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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1899)
r IN A REINDEER 8LEIOH, Samuel Wlnorlraa, a Flnlnah boy, 15 years old, who apeak no English, was the guest of charity In St. Louis three days when near the end or a remark able Journey frym the Old World to the New. Me traveled, labeled like an express package, from Jalaajarvl Finland, to Perry, O. T., and was but little better able to take care of himself than an express package. Mis passage did not cost more than the charge for trans porting an express of his weight be tween nis starting point ana Ms des tination. The boy traversed 5,500 miles at a cost. Including subsistence, of flOO. The means of conveyance employed were varied and the scenery he viewed ranged from the Ice-covered crags of his native Finland to the golden ex panse of cornfields on the rolling prai ries of Oklahoma. He began his jour ney wrapped in furs in a huge sleigh drawn by antlered reindeer, and made the last stage of It In a buckboard that was whirled away from the prairie town depot by a single fractious, raw boned broncho. In the interim between these widely different experiences the boy sailed In a Baltic sea fisherman s sloop; crossed the great Atlantic on a monster of the line; whizzed through New York streets on trolley cars; rushed across moun tains, plains and rivers on American railroads and paid a quarter to the bridge arbitrary to cross the grand Mississippi. The boy arrived In St. Louis penni less because he had not husbanded the funds sent him by the relatives on this side to whose home he was going. While the boy could not talk English he was sufficiently acquainted with the sign language to spend money and be fleeced by peanut venders and purvey ors of other things that allure the boy whether he comes from Finland or the bailiwick where Tom Sawyer thrived. The Finnish boy's passage was pre paid from Stockholm, Sweden, to his destination. The ticket was purchased at Perry and sent to the boy's parents. A tag asking all with whom he might come In contact to treat him kindly and assist him not to get lost was at tached to a buttonhole in his cot. But the boy did get lost in St. Louis, or, rather, he wandered out of the sight of those who were heeding the request on the label, and that was how he came to have the pleasure of remaining In St. Louis two days. Instead of only twelve hours, as his itinerary called for. The Finnish boy has an uncle living on a farm near Perry, O. T., who want ed a bright boy to help him about the farm and grow up in free and enlight ened America. The uncle bethought him of Sammy and decided to send for the lad. After a correspondence re quiring weeks It was arranged that Samrny should say good-by to home and Finland and travel to the country of his relatives, of which he no doubt had a vague and very Incorrect Idea. The uncle purchased through the railroad agent at Perry a ticket for Samuel Wlnnrima, aged 16 years, from Stockholm, Sweden, to Perry, O. T. eveninr of August 13. His train was not due to leave until next morning Kind-hearted attaches of the union sta tion took him in charge. A chance traveler who spoke Sammy's language learned of his Journey and that he had spent most of the money intended for food on peanuts, bananas, eta Sammy spent the night on a couch In the station matron's rooms. He was up early next morning. When the sta tion officers who were to put him on his train searched for him he could not be found. He returned after his train, was gone. He was not much worried. He was fed and taken care of by the station attaches, but despite their ef forts to get him started on the road to Oklahoma, Sammy missed the train twice after the first failure to get away. LEGEND OF BULL HILL. If the residents of Bull Hill, Me., set liement lok east they see the broad surface of Great Pond. In the opposite direction their vision climbs the steep side of a mountain which hides Its ton among clouds in the daytime and talks with the stars at night. There are fourteen nouses, a general store, a ho tel, a blacksmith shop and a diminu tive school bouse In the village. Be yond these are trees and crags, tenant ed by many wild animals and haunted by the ghosts of. the men who per ished years ago while trying to solve the mystery of a barrel of bull beef. The village of today has not changed in forty years, except that a school house has been put up on the spot where a grogshop was burned by a moD in iswi. The school house is the smallest Institution of learning In Maine. It is 12 feet wide and 16 feet long. Five pupils for every school day is the average attendance. When the boys start for school In the morning every one takes a dry stick of cord- wood on his shoulder and saws It Into stove lengths before beginning his les sons. The name of the man who founded Bull Hill was Hussey. His act was wholly involuntary. In company with three other men he started from Am herst in the autumn of 1838 to take an oxload of supplies to a lumber camp in Greenfield