IN THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.
Some People'. Food -Foreigner. In s
I.and Generally Adhere to Old Conn*
try Method, of Cooking and Fating—
The Crowned Crane.
The Guilty Ka.cal
UILTY, Judge, and
I own the
crime—
I .lipped away
with a sack of
Hour;
They nabbed me
Ju.t In the nick
of time—
I'd have had It
home In half an
hour.
Only, the constable
on the hill
Knew that I must
have jumped the bill.
Knew as well an he could, that I
Hadn't the money w*th which to buy.
"Larceny?” that's the proper word;
There's never a crime but Law can
name,
Only, I wonder If law has heard
That any one but the thief's to blame?
Hay; did the constable on the hill
Tell you about the closed-up mill?
i Tell you of men who must beg or steal
To give their babies and wives a meal?
Yes, 1 have begged—and I'll tell you
how:
1 walked the roads and Helds and the
lanes,
And asked for work with a pleading
brow
And came back empty for all my
pains!
% Hay; did the constableonthe hill
:i,' Tell you the wheels of trade were still?
j r-,i y,,u worn worn was nun or aeaa
: The wife and child must go unfed?
I' Guilty, Judge—let the law be paid;
Hut if you had children four or live.
Ax pretty an God has ever made
b And lacked the food to keep them
I alive,
r Lacked the method but not the will.
Their cries of hunger to stop and still—
And then saw oceans of food In view—
For God’s sake tell ine, what would
you do?
Say! If you had a wife whose heart
Had fed your own for a score of
yearn,
,4 And never for a moment walked apart
From all of your griefs and hopes and
fears,
And now In that faithful bosom had
grown
A little life that wan part your own
And Hunger harrowed them through
and through.
For God’s nake tell me, what would
you do?
Hollars by thousands stacked away—
Harvests rotting In barn and shed—
Silk* and ribbons and fine display—
And children crying for lack of bread!
Wealth and Famine are hand In hand,
ft;.. Making the tour of a heart-sick land.
Half of the country’s future weal
HF Flushed by the Present's selfish heel!
Ess, Guilty, Judge—I own the crime;
Put me In prison without delay—
f Only—please work me double time.
And send my family half the pay!
And tell my children If ever they ask,
That 1 was working my glooming task,
tE?r- Not for pleasure or money or gem—
Hut for the love that I had for them.
—Will Carleton.
The Crowned Crane,
The crowned or Kaffir crane la a
striking #blrd, nearly four feet in
height and pale gray in color, the nak
ed white cheek-patches edged with
^ crimson and the crest of yellow bristles
arrest attention at once. That crest, by
the way, Is an object of desire among
£ tbe natives of South and East Africa,
. who seek tbe bird for no other purpose
§ than to procure tbe tuft of yellow web
| less featbers wherewith to adorn their
v own beads. The crowned crane is
I found singly, In pairs and In small
5 flocks, sometimes associating with the
| Stanley or Paradise crane, In the vast
areas of swampy ground, where It
finds a livelihood. The bird’s domestic
arrangements are uncomfortable from
the human point of view; like other
ground-building cranes, It selects a
neuralgic site on marshy land, and
' constructs a conical mound of rushes
' or long, rank grass, sometimes ankle
deep In water. In a slight depression
id It lays a couple ol dirty
and rear* Its young. Mr.
Illng of the birds of Mata
lys be once found a large
g on Ibe water, but as a
the crowned crane prefer*
ore stability Tba dialler
» mentioned, la peruttar to
a. where It is fatalllarly
he bine crane Thte le a
M bird, with It* soft lend'
• -4» and wonderful deeel
Inti and w tag feat hem
le adult are so lung that
t the ground, end ‘me mar*
trd which spends 'be better
itteience stslhtng aoout In
the rleer shallows. mould
_ with plumage which «nn
hsaome draggled and dirty A
iter hah*i w attributed ij mta
U it H land of rwoetiag if me
j hi not mtanned ham <tmg 1.1 * *
The tart that ah nhasresr. mmd
Mr lastnrd in hie Mirda *f doath
im b** »ma the utanley tfhM I
frozen Into the ice In winter does noth
ing to increase our respect for Its in
telligence. It is a remarkably shy and
wary bird, but curiously enough, if
taken from the nest, is easily and com
pletely tamed.
j
Some People'* Pood*.
