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PAN-AMERICAN DELEGATES

fAN-AMkRiCAN DELEGATES
toward it when Washington and Jeffer-
son peremptorily forbade further pro-
seedlings. When the revolutions in Span
ish America got well under way, soon
after the war of lSl2-l5, Henry Clay re-
vived tho old project and made many
additions, and his plan became famous
As that Of the Panama conference"
The net result was the PRONUNCIATION of
what is called the "Mongue dcC.riro."
he gist of which is that no part of either
America is any longer subject to coloni-
,ation or control by any European pow
sr; they may keep the little they have,
out must seek no more.
For the next thirty years "filibuster-
lng" ragged; individuals tried TO do what
he government had refused: many local
rebellions were stirred up by American
idyenturers; Texas was wrested from
Mexico, and the "filibusters" were ex-
terminated in Cuba and Central America.
The United States had trouble of her own
hen for few years, and when that was
settled her statesmen suddenly discovered
hat Spanish and Portuguese America
had got through their revolutionary era,
and were developing at a wonderful rate.
Secretary James q. Blaine then lin 1881
revived the old scheme of the Panama
conference" with objects purely com
mercial, and the Fiftieth congress passed
a bill instructing the president TO invite
The other governments TO send their
representatives to Washington. OF the
eighteen invited, Hayti and Paraguay
declined; the others named their envoys,
as follows:
Argentine Republic -Senor vincente a. ouesa
la, Senor Rogue Saeuz Fena and Senior Manuel
Quintana-
Bolivia-Senor Juan +. ycarde
Brazl-Councillor Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira
Dr. J, O. do Amaral Nalente and DR., Salvador de
Mendouca
Chili-Senor Emilio c, varas aud Senior Jose
Alphonzo.
Colombo-Senor J. NJ. Hurtado, Senior Carlos
Martinez Silva and Senior Clmaco Calderon
Costa Rica-Senor Manuel Aragon.
Ecuador--Senor Jose Maria Camaano.
Guatemala-Dr Fernando Cruz
Honduras-Senor Jeronmo Zelaya
Mexieo-senor Matias Romero, DR.. J, n. Ma
varro and Senor Jose Ives Limantour
Nicaragua-Dr. Horacio Guzmau
Peru-Senor F, c. c. zegarra
sal'ador-.seuor Jacinto Castellanos and Senor
Samuel VadvieSo.
Uruguay-Senor Alberto Min.
Neneluela-Senor Nicanor Bolet Peraza
Eight measures were named in the in
vitation as subjects for discussion: To
preserve peace and promote amity, TO
increase methods Of communication, 10
form a closer commercial union, at least
to the extent Of modifying the most OBJ
slructive tariff features, and, if possible,
the adoption Of common coins, weights
and measures, methods of arbitration,
etc. The various peoples appear at last
TO have taken deep interest in the mat
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PAN-AMERicAN pILEoATEs.
government to the United States and
;hen appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary, and has since
resided at Washington. He Is a man of
arge means, and In the early SOS he
md Gen. Grant were associated in the
Management Of the Mexican Southern
ailroad. lie conducted the negotiations
n behalf of Mexico, which eliminated
II the signing Of tho new commercial
treaty between that country and the
United States in 1883.
Judge Emilio c. Varas Is tho minister
of Chill to the United States. and has
held the highest judicial offices at home,
besides being q member Of the cabinet.
Senor Jeronimo Zelaya, Of Honduras,
was long minister Of foreign affairs for
that country. DIR. +. G. G. Zegarra was
already in Washington us Peruvian min.
lister as was Don Vincente Quesada Of
the Argentine Republic.
The United States is represented by
Cornelius N. Bliss and Charles r. Flint,
of New York city; T. jefferson Coolidge
of Massachusetts,, Andrew Carnegie of
Pitsburg, Clement Studebaker of In
diana, John b. Henderson, former United
States senator from Missouri; Morris M.
