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THE SEATTLE STAR 1, A, WELLS & OD, Publishers. ry afternoon except Sunday, Rre ® PF. CHASE, ®. BR, WELLS, Huarness MANAGER Rprron cont per copy) sx cents per week y-ive cents per mon always th advan: ISO. ‘Third Avenue Telephone Pike OMices Ne. 1207 1 at the postoftice at Seattle, Washing: ndclass matter ‘The first successful cable ines be- tween the United States and Eur- ope Were put inte operation in 186 tm that year our comm with amounted to 289. ar ft had reached the sum of 38, Our commerce with world in 1868 amounted to Last year it had mount~ to the enormous sum of $1,847, MS. If It would not be fair to assert this vast commercial “expar sion” has been due to ocean cables, it ts certainly no exaggeration to say that the facilities they have giv- en business by which to expedite ocean carrying, have counted for more commercially than any other existing agency known to men wh go down to the sea in ships. The 1500 submarine telegraphs now lying at the bottom of the waters have an aggregate length of 170,000 miles and cost upward of $250,000,000, They transmit annually more than 6,000, 000 messages, They touch all the great divisions of the earth, and from country to country and island to island the world’s wants, thoughts and sentiments are being transmit- ted constantly. — Which American city i# nearest to the center of the United States? When the Aleutian islands were our “farthest West,” Seattle was about half-way between the eastern and western boundaries, Now that the Philippines are ours—Aguinaldo notwithstanding—the central point must be somewhere between BSe- attle and Honolulu. a While the Miles’ court of inquiry is hearkening to the odoriferous tea- timony concerning embalmed army beef, It might get right down to the cause by investigating the water In which that beef was cooked. There are good grounds for suspicion that the embalming fluid came out of the Chicago water mains. An apélegtet for J. Pierpont Mor- gan’s billion dollar anthracite coal trust says that {t ts communistic in| principle, inasmuch as there is “a community of interests.” The trouble with Mr, Morgan's organiza- tion is that “the community” is strietly not In It. ee Everybody will be pleased to learn that the government now produces @ Satisfactory amokeloss powder, but nobody wants the stuff tested In an- erease the elastic limit and the ten \ A more irksome, and t ay th blow alle strength of steel while we de. | © lern did twioe the work they did at crease [ts expansion and contraction | the previous pertod, and now'a blow ane is the keynote to the whole d er could he to work after he Dusinedm, wan 4) years 1, at whieh age bis “Steel will become practicably tn- usefulness as a glass blower consed destructib Steel rails cannot hI \ There were today, he said, more spread, The delicate machinery of advantages of society to be enjoyed ooean liners cannot break; you will | by the blowers, but the character of hear no more of broken shafts, We their work and life prevented them an make plates stiff and strong |from the enjoyment of these advan and thinner than anything yet made. om eh a hems tages. The introduction of machin Take an armored cruiser, If we giv ery worked ‘to the disadvant her more buoyancy and yet give her | H the glans blowers, as ite use r We can do that Tt je my opinion i hn of the men. Another and, up to tom, that our new process will enable | present time, a more formidable the government to turn out much | of injury to workers at the better shells than it does at the Cascades. | dg, was the exts oe n present time.” nion men, expecially in New r | Nietoan rn 4 y, where they labor for from 90 lomen’s Suspenders. to 60 per cent. lens than the members Brother ia now deprived of the} acc ae - | Of, the union receive, and in addition right to his suspenders, Sister In| ay gg gg Soh we Pang joe See ave compelled to live in company weartig them, too Sait enty Ranied ont at a, tereivery | tenements and to take in Fut sister's has Joweled buckles | of the Hudson I meare ereare, Same ve - | - ay company, it Was) Mr. Hayew said, never see a dollar and are made of delicately tinted predicted by one of the pr t cole- | trom is end ta th ther silk elastic, and are altogether X-| brated geologists and mining experts | ‘The nts, he sald, were