The foreigners who come to this
country prefer the foods they are ac
customed to in their own country.
When you walk through the regions
where the Germans live, you see rye
bread, sausages and signs announcing
that sauerkraut is for sale. When you
go through the part of any city where
many French families live, you will
see that the keepers of the shops are
French, and the signs In the window
announce the sale of French foods, In
the French language. In the Hebrew
quarters you will And that it is the kind
of food that the Hebrews, no matter
from what country they come, prefer,
that Is sold in the shops. Where the
Chinamen live, it Is the foods ‘.hat they
prefer that you will see in shop win
dows. These foods come from their
native country. Thirty thousand duck
eggs were sent to this country from
China during the last month. These
eggs are each wrapped in black mad.
This mud, which is of the consistency
of putty, remains on the egg for
months. The yolk of the Chinese duck
eggs is pink, not yellow like our duck
eggs. These eggs are packed In boxes
of twenty-five dosen, but the Chinese
dozen is ten, not twelve, as the Ameri
can dozen is counted. The rice the
tyiiiuuuinu preier is coonei ui a jeujr
form. Shark's fins are a Chinese deli
cacy, and salted plums are also a deli
cacy. You may think these are queer
things to want to eat, but you must re
member that much that you eat would
make a Chinaman shudder—that he can
not conceive how you can wear the
clothes you do, and that our babies,
with their full heads of hair, are hide
ous little monsters. It is a matter of
education and custom.—Selected.
Bees as Aids In War.
History records two instances, ac
cording to Mr. Whiteley Stokes in the
London Athenaeum, in which bees have
been used In warfare as weapons
against besieging forces. The first is
related by Applan, of the siege of The
mlscyra in Pontus, by Lucullus in his
war against Mitbrldates. Turrets were
brought up, mounds were built, and
huge mines were made by the Romans.
The people of Themlscyra dug open
these mines from above, and through
the holes cast down upon the workmen
bears and other wild animals and hives
or swarms of bees.
The second instance is recorded in
an Irish manuscript in the Blbliotheque
Royale, at Brussels, and tells how the
Danes and Norwegians attacked Ches
ter, which was defended by the Sax
ons and some Gallic auxiliaries. The
Danes were worsted by a stratagem,
but the Norwegians, sheltered by hur
dles, tried to pierce the walls of the
town—when, “what the Saxons and the
Gaeldhil who were among them did,
was to throw down large rocks, by
which they broke down the hurdles
over their beads. What the others did
to check this was to place large posts
under the hurdles. What the Saxons
did next was to put all the beer and
water of the town into the caldrons of
the town, to boil them and spill them
down upon those who were under the
hurdles, so that their skins were peeled
off. The remedy which the Lochlans
applied to this was to place hides out
side the hurdles. What the Saxons did
next was to throw down all the bee
hives in the town upon the besiegers,
which prevented them moving their
hands or legs, from the number of bees
which stung them. They afterwards de
sisted and left the city."
In Honor of Jnpnn'v War God.
in me Japanese capital there is a
gigantic Image of a woman made of
wood and plaster, and dedicated to
Hachlman, the god of war. In height
it measures fifty-four feet; the head
alone, which is reached by a winning
stairway In the Interior of the figure,
being large enough to comfortably hold
twenty persons. The figure holds a
huge wooden sword In one hand, the
blade of the weapon being twenty
seven feet long and a ball twelve feet
in diameter In the other hand. Inter
nally the model is fitted up with an ex
traordinary anatomical arrangement
which is supposed to represent the dif
ferent portiou* of the brain. A fine
view of the country Is obtained by
looking through one of the eyes of the
figure. The admission to all parts of
the structure costs about one penny.
Out of t'ey lee's Keuaerkahl* Mlrda.
Among the numerous birds In Cey
lon there are few more remarkable
than the Virginian horned owl. As
soon as svenlng draws on. and mankind
retire to rest, he sends forth such
sounds as teem scarcely to belong to
this world, making night hideous with
his loud and sudden cries of "Waugh
O, Waugh O ' He has other norlumtl
eolue, no lens melodious, one of which
very strikingly resembles the half-sup
pressed scream of e person suffocating
or throttled The Kandyans consider
the rrp at tbta owl ns n preeags of
death or misfortune, unless they adopt
s ebarm to avert Its fatal summons.
