. All these things China was to the world what i n cre er ages. t an empire that stretched Bosphorus must have ex- well 2 llow Sea 1o the have drain to the nder Genghis Kh: 1 the cup The and later than the survival in f conquest and love of power de- when it was the Colos- roth dry s nothing m remote p: rest in this intelligent Boxer's state nd undergo the same expe- the path trod before us by th t ourselves that many y iman Will we in due time have a will deduce from our tense a philosophy of this life which will dismiss g struggle we call high civilization and :d race upon the pillow of contentment stretch our tir and repose speech in seconding the nomi- f Bryan most worth remembering is that ia i he said of the platiorm: “Those who do not admire some portions of it can speak for others. Ii there are some issues they do not desire to present as striking as others, they can at least talk about ething in this platiorm that is worthy of their ap- proval. In some portions of the country the para- mount issue is going to carry, and carry strongly.” Was there ever in a ~onvention a franker statement of = policy of playing fast and loose with principies? Tt is to be a silver campaign where silver is strong, and in other places it is to be something else. It looks gow as i(];evg;igs had nothing to do with the war between China and Japan and were simply laying back for the Japs to make a recerd. r so re- | A POLITICAL DA URING the Revolution the pcople of the Thirteen Colonies had on hand too much sad ! and scrious business to permit much attention to the anniversary of the assertion of their right to | independence. Doubtless the long and uneven struggle, with its increasing sacrifice of life and in treasure, caused many an American to question, sometimes, the wisdom of the company in Philadelphia, whe burned the bridges behind them by signing the “Unanimous Declaration.” In those days it was not called the Declaration of Independence, but was con- sidered to be exactly in the nature of a declaration of war, stating the reasous for an armed conflict and lay- ing down the principles to be established by it. After the war ended and the inalienable right to in- dependence had been established by the sword, the historic document ceased to be regarded as a declara- tion of war, and, in the spirit of the institutions founded upon it, came to be known as the Declara- tion of Independence. ien no man doubted the wisdom and foresight of its signers, and the reverence felt for them has come to be attached to their de- s dants, whose lineage comes as near being a patent of nobility as anything existing under our in- stitutions. The. original Declaration, long exposed in the li- brary of the State Department at Washington, has faded until scarcely legible, and is now kept under lock and key in a cabinet. Though its phrases have paled 1 nearly lost their identity, and the signa- tures may be read with difficulty, he is a dull spirited American who can look upon that yellow sheet of parchment, the scripture of the civil liberty of all men, and not thrill when he thinks of the living | hands that crossed it in making signatures which might have been the death sentence of the signers. All Americans have joined in celebrating the anni- of that heroic act. By common consent no r sentiment, no other act, has been permitted to overlap it. Great actions have il- lu ted our subsequent history. Great battles have been fought even on that anniversary, but nothing has been permitted to divide interest with the original event, which is set among the greatest things in the history of man. The annual celebration of the day d wholly in contemplation of the charac- ters of the men who gave the Declaration to man- kind, and in tracing the mighty issues of that day's act 1 It remained for the Bryan Democracy to attempt to divert the day to a partisan purpose, to make it a partisan anniversary, to try and put into the great | company of heroes who made it a crowd of rheumy- eyed politicians, in the hope that this desecration will | pick up a few votes. | It has been discovered that many dignified ancient | The | cost versary cther interest, no o parchments have been written upon repeatedly. original inscription, being the oldest and therefore, » other reason, the most valuable and impor- tant, is erased by some means and another is written on top of it. This sccond one may meet the same fate as the first, and in its turn be scoured off and some- thing take its pla When such parchments are | found modern science has the means by which each inscription may be read, from the last to the first, | like turning the leavas of a book. Such a parchment | is called a.palimpsest. Colonel Bryan and his fol- lowers are trying, in effect, to make a palimpsest out of the Fourth of July. By a superimposition of their small personalities and their feculent partisanship | upon the day they attempt to use the great signers as | an underground upon which to inscribe themselves. It is as if they had zbstracted the immortal parch- ment irom the cabinet where it lies