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' —^_ _ FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD’S Y. M. C. A. *5/J? G£OJ?GET ftrrfFzdrr'? Sir George Williams, who, because of ill health, was unable to attend the recent Y. M. C. A. jubilee at Paris, is the founder and president of the or ganization and also is president of the Band of Hope Union. Sir George was born in 1821, was knighted in 1894, and is a member of the firm of Hitchcock, i Yv’illiams & Co., London warehouse men. He was but 21 when he started his Y. M. C. A. work, and has wit nessed the growth of the organization until now it extends to all parts of the civilized world. In Great Britain the property of the Y. M. C. A. is valued at $2,500,000. GAVE ENGLAND SUEZ CANAL. Frederick Greenwood's Great Work at Time of Crisis. At the dinner given in London to Frederick Greenwood, long the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and St. James Gazette, tributes were paid to his worth and services by men like John Morley, who presided, Mr. Asquith and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. When the fate of the Suez Canal hung in doubt in 1875 it was Green wood who, learning that the spend thrift Ismail Pasha wished to sell his shares secretly, urged the foreign sec retary, Lord Derby, to buy them for the government and secure Britain control. Derby demurred. There were British statesmen who held that the canal would prove a colossal failure. Besides, there was no money available and to ask for a grant from Parlia ment would reveal the whole plan. Greenwood convinced the hesitating secretary that the emergency justified taking the national consent for grant ed. and with the approval of the.prem ier, the far-seeing Disraeli, the pur chase was made. Then Lord Derby, as was humorously told at the dinner, “supposed there was nothing he could do” for Mr. Greenwood. No, there was nothing. At least, said Derby, he might let Greenwood’s paper tell the news exclusively. No; better let all the papers have it at once, the jour nalist replied. The shares cost England $20,000,000 and are now worth $150,000,000. Far more important, their purchase gave the kingdom the control of the water highway between Europe and Asia end that preponderant interest in Egyp» that led to its occupation, to the p* jtectorate. to the defeat of the Mahdists—and, through the recent ar rangement with France, to the giving of Great Britain a ‘•free hand” in what is perhaps the most successful and most defensible exploit of coloni zation in modern times.—New York World. “Lest We Forget.” We, of all people, are least likely to crow' over Russia because she has met with reverses in the field. A few years ago we suffered humiliating re verses in South Africa. Fortunately, in our case our adversaries l ad not a large population to draw upon, and that population did not possess the wonderful military virtues of the Jap anese. In the end, therefore, we were aide to compel them to lay down arms. But we do not forget in the least that we suffered humiliations be cause w'e were unprepared, and be cause, in our national vanity, we thought it unnecessary to make seri ous preparation. Therefore, instead of crowing over the Russians or con sidering that they have suffered pres tige, we honestly sympathize with ! them, provided they show the manly courage to admit that they have been ! defeated, and that they now intend to devote themselves to the recuperation j of their country.—London Statist. Mayor’s Sermon Did Good. While on his way to a church some distance out of town Mayor Berry of Chester. Pa., saw several hundred boys and men gambling on the outskirts of the city. He stopped his buggy team and gave the Sabbath breakers some good advice. His honor was a Method ist preacher at one time* and his re marks soon took the form of an earn est sermon. At the conclusion of his address several men voluntarily prom ised that they would gamble do more. ) After the mayor had departed the as semblage quietly dispersed. Career of Woman Minister. Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell of Elizabeth, N. J., the first ordained woman minister in the United States and probably in the world, will pass her eightieth anniversary May 20. In June she means to attend the national * woman suffrage convention at Port land, Ore. It is but two years ago that she went to the holy land and brought back a bottle of water from the Jor dan, with which she has since chris tened a grandson and a granddaugh ter. GOES TO SUCCEED EOWEN. W. W. Russell of Maryland Will Be Minister to Venezuela. ^ ^ ■ Russell of Maryland, at pres ent minister to Colombia, has been ap pointed to succeed Herbert W. Bowen as minister to Venezuela. Mr. Russell has been charge d'affaires at Caracas, is thoroughly acquainted with the mat ters he will nave to handle, and en joys a popularity with President Cas tro which, it is believed, will b^ help fY fYj&755f£L ful in the adjustment of the questions at issue between the United States and Venezuela. Shows Extreme Selfishness. Matthew Arnold’s lament at the ex cessive and unreasonable value which people put upon the mere preservation of their lives in these days is empha sized by the testimony of the cab driver in the Nan Patterson case. Having stated that he did not even look into the cab when he heard the fatal shot fired and being asked to ex plain this seeming want of curiosity, he replied: “Suppose I looked in and got shot. What then?” Why, then there would have been one less cab man in New York, and in twenty-four hours or less his place would have been supplied. It is easier to supply men than places in this age of the world, and no one is indispensable. That cabman must be an egoist.—Bos ton Herald. Stoessel's Nephew an American. G. J. Stoessel, a nephew of the Rus sian commander who so bravely de fended Port Arthur, is a truck farmer near Pass Christian, Miss. He was born in New Orleans, to which city his parents came from Switzerland over fifty years ago. Mr. Stoessel is one of the most successful gardeners on the coast, and raises the finest strawber ries grown in the south. He has no desire to visit the land of his fathers, although he has many kinspeople there. He has had several letters from the general, but none since the present war was begun. Say Bathing Is Harmful. At the meeting of a health club in New York city the other night it was asserted that people are better with out bathing. In the language of the speaker. Dr. Ft ice, “we are not dirty enough. In my practice 1 have no ticed that the most sickness and the highest mortality is among those who use soap and water and are particular about bathing.” In England the sug gestion that the liberal use of soap has impaired the strength of the ma jority has been received with gravity by the Lancet. Adee’s Good Work. For a score of years A. A. Adee has been a “wheelhorse” of the state de partment in Washington, serving un der five administrations. The final ad justment of the Alaskan boundary con troversy between this government and that of Great Britain has been achieved by him. Although he is one of the best informed men on foreign affairs in the United States, he has especially devoted his, intelligence to a study of the boundary question In the far northwest. I “The Flower of Destiny,” an episode of the second empire, by William Dana Orcutt, is the love story of Na poleon III. and Eugenie, told in a dra matic and fascinating style and at tractively illustrated by Charlotte Weber. At Lady Blessington's ball, the author makes her characters s^y: “We are trying to determine who is the most celebrated guest of the evening,” continued Eugenie eagerly. "The Count insists that it is Lord Lyt ton, and 1 am sure it is Charles Dick ens.” “You are both wrong, my dear Mademoiselle,” answered D'Orsay. with a profound bow. “I have the honor to present to you our most cel ebrated guest—Prince Louis Napoleon, the future emperor of France.” This meeting, so full of dramatic significance, takes place early in the book, just after Napoleon has escaped from the fortress of Ham and joined his sympathizers in London. The story moves through a succession of charming scenes and dramatic events after the first meeting of Napoleon and Eugenie—the Promenade of Bad en, back to England, where Napoleon hears of his recall, the famous coup u’ etat. and the final climax when the Emperor begs Eugenie to “accept these flowers of destiny, ray Empress, —wear this crown, which I place upon your head, until France shall present you with another.” It is all delightfully told, full of the spirit of the time, and a very success ful picture of one of the most ro mantic episodes in history. The illus trations are unusually beautiful and the book is further distinguished by its decorative scheme in violet. It is doubtful whether a more attractive book has ever been produced at this price. Price $1.2:.. A. C. McClurg & Co., publishers, Chicago. * * * Over fifty full-page illustrations by Dearborn Melvill add to the beauty and interest of Byron Williams' much heralded and charming book of verse, "Down Country Lanes." just from the press. The title