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TEAPOIs ARE HER PETS.
A Chicago woman who Has . Collection Mum.
berinE Two Hundred.
From the Chicago Times Herald.
49,. L.. nIia.-a .ula L. AAaA

From the Chicago Times Herald.
There is a woman in Chicago who is the proud
possessor of 200 teapots-Mrs. Helen Crittenden
Adams of Buena Park. Four years ago Mrs.
Adams was inspired to follow this novel fad by
reading of a Russian woman who had accumu-
lated 5000 teapots in Japan. This remarkable
collection, by the way. was presented to tho
Museum of st. Petersburg.
II keep O teapot book" said Mrs. Adams.
which Is much after he fashion of the baby
book In 1t / register the numbers Of each
can never be fooled about my teapots. either.
Not long ago, for instance, several of my friends
came over on my birthday to present me with O
number OF teapots. and my brother, who had
forgotten the event and wished to be in it,
himself. slipped from the room and appropriated
made q neat little speech of presentation.
Thank you l said, when he had finished. but
i guess 1 know my own teapots.'
Among curious pieces In the collection Is q
is always used at wedding festiyities In t at
country by the bride and groom. Then there is
tho pale blue. daintily figured combination tea
pot Of two parts and two handles. Tho upper
part has. n sievclike arrangement for the leaves.
and the lower contains tho cheering concoction.
The "Mikado's chrysanthemum' Is the name
of q circular teapot with sixteen petals forming
the iuted edge. 1t Is in imitation OF the crest
OF the Japanese ruler. .
The puzzle " teapot is another queer one. It
has an irregular contour. and diamond shaped
ornamentation on the side. This piece has an
opening on the under side. into which the tea is
poured. There is no stopper OF any kind, but a
siphon-like arrangement conducts the ,iquid
poured out in regulation fashion through the
spout.
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Secretary Alger's Report.

The most striking fact in the Secretary
of Wars report is that he asks for an ap-
preparation of 500, 1865 ,445 80 for the next
fiscal year. This Is over $43,0O0,0 900 in
excess of last years estimates, over one
half more than the 500, S32,417.25 voted
for the current year, and nearly double the
$49, 1850. 136.72 actually expended last
year. In a total of twenty-one classes Of es-
Inmates we observe only two where reduc-
tions are made from last years appropria-
lions, these W reductions ag~gregating
q little over $50, 900; while in fourteen
there are increases. But 1t should be
remarked that moro than half the total
Increase over last years estimates Is
outside OF military expenses proper, name
ly for river and harbor improvements,
where last years actual appropriation OF
500, 27S, 02s.37 Is augmented to $4s, 72S,.
l60.66, making over half the total present
estimates, and nearly quadrupling the $13,.
6S3, 1O3.S1 actually expended for the fiscal
year that ended on June 80 last. In Justice
to Secretary ALGER 1t should be added that
he says he is convinced that Gen. CRAIG
HILLS estimates for rivers and harbors
which greatly exceed former estimates
are "largely in excess of what they ought
to be-" 1t is to be hoped that Congress will
reach the anne conclusion.
The mex largest estimate, $l3,37s,b7l
Is made for forts. There the Secretary ad
vises nc reduction, although the curren'
years appropriations were only $9,b17. 141
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Eom the Brooklyn EdoL

t"V DTUUNtDV LtTVtO.
WARRINGTON. Nov. 20.-Reports to the effect that
President Mckinley was interested in the preparation
Of . now arbitration treaty with Great Britain are
unwarrsnted. The President Is Just now busy in tho
preparation OF his annual message. and he considers
of the nrst Importance tho annexation OF Hawaii. the
building OF the Nicaragua Canal, and the passage Of
q currency measure that will relieve our financial
condition. When Congress has discussed and acted
upon these things perhaps he may consider tho mat
ter of q new treaty Of arbitration with England. sir
Julian Paupcefote, the British Ambassador to this
country. who is an aspirant for the peerage. undoubt.
edly would like to gain the eclat for himself that he
thinks would result from the adoption Of o new
treaty OF arbitration with his Government. he and
his friends in this country are doing all they can to
create q sentiment in favor of such q treaty. but the
Presidents advisers say that he is not fathering any
new arbitration with England at the present time.
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Mr.. pineley and the Steamer Trunks

