Newspaper Page Text
FA11.TRADK I1AS BEGUN Jobbing Centers Report a Stimu ltH Damand. HOl'KFl'Ii OUTLOOK 1'OK FAIU1EUS. Ku.U Alone or All the Oilier Wheat Im porter Will De Able to Compete with tle I'nlted Mutes The American Fur in tilve to the Mtuntloii 1'allures for m YYeek Speculation In Wall Street .1 ... I.. Kt.wlta. Llveiy" "-' : js'ew York, July 26. Bradstreefs says: The widespread confidence that there will be a marked revival In gen eral trade In the fall continues to grow, aDd with it material evidence that It la veil founded. Chicago jobbers in ciotn- factures, there and elsewhere, of pianos, organs, wagons and farm Implements, report that fall business has begun, whkh la much earlier than usual. The distribution of general merchandise from St. Louis Is a little leBs active, al though trade there is favorable. Like reports are received rrom I'lttsuurg, notwithstanding dullness in Iron and Savannah, in spite of this being the busy season on plantations: Omaha, Milwaukee, Duluth, Minneapolis and St. raul, where merchants are feeling the influence of a prospectively large crop r,f wheat: and from Galveston and oth- rr points in Texas, on the favorable ., mitiiAnlr ntifl rnnfldpnre in E.n In creased movement of merchandise next fall. Demand for supplies for shipment to the Klondyke gold region has made July the busiest instead of the dullest month in the commercial year at Seat tle, and has had an influence on salea l..a nt Tnrriin.i Port la nil nml S.nn Francisco. ,. neni imp iunoo. The world's wheat crop outlook con tinues to favor the United States, much as it did eighteen years ago. The out look is that Russia alone of all other wheat exporters will be able to com pete with the United States. Tho ad- 4 V. n - on Konlo a liialirl VUIKC VI Iliuic wia.ii t.J - t isv.... , compared with a year ago, In the fate of a domestic wheat crop probably 100, OOO.OoO bushels larger than last year, and the prospect for a continued high er level for quotations, owing ti in creased demand from importing coun tries, explain why the American farmer is to secure his proportion of ths ad vance and the coming era of prosperity. That he is olive to the situation Is Indi cated by a tendency to holl back wheat already harvested, notwithstanding higher quotations. Unfavorable features include the con tinuance of the strike of bituminous coal miners in the western and Fouth ern states, which now begins to threat en the continued activity of industries dependent upon that variety of fuel; the practical stagnation of the Besse mer pig iron and steel billet markets, with prices as low as ever known; the shutting down of New England cotton mill machinery to reduce output and get rid of stocks on hand; and the un satisfactory condition of the woolen goods market, owing to the relatively low prices of products, compared with quotations for raw material. Kx ports of Wheat ami Corn. Exports of w heat "(flour Included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week amount to 1. 978,828 bushels, an increase of about 456,000 bushels, as compared with last week, for which snipments from the ports of New York and Balti more are largely responsible. The cor responding total In the like week last year was 3,073,000 bushels, in the week two years ago 1.263.000 bushels, three years ago 3,883,000 bushels, and In the corresponding period in 1S93 It was 4, SC3.000 bushels. Exports of Indian corn amount to 2,298,379 bushels this week, contrasted with 2.723,000 buahels last week, 1.2S8.000 bushels in the week a year ngo, 770.000 bushels two years ago, 2oC,000 bushels three years ago, and as compared with 1.5S7.000 bushels In the like week of 1893. There are 2U0 business failures report ed throughout the United States this week,' as compared with 247 last week, 2S0 in the week a year ago, and 4S9 In the corresponding period In 1S93. There were twenty-one business failures re ported from the Dominion of Canada this week, against thirty-eight last week, thirty-one In the wetk a year ago, and twenty-five two years ago. Activity and Advance In Storks Dradstreet's review of the stock mar ket says: Activity and decided ad vances have ruled In speculation. The agreement of the conference committee on the tariff bill and the prompt pas sage of the measure by the houe gave a decided Impetus