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TEACHING REDSKINS.
METHOD OF EDUCATING INDIAN
CHILDREN.
Pro&reaa Made by the Introduction of
Manual Training Into Schools Grati
fying Results of an Experiment Tried
by Misd ICatelle Reel.
Since her appointment as superinten
dent of Indian schools Miss Estelle Reel
has accomplished wonders by the intro
duction of manual methods in agency
schools scattered throughout the West
ern States and territories. Early iu
her career as superintendent she be
came convinced, as she herself express
es it, that "among all children, Indians
and w hites alike, the shortest road to
the brain is through the hand." In a
perfunctory way manual training had
been in operation before Miss Reel re
ceived her appointment, but since then
It has received close attention and the
results have been gratifying in the
extreme. In the early days of the re
public most Indian teachers sought to
lift tlie aboriginal mind to the plane of
Christian enlightenment by means of
texts and sermons, catechisms and in
junctions, and too commonly their ef
forts ended in the sad realization that
the seed was sown on stony ground.
Half a century ago some teachers be
gan to'realize that the chief need of the
Indian is for practical education involv
ing manual training and actual intro
duction into the arts and industries of
their Caucasian neighbors, and the ef
forts of those teachers who adopted
this plan were always more or less
fruitful. It was not until the advent
of Miss Reel that the system was given
a really fair trial. The result has been
so satisfactory that doubtless the wffrk
will be still further developed in fu
ture. Observers of educational prog
ress are impressed with the increasing
ly practical character of instruction in
our own schools; the kindergarten has
passed the experimental stage and be
come an important educational factor;
manual training has been substituted
for the dreary grind of word drill, to
the immeasurable benefit of pupils, and
nature teaching is rapidly replacing the
husks of dead knowledge in every uni
versity and in all the better normal
schools and high schools, as well as in
many of the primary schools through
out the country.
In speaking of the benefits accruing
from this system of education Miss
Reel said recently: "The benefits of
this educational revolution to the chil
dren and youth of America have been
very great, yet the advantages of the
modern method are incomparably
greater to Indian children than to their
Caucasian contemporaries. Allowing
for exceptional cases, the Indian child.
Is of lower physical organization than
the white child of corresponding age.
His forearms are smaller and his fin
gers and hands less flexible; the very
structure of his bones and muscles will
not permit so wide a variety of man
ual movements as are customary
among Caucasian children, and his
very instincts and modes of thought
are adjusted to this imperfect manual
development. In like manner his face
is without that complete development
of nerve and muscle which gives char
acter to expressive features; his face
seems stolid because it is without the
mechanism of free expression, and at
the same time his mind remains meas
urably stolid because of the very ab
sence of mechanism for its own expres
sion. In short, the Indian instincts and
nerves and muscles and bones are ad
justed one to another, and all to the
habits of the race for uncounted gener
ations, and his offspring cannot be
taught to be like the children of the
white man until they are taught to do
like them. The children of our aborig
inal land holders are now wards of the
nation, and in the minds of most right
thinking people they are entitled to
kindly consideration."
WHERE IMMIGRANTS LAND.
Extensive Quarters Being Built on
Ellis Island, New York.
Early next year the immigrant who
arrives in New York Bay will make his
first landing on free soil in one of a set
of spacious buildings which are now in
course of erection on Ellis Island, New
York Bay. The new immigrant sta-
FASHION PLATE
tree-quarter Coat. Cloth Frock Trimmed with
tion, when completed, will consist of
the large examination and office build
ing, a restaurant, laundry and bath
house, a power-house and a hospital
and a physician's house. All of these
are to be fireproof. The government
does not Intend that the catastrophe
which destroyed the old station on the
night of June 15, 1897, and threatened
the lives of between 200 and 300 immi
grants, shall be repeated. No wood
has been used in the construction of the
main building except in the floors of
the offices on the second story and in
the trimmings.