A Minute Uam
Pkyatctaa* occasion ally use fur ihs
purpuas of lllumlnAtlng parts of Ihs
interHM of the hudy s delicate electric
lamp, called the pea lamp,’1 because
Its little glass both raasmbias a small
pea in else, being only oaeguartsr of
aa I nek in ftuwtw It la neverthe
less a complete Incandescent lemp,
having a carbon dim one eigb'h at an
iarb k>ag and about mm two thooe
aadtb of an inch In diameter
IT IS EASILY DONE.
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY A
SIMPLE PROBLEM,
Hals* tli. Street I.Tfl a Few Feet and
Build the Track. Below the Mur/ace
- No Tunneling; U Nee...ary—Like a
Covered Ditch.
NB of the finest
and most commo
dious railways In
the world is now In
operation In Buda
pest, In Hungary.
It Is known as the
Franz Josef Elec
trical Underground
Railroad, and It
runs from the heart
of the capital to
the suburbs. For many years the peo
ple of Budapest have been anxious to
have a railroad through beautiful An
drassy street, but, for apparently valid
reasons, the Minister of the Interior
persistently refused to give his eon
sent to any such project. The original
proposition was that a horse railroad
should be constructed, but the Minister
promptly vetoed it. His argument
was that Andrasay street was mainly
used as a public promenade, and that
Its beauty and usefulness would be
lessened by the introduction of a
horse railroad.
Five years later—In 1*87— the pro
ject of an electric street railroad with
an underground current was broached,
but when the Minister who was then
in office beard of It he refused to sanc
tion it, and on the same grounds as
his predecessor.
Finally the project of an ur%1er
ground electric railroad came to the
front, and, after some delay, the ne
cessary consent of the authorities was
secured. According to this new plan
a road was to be constructed beginning
at the Olsella piatz and thence passing
under the Waltzner boulevard and An
drassy street to the Stadtwaldehen.
The greatest thoroughfares In the city
would thus be threaded, or, rather, un
dermined, and a ready means of tran
| sit would be secured from one Import
In regard to the management of the ■
new road none rigid rules have been •
laid down. Thus, It was enacted that
during the first fifteen years the fare
of each passenger shall not exceed ten
kreuzers. After that time a change
may be made If the interests of the
road or the passengers require It.
If the road succeeds--and there
seems no doubt about it—the city of
Budapest will share In the success. Ac
cording to the terms of the concession,
Budapest Is to receive no taxes from
the road for the first twenty years, but
after that time It is to receive one per
cent of the gross receipts between the
twentieth and the thirtieth year, two
per cent betweeen the thirtieth and
the fortieth year, three per cent be
tween the fortieth and the fiftieth
year, four per cent between the fiftieth
and the sixtieth year and five per cent
thereafter. Furthermore, it Is enacted
that during the first twenty-live years
of the concession no other line shall he
built from the Interior of the city to
the suburbs.
THE DIANA VAUGHN HUMBUG.
A Sesndsl Wklrk IntarctU Msajr t'oua
trlss—()l|kktlc Hoax.
A scandal which Interests many
countries was revealed In Paris re
cently. A man named I^eo Taxil, by
birth a Marseillais, has for a long
time been putting a woman named
Diana Vaughan, who he declared was
the secret head of the freemasons,
who were alleged, In America at least,
to be devoted to the worship of gat&n,
says the London Hpectator. Hhe her
self, under the auspices of Gen. Pike,
an old and respected Amerlcsn mason,
was msrrled to Asmodeus, s devil of
high rank. This rubbish found be
lief among some clerical and ignorant
catholics, Leo Taxil was received In
audience by the pope and the greatest
Interest wss manifested In Diana
Vaughan, who was represented as sin
cerely repentant ajul a convert to
Catholicism, and to whom Cardinal
Parorchlo, a candidate for the papacy,
actually wrote a letter of sympathy.
Taxil baa now made a public apeech in
Paris, in which, In the presence of
muny priests, he confessed that the
whole story was a gigantic hoax got
STATION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY AT BUDAPEST.
ant point to another. This plan was
adopted January 22, 1894. and there
was a distinct stipulation that the
road should be In working order by
the time of Hungary’s millennium, in
1896. Quick work therefore was neces
sary, for the task was gigantic in its
way, and not to be easily accomplished
within two years.
Actual work was begun on August
13, 1894, and it was kept up without ln
1 termlsslon till the completion of the
road. The line was laid with two rails,
the entire length being 3.700 meters.
