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Mortality From Snake Bites In British
India.
From the COrnhill.


From the latest report on the~destructlon
of wild animals and snakes In India II ap-
pears that during the last ten years an aV-
erage of 21.Ge human beings have been
killed annually by venomous snakes; or, IN
other words, no less than sixty people die
on an average every twenty-four hours
from snake bite IL British India With a
view to mitiga ting this heavy mortality, the
government of India has for many years
past been in the habit of offering rewards
or head money for the slaughter of all
known species of Venomous snakes, VIZ, 40.
for each cobra and ID. for each viper or
kerat. Notwithstanding the payment OF
large sums annually for the destruction OF
these reptiles the results have hitherto
been most discouraging, and or late II mas
become serious question whether any ben
eft is to be derived from the payment OF
these rewards. The mortality still contin-
ues very heavy, and snakes appear TO De as
plentiful as ever
On the principle that where there is de-
mand a supply is forthcoming, 1t has for
some time been suspected that the natives
of the country have in some places resorted
to breeding snakes for the sake OF the re-
ward offered for them. Whether there Is
any truth in this idea Is very doubtful, but
1t certainly prevails~in the minds OF natives
as well as European residents. The facts
herein recounted render the existence of
anything like snake farming extremely
Droblematical. a.
When snake catching sliterally by hun
dreds is almost as easy as gathering cow
slips in a field, it becomes obvious that the
trouble and. expense Of breeding these crea-
lures IN farm is not likely to be re-
sorted to. Is *
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GalantIne of Mutton.

Remove all the bones from a small
breast of mutton or lamb. flatten it out
by beating with rolling pin or outlet bat,
trim off all fat, sprinkle with chopped
herbs. white pepper and salt; have ready
some lambs or Sleeps tongues partially
boiled and skinned (cut them into three
or four pieces lengthwise from the root to
the tip, some strips of lean ham, some
pistachio kernels and finely chopped shall
lot: arrange these over the meat roll it
up, sew the ends and secure with twine,
making 1t into a well-shaped long roll;
dredge over with flour. roll in cloth
and fasten with safety pin.
At the bottom of a stewpan put the
mutton bones, a ham bone or some ba-
con rinds, the trimmings of the tongue,
some favoring vegetables, herbs, with
salt and spice: place the roll among these,
just cover with hot stock or water, bring
to the boil and then simmer for three to
four hours, according to the size of the
roll; skim constantly. When tender take
up let the steam escape before taking off
the cloth. place on board, put another
board with weights on the top. Leave till
cold. take out the strings, scrape off any
fat trim the ends. brush over with glaze.
garnish with aspic, beet root and endiye
and serve cold.
Should hot dish be preferred. having
removed the cloth and strings, drain Off
all liquor from the dish; pour thick brown
sauce or tomato sauce over and serve with
nicely boiled vegetables as a garnish.
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ness. He will cheat you. Take the Eng
lish banks here. They will not lend a
Filipino on good collateral, while they will
give a respectable Chinese money on his
simple l. o. L. There are Chinese here
who could borrow a million dollars in that
way. / doubt whether there is a Filipino
who could borrow ten thousand The Chi
nese are the middlemen of the country.
They go about through the islands and buy
up the sugar, hemp and copra for export.
They have their stores everywhere and act
as importers and exporters. They are
the wholesale and retail merchants of this
part of the world
American VS.. Chinese Merchants.
But why can't our American merchants
take hold of that business and manage it?'
said l
You might, but doubt it, said Don
Carlos. Business is done here on very
small margin. and 1 believe the Chinese
merchants will outseI you They can live
upon rice. and their needs are but few
cents day. You people live on meat and
must have dollars where we can get along
with cents. The Chinese merchant whose
gross profits are 5000 a year will live
upon 81 600. The American will spend the
whole $1,000 and more. We are certain to
beat you in the end.
''It is easy to see why the Chinese sue
ceeds here and the Filipino fails, Don
Carlos went on. Three Chinese will start
a business in a small town with $1o0 capi-
tai. At the end of a year each will be
able to lay away s1Go clear profit. The
Filipino of the same region may be work.
ing for S. a week. Each of them will come
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some one had removed it and put up an
other at an altitude that filed the head
master with discomposure. He says he
would have given 4 months salary to pass
the privilege of first to same one else,
but he darent show even a tip of the white
feather and he did the dive.
The Truant's First Holiday.
Hardest of all, he fights the degeneracy
that the boys get almost by instnst. He
talks to them ''as man to man. he tries
to appeal to their pride. Every week he
makes them elect by ballot the four boys
who have been most manly for that time.
and tells them to consider their candidates
conduct outside the school as we'll as in.
The boys who are elected get their names
on sort of honor roll that is tackled on
the wall. receive a small award of merit
and the head master publicly grasps each
of them by the hand. And milksops don't
get elected.
One boy left the school with the we'll
earned reputation of being the most per
sistent and successful truant the school
ever had to deplore. One day about year
and half afterward-it was one Lord
Mayors day, when the school is not closed
the ex-truant came into the school room
and shook hands with the head master. He
had entered the service of the city streets
Evening star., 1900-08-18

