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Marked Contrast with the German
Section, Which Is H1-Smelling
md Almost Deserted.
CABLEGRAM FROM C0NGER
TELLING OF PRESENTATION OF
JOINT NOTE TO PRINCE CHING.
About $500 Chinese Regulars and
Number Reported Killed.

LONDON, Dec. 26.-In the course of a
review published in the Morning Post to-
day of the conditions existing at Peklng
II. J.. Whigham. the w~ell-known newspa-
per correspondent. says there are now a
quarter million inhabitants pursuing their
ordinary vocations in the American quar-
ter. The markets are in full blast. He
adds that the American and Japanese quar-
tiers are in all respects the best managed.
showing ability on the part of Americans
to handle a subject people which they have
developed elsewhere to proper advantage"
Continuing Mr. Whigham says: 'Thi
enormous portion of the city is policed by
exactly one company of infantry and a
few mounted men under a provost marshal.
If only these hard-headed soldiers of the
provost marshal type had been given a
free hand in the Philippines the task of
~subjugating the unfortunate islanders
would nave been much more simple. If
the japanese have come out of the muddle
with flying colors they at least have the
Americans close behind. 1t was worth
sending an expedition to China If only to
get a few hints on transport from the
Americans. Their scheme of municipal
government could not be bettered by the
British, who have had experience in every
quarter of the globe. For the point of con-
trast 1t is only necessary to walk down
the avenue of the Chinese city dividing
the United States and Germany. The
American side of the street is simply
Picking in the ordinary garb of peace
minus its variegated smells. The opposite
side is almost deserted. The Germans have
come to the American side for meat and
vegetables, and it is whispered that the
country people are sometimes robbed as
they bring in the produce except where
the gates are British, American or
Japanese. That is why the markets in the
quarters controlled by these nations are
the best"
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-Secretary Root
said to-day that he had not been Informed
OF the appointment of Mr.. III. T. Whit
marsh as Governor of Bensuet. province OF
Luzon. but. a. all such appointments are
subject TO the approval OF the War Depart
ment. ne undoubtedly would get the infor-
nation I'm due course OF time. He was con-
ident that IL the Philippine commission
had appointed Whitmarsh IL was a thor
oughlv proper appointment. No protest
AGAINST the appointment had been made so
far as he was aware on the ground that
Mr. was n British subject or
for any other cause. The cable Is not used
by the Philippine commission In reporting
such matters, the mails being regarded as
sufficient for such purposes. and the secre-
tary said he supposed the usual course
would be followed in the case OF Mr.. Whit
marsh
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ment will be effected. but he declares hat
no one of the envoys will recognize the
Empress dowager officially, although all
are aware hat she has long exercised the
supreme power. He believes the crisis will
result in the initiation OF reforms I'm China.
Senior De Cologan. the Spanish minister.
fears that the discussion of the joint note.
after general acceptance, will extend for
q year or more. 1t is rumored that nu-
merous villages east of Picking are combin-
ing TO exterminate native Christians, sew
eral OF whom lave been burned in a local
temple. Lii Hung Chang is a trifie better"
1t is asserted in Shanghai, according TO a
dispatch to the Times. that Sheng is go
ing TO Picking, having been appointed TO
assist in the negotiations.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