to tho market early in the week, and the fact that the ac tion of the senate was still delayed was not regarded as seriously endangering the bill. Expectations of revival In busi ness activity are supplemented by the influence of the fine crops hero and the expected large demand for our cereals from Europe. The advance in wheat has accordingly been a factor In the marked assertion of speculative confi dence, and with the belief that western railroads will enjoy a period of heavy tralllc and large earnings, and thus be able to Increase their dividends materi ally, leading financial Interests have given support to the granger stocks, en couraging simllarmanlfestatlons In con nection with other parts of the share list. Increase In Tubllo Buying;. At the same time there has been a very marked Increase In the public buy ing of securities. Professional traders sold stocks early In the week on the Idea that the movement was premature and had, at least temporarily, reached a culmination. The covering of the short Interest thus created was effect ive In aiding the advances recorded later In the week. London, too, seems to have been In fluenced by an unfavorable sentiment toward this market and the selling by the local professional element resulted In the creation of a considerable for eign short Interest. On Friday Euro pean purchases and coverings were a feature. Sugar was the chief object of atten tion early in the week. The grangers Were the feature of the latter portion of the week. Killed by a Train. Dixon, Ills., July 26. EvaAs Thomas, aged 84, a resident since 1839, was 'killed on the railroad track at Franklin Grove Saturday morning. EXPLOSION J)F NAPHTHA. four Men Are Dud and Several Others .Mortally Wounded. Bridgeport. Conn., July 26. Four men are dead, several are mortally -wounded and a half dozen more seriously in jured by the explosion of naphtha vapor In the hold of the steamer NutmegStat at 6:30 o'clock Friday night. The men w.'re at supper when the explosion oc curred and weie hurled In every direc tion. Following is the list of dead and injured: Jerry Connors, died while be ing taken to the hospital; Patrick Mo ran, killed Instantly; Jerry O'Connell, died at the hospital; unknown man man found dead In the hold. Injured: John Connolly, burned about the face and chest; Patrick Glennan. deck hand, thought to be fatally burned;JohnIlart well, Beriously burned on the chest and arms and limbs; Edward Lynch, burned about the face and head; Michael Ma gulre, probably fatally burned about the face and chest; Michael Iteardon, burned about the face and neck, Inter nal injuries, not expected to live. The explosion occurred Immediately beneath the supper table and blew a hole in the deck ten feet wide. The steamer was set on fire, but the flames were easily extinguished. HELEN GOULD VISITS CHAUTAUQUA. Donate $5,000 to;itihop Vincent's Pro poned Sacred Hall. Buffalo, N. Y., July 26. Miss Helen Gould has been In Chautauqua for sev eral days. Every effort was made to guard the fact that the New York heir ess was at the lake. Miss Gould's visit to Chautauqua has made one man hap py. That man is Bishop Vincent. For year? he has desired to build what will be called the Hall of Christ. Twenty thousand dollars was tne sum necessary to carry out the plan. When Miss Gould arrived at the lake the bishop had $13,000 of the money. Now he has $20,000. and may begin the erection of the Hall of Christ as- soon as he wishes. MI?s Guold heard of Bishop Vincent's wish and. learning that the deficiency was $3,000, she Font a cheek to Mm for that amount. She made an effort to keep the dcnitirn from the press. The building will be the finest on the grounds, and it is to Ik? of marble. It will be used a9 a gallery of sacred art and a repository for sacred literature. MANY PEOPLE HURT. The Casino .Summer Theater at I'adncah, Ky., Destroyed hy Fire. Paduoah, Ky., July 26. The Casino summer theater at liomnna park burned Friday nin.it at 10 o'clock. A perform ance was being given to 600 people when the fire broke cut from a fireworks dis play on the stage. The audience was panic-stricken. Probably more than 100 persons were Injured by being burned er trampled. Several of the actors were painfully burned. The building was covered with tar paper and was in a mass of llame? inside of