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THE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS 1It alsui to publish s41 the nsws possible. Jfc-It does so impartially, wasting no words* 8Its correspondent* are able and entfrgetto* &- 1 1* tii 1t"t I 11111t*- 11 Iii I VOL. 18. NO. 23 NUISANCE SUPPRESSED. THE SALVATION ARMY. Its Work Has -Grown Into Proportions of Surprising Magnitude. Tlie work oo. the Salvation Army In the United States may be a surprise to those who have 'little 'khowIeclgeTdf their projects nor realized what bene fit is given by the hard-working ex horters who are seen of an evening preaching in the streets to the casual listeners. Small enough seems the re ward in contrast to their labors, but the following statistics will show the importance and extension of their in fluence: Seven hundred and thirty two corps and outposts, 45,000 annual conversions, 2,800 officers* 93,000 week ly circulation War Cry, in English, German, Scandinavian and Chinese, 190 social relief institutions, 545 officers and employes in charge, $250,000 an nually spent in poor relief, 7,200 night ly accommodations for poor, 2,500,000 beds annual accommodation, 66 work ingmen's hotels, 6 women's hotels, 24 food depots, 24 industrial homes for the unemployed, 3 farm colonies, 1,800 acres colonized, 240 colonists, 5 employ ment bureaus, 13 second-hand stores, 19 rescue homes for fallen women, 450 accommodation, 1,000 fallen women cared for each year, 24 slum settle ments, 80 officers in charge.Detroit Free Press. Lands Where Women Drudge. Neither women nor dogs are allowed to loaf in Austria and Hungary. The latter are Employed to haul delivery wagons from the shops and markets. Sometimes they are assisted by a woman or a boy, seldom by a grown man. You never see dogs capering about the streets. They are not often so high spirited. Hard work takes the ginger out of them, and when you see a dog without a harness he is gen erally walking along as solemnly as a tired man going home from his work. The sphere of woman's usefulness has been extended to include hod-carrying, ditch-digging, shoveling gravel on rail roads and other heavy labor. I have seen her making mortar and assisting to lay pavings stones in the street, but she is not yet trusted with a trowel. She carries bricks and mortar up a ladder four stories, but the man at the top -does all the work.Corre spondence Chicago Record-Herald. Flowers and Gardens In Alaska. Very encouraging reports have been received from Prof. C. C. Georgeson, .in charge of the agricultural experi ment stations in Alaska. On a trip into the interior and down the Yukon early in August he found new pota toes, cabbages, cauliflowers and other vegetables ready for the table, and gardens blooming with a variety of animal flowers. At Rampart rye and barley were ripened this year, and there was a fair prospect for oats and wheat. On the lower Yukpn extensive tracts were found covered with lux uriant grasses, often six feet in height, and apparently well suited to agricul tural purposes.-Youth's Companion. Value BecelTed In Family Pride, "What did your son's course in that eastern college cost you, Mr. Rock Ingham?" "About $11,000, as near as I can recollect." "Do you think he got the worth of the money?" "Oh, yes. He learned to say "ah" for "r," and his mother, gets more than $11,000 worth of'enjoyment out of that alone evefy time she hears him talk in com- pany." Jk Patient Man Rebukes a Know All at Theater. The theater nuisance presents him self in various annoying phases. The late-comer and the man with the un-* quenchable thirst who doesn't make any effort to secure an end seat have come to be regarded as irresponsible subjects of toleration. They are mild inflictions compared with the "soft" couple that insist on holding an audi ble tete-a-tete during the progress of the play, regardless of the annoyance they may be causing thbse near them, and possibly the players also. These conscienceless prattlers seemingly care not whether they break into an important denouement or climax in the stage proceedings, and how often have we been irritated almost beyond-.