in the State De- | partment and had written over it the Chicago plat- | form, making a palimpsest of the document itself. We predict that this attempt to give a partisan sig- nificance to the day will fail. There are some things | it. They will not put these n if fc because the locality is kept in a foul and pestilential condition. It would be useless for one or two own- ers to improve their tuvildings while all around them is the contamination of a thousand abominations. As individuals, therefore, they can do little for the im- provement of the value of their property, but if the law be enforced impartially and the whole district be cleaned there will be a general benefit to every property-owner in it. These matters should be carefully considered by the property-owners before they engage lawyers and en- ter upon a costly struggle to defeat the law and maii- tain their buildings in the present condition. Tt will be money in their pockets to avoid the contest. It will cost them in the end about as much to hire law- yers for a prolonged struggle as it would to clean up their property; and in the end the money paid to th‘c la.wyers would be wasted, for the Chinatown dis- trict is going to be cleaned up, the health ordinances are to be enforced there. Upon that the people of San Francisco are resolved. \ Webster Davis has taken his jaw over to the Demo- cratic party; and now if Bryan should wish a mate ro take the stump with him and keep up the leather lung exercise without a break until election day he knows where to look for him. THE TAX-SHIRKERS AT BAY. Y an order of the United States Treasury De- partment all public officers are notified to see to it when shipping money by the United States Express Company that each receipt issued for a ship- ment be stamped in accordance with the war revenuc act by and at the expense of the company. This order brings the tax-shirkers to a stand. They are now at bay, and it remains to be seen whether they will make against the Government the fight they have so long made against the people. What is fair for the Government is fair for private | citizens. If under the law the express companies are required to affix at their own expense the revemue stamps upon receipts given for shipments by the of- ficers of the Government, they are also required to affix the stamp when shipments are made by indi- viduals. The order of the Treasury Department shows that the Government takes the same view of the revenue act that has been taken by the people. The Government is powerful and can enforce its or~ der. To that extent at least the tax-shirking of the express companies will be stopped. This action on the part of the Federal Government imposes upon the Attorney General of California the duty of taking steps at once to put an end to the tas | shirking here. That duty can be fulfilled by bringing an action against the express company and compelling its officers to submit their books in open court in or- der that it may be determined whether the war rev- enue tax would amount to an unjust imposition upon in this respect there is ample reason to believe the fraudulent tax-shirking of the express company will be stopped in this State, however extensively it may | be continued elsewhere. The issue is up to the Attorney General. The peo- | ple of Califortia will wait with impatience to see what action he purposes to take. The Federal Treasury Department has set an example for him to follow. He | cannot indeed imitate it by issuing a summary order | requiring the express companies to affix stamps at | their own expense to all shipping receipts, but he can force them to come into court and submit their books for inspection. The claim made by the express managers that the tax would be confiscatory and ruinous to their business is generally believed to be 2 false pretense and a fraudulent statement. If that be- lief be wrong the express company is entitled to a day in court in order that jt may prove its honesty. If, on the other hand, the belief be well founded, then the company should be exposed in open court and its tax- the people will not modern Don Quixotes in pla in our crusade for liberty. The day will be purged of the desecration and the | people will keep in touch with its original and hal- e of the ancient knights lowed purpose The Portiand Tel has had such a high degree cf prosperity during the past ycar that it has been able to make a showing of 32,000 more inches of dis- | play advertisements than in the year ending July | 1, 1899. That record speaks as well for the business of the community as for the paper that serves it, and accordingly congratulations are due to all Portland as well as to Editor Owen. FOR THEIR OWN GOOD. i | | { WNERS of property in Chinatown are re- ported to be much aggrieved by the demand | that their property shall be subject to sanitary inspection and regulation as are buildings in other | parts of the city. It is said they have suffered a good deal by the quarantine imposed by the bubonic Board | of Health, and are now in a fit humor to fight any attempt