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Evening star., 1900-11-28
A DEMONSTRATED FACT.

There is no business that .,
cannot be benefited by ju-
dicious advertising, and
there is none that may not
waste money by poor use of
space or the use of poor
space.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
Circulation Statement.
omineus Chinese News.

While the President and Secretary Hay
are preparing for the next exhibition OF
our splendid diplomacy in an address to
the powers on the subject of peace nego-
tiations the news from China today ap-
pears fully TO corroborate the view of the
situation expressed in these columns yes
terday. According to our dispatches, the
removal Of the Chinese Court to Singan-fu
has satisfied Japan that the Imperial Gov
ernment is as anti-foreign and determined
upon resistance as ever and that, in such
circumstances, it would be waste OF time
to enter into peace negotiations with Ii
Hung Chang and Ching. as the Empress
Dowager could and undoubtedly would,
cancel their credentials at some convenient
time and thus put an end to the matter.
We also hear tha. the movement of large
bodies of Chinese troops toward Singan-fu
continues. evidently with the purpose of
establishing a powerful army between the
allies and the new capital. Count Won Wal
dersee, it is reported, has demanded the
surrender of Prince Tuan and others as a
condition precedent to peace. Ii Hung
Chang is still at Tientsin, and General
Chaffee aud the German Commander-in
Chief concur in believing that he has no
intention OF going to Pekin, being corralisd
by and completely under the control OF NJ.
de Giers the Russian Minister. The Rus
SLAMS have taken Mukden after sharp en-
gagement. The southern Viceroys are be-
coming anti-foreign seeing that the court
is promoting and rewarding officials who
have been engaged in the late atrocities
and fearing for their heads. Their prov
inees are ripe for war, and the general sit
uation is a cross between a kaleidoscope
and Chinese puzzle.
All the conditions. apparently. make
for war and not for peace: armies and not
diplomacy seem certain to have their in
nings before there can be any serious talk
OF negotiations. Sir Robert Hart who
has lived in China for forty years. and
knGws more about the Chinese. their
character, springs of action and methods
than any other living foreigner. warned
the powers a month ago that hosliIities
would be resumed in November, and his
prediction seems destined to come true.
The outlook is gloomy for the world a
peace. At a time when the only hope of
bringing China to terms rests upon alb
solute concord and loyal cooperation
among the powers, there is jealousy and
distrust, and growing danger of an open
disag greement. Such an eventuaIity would
play the Empress Dowager's game to per-
fection. And it may be winning game.
for civilization is confronted today not
only by hordes of Mongolian troops arm
ed with the improved weapons that En-
gland Germany and the United States
have biindly sold to China, but by the
deep and Satanic diplomacy of the two
great Oriental powers, operating with the
splendid diplomacy of the United States
rs a catspaw.
The evening times., 1900-10-09

mere sketches. superficial or otherwise.
but the magazine of today must present
stories of all classes of society and all
races and nations if it would meet the
omnivorous wants OF its readers. This
comes from taste which is growing more
and more catholic and tolerant time
goes on. The day has passed when any
magazine editor can afford to say, as one
did a quarter of a century ago, that he
docs not like low life" There is a grow
ing interest in humanity. as such, IN the
burglar, the tramp. and the pauper. as
well as in the aristocrat and the genius.
This interest is thus far somewhat aca-
demic; people who viii read about the
poor and sigh over their troubles senti-
mentally Will often not lift finger to
help them. Yet it is better that they
should be interested after this fashion
than not at all; better that they should be
curious about the lives and customs OF
the Asiatic than that they should regard
him as heather, little above the brute.
Only in this way can the world come to
that sense of brotherhood which will lead
to the prosperity and interdependenee of
all
The evening times., 1900-10-09
TO BE REARED AS ANARCHISTS.
Daughters of Bresei Under Guard
ianshIp OF the Paterson Group.


