Uhe WeeKJy
Panorama.
Setuing Girls 7nion,
Tho girls In Chicago who aro cm
ployed as (Jomnstlcs havo combined
themselves Into a union, adopted a
scalo of wages and formulated this set
of rules which havo brought terror to
tho heart of houseckcopors:
Rule 1. "Work shall not begin beforo
5:30 a. m., and shall ccaso when tho
evening's dishes nro washed and put
away. Two hours each afternoon and
nn evening at least twice a wcok shall
bo allowed tho domestic as her own.
Rule 2. Thcro shall bo no opposition
on the part of tho mistress to club llfo
on tho part of tho domestic. Entcr
talnmont of friends In limited numbers
shall not bo prohibited, provided tho
domestic furnishes her own refresh
ments. Rulo 3. Gentlemen friends shall not
be barred from tho kitchen or back
porch. Members of tho family of tho
house shall not Interrupt tho conversa
tion arising during said visit.
Rule 4. Domestics shall bo allowed
uuch hours off on Monday as will per
mit them to visit tho bargain counters
SOPHIA DECKER.
(Ono of tho leaders in organizing tho
Chicago domestics.)
of tho stores and enjoy on that day tho
samo privileges enjoyed by tho mis
tress and her daughters.
Not a riajjiarut.
Historian Maclny indignantly donlos
the chnrgo thut any part of his im
mortal work was Btolen from tho Edin
burgh Rovlow. "The idoa that I havo
committed any act of plagiarism in my
History," ho exclaims, "is simply pro
posterous." Of course It is. Compare
these two passages and iho absurdity
of the notion that one can have been
stolen from tho other becomes manl
fost:
RHVIEW.
Taking Mr. James
nt hi word wo turn
to Vol. II., pp. JM-6,
and there we find
the French pri
vateer IlordolalM,
"an extraordinary
flnehlp"o( 2i guni,
Ntrlklng her colors
to a BrltUh frlgaU
of guna, "with
out, an It appears,
making any realat
ance" certainly
without provoking
any comment from
Mr, James,
Tho difference?
MACLAY'S.
Taking James at
hla word, wo turn
to Volume II., pages
3M, 355, ana find
him referring to tho
Frenqh privateer
HorrtelnlH us an ex
traordinarily n n n
hip of 21 gun
striking her colors
to a llrltlah 40-gtin
frigate; "Without,
as it appoara. muk
ing any resistance,"
certainly without
provoking any com
metit from James.
are obvious. Tho
jsainuurgn Review spoke of "Mr."
James. Maclay loaves out tho Mr. Tho
I t 1. vi , . .
uuiuuiiiKii iMJviow uau no comma
after "word." Mr. Maclay puts one in.
ino isainourgn neyiew roforrod to
"Vol. ii," Mr. Maclay spoaks of "Vol
time II." The Edinburgh Rovlow ab
breviated "pages" to "pp." Mr. Mac
lays spells out the word In full. The
Edinburgh Review put In tho figures
"354-G." Mr. Maclay makes thorn "354,
aoo. rno ciauso about tho French
l ... A 1
privHiciT uoraeiais nas soycral new
words in the Maclay vorslon. Finally
mr. xwaciayenas as he began by leav
ing out tne. "Mr." from befrore the
name of James. This critical comnarl
aon makes it evident that Mr. Maclay
11. 1 . . . . .1 I .
uwm nuwuiiK 10 auyuoay. tiio con
struction of his history Is as original
as its racta. New York Journal.
First on "Record.
Ex-Congressman John Roy Lynch,
Who nas just boon appointed by Presl
oeui mcivinioy to omco or cap
tain and assistant paymaster In tho
regular army, Is the first colored man
ever commissioned for staff duty.
The ex-congro8sman has proved his
JOHN ROY LYNCH,
capability to hold this responsible po
sltlon, having served long and faith
fully in various high public offices
previous to his rccont appointment.
umiug mo spnmsn-Ainoricau war
lie was made a major and pay
master of the volunteers, and Is now
serving in that capacity In Santiago,
uuea.
