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Tor many ha? ?2, 375, 000, 000 in
vested in foreign countries.
A North Georgia farmer projiORes to
make a fence around his land with cot
ton Lalep.
French physicians assert that men
svhose only meat is horseflesh are in
ootter health than those who have
nore varietv.
In the City of Mexico every well
ilncated person speaks at least inree
'an cruises. The Mexicans have a craze
for mastering lanjru&cres.
Tn Mexico the custom is common of
-"xcrptinjr new manufacturincf enter
irises from all save general taxation
for ten to twenty years.
The Argentine earthquake occurred
ho nieht hefore one of the "critical
lays' in the list of Professor Falb, the
Austrian earthquake prophet.
More than t'vo hundred French
;itie3 have resolved to erect statues in
lonor of the late President Carnot,
ind it is expected that soon almost
ivery French town will have a Carnot
street or srjuare.
The Minnesota Supremo Court has
lecided that bicyclists have the same
rights as horsemen on the streets.
"Now, let us have a decision giving
pedestrians some rights," suggests the
Atlanta Constitution.
Profespor Rudolph Virchow told the
jonvoution of anthropologists at In
Qesbruck the other day that the Dar
winian theory of the origin of species,
jommonly knowu as "evolution," was
inproven, unscientific, and evidently
Talse.
The refrigerating systems for the
transportation of fresh meats, fruits,
jtc, are coming more and more ex
tensively into use. The New York
World thinks it ia too early to pre
set the future in store for this scheme,
which is still in its infancv.
Yermont is restocking its forests
and streams by good game laws
strictly enforced, and the people find
that land is worth more all over the
State than it was before this policy
was adopted. It is also noticed that
more sportsmen visit the State than
formerly.
In one of the New York apartment
houses there are 226 pianos one to
every four persons, besides a whole
orchestra of piccolos, violins, guitars,
cornets and an old-fashioned melo
deon. Those who live across the way
say that it is the noisest house in
America.
It has been estimated that of the
$1,500,000,000 of property held in
New York $300,000,000 is in the
bands of women, but this is certainly
well within the real facts (since the
women of Boston pay taxes on 120,
000,000). Even so, however, this
would make, at the preseut rate of es
timate, over $600,000,000 of property
imned in New York State by women,
adds the Dispatch.
Says the New York Ledger s
"Wherever Americans plant stakes, wc
hear of political agitation. The
speeches at the great mass meeting ot
Alaskans at Juneau had the true
American ring. There may have been
other political mass meetings in
Alaska, but the nevvs of them has not
teached us. The Juneau meeting was
Sie first important political demon
stration in that part of oar domain,
the northern shores of which are
laved by the waters of the Arctic
Ocean."
There are in successful operation in
the South a number of cotton factories
constructed with money raised on the
installment plan, the payments being
made as in a building and loan associa
tion. Among the mills established
under this co-operative scheme and
now in full operation, the New York
Ledger mentions the following t The
Ada Cotton Mill, with a subscribed
capital of S128,000, producing chain
warps and skein yarns ; the Alpha
Cotton Mills, with a capital of $100,
000; the Highland Park Gingham
Mills, with a subscribed capital of
$150,000, and the Gaffney Cotton
Mills, capital subscribed, $150,000;
product, print cloth.
In view of the great number of post
office burglaries and highway mail
robberies recently, the Postmaster
General has deemed ii proper to offer
rewards for the conviction of persons
ooncerned in such transactions, which
embrace $1000 for conviction of job
bing the mails while being conveyed
in mail car on a railway ; $500 foi
conviction of robbing the mails while
being conveyed over any post route
other than a railway ; $250 for an
attempt at such robberies; $150 for
breaking into and robbing a post
office, and $200 in the latter case,
where the amount stolen exceeds $500.
The Trenton True American thinks
these rewards ought to stimulate the
work of detecting and pursuiug post
siiJi's robbers.
A westwnrd en,vfftp, between En
rope and New York, ts usually seven
per cent, longer tiaa an eastward one.
London pays forty-two per cent, of
the income tax of England and "Wales,
and its government and management
;ost about 855,000,000 a year.
Porto Rico if to have a gold e tand
fird of currency, announces the New
York Independent, the Mexic&n dollar
to be retained as a basis of weight for
the value of silver.
The Crown Prince of Germrny is a
very precocious boy, according to the
Chicago Herald. When the court
chaplain told him all people were sin
ners he said: :Father may be, but I
know mother is: not."
