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early day; He was mere camp-follower,
with neither position nor prestige, an in
novation despised and distrusted by the
army authorities, unable to procure any
sort of aid or consequence-his very exist
ence made possible by the only privilege
accorded him by the home Government
the right to draw rations, when there were
any. and to pay round price for them.
Mr.. Russell writes of much that is not to
be found in the books of accepted histo-
rians of the war with Russia. His letters
to the Times at the time excited wide and
often unfavorable comment, both at home
and abroad, by their wholesome criticism,
not of those in command, but of those who
had sent out an army so i'll able to con-
tend either with the natural forces or with
those of the enemy they were to encounter
quate medical stores, without even
ambulance and hospital services pro-
vided, the sufferings of the British
soldiery through that year form subject
that most English historians prefer to pass
by. Mr.. Russell, however, was not writ
ing with the Home Office in view, but for
readers of the Times, and it was his letters
that aroused thet English people to the
formation of the Times fund for the relief
of the army and brought to the front when
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21

hausted was made up out of the subscrip-
ton fund OF S29, 600. At recent meeting
of the executive committee of the associa-
ton it was found that the reserve fund
would be exhausted before the expiration
of the contract with the city unless some
change was made. Over twenty miles of
streets are swept by hand. and about 260
men who are in straitened circumstances
are furnished with employment. Besides
these are the dirt cart and sprinkling cart
drivers. 1t was found necessary to sprinkle
the streets before sweeping an expense not
calculated in the first estimate. AS re-
suit OF the conference it was decided TO
stop all work every Wednesday in order to
reach the end of the fiscal year without
exhausting all the funds.
A prominent member of the association
said yesterday: at is very short-sighted
piece of business for Mr.. Ashworth to cut
down our appropriation. Whenever the
streets are not cleaned the dust and dirt is
blown and washed into the culverts and
sewers, and it costs the city more than 5000
to keep these Clean"
Vice-President III. D. Keil says that I'M
der the present circumstances the associa-
ton will barely be able to fulfill its con-
tract. 1--WE need more help from the
business men," said he. "There are many
who are not assisting us in the least. For
merly these same men were obliged to pay
for sprinkling the streets in front of their
stores. Now they are getting it done for
nothing by our sprinklers. If they will
pay into our general fund the amounts
they formerly paid for sprinkling, and
what they have saved in damage to their
goods by the dust, it will help us very
much.
The situation is this: If the business
community and the Supervisors do not
come to the support OF the Merchants As
ISOLATION better than they have done in the
past this organization may go to the wall
SO far as keeping the streets of the city
clean is concerned. Our friends are doing
nobly, bat there are still large number
who receive the benefits of our efforts and
who do not contribute cent toward car
rying ON the work 1t is for the people to
say whether they want good. clean and
safe streets or if they will be satisfied with
the old order of things. AS a business
proposition it costs more to have dusty
streets, poor pavements and bad sidewalks
than good clean thoroughfares. If the
public will stand by us we will continue
the work, but If any further spirit of indif-
ference is manifested / predict that the
members of the Merchants Association will
drop the whole business"
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which to the Western mind is incompre-
hens1ble, but no more so than are some
traits OF our Western civilization to the
japanese mind. Our literary references to
women is one of these traits. Mr.. Hearn
recalls the difficulty he once had in ex-
plalnlng to an advanced class this line
from Tennyson:
She is more beautiful than day.
"The students could understand the
use OF the adjective beautiful to qualify
day, and the use of the same adjective
separately to qualify the word maid, but
that there could exist in any mortal mind
the least idea of analogy between the
beauty of day and the beauty of young
woman was quite beyond their under
standing, yet their religion and their liter
azure accord to woman the highest spir-
itual opportunities. "The eternal fem
mime, :" however, has no place in their CON
ception. Society, even the noun that ex-
presses it, is masculine. While the scien-
tific problem of the origin of the Japanese
has never yet been solved, Mr.. Hearn is
inclined to believe the balance of the argu-
ment is in favor of their Malay extraction.
Under the submissive sweetness OF
the gentlest japanese woman sweet
ness of which the Occidental can
scarcely form any idea-there exists
possibilities of hardness absolutely incon-
ceivable without ocular evidence. A
thousand times she can forgive, can sacri-
fee herself in thousand ways unutterably
touching, but let one particular soul-nerve
be touched, and fire shall forgive sooner
than she. So, too, under all the amazing
self-control and patience OF the man, there
exists an adamantine something very
dangerous to reach. Touch it wantonly
and there can be no pardon. Of the young
men, he says, elsewhere: "They can pre-
serve an imperturbable exterior under quite
extraordinary circumstances. but under
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snaiIs which are here to be found. He has
the ducks SO trained that he can call them
hack to the boat at will, and he hurTles
them up by giving the last duck blow
with stick. After the ducks are grown
he carries them from one market 10 an
other on his boat. There are fowl markets
in all of the cities, and the goose Market OF
Canton is filled with thousands OF pros
every day. Fowls are sold both dead ana
alive. The ducks and geese are dried ana
pressed, and they are shipped IN large
Quantities all over China. Taxes will now
be collected on all such articles OF food,
and there will be nothing which passes
through the rivers which will not have to
nay q share to this fund demanded by
Japan.
One of the means ofraising money which
the Government of China will have will be
the granting of foreign concessions for the
building of railroads between points like
Tientsin and Peking. Such concessions
would undoubtedly pay we'll, and it may
be that Wharton Barker, if he will get
some ADLER man than Count Mitkiewicz to
him, could now put through his
scheme for establishing a great Chinese
national bank and the building of railroads
in the Celestial Empire. OF this, however,
and of the chances of American capital in
China, l will write in another letter.
Z r~>A< <. Cn4.4>aa~
Copyright, 1895.
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Catmur,s Cave,

