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WHY WE CANNOT CONQUER THEM. KANSAS IS NOT IN IT. THE RICHEST MAN OF ALL. problem of Philippine conquest la not a military one. This country un doubtedly haa the physical force to make the Inlands a deaolatlon and call It peace. We can harry their coasts. We can ravage their fields. We can 4rive their fleeing lnhabitanU to moun tain faatnessc and dash their little ones against. a stone. If it la a mere , Question of brute strength of money and men and ships and guns we can mploy It without limit. We can kill and bum and destroy like avengers of God. No one doubts this. Mr. McKIn ley, In boasting of the new forces he haa got together for bending the Fili pinos to his will, Is only glorying as a full-grown man might in his ability to break every bone In the body of the street waif. The disparity Is too glar ing. If we exert our glant'a strength to crush the Filipino, we can undoubt edly do it. But what we assert is that It Is not a question of mere force ma jeure. There are moral obstacles in our path more terrible than an army with banners. If we wage a war of extermination against the Filipinos, they will have invisible allies mightier than all the battalions that tread the earth, so that they that be with them re more than they that be with us, and we can never conquer them. We cannot conquer the Filipinos be cause we cannot, as a nation, place ourselves In a pillory to become the hissing of mankind; canont Justify the bitter taunt of the Spaniard that our pretended unselfishness and humanity were but thinly veiled greed and cru elty; cannot give fresh edge to the sneers of Germans at our vaunted pur pose to set a captive race free, and to the cynicism of Frenchmen at the ex pense of our mission of Justice and lib erty; cannot make our beat friends In England hang their heads In shame; cannot put It In the power of the civ ilized world to say that our generous professions were a hollow mockery and our plighted faith no better than a harlot's vow. We cannot conquer the Filipinos be cause we canont march over the dead bodies of our national leaders and pro phets and heroes; cannot look Into the grave and troubled face of Washington bidding us remember that "the basis of our political system" is the right of a people to make its own government, and urging ua to exhibit to the world the "too novel example of a people al ways guided by an exalted Justice and benevolence;" cannot, in Lincoln's presence, "ask a Just God's assistance'' In the effort to "bestride the necks of a people because they will be better off for being ridden;" cannot, with Mc Klnley leading us. do what he said would be an act of "criminal aggres lon;" cannot welcome and applaud Dewey while going In the teeth of his aylng, "Rather than make a war of THE READY FIGHTING BOER. The Transvaal Boer Is always ready to fight. He carries his rifle on his shoulder and a piece of blttong in his pocket, mouchlng around over the veldt o that If a field comet gallops up to tell him that war. has been declared be may Mart for the front at once. Prf-spect of an occasion to use his rifl has ever sent a gleam Into th ordinarily dull eye of the Boer and made of him a changed man. Wheth er the object be a human being or a wild duck matters not to him. his one thought being to glance along a gleam ing barrel and hit small objects at long range. When he shoots at a British soldier, therefore hi- drat examinee him carefully to see if he Is an officer, I and then picks out some particular but ton or conspicuous part of the uniform on which to rest his sight. He doe this partly from force of habit. Just as he aims at the white breast or a quck, though It Is an unwritten order in Boer warfare to kill the officers, or chiefs. If possible. When the captain or commandant sees an officer It I? his plan to select about six of the best marksmen available to Are simultane ously at him. The higher his rank the better. The man so carefully selected may be regarded as doomed. To an American these methods may seem cold-blooded and cruel; but It ' must be remembered that the Trans vaal burghers hate the English as they do the dreadful black spiders that In fest the country and always refer to the British soldier as ruineks, or red necks. There are two explanations of this name. One is that when the Eng lish came to the Cape an old Dutchman noticed that when John Bull got angry be grew red about the neck. In the Transvaal they say the name arose when the British dragoons were quar tered there from the red coat collars which made the uniform conspicuous. For the English the Boers have framed this particular defiance: "If you will have our country, take It: but It shall be over our bodies and the aBh heaps of our property and goods." Paul Kruger himself Is the author of the