on the part of the authorities to compel them | to put their Chinatown houses in good order and keep | them so. If these reports be true, the public will watch with | considerable interest to see in what form the fight against improvement is to be made. The sanitary laws of the city are plain in their terms; they are per- fcetly valid; they apply to the Chinese quarter as well as to other districts ‘of the municipality, and the city officials are in duty bound to enforce them impartially. How, then, can the irate owners of foul buildings | make a fight with any profit to themselves? What have they to gain by persisting in a violation of the ordinances of the municipality instead of promptly conforming to them? If the owners of Chinatown property will con- | sider the situation with an intelligent under- standing of its various features, they will per- ceive that a fight against the health ordinances lwould be a fight against their own inter- ests. For example: It appears from their.own showing that they have lost heavily by reason of the bubonic quarantine; but the quarantine was brought | about solely by the filthy condition of most of the. | Chinatown buildings. Had the sanitary laws been en- forced in the past there would never have been a | quarantine, for there would have been nothing on | which even so blundering a body as the bubonic board would have dared to base it. That much even | | the most irate property-owner must admit without i further argument. It is, in fact, self-evident. | \h_'hals has happened once is always likely to happen | again if the same conditions continue. An unsanitary | Chinatown gave excuse for quarantines in the past, {and it will serve as an excuse for other quarantines, | | It woul. e, thereiore, no more than an act of intelli- | | gent seli-interest on the part of those who have suf- | fered by the quarantine to take such action as is cal- ]cuhted to prevent a repetition of the loss. There are. moreover, other advantages to be gained | by the'ownel:s of Chinatown property in cordially co. | operating with the authorities in enforcing the law. | The property in the district has depreciated in value W i and it has come with this administration. shirking schemes baffled and beaten. The employes of the Board of Health who are re- belling against the order of dismissal are evidently adverse to a sacrifice of that public snap which their superiors have made notorious in the public mind. PROSPERITY AS AN ISSUE. S. WITHAM of Georgia is one of the fore- most business men of the South. Indeed he ® is one of the enterprising men whom the na- tion as a whole is proud to regard as typically Ameri- can, for he believes in progress and has the energy and the sagacity to carry out his belief by actions that are beneficial to thousands of people. He is president of thirty-two banks in Georgia, is owner of nine cot- ton mills, and is interested in many other industrial institutions of the State. By reason of his widespread business connections he is brought into relation with all classes of the thrifty people of Georgia, and is therefore well fitted to speak for them in matters that affect their material welfare. He has been recently interviewed on the trend of political sentiment in the South, and his statements can be read with instruction as well as with interest. He began by saving his practice has been that of ting like a good citizen and keeping track of po- litical matters so far as they affect business.” He de- clares the Southern people, notwithstanding their Democratic affilidtions, desire the re-election of Mc- Kinley, and when asked why answered: “We know when we are well off. We are not fools down South. If everything is going well we don’t want to risk any change. There is great prosperity through the South We've had 8-cent cotton. Do you realize what that means to our people down there? Well, it doubled the deposits in my thirty-two banks. That's one thing it did. And this year cotton will open at 10 cents. That's the sort of business conditions that we appreciate in the South, And the business men don’t want any change that will risk that prosperity. That's the feeling among all classes. McKinley stands for the prosperity that the Republican party has brought in. The business men are for McKinley because he totes fair and makes good business.” The Southern States will give their electoral votes for Bryan solely because the business men of the South are sure McKinley will be"elected anyhow. Were the issue a matter of doubt there would be an active and powerful McKinley party in every South- ern State, and more than one of them would cast its vote for him. Even as it is Mr. Witham estimates that the Bryan vote in the South this year will be ore-third less than it was in 1896, Whatever may be put forward during the campaign by the orators of the Bryanite party, the dominant issue in the minds of the people is going to be that of prosperity. The voters of the country are not fools. They know when they are well off and they are going to vote for McKinley because, as they say