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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
CHINESE FAUNA.
THE LARGEST TIGERS IN THE WORLD AND
SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BIRDS.

From The Spectator.
There is a general impression about Chinese
animals about the Chinese people, that they
are quaint, Intellectual, and of no particular use
except to Cinnamon Whether the Chinese pug
dogs, their hollow backed pigs, or dwarfed trees,
the absence of almost any good books on
sport in the Forbidden Empire, have given rise
to this idea, it is a very mistaken one. In
Northern Asia the species increase not only in
numbers but in size the further east the region,
and in Northern China their numbers are great
est and their size is most remarkable Take for
instance, the deer The big red stag of the
Caucasus is surpassed by those of Eastern ST.
beria and in the Altai and the Than Shan
Mountains it has become either a giant red
deer, or, as is now believed, its place is taken
by Asiatic wapiti, which, if not quite so
large the monsters of the Rocky Mountains,
has the largest antlerS of any existing deer.
Besides these, roebuck are common, as well
several species of smaller deer, among them one
resembling the Japanese stag now introduced
into our parks, SWinhoe's deer in FoTmoSa'
hornless water deer, and in the hunting park
of the Emperor at Picking deer whose native
home is not certainly known, and which
discovered by Pere David when taking a peep
into the forbidden precinct over the park wall.
The largest tigers in the world are found in
Manchuria, and wild boars, leopards tiger cats,
while lynXeS with brown bears in the north
and black bears in the south, make up large
fauna of sufficient distinction for a Chinese
censor to be proud of. In the Tartar camel the
Empire owns the best beast of burden in the
world; it produces the best of all ponies and
though the yellow Chinese COW is small, it is
good and prolific, a very even cross, it
would seem, between the bumped cattle of
India and the Dos taurus OF EUROPE Inc ulS-
tinguiShed Chinese naturalist who described the
indigenous animals in the Tai-Wan-FOO GaZet-
teer notes that FormoSan bears have such thick
hristles that arrows cannot pierce their bodies,
that they climb trees and sit on the top cross
legged that their bellies contain much suet and
that their paws delicacies are among the
eight pearls" The venison. on the other hand,
he considers mot fit to pick up with chop
sticks" But that is probably because the
Chinese everywhere kill stays when they
out of season, in order to secure the half grown
horns to make a youth restoring patent medi-
cine. Badgers, civets and nOst small fur bear
ing animals abound in the mountains. and offers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

apout twice the value of the property, but the
owner still refused. He was told to set his own
price.
III name figure so big that it will scare you
away and that will be the end of it."
Name your figure and let's see if it WILL" re-
piled Tweed
well, suppose 1 say $60O0O"
Would you take that price?"
Nobody will be crazy enough to give it," an
sWered the property owner.
IWeed wrote out a contract, which called for
the sale of the property for 100000 within thirty
days Now, I'll give you a dollar if you will
sign this he said. The man signed, and within
the month Tweed took up the contract.
With the fall and imprisonment of Tweed and
other leading spirits of the Americas, the club
house passed out of their hands. 1t turned
into a summer hotel and survived for several
years. The property finally purchased by
T. c. Benedict. who tore down the old buildings
and erected magnificent home. A wing of the
dining room is the only portion of the old club
house still in existence, and it is only used a
storage place for boats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
VESTS 1.-THE RAISING OF LAZARUS"
THE PAINTING RECENTLY PRESENTED BY ]
PIERPONT MORGAN TO THE CITY
OF HARTFORD.
OF HARTFORD.

Benjamin West painted his large picture of
The Raising of Lazarus in 1880 Two years
later the Bishop of Winchester. Newton Oge,
bought it for his cathedral. where it was kept
in reredos of the fifteenth century for over a
hundred years Some time ago it appears to
have been put upon the market and finally
purchased by j. PerpOnt Morgan. He has pre-
scented it to the Wadsworth Athenaum in Hart
ford, his native city, and there it has just been
placed upon exhibition. 1t hangs directly oppo-
site the portrait of Benjamin West, painted by
Sir Thomas Lawrence. The picture of which
the design is shown in the accompanying illus
tration, is rich in color. 1t measures 10 feet
10 inches by feet inches. 1t has been placed
in handsome gold frame
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
THE GOLD RUSH IN VICTORIA
From The London Globe.