catch phrase which was embodied In the celebrated third proclamation made In 1KS1, when the British were hector ing the old farmers. It was no Idle threat of dramatic bluff. Any one who has seen these long-legged, weather-beaten plainsmen get together at a rally has realized that they would never give up their country until all were wiped out men, women and children. In spite of' the Boers being scattered OUT OF THE ORDINRY. Newgate prison In London Is to be thus reducing the sentence to sixty years. Ex-Fresldent Pierola of Peru Is said to be the richest man In South Amer ica, being possessed of a fortune esti mated at $50,000,000. Don Eduardo Lo pes de Romans, the new president, Is, by training, almost an Englishman. He was sent to London when only ten rears old and was educated at Stony hurst college. Senator Hanan Is said to have paid for hla suite of apartments at Clar Idgea hotel, where he stopped while In London, 175 guineas a wckk. This Is about $925. demolished and the site wilt be occu pied by the new criminal court build ing. The Inst execution In this old Jail, where so many have died for the benefit if not the glory of their coun try, occurred during ihe week Just past. I The word finis has been written be neath the Newgate calendar, and an other landmark famous In literature and history will b missed In the hear future by the curious traveler. conquest of this people, I would up an chor and sail out of the harbor." We cannot conquer the Filipino be cause we cannot use any of our his toric battle cries in the fight against them; cannot allow our soldiers to give one countersign of liberty while pursu ing them; cannot arm our officers and men with the triple armor of a Just cause; cannot nerve our troops with a hatred of the enemy nearly as Intense as their hatred of the cruel and repel lant work they are set to do; cannot look upon a victory except with shame that it Is won over a foeman so unwor thy of our steel; cannot ask a beaten army and trust to our good faith, lest the taunt be hrown in our face, as it was in President Schurman's by a Fili pino envoy, that American faith la not a thing to be considered seriously. We cannot conquer the Filipino be cause the country and congress will not give the president the money neces sary to pursue his ruthless work; be cause an outraged public sentiment will demand that he quit doing what we went to war with Spain to stop her do ing; because burdened taxpayers will protest against being made to pay for shot and shell which wise statesman ship should be able to do without the firing of a gun; because we are too gTeat a nation to trample on the weak, to free a people to permit chains to be riveted on another race by our agents and In our name, and too Jealous a re publican commonwealth to Bee our blood and treasure poured out for the benefit of a favored few. And if, in spite of all, the war of conquest and extermination la pushed to Its bloody end; if the last Filipino town goes up in smoke and flame; if the last armed native lg brought to bay in swamp or pass, and falls under our volleys; It Is not the Filipinos who will be conquered; they, even as they die before the pitiless hall of our bullets, may well exclaim, "Americans, you have not conquered us, you have con quered yourselves; in our ruin you have pulled down the pillars of your own temple of liberty; In beating us down you have trampled upon your own his tory and principles; In destroying our republlo you have destroyed your own." WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Montreal, Aug. 29. Dr. Mariano Ponce, private secretary to Emilio guinaldo, is here en route from London to Manila. In an interview he said: 'My country fights and will fight for her Independence, because she Is fully convinced that it is a duty Imposed by Providence. The amlbtion of a power ful nation Is not enough to make her renounce her destiny. She is ready to make every sacrifice for the defence of the freedom of the land. The last word in the question haa been said by my nation. The Philippines will become an merlcan possession only when there are no more Filipinos." all over the Transvaal, the whole na- tlon can be mobilized In two or three days, a proceeding which probably cannot be duplicated by any other country. This la possible owing to the Boers' constant equipment In light marching order) The moment that Kruger decides to declare war, Joubert either telegraphs or sends relays ot messengers to each commandant. This officer promptly notifies the several field cornets In his district and the latter either dispatch their assistants, who gallop here and there on the veldt, sounding the alarm, or else make bon fires at night and pillars of smoke bjf day, the pre-arranged signals for wan From a dull, apathetic, Ill-kept and lazy dreamer the Boer is