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REPUBLICAN,
HEADQUARTERS
Selected by Senator Hanna In the
Auditorium Annex-Forty
Rooms to be Occupied.
.BATTLEGROUNDIN THE WEST.
Henry G. Payne Has Charge and
Perry Heath Expected Monday.
C.4nese Question Excluded.

III
'----- ------ - y.
d CHICAGO, July educational Repub.
lican headquarters Will be located In thi
Auditorium Annex. The forty rooms
selected are In the south extension OF
the building.
Senator Hanna, Henry C. Payne, oi
Wisconsin: r, C, Kerens, Of Missouri
and Gracme Stewart put In the day
considering the question of headauar.
tiers. They looked at the old Hote.
Richelieu, considered taking a floor In
the Great Northern office building, and
discussed the rooms formerly occupied
In the Auditorium. After visiting ths
different sites they went to the Chicago
Club for luncheon. and discussed tn.
availability of the different locations
Then they went to the Annex and con.
sidered the Headquarters question still
further. A proposition was finally
made to Manager Southgaie, and ac-
cepted.
The entrance to the rooms secured
will be at No. 223 Michigan boulevard.
The building to be occupied consists. o.
flats, and can be shut OF from the hotel
proper by closing the doors leading into
the corridor. An. elevator In addition
to the statrways furnishes ready access
to the different floors. The public offices
Will be on the ground floor. and the
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Boy Murderer Executed

{ HARTFORD, II Conn, July 2o.--Chnrlcs
%. Cross, the stxtecn-year-old boy mur.
derer was executed at the state prison,
"etherslicld, Just after midnight this
morning. Cross killed Mrs. Sarah c,
King. sixty years of agr, his bcnefao,
tor, near Stamford, November 7. 1ene
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Novem1,ent Of steamships.

NEW tYoRK-Arrlvcd: Victoria, Mar.
'seilles; Germanic. Liverpool.
LoNDoN-Arrived: Marquette, New
PLYMOUTH : Arrived: Columbia,
New York.
CIERBOURG = Arrived: Columbia,
New York. via Plymouth for Ham
burg, and proceeded.
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SAW THE QUEEN.
Christian Endeaverers Sing for Her
Majesty, and Receive Bows and
Smiles In Return.

smiles In Return.
y LONDON. July 19.-Sevcral thousands
OF the Christian Endeavorers visited
Windsor Castle to-day. en- route TO OK
ford and stratford. This afternoon n
large assembly gathered In the royal
grounds. hoping to see Queen Victoria.
and received word that Her Majesty
would appear in the quadrangle. OF tho
castle.
Here the queen Hhortly arrived, nt-
tired In white. and accompanied by
Princess Henry Of Battenberg, ready
for n drive. a thousand voices united
In God Save the Queen" which was
followed by tho Christian Endcavorers'
anthem us Her Majesty shortly drove
down the ranks, acknowledging the
plaudlts. bowling and smiling. m
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Mrs. Belmont Doing We'll.

NEWPORT, r. L, July 1s.-Perry
Belmont stated late Tonight that hin
wlfe's condition is as well Us could be
expected. An operation for appendlcl-
It's was performed to-day.
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Recessed Until Evening.

Judge Robbins, was escorted to the.
platform. and spoke Mt some length. COL
Pealke, who was chairman Of the COM
mittee that escorted Judge Robbins to
the platform and introduced the chair
man. also spoke at length. After the
usual committees had been appointed
the convention recessed until $50 D. m.
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Summoned to pnkin

LoSDoNJuly Gothic Shanghai cor
respondent Of the Daily Mall says:
The ,ylceroy OF Nun Kin has received
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Ii ARRIVES

