the world Rewires— |
tEtn Ting Fang on "Religion.
The address on religion which Wu
Ting Fang, the Chinese minister to
Washington, delivered in New York
the olher night, will serve to illustrate
the very great difficulty of proselyting
in the Flowery Kingdom. For exam
ple (his learned mao of the i*r east
quotes from the scriptures the injunc
tion that if a man smite you on one
cheek yen should turn him ^h** other
and that imperative command, Love
your enemies,’’ and makes an applica
tion of them that is too pertinent to
be pleasant. There is no likelihood
he'declares, that men will live up to
such a standard, and then he adds "A*
this very moment Christian mission
aries are tailing for bloodshed and
vengeance, and Christian armies are
devastating the land, sparing neither
age nor sex. There is indeed a vast
gull between doctrtue ami perform
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MINISTER WU.
ante." Again recurring to the same
idea he says ot Confucianism:
"It enjoins that kindness be requited
with kindness and an injury with jus
tice It does not sanction retaliation
in a vindictive spirit, such as, I regret
to say, is shown by .some persons pro
fessing to l»e governed by the tenets
ot Christianity."
It does not follow, of course, from
the sling of such criticism that the
Chinese are what they believe them
selves to he. The most intelligent, of
them are. in fact, the slaves if th©
grossest superstition and many of
their practices are repellant. to hu
■manity and to common seuse. But
they are not savages, and in spite of
the dark spots in their minds they
have an intellectual keenness and stub
bornness combined with that nati mat
self-righteousness which makes the
problem of converting the 400,000,000 a .
tremendous one indeed.
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Trial of Voting Machines.
In the light of the successful experi
ments with automatic registering de- j
vices in recent elections in many
towns, particularly in Massachusetts j
and New York, there is little room for
doubt that (he voting machine will ul
timately supplant the paper ballot as
a means of recording the popular will
in national, state, county, and muni
cipal contests. This belief is strength
ened by the results of many tests of
the voting machine in the recent, elec
tion, all of which were successful and
highly satisfactory to the electorate.
The people ol Buffalo are particularly
elated over the results of tw<> trials
of voting machines in that city. -So
satislai lory have been these tests that
The Buffalo Enquirer declares the peo
ple will never voluntarily dispense
With the machines.
flrto E,n*>oy from Pi^-ia.
General Isaac Khan, the newly ap
pointed Persian minister from Persia
to the United States, was presented to
the president last week. The general
Hen Isaac Khan.
has been for many
years one of Per
sia’s leading diplo
mats He repre
sented that coun
try for ten years at
the court of St
jPeterHburg, pissed
(three years in
Egypt and one in
Belgium. He en
joys the confidence
of the shah in the
highest degree and
accompanied Mo
zaffer-Ad-din on
his recent visit to
fhe capitals of Eu
rope Huh is I lie first time that the
general lias visited the United States,
mid lie is the first representative sent
by Persia to Washington in ten years.
He is a man of imposing presence,
'all. athletic and of rather handsome
features,
General Isaac Khan said that he
would establish a Persian legation in
Washington without delay and that
next year he hoped to entertain exten
sively. He is tend of outdoor sports
and polo is his favorite pastime
Postal Receipts.
If the intelligence of a nation may
he judged,l>y the amount of money it
spends for postage the annual report of
the postmaster general niakes a show
ing which is flattering to the people of
the United States. During the twelve
months ending with June 30. 1900 the
total receipts of the postofflee depart
m< nt were upwards of $100,000,000,
while the annual deficit, of the depart
ment has been reduced in the same
time to $5,385,000. Three years ago the
annual deficit was $9,000,000, so that
the present showing is a good one, par
ticularly when the large expenditures
for new and costly features in the pos
tal service are considered.
In Memory of Mr. Hobart.
