People and
Xncouthncss in the Army.
Qonornl Miles 1ms acted wholy In
Issuing a general order Intended to
promote a moro trim nnd soldierly ap
pearance on tho part of tho men In
tho United States army. All tho Amer
ican oa woll as all tho foreign critics
of our regiments in tho Chinese expe
dition ngrood that tho American sol
dlcra, wbllo second to nono In courago
and efficiency, wero dcflclont In drill
and slouchy in appearance Oonoral
Chaffoo recently Iiuh found It neces
sary to issuo an order on this subject
to his mon In tho Philippines. Now
Oonoral Miles calls tho attention of tho
wholo army to "a cortaln uncouthncfls
of exterior and laxity of mannors,"
which seem to bo affected Intentbnally
by Homo of tho troops under tho mis
taken idea that these aro soldierly
characteristics. Tho commanding gen
eral says offenses of this kind must
atop.
ThlB carelessness In dress nnd disci
pllno appears to havo crept Into tho
army at tho tlmo of tho civil war. Up
to that tlmo tho regulars wero modols
of punctilious propriety. No European
ofllcore woro moro insistent in matters
of discipline and pipeclay than thoso
of our army beforo the 'COs. Tho civil
war called into tho field vast bodlos of
untrained volunteers, who in tlmo be
came an efficient fighters as tho rogun
lars, but who never acquired tho per
fection of drill or tho rigid habit of
keeping their uniforms in spotless
condition. These volunteer regiments,
with their splendid fighting and their
carolcss dressing, sot an cxamplo whoso
offoct. upon tho regulars, romnlns, no
ticeable to' tho present day. Ex.
A Liberal Gitier.
Oonoral William J. Palmer, whoso
gift of 11,000,000 to ofllclals and cm-
WILLIAM J. PALMER,
ployes of the old Donver and Rio
Orande and Rio Grando Western roads
hu just been made public, came west
from Philadelphia in I870. He was
the first president of tho road, which
be built in 1871. Ho founded Colorado
Springs July 13, 1871. Evor since ho
baa, made his homo, at Glen Eyrie,- a
picturesque canyon Just north of tho
Garden of tho Clods, Uiroo miles north
west of Colorado Springs. In Juno
last ho sold his control of tho road to
the Gould Interests of Now York, re
ceiving $0,000,000 therefor. Ho has
given liberally to Colorado College Ho
is principal owhor of tho Antlors Ho
tel. Recently he gave tho city Austin
Bluffs about 1,000 acres for park pur
poses. Ho saya ho has retired from
railroading and will probably invest
his mllllona in building up Colorado
Springs and in othor public enter
prises. Ho is yet in mlddlo life. Ho
Is ayerse to notoriety, but no Colorado
pioneer has greater claims for distinc
tion. France's Ex-Empress.
Bx-Bmprew Eugenie la making a
tour of the west coast of Scotland, a
region she haa never boforo visited,
facUeatally Bhe will visit the Glas
gow exposition, She ! much gratified
by .the scaat attention she receives
EX-EMPRESS EUOENIE,
(Taken in 18C9.)
from the Scottish people, for sho has)
for years avoided public notoriety.
Pope Leo is an omnivorous reader,
He has recently perused "Quo Vadls,"
and the author, Henry Slenklewicz, has
received a letter from tho Vatican ex
pressing oatlsfaction for tho Catholic
wea expressed in tho novel. Tho
Polish autbor has also received from
Leo Xm a marble tablet of tho lima
of ConstantlBe recently found in the
Ustrlaao cemetery, the scone of some
i or te laeweau of "quo Vadls."
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AsiheWo
ReVolHJej
Stvam tJUteltfe Miles,
Miss Mndgo Johnson, daughter of
Dr. Johnson of Sag Harbor, I I., tho
other day took n Bwlm of twelve miles.
Sho was in tho water sovon hours.
