The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1899, Page 2

THE SEATTLE STAR BW. WELLS & 60, Pubhaners. Every aigormogs except Sunday. KH. WLLL B. P. CHASK, Korwor Busines Manacin copy: BUX eonls per Iways th advan ts per we oltre, No free One cent per Telephone Pike (60, Omfees Ne L10T = = Third Avenue Kn tered ad the postoifipe at Seattle, Washt ton, as sogond-elaas matter. Tt looks as though Italy waa to be (he monkey t pull England's cheat. | of the fire, Bngland toid to make a demand on China of Sanmun bay, China afd then Italy landed taartnes and took forcible possession, Im the event of difficulties with Rus- Cermany as a result of the action, Italy will have to stand the Drunt of the controversy, but Eng- land will no doubt stand behind and pat the Itailan government on ita back. Polley as well as elreum- stances make strange bedfellows. The diseovery of Hquid air may not preve auch a boon to humanity as the reports from } lead men to think, With a political campaign ip progress, and all the speakers equipped with concealed tanks of Hquid air, there will be no choking them off at all. Then the Voters will sigh for the’ days of their forefathers, when the leaders Of the people stopped exhausted on the rostrum, with their own natural born supplies of air exhausted, and no tanks of compressed Nquid air at hand to continue the arguments. ala or Se Aa soon a8 @ method Is Invented for transporting liquid alr, one will never hear of Uncle Sam's soldiers suffering from the miasmias and heat of tropioal jungles. - soldier wil! be provided with a bottle of the stuff, and when the sun gets tro . all that is necessary is to w York would} ‘The contest between Mnglish syn« | dicate brewing managers at St, | Louta and their employes over the method of hiring help has been set tives of both partle® W. MacArthur, editor of the Coant wen's Journal, has been appoint~ al Lomporary secretary-troasurer of it rational Seamen's Unton of America, MacArthur's headquarters wre at San Francisco, The Cambria Tron Company has voluntarily given ite 6000 employes at Johnstown, Pa., an increase of 10 per cent, in their wages, | The Atlantic Coast Seamen's | Union reports a great Improvement lin the work of organizing the Hea men of the coast during the past month, ‘The general executive board of the Journeymen Bakers and Confection ers’ International n have vot | #50 for agitation purposes to Union }4 of Boston, The request of Union | 18%, of ‘Troy, for an organiser, has been refused and referred to the leonvention to be held in Chicago in March. WORLD'S NEWS. Tokyo has one horse-car line, Amoertea contains thirty flag fac- | tories. Cleveland, O., foundries, Porto Rico has 300 coffee planta- tlona. China exports 11,000,000 fans an- nually, Shreveport, La., ts to have a cot~ tonmiil. Parisians eat 100,000 pounds of snails dally. In South America @ parrot costs 15 conta. London boasts a 6300-pound sewing machine. e nd, O., has the largest car- | bon-works in the world, City of Mexico's electric road will be In operation in June. The Dallas Woolen milla, Dallas, Ore. are to run day and night. The Ramshorn Woolen mill, Mill- bury, Masa, te running night and has thirty brass are better than for gome tine back, tlod at a fonference of representa] uneork the vial, and to and behold! | day. he wilt be surrounded by air as pure and cool as the fce-clad summit of the Himalayas, The time ts coming when every man can be his own climate-maker, An Englishm: who saw Aguin- aldo at Hong Kong tn 1997, says that one side of the rebel chief's face had the peceliar appearance of being drawn and distorted. If the Eng- Herman could see him now he would Probably observe that both sides of his face are now pretty well drawn down. In another month Aguinaldo will be running round through the bamboo brakes with an expression in hie eyes Uke the cat that lost its tall in @ sausage mill. ee ‘The $3,000,000 appropriated by con- gress for the payment of General Gomer" troops, is en route to Havana. ‘The money will be paid, and then ft remains to be seen whether Gomea will carry out hin part of the agreement and disarm his army. There ts an impression that