The committee having the matter in
charge has chosen a design for the
monument to be
erected in memory
of Garret A. Ho
bart, late vice
president of the
United States. The
design selected Is
that submitted by
Philip Martiny,
and shows Mr. Ho
bart standing on a
pedestal in a lis
t e n i n g attitude,
with a gavel in his
hand. It is to be
)f bronze and will
cost $15,000, that
sum having been
raised by a com
Accented DesiKn.
mittee. I he figure
of Mr. Hobart will be nine feet high.
The kind of pedestal on which the
statue will stand has not yet been se
lected. It is also announced that a
few slight changes in the design will
be recommended to the sculptor by the
committee. Mr. Martiny, the success
ful competitor, is on the art committee
of the Pan-American exposition. All
the models examined were submitted
to a committee consisting of J. Q. A.
Ward. Charles Lamb, Daniel C. French
and Herbert Adams of the Art society
and Mayor John Hinchliffe of Paterson
and Edward T. Rell of the memorial
committee. The statue will be set up
in Paterson, N. J., which was Mr. Ho
bart's home.
Vtcf/m of College 'Ro'budics.
The death of Oscar Booze, the West
Point cadet, as the result of a hazing
he received at the military academy,
has created a widespread sensation
and much indignation is expressed
that the war department should toler
ate practices so brutal in their charac
ter as those to which this young man
was subjected. It is said that the
young man's throat was terribly in
flamed by the poison he was forced to
swallow, and he was unable to take
any nourishment whatever. His stom
ach was so much inflamed likewise
that it refused to assimilate the food
injected into it, and this had to be
OSCAR BOOZ. J ~
abandoned, so that he actually starved
to death. President McKinley has or
dered an investigation.
From a Great ftctujpaper.
Winamac, Ind., special to the Chi
cago Tribune: People here are sur
prised that the story of the Pittsburg
hens that are fed on asbestos siftings
and lay fireproof eggs was considered
worth telegraphing to the daily papers.
Winfield Scott Purcell, a farmer, liv
ing near the Pink Marsh, returned in
1SS7 from a visit to the Hawaiian Is
lands, bringing with him a pair of
fowls that had been hatched in a cleft
in the center of the volcano Mauna
Loa. This farm is now overrun with
chickens that refuse to roost anywhere
except on a redhot stove, and will eat
nothing but brimstone. The chickens
are valueless for food, but are regarded
j by strangers as great curiosities. Mr.
Purcell says they are never troubled
. by insect pests of any kind.
fie<u> Form of Automobile.
An American inventor, named Max
ham. has recently patented an auto
| inobile horse which is designed to be
hitched on in front of any vehicle in
place oi me usual
animal. The auto
mobile horse is so
arranged that it is
driven in exactly
the ordinary way.
' Reins are provided
for steering and
stopping the ma
chine. A pull on
either rein turns
the apparatus in
the corresponding
direction, and a
| steady pull with
i both reins together
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1'he Automobile
Horse.
slow down the motor and applies the
brake. A secondary pair of reins are
provided, a pull on which brings the
automobile to a stop at once. In
| France a somewhat similar invention
i has been put on the market, with the
I difference that the French machine is
constructed in the shape of a horse.
( The American inventor thinks that his
machine will be popular with people
who already have vehicles which they
do not feel like throwing away entire
! ly. By hitching on one of his mechani
cal horses they may still use their old
carriages or wagons and at the same
i time do away with the expense and
other disadvantages of keeping horses.
The Hidden Force Intervened.
William Richardson, General Wheel
er’s successor in congress, was once
[ sentenced to he hanged as a Confed
erate spy. He had been taken a pris
! oner of war, escaped, and was retaken
; in company of a notorious spy. He
was sentenced to be hanged with the
spy. but an unexpected attack by Gpn
| eral Forest resulted in his rescue
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Uhe XDeeKJy i
i; Panorama.
A “Barred Actress.