Estee Of California, John +. Hanson of
Georgia, William Henry Trescott of
South Carolina, and ex.United States
Senator Henry q. Davis of West Vir-
ginia-all well known to ste reading
public
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The dressing room Is simply place to
''nake up" and throw on and throw of
clothing. Theatres are built with more re-
gard to economy of space than TO the com
fort OF the performers, and the dressing
rooms are tucked away in all sorts OF incon.
venient places. The dark regions under the
stage generally furnish space for one or two,
and perhaps Others are located high up in the
draughty lofts. No place, as general rule,
ID too disagreeable TO hold dressing room.
Another thing that has its effect is the fact
that the days ot-stock companies have passed
Gwny, and(that the travelling organizations
(outsade Of two or three of the larg-
est cities seldom make more than one
week stands One night Stands"
are more common. II is easy to see that in
such circumstances no actor or actress has
time to impress his Of her individuality on
any dressing room that they NAV chance to
inhabit for few hours or a few days. And
what il the place is dirtyi The probability
b that restless sleep caught on railroad trains
and In hotel rooms, tiresome rehearsals aud
perhaps an unappreciative audience or two,
have 90 wearied tho performer that the frs,
thing thought Of is 10 get out Of the street
clothes into the stage costume and vice versa
- quickly as possible and have 1t over with
Some years ago certain members Of 1.-THE
profession began crusade against dirty
dressing rooms. The managers, however,
brought forth an unanswerable argument.
u must lie remembered that the dressing
rooms are occupied by hundreds OF different
people in the course OF season and that tho
occupants, especially the males, are not al
wayS - anxious 70 do their share toward
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sHeLsvvIlLE's PRODIGY.

An ii.Year-Oid Girl Performs tAs nsss
Difncult Massc.
0ussie 8. Cottlow. who has recently
created a sensation In western musical
circles, was born In Shclbyville, Ills,
eleven years ago. In personal appear
ance she is prepossessing, Of average
height and size. is unusually strong, has
black hair and eyes and clear complex
ion. Her father, Morris Cottlow; is
merchant In Shclbyville, and her mother,
Selma Oldenburg, was born in Liverpool.
England.
Very early in life Gussie Cottiow evinced
musical talent. As early a. . years q
ago she proved her aptness for time and
tune, and when 8 years old began play
ing the piano by ear. She played BY
note before she was I years old. She
played "Burgmueller's Opus i00," and
the posthumous sonatas Of Beethoven
when she was years old. Two years
later she took such music from other
classical composers as she could man.
age the technical parts Of, her hands
being quite small for child Of that age.
She attended the public schools Of Shel'
byville.
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they are not. In
The Comedie Francaise. Mile. Bernhardt, Mile.
Rsichsmberg, Mile. Bartel, the two Coque-
lins, and ali the other celebrities have splendid
apartments in which they are transformed
from plain men and women into the PAM
psred darlings Of the stage; gorgeous green
room, too, with half open door, affords a
glimpse OF luxury to the visitor.
But some facetious writer has said that the
American dressing rooms remind one Of the
Comedieb because they are 10 unlike. or
courss Il seems hard to believe that the lady
Killing leading man Of the play does not leis-
urely saunter TO the stage from some splen-
didly appointed apartment-his spotiess shirt
front, his speckless broadcloth. his daintily
curled mustache seem to tell q tale OF luxuri-
Gus ease. But the Appearances are deceptive
The probability Is that the place where all
these matters were prepared was little
coop, probably not more than ten or twelve
feet square, hot In summer cold in winter,
dirty, badly ventilated, and perhaps damp
and Ill smelling. The litter OF wigs and
property" hats and coats and false shirt
fronts is not likely to add TO the attractive
ne8 Of the room either. In short, the dress
ing room Is not boudoir but q workshop.