-^tP^S^^MSa^-O^tltexulg^.gajig,,.to control by the ill-timed senseless tit ter of the uncultured (during the action of a pretty love scene. Then there is the fellow who has seen the play be fore, and who insists on taking his neighbor into his confidence and out lining its movements and incidents between the acts during its presenta tion. And more intolerable than all is the insufferable individual who pro fesses to know the family history of every member of the cast, their little eccentricities and fads. He will tell you (while the performance is going on) that Mile. Hoopla was formerly the wife of the dude son of old Joshua Moneybags that Horatio Haggard is the husband of Tilie Fewclothes, the soubrette that Flossie Dareall, the trapeze performer, wears her ow dia monds, and that Charley Cheerup, tho bird imitator, was once a lowly sewer digger. That is, if it happens to be a vaudeville performance, as it was in this instance. A certain man who goes to the theater to be amused and not annoyed was unfortunately placed next to one of these bores the other night. The bore had given a running biography of each performer as he or she came on, and the sufferer stood the persecution to the limit of unusual good nature and patience. Finally he turned full upon the offender with the annihilating observation: "Say, my friend, what do you take me fora census enumerator?" The bore looked grieved for a moment, but he was ef fectually suppressed.Detroit Free, Press. N WAR AGAINST MOSQUITOES. Campaign: Conducted by Private Enter prise In Sierra Lvooe. The campaign against mosquitoes in Sierra Leone, as set forth by Major Ross in the progress report of the Liv erpool School of Tropical Science, will be instructive to all interested in the public health. The campaign is the first ever carried out on a large scale with the object of ridding an entire town in the tropics of mosquitoes. Moreover, it is probably the' first in stance of public sanitary measures be ing undertaken by private agency and by private funds. Despairing of se curing help from the authorities, Major Ro3s set about the work of extirpat ing malaria in Sierra Leone by private enterprise. His forces were divided collect from private houses all broken bottles, empty tin cans, and old cala bashes, in which mosquitoes of the genuses stegpmyia and culex breed. The .duty of the anopheles gang was to drain the pools and puddles in the streets and back yards of the houses in which anopheles breed. The .culex gang removed more than a thousand cart loads of rubbish. The anopheles gang had a more difficult job, owing chiefly to the large rainfall, 160 inches annually, but in a few weeks it made great progress in attacking the pools and puddles, by filling them, draining, sweeping.them/out,1 treating them with petroleum, creosote, etc. The results are described as "unexpectedly en couraging." It is too soon to formu late the statistics of reduction in the number of cases of the disease. As to yellow lever Major Ross expects speedy results because it is not a lin gering disease, but as regards the other two mosquito-borne diseases, malaria and filariasis, the good results will not be so immediately manifest. Major Ross does not think there is much evidence that the mosquitoes are .carried far iby the winds, and hence .the utility of destroying the local hreeding places. He commends the Americans "for the common sense and energy with which they have at tacked this question, so different from the hesitation and apathy generally shown by the British." A forthcom ing work is promised, called, "Mos quito Brigades and How to Organize Them."American Medicine. LIKED IN BROOKLYN. Seat Story t fifbw Dr. Bethnne Got in a Ferryboat. The Rev. Dr. Cuyler of Brooklyn tells a story, the authenticity of which Jje. vouches.for, about Dr. Bethune, who had a successful' pastorate, reaching over many years, in one of the Dutch Reformed churches of Brooklyn. Late in his life a flattering offer was made him to take a New York church. Af ter mature reflection Dr. Bethune de cided to remain in Brooklyn, and de clined the offer, to the great satisfac tion of his own parishioners. Some weeks later Dr. Bethune had occasion to cross the East River ferry. It was during the early morning rush hours. There was a great crowd on the boat, and he was obliged to stand up. Pres ently one of the passengers got up and began to signal to the doctor, by a remarkable set of gesticulations, to come and take his seat. As he noticed that the man was considerably under the influence of liquor, and wished to avoid attracting attention, he took the proffered seat. But the donor was not satisfied then. He put his1 hand heav ily on the doctor's shoulder, and said in a maudlin tone: "I say, 'Doc,' yer don't know how much we think of. yer in Brooklyn ever since yer told that New York congregation that offered yer a big salary ter come over to New York and save ther souls, that you'd see 'em damned first.