Those who enjoyed Richard Dowling's
"Ignorant Essays" and his other volume
of pleasant papers will be disappointed in
this novel, which is an ambitious effort of
the quasi-sensational order. There are all
the stock ingredients for a thrilling ro-
nance, heavy villain, lightweight ditto,
long-lost heiress, fin de steele bachelor
and seeking father, not to mention pre-
posterous lion-tamer madly in love with
hideous brute of tiger, whom the heavy
villain seeks to make a coadjutor in his
villainy, but although well mixed, dread
fully well mixed, the mixture fails to
thrill.
New York: The United States Book
Company. For sale by William Doxey,
San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
Out of the East.

A thoroughly Oriental effect in yellow
and silver is Lafcadio Hearn's new book
just issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
"Out of the East" is volume of reveries
and studies in New Japan by man who is
prominently well calculated to give us an
interesting glimpse at our little neighbor
in the Pacific Ocean. Mr.. Hearn was for a
number of years teacher in Japan. He
knows the japanese people thoroughly and
he writes of them with personal as we'll
as a literary enthusiasm. The insights
that he affords US upon Japanese charac-
teristics are fascinating. There is much
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
The Great war with Russia.

Under this title Routledge issues Sec
ond edition of the personal retrospect of
William Howard Russell of the invasion of
the Crimea by the allied armies.
Mr.. Russell, it will be remembered, was
the representative of the London Times
during that famous campaign, and enjoys
distinction first as being 'the father of
war correspondents" and of having saved
our army in the Crimea."
In his book he gives clear idea of what
the lot of the correspondent was in that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21

A new religious prophet has arisen
among the Georgia negroes in the person
OF Jerry White. Jerry is negro, about 40
years old, and is very black. He came into
Athens, Ga, recently from Oglethorpe
County, where he has been promulgating
his doctrines. He claims to be prophet
of God.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
The statistician.

The eighteenth edition of the Statisti-
clan and Economist far surpasses all its
predecessors. The claim of its compiler.
Mr.. Mccarthy, that it is unique and peer
less among books" will be generally adj
mitted by those who have occasion to con-
suit its pages. 1t embraces all the choicest
material and best features of compact
cyclop@dias, technical handbooks and field
guides, electric periodicals, chronological
summaries, histories and universal dic-
tionaries. Within its covers are thousands
OF curious and valuable facts never before
chronicled in abiding form under a sys-
tematic classification. Numberless rare and
useful truths, till now heeting and transit
tory, nnd here permanent niche and make
a rich contribution to the store of human
knowledge that none, whether ignorant
or learned, rich or poor, old or Young, can
afford to be without. For busy men and
women 1t is invaluable. An elaborate
table OF contents follows the preface, and
eopious index will be found at the close
OF the volume. 1t contains over 800 new
ana corrected pages included in which
VIII be found every State election
neld during 1898 and 1894 in the United
States, together with the gubernatorial
and congressional elections in, California
by counties; the Wilson and Mckinley
tariffs compared, acts of the Fifty-third
Congress, different kinds of internal reye-
nue. special taxpayers, cigars and cigarettes
manufactured, manufacturers statistics,
whale and salmon fisheries; insurance,
IRE, lie and accident; important
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
For the Sake of the Family.