not ft atk er seat at present among |°%,.th* country that the mineral] for self-respecting men to live tn Jr is © fad Just at present among | wealth of Cullfornia, Nevada, Col-| Of the 4300 glans blowers In the leumpendere, ‘The tad originated with pepe | Sent eeion would one day | United States ) belong to the as é ased by the mineral wealth | sociation represented by the wit Mra, Burke Roche, who not only | o¢ the Northwest Wears suspenders with all her street!" y¢ has taken over a quarter of A). j owns, but who has them made tol century ta demonatrate the views | order with Jeweled buckles, entertained by the California: writer | | The suspenders, If property @4-| were correct, The great wealth of | Justed, help the skirt to hang even-| the Rossland district, the Republic ly all the way round, and they rest | camp and other districts ts only a the back by allowing the weight of| thing of two or three years | OP: T the akirt to be carried by the shoul |" Up in the Cascades the prospects | |ders. The wearing of suspenders by | are good for the discovery of fields | women Is advocated by many of the| as rich, On Kahchess creek three best dressmakers of New York. ‘ | And the society women are de- pecengems began ag one an En | Washington Officials Famil- 7 ¢ & Bpokane com- tghted with this. their newest fad.) Dany, and one a Tacoma company, lar With Girls. not only because It ls depriving man) of which §. G, Crandall is general of one of his heretofore exclusive | tianager, and already enough has| WASHINGTON, March 21.—Few possessions, but because the buckles | noon shown to make as great a son- | COPIOS of the testimony taken by the afford them a new trinket. Since | Stisn as Republic did at a like se. /COMMILCe? apointed to inestigate Mra Burke Roche bought her gold | it "ne development P*" | the bureau of engraving and print- suspender buckles, gleaming with! amis creek ie in the middie of an|!™* have found thelr way into the diamonds, many are the orders sie " extensive gopper and gold district, | hands of the public. Among thi which New York jewelers Rave re-/ iy en hat inaccessible. she| Witnesses who gave their testimony ceived for jeweled and enameled) os noes creek mines, however, are | before this commission was Annie FE. suspender buckles. cement woes "few | Philpot. She was one of the women ‘And the fair maids of Gotham are| ‘apbed by @ tramway only a few fome also ordering with taeir suspenders buckles sets of six gold buttons, They are small and flat and are modelied after the metal which brother has sewed trousers, When gold suspender buckles, | studded with gems are considered too expensive a luxury then the modern girl orders these new buck- les of hers made of enamel, some- times mounted in gold and some- times in silver. White silk elastic suspenders with four-leaved clovers for buckles in green enamel are high In fashion able as well as buckles of Roman old twisted to form a snake.—New York Journal. CHICAGO'S EMBALMERY CHICAGO, March 21.—Chicago is to have a new $2,000,000 packing house. It will be built and operat- ed by Sehwartschild & Sulzberger | company of New York and Kansas |City. The aight purchased for the pant is what is known as the Beers property, a tract of & acres, Just west of Ashland avenue at 40th other actual war right away. | street, which was bought by the preeenendsicnan | Union Stockyard and Transit com- Grover Cleveland has got back| Pany sx years ago from the heirs home from his vacation, but as he is no longer president, no statistics | nodern design and will be operated|(n @ Giscussion of the question | occurrences are furnished as to the number of| by ciectricity. Slaughtering houses, | Whether the abolition by all ducks he killed. a What's this, the Sultan helping us out in the Philippine: Veriiy the eastern question is transferring !t- self from the Bosphorus to the Pa- cific. —_ An eight-story bachelor apart- ment house is to be erected in New York. It will cover a multitude of sinners. WOMAN'S WORLD. ‘The latest dress fad ts to wear colors that match the tone of the ha At a woman's luncheon there is generally one individual who ap- parenly regards it as her particular duty to endeavor to entertain the rest of the table by @ recital of the happenings in which they take no possible interest. A woman gets about as much sat- isfaction out of looking at fashion plates as a hungry man does from the odors emanating from the hotel kitchen, When filigree silver has become @uli and black tt may be cleaned by thoroughly washing it In @ bath of potash water. Oatmeal in a capital thing for re- novating suede gloves, Fine oat- 1 Is the best. Sprinkle cayenne sorts of rats and t premises. pper in the re- ¥ will leave the Ammonia will remove spots from the most delicate fabric and leave no trace behind of its us Soot applied to a fresh cut or wound will stop the biood and abate the pain at the same time NEW KIND OF ARMOR NEW YORK rch 21.