Newspaper Page Text
£hc plaultowoc #Uot THURSDAY. JANUARY 15, l!k:J. EIGHT PAGES. Established 1858. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. SYDNEY T. PRATT, Editor. FORMER EDITORS. Jere Crowley. Ten Eyck G. Olmsted, JOHN NAGLE. WM. F. OHDE. Business Hanager Trie Pilot is published at Hlfl York Str. Terms of subscription ft.so a year, payments strictly in advance. Ad vertising rates can be procured by application at the office. All job work done promptly and care taken that work will be artistically turned out. Subscribers and advertisers are request ed to remit all checks, postofhee or express money order or registered letter and to address THE PILOI CO.. MANITOWOC. WIS THE GOVERNOR’S AMBITIONS. Rumor is current that Gov. La Toi lette is casting out lines to succeed Senator (Quarles in the 1 nited States senate, that he means to don the toga, and it is furthermore said that his friends are aiding him in his aspirations. Gov. La Follette. of course, cannot In elected to the senate without the aid of the people The people will elect the legislature and its character will deter mine who shall succeed Mr. Quarles. Tim first thing the governor must do is to see that the pledges made to the people in the preelection campaign are kept Two years ago the governor before election made ceitain pledges to the jw-ople which were not fulfilled The reason he assigned for failure was lack of working harmony between the executive and legislative branches of the government. The people condoned the failure, accepting the excuse, r charging the governor with the duty of bringing into law the reforms he guar antees. In common parlance “it is up to the governor" to redeem hi-* pledges before coquetting with further political pre ferment. If he should perforce, again fail to give the [teoplo a more equitable 'basis of taxation and a primary election law that will w irk, his senatorial am bitious will t* nipped in the bud. The voters certainly will not broaden his political horizon if, in narrower environ ment. be shows himself unequal to con tiugencies which may face him The execution of his pledges will give him prestige, the non fulfillment of them will show that he has been ''weighed in the balance anil ls-en found wanting.' Let the governor now bend his ener gies toward taxation reform. The in equalities existing are a menace to the majority of taxpayers. He levs mater ialto go on prepared by acompetent tax ation commission and there is an over whelming majority of Republican legis lators. The governor cannot carp at the conditions, they are to his liking therefore let him show his ability at constructive statesmanship. The tax payers do not exjiect an ideal system of taxation a system of scientific accuracy. Such an achievement in a fallible com mnnify is inqsissible Hut there can b given to the jieople a system upon which to base taxation which will be satixfactoty and stop f irever the outcry which glaring inequality provokes. MORMON FOR SI NATL- The president is taking a hand to pre vent the election of Reed Smoot to tin senate from Utah Reed Smoot is a Mormon ami an ajiosfle in his chut h who takes a ham] at politics Hi* can •lidacy has aroused the Gentiles into ac tive hostility, pressure being brought to ls-ar to make President R smevelt di avow the Mormon's candidacy N t- 1 withstanding the fact of administration I hostility the ajsisth- boasts of having 47 of the t;.i members of the legislature pledged to him. lb-is holding firm to his |Kjsition It is predicted his election is certain. He is a Republican. Thr*- candidates oppose him. The president says: Tam deeply interested in tin future of Utah, in its material upbuild iug, as vdl as the future and is-t inter ests of the Republican party. The eh - lion to the the United States senate < f an a(ioßtle would work great harm to the state. It would Is- unwise. It would certainly lead to contentions ami strife ami bitterness here, if not in Utah, and would unquestionably 1- a misfortune to those win, an* bit*- esied j in all that g's-s to make tin* state o) j Utah prosperous and great 1 have every confidence in the mu jority members of the Utah legislature and 1 feel sure if they understand tie gravity of the situation as i’ ap|s-ars t me, and as 1 have beard expressed b* members of Urn senate they will refrain from any action which will not rtsull in good for the future of Utah and h* i people. I desire you to place me on record a* kindly but firmly advising against tbe election of any ajxunle to the United States senate. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. This j an age of scientific discover* and so rapidly die-- one discovery tread upon the heels of another that the aver age man hardly realizes the splendor of the achievements. Indeed one almost is tempted to say that the age in magic working scientific devices, is the reali zation of Arabian Nights' dreams. The latest of the g r eat labors of scientific men is the wireless telegraphy, which in the course of a week or two, will Ire ready for commercial uses. By wireless telegraphy, communications may be flashed to all portions of the habitable globe at small cost. Marconi, the in ventor, alleges that messages can Ire transmitted over the Atlantic ocean for a cent a word. Think of this as a revolution, how it will draw the nations of the earth into closer relations, and say not the days of wonder tire past and over. And yet scientific men tell us that we have only touched the fringes of scien tific discovery. It almost seems that there will be no impossible in the future- CO/V (CORNERS IN HOMES. Most sane persons are agreed that of all earthly places home should be made attractive, pleasant, good, beautiful But curious it is to note, that a woman’s club in Chicago, is out vigorously de nouncing this almost universal belief, centering its opposition against cozy corners. A Mrs. George Watkins, pre sident of the club had the temerity to aver; “I saw so many cozy corners and sofa pil lows in a house once that truly I doubp-d that the mistress of that home was a moral woman.’ Such an allegation as the above ((no tation implies the conclusion that Mrs. Watkins is irrational if not laboring under an hallucination. It would take more than the mental dexterity of tin average logical mind to form a relation ship between morals and cozy corners. The mistress of tin- home referred to, is evidently a woman of refinement, whose chief delight is in her home, in which she lavishes feminine taste to make it attractive to the eye through the sense of sight to the other senses, for the definite purpose of making her immediate environment charming for her family and friends. But Mrs. Wat kins sees in these nooks of repose the fangs of vice, hidden in drapery and furnishings, stirring her imagination into mental contortions that witnesses the citidal of morals undermined. No one need be alarmed at the vagaries of this particular person. It would be well for her to remember the well known Latin adage: Haiti tail mu ni.ily {icnsc. “Evil to him who evil thinks.” Cozy corners are no more dangerous than arm chairs or lounges or pictures or any other adornment which coutri bnto to Tie beauty of the home. One prominent cause of marital infelicity, the chief reason of divorce, if statistics can be relied upon, is the absence of attractiveness in the home. Men re main away from it, and from lack of interest in the chief factors of the home comes dislike of each others company until the inevitable divorce brings sepa ration and frequently re-marriage. L’erliaps Mrs. Watkin will agree that divorce and re marriage are not forces for establishing morals in the com inanity. The home should Is- made beautiful even with the aid of cozy corners Notwithstanding the onslaught against them by the < diicago woman s i Inh. Loss of Flesh When you can’t cat break fast, take Scott’s Emulsion. When you can’t cat bread and butter, take Scott’s Emulsion. When you have been living on a milk diet and want something a little more nourishing, take Scott’s Emulsion. To get fat you must eat fat. Scott’s Emulsion is a great fattener, a great strength giver. Those who have lost flesh want to increase all body (issues, not only fat. Scott’s Emulsion increases them all, hone, flesh, blood and nerve. lor invalids, for con valescents, for consumptives, (or weak children, for all who need flesh, Scott’s Emulsion is a rich and com fortable food, and a natural tonic. Scott’s Emulsion for bone, flesh, blood and nerve. |~ W<- will send you i Jure that thij picture | JcflpEl® In the lorm o( a label it on I ,t e wra l’P* r nf very bottle ii ' \ JijSb r.muijion you buy. SCOn&BOWNE. YzCfomk CHEMISTS, . V m Pearl St., N. Y. IT —sot. and $1 i all druggitti. A WEALTHY GOVERNMENT In commenting upon the unparalleled wealth of the government, the Spring field (Mase) Republican has something to say. Asa matter of fact a govern ment should not be overburdened with wealth. It can only be so by unjustly taxing the people. It is as follows: “The finance of the national govern ment closes the year in fully as marked a state of prosperity as distinguishes the private undertakings of the people. In deed, the public treasury suffers from an embarrassment of riches which neith er the extravagent appropriations of the last session of congress nor its heavy reductions of internal taxation have availed greatly to relieve. “The repeal of the remaining war taxes, which took effect on July 1 last, calculated to cut down the public reven ues by over $70,000.000. It has served for the six months to date to reduce internal revenue by about $22.090,000, but gains from customs