A rather amateurish narrative by May
Crommelin. The story hinges upon the
family pride of the wife OF titled English:
man, who takes poor relation abroad
attracts fellow traveller of means and the
two fall in love. They plight troth, but
the girl does not reveal her identity There
is a shipwreck. The lovers are separated
both contract the rheumatism from ex-
posure during the wreck and lose sight of
each other. There is agony and mystery
for hundred pages or so, then light and
felicity, ending in marriage feast.
New York: United States Book Company.
For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
"The Grandee.''


Armando Palacio Valdes, with an intro
duction by Edmund Gosse. Spanish nov
els are rare, and the rank of fiction in
Spain may be inferred from the remark of
living Spanish novelist that "a person of
good position in Madrid would rather
spend his money on fireworks or on an
orange than on book"
The novels of Armando Valdes, how
ever, have acquired popularity, even in
Madrid. Valdes was bred lawyer, but
early left his legal tones to enter the
fourth estate, becoming editor of the Re-
vista Europea, for many years the most
important periodical, from a scientific
point OF view, in Spain. lie has published
number OF volumes of critical essays and
several novels, OF which the one under dis
cussion is his latest. THE Grandee" is a
typical Spanish tale. The scene is laid in
town which the author calls s'Lancia.''
under which name he has pictured for his
readers Oviedo, the capital of the province
of Asturias, where his early youth
was spent The picture given is an inter
esting, if somewhat exasperating one of
picturesque, narrow provincial life, So
ciety absolutely fortified against public
opinion by it's ancient prejudices, yet alive
with human emotions, passions and in
trigues. 1t abounds in laborious humor,
and must be read at ones leisure with
plenty of patience to follow the author
through the intricate mazes of Spanish
society of fifty years ago. The picture
given of that life is interesting and amusing.
New York: G. G. Peck. For sale by
William Doxey, San Francisco
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changes in the District of Column
bia as late as February IL, 1895; real
and personal property in the United
States; all the international expositions
held during this century, including the
Midwinter, illustrated; Australasian sta
tistics of population, production and bank
ing; money circulation; food supply OF the
world; population of foreign. cities and
countries corrected to date, which show an
increase of the worlds population OF over
81, OO0, 600 within the last five years.
[San Francisco: L. P. Mccarthy, pub
Usher. Price, bound in cloth, 81
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this self-control there is fiery conscious
ness of strength that will show itself in
menaclng form on rare occasions
Except of filial affection demonstration
seems to this people indecorous. Love as
well as hatred are kept within control so
far as outward exhibition goes. But the
latter emotion has at times its terrible ex-
preston. Centuries of the highest culture
have wrapped the japanese character about
with many soft coverings of courtesy. of
delicacy, patience, sweetness and moral
sentiment, but underneath these charming
multiple coverings remains the primitive
clay, hard as iron, kneaded perhaps with
all the mettle of the Mongol, all the dan
gerous suppleness of the Mongol.
The world has had so recent an exhibit
ton of the japanese as fighter that one
particular bit from Mr.. Hearns book will
be of especial interest. He is writing OF
jnjutsu the ancient art of fighting without
weapons To the uninltiated it looks like
wrestling. You see a crowd of students
watching ten or twelve 1.-THE young COM
rades, barefooted and bareheaded, throw
ing each other about on the mating:
| u A professional wrestler would
observe more. He would see that those
| young men are very cautious about putting
| forth their strength and that the
grips, holds and filings are both
peculiar and risky, In spite OF
| tllc SAcIC1SCu hO NOuAu luuSO
the whole performance to be dan
gerous play, and would be tempted, per-
haps, to advise the adoption of Western
scientific" rules. The real thing, how
ever-not the PLAYS probably more dan
gerous than a Western wrestler could guess
! at sight. Jinjutsu is not training for
public exhibition. 1t is an art of war. The
master of that art is able in one moment to
put an unframed antagonist hors de COM
bat. He suddenly dislocates shoulder,
unhinges joint, bursts tendon or snaps
bone without any apparent effort. He is
more than an athlete; he is an anatomist,
and he knows touches that kill as by light
ming.
But this fatal knowledge he is under
oath never to communicate except under
circumstances where its abuse would be
impossible. The art consists not in put
ting forth your own strength, but in utiliz-
| ing that of your antagonist against him.
self-a subtlety of art that is in itself a
startling revelation of the Japanese mind.
Boston: Houghton, Miff1in & Co. For
sale by William Doxey, San Francisco
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-12-24
Amuseraen,s.