Along the route there are eleven sta
tions, at which passengers get on or
off. Nine of these stations are under
ground and two are In the open air.
Everything appertaining to the work
Is of the strongest and most durable
material, und the utmoat pains have
been taken to insure for the paaaengers
comfort and aafety. Lights are scat
tered fieely through the tunnel, some
being used as danger signals. Thus a
red light shows that the train is to
slop and a white light that the road Is :
clear. In case the lights get out of or- ;
der a telephone can tie used, fur earh
elation la provided with a telephone
The carriage# are spacious, lusur- ,
loua. and ar* constructed after the i
timet approved models. They are {
tweaty la number, fourteen of which j
can be uaed singly
The road wu finished at the ap j
pointed time, and has been running
since then from 6 n. m to I a. a> !
Trams follow each other In rapid #«*» |
sees#law, and during the busiest time
of the day there Is ualy two minutes j
headway Prom the atari the road has j
beea popular, which la proved hr the j
fact that durln* the drat Ive months
the number of paasoacera amanatad la I
IfdLMd The capital of the road ta
IddPdM Aortas, of which IMt.MM Mar
ina are kept aa a raaorva fund
The t»vsrnmeni. a* municipal, coa
ceaaloa lasts for ninety years In IfM.
howavsr. the mac eastern ta the Node
past Rtsetrtc Railroad tOmpany will
tapee. sad Ihea the fraarhtae of (he
present road will revert ta the vlty of
Hndapeet I'ntll then the Prana June!
aad tha Rodepose Hteclrtc companies
Will kpeesren11 • e<wt ltenet bee
up by him out of sheer love of mysti
fication, Diana Vaughan being a type
writer of his ucqualntanco who knew
nothing of Gen. Pike or Asmodeus
either The auditors were very much
Inclined to lynch M. Taxil, who had
to be protected by the police, and
whose motive for his discreditable im
posture they evidently doubted. He
was probably seeking cash. His stories
had a ready sale, and there are men In
Paris who would do anything to dis
credit the catholic church, which, no
doubt, is Inclined by tradition to be
rather credulous about free-masonry.
It is probable that a good many of the
stories about Satanism in Paris have
been got up in the same way, by men
who traded at once on catholic credul
ity and on the appetite for the horrible
and the nasty.
rim Male Kale.
Ho jack -Can you give me a good
rule for playing pokerT Toindlk I
ran. "do ahead." "Don't poke."—
latulsvllle Courier-Journal
PERSONAL*.
Hev. John McNeill, the evangelist,
*aa a railway porter fur year* before
he became a preaeher
(V W Walton Justice of the Supreme
fourt of Maine, will anon retire after a
Mtrlr* of flirty years.
Mr*. !.engirt ynwun * dreealag
bag which la. perhep*. the costliest of
lia hind. It la adorned with gold and
Jeweled fitting*, and coat ft.tin.
John Mrvan. an Ohioan. will aetab
tints a public erbool for farming on the
Miami river, near Yellow dpringa,
itreene county, Me will devMe IM
din to the projem, hoping in eerrnet
the tendency of people to rush to I he
larger rltlas.
William firheneh wf Pta* drove.
Win . who hoe been lawn trenewtar tor
if year a. ha* recently a *4* the grai
an*tab* m hi# buwhe and avtw this
‘•a* la on# ml very Utile tmpartoaen
Ha In to ream aid and the townsmen
intend to hasp him to ofitoo tor the
rant of his Ilf*
IT IS HARD TO ESCAPE
NEW METHOD OF IDENTIFYING
CRIMINALS.
Now Adopted by St. Louie Th* Folic*
Depurt men! of That Already Wrest
ling with French Measurement* and
Mathematics. 8
ROM the St. Louis
Post Dispatch;
Since the adoption
by the police com
missioners of St.
