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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-01

There are verv few advocates of anne ration
in the Canadian maritime provinces said H.
W. De Forest, a merchant of St. Johns. N B.
at the Arlington, land the number in New
Brunswick is less than 10 per cent
"We would like, however, reciprocity with
the United States. We ship vast amount of
eggs, poultry and produce TO Boston in spite of
the duty of cents dozen on eggs. utnothing
like the quantities we formerly shipped Our
fish shipments, which are very large to the
Boston and New York markets. have not been
affected. The horse trade between Prince Ed
ward Island and the United States is also extern
sive We used to buy our sugar in the states. but
now We make it ourselves. and it sells for an
eighth of a cent a pound less than in the United
States. The same is true of your canned goods
Now we put up our own goods, and have our
own cotton mills instead of buyingin New Eng
land We have shut your goods out of our
markets. you have tried to shut our goods
out o: yours.
The people of st. Johns are progressive
and it, business men energetic and speculate ye
like Americans. At Halifax they are slower
and very conservative. We want to make 81.
Johns the winter grain port OF the Canadian Pa
citic railroad. the harbor is open in winter and
frozen at Montreal. We are erecting elevators
and will endeavOr to get the grain that now
nnds Its way to the Atlantic scaboard through
Boston and other American cities As mer-
chant. | can say that both coun tries would
profit by friendly instead of antagonistic COM
mercial relations"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-01

DIRECTION VILLA,
ID CAPE MAY. NEW JERSEY.
open June 1.
ay2s-1m Mrs MYrRs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21

tie while the old earl lived. The cause
of his popularity lies in the fact that
young Disraeli has at last come into
his own, and may now enjoy as he will
the beautiful and historic estate be-
queathed to him by his famous uncle.
He has just become absolute master of
Hughenden Manor, than which there is
scarcely any finer place in all England,
or one with more historic associations.
A stately, castlelilze mansion is
Hughenden, fringed about with cedars
of Lebanon, and elms and oaks, and it
is not strange that its young master
should be regarded as fortunate
man.
In himself young Disraeli is an inter-
esting type; like, and yet unlike, his
great-uncle. Something over twenty
six years of age, he has not-as did his
uncle when even younger-made any
especial literary stir. Disraeli pub
lished "Vivian Grey" when he was but
twenty-three years old, and at once
jumped into fame as writer. But he
was thirty-two before he achieved
seat in the house of commons, and con-
siderably older before he could get
that body to take him seriously.
Young Coningsby Disraeli got into
parliament without any such difficulty
as his uncle had, and lost his seat in
the last elections. He has recently been
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21
Advantage Of Left-Hand Writing.

The number of men who can write
1egibly with the left hand is very small
in this country, where the fact of be-
ing ambidextrous is not appreciated at
it's full worth. Sir Edwin Arnold
stated that in Japan every child is
taught to write with either and both
hands; and he limited that this was not
the only evidence of sound common
sense he met with while in the king
dom of the mikado. There have been
many remedies suggested for what is
known as the writer's cramp. and many
writer's alternate between the pen and
the typewriter; but the simplest plan
of all is to acquire the act of writing
with either hand, and change from one
to the other on the first suspicion of
fatigue. It is quite easy for child to
learn to write with the left hand. and,
although after the muscles have got
set with age it is more difficult, almost
any man. can learn to write with his
left hand in a week, and to write as
well with one'h hand as the other in less
than a year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21
ava /.
WllI
A HUMAN FIRE ALARM.
Hlghly Probable Story Told by q Western