plantation. As they mounted the shoulder of Bull Hill the men walked on ahead, leaving Hussey to wield the goad stick and guide the team. At the very top of the hill the rope binding the load parted, and a barrel of salted bull beef rolled off to the ground, from which point gravita tion took it over the brow of the hill and carried It out of sight. "I'll get that barrel of beef," said Hussey, with an oath, "or I'll never come back." The men laughed at him, telling him they believed he was fond of bull beef because his teeth seemed to be made fur the purpose of chewing tough food. As Hussey had large teeth, which he never housed dar or night, summer or winter, the taunt made him mad. "If 1 find that barrel of beef," he cried, "I'll stay until I eat It all up or I'll starve to death trying." He took his axe, gun, ammunition U. 8. A., via New York City. Tickets ana a lew oiner neeurui articles irom of thin kind consist of three coupons, the oxcart and went off down the hill, One coupon Is a receipt for the total ! while the men continued their Journey sum. This receipt is Kept ny ine pur chaser. The other coupons are an or der for the steamship passage and an order for the railroad passage from New York to the destination. Sammy's coupons were sent to him. He was bundled into a reindeer sleigh at Jalaslarvl and began the trip to to Greenfield camp. Hussey didn't show up at camp that winter, though the foreman -needed him badly and looked for him every day. On their return to Amherst the men expected to find Hussey at home, but when they learned he hadn't been seen sim.-e he went away the autumn before, his WAYS OF THE MEXICANS. thr nearest seaport, Krlstlnestad, on j friends grew frightened and began to the Baltic sea. 1W miles from his home, mane up searcmog parties, aiiui a ' This, the first stage of his Journey, oc- reports about a man lost In the woods cupled three days. reached Bangor and Old Town, and At Krlstlnestad he embarked In a men who wanted an outing for human sailing sloop to cross the wintry Baltic Ity's sake with a prospect of plenty of to Stoc kholm. The sail was 4.V) miles rum and molusscs on the side made and required five days. There was 1 frequent Journeys to Great Pond in nothing new to the boy thus far, for -quest of Hussey and his bull beef, he had ridden behind reindeer all his Many of these well-meaning searchers life, and had taken many a cruise with ' came to grief. A canoe containing relatives In the fishery business. three men and a boy was overturned At Stockholm the novelty of the on Great Fond in May, 1S39, and no trlp began for the young Klnlander. He body lived to reach the shore. The had never been to the Swedish capital, following month a party of four men and there were many and great sights took refuge unih-r a fallen hemlock to fur him there. I he KteamsiilD company, avoio u nuuuvn uunniiuui, t.j took him In charge there and started him on the railway to Christiana, the sailing point of the company's trans atlantic steamships. The rail Journey was 450 miles, and kept the boy 48 hours among the pic turesque scenes of rugged Sweden. At Christiana the boy saw tor me one was killed by a thunderbolt. Three months later a party of six was over taken by a great forest fire, in which two lost their lives. One man was lost In the woods and his body was torn to pieces by wild anlmaU. In spite of hardships and disasters the hunt for Hussey and his beef was first time a treat sea harbor with Its kept up for ten years, and though evi- foreats of spars and masts, trim racing yachts, warships bristling with can non, tiny fishing smacks and crafts of varied shapes and importance And here, too, he saw for the first time a real American flag, an Immense silk banner of stars and stripes, crackling in the breeze above a United States cruiser. The boy knew the flag and he knew the ship that floated It was one of the defenders of the great country to which he was going, and he longed to go aboard and feel like an American at once. But the patriotic Sammy was obliged, in accordance with the directions on his shipping tag. that afternoon to be pluced on an Immense ocean steamer, and was shown his bunk In the steer age, and the place where he was to eat for the next two weeks or more. Sammy wept a few lines when the 0lg ship wrtdhed anchor and crept to the open sea In obedience to the pulling tug to which she was attached by a long line. - Bammty's Journey had then fairly been begun. There were many persons from his native land on board, and he was not without some one to talk to and cry with. The ship's Journey gave the boy a view of the Shetland Islands, where the diminutive horses originated. He sailed July 27 and It was not un til August 13 that he saw Fire Island, the right sign of the land of the New World. He successfully passed through was permitted to walk down the gang plank and set foot on an American pier. Sammy had but little trouble with the customs officers. But he would not hae been permitted to enter the country with his scant supply of the worlds goods