Loula of the Ber
tlllon system of
Identification the
beads of depart
ments hare begun
to rub up their
French mathemat
ic* and delve more deeply Into prison
literature. Even th9 chief* private
secretary, Mr. Espey, who. by reason
of having been a newspaper man,
know* a little of everything, admit* he
Is a klndergartner on this subjeot. It
Is neither an easy nor a quick transi
tion from the old style of descriptions
and photographs to the more modern
Bertllloo method, and It is rather re
elfaKla that A* I ytnia ahmiM Viavo
waited ao long before making the
change when the Joliet penitentiary
and nearly all the chief cltlea and
principal prisons bare been working
for years under the French plan of
Identifying prisoners. Alphonse Bcr
tlllon first presented his method to the
public In 1881, when France was agita
ting the question of the deportation of
habitual criminals. It was promptly
adopted. It reached this country
through the prison congress held at
Detroit In 1887, and found a friend and
advocate In MaJ. R. W. MeClaughery,
then warden of the Illinois peniten
tiary at Joliet. Since then It has come
slowly into general use, A majority
of readers are familiar with the ad
vantages of the system, but the
practical application Is not so well
known. Its results are shown best at
Joliet, where, of over 1,500 photo
graphs now classified and filed, any
one picture can be found In a min
ute’s time, from the subject’s meas
urement, thus showing that no two
persons are precisely alike in every
particular.
The identification of a prisoner rests
upon the knowledge of the following
Indications:
1. length and width of the head.
2. Length of the left, middle and
little fingers.
3. Length of the left foot.
4. Length of the left forearm.
5. Length of the right ear.
8. Height of the figure.
7. Measurement of the outstretched
arms.
8. Measurement of the trunk, from
the bench to the top of the head of the
person seated.
These different operations necessi
tate the use of special Instruments
called caliper-csmpasses and sliding
compasses, and of three graduated
measures, permanently fastened to a
suitable wall, two being placed verti
cally and one horizontally. These in
struments have not yet been ordered
by the St. Louis police department, but
as soon as a Bertlllon agent can be lo
cated the order will be made, and
with the Instruments will come a
teacher to drill the main office in the
system. Two or three lessons ordi
narily suffice to make an operator tol
erably proficient As two or three of
the measurements can be modified or
influenced by trickery on the part of
the subject, the operator himself must
practice the motions that are apt to
alter the result, and allow his assist
ants to do the same, so that he may
Ro a KIa 4 a aoqIIw illaAA«vA« tL x_.1 ^ I
erles whenever they appear In actual
practice. Not taking into account the
time needed to ascertain either the
civic status of a prisoner of the various
particular maiks of the subject, the
simple process of measuring, after
the period of grouping has been pass
ed, does not require more than four
or five minutes. In order to become
efficient the operator must know un
mistakably the nearest approximation
to which each measurement or each
Indication can be ascertained. Thus,
if the officer taking or comparing de
scriptions knows to a certainty that
the length of the head never exceeds
an approximation of two millimeters—
this measure lelng the largest pos
sible, dlverge icy—a difference of four
millimeters or more between two head
length measurements would be condu
cive proof to him that the measure
ments were obtained from two differ
ent persons, as the examined subjects
cun not exercise the slightest Influence
on their cranium diameters, it i»
quite common to And two subjects of
the same height, but a heir's breadth
In head-length Axes the difference it
la said the aoa-uatveraality of the me
trie system la no obstacle whatever
la etllee where the Uertllloa system It
not la use. #<* Aguree on the Uertllloa
instruments are taken, not as actual
measurements of length, etc . hut ax
sphere or algae designating a certain
Information sought for. as Is now done
by means of sears end marks The
meaeuremeala and descriptions are
ukea at the Joliet penitentiary la the
Ivllowlag order, the prisoner being
brought Into i he operating room
barefooted and la shirt sleeves
Height Measurement of I he person
steading eteet. OuteireUhed arms
from Anger tip to taper Up. the arms
being extended la a right angular
• rune with the body Trunk hsa
beach to lop of bond of • person seat
nd. HuM Prom cavity at the root
ef the aeee ta the resaoteet point of the
hash at the hoadi the diameter from
side ta side, between the two palais
meet feamte Horn seek ether, el lusted
over the earn and on a horizontal piano
at right angles to the measurement of
length. Right ear--Measurement from
the top of the rim to the lowest point
of the lobe. Left foot—From extreme
point of back of the heel to the end
of the farthest projecting toe. Left
middle Anger—From point of knuckle
to tip of Anger, the Anger being placed
at right angles to the baek of the hand.
Left fore-arm—From p».nt of the el
bow to the tip of tip |g“.hest project
ing Anger, the elbow K*ng placed at
sharp angles with the upper arm. Left
eye—Analysis of the colors, poeetble
confusion of pigment and peculiarities.
