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PART III. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE PAGES 17 TO 2O. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19 , 1871. OMAHA , SUNDAY MOANING , MATT 10 , 1895 TWENTY PAG.ES. SINGLE COPY FIVE ( TENTS. 25c French Safeens 3J 25c Black Safeens 5c Corded India DIMITIES , 3ic 25cSerpnfneGrepes6c 1000 yards finest Best Black BARGAIN 3 cases new An immense lot of French Sateens , Henrietta India , corded Serpentine Crepes , clcRiint , now fnncy Sateens , Dimities , In all shades , onjy styles in remnants t worth 250 , go at. . . . Thai noother concern in the world ever dared offer or was able to Worth i5c , go at. . Worth 2 5c , go at Worth 25c Worth 25c offer. Will bs shown by tha hundreds tomorrow at Worth I5c Worth 250 N , W. Cor. 16th and Douglas1 , Omaha. When it comes to selling- really desirable Dry Goods , Millinerv or Shoes at a of their actual value there is not a singie firm it of C Vi-n that can even bear comparison . with the Boston Store. There is not a 6ns anywhere in Omaha or out of it that can do it . . * _ .H.JJ.WAU. AO , or will [ do it , and everybody knows -if . And that's why our store will M be crowded a-aiii tomorrow. At prices at which no other store can even hope . to duplicate. S25Q DRESS 603DS. at79c 30 pieces ol Imported black and colored 44-inuh crcpons , HJIk mlxedjipw ; fjojls this season ; net- ually wortli $ -)0 a yard , go in dress Roods do- 2.so. SICILIAN MOHAIR This scasou'e novelty In Paris and Linden - don , destined to siipercedo othe r black dress fabrics bright satin lltifuli , special for Monday OUoa yard Now desirable imported dress goods , all 44 inches wide , in small checks and plain colors , pure silk and wool goods worth fully OOe a yard ; go in dross goods depart ment COLORED , FANCY and BUSK AT LOWER PRICES AND IN HIGHER GRADES And Prettier New Patterns than any ot'ner store around can show. 22-inch changeable TnjTota GJnco , in two-toned combi nation 3 for waists , i n stripes u n d worth I'ttro silk , fancy taffetas In changeable o r Drojuon patterns worth 81. U5 a yard , go in silk department a t 4Uo A. new lot Black Silks- " "o f those li yard lengths , 10 to 20 , to match in peau dc soles , satin rhadumas > and gros grains , go at , just half their actual worth , at 49c , OOc and OSc a yard. I ON OUR WONDERFUL BARGAIN SQUARES On bargain s iimro , French nclise. llhunlnat- od uolorhiKs , French and Gorman hunrlettas and cashmeres , fancy mix tures ; these have boon Bold this season up to One a yard ; go on front bargain square at SJOc and 3'Jc ' a yard. Imported wash pllss- es , beautiful colorings , finest wash fabrics ever imported ; worth 33c a yard , for Monday , on bargain square , nt lOc. 100 pieces finest im ported siniill checked and luce striped ging hams , worth U3c a yard , go on main lloor at lie. IEIF" . . . . "Forest" } . pitcher. . . . English ( Iqcorntcil dinner sot..84.75 Crystal "Forest"Riil. 15c rtotinncd culTco pot lOc Genuine Purkor uolTeo mill 38c BOSTON STORE , OMAHA SEEKING FORTUNE IN ASIA tti American Bustlers Looking for Openings in China and Japan , OPPOR1UIITIES FOR MONEY MAKING Ilevlfw of the Industrial Condltluni ns Affected by tlie Trent ; of 1'enco Itcst Ihaiiuelt fur Ainurican . Kntrgy nud Knterprlsr. , ( Copyright , 1S95 , by Frank Q. Carpenter. ) The representatives of a number of big American syndicates are now on their way across the I'aclflc to Investigate the possi bilities of Investment and spaculatlon In China , Corea and Japan. One. of these Is Hon. George D. Williams , who was for years connected with the Japanese government as one ot Its foreign advisers , and who later on was legal adviser of the Equitable Life Insurance company In London , Another Is Chester A , Holcomb , who was long asso ciated with our legation In Peking , and who Is weil "posUci upon China and the Chinese. In addition to these , I hear of scores of In dividuals who propose to go to China and Corea In order to be able to take advantage ot the changed conditions consequent upon the carrying out of the new treaty , and a number of old schemes will probably be re vived. It-was only seven years ago that Wharton Darker raised a fund of $50,000,000 to build railroads and to do banking for the Chinese. He has , I understand , been In cor respondence with LJ Hung Chang since then , and he may now again come to the front. I bave met a dozen young- men lately " > have told me that- they were about to start to Asia In order to get employment as me chanics or engineers on the new railroads , and I receive letters every day at to the chances for Americans and American In vestments In tlicso countries. The situation Is undoubtedly big with possibilities. It Is , however ; far different from what