The architects have adopted a color
scheme in red brick, Indiana limestone
and Maine granite. The design is pick
ed out in the light stones and accentu
ated by the contrasting tints. The big
building is further accentuated to the
distant passer-by on the water by four
towers. The exterior in some respects
suggests an exhibition hall. Owing to
the absence of any buildings not in har
mony with it in dimensions and design,
IMMIGRANT HOSPITAL, ELLIS ISLAND.
the eye does not convey to the mind
an idea of its size. It covers one and
one-half acres of ground and is 165x400
feet
In order to provide greater isolation
for the hospital and furnish a basin for
the anchorage of the steamers used in
transporting the immigrants, a new
island, about three acres in extent, has
been made southwest of the main, isl
and and parallel to it. The two are
connected on the Jersey City side by a
crib. The hospital is being built on
the Jersey City end of this new rect
angle of land. The physician's house is
to stand on the southwestern extrem
ity. The other buildings are on the
main island, the restaurant, laundry
and bathhouse adjoining the main
building on the northwest end and the
power-house occupying the north side
of the island.
All of the buildings and the landing
piers and ferry slip are to be connected
with covered passageways, so that
from the moment he lands on the isl
and until he leaves it the immigrant is
not once in the open air unless he is
permitted to walk upon the broad prom
enade on the roof. There are no loop
holes by which he may leave without
the consent of the officials.
Ellis Island has been used as an im
migration station since 1891. Shortly
after Congress relieved New York State
of the supervision of the European im-
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EDUCATING YOUNG LATTER DAY SAVAGES.
migrants entering through this port a
wooden building 750x250 feet was
erected on Ellis Island as a station at
an expense of between $500,000 and
$000,000. It was opened on New Year's
Day, 1891. On the night of June 15,
1897, the big nondescript building, de
scribed at the time as a veritable tin
derbox, was burned to the ground, for
tunately without the loss of a life. The
immigration oflice was moved back to
its original home in the barge office
and preparations were made for the
construction of a series of fireproof
buildings to replace the old buildings.
The cost of these is over $1,000,000.
HYPNOTISM AND PUGILISM.
Easy Subject Becomes a Tough Cus
tomer When Under the Influence.
One of the most remarkable cases of
hypnotism yet reported is attracting
the attention of medical men here, says
the Baltimore Sun. The victim, too,
for a time made things lively for about
twenty persons who were attending a
tea in the West End last evening. The
scene of the singular actions of the vic
tim of hypnotism was at the residence
of W. J. Gilman, No. 922 West Marsh
all street. The subject of the hypno-
OF OUTDOOR GOWNS FOR
Bandana Silk. Sea oaa ,le Costume of Light Cloth.
tists was John Sweeney, the son of a
wellJsnown livery man.
During the evening it was suggested
as an additional means of entertain
ing the guests that some one be hypno
tized. Young Sweeney, who is quite
a powerful young man, offered his serv
ices, and was soon under the influence
of a young operator named Cook. In a
few moments it was seen that the young
man was completely under Cook's in
fluence. The company became annoy
ed and suggested that the spell be
broken and the victim released. This
was attempted, but in vain. The young
man cut up all sorts of antics. In hit
efforts to release his patient the opera
tor was terribly slugged and several
of his front teeth knocked out. Sweeney
manifested wonderful feats of strength
At times half a dozen or more men at
tempted to seize and bind him, but
could not do so. The services of a stal
wart policeman were called upon. When
he got within reach of the latter's fist
he received a terrific blow, which sent
him spinning away more, than twenty
feet. Sweeney, under the peculiar in
fluences, appeared to imagine himself
a prize-tighter, and for a time it was
well that few disputed this point with
him.
A physician was finally summoned,
and after a long struggle the young
man was handcuffed. He was removed
to a hospital for treatment. Sweeney
remained in a stupor until the next
morning about 8 o'clock.
Too Many Fried Messes.
Dr. Jacobi, writing in the Medical
Record, says that in the United States
there is one physician to every 000 peo
ple proportionately twice as many as
in Great Britain, four times as many as
France has, five times as many as Ger
many has and six times as many as
Italy has. And Dr. Jacobi might have
gone on to show that we take an inter
est in patent or proprietary medicines
and in various other forms of extra-professional
treatment which is almost
non-existent in Europe.
There must be some explanation of
this American craze for doctoring. Cer
tainly it is not that we are a sickly and
an ailing race. On the contrary we are
exceptionally hardy and enduring.
It may be that our backwardness in
the art of cooking has a great deal to
do with it. Outside of a few highly
favored centers the efforts of cooks are
directed chiefly to the concocting of
sundry fried messes that are interesting
to the palate but productive of that
lumpy feeling in the pit of the stomach
and afterward of all manner of disor
ders, from a general sense of gloom and
dissatisfaction and need of some sort
of medicine to complete collapse and a
fierce struggle with death.