cat a card party" says the Washington
Capital. "it was announced a dollar had
been found. Four women came forward to
claim 1t, each declaring that she had lost
a silver dollar. Strange TO say, the lone
dollar found was a paper one. And yet
they say women are not fnanciers!"
~ manufacturer of paste jewelry at the
Paris exposition says that the best Gus
toner he ever had was the Shah. That
shrewd monarch bought quantities Of jew
els for the princesses, his daughters, and
their mothers. but he thought imitation
jewelry good enough for the lesser lights
OF his harem. The quantity he took to
Persia was Incredible.
1t is said that during the fourteen years
which President Mckinley spent in Con-
gress he purchased and smoked 1000 ci-
CARS. While this is a very large number.
il represents an average OF but seven a
day. which Is no more than a great many
Hen smoke. During his service in Congress
the President always bought his cigars by
the box, but left the box at the stand
where his purchases were made and called
for them as he needed them.
Among the officers who have volunteered
for service in the far East is Prince Jaime
De Bourbon. the only son and heir of the
Spanish pretender Don Carlos. He is a
cornet I'm the Grodnc Dragon Guards,
stationed at W1TSd W. anQ Will go with his
regiment TO Port Arthur. He has a COM
mercial interest in the far East, being part
owner of a large steamship which trades
between Odessa and Russian China. This
vessel is now in use as a transport between
Port Arthur and Taku.
One of the remarkable things about the
late Max Mueller was that he never en-
pIoyed a stcnographer or a typewriter. and
wrote all his life a clear and legible hand
Another interesting fact in his life was
that he ardently desired in mis- youth &c
follow the study of music. but refrained
because deafness was hereditary in his
family. and he feared it might come upou
him i'm his prime and injure his useful
ness In that line. IT is noteworthy that his
father, Wilhelm Mueller. was a poet OF
some vogue.
A ST. Louis court has just decided. in the
case of an actor and actress. that wha'
husband and wife earn by their combined
labors belongs to them jointly and cannot
he considered the sole and absolute prop.
erfv of the husband. There is. perhaps. nc
claim made by the woman suffragists whicf
has provoked more antagonIsm than thai
NE Joint earnings of husband and wife
should belong TO them jointly and they
should enjoy equal rights In them. This Ii
not the case In any State In the Union. anc
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-General Mac
Arthur's latest casualty list. reported to-
day from Manila. is as follows:
Dysentery-Dec. IL: Company K. Thirty
eighth Infantry, Edward A. Sonny. Dec.
IS: Company ID, Fifteenth Infantry, Cor
poral George ID. Hoax. Dec. IA: Company
A, Thirteenth Infantry. John Pettry. Dec.
Ii: Troop @, Eleventh Cavalry. William L.
Stone. Jr. Dec. l6: Company b. ~Forty-nrst
Infantry, Edward L. Van Burg. Dec. 81:
Company ID. Thirty-frst Infantry. David
G Parcel: Company III, Forty-fifth Infan-
try, Stephen Delta
Diarrhoea-Dec. IL: Company +, Forty
seventh infantry, Edward w. Fletcher.
Variola-Dec IA: Company +, Forty
eighth Infantry, Thomas f. Love; Com
pany G. Forty-eighth Infantry. Edward
Clark.
Malarial Fever-Dec. Is: Company c, Thir-
ty-sixth Infantry, Alfred H Bolton. Dec.
Is: Company C, Thirty-third Infantry Will
liam j. Wright.
Drowned-Dec. Is: Battery A. Sixth Ar
tillery. Frank Lowe. Dec. Is: Company 1,
Fifteenth Infantry. Howard L. Garrom.
Nov. Is: Fortieth Infantry, Stephen M.
Holmes.
Killed by Accident at Target Practice
Dec. IS: Company X, Third Infantry, John
Begley.
Surgical ~Shock-Aug. 26: Company f.
Forty-third Infantry. William E.. Dennis
Died from Wounds Received In Action
Dec. 10: Company G., Thirty-eighth Irfsn-
try, Martin L. Patherman. Dec. II: Com
pany II. signal corps, u. s. A, Corporal
Charles A Wilson.
All Other Causes-Dec. 10: Company r,
Fortieth Infantry, Pomp Dunkerson. Dec.
II: Company II. Forty-fourth Infantry. VIII
liam z. Bell. Dec. 10: Troop A, Eleventh
Cavalry. Sergeant Charles c. Crane: Com
pany T., Forty-ninth Infantry, Isaiah III.
Bruxton. Dec. 20: Troop b. Third Cavalry.
Henry A. Hall. Dec. 10: Fortieth Infantry.
Sergeant Major Wooten X. Alternately.
Nov. Is: Company b, Twenty-frst Infantry.
Michael A. Duffy.
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CAUSE OF FIGHTS.

