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The Wandering River of China.

The Course of China" or as it is perhaps
known, the Hoang Ho or Yellow river, Is
once more ravaging China, destroying hun
dreds OF lives and millions of dollars worth
of property. To some it may seem strange
that efforts are not made to prevent the
recurrence of these TT emendous calamities.
Many suggesti onss' have been offered, but
the Chinese Government is not disposed to
adopt any of them, on account of the i'm
mense cost entailed. However, it would
seem the best plan, and the cheapest, at
almost any cost, to curb the destructful
stream, it that be possible, Within the
last 20 years it has destroyed enough prop
erty to pay twice over for the engineering
work OF the most costly plan proposed.
The Wandering River" would seem q
better name than "Yellow River" Dur
ing the last $500 centuries it has changed
its course completely ten times, about 500
miles separating its most northern IRON its
its extreme southern course. The striking
it breaks from the course it has been pur-
suing, it goes wandering are vast plains
forming lakes here and rushing along there,
consuming everything it comes in contact
with, like some great creeping monster.
The plains of the Hoang Ho over 400 miles
wide and 600 miles wide: millions of peo-
pie cultivatd the rich soil which has been
deposited here during previous floods and
when the terrible river overhows no one
knows what direction it will take. Flight
is useless, the tugative perhaps running
right into the teeth of the monster. And
then the terrible stream goes wandering
about, months sometimes elapsing before it
finds its way to the sea-
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bar have come from the West David Dad
ley Field, now retired from practice, made
over 81 600, 900 in the law, and Theodore W.
Dwigh, who died last summer, was found
after his death to have been millionaire.
Both we're what is known as corporation
lawyer&
The receipt of large fees is not the privi-
lege solely of members of the metro
politan bar. The income of the late
Lewis C. Cassidy, of Philadelphia, long e1-
ceeded $50, 900 year, and the yearly earn
ings OF John C. Bullitt. of the same citv,
seldom fall short of the sum named Bull
ltt is now generally regarded as the leader
OF the Philadelphia bar. Chicago has sew
eral lawyers whose incomes are very large,
seldom less than $50, 900 q wear, prominent
among them being A. S. Trude, William C.
Goudy and William j. Campbell, who is
counsel for Phil Armour. Senator Hill,
when he practiced law in Elmira, 10 or 12
years ago. seldom earned over $1,000 a
year, but not long since he divided with
Charles p Bacon, a former student of
his, a fee of S4OO, 600. This was paid them
BY the plaintiffs in the famous Fiske will
case against Cornell University, and was
compensation for services extending over q
period OF ten years or more.
What Leading Insurance Men Earn.
4ue NeauS Ol uedily all Tue Dig lie and
fire insurance companies receive princely
salaries. Henry b. Hyde, who not so very
long ago was a modest insurance solicitor.
draws salary of $50, 900 a year as President
of his company, and the Vice, Presi-
dent of the same concern receives
$40, 900 4 year. Others are as we'll paid
z. b. Armstrong, when he disposed of
his fire insurance business a year or SO ago,
was guaranteed 100000 year for the term
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satisfaction with NJ. Waddington, the
French Ambassador at the Court Of ST.
James. They noted his many good services
toward perpetuating the good feeling be-
tween the nations. Now, the French peo-
pie are clamoring for NJ. Waddingtnn's re-
call. They think their representatives.
friendship for England a little too warm,
and cite as proof his opposition to the
French Russian alliance.
From his appearance and name Wadding-
ton would be readily taken for an English
man, and. barring his having been born in
Paris, he is really Briton, as both of his
parents certainly were. His father was
the son of London merchant, who settled
in France in 1915. Waddlngton was edu-
Gated entirely at Rugby and Cambridge.
While at the latter college as an under
graduate he was one of the Cambridge crew
in the university boat race. Mr.. Wadding-
ton was 80 years old before he began to take
an interest in politics, but he had already
achieved q great reputation as an authority
on numismatics and geography and written
several excellent works on his travels in
Greece, Syria and Asia Minor. He had
been in politics six years when he was
elected, in 1871, to the National
Assembly by over $4,000 votes From
LndL IlUuc ON Ills career mas DeeH cACep-
tionally brilliant. In 1873 he was Minister
of Public Instruction in NJ. Theirs Cabi-
net and three years later was elected to the
Senate. A few weeks afterward NJ. Du-
faure became Premier and again Mr. Wad-
dington was given the Public Instruct on
portfolio. In 1877 he was foreign Minister
and the following year was sent to Berlin
cs First French Plenipotentiary. On his
return he succeeded Dufaure as Premier,
but only for few months, NJ. de Freycinet
taking his place. He still remained an
active member OF the Senate, and in 1883
was sent to Moscow to represent France at
tine coronization of the Gar, and month
later made Minister to England, where he
has since remained.
