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WHERE FOREIGNERS IN CHINA ARE CONCENTRATING ''4 ~~~~~~~~i~.. . . . . ... ...,~:~yBP~Y~ · ~ ·B~s~·i·. V/lh 0P POA.LGN LIGATIONJ IN PfKJN WILLIAM J. CALHOUN, American minister to China, and others in authority, are doing all in their power to per suade Americans and Europeans in China to seek safety in the treaty ports and in Pekin. The toreign lega tions in the latter city, of which a view is here given, already are becoming crowded with refugees. LOVERS ARE BALKED "Princess Pretty" and Young Marquis Meet Obstacle. Judlan Maharajah Will Not Allow Daughter to Marry Heir of the Duke of Sutherland. London.-The esuare of true love ls sot running smooth for the East In dian Princess Pretiva, the young daughter of the Maharafah of Cooch Behar, and the young Marquis of Staf ford, heir of the Duke of Sutherland and his millions. Pretiva. whose intimates rightly call her "Princess Pretty." and her mother passed the summer at Bex hill, where Stifford, who is 23 and an amiable youth, was a constant visitor. And small wonder, for the charming Princess excels in outdoor sports. Although her lovely features have an Oriental cast, her skin is almost as fair as that of an English girl. She loves iEngland. where she. has %Asl milst of her life, and has de dared that she will not marry an In dian potentate. Of course no one but Stafford knows how much he had to do with Inducing her to form this resolution. Now the Princess has gone to India with. her mother, the Maharanee of Cooch-Bebar. carrying the late Maha ra2ah's ashes. Stafford swears he will follow his Inamorata. making the durbar his pre text. His father, whose lineage runs back to a Gower who followed W11 lItm the Conqueror, and his Intell gent mother, who was Lady Millicent St. Clare-rsfkine, daughter of the Earl of Roslyn. strongly oppose such' a match for Stafford. They have asked the war office to refuse him the leave he must as; to go to India. And there are other obstacles in the way of his pursuit of the gsrl he loves. T.e Maharanee has informed Stafford that be cannot visit her daughter in lndia, as she will live in retirement ft-t he-palace of her brother, who I3 now thm Maharajah of Cooch-Behar, and will not attend the durbar. Be sides, the new Maharajah objects to Boom Black Art In London Litchcraft Act of 1736s to Be Used Against Fortune Tellers of Metropolls. London.--This city is at the mercy ot a veritable plague of fortune tellers, almists and other selft-proclaimed nec romancers, who prey upon the rich suad poor alike, particulartr In the shopping districts. They have even be -aome so tearlees that they are sad tlsg by means r o sandwilch men elmg the Strand, in Picadlly Circus Iana Regent and Orfard streets. It sm Impoabi*e to convictar them a obtainin msoney under false pre jthst oaretln thes future, aid it * ateeur twpeieb. Qto oset evidence to the s astfl5 aud m du athate t"at theirio y t w wefto my that the adu golice view Is that, so long as tiu tellers and palmistS do not I hs mt folaetron the ioib. (ath ':.^t as... E P.. has cttounsuad s or my war. o i eoeea d ~i-~ali 'st an-, aunn riera ante et v.hewibeatt sot 1 b re = 'apt of ti~~iar~.t~i-~ia· ' b ºB kis -, - " upos o pr m tseriea 4_ -n to enaeis evo an nn al th e , biiat~s Py w-to s7 itheli9 r~~iis*aoimsai tartel po~lrhe his sister marrying an Englishman, as calculated to further weaken his subjects' loyalty. It has bedn strained by his own prolonged visits to Europe before his father's death and by the fact that he and his family are so largely Anglicized. BABY SECURITY FOR DEBT Mother Successfully Appeals to the Court for Infant Held by Woman for Board. Oakland. Cal.-Her baby held as se curity for a board bill. Mrs. Estelle E. Ramos of Berkeley applied to the su perior court for an order compelling Mr. and Mrs. John Rudy of 2100 Sixth street. Berkeley, the people to whom the board bill is due, to give up the child. Mrs. Ramos won her petition before Judge Wells after a hearing that lasted only about ten minutes Women Spoke In, a Church Ps a Result, Louisiana Presbyterians Are All Torn Up-Appeal to General Assembly. New Orleans. - Because women made verbal reports at an Interde nomlnational meeting in the fashion able Lafayette Presbyterian church here factional strife has been started among Louisiana preachers of the Presbyterlan sect and the shades of John Cauin are being invoked to call down wrath upon those who permitted such a violation. The Rev. J. C. Barr, pastor of the church, and whose congregation in cludes many of the wealthies families in New Orleans. announced