There can be no doubt, maintains
he Chicago Herald, that the talk of
rrape seeds and appendicitis has af
'ected the price of grapes unfavorably,
n ripite of the fact that the grape cure
i few years ago was in high vogue.
Ornithologists do not tell us that
he chicken is the most wonderful of
nirds, yet the fat remains, avers the
Chicago Herald, that in proportion to
weight, it is far more important to the
liuman race than any other animal.
Judge Child, of Newark, N. J., set
iside a erdict which awarded a man
14000 for the killing of his son by a
ftreet car. He said that the amount
was preposterous and that if the plain
tiff would accept $1500 he would dis
miss the case. The father refused.
The greatest obstacle to the growth
&f the lemon industry of this country
is the fact that the fruit is not prop
erly cured, and will not keep like the
foreign article. The lemons them
selves are equally good, but the
curing process has yet to be learned.
Andrew Lang, the English essayist,
jays that the idle, the imitative and
the needy had better adopt some other
calling than literature, and advise all
not to try to write a novel, unless a
plot, or a set of characters, takes such
irresistible possession of the mind
that it must be written.
The St. James Gazette (English) as
sets that the "railway station speech,"
or, as it is called in this country, "the
rear platform speech," was invented by
Mr. Gladstone. The New Orleans
Picayune believes this will be news to
Americans, who are pretty generally
persuaded that it is a peculiarly
American institution. The Gazette
declares it a nuisance.
About twenty years ago Germany
adopted the system of compulsory in
surance of workingmen against ac
cidents. Since that time, declares the
Hartford Courant, there has been paid
into the reserve fund about $S8,000,
000, of which about $20,000,000 now
forms the capital. In the year last
reported more than $7,500,003 was
paid in indemnities, and more that,
$3,000,000 was added to the reserve
fund. It is now proposed to extend
the system to apprentices and em
ployes whose wages do not exceed
$476 a year.
The annual report of Dr. W. T.
Harris, Commissioner of Education,
says that twenty-three per cent, of the
population attend school during some
period of the year. The avenge
period of attendance during the year,
however, is only eighty-nine days for
each pupil. The report says: "It
would seem to be the purpo3e of our
system to give in the elementary
schools to every child the ability to
read. When he leaves school he is
expected to continue his education by
reading the printed pages of news
papers and books. The great increase
of public libraries in the United States
is significant of progress towards
the realization of this idea. In lSOS
we had over 4000 public libraries,
with more than 1000 books in each.
The schools teach how to read ; the
libraries furnish what to read. Bat
far surpassing the libraries in educa
tive influence are the daily newspapers
and magazines. We are governed bj
public opinion as ascertained and ex
pressed by the newsppers to such a
degree that our civilization is justfy
to be called a newspaper civilization.
The library and the newspapers art
our chief instrumentalities for tht
continuation of school and the univer
sity. Lecture courses, scientific anc
literary associations are assisting
largely.
Heaac .ci "r.:n Efe-S.r.i'n.
Among the most exquisite of tor
tures are headaches tliac proceed from
overtaxiner the eyes. Much of this
trouble is due to imperfect curvature;
of the corners. However slight thi i
imperfection may br, thj pain from
the strain is intense. The muscles
become sore and irritable, and the
constant tension is likely to create
chronic ailments of tha nervous sys
tem. Eye-strain and extreme irrita
bility of temper are frequently asso
ciated. It is olten the case that the
eyes are not suspect d as a cause oi
headache, but the proper gias-es give
relief at once. New York Ledger.
Ex-Senator Warren's ranch in Wy
oming is nearly as li fge as Massachusetts.
INTERMENT OF THE GZAR
THE CEREMONY IN" RUSSIA'S
FORTRESS CATHEDRAL.
Services at St. Peter and St. Paul In
St. Petersburg The Most Magnifi
cent Obsequies of Modern Times
The Imperial Family Take Leave
of Their Dead.
The entombment of the remains oi the late
Czar Alexander Ilf, of Bossla, took place
in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Tan!,
Sr. Petersburg.
A thick fog enveloped the city, but the
populace was astir at the earliest possible
hour, and at the same time the troops de
tailed to take part la the funeral ceremonies
commenced moving toward the positions as
signed to tbem.
Enormous crowds of people gathered on
both sides of the Nva long before the cere
monies commenced. The opening ceremony
was announced by three cannon shots from
the fortrpss.
The Czar, the Imperial family and the
roval mourners were received at the door ot
the Cathedral by the Metropolitan of St.