From The London Globe.
An exciting gold rush, one of the biggest seen
in Victoria for many years, is described in the
Australian papers Within three days of the
discovery of gold at a place in the northwest of
the colony known Mount William over five
thousand adventures had reached this new Ell
Dorado, and hundreds were making their way to
the spot from all points of Australia. 1t appears
that every claim is contested, so that the Gov
eminent Warden will have his work cut out to
decide as to priority of pegging. Wranglers
Gully was the name speedily given to of the
positions on the field. where the gold is said to
be widely distributed at q depth of only eight
feet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02

melody has found a place in the hearts
OF the people.
The author of this and many other
hymns that have Soorhed the troubled
heart was laid to rest recently at Plain
sieId. Nj. He was Rev. Robert Lowry.
a prominent Baptist preacher DIR.
Lowry was for years pastor Of churches
in New York. Brooklyn, Jersey City and
other places and was at one time pro-
lessor OF rhetoric in Lewishurg Uniyer-
sity. He wrote many hymns, among
chem. beside the one already alluded TO,
being where Is My Wandering Boy
To-night?" lone More Days Work for
Jesus" and marching On"
"ShaH We Gather at the River, Ike
so many other gems Of thought, was
written on an inspiration OF the mo-
saent. on one very warm summer day
In 1864 Mr. Lowry was seated IN MS
parlor In Brooklyn mourSssg the loss OF
several near and dear ati-sN.as and many
acuuaintances taken away by an cpl
demIc that was then sweeping through
the city. All around him were signs OF
sorrow. Grape was on the doors OF
many houses: the signs OF mourning
were on the dress of the people; gloon
of sadness had been cast over all. Ey
erywhere there was death. And acros:
the mind OF the pastor came the
<hought. "Shs.l we all meet again; w'
who have known and loved one another
here on earth-shaii we meet In th'
hereafterr'
seating mysst at the ergan." said
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
REARING THE CHILD.
Study Carefully IRIS Natural Growth
and Nourish That

Study Carefully Its Natural Growth,
and Nourish That.
I'm trying to understand chilG-life,
make two mental pictures" advises
Barbetta Brown in the Ladies' Home
Journal. in one, draw in the child as
block of marble, with mother, grand
mother, teacher working away dog
gedly, relentlessly; chiseling, hammer
ing, pounding it into what they are
pleased TO consider its proper shape.
In the other, draw the child as plant,
with roots firmly set In the soil of cir
cumstance, with peculiar tendencies of
its own toward growth, naturally, glad
ly reaching outward and upward to
what was meant to be its blossoming.
Then tell me which picture appeals to
YOU as more nearly approaching truth.
| have faith enough in human under
standing to believe that none will choose
the first, but all the last, to hang in their
gallery of ideas. How much simpler
the beautiful growing process than the
harsh chiseling process! All that we
who love the~child have to do is care
fully to keep in good condition its en-
vironment; to see that it gets its needed
sunshine: to study most carefully its
natural growth and nourish that, and
perhaps gently and lovingly to prune
II now and then"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02

