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tactics. Theodore Runyon, the new ap-
pointee, was born in Somerville, N. j.,
Oct. %, 1922, of an old French Huguenot
family, the name originally Rognion.
He was graduated from Yale in 1S42
and has held various state offices, the
most important being that of chancellor.
The new minister to Denmark, John
Ewing Risley, is comparatively a new
man in politics. He was born near Vim
cennes, Ind, about 40 years ago, studied
law at Terre Haute, and while still a
minor married a sister Of Senator D. w.
Voorhees,, removed to New York city soon
after and has practiced law with great
success. His home is at the beautiful
suburb of New Rochelle.
The German mission, as aforesaid, has
been regarded from the first as peculiar
the record has been broken in way that
borders on the ludicrous. Of course we
had ministers to Prussia from the first,
and of one the story is told that when the
British minister proposed to introduce
him to the French minister he felt called
on to say:
81 must warn you that though the gen.
tleman is an eminent American-lately
governor of his state7yet he cannot
speak word of French"
''Ah, WELL" said the other. II will re-
member to speak English"
"But he does not really speak English"
''Ah, then, what does he speak?"
"Ha sneaks Hoosier"
This, however, was probably "cam-
condition when Prussia had really no
important relations with us. AS soon,
however, as the real Germany was Or
ganized in 1871, George Bancroft, the
historian, was accredited thereto and
was received with enthusiasm. "In you,"
said Bismarck, I'VE honor at once Wash
ington and Washburne; we honor free
dom and learning" He had just before
been minister to Prussia and the North
German confederation and received the
highest honors from the universities and
various learned bodies. He was followed
by John Chandler Bancroft Davis and
he by Bayard Taylor, whose reception
was the spontaneous ovation of the Ger
man people. They had honored Bancroft
and Davis; they really loved Bayard
Taylor
By common consent he was taken not
SO much as representative of the great
republic Of the west as of the great re-
public of letters. The news of his illness
and death followed, all too soon, the
news of his cordial reception, and no
German scholar ever received more
general and heartfelt tribute of SORROW
full respect from men of all ranks than
was accorded to Bayard Taylor. The
state department was embarrassed by
the task of selecting worthy successor,
but found him in the person Of Professor
Andrew Dickson White of Cornell uni
versity. He fully sustained the dynasty
of scholarship, aided not little by his
refined and accomplished wife, of whom
the Berlinese said that she "looked like
fascinating picture from the canvas of
Vatican"
His successor, Aaron Sargent Of Cali
fornia, had never before been abroad
and was better versed in popular politics
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than in diplomacy. He seemed to think
it the thing to speak his views on local
matters quite as freely in Berlin as in
San Francisco, and the result was that
the official press, Bismarck's organ lead
ing, made the temperature very warm
for him. His high character as man
remained unblem1shed, but he returned
home with the frank confession that the
paths of diplomacy were quite too slip
perry for him. John A. Kasson and
George Ell. Pendleton followed in turn
and made the residence. of the American
minister place of delight for scholars
and travellers of American and other ma
tionalities. Lastly came William Walter
Phelps, whose success is the pride OF
Americans of all parties. His successor
has indeed many worthy examples from
Bancroft to Phelps.
Life is very, very pleasant at for
eign court to any American minister
who is a man of culture, with mod
crate degree of diplomatic training or
even of tact and native capacity for it
without the training, and with wealth
enough to enable him to entertain with
out embarrassment. The position is
one of just sufficient dignity to make
it agreeable to the natural man, yet
not enough to cause an embarrass-
ment of attentions. In all the walks
and drives. at all the receptions and
court balls, the American minister has
place of honor. His wife is one of the
first ladies Of the land. Their associa'
tons are with the learned and polite.
the wealthy, the noble and the witty.
True, there have been complications.
First was the question of court dress,
which called forth SO many cheap witt
cisms some 40 years ago as "the great
breeches question" Secretary Marcy
settled it once for all by a peremptory
order that American representatives
abroad should wear no livery whatever.
The question of rank still rankles, as
one diplomat has put it. 1t is still a
trife annoying that the representative of
monarchy like Spain, for instance,
should take precedence because called an
ambassador. and that the American
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sure to represent us at foreign courts,
and the truly honorable list is embel-
iished by such names as Franklin, Ban
croft and Motley, Edward Everett, Bay
ard Taylor and Andrew Dickson White,
John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin
and James Russell Lowell.
Even the minor consular service has
been thought worthy of acceptance by
such men as Robert Dale Owen, Writ
Sykes, Bret Harte and scores of equal
rank, including the talented but unfor-
tunate author of Home, Sweet Home. -
Hence appointments in the diplomatic
line by President Cleveland have been
scrutinized with unusual interest, for it
is conceded by men Of all parties that
such places are outside of SO called civil
service rules and that a Democratic ad-
ministration ought to be represented
abroad by Democrats.
The successor of Franklin and Wash
burne (the two bright particular stars of
our mission to France) excites special
interest, as he is the first full fedged
minister to any European court from
LOuSldI1d 6luC0 tllO ldIlIOuo lCIIO kOOulO
in 1862 There would seem special
fitness in sending a Louisiana man to
France, and Hon. James Biddle Eustis,
the new appointee, is a native of New
Orleans, born Aug. 81. 1884, and familiar
with the French language and literature.
The family, however, is of Puritan ORR
gin. William Eustis was governor of
Massachusetts in 1926. His nephew
and private secretary, George Eustis,
born in Boston in 1895, went to New
Orleans in 1917 and obtained high rank
as jurist, and the present ex-senator and
diplomat is his son. He served with hon.
or in the Confederate army and in the
legislature, practiced law, was attorney
general of the state, filed an unexpired
term in the United States senate in 1879
and was elected for the full term Of
1861, which he served with distinction.
1t will be no light task for him to sus-
tain the traditional glory of the place,
for while it is true that our chief conf
plications have been with Great Britain,
yet, taking our history as whole, the
French mission has been the one of
greatest brilliancy. 1t has been held by
such men as Thomas Jefferson, Gouver-
neur Morris, James Monroe, Charles G.
Pinckney, Albert Gallatin and others of
almost equal note, but certainly no man
held it with greater dignity and success
than Elihu Benjamin Washburne. AS
the retiring diplomats in 1901 one by
one turned over their archives to him it
resulted that he was for nearly year
not only minister from the United
States, but for five German and other
powers and several minor municipalities
and was at the same time confidential
adviser of the French government.
All these apparently irreconcilable
functions he performed with such skill
that France and Germany, differing in
all else, agreed in honoring him. The for
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Dep.rted Grandeur For Sale.