Gomer has been tricked by the Span- jJards so jong that he te a trite tricky himself. However, if he mon- keys with Unele Sam he will find himself in @ worse predicament than Aguinaldo. W. ©. Stamps, Greenville, Tox. contemplate establishing a knitting- mill for the production of hosiery, A half mittion dollars’ worth of Asiatic silk has come into the port of Tacoma, Wash., within leas than a week. A cotton and wooten-mill will prob- ably he established at the Texas State Penitentiary ag the town of Rusk. A $100,000 cotton mill company In being organised at Ashland, Md., by the J. F.C, Talbot, Joshua Horn- An American syndicate has been formed to expend millions in provid- ing modern electric street ratiroads for Japan's large cities. Arthur Sewall's ship Shenandoah, the second largest wooden ship afloat, has been chartered to load lumber at Port Blakeley and Port Gainbdle, Wash., for Australia. ‘The area of rubber-producing ter: ritory in Brastl thet is still touched amounts to 949,000 square miles, or nearly a third of the area of the Unied States, exclusive of Alaska. Representatives of an cot- ton mill have been looking the ground at Belleville, Mo., relative to eatablishing a mill there whichwould cost $500,000 and employ 2000 hands. ‘The principal tobacco factory at Manila is the Isabel, with a capital of $15,000,000 employing 10,000 hands, and making $0,000,000 cigars, 400,- -__-oooO- ‘The state legislature, the sixth, will adjourn Thursday of this week et midnight. Sixty-five bills have thus far been passed, and there yet remain 120 house bills awaiting the action of the senate. Some very vonsible laws have been enacted by this legislature, and while there nave been political differences, the retiring members of both branches have no reason to be dissatisted. See ‘The Latin races seem to be having @ hard time in handling articles in- tended for war purposes. Spain has lost several vessels due to fire and leaking, and now the Star's dis- patches announce that a French magazine has blown up, forty-five tens of powder aiding the gener rhe of real estate and Improvements in the immediate vicinity. Sania Asn sequel to the alien exclusion act, a good many people are heading for Alaska. The results of the act will make Atlin as quiet as a cem- etery. but Porcupine creek and other localities on the American side will boom. There is a steady stream of people going down the Yukon for American territory. Every steamer leaving for the north carries a full passenger list, and nearly all are Americans. ote ee LABOR AND CAPITAL. Bakers’ Union 216, of Norwalk, Conn., reports than only One candy maker in that city does not belong | to the union. The National Union of United Brewery Workmen hae issued a charter to the malt house workers of Detroit. John J. MeCarthy, ex-mayor of Mariboro, Mass., is soliciting aid for the 2700 lock-out shoeworkers of that elty. They have been out fourteen weeks. The San Francisco Labor Council | Is invewtigating the report that a lo-| ea) shirt firm having a contract for goverament work is sub-letting the | job to Chinamen, ‘The New York City Carpenters’ | Union i making an exceedingly en. er 2 in all the bor- oughs of the city to increase ita membership, and has been very suc cessful so far, camps Te © recent decision the Iowa su- | preme court practically knocked out all attempts to make employers M- able for injury to life or limb. In Miinols and Missourt court de- cisions wee recently made sustain- | ing the right of munieipalities to! ° ayy oF 4eyen ou) Aq 4 yue® puw 4) the union label placed upon) yopioz ‘umpunsoweur foued o opwui | state to abolish capital punishment, hav printing. | A large number of petitions have | been received by United States sen- ators urging thy passage of the na-|-av sujue tonal eight-hour bill, It i# now re- 000,00) cigarettes and 5,000,000 pounds of cut tobaceo « year. ‘The Fulton bag and cotton mills, Atlanta, Ga., will add 400 operatives to its working force at once. The present force numbers #00 hands. The company will erect 190 cottages to accommodate its new employes. Merrimac manufacturing eom- pany, of Lowell, Mass, has signed a contract for the