then trans formed into a quick-witted, cunning and energetic being. The Transvaal burgher, indeed, Is a most peculiar com bination of phlegmatic Dutchman and wildly excited Latin. On the veldt he will loaf around In the sun and only move to reload his pipe. In the Raad chambers the sergeant-at-arms often times Is unable to maintain order. The members leap aroundw, throwing their arms, shout and carry on like anarch ists. Pretoria Is guarded by four forts, one at each of the four corners of the town. Heavy guns of the Krupp make are installed here under the direction of Herman, Dutch and French officers. Men have been drilled to train these guns effectively and the town la supplied with provisions to withstand a long siege. The latter method has been the favorite one spoken of by the English to conquer tho Boers. The Transvaal Is such a poor country that wild animals cannot exlHt In some parts of It, ami the British experts have always null! that to starve the burghers would hi the easiest way of subduing them. Kru ger has provided against thin Is some measure by building a great granary, where meats and canned food nre stored in large quantities. He has little feai of such a pass, however, and said re cently that the English "might build a wall arouna mem as niun an jrnrra and then he and his people would II v comfortably for twenty years." Thi ioers do not worry much about beln starved out. for a Boer can do rnort work on less food thun any other hu man being If he wants to He Is ac customed to lling on the veldt foi weeks with no nourishment but a long strip of dried meat, called "bltton," cof fee and mealies, wnai ne most, areau? 1 to be deprived of coffee, BREAST OF LAMB. A breast of lamb should be simmer ed, not boiled, until It Is thoroughly tender, wltri vegetables and savory herbs, as well as seme peppercorns and a little salt. When It Is done enough weight on top. When cold turn out and garnish with parsley. TOO HOT TO HANDLE. From the Memphis Scimitar: A well known Mississippi fanner will hmv cause to remember his recent visit to Memphis. Me stopped In a well known cafe, and among other things ordered a sirloin steak. A bottle of tobasco sauce was on the table, and, mistaking It for catsup, he spread It quite lavish ly on the steak and settled down . enjoy the meal. He cut off a big piece, but no sooner had It struck hl mouth than he began to feel as If hli tongue was on fire. He twisted and turned and soon had the eyes of every one In the dining hall fastened on him. The more he twisted and screwed u face the hotter the steak In his moutii ( JIa ddn.t know wnat wa the matter. He could stand It no longer, and, reaching uj his hand he Jerked out the burning bite, threw it on the floor, and In a very dramatic way e. claimed: "Now, d you, blase!" Lawrencevllle, III. (Special.) Kansas Is not in it with Indiana as a sunflower state. A man down here Is advertising for l.Otio.OOO pounds of sunflower seed. He has bought three-fourths of a million pounds of sunflower seed and expects to ship 5,000 pounds. Practically all of this crop raised in the world goes out of Lawrence coun ty. This same man who Is now buying the seed by the train load got rich by raising such things on his rented farm, going into the market for strange and unusual things, while his neighbors Btuck to wheat and corn and hogs. His name is W. K. Crackel and he is both shrewd and inquisitive, but while sup plying the world with what sunflower Beed It needs he has never been able to find out what the world does with it. This sunflower sed industry is not only an art exhibit and a poem, but one of the greatest mysteries as well. A good many people here are engag id in It now, but It Is not so profitable as it was to the grower. Farmer Crack el sold his first big crop for 9 cents a pound; the next year his neighbors put out a good deal of land In sunflow ers and sold the product for 8 cents a pound, which was some hundreds of dollars per acre. Then came the del uge. Everybody In Petty township planted sunflowers instead of corn, and the farmers accomplished their own undoing. One township in this county broke the market from 8 cents to 2 cents by causing an overproduction in the world's supply. Then many went back to corn and wheat, and now things have settled down to a basis that pays wel enough, but does not make rich men. The sunflower Is grown from the seed, and a 20-acre field soon after it comes up looks like a patch of ground much neglected to the weeds. The plants are cultivated somewhat, but in the rich soli of the island, where Crackel start ed the industry and where it still flour ishes, the sunflower grows to unbe lievable proportions with little care. Early In the season the field takes on the color of the soft, rich green pe culiar to the leaves of the plant, and a little