Nose—ProAle, form of the ridge,
length, projection, breadth and pecu
liarities. Forehead—Inclination, ap
parent height and width, and peculiar
ities. The marks and scars follow as
a matter of course, and then the work
is Anished. The height, arms and
trunk measurements are taken by per
pendicular and horizontal graduated
measures placed on the wall. The
head la measured with a caliper com
pass, the ear with a small sliding com
pass, while the Angers, fore-arm and
foot are taken by means of a large
sliding compass. These descriptions
and measurements are Aled, with pho
tographs, by divisions or groupings.
Given the length of a prisoner'* head,
and the officers turn the head group
ings for a picture. The head Index on
the Ales show the small, medium and
Urge, each division separated again
Into classes by measurement, the me
dium being those of, for instance, 19
cemeters to 19.4; the large lengths 19.5
and more, and the small measuring
less than 19. Thus, the officer, in his
work of identification, need only ex
amine about ten pictures out of a pos
sible 10,000. There are now over 4,000
pictures In the rogues' gallery of the
Four Courts, and by the Bertlllon sys
tem any one of such a number could
be located almost Instantly.
VERY TACTFUL.
How a Pretty tilrl Hollered s Clergy
nan's Kmliarraesment.
She was a most modest-appearing
girl and as pretty as a girl well could
lie, says the St. Ixiuls Globe-Democrat.
Her great blue eyes looked out from un
der her new bonnet in a way liable to
bewitch any man. She came Into Union
square a recent afternoon and slowly
descended the steps, apparently uncon
scious of the many admiring glances
cast In her direction. In her arms were
many bundles, all of them small, but of
such odd shapes that they were difficult
to carry.
As the young woman took her foot
from the last step of the long stairway
a look of perplexity flitted across her
face. Then, as she started to cross the
waiting room, those who were watch
ing her saw something on the floor,
where she bad dropped it. A dozen
men started forward to pick it up, saw
what it was, and then maneuvered so
that it would appear as if they had
not noticed it. The young lady, aware
of her loss, kept straight on and never
looked behind her.
But there was one man there who bad
seen the article fall and he went after
it. He wore the straight collar and
peculiar garb of the clergy, while
glasses told of the most embarrassing
of afflictions, nearsightedness. Run
ning quickly to the little object that
lay so harmlessly upon the floor, he
picked it up and hastened after her.
He touched her on the arm, and lifting
his hat, he said: “I beg your pardon,
my dear young lady, but you dropped
your-"
It was then that he saw for the first
time what he had picked up. He was
holding the little band of black with
a red bow on it in the full view of
wikn w.AOA < n ika Waiting WAAfn
and be did not know what to do with
It. The young woman’s hands were oc
cupied with bundles, and he felt it
would scarcely be right either to drop
it or put It in hia pocket. For perhaps
a moment he stood there blushing. He
tried to speak, but the beat he could do
was to stammer out some unintelligible
syllables. In tbe meantime the girl
stood speechless. First she flushed and
then grew pale. Then her face scorned
to Indicate that she was amused at the
clergyman’s embarrassment. Then,
with a sweet smile, she dropped her
bundles on a seat near by. and. taking
tbe circlet, said: “It’s so good of you.
My brother Tom would never have for
given me If I lost one of the sleeve
holders his fiancee sent him,"
And she gathered up her huudles and
walked away.
X May on a Terrier.
The foa terrier la now officially reg
istered as a transparency, the X ray
shining through turn like a caudle
through a Chines# lantern. The eape
rlment baa just been tried on nn ani
mal of this specie# which had swallow
ed a diamond ring, the trinket appear
ing In Its midst, visible as a goldfish
In a glass case or e Ay In ember. The
utilities of this penetrating ban may
eapand tilt it will show up other than
the paltry pllterlngs of a terrier, per
haps even the swag of the political
boee. notwithstanding the opacity ef Ita
bulk and origin --New York Tribune.
llStatei twciyllM I* rata*.
A striking picture of the ugNiai car
rupturn that prevails in Chian la af
forded by sows diplomatic reports sab
willed by tbe KagiUh foreign office la
the houses of perllamsal el Westmm
•ter Among other things It la shown
that ae greet ie the stealing that. v«v
the Imperial government la ehaiteh the
Me# tribute from the provtnaaa a|
Klapse and Chekiang alone, it weald
«ge. wkuk ta the earn that Ha vlMultan
w* wrote over and abate lbs re venae
that M Hilda
