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A SUMMARY OP THE COMMERCE OP THE
Philippine islands for threo years, the period
oC American occupation, has been published by
tho Manila Review of Trade, and is referred to by
a writor in tho Now York Tribune. It is said by
tho Tribune writer that although tho resources of
tho islands aro handicapped by tho lack of labor
saving machinery, transportation facilities and
skilled labor, tho report shows a commercial in
crease to which tho Philippine partisans may
point with pride. Tho imports in 1900 amounted
to $29,601,420, and In 1902 they were valued at
$32,141,842. Of theso imports ?1,G57,701 camo from
tho United States in 1900, while in 1902 tho United
States sent $4,035,243, exclusive of tho goods sent
to tho various military departments. Tho exports
from tho Philippines In 1900 amounted to $19,
7G1,0G8, and tho amount was Increased in 1902
to $23,927,079. Tho shipments to tho' United
States showed tho greatest increase. In 1900 they
wore valued at $3,522,160, and in 1902 at $7,
091,743. Tho latter figure represents more than
33 per cont of tho total exports of tho islands.
Musa toxtills Manila heinp figures as tho chief
nrticlo of oxport, and tho increaso in product from
$11,398,943 in 1900 to $14,453,110 in 1901 and $16,
S41.31G in 1902 shows that tho American occupa
tion has had a stimulating ofTect on tho hemp
growing industry.
THE IRON FLOORING IN THE REFINING
room In tho assay office of tho United States
treasury department is to bo removed, tho dust
will bo collected and tho gold dust found on tho
floor will bo molted down. It Is related by the
Washington correspondent of tho New York
World that during ono day's work tho brooms
swept up from $1,600 to $2,000 in little flecks of
gold. It is explained that much gold escapes with
tho fumos from tho refining furnaces and goes up
through tho chimney, falling upon tho roof o tho
building. Tho roof has been swept o the dust
that has collected for a year. Tho big chimney Is
J nod with steol and In sections. Each ono of
theso sections will bo removed, tho dirt and ac-
cumulations scraped from it and put into tho melt
ing pot It will then bo repined. Tho dust has
boon collected from tho roof of tho sub-treasury
sfreet buIld'2s:'uajoInlnS tn assay office in Pino
HTHE PEOPLE OF THE DUTCH TOWN Otf
J. Brook in Holland claim that their commun
ity deserves tho title of "tho spotless town." Tho
correspondent for tho Washington Times, refer
ring to Brook says: "Tho place is painfully neat
In Brook godliness is next to cleanliness. Tho
town has a population of 2700, and it is only re
cently that horses hnvo been allowed in tho
streets. Any ono throwing scraps of paper or
fll,i Jy Bort in.the streets is arrested and
fined. But tho most striking thing about the
town is its spring house-cleaning. One ay a
dvory houso in tho town is visited by a band of
municipal house-cleaners, who scrub it and scour
it inside and out, without cost .to the occupant
Just now, unless tho strikes have interfered tho
whole town is in tho process of being cleansed
.and smells abominably of yellow soap?'2 Clean8ed
HP HE UNITED STATES BOARD OP GEO-
40klnS"'a?H n,ame3 has formally declared that
Poking is tho proper manner in which to speii
the name of China's capital. Tho Washington
correspondent for the Now York World says that
In making this decision, tho board has reversed
p2 ? IS Plalno this correspondent that
Poking has a ways been spoiled with a "g f torn
thp flro8t,atie3 ot 1858and 18G0 down to Feb
ruary 3, 1897, when tho board of geographic names
"Fekin" Tond? th t?,Xt SSSSSC
i-eian. Tho decision, attracted no comment or
attention until during tho summer of 190 tho
Boxor outbreak and tho siogo of Peking legations
gave tho government bureaus more ocewton to
use tho word than ever before. Tho war denart
ment scrupulously followed the board's deeffin
and the government printing office was rigorous
in clipping tho "g from Peking whVo?er it
appeared, so that tho whole flood of public docu
ments, reports, correspondence and mans relating
to affairs In North China is marked with the Can
" uuu lor -.reKing." it appeari
that there was none for "Pekin." The board
finally brought tho subject to a vote, and, revers
ing its decision of February, 1897, put tho govern
ment in lino with the world's best usage again
The war department is now somewhat embarrassed
by this, since its connection with the expedition
to China involved a mass of printed reports and
maps, in which tho most important names were
misspelled, according to tho latest decision. The
board was organized in 1890 to procure uniform
usage in regard to geographic names and orthog
raphy throughout tho executive departments of
tho government, and all "unsettled questions"
were to be referred to it
THE AMERICAN SHIP "ARYAN" IS' AT
tracting considerable attention theso days
bocause of the fact that It is the last wooden ship
built in America, A writer in the San Francisco
Call says that "to lovers of the once popular Yan
kee clipper, this example of a famous but disap
pearing type is held in peculiar interest. Driven
gradually to obsolescence by the less artistic but
more economical fore-and-after, the clipper typo
of sailing vessel is every year becoming rarer.