at Hong Kong = Received With q
Salute Of Seventeen Guns and q
Guard Of Honor.
HONG KONG, wednesday, July 1s.-
Ii Hung Chang and his suite arrived
here yesterday evening and landed this
morning. The Chinese were received
with salute Of seventeen guns and
with n guard Of honor from the Welsh
fusiliers and o band, proceeded to the
government house, where he was re-
celved byeth governor. Sir Henry A.
Blake, Generals Gaselce. Barrow and
other officials. Ii Hung Chang was ex-
tremely reticent. He stated that he
had received definite news that the
ministers and foreigners at ,Pekin. with
the exception OF Baron Won Ketteler,
the German minister, were safe July S.
The imperial edict recalling him to Pc
kin. the vceroy said. was due to the
empress and emperor, and not to Prince
Tuan. K
Requested to Remain In Canton.
Governor Blake exerted all possible
power to induce Ii Hung Chang to re-
main in Canton, but the Chinese vice.
roy proceeded. ostensibly for Shanghai.
The governor OF Canton is regarded as
an exceptionally weak official and the
natives fear he Will never succeed In
maintaining order.
Transports with portion of the Ben
gal lancers. native field hospital and
Generals Gnselee and Barrow. have pro-
.creded to Taku. The deck-protected
cruiser Dido has gone to Woo Sung.
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N9Ik7sR 0N 6aARR $50 lI9lFHB SyhP o. REeHlhI

temperature of the northern United
States, the climate of north China pos
sesses many advantages.
According to Notes on China" an
excellent work in an invaluable series
issued from the adjutant generals Of
fee of the United States war depart
ment, 1.-The main characteristics of the
climate depend, FIRST upon it's situation
on the east side of the greatest land
masses in the temperate zone of the
northern hemisphere. and, second, upon
its situation within the region subject
to monsoon winds. The climate of Chi
ma, owing to the vast extent and the
numerous variations in elevation of
her territory, could not well present a
universal character. It is a country of
extremes throughout, or at least of a
high range of temperature, hot sum
mers alternating with cold winters,
though, of course, the extremes are
much greater in the north than in the
south, where part of the surface lies
within the torrid zone.
THE area comprised between the
twentieth and forty-second degrees of
north latitude IS naturally divided by
the thirty-ffth degree of north lati-
tude into two zones-the northern one,
that of variable temperature, and the
southern, that Of rains. These two
zones. however, present the greatest
Imaginable differences of climate, since
IN both of them are found mountainous
regions where the peaks reach beyond
the limit of perpetual snow
The zone of variable temperature
comprises the valley situated to the
north of the Hoang-Ho and the noun
famous region of northern China
There are four seasons there. The wa
ter freezes in November and remains
frozen until March Fogs, snow in in
considerable quantities and the aurora
borealis accompany the winter. which
is comparatively severe for the lati-
tude, having an average temperature of
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VIII give no approval or support, phys
zeal. moral or sentimental, to the dis
memberment Of China or the extinc-
ton of her sovereignty by the acquisi-
ton of spheres of influence by any Eu-
ropean power"
Assuming this to be a statement ex
cathedra, the United States troops will
have to share the fortunes of their for
eign colleagues, for, though our gov
eminent has thus far kept itself clear
of international complications and has
treated China as if entitled to the high
est consideration, that bone" will need
watching.
Russia has declared in favor of with
drawing the allied commands from Pc
king and even from China; but, then,
she has only to retire to the near
ports of Port Arthur and TaIien- Wan,
where her watchdogs will sleep, if at
all, with one eye open for a chance to
pounce upon the desired object the mo-
Enent It IS left unguarded- The British
can retire to Wei-Hai-Wei and the
Germans to Kiaochau: but Manila. to
which the Americans must retreat as a
base, is rather far away in case of an
other uprising. which is sure to occur,
those best acquainted with the Chi
nese declare, the moment the Iega-
tons are abandoned and the foreign
residents left unprotected. To exact
tepstratlOh ana lndemn1IIeSs TO set up
the emperor. Danish the empress dowa-
ger and punish Prince Tuan. will ne
cessitate the retention of a strong force
at Picking as well as at Tien-tsin and
TalSu- Russia knows this, and it is
presumed that her secret ally, Ii Hung
Chang. knows it also, at least that is
safe as a working proposition, and it
viii hardly be well to depend upon the
willy viceroy's impudent assurance that
he win be responsible for the safety of
the life ana property of all foreigners.
It will be safe. therefore, to assume
that General Chaffee viii occupy the
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Chdffee. Wilson. DdgQett;
A Gallant Trio In China.