—A com- pany capitalized at $1,000,000 and in corporated in West i in a whort time, if it are ful- filled, revolutionize the hardening of steel. It will, it is sald, make a six inch plate equ power of resist ance to n fifte h plate, treated It will, in fact, If it can support tte eiains., w t sent aystem of building present man- ufacture of shells and many other things besia The presid f the new company ia Thomas A, I m, Sr., the vic président m Holzer, Mr Kalson d the na f the corporat ‘Thomas wai won, J Holzer Steel and Tron Proee Mr. Edison fade great cl when asked in regard to his discovery last night Bald he ¢ can, by our new procens, in- of the estate for $60,000. ‘The new house ts to be of the moat | hog and ham house, sheds and the) | chutes are designed to be the beat) |i the world, and the plant, when in| | full operation, will have « killing| | capacity of 1000 cattle, 3000 hogs and 3000 sheep daily. It is also the in-| | tention of the firm to establish a| A | refrigerator line of its own, and for | that purpose will have built 1000 spe- | cial cars in which to transfer fresh | meats to New York. An Unorthodox Drink. At Fort Scott the other day the! tellectual gymnastics is steadily in- Presbyterians and the Methotists| had an old-fashioned spelling match, with thirty-two on each sid». and with the general pubiic. One| THE SEATTLE thousand feet long, whence a ten-|@™ployed In the department of her testimony is directed against G. W. Castic, custodian of dies, role mile Iake carries the ore down to within three miles of the Northern | Pacific railroad track. and plates in the bureau The mountains in which the veins tie in a married man, but « lay are trem 9000 to $200 feet above | COrding to the testimony of thin wit- the tramway, allowing the veins to | Pe. he was in the habit of coming be worked from the bottom, the ore |‘@ the office long before working to be dropped into the tram cars and |20Urs, and frequently he was seen rolled down @ downward grade to|'" animated conversation with one the lake. of the women, With this partioular From the various veins in these | ¥oman he once had his picture tak hilis the ore fune up into $50 to 960 | °. sald the witness per ton in gold and about an equai| Mra, Julia Shields, another wit | . o o be amount tn 7 , an the | nese, once warned the woman t See makis. more careful. The woman in ques | financial aid” Engtish syndicate announces, an ay- erage of $100 per ton net. } ton, she eald, once told her that she Over on the west side of the range | had mat ip Castie’s lap. Castle also, the same character of rock is found, | *¢ © id, left notes and flowers for nd over ome thousand mining lo- |e of the girls. He frequently sat cations were staked last fall, which | down between two of the girls at will be taken hold of again this|* time when It seeme epring for developments. that there should be room for thre Prospect tastic, and|On another occasion he putied the ayn Sharan slipper off the fqot of one of the girls predict as great an excitement here this coming season as was caused by ar yan x A GS last season eatimony concern r lentery Johnson, superintendent of the ba-~ reau, was to the effect that his sal-| Intellectual ary was overdrawn as much as It te significant of the change for | $100. Others were also in the habit the better in the regard shown tn- | of getting money In advance. There) tellectual pursuits in our universities | was a row about it and the practice of late years, since the athietic) was stopped craze began to decline, that dally Major Morgan, another of the im- newspapers which go into {llustra-| portant men of the bureau, sald one tions now publish pictures of de-/| witness, was in the habit of