Congressman D1NGJEY's newspaper, the
J,,,isfon Evening Journal, properly re-
Dukes the Eastern Argus of Portland for
assuming that Mr.. D~rNaLBY's advance esti-
mate of $1O,O O0, 900 as the revenue to be
ooined under the tourists section OF the
Tariff act has been disproved and rendered
ridiculous by the comparatively insignih-
cant returns from the collection Of duties
on the docks.
The comparison between estimate and
resuIts is unfair TO Mr.. DINaLKT, who
meant to include In the $40, 900 the
revenue derived from the importation,
through the regular channels Of TRADE, Of
goods that would otherwise have been
brought in free Of duty, as personal effects,
by returning travellers.
The success or the failure Of this expert
ment In limiting the value Of personal
effects exempt from duty must be meas.
ured by indirect results as we'll as direct
collections.
It ia Mr.. DINaLHT'sf fortune or misfortune
that this cannot be lone with certainty.
There Is no way Of asoertaining how much
revenue Is collected at the Custom Houses
on articles which under previous tariffs
would have entered free Of duty In the
trunks and satchels of Americans returning
from abroad.
Mr.. D1NaLEY's $40, o00,0 900 estimate can
be vindicated only by another estimate, and
not by statistics n this Is where he has
the advantage over his critics.
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SUEBEAMs.

While going over q oornneid at DWIGHT. Kan. n
farmer found a gold ring that his wife had lost there
eleven years ago.
Ann Arbor clearinghouse mattresses. feelina
strong for u tight, have been discussing a purpoae 70
prohibit smoking In rooms rented TO students.
From Merida, Yuoatan. oomes the story of an
obliging and resigned prisoner who escorted through
the streets his drunken guard. after having taken the
onicers gun sway. delivered him TO tho Jail author.
ties. and went back TO work.
AT Aisea, Or. an executor OF q win who sought tn
prevent the decedent's widow. tho executors mother
in'iaw. from entering 4 grAnary on the estate, ar
ranged q gun so that It would be discharged through
the doorway the moment the door was opened.
Horses have become so cheap in the neighborhoSA
profitable TO buy them. slaughter them. and feed the
mesh TO his hogs. An attempt to stop the practice
demonstrated that there is no law which prohibits it.
boarding school girls near Topeka, Kan, out for
AiArk ons day. used q hay stack for q shooting tho
chutos performance and succeeded in bringing down
IN" top or the stack on themselves, aud with 10 the
farmers wrath, He took legal advice and threatens
prosecution Tor treSpass and = suit for damages.
1t has been noticed that within the past year thu
chipping OF bits from the stonewall jackson monu.
ment' NJ the place where he received his mortal
wound on the battlefield OF ChanCellorsvIlIe has So.
Hously disngufed tho monument, aud steps have
been taken TO deal severely with relic hunters, other.
wise described a. VandGlA. In future. Tho reporS
says that the monument to the Union Gen. ssdEwtaa
near By Il almSst untouehsA.
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The Legal Definition of Polyeamis,