erection, In Hunts- ville, Ala, of a cotton mill with 200,- ployes have been raised, is not a practical ratiroad able of filling any position from the highest to the lowest, who has not employrr ont. New Zealand has twenty-two es- tablishments for freezing meat for European markets, and thene handle 4,060,000 sheep a year. “Neediens to say,” says the London | Fmancial News, “Britain still heads | the list of ahipbullders. Against our total output of 1,669,125 tons of war- ps and merchandisemen, all for- eign countries and British colonies lcombined have only 701,091 tons to | put to their credit.” . During the next five years the ties | for the Great Siberian railway are to ‘be supplied from Hokkaldo Province, ‘Japan. Four million pleces in all are to be sent during that time, at the rate of $00,000 pleces a year, the price being 1 yen each. One of the chief purposes of Mr. Odagaski's visit to the Pacific coart fs to engage boys from 15 to 20 years old to send to Japan to be educated in Orlental business meth- ods and to carry into Japan Ameri- | can ways. Hot Time in Jasper. | ments seems to have been run into the ground by some ardent crank In Jasper, Ind. A notice of a religious revival at that place reads as fol- lows: “Struck by lightning! Jasper all on fire! Fire started in the ‘Amen | corner’ of the Free Methodist church last Sunday, assisted by the Rev, Laberteaux, of Jasper, assisted by the Ram's Horn band of Adrian and others. The devil's fire department from hell, assisted by hook and lad- der company, can’t stop it. Glorious displays of ght and heat every night! All around are invited to come and have the felclen melted from their souls. cial Invitation to come and bring theig crying babies, No terPestrial loatSen allowed on the scene,” —-Gal- veston News, —<—$—$ tuuosay— Gog MopueM sIqMaoUCY feu AwET ALUOH, 218 ‘THPAUE PlOH “UOT edUIOD SoUeHd,, ‘Ap4om oNeN PuNoJ ‘aedud ou) Suypiosun ‘oym ‘uowwand Ww “OOD om 8G 8 49IFY “HUNOD peusve @ Wot, YOoods papuym-Buc, A19A 0) UO;MONIT IWwouF YAM ANaesed i] wu pue 4 Fuyywo49y oWper “Aaol w 49A0 Hutpye -ujun puw ported that the prospects of the bill | -e1d GOU0 HUM SUP MUEL AGO 41 ee ‘The craze over herole advertise. | Mothers have spe- | ODD WAYS Clever Stories of a Few Foreigners. SHORT TALES FROM WASHINGTON | Concerning People Who Move inthe Diplomatic Cirole How the Chevalier Loved. ‘There was trouble at the Turkish jlegation soon after the first of the j Month, but the minister, All. rouh Hey, only smiled, However, he learned that f hounekeeping doesn't ft An» establiehments, In Turkey the method ts to hand an & month's household supplies. The cook (¢ then reaponsible for the ver ving of the meals, A similar cus tom prevatla in France. All Ferrouh Hey had managed an France. When he engaged a huse colored woman cook he purmued th same method. He handed her #100 and told her to buy the month's provistona, The negro had never seen so much money before, and she hid ft in her stocking. Then she went to the buteher and the grocer, Ali Fer rouh had paid cash and hie credit was good. The new cook had ev ery thing charged, and ait seemed well, On the last day of January she got her month's wages and dix | appeared with the . Then the bills began to pour in on the astonished minister. He remark- ed that he was not responsible, If they had been cheated they must look to the colored butler who had recommended the cook, The butler im frightened, the tradesmen are be! Ngerent but helpless, as a repre- sentative of a foreign power can- not be sued. ‘The secretary of lexation from an emptre In the far East was talking to the wife of the rector of farbion- able St, John's, at an evening re- ception. She was in deceilete dross. ‘The almond-eyed secretary looked jim, then turned to Mrs. Me- about Kay-Smith, and looking xediy at) her bare shot remarked: “Ma~ dame my wife is covered. She ix for me alone.” You are for all men.” ‘The Chevalier de Thentanove i» one of the social lions of the sease Hie paintings and his stories are al! the rage. Under his handling all women are lovely, all men hand- some, If he makes a bust of a wo- man who has a lovely face and a bony neck he