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Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

The Death of Noted American-Small-
PoS Continues to Spread.

POx Continues to Spread.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 26.-The steamer
San Pablo arrived from Hong Kong and
Yokohama yesterday.
China papers announce the death OF
Gideon Nse, United States Vice Consul at
Canton. He was the oldest foreign resident
in China, having goue there in 1858. He
amassed fortune of about So 090. 900, and
a'terward lost il all. At the time of his
death he was writing history of Chinas
relations with foreign powers.
Tie small pox continues 10 spread in
Hong Kong. About 30 deaths occurred
during January.
Few additional details are given of the
second disaster at Yellow River, which oc.
CARED DecemHer and resulted in the
drowning of three mandsrins and 4.C0J
Chinese laboreTs. The men were at work
At the time repsiring the damage caused
by the previous fools, and ? 600 bamboo
RATS had been laden with stones in order
to form brsskwster, but the RATS, with
all the worEmen upon them, were en-
quilted as soon as tHey reached the mid
cie OF the river. Great suffering Is
reported from the io8ded districts
Cold weather came on, ar the whole
country was soon flooded over.
making il impossible for boats 10 reach the
villages. In AL the large cities huts have
been erected by the authorities for the ac-
commodaiion of the sufferers. Betv Ell
thirty and forty thousand are heing taus
housed and fed IN the city OF Chochia KIN.
The whole country is a sad spectacle and
stories OF suffering aud destituton come
from every direction. lt Is esiImste9 that
20 o00 stacks OF millet stalks gili be needed
to stop the great gap cfoh stzcs requiring
fifty large carts TO brins IT to she spot 81
far the utmost exertioRs have not succeeded
IN collecting more than toiriv stacks a day.
Eight million tsels already have been s1-
pe1oed on repairs.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

circulation o personal sbese and the per
Eisseal fsIse calorue gwen - every ward
sne So ~ llal0s by senal enemies foliows1
~ he charges - nklieAsaHce IN cftos hso
net inptesSee lhe uiucs ~ macy sith tue
ldes . fey totai esprssity. Sad slso shaf ass
Sianaeoers were Examples of parity, virtue
and Carisiisnisy. II such tars 6s sei sne
remind them fhsi
~iu laen 81 Hhom the world Speskk Al
lu1 - a. Dlea 81 osQdDssss stisfl
- n 1en D41a aoapslE = atflu<-
i81 - mucf ei "a and tsol
hes a e a. cr6W the Inc
1nlxl g3od kAd "a ~ Aea Oe1 La aos
With the consciousness Of at honest enort
70 discharge my cutos faithfully Ia the
past. ] sa4il psFforn tie work Of such duty
as is appears 10 gns 10 os Iight despite he
u.alsaiolion II VindicRate enemies 0F tie
Gstsgit 81 tfeAehsrons friends
Respectfully
SAMUEL d. CIAr.
0kAND RkPIiS. Fsh IS lass
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27
WORK OF THE WEEK
The PROGRAMME FOR CONGRESS
Appropriation aud Other Bills To be Con-
sidersc In tho senate-rellsr and In-
gala Waiting To SPEAK on the
Tsrin-Euiogiss on Nr Hof-
fAtt Ia the House.

WAsHISsros, Feb. 20 The Senate has on
its calendar a. unfinished business the g.
A. Il. Disability Pension bill aud the Ed
munds bill to incorporate the Nicaraguan
Canal Company. and much of the week
will undoubted be devoted To their consid
Grafton. Senator Msnderson has the former
aud Senator Edmunds the latter In charge
on both before the end of The week. Should
this De done. Senator Allison will
ask consideration Of the bill re-
ported from the COMMITTEES on
Finance regulating the importation
OF merchandise and securing uniformity in
the Classification, and valuation thereof
known as the Under Valuation Bill,
Senators Teller and Ingalls, are wathing
an opportunity 10 deliver speeches on the
tariA. aud they will embrace the first mo-
ment offered them.
The Senate calendar has steadily accumu-
lated until il now has twenty pages. and as
soon rs soon as the unfinished business is
disposed of it will devote its attention TO
general orders as they are classified.
The House proceedings of the week
are easily outlined. Tomorrow, being
the fourth Monday in the month,
business from the Committee on the Dis.
trict OF Columbia will be acted upon. Tues
day has been set aside for the consideration
OF measures from the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds. On Wednesday,
the 10Th. after 3 o'clock, eulOgieS on the
death of the late Representative Moifatt. OF
the Eleventh District of Michigan, will be
delivered. Thursday is special order for
bills from the Committee ON Foreign
Affairs, and among those 10 be con
sidered are the ones enabling the
United State TO participate i'll the
French exposition and encouraging COM
mercial relations with South America Fri
day is private bill day, and Saturday may
be devoted TO consideration OF the contested
election case of McDutiie VS.. Davidson
from Alabama, if il does not come Wednes
day before the edlogies are delivered. The
Committee on Elections intend to call up
the case on Wednesday, If opportunity is
offered. There gre on the calendar the Con-
sular and Diplomatic and Military Academy
Appropriation bills. out there seems TO be
no disposition to take them up at this time.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