today that he would carry to the general assem bly. the highest body of the church, the verucet which the state synod at its meeting this week at Ruston, La., found against him. The Rev. W. M. Alexander. pastor of the Prytania church, brought the charges. He said that the alleged violation of church rules was of the gravest importance, Ignorant and not likely to be duped. but I maintain that the practice is a grave danger to society. Suppose a woman asks--as many do-how long her husband is likely to live, and the fortune teller discovers that there is another man in the case, and the name of that man. Imagine the possibilities of the situation. "The more humble fortune tellers are causing enough trouble in the prov inces. Welsh miners have refused to go down to work because a local 'wise (oman has foretold disaster. In New castle it was proved that 25 girls had visited one fortune teller in a single afttnoon. In the Isle of Wight it was proved that one woman had correctly Uses Champagne for Shave a )ttue Visitor MIlak Lathr With Wine Because f Water Famiea. Seattle, Wash--t has been forbid dean fr any person to take a bath eiter in a priate reSdnce, public bha, clb or' hotl, because the city ba been without water since t e ipes we re arrie away. 33. starter, ot (aose., an ofc Sthe tlatntio stansrahint secirse oa th canian rPao e railay, staryin at the C.hou ontel, went without *tav. anda . ta as hlos as be "thagt bhe and they he rand ._r - piat ofr bampgsn., mixed e.s S athe with it nd had a ds Mrs. Ramos recently secured a di vorce from John W. Ramos and an or der for $25 a month alimony. Since then Ramos has been out of work, un able to find it, he says, while his wife declares he will not take employment offered him. Unable to secure any thing from her former spouse. Mrs. Ramos herself went to work and placed her baby with the Rudys with the understanding they should be paid for its keep out of the alimony. Ramos paid nothing, and Mrs. Ra mos decided to try to care for the child herself; but the Rudys refused to surrender it until the bill was paid. At the hearing today Ramos appeared in court with the Rudys, but did not participate in the proceedings. A clash between Mrs. Ramos and Mrs. Rudy occurred when Mrs. Ra mos went to take her child from Mrs. Rudy's arms, after Judge Wells had given her its custody. The two wom en scolded each other despite the warnings of tble bailiff, hurting angry accusations at each other as they filed out of court. Ramos has a petition for appointment as guardian of the child. and the state body sided with him. The synod raised its hands in hoi ror at the mere idea of women not keeping silent in churches. True, the women who spoke were not preaching sermons, and the meeting was not strictly a Presbyterian meeting, but It was in a church and women broke away from the "keep silence in pub lie" mandate. Dr. Barr admits the charge in gen eral, but says that the women were not speaking-in the .hurch.' He says the congregation is the church and that the place of worship is merely the church building. "Our buildings do not represent 'be church itself," he declared. Kin of Fairbanks a Suicide. Marysville. O.-Miss Alice Fair banks, aged forty, a aides of former Vice-President Faibanks of Indianap oils, committed suiced with poison at the home of her mother. Mrs. Matilda Fairbanks, near Chickery. The mo tive is unknown. furetold the future, but that did not save her from a fine. A disguised de. tective went to her to have his fortune told, and she informed him that he would shortly undertake legal proceed ings in which he would be successfnul. She was right. He took out a suma mons against and successfully proved his case. But the fact that these pro vinclal people were all penalized shows that the local authorities are alive to the danger. Why do the Lon don police refrain from taking action against the West end fortune tellers?" Shuns All Churches 50 Years. Middletown, Conn.--George H. Ward. the oldest newsboy in New England. who has just passed his seventy-third birthday. went to church Sunday for the flrsttime in 50 years. He enjoy ed the service so much that he wWi be a regular attendant hereafter. Iightful shave, he says. Thea he or dered eight gallons of milk sad lt dulged himself in a milk bath. Changes Son's Name. Poughkeepsle, N. Y.-To perpetuate the name of her grandfather, Mrs. John Toler petitioned the supreme court that after January 1 her son's name be changed" from John to John Watts De Peyster Toler. 82,546 Women to Vote. Los Angeles, Cal.