Miss Johnson is nbout 23 years old and
is dovotcd to nthlctlcs. She swum
nway from Sag Harbor at 4:40 o'clock
in tho morning to get tho benefit of
tho tido. Miss Hulsoy and Miss Sav
age nccompanled her in a rowboat. Sho
reached tho bench at Orccnport. twelve
miles nway, nt 11:40 o'clock. Through
out her long Bwlm her companions de
clare that sho never sought help or
rest in tho boat and that sho swam tho
MADGE JOHNSON,
ontlro dlstanco without any outsldo
aid.
Irish Emigration XVtll Go On.
Michael Davltt says in substance
that tho Irish in America nre helping
tho English In Ireland' by "encourag
ing our peoplo to desert our country"
Ireland. Mr. Davltt sayB that during
tho last fifteen years G00.000 young
mon and women havo come from that
island to the United States to stay
horo. Thus Ireland has lost a quarter
of n million fighting mon. That Is eight
times tho number of tho Boera who
havo been fighting England for two
years and who are "still unconqucred
nnd unconquorablo." "Unless this drain
Is stopped," says Mr. Davltt, "tho Celts
in Ireland will bo in tho ralnorltyr
which nioans'thabtho conquest of our
country nftor its hundreds of years of
rcslstanco will havo been all but con
summated." Mr. Davltt has made- great
sacrifices for tho cause which Is dear
to his heart. Thoro Is no sucrlflco
probably which ho would not mako to
further what ho takes to bo tho best
interests of his natlvo land. But ho
cannot reasonably expect Irishmen
who have become citizens of America
to bo as dovotcd to the cause as ho is
or to mako as many sacrifices for it.
So bo is not fair whon -h taxes them
with "helping England," nnd upbraids
thoro, for doing so much loss than Mr.
Davltt thinkB thoy ought to havo done
to holp. on tho cause.- Chicago Trlb
uno. "Domenico Morttli.
Domonlco Morclll, tho, celebrated
Itallun painter who died in Naples last
DOMENICO MORELLI.
wcok, had a political as woll as an ar
tistla career. Ho was born at Naplos
in 1820, and took up nrms against
King Fordlnnnd in 1848. Ho did not
begin bis studies as a palntor until
1854. nnd then ho was tho temporary
pupil of Ouorrn. Morolll won medals
In 1861 nt the Neapolitan exhibition,
nnd In 18G7 ha was uwnrdod a gold
modal at tho exposition in Paris. Tho
lato King of Itnly decorated him with
Bovoriil orders and ho was highly hon
ored in his own country. Among his
best works nro "Christ Walking on tho
Ben," "Tho Asconston," "Tho Nativity,"
"Tho Entombment," nnd othor paint
ings illustrative of tho Ufo or Jesus.
His best known historical painting Is
"Caesaro Borglu nt Capua." Morolll
was highly ndmlrud by tho French
critics.
UrlcK for a Tioy.
Horo la n trick that Is almost Im
possible for u boy .to do, but. Btrango
to say, tho girls
llnd it qulto easy.
In tho first placo,
stand facing trio
wall, with both toes
touching tho baso
board. Now meua
uro back three of
your own feet, nnd
placo u chair bo
tweou you nnd the
wall. Bond over
tho chair until your head touches tho
wall. Now ralso tho chair, and, with
out moving your feet or touching tho
chair to tho floor or wall, regain your
standing position. Don't uo discour
aged with one trying. t
f
I Current Topics f
Clark. Against Eight Hoars.
"I would rather let tho grass grow in
tho streets of Jcromo," says William
A. Clark, "than grant my men an
eight-hour day." Accordlnclv he has
closed tho United Vcrdo copper mines.
"Thoso who know Clark," says tho dis
patch announcing tho shut-down,
"know ho will keep tho mines closed
a year rather than surrender."
Tho United Vordo mines, according
to tho latest statistics, produced 22,000
tons of copper annually. They produco
moro now, for when those figures wero
given out now smelters wero building.
Thoy have paid dividends as high a
43.5 per cent. They aro estimated to
add $12,000,000 a year to Clark's' pri
vate fortune Tho number of men' em
ployed Is not stated, but comparison
of their product with that of similar
mines shows that It Is from 1,500 to
2,000.
Yet rather than diminish In tho least
his enormous gains by granting an
eight-hour dny their owner shuts-thorn
down nnd coolly announces his inten
tion of making a desert of tho town
whoro thoy aro situated.