Assstic Peddisrs Making Nnissnees Of
Themselves st Prsvsdese.. X

PsovTDsxck R. +. Fec. 26--The Arabian
psdFone system Of begging peddlsrs. which
i occupying tie attention Of the New
York police, vss discovered to have rsscaei
here, s1d sirssdg to # the peidlers are
Il custody. he Vsrfy-fvs IA ber--
rescued as-s from Nsr Nek Friis7 r1crn-
anE ard before surset 6ozen ccu-
ainfs wtrs received - police head
lusTtefs Eae men frEr tered wouen s13
Ehi Greu ~ 8nceTemcet t8sslv enterinz
Z soo-s sa8 waEirz inte every part ef
t8e hsnsss aan 8s oTsrs6 Tsev hs6 =
frlnssts. hat we're uns5.e - give fks
grce of siazls srtc.e- Issfr game ss ~
shten asfs sesess women int0 zivi1E
E@m MONEY ~ 80 os.
Tae gang wse f.1ni - hsre ssksr Qusr-
fsrs - 81 Acofa-st. to Eiifts IlaF cf
Fraviserce. sni On ore - oss sfrsssez
were ssan6 snvs epes -ifh prc 81 sl-er-
seas s-sm zsl hAss'E-ss Nsw go
s.rresea rss6s1sr ers ef tas us lr1re. g
Naon rsfnrrs Fers 70 - msEe. Tse
Arss- ~ es Eurs n >susas~1 Mssss
rhassfts n ,eT fes peiice ar
taaf fasv as a. - sneax salsvsS
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27
ras SAFE WAS Empty
A Missing sersAsns ssppessd - Save
T~ksa SEAL Fartuas Nlth alu.

T~ksA s-4Ail Fertuae Wlth aiua-
AsDssos, VIE. fso 25.-Ap expert ~bo
hss been sorkiag Ga Johnsos & Rock
wood cafe a. S4a Prsiris. IA this lbzne
c2aaty. has succeeded IN opeaing tas ssfs
cut 40 money as ioaad IL il. Il i nc1
supposed sat Johnson took neatly sic 900
aiga him There W4s over $3.50 Ia the
sale tie Higtt that johnson disappeared
No trace h4s 0een found Of him TAs fGet
tbas tns szse vas t0aal empty sKplodes tas
. hat J0sEses had bssa foully dealt
.ll.
JolDs3n hss been missing for several
days He held many deposits In trGst, the
aggregate Of which can not TO guessed a..
The hooi districs treasurer hsd tne entirs
syzla0is school fund deposited there
ABOUT a. CO.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

HALIrAx, reb. pa party OF Boston
capitalists, who propose building up city
AID Summer resort near Port Mulgrsve. on
the Straits OF CaBso. have purchased eve
miles Of land for $4,000 cash. They have
also purchased a coal mine. As tais port il
the only ceIEsiD Winter port Of Cape Breton.
they hope 10 build up a large city. The
company are trying. IL is said. 10 have the
Atlantic terminus OF the railway system Of
Canada located there. snd also hsve al At.
lsntic steamers call there. The company
will apply 10 the present Legislature for
l.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27
IHE CROWN pRlNce.
4 New Expert says There are no iDdics
linn Of ni.c.sc of the I-nl.an.

4 New Expert ceys Tbsfe are no IndIcs-
tions of Disease of the L7nss.
SAN RENO. Feb. 25.--As offlcisi bulletin
was issued iosight. bearing the signature Of
Professor Kussmsul. the eminent expert IN
the treatment OF lung diseases. who was
summoned from strasbnrg. and arrived
here yesterday. The Grown Prince, the
bulletin says. slept well last night. bis
general condition is gooi, bis cough less
Irritating and his expectations less frequent
aud copious than during the preceding
tventy-four hours. A careful examination.
Dr. Kussmaui saws. oiscloses 10 traces Of
affection 0f the lungs.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

The Presidential Party Reaches vashing-
toa Yesterday Morning

WAssIser5S. Feb. 26.--Ths special train
besiing President sod Hrs. Cleveland. Sec
retary and Mrs. Whitney, and Colonel and
Mrs. Lamont from theT Southern tour,
reached here 81 3 eesock tbs morning.
The party hzd rot retired. aud we're imm rae
distsly driven TO their respective homes.
They we're oil vel, f8t iGtigus3 bv thsir
ivs dsvs isurBey. The baggage car vss
loaded down vitb fors. offerings Ire
journey vss . perfeot success. and evidently
Afforded as macb , essurs 70 toe people OF
the torns VISITED Is b the slsilors.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27
10 sTsIkE Is MoRNNe.
The Csi.sg,, RorIfnxto. Qsisev Nee -
oeif a. & Osclocs.