the old regime made wedding cost all the
way from hundred to a thousand dollars,
and as ceremony seemed decidedly high
The Chinese, however, take good care of
their children whether they married
not and today some of the best edu-
Gated and highest Of the Fil!pinos have
Chinese blood in their veins. Indeed the
of this class. Aguinaldo Is Chinese Mes
tizo and his wife has Chinese blood mixed
with the Tagaio in her veins. The mother
of Pedro Paterno is a Chinese Mestizo.
Gen. Ignacio Pana has more Chinese than
Filipino in him, and the same may be said
of others of the insurrectfon leaders.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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HiEh-Heeled Shoe I'm Favor.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

7 rUIH tnt FIttsDurg DISPATCH.
The high-heeled shoe, which many wo-
men declared had been banIshed forever
by the athletic girl. is back in favor once
more.
OF course the high heel is not comfort
able to the average woman, but 1t in
creases her height, and the tall girl is the
fashionable girl just now. Then the high
heel, when tucked cunningly under the
shoe, detracts very much, apparently, from
the size of the foot. Small wonder that the
average sufferer smiles at sight of a miro.
in the midst of her tortures.
But the girl who suffers most from the
high heel is the one who wears a common
sense shoe, with fiat heel and built on q
mannish last, all day; then, just when hef
feet are tired with the days tramping or
golf, crowds them into high-heeled shooS
two sizes smaller than the others.
And yet she is the girl who never COM
plains and smiles as she dances.
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erary associations. there IL little OF the
aroma of the classics there. The school
boasts an excellent print Of the ancient
pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. some
Of the surrounding streets are named from
the Tales" as Law street" and Par
doner street" and though the old Tabard
public house inherits its name IL not It's
fame and trade. Ii is Pardoner street hat
they call the Ditch" Law street knows
neither law nor order. the knight and
Prioress are forgotten. and the neighhor-
hood is famous solely for its worst school
in London" CURTIS BROWN.
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THE RICHEST OF ALL
Don Carlos Palanca Leads in Wealth
and Influence.
A VISIT TO HIS GORGEOUS HOME
Ruler of the Chinese in the Phil
Ippnes.
VISIT TO HIS GORGEOUS HOME
HE MISTRUSTS THE NATIVES