.'The Jolly Old Chumsn will be the
Christmas attraction at the Grand Opera
Houee. W. H. Holmes is recognized as
one Of the best Yankee comedians tRube)
Ia farce comedy, and With the dolly Old
S.i;,,...,s' no will have ohanee to mora
than use his Yarioua accom- plishniSnts. as
he sas q part Just suited TO him.
The opening OF y. +. Rush's spsotacu-
lar White Crook Company at the Bij0u
Christmas, Wednesday matinee, Decsm.
Der o5th. will give our public an opportu.
nifty OF witnessing q clever and interest.
ino Extra vaganza Company with Its
catchy music. up-to.dHts novel ideas,
handsome costumes and some OF Amer..
cas- lovely burlesque ladies'.
This performance given by this spleG-
did company is suitable for the most fas.
tidlous audience. Walt for their appear.
ance.
Blunt. unctous Bill Hoey. supported by
an excellent company, comes TO the
Grand Opera House Friday night. Dec.
9th, and will present Louis DeLanqe's
new comedy THE Globs Trutter" which
Is said to lie much funnler than lilo
Flame.' In which he appeared last soasur.
and In which he has q much wider oppcr.
tunity to spread himself
Hoey has been separated from his
whiskers since lie last appeared In town,
ard will be seen for the llrst time rs q
dowager duchess. bewiRged and gown ed
will sing THE man who broke the bank
at Monte Carlo" as of yDre. with hals q
dozen new verses added to II. and also a
new song entitled Il went to Paris with
papa which oido fair to become equally
popular.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-12-24
Christmas.
BY AMBROSE $. o1TEY.


We will soon com memorate ono of the
greatest festivals of our christianity
Christmas. We celebrate tho birth OF u
Saviour, tho worlds Roieemar. The key
note means good WILL Christians. VIZ are
glad to say. everywhere have awakened
to the fact that II the birthday of our
Lord Is gladly observed we mako it sea.
SO II of glidness
We sometimes think can we. whom God
has SO kindly blest, do something toward
making som ebody else happy. somo poor
boy or girl. or load up basket with good
things and 20 to some poor neighbor and
give them the conteDts. so that they may
join in the feast also. We may not all
lind ourselves aud our surroundings lust
as we would have them. yet. by little
harder work we accomplish much ore
than we ever thought ourselves capable
OF doing.
During tho year to some sorrow has
come. The home circle has been broken.
there is q vacant seat. stiiled voice, q
buried form. Poverty. not plenty, has
boon the story OF tho year. Work has been
scarce. debts have Increased. and. as IL
" ere. clouds have darkened the iive5 OF
many. Why IL ls SO God knows. ond we
dc not always understand; but som eli mes
trials are better for US than tho ease, pow
erty may be better than prosperity, shud i.
ow more than sunshine.
The Christlon can look up and say,
Thy Will 10 doEe.' II In the storm lie
Ado iiOh bSCi NLltSl- llt
In Christ; mud when you como to thisk
lightly. is there not much left for which
they can be thankful.
Look away from your losses to what
you possess look away from tho bereave.
meat to The blessings. from earth to God.
and on Christmas day thnnk Him that he
gaVe his dear con to EaYe you, and to
take you vhere tho leaves OF the
trees never wlther. aud tho flowers never
Iade; where there Will bo no sorrow. but
all will be JOY. Tho secret of happiness
Is not In the size OF our purse, or q larre
amount OF 10 oney In them, or living IN a
palace or having large number OF bu5.
terily friends. Tie whole secret of true
happiness lies IN one'e breasi 1t ID there
you will lind the fountain OF peace anu
So throw open the door OF your hearts
to tho sunshine OF ChrisCs love and no ~
soon the chilly mlsts will be scattered-
the tears would be soon turned Into rain
bows. Don't starye yourselves Into walking
skeletons and then try to make people
believe that you have i'll health or co nstt-
tutional ailments. All tho medicine you
Will need Will be from Christs phuf-
macy.
Don't let your light go out, for IL yo
do, II Ia very apparent that the lamp is
sending out moro gas than light. You
cannot let your light shine unless YOU
have lignt. You must keep O good sup
ply OF oil or the light Will 80 out. II you
have these you must give them free ven
thation and keep ali distractions out of
tho way or IL will do no one else any good
and, indeed, Will soon 20 out
30 II we nave plenty of oil and keep
oul lam pc trimmed and clean the light
VIII shlns and others be beneiltted by 1t.
TO let all who can on Wednesday next lei
their lights shine by taking a bag OF Hour.
load af wood, a cal leo dress a pair OF
gloves or some other gift In your power
10 give.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-12-24
a wrnDrSo ANxiv4 RsaRs.
Amer Being ,inrried For Twenty-Fouv
Yenrsa Couple Fight.