a minute. It Is reported that three or four children perished in the flames, but this car.not be verified. All the doctors In the city were required to look after tlw injured. Colonel Reuben Rowland and wife were seriously in jured in the stampede. llegarded a Salisbury's Answer London, July 26. Dispatches from Washington say that In many parts of the United States the ordering of II. M. S. Renown to American waters as the flagship of the British north At lantic squadron. Is regarded as Lord Salisbury's answer to Mr. Sherman in the sealing controversy, inasmuch as this Is the first time a battleship of the first-class has been sent Into thot quarter. The fact of the case Is that the admiralty had decided to send the Renown weeks before Secretary Sher man's special dispatch to Ambassador Hay was written. Twenty-Five Tramp Arrested. Tekamah, Neb., July 26. The federal government was forced to interfere on account of the hlgh-handed manner In which the tramps of Nebraska were holding up trains. As a result, twenty five were taken to Omaha and placed In Jail. Friday 100 tramps gathered here and announced that they would permit no trains to pass through on the Omaha llneunless the company agreed to trans port them to Sioux City free. Two trains were stopped, one being a mall train. In the latter were a number of Unitenl States deputy marshals. No Fvldence of I'olou. Apploton.Wls., July 26". Alma Grimm, the 15-year-old girl charged with having attempted to poison the family of Ju lius Semrow of the town of Freedom, where she wa? employed as a domestic, by putting "Rough on Rats" In their food, was discharged Friday afternoon upon the completion cf the preliminary examination. Net a particle of evidence was introduced to show that "Rough on Rats" or other poison was present In the food. lllnoniintftoii Will Celehrate. Bloomington, Ills., July 26. The first white settlers reached this vicinity In 1822, and the McLean Historical society proposes to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary this fall. They have se lected Sept. 1 a3 the date, and Orendorff Grove, where the first habitation was made, as the scene for the observance. Among the iKded speakers will be for mer Vice President A. E. Stevenson. Fatally Shot Ills llrother. B'.oomfleld, Ind., July 26. Near Dres den, a little town ten miles east of here, two brothers Butler and Morton Ric ords. became engaged In a quarrel and Morton attacked Butler with a chair and was about to strike when Butler drew a revolver and shot him through the left lung. Butler surrendered him self to the authorities. Morton will die. Church IHown Down. Hlnton. W. Va., July 26. A terrible rain and thunder storm occurred In this city and county. The Episcopal church, one of the finest buildings in the city, was blown to the ground, to gether with several dwellings In the Immediate vicinity. Crops are practi cally ruined. Carl 1st Are Active. Madrid, July 26.-In view of the uni versal unrest among all classes and po litical parties In Spain the Carllsts- lead ers have decided to begin an active po litical propaganda throughout ( the whole country. Population or Kankakee. Kankakee. Ills.. July 2G.-The latest census of Kankakee, Just completed, gives the city a population of 13J40, a gain of 5,063 over the census of 1890. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Mrs. Samuel Green hanged herself In a barn near her home at Fostoxla, O. It Is said she feared Insanity. Robert Panton shot and killed Tom Sattcrwhlte In Powell county, Ky., over the questions as to who should drop money in a church collection box. J. A. Morton, ex-governor of North Carolina, was burled at Hart, Oceana county, Mich., with military honors. He was acting governor during the civil war, and In 18C5 came north to Michi gan. Frederick Hoag of Reading, Ind., committed suicide by shooting himself In the breast. He had been disappoint ed in love. The city of Philadelphia has 3.349 teachers employed In Its public schools, and their salary list for the next year aggregates $2,439,400. Otto Werner was crushed to death under a farmer's wagon at Jackson, Mich., while trying to climb upon a wheel. A. J. Green, a well-to-do farmer, aged 85 years, was killed by an Evansvllle and Terre Haute train near Haubstadt, Ind. John Jones, an Insurance broker, has changed his name to Arthur Seymour, to avoid confusion owing to the great numeb of John Joneses in New York city. Mrs. Ida Strom of Victoria, Ills., has begun suit for $10,000 damages against her grandfather, David Grim, for al leged defamation of character. It is estimated that greater quantities of gold and silver have been sunk In the sea than are now in circulation on earth. Lightning struck a pov.