Mr.. Waddington is we'll liked BY those
whom he calls friends, but to others his
cold, dignitied manner is somewhat repeI-
lent. He is of medium height, with gray
hair and whiskers and blue eyes, and has
the appearance of robust health.
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by the next steamer The largest fee ever
paid to physician, $780, 900, was received
by the late DR.. Willard Parker for the sue
cesstul removal of an execresence from the
face and neck of the son and heir of one of
the wealthiest families in the vicinity of
New York. Should he succeed in curing
st. Louis heiress of a slight mental trouble
that has bothered her from childhood, DR..
William Bradley, of that city, is to re-
ceive a cash fee of S56, 000 DR.. Bradley
has had the case under treatment for some
time and believes that he will earn his fee.
Acting Is Paying Profession.
Acting, all things considered, is now one
of the best paid callings in which a bright
man or woman can engage. The average
leading man or woman receives from 500 to
$500 a week. The second man or
woman Guvenile) in frst-class
company is paid from SIS to S10O a
week, and the comedian and soubrette
aboue the same. the leading people of the
variety stage are all well paid. Harry Ker-
nell, when in health, was always sure of
$3.50 weekly, and Gus Williams before he
became star, used to demand and receive
a salary OF $3.50 a week. Carmencita earns
5000 a week, and the late Pat Rooney, the
prince of improvisatores, for a long time
commanded S400 week. But 1t is upon
the kings and queens of the legitimate that
the golden rewards of the theatrical pro-
fession are bestowed. Daniel Frohman,
three or Jour years ago, paid
Modieska S1,750 week for her
personal services, and considered that
he had made profitable investment.
Booth and Barrett, at the end of the first
season they appeared together, divided up
S362, 900; Henry Irving, on his first Ameri-
can tour under Abbey's management,
played to e4O5,O0O in q weeks; one of
Bernhardt's American tours netted her
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earn all the way from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year and their incomes, like those of law
yers, vary greatly from year to year. The
illustrator who makes S., 00O year is con-
sidered lucky by his fellows. Nearly all
artists in black and white aspire to become
painters, and with good reason, as the
painter whose reputation is established
generally makes money rapidly, and espe-
cially is this true of portrait painters.
Upon no subject is more misinformation
aioat than there is about the earnings of
the artists first cousin, the author. Several
OF our leading authors are credited with
fabulous incomes, which to their infinite
regret, they do not receive. Mark Twain
is rich but he has made the greater part of
his fortune as a publisher and not as an
author. Joe Howard probably earns more
money than any other American newspaper
worker who has no proprietory interest in
newspapers; but there are to-day in New
York 9, 900 newspaper workers who average
S25 a week, and there are less than two
score who earn more than S100 in the same
period. 49,.
Preaching Pays weu Sometimes.
The leading ministers. OF New York city
are well cared for in financial way. DR..
John Hall, pastor Of the Fifth Avenue
Church, whom Robert Bonner found preach
ing to a small congregation in Dublin, and
induced to come to America, heads the list
of ministerial money-makers He is paid
$40, 900 year by his church, receives s., 900
as Chancellor OF the University OF New York
and doubtless makes as much more by his
writings for the New York Ledger.
T. Dewitt Talmage is paid Sl2, 900 a year
by the Brooklyn Tabernacle and his edito-
rial work and lectures bring his yearly in
come up to $4,000 Dr. Morgan Dix, the
rector of Old Trinity, receives $4,000
yearly; DR.. Brown, rector OF St. Thomas,
SIS 1000; DR.. Huntington, rector of Grace
Church, $4,000; DR.. Greer, of St. Barthol-
omew's, $4,000; Dr. Rainsford, of St.