A number of Turks were excluded from
admission into the United States at this
port last week by the immigration officers
on the ground that they were polyGamists.
This exclusion is final in the absence of a
direction to the contrary from Washington.
The statute applicable to the subject, how
ever, provides that a decision by the ap-
propriate immigration or customs officers
adverse to the admission of an alien may
be reversed on an appeal to the Secretary
of the Treasury.
There is no pretence or suggestion, We
has more than one wife or has ever prac-
ticed polygamy. They simply avow their
belief in the Koran, and the Koran sane
lions polygamy. This Is the whole case
against them, which has led to the order
for their deportation.
The various Federal statutes relating to
immigration and the importation of aliens
under contract to perform labor in this
country were amended by a n act of Con-
gress, approved on March 8, 1891, which
declared that the following classes of
aliens should be excluded from admission
into the United States: "All idiots, in
sane persons, paupers or persons likely to
become n public charge, persons suffering
from a loathsome or dangerous contagious
disease, persons who have been convicted
of ~afelony or other infamous crime or mis-
demeanor involving moral turpitude, pofyg-
amists, and also any person whose ticket or
passage is paid for with the money of another
or who is assisted by others to come, unless
it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown
on special inquiry that such person does not
belong to one of the foregoing excluded
classes, or to the class of contract laborers
excluded by the act of Feb. 20, 1885,"
In the case of these Turks the question
which will be presented to the Secretary of
polygamy makes a person a polygamist
within the meaning of Federal legislation
concerning the exclusion of aliens.
Now, while it is true that no one would
ever think of calling a nan o bigamist
unless he had two wives at once, the term
polygamist seems to be applied to a person
who merely believes in polygamy, as we'll
as to one who actually practices 1t. Such,
at least, is the result of a reference to four
of the leading photographed authorities.
In the Century Dictionary We find:
"PoLroAmsr: A person who practices polygamy.
or who maintains its propriety."
The Standard Dictionary defines the term
thus:
"PoLraAnrsr: Ono who practices or advocates
p~olygamy."
In Webster's Dictionary tho definition
varies but little from the foregoing:
"PoLreAMsr: Ono who practices p~olysamy. o.
maintains Its lawfulness."
And. finally, we have in Worcester's Die.
tionary:
"PoLYoAMsr:
81! An advocate OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
"2. Ono who has moro than one wife, one WHIT
practices polygamy.-Johnson."
1t must be admitted that these deini.
tions tend to support the immigration au'
thorities here in the action which they
nave taken; yet we mo help feeling
great doubt as to whether Congress really
intended to keep out simple believers in
the Koran who have never practiced polyg
amy in their own country and can hardly
have an. intention of attempting 1t here.
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Tho Renewal OF Arbitration Treaty
Talk at Washington.

The promoters Of a general arbitration
treaty with Great Britain seem to be active
again at Washington. Their manifest con-
adence that the present Administration Is
ready to AXE up the job where Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND and Mr.. OLNEY left 1t, is explained,
perhaps, by President MoKINLEY's i'm
perturbable courtesy toward any fellow
citizen who approaches him with serious
views on any important subject.
The same general principle applies now
% applied one year ago. 1t has been enun-
ciated very clearly by the Hon. EDWARD j.
PHELPS, a distinguished diplomat and q
patriotic American:
"Compulsory arbitration is q contradic-
tion in terms, since that process must nee
essarIly. take place through o voluntary
agreement, incapable of application until
the occasion for It arises. To agree to arbi-
trate future controversies Is one thing f;
actually to arbitrate an existing contro-
versy Is quite another. 1t might almost as
we'll be hoped to prevent disputes by agree
ing beforehand that we will never have
them" That is plain enough.
As to questions of fact, arbitration can
be provided by special legislation when
ever the time comes. AS to questions Of
international law, as Mr.. PHELPS pointed
out, the process Is not available. No such
tribunal is required to decide between
nations those points in regard to which
the law Is already settled. No such inter-
national tribunal, on the other hand, is
competent to enlarge the so-called law Of
nations, and to add to its existing rules any
new proposition.
Sound and able diplomacy is now, as 1t
always has been and always must be, the
only means by which questions between
nations can be adjusted, when they can be
adjusted at all.
The Olney. Pauncefote Treaty failed for
reasons which must determine the fate Of
any other attempt of similar character.
A treaty of general arbitration which
means anything will be made only to be
broken when the first serious dispute
arises. A treaty Of general arbitration
which is so guarded and limited as to pre-
serve the nations freedom of action will
practically be meaningless, and is there
fore unnecessary.
But even supposing that the Mckinley
Administration desires to crafty the we'll
meaning persons who believe that a system
of general arbitration Is the first step to-
ward universal peace on earth and good
will among nations, why should we begin
with Great Britain2
Why not begin by making such treaties
with France and Russia, which are better
friends of the United States than England
over has been or ever will BET
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49,. u.rasn nenneee VvItharaws fFosJ
hrre-,o,n seurastisuP with an rrnpressavd
~ p.-.evvsas rnoohefent veieatetsrys
rro. tAs Ns,s YSrs Herald Of Yesterday.
xou cAn ROOF ALE n PEOPLE soMR OF IL
TIME AND soMR OF THE PEOPLE ALL TEN
TIME, BUT you CAN'T FOOL ALL II People
AL THE T~raE.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
IN. Ev.nino ~Tslsrrass ceases to appear from yss-
,.rdsy for thu time befng. in accordance with Abraham
Lincoin's wise saying that "you can FOOL All the
rsoplo soue OF the time and some Of the people an
the time but you can't fool all the people all ths
time"
Apdh. was right. The public also can fool pub
,,.heru All the time and advertisers can fool publish
A.. some OF the time. and they seem TO DO eontinu-
,nq 70 fool them all tho time. But the Epsnfro Tste.
oram doesn't propose TO be fooled all the time
An up-to-date evening paper at one cent doosnr psys
therefore those who are publishing evening papers
AZ one cent arc either fooitng the public or fooiins
themselves
As the Evsntno Ttreprau, doesn't intend either -
fool itself or fool the public II has ceased pubucaticn
until the time becomes ripe when 10 can stop being
fooled and stops fooling.
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YORK OF TIE PRo-oArHEDRAD,
uishep Petter Sees In Ht the soiution or Grave
Social Rrohiemu.