enjoy- baters and sketches of their record. | ing familiarities with some of the The Philadelphia Press, for exam-| girls In the department Bometimes ple, does this for the three students | iris would go to his room and of the university of Pennsylvania) drink whisky there. He w the| who went to Ann Arbor to meet paymaster. The witness, Ernest G. team from the Michigan university | Gibbons, believed that these little may be traced to a de- tvilized | sire of the giris in question to get an nations of thelr armies and ‘navies, | advance in their salaries Witness other than those necessary for their saw Morgan frequently tn rather af- omestic police, is feasible. Penn- | fectionate positions sylvania has one such debate hoon The document carrying the testi-| year with Michigan, and another! mony contains 974 pages Tt covers with Cornell, held alternately at Ann | details of many transactions, some rbor, Ithaca and Philadelphia; as of which seem to carry a violation Princeton has with both Yale and of the civil service rules The of- Harvard, alternately at Princeton, | fcers of the American Federation of New Haven and Cambeldge. There Labor are particularly interested In are a namber of similar contests the matter because of thelr opposl- between Western universities, and it tion to Johnston, chief of the bu- | ts agreed that both in the East and | reau. They expect to use some of West interest in this branch of in- | the testimony in their operations to) defeat him. j pce | Was the First One. | creasing, alike among the students | | norte. STA, A NEGROY BHOUENTS Leaves Thousands to Charities. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Fred- erick G. Harbadoes, a negro of large means, came to this city from Bos ton several years ago and died lant month, His will, whieh has just been fled for probate, makes provi sions for a number of religion charitable and educational institu tions conducted for the benefit of his race, To the Home for Aged Colored Women, Be nh; Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persona, Philadelphia: Me for Aged Wo- men and Orphans, colored, Washing- ton; St. Luke's Episcopal chureh, Washington; Lincoln Memorial Con- «regational church, Washington, $1.- 000 each, and $500 to each of the fe lowing: Fifteenth Street F tes rian church, Washington: Wiibers foree university, Ohio; Metropolitan Wesley Zion chureh, Washington, ‘Livingston A. M. K. Zion college at Salisbury C.; First Independent Colored Baptist church of Boston, and Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va, and to the Metropolitan Baptist church, Washington, $260. Between thirty and forty personal bequests, ranging from $25 to $6000, are made to relatives and friends, and the re- widue of the estate In to be equally divided among the Tuskokee Uni- versity, Alabama; Lincoln univer- sity, Pennsylvania, and Manan ixtetitute, Virginia. —$_——— The Individual Church Just at the time that an eloquent preacher of the Methodist church breaks away from his denomination and establishes an Independent de- nomination of his own in a theate & distinguished preacher of the Bap- tist church who did the same thing lin New York announces the end of his independent enterprise, “lack of being the cause an- signed for the dissolution. It is the same old story repeated In every city, and giving bitter experience to many good men. It is not hard to find the explana- tion. A denomination, however hum- bie It may be, ie always stronger than any single man who would a tempt to make It or help to break it, In the two cases mentioned one was a Methodist and the other a Baptiat, with creeds to which millions sub- It does no good to break away except when conscience calls, and it does no harm to the denomin- tion to aaeail it for the very things that the assatlant is frequently gull- ty of, for often the narrowest man is he who thinks he is bigger than his denomination.—Baltimore Amer- jean. A STORY OF BLACK CRIME LANGING, Mich, March 21.