duties more than offset the reduction and leaves the revenues as redundant as ever, as will appear from the following statement covering the last six months: Iflns. nn. Customs 1150.139.833 9135,888,584 Internal Revenue 119,237,014 143.583,079 Miscellaneous 19,358,Wl 10,337,080 Total 9388.833. H 8 9181,759.583 Thus in spite of the tax reduction aggregate revenue for the first half of the government’s fiscal year is larger by nearly $1,000,000 than for the same period of the previous fiscal year. “But meantime the costs of govern ment are increasing and this alone re lieves the treasury of the necessity of handling as large a surplus as was coming in a year ago. The expan sion of expense is observable in nearly all directions, the record for the past six months compared with that of* the same period of last year being as follows: 1902 1901. ( i vit ami misoallanuorts $63 kis.osi $55,381,743 War 66,388,740 69,388.059 Navy :HMM1.39l 34.059,838 Indians .... 7.396.858 5.478.m3 Pensions . , 71,070.478 7i1.()1)8,.'>13 Interest 18.800.780 18.011,533 Total 9803,098,385 1342,137,686 “Army and navy take up the larger part of the increase of over s2l 000,000, and this in spite of the reduction in the numerical strength of the army. Im perialism has launched the government on a course of permanently rising ex penditnre of military purposes, and thin is tiie distinguishing mark of that “world power" which we are said to have become in the past four years, as contrasted with the world power we used to lx*. “The surplus revenue for the past half vear amounts to $24.715-,221, against $42,022,017 during the same time in 1001. It will doubtless con siderably exceed this sum during the last half of the fiscal year, owing to the con tinned unusual import of merchan dise paying customs duties. The prob lem of the surplus is less aggravated than it was six months ago, but with the contiimence of prosperous trade con ditions, and in spite of tin- growing ex penditnres of government, it is a prob lem which still taxes the ingenuity of the treasury management to deal with." Farm For Sale The Krueger estate 100 acres of land, all under cultivation one mile and a half north-west of Zander 1’ < >. VV.M KUVECiKX I’uh. Jan. 10, 'j;j, jo, Feb. 5. A Nervous Invention. Wonders never cease. A machine has Ix-fii invented that will cut, paste and hang wall paper. The field of inven tions and discoveries seems to bo unlim ited Notable among great discoveries ;-l>r. Kings New Discovery for t'un mmption. 11 has done a world of good for weak lungs and saved many a 1 if* I hon ands have used it and conquered • rip, Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Con uimption. The general verdict is: It's the best and most reliable medicine •ir throat and lung troubles. Every '.He and SI.OO bottle is guaranteed by Henry Heinrichs, Druggist. Trial bot tle free. Many of the ills from which women suffer can l>e completely cured with KK- y Mountain Tea. liich, red blood, good digestion and health follow its ns'. :t‘i cents. F. C. Buekhtktte. Oil-Fattened Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are still buzzing around in New Jersey. It is thought, says the Chicago Hecord-llerald, that the oil with which the scientists attempt ed tu kill the insects off last summer has mads them so fat and hearty that they will Vie able to keep up and around all winter. Woman's Hlatit to Talk. A New Jersey justice of the peace has decided that there is no law to keep a woman from talking in her own home. Now, says the Chicago lb-curd Herald, will the man of the hou e ever he able to get another word in edgewise? ■aII 1 r.mrr ourlati, To show the ignorance of many tour isU regarding the dangers of Alpine climbing, a dispatch from Zermatt states that a gentleman was recently •net start ing by himself for a ‘‘stroll" up the Matterhorn with an umbrella ki bis bandl en )uu hear a man *y be is no re |i'“ler of persona, the chances sru he ii i great respeaUir of the liist pel on, siugis lar,—-Puck. DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK? Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost erverybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful ii i] I cures made by Dr, — ~!' Kilmer's Swamp-Root, t I the great kidney, liver S ii bladder remedy. - jl \r It is the great medi - Lit N/ cal triumph of the nine iU.l I flfj% teenth century; dis , ,t 1 [f — FJ , lIH scientific research by V r Dr. Kilmer, the emi fl. * nent kidney and blad ’’ der specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Bright's Disease, which Is the worst form of kidney trouble Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec ommended for everything but if you have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so succes~'ul in every case that a special arr’%-ment has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing regular fifty cent and Home of Bwamp-Kooc dollar sizes are sold by ail good druggists. Don’t make any mistake but remem ber the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kil mer’s Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle UNDER THE LIBRARY LAMP. £ Pierpont Morgan is undoubtedly the most fascinating figure before the world to-day. “Mr. Morgan, His Advisers and His Organization are discussed at length in the January Cosmopolitan by John Brisben Walker, who spent ten days between Mr. Morgan's and Mr John Mitchell’s offices, in September, in the attempt to settle the coal-strike. * * * Several years ago a suggestion was made to President Eli it of Harvard that, inasmuch as the first thing a young man ordinarily did on graduating from college was to choose his life-work, if was important that each student should have presented to him a thorough dis cussion as to the advantages, disadvan tages and temptations of each of the leading professions, so that in determin ing his life-work he might act with the fullest knowledge attainable. The Cos mopolitan has begun this discussion in its January issue by taking up the legal profession. Besides pointing out what the young man has to encounter in entering upon a lawyer’s career, The Cosmopolitan considers at length the revolution which has taken place in the profession be a use of the recognizalion of business in great aggregations like the U. S, Steel corporation, and modern business instruments, such as trust companies, title and guarantee compan ies. ami fidelity insurance companies. AN OPTIMISTIC OBSERVER Ur. Jlntaon'* Opialom of Mechanical lunovnliunai and 111* Cheer ful Cunelulun. In machinery Uuskiu saw only un loveliness. Much may be said in de fense of bi.s point of view, but some thing also may be conceded to the point of view of the plain person who believes that the world is pretty well ordered, after all. Such a plain per son is Joshua Jimson, whose large, if not very closely reasoned, views were recently set forth in the col umns of the Chicago Kecord-Heruld. “I used to tremble,” said Mr. dilu tion, “everj time 1 heard of another invention. First there was the mow ing-machine. Thinks I: ‘(Jood-by to the poor boys that have been making a living working on the farms.’ But 1 can’t see ’s it ever made any differ ence so far as needing help is con cerned. “Then we got the reapers and binders and these thrashing-ma chines that do the whole thing at ome. Well, when they began to come along 1 says: ‘“This is the end of it for the farmhand. He may as well go away somewhere and lie down and die. There isn’t any use for him any more.’ But farmhands seem about ns scarce us ever, and inebbe a lit tle more so. So I’ve just made up my mind that I am not going to worry any more about it. Let the inventors keep on inventing all they please. 1 gne.-s there’ll be smithing for the rest of ns to do, no matter how many patent rights they keep get ting out. "Why, look at those automobiles! When they first got to racing round. Judd Hawkins says to me: ‘Josh,’ siiv he, H guess this is going to end it.’ “ ‘How so?’ says I. “‘When they get to running wag ons without horses, they won t need hay or oats’ nays he, ‘and those are the things where the farmer piakts most of bis money, because they’re the easiest to raise.’ ‘“Don’t you worry,* says I. ‘You just wait and see what happens.’ “And now look at it!” continued Mr. Jimson. “Here they’ve got so many automobiles and electric things kiting round you wouldn’t hardly think the horses could keep from feeling lonesome, ’specially in the WILL I SEND $4.00 FREE. Franklin Miles. M D., LL. B . the Celebrat ed Specialist, Will Send a Course of Mis New Special Treatment Free. When an experienced physician offers to give away $40,000 worth of a New Treatment for diseases of the heart, nerves, stomach or dropsy, it is conclu sive evidence that he has great faith in it. And when hundreds of prominent men and women freely testify to hn unusual skin and the superiority of his New Special Treatment, his liberality is certainly worthy of serious consider ation. That Dr. Miles is one o. the world's most successful physicians is proved by hundreds of testimonials from well known people. One patient cured after failure of eleven Grand Rapids physi cians, two after being given up by six and seven Chicago physicians, one after nine of the leading doctors in New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago failed. K. E Baldwin. merchant, Glendale, Wis., after taking special treatment for a lingering ailment, reports: *'l now feel 1 fetter than for many years. Am well." C. J. Coon, Trout Lake. Wis., writes: 'lf it had not been for your Special Treatment my mother would be in her grave.” Miss Jennie Hatch, Richland Center. Wis., st/s; "I thought