*'New York Tribune. A Glimpse of Senator Hanna. Senator Hanna personally sees from fifty to three hundred people a day when he is in his office in Cleveland, and he is said to have the faculty of seeming- interested in the little affairs of the caller even when his great po litical and business interests are de manding his attention. He almost al ways has a cigar between his teeth, and one who knows him well says: "If the Senator lets his cigar go out while you are presenting your case you can make up your mind that he is interested. If he pulls away at it in short, quick puffs, you are wast ing your eloquence and breath, and if .he turns to his desk to relight it or light another, you may conclude the interview is terminated." Hadn't Borrowed Trouble. Many diffident persons* find the be ginning of a conversation awkward, especially on ceremonious occasions, and with strangers. Sometimes, how ever, the beginning is not half so awkward as what comes afterward. A bashful young man on being intro duced to a lady at a dinner party said you know. Everyone me ver clever." The youngt lady waAs answered: "Well, do~ you know, thought you weren't!"London Tit Bits. Keen Observation. "Do you know anything about thd people who nave mqved next door?* she inquired. "Not much," he an swered "except that their honeymoon is not yet over." "How did you find that, out?" "By -observing, it wad raining when he came home this even-1 ing, hut she did not make him stop! at the front door to wipe his feet,"1 Washington Star., a. J. i J. JI i* Hem. oui, wnen the "I've got to take you in to dinner, Miss Egyptians came along it was in the Travers and I'm rathertells afraid oyou're 1rt/\ir A 4-fille TAII*M simplicity "Ho absurd I" she claimed. "I'm not a bit clever." The PHOTOGRAPHING A QUEEN, Her Royal and Ordinary smilesWhy One Ukenexs Was Spoiled. A London photographer who has probably taken more photographs of kings and queens than any other man in the world has been confiding to the public, under a discreet but not wholly blind incognito, his professional ex periences with royalty. "The Queen of Holland," he says, "is, with King Edward, one of the most charmingly easy sitters I ever took. She does not mind to what trouble she puts herself so long as she can please you and look, as her majesty once said to me, 'as a queen should look.' Shortly be fore her marriage I was summoned to Amsterdam to take the young queen. was somewhat nervous at first in the J'^l^resjn _an^ quickly noticed this. 'Now I want to look very nice indeed in this photo graph,' said her majesty, smiling, 'and if you feel ill at ease I am sure you will not be able to do justice to your self or to me.' After that I soon lo3t all my nervousness. I thought her majesty looked rattier too dignified and stately, so I said: 'Will your majesty please smile a little? I am sure the photograph will come out much better then.' The queen laughed and said: 'Certainly. But how ought I to smile? Like a queen or like an ordinary mor- tal.' The photograph proved to be a fine one and Queen Wilhelmina was delighted with it. 'Oh, you have in deed taken me nicelv this time' sh said some time afterward to me as she examined the picture. 'Why, this photograph is far better than the other one you took of me! But then you were not 10 blame. I remember I had tight boots on at the time, and oh, how they pinched me! How can one look happy or cheerful with tight boots York Sun. THE RED SEA PASSAGE. Booker Washington's Story o* an Old Colored Preacher. I remember that in one of his taiks Mr. Washington, referring to his be lief that the most profitable education of the people of his race required va rious methods, according to the needs of the people under different condi tions, told a story of an old colored preacher who was endeavoring to ex plain to his congregation how it was that the children, of Israel passed over the Red sea safely, while the Egyp tians, who came after them, were drowned. The old man'said: "My brethren, it was this way: When the Israelites passed over it was early in the morning, while it was cold, and the ice was strong enough so that they went over all right but, when the you middle of the day, naturally amused by this display of At this a young man in the conirreea simplicity. "How absurd!" she ex- tfn. wh