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Evening star., 1901-10-14
CHINESE ESSAYS.
Comment on the Abolition of Gwen
changs" in kwanH Hsu's Land.

N n
chanEs" in kwang Hsu's Land.
From the Shanghai Mercnry. Sept. T.
All China is ringing with the cry: The
eight-legged is abolished!' What for
eigners commonly know of as Wenchang
but scholars designate ''the eight-legged
from its eight parts have been abolished
by one stroke of the imperial pencil. Re
formers would like to see that pen pre-
served just as was the pen with which
Lincoln signed the proclamation freeing
the slaves. The progressive regarded the
Wenchang as a veritable octopus strang
ling real learning and talent. The octopus
is dead and there are few to mourn save
the booksellers whose books of model es-
SAYS will now become dead stock.
The native papers are all discussing the
great event. Let us hear what they say.
The Tung Wen Hu Pao says the Wen
chang has been the vogue for 200 years
IN China and like most other things age
begets numerous abuses The conserva-
tiyes have stoutly pleaded for Wenchangs
on three specious pleas. First, the themes
set for Wenchangs are all out of the Four
Books and Five Classics, which are the
words of the Sages and Worthless How
can miscellaneous literature compare with
their words? Second, the form of the
Wenchans is all right; the fault lies with
the present age composers of essays at
. examinations. Formerly the essayists
adorned their essays with history and the
classics. and the essays were of high or
der of merit. Today there Is great de-
clension from that standard. Third, they
say the Wenchang in the past has been
instrumental in bringing out men of tall
ent- 1t would be better to correct its
abuse than DEGREES its total disuse-
Such language Is not unnatural In the
mouths OF men who are where they are
owing TO the old system. But after all
their arguments are weak. As to the first
argument, they claim that when they write
essays they are speaking forth the words
of the Sages and Worthless. No. no, you
are only anxious for degrees and emolu-
ments, you are not series preachers of the
Sages' doctrines Why. all the great COM
mentators on the classics, such as Chu-hsi
and Cfreng-zu, acknowledged that there
were places In those writings they did not
understand ard could not expound. Do
You mean TO say you can do so7 What
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wv. B. Moses & Sons, + ST., Cor. 11th.

a stop in the small island of Mona, Of which
but recently I gave short account in The
Star. The Haitians and Cubans were. on
their part, commercially related with the
continent.
The Indo-Antillean language has certainly
been lost; but the philologists have accom-
plished not little in their researches to-
ward its re-establishment. In the above
mentioned work on prehistoric Porto Rico.
written by DR.. Coll Toste, have seen a
long vocabulary patiently collected by the
author from the names stil remaining in
rivers, mountains, valleys; names of towns
and even idioms and phrases that are Pc
culiar to the Porto Rican people of this day.
ADRIANO T. LOPEZ-NUSSA.
Evening star., 1901-10-14
Ordnance and ArmOr.
From L.eslie's Monthly.

FROM Leslie monthly.
There has been a constant rivalry be-
tween the shipbuilder and armorer on the
one hand and the gun. gunpowder and pro-
jectile manufacturer on the other hand.
Every Improvement in armor plate has
been met by a further advance, either In
the gun, the projectiie or the propelling
charge OF gunpowder. An armor maker
would announce the production of steel
plate which no existing cannon could pene-
trate. Then the projectiles Were made
conical, and with sharp point. having
fine temper, and the gun was rified to give
the projectile rotation and true flight. and
the guns were made to load at the breech
instead of the muzzle, adding greatly to
the rapidity and facility of fire. Another
inventor then came forward with meth
cd for hardening the surface OF the plate
by a process bearing his name. Harvey
lied plate is SO hard that 1t cannot be
scratched with file or cut with cold
chisel Nickel was put In the plate, add
ing still more to its hardness and tough
ness. Then smokeless powder was pro-
duced, developing much greater energy
than its old black predecessor, and made
to burn with accelerating combustion, and
with 1t projectiles could be hurled with
such velocity that the energy of their i'm
pact could not be resisted by either the
projectile or the plate, and the gun had
to be heightened and strengthened forward
to meet the new demands upon 1T. The
limit in weight of armor plate was soon
reached. Twelve inches in thickness came
the strongest warship. for she could not
carry thicker and float. The projectile was
stu more improved. being made Of the
finest forged steel and tempered with great
skill. Then came Kruppized plate, and
the projectiIe was again turned aside or
smashed upon It's surface Lastly, a soft
nose made OF mild steel was placed on the
point OF the armor-piercing projectile and
est Kruppixed plate that could be carried
BY the hattie shlD.
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''ENGllSH WELT. I"
nceit! You are ten thousand Ii beneath