TT IS acknowledged on all sides that
Americans have good cause to be
IN proud of their soldiers in China,
for not only have their gallant
deeds been recognized by their own
countrymen, but they have been prais-
ed by the military representative of
all the allied powers. Especially may
we congratulate ourselves upon the
choice of commanders there, who from
the first have upheld the high standard
OF their predecessors and maintained.
the prestige of the army in manner
that has won universal commendation-
Where all alike, officers and privates,
are entitled to unstinted praise 1t
might be somewhat invidious to select
for special prominence any soldier or
group of soldiers, were it not that the
subjects of this sketch have Won dis
tinction by the very traits that are
supposed to be embodied in the typical
hero and have made themselves con-
spicuous by their fighting qualities.
Attention is directed anew to the
spirit of camaraderie that prevails
among the old soldiers by the recent
act of self abnegation ascribed to Gen
eral Chafee, the leader of the Ameri-
can forces in China, in recommending
for promotion to a grade to which he
himself was technically entitled his
gallant subordinate. Colonel Daggett.
The yicissitudes of military fortune
also are notably exemplified in the trio
of commanders-Chaffee Wilson and
Daggett-each having begun at the foot
of the ladder and worked himself up
by sheer pluck and tenacity of purpose
to his present high position. There
would seem indeed to have been a sim
larity of circumstances by which,
though each strove independently of
the other, the fortunes of all have been
interlinked, to find their probable Gull
mination in the Chinese campaign.
What may be properly termed a mil
itary romance, with material for a
three volume novel, is to be found in
their careers. In order to prove this it
is only necessary to glance at their
records. The American soldier at pres
ent in supreme command in China, Ma
jor General Adna r. Chaffee, entered
the service a boy of 10 in 1861, winning
by his four years of fighting a lieuten-
ancy only in 1865. Promoted to a cap
taincy in 1867, he spent the next nine
years in chasing Indians, having all
sorts of wonderful adventures and ac-
quiring reputation as an Indian fight
er. 1t was not, however. until 1888 that
he became a major, and the year 1897
arrived before he was made a lieuten-
ant colonel. Promotion in times of
peace comes slowly, but the Spanish
American war accelerated the pace
somewhat, and in May, 1898, he was
commissioned a bi1gadier general of
volunteers, in July being raised to the
rank of major general, from which
grade he was honorably discharged in
April, 1899. After serving as chief of
staff to the governor general of Cuba
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Fourteenth regiment OF the resular
army.
And these are the soldiers composing
notable triad in China. brought into
prominence by their military merits and
particularly by General Chahee's recent
act Of renunciation in favor Of Colonel
Daggett. But for his own volunteer
rank. Chahec urges. the honor OF being
retired as a brigadier IN the regular
army would by all the canons OF MILF
tary precedence first fan TO his subor-
dinate. Daggett. as the latter was made
a colonel March 81. 1899. while Chat
fees promotion to that rank dates only
from May OF that year.
TRUMAN L. ELTON.
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king which has crowned with laurels
all who took part therein
The mutable fortune of the soldier. to
which allusion has been made, was
emphasized by the arrival at Taku six
weeks later of the officer who had
been appointed Chanee's second in COM
mand. Brigadier General James H. VIII
son. Unlike his colleague. General
Wilson had at the outset of his career
the advantages OF a technical educa-
ton. having graduated from West
Point in 1860 at the age of %. He was
a lieutenant colonel of volunteers in
1862, a brigadier general the following
year and was in command of q cavalry
division under Sheridan in 1864. In 1866
he ranked as brevet major general of
volunteers, with a commission as lieu
tenant colonel in the regular army.
Like Chaffee, he also was drawn into
the Spanish-Amcrican war. being one
of the four major generals appointed
by the president to commands in Cuba.
He served CALAMITY in that island and
in Porto Rico. In 1899 he was selected
as military governor of Matanzas prov
ince. The very same week that Gen
eral Chaffee reached China General
Wilson arrived in New York on his way
to report as a subordinate to the man
who was a private during the civil
thus strikingIy illustrating the ups and
downs of a soldiers life and the stern
discipline to which the military man
must subject his ambitions and his
preferences.
1t was on the 10th of last June that
United States troops were ordered from