OF course IL seems hard to believe that the
heroine Of the play, who is in the first act q
simple little country maiden, is not fresh
from bower of roses and golden rod inter
twined, and that, when she comes ON later,
richly dressed and society belle, she has not
just stepped from regions upholstered with
soft plush and hung with gorgeous satins
But the chances are that she has had 10 climb
up dark stairway or two, pick her way
carefully through confusion of ropes and
beams, dodge four or five hurry "gripe," and
perhaps lose her temper, In finding her way
from the stuffy little dressing room to the
footlights
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About the walls stood open trunks and ar
ticlss Of clothing innumerable. Hats, skirts,
wraps and shoes were everywhere.
What is generally considered TO be neces-
sary adjunct to life behind the scenes by tho
innocent public, Is u green room" IL Is not
probable that more than half tho theatres
have such an apartment, however. The
green room lin those theatres that have
them is a place for the performers To chat
and make themselves comfortable while wait.
ing for their cues Where the name green
room" came from Ia lost in the dim obscurity
Of stage tradition. Certain IL is that they
are never, by any chance, finished in green.
The popular idea OF events in tho green room
has probably been largely obtained from
farce, which some years ago was reasonably
successful, called "Green Room Fun" But
Il is safe to say that "Green Room Fun" had
very little foundation In fact Actors and
actresses are not givon to romping and tom
foolery before they "go on" II would have
q tendency TO dsarrange their mako up.
And after they ''go OFF" they don't linger
in the green room. They are too anxious to
90 to their rooms aud get what sleep they
can. 1t is said that ''ir the good old days
things were different" There is always a
tendency TO say that Almost everybody
likes occasionally TO glorify the past and
villify the present, and IL doesn't do any par
ticular harm. II is likely, however, that IL
the truth were told 1t would be seon that the
good old times" were not as good, by many
degrees, as the year OF our Lord eighteen hun
dred and eighty nine.
Actors and actresses have always had 20
travel around the country more or less. And
all must admit that travelling il growing
more easy every year. The public, too, each
year seems more willing TO give ur its sbekels
to the people Of the stage, and the more
tickets sold at the box Office the higher sal
aries will be and the less chance the perform
ers will stand Of getting the finger"
Theye seems, moreover, TO have been more
attention paid TO the comfort Of the perform
ers in the theatres which have been built dur
Ing the last year than ever before, and the
movement will probably continue II has
been a long time coming, but it evidences I'M
doubted evidence of staying powers now that
IL has at last got here
An interesting chapter could DO written on
the way different actors and actresses behave
In their dressing rooms. IL is said, for in
stance, that Edwin Booth used to dress with
almost incredible rapidity and then sit down
with a short, black pipe in his mouth TO puff
away contentedly while waiting for his cue.
Henry Irving is credited with doing little
bit Of ranting in his dressing room while max.
ing up, just to get his vocal organs into con.
dition, you know, before going ON the stage.
Clara Morris, it is said, invariably has her
dressing room shelves Uttered with medicine
bottles from which she ever ard anon doses
herself. Mary Anderson is said 20 be ex
tremely cranky" about her dressing room
md all things pertaining thereto.
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nese seem omi-
nous. Ever since the Europeans COM
PEELED an entrance into China vari-
ous calamities have tended to break
Gown Chinese pride and destroy Chinese
exclusiveness, and now the old temple, in
which successive empcrors on each 22d
of December offered the annual prayers,
and where they held special services on
occasions of flood, famine and pestilence,
has been destroyed soon after the religi-
Gus services relating to the late flood.
This was the great popular temple of
Pekin. 1t stood outside of the imperial
reserve, known as the Forbidden City,"
and in 1t prayers were offered for the
people as whole, for health, good har-
vest and prosperity, while other temples
were to some extent limited to races,
classes or special objects. The Temple
Of Heaven" with its attached buildings,
occupied so large an extent Of ground
that its dimensions cannot be stated will,
exactness, but the place of interest was
the great court in which was an altar
with IA triple circular marble terrace, 210
feet wide at the base, $50 in the middle
and 90 at the top. On the level summit
the marble pavement was laid in nine
concentric circles inclosing a central cir
cular stone highly polished. Onthis the
emperor knelt to offer prayers for the
people and the general ceremonies were
most solemn and affecting.