people be lieve , and In this letter I will attempt to give EOnic'thlng concerning It. A DOOM IN JAPAN. The Indemnity from China will probably crfntry f boom In Japan , and especially In ToJfK. thtt. CiiyltaU When the Franco-Prus sian war was concluded every German thought the money paid by the French would all be'spent In llerlln , and the people rushed by the thousands from all parts ot the em pire to take advantage of It. Llerlln In 1SGO bad less than 500,000 people , and before she went to war with France she had only "GO- 000. Three years after the settlement of the war her population numbered 9GS.OOO , and in I8SO she had already more than 1,000,000. She hat now , with her suburbs , nearly 3,000- 000 , and she stands next to London among the great cities of the world. The war was succeeded by an era of speculation In Uerlln. Stccks and real estate Jumped upward , and It was so until the panic ot 1873 , when there was a collapse. The city soon recovered , however , and It Is now one ot the most pros perous of the world. The same thing will be repeated In Toklo. Prlcet will advance , and real ostatq js bound to go up. An era ot speculation will probably follow , and the man who goes In now and sells out quick will probably do well. The Japanese have their stock exchanges , and their water vrorkt stocks are regularly quoted In the news- papers. Many of the companies bave been paying ; big dividends , and thlt Is especially so of the banks. ELECTRIC POSSIBILITIES. The teaports bave been steadily growing , nd real estate In these ought to be good. ler Instance. Yobouuiu , u wat a fishing village when Commodore Perry first came to the country. It has now a popula tion ot more than 100,000 , and It Is a town of water works , gas and newspapers. Toklo has now more than 1,000,000 people , and the probability is < that It contains more than 1,600,000. It Is only fourteen miles ! rom Yokohama , through a thickly settled country , and an electric railroad built be tween the two points would undoubtedly pay. At present there are no electric railroads n Toklo , and . .there are no street car lines In Yokohama. The field for electric railroads Is practically uncultivated , and by the new treaty It would b ? possible for Americans to engage In such work outside of the treaty ports. Take the town ot Osaka , In the cen tral part of the empire. It has , with Its sub urbs , 1,200,000 people , and there Is not an electric railroad In It. It ll.s sixteen miles back from the seacoast , and it Is connected liy railroad .with the town ot Kobe. Kobe was very small at the time that Japan was opened , but by the census of 1890 It con tained 130,000 people. An electrlp railroad between Kobe and Osake ought to pay. This part of Japan Is one succession of villages , and only a few miles west of Osaka Is the great city of Kioto , which was for years the capital of Japan , and which Is now as bl ? as Washington or Cleveland. If an electric line were stretched from Kob ? to Osaka and thence on to Kioto , It would strike villages at almost every mile of travel , and It wouH accommodate a population of fully 2,000,000 of people. The Japanese ar * great trevelers. They make long excursions over the country to visit the most sacred temples and shrlnea , and I met hundreds ot families walking along the roads from en ? sacred point to another. ' Tho'railroad cars \\ero well filled , and these electric roads would pick up many parties out on these trip ? of religion and pleasure combined. As to the electric light field , that Is also great. The 40,000,000 people of the Japanese empire live , to a large extent , In villages and cities. There are few gas plants , and the chief lighting Is done with coal oil. Electric lights could be put In without much expense , and In the large cities at very low rates. The telephone is rapidly coming Into use. There- are a large number In Osaka and Toklo , and the rates for service In the Japanese capital are $35 In silver and $17.50 In gold pr year. JAPAN AS AMERICA'S FACTORY. There will probably now be an Increased demand from Japan for American goods. The country already takes $14,000,000 worth of American raw cotton every year. It has been buying , and will continue to buy , American machinery , but the great trade between America and Japan In the future Is to bo In shipping American raw mate rials to Japan and bringing back Japanese products to America. The money to be made by Americans will be largely through their better knowledge ot the American markets and American needs. The Japan ese can make anything that we can. Thi > y can reduce what we need at a less cost than we can make It ourselves , and unless a high protective , tariff Is raised agn'nst Asia , that country will become the factory for America. The actual