h** ho, *._., young man heaved a sigh of relief and' don't see how that explanation can be andt thte Tune hadu thawed the Ic so tha i way unde* wcui, aud uiey were arownea.. them, anu they were drowned tion who had been away to school and had come home, rose^and said.: "I ^right, parson. The geography that I've been studying tells us that ice never forms under the equator and the Red sea is nearly under the equator." "There, now," said the old preacher, "thafs all right Fse been 'spectin' some of yew smart Alecka would be askin' some such fool question. The tima I was talkin' about was before they had any jogaffies or "quators either." "That good old man," said Mr. Washington, "was just trying in his simple manner to brush away the cobwebs which stood in the way of his tog*?,.. By some such method the mis- ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MJJ# SATURDAY.JULY 12, 1902, conceptions wnicn flfemper the course Of education for the colored people must be removed before^ the besti re suits can be attained."Outlook. The Two B^lnd Chaplains. Across the broad plaza in front of the Capitol the other- day walked two blind men. They Were the chaplains of the House and Senate. These two blind men are among the most pictur esque personalities in Congress. The Rev. Dh MHburn, With his long gray whiskers and' his bl^ck slouch hat, is a familiar figure, He walks upon the arm of his daughter, gently feeling his way with a cane, and is always in his appointed place, at the hour of noon, no matter whether it rains, or snows or blows.': ..His prayers are models of exquisite ^Kpression, and are uttered in a dee^^jBisical, impressive yoice. The newspapers are read to him every morning %efore he goes to the Capitol, so that if there is any great event which needs to be men tioned in his prayer it is not over looked. The Rev. Mr. Couden, the chaplain of the House, hides his eyes beneath dark blue glasses. He is tall and dignified, and, like his colleague in the Senate, is very eloquent. Washington Post. The Actor Scored. Some years ago an actor now famous made his,first appearance on the stage in a provincial town where the thea ter-goers were accustomed to make WATTERSON: "GET BACK INSIDE! their .disapproval reit wnen an enter tainer did not succeed in pleasing them. He was young and nervous and failed dismally in the part he was endeavoring to present, and soon found himself the target for an as sortment of missiles. When the up roar was at its height one of his dis gusted auditors flung a! cabbage-head at him. A it Jell on the stage the actor picked it up and stepped forward to the footlights. He raised his hand to command silence, and when his tor mentors paused to hear what he had to say, exclaimed, pointing to the cab bage-head: "Ladies and gentlemen, I expected to please you with my acting, but I confess I did not expect that anyone in the audience Would lose his head over it." He was allowed to pro ceed without further molestation. Toronto News. OLD-TIME STATESMAN FORGOTTEN fet Oliver Ellsworth Rendered ValapMs) Service* to the Nation. Why is it that Oliver Ellsworth has received so little attention from biog raphers and historians? asks .Frank Gaylord Cook in the April Atlantic He was not born in Massachusetts or Virginia. In Connecticut, like Penn sylvania, the historic field has been meagerly tilled. Moreover, the dra matic and opportune quality of his work has been perceived only through the .perspective of subsequent, years. Tb'^fegptiate an unpopulr contention for at^prty jnsf retiring from office In defeat ^nd ignominy is not conducive to immediate fame. Nevertheless he has not been wholly overlooked by subsequent statesmen. Webster said of him: "For strength of wisdom, for sagacity, wisdom and sound good sense in the conduct of affairs, for moderation of temper, and general ability, it may be doubted if New Eng land has yet produced his superior." What he said, as chief justice of the United States, to the. r~and jury at Savannah, in 1796, was the aim of hie life: "So let us rear "an empire sacred to the rights of men ani commend a government of reason to the nations -of .the eartlroh CRYSTAL GAZING. them.1 a New Andrew Lang- Recommends It as Diversion for I^ondoners. Society, using the word in the fairly common sense of people who, having nothing else to do, take up a pastime so thoroughly for a short time that it is called a "craze," may follow Andrew Lang's advice and go in for "crystal