People and
T Etents
! It
totva's Handsomest Woman.
Mrs. Dolllo Romans Dradlcy, of
Dcnlson, Is said to be the handsomest
woman In Iowa
and is also tho
foremost worker
for woman's suf
frage. Her untir
ing efforts In the
latter line nro due
to a vow she mndo
on her mother's
death bed. Tho lat
ter was active In
tho cause of secur
ing the ballot for
womon nnil when
she was dying sho called her daugh
ter to her sldo and mado her vow that
sho would try to curry out tho work
wnlch tho mother had planned. Slnco
then she has lubornl lndcfatlgnbly.
Mrs. Dradlcy Is also a vocalist of great
ability.
Col. Mosby "Reappears.
Tho rccont appointment, to pleaso
President McKlnlcy, of Col. John S.
Mosby as special agent of tho General
Land Ofllco, with hcadqiinrtorR in tho
west, hns brought into prominence ono
of tho ptcturesquo llgurcs of tho civil
war a mnn admired by tho south for
his dash and brilliancy and reviled by
northern soldiers becuuso his warfaro
was of tho guerilla type. A Virginian
by birth, ho Is now approaching his
COth birthday. Whllo in tho University
Virginia ho shot and seriously
wounded a fellow student Who had as
saulted him and, during his confine
ment for this offense, ho studied law so
thoroughly that soon nftor his release
ho was udmlttcd to tho bar. At tho
beginning of tho war ho fought with
Joseph E. Johnston and Inter with
Stuart, but nflor two years ho organ
ized, In northorn Virginia, a forco of
Irregular cavalry and during tho re
mainder of tho war ho harassed the
"edornl troops by cutting o.. communi
cations between tho armies and des
troying supply trains. His partisan
rangers, when not on a raid, scattered
for safety and remained in conceal
ment, with ordors to nsaemblo again at
a given tlmo and place. Various ex
peditions wore sent out ngaln3t him,
but frlondly neighbors always kept
him Informed of the enemy's approach.
Mosby hold rank In tho Confodorate
army and reported to Gen. Stunrt and,
after his death, to Ocn. Lee. His par
tisans received the same, pay from tho
VS. ,,.. n ,1
COL. JOIIN-S. MOSBY.
Confederate government as tho regular
cavalrymen.
At the close of the war he resumed
the practice of law, supported Grant
and Hayes and was for six years con
sul to Hong Kong.
ThiUpps Couldn't Keep Vo.
Speaking of tho suspension of his
commission house, "Corn King" Phi
lips says: "In a nutshell, it was a
case of too much business. It has
grown so rapidly that our facilities
for taking care of it have not kept
pace with it. Money came easy and
it went easy," says the Chicago Chron
icle. On reading this one naturally recalls
the fact that not so very long ago Mr.
Phillips mado a speech in Minneapolis
in which he proposed a case of a great
deal moro business bo much more as
to make tho Phillips commission busi
ness look like a molehill beside a
mountain in the comparison.
The business which ho proposed
was nothing less than that of keeping
corn forever cornered, with CO cents
per bushel as tho minimum price. In
order to work this business success
fully he proposed to establish a bank
with a capital of 150,000,000 or such a
matter and to establish mammoth
elevators also to store tho corn of
fered by farmors as security for loans
from tho big bunks on the basis of 50
conts a bushel, with a nurgln of 10
conts off,
Tho magnitude of tho business had
no terrors for tho "corn king" when
ho mado that Hpcech. In his mind he
had no troub)u In conducting a bank
with $50,000,000 or moro capital nnd an
olovntor business running up to hun
drcds of millions of bushulB. In his
mind, too, it wan n perfectly simple
matter to keop tho prlco of corn up to
CO conts u bushel or ubovo.