Georges, $4,000; DR.. Charles Hall,
who is very eloquent and whose
church, the Fifth Avenue Presbyte-
rian, is always crowded, SIS, 900; Rev. Rob
ert Collyer, OF the Park Avenue Unitarian
Church, $40, 900; DR.. Charles r. Parkhurst,
Of the Madison Square Church, 200, and
DIR. John R Paxton, who breaches to Jay
Gould and other millionaires, SIS, 900. To
the average country clergyman. who must
worry along on ST., 900 year or less, the
salaries of his favored city brothers must
seem, indeed, prlncely.
RUFUS R. WILSON.
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q year, but their number is small, and, as
their lot is an arduous one, lawyers avoid it
whenever possible. The incomes, even of
the most successful lawyers, vary greatly
from year to year, and this probably con-
duces to making many of them the inveterate
sPendthrifts they are known to be.
Spending Fifty Thousand Year.
The late S. NJ. L. Barlow was long one of
the largest money-makers at the New York
bar, but died a bankrupt, and James
Strahan, whose annual earnings for manv
years seldom fell below S50, 900, left his
heirs nothing but his law books At the
present time the earnings of John E Par
sons are probably larger than those of any
other New York lawyer. He earns regu-
larly from $50 900 to 500, Ooa year, and it
is the general opinion o. the profession that
The fee which be received for organizing
the sugar trust, which has since been dis
solved by the conrts, did Eot fall below
$3.50, 900 and some estimates have put it at
treble that sum. 1t was without doubt the
largest single fee ever received by an
American LAWYER.
The earnings of James C. Carter are
nearly as large as those of Mr. Parsons. and
it is said that the annual income of Bourke
Cochran has for several years exceeded
S100, 600, but portion of this great sum
has come yearly from the successful specu-
lations tor which the brainy and eloquent
Irish lawyer is known TO have fondness.
A list OF the New York LAWYERS who rcgu-
larly earn more than $4,000 year would
include, besides those already named,
Joseph H. Choate, Benjamin +. Tracv,
Frederick R. Coudert, Robert G. Ingersoll,
Elihu Root, ArtemuG II. Holmes, II GRACE
RUSSELL, S. T. c. Dood and George Hoadley.
Brains Come From the West.
Ingersoll, Dodd and Hoadley are West
EN- men, Dodd now being chief counsel for
tie Standard Oil Company, and it is an in
tgesting tact that in recent years nearly all
oi the strongest recruits to the New York
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A Famous Music Teacher.

There died recently in England man
whose name was scarcely known, if at all,
in this country, and yet many of the mos
distinguished members of the lyric, dra-
matio and other professio ms owed a very
considerable part of their fame to him. Be
he actor or orator, lawyer or clergyman,
there is nothing that so quickly earns
favor as the possession of good voice and
as NJ. Emil Behnke had strengthened and
cultivated the vocal organs of some of the
most famous persons in England, he
is entitled to some part of this
fame. NJ. Behnke arranged a system
of cultivating the voice, which is now con-
sidered one of the best known. The volume
which he published on the subject: 'Voice,
Song and Speech" was not remarkable for
its style, composition or construction, but
it fairly teemed with information on the
subject discussed. 1t is now in its thir-
teenth edition, while his "Voice Training
Exercises" has reached its si1t1esh thou
sand
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Burgess, Nat Goodwin, Sol Smith Russell,
Edward Harrigan, Oliver Doud Byron,
James H. Wallick and Richard Mansfield
are all large and steady money makers, and
all are well-to-do, Jefferson being probably
the richest of the lot. Comedy, with few
exceptions, always pays better than tragedy,
and Francis Wilson, of comic opera lame,
is probably the largest and steadiest money
maker now before the American public.
He relinquished salary of $500 week to
become star, and his starring tours have
all been immensely profitable. Wilson is
economical in his ways, and if he lives ten
years will be very rich man.
Mary Anderson, before she left the stage,
frequently made s., 900 a week, and Lillian
Russell, Pauline Hall, Lotta, Modjeska,
Fanny Davenport, Maggie Mitchell, Clara
Morris and Annie Pixley each made COM
Portable fortune every year. Lotta is worth
close to a million. Patti never sings for
less than $1,000 night; Sembrich has
often received 81, 500 for a single
performance; Campaaini has been paid
Ss, 600 mouth and Jean de Reszke, DUR
ing his Americun tour last year, was paid
81, 800 for each performance, and 20 per cent
OF the box receipts. His brother Edouard
was paid $500 for each performance. Play
making, when one succeeds at it, is one of
the most profitable of callings. Bronson
Howard, Charles H. Hoyt, Henry c. de
Mile, David Belasco and William H. Gill
ette all make not less than S25, 900 every
year, and Howard's income in some recent
years has often trebled that amount.