has & professional model to pose for the shoulders. If are unshapely they are for by some one with lovely | tapering Angers. ‘The chevalier t# Intensely un- American In appearance and taster He plays the guitar and sings charming love dities, The musicale teas he bas given have ranked among the most successful enter- talnments of the season. A few days ago he Phed to a lady who was visiting his studio that “lofe” was the reigning, the eu- preme influence of his life. “Have pansion, friend. “Ah, yes, madame,” atghed Chevalier. “I have, indeed, lofed.” his eyes, His mustache ends turned up, too. “It was in sunny Italy. Her name guitar and played dow one moonlight night. She open ed her window. She ray, “Go away, ‘Thentanone, I lofe you ant at all.’ I fall upon the grass end cry lke achild. By and by I go home. My mother ask what is the matter. I tell her. She say ‘I like not Maria Pouf! I «nap my fingers at her. She in olf and she is ugly, Why you lofe her? There are plenty of pret- ty women who lofe you” “I am consoled. I come to Amer- fea. I make money—lote money. My pleture ia In the papers. People talk of me. She say, “Thentanone, I lofe you. Come bask!" I take my carte de visite. I write upon it sympathy’ and send It to her. That ia my r-r-revenge!”—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. TO AMERIGAN LAKE Tacoma Will Build Street Car Lines. TACOMA, March 6—An applica tion will be made to the city coun cil at its seasion Saturday evening for the extension of the Center street railway line to South Tacomn and thence to American lake. ‘This is one of the improvernents ‘that has been agreed apon by the lnew consolidated street tallways lcompany since the reorganization whieh has recently been effected. From the present terminus of the line on Center street the road will follow the general trend of the Northern Pacific railway track to Edison, and thence to American lake, keeping near the line of the old Lake City road. —————entceent MURDER AND WS PENALTIES ‘Statistics Regarding Capital j Punishment. At a hearing before a@ legisiative committee In Boston on a bill for olition of the death penalty L. Patterson of Cambridxe presented statisticn = dy, hoe the | subject, says the New York Post, He said that he had at one time made a special study of the matter and |had collected considerable material from original sources. In Michigan, which | Geor the first there were 37 murders in the 1% | yearn preceding the passage of the liaw abolishing the death gonalty, land 31 In the 18 years following Its abolition, a small decrease on the face of it, but as the population had . THEY HAVE: the cook in advance the money for) establiahment at home, and also in| increased actual de than 40 im the about teoond Interval GO per cont, the In murder was mors nt Rhode tatand penalty int iehed the death ind from 1860 to 1870 the records showed that there had j been 4 decrease in the erime of mur der of about 40 per cent In Wiscownin, tholinhed in 18t had been about # per to 1889, and in Maine heen abolixhed and re again abolished, the been about the ma In fowa it had been reinstated, bot In the from IST to 1876, while was not In force, ther der fe 200,000 of the inhab tants, as against one murder for every £00,000 In the four preceding years Froin sources not original he had guthored these wacts: In Norway from 1869 to 187%, 14 tv tenced to death and only three ex cuted; in Austria, from 1870 to 18 there were 80@ death sentences only 16 exeoutlons; tn Den n INTO to 1880, 4 Wore sent one executed; in England about er cont, of all the ninhable the the ¢ cent fr where it had indtated and deerease had whore ponalty wan abolished and four years, the penalty was one mur every } ark od fences not 4 sulted In convietion, whi per cent. of the trials for offens untehable by death resulted in ¢ in the number of trials ach yy | were fr | Holland penalty United States the av- for murder ad there pvictions, hed the death has been a de- punished which r wan al m 100 ta, has abo and there in crimes formerly Portugal, cream in that way, In abotishe thore homicides, by the United Btat bon, 10 had consulted native aw thorittes | _ Some