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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
wholesale class Breaking.

1.-THE breakage in this business Is
something enormous" said the proprietor
of a popular soda fountain in the shop
ping district. How many glasses do you
think were smashed here last season.?
Over 1900 in six months. 1t seems in
credible, of course, but those are the fig
ures, and / dare say the other places had
about the same experience. Most of the
breakage occurs in the washing. 1t has
to be done very rapidly, because we can
keep only a certain number behind the
counter on account of lack of space.
During rush days the boy hasn't time TO
be careful. He learns to wash by a sort
of sleight of hand, and every now and
then he gets a false motion, and away
goes a glass. We've been open about
four hours today. How many glasses
have y broken this morning. he added,
addressing the head soda juggler. Eff
teen,'' replied the attendant, consulting a
slip of paper. THAT'S a good average"
said the proprietor.-New Orleans Times.
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~ FIRST 5
COLONIAL 9
: EXPOSITION. s
@
WIN Re Held In Omaha and
Opens July 1.

Omaha is to have another big show
this summer. 1t will open July ] and
continue until the first day of October.
It will be known as the Greater Ameri-
ca exposition, an imposing title surely.
Last summer Omaha had arranged to
have a big fair, but the war sadly in
terfered with the elaborate plans. The
buildings for the Transmississippi ex-
position a been built, however, and
SO the gates We're opened in spite of the
national excitement. The attendance
was nowhere as great as had been ex-
pected, although the exposition was not
wholly a failure.
A newly organized exposition COM
pany was formed some months ago to
purchase the effects of the old one, all
of the buildings having been left stand
ing. This has been effected, and in an
other month q second and much more
~pretentious enterprise will bid for pub
lie attention.
The chief feature of this years ex-
position at Omaha will be the colonial
exhibits. From the Philippines, Cuba,
Porto Rico and Hawaii have been
brought material to reproduce the in
dustries. arts, social n GUS
toms of the people of Zach Of Uncle
Sans widely scattered dependencies.
Many of the natives of these islands
will also be there. This is the first ef-
fort in this direction that has been
made, ard it is probable that the en-
terprise Of the Omaha people will be
rewarded.
From the Philippine Islands alone
there will be something like 1000 ma
tives, collected in a village of their ma
tive huts and houses, exemplifying all
phases of Filipino life and society from
the culture of the Manilan to the cav
agery of the mar eating tribes of the
jungle.
There will be a Filipino band of 40
pieces. a well known institution in the
Filipino capital, where it gave concerts
in the great park where the evening as
semblies of citizens occurred. There
will be elaborate exhibits of the prod
ucts of the soil and the result Of Fill
Pine handiwork. The water buffalo, the
Filipino beast of burden, will be a fea-
ture of the village.
Equally complete and interesting ex-
hibits will be shown from Cuba, Porto
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ion, better fitted by some form of punish
ment shorter in duration and sharper in
pain.
"No sentence to a county jail is
greatly dreaded by Il hardened criminal.
1t gives him in most cases an assurance
of better housing and of better food
than he is in the habit or gaining by any
other mode of exertion. On the other
hand. whipping is dreaded by-eyery one,
man or child. We shrink from It first
and most because it hurts. 1t is no de-
graduation to a boy to be whipped by his
father. or by his master at school. That
is not his objection to it. He feels that
it is a reasonable and natural conse-
uence of misdoing, and leaves him bet
fer rather thar worse. The sailor and
the soldier, until recent years, met it IN
the same way and with no loss OF spirit
or of loyalty to their flag. Custom for
them had disassociated it from disgrace.
1t was simply retribution. Among CT
villains. however, to the grown man 1t is
and always was a mark of degradation
in the eyes Of the community. But as a
penalty for crime it is a consequence OF
degradation rather than a cause OF II.
1t was the crime that really degraded.