Cadet Jerome c. Pillow, of Arkansas,
testified that his experience in the academy
dated back to 1896. He said fights were
of a fourth classman to do something he
had been told to do.
Prince A. Oliver. of Illinois. knew Cadet
Breth. He said that Breth had told him
that he (Breth) had undergone a painful
operation before he came to the academy.
The witness said Breth was treated the
same as the rest of the class. The wit
ness had been hazed in barracks on Satur-
day and Sunday as he only arrived in
September. after the encampment. He
said he was told that he was hazed so that
no part of his education should be neg
lected. He saw Breth just before he left
the academy and he looked healthy. He
did not leave the academy on account OF
his health. 9a
Were you particularly unhappy during
your first year at the academy" asked
General Bates.
mo. sir"
Were the other men in your class un-
happy"
of the things they had to do. but l think
any fair-minded cadet could see that any
thing that was done TO them was for his
own good. Ii a cadet were left severely
alone, IT would be much more humiliating
than If he got h9zed.'
The witness went on to say that ostra-
cism from the society of the cadet corps
would become so unbearable that the man
would have to resign. Cadet BooZ was left
very much alone after bis fight with Kel-
Ter. This was OF account of his cowardice.
Cadet Copley Enos, of New York. who
was one of the sentinelS at the Bookseller
fight. testified that Booz came up the hill
toward the fort in a very confident man.
ner. For the first half of the first round
Booz seemed to have the better of the
fight, but as soon as he got a blow in the
eye il took all the sand out OF him and
he lay down. The fight lasted about a
round and a half. Neither man knew much
about boxing. There was nothing scientific
about it.
Kerr Riggs, a cadet from Kentucky, said
he was a classmate Of Cadet Breth. He
never heard of the latter being placed in a
straitjacket. He sat opposite Cadet
Booz at table, and Booz seemed TO have a
good appetite. The witness never heard
Booz complain of his throat. He never
heard of a man fainting from hazing; il
such a thing occurred the hazing would
amount to brutality.
Cadet William Tidball. of Virginia. swore
that on one occasion when in camp in 1885,
Cadet Broth was exhausted from exercis-
ing, and he saw some of the cadets Civ
ing him whisky. The witness said he had
eaten q~uinine pills when he was a fourth
classman.
Cadet George NJ. Russell, of New Hamp-
shire, said he had exercised Booz anC
braced him.
The court adjourned at 6 o'clock to re.
convene at 8 o'clock tomorrow.
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The passing of Governor Pingree should
politicians. At the outset he was looked
upon by many as the coming great man..
and his rough speeches were admired by
many. Since he pardoned two state off,
GERS who conspired to rob the State, turned
scheme to sell the street railway of De-
troit to the city for two prices. Governor
Pingree has fallen to his true level in pub
lie estimation.
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The annual report of l.. B. Brown. state
superintendent OF railways in Pennsyl-
vania- shows that on three of the railroad
systems operating in the State-the Penn
s~ylvania. the Baltimore & Ohio and the
Erie-the number of employees increased
$500 during the last year. while the wages
paid increased during the same period
s5.s00.000 This is the kind of prosperity
which in the recent election the people
were asked to exchange for Organism.
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.


NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-It became known
to-day through a report made by the Bap-
fist churches of New York that John ID.
Rockefeller, jrA son of the president of
the Standard Oil Company. has subscribed
$3.50, 600 for the founding of a New York
institution for learning for poor boys and
girls. The school is now in course of erec-
ton and will be ready for occupancy by
March / next.
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The ministers OF Chicago nave reached
the anse conclusion as those of New York,
viz, that the mayor is primarily response
bic for the present reign of crime and
Haunting OF vice OF course they are right.
The chief executive of any city is RESPONSE
bic for the nonenforcement of law. As the
fountain head of all executive authority,
not only clothed with power but sworn
TO execute the laws. there should be no
question Of looking beyond the mayor to
tx responsibility for their nonenforcement.
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Britain VIII Not secede.