gazing." Mr. Lang, in an article in the Monthly Review, has been reeomfe mending his readers to purchase crys tal balls from the Psychical Research Society, ipeer into them earnestly, and see what they shall see, then send along the result to him. In his in structions to crystal-gazing novices Mr. Lang says: "It is best to go alone into a room, sit down with the back to the light, place the ball at a just focus in the lap on a dark dress, or a dark piece of cloth, try to exclude re? flections, think of anything you please, and stare for, say, five minutes at the ball. That is all." The crystal is a spherical ball of solid glass, about two inches in diameter. Mr. Lang has known people who have seei^ in a crystal things that were actually hap pening miles away. More wonderful, he has known two persons, gazing into separate crystals at the same moment, to see1 the same picture. Why can peo ple see pictures of real persons and real things in this way? Mr. Lang hints that it may be "a rudimental survival of some organ that was use ful, to man when his ancestors were Other kinds of animals." TThP aanvo- tary of the Psychical Research Society says that as a result of Mr. Lang's article he has been having more or ders for crystals than he can execute. The only trouble is that Mr. Lang held out the false hope that a crystal cquld be bought for as little as, half a crown, whereas the lowest price at which they can be furnished is 4 shil lings each.London .Correspondence New York Sun. DUTCH PROVERBS. All clouds do not rain. Death keeps no almanac. Virtue consists in action. Black hens lay white eggs. Better be envied than pitied. There is a fool at every feast. Poverty is the reward of idleness. A dog with a bone knows ho friend. A threatened man lives seven years. The most learned are not the wisest Little is done where many- command. Better lose the anchor than the whole ship. When cats are mousing they do not mew. Fools make feast,s and wise men eat ---._ The morning ^hour has gold in its mouth. Who serves the public serves a fickle master. Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle. A man without money is like a ship without sails Before you make a friend, eat a peck of salt with him. Nobility of soul is more honorable than nobility of birth.V ff. Deep swimmers and nigh! climbe seldom die in their beds. TO marry once is a duty twice, \olly thrice is madness. The devil's in the cards, said Sam four aces and not a single trump Oil at the endI andV wine in th middle. is best at the beginning, honey r_ All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an an- viL ^"J ENGINEERS' FALSE ALARMS. On* Pooled by Bed Shirt and Another by Kleotrlc Headlight. "When a man's sitting in an engine cab, looking up the track with a con stant watch for danger a burden on his mind," said an engineer, "things sometimes look different from what they really are. This is especially true if after long service his eyes begin to be a little affected^ I used to know an old engineer who* was one of the most careful men on the road. In fact, he was always worried, and fear of an accident got to be almost a mania with him. One day he was pulling a long freight down a pretty fair grade! when he suddenly clapped on the air, and gave the 'highball' with the whis tle, sending the b'rakemen 'out over the train setting the hand brakes as fast as they could. Finally they brought the train to a stpp, and everybody ran up to see what was the matter. Among the men who came up was a redshirt ed section man. When the fellow got close, Jack, the engineer, began to rip out the biggest string of cusses I ever heard. He damned up and (down any man who wbtild wear a red shirt while working on the section, for Jack had seen that shirt and thought is was a red flag and stopped his train. "I had an experience myself not long ago," spoke up another engineer. "It was since the new electric head lights were put in. You know how they look coming up the track. They are so bright you can't see anything else, and its hard to tell whether they are moving or not. 1 was running a freight and had a pretty heavy train. We were coming around a curve just before makfaag a siding to pass an other train, when one of those electric headlights flashed on me. I thought it was all over with me, but I stopped to put on the brakes and reverse, and hung on just a minute in the hope of getting the train stopped before I jumped. The grade wasn't very heavy and I got the train