What docs ho think of it now? Ho
admits that his rcspoctablo but com
parntlvoly trilling commission business
has run away from him, Ho bus not
been ablo to keop up with It or keop
track of it. Docs ho Btlll think ho
could keep up with his rousing per
petual corner business? "Monoy enmo
easy nnd it wont ousy" in his llttlo
business; how does ho think . might
bo with thut tromendously big busi
ness? Might not tho easy-coming
mmm
Ar ihe World
'ReiJol'Ves
Jfcgroes jbued by Vrophct
Simon H. Need ham, who claims to
bo tho Hebrew prophet referred to In
tho lilble, the seventh child of Judah,
born to bo a priest and a king beforo
tho Lord of Israel, is holding tho ne
groes and superstitious whites under
a spell by his street corner talks In
Macon, Mo. Ho Is a remarkable per
sonage. He says that his mother was
born at Richmond, Va In the year
1800. Her maiden name was Julia
Judah, tho daughter of Emanuol
Judah, Sho was left an orphan at an
early ago, kidnaped by slave dealers
and sold Into bondage. This enslaved
Jowlsh woman then becamo tho moth
er of thirteen children eleven black
and two white. Tho "prophet' claims
to bo ono of those two white children,
Tho daughter was bought out of slay
cry for tho sum of 800 and ho freed
himself In tho twenty-fourth year of
S. D. NEEDHAM.
(Jewish Prophet, Who Holds Negroes
in Missouri Under a Spell.)
his ago by going to Windsor, Canada.
His mission Nccdnnm announces to bo
to deliver tho natives and to establish
n unlvorsal brotherhood of man and
fatherhood of God. and says tho thing
Is to bo achieved in his day nnd gen
eration. Whllo not prepossessing in appear
ance tho "prophet" talks with somo
iluency and much animation. He an
nounced that he could repeat any
verso in tho Dlblo correctly offhand,
and his frequent use of tho scriptures
to prove his peculiar teachings im
pressed his henrcrs. Ho cays he la In
the sovonty-fourtn year of ills second
earth llfo and haB lived a number of
years in Kansas City, Mo., whero lie
opened a "universal mission" in 1899,
Sympathy and Business.
President Krugcr is not awaro of
tho fact that sympathy must not be
allowed to spoil a good trade. Ho has
heard about American sympathy for
the Doors. Evidently ho does not take
much stock in it. Tho message which
ho has sent by tho pastor of a Boer
church in Pretorln, who Is now In this
country asking aid for the women and
children in foreign prison camps is:
"Toll tho American people they are
helping to murder us by Bonding mules
and horses to tho British generals."
Americans have sold several million
dollars' worth of thoso animals to
British purchasing agents, and to a
cortaln extent have contributed to the
subjugation of the Doers, Without
these animals tho British would not
hnvo mado tho headway they have.
Nevertheless, It Is safe to Bay that in
nearly evory instauco the men who
raised and sold theso mules and horses
sympathize with tho Doers, but they
did not let their sympathies Interfere
with the salo of their live stock, nor
aro they supposod to know lor whom
they are purchased. For all that they
are awaro they may be for the Boers.
President Kruger's messago was not
a taottul ono. Ho would make a poor
solicitor for contributions. But the
need of tho women and children in the
prison camps of the Transvaal Is great,
and President Kruger's ungracious re
marks should not deter Americans
from giving for tho relief of these suf
ferers. Chicago Tribune.
SienKieUtic on JStebu Jfo)et.
HenrykSlenkwlewlcx.author of "Quo
Vadls" and tho greatest llyfng Rus
sian author, la engaged in tho prepara
tion of a novel that promises to oqual
it not surpnss anything he has yet pro
duced. Slenktewlcz 1b One of thoso
few writers who can outllno and pnr-
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.
feet work In a crowded summer hotel.
Ho sponds much tlmo at Ragatz,
Switzerland, whore, as his translator,
Curtln. has written: "There Is a
great charm In tho freedom nnd lone
liness of a crowded hotel with all com
forts of tho century. It Is also n good
place for work." Slenkicwlcz was bora
h vm mm
lilt UMiiiK "M
In 1818.
Washington dispatch: Tho United
8tatea Navy Department, like that of
France nnd Great Britain, is experi
menting with submarine boats.