-The oSmlal coune of voters eligible to cast ballots in the city election on December 5 totals 182,177. Of these lfe9,2 are i-er and 82.546 woaen. I New News of Yesterday i - I By E. J. EDWARDS I O Senator Frye's Largest Fee He Was Glad to Receive Ten Thou sand Dollars for His Work as Mem ber of Peace Commission After Spanish War. The late Senator William P. Frye of Maine was the second selection made by President McKinley for mem bership on the commission nominated by McKinley to negotiate the treaty of peace with Spain at Paris in the late fall of 1898. McKinley's first selection was nat urally John Hay, who, as secretary of state at the time of the Spanish war, had had charge under McKinley of all the diplomatic matters which arose out of our difficulty with Spain. It was therefore not only highly appropriate but essential that Secretary Hay should be appointed a member of this commission and made its chairman. But there came into the mind of Mc Kinley as soon as he knew that it de volved upon him to appoint a treaty making commission the selection of Senator Frye as the second member of that commission. 'McKinley and Frye became intimate political and personal friends soon aft er McKinley entered congress. Frye had then been a member of congress three terms, and he once told me that McKinley was the first of the new members whom he greeted on the day that the new congress of which Ms Kinley was a member was organized. Their seats in the house were within easy reach. They used frequently to sit side by side, chatting sometimes for an hour of more. They were in per fect agreement on the question of pro tection, and it would have been im possible to have found in the house two men who were so thoroughly alike in the simplicity of their personal life, in the integrity of their standards, both of public and of private life, as were McKinley and Frye. Their inti macy was maintained after Frye quit ted the house for the senate; it was continued after McKinley entered the White House. And it was because of this intimacy, and McKinley's high re gard for Senator Frye's integrity of purpose, that the president decided to make his long-time friend the second member of the peace commission. Be sides, McKinley knew that Frye was of the opinion that there was not only a moral obligation on the part of the United States to take over the sov ereignty of the Philippines, but, fur thermore, that the peace of the world made that step essential. After the commission had finished its work at Paris 'and the treaty of peace was signed, then the question arose: What compensation should be paid to the members of the commis sion? Discussing that point shortly after the commission had returned home the president said: Lincoln and Greeley In House Gr.at Editor Said the Future Presi dent Seemed to Him Then Most Inconspicuous, Serious-Minded and Serious-Man'ered. The late Colonel George Bliss, who was prominent in Republican politics in New York state for upwards of 30 years, and at one time was United States district attorney for the south, ern- district of New York, was for many years an intimate personal friend of Horace Greeley. His inti macy with Greeley was so close that the great editor was accustomed to call Colonel Bliss by his first name, and often by the diminutive of "Georgie," Bliss being much the younger man of the two. "It was at the time when Lincoln's body was lying in state in the rotunda of the city hall in New York," said Colonel Bliss, "that Greeley told me of his most vivid recollection of Abra ham Lincoln as a member of con gress. Little known as the fact may be today, Lincoln and Greeley were members of the same congress; Lin coln was elected for a full term in 1846, and to fill a vacancy in the same congress Greeley took his seat in the house in December. 1848, and re mained there until March 4 of the following year. Greeley accepted the nomination and election for two rea sons, he told me; first, because he wanted tp get a view of what was go ing on from the inside in the way of national legislation and politics, and, next,.because he thought it would be a good chance for him to write special political letters to the Tribune from Washington . "-It was the last session of the :ongress in which Lincoln sat,' con tinued Mr. Greeley, 'and I had heard very little of Abraham Lincoln, ex; eept that I had been told that a Whig of that name had been elected to con gras unexpectedly from the San gamon district in Illinois. That was about the only thing that gave Lin cola any prominence in those days; and I res, In fact, so little interested in the man that I served almost a month in congress before I had him pointed out to me. 