A good cook can come pretty near to
keeping the doctor out of the . house.
New York World.
French Tobacco.
Many French medical men are aban
doning the use of tobacco, owing large
ly to the government monopoly of that
commodity. According to the physi
cians the cigars of the "Regie" (those
made at the government factories) are
so uniformly bad and the tax on all
other brands is so prohibitive that the
only sensible thing to do is not to smoke
at all.
A girl may keep quiet on the subject
of her intended's income until after
their engagement is announced, but
that is the turning point for boasts or
wails.
AUIUflN WEAR
Visiting Costume.
Walking Costume,
Science
vention
The Chinese are not mentioned eith
fr in the Old or the New .Testament,
(t is not known from which of the
ions of Noah they descend. As a na
:ion they date several thousand years
back.
By arrangements with the two gov
ernments of France and Germany, a
Jelephone service has been inaugurated
netween Paris, Frankfort and Berlin.
The charge for the use of the wire be
tween Frankfort and Paris is 80 cents
for three minutes, and between Paris
ind Berlin $1.25 for the same time.
Things grow very fast In the short
Arctic summer. As soon as the snow
melts off in many places the ground is
;overed with a vine which bears a
-mull berry something like a huckle
berry, porwong it is called. It is sour
ind has a pungent taste, and the In
iians leave off work and go porwong
mnting, cramming themselves with
:he berries.
The theoretical velocity with which
svater flows under a given head is 8.03
times the square root of the head. To
3nd the pressure in pounds per square
nch of a column of water, multiply
the height of the column In feet by
434, approximately; consider that ev
ery foot of elevation is equal to one
half pound pressure per square inch;
this allows for ordinary friction.
A new submarine cable is about to be
laid between England and Germany.
This is the fifth cable, and a compre
iinasive idea of the increase in the ca
ble traffic between the two countries
may be gathered from the fact that,
whereas in 1S90, when the fourth cable
was laid, the annual number of cable
grams was l,S07,8O8 per annum, no
fewer than 2,465.613 cablegrams are
now annually transmitted.
M. Gain has examined the structure
of the embryo of grains of wheat and
barley obtained from Egyptian mum
my cases, and finds that although the
grains have undergone but little change
in external appearance, and the re
serve substances have retained their
chemical composition, the chemical
composition of the embryo has been
completely altered, .and it is no longer
capable of development. The dormant
i life of the seed must long ago have ex
pired, and M. Gain regards this ob
i servation as entirely disposing of the
apocryphal statements that these seeds
pan germinate after thousands of
years.
Sir W. H. Preece says that one great
advantage of electric over steam trac
i tion on railroads is that it impresses
! a continuous and uniform torque, or
I turning, on the shaft, while the actidn
! of the steam locomotive is intermit
tent. The consequence is that wheels
; driven by an electric motor get a con
tinuous "bite" on the rails, as steam
driven wheels do not. By means of
this constant. grip, slipping on greasy
rails Is avoided". It is also possible,
with electric traction, to apply the
maximum torque at once, and thus to
bring a railroad tram up to its great
est speed much more quickly than is
possible with steam traction. This ad
vantage is especially valuable on city
lines, where stoppages are frequent and
distances between stations short.
Under government encouragement, it
is said that Siberia is gaining 200,000
farmers par year. Among its exports
are cereals, butter, wool, leather and
dried and preserved meats. Already
this remote couutry, which the popu
lar imagination is apt to picture as a
vast waste, the abode of frost and snow
and misery, is becoming talked of as a
possible competitor with the well
known cereal-producing, countries of
the world. A member of the French
bureau of foreign commerce estimates
that, on the basis of the present popu
lation of Russia in Europe, Siberia can
sustain 80,000,000 inhabitants, although
now it has not one-tenth of that num
ber. It produces one-tenth of the
world's yield of gold, but owing to cli
matic obstacles many of its mines are
not worked, and its immense coal de
posits have 'hardly been touched.
YANKEE DEIFIED IN CHINA.
American Soldier of Fortune Wor
shiped OS a Go 1 by Mongolians.
To worship a dead American as a
i god to make a pilgrimage to his shrine.