my case hope less, hut your treatment has made mo anew woman.” The eminent Rev. \V. Bell, D. I) , of Dayton, Ohio, General Secretary of Foreign Missions, writes editorially in Tuk Static Sunday School Dnion: "We desire to state that from pcrsonaf* oe<iuaintauce we know Dr. Miles to lie a most skillful specialist, a man who has spared neither labor nor money to keep himself abreast of the great advancement of medical science." A thousand references to and testi monials from Bishops, Clergymen, Bankers, Farmers and their wives, will be sent free on request. This new system of Special Treat ment is thoroughly scientific and im mensely superior to the ordinary methods. As all afflicted readers may have $4.00 worth of treatment especially pre pared for their case, Fri;e, as a trial, we would advise them to send for it at once. Address, Dr Franklin Miles, "01 to 209 State St., Chicago. Mention this paper. One Hundred Dollars s Box is the value H, A. Tisdale, Summerton, S. C., places on Do Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. He says: ‘‘l had the piles for 20 years. 1 tried many doctors and medicines, but all failed except De- Witts Witch Hazel Salve. It cured me.” It is a combination of the healing properties of Witch Hazel with antisep tics and emollients; relieves and per manently cures blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles, sores, cuts, bruises eczema, salt rheum and all skin die eases. At Schmidt Bros, or C. A. Groff man. A Scientific Discovery. Kodol does for the stomach that which it is unable to do for itself, even when but slightly disordered or over loaded. Kodol supplies the natural juices of digestion and does the work of the stomach, relaxing the nervow tension, while the inflamed muscles of that organ are allowed to rest and heal Kodol divests what you eat and enables the stomach and digestive oigans to transform all food into rich, red blood. At Schmidt Bios., or C. A. Groffmau. _ It's pretty hard to define real beauty. Hare and beautiful women everywhere owe their loveliness to Rocky Mountain Tea. 25 cents. F. C. Bukrstette. Nothing has ever equalled it. Nothing can ever surpass it. d7. Kings New Discovery P n - fONCMPTIO p.jce tor Lßi!S" B “ n, ‘ 50c 4 SI.OO A Perfect For All Throat and Cure: Lung Troubles. Money back if it fail*. Trial Bottle* free cities, but oats are Tiigher’n t ever liearcl of ’em being before. “You can’t make me believe that Ooil Almighty is going to let a few inventors down here upset His whole calculations, and leave a lot o’ stuff lying round useless to spoil, so I’m not going to worry about it again.” Family Po-lnun Hook. “It would be on excellent idea for every family to have a little book giv ing briefly prompt antidotes for vari ous poisons,” said a prominent New York doctor. “Physicians know that there are scores of cases of accidental poisoning never heard outside of the family concerned. I’ve bad several cases of poisoning by an accidental dose of chloroform and aconite lini ment that almost everyone keeps and one woman gave her child muriatic acid that was kept for cleaning the marbles. Prompt action is the great thing in cases of poisoning,” contin ued the doctor. “lsy the time one can get help from a doctor or druggist it la often too late to save the patient. A few antidotes for the common poi sons would be easy to learn. Still, if there was such a book 1 suppose most (mmsoub would be too much excited to use it in time of emergency.”—N. Y. Times. MARRIAGE MAKES DIFFERENCE Tta* Timid Wife la Cherlikei, Bel the Timid Old Meld la Leashed Ad. Marriage, indeed, does make s dif ference to women, and we who are the old maids might just as well llearn, writes Miss Lillie Hamilton French, in “My Old Maid's Corner,” in Century. My own first awakening came when I saw my married sisters calling to their stalwart y.ung husbands to help them over some puddles in the road. And what a fuss they made! When they had been helped over, they went on and left me, the youngest, behind. I called for assistance, too, it seemed so agreeable to command it. One of my sisters, her hand still in that of her husband’s, looked back and said: “It’s easy. Step on a stone and jump.” Then cuddling closer to her husband, she walked on, not turning again. I can remember, too, the wife of some college professor who had been asked to meet me when I was perhaps 28. “Why, I thought you were mar ried,” she said to me as we shook hands. “If I had known you were single, I never would have worn a long dress.” It was her only long dress, I learned afterward—that was why she said “a” and not “my”—a black silk dress, by the way, which she had worn for years, and which she made “low neck” for dinner parties by unfasten ing the few top buttons. These early experiences, and my having married sisters, taught me much. Probably