MANILA, June %. 1900.
He is brOwn-skinned Filipino Chinese,
but he is worth a thousand dollars for
every hair of his queue His ong-fnger-nail-
ed hands can sign checks of five figures.
and when he winks the twitch of his al
mOnd-shaped eyelid often costs some one
fortune. l refer TO Don Carlos Palanca.
the richest Chinese of the Philippines and
the most influential of all Uncle Sans
Asiatic celestials.
Born in Annoy, in China, the son of a
poor merchant, he came at the age of
fourteen with his uncle to Manila just
forty-four years ago. Some say that he
worked here at first as a coolie, but he tells
me it was as a clerk in a store. He was
thrifty He made money He saved. He
speculated. As he grew rich he learned
that Spanish honor was one of the best
paying of commercial commodities and
dealt largely in it, He secured rank and
position. was decorated with the Grand
Cross of Isabella by the government and
Christtned with the Spanish name Don
Carlos Pa,anca.' He became captain gen.
eral of the Chinese ana Chinese consul gen.
eral tor the island. He held the former po-
sition i5r years and has. in fact, been the
real ruler of the Filipino-Chinese for half
d generation.
The Palace of a Chinaman.
Such is the story of this little celestial
king upon whom l called this afternoon to
have an interview upon the Chinese of the
Philippine Islands. He received me in his
palace. 1t is made of galvanized iron and
is one of the few three-story houses in
Manila 1t rises like miniature Chicago
grain elevator high above the low stores
of Rosario street, in the heart OF the Chi
nese business section. You go through a
store to get into the f1agstone court about
which it is built. and then mount wide ma
hCsdny stairs to the second story, where
are the business and living rooms compris
ing Don Carlos Palancas offices and home
1t is a gorgeous home, too. The rooms
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One More Unfortunate.
From the Chicago Times Herald.

David. NJ IL
"Yes, Martha"
Something dreadful has happened"
There was a tremor in her voice. and the
old man Strengthened up. He noticed that
she held a letter.
What's wrqng?" he asked. "Is any Of
the children sick?'
No. Last week I saw a piece in our
farm paper that said If l sent a dollar l
could find out how to get rid of rats and
reaches. 1 sent the dollar"
'Yes?"
Here's what they wrote back: Move
away"
Then the poor old soul wept as If her
heart would break
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The Chinese MestizO.

Many of the Chinese who come to the
Philippines return to China, but a great
number remain here and take Filipino wives
or. more often. concubines. Don Carlos
tells me that hundreds of them are living
in concubinage who would have married
had the laws of the Spaniards not provided
that to do so they must become Christians
and be baptized into the church. This under
Evening star., 1900-08-18
He Had Hopes.

From the Chicago Record.
What did you say to the lawyer about
breaking your fathers will in your inter-
est?"
i told him hoped he would allow me a
II"
Evening star., 1900-08-18

How do you get along with your new
hired girl, Mrs. Upton?"
well, of course. one can't always b
certain in such matters. but We seem U
please her."-Chicago Tribune.
Evening star., 1900-08-18

What Don Carlos Palanca says to the
position of the Chinese in the Philippines
is undoubtedly true. They are the business
men of this part of the world, the best
traders of the far east, the Jews of the
orient. I have found them in every island
and IN every village. Away down in Sulu
there is one rich celestial who has made a
fortune out of pearl fishing and in shipping
careoes of shells and valuable pearls to
Europe. He had contract with the sultan,
paying him so much year for the right to
work his divers in certain of the deep
waters off the coasts of certain islands.
He sold out his boats only a short time
ago to an English company for $4,000.
While in the censor's Office at the palace
a few days ago a Chinese came in with a
cable. II was in cipher. and the man hsd a
Chinese code book, which he showed to the
censor. explaining that the message fixed
the price of sugar in big deal his master
had on hand. When the man left the CEN
sor told me that the Chinese firm sending
the cable did business of about 81 600 600
a month, and that 1t spent hundreds year
upon cables.
Palanca told me of a Chinese who has
recently made S2Jo.O00 in hams. Pork is
one Of the chief exports of the Philippines
to China. AT the time of the insurrection
against the Spanish many of the ports were
closed, and hams became a drug in the
markets. This was so in thte Island of
cornered the product He bought everything
in sight and when the Americans took pos
session and opened The port he made a cool
quarter of a million.
There are Chinese all over the Philippines
dealing in hemp. l saw them buying it in
southeastern Mndanao. They export ship
loads of 1t from Samar, Leyte and south
eastern Luzon. They go about among the
farmers and buy up the crop. They trade
for hemp at their stores and buy it in guam
uty OF native dealers and ship it to Manila.
1t is the same with sugar, rice. tobacco and
copra. and, in fact. with everything in
which there is a dollar to be made The
foreign tobacco merchants tell me the Chi
nese have cut the heart out of their profits
and 1 hear the same from the English and
other firms which do business in rice and
sugar.
The Small stores and Peddlers.
All OF the small retail business and. in
decd. great deal of the large business as
Well, is done by the Chinese. In a village, II
there is big establishment. 1t is sure to
belong to a Chinaman. They control the
trade Of the Sulu group and most Of that
Of the Visayan Islands. In Luzon you find
them at every cross-road, and their ped
dlers go about with packs on their
backs from house to house and show thsir
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21
URGES FARMING FOR NEGROES
Booker L. Washington Talks on Race
Development.