In another section of the vast temple
stood the altar of prayers for good har-
vests; around it was splendidly finished
circular wall, and ninety feet above be-
gan the celebrated roof. which extended
up and over the room; above it was a
smaller room and roof, and above that
smaller still. The intervals between were
well arranged for lighting the great
room, and the tiles forming the roof
were of most exquisitely glazed blue
porcelain, the effect being to give an air
Of depth, distance and intensity, SO to
speak. The light thus freely admitted
and reflected back from the blue glazed
dome shone upon a shrine of delicate fin
ish and splendid materials-the shrine Of
Sang ii, the "deity of beneficence."
To understand the significance Of these
facts to the Chinese mind, it must be re-
memhered that city and adjacent coun-
try contain two tolerably distinct races,
which are but slowly fusing into one ma
ton, and that there are practically three
religions (or two religions and philoso-
phy), slowly giving way, as far as west
ern travellers can see, to sort of uni
versal religion. But this matter is still
so obscure that one traveller says the
Chinese are all becoming skeptics, and
another says they are adopting re-
formed or exalted Buddhism, while a
third is positive they are struggling
towards broad religion of humanity.
Similarly the city of Pekin, which has
about 100000 inhabitants, is divided
into Kin-Ching, or the prohibited city,"
Hwang- Ching, or imperial city," Nui-
Ching, the Tartar section, and Wal
Ching, the purely Chinese city. The last
two are respectively twelve and fifteen
square miles in area.
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TIE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN.

These several cities are separated by
enormous walls; the connecting gates
have their peculiar forms and social or
religious significance and each section
has its special temples, while the temple
lately burned stood outside of the last,
and was as far rs possible the temple of
progress for all Chinese or all races and
faiths. The prohibited city" is inside
of the imperial city, the latter being six
miles in circuit. The various gates and
buildings are designated as ''gate of
extensive peace" palace Of earth's
repose," ''hall of extensive thought"
gate of heavenly rest and item
pie Of eternal peace" Outside are
temples for the two races of China as
well rs churches for Catholics, Greeks
and i'tr ttnts, a mosque for Moham-
nedaus anu 2veTal ordinary buildings in
which jews anu Christians may conduct
worship. III, TslA PIE of Heaven, how
ever, had in Of Way become a mat
tor of pride and interest TO all, even to
fo-- -- r~- "f all faiths.
asa, '0ember in considering
aiu s." = people we nov
heag :.iy~, vi ,I..a llaoY nius. OF are not
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HARNESSlkG NIAGARA.
The Latest Plan for Solving the Great
Problem.

Problem.
Something over year ago the Busi-
ness Mems association of Buffalo, N. Y,
raise fund of 100000 ION paper TO
be given to the inventor Of n successful
plan for utilizing tho immense water
power of NIAGARA. While the plan con-
templated that such an invention should
be turned over root and branch TO the
subscribers To the fund" which would
end all claims Of the inventor and let it
become the property Of the subscribers
as stock company, yet as one after an
other plan came forward, the prize gradu-
ally vanished into spray as from the
roaring cataract itself
Many would be winners invested
their last dollar in constructing models
and searching the patent office TO see if
- ccaet was clear for the. cla2ins And
E,Sf. .s.J presented their cisims for the
pIi1e, they found that their work had
been in vain, Not only was there no
l'~ize in sight, but they found also that
Il. was no money in sight to even test
the irc 'hility Of their respective plans.
Then = few Of the more saneliins
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THE OMAHA BASEBALL PLAYERS.

They Are the Pennant Winners Of tho
Western Association.