PATERSON. N. j, Oct. 9-During the
investigation here into alleged plots
that resulted in the assassination of
King Humbert. Bruno Mazzotta. who is
regarded as a leader and a prominent
advocate of Anarchist principles. said
there are Anarchists in Paterson and
other American cities.
The Paterson group he testified. knew
of no plot to kill the King. He declares
it was the act of an individual. 1t was
admitted that fund had been raised
little Bresci girls. children of the regi-
ship bY Mrs. Bresei that they might be
educated as Anarchists
Detectives Lord and TayIor testified
that a careful investigation by the police
showed no evidence OF an Anarchist or
ganizati tion and the police had no knewi-
edge of social or individual Anarch: SITS.
The session was secret. Commissioner
TrimbIe and his associate. Comte Prato,
the representative of the Italian Gov
ernment. declined to give any fnforma-
ton but Mazzotta and his friends hope
to spread their doctrines with the pub
Iication of the proceedings
Mazzotta admitted there had been q
subscription raised before Bresci sailed
for Europe 1t was for the propaganda.
he said, Bresci was his friend He be-
lieyed that he had visited Italy on per-
sonaI business It was denied by Maz-
gotta that he had received from Milan a
eablegrana of congratulation on the
death of the King,
The evening times., 1900-10-09
BEET SUGAR IN FRANCE.
Increase OF It's Culture in Recent
Years.


Years.
John c. Covert, American Consul at
Lyons, France, in a recent report to the
State Department, describes the large
growth of the beet sugar industry in that
country in recent years. According to
Mr.. Covert the French use relatively
small quantity of any kind OF sugar, but
a large proportion of it is of the beet
variety.
Mr.. Covert quotes largely from work
just issued by NJ. Jules Heiot on Beet
Sugar in France from 1900 to 1900" He
says:
the beginning of the industry in France
was really under Napoleon ], in l810-1z.
when he established five great schools for
study and instruction in sugar chemistry
and four large imperial sugar mills ex-
empt from all taxation.
M Hefot follows the discoveries and
inventions by which the yield of the beet
has been increased from 2 per cent in 1910
to Il per cent in 19ee-
There are now in France $40 sugar
factories, the average production or whleh
has increased threefold in eighteen years
They consume SAC, 600 pounds OF beets eY-
cry tWSnfy-fOuF nCQfS- tue dfeia5S d"iAJ
consumption of Germany is $50, 600 pounds
Since 1888 the consumption of coal IN the
sugar mills of France has fallen from Az
pounds to 2s6 pounds per ton OF beets.
although France has almost trebled
her production in the last thirty years,
she has fallen from the first place IN
1870 to the fourth place in 1900. ana To-
day there is a difference of 121 per ctnt
between her and Germany. In France,
e3G, ,1e5r acres are devoted to the cultIya-
ton of the beet. against 1,o55, Iii acres
in Germany The product OF beets per
hectare in Germany is nearly $1,000 klio-
grams. and in France 1t is 2S,0Oo klio-
/ grams Moreover. in France the yield IS
II per cent, while in Germany il Is
| over 13 per cent.
| Since 1896, while there has been a
very protective tariff on sugar-in fact,
an increasing tarIn-the price has bean
steadily declining.
1T is perhaps proper to state that one
/ reason why French people consume SO NJ
/ tie sugar Is because their ways OF HsIt g
require less of that article For the
| great mass OF the French people. break
| fast consists of a bowl OF soup. whiea IS
| also frequently part OF the two ether
/ meals Their drink is wine. and, as shey
use but little tea or coffee. especially in
! the country there is scarcely any demand
| for sugar They maze neither preserves
nor cake in the family. The usual des-
| sert is fruit and cheese
t 1.-THE high tax of 5 cents per pound on
| sugar is pretty fully paid by the well
| to-do people who live in the cities, and
! who take coffee or chocolate for break
| fast and a small cup OF black coffee
after dinner
The evening times., 1900-10-09
SAYS PRAYER CURED HIM.
The Rev. DIR. Thomas Douglas, o
New York, Now Well.