stopped all right. Before I started to jump I looked again. I discovered then that the light didn't seem to be any nearer. I in vestigated and found that the other train was at a standstill and wait ing for me at the switch."Salt Lake Herald. HOW HE TIPPED THE PORTER. An American Who Got Even with French Hotel Tricksters. "Powelson, the pioneer of American photography in a business sense, was a born humorist," said W. A. Cooper, the photographer, the other day. "I belieye^he might have been a rival of Mark Twain if "he had turned' his at tention that way. Many years ago I went over to Europe with him on a business trip, which turned out to be one of the pleasantest jaunts I ever had. They have a customor had in the French hotels of sticking a number of candles in *jrour room and charging you one franc each for them, whether you light them or not. Powel son never got reconciled to that. One day just before we left a certain ho tel he said to me, looking round our room, 'Cooper, do we have to pay" a franc each for all these candles?' "I said that was the usual charge. 'And all those posters and waiters down-stairs will expect to be tipped, too?' 'I believe they will,' I said. 'How much?' 'Oh, about a franc, I suppose.' 'All right, then.' "He didn't say any more at the time. But next morning, when we were get ting ready to start, I saw him taking the candles out of the candlesticks and putting them in his pocket. When he got down-stairs Powelson pulled one of those candles out of his pocket and handed it to a porter who was wait ing for a tip from him. 'Here's a franc for you. You can cash it in the office.' "New York Times. Wall Street's "Kangaroos." There is a new class of operators in Wall street. They are known as "Kan garoos." What is a Kangaroo? Well, a Kangaroo is a man who jumps in and out of the market, fearful lest he has made a mistake in going in and equally distrustful as to his judgment in selling out He has all the char acteristics of a kangarooa quick jumper either way. Meantime, he ex hausts his wind, his legs, and not least of all, his margin. From time im memorial there have been bulls and bears and lambs in Wall street, but only recently has Wall street observed this new class of operators, the Kan garoos. The Kangaroo is without nerve in any direction. He is flighty, erratic, and of no use to himself or his friends, but then it must be said in justice to the Kangaroo that only in times like those of the last few weeks have there been opportunities to display kangaroo characteristics. Chicago Journal. Classified. Stories of Father Taylor, tne sailors' friend, are perennial in their warm human interest He was a man who at all times spoke with- an engaging frankness which sometimes became mor brusque than was desirable. A banke fro 8P*ch .*.*_e a aha/tr aske ^n West End of Boston once visited Father Taylor's church during a fervid revival, and varied the usual character of the meeting by a rather pompous address. Its pur port was that the merchant princes of Boston were a very beneficent set of men,, whose wealth and enterprise gave a employment to thousands of sailors, and that it was, above all, the duty of seamen to show their gratitude to the merchants. At the close of his the banker was somewhat taken -nrVian^ITa+tiAvr*whot1loMrian fro smne a HE APPEAL KEEPS IN RONTl Tnr/ ros ^_J abaclk whe Fathe Taylo and s^P 1 the other P*ow mid like to word?"Youth's X-ipanion & BBCATJSB: I O-It Is the organ of ALL Afee-^^r'.-rrr 6Itis not controlled by any ring rir'onqiit O-It asks no support but the people's. 82.40 PER YEAR.- NOT A EAD GUESS. A Mistake of Nature Revealed by the Telegraph. A woman's Morse is as feminine as her voice or her handwriting. I have often put to the test my ability to distinguish between the Morse of a man and that of a woman, and only once have I been' deceived, says L. C. Hall in McClure's Magazine. On this same Washington "circuit" I one day encountered a sender at the other end, a stranger, who for hours "roast ed" me as I seldom had been in my telegraphic experience. The dots and dashes poured from the. sounder in a bewildering torrent, and I, had the hardest kind of work to keep up in copying. With all its fearful swift ness the Morse was clean-clipped and musical, tnough it had a harsh, stac cato ring which indicated a lack of sentiment and feeling in the trans mitter. From this, and from a certain dash and swagger .1 gathered, before the day was out, a pretty distinct im