In old st. Stephens, famous in song
and story, parish of Berkeley county,
on the banks of the tawny Santee, some
80 miles in straight line from the shores
of the Atlantic, is great landed estate
whose broad acres, level river bottom
and rolling highland, cultivated fields,
tangled swamp, stately pine grove,
groups of live oak, with here and there a
bit of virgin forest, form a domain fit for
prince. On it have lived and died a
long succession of Carolina planters, all
princes in their day, to whom, while
slavery lasted, snowy fields of cotton and
waving crops of Indian corn and smaller
grain furnished a princely revenue. And
the cattle, If not of a thousand hills, of
thousand canebrakes, was theirs, and
droves of wild hogs that throve in the
thickets of the swamps, and blood horses
were their pride.
All that is gone by now. The lordly
life of the planter has passed away for
ever; slavery has been abolished, and
the owner of the land, wearied of the
struggle with demoralized freedmen,
would faan give up the fight and offers
his patrimony for sale for song, for
barely enough to support him comfort
ably for the decade Of life that may yet
remain to him. There are 5000 acres in
that estate, which is offered to any taker
at very little over So an acre. Of that
5000 acres there is arabic land capable
of producing bale Of cotton to the acre,
20 to 80 bushels of corn, over 10 bushels
of oats, to say nothing of the possibilities
of fruits and vegetables and of horse,
cattle and hog raising. - Charleston News
and Courier.
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minister should bring up the tail end OF
the procession. But such formal affairs
are very rare, indeed, and for the most
part ones social standing depends on
himself. AS rule, there is very little
indeed for an American minister to do.
He simply has to dress well, live clearly,
talk to delightful people and keep him
self well informed on the condition Of
the country to which he is accredited.
1t certainly is pleasant. At any rate,
''the job" is very much sought after.
j. Fl. BEADLE.
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OUR DIPLOMATISTS.
Many Men Of Letters Have Repre-.
scented us Abroad.