Hlghly Probable Story Told by q Western
Man.
81 read the other day." said west
ern man to Sun reporter, ''a story
about man with a powerful voice,
William Flicker, circus canvasman.
Remember it? Well, / knew man
once who had voice a great deal loud
er than Bill Flicker's. This mans
name was Rufus Glidby; he was black.
smith.
Rufus lived in a western town that
was small but growing rapidly, and in
which the citizens We're divided on the
question of public improvement. One
party wanted to GO ahead, the other to
economic. One party, for instance,
thought that the town ought to have
fire-alarm telegraph. The other party
said: why spend money for that
when Rufus Glidby lives in this town"
There was an idea in that, and the
authorities laid out the town in dis
tricts. which they mum bered just as
they would have numb ered fre-alarm
boxes. Then they went TO Rufus, who
was both modest man and obliging
citizen. The plan was very simple.
Suppose there was a fire in the district
numb ered "a The citizen who discov-
cred it would run to Mr.. Glidby's black
smith shop and say twentyfour' to
him Rufus would set down on the
floor the hoof of the horse that he was
shoeing, and step out into the street
and say 'twenty-four' two or three
times. His voice was so loud that it
could be heard by every body, and when
the firemen heard it they would run to
the fire.
This worked pretty well for awhile
and then something happened. For
long time there had been no fire in the
town and then there was big one.
The man who rushed to Rufus Gid
by's blacksmith shop to get Mr.. Glidby
TO give the alarm found the black
smith shop closed. The modest and
steady-going Mr.. Glidby, who lived
next door to his shop, and who was al
ways sure to be found in one place or
the other, had for the first time in
years taken a day off. There was moth
ing to do but notify the fremen in.
dividually, and this was done, but
meanwhile the fire had gained such
Roadway that before they put it out it
had burned up half the town.
AFTER that there was no opposition
TO the Introduction of a fire-alarm tele-
graph system. Even those who had
before been most strenuously opposed
TO it were now in favor of it, for they
realized fully the serious nature of the
flaw now discovered in the old method,
and. as one of them said, seeking
further justification for the abandon
1nent of his previous position: Even if
Rufus never went away from home,
suppose he should take cold and get
hoarSe. IN Y. Sun q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21
Deceived eY HIS CAUTION.

A Counterfeit Package Mistaken by Its
Owner for One That Contained Money.
/ arrived here just before the first
bank suspension. says Denver cor
respondent of the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, and one of the first calls made
was on a merchant whose nervousness
made it painful to do business with
him. no matter how large bill could
be sold to him. On this particular oc-
casion he seemed afflicted with an ex-
cessively severe attack of his chronic
complaint, and he told me he was too
much worried about finance to talk
about giving orders.
After awhile he became communities
tive and told me he had succeeded in
withdrawing from the bank that day
rather over four Thousand dollars,
which he had put away in strong box
in an actually burglar-proof vault, into
which thieves could not possibly break
through and steal He proceeded to
tell me in addition that he had made
up a dummy package representing,
and indeed counterfeiting, the pack
age of currency, which he had careful
~ labeled with the actual contents Of
the valuable roll. The dummy pack
age, he explained, was in the back of
his ordinary cash drawer, which he
showed me. His explanation of this
peculiar precaution was that as he had
been seen, by several people who had
helped start the run on the bank he
was afraid his place might be burglar
lied, and that if it was the dummy
package would undoubtedly be taken
without being opened and examined,
and the thief would hurry away with
outsearching for further booty.