~NssS' h'Nth& A"EhtJNHo'f
Kenrsa Couple Fight.
Officer Hurley Iast evening arrested
William Boyer colored. for corner loung-
Ing The corner OF Huttonwood and d
streets has been headquarters for mum.
ber Of youths Last evening they enj65.
20 Sy .,ars 0Tsss a.
sworB taat Boyer was not the worst OF
the crowd Judge Ball fined him 81 and
costa
Purnell nnl Martha johnson were mar
ried "a years ago today. They have ten
children and until three months ago lived
happily together. Purnell is ail right
when not drinking, but when the wine is
In manhood Is absent. Llst night he went
10 his home In an Intoxicated condition
and abused several mem bers Of tho fam
lily. He would not take the pledge and
put on an air oil bravado. so he was flned
S} and costs.
Onloer Lucas about s o'clock this m orn.
Ing found Harry W. Sutton on the eoaet
unable to trim his saiis. lIo was rated At
8 and costs.
Lsna Grooms and Maggie Morris yes.
by getting partly drunk Later In the
day Maggie went to the house under tie
inlluence OF intoxieatsd drinks.
Maggie shovel Lena and Lena banged
Maggie In the mouth with II plato. %
and costs will pay ths damage done to
hagglos lip and tenn pic.
John [. Duvaul. oolored. went into Fris-
by's barber shop yesterday morning and
aslsei Tor tho loan OF cants John Reed
gave him a IS bill TO get changed but
Duvual neglected to return the none v.
He was requested to furnish $500 to
answer at the upper court -
When the case OF John Farragher was
called city Solicitor Hurman asked that
the case be dismissed as thera was no
evidence. The liquor had bsen given
away and not sold. Farragher said be
was tired oil such Interference and wanted
to know the iniortuer. The court In
formed hin that his suspicious actiona
caused the raids.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-12-24
A,u.,n.n ,nnt Ma,e. plan,r Mnx i,

In last fridays issue of the REPUBLICAN
the article headed "A death blow to lint.
tators" was the production from MIR.
Morris H. Moses prolific brain, ths
author of The Brides Lstter, or After
tile Honeymoon" u souvenir that tho
representative merchants OF Wilmington
are now distributing TO their customers.
The article In question was written for X.
Sundheimer the clothler at Third and
Market, who s about to retire from Dusi.
ness. 1t was au accurately written ono
but several mistakes occurred in the type
composition which was certainly no iault
of the writer, In justice to MIR. Moses
we take great pleasure in saying that all
OF MIR. Moses articles written Tor MIR
Sondhetmsr are without the fHlntost
shadow oc exaggeration. For ono out
side of the newspnpsr business Alr.
Moses knowledge OF journalism Is hey
Cnl description.