every other old maid has learned, too, that timidity and helplessness, for in stance, so engaging in wives, are con sidered ridiculous in spinsters. Is not a timid old maid laughed at the world over, and is not a timid wife cher ished? THE BEGGARS OF PARIS. Deputy Playa Detective anil Makes Extraordinary Dlacoveirlea Among Them. M. Paulian, one of the permanent secretaries of the chamber of depu ties, has carefully studied the word “paupericulture,” Invented by Abra ham Dreyfus, and has, in various disguises, followed the profession of beggar all over Paris, says a Paris letter to the New York Times. According to M. Paulian. the beg gars of that city make an average of nearly 20 francs a day. They are di vided into district guilds, their cen tral authority being represented by two lithographed sheets entitled “Le Grand Jeu” and “Le Petit Jeu,” which gives lists and special coun sels to subscribers. Home of these are humorous and instructive. One rich patron can only be softened by the plea of no rent and threatened expulsion. Another gives no money, but never refuses clothes. The clergy and pious peo ple can be got at with babies await ing baptism, and young people re quiring Uie clothes to make their first communion. A wealthy repub lican, on the other hand, only gives to those who are sharp enough to explain that they are the victims of the cures. The acknowledged patriarch of the beggars is a Populo, whose auxiliary is the former proprietor of aci an archist paper. His chief task is to write clever begging letters or sham recommendations to influential per sonages. 0. Torrison Cos. Annual Linen Sale COMHENCES THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 This is a yearly eveno with us, customers who who are wait ing for this sale, will find linen values equally as good. 0. Torrison Cos. ! = CHINESE MILLIONAIRES. I Members of • SocLai Club Formed bjr American Consul in tbe Lend of Queaa. | ( The fame of the Five O’clock club has extended to China and in that fui off land a sort of junior organization has sprung upt which in some respects eclipses the parent organization. For instance: Doubtless several millions of dollars are represented by the members and guests who congre gate around the tables, at theßellevue. Dut the Chinese offspring gathers its elans and at each sititng hundreds of millions are represented, says an ex change. Consul Robert McWade, just re-j turned from Canton, is responsible for the introduction of the Five O’Clock club ideas into the far east. He saw, when he first assumed the position off consul, that the Europeans stationed there paid very little attention to the I natives in a social way-. In fact the rep resentatives of the European powers seemed to be on their dignity, so the Chinamen naturally became as distant 1 as possible. I But, according to Consul McWade,, these same Chinamen were as well if! not better educated than their foreign 1 visitors and when it came to family*' there were dozens who could trace their ancestry back to the time when Adam’ played whiptop or some game, like it. I Then Consul McWade conceived the,) idea of organizing a Five O'clock club.|j He was one of the founders of the, original organization here and hej thought that such diversion would ap-' |>eal to his Chinese friends. So well did the plan succeed that after the first dinner a permanent organization’ was decided on and Consul McWade was unanimously elected president. Mrs. McWade, incidentally, enjoys the honor of being the only woman who ever participated at one of the ban quets and the other day she said that the parent organization would have to be careful of its laurels if a compari son of menus were attempted. For official helpers Consul McWade had as secretary Poon Pu Lun, literary chancellor of China, for treasurer the ini|>erial banker of Canton, Chao Tit Shi, and his executive committee was made up of Lee Chee, a brother of Wu Ting-fang, Chao Tit Sang, the richest man in China, who has the entree to the celestial court at all times',, and Foon. Tchi King, the richest jade mer chant in the world. With such an executive staff, dinners of surpassing magnificence were ar ranged and the orientals quickly ap preciated the spirit of the occasion by becoming as ready of wit and. as de monstrative as their brethern of the Bellevue. It is not in evidence how much the Chinese Five O’clock club helped, but Consnil McWade, with a district em bracing 120,000 square miles and 80,000,- 000 of people, had no bother when it came to collecting the claims of Ameri cans arising from the Boxer outbreak. Asking for Information. Stout Old Traveler—What was the name of the insolent young black guard who stood behind this counter last summer ? Hotel Clerk—l was here last sum mer. My name’s Jones. “Jones? Ah, thank you.”—lndian apolis News. , ,