'A few days after that I made Lin cola's acquaintance. It was not long hbeas I disoovered that he and I both "I expect to nominate Judge Day (now on the Supreme Court bench) as United States circuit judge for the dis trict of which Ohio is a part, I am go ing to nominate Senator Gray of Del aware as United States judge of the circuit court of the district of which his home state, Delaware, is a part. I would gladly appoint Senator Frye and Senator Cushman K. Davis of Min nesota to any high office within my gift, but I know that neither of them desire to leave the senate." Casting about in his mind for some way to reward Senator Frye the pres ident recalled that his friend had been dependent ever since the friendship began, almost wholly on his salary as a member of congress. He knew of several occasions when Senator Frye had declined to accept fees for profes sional services as a lawyer; he knew that Senator Frye's standard of con duct in that respect was severe. He also knew that the senator had very little money. Therefore, President Mc Kinley decided that out of a contin When Whitney Trusted Nobody In Making His Generous Contributions to Political Campaign Funds He Never Took Chances, Even With His Friends. The late William C. Whitney, secre tary of the navy during Cleveland's first term as president, and before .and after that period in his career one of the leading Democratic politicians of the nation, was one of the most generous distributors of campaign funds the country has ever known, and he was as successful in collect ing funds for campaign purposes as any man of his generation in either party, with the possible exception of Governor Marshall Jewell of Connecti cut, who was chairman of the Repub lican national committee during the presidential campaign of 1880. Yet, de spite his lavishness of distribution, Mr. Whitney knew what he was about every time he distributed campaign funds. He was not one of those who disbursed campaign subscriptions lav ishly and then was indifferent as to the uses to which they were put. He knew of the temptation to which some politicians yielded of keeping for per sonal purposes a part of the campaign funds that passed through their hands -an easy thing to do in the old days, when no detailed record of disburse ments was made. Mr. Whitney was a firm believer in the expediency campaign contributions by large corporations that might have favors to ask of the politicians or of the legislature. He warmly approved agreed on the slavery question as one which must be answered permanent ly in the course of a few years, and after that he and I had held many conversations.' "I asked Mr. Greeley," continued Colonel Bliss, "whether Lincoln. at tracted mnrch attention as a repre sentative or enjoyed any noticeable popularity? "'Not that I-observed.' replied Gree ley. 'He seemed to me about as quiet and inconspicuous and serious-minded a man as any one of the two hundred members of the house at that time. " There is one thing, however, that I do remember about Lincoln the con gressman which has always seemed to me very strange. Ten years later we printed reports of Lincoln's de bates with Douglas, and I particularly noticed that Lincoln interpolated his speeches with a great many anec dotes. I inquired about this and friends of Lincoln told me that in lli nois it was his invariable custom to illustrate or point an argument by a story. Of course, when he became president the country became speed ily familiar with Lincoln's habit of using stories in this manner. But here is a strange thing. I had a great many chats with Lincoln in the last two jnonths or six weeks of the ses SIon of congress of which we were both, members. We found durselves very nearly i* agreement on most po litical questions; we were strongly in agreement on protection. And Lincoln got in the habit of coming almost every day to my seat and talking with me. Yet In all our conversations Lin coln did not once tell one story or re late a single anecdote or indulge in any humor except occasionally a dry, trifling scintillation of humor. I thought him as serious-minded and serious-manenred a man as I had ever met. I have often wondered whether he refrained from telling stories to me because he thought I was a man who would not appreciate a story, or whether he began to indulge in that sort of thing generally after he be came popular as a stump speaker in Illinois. I have never been able to decide which explanation is the cor rect one.'" (Copyright, 1811 by E. J. Edwards. ..11 Rlrhta Ramrved. gent fund over which he had authority to make