Kentucky ‘Names. ug thone lated for county the nary hand, Spot Garrett, ot, Commodore Hib & Lamb, Major South Went, Lee Panther, Garl Heit, min John We find am | poll tax in I jot Nim ennedy athnece First Hillberry, Toms Hell, Wash Garrigua, Hipeck, Gr Pear Ligons, Ruckett, | | | Lav l¥ack F | Phelps, Jasper min =Pulley Che on were Ron=d | | | deeided curtonity. IE WAS NERVOUS Rebel Aguinaldo at Hong Kong. 1S WHOMENWAD BBY AN ENGLISH A British Drummer Saw Him in 1697 Rebel Is Monstrously Vain and Wears “I saw Aguinaldo in Hongkong In the early part of 1607," said K, B. Cunningham, of Liverpool, who ts one of this year's carnival visitors, 1 was representing an English firm at the time, and was arranging a deal for some Manila hemp with Emile Chargran, @ resident factor. One day I called at Chargran's office and found him in conversation with a swarthy young Filipino, who was introduced to me as Aguinaldo. 1 had heard @ good deal of the insur- gent chief, so T looked at him with What impressed me most strongly about him was his extremely youthful appearance, He did not look over 22 at the out- vide, and his alr of juvenility was borne out by his stooping shoulders and narrow cheat, He seemed like a fragile, unformed boy, Hin feat~ ures were distinctly Mongolian, his cheekbones high, his eyes oblique, his nome short and blunt, and his lips rather thick, He had no sign of a beard on hin face, but his hair was coarse, black and thick. His skin, I remember, was badly pitted, possibly from amalipox. 1 took par- Woodeoek. Loopman, Penny | teular note of his hands and feet, fit and started in at Pw ow atm common sireet shiner, year | his sweetheart to this country orn 5 Me married her the ver t ° Italy, | day she put foot on our sol) ¥ a few months passed when f indoor The idea was not « t It was a cold wine ing parlor wether his own, ter's day and a strange gentleman came along Park Kow,and stood againet a building. Tony got down his knees in the yw and began Sort on ton coaen, tae wine Ver | Canator Clark at ft Early and Late. could finish his job the strange gen Ueman stopped him: “Here, for — ought lo have some sort of shelte He threw a quarter to Tony and rushed into @ neighboring eafe to warm himeeif. eget wcvwr MONTANA MAY'S GREAT ENERGY “Tnever saw that,” said Tony, in telling of the incident, “but wish I could, 1 want to thank his." | ‘The very next day say Tony man- | ter of 4 mail bullding that had | The Me! ly been occupied by a peanut | at 7 a.m. and Remains There , He had aeamall gas stove) inside and an old chair which he had Until 7 p purchased at an east side muction wale the night after he fell upon the idea, From this beginning Tony's busl-| enator-elect W. A. Clark, of bar 4 ‘ ness grew so that in a month he tana, in spite of the fact that was able to secure shoe shining pri-| fortune im counted by the tens of vileges in the Equitable building. He mitiions, is sald to work as hard and afterwards established places tn the | ¢ antly as the man who carries Produce Exchange building and in| the tin pail. Several years ago @ bulldings at Forty-second street and) Washington man visited Montana Sixth avenue, Twenty-ffth street | with a letter of Introduction to Mr. and Broadway and Park Place and Cjark. He found ethe millionaire Broadway. . Each place ts known 4% | peated in a plain, poorly furnished Tony's, his name having become his | omfce, working if his life depend- trademark, He has been advised) ed upon it. He was pleasant enough many times to have the name copy-| put it could be plainly seen that he righted, but he dismisses the propo-| had no time to devote to the gentie= sition with teh remark: “There is} man from the capital. Noting this, only one Tony.” Mr. X retired, not, however, before It is the only streak of vanity he | he had received an invitation from has—his name. Bo modest is he that sir, Clark to return in ag hour and he will not give even his last name.