! to hear tales of the miracles enacted
, there all this is possible In China,
. where a josshouse stands over the
I grave of Edward T. Ward, who cre
. ated the ever victorious army to which
Gordon afterward owed his fame.
Ward, the Yankee soldier of fortune,
was the only foreigner ever deified in
China. He won this saCred regard by
his military genius, for to him more
than to any other individual was due
the crushing of the Taeping rebellion
that bloody convulsion which for
years devastated the richest provinces
of China and cost millions of lives.
He was born in Salem, Mass., in 1828,
and from boyhood sought desperate ad
ventures. Balked of a West Point edu
cation, he went to sea. At the out
break of the Crimean war he joined
the French army, but after his arrival
at-the front he had a quarrel with his
superior officer and was allowed to re
sign. After taking part in Walker's
filibustering expedition against Nica
ragua he shipped as a sailor on a vessel
bound for China.
He reached Shanghai in 1859. The
city was In a panic. Chung Wang, the
greatest of the Taeping generals, had
reached Sung-Kaing, eighteen miles
away. The foreign powers were do
ing nothing. In despair the merchants
of Shanghai proclaimed a reward of
$200,000 to any body of foreigners who
would drive the Taepings from Sung
Kiang. Ward' presented himself to the chief
merchant and entered Into a contract
by which he was to receive the entire
reward if he should raise a force and
capture Sung-Klang. He gathered un
der his standard 100 European and
American sailors and in the face of
great difficulties marched on the ene
my. In a pitched battle before the
walls of Sung-Kiang he drove back
3,000 Taepings, but retreated when an
other force attacked his flank.
On his next expedition from Shang
hai he was re-enforced by a body of
Imperial Chinese troops, whom he de
signed to use for holding the places
won by himself and his soldiers of for
tune. This time he captured the city
although outnumbered a hundred to
one.
The only reverses he encountered
were in two successive attempts to
capture Sing-Po while the defenders
were commanded by an Englishman
named Savage. In the first assault
Ward was wounded in the jaw.
Brought to trial by the foreign consuls
of Shanghai for violating the neutral
ity laws of his country, he escaped by
swearing that he was no longer an
American citizen, but a Chinese sub
ject. He met a hero's death in a pitch
ed battle near Ning-Po. Shot in the
stomach while leading a charge, he re
fused to leave the field, but remained,
like Wolfe, to urge his men on to vic
tory. The Chinese burled him In the Con
fucian temple,, which was a unique
honor for a foreigner. A shrine was
reared over his grave and declared
miraculous. Some years later the Pe
kin government proclaimed him a joss,
New York World.
LAW AS INTERPRETED.
An agent who forwards collections to
a sub-agent and directs him to make
any other use of the funds than an ap
plication thereof for the benefit of the
principal is held, in Milton vs. Johnson
(Minn.), 47 L. R. A. 529, liable to the
principal for such misuse of the funds
by the sub-agent.
A person excluded by a co-tenant
from a mine in which he has a lease
of an undivided interest is held, in
Paul vs. Cragnas (Nev.), 47 L. R. A. 540,
to be entitled to maintain an action for
damages and not to be limited to an
action for partition or an accounting
of rents and profits.
An intention to convert real estate
into personalty when bought by a part
nership is held, in Darrow vs. Calkins
(N. Y.), 48 L. R. A. 299, to be manifest
ed by its purchase for partnership pur
poses, with partnership funds, and its
use in the partnership business indis
criminately with chattel property.
Right of the owner of a life interest
in lands to maintain an action of parti
tion against the owner of the estate In
remainder is denied in Love vs. Blauw
(Kas.), 48 L. R. A. 257, where It is held
that a decree settling over a part of
the property to a life tenant In fee sim
ple in a partition case Is wholly void.
. Garnishment against an executor to
reach a debt of the decedent before de
cree for distribution of assets is denied
in Hudson vs. Wilber (Mich.), 47 L. R.
A. 345, in the absence of statutory per
mission, although the debt has been
placed in judgment in a suit revived
against the executor. The numerous
authorities on the question of garnish
ment of executor or administrator are
reviewed in a note to this case.
