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Railroad Hospital Report.

Following is a statement of patients
treated at the Southern Pacific Com
Hospital during the month OF
August: Number of patients in the
Hospital August 1st, 30; number admit
ted during the month. 40; total, N;
number discharged during the month,
46; number of patients in the Hospital
September 1st, 3S; number of outside
patients treated at Hospital, 4SS; num-
her of residence visits. 120.
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BRYAN RECEPTION.
Action Taken by the Iroquois Club
Last Night.

A special meeting of the Iroquols
Club was held last night to make prep
arations to receive Hon. w. J. Bryan
A General Reception Committee was
appointed, and the club decided to
tender a reception to Mr.. Bryan at its
wigwam on the night of Thursday.
the 7th. prior to his visit to the Pa
vilion on that evening.
The Reception Committee appointed
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poStof7ce Hours To-Morrow.

Monday being a legal holiday, the
Postoffice will be closed, except as on
Sundays (from - to / o'clock. There
will be one delivery in the morning.
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a Huge Tomato.

Miss Sallie G. Beaumont yesterday
picked from a vine at her home, 1014
G. street, a tomato measuring sixteen
and one-half inches in circumference
and weighing about three pounds. 1t
will be placed in the county exhibit
in the Pavilion. The tomato in size
resembles a SQUASH.
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Died in Nevada.

Eugene West, who was Pound
master in this city many years
ago and became prominent by
evicting a squatter by means
of a Winchester rifle, died at Dayton,
New. a few days ago. West was u
daredevil sort of fellow in his younger
days, and held the record for 100 miles
on horseback, made at Agricultural
Park
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Advertisement Filed.

H. C. Hanson, Charles III. Denton and
E. L. Hawk have filed in the Superior
Court their inventory and apprafse-
ment of the estate of Celestia Johnson,
which consists of personal property
valued at $100 and real estate valued
at ST 000
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Ninety Days for Dugan.

Judge Hughes. sitting in Department
Three of the Superior Court, yesterday
sentenced William Dugan to ninety
days IN the county Jail, for simple as
sault. Dugan had a quarrel with an
Italian named Leon Borella, in which
he 11sad q knife
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Notice of ADneal.

Isaac Trumbo has filed in the Su-
perior Court his notice of appeal in the
case of. Gilbert Dobbs against Isaac
Trumbo and c. f. Barriton.
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Public Offices to Close.

Tomorrow being a legal holiday
Estate Labor Day., none of the public
offices will be open. The Supervisors
and City Trustees will meet on Tues
day.
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TICKET SYSTEM.
The Present Method of Issuing
Tickets of Admission.

Any person may become a member
Of the State Agricultural Society for
life by the payment of 800; or, if the
owner of an exhibitors ticket by the
payment of $95; or by serving full
term as a member Of the State Board
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BicycIe Race TO-DAY.

At 10 o'clock this morning, out on the
County Hospital road. there will be
220-yard wheel race between Ammon
Clay and Lew Keller. It will be with
f1ying start
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Nntaries Public.

Governor Gage has commissioned no.
taries, public as follows: John X. Alex
ander, Salinas City; ]. A. E. Thoustrup
San Diego, and Thomas A Wells, Los
Angeles
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Commissioner OF Deeds.

Governor Gage has commissioned Jo-
seph A. Springer to be Commissioner OF
Deeds to reside in Habana, Island Of
Cuba.
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July the 4th in Washington,
Wen celebrate our work as done.
Hurrahi
We will give three cheers for our coun-
try saved,
And a people that can't be enslaved.
Hurrahi
Around our Standard then, We'll shout,
The day that we are mustered out.
Then three times three and tiger, too,
For the hearts and homes we love so true
"A. Morton, Captain u. s. A, Retired.
Chicago, August 20, 1899.
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Granted q. Divorce.