smoked a good cigar with the mer.
chant andstried to convince him that
his bank was all right and that he had
taken great deal of unnecessary
trouble. Late in the same day, how
ever, the bank had to suspend, and
when l saw my customer the next day
he ch7lcbled over the success of his
precautionary measures. When l got
him down to talking business he sud-
denly remembered he owed our heHse
a few hundred dollars, and said if
would wait he would go to the vault
and get the money. He came back in
about ten minutes looking as though
Lightning had struck him. He carried in
his hand what l presumed was his roll
OF bills, and when he threw it on the
counter and rushed headlong to his
cash drawer L began TO doubt his SAN
ity. But in a minute his peace of mind
was restored and the explanation was
obvious He had made up the real and
dummy packages SO much alike that he
had deceived himself and had placed
roll of brown paper in the vault, while
the package containing over four thou
sand dollars had been lying loose in
his cash drawer without any protec-
ton against fire or thieves. His re-
marks on his own blunder were abus-
i've in the extreme.
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made deputy lieutenant Of the coun-
ty of Buckingham in which Hughenden
is, land great things are expected of
him in the future.
As yet he has not justified these ex-
pectations. Of literary tastes and am
billions, he has not shown what powers
are his. With everything in his favor,
he has not evinced any special skill of
strength in politics, although he ad-
mits to having taste for political life.
But those who know him say that ne
has brains as all OF the Disraeli's have
had. 1t may be that the fact that he
was under the control of guardians un-
til now has had something to do with
keeping him back. for Lord Beacons-
fields will ordered that his nephew
should not have control of the estate,
now his, until he had reached his pres
ent age.
a very well set up. handsome and
affable young man is Coningsby Dis
raeli, hence very popular with his
neighbors and tenants. Very swagger
he is. too, in his manner OF dress
though not, as his uncle was in his
younger days, partial to oiled ringlets,
bottle green coats. fancy patterned
pantaloons and loud display of jew
elry.
Rather tall and well built. young
DiSraeli has 4 well-shaped head, the
forehead high and broad. The face is
decidedly strong one. the nose having
a slight Hebraic cast. \ small mus
tache partly covers firm mouth and
the chin is strong being too
heavy. Not remarkable face, taken
ali in all, but good one.
Il like your American newspapers"
he said, when l saw him in Whites
club, and your reporters They did
not bother me when was in America,
but heard them 1t work upon more
important men, and they struck me as
being jolly. brainy lot OF fellows.
DO you know. think Young man
has much more chance 70 get ahead in
America than in England You sec. in
America the old men pat the young
men on the back and tell them 10 90 in
md win. Here with Us 4 young man
is told 70 so sit in a corner, bite his
thumb and watch his elsnrs until ha
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Quinnemore, formerly chief of the
Ceur d'Alene Indians, has a fine farm
of one hundred and sixty-seven acres
on the south side of Spokane river,
about dozen miles above Spokane,
Wash. and the other day the tax gath
erer thought it would be a very proper
and desirable thing to tax it a good
round sum. So he came smilingly with
his bill. But Quinnernore was prepared
for him, even on such an unexpected
mission. He brought forth a paper
which in part read thus: This patent
is issued upon the express condition
that the title thereby conveyed shall
not be subject TO taxation of any char
acter. but shall remain inalienaole and
not subject to taxation for the period
of twenty years from the date thereof,
as approved January IS, 1881" The as
SCISSOR apologized and withdrew, not
smiling.
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A WILD BEAST CARAVAN.
The Journey Of Some OF tho Animals Seep
i'm Our Mcnager;ns.