America has been retarded by the work
of these people. A vice president of the
Mexican National Railroad has said
that the poems were dangerous rivals
in the transportation business, and that
if they could be kept idle for the next
three years there would be three times
as much activity in railroad develop
ment. Not only this, but the turning of
a man into a beast keeps the people
ignorant and the. country backward.
This feature of labor in South Amer
lea is remarkable. Roads and trails
have been cut across the Andes, not for
horses nor for railroads. Over them
thousands of men travel bearing enor-
nous loads, and their endurance is
greater than that of animals. In Qua
temala almost all the transportation is
done by the people. Produce is carried
on the heads of men and women, and
their harness is as carefully prepared
as that of a horse; as a result there are
no carriage roads in the country that
amount to much. The goods are done
up in packages which often weigh $50
pounds. On the top of this the carrier
has his food, and bound to it is a cloak
that is hauled over it when it rains.
Thus equipped the human beast OF
burden travels all over the country,
perhaps hundreds of miles, delivering
goods. Nearly all the coffee in Rio is
transported by trains OF men. A cap
tain rounds up the flock of 20 or 80 men
At the word they fling the bags, which
weigh 100 pounds each, upon theif
shoulders and start at slow trot. The
captain has a rattle with which he reg
ulates their speed, turning it quickly to
increase the speed and slower to de-
crease it.
1.-THE laborer in the United States
sometimes believes that he has a hard
time. but nowhere else in the world is
he so we'll treated" said a traveller.
'sTake the question of wages. The car
riers in Brazil earn about % cents a
day; the poems loss. and the natives of
Africa less. Yet these people live on
beans and a kind of cakes that call to
mind prepared sawdest. In travelling
through England and Ireland eight or
ten years ago l looked into the lives of
the laborers. and found in many places
that meat was a luxury: some had it
once a week. What laborer in this
country but has his meat daily, and
generally twice a day?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
Gu EN- Victoria's Pr ctical Gift.

Queen Victoria is q practical woman
and believes in practical gifts. One of
the Queerest of her presents, however
was the collection of boots and shoes
presented as a wedding souvenir to her
favorite daughter, the Princess Bea-
trice. She was also the youngest and
last to get married 1t was long ex-
pected that she would remain spins
ter in order to continue to be a COM
panion to her mother, but, to every
body's surprise, she married Prince
Henry of Battenberg.
The Queens present shows her emin-
entity wise and practical nature. There
is no material possession so conducive
to happiness and comfort as large
supply of good. well-made shoes. They
make a favorable foundation for q
happy married life.
The boots and shoes presented TO the
Princess Beatrice by her august mother
were packed in boxes specially made
for them. Six pairs of the same kind
were packed In each box.
There were really enough OF these
boots to last the princess until she be
came an old woman: Good boots well
cared for will last for an indefinite
time. especially when one has enough
CT them to avoid wearing any one pair
for a lengthy consecutive period
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
Attac,. ed bs Thngs.

Miss Ruby A.lel and Daniel White. two
well-known young people Of Kenosha,
were attacked by toughs the other even
ing while skating on a little pond south
of the city. The young lady and White
were the only two people on the ice, and
a gang of fellows came along and began
to insult the young lady. When White
protested the fellows jumped on him and
beat him up in horrible manner. His
jaw was broken and his entire body was
covered with bruises. After White had
been disposed of he was left in an un-
conscious condition and the young lady,
who had started to run to neighboring
house, was attacked. She L@lnaged to
get away from her assailants, However,
with slight injuries.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
HARD WORK.
Comparcd -, These the American La
borer Is Fortunate.

Compared 20 These the American La
borer Is Fortunate.
AT least 100000 Chinese earn a liv-
ing by the most arduous labor. They
are carriers and their task is TO trans
port from 100 to $50 pounds from TO
40 miles. In Canton. a sazxacr thinks
nothingof burden of the LATER weight,
and men can be hired who will
transport leo pounds 60 miles in
two days at a lower cost than
il could be sent by freight In
this country. In Russia it Is not an I'M
common sight to see women working
in rock quarries. A vast amount OF the
hardest work on the canals Of Central
America has been done by men. women
and children. who carry away basket
loads OF earth on their heads. 1t IS q
fact that the development OF South
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
ptuid Tast tor Matrimonv

Both in the northern and western ISL
ands OF Scotland the natives have some
peculiar customs unfamiliar to the
dwellers Of the mainland. One Of
these, known as the marriage test" is
practiced in the island Of St. Kilda,
where the population barely exceeds a
hundred. The desire among the island
ers to increase this number does not
seem to be exceptionally strong, and
every man before be is deemed suitable
for husband has to perform an evolu-
ton with no little bodily risk. The 81.
Kiidans are. OF course, adept rock
climbers, and the aspirant for matri-
monv is therefore subjected to the test
of balancing himself on one leg on a
nsT-ow ledge overhanging a preclpice,
bending his body at the same time in
order to hold the foot Of his other leg In
the hands. If found lacking In courage
the maiden wlthdraws her betrothal,
ard should the man fall over the ledge,
ii is presumed that. IN his case. he VIII
be disqualified.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
WOULDN'T FORFEIT GOOD NAME
Mistake of Woman that Helped a
Church Out of Difficulty.