Governor Buckingham of Connecticut
once stated that no white man had ever
been whipped Twice under a judicial sen
tencp in that state. There have been
many who have gone back to Jail ~
and 20 times"
Rev. Phoebe Hanaford said: 1.-The
whipping post is the best thing for wife
heaters. Justice and mercy both require
it. Ii a man is fined his family suffers
the loss of so much money. If he Is
imprisoned the family will be deprived
of the wages which he might be able to
earn. Then, again, the fear of bodily
| pain will deter him from abusing his
wife more han the thought of going to
| Jail. The whipping should not be a pub
| lie spectacle. Publicity would add moth
| ing to the punishment of the wife peater,
because such a man is not sensitive. But
a public whipping would have a bad eff
| feet ca the community"
The communication from Chief Justice
Charles 3. Lore OF the supreme conrt OF
| Delaware was, in part: 1.-The pillory and
! whipping post, inherited from the mother
country in colonial times, have been re-
tanned in Delaware's criminal system un-
til the present time, the pillory being used
| only In a few cases of the most helnous
crimes, but the whipping post in cases
OF felony generally, the highest number
of lashes now given in any case being 20
This has grown largely out of two condi-
tons: First, the northern and most popu-
lous part of the state is a narrow tongue
of lane about II miles in width, wedged
in between Pennsylvania on the one hand
and Maryland on the other. Across this
wedge run two of the great trunk ines OF
railroad Of this country, connecting the
great cities of Philadelphia and New
| York on the north with Baltimore and
| Washington on the south; in each case
with a midway freight train make up
station located rear the city of Whining,
ton, at which stations it is not an unusual
thing to have a daily dumping of from 30
to 40 railroad tramp riders, many of them
being of the criminal classes from such
large cities. Nearly one-fourth of our
convicts are of this class"
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gentleman who wears a tawny, stray
Cling mustache and rather sparse crop
Of hair on the top of his head, allowing
the bulging brow to boldly emphasize
the features.
AS an orator he is one of the best.
dwelling in a humorous vein on what
ever topic has been assigned to him and
evoking roars of laughter in the midst
Of pathetic surroundings. He can be
profoundly impressive when he chooses,
but his chief forte is as a c~aricaturist,
and in that role he excels.
Charles s. Thomas was born in Da-
rien, Ca, Dec. 6, 1S49, and lived with
his parents on a plantation until. at the
age of 15, he was conscripted and sent
to the front to fight for the Confeder-
acy. At the close of the war his mother
came north with her two ons MIR.
Thomas resumed his studies at Bridge
port, Conn.,, and completed a law course
At Ann Arbor, Mich, when only Fl years
of age. In the fall of 1871 he went to
Denver
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HECTOR M~ACDONALD.
most British soldiers generally stick.
But in his first years fighting he was
twice mentioned in dispatches. He was
awarded a medal and a bronze star for
gallantry in action and finally was com.
missioned a second lieutenant.
The Boer war of 1881 gave the young
officer another chance to win distine-
ton, and his later career in Egypt n
the Sudan is hall marked with medals,
mentions and other tokens of ability
and personal bravery.
The task of bringing the Egyptian
army into something like shape n
discipline was one that might have kill
ed less determined enthusiast. Only
strong personal respect and o for
their officer could have brought the
Sudanese to the pitch of perfection
shown in the recent campaigns.
The browning test of his training was,
of course, the famous incident in the
march on Omdurman. The first furious
onslaught of the dervisheG on the zareba
covering the British position had been
repulsed with tremendous slaughter,
and the sirdar moved his army forward
to claim the final fruits of victory. Mac
donald's brigade, which was on the
right, must somehow have gone out too
far, for a large body of dervishes sud-
denly seemed to have it in isolation ard
to be on the point of sweeping it out of
existence. Fortunately the Sudanese
and Egyptians under his command
stood like rocks, and with the help Of
three batteries of artillery n their
officers wonderfully cool and skillful
manipulation they swept back the enc
my into the most complete rout ever
witnessed by the most experienced in
dervish warfare.
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provinces. A glance at the cartoons
shows why Chinese hatred of foreigners
does not more quickly subside. The minds
of the heather in China are intensely
credulous and accept as absolutely true
these hideous things thrust before them.
1t has been proved that when left to
themselves this class of people are harm
less, but with minds so poisoned it is
scarcely to be wondered that they are
anxious and eager to revenge themselves
according to their lights.