CsTc.so. FEB. e8 8-AsriFs has been de-
niteiy orssTei oB ths Chioszo, Burlington &
CnincT rsilr-sd .vsts1 I Vil De- iusgeur-
sed t11orroE 1orniag - clock
Iventy-ETe lhcassa3 men -
sseie1 - The strike on-
class ri tas Berioefon road sste
tast t.sv saaa asrs 1sr engineer or as13
r. aros ~ axe - nss ~ fas str re-s and
s,sH maxs every sasr7 10 xssp Ias-r trs.0.s
scir1
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

NEW YORK. lFeb. 2s.-HAuy ). Phillips
manager ana bAoker for Sullivsn. sailed for
England this afternoon on The steamer Ser
vis. ON his arrival In England Phillips
will proceed 81 once 20 Windsor where
Sullivan is IN training prepsrsfory - bis
frht vifb Mitchell Philips expects thst
bv the I0ih Of March everything vii be
ready fo bring 81 battle between Sullivan
a86 Mitchell.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

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csz ,17 ear drg gees ers-seu-t1 lsss f-sr
f,ey sre ~o-ss f-T sz Enarsszy. Nsr-A =
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se~ax gc1ss ER kz1kz %.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

Canae s.7 ses - refsre TnErs5sr rso-1-
sa rna Tsh sc s.~e sue-f0arra - tas
grac~ 81 s3r arg seete
EP Ersszs 4 CO
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

0ulF three dsvs more and you cannot
buv silks er dress eoods Or trimmings ct one
quarter OF. =. 4. kTDpEE Co
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

Hn4DE fENO CFsTN PEG cory.
FntOE 80 ga Tr4tas sso a. lsasel>.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
Chaplain M'Cabe's Great Will.

Chaplain McCabe is one of the
characters that add spice to the dry
details of Methodist Church Manage
meut. The New York Press says:
The Book Concern up Broadway is his
occasional headquarters, and the
world has heard good deal about him
for the last three or four years. Stand
ing one day on the platform, and fac
ing a great meeting of the clergy and
laity, who were discussing how money
was to be obtained for the missions of
the church, he raised the cry of "a
million for missions" The old boys
laughed at him, but he looked over
their doubling faces and answered, Il
will find it. And he did. One million
and a quarter of dollars were poured
into the treasury of the church by this
sturdy and engergetic beggar for
missions, and men who had never
given cent before helped the cause
for, the first time. He has gone on
collecting, and his success still con-
tinues phenomenal. He is in the
prime of life, and was born in Ohio.
During the war he spent half year in
Libby prison, and carries in his half
shriveled arm the reminder of services
done for the Union in Its darkest days.
He is an orator of no mean power. a
singer of church music faT superior to
Sankey, thoroughly religious man
and genial, brotherly, good fellow.
who realizes the failings of humanity
and is ready TO forgive its sins.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
A HoOsier Bard.

James Whitcomb Riley, the author
of ''When the Frost is on the Punkin, I"
..Nothin' to Say" and other popular
poems, halls from Indianapolis. He
began his career as sign-painter,
and for a time travelled through In
diana with a patent medicine man for
the sake of the unique experience. His
father could well have afforded to keep
him home and give him an education,
but he preferred his wandering life,
which is probably just as well, for it
gave him plenty of material for his
dialect poems. Mr.. Riley is about 35
years of age, of medium height, with
thin sandy hair, blue eyes and beard
less face. He looks more like comic
actor than poet, and he adds many
of the qualities of the former to those
of the latter His humorous recita-
tions are inimitable.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01