utrhop Rotter Sees IN 10 the eolutton Of Grave
Social Problems.
The Year Book Of the Pro- Cathedral for 1897
tolls of the work Of that interesting mission Of
the Episcopal Church among the poor in the old
Tenth ward. The present Pro-Cathodral is tho
former Stanton Street Mission, where Bishop
Potter spent q month during the summer of
1895. Bishop Potter has written the introduce
ton to the Year Book, as follows:
These pages will DO found, 1 think, to have
the interest which belongs to anything that
touches the various life and tho various wants.
spiritual, intellectual and physical. of the less
favored Of our fellows in q great city. These,
our brethren, arc making what is, in many In
stances. o gallant fight for God and righteous
ness; and our work among them has had album
dant elements Of inspiration and encourage
mont In many things they have been my
teachers; and those who have striven with me
in their service alone. I believe, in such
work they sec the final solution of many gray o
social questions. which do not grow less gra We
as the days 60 by"
Situated as the Pro Cathedral u.s." writes
the Rev. H. R. Hulse, the vicar, "our work must
differ from that of many churches in different
neighborhoods. We have to touch our people
on every side or their lives. Our work as g
church Is not simply that OF worship o 6q ia a.
though it uplifts them but tho tiniost, mite and
leaves them far below what we would like to
have them, still it is a part Of our work. SO it
Is that we have mems clubs without any avow-
edly religious objects. simply to furnish a place
for mcn to come for social intercourse apart
from the saloon: SO 1t IL that we have lectures
on various ,subjects-oducational, civic and
hterary; we have our gymnasium. our baths,
our schools and our social organizations. ThC
church owes q duty to tho city. as well. as to the
individual; it must stand for ali that IL best in
civic life. for all that is pure in social life.
For that reason we are working with many
people whom we have no hope OF Immediately
converting to Christianity. Our aim is rather
to Christianize them. to, let them see and fee
themselves, to make good citizens, better mer
out of them. With the rabble of Russian Jews
exiles, ignorant, filthy, utterly untitled fol
plish, and that they respond as readily as many
OF them do is most encouraging and the creates
sign of mans innate capacity for better things
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and the actual expenditures for the year
that ended on June so, 1897, were only
ST. 46 1878. IL seems clear that the
establishments now making gums, mortars,
and carriages for the forts should be sup
piled with the means of turning out all
they can without extra work during the
twelve months, and that as much money as
can actually be laid out on emplacements
in that period should also be supplied. A
fair estimate Of what these amounts will
be can be had from the work accomplished
during the current fiscal year. For car.
riages and emplacements especially, Con.
gress should appropriate as much as 1t ha5
reason to believe that the Ordnance and
Engineer officers will expend, on the basis
of their past and present energy. So much
It can fairly be asked to do.
The army appears to be in excellent con-
dition, as shown by Gen. MILEs's report,
which is quoted in full. The Secretary asks
for two additional regiments, Of artillery,
which Is certainly the least that should DO
accorded, and he recommends the revival of
the grade of Lieutenant-G General and in
creased rank and pay for officers serving rs
military attaches in foreign countries while
so serving. he WOulu also give extra pay
to men serving In Alaska, on account OF the
severe climate and the temptations to de-
sert, thinking that this increase will secure
a high grade Of men.
With two new artillery regiments the
army can absorb more promptly the gradu.
ates of the Military Academy, and the Sec
rotary therefore suggests increasing the
number of cadets by thirty, by Presidential
appointment Of ten at large each year, in
stead Of ten in four years, as now.
Secretary ALaER has been fortunate in
his official experience thus far. His career
in the War Department has opened in q
time of peace, with no Indian or other hos
tilities even threatened. The great work
of coast defence has been fully mapped out,
and needs only to be prosecuted in its de-
tails through the appropriations of Con.
gress. No new problem, in short, at once
urgent and difficult, has been presented to
him during the period Of familiarizing him
self with the routine of his office. Perhaps 1t
is for this reason hat his first report is so
largely made up of summaries, in letter
form, Of the various reports made to him by
the heads of bureaus and by Gen. MILES,
with brief comments upon them. But the
rarity Of the instances in which the Secre-
tary expresses his own views may, per-
haps, give them somewhat more force.
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One Hundred Thousand Conc