NhNiNh WV VI bthtnttys
The mistake a lady recently made
caused her husband to pay $3.50 more
than lie had expected, but resulted in
a large increase in the fund being
raised to pay off a debt on a local
church. The lady is The wife Of one
of the best known COS, men in this vi
cinity, and at the dime she made the
mistake she and her husband were at
meeting of the church, OF which they
are members, in a nearby town.
The meeting had been called to raise
funds TO pay off pressing debt
against the church. The minister made
an appeal to the congregation fer
money and appointed a committee TO
take around a paper for subscription.
AS the member of the committee came
near the coal man he said in whisper
to his wife:
PUT your name down for nifty"
The wife wrote her name and placed
the figures opposite, and when the
paper reached the minister he looked
over the congregation and, with a
smile, said: II am delighted to see that
Sister Smith has so nobly responded
to the call l made and to the needs OF
the church. She has put her name
down for $500, and it Is the largest sub
scription on the paper. / know many
Of you are worth more than the lady
who has so molly shown her love for
the church, and hope you will strive
to emulate her noble conduct. TO give
you a chance / will again pass around
the subscription paper, and hope none
of you win fall behind our generous sis
ter"
While the paper was being again
passed around the husband Of the lady
became very anxious, and, turning to
his wife, be said: How much did you
put DOWN.
We'll" said the wife, Il Intended to
put down $50 but ! guess put one
cipher too much bar for goodness sake
don't let them know that don't know
how to write $50"
lie did not and paid the $500, and
when the subscription paper was re
turned the second time the subscrip-
lions had been largely increased.-Pitts-
burg Chroniele-Telegraph.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.

President Mckinley has undoubtedly
been guilty of criminal aggression in
his assumption of war making power
in the Philippines, In Decembeu. 1898,
the President instructed Gen. Otis to
enter upon a war.of conquest and sub
jugation. This was before the peace
treaty with Spain was signed.
Referring to this fact, Francis a..
Brooks. a well-known Boston lawyer.
says:
But the GROWING offense of Presi-
dent Mckinley in this matter is the use
made by him of the treaty-making
power as the means of acquiring from
Spain dominion and control by the
United States over the political condl-
ton of remote people aganS. their
WILL and by employing the army and
navy to accomplish that end. We sup
pose that the treaty-making power was
conferred on the President by the con-
stitution in the interest of peace, and
that it is gross abuse and perversion
of that power go employ or avail of it
as an excuse for subjecting an unwill-
ing people to the dominion of the Unit
ed States, as is now being done by the
President"
President Mckinley has taken upon
himself a fearful responsibility. A re-
sponsibiny ungranted by the constitu-
ton and unapproved by the people
There would have been no war in the
Philippines if Mckinley had offered the
same terms there which were granted
to the Cubans Upon MeKinley's con-
science must rest the burden of ca1s-
inc the death of thousands of Amerl-
can soldiers and the expenditure of
hundreds of millions of the peoples
money.
It is vain for the President to claim
III his message to Congress that he has
simply been engaged in maintaining the
authority of our government. He has
made war without authority, and Con-
gress. with which body the war-mak-
ing power rests, should recognize this
fact and demand an accounting. But
should Congress fail to do this, owing
to the fact that 1t is now creature CT
the Republican administration, the peo-
pie will not fail to make such de-
mand and the result OF the Presidential
election of 1900 will be to deprive Me-
Kinley of any further power to usurp
authority and to court criminal aggres-
sion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
GOLD BuG FROM KLoNoIkE.
Has Yellow PronGs that Tell Wher
to Find the Metal.