-der magazine at Wllkesbarre, Pa., exploding twenty tons of powder and killing John Hlg ginfl. Eight thousand persons at San Fran cisco saw Geo. 'Dixon and Dal Hawkins fight twenty rounds to a draw last night. The Bank of Mammoth Springs, Ark., closed Its doors and named C. O. Bu ford as assignee. Assets, $100,000; lia bilities. $71,000, of which about $25,000 Is individual deposits. The annual earnings of miners in Si lesia, Germany, are, after subtracting the Insurance, only $147 to 200. Jim Grey, a negro, was lynched near Goldville, S. C, for assaulting a child. HAY AND SALISBURY MEET. Negotiations Regarding llerlnj Sea Seals Proceed Smoothly. London, July 26. The negotiations for an International conference as to scaling In the Bering sea are proceeding smooth ly and the proppeets are favorable for an early agreement between the two governments. Ambassador Hay had a long and satisfactory Interview with Mr. Chamberlain, secretary cf state for the colonics Friday, and afterward met Iiord Salisbury. Later in the day he sent several code dispatches to Secretary Sherman. The Pall Mall Gazette soys: "We are given to understand that Mr. Foster Is not conducting the negotiation) with Great Britain In the Bering sea controversy, his position being defined by his own side as adviser cn the tech nical question?. . "We are asked to state that all nego tiations with Lord Salisbury on this subject are conducted by Ambassador Hay. It would seem unnecessary to most people that this should have to be officially stated, but there are reasons why the actual position should be prop erly described. It may be said on very good ground that the United states gov ernment is anxious in this, as In other matters, to adhere to the usages of dip lomatic courtesy and the negotiations In this country have been conducted In the most friendly manner." Death, F.xpected at Any Moment. Trovldence, R. I., July 26. The phy Plclans attending ex-United Stales Sen ator Dcollttle of Wisconsin, -who is 111 with Brlght's disease at the home of his daughter at Edgewood, reported that the patient was very weak and that death might be expected at any moment. Costly Fire at Peoria. Peoria, Ills., July 26. It Is now esti mated that the loss on the Peoria grape sugar plant, destroyed Friday night, will reach $500,000. The building was eight stories high, cr- ered a half block and was well equip, --d with new machinery. THE MARKETS. Chicago Oralu and Produce. Chicago, July 24. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade today: Wheat July, opened 75"J4c, closed 76c; September, opened 71M:C, closed 72A;c; December, opened 72c, closed 73c. Corn July, opened nominal, closed 27Uc; December, opened 27c, closed 28; December, opened 27!c, closed 28c; May, opened 30ic, closed 3Hio. Oats July, opened nominal, closed 17c; September, opened 17c, closed 1774c; December, opened 18c. closed lSVic; May, opened 20V4e, closed 20V4c. Pork July opened nom inal, closed $7.70; September, opened $7.73, eloped $7.75. Lard Septemler, opened $4.124. closed $4.17; October, opened $4.17'. closed $4.224. Produce: Butter Extra creamery, 14V'.c per lb; extra dairy, 12c; fresh pae:king stock, 8c. Eggs Fresh stock, 9fj9!ic per dozen. Live Poultry Turkeys. 6tf7c per lb; chickens, 8c; spring, OffrlOc: ducks, 6-fi6VaC New po tatoes'. $1.7511.83 per bbl. Blackberries Early harvest. SOffio per 16-qt. case. Raspberries Pad. D0fa75c per 24-pt.case; black, 40ft r.0c per 16-qt. case. fliicivfo Live stock. Chicago, July 24. Ilofrs Estimated receipts for the day, 19.000; sabs iare.d at $2.40fi 3.75 for pigs. $3.COi3.75 ff r light. $3.25ft3.40 for rough packing. 