conceit! You are ten thousand Ii beneath
them "
80, say the tnemes set for essays are
very lofty. But generally only a frae-
ment Is set. not the whole passage. and
the candidates are bound to treat this frap-
meht In a fixed method. which instead of
nonoiihs the Sages really insults them
AS to the second argument the abuses
spoken of are inherent in the method
every one merely wishes his ESSAY to road
smoothly. and be well adorned with elegant
phrases from the best models. In ancient
times they could accomplish this. hut now,
adays the essays are fifty PAGES behind
them- But first and last the meaning is
ieast considered. the form is everything.
AS 10 the third, the essay did not pro-
duce the men of ability Men Of abil,ty
merely adapted themselves to the method
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laurel and tamarisk varied with ivy, Glenn
ats and roses and oranges. you look out
OF the Apennines. and the vast ocean-like
plain whereon glisten the white towns OF
Parma, Cremona and Piacenza.
Baths Of Brown Gravy.
Rest? It is all rest at Salso. Sweet
smells and peaches, and slow ox-carts
laden with absurd quantities of purple
grapes. We are called at 4 for our baeni
medicali: for these may be taken in the
hotel. 1t is not nice to be dragged out of
bed, wrapped in blankets and showed in.o
sedan chair. as one is at Aix-les-Batns.
or the Mont Dore, where one must be taken
from the hotel to the etablisseYneht des
bains. Your bath does not look inviting,
being like brown gravy. You float helpless
on the top You soak in the gravy for
thirty-fve minutes Chere is a clock OYER
the door. Then you come back to your
room with desire for coffee and rolls,
with honey from the slopes of Morte Rosa.
Afterward you dress and go down. Iou
may walk or drive. or go over to the Terme
Magnaji and watch the people waiting for
their baths. 1t is model stabilimento with
round corners chow else would you say
that0 so as not to harbor dust. There is
an imposing list of professors ard consult
ants. and you can pick out where You
like" according to the attainment.5 and de-
grees you fancy. An hour SO after your
gravy bath you take your inhslation.
went to see the getto diretto. though IL
was not ordered for me. / beheld long
vista of taps or jets, each spouting steau
Before each sat eager man. swathed In
waterproof, and with his open mouth drink
ing in the contents of his bottle OF water,
which he receives in pulverized spray. You
have to get used to this. As a mere pol
verizzazioni salsoiodiche was prescribed for
me I sauntered into what the English peo-
pie here call the 'foggery." You present to
the attendant in the ante-room the inhala-
tion ticket you have bought from the sig
norma in the desk, and before you know
where you are man has clothed you riji-
culously like Bedouin-long bu~lous, tur-
ban and all complete. You would ask him
for a dagger were you not afraid he might
think you had designs on the patients in
side.
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Objects of Interest

Among the stone objects from the abo-
rigin people of Porto Rico some belong to
the period Of the polished stone." and the
balance to the previous, or the unpublished
stone period Hence the fact that some
are more finely finished than others.
Notwithstanding the opinion entertained
by the writer in the New York Herald the
uses Of these objects are unknown to some
people only, but not at all to those who
have made persistent and careful study
of the subject. The majority of the stones
are "fetiches," which were also made out
OF clay. in small sizes, and hardened by
the action of the SUMS rays These clay
fetiches are found In the native tombs, and
the stone fetiches in caves consecrated as
temples Such caves had, besides, entrances
or porticos, Ornamented by the natives
with figures representing idols, and their
interior were full Of small symmetrical
faces which is but rudimentary principle
of the art of ornamentatton.
Many of the stone objects look like Ia
gartos and others resemble faces. There
are polished and unpublished hatchets, of
different sizes, similar to the European pre-
historic hatchets; also grinding stones Of
different sizes, used by the natives for the
grinding of corn (maijD, from which their
alcoholoc beverage was prepared. An in
strument made out of a piece OF palm
wood, incrustrated with small pieces of the
slick stone, the Indian name Of which is
guayo, was by them used to grind the
powder, the yuca bravo, from which sort
OF bread called casabi was made.
There are also stone collars, very SINH
lar to horse collars, more or less carved
and of different sizes also. According to
DIR. Coll Toste, these collars were sym
bols Of authority among the caciques
(chiefs) and the nytainos assistant chiefs).
for about half a dozen of them were found
in the house of Caonabo, one of the high
est caciques of Haiti.
Other Emblems OF Authority,
AS symbols Of authority the Indians also
had the duho. very small stone chair,
with four legs and recliner somewhat re-
sembling the Venezuelan ture The duho
was occasionally made Of wood also have
seen one of the stone duhos In Dr. Coll v
Toste's collection. These were used by the
Cacigues, like small thrones. as symbols
of authority during their assemblies. The
Indian chief, on the duho. presided over
the people. who usually assembled on both
sides of the Cacique in an eiiiptical line.
The Porto Rican aborigines had no written
language, which is manifest from the fact
that their civilization was In a very rudf-
mentary state. Certainly in Porto Rico
some stones have been found that bear the
mark of Inscriptions. but these stones orig
mate without any doubt In Central America.
The Porto Rican aborigines, be 1t mentioned.
sustained good commercial relations with
their neighbors, the Indians Of Haiti The
canvas (small boats) were their freigfters-
canvas that usually made In their voyages
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There has been notable increase In the
number OF marriages recorded in Chicago
for this year over a similar period Of last
year This has set speculative persons at
work figuring out why this should be, and
some OF the conclusions are interesting. 1t
is noted that the increase has been accom-
panied by a corresponding decrease In the
number of young women seeking employ
ment as stenographers and clerks. and GER
tain club women infer from this that there
Is a growing tendency on the part OF young
women to give up business life for that OF
the home Others hold that prosperity In
the business world has enabled more young
men to marry. and that this will account
for the increase.
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". Moses sons & s &
The eCall' of Unusual Opp0PtunitV.
w. B. Moses & Sons.