IN ouT -uchaseTses.
Few of those PEOPLE who go to a
menagerie realize what an immense
undertaking it is to transport wild
beasts from the land of their birth and
of their freedom to the land of their
imprisonment. and, too frequently, of
their death. ! will ask my readers to
picture for themselves an African
desert blazing beneath a burning sun.
Across the weary waste of sand long
column of men and animals is wend.
ing its slow way. AS it draws nearer
we see that ii is a caravan of wild ami
mails on their way from the interior to
the scaboard. And as it passes us. the
vast mass of living creatures, as in q
chemical process, slowly dissolves itself
into distinct particles and individual.
ties. Let us regard them carefully.
In the first place we notice a process
sion of fourteen stately giraffes, then
come five elephants, huge rhinoceros,
four wild buffaloes believing sadly
Hfter the mates they have forever left
behind. Then there go numbering by
number of enormous carts or
wagons, in which are safely
confined thirty hvenas. five leop-
ards, six lions, two cheetahs, sixteen
antelopes, two lynxes, one serval, one
wardbob, twenty smaller carnivorous
animals, four African ant-eaters and
forty-five monkeys. And then there
come slowly prancing by, wary, rest
less, cunning, twenty-six ostriches
There are twenty boxes of birds, from
which sounds of shrili screaming are
constantly proceeding. There are up
ward of n hundred Abyssinian goats
scattered here and there in the pro-
cession. These are to give milk for
the young animals, and to serve as food
and meat for the old. The caravan is
on its way through the desert to
Sauklm. which is the first shipping
.elace for Europe. There are no less
than one hundred and twenty camels
IN 1t, which are required to carry the
food for this caravan, and there are up-
wards OF one hundred and sixty drivers
in the procession. 1t takes the caravan
upwards of thirty-six days to cover the
distance which lies between Cassala in
the interior of Nubia and the port of
Suakim. for which .hey are bound.
1he same journey is usually performed
by quick post canels in twelve days.
GcCinras Magazine
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| eOmeS to years of discretion. 1t has
the effect of discouraging all original
| ity in young man"
Mr.. Disraeli has followed IN his
uncle's footsteps in that he is con
sentative in politics.
Il am strong believer in the con.
servatism of the people" he said, land
am at the same time believer in
keeping up with the timeA The con
sentative party advances as the times
advance, but it does not aim at revolu.
ton as the other party does. We are
the real party of reform, in fact.
81 believe I've said those things be
FORE" said Mr.. DisraeH. with a laugh,
''for I've been making political speeches
for some six years. / don't suppose
your American newspapers have print
ed any of these speeches, and perhaps
it's as well for my reputation in Amer
lea that they did not"
''You intend to stay in politics, Mr..
Disraeli?"
"Wen, yes, so far as my people will
let me. l like politics. Just now the
other side is at the bat, you know, and
Pm among the outs But I imagine
that will change before long"
"Do you think young mans chances
are as good in politics now as when
your uncle began his career?"
1.-THE chances are the same, but the
opportunities are not. It is hard now
to get your seat and harder still to re-
tain it. Most hard of all is it to make
h41,co r,o1A of CO
hundred members drawn from every
element. Further than this the work
of parliament is now done by about
one hundred members and the rest are
merely dumb figures. 1t is hard for a
new and Impractical man to make any
Roadway. He must earn reputation
outside the house as an orator before
he can command the ear Of the house.
Men no longer jump into fame in the
h ouse of commons, as they once did, by
. single speech"
In the course of his talk Mr.. Disraeli
touched upon the problem that is so
constantly disturbing England, tho
labor question, and here again his con-
servatism cropped out.
nc oC1lhC 1Ct1uCIS dIO SlIuDlN CuL-
ting their own throats," he said, land
pretty soon the workingmen will see
this. John Burns with his blatant
tongue, and Keir Hardie posing in the
house of commons in a costermonger's
suit are not the men who are going to
bring about the workingman's mil
lennium. Your workingmen in Amer
lea are ahead Of our people in this re-
spect. They insist that their leader
shall wear clean linen and observe
those ordinary rules that obtain among
gentlemen. Our workingmen will
reach the same policy after little
time
Mr. Disraeli made one statement that
will be of more than ordinary interest.
He says that he still has papers of his
uncle that the public has not known of
and that are of Importance. 1t is
his intention to publish them in the
near future and they will make very
reading when he does. The
earl of Beaconsfeld was the holder of
secrets and Of information such as but
few men knew of and that might
change the current views of the man
ner in which the map OF Europe has
been changed and rechanged. Some
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21