—Ing- ham county officers, who, for nearly 17 years, have kept up an almost constant search for Peter Cevalia, will now close that account and record another case of murder that will owt. After wandering up and down the earth for all these years with the mark of Cain burning dee; er and deeper into his soul, Cevaita was finally brought to bay, He told the story that had been haunting him #0 long and then took his life rather than return to Michigan and face his accusers. On tho night of June %, 1882, F. Hahn and a companion, went to a by one the contestants were spelled | Mise Emma Arnold ae bey 2 en house kept by Peter Cevalia and hi down until only two vresbyterians | PAE PACE | St. Louls girl, heroine of the famous) Vif" with the avowed purpose of and one Methodist remaine1. Then | | Hobson kiss episode, Is a bride. | | cleaning It out.” Cevalia called to the master gave out the word Least UCR aye eee a mish wet dis wife to bring him his rovolver |‘ptican,’ and all three missed it, place in the exclusive Jew was | and when the weapon was handed leaving & victory for neither side. | by Hea hamegh or 1a. rte cam Mr. | him he fired three shots. One of Ptisan in defined in the dictionary Miss Hmma Arnold, the £ ‘ana | them pierced the heart of Frank as a mucilaginous decoction used as | i NES Sete cae ot the betes | an’ Hahn, who ran a few yards and a drink, and it is not to be expect- # e he home ot cg hirenbniggact aie FEES | ed that Presbyterians and Method-| NEW YORK, Mereh 21—Robert, jer, No. (315 Went Gelle sirech MS) Gevalia was promptly arres iets would know much about drinks, |"0" of Robert Floyd, general man. | crowded with fashionabos. tt) Jia in teas than an hour after the | Kansas City Journay. Jager in this city of the Cunard | Dride’s dark beauty was wet ol moe sin ge fh Pte Ho —_—_——— | Steamship company, committed aut- | ‘"*, f™ at-like veil Shere were many | the purpose of lynching him. When A PROFESSOR OF NONSENSE |cide this morning at his home by firs and many telegrams of con-| thie proved unsuccenstul, (ie snob | pea [shooting Himself in the mouth. A’ gratulation. It was much like any phy to his house, which they set on “ ” |letter signed Grace waa found lying other fashionable wedding pe , at, Ce Chief of the “Aunties” and His | or .. table in hia roam. ‘The auth | ‘There was one notiecab roger rt Sa. 5 oreo Silly Talk. lor said she was sorry not to have | That was the lack of any r Va Wl SORNREE TT aoe tater be |seen him on Tuesday night. It is to Lieut. Richmond " fo» | 36th. ot Maen. eS ne been Nonsense repeated persistently | thought @ difficulty in his love gon. This wax Terence to| Wrenched an iron bar from the be often assumes the color of sense in| afairs caused the young tnan tol the expressed wishes of the groom. | stead and with it Droke a hole age the eyes of the public. This is our| suicide. Among the papers found | Mr, Erber, who is a leading Jeweler | floor of his cell. | Through ths & excuse for again directing attention| in Floyd's pockets war a member-|of Texarkana, was In the Southern | he dropped into a 29-tadh Bik ait to the utterance of Professor von| ship card in the “Black Rabbit | city attending te prosaic details |er, which ran back to 8 creek. Out Holst diab,” one Of ths taabh Vielbwa enorte | oe wusiness when the mewspapere in-| Of the other ond of She senor Professor Von Holst on Wednes-| in this city. This place was closed ¢ormed him of Miss Arnold's pretty ¢F wied and dis age i poe bs sig | day asserted that the $20,000,000 to be|up Wednesday morning by the po- coup. They were not engaged at the Pletely as if the earth had swallo paid by this country to Spain was) jice, who are just now purging the time, but became #o # afterward, | ea him up. the purchase price of the Philip-| city of dens of this character. It Is said that the rumor of the gal Then the search, which had be pines. | The Black Rabbit club was pat- jantry of t he ¢ the Merrimac | continued for nearly 17 years, w 4 ‘The treaty of peace and the proto-|terned after the McGurk resorts, jastened the proposal of the Texas) began. Every now and then wor col show that the $20,000,000 In ques-| which have become notorious owing jeweler uid come that Cevalia had been | tion is merely indemnity for moneys|to the many suicides committed” sias Arnold was the belle of Long | seen In some part of the country actually expended in public im-| within their walls, Reach. L. 1, last summer. Lieut, | The arrest of the suspect would fol- | provements in the jalands of Spain. | Hobson was the guest of honor at a/! nd the nherife w ould gare Professor Von Holat said that the . fon given at the Long Beach|long journey, only to fing 5 United ‘sates bought the Phiip.