Minnie Ashley, actress and singer of
the Daly company in New York, has
caused a stir among the fashionable
residents of Great Neck, L. I., by en
deavoring to purchase a home in that
aristocratic community. They are up
in arms against what they choose to
regard as an intrusion upon their ex
clusiveness, and a committee of citi
zens has undertaken to frustrate her
purchase. When the committee called
upon her to seek to dissuade her she
burst into tears and exclaimed: "Why,
I'm going to retire from the stage next
year. I'm going to marry William As
tor Chandler." She Is reported to
have revealed the secret only after her
pride had been stung to the quick by
the action of a committee of the prop
erty owners who waited on G. Smith
Stanton, a real estate agent with whom
Miss Ashley was negotiating for the
purchase of the Northam estate on the
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MINNIE ASHLEY.
Shore road. Great Neck. Friends of
William Astor Chandler, millionaire,
explorer and politician, received the
news of Miss Ashley's declaration with
expressions of surprise. It was not
known that Mr. Chandler contemplat
ed becoming a benedict. He had
busied himself with politics and was
credited with a rather unromantic
turn of mind, and he had been quoted
as advising young men not to marry,
although this he denied.
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Minor Parties.
The delegates to the national con
vention of the American Federation
of I^ibor have put themselves on rec
ord as opposed to the policy of al
lowing the organization to be drawn
into politics as an adjunct tg the So
cial Labor party. When gp? Of U»e
radical members of the cOnfffition m
traduced resolutions pledging the fed
erations to go into the next national
campaign as a body, with a platform
demanding only that the initiative and
referendum be made part of the policy
of the national government, he wag
met with a storm of protests and hlg
resolution was defeated.
Ambassador to ItQly.
The name of George Von L. Meyer
of Massachusetts, to be ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary of
the United States to Italy was sent to
me senate last
week by President
McKinley. Mr.
Meyer is eminently
fitted for his new
post. He is quite
wealthy, a gradu
ate of Harvard
with the class of
’79; a traveler and'
cultured gentle
man, and an adept
in two or three
S'
Ueo. V. L. Meyer.
modern languages. He has been a
member of the legislature, speaker of
the Massachusetts house of represen
tatives and Republican committeeman
for his slate. His wealth consists of
large interest in industrial enterprise*
and real estate. At 12 he possesses
gravity and experience denied to many
public men who are older than he.
Senator Lodge of Massachusettts was
Mr. Meyer’s backer.
Marfi-t' Ninetieth "Birthday.
The venerable Professor \V. D.
Marks has just celebrated his nineti
eth birthday. He is the senior minis
ter of the West London synagogue of
British Hebrews, usually known as the
Reform synagogue. From its founda
tion in 1811 in Burton street Professor
Marks has been minister of the con
gregation, and he is the oldest He
brew minister in the United Kingdom.
Up to a few years ago he was Gold
schmid professor of Hebrew literature
in University college.
General Mercter.
. A celebrated military expert and
leading French statesman, who creat
ed a sensation in the French chamber
of deputies by demanding that France
prepare for a war of invasion against
England.
NEW BRAND LAW HIS PLAN.
Iiulor-Elrct Van llnakirk lot«tu<l* ta
DiacoarHge Cattle kteullog.
LINCOLN, Dec. 17.—The extremely
rapid growth of the cattle industry in
Nebraska has prompted the proposal of
several very important measures for
the consideration of the next legisla
ture. From the great cattle plains come
appeals for more effective legislation
and with a view to remedying the in
efficiency of existing laws a bill Eas
been prepared, under the direction of
the officers of the Northwestern Cattle
men’s association, which is designed
to increase and extend the protection
provided for cattle owners and ranch
men. The measure contemplates an
amendment to the Brand Marks Com
mission act reducing the membership
of that commission to one man. and re
vision for the inspection of cattle at
the markets, inspection of hides and
the publication of an official brand
book.
Senator-elect J. R. Van Boskirk of
Aliance will probably introduce the
proposed bill in the legislature. He
has been secretary of the Northwestern
Cattlemen's association for several
years, and it is said that his bill will
reflect the wishes of the other officers
and members of the organization.
The principal object of the bill will
be to give cattle owners absolute pro
tection against thieves.