is appropriate, for the book is redolent of clover and bees, honeysuckles and provincial isms true to the pastoral existence. As a depiction of rural life by one who knows and loves the simple heartthrobs of the countryfolk, it has no superior in literature. In the 224 pages of the l>ook, are many de lightful and pleasing bits of fancy, pretty conceits and homely preach ments stripped of tinsel and clothed in bluejeans. As a book that touches the heart it excels and no man or woman who loves the country either through birth or adoption, should miss reading this fascinating and artistic volume so fragrantly and entertain ingly couched in mirth and pathos. Says a well-known critic of the book: “We bespeak for it a large sale and the deep appreciation of every one whose heart, is touched by the quaint lines of this popular author, whose every verse seems especially written to touch the tenderest chopds of our Mves.” International Press or the author, 65 Plymouth Place, Chicago, prettily bound in cloth, $1.25, postage 12 cents extra. * * * Captain James T. Elliott, president of the Chicago Society of Proof readers. is the author of “Elizabeth.” a heart tale of interest, combining in description the attractive of both the North and the South, the scene of action shifting from the beautiful Southern country to the metropolis of the West, closing in the pastoral quietude of the countryside. Captain Elliott was born and raised in the South and depicts with graphic detail the chivalrous charac teristics of the people of that section. As editor and proprietor of Elliott's Magazine, Chicago, he did much to advance the* literature of the West. He is son of the late Judge James T Elliott of Arkansas, and inherits many of the sterling qualities of his dis tinguished father. * * * Ginn Company, Boston, has placed upon the hook market “The Louis iana Purchase—Its History and Ex ploration.” by Ripley Hitchcock. The volume is a complete narrative of the country lying between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains, and a recital of the country’s development. It is a valuable acquisition to the his tories heretofore regarded as stand ard and being told like a romance holds great Interest fo~ the reader and student. It is attractively illus trated and should be in the library of every man interested in the progress of the great region depicted. * • * “Little Folks of Many lands,” hv Lulu Maude Chance, a teacher in the first grade, public schools. Riverside. Cal., is a valuable little book for chil dren and a pretty one it is, too. Un-. like the old-fashioned text-book, this volume does more than answer the question, “Is this a hen?” “Yes, this is a hen!” It teaches the children facets about the lads and lassies of other lands, making them familiar with the customs, manners and sur roundings of foreign little ones. Ginn & Co., Boston, publishers; mailing price, 70 cents. * * * Alan Dale’s humorous novel, “Want ed, A Cook,” which has been so well received in America since its issue last November by the Bobbs-Merril] Company, Indianapolis, has just been brought out in England by the put nams, where it has already been ex tensively and exhaustively praised by the leading literary critics of such authorities as The Academy, the Edin burgh Scotsman, the London Leader and many others, who agree that this story is the smartest thing in current literature. — 1 WARSAW CITIZENS ENRAGED AT UNPROVOKED SLAUGHTER I The excitement at Warsaw, Poland, following the unprovoked shooting of citizens by the police and Cossacks, continues intense. How many were killed probably no one ever will know. The streets of Warsaw have been filled with funeral processions. It is asserted that seventy people died at the corner of Jerusalem and Iron streets and four in the Praga district All day crowds of highly incensed people have been crushing around the morgue, which is in the main street, writes a correspondent. “After fight ing my way through a maddened crowd I forced a passage into the The limbs of many women and children were broken by the rifles bayonets and swords wielded by the ! troops in an encounter in Jerusalem street. The soldiers went so far as to enter homes and beat womeai and their children, who were hiding there. _ PENSION SYSTEM A SUCCESS. Workingmen’s Insurance in Germany Has Prcved Practicable. It is in Germany that there is to be found, by all odds, the highest evolu tion of workingmen’s insurance, says Scribner's, in that country a social m ■ ' — —.- .