Petersburg and by all the members of tho
Holy Synod, bearing crosses and holy water.
The Imperial party formed in a solemn
procession, which marched up the aisle until
tho Czar and other mourners reached their
appointed plices.
The funeral services then commenced, and
during its 'progress tapers were handed to
all themourners, and then the High Priest,
with a burning torch, lighted the Czar's
tapers, and afterwards did the same with
those held bv the members of the Imperial
famiJy, after which the priest lighted the
tapers of all the other mourners in turn,
according to rank, until everybody was
kneeling and holding nickering tapors in
their right hands, which, with the clouds of
Jncense, accompanied by tho solemn chant
ing of the priests, gave tho most woird effect
to tha whole scene.
At the conclusion of the funeral services
the members of the Imperial family paid
their last respects to the dead Czar, kissing
tho icon lying on his breast. The Czir as
sisted the Czarina, who was terribly affected.
Eight genorals then removed the pall and
carriod the coffin to the altar, while eight
other generals bore the pall behind the
casket. Tho Czar then placed h's father's
Imperial mantle within tho coffin, which
was then finally closed, and the procession
to the tomb was formed.
It was headed by the Metropolitan, of St.
Petersburg, and the clergy intoning a
polemn chant. The clergy were followed.by
the coffin, which was borne by tho Czar, tho
Grand Dukes, foreign princes end the most
distinguished generals.
A number of the highest civil officers of
tho Government also assisted in conveying
the remains of the Czar to the tomb, where
the burial service was read and the coffin
was slowly lowered into the vault.
This was the most striking portion of the
ceremony. As the coffin disappeared from
view the loud booming of cannon and the
salvous fired by platoons of infantry from
the adjoining fortress reverberated through
the church, and tho lowering of the mourn
ing flag and the hoisting of the ordinary Im
perial standard on the fortress tower pro
claimed to the outside world that the List
act in tho mournful drama had been con
cluded. The Czar bora the ordeal with fortitude,
but many among the group of Imperial and
royal personages clustered around the open
grave were visibly affected. The Czar re
mained in the church until the tomb was
Anally closed.
After this last ceremony the Imperial in
signia wore carried back ih state in a num
ber of carriages to the Winter Palace, and
were, there deposited in the accustomed
place in St. George's Hall.
An imposing funeral ceremony in honor of
the late Czar Alex.vnder III. took place in
the Church of the Russian Embassy, Eerlin.
Traffic about the neighborhood of that
building was suspended during the service,
and there was a large Guard of Honor out
side the church.
Emperor William, in Russian uniform, ac
companied by the Empress, drove to the
church in an open carriage, and was present
throughout the ceremonies. All tho diplo
matic corps, including the United States Am
bassador, Theodore Eunyon, and many
other notables were present.
"FATHER OF THE HOUSE."
Culberson, of Texas, Senior Repre
sentative In Point of Service.
The "Father oi the House" in tho fifty
fourth Congress will be a Democrat, a South
erner and an ex-Georgian David B. Culber
Bon, of Texas. The death of Charles O'Neill,
of Philadelphia, in December, 1893, mads
Richard P. Eland, of Missouri, then in tis
eleventh consecutive term of sorvic--, the
"Father of the House." Bland was defeated
DAVID B. CTJLBEBSON.
at the November election. Prior to the death
of Mr. O'Neill, William D. Keliey, of Philadel
phia, was the "Father of the House," a dis
tinction which, by antiquity, of io!itieHl
methods, seems almost to belong
to Philadelphia. "Dave" Culberson,
the Democratic "Father of the House,"
has had an unbroken record of successiyo
elections since 1874, and his title to the hon
orary task of swearing in a Republican
speaker is undeniable.
TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
Insane Thomas Porterchek Killed
MotherkBrotlier,r3l8ter and Himself.
Thomas Porterchek, who lived with his
mother, two sisters and a brother near
Wellsvillo, SIo., complained that his head
waa hurting him and said that he believed
his neck was broken.
At 3 o'clock a. m. he secured an axe and
killed his widowed mother, one sister and
his brother. The other sister, Mary, jumps 1
out of a window and stood on the outside
and saw her maniao brother saturate the
room with coal oil, set it afire and then gash
himself with a knile in the breast. He sank
down and all four bodies were consumed in
the burning house.
By tho time the neighbors got there the
house was ablaze and it was too late to res
cue the bodies. The mother was an inva
lid and ha l been confined to her bed for
twelve years. The murderer was undoubt
edly insane.