To those not at all OF. but specifically
acquainted with the Chinese character it
is not easy of comprehension why edu-
Gated men of rank and position will per-
nit themselves to be identified with such
outrageous proceedings. 1t must be borne
in mind, however, that China is a nom
Christian country, and things which must
be regarded with horror by a Christian
nation are looked upon in the former
with the smile born of immemorial tradi-
ton and precedent. The Chinese literati
have long accepted the insulting and
~reyiling of foreigners and their religions
as a pleasurable duty and are not dis
posed to forego it until forced to.
1t is with deep interest that the out
come of the present royal dispute in the
Chinese empire is awaited 1t is posi-
BILE that an entirely new and more whole
some era may be inaugurated. So far the
official who personally is friendly to for
eigners annot air his sentiments pub
licly for fear of running his political ca
reer. He knows that TO acquire the rep
utation of feeling kindly toward the outer
barbarian would certainly not pay. Moth
ing could be more fatal to his future
advancement, and when he recognizes
that in posing as a conservative he is pa
triotic and is adopting a cheap and easy
method of attracting favorable notice
from his superiors it is easy to see why
he loses no time in abandoning his radical
ideas.
In addition to setting their W people
against aliens the Chinese aristocracy,
evidently bearing in mind the old saw
concerning the falling out Of thieves, has
endeayored by various means to set one
class of foreigners against another, the
secular against the missionary. This of
course has met with little success. But
the antiforeign party is in grim earnest
and has by no means given up the fight.
It's constituents realize that the eyes CT
the whole civilized world are turned to-
ward them. but know that their radius of
vision is a limited one and absorbs but a
fraction of the daily horrors being COM
mitted.
The pictorial reference to the divinity
as the lowest order of beast is not made
ct random. The term used for God by
The Roman Catholics is Tien Chu. In
the Human publications Chu for Lord 4
changed to Chu for pig.
Native converts are termed dead deV-
lis" because they are regarded as dead
to all virtue and to be worthy OF oeaen.
The reason which the publications as
sign for TIE gouging out Of the eyes By
the missionaries would be absurd were
It not too horrible. They say: From 100
pounds of Chinese lead eight pounds Of
silver can be extracted, and the remain.
ing 50 pounds Of lead sold at the original
cost. But the only way to obtain the
sisssr is By compromising the lead with
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

ADMINISTRATION ARCH, OMAHA EXPOSITION.
Rico and Hawaii. These exhibits are
assured a most perfect form and inter
esting character by the fact that the
departing ats of the government, through
their agents in each of the islands, are
aiding the special representatives of the
Greater America exposition in select
ing them, and they will be brought
across the intervening water or govern
ment transports. Much of the material
will be retained by the government at
the close of the exposition to form parts
of government collections.
The Greater America exposition will
be rich in it's war exhibit, for a special
effort has been made to bring together
flags, arms, projectiles, cannon, swords,
machetes, rifles and other articles which
were used in the American-SpanSsh
war. The war and a v departments
will have much of interest in the federal
display in the Government building, and
the programme of event includes spe-
cial days to commemorate the land and
sea fights of last year.
In addition to the Gunther war muse
UNI and the American-Spanish war ex-
hibit, the exposition management has
secured from General A. W. Greedy,
chief of the United States signal serv-
ice, several hundred photographs of
moving troops, firing lines and in
trenchments. These We're taken by men
of the signal service.
Aside from his colonial feature, the
next in Importance in the building of
the Greater America exposition will be
the complete showing Of American
manufactures, many Of the leading in
dustries being represented by live ex-
hibits or model factories in actual oper-
etion, turning out the finished product.
Preparations for the coming EXPOSE
ton are much more fully developed
h were those of the Transmississippi
exposition at a corresponding period
last year. All of the great main build
ings are practically filed with exhibits.
care being taken to have no repetitions
of those last year. The Encouragement
of the grounds and their Identification
are well under way.
The Nebraska state fair will be an
adjunct Of the exposition, the agricul-
tural, horticultural and dairy and stock
departments being in charge of the off,
GERS of the State Agricultural society.
The great stock show of last year Will
be duplicated. and it is proposed also to
hold a horse show as a special feature.
The Midway, so popular last year. will
be decidedly more novel and attractive
this summer.