in Georgia, “He totes fair and makes good busifiess.” In the howl of indignation which has been raised by the mob of taxeaters at the non-payment of their salaries there is no suspicion that any of the disap- pointed ones intends to resign. \ the business. If the Attorney General will do his duty | | e | verbial, | master Genmeral under President CHINESE BOXER PLACARDS IN RHYME THAT HAVE CAUSED THE UPRISINGS TIENTSIN letter to the London Standard, bearing date of April 3, gives an account of the anti-foreign propaganda then in progress in Northern China. The writer re- marks that similar “literature” was eir- culated largely in Hoo-Nan ten years ago and led to the serious riots of that pe- riod. “At the present time, he continues. “we are having a not dissimilar, if less violent, recrudescence of anti-foreign lit- erature, of which the following are very good samples. The first of them is in rhyme of a peculiarly attractive form, the meter throughout representing two lines of three characters each, and one line of seven characters. This is particularly easy to memorize. I know some Chinese Christlans whose families can repeat it by heart after one or two readings, and they assure me that it is a style of pla- card which would be universally memor- Look at them carefully: all the Foreign Devils are The earth is getting dry; This is because the churches stop the heaven. The Gods are ansry, The Genii are vexed; Both are come down from the mountains to deliver the doctrine. This is not hearsay. The practice will not be in vain To recite incantations and pronounce magic_words. Burn up the yellow written prayers; Light incense sti s and Genii of all the grottoes (halls). The Gods will come out of the grottoes, The Genili will come down from the ‘mountains, And support the human bodies to prac- tice the boxing. When all the military accomplishments or tactics Are fully learned, It will not be difficult to exterminate the “‘Foreign Devils'" then. Push aside the railway tracks, ized, whereas the prose placards are read, but make no lasting impression. I ap- pend a literal transiation of the poem without any attempt at rhyme, for fear of destroying the effec! Gods assist the Boxers The Patriotic Harmonfous Corps; It Is Because the Foreign Devils dis- turb the Middle Kingdom, Urging the people to join thelr religion, To turn their backs on Heaven; Venerate not the Gods and forget the Ancestors, Men violate the human obligations; Women commit adultery. Foreign Devils are not produced by man- kind, 1t you doubt this, Pull out the telegraph poles. Imiediately after this destroy steamers. = the The grea Will grow The_Englis| disperse. Let the various “Foreign Devils" all be i ance old and down-heart: and Russian will ed : certainly killed. May_the whole elegant Empire of the Great Ching dynasty be ever pros- perous. “The translation of one of the prose placards is as follows: The relatives and friends of all around notice recently that members of the Protestant and Roman Catholic religions Polson the wells with polsonous powder, and that whoever drinks the water have their lungs and intestines r eighteen days. Two men b rested by us at Liu Li Chuang, and we all You must be very cautious in drinki the water. Those who see this notice must make it known; it will avoid calamity befalling the people. It must by all means be done. “Both these placards were posted up In a district called Taicheng, in this (Chih- L) provinee, six da e., since the last proclamation. T eng is about 140 li, or fifty miles, south of Tientsin. The dense and univer rance of the peo- ple makes these ds ild- ish as they may appear lan- ghly calcula > excite the ed and promote trouble. The | are just now peculiarly in the moreover, to be so excited. The ns have not f:l!\nni anc | arth is lying hard and parched. | starvation stares them in the face. | cannot exp! nor understa { the clouds gather but produce no refresh- | ing showers. In their blindness theéy blame the foreigner. illustrate the public_temper of the may mention that the wiidest superstitions are now ex- tant current about kerosene oil. Several large fires have occurred through the | breaking of lamps, and the people are now discovering that keroseme promotes the scarlet fever, smalipox and plague, in- jures the eyesight and otherwise brings calamity. Upon this overwrought state of mind such placards as the above act very strongly. The correspondent adds that th doubt that these inflammatory have official sanction. o ere is no placards B U S B e e e Q Li Bung Changs Unique Personality. € R i e ey, | WW!MQ#%#Q-‘Q)OQ-! B r e e ] HE most eminent Chinaman in Chi- na—Li Hung Chang—is pure Chinese in descent. This may sound like saying that truth is truth, but, as a matter of fact, the rulers of China | are Manchus and Tartars, and not China- men at all. Li Hung Chang's success, his intellectual gifts, which are great, perhaps partly due to his great stature, six feet two inches, a height seldom aside from is | | reached by Chinamen, and by his ability to raise a_heavier beard than usual in a