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His Productivity EqauIs That of Four
 Natives.

From the Worlds Work
 The American workmen proved so ef- ficient as compared with the natives. that roughly speaking, should consid CT one American equal to at least four natives. Divided into castes and subdi- vided into trades, the natives were able to do but one kind of work; though in an American rivet gang there are but three men, all capable of doing any part of the work, the Indian natives are obliged to have in .-.eir gang a ham mer man. a snapman-to hold the form on the rivets-a man to hold under the rivets the pig iron dolly bar, a man to heat the rivets and one to pump the bellows. The bellows men cannot heat rivets the rivet heater cannot swing hammer; the hammer man cannot hold the dolly bar-and when the gang Is obliged to move 1t has to wait for the knallassies. or riggers to rig their stag gings. When the painting began on the viaduct I found the painters. too, quite useless without the khallassies. Good workers at their trades they were, how ever, all of them, the riveters from Oudh and the Punjaub, used to bridge work. and the knallassies, sailors most ly from coasting vessels or peninsular and Oriental steamers.
 Usually, on Indian bridge work, the British engineers put 1000 or 2Oo0 of these natives under one or two Europeans, for
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..PvotectloN for the PvesAdeNt's PevsoN..
BY JOHN p. FOLEY.

ception nearly resulted in a riot, so free and easy were the manners of his Dem- ocratic admirers. During the adminis- tration of Abraham Lincoln, thinking men and officials of the government be- gan to realize the peril in which the President was placed. Policemen in cit izen's dress were then assigned to guard the interior of the executive mansion and g. detachment of troops were kept on the outside. But the bullet of the assassin found the great President in an unguard- ed hour. The lamented Garfield followed, and now the beloved Mckinley is struck down amid the tears of the nation.
 It Is manifestly imperative to provide greater security to safeguard the chief magistrate, not only in the executive mansion, but when he travels abroad. Thousands of crazy fanatics and mdscre ants whose avowed mission Is the mur- der of all In authority are scattered throughout all the big cities, and many of the smaller ones, awaiting an oppor- tunity to put their fell designs into exc cution. There Is only one way to defeat that purpose, and that is to make &C., cess to his person impossible to them. In order to do so 1t will be necessary to sweep away some of the traditions, but that sentimental consideration should not stand in the way of common sense and common prudence. The highest pa- triotism Is to make 1t impossible to mur- der an American President in all the fu- ture.
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In the earlier days of the republic 1t was at once patriotic and statesmanlike on the part of the Presidents, beginning with the first of the great line of chief magistrates, to lay down rules and set precedents for the regulation of their intercourse with their fellow citizens, founded on the broadest lines of Repub- lican simplicity, without, at the same time, detracting from the dignity which their high official positions demanded. The people had been accustomed to regal forms and ceremonies, and with the change of government and the establish ment of a new order 1t was only fitting that the embroidery of imperial institu- tions should be cut out of our system with the monarchy itself.
 The history of the first administration shows that the reformation was not &C., oomplished without determined politico- social struggle but the first President bore in the beginning only passive part In it. He was wholly indifferent on the subject, and turned 1t over to his private secretary, the members of the cabinet and others intimately connected with the administration. Whatever they devised, he was willing to acquiesce in. The pri- vate secretary, Colonel Humphreys, was quite a stickler for etiquette. During many years of the revolutionary struggle he had served the confederation abroad In two or three of the American legations and came to his new position in the Pres ident's household with mind strongly imbued with the importance of hedging around the chief magistracy in social way with all the splendor possible. Looked up to as an authority in ssh matters because of his experience abroad and his natural self-assertlVeness, the consequences were that he succeeded In placing the President in some very un- comfortable situations and in bringing much ridicule upon the administration. This aroused the anger of Washington. He consulted with Vice-President Adams, MT Jay and Alexander Hamilton. After all the advising" says Henry Cabot Lodge in his Life of Washington, "the President drew the line for himself He did 1t in this way. He decided that he would return no calls, and that he would receive no general visits except on spe cified days"
 Here we have the beginning of the gen. eral receptions of the Presidents, and of the universal handshaking, for the abol- ition of which, In view of the awful trag edy at Buffalo, there Is so loud demand in the better class of newspapers from one end of the country to the other Un- der the two administrations of Jefferson the barriers between the President and the people were lowered still further. Madison and Monroe walked in the foot steps of their predecessor Later on Gen. eral Andrew Jackson. His inaugural re-
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sailors who volunteered 10 go with them. They proceeded toward Fort Con ger, but had gone only about sixty miles when they met MT Peary. with two companions. on his way South. MT. Peary had wintered at Fort Conger only 150 miles away from where we were, but 1 did not know that. nor did he have any idea that the Windward was so near him. 4Ie did not know that I had come North with the searching party until he met the expedition that I had sent out, and then, you may be sure, he hurried as fast as he could over the rough ice to get to us. It was night when he reached the Windward. I was asleep in my room in the cabin, when suddenly I heard some one jump on deck right over my head.
 T shouted to the steward to go open the companionway, that MT. Peary was there. I knew 1t was he, for when went North in the Erik in 1892 he came on board in just the same way, and recognized his step. This time he took one long stride and was hammering at the door. 4Ae steward hearing me shout simply rolled out of his bunk. rushed to the door, and there stood MT. Peary. It was the 9th of May. this year. his birthday, too."
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 sephine weakley have returned from Buffalo, Canada and other points in the East.
 MT. and Mrs. D. J. Poncelor and son have returned from an extended visit to Colorado.
 Dr. J. B. Gibson leaves tonight for Buff falo to attend a meeting of the Ameri- can Electro Therapeutic Association be- fore which he will read a paper Tues day.
 Miss Jessie Lazarus returned home yes terday after a pleasant visit of several weeks in the East.
 Mrs J. G. Neal returned yesterday from a summer visit to Huntsville and Monto Sano accompanied by Mss Maude Allen who will visit relatives and friends while here.
 Mrs T. A. Cogbill has gone to St. Louis to visit her daughter, Mrs. P H. Holan
 The Hillman Hospital Chapter of Tenn pie Emanuel will meet with Mrs. H. M Beck next Tuesday afternoon.
 Miss Linda Waite of Birmingham has matriculated at the Alabama Conference Female College at Tuskegee for literary and musical course.
 Dr. and Mrs. w. C. Richardson of Tus- caloosa are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Sterling A. Wood.
 Prof. H. F. Hand, State Chemist of Mississippi, was in Birmingham yester- day as the guest of MT J. B. Collins
 The engagement of MT. John P. Abbott and Miss Jeanette Jordan Burgin is an- nounced The date for the wedding has not been fixed but the ceremony will take place sometime in November Mir Abbott Is chief deputy clerk of the Crimi- nal Court and his betrothed Is the daugh- ter of MT. William M. Burgin.
 