A fow weeks ago Simon Lake" sub
mitted to tho Navy Department care
fully worked out plans for submarine
boats of threo orders; a small kind that
could be carrlod by a battleship nnd
used as a picket boat, n larger typo for
coast dofenso work and u still larger
order for cruising purposes, having a
radius of action of thousands of miles.
Tho result of Mr. Lako's Interview with
the board of construction will bo the
building of a boat of tho coast defonso
type to bo tried In competition with tho
submarine boats now building for this
government; nnd If this boat accom
plish nothing moro than Mr. Lake has
already realized in his Argonaut, built
two years ago, it will bo a much more
effective military Instrument than tho
present boats of the Holland design,
whoso subaqueous work Is substantial
ly limited to a series of plunges of no
Inconsiderable uncertainty.
Tho Argonaut was designed to travel
along on tho bottom, tho bont resting
upon three masslvo wheels of cast Iron,
the stnglo ono at the stern acting as a
rudder. It made numerous descents on
Its way down tho Chesapeake and trav
eled over all kinds of bottom, some of
which was so soft that tho divers would
sink nearly up to their waists when
leaving tho boat. Other bottoms wcro
found to consist of hard sand, on which
tho wheels made no Impression. It was
run up hill and down dale and across
dredged channels, nnd nt all times It
was found that It could bo readily
maintained so noarly buoyant that
these gradual ascents and descents
mado no perceptible difference li the
power required to propel ltt U was
found thnt It would m.gu.n.t over any ob
stacle over which It could gel Its bow,
for tho boat's pressure upon tho bot
tom could bo reg"hted to the matter
cither of one pbusd or twice as rcaay
tons as the occasion and currents
might require.
Tho featuro about the boat that mado
tho greatest appeal to the popular mind
was tho diving chambor, It was In
thero, air-locked off from tho rest of
tho craft, that tho air pressure was
gradually Increased until It equalod tho
presduro of tho water without. Then
Mr. Lako would unfasten the ble Iron
dor In tho floor nnd let It drop out
ward, wnne the water would rlso near
ly to tho flooring and then subside
quietly to a level with tho manholo rim.
out below tho diver would pass, tho
Ttvo -Pacific Cables.
By a voto of 150 to 44 the British
Houso of Commons has adopted a res
olution authorizing the ttxpondlture of
$10,000,000 on tho British Pacific cable.
With tho amounts pledged by the col
onies this Insures the success of tho
enterprise. Meanwhile we are still
discussing tho question whether tho
American Pacific cable, if wo over get
it, shall bolong to tho government of
the United States or shall be paid for
by tho government nnd presented to a
corporation. Probably we shall still
2n A Kjng'f Motor Carriage. x
King Edward's latest motor car Is o
Is remarkable for tho neatness and el
ttvely light. It is a sort of motor ph
tho driver on tho front seat, a couplo
any menus tho first motor car tho Kin
takes ii keen Interest In horseless car
however, will murk somothlng of a n
ular rides lu It In Hydo Park. Lond
bottom, If tho water wore clear, plainly
In sight, while big-eyed, Inquisitive fish
would look up Into tho brightly llghtud
chamher. It was all so much like Jules
Verne's famous story, and yet It was
true.
Tho boat which Mr. Lrtko Is now
contracting to build will havo all of
tho deslrablo features of his earlier
boat bettered, and with somo addi
tional ones of a decidedly unique or
der. For obvious reasons Mr. J. alts
won't lot the public know tho detnlte
of most of these, but ho gives them
thus, for tho first tlmo, a gen
eral knowledco of tho craft which
promises to revolutionize tho' history
of submarines for naval work.
Mr. Lake has conceived a scheme by
which his boats, when in a soral-sub-merged
condition similar to that
bhown in the left hnnd corner of the
sK:tch, aro rendered invisible. Mr.
Luko gives assuranco of tho absolute
Counsel for Schley.