153.70 for mixed, and $3.403.60 for heavy packing and ship ping lots. Catt Estimated receipts for the day. 400; quotation ranged at $4.95 F?5.25 fcr choice to extra slipping steers. $4.40 4.90 goe d to c In ice do., $4.20(4.65 fair ot good. 3!W4.40 cemmon to me dium do., $3.Mfr4.15 butchers' steers, S3.25ffT3.90 stockers, $3.704.25 feeder. $1.901J3.90 cow?, $2.60M.20 heifers, $2.25 W3 90 bull?, txen and stags, $2.755T4.20 Texas steers, and $3.25(9.90 veal calves. Sheep and Lambs Estimated receipts for the day, 6,000 quotations ranged at $2.7504.00 westerns, $2.70S.5O Texans, Kast Hnffiilo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., July 24. Dunning & Stevens. Live Stock Com mission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle Receipts. 1 car. Hogs Receipt?, 32 cars; market active but 10ffl5c lower for bght grades: others steady; Yorkers and light. $3.90 3.95: pigs, $3.93(724.00; mixed, $3.7503.80; mediums, $3.70; heavy. $3.70. Sheep and Lambs Receipt?. 7 car?; market dull for lambs; steady for sheep and year lings; top Iambs, $.'.(XW5.30; yearlings, M.50(?f4.73; sheep, $3.C5&4,10; wethers, $4.1S04.2i. PLEASURE IN LONDON EARL'S COURT IS THE SUCCESSOR OF VAUXHALL GARDENS. Its Varioug ExpofcltloiiN, Credited to Dif ferent Count r leu. Are Duly Pretense. The Cireat Thiug, the Only Thing, I the Place lUelf. Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pcunell con tributes to Tho Century au articlo on "Play In London. " After speaking of Vauxhall Gardens and Crcniorue Airs. Pcnnell says: Everybody knows what tho old gar den was liko Thackeray has seen to that with the hundred thousand lamps always lighted, tho fiddlers who made ravishing melodies, the singers, the dancers, the Mine. Saquis on the slack rope ascending to the stars, the hermit in the illuminated hermitage, the dark walks eo favorable to lovers, the pots of stout, the dinners and suppers in a word, tho sort of combination of cafe, music hall, restaurant and Fourth of July that nowhere else has been brought to such perfection ; that to Sir Roger had seemed long beforo Thackeray's day "a kind of jMohanimedau paradise. " But what everybody does not know so well is that London still has its garden, called by another name, to be sure, ig nored by Murray uud Baedeker and offer ing another programme, Mme. Saquis and hermits gone from it apparently forevermore, but precisely the same in principlo and practice Van shall has vanished; Cremorne sends up no moro rockets skyward to fill the night with beauty; the Crystal palaco is only for tho suburb and tho country cousiu, but every summer Earl's court has its exhibit ion uu ex hibition oniy by courtesy, only out of deference to tho present fashion of gath ering our kuowledgo or pretending to while wo play. One year it was called Italian, and there wero macaroni and chianti in the restaurant.?, and a nice new pasteboard forum. Another year it was German, and tho air was heavy with the fragrance of schnitzel and wurst. Then it was American, for a change, uud cowboys auel red Indians swaggered across the scene, and soda water and maplo sugar figured on the menu. Now it happens to bo Indian, with a fine oriental flavor, but by the timo this is published it will bo some thing else, and it really matters very littlo. The. exhibition, attributed to any nation, would bo as gay. Nobody cares savo, perhaps, a few tradesmen nnd mummers, who smell tho commercial battle from afar. It is an open secret that tho semblauco of a show is there merely to court avoidance. Tho years in passing have turned it into a big bazaar, but not even in this guiso can it prove tho chief attraction. No; tho great thing, tho only thing, that counts is tho garden, where ono may walk under pleasant trees; whero one may upo tho continental and drink tea or coffeo at littlo tables but most ly tea, in capacious pots to tho accom paniment of thick slabs of cake; whero ono may bo still more un-English and eat oue's dinner outdoors not like a wild beast in a cage, as in the old "box" at Vauxhall, but in company, on a low, broad veranda, where there are side shows more diverting than Pcpys ever dreamed of; where ono may loaf away the summer evening, listen ing to musio which is at least as good as; the honest Briton likes it. For the troth is the garden furnishes just that form of amusement which Mr. Henry James has lamented was not to be found in London, and so long as it is open ono need not, as he thought, "give up the idea of going to sit somewhere in the open air, to eat an ice and listen to a band of music. " Only tho amusement must