LONDON. Dec. Pa dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Picking dated Dec.
q. says: much irritation has been caused
by the activity of the German troops in
the districts under British protection. So
acute has been the feeling, the dispatch
adds, that there has been a question or
mand.
The Foreign Office says there is no truth
In the foregoing.
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Superintendent Lewis IL. Jones. of Cleve-
land. o., formerly superintendent of the
city schools of Indianapolis, will deliver the
annual address before the State Teach
ers' Association at Plymouth Church this
evening. The citizens of Indianapolis
should turn out and give Superintendent
Jones a cordial reception. Reserved seats
can be procured at Plymouth Church at
any time TODAY.
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To keep my health.
To do my work.
To live.
To see to il I grow and gain and give!
Never to look behind me for an hour
To wait i'm weakness and to walk i'm power,
But always fronting onward TO the light;
Always and always facing toward the right;
Robbed. starved. defeated, fallen. wide astray,
On with strength 1 have.
Back to the way!
Charlotte Perkins Sfefsnn
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FROM 7 II N YON.
One OF Many.

Philadelphia Press.
oficeseeker-I think my campaign work should
entitIe me TO an Office.
LEADER never heard of you.
Omceseeker-Well. L "also spoke on twenty
one different occasions.
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The hasty marriage business continues
10 flourish at Jeffersonville in spite of pub
lie protest. On Christmas eve one justice
OF the peace married fifteen couples. of
whom five were clippers. and several other
justices married from three or four to six
couples. The clippers were from Kentucky.
where custom seems TO regard elopement
as almost a necessary part of marital ro-
nance The effect of these cheap and
hasty marriages is to give Jacksonville a
bad name among decent people and bring
Indiana laws into contempt.
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The compromise by which Mrs. Lulu Jen-
kins gets a large sum from the sheriff of
Ripley county for permitting the lynching
o: her husband, who was a prisoner in his
hands. is almost as important as a judicial
decision. It's effect will be to make both
sherifs and people realize that winking
at mob violence is apt to prove a serious
and costly business.
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1t Is announced from Washington tina,
the champions OF the ship subsidy bill
viii insist that it shall take precedence re
gard.ess OF other matters in the Senate,
even IL It's consideration compels an extra
session. Is this bill of more Importance
thar the army bin. which provides for the
raising OF troops necessary to take the
places of those whose time expires in June?
The Judgment of the country Is that the
army bill. and next the bill reducing the
war taxes. are vastly more imperative than
the ship subsidy bill.
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MEXICO CITY. Dec. 26.-rhe reports tel
egraphed to the United States Implying
that Mexico Is on the point OF a financial
panic are exaggerated. Money, Il IL true.
continues tight. and yet business and con-
tracing houses are continuing 10 receive
large orders from the interior for mer-
chandise. machinery. etc. aud excellent
contracts IN electrical lines are being made
by firms I'm this city. Generally speaking.
merchants here are not overstockct. and
business has been good throughout The
month.
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The suggestion made by Judge Taft. of
the Philippine commission, that United
States money be made the standard in the
Islands instead of Mexican silver is clearly
right. While the change will cause con-
fusion at first it will nave to be made
eventually, and there is no reason why a
foreign money standard should prevail in
an American possession any longer than
is necessary to change il.
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Governor sanford Is Better.

MONTGOMERY. Ala, Dec. CIV. J..
Sanford. who was elected Governor OF
Alabama, in November, but has been too
IN since to assume the duties Of his of
fee, reached here to-day from his home
In Opelika and fled a declaration of re-
covery with the secretary o. state. re-
ouired by a recently enacted Law. During
the Governors illness President OF the
Senate Jilks filled the Office.
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A Nashville, Tenn, dispatch says that
Governor McAfillin. following the example
of his predecessors" issued Christmas par
Ions to seven convicts The list shows
that two of the seven were convicted of
murder and the others of lesser but serious
crimes Such wholesale exercise of execu-
tive clemency. even on Christmas, is call
culated to weaker public respect for the
law and it's executors.
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A Reformer Sat On.