Has Yellow PronGs that Tell Where
to Find the Metal.
In The window of shop on one of the
main business streets of Seattle is a
glass jar of alcohol containing rare
bug. Crowds iostle each other all day
to look at it. The label on the bottle
says only ''Klondike Gold Bug" All
over the creatures body are little
prongs tipped with very pale yellow,
almost white.
However, the more superstitious of
the returning miners believe that the
gold bug has a mysterious liking for
the yellow metal and knows how to find
it. This is the story returned miner
tells:
Nav, | didn't have much t first.
Anyways. got er poke of gold by long
work an hid it in the dirt floor o my
shack. Next spring panned and pan
ned. an didn't have no luck. But one
day | noticed a bug crawling over the
ground toward the middle OF the shack.
| KEEP ketchin him. an pretty soon he
started to dig right down toward where
| had my poke buried.
80 puts the bug on the table while
buried the sack in another place. Then
| put the bug down. Well, the critter
seemed TO sniff around. and then he
started to dig, by jinks, right down
where had the sack. l thought I'd
struck II at last 1t nearly made me
crazy to think that my luck had chang
ed and had bug as good as Aladdin s
lamp. l didn't sleep any that night.
waited till the sun rose. about 5
I O'Clock in the morning, watching my
I bug so he couldn't get away, and then
started out with him. / put him down
near where had been digging.
THAT bug crawled around for hours,
and was thinking myself fool, when
l noticed him changing his tactics All
at once be started TO dig. got a shovel
and started after the bug. l dug al
/ that day. and along about . o'clock al
night saw something yaller. BY gosh
It was a nugget big as hens egg.
amt going to tell you anything more
but I've Just been TO the assay office
and didn'tceIne out from the Klondiks
busted this yeaS. Don't laugh at them
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02
Dilemma of the Protectionists.


There are things working together
for good in our tariff system. We are
pleading with the strongest for the
the open-door policy. Can we justly
prohibit trade at horne which we de
mand abroad? We are seeking world
market for our manufactured product.
VIII our people submit to paying more
for any of these products at home than
they are sold for abroad? We are
competing successfully with the so
called ''pauper labor" of the world.
VIII we at home believe It is longer
necessary to protect ourselves against
it at home? We are aroused by tie
existence of trusts; we are determined
to control or destroy them. Can we do
either when, and so Tar as, they are
protected by our tariff LAVISH
We have for these many years paid
bounties to all sorts Of private enter
prises, Indirectly and in unknown
amounts This tax was paid by the
consumers in proportion to their neces-
sities, and not In ratio to their ability.
We are now asked TO pay a bounty d.
rectIy to ship owners out of the com
mon treasury. WIN the people stand
It? The beneficiaries Of the old sys-
TEN are grown bold and ask from the
treasury as right what they have
before taken indirectly from the indi-
viduals All these things and more
are driving the system of protection to
the wall. Mckinley did not even men
ton 1t in his message. Protectionists
are driven to a dilemma f@om which
they cannot escape. The territorial
expansion has forced them to II Trade
expansion would have done IL, any
way. They cannot advocate either ex-
pansion and hold to protection at
home Milwaukee Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02

WILL IN A HELMET, WHICH ne Is dI ilp-
erty TO fill out at his leisure. In a ma
jority of cases, however, he pays no
attention to this pocketbook and goes
into battle with his will still unmade.
After he has been hit by bullet and
begins to realize that his chances of
getting home are small. the soldier be-
gins to think more carefully of the
loved ones left behind him and of the
provisions he has made for their COM
fort AS a result many queer and pa
thetic wills have been found upon the
bodies of dead soldiers, and in every
case the wishes of the testator have
been respected. During the Soudan
campaign of 1884 the body of one sol
der was found on the battlefield of
Ell Teb, who, before death had scrawl-
ed with the end of lead bullet on the