pression of the personality of the transmitter, i conceived him to be of a well-kept, aggressively clean appear ance, with a shining red complexion and close-cropped hair one, in brief, whose whole manner and make-up be spoke the self-satisfied sport. That he wore a diamond in his loudly striped shirt front I considered ex tremely likely, and that he carried a toothpick between his lips was morally certain. Next clay I took occasion to make some inquiries of my fellow-op erator at Washington. "Oh, you mean T. Y," he said, laughing. "Yes, for a girl, she is a fly sender." It was mor tifying to find that I had mistaken the sex of the sender, but I waj consoled when I met the young woman. The high coloring was there, and the self satisfied air so also were the mascu line tie, the man's vest and the striped shirt-front Nor were the diamond pin and the toothpick wanting. When she introduced herself by her sign, called me "Cully" and said I was "a crack-a jack receiver," I was convinced that it was nature, and not I, that had made the mistake as to her sex. CHEAP LIVING IN MICHIGAN. Its Beet Sugar Makers Appear to Lire on $34.09 a Year. We comply willingly' with the re quest of Mr. Henry B. Joy of Detroit to print a statement by him as to the extent of the beet sugar industry in Michigan, and the effect thereupon of a reduction of the duties on Cuban sugaT, or of free sugar from Cuba through the annexation of the island. Jt is quite fair that Mr." Joy's side of "thef question should have a public hearing. Mr. Joy estimates that about 132,000 men, women and children in Michigan alone are dependent upon adequate government protection to beet sugar. He counts the families of the farmers raising the beets, and the families of the operators in the fac tories making the sugar, allowing five persons to a family. This is a some what loose mathematical process, but we suppose it will answer. At the same time Mr. Joy predicts that Mich igan will produce this year a tonnage of beet sugar "approaching" 75,000. That is to say, with sugar at 3 cents a pound, 132.000 persons in Michigan would depend for their living upon the producers' share of the $4,500,008 representing the gross product. Yet if the producers got every cent of it, there would be only $34.09 a year for every individual of the 132,000. But the farmers and the factory people by no means get every cent of it. On the one hand or the other, there is ap parently something wrong with Mr. Joy's figures. We infer that the statis tical part of his interesting argument has not been prepared with the thor oughness devoted to the politico-eco nomical and the politico-emotionaj parts.New \ork Sun. Work the Secret of Success. The more I learn concerning the careers of great operatic artists, the more I am convinced that their success is due to the union of extraordinary talent with extraordinary persever ,ance, says a writer in the Woman'* Home Companion. Work, work, work! In the gilded, brilliantly illuminated realm of the stage, where everything seems so easy to the listener and be holder, work, unceasing work, is aa necessary to success as in the most prosaic of occupations. "I was never idle," Mme. Nordica said to me, in speaking of her early career. "Nor," she added, "have I ever been since. I am always singing or studying." Only two summers ago, after a strenuous season in New York and another in London, Mme. Nordica went to Zurich, where Mme. Cosima, Wagner's widow,' was stopping, and with her studied Sieglinde, in "Die Walkure." I may never sing it," were her words, in tell ing me about it, "but I wanted to study, and the experience was fine." Boston Herald. Xootlnc In Peking-. Stories of looting in Peking continue to filter,through, and a high official of the Straits Settlements who hap pened to be in Peking during the troubles of last year tells of a Chinese servant, a Christian convert who was sent out, when the legations were re lieved, with a mule cart to obtain pro visions. He begged for an armed Sikh as protection. The pair returned with the provisions in a magnificent equi page, Christian Chinaman and heathen Sikh imperturbable as ever. Asked how he nad come by so valuable a vehicle, the Chinamen replied that he bad met a countryman who had "persuaded him to make the ex change." From the sales of Chinese Valuables at Covent Garden it may be inferred that such 'suasion was ff quently exercised by natives of gen erous impulse London Chronicle. "*^k*~, I .-I'Ji