Gen. BLANCo has struck a terrible blow
70 Spanish hopes by his disclosure that
"of the 1872, 900 regular troops received by
Gen. WEYLER only 5000 ft for duty re-
main" OF the 1O3 900 Spanish soldiers
lacking, it appears that 4 10000 are now in
the hospitals, leaving $4,000 to be passed
to the account of those dead of disease or
wounds, or sent home as permanently in
valided or for other reasons.
This revelation must startle Madrid.
There nave been no encounters such as in
our own civil war were called its great
battles, and the Spaniards cannot have
lost very many men in any one engage
ment; but constant skirmishing and the
ravages of disease lave made up an ap-
palling aggregate. Perhaps 1t may be said
that Gen. BLANCo ought, in SPANS in
terest, to nave concealed these figures by
making his report confidential but he does
not wish to arouse undue expectations. and
makes known at the outset that he has,
present for duty, less than half of the total
force sent to his predecessor.
The disclosure will hardly cause WBY-
LER to be regarded with more favor. now
that he has reached the peninsula. Spain
may we'll ask him where are her legions,
But the most obvious reflection is as to
BLANCo's means of prosecuting his task. Il
Spain could not conquer the rebellion with
100000 electives, how can she hope to dc
30 with less than 1OO,OOO2 Gen. BLANCc
may receive SOM reinforcements. but the
accumulation of Spanish troops in Cub
probably long ago reached its climax, ant
perhaps at no time hereafter can we expect
the available strength to be as great.
Meanwhile the patriots will doubtless
continue that policy of constant harassing
without risking battles of the first magni
tude, which is sapping SPANS strength.
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directory

IF the Government may at some time decide
to abandon gold redemption Of Its paper obligations.
why may not the banks also7 p" Answer: Because tho
machinery Of the law would DO instantly put In
motion to compel them to redeem, and to send the
bank officers TO prison n they could not show . good
reason for their failure to MISUNDERSTANDING Post.
The ignorance of law displayed by tho Epen-
ing Post is wonderful. A little whiIo ago 1t
informed its readers that shares Of stock In cor
porations which paid taxes on their capitals were
liable to taxation a second time in the hands Of
their holders. and now it says that officers of q
bank are liable to imprisonment whenever they
fail to redeem tho banks obligations. Such is
Tot the law. and it never has been the law. in
either case. Besides. q bank is bound to redeem
Its obligations in lawful money only, and.
whether that money Is or is not redeemed by tho
Government In gold is a matter of indifference
to 1t. More than this. the banks of this city
have. within the last thirteen years, four times
failed. for months at a time. to pay their de-
positors oven In lawful money, and none of their
officers has yet been sent to prison for 1t.