Lansing, Mich, June 1S.-Booker T.
Washington delivered the address OF
the commencement exercises at the
Michigan agricultural college. Presi-
dent +. l.. Snyder conferred the ue-
grees. Prof. Washington, who Is at
the head of an industrial institute at
ruskegee, Ala, said in part: For a
number of years have tried to advo-
cate the advantages of industrial train
ing for the negro, because it starts the
race off on real, sure foundation, and
not on a false, deceptive one. From
the beginning of time agriculture has
constituted the main foundation upon
which all races have grown useful and
strong. In the present condition OF
the negro race 1t is grave error to
take a negro boy from farming COM
munity and educate him about every
thing in heaven and earth, educate
him into sympathy with everything
that has no bearing upon the life OF
the community to which he should re-
turn, and out of sympathy with most
that concerns agricultural life. The
result of this process is that in too
many cases the boy thus trained fails
to return to his fathers farm, but
takes up his abode in the city and
falls in too many cases into the temp
tation of trying to live by his wits,
without honest productive employ
ment. But would you confine the ne
gro to industrial life; to agriculture,
for instance? No, but would teach
the race that here the foundation
must be laid, and that the very best
service which any one can render to
what is called the higher education is
to teach the present generation to pro-
vide material or industrial founda-
ton"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21

tween them. The tnoLs,lt is intola~-
able; but not till breakfast is over,
and Sebastian, with another incompre-
hensible look, has lounged out of the
room, does Barbara speak. Then she
looks at her aunt.
Aunt Julia, does father say nothing
about George? You know we are en-
gagged"
Mrs. Saville smiles rather provok-
ingly.
Il do not think your father has any
objection to your considering yourself
engaged. He hardly mentions the sub
ject.
Barbara's color rises. She is to be
treated as a child, then, who has set
its heart on possessing the moon, and
every one knows it is nonsense!
Il will go out to father as he
Wishes" she says. proudly, but when
l am of age / will marry George Bou-
verie; so there will only be year to
wait, and then nobody can make any
objection.
Il was not aware that any one had
objected" Mrs. Saville returns. Il
have not tried to prevent your engag-
ing yourself to any one.
Barbara's lip qulvers. This tacit
ignoring of her engagement is hard to
bear.
Mrs. Saville. who has no sympathy
with her, proceeds to discuss Bar
bara's clothes.
You will want some gowns" she
says. Il am sure | do not know what
kind of things you will want. | be-
lieve it is a nice climate; but l fancy
some one told me there is always east
wind, and that is so trying.
But Barbara can take no interest in
her clothes.
Il have plenty of things. I shall
only get a deck chair" she says, al
most Grossly, for this Punishment to
the other side of the world is very
hard to endure. Besides, her nerves
are on the rack on account of George
Bouverie's troubles.
Your father has sent you a check
for your expenses Mrs. Saville says
presently. And Barbara says Yes"
and no more.
Mrs. Saville gathers up her letters
and rises from the table.
81 must go and tell Mason to COM
mence packing. Really, it is hardly
fair to make you start at a minutes
notice; but the steamer your father
names sails in a few days, and we
have to meet these people who are to
take care of you"
Barbara bursts into tears. She is
stung to pitch of excitement. and can
only realize the one awful fact-she
must say good-by to George and leave
him in his trouble.
MY dear, there is nothing to cry
for" Mrs. Saville says, crossing the
room in her trailing garments, and
leaving it as Sebastian enters.
Ito be Continued.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21
A Frank Advertiser.