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-The Rev DR..
Thomas Douglas. given up for dying by his
physicians last July, attended, sound and
well. d meeting of the Presbyterian Minis
ters' Association yesterday. confident IN
the belief that divine mediation had been
obtained in his behalf by q special prayer
service of the society. He returned to his
pulpit in the West Fifty-frst Street Pres
byterian Church on Sunday.
DR.. Douglas was attacked by rheumatism
On the first day of the year, and fingered
on without change for two months at his
home He was then taken to Lakewood
N J.. where his condition became more Sc
rfoGs. and he was removed to the Presbyte-
rian Hospital. in this city. While he lay
i'll the regular meeting of the Presbyterian
Ministers Association was held 1t was
reported from the hospita, that Dr. Doug
las was dying and the ministers meeting
was turned into q service of prayer for
him
Every clergyman made a heartfelt appeal
that their brother be spared. At that time
Dr.. Douglas pulse was 1gG and his tenn
perature registered 102, but almost imme-
diately afterward his pulse fell to 95 and
his temperature to 80 SIS. The prayers of
The Ministers Association were re-enforced
by the public and private appeals OF some
20y clergymen and the members OF his con-
gregation and of the Sunday school also
prayed for their pastor.
Dr. Douglas sudden improvement sur
prised even his physicians. AS he began to
meni he seemed to be endowed with new
life. ue was fed like a child, and had to
learn to walk all over again. At first he
was so feeble that the elergymen who
called upon DR.. Douglas were obliged to
carry him from his bed to his chair in their
arms.
"The Lord heard your prayer: ne gave me
strength and healed me- Dr. Douglas de-
eIared. as he was welcomed by his friends
yesterday. AFTER I learned CT all the
words which had been spoI:en in my behalf.
I feli that the Lord would hear so many
God-feariEg men,
Dr. Douglas was born In Scotland fifty
two yeefs ago. He came to this country in
1875 ana passed the first ten years of his
ministry in the Mississippi Valley. He
built the First Congregational Church in
Sayville. L. l.. and then was called to take
charge of the Romeyn Presbyterian Church
in this city. He has been pastor of the
West Fifty-ffrst Street Presbyterian
Church for five years.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
The Short Story.

Every observer of current literature
has noted the increasing vogue of the
short story, which has to a great extent
replaced the novel in fiction; although
it may be safely said that there never
was a time when TGore novels were writ
ten than at present. The making of
books has increased marvelously during
the nineteenth century.
The prevalence of the short story is
usually accounted for in the careless
remark that people nowadays have no
time to read novels or to write them in
the old three-volume fashion. But it is
doubtful whether this is the reason, or
the whole reason, at any rate. The old
time novels are still read probably as
widely as ever Scott and Dickens are
not now the only noveIists in the field
but most people peruse their works at
some time OF other, and there are more
people now who read novels than there
were seventy-fve or fifty years ago
The allegation that there is no time now
for novel reading viii hardly hold true
when it is considered that David Cop
perfeld. 'Ivanhoe,' Vanity Fair and
'"The Three Musketeers'' still have their
public
1t is true that the magazines no longer
publish serials as a matter of course
though the more important of these pub
ncations still contain novel, or even
two or three novels, each year. The
smaller magazines often content tht M
selves with short stories, since they are
intended for perusal on railway trains
and in other places where stray copies
are picked up and no subscriptions
taken. Yet when the matter is seriously
considered, it will be found that there
are as many books appearing seriaIly as
when Dickens edited Household
Words
The real significance of the short story
as literary symptom lies deeper than
this The reading public is larger in num-
ber and as a whole better educated, than
ever before. It no longer demands elgbo-
rate descriptions and explanations, be-
cause they have become trite and unnec-
essary through repetition. To a public
which has already read Scott's historical
novels, the historical novelist of the pres
ent day need not give an elaborate pic
ture of the Jays of King Richard l. That
work has been done. Moreover, much of
the fetion Of today is concerned with ia
miIiar scenes ard characters, and long de-
scriptions OF these would be tiresome.
These things have conspfred to make both
the short story and the novel brief and
terse. and induce the novelist to suggest
local color by phrase rather than
paragraph.
The interests OF the reading public are
wide. and it demands pictures of "a vast
O. various kinds o. men," They may be
The evening times., 1900-10-09
TRAGEDY STOPS CHEERS.
Prominent Young Lawyer Killed by
a Train.

n Train.
NEW YORK. Oct 9-Freder;ck S. Glib
son. a young lawyer, and member OF a
prominent New York family, was struck
by a train on the New York and Putnam
Railroad at University Heights station.
at s o'clock last night. He died a few
minutes later.
Gibson was twenty-four years cid, AMI
lived with relatives at p Waverley
Place He was a nephew of former As
sistant Secretary of State Frederick w
Seward Graduating from New York U1t-
versizy in 1886. and from the law school
of that institution last spring, he opened
a law office about week ago. and
seemed about TO enter upon a career full
OF promise He was reckoned exception
ally bright in the university, and toek
first prize in several of his studies
The young man was high in the oou1-
ellis CT the Psi Epsilon fraternity, and
last night went up to the university to
help initiate new members. A crowd of
students was awaiting him, and his
aiightlng from the train was signal for
cheering and shouting. So loud was this
that Gibson did not hear the approach of
train On the other track, which was
bearing down on him at thirty-miie
rate
The others scrambled out of the way.
but Gibson was struck by the locomotive.
He was thrown twenty feet, landing On
the station platform. When Dr. Milhol-
land, of the Fordham Hospital, arrived
with an ambulance the young man was
dead. Upon examination the physician
found that the skull and many bones OF
the body had been fractured.
The body of young Gibson was taken to
the High Bridge police station, the MAN.
bers of the fraternity, their meeting
POSTPONED, accompanying in b-dy.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
SHIPS To LOAD SOFT COAL.
Three Philadelphia Golfers Leased
in the South