Provision of a penalty for violation
of a statute enjoining upon railroad
companies the duty of blocking switch
es is held, in Narramore vs. Cleveland,
C. C. & St. L. Railway Company (C. C.
6th C), 48 L. R. A. 68, not to make that
remedy exclusive of actions by persons
injured by the neglect of the duty Im
posed, unless such is the Intent to be
inferred from the whole purview of the
statute. With this case is a note re
viewing the authorities on the liability
of an employer for injuries to servants
caused by want of blocking at switch
es. FISHING IN CHINA.
How the Piscatorial Art Is Practiced
by Cnnninc Ce'eatials.
In this country the fisherman is a
man who uses hook and line or the net
in following his profession and folks
would stare with wonder to see him
start off with a flock of birds to help
in catching fish. Yet this is done in
China. There the Chinaman may be
seen in his sampan surrounded by cor
morants which have been trained to
dash into the water at his order, seize
the fish and bring them to the boat.
Should a cormorant capture a fish too
large for it to carry alone, one of its
companions will go to its assistance,
and together they will bring it in.
If the Chinaman wishes to catch tur
tles he will do so with the aid of a
sucking fish or remora. This fish has
on top of its head a long disk or sucker
by which It attached itself beneath
moving objects such as sharks, whales,
and the bottoms of ships rather than
make the effort necessary to indepen
dent movement.
The fisherman fastens the remora tc
a long cord tied to a brass ring about
; Its tail, and when he reaches the tur
! tie ground puts it overboard, taking
v... .v ' ' 1' v . . ...... ' uviltuj fL lllf
boat. When a turtle passes near the
remora darts beneath him and fastens
to his shell. Struggle as he will th
turtle cannot loosen the grip of the
sucker, and the Chinaman has only to
: haul in on the line, bring the turtle up
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Washington Post.
Poor Ijo's Religious System.
So benign was the religious system
of the Indian that each department of
the animal kingdom was provided with
a little divinity to look after its af
fairs. Thus the Spirit of the Great
Swan looked after all swans, the Spirit
of the Great Turtle controlled all tur
tledom, and so on through the list, ev
ery kind of an animal having its own
protecting spirit to guard its Interests
and punish its eenmies. These divini
tieswho are under the control of the
Great Spirit felt a great interest in
the human race, and any one of them
might become the protecting genius of
any particular man.
Strength of the Golden Eagle.
The golden eagle has great strength.
It lifts and carries off with ease a
weight of eighty pounds.
The people are very good and patient
considering that all that ninety In a
hundred have to look forward to Is a
game of cards with a neighbor this
evening, or a missionary meeting day
after to-morrow.
No doubt the children's idea of
heaven is a place where all mothers
have colds, and big giants go around
with handkerchiefs every few minutes
wringing their noses.
It is perfectly natural to like more
than one kind of pie, but death to th
man who likes more than one woman.
THE BREECHES BUOY.
At Last Proper Respect Ts Shown for
the Feelings of Women.
Boston sentiment, as reflected in cul
tured circles, has always set in strong
against the breeches buoy, says th
Marine Journal. As a life-saving ap
paratus the breeches buoy has its
strong points, but there is a lack of
modesty about its operations that has
often brought the blush of shame to
the cheek of heauty on the Massachu
setts coast. This rude device will do
well enough for saving the life of a
man, but the mere thought of rescuing
a Boston woman in such a fashion has
been known to send a chill of horror
up and down the granite spine of Bunk
er Hill monument
We are gratified beyond measure,
therefore, to record that Prof. Peabody,
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, and the board of life-saving ex
perts, of which he is president, have
taken steps to veil the immodesty of
the breeches buoy. At the last meeting
of the board it was recommended that
a canvas bag skirt be furnished all sta
tions, to be used hereafter in taking
women ashore from shipwrecks.
Whether the skirt is to be flounced,
bang plain or "bell shaped" is not
stated. The garment is not intended to
take the place of the breeches buoy,
though heavens knows the cause of
morality and good government would
be greatly advanced If something were
devised to supersede it. Therefore, the
b s will be continued in use, shock
ing as the thought is, but the canvas
skirt will encircle both the b s and
the woman, and, although the former
seizes the chaste limbs of the latter
with all the familiarity of an old friend,
the whole world may not look on and
snicker.
This is a great and noble thought,
and does immense credit to the head
and heart of Prof. Peabody and his as
sociates. The feelings of a Boston
woman cannot be too much respected.