necessities ot a Japanese laborer are not more than 25 cents a day. Our laborers cannot live on les than $1 a day , and 25 cents In ten hours will beat from $1 to $3 and eight hours every time. A Japanese laborer's house can bo furnished for $10. He sleeps on the floor ami uses neither tables nor chairs. His cooking stove is a clay oven worth about 60 cents , and his carpets and beJdlng cost practically nothing In com parison with ours. There are 65,000,000 people ple In the United States. At flvo to the family , this would make 13,000,000 families. Hardly one of these families hat a cooking stove which coat lest than $10 , or $9.60 more than the Japanese has to pay for hit , Multiplying this by the number of families we have an expenditure ot $123,600,000 more than the Japanese on the Item ot cooking stoves alone. Take the matter of carpets and other fur niture and you will see the enormout amount ot capital that w have to lavut to live In TS.IMMED . ILLINE The Latest Styles iu Trini-ned Hats , Bomietsjand Tnrbnm AT At Which They flra'Sold Elsewhare. > Beautiful lace , chiffon and Handsomely trimmed Straw The greatest assortment and blg- straw Hound Hats , trim - med with ostrich tips , Hats , In nil colors , trim ( rest bargain In line Imported ( lowers and all silk lib- med with lace , flowers. Flowers ever shown In Omaha , ban and beautiful ornaments Jetted 'silk many of them worth up to JJ.CO , nnd chiffon and all " " In two lots 2. and , ments , at BO nt > c 49c tilt go ribbon , tor . . . Monday at. , with rubber stems. New , fresh goods . GRAND DISPLAY OF DRESS SKIRTS. HOE SOUS Separata Skirts , made of wool material , with three $129 $ ON SALE TOMORROW box pleats In the back , KO THE ENURE LINES OF at $1.29 , worth $3. A fancy skirt pin free with each skirt Worth $3.00 O V THREE OF Til3 LARGEST AUD BEST Separate Skirts , lined throughout , velveteen finish SUIT MAKERS IN NEW YORK around the bottom , made of storm serge and all wool cheviot In the latest styles ; AT 58 < s m THE DOLLAR , worth fG.W , go at * 2.9S. A fancy skirt pin free % \lth No two alike either In style rr i > rmtrn. each skirt Those suits are made ot iluoKs , jjercu , * , lawns , dotted , Swiss , serges , bnlllintlne ? , Worth $0.50 covert cloth and fancy mlxturep. They go In this bale.jit ' * * ' * S1t , Sperarate skirts , made of mohair brllllantlne , Import ed French serge , alt \\col storm serge , Kr"i-ch cre- Separate UPTOv ) pone nnd extra line cheviot viet , with ihe uilcut 1'iick ' Duck and extra wide , worth $10 , go at $1.98. Fancy bkirt Worth 8 .50. pin free with each skirt. . . In liKlit or dm Ic colors. suit worth twice Its ' cllll , Every pr' v or Worth $10 orth $1.50 , more. comparison with the Japanese. It would bo a very low average Indeed to say that the lousehold furniture of the families of the Jnlted States costs more- than $ ' .25 per ( am Iv. And It would be high to say that the average Japanese spends more than & 25 for his fur niture. Taking the 13,000,000 families again , we have $1,300,000,000 of dead weight In the way ot furniture to carry In opposition to .liem , and everything else Is on a proportion ate ratio. Then there Is the matter of shoes. The ordinary coolie pays a cent a pair for his straw sandals , and he can get a pair of Kilts for wet weather for a quarter. His water proof , which Is made of straw , probably costs him 25 cents more , and for $2 or $3 he has a whole wardrobe. His eating Is of the simplest and ho can bo happy on one-tenth what our laborers have. The result Is the Japanese will always bo able to manufacture more cheaply than we do , and one of the biggest speculations of the cast will be the utilizing this labor for us. MONEY IN JAPANESE KNICK-KNACKS. I have already written of the Japanese candy. They have one kind made of rice and wheat , which Is good for dyspepsia , and which any child can eat without the stomach ache. This could be Imported and sold like the digestive chewing gum. It Is furnished sometimes In the form of syrup , and with It on the table we could keep our livers In order and still have the luxury of buckwheat cakes In midsummer. The Japanese make a very cheap black varnish , which might be Imported at a profit , and they have the soft est and most beautiful papers known to the world. I know of one bright American who made a fortune out of little Japanese boxes. He bought these by the hundreds of thou sands , shipped them to the United States and filled them with tacks. The tacks were sold at the regular price , and the women bought them In preference to other brands In order to get the boxes. There are nu merous other things of this same nature that might be done. One thing Is In the making ot clock cases , Such cases as we have from Germany and France made In porcelain