—ii ■ I, i ■ 11 Russian Factory Life: The Women’s Sleeping-Room. building through an unwilling posse of soldiers, distracted to the verge of vio lence by the aggressive attitude of the mob. “I passed through a jealously guarded door and found myself in a courtyard full of police officials, one of whom promptly searched me for weapons or bombs. Then I went through a second court leading out from the first and down twelve steps. “In an atmosphere reeking with the smell of carbolic acid, I came to a sickening spectacle. There were twenty-eight corpses laid out, stripped to the waist and with their upper gar ments lying in a heap over their hips. Eight of the number were women. The face of one girl, who appeared to be still a child, was badly disfigured. One man had a gaping wound on the left side of the forehead. The majority were wounded in the head. None had the appearance of having been pover ty stricken. On the contrary all wore good clothes, evidently holiday gar ments. Not one appeared to be more than 30 years of age. “All the time there were urgent calls of ‘move on,' on the part of the police, mingled with the bitter wail ing and sobbing of the women over bodies lying on the cold concrete floor. “Outside I heard angry utterances, entreaties and threats of the populace, anxious to obtain admittance, while the soldiers forced them back with bayonets. Demagogues seized the op portunity to address knots of people on the subject of vengeance.” One of the wildest scenes of this disorder folowed the explosion of a bomb near the Vienna railroad sta tion. Four persons were instantly killed and a dozen were seriously in jured. Every pane of glass in the experiment has been conducted on a vast scale, and I think the movement may fairly be said to mark the most interesting recent social legislation that is to be found anywhere in the world. I The significance of the movement in Germany will be better understood when it is noted that 17,000,000 Ger man workmen are contributing to and enjoying the benefits of the pension system. That significance is empha sized when we learn that since the inception of the system in 18S5 the to tal receipts have reached $1,750,000, 000. At the present time the annual receipts are in excess of $130,000,000, an amount sufficient to make us con sider with much interest the economic consequence of the plan. MONEY OF TWO COUNTRIES. Enormous Incomes Accredited to Eng land and America. The income tax in Great Britain is levied on $3.500,000,000 of annual in come, and produces $155,000,000 of rev enue for the government. If Mr. Gibsen Bowles is right in say ing that only one-third of the national income pays the tax. the total of in comes of the united kingdom must be $10,500,000,000, a sum almost incon ceivably vast. That is only $244 a year for each person if it were equally divided. It isn't. Less than 750,000 persons have more than half the total income. From money invested abroad alone Great Britain's capitalists probably re ceive $1,200,000,000 a year of income, though no one can tell exactly. It is probable that the total of pri vate incomes, great and small, in the United States is over $25,000,000,000, ! ' Russian Factory Life: The Women’s Dining-Room. nearby houses was shattered. The troops intensified the excitement by firing upon the crowds. Services were in progress in one oT the churches at Kaliz when a number of soldiers and police rushed into their midst and. attacked them. Three women were killed while at prayer and many were wounded. The Cossacks charged a red flag pro cession in Warsaw and poured two volleys into it. Those of the onlook ers who were not struck down were severely beaten. Women and children shared the fate of the men. though the sum cannot be so closelj estimated as in the island kingdom. King of Smallest Monarchy. The sovereign who reigns over the smallest monarchy in the world is the king of the Cocos, a group of islands near Sumatra. These islands were discovered about 300 j’ears ago, but were comparatively little known until 1825, when Mr. Ross, an Englishman, visited them, was struck by their beauty and took up his abode there. It is his grandson, George Reiss, who now holds sway over the Cocos. Saved His Life. j A story is told of an Englishman 1 who hqd occasion to call in a doctor while staying in Peking. “Sing Loo, gleatest doctor," said his servant; “he savee my lifee once.” “Really?” quer ied the Englishman. “Yes, me tellible awful.” was the reply; “me callee in arother doctor. He givee me medi cine; me velly, velly bad. Me callee in another doctor. He come and give me more medicine, make me velly, velly badder. Me callee in Sing