FATTin A TMT3T,CC1
The Alabama Populist Determines to
Qualify as Governor.
Reuben F. Kolb, defeated Populist candi
date for Governor, published an address to
the people of Alabama in the People's Tri
bune, the State organ of the pr.rty, in which
he declared his intention, by the grace of
God and help ot tne people, to be inaugurat
d Governor December 1, and called on his
followers to assemble in Montgomery on that
date to aid him.
"V I V." 1 1
OTTO VON BISMARCK,
immm
The fall of Caprivi was indirectly brought about by the strained relations ex ?! iu be
tween him and his great predecessor, and how the eyes of all Europe are watching Bis
marck for some indication of his attitude toward the new Chancellor. Princo Hohenlohe,
for it is a critical time for Germany, and the success or non-success of Emperor William's
latest pilot is considered by many to rest in the hands of the "Architect of the Empire"
who was dropped. In an interview Count Herbert Bismarck says : "My father has no or
ganic disease, but his frame has been weakened, especially by the hardest of his trials,
which he has experienced within the last four years, and he cannot continue much longer.
Prince Hohenlohe is a perfect gentleman, but there are factors near and about him whioh
prevent cordial Intimacy with him."
ROBERT C. WINTHR0P.
Daniel Webster's Successor in th9
Senate Passes Away in Boston.
Robert C. Winthrop has just died peace
fully at his homo in Boston of heart failure.
Robert Charles Winthrop was born in
Boston on May 12, 1S03. Ho was graduated
from Harvard College in 1828, and soon af
ter he studied law with Daniel Webster.
After a short professional career he went ao-
r.OBERT C. WTN'THROr.
tivrtly into polities as a ('lay Whig. He was a
member of thf lower House of the Massachu
setts Legislature from 1834-1840. and was
Speaker of the House the last three years.
In 1310 fio was seat to Congress, where for
ten years hn made a record for himself a3 a
l :auy debafpr and a skilful parliamentarian.
From 1847-40 he was Speaker of the House
and was defeate 1 lot re-election by two
votes alter a throe weeks' contest. In 1850
the Governor of Massachusetts appointed
him to fill tho unexpired term of Senator
Daniel Webster, who then became Secretary
of State. His attitude as to the question of
slavery was not satisfactory to men of ex
treme views North and South, and he was
defeated by Charles Summer in 1851 for a
seat in the Senate by a coalition of Demo
crats and Free Soilers. In the same year
Mr. Winthrop was the Whig candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts, and received a
large plurality, but a3 the constitution of
the State at that time required a majority
the election was thrown into tho Legisla
ture, where thesamo influence defeated him.
He then retired from politics and gave him
self to literary, historical, and philanthropic
work. He became th- chief counselor of
George Peabociy in his philanthropy.
It was as tho favorite orator on- great his
torical anniversaries that Mr. Winthrop was
best known by the public. Ho left many
writings and speeccs on historical subjects.
Mr. Winthrop was the oldest surviving ex
United States Senator from Massachusetts,
and was also the oldest surviving ex-Speaker
of tho National Kouso of Representatives,
having been elected to the Thirtieth Con
gress, and enjoyed tho distinction of having
personally known every President of the
United States, with tho exception of Wasa
imrton and .Trson.
WATERSPOUTS iN A RIVER.
Two Big Ones ami a Little One lise
Outof theSt. John's at Jacksonville.
Hundreds ot people were attracte 1 to tha
St. John's River front, Jacksonville, Fia.
by a waterspout. The column of water
entered the river from McGirt's Creek, on
the west side, an I made across the river at
the rate of about twent3--flve mile3 an hour.
It was followed by another at a distance o!
about a quarter of a mil.
Both were largo fellows, and they started
from the surface of tho river iubigrounl
coils, and gradually decreased up to the
centre of the spout, when they again began
to widen, until they reached the clouds an 1
gained the same siz j H3 at the base.
Both of the spouts plowed through tne
river and made tne water fairly boil. The
two were followed by a smaller one, and all
took a straight course across tho river to
ward Villa Alexandria, the home of Mrs,
Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee. Then
they seemed to turn and make straight uf
the river. As they progressed the watei
seethed, boiled, and foamed and spray wot
thrown high in the air.
TO PROTECT SEAL LIFE.