NORFOLK, Va, Oct 9.-There are now
lying off the pier of the great Lambert's S
Point coaling station, in this harbor, three
floating evidences of the fact that the coal
carrying railroads do not believe the strike
OF the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania
is near an end.
These evidences are three steamships
more familiar to Philadelphia seafarers
than hereabouts. They are the Reading,
the Lancaster, and the Harrisburg, and
were formerly used by the exporters and
coastwise shippers of the product of the
anthracite mines of Pennsylvania
The vessels have been leased to those
shippers who handle over the big coal piers
at Lambert's Point the product of the West
Virginia fiat top coal region, where the
famous Pocahontas steam coal is produced.
They will supply coaling stations, Govern
ment ships, eoastwise and foreign coal
yards.
Marine men declare that had there been
any chance Of an early settlement of the
strike the anthracite carriers would never
have been leased to the soft coal dealers of
the South.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
BANK CLERK MISSING.
An Elizabeth. n. J., Institution Said
to Have Lost $50, 900.

TO Have lost ooSyooo
ELIZABETH, n. J., Oct. 9.-The absence
of William Scrieber, one of the confidential
clerks OF the Elizabethport Banking Com
pany, for the past two months has caused
10 little comment Scrieber is a single
man and lived with his sister on Reid
Street and was fond of lively company.
The directors at first asserted thai the
missing clerks accounts were all right, but
it is now claimed by them that the bank
has suffered a loss Of over $50,000 as an
examination of Scrieber's books has been
made. 1t is said that he went away on his
vacation August 2 for two weeks, and that
he went to New York, where he became
acquainted with woman and engaged an
expensive fat, which he furnished luxu-
riously He then went to Saratoga, where
it is said he paid $50 per day for board for
himself and friend. 1t is also said he be-
came acquainted with Joe Yendig, who
gave him tips on the races, and that he
won SIC. eco on the Corbett- Mccoy prize
fight
Three weeks ago, it is reported, serieber
and the woman sailed for Paris The loss
to the bank was made good by the direc-
tors, who are reticent about the affair. 1t
is understood that Scriber's bondsman. the
American Surety Company. is diligently
looking for him, his bord being for S., 900.
He had been with the bank for ten years
Serieber's alleged method OF stealing was
the fixing of the daily book for deposftors
The depositors' pass book and ledgers were
all right, but these were not posted every
day, and it appears to have been an easy
matter to blind those who casually looked
over the pages Of the depositors' general
book No run on the bank is expected as
the bank is financially Istrong
The evening times., 1900-10-09

There is a Republican National Commit
teeman from New Jersey, whose name is
Murphy. He declares that Mr. Bryan has
but one desperate hope. and that it lies in
the idle and vicious classes" In one
sense no doubt the gentleman with the po-
tato synonym is correct The idle" class.
represented by men of elegant leisure, who
build palaces out of the profits of rotten
beef contracts and brokerage in Army
transports; and the vicious" class. con-
sisting of trust extortioners and robbers,
have indeed managed to alarm and disgust
the country 20 an extent that promises an
avalanche of votes for the Democratic can
didate, which, otherwise he might not
get. So, in that way, the idle and vicious
classes may be said to have done some
effective missionary work for the cause of
the people.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
THE CHICAGO INSURANCE PLOT
Allegations That Numerous Conipa-
nies Were to Be Defrauded

Allegations That Numerous Comma
nies Were to Be Defrauded.
CHICAGO. Oct 9-The latest develop
ments in the plot to swindle insurance
companies, in connection with which F.
W. Ayiand Brown, Assistant Manager OF
the Mooney and Boland Detective Agen-
>y, Frank H. Smiley, an operative of the
same concern, and DR.. August II. Unger,
a physician, are held in $1,000 bail each
for trial. shows that the alleged con-
spirators contemplated defraudfug the
following companies to the amounts
named:
Equitable Life Insurance Company,
$4,000; Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York. G.900; Security Trust and
Life Insurance Company, $4,000; Pruden-
tial Insurance Company Of America, slO.-
600; Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pa1y of New York, $40, ,000
The theory of the Investigation is that,
fearing the exposure of their plans in
view of recent convictions in similar
frauds, Miss Defenbach, who had taken
leading part in the original conspiracy,
was murdered, and that Instead of
corpse to represent her, her own body
was produced for the purpose of securing
the claims Oh insurance policies.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
SENATOR DEPEW SUED.
The Result of the Penny Masazinef
Guessing Contest.