later blotches of dep yellow ap pear all over the green palette, as one by one the flowers stick themselves above the general level like township committeemen at a political meeting. The field on a level with the top of the low rail fence is one plane, the plants being interwoven with their long broad leaves Intermingled in what seems to be a perfect amalgamation. The flowers that first appear are not much larger than a saucer and are light yellow in color. Each day more of them can be counted, every one on a tall upshoot and bending its bead In the most dignified way Imaginable, making the field loko like a crowd of tonsured courtiers saluting their king. They bow toward the sun as a general rule, bending to the east In the morn ing, the south at noon and the west In the evening. As late summer comes, no view Is richer than forty or eighty acres of sunflowers. The color tone Is yellow then a rich, deep yellow with Just enough dark brown for harmony and a little dark green for contrast. High stand the stalks and each Is bowed low with its weight of flower, but still THIS BISHOP TRAMPS. Wilmington, Del. Special.) Hale and hearty, the Right Rev. Lelghton Cole man, bishop of the Protestant Episco pal diocese of Delaware, ha3 returned from his annual pedestrian tour. He tramped 220 miles along country roads over mountains, and through a desolate region ot Southwestern Virginia, ac quiring a rich coat of sunburn on his kindly face, and losing a few pounds of flesh from his rotund form. He was away from Wilmington ex actly two weeks, eleven days of which were devoted to the tramp of 220 miles. The greatest distance traveled In one day was 32 miles; but the roads were In no condition to add to the pleas ures of a pedestrian tour. He did not travel on Sundays nor did he attend the services In village churjehes, but he sought the seclusion of the woods, where he Improvised an altar and said the services of the Protestant Episco pal church. To persons whom he meets while on these long walks through the country Bishop Coleman is only an idler, and merely "Coleman" to the chance acquaintance. Bishop Coleman Is 62 years of age, and retains the vigor and activity of youth. He attributes his remarkable physical condition to his love for walk ing. Since boyhood he has been fond of walking, and with the exception of very few years he has made an annual tramp ever Blnee 1861. He estimates that he has covered 8,000 miles In this man ner. While out In a blizzard several years ago he contracted a cold in his left eye and lost the sight of It as a result of his fondness for pedestrlan ism. When about the ordinary duties of his diocese Bishop Coleman is dig nified in appearance, yet democratic tn manner. He has a round, smiling luce, and probably Is as widely known anil respected as any bishop in tne united States. Nor does his acquaintance ena with the American continent, for while attending the Lambeth conference In 1-JnKland he tramped to many places of Interest, Just to satisfy his fondness for walking. When starting on his annual walk, Bishop Coleman Is transformed In ap pearance. An old linen duster that has done service for many years replaces the cloth of the church; rough working clothing takes the place of his usual neat attire; heavy walking shoes incase his feet, and an old black, broad-brim med hat covers his head. An old silver watch with a black cord Instead of a chain, that It may not tempt thieves, and a heavy cane complete the equip ment of the tourist. The bishop left Wilmington on the morning of Septem ber 6 last, and made his way toward tho wilds of Virginia. Just where he went he wll Inot say, as he does not care to embarrass those whose hospitality he enjoyed Incognito, He always trav els In this manner and perhaps for the first time since he adopted this plan he was recognized this year. Passing from one room to another In a railway station at his starting point, he heard some one cry, "Hello, Bishop." Sur prised, the bishop wheeled around and recognized a little girl whom he met In a seaside resort In July last. He was acquainted with the entire family, and declined an Invitation to dinner, a he desired to follow the Itinerary. At the outset the bishop said he discover ed a new reason for traveling Incognito. As he was reclining one afternoon un der the shade of a sehoolhouse, some what weary after a long day's tramp, two passing horsemen saw him. "That old fellow's got a big load on, I reckon," remarked one of the horse men audibly. "Lifelong abstainer as I have been" the bishop said the other evening, "1 wa the more amused, because only a few ar'nutcs before I had approved of reaching far above the fence and the corn in the adjoining field. The narrow, yellow petals wither and fall away, or turn brown and sere, and then the harvesting of this most