Judgo Wilson and Captain Parkor,
both ex-ofllcers of tho nnvy, hnvo been
engaged to look after the Interests of
Roar Admiral Schley in tho coming
Inquiry into the merits of the charges
JUDGE WILSON.
practicability of this, although It 1 not
freo for publication. It is only neceu
sary for any one who has been out to
sea at all to recall the difficulty lof
"picking up' that Js, catching sight
of, a good big can buoy, the position
of which Is known, to conceive of
the task of sighting tho armored
hood of ono of Mr. Lako's boats
even without Its disguising feature. It
would bo a hard Job to catch a fair
gllmpso of tho boat with all Its deck
houso out of water; and that Is the
condition In which it would bo ablo to
do a lnrgo share of advance scout work.
For scout work It is Intended to have
stations well off the coast to which the
boats could repair, and by making con
nection with telegraphic cables sunk
there communicate at once to the
bo wrangling over that question when
tho British get their cable laid, and
shall be sending our official messages
over their line while the dispute goes
on. Out1 cable project was launched
long beforo the British one. It
seemed In a fair way to success at a
time when we did not own a foot of
territory on tho route. Since then we
havo acquired Hawaii and tho Philip
pines, nnd what was before a desira
ble convenlenco has become a neces
sity. Yet wo have allowed Great Drl
taln to go before us In providing that
necessity,, nnd pur government's, orders
no of tho finest vehicles of Its kind
cganco of Its appearance, and, though substantially built, It Is compara
noton, having seating accommodation for half a dozen persons, one beside
on tho mlddlo seat, and a box for two footmen at the back. This Is not by
g has had mado for him; for, llko tho King of tho Belgians, his .Majesty
rlages, and hns had two built for him proviously. This latest motor car,
ow doparture, for during tho coming season the Kim intends to take reg
on Dully Express.
shoro. It In not gonornlly known, but
It Is posnlblo to keep within Houndlngs
of 150 feet, the maximum diving daptlt
of tho boat, off our coast nt distances
of from fifteen to nnvonty-llvo miles.
With nn advance guard of pickets llko
theso, it would bo posnlblo to entubllali
tho most effective of blookndns with
tho minimum of oxpoiiHo and effort, To
connect with the entile tho bont by
closo bearings would locate the spot,
lower its two auction, and slowly
draw itself down to tho Junction box.
Tho diver would then go out, comploto
tho circuit, and communication could
at onco be held with the slioro. Dy
rising to the surface Just so tho ar
mored sighting-hood wero clonr, ,tho
boat could obsorve every movement of
tho enemy until well up, directing tho
station ashore as to the speed and com
pass bearing of tho approaching foe,
and thon, If discovered, sink comletely
out of sight in threo seconds. Should
CAPT. PARKER,
mnde by Sampson, Maclay and others
to tho effect that Schloy was guilty of
cowardico when the fleet under his im
mediate command sank that of Cer
vera. it wish, to attack, all It need do would
be to cast loose the sealed end of tho
cable, raise its anchors, and have at
the enemy. It the approaching foe be
light craft, or torpedo boats, this coa3t
defonso aubinarlnc could effectively uao
its two one-pounder guns on them, and
that While presenting only the target
of its' tower. At night, against such
small craft, it would be better for it to
do that than to waste its torpedoes:
and the boat is so designed that should
this part if its hull be damaged, It can
be completely cut off from the body of
tho boat, whllo navigation could be
carried on from below. i
Algeria has four zones in which pe
troleum occurs.' One of them Is 125
miles long.
to Its own officials will be subject to
her convenience. Fortunately there Is
room in the Pacific for two cables.
The construction of the British line
will not in the least diminish the ne
cessity for an American one. Hawaii
will still remain isolated until we link
her to tho contnont. Secretary Gage
is complaining now that he does not
know what to do with tho surplus.
Congress can relieve him of a llttlo of
bis embarrassment at its next session
by making an appropriation for a gov
ernment Pacific cable. San Francisco
Examiner. . . ,
yet built. Unlike most motor cars it
I monoy go too easily?