|junch with him. The meal was of New York Telegram. the plainest description and hur- riediy disposed of. Again there wae Moved on the Ice. no time to talk, but Mr, X. sage a to make Clark conesent to meet hing A remarkable feat of engineering | tn. following morning. is being performed at Lake Wawa-| «what time will you come around noefi where the Lakeview hotel is be-| «what time will you come ing moved more than a mile and @] ground? asked Clark. half acrons the ice on the lake. The! «at any time that will suit you," hotel, which has thirty rooms, if 4/ ¥ ‘responded. substantial frame structure, and) “ugeven o'clock, then,” responded was erected two or three years 8€0| cark, expiaining the earliness of the at @ promising point on the shore Of) your by saying, “I am rather an Chevalier? quertéd bis fair | He struck an attitude and threw up| Hightower, Bil Pippa, Ike Key, Hos Stewart, Alonzo Huddleston and Lamuct Kiaselbaugh. — Musselville Horalt-Ledger. CRACK SPRINTER DEAD Beilicose, Fine Race Morse, Bursts Blood Vessel. Velticose, one of the beat known race horses on the alifornia turf, died at the Oakland track. He was owned and bred by J. Naglee Burke of Ban Jone, and at one time wee nc counted one of the best sprinters on the const. He had to his credit many fast performances st five, aa and seven furlongs, Bellloone was a bay horse seven years old, and was by the dead Palo Alto stallion Peel, dam imported Janet N, and is ltherefore @ half brother to Creacen- |do, one of the best 2-year-olde tn 1885, who finished second to Requital for the et futurity. Helllcoso ran in the white and | black halves for the first time at the | Ray District track tn 18M, and hae | been before the public ever since, As a three and four year old he was almost invfncible at the sprinting | atetances, but Bam Hildreth took lthe horme East in 1898, and demon strated that he wae « pretty good lhoree over # fair distance of ground. At Washington Park be finished second to Hugh Penny, one and one- teenth miles, in the fast time of 146% and fn a previous tart David I Tenny, who is now recing with such our in California, only succeeded one and one-six’ mth mile ra in 146% Hellicoso digd from bursting a | blood verael Where Grabs Come In. When a school of menhaden make their way Inte a bay they may stay for ays swimming eround in one | region; larger fiehes, jncluding pe [haps some sharks, there, From such | more 4 fragm ldown through the water, and the | various crabs and other crustaceans Jeome ecuttling from all parts of the | bay to m. It may be that the tide carrie litter about, lor, perhaps, the crabs and other cre- atures rmeil It, as bluefish scent the | bait that is used In chumming; but when a school of menhaden ts prey . on at the surface all the cra lin the bay congre s on the mud below to catch the crumbs that fall, ew York Sun sink Clung to His Job. ntly returned See dment boys the ® good story Is Among the re ond Tennessee re five of whor While soldier boys got a went to Harrisburg, take In the king down one of the in Camp Meade the furlough a were prin- jelpal thore the supply one of the ¢ r reducing and pase- officers. | They falled to sal cer wheeled on his b calling them to attention, inquired if they were soldiers, One ot the boys replied; ‘Some people think | we are.” “Well, 1 am Gen. So-and-So, com- manding this corps.” “The h—ll you are, said the spokesman of the squa You've got a good job; you'd better hang on to tt.” That was too much for the officer and he rode off.—Memnphis Scimitar. A Dog From Cuba. Mr. Th » of Norwich, and bh ert Hisnet, b handsom New broundiand dog, which the intter 1 u h i jal of the battle of San Juan? The dog, Leon, was formerly the property of Gen. Lenares, and was brought from Bareelona when a pup. He ts eight ars old, welght 4 pounds, and has a fine silky coat. When he left San- tlago the mereury stood at 104, and when the steamer reached New } York the temperature was ze but 1 the change first exp well, ‘This was his with snow, and it was drol see him He down and carefully remove the chilly par- ticles from between his toes,—An- [sonla Sentinel, Leon ste jenee lin beating Bellicose « scant head in| which were remarkably small, even for a Filipince., He wore women's that he should be cloth gaiters, which ts not unusual in Hongkong, and had a large soli- taire on his teft hand. Aguinaldo remained only a few moments