Has Hettard in Old Age.
Henry Michael, a retired farmer of
Mattoon, III., Is an odd nnd noted char
acter. Ho Is 97 years old, yet as spry
and nlert an many mon of CO. His
memory Is unimpaired and ho narrates
reminiscences of early dnys in Illinois
with n dramatic effect. Ho has lived in
Coles county, within n few miles of
Mattoon, for threo-quartcrs of n cen
tury. Although unable to read or wrlto bo
HENRY MICHAEL.
Resident of Mattoon, 111., 07 Years
Old nnd Can Do tho Manual Labor
of a Man of 50. A Unlquo Charac
ter. amassed a fortuno of $50,000, which he
divided among ten children when ho
recently retired from "tho farm. His
sagacity in a land or cattle trade was
notorious and ho could computo finan
cial transactions Involving thousands
of dollars to the penny by mental proc
esses quicker and moro accurately
than most men by uso of figures.
Tho; Michaels camo from North Caro
lina. iThcy walked tho ontlro dlstanco,
tho Journey requiring" three- years.'
Mtchaol's parents had six children, all
of whom walkod with them. For dnys
thoy had no other food than their
father could sccuro with his rlflo. The
family was among tho first to till tho
prairie at Klckupoo Point, where sav
ages yet roamed, and .wild beasts woro
in possession. Schools woro unknown
and thrlco envied was ho who could
read his bible.
Czar's Sister Married.
An Important event of last week In
Europo was tho marrlago of Grand
Duchess Olgn Aloxandrovna, youngest
sister of tho Czar, to Prlnco Oldenburg.
Thoro was somo opposition at first to
tho union, which Is n love match, but
Nicholas II. is so fond of his sister
that bo gave in after a llttlo persua
sion. Princess Olga has Inherited tho
Hlmplo mannors of hor fathor, Alex-
GRAND DUCHESS OLGA.
under HI-, and is tho favorite bt tho
Imperial .family.
Mrs. Q..H. P. llolmont was forced
to abandon lior proposed ''patont mod'
iclnu quailrlUo," which was to havo
boon a featuro of hor danco nl Now
port recently, flho was compelled to
take thlfl step owing to tbo avnlancho
of lottors and telegrams which tho an
nouneoiuont of tho ontertnlnmont
brought down upon herself and. upon
her Invited guests from tho proprietors
of patent modlclnes and from their
advertising agents. Eager to avail
thomaolves of such a favorablo oppor
tunity to ndvortlso their "cures"
among tho "four hundred," thoy of
fered not only to duslgn tho costumes
worn to represent each particular rem
edy, but hlBO to defray all, the expenses
in connection thorowlth, somo oven
being lmpollto enough to offer mone
tary considerations If tholr proposal
woro accepted.
TALK WITH f J
MAJ. GEN
General MacArthur, who has Just
returned from tho Philippines, ex
presses great satisfaction over bis
work in tho Islands. Ho says:
"While tho condition is not perfect,
it is gratifying. A few groups of
armed Insurgents aro still at large,
but they must surrender, as tholr
power Is broken and they aro not be-
ZShe Life of a LocomotlDe.
Tho English onglno, built in 1870,
has run 4,000,000 miles and Is still in
service. Tho managers of tho road to
which It belongs are proud of this rec
ord. In tho United States a first-class
passongor engine mnkos from 100,000
to 110,000 miles a year, and at tho end
of twenty year's is supposed to bo ready
for thotscrap heap.' Seemingly, Amer
icans aro more extravagant than Brit
ish railway managers, but tho former
do not think thoy are. They boliovo
their policy is tho moro economical
one. As soon as a locomotlvo is put
In service in this country it is pushed
as hard as 1b posslblo In doing proflt
ableswork on the assumption that by
the time It has been driven to death
there will bo so many Improvements
in locomotives that It will bo uneco
nomical to keep the old one In service
even It It can bo rebuilt. Thus whon
slaves were cheap a Cuban plantor
would reason that it was moro eco
nomic to work a slave to death and
buy a now one than to exact loss labor
from a slavo and thus have his ser
vices for a longer tlmo. In England an
engine is taken great care of. It Is
rested occasionally. Its life is pro
longed as much as possible. Hence it
Is that an engine can bo kept In ser
vlco for thirty yenrs. Tho mon at the
head of American railways contend
that so old an engine must be an ex
pensive ono becauso it cannot do the
cheaper work a modern englno is
capable of. The American policy Is
vindicated by its tosttlts. Freight rates
on American roads have gone down
becauso of tho foarlps use of mechan
ical Improvements by their managers.