PUCK.
The Fair Northerner-I think it's perfectly
barbarous the way people are lynched around
here.
Southerner-I think so myself, ma'am; but
after the last lynchin'. when I suggested that
we chip in an buy an electric chair, the boys
darn near lynched me.
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II Is said that the Georgia Legislature
is perhaps the rottenest aggregation Of
lawmakers in the country. This is not be-
cause 1t is Democratic or is in Georgia,
but is due to the fact that for three or
four years. or even longer, Georgia has
had but one party. The best results are
reached In States where two powerful par
ties contend i'm every campaign-
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Mystery.

Detroit JOURNAL
Il fairly trembled with JOY to think of my
enemy's discontinue"
You will bring the foul crime home to him?''
I Kissed.
mo, we merely deliver it (. o. BIZ said the
detective, very mysteriously.
At this my brain reeled.
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The millionaire.

Wasted and all in rags his starved soul went,
And opulently p~aupeEed, he grew old.
And stood with loaded hands and heart fore
spent,
A beggar, with a million bits of gold.
Arthur Stringer, in Ainslee's Magazine.
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NATIVE CONVERTS KILLED.
T~wenty-One Christians MUIR
dered by Chinese Boxers.

dered by Chinese Boxers
PEKING, Dec. 26.-Rev. Mr.. Kelly. a
Presbyterian missionary. has reported TO
Minister Conger the burning by Boxers, OF
twenty-one Catholic Christians, and he
adds that thousands of armed Chinese have
been seen In the San-Ho country. Mr.. Con-
ger has sent a copy of the communicable
to Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee,
and Japanese and German troops have beer
sent to investigate the reports.
The troops of the various nations cele-
brated Christmas in their own fashion,
each force being interested in the doings
of the others.
The Germans, to-day, were reviewed or
the occasion of the presentation OF fags &c
two regiments. The event was made practi-
cally international. All the generals and
their STATS and d-etachments of their troops
were present, with the result that a great
military spectacle was witnessed. No an
swer has yet been received to the joint
note of the powers.
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missioners. has suggested that the public
and private property looted by soldiers
will be equal to the amount of the indem-
nifty demanded. While this estimate Is
doubtless excessive. can any one see any
reason why the different powers should not
recognize as valid claims for their footing.
when they are demanding indemnity for
much the same thing?
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had the audacity to write the President
a letter. he should be requested to leave
the country at once. and be arrested If he
does not go. There is danger IN being too
Ienfopf
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A Southern correspondent says tina the
opinion prevails in the South that during
the next four years white men who did not
support. Mr.. Bryan will be selected for Of
flee by the administration. which means
the organization of a new Republican party.
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Times noblest offspring is the last"
says a. poet The last Christmas of the
nineteenth century seems to have been
more generally celebrated in its true spirit
of practical charity and good will to men
than any other on record.
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Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House and Fifth-avenue
Hotel.
CHICAGO-Palmer House. p. o. News Co.. 2I
Dearborn street
cINCINNATI-J. r Hawley & Co.. Isl Vine
street
T. Dee-ing. northwest corner
OF Third and jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co, 26 Fourth avenue.
81. ~IOUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, ID. House, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
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Brooklyn Life.
Her Father-You have been paying attentions
ID my daughter. You haven't proposed yet?
His Lordship-Not yet, sir.
Her Father-Now. let us come right down to
business. What will you take not TO propose?
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There is no reason why the Armenians
should appeal to the United States because
of persecution by the Turks. as it is not a
question for the United States. but one
that European powers should consider. I'M
less. as many who are well informed af-
for the attacks of the Turks.
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Some one has called Pettigrew the John
Randolph of the Senate. When Randolph
was living such a comparison would have
caused the man making it to be challenged.
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LONDON. Dec. 1.-"Mr. Conger takes a
hopeful view of the situation" says the
Picking correspondent Of the Morning Post.
wiring Monday. IAN thinks that q settle
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There are many people who believe that
Dixto Lopez. the representative OF Aguin-
sido, should have been ordered out OF
the country long ago because his going
from city 10 city to see his friends must
cause the Filipino leaders to assume that
cur people are apathetic regarding the sit
uation IN the Philippines. Now that he has