Loo. He no come. He savee my life.” Hatpin in His Body. Charles Anderson of East Long meadow went to the Mercy hospital a few days ago for treatment for a supposed injury to his hip. He was greatly shrprised when the physicians removed from the hip a piece of a hat pin a number of inches in length, which was deeply imbedded in the flesh. The curious part of the affair is that Mr. Anderson has no idea how the pin came there. It is supposed to have been there for several years at least Altogether Incompatible. A* well known Scotch horsecouper who was considered a respectable member of a congregation, was fre quently pressed by the minister to al low himself to be nominated for the eldersnip. He always put the matter off with evasive answers, but at length the minister demanded the reason for his refusal. Thus flriven into a cor ner the worthy replied: ‘Man, I won der to hear you. Mr. McNab! Hoo can a man be an elder and sell a I horse?”—Scottish American. Group Portrait of Professors. Shortly after Dr. Osier of Johns Hopkins university sails for London three other men. Profs. Halsted Kel ly and Welch, of the university will join him in London, the four to sit for a group portrait to be painted by John MiSarMnt’ ^i-be wisb and e*pense of Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett. These four professors are the original facul ty of the medical school of the univer sity, a department which virtually owes its existence to Miss Garrett’s benefactions. ♦ FUNDS MEANT TO ALLAY PANIC PASSED THROUGH BROKEN PANE 4* + 4 4* f I 4* + 4 4 Friends of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, wishing to deposit mcney to show their confidence in its stability were unable to reach the receiving teller's window because of the crow-d. A cane in a plate-glass window was cut with a diamond, the panic was broken and tens of thou sands of dollars were deposited in th is way. SLAVS IN UNITED STATES Strain Is Certain to Miss Largely in the Blood of the Future Composite American — Skilled Trades Have Sparse Representation in Their Ranks—Have Not the Fault of Hud- j dling in the Cities, as Have Other Nationalities. Charities published in a recent num ber the results of a detailed study of Slavic immigration in the United States. In spite of the proportions which it has reached—some 230,000 Slavs came over last year—popular ignorance on the subject is marked. In northern Pennsylvania the great hordes of Ruthenian, Polish and Slo vak miners are contemptuously class ed as “Huns,” and even the more in telligent are disposed to associate them with the followers of Attila. For good or ill, however, the Slavic strain promises to mix largely in the blood of the future composite American, in the daily arrivals at Ellis Island it is outnumbered only by the Italian and possibly by the Jewish; hence it is encouraging to note that the Slavs, too, improve on closer acquaintance. Properly Slavic immigrants should not be classed as a single group. They 1 are really a congeries of some twenty one peoples, differing in race, lan guage and frequently in religion. They range all the way from the high ly civilized Bohemian, almost invari ably literate and skilled of labor, to | the ignorant Ruthene of Galicia, economically and educationally on the ' lowest plane. Practically all religions are represented—Orthodox Greek, Ro man Catholic, Protestant and Luther an. with such eccentricities as the j Doukbobors and regularly organized ! sets of Freethinkers. According to Miss Kate Holladav j Claghorn, the causes of immigration I are largely political. Thus it is al most invariably the subject races that leave home. From Russia the genuine Muscovite seldom emigrates; it is the Pole, the Lithuanian, the Jew and the Finn. The dominant Ger man does not abandon Austria in large numbers; it is the more or less subject Slav. Roumanians do not ; emigrate from their own country, Rou- | maria; but from Hungary. Rutheni ans come from Galicia, not. from Rus- i sia. Economic causes, too. are influ- ; ential. According to Ivan Arian, the ! peasants of Galicia subsist almost , entirely on potatoes and cabbage; 50 per cent eat no bread for six months j in the y^ar. Under these conditions i a high standard of education snd man ners could hardly be expected. They have some traits, indeed, not unlike the Asiatic hordes from which many of them are sprung. They are hard | drinkers, ready fighters, though sel dom quarrelsome. With the exception of the Bohemians and Magyars (the latter, of course, are not Slavs, though loosely so reckoned by Charities), the rate of illiteracy