They are tender and easily wounded,
and the etiquette of shipwrecks has not
entered too soon into the midnight
studies of the deep thinkers and philoso
phers of Massachusetts. Too long has
the shameless b s b y been per
mitted to go its indecorous way. Too
long has Its shriek of exultation been
heard above the storm when it saw a
ship drifting on the rocks. To be sure,
in case of accident, the breeches buoy
is still "there or thereabouts," but the
public does not know it.
That this Innovation will be a good
thing for shipping Interests goes with
out saying. There is no telling how
many Boston women have been deter
red from taking sea voyages through
the dreadful fear that a shipwreck
might throw them Into the society of
the b s b y. While they could,
with a great effort, endure the thought
of falling into the arms of old Neptune,
or being ogled by bold mermen, the
bare thought of the b s b y was
too much for them. Prof. Peabody and
his considerate associates deserve the
thanks of Boston women yet unborn.
Hearts Are Still Trumps.
When eddycation makes a man
Git so etarnal wise
That he can't bear ter walk about
In ordinary guise.
When he must wear a shiny hat
Ter keep his idees in,
It seems ter me that l'arnin' is
A folly an' a sin.
I see the college chaps in town
A-swellin' round in style,
A-lookin' mighty dandified,
As though they knew a pile;
An' thee T read, when I git hum,
O' how they've done some trick
That would have put ter shame tht
brains
O' any lunatic.
Sometimes I see them college chaps
A-marchin' up and down
With nightdresses an' nightcaps on
They call um cap an' gown
An' some uv um go iu for sports.
An' some go in for canes;
It makes you feel real sorrowful
That more don't try for brains.
My notion is that heart an' head
Should both be uniform;
That when the head is made more wise
The heart should be more warm;
That eddycation should not make
A man stuck up so far
That he would turn his nose up at
His daddy or his ma.
For "hearts are trumps," that's what I
say,
An' though your head is full,
In heaven they won't take account
O' what is 'neath your wool;
An' ain't that just about the size
O what the world complains?
It wants more love an' tenderness
More than it wants for brains.
Woman's Home Companion.
Finds Revenge at Last.
We see by an item in our Harlan cor
respondence that a cow down there died
from drinking too much water. It is
hoped this will be a warning to other
cows. We have toted water for a cow
ourselves, and when, after turning up
her nose and sniffing around as though
she didn't think much of water any
way, and we might go to hades with It,
she suddenly ' changed her mind and
swallowed a bucketful in two gulps and
kept on doing so for ten or fifteen times
and called for more, we just whacked
her over the head with the empty buck
et and hoped that she might bust and
blest to her! We are mighty glad to
get that item from Harlan. Gaylord,
Kan., Herald.
Buried Cities in Central America.
The list of bush-covered ruins in Cen
tral America is steadily increasing, and
some of the sculptured temples recent
ly unearthed or, rather, unjungled in
the neighborhood of San Elizario, Hon
duras, differ from those of Uxmal only
In point of size. The elaboration of or
nament Is the same, the architecture re
sembles that of the Yucatan forest
town in all Its characteristics, Includ
ing the substitution of big stone slabs
for keytone arches. The builders may,
after all, not have been contemporaries
of the Pharaohs, but peace-loving
Caziques, who fled at the approach of
the Spanish man hunters.
Canada only lacks 237 square miles
to be as large as the whole continent
of Europe. It is nearly thirty times as
large as Great Britain and Ireland and
is 300,000 square miles larger than the
United States.
No woman ever idolizes a man un
less she is self-deceived into thinking
him much better than be really is.
HOW A JAP WROTE ENGLISH.
Specimen of the Lansmasce as Exem
plified by a Writer.
The following letter, written by
young Japanese student to one of the
members of a Washington club In
which he is a waiter, is an excellent
example of English as "she" is written
by the orientals who seek to master
"her:"
"Sir: The spirit of pride and the
esteem of honor which characterize our
countrymen oblige me to write a few
words to you regardless of the penalty
j for the obtrusive Intrusion upon youi
! precious attention.
"To-day I went at the club to get my
i wages, and met with the steward, Mr.
! John, at the entrance. He stepped
back a few paces, and checking my
j way, ordered me to leave with many
repetitions of abominate oaths which
i a man of some honor can't restrain hi(
; passion from revolt on such a violent
shower of curse.