Manila to China, the first to go being
the gallant Ninth regiment. in COM
mand of the lamented Liscum who
was killed at Tien-tsin only few days
after the landing at Taku. Just four
weeks later the Ninth was followed by
the Fourteenth infantry and the Fifth
artillery, the latter better known as
Reilly's battery, from it's brave COM
mander, who was soon after shot at
Picking while leading his men to vic
tory They arrived too late to partici-
pate in the attack on Tien-tsin. but in
season to be Incorporated into Chat
fees command and to take part in that
arduous march, with continuous fight
ing all the way from the coast to the
Chinese capital. Shoulder to shoulder
with the foreign allies our men, with
out murmur, performed the work cut
out for them, their excellent discipline
and heroic deeds winning encomiums
which tvin be treasured as a precious
heritage by coming generations.
One of the condolences in the arrival
of the Fighting Fourteenth" was that
its commander, Colonel Daggett. had.
like General Chaffee, led his soldiers in
the assaults of the Santiago campaign
and shared with them the brunt of bat
tie. He, too was more at home on the
firing line than in a comfortable posi-
ton at the rear, when there was any
fighting going on, and his military ex-
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club grounds, where most of Picking So
ciety turned in for a short time each
afternoon, and the minister's wives
took it in thrn to give tea there once a
week, when Sir Robert Harris band,
consisting altogether of Chinese gem
orally played. It was a most pictur-
esque rink, being all lit up with Chi
nese lanterns, and very many pleasant
evenings We're spent there. Then there
We're the dances and dinners and balls
innumerabIe and kind hospitality re-
ceived from friends, which for years to
come will always make the winter
spent there a memorable one
As the allied forces will probably be
distributed between Peking, Tien-tsin
and Taku there win be a considerable
body Of troops that viii not fare so
wen as those quartered in or near the
capital. at least so far as the officers
are concerned. There viii be barracks
available both at Tien-tsin and Taku,
and as supplies of every sort for a win
ter campaign have already been for
warded from the United States our
boys in China viii not suffer, except
from ennui. Should they have taste
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of real campaigning, they viii be pro-
vided with double walled tents, and
probably ali will be furnished with
sheepskin garments like those used by
the Russians with which our marines
were provided on another occasion
when they landed in China. So far as
keeping warm is concerned, the men
viii have to depend mainly, it is feared,
upon the natural warmth of their bod
les, sleeping spoon fashion" at night
and enyeloping themselves in extra
furs when exposed to the biting winds
that sweep across the plains.
Those so unfortunate as to be as
signed to duty at Tfen-tsin and it's
port viii probably go into those pecul-
lar winter quarters constructed on the
plan in vogue in the arctics. AS the
Pei-Ho is frozen over portion of the
winter any vessel that is caught up
river by the ice has to stay there until
the opening of spring. IN such cases it
has been the custom to inclose the
stranded craft within walls of mud,
which freeze solid and afford complete
protection. An American gunboat was
once caught that way by the ice, and
the jackies aboard built a most elabo-
rate system of mudworks ten feet high,
with bridges and sally ports. using lay
ers OF straw between the courses and
behind their ramparts quite contented-
Iy bade defiance to the blasts of the
Chinese boreas.
If our soldiers can endure the mo-
notony of life behind mud walls. with
an occasional sally upon the frozen sur
face of the river, a turn at skating or
ice boating over the flooded plains and
a foray now and then for fresh provi-
sions, they may pass the winter with
out any great privations. The natives
of Pe-chi-H at one time regarded for
eign soldiers and sailors as amphibious
animals, but more at home on water
than on land Just before the Taku forts
were taken by the French and Eng
fish in 1850 the Chinese commander OPP
posed to them, Sanl1oIinsen, explained
to his cousin, the emperor, that he had
purposely allowed the barbarians to
land, because all foreigners were aqua
tic creatures and, though formidable
on board ship, were helpless on shore.
His plan, therefore, was to "entice
them from their ships and then over
whelm them when thus deprived of
their support" He ''enticed' them
ashore without any difficulty, but all
the Overwhelming was done by the
Europeans. The gallant Sankolinsen
took horse and did not stop until safe
behind the walls of Pelxing So his
fate will probably serve as a warning
to his successors.
WALLACE J. WILCOxSON-