The advertising man was telling
about queer breaks made by his fell
lowmen, and he remarked: "Phila-
delphia merchants are mighty candid
advertisers. I've always known that
fact, but | never saw it so strikingly
illustrated as | did in the Philadelphia
papers Tuesday. | picked up one Of
the leading papers there and read over
the bargains the big stores had to
offer. and in the middle Of one adj
vertisement, under the head Of hats,
| found this: What do you get
when you buy "a hat at other stores?
Stuck Same here, $3.50 OF sourse,
thought 1t was a break, but got the
other papers and found the same
thing in every one of them. Just sup
pose a New Yorker was as frank as
that in his advertising announcements,
wouldn't he do a trade, though
New York Sun.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21
Origin of Visiting Cards.

"The use of visiting cards dates back
to quite an antiquity" explains Mrs.
Van Koert Schuyler, in the Ladies'
Home Journal. Formerly the porter
at the lodge or door of great houses
kept a visitors book. in which he
scrawled his idea of the names of those
who called upon the master and his
family, and to whose inspection it was
submitted from time to time. One fine
gentleman, a scion of the nobility from
the Faubourg st. German, was
shocked to find that his porter kept
so poor a register of the names of
those who had called upon him. The
names. badly written with spluttering
pen and pale or muddy ink, suggested
to him the idea of writing his own
name upon slips of paper or bits Of
cardboard in advance of calling upon
his neighbors, lest his name should
fare as badly at the hands OF their
porters. This custom soon became
generally established"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21
Fine Sarcasm.

Four or five drummers, after their
days work was over and their din
ners stored away, were talking about
the various cities of the United States
which they had visited in the course
of their business experience. New
York. Chicago. Philadelphia and Bos-
ton were left in the list of the unde-
cided when a New York man appealed
to veteran who had been reading a
newspaper during the discussion. You
know the country pretty well, guess,
major?" said the New Yorker. Fairly,
| should say" was the reply. I've
been travelling over 1t for thirty
years" We'll, what would you say
was the best town in the United
States?" Chicago" responded the
major, promptly. "Aw," expostulated
the New Yorker, I'VE don't mean NOR
ally whereupon the major FASTENED
to Notwithstanding Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21

Burlington, Iowa, June 1S.-The gen.
eral synod of the Swedish Lutheran
church convened here with delegates
representing 10000 church members
In the United States. President Noreli.
us of Vasa, Mimi, delivered his annual
address, stating that the work Of the
year had been excellent and that the
membership had increased. The cleo
ton of president of Augustana college,
Rock Island, resulted in the choice OF
the Rev. C. A. Swensson, ID. D., Phi.
d., now president of Bethany college,
Linsborg, Kan. The report of Angus
tana college showed the debt had been
reduced $4,000 and the income In.
creased $4,000 year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-21
Riot Over State Asylum's Books

Beatrice, Neb., June 1S.-Culmina,
ton of the troubles between Gov.
Poynter and DR.. Lang, superintendent
of the institution for feeble-minded
located here, resulted in a general riot,
in which several persons were injured,
at the asylum. Dr. Lang has posted
an armed guard at each Of the en-
frances to the grounds, with instruc-
tions to shoot everyone who attempts
to enter. AS the present employees
have sworn their allegiance to him, Sc
rious trouble probably will follow this
order.
During the scramble several wom-
en- employees took part and had their
dresses partly torn off. Miss Brad
burn. an employee. hal finger broken,
and other women were bruised, among
them being Mrs. Lang, whose back
was strained.