Brilliant Record of American Ministers at
Paris--The German Mission Considered
Perquisite of Eminent Scholars-Qual-
ifications of the New Ministers.
The position of the United States
among the nations is SO peculiar that for
many years together it has practically
no diplomacy. Foreign diplomats at
Washington have therefore come to
look upon their stay there as period of
honorable retirement and digniied re-
pose. Therefore, also, it was most nat
ural that from the beginning the prac-
tice should prevail of choosing chiefly
scholars and gentlemen of elegant lei
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JUDGE TAFT.

| JUDGE KICKS. JUDGE TAFT.
sentative among laborfng men, adds that
the men would not object to a law
| equally binding on both parties and re-
! curing notice with sufficient time It is
evident that new and very grave ques-
ton is raised, and probable that it must
go to the United States supreme court
| for final settlement.
Of the solutions offered, that of the So
cialists, semisocialists and paternalists
generally is this: Let the government
take charge of the railroads and run
| them as it did in wartime. Let the en-
ployees be taken as enlisted men, and
then they can be punished for desertion.
And this idea SO far commends itself to
the vice president and manager of the
road in controversy, James N. Ashley,
that he has embodied the principle in his
new set of rules. Hereafter employees
are to be taken for definite time and
sign contract accordingly. They are
to be examined under civil service rules
and give some guarantees for strict per
Torrance of contract and are to be dis
charged or promoted by rule. 1t is un-
necessary to add that the world will
| watch his experiment with intense inter-
est
All the parties to the controversy are
in dead earnest and realize that it is or
ganized labor's big fight. His honor
Augustus j. Kicks, scarcely heard of out
side of his district before March II, is
now man of national, possibly inter-
national, note. His official residence is
at Cleveland; he is United States district
Judge for the northern district of Ohio,
ard his salary is $4,000.
United States Circuit Judge William
FL. Taft is man Of far more note, and
his career has been phenomenal. A son
Of Judge Alphonso Taft, who was in turn
secretary Of war, attorney-gener and
minister to Austria and Russia, the young
judge was born in Cincinnati Sept. Is,
1857. He was graduated from Yale in
1878 and admitted to the bar in 1880,
and his progress in his profession was SO
rapid that after holding minor Offices he
was in 1887 made judge Of the Cincinnati
superior court. Not quite three years
later President Harrison appointed him
solicitor general at Washington, and two
years later, at the early age of "a, he was
named for the high dignity Of United
States circuit judge in the new circuit
court Of appeals then created as an aid
to the supreme court. Rare indeed are
the instances in Judicial history Of such
rapid advancement.
His restraining order, denounced by
the strikers as arbitrary, peremptorily
forbids P. M. Arthur and T. P. Sargent
from issuing or continuing any rule or
order directing any railroad man to re-
fuse to handle any goods in transit from
one state to another, or doing anything
else to hinder transportation. 1t names
them and their brotherhoods specifically,
and fatty forbids men or orders to do
as they have been doing. In short, it
brings the whole force Of the federal
government squarely down on brother
hood methods, and, as Chief Arthur very
forcibly says, if it is sustained there is
simply nothing for the brotherhoods to
do but disband.
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estate and otherwise, has acquired $780,
900. He lives in handsome brick house
on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is mem
Der of the Methodist church and has
wife and three grown and married chill
aren. Frank P. Sargent, chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, is
native of Vermont, al years old and
ives in Terre Haute, Ind.
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An Explanation of ''That Tired Feeling"

A man weighs less when the barome-
ter is high, Notwithstanding the fact
that the atmospheric pressure on him
is more than when the barometer is low.
AS the pressure of air on an ordinary
sized man is about Is tons, the rise OF
the mercury from 30 to 81 inches adds
about one ton to the load he has to car
ry.-Boston Globe.
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cised great infu-
ence on legisla-
ton, and its APP
preaching session
will be Of unusual
Importance. No
one fact could
EN- h a ize the
westward course
Of empire more
forcibly than the
EaCU DnaU Ills COu-
gress is to be held
in Ogden, Utah,
a place which but
n fnrp uonnc onn
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mer asked his retention for four more
years, and the latter conferred all the
honors the United States constitution
would permit.
The German mission has from the
first been considered as one peculiarly
for scholars, as our relations with Gssss-
many do not, save in very rare instances,
involve any necessity for diplomatic
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chief magistrates
of the nation
have been more
regular in this
form of Sabbath
observance than
he. Soon after
his first inaugu-
'ration he selected
a pew in the First
P r g S b y t e rian
church of Wash
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A silver spoon winch was lost by Hor
ace Woodward of Dayull, Conn, who is
now so years of age, when he was 9
years old has been restored to him, he
claims. It was found at the bottom of 6
well which was cleaned ont.
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THE PRESIDENTS PASTOR.