Other things being equal and barring shipwreck
or conversion, the Aryan will one day be the sole
survivor of the kind of ship that once made the
American merchant marine the marvel of the
world. The Ayran, however, has many voyages
to make before vessels like the Shenandoah, Sus
quehanna, and Roanoke, leave her as sole repre
sentative of tho American wooden clipper ship.
Ike Ayran was built in 1893 at Pipsburg, Me., and
no expense was spared to make her outside lines
in accord with tho yachting traditions of her
wooden sister and to equip her cabins with as
many homo comforts as can be installed in tho
atterpart of the roomy windjammer. Her gross
register is 2,124 tons. She is 248.6 feet long, 42.2
feet in beam, and 26.3 feet deep. She came from
Baltimore in 186 days. Her cargo consisted of
3,054 tons of coal, of which Captain Pendelton
tooxv Buch caro that at no time during the voyage
I ?il, on temneature of tho cargo register more
JSi. i?;, Sno was favored with fine
reafAn l Atlantic and fair winds helped her
around tho Horn. In the Pacific she met with
some heavy weather, but nothing to hurt her, and
feTc'ondi?!"111 fairly gd " and
AN OFFICIAL DEATH MAP HAS BEEN PRE
mn d unde,r t0 direction of the census bu
ri TThe Washington correspondent for the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean says that thismap shows that
the causes f death aro largely a matter of geog
raphy and the twenty-ono districts into which the
country is divided mark the limits of different
regions where various diseases are most ravag
,&iiThe nst sensational deaths occur in the
Pacific coast district region, in the state of Wash!
Ington. This, is the only district in which Sn-
dea hW0Har?flrep0rte1 as a Pvalent cause of
death. Heart disease, suicide, and apoplexy show
oIsmW Zmber ? Ttimsd e re?
ora is new for the greatest number of deaths
from alcoholism. Lung troubles appeaTs to be
YoviZTiTJl0nG AtlantIc cSTromNew
from J r??Ia an? alonS th0 Mississippi river
ton SEwJX I ' mcmg these fayored spots are
arSrS
to obtain. Cancer, heart disease, andnonlexv ar
more to be expected in mounta nous parts of til
country than in the level districts. In eight of
the twenty-ono districts rheumatism reans a inrSf
harvest of death, noticeably in th? thX JffiS
SftS ?Tl llQ inaante a?o Ztsed
to tho .sudden changes of tho weathm- " nnfS
peaking, it appear! that "Sft S?teSta
in the country are caused by climatic tihih
while those in the cities are caUsS by SSS'S?
ditions The farmer on the Dakot praiHe for"
example needs to guard against rheumatism but
not against malaria or heart disease.-
CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION HAS BEEN
.?rawto,the numerous suicides in England
recently. The London correspondent of tho CW
. cago Inter-Ocean says that statistics show that
there has been great increase- iP the number of
cases of self-destruction in the last twenty or
thirty years in nearly all tho countries. The pro
portion in France during tho last twenty-five
1L ?creasTed from 157 to 224 per million of
JnS p.0? IGermany was about the same,
and Belgium showed only a somewhat less' pro
portion. In Russia there was no Increase. Aus
tria increased by 39 per million, Hungary by
27 Australia by 25, Ireland by 8, Scotland by 18
and England by 15 in the same period. In Engl
land there has been a steady increase for fifty
?airQQP lS J86,0 the numDer ot suicides was 1,357.