be shared with so big a crowd that ono will havo to scramble for a chair, engage a dinner table full 13 hours beforehand, and strugglo to get home by underground or bus as furi ously as the mob lights to push into tho pit of a popular theater. To provido tho Englishman with a crowd, to give him tho chanco to uso his elbows, is to convince him that ho is enjoying himself. And the old gar den's questionable features, its revelers, its jockeys and courtesans and gam blerswhere are they? Whero are the snows of yesteryear? All gono with other times and other morals. The world of Earl's court and Kensington has taken tho exhibition under its pro tection, and thero sits in stately splen dor a magnificent example of respecta bility, within an inclosure humorously called tho Welcome club, because ad mission is refused to all but tho elect. Where tho west end condescends to spend its afternoons and evenings thero surely every ono may venture in safety by night as by day. Indeed thero is a strong domestio element about the ex hibition. It i9 a plaoe for tho family, a playground for the decorous. Our Queer Language. It is littlo wonder that foreigners aro in dospair in learning to speak the Eng lish language. One of the greatest diffi culties is the way in which tho same eyllabio sounds have often very different meanings. "You'll get run in," said tho pedes trian to tho wheelman without a liht "You'll get run into, " savagely re sponded the cyclist as he knocked the pedestrian down and ran up his seine. You'll get run in, too," said the policeman as he stepped from behind a tree and grabbed tho wheeL And just then another scorcher came along without a light, so tho policeman ran in twa Exchange. At the beginning of the present cen tury tho Biblo could be studied by only one-fifth of the earth's population. Now it is translated into languages which make it accessible to nino-tcnths of the world's inhabitants. Teapots aro used in China only by the poor. Among tho wealthy it is cus tomary to put tho tea leaves in each cup and pour water on theni. THE LOBSTER TANK. An Aquaituni Kxhlblt That Many View With Lively Interest. There are few tanks at tho aquarium more interesting than that containing tho lobsters. Tho lobsters thero now are not meat, liko somn of tho mensters that have been exhibited, but they are lively uud in gocd condition, and tho display cf their characteristics as they move ulxjut or pause to eat is almost startling to one unfamiliar with the lobster in life. Whoever has picked up a live lobster in a market and founel the big claws drooping, as they will if tho lobster hasn't much life left in him, is sure to be interested when he sees the lobster here walking off briskly on his slender legs, carrying bis big claws in front of him clear of the ground and bis heavy tail clear likewise. His ordinary man ner of progression is forward, and when he turns ho swings bis heavily weighted projecting cuds with facility, but if he meets an obstruction or an enemy his usual way is to dart backward and per haps diagonally upward through the water, which tho lobster can do with great suddenness. The lobster's feeding apparatus is wonderful. About the mouth there are lots of littlo attachments, all tho time in motion when tho lobster is feeding, which slice tho food off in little shreds as tho lobster holds it up to his mouth. If another lobster should come up, this lobster would know it, even though the other canio up behind or at the side, and would turn to defend himself or to fight or to flee or to warn tho other away. Tho lobster's long feelers he can pro ject ouo in one elirectiou and tho other in another, and with these, as be moves forward, back or sidewiso, be guards against danger. There are perhaps a dozen lobsters in the tank. In tho center of the tank there is a littlo rock. There is likely to bo seen upon this rock a littlo lobster, not a dull, old lobster lying down, but an alert young lobste r standing up and sup porting easily his big claws and his powerful tail a young lobster ready to eat, to fight or to run away. New York Sun. ZULU JINRIKISHA MEN. Head Decoration That Are as Grotesque an They Are Ingenlou. The Zulu jinrikisha men are com pelled by the English authorities to wear a uniform a white linen tunio and loose white trousers cut off