Boots are supposed to have been
the invention of. the Carlans. They
were: mentioned by Homer. 901 b. c.
Greek women possessed twenty-five
kinds Of footgear, which may be classed
as those which cover all the foot UP TO
the ankle and those which simply tied
o. the top of the foot with wide rib
bons and straps. The practice of shoe
and sandal wearing can be traced back
for some thousands of years and is
probably of eastern origin Frequent
mention is made of the shoe in the Bible
from the book of Exodus to the Acts
and there is mention made of a shoe
latchet as early as the time of A braham.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21
4 USE FOB CHINAMEN.
Work That White Men Cannot Ba
Hired to Do.
Here IL . Proposition Which Might Fur.
nish = Partial Solution OF the
Perplexins Chinese
Problem.

Some days ago the Portland Ore gon-
ian said: ''If we had at this moment
forty thousand more Chinese in the Pa
cific in the northwest to do the work
which white men will net do, and
which yet is necessary for development
of the country, the result would be
good for everybody" A CORE spondent
writes that ''he would like to be in
formed what the nature of that work
is and the Oregonian thus responds:
The occupation IN which Chinese Ia
Dor would mainly be useful is that Of
clearing our heavily tinbere:d lands.
This is labor which white mer, will not
or do not to amy extent perfor %. Thus
far nearly all the work of clearing our
lands has been performed by Chinese.
But it has come to a stop. Since Chi
nese immigration was suspend ed it has
become impossible to get labor for this
purpose. Higher wages are de manded
by Chinese, and no owner of timber
land can afford to hire it cleared It is
easy, of course, to assert that tn ere are
labor of this kind and to denounce the
owners of the land for employing them,
but there is test of this matter that
may be very simply made. There are
immense areas of this land yet open
for settlement. Government will give
them away to all citizens who apply.
But our workirsgmen refuse to take
these lands and subdue them. They
wouldn't clear the lands for the gift of
they can do better, and many of them
may be right.
Here then is line of work in which
Chinese would not be in the way of
white labor, and there is nothing more
necessary for development of the
country than the clearing of large
bodies of these lands. The work is
now practically at a stand. Again,
Chinese laborfwould be- useful in mar
ket gardening and fruit growing. Or
egon and Washington do not grow
vegetables enough by one-half for their
own consumption. What we have in
the way of market gardening now is
largely the work of Chinese Facts
like these are facts in spite of all decla-
nation.
AS people the Chinese are not
desirable class, since they are unfit
for incorporation into the citizenship
of the country, but in every respect
they are far less Objectionable and
dangerous than tens of thousands from
European countries who are admitted
without question every year-anarch-
lists: agitators, beggars, mountebanlzs
and criminals of every degree. The
country can do without Chinese, OF
course, but much work that woyld
contribute to its development viii re-
main uDdone. There is no probability
that Chinese will ever be freely adj
mitted again, and this, too, in all the
circumstances is well, since the pres
ence of an inferior race among supe-
rior beings like ourselves is always a
source of discomfort which political
agitators continually inIiame. In all
therefore, exclusion of
the Chinese is advisable, or even nee
but still a word now and then
on certain phases of the subject die
tated by candor and common sense, may
not be intolerable.
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of these papers Mr.. Disraes1i will NJ

of these papers Mr.. Disrae1i will not
publish, for they refer to living men
and might give pain without doing
anyone any good. There are some men
who have climbed into fame at the coat
tails of Gladstone and Disraeli and
have been at times false to each of
those great men who would find these
papers that tho carl left behind mighty
interesting. But Mr.. Disraeli will not
make these public. The papers he will
some day print are mainly of rem
iniscent character and will hurt no one.
Just now Mr.. Disraeli is arranging
these papers and enjoying the splendid
estate that is his. He loves the latter
every whit as much as his uncle did,
and it is in no way likely to suffer at
his hands. Very tender indeed is his
care for the old church in which the
bones of his uncle lie near to those of
the wife who helped him to his fame,
and the primroses that grow about
H1ghenden are no more neglected than
they were when Lord Beaconsfeld him
SELF was alive FOSTER CoATS
Horse cack weddings, in which the
bride and groom mounted on horse
back run away from the attendants,
who ride after them in hot haste, were
formerly common in many countries,
and may still be seen in Russia and
parts of Tartary.
The half-yearly reports of the En-
flish railroads for the first half of 1893
showed an increase in gross revenue of
about * OF per cent and of working
expenses of less than L of l per cent.
The increase in net revenue. therefore,
amounts TO ea1., 900. During the wear.
however. fixed charges increased al bout
1.a per cent, which left available for
dividends on common stock only. bout
s1oo. coo more than was available in
the first half of 1892 But common
stock was increased 1900, oo0. or about
50 FER cent and the dividends were
decreased slightly. for the half year
they We're al the rate of 1915 per
cent, Pe- annum as compared with 355
per cent in the first half of 1892 This
IS the lowest rate of dividend Do id
since 1857. when it was Sa per cent
\. Y. Railroad Gazette
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A PRETTY Picture.

Friends your new mali an artistic
poser?
Photographer-Never saw his equal
A young lady from Chicago came in
yesterday to have her picture TAKEN
and what do you suppose he did? He
sent out and got hammock, swung it
here in the gallery and photographed
her in it.
81 have no doubt it made a pretty
picture"
Eyes, STREE. Head close to the cam
era and feet way off in the distance.
n. Y. Weekly.
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Have you good ear for music?"
he inquired of the young man who is
both matter-of-fact and absent-minded
Il don't know" was the reply; II never
tried to play on it. ''-Washington Star.
AS She Saw It.-He-'Isn't it love-
ly here? We couldn't have chosen a
better place for our honeymoon than
this" She-'No. was just thinking
IL l ever had another I'd have it here"