country where the beard is the only pos- session of the white man that the China- man envies him. Li's person is large and bulky, and when | he was 2 young man he must have pos- | sessed remarkable physical strength. | i Even in his old age he carries himself in | a manner that shows plentf of reserve | strength; his bearing is soldlerly, alert and imposing. His eyes are large and | biack, their penetrating quality velled by | long itds when he wishes to conceal that | which they might possibly betray. His skin is a deep yellow, very much wrinkled, | He wears a heavy white mustache and | imperial. His cheeks still have color in them in spite of his age, due partly to his correct habits and good digestion, for he temious, and to applications of | for the relief of partial facial | obriety of Li Hung Chang is pro- Of all the charms of life that al- lure other men, he cares only for power, and disdains that which is simply pleas- In his own philosophical way he Flowery paths are not long.” In conversation he is either quietly and stu- diously polite and deferential, or brutally and vehemently frank, as best suits his ends. His most characteristic qualities are inflexible purpose and the courage of his_convictions. When Li Hung Chang rises he goes to work, and at 7 o'clock eats a breakfast composed of birds’ nest soup, rice congee and coffee without milk or sugar. At the close of the meal he takes a grain or two of quinine and goes to work again. Li Hung Chang has always been thrifty and has taken advantage of his great op- portunities to make money. It has been safd that he is the richést man in the world, but of that no one knows, as Li has not divulged his financlal status However, he practically owns the raii- roads and telegraph lines in China, which his own expense, and derives the revenue from them. He is behind every progres- sive European innovation Introduced into the country, and, while his motto is “China for the Chinese,” he is not averse to using the foreigner and the good things the foreigner can provide. In no country is the short, pithy proverb more valued than in China. The fashion was set by Confucius, founder of Chinese philosophy, who habitually spoke in p verbs. Li Hung Chang IS known to the as a soldier and Statesman, but besides proverbs and apothegms of no mean or- der. During his memorable trip around the world he continually surprised Euro- peans and Americans by his witty and apt tions, both pertinent and otherwise. Many vears ago he laid down a policy for the treatment of foreigners which has become universal in both China and Ja- pan. It is not let foreigners use us.' He admired General U. 8. Grant and PERSONAL MENTION. | Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento 1s at | the Lick. 1. H. Biauvet, a prominent merchant of | w York, is at the Palace. | E. B. Yerrington, a mining man of Car-| son, Nevada, is at the Palace. J. Steinmeier, a prominent mining man of Idaho, is at the Occidental. Major G. Russell, U. 8. A, is registered | at the Occidental from Denver. | H. Postlethwaite, a leading fruit grower | of San Jose, Is a guest at the Lick. S. N. Griffiths, a well-known oil specu- lator of Fresno, is at the Occidental. Colone! L. F. Moulton, one of Colusa’s | leading ranchers, is registered at the Lick. | W. I Kerckhoft of the Los Angeles Electric Company is registered at the | Palace. | A. W. Maltby, one of California’s lead-\‘ ing ranchers, is at the Grand accompanied | by his wife. ‘Assemblyman C. B. Jillson, accompanied by his wife, is at the Grand. They are registered from Hornbrook. T. 8. C. Lowe, founder of the observa- tory on Mount Lowe, Southern California, is registered at the California. R. C. Vilas Jr., son of the former Post- Cleve- land, is here on a pleasure trip and is a guest of the California. C. A. Canfield and E. L. Doheny, who cleaned up over a million apiece in the recent big Coalinga oil deal, arrived from Los Angeles yesterday and are at the Palace. —_—e————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July &.—R. J. Davis of San Francisco is at the Buckingham; G. L. Lumbard of San Jose is at the Grand. —_——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. E SHOOTING OF TERRY—S,, City. nr;i“ on the 1ith of August, 1889, at La- throp, that David Neagle shot David 8. Terry. HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE—A. S, City. The poem wh':ch ?olknr;\encel ave, who sink to resi i!;fi‘:e:lhgyb&'mlnm Collins, a lyric poet. A LATIN PROVERB—R. W., Sacra- mento, Cal. “Re opitulandum, non ver- bis” is a Latin proverb and means “We should assist those who need our help by aceds and not by empty words.” FIRMAUN—R. W., Sacramento, Cal. Firmaun, commonly written firman, is a rant ssport, issued ecree: Wian of Bersia of the Sultan of Turkey. No subject dares disobey the firmaun of the sovereign. It supersedes all laws and regulations. MINERAL—X. P., Sissons, Cal. There is a decision to be found in ‘“Mine Lands,” p. 14 (121) which declares that “‘where mlner‘ll dgposas m‘et (}‘l:cnvend ands after pate: o AR h Mericultural claimant they