Illustrating at Eight Thousand Year.
What does the professional artist earn? is
a question to which no definite and explicit
answer can be given. The leaders earn
large incomes, the beginners are thankful
for what they can get, and between the two
there is large middle class whose skill as
sures them comfortable living. E. A.
Abbey has for several years been paid an
annual salary of $4,000 by the Harpers,
but Abbey is in, class by himself. The
best known illustrators of books and peri
odicals are Remington, Graham, DeGrimm,
Reinhardt, Church, Kemble, Taylor, Rog-
ers, Gibson and de Thulstrup. These men
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TOTAL ABSTINENCE NOTES

NATIONAL Union per capita tax is now
due. Bills are sent out in November.
UP to date. Irwin Society is the banner
one. One hundred strong! One hundred is
good mark for all to aim ut.
FROM eight societies that have sent in
October reports gain of 81 over last year is
reported. Keep up thegood work.
THE new circular prepared by the Liter
ary Committee, calling attention to the
pledge cards. is now ready for mailing.
The indefatgable worker Mr.. p w.
Joyce, has been in active service for Is
years. Mr.. Joyce and the Pittsbur, Union
are inseparable names.
In ordering tracts societies would be
better, served by paying for the full year in
advance. In this way time and postage
would he saved. Send the Union Secretary
$6 for 100 a month by mail.
BLANKS for October reports sent out by
General Secretay Nolan, come in very
slowly. Local secretaries sh oulu be more
prompt; no society can hope to get along
with Q negligent secretary.
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JAIL BREAKERS FoILEp.
By the Aid of an Internal Machine They
Kad Nearly Escaped.

By the Aid OF an Internal Machine They
Kad Nearly Escaped.
BOSTON, Nov. 5.-[SpeciaL 1.-The in
mates of the State prison. with the aid of
an internal machine, made last evening one
of the boldest attempts at an escape by
burning the prison itself that has been
attempted for many year. Had not the
plan been prematureIy discovered all or
part of the prison would be in ashes At
lookup time the men all passed to their
cells and the regular routine watch was set.
A little before II o'clock the officers on
watch smelt smoke coming from the direc-
tion of the shop, and proceeding there
found very lively little blaze under the
benches. An alarm was pulled at once
from the prison box, while the officers
themselves started fighting the fire and ex.
tingushed 1t without much trouble.
On examining the debris very neat in
fernal machine, made of the traditional
wooden box, was discovered Inside of
this there was clock movement, arranged
with an alarm so that the descending lever
would strike bunch of matches and fire
the handful of oiled cotton waste that was
placed in the bottom. The entire arrange
ment was placed in o box OF shanks and
carefully hidden.
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EARNING BIG MONEY.
The Incomes of Some of the
Leaders in the Various
Professions.
LAWYERS THE BEST OFF.
The Fee for Organizing the Sugar
Trust Put at $250,000.
A GOOD MANY s5O,OO0 MEN
In the Insurance, Railroad and other
Important Businesses.
LAWYERS THE BEST OFF.
A GOOD MANY s50,000 MEN
In the Insurance, Railroad and other
Important Businesses.
SALARIES PAID ACTORS, ARTISTS. ETC

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsrkroHl
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Recently ! talked
with some of the leading and best in
formed professional men of this country on
the question of income. The facts and
figures they gave me l believe to be the
nearest accurate obtainsble.
In no profession are the financial rewards
which attend success more munihcent than
in the legal profession, but it is neverthe-
less fact that the average income of the
successful lawyers of this big town is not
much over or under 5000 a year, and in
few instances is it equal to the capacity of
the man who receives it. Many of the large
law frms of New York have in their employ
lawyers, bright and capable men, too, who
try their minor causes and receive salaries
of from 81, 600 to g, 900 yes.. Some law
yers OF this class receive as high as SO, 900
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eral Louis Fitzgerald, President of the
Mercantile Trust, 800 600; while the salaries
of the bank presidents of New York range
from $40, 900 to SIS, 900. 1t is generally con-
ceded that the latter earn their paw.