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ROBBERY ROM
How Tiburcio Palma Stole y
Belle of Tecate.
WEIRD STORY OF OLD MEXICO

Mounted on a stolen Horse, the Bold
est of the bandits Abducted
Daughter OF DON Emilto-Wfld and
Fruitless Chase.
Tiburcio Palma, a notorious but gal
liant Mexican bandit, recently abducted
Tonia Castenada, the beautiful daughter
Of Don Emilio Castenada and belle OF all
the countryside In and around Teeate.
Tiburcio, with a price on his head, rode
into Tecate, up even into the dooryard
Of the Castenada rancho, and stole away
this beauty for whom all the men Of the
border have been signing in vain. Up in
to his saddle he whisked her, and away
they few on a single pony so swift ana
sure that no trace of them has been
found to this day.
It was a stolen pony at that.
Don Emilio was absent with his boys,
says the San Francisco Chronicle, round
ing up a drove Of steers, and nobody bur
aged Donna Maxima and a young cousin
named Cruz was there to guard the
flower Of the rancho. Donna Maxima
was asleep on the piazza. Cruz and Ionia
were roaming buf9 Ii lHC S1ANSA
fairies, stealing forth, when nobody was
about, to see the flowers bloom. Up rode
a lone hofseman.
4sWho is that man, Tonia?' asked Cruzs
withdrawing TO the shelter Of b piazza
Tonia did not move. Perhaps she rec
ognized the tall, 1.-THE figure under its be-
~spangled sombrero-perhaps she was
merely curious.
When he had thrown himself from his
pony and strobe Into the garden and up
to the beautiful Tonia, Cruz gave an ex-
clamation of amazement and terror.
go away, steaier Of horses and killer
of men, she cried (she had heard Of q
fight between Tiburcio and Thomas Fai<
verde over at Jaeumba a few weeks be-
fore, in which poor yaiverde had been
foolish enough to let Tiburcio get the first
shot; "go away, for your life! Don EN-
tho, my uncle, with 20 men, is upon your
track even now for stealing yon pinto
gelding. Tonia, Tonia, come into the
house and let the bad man got"
Thus cried Cruz, but Tonia only staia
and smiled back into the smiling face So
close to her own; nor did she think to re-
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c A N ART.
Means Used b. People Who Wish to
Die Without Scandal.


A former New York coroner said the
other day in public that any man with a
fair amount of intellect could commit
suicide and the world never know that
his death was not caused by natural
causes,
What | mean is this" he said to the
New York News-"that if for n reason
life appears to be worthless to a MAJ he
can leave it in a decent, self respecting
fashion without inficting upon the fam
lily a grief Of all the worst-the knowl-
edge that he took his own life"
According to this gentleman, self MUIR
der at the present time has become one
of the fine arts. His statement will not
seem too grotesque when one recalls how
often in the case of death the question
arises, Suicide or arcident? Hardly a
week passes, perhaps, without this ques-
ton arising in such circumstances as not
to be readily answered.
Il leaned to mercy's side" said the for
mer coroner, speaking of these doubtful
cases, "and / think it was the best way
to dispose of the problem. When in doubt,
l always advised the Jury to find that
the deceased met his death by accident.
OF course, if we had been always in pos
SESSION UI LIE WHOLE OIL the ldCtS we
might have been forced, despite our nat
ural in~clinations, to return the verdict of
suicide. It's just as well, / think, that
we didn't always now everything about
the mans life and social position, for
that verdict suicide only inficts sorrow
on the living. 1t does not punish the
dead"
"Haye facts ever come into your pos
- ec+o. A., .,o,-at ~-i,al, .I,ooI
you to believe suicide ought to have
been the yerdict?'