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25 degrees F. at Picking. A very short
spring is followed by a hot summer.
during which the influence of the ocean
causes abundant rains. The autumn is
short
The zone of rains is divided into two
regions. The northern one, comprising
the most beautiful and temperate coun-
tries. extends as far as Naming, in
about 20 degrees north latitude There
in the southern valley and in the less
elevated mountain regions the regular
succession of two wet and two dry
seasons, corresponding to the four sea-
sons in the north. announces a climate
approaching that of the tropics, but on
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him, and Henry Even 'u'" ~,
was equally
bashful. Finally he went for advice TO
an old woman In the neighborhood who
makes living by telling fortunes, and
she counseled him to go during the next
full moon into the large kitchen where
his bread was baked. and when the
clock struck u midnight to open the
oven and look into IT. She assured him
that he would then see the face Of his
future wife.
Henry went home well satisfied. not
knowing that Minna had consulted the
same old woman on the previous even
ing and had been told that she would
surely obtain her hearts desire II she
would only get into the oven in the
kitchen a few hours before midnight
during the next fun moon and keep her
face turned toward the door. Minna
did 50. and, though the oven was un-
comfortably warm, she lay as Htill as a
mouse until the clock struck midnight.
when. 10. the door opened, and before
her appeared the well known face OF
her beloved. Henry. Even then she
hardly stirred, but stared at Henry.
who. utterly amazed at the sight OF
her, speedily retreated. evidently under
the impression that what he had seen
was some ghostly vision. The old wo-
mans ruse. however. succeeded admit
rably, and in a fortnight from that
memorable night Henry and Minna
were made man and wife.
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perienee was almost the same as that
of his superior officer. A native of
Maine. born IS years ago, Aaron s.
Daggett went to the front in 1861 as
second lieutenant of the Fifth Maine
infantry. He became a major in 1862
and at the end of the war when the ar
my was reduced to peace footing he
was commissioned lieutenant colonel
in the Fifth United States veteran re-
serves. He remained in the service after
the civil war and eventually reached
the grade of lieutenant colonel in the
regular army. Going to Cuba with that
rank, his valor and faithfulness gained
him the title of brigadier general Of
volunteers. After the Spanish war he
was promoted to the colonelcy of the
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he was attached to the adjutant gener-
ais Office in Washington. The Chinese
war was another opportunity, and in
the search for a man to command in
China. one who would CONT inc high
military qualities with diplomatic dis
erection, the choice fell upon Chaffee.
He was promptly dispatched China
ward to take command of troops al
ready ordered thither from Manila and
the United States, and on July Is 1900,
he touched at the port of Nagasaki
Japan, where he first received intelli-
gence of his promotion to the major
generalcy in command of the Chinese
expeditionary force. Four days later
he arrived at Taku and began prepara-
tions for that memorable march to Pc
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THE SPORTS OF YOUNG CHINA.

Outdoor amusements for men are few
and not popular in the Chinese empire.
They fly kites. carry birds on perches
and throw seeds high in the air for
them to catch or row boats in a lazy
fashion on the Iagoons or rivers.
They pitch coppers, fight crickets or
quail, juggle balls and play games with
jackstraws and snap sticks.
Active, manly sports are not in keep
ing with the notions of dignity of the
Chinese. and if they were they could
not be INDUCED in because of the in
convenience of dress.
Instead of rowing, ball. tennis or golf
young men prove their muscle by lift
ing beams with heavy stones at each
end. like huge dumbbells or play shut
tlecock, using the thick soIes of their
shoes as the battfedoor.
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their centuries old habits OF thought
are opposed to both.
Like the agricultural peasantry Of
most countries. the Chinese regard the
merchant and trader with suspicion OF
contempt Naturally an outsider who
comes to trade is particularly an object
OF suspicion.
They are also. as regards the ruling
classes. a learned people, deeply im-
bued with the sufHciency OF their own
ethical system. which IS based on the
teaching Of Confucius. The misslona-
aries come to overthrow this and all Of
the official class regard them as dan
gerous to society. as we might here re-
gard the propagate Of some new reli-
iEfous or social system.