Zn!l , fcrrbQad reaChed 2'639' of whom 1.M1 were
men and 668 women. In all countries the suicides
nave been more common among men than women.
M5"??? W2,men t0 men ls neatest in
America and Spain. England comes next, with 2G
women out of every 100 suicides. In the ten years
between 1887 and 1897,there were over 400 suiddel
SesllG'wereS.9113 15 yeai'S f -age' 0Z
X? ST
THE LARGEST RESERVOIR IN THE WORLD
ornJ,8 ,?,e built in ArlzDa. The federal gov
?n S I W " 1kcon1struct a dam of solid masonry
JEf ?i ba?,In site rt is sald that this will
create in the valleys of the Upper Salt river and
lonto creek the largest artificial late In the world.
T r?ID THAT THB PROMISE OF THE
4 v BVtish home office to release Mrs. Florence
Maybrick was secured largely through a Colorado
precedent in which the United States as a special
52.1? jommity permitted an English earl in tho
penitentiary at Canon City to return to England
in order that the estates to which he was tho
SIS ?E ?Is5J nTot lai)se The Denver correspon
SwnS e St Louis Post-Dispatch says: "Tho
rnrSnHw Was, a Pf180 1878, and was in
SSS mwS111?8 e aPPeared England he
Eld w611.08 t0 his estates- He appealed to
?orS?? mri?' ?n,d Bhe Instructed the British
foreign office to take up the matter. It did so,
r?m rteqU8St the forei office the sec
fnia 7 8t,ate secured from the Colorado author
nSLl Pard0n as ? specIal mark of favor to the
Mrs LvhHof me,nt The home offlcG nas notified
thrf Vf nf 1 ' S lawyers tnat thy could now use
reason fnr ROGr prosPecUve release -next year as a
of h S5UrlS? ?e Postponement of the trial
terests in iaring on the prisoners in
v2ialSVn Kentucky, Virginia and West
ThJ Fi5 hG was able t0 testify in person.
BB!nCflmeft,from the home offlce had been
?S ofySCrd eve 8lnco the assent on tho
posed the Htl n,,d'Tard wh0' is .believed, op
SS nil iJ teiaV.een s views of the case, and who
wwrted S bnelleV the woman innocent It is
do? Hedber?minaAaUthe?tIc source that Ambassa
this maftr 01 nMVe.r been called uPon to act in
Mrs MavnHPif? thii tnls final deion to free
BritetaVThS?n,Bi0ntiro17 duo t0 efforts Great
that Hom?S7h ar in a posItIon to know say
great cZrtifrtary Ais-Douglass has shown
SinrinTme?ica!neCti0n Wlth the Suits noW
TowS vT V? NORTHERN DISTRICT
B"erved th ??nifVJrgJni.a' John L- Jackson, haa
loS than anv on Sta,te? in a judiclai capacity
1861. He , Sq ?S? niGd t0 the uench August 3,
years. Nevt LthTerf orei 8erved nearly forty-two
Bervice or I id a JaclfSon in Point of long
wSkens0h,?ndJstri?t bench are Judges James
FebrW'l of Florida, appointed
appointed March5 i?yLH' vheeler' of Vermont,
Colorado , ifmESf -r187'' and Moses Hallett, of
5 Hamm'oadPnf iGd ianuary 12, 1877. Judge Eli
wa? anS?p,i Tth0 Western district of Tennessee,
Bunn nS ??h ? w T 17' ,1878' and Jud 'Romanzo
ber 30 1877 WeBtiiTn' diBtrIcf of 'Wisconsin Octo-
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