and no vis ible means of existence save a few small coins, but for the fact that bo had inland transportation. He had given one of his coupons for fare on the steamer. The remaining coupon was an order for a railroad ticket from New York to Perry, O. T. This was Sammy's open sesame at the barge office, where immigrants are examined and permit ted to enter the United States If they have money enough to get out of New York, or made to reshlp If they are paupers. An attache of the steamship company took Sammy In tow and passed him through the barge office to the railroad station. Sammy was then left entirely alone, save for his label. Ho had sov eral hours to wait for his train to leave, going further look a ride on a trolley car. H tot away from New York on time and remained on the train until he reached St. Louis., There was no dm on the train to speak with him In his nntlve language, but the label had len rewritten In English at New York and explained his few needs. Sammy reached St. Louis on the A,mr.e that ht wnl ntlll HvInC WQS dlB- covered at several times, he remained unknown to the world until 1K52. when James Clinch and Arthur Penney pad dled Into a cove on the side of Great Pond one afternoon and saw Hussey sitting at the mouth of a cave watch ing a handsome squaw at play with her three half-breed children. "My wife, my babies," said Hussey, Introducing his family. "Glad ter see yer, boys. Stop and have a snack." After supper the men questioned Hussey and asked him why he had never come out to the celarlng In all the years that bad gone. "I've bin wantln' to many's the time," replied Hussey, "but I took my oath thnt I'd never come back till the bull beef was et up." He paused here long enough to point out a barrel In one cor ner of the room, and added: "And It ain't all gone y It." Current report has It that Hussey ate hull beef until the day of his death. After he had Kone his children married and settled near their old home, so In a few years the side of Bull Hill hem a small village, resting among the rocks and reaching up the road over which the founder chased a barrel of bull beef. RELIGIOUS. When a church has a dozen or fifteen attractle young women among Its mem bers the prayer meetings are generally well attended. The total number of foreign mission aries, including their wives, who are doing IYotestant Christian work In Ja pan Is !)2, an Increase of thirty-three over last year. The Methodist congregations of Brooklyn have united In a movement to endeavor to pay off the debts of all Methodist congregations as a part oi the twentieth century fund scheme. According to the twenty-fifth necro loglral report at Princeton Theological seminary recently Issued th length of the average pastorate In the I r.s byterlan church Is eight years and eight Mrs while A SOLEMN SAIL. Churchly-What? Is It possible at Fashion Bay you actually uent out sailing with a young man Sunday? . . .. , Daughter-V-e-s. ma; but there was scarcely any wind, ma. and we went real slow. Just ns If we were going to church, you know.-New York Weekly. FLEEING FKOM TEMPTATION. Mother Johnny, have you been In swimming? Johnny No'm. Honest, I aln t. Mother-Thwi what makes your hair so wet? , Johnny-I g't all sweaty runn n away from the l,ys that was goln swImmln'.-New York Journal. The street names of Mexico are some thing really appalling to the newcom er. Some years ago. the streets were renamed systematically, with numeri cal avenues running east and west and streets north and south, and although the new names are prominently post ed on all the corner houses, they are never used except in official documents. Every one uses the old names. Many of these are place names, or streets are named for some occurrence or tradi tion, or for the character of the trades that formerly predominated In them. The number of names is infinitely multiplied, because each block Is re garded as a street and has a separate name. When the name of a street continues me same through more than one block, the various squares are aeaignatea as nrst, second, third, etc. Many of tbe street names seem very odd to foreigners. Those named for the deity and religious personages are numerous. For Instance, there is the Heart of Jesus street and the Street of the Holy Ghost; Ave Maria street and the Avenue of the Love of God. Oth ers are the Street of the Saint of the True Cross, the Arches of Bethlehem, and the Graves of St. Sunday street; the Bridge of St. Peter and St.Paul nda the Street of the Crosses of Sorrow. Not only are the names of streets un usual, but they are often found in the most incongruous locations. For In stance, if you walk down Jesus street and continue In the second block you will be startled to find that you are then on the street of the New Slaugh ter House. The Alley of the Egg and Potato street are Just as likely to be the prolongation of the Back of Saint Teresa street as any other. The Street of the Seven Princes may no longer be Inhabited by royalty, but the Ave nue of Illustrious Men was named for real