Freight rates In England nro high, and
do not como down. Ono reason is thnt
tho mnnagors of English roads have
falqo Ideas of economy.
As Man to Man.
President John Mitchell of tho MIno
Workers urgues cogently in tho cur
ront Independent In favor of the frank
recognition by employers of tho trades'
union as tho agent of tholr employes.
Into tho details of Mr. Mitchell's argu
ment It is needless to go farther than
to clto ono striking fact: In tho bitu
minous coal industry, where the union
Is lecognlzed, thoro has bcon peace for
threo and one-half years. In tho an
thracite branch, whoro tho union Is not
recognized, thero nro frequent strikes
nnd constant uncertainty.
More Interesting to thoso who seek
to find genornl principles upon which
tho relations of capital and labor may
equitably and easily be adjusted is a
remark near tho closo of Mr. Mltcholl's
article. "I havo never known an In
stance." ho says, "whoro tho repre
sentatives of capital nnd labor havo
failed to agreo when tho two Bat down
together, put tholr foot under tho table,
and told ono nnothor tho nbsoluto
truth. I am confldont that ovory great
strike which has taken plnco in our
country could havo bson nvoldcd If
each Bldo had bcon roasDnablo nnd hon
est with tho othor."
turning lp raper Money.
A cranky' old man In Minnesota has
diroctod in his will thnt his ndmlnis
trfltbra shall gather up nil his cash In
bank and hum It till nothing Is loft
but nshes. Ho wlshod to splto his heirs
a brother, slstor, anil nophow. His
heirs do not wish to bo spited, nnd
thoy aro going to fight tho will. They
nro going to contond, among othor
things, thnt an admlnlstrntor has no
moro right to destroy money by lire
than to destroy buildings or crops.
Thoro Is a mntorlal difference. Tho
burning up of buildings Is a destruc
tion of values. It takes something
from tho wonlth of tho community.
When paper money is burned thero Is
no destruction of values. There Is
merely the wiping out pt cortaln evl-
M'ARTHUR.
'iff generally aided by tho natives.
Theso natives havo cotno to bco that
surrender does not mean death, and
they nre coming in every week with
their rifles.
"Throughout northorn Luzon tho in
surrection has been over for somo
tlmo and there 1b much freedom of
movement. Still, a largo criminal
donees of Indebtedness, lust an If nrnm
Issory notes instead of bank bills woro
thrown Into tho Ore. If tho adminis
trator should be allowed to obey In
structions, and should burn up $50,
000 In United States currency of any
kind Jhls 1b tho amount In bank to
tho credit of tho estate then tho
United States Treasury would $e
$50,000, better off than before. Prac
tically tho national government would
bo the heir. If national bank notes
were burnt up the banks which issued
them would bo tho galnors.
Therefore, I tho will shall bo sus
tained It will bo in tho power of the
bank where tho. money is deposited to
determine who shnll be the legatee. It
can hand over to tho administrator its
own notes, if it have any in circula
tion, tho bills of other banks, or Unit
ed States notes. Or it may hand over
gold coin and Invito tho administrator
to burn that to ashes.
Tho court before which UIs will is
to bo contested may well sot It asldo
on tho ground that the testator prac
tically left it to tbo bank to determino
tho real legatees. If tho court does
not care to do that, it can set tho will
aside because the testator was not of
fig- Sue Infanta Etilalia.
MRS. CHARLES T. YERKES, WHO INVOKES. THE LAW'S AID TO SE
CURE SOME DRESSES SHE HAS ORDERED AND WERE PURCHASED
BY THE INFANTA EULALIA,
1
"I'll teach that Infanta a thing rv
two!" exclaimed Mrs. Charles T.