are very high-priced. The Japan ese could produce these very much cheaper , and they could make carved clock cases which would sell at high prices. I mention these things merely as Indicative ot the vast field which Is now open to America In Japan. Remember , the Japanese can do any thing that we can do , and If you show him a picture ot anything under the sun he can copy It. He Is packed full of Ideas himself , and he Is an inventor as well as an Imitator. From now on ho will want more foreign clothes and more foreign machinery , and America ought to supply a great portion of his needs. THE CHINESE MARKET. The settlement of the war will bring about a great change In China , and from now on the empire will probably be slowly but steadily opened. The making Nanking a treaty port will give a new foreign set tlement at that point , 200 miles up the Yangtse-Klang. The government will be obliged to cede a certain amount of land here to the foreigners , and a little foreign city will spring up at this point , such as have already sprung up at every open port. In Canton there Is an Island which Is given up to the foreigners. At Hankow the forelg.1 concession covers , I judge , at least a square mile , and at Shanghai many foreigners have made fortunes out of the rise In real estate In the foreign concession. There are foreign settlements at Tientsin , at Klukling and at Chlnklaiig , and In these property Is worth much mote than In the Chinese cltlea them selves. These concessions are governed by the foreign consuls , and the Chinese- like to obtain property within them. If they can , at this frees them from the exactions of the Chinese ofQclalt and putt them under foreign law. These concessions are much like foreign cltlo * . They have modern houses. Their ttreett are macadamised , and they are kept In order by belqg smoothed with heavy rollers which are drawn by hundreds of Chinese. They have th lr own policemen , and are by all oddt th most desirable placet In China In which to Jlr * . The city o ! Nanking It about five miles back from the rlverJjpnd , Is one of' the richest cities In China. lt was for years the capital of" China , niidjjC Is In .he heart of one of the 'richest of i the Chinese prov inces. The foreign concession may be on the river , or It may be oi" the edge of the city. Wherever. It Is , Ufa" Jf pd Is nlmost cer tain to Increase In value , 'a d an investment In It ought to be go'od/j fl CHINA AND MILITAHV SUPPUES. Those best posted on thd'Chinese ' character say that this war will ba'followed by a great military activity throughout , tbo Chinese em pire. New gunworks will b6 at once started. A new navy will be constructed , and there will be a , great 'demand for all kinds of ma chinery for the making ot arms and the munitions of war. There a c now more than 2,000 men at work In the shops at Shanghai. An equal number are probably employed In the gunworks at Tientsin , and the Foochow shipyards will be pushed to their utmost capacity. The Chinese have seen their ne cessity for railroads , and their lack of ability to move their troops without them. The first road to bo built will probably be one from Tientsin to Hankow , and thence to Canton. This has been planned for years , and It will tap a territory containing hun dreds ot millions of people. The work of get ting such concessions will be slow , and 11 Is very doubtful whether foreigners will be allowed to build railroads. If they should be permitted to do so the field for electricity and steam la practically unlimited , and such a revolution In railroad building and manu facturing will take place as will turn the remainder of the Industrial world upside down. I don't believe the Chinese will do this at present. They move slowly , but It will come eventually. Theynvlll , however , have a great trouble In raising the money to pay Japan , and there Is no- telling what may be squeezed out of "the- government at this time. Think of the cities of a hundred thousand , five hundred thousand and a mil lion within a few miles ct each other. Think of a country as big as the United States and containing about eight times as many people , with no rallroadx whatever and no decent wagon roads a country In most places as flat aa a floor'and well fitted for railroads without gracllDgi and you have something ot the condition ) ot China today. It Is a country which hat 4,000 walled cities and countless villages. A country where locomotion Is expensive , and where the people ple squeeze money harder than they do any where else In the world. 