Judge Hughes yesterday granted
Annie Ream a divorce from c. Ream
and allowed her $15 month alimony.
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t the race track and among horse
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THE PARTITION OF CHINA.
The Hungry Nations OF Europe Which
Are All Anxious to Have Their
FINGERS In the Pie.

ready in the hands of unsatisfied
France. Outside of the Asiatic circle
watched Germany waiting for the OPP
perfume murder of a missionary or two
as an excuse for landing her marines.
1T was no matter of diplomatic sur
prise, then, that the Russian bear
SHOULD pounce down upon Port Arthur
as soon as that war was over and that
the English lion should follow by
sprnging on Wel-Hai- wei. Then the
German emperor seized on his murder
ed missionaries as heaven sent excuse
for occupying KaiO-Chau, which prac-
tically means that Germany will some
day put up j claim for the central zone
of China.
Such was the beginning of the end.
So far Russia has had a decided advan-
tage, but she has won it at the price of
the deep seated resentment and distrust
of England, whom she directly and in
directly deceived in her abrogation of
diplomatic and treaty promises. There
has indeed been an element of deep
mystery in all Russia's late moves in
the land of flowers. So far it has never
been officially announced that Russia
obtained any cession of territory by her
recent secret treaty with, China. In
deed the very existence of a treaty is
stoutly denied by Russia, who protests
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existence of continental monopolieS and
territorial restrictions and concessions.
Merely the right to trade freely and
openly with whomsoever the Chinaman
may desire is everything that is implied
by the now familiar term of "the open
door," Live and let live is altered to
read trade and let trade" This is the
secret Of the recent mission to the ORR
ent of Lord Charles Beresford, where
he has been looking most thoroughly
into the condition of commercial affairs.
His final judgment on the matter is
that America and England should unit
eddy do their best to maintain the Chi
nese empire from the greedy hands of
Europe.
Since the Philippine Islands have
come into our possession we have been
forced to look upon the eastern question
with new eyes. The ultimate fate of
China is now a matter of great moment
with us. The extent to which we have,
nolens volens, become a party to the
tribunal of powers which shall decide
the destiny of that great dormant king
dom of the east has been forced upon US
by the fact that Italy has sent to Wash
ington asking for our support in her
claim for the occupation of San Nun
bay. Both Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes have been throwing
out feelers to ascertain our precise at
titude on the question, and Lord Beres-
ford, during his recent visit in our coun-
try. took pains to point out to us the re-
sponsibility of our new position.
Just what action Uncle Sam will take
in this momentous matter of eastern
mapmaking remains to be determined
America, next to England, has mere cit
liens in the different ports Of China
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A
RTITION