persons. The Street of the Lost child derived Its name from a popular tradition, but the Avenue of the Fifth of May was named for a famous bat tle with the French. There are a large number of the capital's streets named for living things. There are the streets of the Little Bird, Street of the Fish, Bull street and Goat street, and streets of the Flies, Rats and Boosters. It is a little startling to newcomers at first to notice the universal custom In Mexico of addressing persons of high and low degree by their first names. As soon as friends are at all well acquainted they address each oth er by the given name, and this is done not only by those of the same age and sex, but Indiscriminately among young me nand young women, young people and elder persons. In the latter case, or between elderly persons, a respect ful prefix Is used as "Don Klcardo. Public characters are also commonly eferred to by their first names, even the wife of the President of the repub lic being affectionately called Carmen clta by all classes. In the household the head of the house Is called Bon Jose or Don Manuel by the servants, and a son in distinction Is known as .Manuelito (little Manuel). It should not be Inferred from the above, however, that the relation be- ween the family proper and the help s ever anything more than mat or master and servant. Far from It. The servant knows his place and remains In It always, and the master would tol erate nothing less, though the servant may address the master In terms of endearment, and the master speak with servant In the language of inti mates and relatives. It Is In expecting too much of these patient servitors, or In asking that the Mexican Indian dis play the same degree of providence and foresight as the educated laborers of the north, that the American em ployer falls out with them, or at least does not achieve the best results. Among servants the customs regard ing the names given superiors are not unlike those of the negroes of the Southern United States. The lowest classes, or the servants that have grown up In a family, Bpeak to the heads of the house as onino or nina (masculine and feminine for child), or call the wife and mother senorita, re gardless of the fact hat she may have attained three-Bcore. ine servants ais tlngulsh between one of their own class and a friend of their master or mistress by such distinctions. If a call er Is to be announced it Is a senorita, regardless of her age, that Is In the parlor. If a woman of the common class awaits the mistress it is a senora. A Rentleman of the upper classes is referred to as a senor, while a laborer will be called a muchacho (boy). The modern City of Mexico will soon be thoroughly up-to-date in all modes of street transportation. The capital has long been noted for Its handsome horses and equipages, several motor carriages and tricycles are to be seen every day splnnlg along the level streets; the district railways are be ing thoroughly equipped for electric traction; a handsome line of omni buses to one of the suburbs has Just been Inaugurated, that raises the "com plete" sign in the most approved French fashion when the seats are all taken; a large number of fine, new public coaches, at CO cents an hour, are to make their appearance next month, and more than all, a concession has been applied for by a company that In tends to supply the city with automo bile cabs. There are no alleys In Mexico, as they are known In the United States, and no back doors to nouses, aue Jon Is frequently translated as alley, but It Is literally and In reality little street, and is so called because It Is either narrow or short, or both. Mod ern Mexico. ODD ITEMS. Tbe other day In Bangor, Me, wheelman met a young woman riding a wheel and shedding bitter tears. He asked her why she wept, and she gave the following explanation: She was learning to ride her wheel; she could not turn while riding it, and If she dismounted she could not mount with out help, and there she was riding farther and farther from home. Of course he helped her out of her trouble, and she went on her way rejoicing. A proclamation has been Issued in Malta announcing that after fifteen years the English language will be sub stituted for the Italian in all the courts In the island. The use of Italian has been of great Inconvenience to the Eng- iiBii oi jnajta. The most singular ship in the world is the Polyphemus of the British navy. It is simply a long steel tube, deeply ouneu in me water, the deck rising only four feet above the sea. It carries no masts or sails, and is used as a ram ana lorpeao boat. Christian Ludwiireen bet Edward w Vogt of Hoboken 5 that he (Vogt) had not the nerve to ask any woman to marry him. Vogt took him up. A little later he met Miss Annie Steiner, also oi MoooKen. and told her of the bet. "You don't dare to marry me," he said. "Oh, I don't know." said the irlrl. Sn they were married and Ludwigsen's $5 counis as tnelr nrst wedding gift. The spider that seeks out a pebble and anchors her web with it clearly makes use of a