pass with the patent.” N B R T T R A POSTAL CARDS—S,, City. Postal cards were first adopted by Germany. By an act of the Congress of the United States June 8, 1872, the Postmaster General was authorized and directed to issue postal cards to the public at 1 cent each. The first were issued May, 1873. SUNDAYS IN FEBRUARY—Curious, City. There were five Sundays in Febru- ary, 1824, again in 1852‘and in 1880. That malkes it once in twenty-eight years. Were it not for the fact that the present year 1900 is not a leapyear there would be five Sundays in February, 198, but that being the “"u"xtct:l an evf’g} ‘wlll not occur ear 1920, to agaln H0s"ina In” 0. g CANNOT ANTICIPATE-R. P., city. This department cannot anticipate the judgment of a court and for that reason carnot inform you whether the United States Government would have to pay for the improvements that have been made on Belvedere Peninsula, in case the suit {o determine the rights as to the Corte Madera_grant should be decided in favor of the United States, and the Government occupy the to! THE TIENTSIN - MASSACRE—C. E., Berkeley, Cal. | murdered. | [ e s e e e e o ] s an attack was made on the French and English missionaries and the French were treated most outragecusly, their houses were burned and one clergyman was killed. The French Minister ordered the French admiral to his aid. He steamed up to the city with several gunboats and ordered the Governor to | make reparation and punish all persons engaged in the attack. The demands as to reparation was complied with and sev- eral of the leaders were beheaded. The quiet which followed did not last long, for soon after there was a plot to mur- der every foreigner in China. There was an attack all along the line from Nan- king to Tientsin. In June of that year attacks were made on convents and for- eign_legations and many persons were France demanded an investi- gation, which resulted in the execution of sixteen Chinese and the exiling of two mandarins in October. The leading offi- cials who took part in the many out- rageous crimes went unpunished. Bededvieosesstede® FASBION HINT FROM PARIS. } > L 4 i * b 4 ® ® . Py - L 4 * *:. ! L 4 ; @ : @ % - @ : ® BOLERO MANTELET. The bolero mantelet shown in the fI- ralg lustration is of ivory taffetas, embroi- | dered with designs in Pom applications of ecru nlpmou'!r’hlglkh::“r‘! length sleeves are of ipure, and end in a deep mordlon-pfe“ated flounce of i"-l‘;ll':ynm“’l'ln- {he bolero is trimmed similar flounce, w! ot ce, which falls over he put in on his own responsibility and at | Occident chiefly by reason of his genius | these he Is a philosopher and retailer of | sayings, as well as by his abrupt ques- | Let us use foreigners, but do | mmediately | | ) | mone; B R R S e : 1 showed the general many honors when the great American soldier was on his | journey around the world. After he had | gone Li Hung Chang, 1 | comparisons, said: “G | have guppressed the two greatest rebel- | lons known in history.” He referred, | his own part, to the great Tai-Ping rebei- lion, probably the greatest uprising of its kind known to the world. | _When the great Chinaman was in New York he was entertained by Mayor Strong. During his Interview Li asked the Mayor w he had not taken part In the civil The Mayor replied that his brother i been in the army, but that he had stayed at home to take care of the fam- ily, and was in civil life. “Ah,” said Li, | |w I h | e were a very good soldier in time of peace, 1 suppose, and a very good civilian lin time of war. | At another time he was discussing gov- | ernments and said: “Five tho nd yeara ago China was a republic just as the United States is to-day.” | _“What made you change your form of government?”’ he was ask “The change,” he sal 'was the most gradual in the world, and our first em- peror was a plowboy.” When he was in England he uttered an aphorism, the result of a short acguain- tance with the two gentlemen concerned in it. It was as follows: *“Your Lord Salisbury is a man who says little and much. Your Mr. Gladstone is a | mean: | asked him, “How do our women com | with th of China?" “I really cannot tell,” sald L1, slyly fastening his eyes on the corsage of Indy who was present. “We never sc | hai? as much of our women as you do of ours.” | LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. HIS PORTION. Ruth—Caesar sald all Gaul was divided into three part: | Kitty—Did he say how much of it a gmmzn drummer got?—Detroit Free Te STRIKING SIMILARITY. ““The cuckoo in that clock reminds me all player and an arrogant “How so” “It goes out on so many strikes."—Chi- cago Times-Herald. THE REAL PUZZLE OF LIFE Fidelia—Flavilla, doesn’t the great mys- tery of our being fill you with awe and | wonder? | Flavilla—Well, to tell you the honest truth, Fidelia, what to wear bothers ma more than anything else.~Indianapolis Journal. “I shall not pay any further attention to these ecriticisms until my accusers %grne upon a charge,” said Senator Sorg- um. aven’'t they done so?" “No, sir. 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