The Government Likely to Prohibit
All KUling During Next Season.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin, as a result oi
his visl; to theseal islands, has recommended
that no seals be killed next season, and so in
formed General Jeffries, attorney of the North
American Commercial Company, lessees
of the seal islands from the United States,
at a conference held in the Treasury Depart
ment. A year's rest from slaughter
will it is believed, so increase the
seal herd in the Arctic Ocean that
seal killing may be resumed in 1806.,
The United States Government has invited
all the maritime Nations to join this coun
try in preventing p?lagic sealing in Bering
Sea, as without this the mere cessation of
seal siaugnter on tne islands ot bt. i'aai ana (
St. George would be ineffective.
"THE IRON CHANCELLOR."
LATER NEWS.
E. S. Jeffbay & Co.'s six story building la
New York City was destroyed by flro. All
of its contents wcra ruined. Tho damage
was estimated at f 300,000 on the stock and
between 950,000 and $60,000 on the building.
Amos Holt and Georgo Sherman were
drowned while duck hunting at Fall River,
Mass.
The National W. C. T. U. Convention at
Cleveland, Ohio, elected officers, with Miss
Frances E. Willard as President.
The white laborers employed at Williams's
lumber camp, in Escambia Count3-, Alabama,
objected to the presence of fifty colored
men and ilred into a party of them, killing
three. The rast fled.
A white marb'.o bust of "Vice-President
Stevenson was placed in the niche in tho
Senate gallery, near tho southeast corner. It
is one of the best of the series that adorn
the walls, tho likeness and expression being
strikingly accurate and lifelike.
Anton Gregob Rceixstein, the famous
pianist, died at Peterhof, Russia.
Gebman troops won a victory in East
Africa, killing hundreds of the natives and
liberating 1500 slaves.
Fbaxche, tho Spanish Anarchist bomb
thrower, who killed 125 people in a theatre,
was executed at Barcelona.
The Russian Government received des
patches from Ereroum confirming the re
ports of the massacre of Armenians. The
Turkish soldiers killed many Kurds who re
fused to help them kill the Christians.
GovebnorFloweb was asked by fivo Good
Government Club members to remove Dis
trict Attorney Fellows, of New York City, on
the ground that he has neglected his duties.
Genehau Miles formally took command
of the Military Department of the East at
Governor's Island, New York City.
Fbank S. Godfrey, acting assistant super
intendent of the gymnasium of the Boston
(Mass.) Young Men's Christian Union, fell
and broke his neck in the gymnasium and
died a few minutes afterwards.
The United States cruiser Montgomery
was presented with a silver service at
Mobile, Ala. Governor Jone3 and Secretary
Herbert were present.
The Indian Commission recommends tho
abolition of the present system of tribal
government.
The Bishop of the province of noo-Pe,
China, cables that the Chinese are persecu
ting the Christians severely in Li-Chooan,
and have already killed several of them.
W, C. T. U. CONVENTION.
Its Twenty-first Anniversary Cele
brated In Cleveland, Ohio.
The twenty-first annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union was
held in Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Frances Wil
lard, the President, delivered the annual ad
dress, reviewing the progress of the union
and ursring certain reforms.
Miss Wnlard gave a review of the progress
of the temperance, woman, purity and labor
movements in the last two decades, and
showed that they had all moved forward by
leaps and bounds, until the habit of total
abstinence Is thoroughly respected every
where. The effects of the use of alcohol and
tobacco are being systematically taught
from the standpoint of science to the chil
dren in th public schools of nil the fifty
States and Territories except five.
Continuing, Miss Willard said : "The vic
tory pained by Lady Henry Somerset, Mrs.
Ormiston Chant, and other White Ribbon
women, in biin$rinr evidence to the London
County Council, which caused it by a votn
of 75 to 32 to refuse liquor and promenade
nail licenses, so that prominent places of
amusement in London are closed, is perhaps
tho strongest proot that a better day has
dawned."
Mrs. Helen M. Barker, Treasurer of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, reported that receipts from dues had
been 14. 704.99; contributions, $11,314.26,
making a total of 26,019.25. The disburse
ments were 20,338.07, leaving a balance of
$5681.18-
EIGHT MEN KILLED.
Buried Under Tons of Rock by a
Phosphate Barge Capsizing.
A special from Punta Gordi, Fia., siys
that an accident oocured in Charlotte har
bor by which eight men lost their lives.
Ten employes were asleep on a barge
loaded with phosphate, when it suddenly
capsized, burying the men under tons ot
rock. Two of them managed to escape, but
eight were lost.
The list of the dead is as follows : 8. W.
MltehelJ, A. Parker, Wiley Walker, Tom
Vann, Dave Frausfyn. Will Yann, Berry
Jones and Jack Spenoer.