last resource before she will agree to
the construction Of any such line. Her
reluctance to go to those extremes
which under ordinary circumstances
would long since have been resorted to
is due solely; to her passionate clinging
to the policy of the open door," But
while Great Britain has been keeping
the door of China open other powers
have been climbing in over, the back
fence and carrying away household fur
n1ture. Each power has taken in hand
as much of China as it can deal with,
firmly resolved that British capitalists
shall not, if they can help it, carry on
trade In their appropriated areas. Now
there is a strong element in. England
even in Conservative ranks, who have
decided that the open door, policy has
been bitter failure. They advocate a
policy more. selfshly protective and
hold that England and Lord Salisbury
should throw international morality to
the dogs and no longer struggle for the
maintenance, of the Chinese empire.
One might as well, ';GSthey say, "try to
keep out the ocean with a mop" So far
Salisbury has done nothing more than
instruct Sir Claude Macdonald to in
form the Chineses ministers that Eng
land will protect che empire should any
foreign power at any moment grow vi
clous because of 2fayors granted to
England. But Russia. her worst and
most ominous enemy, China dares not
fling off. And there the matter stands.
The secret of; .Gern1any's seizure of
kiao-Chau and the surrounding terrific
ry has been said to- be not so much
due to the desire to have harbor and
coailng station as the fact that: the con-
tiguous province of Shangtung has in
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That the Cassini convention was merely
for the purpose of arranging for con-
cessions in connection with the Trans
siberian railway extension through
Manchuria. But it is known that the
willy Count Cassini, the Russian minis
ter at Picking, by hook or by crook Sc
cured the enviable privilege of placing
Russian cavalry and infantry along
! this Chinese railway where it ran
through sparsely settled districts. Such
concession is equivalent, obviously to
direct transfer to the car of the ter
ritory so patrolled by Russian troops
In Asia it is the early bird that catches
the territorial worm. Manchuria, there
fore, is already pointed out as Russian
ground and to all intents and purposes
may as well hereafter be shown on the
map in the same color as Russia itself.
The result of such developments, ac-
cordingly, is peculiar. We see China
! still nominally and outwardly intact
undergoing an actual, mysterious and
underground ACKNOWLEDGMENT and doing
so with unexampled rapidity. This dis
| migrating Chinese empire in theory is
made up of one central territory. which
is China proper and it's numerous outIy-
ing dependencies. Manchurfa. together
with IL central provinces, forms the hub
of this wheel of many dilapidated feudal
! spokes. But district by district these
different outlying territories are pass
ing out of Chinese control Burma
and Nepaul are openly British, and
Siam is as good as British. Tibet and
Korea still pay their little tribute to the
emperor, but Mongolia and Chinese
iurkestan are now practically beyond
the pale of Chinese jurisdiction. Anam
is openly French. AS has already been
said, Russia practically owns the whole
of Manchuria. Hongkong is British.
and so also might as well be called the
entire valley of the Yang-tse-K iang,
though of late Russia has been most
vigorously disputing this fact 1t is this
last mentioned territory which consti-
tutes the actual China. This wide, fer
tile valley is studded with huge cities
and contains a population of 3OO, 00O, 900.
1t is the garden of all Asia and is worth
a score of sterile Manchurias. But at
the present moment Russia has the up
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THE MoHAMMEDAN EASTER.

Balram is the name of the Mohamme-
dan Easter. 1t follows Ramadan. which
corresponds to Lent. and lasts three
days During this time visits are ex-
changed and presents made in much
the same spirit as that which charac-
terizes our Christmas. At Constantine
pie the streets are thronged, and bands
Of music parade day and night The
decorations of the boats in the Bospo-
rus are striking and beautiful. The sui
tan celebrates the day by worshiping
in the mosque, after which he gives an
informal reception to his friends in the
palace of Dolmabaksche. During this
reception the sultan occupies a throne
of great splendor placed in the midst Of
the vast and beautifully decorated au-
dience hall
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THE EASTER
LILY ISLAND.

Fields and fields of Easter lilies all in
bloom-only imagine the sweetness of
the air. the tall, stately clusters of pure
white blossomsi The lilies that come
to us are usually gathered when buds
and open on the way, or after they ar
rive.
Their island home, Bermuda, is about
as far from New York as Chicago. and
is reached by voyage over waters so
exquisitely clear, so wonderful in color.
with the green OF the malachite or the
beryl, the splendor of the opal, that it
seems like fairyland.
The island itself and the cluster OF
smaller islands near by are of coral
formation. If we could look down into
the sea, we should find these islands the
tops or great coral mountains or peaks.
They have very little soil, almost moth
ing but powdered coral, but there must
be richness about it from the wealth
OF flowers. Some of the lily fields are 30
or 40 acres large. Then, in the forests
are marvellous orchids, looking almost
as much alive as the glittering butter
files that polse themselves on gauzy or
velvety wings above them; air plants.
pains, IelHS, DeSOHidS, the wonderful
MOSES that drape the trees and all
kinds Of rare fruit trees as we'll as BIOS
Soming shrubs and vines
Everything that blooms and grows in
these islands is partly an air plant in
the sense of drawing large part of it's
food from the delicious warm, moist sea
air., Even our lilies drink it in and
thrive and feed upon it. Air plants are,
a Fl pr a II only apcidanta1 Tho rootc oro
stified in the dark of the tropical jungle
and it's thick growth. 1t climbs higher
and higher to reach air and sunshine
Meanwhile its stemlets and tendrils
take in nutriment and moisture from
crevices of rOtting tree trunks, and the
lower part, grown useless, dies away
In time these plants, thus growing, get
fixed habit of air nurture and are
then truly air plants.
Lily raising is one of the largest in
dustries in Bermuda. The long, white
buds on the stately stems are most
carefully packed for the ocean voyage,
and then, on Easter Sunday, how many
churches are made beautiful by their
white and fragrant presencel
Islands make good homes for flowers.
Not only the tropical islands, but Scilly
and other islands near the English
coast are full of little farms for raising
the early spring Observation-Disclosures
jOnquilS, etc.-for the London market
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-26
CHEAPER OCEAN POSTAL RATES.