Rev. DR.. Sunderland of the First Presby-
terrain Church at Washington.
The presidents of the United States
have generally been attendants at divine
worship during their terms of Office, and
Mr.. Cleveland during his first term was
no exception to the rule. Few of the
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CHIEF SARGENT. CHIEF ARTHJ

CHIEF SARGENT. CHIEF ARTHUR.
Peter M. Arthur, chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, is ma
tive of Scotland, but came to this coun-
try very young, began life as helper
in the blacksmith shops of the New York
Central, worked up to the position of en-
gineer and was elected chief in 1874.
During his 10 years as it's head the order
has attained membership Of 10000,
and he, by judicious investments in real
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TRANsMlssIssIPPI CONGRESS.

twenty-five States and Territories to Be
Represented at Ogden.
The transmississippi congress, so called,
has already held four sessions and exer-
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Portland, Me.
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FOR NEARLY A MILLION.
KANSAS TRUST AND BANKING
COMPANY FAILS.
Estimsted Liabilities ss0O.OOO and Assets
Probably 7s0.OOO-Ex-Senator In
gals Was Its President but Got
His Money Out Before the
Crash Csms-Caused by
had Loans.

hTCHIsOS. Kan. March IA. - The
Kansas Trust and Banking company
of which ex-senator ingalls, is presi
dent. closed its doors ut : o'clock last
evening. The liabilities of the con
Germ are estimated at 50 O,OOO and the
assets will probably reach 800. 900.
The coni any owns 30, 900 acres OF
land in Kansas and about 500. 1000
worth of property in this city. K. NJ.
Manley. general manager. loses $3.50.
900. IRELAND TrfL of Kansas City was
appointed receiver by Judge Foster in
the United States court ut Topeka.
Il. NJ. Manley said that there was
strong hope that the company would
be reorgunized, and he believed that
every person Interested would be paid
in ful|. He said that unless reor
gani2ution could be effected he would
be left fat on his back financially
The crash was produced by the de
preston of three years ago
The company then took or
too heavy load. but managed
to carry it till the present time. The
company quit doing general bank
ing business over year ago and nc
money was therefore ON deposit.
Those who had placed money with the
cGGnpany for investment were of the
more prosperous classes. and they have
as yet made no clamor.
John j. ingalls, has nothing to say
about the failure, but said that he got
all his money out before the crash
came.
About fifty Atchison people were
caught in the wreck TO the extent OF
SIPS, 600 They are secured by debent
ure bonds. the value of which is mat
Ter of conjecture
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TIME TABLES
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Grand Central Hotel.
A. 3. LOOMS, Station Agent,
Missouri Pacific DeD0t,
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FIRE IN BOSTON.
Three Lives Lost aud Damage to tn,
Amount of 81. 800. 900 Sustained.

Three Lives Lost aud Damage to the
Amount of 81. 800, 900 Sustained.
BOsToN, March 13.-0ne of the most
destructive fires in the history of Bos.
ton, next in magnitude to the famous
one of Thanksgiving day. 1888, and in
the same district, broke out short
after o'clock Friday afternoon and
before it was placed under control.
three hours later had burned over
more than square. had reduced to
ashes several of the magnificent new
buildings recently completed on the
territory burned over thee and half
years ago, had consumed property val
ued by conservative estimate at 81, 500,
900. had caused scenes of panic and dis
tress never before equalled in the his
tory of the citizens now living and had
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gled or MANNED at least thirty persons,
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washington Notes.

The civil service rules will be strict
ly enforced ut all navy yards under
orders from Secretary Herbert.
1t is announced that President
Cleveland has selected General Siocum
for pension commissioner.
Mr.. Hughes East of South Dakota,
claims to have suggested Mr. Cleve.
lands new policy of ignoring the ex's,
There is good ground for believing
that ex Congressman Peel will be
made commissioner of Indian affairs.
Ten members of the Illinois delega-
ton have filed a protest with the
president against the appointment of
Lambert Tree to any position.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton has
announced that he would retain all
efficient employees of the department
as he wishes to make it as efficient as
IT can be made.
There is trouble in the Texas dele
CATION. Colonel Buck" Kilgore
charges that Senator Mills kept him
out of the Mexican mission, and is very
sore over it. Mr.. Mills denies Mr.. Kill
cores charge.