after I arrived, but long enough for me to not that his manners were curt- ously nervous. It seemed impossible for him to remain quiet for a mo- ment. ‘The faces of a great many Filipinos gave me an impression of distortion, as if they were slightly twisted to one side, ana I marked the peculiarity strongly in Aguinal- do, After he left I told Chargran that he reminded me more of a na- tive chipping clerk in some Dutch importing house than @ revolution- int, “He's the smartest Pilipino in the South Beas,’ said Chargran, ‘and his only weak spot is his vanity, which is sometimes monstrous.” That was the only time I ever saw him, so the pleture remains quite vivid."=New Orleans Times-Demo- ON THE MORTEREY Lieut. Lombard Tells of tire War in the Orient. PENDLETON, Ore., March ¢—Lt. Ten Lombard, of the United States navy, i@ here on his return from Washington, where he has reported to the navy departmens. Lieut. Lombard waa on the Monterey and went fo Mantla as an ensign, having been a regular graduate from the Annapolis naval academy In 1885. He offered his services at the begin- of the war, with the stipulation to a fighting ship. In the promotions re- cently made he was adanced to the rank of a Heutenant. He has been given a sick leave, having been very Hil with the fever at Mania. Lieut. Lombard saw Secretary Long at Washington, and that oM- cial gave it as his opinion that to the navy as well as the army ap- plies the decision by the attorhey general, whieh is that the terms of enlistment of all the volunteers will og with the ratification of the reaty of Paria by the Spanish cor- fe 8 . zs Ls . see Regarding the position of the United States in the archipelago, he sald: “If the Filipinos take to the brush, and attempt to carry on a guerrtla warfare, they will make it exceed- ingly d@iMeult for the American forces to subdue them. It will be simply a repetition of the Indian | ware of the west In this country, with all the attendant horrors and trocities, and the gradual but cer- tain supremacy of our government, as In the case of the Indian tribes, A native Filiptnio is not nearly se formidable a foe as a western In- dian of the early days, but they are ¢ such immensely greater number that the difference is more than made up. The Washington regiment has seen some pretty hard service, but has in every instance acquitted itaelt with eredit and honor to the state that equipped and sent them to the front. Their performance will constitute no #mall part of the his- tory of the campaign now being o ried on in the islands of the Pact- fie.” ———— A BOOTBLACK CROESUS. the lake. Subsequently it developed | vriy riser. It i* a habit I have that the trend of cottage building | oot into. 1 do not ask my employes and of resorters in that quarter wa toward Pickwick park, and the pro- prietors were anxious to rectify the mistake made in putting up the bullding. It was found impracti- cable to move the hotel along the bank of the lake. The severe cold of last week solved the question. ers the lake, Immediately the hotel! was ptarted on its travels, and, though there are now signs of a ity some time since, has never at~ “Oh, I don’t know,” responded the to get around any earlier than Ido myself. I am always at my office at 7 o'clock every morning when f am in town.” Subseqently Mr. X. satertaing? that the office hours of this Croesus were from 7 @. m. toT » m., with a brief inter¥al of half an hour in the middle of the day for refresh= menta!- ~— . — “Well, I guess. It was dead easy, too, You see, my old friend, the gw: in Maiden Lane, that runs the su; had tumbled to a new racket in the gilding line: something that would fool the best of ‘em, He tip- ped me off and I gave him an ordeg can and does en- (for 109 super cases" “Eh? “Super cases; watch cases, you’ farmer. Thought you'd lived tn the — Tenderloin long enough to know young WOMAN | that much. Well, these cases were gold plated and cost me about 4.10 aplece. Put, sa-ay, that was a peach plate. Not even a fairly good jewel+ emall one; “it ian't #0 nice, after oll, | or could spot it from the gold, “Why. the young woman. And when the small one saw the went away and drank half whiskys, all men’s sizes. Memphis Scimitar. i Zs The Tinney family, Kan., are pretty near the whole deadly thing. One son is a doctor, another an undertaker and another a tombstone maker. And last week the tombstone maker married Miss Grace Greenwood, of Seneca, who in a registered pharmacist.