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct 9.-Senator Chaun-
cey VI Depew is defendant in suit which
has been brought by S. c. Brabro0k,
through his attorney, ". ". De Armand,
against the Penny Magazine of New
York, fof money alleged TO have been won
in a prize guessing contest.
Advertisements offering $500 cash as pre-
miums to be divided into S2C0, 800. $50.
and smaller amounts, for correct and near
est guesses, were published early this
year. Mr. Brabrook, upon the representa-
tion that Nr. Depew was the principal
stoekhoIder in the magazine. sent in fifteen
guesses of words in a four-letter puzzle
and 20 cents with each. Five of his
guesses. he asserts, were correct
No money being forwarded, he wrote 10
the editor of the magazine, and was told
that there were Is, GEO correct answers, and
that the editor did not know how TO award
the prizes. Mr.. Brabrook then wrote Mr..
Depew and says he has received no answer.
The evening times., 1900-10-09

AS an Offset TO the enthusiastic Demo-
cratic mass meeting in Baltimore last
night, the local Republican campaign man
ayers got up a farcical run on a little
dime savings bank by spreading unfavor-
able reports concerning its condition, and
then declaring that the poor people who
patronize it had become alarmed for fear
Mr. Bryan might be elected and run of
with their savings. Truly. Hanna and his
men are in desperate straits when they
resort to such pueriIe means as that to
affect public sentiment.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
FIRE THREATENS a TOWN.
Twelve Buildings Destroyed by an
Incendiary Blaze.

PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Oct 9.-Ffre
which started Sunday at midnight de-
stroyed twelve buildings, including the
Episcopal Church. at Ravenswood, causing
a total loss of about $40, Geo. The blaze
was of incendiary origin.
T. J. Adams, in whose store the fire
started, had been threatened BY an anony-
nous letter. H C. Fleming, who lives
next door, heard the striking of q match
just before the fire and two suspicious men
were there about that time. The fire burn
ed over half an acre and swept everything
before 1t. There is no fire protection in
the town and the citizens used the bucket
brigade to save the town.
The heaviest loser Is George Leonard.
who had $4,000 worth of property burned.
Other losers are T. J. Adams, John Law
son. Junior Order United American Ne
chanics Miss s. e. Adams, Capt J. C. Ed
wards, H c. Fleming, Carl Edwards, E.
H. Newell, and the Episcopal Church, the
Oldest one in Jackson county.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
LIEUT.. P. W. HoURIGAN'S TRIAL.
The Second Court-Martia7 on the
Charge of Drunkenness.

Secretary Long has eab1ed orders for the
trial by court-martial at Lisbon. Portugal,
of Lieut. Patrick ". Hourigan, Z. S. N, on
q charge of drunkenness. Lieutenant
Hourigan is serving as navigator of the
Lancaster, under Commander H B. Mans
field. The trial will be held on October Is.
and as this is the second time. within a
year that the officer has been court mar
tailed for the same offence. it is thought
that he will be dismissed from the sery-
ice.
Lieutenant Hourigan is one of the most
popular officers in the Navy, and worked
himself up by sheer merit. He has many
friends in this city. His record was so
good that the decision in the last court
martial was but the loss of five numbers
The officer entered the Naval Academy
from New York in 1876, and is a native
of that State.
The evening times., 1900-10-09
1nsincere support of mckinley.

II KUN tic 1tItiHfiatl
George F. Hoar is not in earnest in his s,Ip-
port of President Mckinley, for he has in ex-
press terms denounced the Philippine policy OF
the Administration destructive OF the Republic
Chauneey NJ. Depew is not in earnest, for he has
declared N phraseoogy that cannot be misunder-
stood given modified meaning, that the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippine Islands would be ut
terly hostile 10 cur system of Government Al
bert j. Beveridge is not in earnest, for onEr a
short time ago he denounced the Porto Riean
policy pursued by the President and Congress