tool. The pebble Is analogous to the iron anchor used by man. Spiders have been seen to use nails for anchors. The area of the world's coal flels is 471,800 square miles. Among the principal consumers of corn whisky is the British government, which used 124,000 gallons last year in the manufacture of smokeless powder. The most extraordinary forest in the world was discovered by Dr. Wewltsch, and occupies a tableland six miles in width near the west coast of Africa. The peculiarity of the trees is that, mougn ineir trunKs are as much as four feet In diameter, they attain a neignt or only a foot. No tree bears more than two leaves, and these at tain a length of six and a breadth of two feet. The sultan of Turkey is most inquis itive as to what is said and written about hi mabroad. Every day transla tions are laid before him from newspa pers of the world, and these are closely perused. To salute with the left hand is a deadly insult to Mahometans in the east. Sir Jung Bahadur, the prime minister to the king of Nepaul, has a hat made of diamonds worth $2,500,00, and perch ed pn the top is a single- ruby of in calculable value. At Mendon, near Paris, a captive bal loon was recently allowed to rise to a height of 150 yards and then shot at wits a rifle. Most of the shots passed through the lower half of the balloon, and some pierced the upper half. The effect upon the balloon was hardly per ceptible, as six hours elapsed before, in a very gentle descent, it reached the earth. money, and he may now depart in peace, knowing that all the rites have been observed and when he dies it Is only necessary for his family to place bis body in the coffin that lies in the ground. IN SULU AND LUZON. A GERMAN GIRL'S EDUCATION. An important part of a girl's educa tion In Germany is her instruction In domestic science. She Is taught ' how to knit and darn stockings and how to repair towels and bed and table linen skillfully. She crochets lace and other things, and makes all kinds of cross stitch work. Most German girls of the upper classes have some musical edu cation. As a rule, they play better on the piano than they sing. After 1he girl has finished her school course she goes to a boarding house of the better class to learn how to cook and keep house and to acquire the ways of re fined society outside of her own home. Here she remains for several months and watches the process of the cooking and other work, often lending a hand herself. It will be seen that her edu cation presupposes that ahe will marry some time In her life, and It Is In a measure a preparation for that event. Consequently, when ahe haa been con firmed she begins to prepare her trous seau. She croc-hem lace, makes table covers, works long tidies Is cross-stitch, and by degrees collects a large supply of towels and bed and table linen. Everything that Is valuable is put away In a chest holding her treasures. A MNOER REACH. "It can never be, Mr. Bllmpurse," said the fair Mlas Embonpoint, deris ively. "The man I marry must be able to surround me with comfort." "Ah! I see " retorted the young man as he lea'ched for his hat. "You'll have to et a fellow with ft longer reach than me If that's the case." Philadelphia Ilecord. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. "Maria, I told Jimmy It was wicked for little boys to fight." "What did he eay?" "He said, 'Pa. you must be gittln' old.' " 'Mamma," said little 5-year-old Tom my, "do only good little boys go to heaven?" "Yes, my dear," replied the mother. "Well," continued the youth ful observer, "if that's the case boys must be rather scarce up there." Well, Clara, what did you see in the country?" asked a father of his little 4-year-old daughter who had Just re turned from a visit to her grandpar ents. "Oh, Just lots of funny things," was the reply, "and the funniest of all was the hlr?d man unmilking the cows." Little 4-year-old Harold met with a very serious accident, having broken arm and a broken leg In consequence, says the Youth's Companion. When he was able to talk his father questioned him as to how It happened. "Oh," he said, "I went upstairs and there was a window open. I looked out, then I hol lered out and then I Jest follered the holler." "Pa, ain't you a director of th' school board?" "Yes, I am. What of it'" "Well, teacher called me down today and she was Just awfully impolite about IL" "Were you on the school house premises when she called you down?" "Yes, I was on the roof." She was a bright little girl and was not at all backward fvr her years, but one day on her return from school she surprised her mother by remarking: "The music teacher must be a fool or else he thinks we are." "Why, what can cause you to say that?" queried the mother. "Well, today he stopped us in the midst of our singing and asked how many potatoes there were in a bushel." The mother was naturally as much surprised as the child and de termined to Investigate, so she sought the master of the school, who could shed no light upon It, and together they Interviewed the singing teacher. He was