—Kansas City Star. And in a Dress Suit. ‘A pretty girl from the West was taken last week by an admiring New Yorker to see Gen. Roosevelt review the Seventh regiment. She came bask looking very much dis- appointed, “Didn't you have a good time?” asked the friend she was visiting. "Oh, yes; good enough,” said the pretty girl. “But I think it was too mean of him. Here I'd heard so much about Teddy Roosevelt and the rough riders that I was just wild to see him, I went to the review just for that, and, of course, I was sure he'd be there In his rough rider's uniform and sombrero, and 1 ex- pected him to come in on a bron- cho at least. And then he just walk- ed out in a horrid dress suit that any one might have worn, and he even had his glasses off, It was too bad!"—New York Sun. “What is non sequitur, Uncle Al- eck?" “A non sequiture is when a widow~ er advises a widow to marry, and then doesn't propose.”"—Chicago Re- A large part of the work of taking one up the white man's burden consists Tony Has Increased 2 Capital of in shooting down the man that tan't $3 to $260,000. Plea an aaa richest bootbinck tn the world does business In this cit ie simply known as ‘Tony,’ wix places of business about the city are well known to New Yorkers, Thin man, this Tony, ten years ago was & raw import to this coun- try, whose only wealth consisted of hin best clothes “tied up in a red bandanna handkerchief which he carried, pnd an amount of Itallan money ‘eflual to $3. This, after the fashion of Immigrants, he wore in around his body. Tony i worth $250,000 tn cash, owns the $80,000 house in Sev- enty-second street, where he and his » and child Hive, and besides his me from his five bootblacking establiehments in this city he re. coives $20,000 In rental from a half a dozen house Tony's expertences have the neces- sary Unge of romance, even though he be « plain, uneducated Italian, | Tony purchased With $1.60 of his original wealth shoe shining out- e 1 eal a i Mi ah a at eck ah A na lA ean a “I took these plated cases an ao you know,” asked | neq them with good insides; work that cost me as much as $1.60 and #2 each. Then I had what looked Uke 100 fine bang-up gold supers, that any jay would pay from $50 ta $75 apiece for. “But my, game was not to gull the soft things from Brooklyn and Weehawken, Not much, Petee. was after quick returns and mean to plant the whole bunch of 100 tn a few days. Having a gold plate that would stand acid, I said te my, self, said I: ‘The hock shops are good enough for me,’ and to the pawns brokers I hot-footed at a regulag Salvator gait. “I struck a couple of shops In thé Bowery and worked off two bum supers for $25 each. Sa-ay, it wag soft graft, and looked good for « long stretch, but a female woman — that I gave the shake tipped off the coppers and I was yanked up before the chief at headquarters, “Of course the hock shop guys got on to the game soon as the police put ‘em next, Bnut it was a good graft all the same. Those watches would have stayed on the shelves for a year before being taken down and dusted for the show window, By that time I would have screwed t@ some other town. “But don't say a word, I'm gotn to Europe this spring the same Lunnon."—New York Telegram, They Lost Time. “You lost a good deal of time from youf business by going to wath didn’t you?” “Yea,” answered the man whé volunteered, “but I doubt whether I lost any more than some of the people who didn't go have lost are gee over it."—Washington Star, “So your son is on the stage, Doe@ he draw a large salary?" | “No, But he explained tt to mi He says he f® killed in the fi act.” —Puck. FEATURES | Every Clothing Buyer Has In Mind | Price, Quality, Pattern and Make Every BUSINESS or DRESS SUIT In this establishment embodies these FEATURES J, REDELSHEIMER & CO. Strongest Top Coat House in the State. 800-802 First Ave.,“Cor., Columbia,