The heads of the great railroad corpora
tions are nearly all well paid What SAL
ary Chauncey NJ. Depew receives as Presi-
dent of the New York Central is known to
few save himself and his employers, the
Vanderbilts, but it cannot fall below $780,,
900 year George B. Roberts, Pres
ident of the Pennsylvania, receives
q salary of $50, and President
cry 12-month for his services to the Read
ing Company.
What the Doctors Can Earn.
When 1 asked a clear-headed, well-in-
formed member of the medical protest. on
what was the average yearly income ofNew
York's thousands of doctors, he replied tn at
it was not over 81, 200, and added that the
metropolitan doctor, who, at the end of his
first ten years of practice, finds himself in
receipt of an annual income of $4,000, can
count himself one of the lucky ones. The
physicians who earn the largest incomes
and with the smallest expenditure of labor
are the specialists, and among this class are
many big money makers. DR.. 7. Gaillard
Thomas, the specialist, probably makes
more money than any other doctor in
America. His annual income is not less
than 100000, and DR.. Salisbury makes
nearly as much. DR.. William A. Ham,
mond, during his last year in New York,
is credited with having made S15O,000.
My informant told me that there are per-
haps 100 doctors in New York who have an
annual income of S10,0 and over, and
possibly a score who earn over $40. 600 every
year. DR.. Mary Putnam jacob, a daugh-
ter of Putnam, the publisher, is in a none
tary way the most successful woman doctor
living. Philadelphia has several physicians
whose incomes are very large, among the
number being DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, the
specialist in nervous diseases, vino year
or two ago refused fee OF $4,000 to run
over to England, give an opinion and return
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TEE Woman Suffrage Club will mees
Thursday next in the Carnegie Art Room.
THE Saturday Club of Wayne, Pa, gave .
tea for the delegates to the club convention
held at the Century Club November and 5.
MRS. w. H. s1vrTER, of the women's Press
Club, had sketch, GA Swiss Love Story"
an exquisite piece of word painting, In o.
tober Short 8 ortes.
The live topic at last Tuesdays meeting OF
the Woman's Club was whether the Worlds
Fair should be kept open on Sunday. The
question was argued pro and con, prtnct-
paily con, and with great vigor.
Mrs MARY TEMPLE BAYAED, of Philadel-
phia aud Pittsburg press representative for
Pennsylvania on the women's auxiliary to
Worlds Fair Commissioners, was visiting
relatives in Allegheny during the week.
TIE yassar Students Aid Society has
sent two young women to Yassar College
this year. instead of one as expected The
scholarships are awarded through q COM
petitive examination. A meeting or the so
ciety will be held soon, to arrange for she
winters work.
THE ladies of the Travellers Club are deep
ly interested in tho newspapers these days
because series OF political discussions has
been inaugurated in the club. Next Fridays
subject is "Reciprocity," and If some OF ths
fair orators do not give Mr. James y. Blaine
pointers, lie may CONSIDER nllnSeit smarter
than this town Thought he was. Free
trade" comes next on the list and as there
are only two "iree traders" in the club,
free trade is likely to have very poor show.
THE Travellers Club has decided to ap-
point each month two committees, one q
press committee, whose duty it shall be to
offer to the daily paper notices of approach
ing meetings and other announcements;
the other n committee to secure music for
each meeting of she club during their
composed OF Miss Martha Griggs, Miss III.
Eleanora Anderson and Miss Ida c. King.
The music committee comprises Mrs.
George King, Miss Boyle and Miss Bessie
Stevenson.
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Woman to Succeed Tennvson.

The suggestion which really came from
America, and was very early made in THE
DISPATCH, that Miss Jean IngeIow be ap-
pointed poet-laureate of England seems to
be taken quite seriously by our cousins
across the water. 1t comes, TOO, when the
rights of women are occasioning consider
able discussion, even in Parliament. One
member OF that body, Sir Wiitred Lawson,
emphatlcally insists that women are per-
fectly able to take their places alongside
the men in intellectual pursuits and pro-
fessions.
"Why should not women be Bishops?"
hotly contends Sir Wilfred, which, strange
ly enough, arouses tae ire of some OF the
stanchest woman's rights advocates. They
are seemingly afraid that Lawson's remarks
may be really delicate piece OF sarcasm,a as
he is known as funny man in Parliament.
Say the ladies: "Sir Wilfred Lawson may
have met Bishop here and there who was
something of an old woman, but it does
not follow that all old women would make
good bishops"