The fall season is fairly advanced.
'ffome- making" for the winter is the per-
tinent topic everywhere. Plans for home
beahtifying certainly receive their most
gratifying inspirations at this establish
nlent. There's so much to see. It's so we'll
brought to your notice. The care and dis
Evening star., 1901-10-14

II you want work read the want column,
OF The Star.
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w. b. rfoses s Sons. |
w. B. rloses & Sons.

elimination displayed i'm the selecting tells
its own story. Divided under the heads of
Furniture. Floor Coverings and Upholsteries
and Draperies, your every want is antici-
pated. Acres of floor space crowded to the
limit of their capacity with the best the
world knows.
Evening star., 1901-10-14

The Canadian Pacific steamer Hating.
from Skagway to Vancouver. went ashore
on Jervis Island in a fog. It Is believed Ito
lives were lost.
Evening star., 1901-10-14
The Indians of the Antilles.

~
The Indians inhabiting the island pos
sessed a rudimentary civilization, consist
ent with the civilization existing during
the prehistoric period of the carved or
polished stone,'' like the Indians Of Cuba,
Haiti and Jamaica At the beginning OF
the Columbian period, two different peoples
were found in the archipelago of the An
titles, the Arawak people and the Carib-
bean people. The latter-a conquering race
had already laid hold upon the Bario-
vento Islands. and from Martinique, Guada-
lupe and St. Croix was extending it's pira-
cies over Porto Rico. The Arawaks, when
captured by the Caribbeans, were by the
latter carried to their islands. The males
were killed and eaten, and the females be-
came ipso facto the property Of the cap
turers. This accounts beyond doubt for
the fact, rare, but still detected by the
missionary Father Breton, the author of
the celebrated Caribbean Grammar and
Vocabulary, that among the Caribbean In
dians men and women spoke different Ian
guages, because the men used their own
language the Caribbean, while the women
spoke the Arawak, which was their mother
tongue.
By actual Investigations wise anthropol-
ogist can yet detect In Porto Rico char
acteristic features of the aborigfn people.
There are men and women who cannot fail
to show their indigenous extraction, in
spite of the fact that European as well as
negro blood is detected in them-a fact that
another law of anthrOpology clearly ex-
plains with the word atavism, that is to
say, a step backward.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07
THE HORSE IN WAR.
Few Things More Pathetic Than suf-
ferinEs of the Animals.