ITALY'S Bit EARTIIQUAKI
HUNDREDS KILLED AND IN
JURED BY FALLING RUINS.
Tho Province of Itcgglo Suitors thf
Most . Sending KoIIof to thi
Stricken Districts Messina's In
habitants Afraid to Kcturn tc
Their Homes.
Reports of disasters caused by tho earth
quakes in Southern Italy suffice to show that
there has been preat loss of lif Proooplo,
a villnno of 1200 Inhabitant, in Regulo dl
Calabrin. has bvn o'.ilitcratsd. Virtually nil
tho buildiurs were throwu into ruins The
number of deaths was not known, but in one
elm rch forty-seven persons were burl I
alive under fallen wails. Thu last authori
tative report Wtis that tho list of deal was
Well above sixty.
In another village of the same proving
eight persons were killed outright by falling
bniMiui.-K. The damage to property has
been enormous. Troop and officials nro go
ing to the help of the buffering districts.
King Humbert has ser.t several donations
from his private purse.
Tho province of Rogglo di Calabria has
suffered most from the earthquake,
although seven I towns in tho aJjaeent
province of Cntanzaro di Calabria were
shaken severely. In Triparnl, fur tn
stauce, twenty buildings were laid in ruins
and several person were killed. In
Mileto, also in C.ttanzaro, many were ln
Jured. A school house was shaken to thu
ground, but the teachers and pupils had
escaped a few minutes before it Ml.
At the timo of cabling reports of deaths,
injuries, and tho demolition of buildings
hud been received lrom seventeen communes.
In Bagnara seven persons were killed out
right ; In Oppido Mamertina. four ; in Santa
Euphemia, eight. Scores of others were in
jured in these towns. Many provisions have
been sent to the south of Italy, and the re
lief work is organizing rapidly. Premier
Crisp! has sent tho Prefect of Bagnara and
the head men of several smaller towns )ajrgi
gifts of money.
In Sicily telegraphic communication has
been restored. Tho poople of Messina still
fear to return to their houses, and tho ma
jority of them r ro encamped in open spaces,
railway carriages, and vessels In the harbor.
Electric lights nave been sot to rep lace the
lighthouse which was destroyed, and a tor
pedo boat patrols tho channel. In Milazzo,
near Messina, a sharp shock was folt. Many
Walls were cracked, but nobody was killed.
A HOVEL UNDERTAKING.
A Great Company Furnishes Its Kra
ployes Free Medical Attendance.
William L. Douglas, President of tho
W. L. Douglas Shoo Co., has always
had a great personal interest in tho nrmy of
menand women who inhabit the gr?at fac
tory at Montello, Mass. He is a great be
liever in the idea that manufacturers should
have this personal Interest in tho condition
of their employes, and feels that If tho idea
is carried out to the extent that is possible,
that it will resuit ultimately in tho breaking
down of the barriers wiii'-h have been built
up betwem employers and those whom they
employ.
Mr. Douglas is satisfied that a sehemo
he has originated is a good one, and ho has
now put it to practical test. A fw days ago
he handed to every person in h'.s einploy
and they form a small nrmy a card, which
entitled Iho bearer "lo full and free modic.il
attondanen while employed by tho W. L.
Douglas Shoo Company. A compet'-ut and
skilful physician will be at t ho private office
of the conipnny at 12 m., daily, except Sun
days and holidays. If said employe should
be detained at homo by sickness, the phy
sician will give full and free medical attend
ance there."
Blank spaces are left in the card for tho
name ami residence of tho employe, and it
is signed by Mr. l)oug!as, as President of the
W. L. Douglas Shoo Company. Tho condi
tions printed on the card are as follow:
"The physician wiil not mako visits outside
the city limits. This ticket Is not transfer
able, and does not apply to the family of tho
employe, and must be returned ns tioon as
the term of employment cea3es. This privi
lege is a free gift of the company and is no
part ot the contract tor wages, and may bo
made void by tho company, at its own
option, without notice."
A doctor has been engaged to attend sick
employes, and everything that medical skill
can accomplish will be done for thou dur
ing illness.
This is a practical illustration of the plan.
It will doubtless bo appreciated by the hun
dreds who receive the cards. Mr. Douglas
believes there a.-e hundreds of workingmen
and workingwomen who fin ! a doctor's bill
a great burden alter a period of enforced
idleness, and that if this is lifted from them
they must feel that their employer is inter
ested in them in fomo ether way than sim
ply to get all tho work he can for just as lit
tle money as he can. Mr. Douglas saysalso
that there are men and women who keep
at work when it would bo better for
their health if they laid off a day or
two and received medical attendance. Then
againthey will now fool free to consult the
doctor for slight troubles, which heretofore
they would not do because of the cost.