FATE OF AN INDIAN DoCToR. Hot
Creek Indians have summary way of
treating physicians when they fail to cure
their patients. The relatives of the de
ceased are justified in killing him. A
case of the kind occurred recently. Miss
Madge related how the woman that wash
ed for them lost her husband, and before
he died he told his wife that he could not
rest in peace unless she killed the doctor,
an old squaw who had practiced among
them many years. The considerate wife
left his bedside just at dawn, and, steal
ing into the wigwam of the doomed
woman, dropped slip moose round her
neck and ierked it quickly tight, SO that
it was impossible for her victim to utter a
sound louder than horrible gurgle.
The wife afterwards described the
whole CHASTITY circumstance with fidelity
that proved her keen enjoyment of the
agony of the wretched squaw She ex
planned in vivid pantomine just how she
continued to tighten the moose by a pc
culiar twitching motion, while she dragg-
ed the writh:ng creature round and round
the room. When she had at last ceased
to struggle, the wife returned to her
appeased lord, who breathe his last with
a tranquilizing sense that he had brought
about noble vindication of his DEATH
Ninetta Eames in Overland Monthly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01

THE COUNTING MACHINE IN RUssA-I
have been in four or five of the largest
banks IN Russia and many of the most
extensive commercial and railroad houses.
and nowhere have | seen figuring done
by pen or pencil, like they do in Ameri-
ca and England The Chinese counting
machine, seer occasionally in the hands
of John and Jap in the United States, Is
everywhere. If you buy pair of socks
for fifty kopecks and handkerchief for
seventy five kopecks. the shopkeeper,
even the brightest and Oldest and most
experienced, has to go to his machine to
learn the result-one rOuble, twenty five
kopecks. | venture that there are not a
dozen bankers in Russia who wouId at
tempt to discount any draft, or issue a
letter of credit, or change ten rouble
note into kopecks, without pushing back
and forward for some time the strings of
colored buttons in bis machine, indicating
numerals. But 1t is wondeful how
adept some of them are in use of the
counting machine. You may buy a bill
of goods ever so large. The salesman
keeps the machine beside him, pnshing
'out the numerals as the purchases are
made, and the instant you call for your
bill he repeats the total. The Russians
were taught most of their business know
ledge by the Chinese and Turks, and
these counting machines are yet indis
pensable in all Oriental places Of bust
ness.-Moscow Cor. New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
SUGAR CANE IN HAWAII.
LIVELY SCENE AT THE MILL-MODES OF
TRANSPoRTATION--L HOUSES,

The sugar cane is grown mostly upon
the plateaus or level stretches of land,
for the sake of irrigation, and covers acre
upon acre OF open country, down to the
ocean shore itself. The fields are defined
by solid fences of rough stones, at once
economical, durable, and picturesque.
After the first crop of grain is gathered
IN, there are two or even three volunteer
crops, known as 'ratoons::" and after
the last crop the stubble is burned and
the land allowed to rest, when it is
plowed and planted again with cuttings
from a previous harvest, SO all the vari-
GUS processes are going on at the self
same time. When the cane is ripe, it is
cut off with sharp knife about q foot
from the ground, by native, Portuguese,
or Chinese laborers. The tops and
leaves are trimmed to be used as fodder
for the cattle, and it is then ready for
the metamorphosis into sparkling sugar.
AT the mill itself all is animation.
Down the winding hillside come team
after team of OK carts, laden to overflow
ing with the succulent cane stalk, each
team drawn by six sturdy oxen, the
dusky drivers running excitedly before
them aud using, to an accompaniment of
violent language, the formidable "black-
snake, or cowhlde; whose strokes, how
ever, seem to have bnt small effect upon
the speed of the patient aud bewildered
burden bearers. Each load is deposited
IN front of the mill and then the teams
return the same way they came, so that
there is a continual stream both going
and coming. On some plantations the
cane is transported by means of fumes
extending from the mill to various parts
of the field. The cutters throw the
stalks into the fume by the armful, and
the current carries them to the mill,
where they are strained out by rough
set of wooden crossbars and on these car
ried on to the crusher. The fact that
the cane fields are, as before mentioned,
on the levels and irrigated makes it pos
sible on very many plantations to use
this cheap and effective method. 1t is
certainly the most characteristic of them
all and is possible only in an abundan.ly
watered land. Other modes of transpor-
tation are employed, as seen in the ell
evated railway in the fields of Kealia, and
the flat boats from the bottom land in the
district of Hanalei.
SugaTmaking does not differ materially
from the methods employed iu other
countries. There are the various pro
cesses of crushing and maceration, of
filtering and purifying, of boiling in the
vat and the vacuum pan, of passing
through the ''doubt effect" into the cool
ers, and thence to the centrifugal mach
inc, from which it issues the first quail
ity of brown sugar, ready to be shipoe
to the distant refineries in San Fraucisco.
Each mill has its individual village of
laborer's houses, which are either thrown
picturesquely down upon hillside. like
cast off pasteboard boxes, or standing in
neat and regular rows. There are also
the comfortable homes of the overseer
and sugar boiler, store and post Office,
and perhaps church or school.-Bertha
F. Herrick in Overland Monthly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
AngIomania in New York.