is high; and the skilled trades are sparsely represent ed. Like the Italians, the Slavs come here first without their wives; send home their savings, ard, when work is slack, go back themselves. Also like the Italians, however, they are not contented to remain away; hut soon return, this time with their fami lies, and definitely establisn here their homes. I nquestionably, the Slavs are more assimilable than some other elements in the new- immigration. They meet the supreme test—that of distribution. They do not huddle in the great cities, like the Italians and Jews; there are Slav colonies in New- York, cut they are comparatively unimportant. They are distributed pretty generally from the Atlantic coast to the Missis sippi river, in accordance with the de mands of labor. They have one great advantage in that the part of Europe from which they come is, physically and climatically, almost identical with our own. The fertile plains of the Danube are reproduced here in those of the Mississippi. The Russian Jew here takes up a new trade in the sweat shop; the Italian from the farms of Sicily and Basilicata here has to adapt himseif to rough laborer's work, but the Slav, in large measure, simply resumes the oc cupations to which he has been bred at home. They are miners in the an thracite fields and iron mines of Penn sylvania; wheat growers in Wiscon sin and Illinois, where they are fre quently proprietors; tobacco raisers in Connecticut; "abandoned farmers” in New England. They are employed in the steel shops of Pittsburg, the shoe factories of Lynn, the oil and sugar refiners of Greater New York and the hat shops of Newark. They work as stevedores on the docks of Jersey City and in the packing houses of Chicago. They are fourd in largest numbers in Pennsylvania, where, in the iron and coal mines, there are now about 110,000—in the main Poles, Ruthe nians and Slovaks. To New York state came 32,000 la«rf rear, to Illinois 24,000 and to Ohio 19,000. In general, they are industrious and law-abiding; utilize educatioral opportunities for their children—though still too close ly attached to the parochial school; belong equally to both the two great political parties, and constantly im prove their condition. The Magyar colony of New York—bounded by Stanton and Seventh streets. Fir«=t avenue and East River—is a distinct gain. Here they are furriers, shop keepers, merchants and workmen in cigar, wire and shoe factories. And in ftilngarian cafes they have added an interesting social institution to the metropolis.—New York Post. Stature in Army and Navy. It is not improbable that the army legulaticns will be modified in the matter of the stature of enlisted men. Under the present regulations a man must be of pretty good height to be accepted for either the army or the navy. But the Japanese soldiers and sailors are not large men. The suc cess of the Japs as fighters has caus ed the authorities at Washington to take into consideration the fact that sometimes small men can fight about as well as big ones.—Savannah, Ga., 1 News. Control of the Mediterranean. There are four nations which have what may be called a natural right to direct the destinies of the Mediterra nean—Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. Of these Great Britain haa un dertaken with conspicuous success the burden of administering the affairs of Egypt; France has been given a free hand in Morocco; Italy must become the chief power in the Adriatic and Ionian seas, while Spain has enough to do in promoting her internal devel opment.—Providence, R. I., Journal. Joke on H. H. Rogers. A practical joker played a heartless trick on H. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil company the other evening at the Board of Trade banquet in New York. As Mr. Rogers stood up to make his speech it was noticed that he had a magnificent pink in his buttonhole, letter a friend asked him, “Do you know the meaning of that pink yon are wearing?” ‘No,” replied Mr. Rog ers. “Well, that is the Thomas W. Lawson pink,” he was told. What Mr Rogers said will never be printed in the newspapers. Own Fine Country Estate. Herman B. Duryea and Harry Payne Whitney, of Now York, and Hobart Ames, of Boston, own a 70,000-acre game preserve at Hickory Valley, Tenn., sixty miles from Memphis. Their preserve is considered the fin est in many respects in America, though others exceed it in sire. The bird dogs are undoubtedly the best on this continent—they have demonstrat ed this in field trials for many genera tions—and the fox and bear hounds cannot be equaled anvwhere.