unique crop begins. The heada are cut off the stalks by hand and thrown into a wagon. After being carefully dried they have lost all their beauty and are dark, angular, ugly things that im press one most with their size. Some of the flowers are as large In diameter as six columns of a newspaper 1b wide and the brown tonsure in the center is oft en a foot in diameter after the petals have fallen and it is dried. The seed is separated by running the heads thro' an ordinary threshing machine cylin der, which knocks the seeds from the pockets In which they are imbedded. The operation of cleaning is rather crude yet, there being no special ma chine's for the purpose. The yield per acre varies greatly. A field of flowers only as large as a des sert plate will not have half the amount of seed as a field of flowers as large as a half-bushel. Almost any kind ot land with slight attention will yield 600 pounds to the acre, and crops of I, 600 pounds to the acre are not un common, although they are the result of extra attention by growers who have studied the habits and needs and the sunflower and who have very rich land. Just now the buyers are paying from II. 25 to $1.50 per hundred pounds foi the seed delivered at the warehouse. The cost of raiHing an acre of sun flowers is very much less than the cost of an acre of wheat or corn, and the crop is more certain. This city ia the gireat sunflower market of the worwld, but smaller quantities, com paratively, are bought at Bridgeport, St. Franclsvllle, Sumner, Birds and others of the smaller towns In this county, each station sending out sever al carloads In a year. The crop of 1899 Is now being threshed and sent to market and in this county will aggre gate about 5,000,000 pounds In the opin ion of those most interested. Small quantities of sunflower seed are sent to market occasionally from widely separated points In the United States, but In no other place Is the seed rais ing made a business. What does the world do with 5.000, 000 pounds of the seed of a plant com monly associated only with an esthetic craze? Only a very few men know, and they wont tell. The secrecy which en velops the whole matter of Its use, like the hist of the stage burgler, suggests that it Is an adulterant. It once sold readily at 10 cents a pound, which was the equivalent of nearly 12 a gallon for the oil, and what oil can be used for an adulterant at such a price? The same man, Crackel, who started the whole thing here as a farmer and now handles nearly the whole crop as a dealer in grain, thought of all that. He Is a man who takes excellent care of his own business and at the same time has a philanthropic interest In the do ings of his neighbors down here, where everybody visits everybody else. Some other people had a casual curiosity about the matter, but when they dis covered that Crackel had to shamefac edly admit what he did not know and could not find out, they let it go at that. Crackel found out that the oil was pressed from the seed, and that was all. the sentiment of two men with whom I was In conversation that 1 would as soon drink a quart of kerosene as a quart of whisky." Plodding along, the Bishop met an other pedestrian, an Austrian, who found delight In viewing the country from the road. This was the first time in the bishop's career as a tourist that he met another person who was trav eling for the pleasure in it. A friendly conversation followed, the bishop im parting Information to the foreigner, who was making his first pedestrian trip in this country. The first night, like many others, was spent in a farmhouse. The bishop rapped at the door, and the man of the house opened It. The farmer was about to give the bishop lodging for the night when his wife, from the head of the stairs, started a parley with her husband and the supposed tramp, finally withdrawing all objec tion when she saw the bishop's benign face. At one house the bishop was HHked what he had to sell, and after sleeping for a night In another farm house, he was cautiously asked If he was not a revenue officer looking for moonshiners, as he was suspected of being a detective. An intelligent farmer Informed the bishop that he was sur prised to see such a man living as a tramp, as his face was that of a re fined person. "What is your name?" the farmer asked. "Coleman," responded the Bishop. The farmer said he regarded walkins as hard work, and could find no pleas ure In it. At none of the houses where he lodg ed did the bishop Bee a daily paper for the whole two weeks. But he met a poet who was manufacturing a topical poem, of which the bishop made a copy. It began like this: She was a beuatlful peach, Of the kind ten cents each, But she did not drink lemonade. The bishop suggested some rhymes and changes In the manuscript, but was Informed by the poet that