rev more SUI
ferinEs of the Animals.
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
When we read of brilliant cavalry
charges in war, we are apt to be carried
away by the spell of battle excitement.
And when We read in the special tele-
grams that the British government has
purchased a large number of American
horses for use in South Africa we are
apt to think of nothing but the CONNER
clal side of the transaction. Yet to one
who has had the actual scenes of war
fare presented to his mental vision there
can be few things more pathetic than
the slaughter of horses. A man joins
the army with his eyes open. He knows
full well that he is embracing a murder
Gus profession. He knows that IL is his
business to kill, and. Of course, he takes
the chances OF being killed himself.
When two men 90 out 10 fight a duel,
they are on even terms. Each is bent
on killing the other, and so neither has
any ground of complaint II he is badly
MANNED. or rendered defective for life.
But a horse Is not a fighting animal. II
does not enlist for battle. II knows moth
ing Of the merits OF the cause II can
not take sides. Yet II is driven into
battle is killed or cruelty manned: is
made TO suffer for no wrong that IL has
ever done any one. The following is the
picture OF the awful suffering of horses
as presented by correspondents in South
Africa.
But OF all the pitiful heartre nding
sights ] have ever seen none has COM
pared TO this view OF hundreds upon hun
dreds OF dead and dying horses on this 100
miles Of wars promenade. The poor
beasts had done no man harm-in fact.
each one hnd ben a mans relisnce-and to
see them shattered by shell and then rip
ped open by vuitures often before they
were dead, was enough to snap the tender
est chords IN ones heart. They had not
deserved and could not understand their
horrible 80 buck. For some reason. hun
dreds had dragged themselves In the main
road. and then had died either on the
track OF the wagons or by its side. But
'the worst horror was 70 come when APP
preached close upon the last battlefield.
only twenty-four houis after the hEht At
Dreilfonteln. on this field not nearly ell
the horsee were yet dead. on the contra
~, as came Up beside the PROSTATE BODY
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07
Shipping Memoranda.

Fernandina, Fla, June 6.-Arrived, schr
Horace G. Morse Higbee. Charleston;
Carrie f. Lock, Veazie New York; Kate
B. Ogden. Wilbert, New York.
Sailed. schr Lizzie f. Dennison, Thorn
son, Martinique.
Port Tampa. Fla. June 6-Arrived.
steamer City of Everette. Laverge. Phila-
delphia. Mascotte Smith. Key West.
Sailed. steamer Mascotte. Smith. Key
West; steamer Bette Blecich. New Or
leans.
New York, June 6.-Sailed, steamer Vo-
lund, Key West.
Philadelphia, June 6-Arrived, steamer
Berkshire, Savannah Josephine, Charles
ton.
Huelya. May S1.-sailed. steamer Cadiz,
Savannah.
Singapore. June 4.-Sailed. steamer
Ness, from Port Tampa, etc, Yokoham ma.
Charleston. S. c., June 6-Arriv ed,
steamer George w. Clyde, Chichester,
Brunswick, and proceeded for Boston
schr Eliza A. Scribner, Dodd. Philadel-
phia; Mary S Bradshaw. Stille, Philadel-
phia Linah c. Kaminski, Ray, New York.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07
The Strange Attachment of Two
Brutes in n Circus.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript
Ganchon, one of Ringing Brothers big
est elephants. and Prince, a clown dog,
are in love. They are constantly together
almost as inseparable as the Siamese
twins. They run races together, they play
with ropes and rubber balls, and at night
the dog curls up at the side Of the ele-
plants big trunk and thus they sleep till
morning. Prince is bull terrier, three
years old. Fanchon is so, but such a har-
monious union of youth and old age was
never before known. The dog and the ele-
plant met for the first time during the
circus parade one morning last August
In Denver. 1t was a case of love at first
sight.
Prince sat with his master on the seat
of butchers wagon as the parade came
down the street. When he saw Fancnon
numbering by he wagged his tail with
JOY and the big elephant playfully lifted
her trunk and caressed the dog in her own
peculiar fashion. Their kindred spirits
met and recognized each other. The dog
bounded from the wagon and followed at
the elephants heels.
When the parade reached the show
grounds the dog was still following at
the side of Fanchon. Pearl Couder, the
superintendent OF the elephants. tried to
drive the dog away, but Prince refused
to leave the side of his new friend. Fam
shon also objected to a separation. She
showed Soudon away roughly with her
trunk and, picking the dog up tenderly,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07
POETRY OF IRONING.
Flight Back, Under It's Magic
Spell, to Bum bIebees and Holly
hooks.