Here are grouped portraits Of tho players
of the Omaha Baseball club, pennant winners
of the Western association. Omaha played
40 games, won 50, and lost 81. Here are q
few points on some OF the players:
jack Crooks, the star second baseman Of
the Western association, is one OF the new
men secured by Columbus for the season OF
1880. The price paid was sl,750 Charles
Crooks was born in st. Paul Nov. 0, 1865
and is % years of age He began his baseball
career by playing at Racine college Wiscon
sin. catching for that club from 1882 until
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ter, and most Of the delegates were preu-
ent at the formal opening OF the confer
ence on the Cd. Enough is already given
out TO show that the difficulties In the
way OF common coinage and customs
union are seemingly insupcrable, but
much good may be accomplished in other
lines.
Almost without exception the dele.
gates are travelled men, and tho majority
are versed in diplomacy. The delega-
ton includes ambassadors, consuls, gov.
ernment ministers, lawyers, doctors,
editors and men Of affairs. A more rep
resentative body could not have been Sc
lected from these diverse callings and
stations. The act under which the con.
gress is to be held provides that the pro.
ceedings shall be printed in English,
Spanish and Portuguese. but most Of
the delegates from South America speak
English.
Senior Maths Romero, Of Mexico, IL 80
years old. When the Maximilian war
broke out no was sitting in the Mexican
congress, and at tho termination Of the
war he was sent % q special agent Of his
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so PRETTY ARE THEY.

Bonnets are the important question Of
the day, and are marked by their de-
"rease in size-that is to say, the gener-
atty Of them; but there are still many
large varieties to be seen for those to
whom they are becoming. Beautiful
velvet flowers, and others in deep, rich
coiors, form close borders rather than
masses ON the top, and they are made of
everything, from felt to straw, with
silk. velvet and plush, besides lace,
aud embroidered patterns. on the mate
rial of which gown is made. One
royal purple, or "Cuban prune." had
wreath Of yellow velvet cowslips with
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turned their attention toward stock COM
ranies on their own hook.
One scheme which has received IA
under the village Of Niagara Falls, where
II could be used as main sewer for the
village. Its lower rim at the base of the
cliff would be only foot or two above
high water mark, while at the upper end
Il would be, say. 100 feet beneath the
surface. At This point shafts would be
sunk to the tunnel and turbine wheels
placed at the foot Of the shafts. Thus a
direct fall Of 100 feet would be had. with
an unlimited supply Of water. By re-
peating the shafts and wheels an unlim-
tied power could be availed Of.
w. Z. Weaver, a mechanic and sterco-
typer Of Buffalo, has n plan which calls
for towers 10 be erected at the base OF
the bluff below tho village, which can be
1sO TO zoo feet high, into tho open top of
which he would feed the water by means
Of canal tapping the river above the
village. At the base Of the tower he
provides for series Of tho most power
ful turbine wheels, from which pfacti-
cally unlimited power can be generated.
The flow Of the water into the tower L.
regulated by governors, and the power is
TO be transmitted by dynamos and cables
or compressed air TO the point where it
is to be used.
This plan will cost much less than the
gigantic tunnel which has been contem-
plated. Compressed air can be transmit
ted long distances with less loss of power
from friction than even electricity, and
it has been utilized in tunneling hills
ard mountains with success in all parts
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tness ssaves truiss aisc rave placs. aAd
In fact every milliner an'i every lady b
law unto herself. Yet the tendency b
for smaller sizes and brilliant colorirsg.
Nantes and wraps will receive my care
ful attention next week. - tl,at ladiss
can see what u 10 be worn to keep them
warm. bless them! OLSvu HARPeR-
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wEAvER's SCHEME.
TllE THREE AMERICAS
AFTER SIXTY YEARS TRYING, THEY
HAVE CONVENED At LAST.

Why They Meet by Delegates Ia Conven-
tion-Tradc, Travel. Tariffs and Coinage
Arc 10 Be Considered, but There Is q
bar" Hope Of Agreement.
Alexander Hamilton and Francisco
Miranda, of fVenezuela-the conservative
New Yorker and the radical revolution
ary South American-agreed soon after
the American Revolution upon plan Of
cooperation, and had made fair start