it would be revised by "somebody who would know how." At another farm the conversation was In regard to diseases and theii cure, and the bishop was greatly amus ed at the declaration of the father that he had cured his son of fits by placing the boy's head against an oak tree and driving a nail Into the tree. The bishop did not walk all the time. Frequently he engaged In conversation with farm ers who offered him lifts in wagons. At other times he sat under shade trees and attended to hla correspondence. His mall is enormous and he arranged with Mrs. Coleman to forward all cor respondence at stated Intervals. Thus the bishop would recline In the shade, write necessary replies and mall them at the next postofllce. For five hours In his walk one day he did not see a single person, which gives an Idea of the country through which he passed. He scaled the Blue Ridge mountains, the ascent requiring three hours. One afternoon the bishop broke the staff which he had carried on pedestrian tours for a dozen years at least. A few nights found the bishop lodging In country taverns where the villagers would swap yarns. This year he was not compiled to sleep In a barn, as he was last year. Altogether he regards his tour as one of the most pleasant he has ever had, although It was devoid of exciting Incidents. To complete his Journey the bishop traveled 300 mllca by train from Virginia to mis city, ana then walked from the station to Blsh opstcad, a distance of a mile, and even then was up bright and early the next day about the duties of the church. New York. Special.) The only man In the world ever reputed to be worth $1,000,000,000 one thousand million dol lars is the Anglicized German, Alfred Beit, whose address, if you care to know, is simply Cape Town, or Kim berley, or Johannesburg, South Africa, or Park Lane, London. Mr. Beit is on the foolish side of 50, having been born in Hamburg in 1853, and has made his fabulous fortune in the last twenty-four years. It is all very like a fairy book tale to read of a man worth a thousand millions, but it seems like a Christmas spectacle to read that what has made him so rich is not land or railroads or factories or shops, or wheat corners, or oil fields, but Just gold and dia monds. The very things that stand for riches came to him In the first Instance, not as a result of riches but their cause. Alfred Beit was a well-educated mer chant's son in Hamburg, destined to go Into the office, where he would learn to check and supervise accounts re lating to shipments and receipts of goods to and from the ports of the earth; to inherit a comfortable income from a staid old shipping business; to cultivate a family, a taste In music, a proper regard for beer, and to go to his fathers a respected but very little known German merchant. But about the time he was going Into business and giving up the duels and other delights of student days, there was a sudden commerce with the young South African town of Kim berley, which promised such develop ment that his firm considered it wise to send a representative into this new marvel land to examine and see if the resources of the country Justified the big credits the trades In all sorts of stores and machinery were demand ing from Hamburg merchants. Diamonds, wealth in Its most concen trated form, had been found in the Orange River country In 1866, and in 1870, or possibly a year earlier, reports came of even greater diamond mines found in Klmberley to the northwest. There was a rush to the country from all over South Africa, and soon from all over the world, but it was not until 1875 that the slow-moving, conservative Hamburg firm of which the elder Beit was a member, felt the tremendous im petus of the new trade strongly enough to induce them to send out and investi gate. That sort of work required the vigor and health and activity and, perhaps, the enthusiasm of a youngster, and so Alfred Belt, then 22 years of age, was outfitted with credit, with arms, with letters of Introduction, with careful in structions and a paternal blessing and set sail for Cape Town, thence by bul lock team for the railroad was not yet built across Cape Colony, the Free State, Transvaal, and so into Klm berley. He found a city of madmen. Thousands had rushed In, taken up or bought land, worked the wonderful blue or yellow clay, filled, as Is a pud ding with fruit, with the dull stones which could be cut ana poiisnea into the Jewels for which the world would give fortunes. There was chaos In the laws, chaos In the manner of working mines, chaos in the trade which competition had al ready nearly ruined; there were enor mous elosses from thefts; the "I. D. B." business illicit diamond buying had grown to scandalous proportions, and altogether the young German saw u state of affairs which if not remedied would