above tho knee. They wero like children play inR at horso in tho nursery, and they uttered continuous native gurglings, partly liko turtledoves and paitly like the halleluliah ejaculations at one of our African Me thodist camp meetings. They all appeared very happy during this performance, which continued so long that I calculated tho amount of energy exnonded to represent about ten miles cf unpaid travel. Though tho boely dress was uniform, thero was maguin cent diversity regarding head decora tiou. One would wear a common 6traw hat hung around the brim with tassels suggestive of a pagoda, and the chief delight of tho wearer was in shaking his head for tho pleasure of making the tassels dance. Another had fastened a pair of cow horns on either side of his head immediately above the ears, and he grinned at mo so effusively that I concluded he must have taken great pains with the construction of this hideous headpiece. The kinky top of a third had been interlaced with an enor mous profusion of long strings of wool, to which small fluffy balls were at tached at short intervals. The head of a negro so decorated looked like a huge black mop or one of those Skvo terrier dogs about whom ono is never safe in saying which is the other end. In repose it is uncanny, but when vour jinrikisha Zulu springs about in tho shafts and throws his head up and down liko a colt impatient of tho bit tho effect upon tho newly ar rived is akin to what I once experienced when a long black leg cf wood upon which I proposed to rest myself turned out to bo a huge black snake resting from his castronomic exercises. I'oult- ney Bigelow in Harper's Mngazine. Otr the Malay Coast. Sailing up the coast in a native craft, you may almost fancy yourself one of the early explorers skirting tho lovely shores of some undiscovered country. As you sprawl ou the bamboo decking under the shadow of tho immenso palm leaf sail which is so ingeniously rig ged that, if taken aback, tho boat must turn turtle, unless, by tho blessing of the gods, the mast parts asunder yon look out through half closed eyelids at a very beautiful coast. The waves dance auel glimmer and 6hino in the sunlight, tho long stretch of sand is as yellow as a buttercup, and the frinpes of graceful casuariua trees quiver liko aspens in the breezo and shimmer in the heat haze. The wash of the waves against the boat's side and tho ripple of tho bow make musio in your drowsy ears, and as you glide through cluster after cluster of thickly wooded islands you lie in that delightful comatoso state in which you have all tho pleasure of existence, with uouo of the labor of liring. "In Court and Kampong," by Hugh Clifford. - Precept of Experience. "Ho," sobbed the verdant bridv "does not love me any more." "You are lucky," said, the seasoned matron, "if be docs not love you any leas. "Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The Boer does just as little work ai will help keep himself and his family alive, and most of that he gets done by Kaffir servants, who, in tho more out of the way districts, at any rate, are prao tically slaves. In somo of tho cities of Europo the cost of putting out a fire is made a charge upon iho property of the person for whose benefit tho fire department is called out NO DANGER O.J Why Uncle Ram's Dig Fa forward Live In t There is no longer any clril war, says Woodrow Wil.J Atlantic. Thero was war betw. south and the rest of tho nation Lc their differences were removablo im other way. There was no prospect th. slavery, tho root of those differences. would ever disappear in tho mere proc ess of growth. It was to be apprehended. on tho contrary, that tho very processes of growth would inevitably lead to tho extension of slavery and tho perpetua tion cf radical social and economic con trasts and antagonisms between state and state, between region and region. A heroic remedy was tho only remedy. Slavery being removed, the south is now joined with the west joined with it in a stage of development, as a region chiefly agricultural, without diversified industries, without a multifarious trade, without those subtle extended nerves which come with all round cconomio development, auel which mako men. keenly sensible of the interests that link the world together, as it wero, into a single community. But these are