'Them Is no land on the globe where cheap transportatlon would pay better. The harvest Is ripe for the spec ulator and Investor It | the fence ot Chinese conservatism and exclusion can be torn away. Take Peking , with Its mill it n and a half of people. It has not a line of street cars. Tientsin , eighty nillea away , has a million people , and Is one of , the ; great trading cen ters of the empire. Those who ride go about In chairs , carried on the shoulders of men , and "all goods are- carted around on wheelbarrows. Tientsin supplUs Peking with goods , and there Is no railroad between them. It It the same all over China.v CHINESE ] COTTONS. The Chinese are beglnlng'tf make their own cotton. They have a number of large fac tories , and LI Hung ChapE proposes to build others. In these they * bave modern ma chinery. A great part ot the cotton used It made by hand , not more , than one-fifteenth being Imported. Our cotton cloths are more popular than the English or the native cot tons , but they cost too much , and hence we send but little manufactured cotton to China. The market , however , It enormous. One of the consult made an estimate of It not long ago. He said that the Chinese are clothed principally In cotton. There are at least 400.- 000,000 of them , and. they ute about twenty yards apiece every year. This would make a consumption of 8,000,000.000yards a year. Take your pencil now and tee what that meant. Eight billion yards It 24.000,000,000 feet , or a strip ot cotton a yard wlda ! 24.000,000.000 feet long. At 6,000 feet to th mile tblt would bo more than 4,000,000 mllsk long , or enough to reach 160 tlmet around the world. One hundred and sixty f et makes a very wide fiky street , U you could hart three such streets running clear around the world , and could patch the cotton used by the Chinese Into one vast crazy quilt , It would be more than enough to carpet them. Of this enor mous amount more than' 7,600,000,000 yards are made by the Chinese , being woven by the women on hand losms. If wo could get low freight rates wo ought to be able to supply a largo part of these cottons. The Chinese want a good cotton , and they need heavy , strong and closely woven goods for winter. In the future they will probably make the greater part of their own goods , but the enormous market which might be created for our raw cotton Is almost Inesti mable. There would be no limit to produc tion If we had It , and with the opening of tl.o Nicaragua canal the greater part of It ought to como to us. The kinds of cottons used by the Chinese are generally blue In color. They use a large amount of drills and the sails of their vessels are made of this cloth. OUR LUMBER AND WHEAT. The Chinese are now using quite a lot ot American lumber. The lumber comes from Oregon and Washington , and It goes as far north as Peking. I saw American pine In the lumber yurds of Japan , and I met a man who was trying to Introduce It Into eastern Siberia. During my stay In Valdl- vostock an American ship loaded with Cali fornia wheat was lying at the wharves , and quite a good dc-al cf our flour Is now used In China. Strange as U may seem to many , rice Is an expensive form of food there , and In the north many of the people are too poor to eat It. There are no big1 flouring mills In China , and even In the city of Canton , which , you know , contains about 2,000,000 people , I saw' oxen grinding flour by dragging one stone about on the top of another. CHINESE LABOR. It is Impossible tu .appreciate the fortunes which are sure to come sooner or later to some one out of Chinese cheap labor. Re member , their labor Is as good as ours. I taw a locomotive which they built at the gnu works at Shang hai which looked as well as any turned out In our shops , and a Chinese engineer was operating It , He got about 25 cents a day , I saw men making everything under the sun for wagea about one-tenth of what the same class of labor receives In the United States , and the Englishman In charge told mo It required only a few months to make a good mechanic out of an ordinary Chinaman. When the Chinese * appreciate that they can manufacture for the world , the coolies and the men who are now working on the roads could be put Into the factories and the people will become a nation of mechanics and man ufacturers. At present they toll for ten and twelve hours a day for wages which would hardly support a dog In this country. I have b'.fore mo a list of wages given by Dr. Bed- lee , when a consul at Amoy , Here ara some of them : Barbers get $3 a month ; boatmen , 14 ; bricklayers , $5 ; masons , $6 ; laundrymen , $4 , and pavers , $4.50 per month. The plumber Is a rich man In America , but he Is glad to receive $6.25 a month In China. Printers receive $9 a month ; tanners , $6 a month ; telegraph operators , $24 a month ; ordinary laborers , $4 a month , and clgarmakers , about $5 $ per month. It la the same all over the empire , and the wages may ba divided In half , as they are paid In illver , which It worth