such expenditure as he chose he would authorize the payment to senator Frye of $10,000 and a like amount to Senator Davis of Minne sota. When Senator Frye received the draft for $10,000 he held it in his hands for a moment with almost a tender touch, and then said: "Ten thousand dollars! That is the largest amount of money I have ever received at one time for any serv ice I have ever given. And I am very glad to get it." Yet Senator Frye. had he been will ing to accept fees, or to give heed to tempting propositions to become a member of promotion syndicates, could many times have received much more than $10,000 for lending his name or giving his professional services. It may be appropriate to add that in recognition of the services of White law Reid, who was the fifth member of the peace commission, he was appoint ed special representative of the presi dent at the coronation of King Ed ward VII. (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) of the method pursued by the late Hen ry O. Havemeyer, president of the so oalled sugar trust, who testified be fore a congressional committee at Washington in 1814. when the trust was on the coals of publicity, that his company was accustomed to sea apart a lump sum when political campaigns were pending, and then, dividing it in to two equal parts,, give one-half to the Republican nad one half to the Democratic party, simply for the purpose of obtaining "protection." When Mr. Whitney was the brains of the old Metropolitan traction system of New York, Democrat as he was, he nevertheless recognized with perfect impartiality each of the political par ties. The Democratic party received pecisely the same contribution in the name of that company which the Re publican party received, and in each case the contribution was made with the implied understanding that the company would be "protected" against adverse legislation and against the ap proach of political blackmailers. The late Senator Thomas C. Platt used to tell his friends with much chuckling an incident which came un der his own observation, illustrating both the generosity and the sublety of Mr. Whitney with respect to campaign contributions. "I received information one day that Mr. Whitney would be glad to see me at a certain office and at a certain hour," said Mr. Platt. "I did not doubt what the purpose of the summonp was, for a campaign was un der way. So'I went to the office nam ed at the hour appointed. Mr. Whit ney received me cordially and then he asked: "But where is Chauncey? I sent for him.' "'Chauncey who? I started to ask in reply, when suddenly it Sashed over me that Mr. Whitney had also sent for Chauncey M. Depew, and did not propose to go on with the business he had with me until Depew was pres ent So once more a message was sent to Depew that Mr. Whitney want ed to see him, and when he had ar rived in the presence of both of us Mr. Whitney made in behalf of his traction company a campaign contribution to the Republican party. And he said to us very frankly, as he handed out the money, that he was treating both par ties exactly alike-that the Republic ans were getting no more and no less t: an the Democrats were. "But note how shrewd he was; he was so shrewd and careful that he didli't purpose to pay over the contrl bution to just one member of the party --another member had to be present also when the contribution wus made. He didn't distrust me any mbre than he did Chauncey; he trusted us both, but, nevertheless, he wasn't going to pay over that money until we both were present and could verbally ac knowledge receipt of the sum. And so far as I know, he was always that way; he never took any chances even with men whom he trusted. He was the shrewdest, as well as the most generous dispenser of campaign funds of any man I ever met,'" (Copyright, 1911 by E. J. Edwards. Al Rights Reserved.) Wille and the New Gardener. ;ttie Willie enjoyed life pretty web until the new gardener came. It was very hard not to be allowed to dig for worms any more or to cut aeross the flower beds or play the garden hose on the dog. Willie would just as soon go to school as go into the garden now. One day Willie told his mother that when he grew up to be a big man like papa he was going to buy a very large bottle of castor oil and make the new gardener drink it rnl-very slowly. Shifted Positions. "You are not making speeches now; said the admiring constituent. "No," replied Senator Sorghum; "there are so many people out my way who want to talk that the man who Is likely to become popular is the one who is willing to be the andllence. -Washington Star