| A Bisagreeabte Weighbor, | reception, kiven a) tin iim little | prisoner was not the man wanted, pines Sie notice coptnene between you Pe athe jandiond dared Mise Ar —_————_—_—— ‘The treaty and the protocol show | and Mra. Nextdore. “What ts ihe o kiss the hero. She was a that the Philippines, with their in- | trouble?” potenti be ed man and took the} No Lack of Soldiers. habitants, were ceded to us, with-| “She sent her little boy over yes- £ ee The echo of the kiss ran| Last yoar, after the heat of war yut price, by treaty, the highest and |terday for @ stepladder we borrow can 4 the world. Appalled at the| waa over and when it had already most binding expression of interna-|ed of her two years ago. The artful OPN enor girliah act, Miss Ar-| become pathetically manifest that tional law. | wornan let it stay here all that time | Oa cod How silly people are! | the mugwumps" polltical disappotnt Professor Von Holst asked by what | 80 she could send for it some day | wt at do f care about Lieut. Hob-| ments had brought them to a stage right we assumed to control and|and make me feel cheap.” er Tam a patriot and I kissed his|of acute mania, their spokesmen govern the Inhabitants of the Philip- | —anrerestes | patriotic 1—not him.” gloated over a vision of coming pines. THIS TRADE lg sit pence ltrouble for this country which had By right of sovereignty legally sur- ‘f presented itself to their disordered rendered to us, as the same right Ch ae all Mag séhy limagination. Tt was a picture of na- was surrendered by France to Ger- ’ MILLE one aaron lvod the| tional calamity due to inability to many In the case of Alxace-Lorraine, | DOESN T PAY Wilson, north of here, has solved the) vrai our army to a size sufficient and by Spain to the United States in| problem of cheap fuel a nivale “1 to hold and guard the conquests of the case of Florida | and his neighbors. He hauls soll) vor, It was all well, they said, to Professor Von Holst asked what one from the ereek bottom — au mye provide by legislation for such an right we had to suppress the Philip-| WASHINGTON, March 21.—For | !nto bia cattle « aghe during ile | army, but tt was another matter to pine Insurrection. 90 years the wages of glass Diowers | summer, and after ; eee ayo t men to enlist tn it, and they ex The right of a sovereign power to|in this country have decreased and |UeHMY tramped and hecomis aly | ay ver the notion that our vie- maintain itself within its territory, |the conditions of thelr life and labor |!# equal to the peat Of toe Nee) coy in war would thus be brought reinforced by the obligation to pro-| have grown worse. These two im- °°" # and better tea ws to naught, and America displayed to tect the property of its own eltizens| portant statements were made by the cheap coal here. He sells a great) ee world as nation iIncap und the citizens of foreign powers! Dennis A, Hayes, president of the 14! of It | able of self-defense because of Its within the borders of Its jurisdictio: What is Professor Von Holst try- ing to do, anyhow Does he seek exchange the role of @ public for that of a public clown? THE BEFECTIVE APPEAL. Man is so selfish that no sermon can be expected to reach him unless it encourages him to lay up treasure for himself somewhere. enmiert2 leficiency In military spirit Hass Bottle Blowers’ Association of Aimetion, before the industrial com. |Woluntary Advance of Wages. | wo are now testing practically the mission. Men now earn $25 a week| The advance in wages all over the| question of our ability to enlist a for « period of ten months, some-| country has been spontaneous and]! new army. The terms of enlistment times only seven or eight months, in| voluntary, The workmen did not/of all the volunteer forces and of a year, he said. Previous to 20 years | even have to atrike to get It, or even| many of the regulars w'll expire ago they had better wages 4 to ask for it, It came with the | with the formal and offlelai conclu worked a longer period. ‘The life of | turning wave of prosperity as bud} sion of war on the exchange of ra a bottle blower 20 years ago was and leaf with the promise of frult| tifeations of the treaty of pea R easier and he could work until 60/come with the returning wave of|cruiting stations have been es | years of age, The work has become | spring. tablished at different points, ther | being two general reerulting stat jin thin state, one at Albar ! jother at New j a | ring the for et datos off mont extran | are f in made diffioult ed in obtaining and 4 1 to 4 the inturgen enemies of expan |awain over the damp that the danger involve uid 5 lupon the Amer ve fret, hor Jing in the stimulated the | enlistment toer ho maw ner and the fresh as the recruiting tat and agegresniveness of youth t not de ted from the A jrace, however forelan they may be to the peace-at-any-price tempera | ment.