lines, of difference which will be effaced by mere growth, which time will calmly ignore. They make no boundaries foe armies to cross. Tide water Virginia was thus sepa rated once from her own population within tho Alleghany valleys held two jealous sections within her wo limits. Massachusetts ouco knew the- sharp divergences cf interest and design which separated the coast settlement! upon tho bay from tho restless pioneers who had taken up tho free lauds of her own western counties. North Carolina ' was onco a comfortable and indifferent "east" to tho uneasy "west" that waf to become Tennessee. Virginia once seemed old and effcto to Kentucky. The "great west" ouco lay upon tho Ohio, but ha3 since disappeared there, overlaid by the 'changes which have carried the conditions of tho "east" to the great lakes and beyond. There has never yet been a timo in our history when wo wero without au "east" and a"west," but the novel day when wo shall bo without them is now in sight. . As tho country grows it will inevitably grow homogeneous. Popula tion will not henceforth sprcael, but compact, for there is no new land be tween tho seas where tho "west" can find another lodgment Tho conditions which prevail in tho ever widening "east" will sooner or later cover the continent, '.nel ,vc sluill at last bo ouo people. ' THE ARTIGT'S PRIVILEGE. No PhAMO of Li'i Which the ItcalUt May 1 Not Touch. In a defense of his literary methods Arthur Morrison, the English novelist, writes in The New Review: j"I have been asked, in print, if I think that the re is no phase of life which the artist may not touch. Most certainly I think this; more, I know it. It is tho artist's privilege to seek his material whero he thinks well, and it is no man's privilege to say him nay. If the community has left horrible places and horrible lives before hit eyes, then the fault is that of the com munity, and to picturo these places and these lives becomes not merely his priv ilege, but his duty. It was my fato to - ... 1 CV.z-.mr1 i frh .'llIM pncounicr u piui;tj m uuununm . i.. children wero born and reared in cir cumstances that gave those children no reasonable chance cf living decent lives, where they were born forcdamucd to a criminal or semicrimiual career. It was my experience to learn the ways of this place, to know its inhabitants, to talk with them, eat, drink and work, with them. "For the existence of this place and for the evils it engendered tho com munity was responsible, and every member ef the community was and is responsible iu his degree. If I had teen a rich man, I might havo attempted to riisrh:irt.'K hit tieculiar responsibility in one way ; if 1 had been a statesman, I might havo tried auot her. Being neither of these things, but a simple writer of fiction, I endeavored to do my duty by writing a tale wherein 1 hoped to bring tho condition of this placo within tho comprehension cf others. There are those who say I should have turned away my eyes and passed by on the other side, on tho very respectable precedent of tho priest and the Levito in the parable. " Doited tho Doctor. "Doctor, jr.t an instant, please," ex claimed a calier at tho ollico of a man of physio as ho caught sight of the physician disappearing in his private office "I'll see you shortly, 6ir," was the curt reply. "But a second is all I want," per sisted the caller. "I'll see you directly, sir," with sternness. The visitor took a seat in the gener al reception room, read tho afternoon rLirwir tlirniich. lnrdrml nfc thn riictnrca. played with the dog and took a napj After 30 minutes or moro had passed the medicine man came out of his den and with an air cf condescension said to the visitor: "Well, now, my man, I am at your service Your turn has come. What can I do for you?" "Oh, nothing in particular," was the reply. "I just dropped in to tell you that your neighbor's threo cowm have escaped from tho barn and are having a picnio in your garden and flower beds." Strand Magazine. A Plain Direction. Canon Knox-Littlo told a 1 good story once at a church congress, lie said ho remembered a lieu gate in front of a beautiful church, which had been re stored and made very nice. There was painted over the door, "This is the gate of heaven," and underneath was the Urge notice, "Go round the other way. " Household Words.