I "Anger was beyond my control, and
I involuntarily I returned my share of
( compliments; upon which he snatched
i the potato masher and was brutal
; enough to give me two severe blows
j on my person and inflicting quite pain
: ful injury.
"Through all this affair I was never
offensive; when I went there to de
mand the money to which I am entitled
he unjustly enjoined me to get out;
that is an unreasonable movement, and
canuot fall to hurt a man's feelings.
"What? without being satisfied with
that insult made my blood boil and the
veins burst with successive onslaught
of Ignominious swear. My returning
was completely excusable, for to be in
different to such an ignoble treatment
denotes the one is a stranger to the
sense of honor; and so he ought to
have realized it with abashed submis
sion. And what again? the tongue,
the countenance that was not capable
enough to wreak his savage fury, and
then resorted to the final step of vio
lence as though I was a mass of clay
insensible to disgrace and pain.
"I could not reconcile to forgive him
for such a cruel assault, and would
; have avenged the Injury with the same
! weapon he wielded to my full gratifi
cation, if otherwise a bystander med
dled in and forced my highly strung
nerves to ordinary coolness.
"However, I have no thought to let
' his brutality hide from the eye of the
right and just, and so I have taken
' some trouble to write these lines, and
; ask you please to glance over It at
once. Very respectfully, your obedient
, servant. J. N."
ACTRESS SELLS NEWSPAPERS.
Pauline Schroder Has a Stand at a
Theater Where She Once Played.
Pauline Schroder, who was until
three seasons ago a successful actress,
is now selling papers before the New
York theater in which she once won
applause. Miss Schroder is a California
woman, and went on the stage when
she was a child. The name of the first
play in which she had a part was "The
Streets of New York," with which she
was later to make such close acquaint
ance. In the height of her career she
was married, but soon left her hus
band. She went to live with her Invalid
mother in a little flat in New York.
The actress was still young, but she
gave promise of making a worthy name
for herself in her profession, but an
acidcent happened that made her a
cripple for life. One morning Miss
-Schroder started on her wheel to get
some medicine for her mother. A trolley
car knocked her down, dragged her the
length of a block, and left her maimer
and desperately injured. For weeks she
lay in the hospital, persistently refus
ing to consent to the amputation of her
leg, which had been badly crushed.
Then, for fear they would amputate it,
despite her refusal, she went home to
the flat where her mother lay. "All her
money was gone. The two women
faced starvation, and then Miss Schro
der bought a bundle of papers, went to
the door of the Casino, on whose boards
she had been a favorite, and took her
station as a newsgirl.
Leaning on her crutches, her face so
changed by want and suffering, that
few persons recognize her, the once
pretty actress presents a pitiable pic
ture. Theatrical managers who knew
her In the old days pass and talk to her,
and many a quarter is left in her hands
in payment for a penny paper. Here
and there one interests himself in her
case, and there is now talk of obtain
ing compensation for her Injuries from
the street railway company If possi
ble. That this can be done is not likely,
except at the end of a hard-fought law
suit, such as the attorney who has in
terested himself in her case promises
to carry on.
Great Greed for Lands.
It is said that the flag follows the
trade, but in the Russian case It Is the
trade which follows the flag. Russia
i has never made a movement from
I which she has gone back; her great
; land-grabber and her great Cecii
j Rhodes was called Yamak, and he pen
etrated and annexed the great part of
I Siberia for the czar of the day, and
I Russia within the last few months has
christened her most powerful ironclad
after this great explorer.
The counts of Mouravieff, uncles of
the late minister of foreign affairs t
the present czar, are known In history,
one as the man who annexed the great
er part of the Caucasus for the czar ot
his day, and the other completed the Si
berian annexation; and their successor,
the late Count Mouravieff, was follow
ing in the footsteps of his ancestors.
The Russian minister of foreign af
fairs acts independently, sometimer
without consulting any .of his col
leagues, and very often without con
sulting the czar. He always employs
men who have been trained in the de
velopment of the Russian empire, at
the expense of other people. London
Express.
Female Police.
"There ought to be about fifty women
police on the New York city force,"
said Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"They ought to be of discreet age, and
a principal part of their duties should
be the looking out for young girls com.
ing to the city as strangers. And some
of them ought to patrol the streets at
night, to look after women going home
from work or the theaters."
Wise Is the young attorney who p
tmm old books,