Yorkes, whon tho Paris correspondent
of an American paper called to in
quire into tho meaning of tho legal
proceedings sho had ordered lnstitutod
in tho French capital Jointly against
tho Infanta Eulalla of Spain and tho
noted Paris man dressmaker, M. Ar
mand. Tho Infanta visited New York and
othor cltle3 of America, it will bo re
membered, during tho Columbian ex
position as representative of tho Span
ish royal family and acquired some
thing of a reputation for her eccontrlo
Itles. Mrs. Yorkes is tho wife of tho Amer
ican traction magnate who is about to
start an electric underground railway
in London. Mrs. Yorkes declined to
talk mucb about, the case, but tho cor-
class thcro commits depredations on
Amcrlcnns and natives alike, though
tho latter suffer tho most severely.
"Tho natives aro eagerly seeking tho
establishment of civil government thnt
they may root out theso bands pf crim
inals. Thcro is every reason to bo
Hovo that tho whole country will Boon
bo perfectly safo for travelers.
"Tar haB wrecked tho Philippines
and I laid wasto wholo districts. The
peoplo in many districts havo relapsed
into, barbarism. Tho best conditions
provnll in northorn Luzon. You; may
say hat tho -wholo territory is pnclflcd
but not trnnquilized, but It will not
bo many months beforo Inw and order
nro observed everywhoro.
"At present thoro Is still somo
troublo in Samar, but General. Hughes,
with, a large and effective force, han
goon after tho insurgents and will
soon bring thorn to their sensos. Sa
mar Is tho worst section, but tho
troublo is not interfering with tho
coast business. In Ccbu and Bohnl
and occasionally in southern Luzon
thoro is a slight outbreak, but it is
confined to tho criminal olement.
"Tho civil commission was about to
put in forco somo excellent Ideas for
the municipal government of Manila
when I left. Tho city is in excellent
condition, especially in its sanitary,
departments, and its growth in busi
ness has bcon enormous."
Mucb to the regret of many of his
subjects, King Edward is raptdly doing
away with many customs to which bis
mother was attached. Her Hindoo at
tendants wero Bent back to India as
soon as tho funeral was over and now
a stop has been put to tho services In
Gorman in tho German Chapel Royal,
which dato back to tho early Georges.
sound disposing mind. It is easy to
reach that conclusion.
Mrs. Tom Mooro, or "Zeeko," is one
of tho oldest Indians on tho Pacific
coast. Sho is a Makah Indian woman
of Washington, born nnd raised nt
Noah Bay agoncy, and 1b without doubl
moro than 100 years old. Tho first
thing she will nek a stranger for is to
bacco, which sho eatd with great rel
ish. She is nearly blind and can Just
tell daylight from night Her husband
haB "boon dead for; over thirty yoars
and sho has no relatives living, being
supported by rations furnished by the
government
Besides writing a nnmber of stand
ard legal works,. General Stlllman F.
Kneeland, a Now York lawyer, finds
time for his two bobbles, painting and
violin playing. In his office aro two
marines which be has painted.
James Angus; a collector of curios
residing at West Farms, N. Y., has
given to Rogor Williams park at Prov
idence, R. I., a collection of corals and
polished agates valued at $15,000.
respondent, learned that tho princess
nnd tho dross'maker aro charged with
conspiring to prevent tho delivering to
Mrs. .erkes of a!numbor of dresses sho
had ordored and had tried on several
times.
It sooms that whon Mrs. Yorkes'
gowns, eight in number, wero ready
thoy wero shown to tho Infanta as
specimens of tho firm's work Tho
princess foil n lovo with two of tho
Jnf,eVnAd 0rorcd t0 bu thn Pro
vided M. Armnnd would not duplicate
them for tho American millionairess.
M. Armand promised and offered Mrs.
Yorkes two other modes gratis. But
tho American woman rebolled vio
lently and refused to accept any of tho
gowns unless tho wholo original lot
woro delivered to hor Immediately
. u lwo days' argument back and
forth sho decided to sook legal rodrcsa.
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