A young Englishman entered we'll
known hotel last evening in state of
great good nature, and when his friends
inquired the cause he admitted having
been the recipient of a great streak of
luck. 1t seems that he arrived in this
country with plenty of Introductory
letters but very little money. He
dined out considerably, and his finances
reached very low state. At this
stage he was approached by a very
wealthy man, with whom he had dined
and who had a shrewd idea of his
financial condition, who offered him
$50 month to impart to his daughter
the genuine English accent. OF course,
he accepted, and tried his best to earn
his salary, but his present joy was
caused by the fact that some of the
young lady's associates had become
envious of her foreign accent and dis
covered the secret of her having a
tutor, and that now he had four pupils
and was doing well.-Neco York Tels-
gram.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
Passive Beauty of Peasant Women.

One sees very many beautiful women
among the Croatians and Slavonians
1t is quite surprising the number of
lovely faces that are to be seen in a
gathering of Croatian peasants.
Tne beauty Of these countries in
clines to the passive. Madonna-like
style of loveliness, in which figure
dreamy, gazelle-like eyes and an ex-
preston of languor that tells of gem
tleness personified. In Servia and
Roumelia, too, one finds this type of
beauty prevalent, and in these Balkan
States, so recently dominated by the
Turks, the women still possess a timid,
retiring disposition that causes them
to 60 about with half-veiled faces.
The legacy of Osmanli dominion i'm
parts to the Servian and Roumelian
maiden the additional charm of mys-
tery. One sees two heavy braids of
dark hair descending, perhaps. well
nigh to the ground, and a pair of
large, languishing black eyes lighting
up features that are half concealed be-
hind a veil of tulle.-LouisUiLie Cour-
ier-J0urRdt.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01

THE SEALS DOMESTIC DISCIPLINE. -
Travellers have often said that there
seemed to be something human about
the sea-, and one story told here seems
to give it confirmation. 1t is about the
breeding rookery, where the seal pups
are III the nursery, so to speak. 'It is
certain" says Tingle, ''that half the
pups are born mates, and that the pups
equal to 80 per cent. of COWS on the
rookeries go into the water that is, ex
elusive of the young cows which come
upon the rookeries for the first time TO
meet the males. The estimate loss of 10
per cent. is caused by bulls in preserving
rigid discipline and administering neces-
sary correction in the management of
their domestic affairs. Their idea of
females duty does not admit of anv little
indiscretions, and at the slightest sign of
deviation, regardless of consequences,
they quickly pounce upon the offending
female and shake her by the neck. A
number of pups are also lost by being
washed off the rocks by the surf and
drowned. before they have learned to
swim. Fully one-half the pups which
go to sea in the fall return as yearlngs
the following spriug, the absent ones
having furnished food for their natural
enemies in the water.-Boston Adver-
tiser
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
Trying to Climb to Heaven.

One day last week demented negro
boy about y years of age wandered
away from his home in the country
and reached Kosciusno. The Methodist
steeple now being finished, f20 feet in
hight, first excited his wonder, and he
made a bee-line for it. When first
seen by the workmen he had climbed
up to dizzy height. near 100 feet from
the earth, with bucket on his arm.
The men below yelled to him to come
down. His answer, I'm gwine to
heaven to kerry God some butter"
somewhat surprised them. An Irish
man with commendable presence of
mind halloed to him that he had gone
up wrong; ''come down and go up the
other side," which advice brought the
would-be angel to solid earth, where
he was kept.-Kosciusko MISS.
Messenger.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01

AN ARTIFICIAL LARYNx. .-Gussenbauer
of Prague, invented an Artificial larynx,
through which Billroth's first successful
case was able to breathe, and by means
of which speaking could be done, and,
strangely enough, the words were inteli-
gible. The artificial larynx consists of
tubes with vibrating membranes within.
through which the air must pass to and
from the lungs. The natural voice con-
ssts of tones or sounds produced by the
vibrations of the vocal cords in the larynx,
but modified by the throat, tongue, nose,
mouth. teeth, lips. So it is easily under
stood that articulation does not occur in
the larynx. In the artificial contrivance
the membranes are stretched so tightly
that when the air is passed between them
with some force tone is produced. AS
these membranes cannot be rendered
tense or lax, the tone is always the same,
an Unnatural, morotonous sound, but
the organs engaged in articulation are
able to produce the necessary modifca-
tions in it to be understood as words with
definite meanings.-Globe-D Democrat.