thoughtful for a moment and then a smile broke over his face, which re sulted In general laughter when he explained that he had stopped the mu sic to ask: "How many beats to the measure?" SQUIRRELS. Ours Is a beautiful quiet country home at the crossing of four roads. The house is in a large yard, filled with trees and flowers, so many trees that we have named It "The Ever greens." A few rods away is a piece of woods, first a maple sugar bush and below that an evergreen swamp. Here the red squirrels live In freedom. They come from the depths of this swamp to the house, often running over the roof, Jump on one of the tall pines or uaisam, irom mem to a maple outside of the yard, whose limbs Interlock over the road, on to an apple tree In the orchard without touching the ground. Down one of the walks are some walnut and butternut trees. These the little "bright eyes" claim as their own. They not only carry away many, but drop quantities from the stem before they are ripe, says Our Dumb Animals. We gather these for their winter store. One year we raised sunflowers for the hens, stored them in a shop that is between the nut tree and a spruce that is near more maples. We noticed how sleek and glossy our pets were, and we had more than ueuaL .Think ing Biddie would like a dessert of sunflower seeds, we sent for them, but presto: xney were gone. Master squirrel looked wise, but told no tales. Near our kitchen door is a mam moth pine. One bright October day we neara an unusual squirrel concert. Going to the window we saw one sit ting on a projecting bit of bark, fld- aung witn nis leet, keeping time to the music; sometimes he would rest his hands and use one of his feet. Ours being a childless home, we make pets ot eerytning. Nearly every day we put a quantity of nuts by the roots of a pine, and a squirrel comes over the trees and fence looking for them. If we have neglected to put them there. he will hunt over and under the leaves everywhere, so disappointed. When he finds some he takes one In his hands, turning it over and over, to pick off the outer bark, in order to hold it se curely in his teeth. Away he scam pers with it, sometimes up in the trees, where he tucks it In some crotch, pushing it down with all his tiny strength, and sometimes across the road under the bam, to hide it in the barn bridge, or in the stone wall, or the board fence, and some he buries In the snow, covering them with his little feet. Once he took one across the road, up an elm and out on a limb, dropping it into a bird's nest. The "gude man of the house," says "he desn't put all his eggs into one bas ket." The last nut he carries home, but never are two put in the same place. After a little time he comes and carries them all home. BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER. That it exists there can be no doubt. Een to people on this side of the At lantic it is apparent; and those who, like myself, have lately passed through the United btates can testify to Its in tensity and spontaneity. The cause which has produced it is not far to seek. A greater sympathy and friend ship has been apparent for two or three years. Even the excitement about the Venezuelan dispute failed to disturb It; and when it looked as if Continen tal Europe was disposed to enter the contest between the United States and Spain, not so much in defense of Span ish Interests as with a view of humili ating the United States, there appeared a genuine sympathetic interest which extended from the man in the street to the cabinet minister at Whitehall. We pitied the fal lof Spain, but we could not help feeling that our kins men were taking up the cause for which this country In the past has spent so much and made such gigantic sacrifices. As became a neutral, we were unmoved spectators of events, un til that whisper arose which stirred us all to our depths. When it became evident that an In trigue was on foot to throw a Latin alliance Into arms against the United States the voice of Great Britain was unmistakably heard, and ve showed plainly that In such an event, Great Britain must be reckoned with, and anv attempt to wrest from our kins men the gains won by her sons ashore and afloat by a combination of Conti nental Europe would have to meet the whole Anglo-Saxon race In armed alli ance. The storm passed, but that little proof of our sincerity did more than a torrent of words to establish cordial relations between the United States and Great Britain. Our kinsmen real ized for the first time what we have never doubted over here, that, differ as we may among ourselves, neither of us would ever see the flag of Anglo Saxon freedom dipped on either side of the Atlantic to an overwhelming com bination of Continental Europe. Lord Charles Beresford in Pell Mall Mag From the Springfield (Mass.) Repub lican: President Hadley of Yale uni versity says that he is not the author of the editorial on the Philippine ques tion in the last number of the Yale Review, of which he is one of the ed itors. When asked if he agreed with the editorial's