Frequently they have. / have had in
formation laid before me by insurance
companics' agents which threw light on
a few mysterious cases. The companies
did not care to make their knowledge
public and preferred in one or two cases
to lose considerable money.
about three years ago a well known
New Yorker was killed while standing
neal the mouth of the terminal Of the
New York Central. 1t appeared that he
had been walking through it, and his
home was somewhere near Westchester
village. A jury over which / presided
found that his death was due to an acct
dent. But it had moi come out in evil
dence that the man was being pressed
for money and that he had tried to in-
sure his life heavily only a short time
previously. Indeed he had approached
all the principal companies in New York
city with that object, but they unani-
mously rejected him. Even this, how
ever, is only presumptive evidence til
he was a suicide. The fact that the
suranee companies refused to accept /
may have told on his mind, but not
the point of sell murder"
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Chimes

In Lord Leighton's studio, Holland Park
Road, Kensington, a lecture. for the bene-
fit of the Leighton House Fund. was de-
livered on Thursday by Archibald Little,
of Chung King. China, on Chinese Drama
and Chinese Industries At the outset
Mr.. Little explained that, though it might
appear to be Incompatible to treat of two
such subjects as the drama and industries
in one discourse, the Chinese actors were
in reality the most hardWorked people on
the face of the earth.
There was scarcely a town or village
in China without its theatre; neither was
there a dinner, private or public, without
the accompaniment of theatrieals. He
gave an acount of the drama from the
year 1000 B. C. down to modern times.
The old drama was distinctly and purely
religious, consisting chiefly of dancing and
posturing, Confusius la stated that the
old dramas represented the occupations of
the people.
The religious dances constituted the
only Chinese drama until 500 B.. c., but
the plays which were now to be Witness
ed in every Chinese town were called
modern, although we might be inclined
to dispute how far that term. was APP
plicable, seeing hat they nearly all be-
longed to the eighth and ninth centuries
of the Christian era.
The Chinese stage at the present day
was almost an exact reproduction of the
stage of Shakespeare's time The female
characters were sustained by boys, and
there was no scenery. There was, how
ever, a compromising advantage for the
absence of scenery. for it compelled the
actors to show exceptional aptitude, and
their delineations were so faithful hat
the plays could always be followed with
intelligent interest.
BY a notification which appeared at the
back of the stage the audience were in>
formed that the actors would hold the
mirror up to nature, from which 1t might
almost be assumed that shakespeare had
travelled even to China. The love of he
theatre permeated all classes of chinese
the poor We're admitted free in the pit of
the theatres, and the dramas gave a won-
derfully accurate idea of Chinese historic
events outside those which had occurred
under the reigning dynasty.
After abiding to the excellence OF con
chinese dramas and the versatility of the
actors. Mr.. Little gave a brief sketch of
the industries of the country. showing the
primitive methods adopted by its people
and pointing out the probable develop
ments of the future.-London Times.
49,
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MINERAL Names.

In view of the abundance of material
from which to select and the illimitable
field OF invention. there seems to be no
good reason for descending to the numer-
ais to designate towns and villages in
this country, yet there are at least ID
postofices in the United States that pos
sess no other official name than that of a
common nuneral. Here they are:
Seven, Tennessee; Fourteen, West Vir-
ginia; Fifteen, Ohio; Sixteen, Montana;
Seventeen, Ohio; Thirty-nine. Alabama;
Forty-eight, Tennessee; Seyenty-six, KEN
lucky: Seventy-six, Missouri; Seventy
six, Pennsylvania; E~ighty-four, Pennsyl-
yania; Eighty-eight, Kentucky, and Nine
ty-six, South Carolina.
This does not include Quarter, Tennes-
see; Duo, Tennessee; Duo. West Virginia,
or Ninetimes. South Carolina.-Youth's
Companion.
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nnk..and over 5000 Year. old.

An inkstand that was probably in use
3,400 years ago has been lately acquired
by a museum in Berlin. 1t is of Egyptian
make, and is supposed to belong TO the
eighteenth or nineteenth dynasty, or
somewhere about 1900 B. c., although its
real age can only be Judged of approx
mately.
1t is made of wood, and has two COM
partments, an uppe one provided with
two holes, one for black and one for red
ink. and a lower one for holding reed
pens. The black and the red ink are GER
t~ainties, for some still remains in a dry
condition, within the receptacle.
Another ancient inkstand is supposed to
have been intended for the use of a school
boy. 1t would certainly hold ink enough
for a school boys needs, for it has no
fewer than -four ink holes. Both inkstands
were found at Thebes.-Youth's Com
panion.