hOCkS.
From the New York Sun.
There is heard here" said a city fat
dweller who was born and raised in a
house with yard around it in a smaller
city, lone sound that is precisely similar
40 one familiar to me in my youth-name-
ly, the sound of ironing. On ironing days,
IL | shut my eyes, l imagine myself back
where in summer 1 used to catch bees in
hoilyhock blossoms and hold them up to
hear them buzz.
"Boonk! ! hear the iron go down, on
something or other, l don't know what,
spread on an ironing board or a table;
and then no sound for a moment or two
and know that the iron is ironing away,
with long, straight or swinging sweeps
over some smooth surface or pushing the
nose of the iron up into some gathers or
folds here or there, and then presently:
Blink! the ironer has stopped ironing
for a moment and has set the iron down
on the holder. And then / know the
ironer is pulling whatever is being ironed
over the board or the table, pulling the
ironed surface away and bringing up
where it can be got at the part next to
be ironed. and then in a moment:
"Boonk! down comes the iron again. the
sound more or less muffled. partly smoth-
VI
covering on the ironing board, and, for
that matter. by the board, that being OF
wood
And then silence again. the silence
while the iron is being swept smoothly
over the unbroken surface again. And
then, blinki again, and bloonk I'm due
time, and occasionally the sound of setting
the iron back on the stove, when fresh
one is taken; and. II the door is open. and
you are near enough, the little hiss as the
new one is tested.
"And so for hours, through the drowsy
summer day. on ironing day, in the days
of my youth.
Il drift in and out of the house, to the
street, TO the yard TO school, and hearing
those sounds when ] go away and again
when come back-the familiar sounds of
ironing. And / hear those sounds just the
same here in the fiat. just exactly.
Some stories up. we live here, and It's
all quite different from living in the
house. where we stepped out the side
door. down q step or two. TO a dirt walk.
with a grnss plot on the other side of H.
but tho sounds OF ironing are here pre-.
ciselY the same. and a. I sit and listen
to them, besides bringing back old recol-
lections. they make me think how much
alike we ore for that matter. how much
alike we are In our feelings, whether we
live In city or country or in palace, nat or
howell"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07

OF beautiful steed II would slowly and
painfully lift its head and turn upon me a
pair OF the most pleading. woe-strcken
eyes. full OF a hunger TO know what I
could do for II. All / could do was to
drive on. for had no firearms, even for
my own protection. deep in the enemy
country, where we had put no single arm
ed man to guard the route OF our supplies
and reinforcements. Ny companion used
10 turn and look back at these dying
horses. only TO lind that they were still
strainirg their sad eyes after the cart.
Then he would say: He is loking at US
yet: oh, 81 makes me ~ look. he II star
ing at us like n guilty conscience. What
can We doY / wish we did not see such
things"
More pathetic than the sight OF the
DEAD horses was the sight o. the living
ores. There were horses that had been
hlt horses that had been broken down
with oyerwork and undertaking horses
with hids0us saddles sores hidden by
clustering mounds Of dies, horses sban-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07
CnnstNxisc ENnorts.

Per steamship Itasca. for Baltimore-l00
bales cotton. 2.763 barrels rosin, 30 bar
rels rosin oil. 200 barrels pitch and tar, Is
barrels turpentiue. so tons pig iron. 1901
sacks clay, p packages domestics and
yarns, 321 crates vegetables, IS barrels
vegetables, Al packages merchandise, 9s 100
feet lumber.
Per schooner Margaret A. May, for Bal
tirne-3S5. 600 feet yellow pine lumber, val
ued at $5005-Cargo by f. y. Hunting &
Co.
Per schooner Susie II. Davidson. for
Baltimore-ll4,S5s feet yellow pine lumber.
valued at sl.49S.15. by e. b. Hunting &
Co: 27s.064 feet yellow pine lumber. by
Georgia Lumber Company.
Schooner James Boyce, Jr.. for FAN
River-492.2 75 feet yellow pine lumber, val
ued .Seo.57-Cargo by e. b. Hunting &
Co
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-07

doncd for every conceivable defe,.' ned
horses for whom death mad loos ss.s.
their riders control. big Engllsh ,,i,h
unshod Boer ponies. most OF thel' "ne.
hip bones that projected 50 far a. 70 ,b
gest dislccation: they were wan .rsa.
about. helpless. forlorn. abandoned As
lures. who looked at you duoiousi's LINK
though they feared you were .bsn.
them more OF gloTifed warfare any ,s,ay.
seeing you pass, turned listless'
hanging down their heads. .. one
Where men will go TO war Ibou8
onOther It would seem that tney per.
he made 10 stand all the sufferinss ,ssy
hsps n ahis were the result, ana AVON ven
knew that they would receive 90 s,es .
titious Oh they would not be ln An.
hurry 70 rush into war. The SOUTH ... e. n
can conflict has slain horses of -,,,si
thousands. Unless they are a'.....',er q,
they are stricken down. This ~ s..,-isn
the noblest Of animals IN ihlI .,s.a..
and wholesale way cannot BE- oon'sD''
Cd without a feeling Of horror