Speaking of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., it
may be said further that in their factory the
principle of arbitration is recognized. Mr.
Douglas is a firm believer in the principle
and has been since tho establishment of the
State Board of Arbitration. Tho lirrn obliges
every employe to sign an agreement to sub
mit any disagreement that may arise, and
which cannot be settled by tho interested
parties, to the State Board of Arbitration,
the decision of that Board to be final.
REV. DE. LPCOSK IS DEAD.
Princeton College's Fx-President
Yields to Old Age.
The venerable Dr. McUo3b, ex-PresIdflnt
of Princeton College, passed peacefully
away at 10 o'clock ,. m. ai his home on
Prospect avenue, Princeton N. J., after an
illness of a little over a week.
Jarcis McCosh was lorn April 1, 191.1, near
the little villa-je of Patnn, Ayreshire, Scot
land. His early life was spent on his father's
farm. Hems e incited a' the universities
of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1835 he was
ordained a minister of the Church of Scot
land. In 18GG Dr. McCosh piid his first visit
to America, aud received a most hearty wel
come wherever he went. In the same year
he waa called to be 7Vsidont of Prlneetoa
College, and itered upon his new dutiee in
October of thai year, In 1887, feeling that
be could not long fulfill his arduous duties
as President, he retired voluntarily from hi
position aud was succeeded by Dr. Patton.
Dr. McCosh was a voluminous writer. He
wrote over a hundred books. His last works
combined the philosophic series in "Bealis
tio Philosophy" and "Psychology of the Mo
tive Powers," which was an aim tv formulate
an American philosophy of realism.
BET. DR. 4MZS M COSH.
CHANCELLOR H0HENi)HE.
The Man Chosen by Kaiser Wllhelm
to Succeed Caprlvl.
Clolwlg Carl Victor von II jh 'nlohe-jhll-
llngsfurst, Trine of Ratibor nn 1 Corvey.the
, new German Chancellor, was torn at Roton
' l-oiirg, 11 ivari.i, Mirch 31, 119. It will thus
be seen thnt he is actually six months older
:lmn was Tis n-irci when, four and a half
years ago, tho Eaip.-ror overthrew tho Iron
,r ;
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v urn v k v- ;;j i1 wv.hA
t'HAxrrxi.on iionEXioim, or ikh.isv.
I'hane dlnr on tho groun 1 that ho was too
old. Moiionloho was olu'atod at lb'ldel
berg, lltinn and Oottingen, and hold some
minor ortiees in tho (J r:nau civil service un
til lHt'i, when, having com. into the domain
an 1 title of SehHIings'urst through a com
pact with his elder brother, ho returnol to
lUvariaau l boovno a urini:r of t lio Upper
Chamber. In 1T7 ho boevno JIinUtr of
Foreign AiT.iirs and President of tho Coun
cil. At first Hohenlohe posed as a n.ivnrlan
patriot, mid undertook, with others, to Btetn
the rising tide of 1'ru-wla's power mid to
preserve tho autonomy of t he smaller States,
lie was tho foremost llguro in tho tight
against an ompiro an 1 courageously op
posed Bismarck to his fnce, J : i r at the con
clusion of tho Franco-Prussian War llohon.
lolie surren ler-vl and worked ;v;id voted for
tho Incorporation of Hivaria Intnand tho e
tablishiin'iit of tho Gorman Empire.
Ho was Vice-President of iim drst Imperi
al Reichstag, and in 1H"4 was sent to Paris as
tho German Ambassador. There ho ran
sacked tho archives and forwarded to Berlin
the evidence upon which his predecessor,
Count "on Arulm, was tried. In 1H78 Ho
henlohe was onj of tho German plenipoten
tiaries at tho I'.erlin Congro-s and hevcral
times thereafter was elocto 1 to tho Reich
stag. In 185 iio was nppoluted Governor of
Alsace-Lorraine.
Ilohenloho was married In lRlfl to the Prin
cess Mario do S.'iyn-Wittgenstein, by whom
bo has bad 11 vo children thn- daughters
and two nous and through whom ho has
become the posscss'ir of an enormous for
tune. His eldest son. Prince Victor Ernent
Marie, is a Captain in a Prussian cavalry
regiment. Prince Hohenlohe himself is said
in bo f ill. lo f ito of h i great age, very
strong aul hearty physically, while hU Iron
will ami vigorous luiolleet give uo Indica
tions of failing.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Stkai'ks wrib'S his best music at night.