—New York Sun, PLAGUE IS SPREADING LONDON, March 21.—ingland's failure to make the Egyptian gov ernment put a stop to the pilgrim ages to Mecca, where the plague has broken out, has alarmed the Eng lish medical authorities, who believe this negligence will cause a vantly extended outbreak of the diseus« Canes of plague are found now from the region of the Mediterranean, east to Hongkong, and south as far as Mozambique, It is impossible for Egypt to escape the ravages of the plague, which wilt make its intre duction into Europe easy. A Necklace of Human Fingers. There te in the National Museum at Washington the strange most curious necklace which the Unite States government owns, it is com posed of © human fingers, sewed « ® strip of buckskin, elabor ly beaded. It came from a tepee be- longing to a Yaqui Indian chief tn | the Sierra Madre mountains in Mex- j ico, and was an heirloom of his j family. The bits of anatomy which go to make up the necklace once belonged to the enemies and other persons slain by a famous Yaqui chief, and are supposed to have been placed in the position they now occupy upon the buckskin more than a century ago Owing to their present blackened condition it is impossible to decide definitely whether in the original they belonged to Indians, Mexicans or white people. From their ag pearance, however, {it is judged that they were the property of men, wo- men and = children, Indian the siaughterer evidently having made up his grewsome trophy from thoee who for some special reason wore worthy of undying remembrance ‘The habit of finger collecting ex- insted about half a century ago among pearly all of the Southern tribes of Indians. There might be disputes about scalps, the redmen argued, but no one could question the evidence of a finger. j Some Indian tribes combined the! hand and finger trophy, or rather the use of them, and possessed both. In the early days of the invasion of the western section of this country by the whites, the story is told of the mysterious disappearance of a wagon train, of which nothing was ever heard of until a white man | who had escaped from the Apache by whom he had been taken prison- jer, reported that the chief of a neighboring tribe had, about the} time the caravan disappeared, sud- denly appeared one day with a neck- lace composed entirely of white hu- man fingers, which had not long parted company with thelr owners. —New York Journal, deen Rich Arab’s Harem. ently A woman who has re: in Tunis had exceptional portunities to learn all t daily life of the women of the har- ems tn the houses of the ric Ar abs. She says “A rich Arab’s wife leads a very lagy wort of a life, She has abso-| ltutety no education, and leaves the management of her house to ser vants, though {t sometimes amuses her to do a little cooking. Mer day Is usually taken up with bathing, | drensing and sleeping | | “There are bands of negresser wt |o around the harems dancing and playing on two stringed violins tambourines and castanets, or sing ing in harsh, crackled voices. Som of the negresses are very lively and entertaining, and are in great r | quest as story tellers, A great lady lis never alldwed to see a man if it is possible to avoid it, or rather h is not allowed to see her, for st manages to catch sight of the even through her double lattices o wood and iron, Her brother may only visit her with her husband permission. “When she is ill and It Is absolute ly imperative that a doctor should be sent for, great are the prepara-| tons. A servant has to be in at- tendance, and hides her completely under the bedclothes. Suppos that her pulse has to be felt, then the servant covers her hand and arm so carefully that only the wrist ts visible. If she has hurt her back, a hole is made in the sheets so that the doctor may. be just able to ex amine the injured part.”"