only half the value of our money. MONEY MAKING IN COREA. I could fill a page of this newspaper with the possibilities and the curious features of labor In China and Japan , and the tame may be also laid of Corea , though there has been until now so little security for the fruits of labor that the people have had no Incentive to work. The treaty will brine a new light Into the hermit nation , and many ot the old and barbarous customs will now pass away. For tome time there will , however , be chances for speculative turnt outsldo of the wonderful resources of the country. One will bo when any member of the royal family dies. At this time the whole nation I sup posed to go Into mourning. Every man In the country > > * * to put on a white ttraw hat aa big at aa Imbrella and a new gown ot 1 lot Curtains will no at 25c oneh , no mutter wluit the quality or how small the duunifjo. Your choice of the lot EACH. 1 lot of largo heavy Nolinphnm Curtains WOKTII UP TO $2.00 A PAIR go in this sale at A PAIR. PAIR PAIR All the very finert , Curtains , beautiful goods , In an almost unlimited assort ment of styles , including Nottingham , Irish I ? > lnt , Fish Net , Etc ; worth up to- $10.00 a pair gj iu this s ilo ut$1.93 : $2.50 , $3.25 and $4,60 a P 1r. BIG Kino English llnrnellles e < ! | irvnil . . 12-4 size Marseilles Pattern II d Hpleada 12-4 size Crooliet lied gp ends at ( each ) J S. Hrown's 72-lncll IiUli Double Satin Dninuak. with 8-4x3-4 napa to mutch , icKulnr price > 1.3 , go 75C -ncli ! full Ijl nch Irish Table Damask - ask , wurth 76c yiird l,0i ) remnants Idcuchtil an-t cream Table I.llu-li , Bultnhlc for any liouMhnld want nnd worth ui > to 83c yard , KO nt yellow grasscloth. The man who has a corner on grasscloth at such times Is Euro to bave at least 3,000,000 men howling for It. He can charge his own prices and can do almost as well as Colonel Sellers hoped to do with his eye water for the millions of cross-eyed Chinamen. I have already written at length concerning the gold mines , the coal mines and the. probabilities of there being largo deposits of petroleum In Cored. The country will now be developed and there are good chances In It for American capitalists. According , to reliable statistics there la one divorce to each 479 marriages In the United States. An Easter egg of pure gold , containing a pearl necklace , to wear on her wedding day , was the present received by a London beauty this year. A French conscript has broken the record by claiming exemption on theground that he Is , at the ago of 20 , the father of four living children. Abraham Rimes of La Porte , Ind. , has se cured a divorce from his tenth wife , who , It transpires , was his first bride. After being divorced from her the drat time he married eight times before ho was again wedded to her. her.Mrs. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartorls has given up her house In Washington. Her irmarrlage to Gen eral Kyd Douglass , which , notwithstanding all denials , Is confidently expected to take place soon , will probably bo very quiet. It Is now thought that It will be celebrated at the homo of her brother , Colonel Fred Grant , In New York. Elopements will probably be rare hereafter In the state of New York , A new law makes It a criminal offense for a man to marry a girl under 18 years of age without the con cent of her parents or guardian , and a clergy man or magistrate performing the ceremony Is accessory to the crime. The marriage can also be set ade ! by order of a court. An event of a unost unusual character was celebrated In Scranton , Pa. , May 3. The fes tivities were In honor of the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Koch of Scranton , and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Koch and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Koch of New York. The three men are brothers , and were married In New York on May 3 , 1870. A largo party of New York relatives were present at thB celebra tion. In connection with the wedding anni versaries the C5th birthday of another brother , John Koch , formerly of New York , was cele brated. Everybody has heard of the tin wedding , thp illver wedding , the golden wedding , and , rareit of all , the diamond wedding. Unfor tunately for people who live In the sweet bondage of matrimony , the diamond wedding Is a very costly ceremony. Dut Mr. and Mri. Johanu Szathmary of Zsombolga , In Hungary , have not only celebrated all their weddings from tin to diamond , but have just broken the record In the centenary ot their marriage. The bride Is just one hundred and sweet sixteen and the bridegroom just one year older. A wealthy Hoosler gentleman of the mel low age of 80 , and a lady aged 30 , were se cretly married last week at the Indiana town they live In , The