compel him to report unfavor ably on the credit of the new districts. He was cool-headed, a man of orderly business methods by inheritance, and he saw that there could very easily be too much of a good thing, even dia monds. THE TRADE St. Paul. Minn Special.) St. Paul and Minneapolis are the largest frog markets In the world. The total re ceipts for the past year from the frog catchers of the state exceeded 500,000 dozen, requiring the slaughter of no less than 5,000,000 frogs. Five years ago no frogs were shipped out of Mln nesota. Now the business amounts to upward of $100,000 a year. A wonder ful Industry has grown up In St Paul and Minneapolis in supplying the unit ed States with frog legs. Froga are found In other states, of course. In the south the supply will probably nev er become exhausted, but there are no frogs like the Minnesota product for the epicure. This is attributed to tne clear, cool water which is found in Mlnensota's 10.000 lakes in which the froes live and have their nests. Frog legs are purchased all through the state by shippers from these two cities, and this occupation gives em ployment to more than 100 families, who make a good living the year round. The professional frog catcher can tell a froe pond at a glance ana tney can locate the frog nests and Becure the greatest number In a surprisingly short space of time. Minnesota-caught frogs are known the "world over for their delicacy of flavor. They are in great demand in New York, Cincinnati, in all of the At lantic states, in California and in fact In every state north of St Louis, and the demand Is constantly Increasing. The greatest demand for frog legs ex ists In the larger cities and comes largely from hotels andi restaurants, but throughout the coal and Iron dis tricts a good demand for them is grow ing. In St. Paul and Minneapolis frog legs are to be found on the bill of fare of nearly every hotel and restaurant. Here they cost from 35 to 60 cents a dozen. The frog catchers are located near the smalelr lakes throughout the state. They know all of the characteristics of the frog, where to find him, how to catch him, and where he nests. The heaviest catches are In the fall and spring. In the spring the froga come out of' their nests In droves and It Is then easy to catch them. In the fall they return to the water as soon as cold weather approaches, and It Is very easy to capture great quantities of them at that time. The frog breeds very fast and as It only requires a couple of months for them to attain full size. It Is easy to understand how almost Im possible It will be to exhaust the sup ply to be found In and around the va rious lakes and ponds ot the state, which probably number more than 100, 000 breeding places. Unlike oysters, there Is a good de mand for frog legs all the year round, and It Is neceHsary to hunt them In the winter time, when the ground Is frozen to the depth of two or three feet and the ice covers the ponds to the thick ness of from twenty-four to thirty-six Inches. Hut with all these drawbacks It Is not difficult to gather In $10 a day at (his occupation. When they take to the water In the fall the professional frog-catcher watches them and learns where (hey nest, lie waits until the prices are higher In the winter and cuts the lee over this nest, scooping out great nets full of frogs. As many He undertok then a work which la usually attributed to Cecil Rhodes), who did not go into the district until some years later, the work of first combining and then systematizing the diamond mining Industry. This is not to say that Rhodes did not have a large hand in the ultimate close-corporation result. He did; but young Beit was the first In the field, first to realize that diamonds might be come so cheap as to be profitless to mine; first to begin the quiet buying up of scattered and conflicting claims; first to see that there was wealth be yond the dreams of avarice only if the production of diamonds should be kept absorbed by the nations at the old standard price. The result was a combination which is a model of its kind. The great De Beers mine has for years paid 5 per cent on its bonds and 20 per cent divi dends on its stock, and it is capitalized at $40,000,000. Then came the gold discoveries, and the German Beit was the first to see that vast production was possible only if the mines were worked on the high est scientific principles, and to accom plish that end he sent for American engineers and paid them what they wanted 126,000, $50,000, $100,000 a year in salaries. Rhodes, dashing, sensational, came along and became the chief figure In the public eye when that eye was turned toward South Africa, but al ways there was the firm of Wernher, Beit & Co. at work for the greatest profit and the smallest amount of no toriety. Now and then young Belt would