—New York Journal — Take Get one that hangs ar be eck, but for fifty-tw t faithful in serv tracts the particular a Strongest Top Coat 800-802 F ———— jon the seashore }a very thickly set HENOIRS The Admiral May Write a Book, 4 1 depend lare uy mot » the full grade . ain hew that tween hinns One of th sages from the admiral which refer to hit, relation with Aguinaldo, They positively re the insurgent ehief'* claim promised to secure for now an Inde. ’ government in return for the assistance of the troops. They very distinctly bring out the fact that no promises whatever were made by the admiral that would put nt ur the governr any obligation to the Insurgents Dewey found himeelf in an emer- gency wh h w the serv ot rulnaldo’s troops would be of cone siderable help to him, and Aguine arently being anxious to as. Americans at that time, the pted his offer. events, and the sur- Man the admiral has navy department thorough- kept the ly posted on the local situation in- depen f what the general of the army may have reported to the war department. These messages, showing ae they do, the heen insight of the writer, possess an interest bee yond their mere hist value. ¢ president, through the navy department, has frequently asked Dewey for advice that might assist in solving the Philippine problem, telegraphic correspondence he admirals responses, the offered being that 4 in the appointment This contains last counsel which r by the Presifent of the Philippine comminntc In speaking of the matter said: “I am convinced that there is considerable room for an investigation of the capabilities of the Filipinos for self-government, and I know of no better manner fe pursuing such @ study than by a commisaion appointed for that pur- The Filipinos are entitled to consideration for what they have accomplished for themselves in the past, but to just what extent they should be recognized is as yet an open question.” EK. L. K. PHILIPPINE STATISTICS WASHINGTON, March 21.—Prof, Knapp, of the agricultural depart« ment, who has just returned from Manila, says that the population of those Islands is been very much estimated “There are not half as many peos e in the Philippines as supposed,” raid this forenoon. “Instead of 0,000 1 think there are about 4 000,000. I reach my conclusion tm this way: There are 140,000 square miles of territory, including the Su- lu archipelago. About half of the islands are not fully settled by the civilized people to any extent, Here and there an outpost may be found One of the largest isiands—Mindanao—is thinly settled, I am assured by excellent authority that only about one-third of the land is tillable and that two-thirds bes # to the government. At a very eral estimate the ¢ about 40 000 square miles settled. If you take the state of New York and omit the clties you will have left a pop- on of 2,000,000, and it would be lberal estim to say that » islands are twice as tled as New York.” pore some ov large ulat Philiy A Small Letter. The smallest letter that ever went |through the New York postoffice was sent last week. It was fust the # a two-cent stamp—not the large o but the amall style, about %x% of an inch in size. There was naturally no room on t front s of the envelope for the #8, #0 it had to be written on ok urs the address of Miss Bessie rs, No Amsterdam avenue, and was written by 8. D. Lewis, of No, 12 West 1034 avenue. When the envelope Is opened, the little letter that drops out is just one-half an in ide by 11-16 of an inch long. It has four pages and is neatly written and perfectly legible witho It contains ‘The letter t a microsec just 1M words. * so small that it looked just lk postage stamp in the letter drop at the Bighty-fourth street branch postoffice. When It was ¢ vered to be a genuine ? t+ ter, the canceller put {t through Als machine with great care. He hand- to a carrier, who took especial pains to see that it got to its address safely.—New York Journal. TF You are out for a Top Coat< the Hint nd sets right, not fora o and over. Get one t has some tone to it, and one that is’ This establishment at. nd tasty dressers... /A Batch of Top Coats Just in. Do You Need One? TAKE THE HINT J- REDELSHEIMER & CO. House Ih the State, irst Ave., Cor. Columbia,

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