The discussion regarding a cheaper
transatlantic postal rate for the United
States has recently been revived with
considerable vigor owing to the inau-
guration of cent postage between
England and Canada. Many of our pub
lie spirited citizens have urgently held
that such a system should be adopted
between the United States and Euro
pean countries. They claim that an i'm
mediate result of the cheaper postage
would be an immense increase in the
number of letters mailed to and from
the countries included in the reduced
tariff. Whether or not, however. this
increase will lessen the annual deficien-
cy the postoffice department has to con-
tend with now is another question.
The officials in Washington are watch
ing Great Britains experiment with in
terest, but they do not favor reduction
in ocean postal rates for this country
Those who are in favor of lower rates
hold that the government would not
lose anything by the change, inasmuch
as the carrying lines get the postage
anyway, and say that the ocean compa-
MES would make up what they lost in
the reduced rate by the increased num-
Der of letters sent.
AS no nation of Europe would, how
er. look with favor on an international
postal arrangement in which it was
not included, in case the United States
should make the change it would re-
quire special arrangement with each
nation before the cheaper rate could be
put into effect. In view of present inter
national relations this is not likely to
take place in the immediate future
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oriental ministers had come to know
that British help was an expensive lux
ury. Russia was a country whose tenn
per had never been tried and whose ra-
pacity was still unknown, so when she
stepped up with tempting enough Of
fer the venal Celestial administration
did not dream it was joining hands
with power hungrier even than Eng
land for slice of their Flowery King
dom. Thereafter the Russian and the
Chinaman hobnobbed together. Rus
sian agents Swarmed in Manchuria.
Russian troops were hurried eastward
across the Ural mountains, and Russian
ships of war were maSsed on the north
east coast Of China. Pavloff, the rep
resentative of the Great White Car in
China, became the constant adviser and
dictator to the tsung- Ii-yamen. the gov
ernmental body which4controls the adj
ministrative destinies of the empire.
But this was merely the thin edge of
the wedge. Occupancy rights were fol-
lowed by treaty rights, and railway
concessions were succeeded by mining
privileges and partial control of the
custom houses.
China, thus squeezed, whined and
squirmed and yet dared not break with
its iron hearted ally. Nor has she vet
done so. Russian engineers are survey
ing Tibet. Belgian servants of the
Russian government are now project
ing railway westward and northward
across Koko-Nor and Chinese Turkes-
tan, where it will in time effect a juno
ton with the Central Asiatic railway.
which is already open to Samarkand in
Russian Turkestan. A Russian officer
is to be found on every Manchurian
caravan route. Whether or not France
and the car are working together IN
der some secret alliance has never yet
been definitely established, but both
Washington and London have their sus-
picions on this point, and the Anglo
Saxon on either side of the Atlantic is
looking out for evidence of a Gallo
Slavonic alliance. If any such entente
exists, it is evident that Russia has
been getting the best of the bargain.
Through soft wooings and velvet hand
ed diplomacy the Slav has wheedled
out of the dragon empire what France
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-26
ARTHUR J. STRINGER
THE FIRST altar FLowERs