do something to amaze the trade but not the public as when he had- a pure white 428-carat rough diamond cut to a 228-carat finished stone and ex hibited in a little shop window In the Rue de la Paix, Paris, as a "sample of our goods." Soon his gold and diamond mines were paying almost beyond public computation. "How much is he worth?" some on asked a friend of his once. "He prob ably could not get out more than a thousand millions now," was the re sponse, "but if he would let the price of rough diamonds go below from 28 to 30 shillings per carat, no one knowl how much he would realize. "For no one else except Rhodes knows how many barrels of diamonds they have salted away down there to keep the market steady." Rev. Sylvester Malone, the most be loved Catholic priest in Brooklyn, a much esteemed by Protestants as by the church, is lying very 111, and per haps will not rally. Father Malone has had thla paternal title freely given him by heretics, because It belongs to him, He became noted for his patriotism In the war for the union, when he kept the stars and stripes flying from the spire of his church Sts. Peter and Paul, and he has been notable since as one of the American Catholics. He is also one of the regents of the University of the State of New York. While Bishop Potter admits no more than that he is going to Honoluu, It Is generally believed that his destina tion ia the Philippines, and that he goes in an official capacity as a mem ber of the "Commission on Increased Responsibilities," recently created by the Episcopal church In America. The bishop will sail from San Francisco about October 23. . He is now pretty well established as an antl-expansion-1st, but the commission he represents Is concerned principally, possibly sole ly, with missionary work of a religloue kind. IN FROGS. as 500 to 1,000 can be ecured In one of these nests In god seasons. This keeps up the supply the year round and makes the market a steady one, com paratively. No effort has yet been made to establish frog hatcheries or to cultivate the frog, the natural supply .being so large. The frog catcher kills the frogs with a stick and gathers them up in his bag and he walks around the various lakes and ponds. He has no capital Invested and realizes from $3 to $10 per day for the time he Is employed tn the occupa tion. The average price obtained for frogs' legs In this market at wholesale is from 5 to 8 cents per dozen during the summer, but they are as high as 15 cents during the winter months. The demand for frogs' legs is steady from certain customers of the St. Paul ship pers. One of the leading New York ho tels has a standing order for fifty dozen per day. St. Louis and Chicago also have a number of houses who have a standing order for from thirty-five to fifty dozen dally, and the orders are being gradually increased as the public taste Is educated to appreciate this del. lcacy. They are all shipped by ex press, packed in ice. In the cold-storage houses here there are now aboul 200 dozen frog legs held as a reservt for emergency, the dealers often being called to supply an unusually large amount for banquets or other enter tainments. Many frog legs are solid during the summer to tourists fishing In the Minnesota lakes. The large southern bullfrog comes in competition with the Minnesota frogs In the southern states and in states bordering on the south; but the south ern product Is not regarded as highly by those with discriminating palates as the northern product. The meat Is coarse, the taste Is not as sweet or aa delicate, and there is a preference given for the frog from the clear, cold waters of the Minnesota lakes. Rev. Robert MAcDonald, pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist church. Brooklyn, haa been appointed one 01 the preachers to Harvard university for the present year to serve six weeks In residence. He la said to be the young est clergyman ever thus appointed at Harvard. He Is an alumnus of both the college and divinity school of Harvard university, and had a notably success ful career as pastor of a church In Boa ton before coming to Brooklyn, where his present church Is prominent In the Baptist denomination in America. Dime contributions In the last ten year have built a million-dollar Ro man Catholic church In Elizabeth, N. J. It will be dedicated, It is expected on the 5th or the 12th of November next, and the chimes, It Is Intended, shall ring for the first time on New Year's eve, to usher In the yeac.1,900. During the past decade nearly 70,0M conversions In the Sunday schols or ganized by the American Sunday (School union have been reported to the soci ety, and within the past eight yean over 1,100 churches have been developed from the schools in Its mission work. This in surely a magnificent ahowlnf of undenominational Christian work.