wedding wai the denoue ment of two years of exceedingly difficult courtship , during which the ripe lover was constantly put to all those fond , sly shifts and expedient ! which love U adept In to escape / > cape the Interference ot his offspring. Hrs whole family , It U said , took a hand in fore stalling the banns. Two years ago Ezra Gotpln of North Lib erty , Butler county , Pa. , decided to save money by buying his whliky at wholesale rates. He agreed with bli wife to pay her 10 cents for every drink he took from the jug. The scheme worked all right until two months ago , when ilrs. Qoipln quit the busl- IlaiitlBume frigged prcB.Jp.ti TaUlp Cloth * , wllh rfil bonier , 3 ) arils long nncl worth 9sc racli , KO "I r.Ktrn. nne quality of full blenched 3-4x3-4 NnpHIni , that Bold for $3.25 dozen , go ut 3-1x3-4 extra heavy all\cr blcncheil Herman Napkins , were J2 M < 1 O K ilozcn Large size bleached llarnpely Tow1 f\n. clH , worth 15c each JLVO- 18-Inch check CJIawi Towellnp. ln7 alt coloia , worth 124e ! yurd , go nt * ness because she says her husband was drink.- Ing too much. This caused a separation. . Gosplti tin * consulted a lawyer about suing hit , wife for Illegal liquor celling. Ho will call his wife and daughter as witnesses. A New Jersey church has erected a stall liouee for the bicycles of attendants. There Is a flourishing Young Women's. Christian association In Calcutta , India. The First Congregational church , Ilrldge- port , Conn. , will celebrate Its 200th anniver sary June 19-20. The German Presbyterians have ICO min isters In the United States , with 154 churches , , with a membership ot 12,659. The American Baptist Home Missionary society closed Its financial year with a debt of $108,799 , an advance on that of the previous , year of $7,343. In Japan there are more than 1,200 placea where Christianity Is taught , more than 7,000 Protestant schools , and every year about 1,600 you lie persons go out from these school * into the life ot the nation. Rev. William J. Petrle , who has been pas tor of the Church of Our Saviour , Chicago , for twenty years , has resigned , and wilt travel In Europe. Hov. Charles II. Strong , rector ol St. . John's Episcopal church , Savannah , Ga. , hat- followed the example of Hev. Dr. It. Ilerbcr' Newton , and repudiated the doctrine that the physical body of Christ was raised from the grave. During the last four years there have been erected In the city of Chicago forty new Methodist mission churches , valued at nearly | 500,000. Of these thirty-one have becomn self-supporting , Fifty years of earnest work for his church were rounded out by Archbishop Williams ot Doston on Thursday last , and the labors ot half a century In the archdiocese were fit tingly recognized by clergy and laity. Key. J. J. Keane , president of the Roman Catholic university at Washington , delivered ) a lecture recently In which he remarked that the three enemies ot American civilization ) are "Caesarlsm , Nationalism , and Sectarian * Ism , " Hev. Washington Gladden has been awarded the Fletcher prize of (500 offered by ths trustees of Dartmouth college for an essay upon the subject : "In What Ways Ought the Conception of Personal Life and Duty to He Moillflcd ? " Dlshop Wesley J. Galnes of Georgia , the new star In the theological firmament , U ft colored man of vast proportions. Ho Is said to have a wonderful fund ot oratory , orlgU nallty and wit , a man who believes In put ting , as he expresses It , lota ot ginger Into his sermons , and who realizes his sentiments , The second annual meeting of the American Congress of Liberal Religious socletlt * will be held In Slnal Temple , Chicago , June i , S and 6. The first meeting of the congress was held In the same place a year ago and was largely experimental. It proved most successful , however , and the plans for thl second session bave been made more elabon ate. Dr. Alfred Momcrle of England , whj was conspicuous In the world's parliament of religions , will take part In the proceed' ' ings. I'otrer of VI Ion Htlll Fair. Chicago Tribune : Lawyer Now. sir , d4 ! you or did you not say you saw the defendant at the time this occurrence took place ? You did see him ? Very good. Now I should like to have you state to this jury , lr , whether or not your eyesight Is defective ? " Witness Why , as to that Lawyer Address your remark * to the Jury , sir. Witness ( to the Jury ) He' right , gentle- men. My left eye's no good , but I can set tol'bly well out of the other. I can sea that this here lawyer dyes hit whiskers and they've grown about a sixteenth of an Inch , I should judge , since ho dyed 'em last. Chicago Record : He ( ss they leave tbti church ) I don't see how you can say that wan a long sermon. Hit Wife Ot court * you don't. I kept awako.