1t would indeed have been a bold
furitan maiden that would have ven
tured TO fasten nosegay in her gown
on Easter day as she was going to
cnurch. But sometimes, for months be-
lore. hidden away in the darkness of a
closet, she would cherish a few bulbs or
perhaps one bulb that toward Easter
would be brought out and shown to her
friends as the spring lily" The Puri-
tan maiden excused this weakness to
her grave neighbors. The bulb had been
given to her, she said; she couldn't let
the thing die. Probably she would have
blushed herself at the thought of bring
ing it out in its fullness exactly on
Easter day. for. while Easter should be
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Various Spheres OF Influence and
the Section Which Is the Real
IS Bone OF Contention.

has not been able to wrest away by
naval demonstrations and actual war
fare. While France for years has been
attempting to add to its possessions
and spheres of influence" in Tonquin,
Anam and Cochin China. she has sue
ceeded in securing merely two railway
concessions. one from Hanoi to Yannan-
Flu and the other from Hanoi to Nam
ning-Fu. This latter road it's Gallo
constructors intend shall go north to
some carefully unnamed point on the
Yang-tse river, where it will make con-
nection with the Russian road, presum-
ably at Hankow. This will mean that
the sphere of British influence" is to
be pierced to the core by the rails of an
enemy's road.
England obviously will exhaust her
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-26
THE PASCHAL EGG.

A few pleasant old customs are still
left to the nineteenth century, among
them those connected with the paschal
egg-the emblem of the resurrection,
the symbol of renewed life-which has
come down through the ages. The old
German custom of three eggs POSSIBLY
representing the Trinity and the Aus
TRAN egg of gold or silver filled with
costly knickknacks and the dyed egg
of the poorer classes, all look back to
their predecessor the paschal egg.
which was handed down from the Egyp
tians and ages before was given as an
Offering among the Parsees and on the
banks of the sacred rivers of India.
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exhaustible deposits of coal and iron,
to say nothing of other valuable miner
ais, such as copper, gold and silver.
When once KiaO bay is thrown open to
commerce. the province of Shangtung
Will become one of the great manufac-
turing centers of the world. But the
moment the door of China is opened to
all Europe England and the other DOW
ers realize that a great change will
come over the character of their trade
with China. Instead of importing coal.
iron and steel, machinery and manufac-
tured goods there will come a change
in the tide of trade, and all these things
will be exported to the rest of the
world. When this takes place, the ORR
ent, on account of the extreme cheap
ness OF labor prevailing in that quarter
of the globe, will be able to compete
with her younger rivals of the west.
This fact England and America realize,
and as these two nations combined con-
troll over 80 per cent of the total trade
carried on in China they are. naturally
enough. anxious that such a golden op-
portunity should not be ruined by the
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81 @opyrisbt. 1870

known about, it certainly was not to be
celebrated.
But as the strain of the Puritan's
rigidness relaxed and with the influence
of the English church it gradually be-
came the custom all over the country
to grow something for Easter. Old
mammies in the south tenderly watch
ed their callas. If they appeared too
forward, they were discreetly hidden
away in a dark place to retard their
growth, and when it was feared they
would be backward they were diligently
sprinkled with hot water and coaXed
into bloom by the sunshine. When on
Easter day they blossomed. 80 de
Lord dere was much rejoicin."
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was obeyed, as ALI the families with
drew their children out of fear Of re-
prisals from the brigand"
tennessee will soon erect a statue to
Sam Davis. the Confederate spy who
died as bravely as did Nathan Hale
during the Revolution. George Julian
Zoinay executed the work. Sam Davis
was 19-year-old trooper, in the Second
kentucky cavalry. He was captured
with important papers on his person.
He was offered his life if he would re-
veal the name of the person of whom he