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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 ' III 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. ——— * * 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 1 ■ 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 I-j 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 ' ^ 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. , -— 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, _ hi 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. 0 $50 Wheel Bongtit gfrect from Ow Factory Costs Ton BntS2?.9S Tires Guaranteed One Year. Highest Equipment. 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