sentiments, he said: "I think that all the facta stated In the editorial can be substantiated." Fur ther than that he would not speak. Reference hag already been made In this paper to the Yale Review's edi torial. The strong statements in it were that "despite the mists of cant that have been studiously thrown about put position," it is becoming clearer to an increasing number of people that "we have undertaken Just what Spain had on her hands in Cuba the reduc tion of an unwilling people to subjec tion;" and that the thing for the Unit ed States to do is to "turn back on conquest" and offer the Filipinos "self government and protection against for eign aggression." Another point the Re view made was the inconsistency man ifested in recognizing the local auton omy of the sultan of Sulu and in refus ing to recognize the local autonomy of the Filipino republic of the northern islands. If we can pension the sultan of Sulu and recognize his government, why cannot we recognize the govern ment of Aguinaldo? That is a fair question. Compare the sultanate of Sulu with the republic whose head is Aguinaldo. The sultan rules as an absolute mon arch after the manner of the sultan of Turkey. He supports a harem and the Institution of human slavery flourishes In his dominion. The harem is In vio lation of the spirit of American insti tutions, since polygamy was legally abolished in Utah. The slaevry violates the thirteenth amendment of the Unit ed States constitution, which declares that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States "or any place subject to their Jurisdiction." If Mr. McKinley claims Jurisdiction over the Sulu islands he can not permit human slavery to exist there without repudiating the thir teenth amendment and the cause for which Abraham Lincoln was a martyr. Yet Mr. McKlnley's representative has recently been to see the sultan of Sulu to negotiate with him a treat and nothing was said or done, accordkr to all reports, which would inform thl sul tan that human slavery was now be come unlawful and impossible in e Sulu archipelago. We recognize a Mos lem potentate with harem and human slavery, and we pay him several thou sand dollars a year to stay quiet while the United States guarantees him pro tection against foreign aggression. But in Luzon we did not do anything of the sort. We started in with a presidential proclamation declaring that we proposed to "assimilate" the native population. We made a treaty with Spain guaranteeing the perpetu ation of the monastic orders and their land titles, which constituted, perhaps, the most potent cause of Insurrection against Spanish rule. Wt refused to recognize the native government of Lu zon, and as Boon as that government, seeing clearly our purposes of aggres sion, fell foul of our military power. we started In to crush the life out of It in war. Yet this native government represented a Christian people, not Mo hammedans. It was a republic, formed ambitiously after our own, and not a monarchy. Its head was a Christian , with one wife, and did not support a harem. Its constitution proclaimed hu man slavery. Why is it that we are de stroying the Christian, republican, civ ilized government, and at the same monarchical and barbarous govern ment? The VaIa Tielew Ravfl- "Tf we are to rule the Sulu archipelago through the sultan, why not rule Luzon through Aguinaldo? His abilities have been amply tested." Will some one answer. It la hard to understand why a slae holding Moslem sultan should be treat ed with such extraordinary deference, while the Filipino republic of Luzon and Panay should be overwhelmed with all the military power of the United States government. A LIVE MAN'S FUNERAL. A curious Incident Is related by the Japanese papers. Mr. Kumekawa of Kobe, like every other Intelligent Jap anese, desired that his funeral should be attended by ceremonies appropriate to his ran kadn social position, and In order that he might not be disappoint ed In this respect, having reached his seventy-seventh year, and feeling that his days were numbered, he determined to have his funeral in advance and make the arrangements himself. There fore on the day appointed his relatives and friends were Inlvtcd to his house and gathered around an empty coffin with all the paraphernalia of mourn ing and engaged In the most elaborate Buddhist ceremony that could be de vised. Mr. Kumekawa sat at the head of the casket and watched with Inter est all that was going on. After the ceremonies at the house were concluded a procession was form ed which marched through the princi pal streets to the cemetery. Mr. Kum ekawa walked In front of his own cof fin. The floral offerings were numer ous and beautiful. The Kobe City band led the procession and played modern airs, while at Intervals were groups of dancing girls and members of the theatrical profession who per formed pantomime alegorles to Illus trate the nobility of Mr. Kumekawa's character and the loss that was suffer ed by the community at his death. Just before reaching the gates of the cemetery