"If we succeed In enacting the pro
posed law a man who steals a cow
cannot escape detection unless he de
stroys the hide and eats the animals,"
said Mr. Van Boskirk. "Provision
will be made for registering all brands
and for the publication of an official
brand book, and a man will have to
prove ownership before he can law
fully dispose of any cattle. If he takes
a quarter of a cow to market, he will
have to exhibit the hide as an evidence
that it is his property. The official
brand book will enable the purchaser
to compare the registered brand with
the brand on the hide and determine
whether they are the satn in design.
Fancy Price fur Live Stock.
OMAHA, Dec. 17.—The prize cattle
that were on exhibition at the South
Omaha stock yards were sold at the
highest price paid in recent years on
that market. The 3-year-olds which
carried off first prize were owned and
fed by John Shannon of Hoskins, and
the Omaha Packing company brought
them at $7.50 per 100. It will be re
membered that the same company also
bought the highest priced cattle last
year and paid $7.25 for them.
Mr. A. W. Clark’s load of yearlings,
which were awarded first premium in
that class, were also sold at a good
figure. There were heifers in the bunch
and the fifteen head sold at $0 to the
Omaha Packing company, which is the
highest price ever paid for a mixed
bunch of yearlings on the South Omaha,
market,
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New ICuilrontl for NebraRk*.
OMAHA, Dec. 17— Mr. A. O. Perry of
Atkinson, well known as a railroad
promoter, is in town in the interest of
his new enterprise—a railroad running
from Callaway, in Custer county, to
Gandy, in Logan county, a distance of
thirty-five miles. About three years
ago Mr. Perry conceived the idea of
running a railroad from his home in
Atkinson to the new town site of Perry
on the northern bank of the Niobrara
river, in Boyd county. He promoted
the enterprise to the point where it
was ready for the ties and rails and
then his Chicago contractor fell down
on him and brought everything to a
standstill.
Gentleman Plead* Not Guilty.
COLCMBrS, Neb.. Dec. 17—Nicho
las Gentleman, who did the shooting
at Platte Center a week ago, was ar
raigned in justice court, and upon the
reading of the complaint he entered a
plea of not guilty, waived the pre
liminary examination and was hound
over to the district court without bail.
The witnesses for the state were each
required to enter into a recognizance
in the sum of $200 tor their appear
ance.
I* Young in Crime.
FALLS CITY. Neb., Dec. 17.—James
Mahan plead guilty in the district court
to the charge of grand larceny. The
prisoner, who is a mere boy, was em
ployed on the government riprap work
at Ruloand stole a sum of money from
a fellow employe. He broke down when
arraigned and Judge Stull was inclined
to be lenient and gave him the mini
mum sentence, one year in the peni
tentiary.
Farmer'll Fall Proves Fatal.
SPENCER. Neb., Dec. 17.—At a lone
ly spot, four miles northeast of here,
on the road to his home, the body of
Anton Holechek has been found, and It
is thought that he was killed by a fall
from his wagon. He has occasionally
taken liquor to excess while in town,
and two years ago a friend of his, one
Turachek by name, was killed in a sim
ilar manner as the two were driving
home in an intoxicated condition.
Trie* to Beat the Fait Mail.
FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 17.—Patrick
Tulley. a farmer residing eight miles
from North Bend, was seriously Injured
by train No. 101 while he was attempt
ing to cross the Union Pacific tracTc
two miles west of North Bond. Tulley
was driving a wagon. He saw the
train coming and attempted to cross
ahead of it. »
Jail Delivery at Braver City.
BEAVER CITY, Neb.. Dec. 17 —
Charles Griffin and Arch Bisbee, two
prisoners of the county jail, sawed
their way to liberty last night. A hole
(7x13 Inches) was cut in the steel cell
through which they squeezed them
selves. Four other prisoners refused
to take advantage of the opportunity
and remained in their cells, although
they later refused to divulge any of
the details. The escape of the two was
thus hidden from the officials.
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