Thk. character of tho new Czar of Russia
is still a mystery.
SfBOF.oN O'Reii.i.t, of tho Unite! States
Army, is acting iiHth" President's physician.
Da. S. F. Smith, the author of "lly Coun
try, 'Tis of Thee," was a college classmate of
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Tiikopour R. Davis, formerly one of the
most prominent sketch artists and magazine
writerj of this country, is dead.
The King of Belgium is sp nding his own
fortune aid that of hi sister largely fur the
benellt ot tho Congo Free State In Afrlo i.
The highest price ever paid Oliver Wen
dell Holmes for a poem was tfiHO, given (y
tho Boston Gl 'jo for his verses eulogizing
Garfield.
A rrniocs fact about Adolph Stitro, of
Sutro Tunnel fame, who has boon Hooted
Mayor of San Francisco, is that ho has
ever voted.
Fhank P. Ekllew, tho caricaturist, known
as "('hip," died, a few days ago, in New
York, of pneumonia, aged thirty-two years.
Ho was the son of Frank Bellow.
TniNCR Krai'otki.ve, tho most distin
guished living refugee, ha.s resided in Kng
land since 1880. His family hold high rank
In Russia In: fore th" days of the Romanoff-".
Wiixiam T. Adams (Oliver Optic), ono of
tho most popular story writers of tho United
States, Is now seventy-throe years old. Ho
has written 120 books, besides many short
etoriog.
Sir Jcuan Pactkk.'tk, tho British Am
bassador to this country, is sixty-six years
old. Ho is a thorough sportsman, and for
sir years has "rooted'' for the hapless Wash
ington ball team.
Ambasnapok Bavahp, recalling tho fact
that the English have plaood the busts of
Lowell and Longfellow in Westminster Ab
bey, Is quite sure they will place that of
Holmes there also.
Pbince Fbanz Lichtknktei v, tho now
Austrian Ambassador at tho Court of St.
Petersburg, Russia, is tho youngest person
in the world holding that office. Ho is but
forty-two years old.
Admiral Ito, the Japanese hero of the
day, who is known among his devoted sail
ors ns "the Lean Admiral," on a count ol
his extreme thinnrss, has a daughter who is
one of Japan's very 'ow blonde beaut ls.
Swami Vive kan a pa, the Brahmin high
priest, now visiting In this country, bus a
family record reaching back twenty cen
turie. Ho is about five foot, six, whelghs
320 pounds, nnd Is as jolly as an old time
monk.
"Cy" Scllowat, whom tho Republicans
have elected to Congress lrom the First New
Hamrshire District, recently married a fair
Salvation Army captain. He stan Is six foot
six, is a fluent talker and a good criminal
lawyer.
Tue German Empress Is thirty-six years
old. The first gllnpse her future husband
had of her she was lying asleop in a ham
mock at I'rinkenau, where William wus
hunting. Later, at thecastle, he Intro luce I
himself and was soon in love.
Stkoxg resemblance is at once noted be
tween the pictures of the new Czar of Rus
sia and tho Duke of York. The family like
ness Is decided among European hovereigrm
oi the blood of th OuHphs. The German
Emperor and the Duke of Conn ught aw
frequently mistaken for each, other.
MEDIATION NOT WANTED.
Japan Declines the Offer .Made by
Our Oovernmeiit.
The Japanese Government replied to the
note of United States Minister Hun asking
whether a tender by the President of the
United States of his good offices In
the interest of restoring peaco in the
East would bo agreeable to Japan. The Min
ister is Informed that, although! the fri-u 1
ly sentiments which f rompte I the o.T;r are
deeply appreciated, the success of the Jap
anese arms has been su?h that China, should
approach Japan directly on the subject.
THE STRONGHOLD TAKEN.
One Hundred and Fifty Dutch Sol
diers Killed and Wounded.
The Amster lam (Hollan i) Niews lag pub
lishes a dispatcii Ito-n Lo nbok, stating that
the Dutch hnvo s;or::i .- l and captured the
town of Tjakr-i Ne.gr.i, the stronghold of
the Ballnese. Tn- Raj i'i of I.Tnbok es
caped during the light, f.kmg his treasure
with him. Tho Dutc.i lost 150 killed and
wounded, and the euuoiy's los was several
hundred.
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