the procession was halted and several photographs were taken. Af ter the coffin had been lowered Into the grave and covered with floral offerings the funeral party proceeded to the Jln ko club, where an elaborate feast was served,' and speeches eulogistic of Mr. Kumekawa were delivered by Severn) of his friends. Mr. Kumekawa was thoroughly sat lrfled with the success of his funeral, although It cost him a large sum of PREJUDICE. The doctor, like many doctors, Is an Inveterate smoker, relates the New York Times. This Is a great annoy ance to one of his best patients. She likes the doctor, but that annoying habit of his Is a great trial to her. Her case. It may be Incidentally remarked, is one which possibly could be cured by one of those scientists who treat by meana of faith. Faith has been doing its perfect work for some time; per haps, anyway, she has not seen the doctor for some months, but she was 111 again and she sent for him. The doctor came, of course, and the patient was clad to see him, but she was pre pared for her usual trial upon the occa sion of his visits. "Oh, doctor," she exclaimed, as he came, with the long-drawn sigh of one who bears much, "that dreadful cigar." The doctor wall a big, bluff, hearty man, and he laughed a big, bluff hear ty laugh at that, as he answered: "Madam, I haven't smoked for over a year." . WHY HE MOVED. "flreat Scott, man!" cried the eastern rattle buyer, as he pointed to the funnel-shaped cloud in the distance, "there's a cyclone." "Calm yourself, stranger," responded Amber Pete. That thur ain't no cy clone; It's Just that clouds hang over the bank cashier over the Eagle Eye." "But It's moving at the rate of a mile a minute." "You'd be movln', too, stranger, If a whole town was nrtor you." AMBITIOUS. She confronted him at the breakfast (able. "George, I want that letter In your pocket. Please give It to me. Don't refuse." A guilty look swept over hla face, find he answers hoarsely: "W-what let ter, my dear?" "Why, a V, but If you could make It an X It would do Just as well. I've got some shopping to do." And he la so grateful at the hair breadth escape that ho maxes it a XX, THE WORM TURNS. It takes money to run a newspaper. St. John (Kan.) News. What an exaggeration! What a whop per! It has been disproved a thousand times; it is a case of airy fancy. It doesn't take money to run a newspaper. It can run without money. It is not a business venture. It is a charitable in stitution, a begging concern, a highway robber. A newspaper is the child of the air, a creature of a dream. It can go on and on, and any other concern would be in the hands of a receiver and wound up with cobwebs In the win dows. It takes wind to run a news paper; it takes gall to run a newspaper. It takes a scintillating, acrobatic imag ination and a half dozen white shirts and a railroad pass to run a newspaper. But whoever needed money to conduct a newspaper? Kind words are the me dium of exchange that do the business for the editor kind words and church sociable tickets! When you see an ed itor with money, watch him. He'll be paying his bills and disgracing his pro fession. Never give money io an ea Itor. Make him trade it out. He likes to swap! Then when you die, after having stood around for years, and sneered at the editor and his little Jim crow paper, be sure and have your wife send in for three extra copies by one of your weep ing children, and when she reads the generous and touching notice about you, forewarn her to neglect to send .nrteen cents to the editor. It would over whelm him. Money is a corrupting thing. The editor knows it; what he wants Is your heartfelt thanks. Then he can thank the printers and they can thank their grocers. Take your Job work to another Job office and then coma and ask for free church notices. Get your lodge letter heads and stationery printed out of town and then flood the editor with beautiful thoughts In resolutions of re snect and cards of thanks. They make such spicy reading, and when you pick It up filled with these glowing and fer vid obituary articles, you are so proud of your little local paper! But money scorn the filthy thing. Don't let the pure, Innocent editor know anything about It. Keep that for sordid tradespeople who charge for their wares. The editor gives his away. The Lord loves a cheerful giver! He'll take care of the editor. He has a char, ter from the state to act as doormat for the community. He'll get the paper out somehow; and stand up for the town and whoop It up for you when you run for office, and He about your plgeontoed daughter's tacky wedding, and blow about your big-footed sons when they a get a M-a-week Job, and weep over your shriveled soul when It Is released from Its miserable hulk, and smile at your giddy wife's second mar riage. Don't worry about the editor he'll get on. The Lord knows how but somehow. Cohocton (N. Y.) Times. "I must take Henry away In August, If he Is alive." "Is he so 111." "No, but his whist club, chess club, golf club and bicycle club all havt tournaments this month."