 Masters Abram and Herbert Barnett, sons of Mrs. D. G. May of Atlanta reached the city yesterday to enter the resident department of the Taylor School
 Prof Edward Eggleston Zimmerman of Evanston. Ill.. arrived in the city yester- day to take up his duties in the Taylor School Prof. Zimmerman Is a graduate of the Northwestern University and Is a nephew of Edward Eggleston the author of several school histories now ''The Hoosier Schoolmaster" and many other works. Miss M. E. Sheffield who will teach in the Taylor School also arrived yesterday.
 Mrs. A. W. Middleton and Miss May Middleton of Selma are visiting Dr. and Mrs. George W. Reese 715 Highland avenue.
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NaNs aNd NaNers
BY RICHARD NEVILLE.

New York, September 19-E H. soth- ern opened the Garden Theater with a new play 'SRichard Lovelace," written by Lawrence Irving, son of the famous English actor. The work is founded on certain scenes and incidents in the life of the historical gallant, cavalier and poet. A large and friendly audience filled the house, characteristic feature of all of Mir. Sothern's premier nights. The play is uneven in construction; Is tire some at the start; bosterous in the sec- ond act, and almost redeems itself in the third act Notwithstanding the friendli- ness of the audience and the popularity of the star, there was no disposition evinced to bestow on MT. Irvings work praise of endorsement which 1t could not legitimately command One good act; full measure of excellent dialogue and strong dramatic situation or two, do not necessarily constitute meritorious play And this is what Richard Dovelace' X not as it is presented at the Garden The ater; and this is how nine-tenths of the audience regarded It's presentation on the first night. There are few better &C., tors in certain roles than MT. Sothern, and none more popular. In whatever ne undertakes he aims to do the pest ne is capable of whether in the way Of the production of play or in the interpreta- tion of a character. It is, therefore TO be regretted that his latest play does not realize expectations. It is well .cdst, ele- gantly staged, and, may improve on ac- quaintance.
 David Warfield has started on his ca reer as a star. It is his first oHense' He began in New Haven and "The Auc- tioneer'' was the vehicle which brought him prominently in view at the hean oI a company of his own which is the great ambition of every actor. The Aucuon- eer' deals with phases Of Hebrew lfIe, not altogether those peculiarities wnlch MT. Warfield practiced in other organiza- lions In his new departure he Is quite as clever as when he brought to his aid protesoue makeup and eXtravagancies of speech and of manner "The Auction eer." it Is said Is clean and free from vulgarity; the fun refreshing and MT Warfield's acting of a better quality than many gave him credit for being able to present.
 If things keep on as they are running just now we will have all the Don Cae- sars de Razans'' we need and to spare in New York The latest Don turned up at the Murray Hill Theater In the stock and he is doing quite as we'll at the East side of the town as the other Don Caesars are doing on the West. No matter whether the good old play of the palmy days, etc. Is called 'Don Caesars Re- turn" or "A Royal Rival" or any other new title, it Is the same play, and Don Caesar Is the familiar character we were pleased to see In days gone by. The new versions are not Improvements on the old work Does this revamping of dramas of recognized merit show how little really good plays are obtainss;S?
 New Haven is making a reputation for itself as a play producer. David War fields "Auctioneer" has been followed by The Messenger Boy" with James T. Powers in the principal comedy part. There are In the cast some clever people,
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Notes and Personals.

Mir. and Mrs. W. P. Pinckard and Miss Marie Pinckard left Wednesday for New York.
 Mrs. Truman H. Aldrich. Jr., left yes- terday to join her husband at Brilliant, where they will spend two weeks.
 Mrs. E. G. Stevens Is in New York
 Mrs. Carrie Watson Morgan has re- turned from Chicago, where she spent the summer studying china painting un- der Auich and other masters.
 Madame Agnes Postell Everest has returned from Auburn, where she went to place her son, George Wallace Pos tell, in college.
 The Hnlman Chapter of Temple Emanuel will meet with Mrs. H. M. Beck in Seventh avenue Tuesday at 4:SO p. m.
 Mir and Mrs. R. R. Stobert and son Clarence have taken apartments at the Florence Hotel for the winter.
 Miss Ola Snedecor has returned from Asheville, N. c.
 The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Mary's- n-the-TIighlands will meet Monday af- ternoon at o'clock in the church parlors
 Miss Natalie Robertson of Augusta, is visiting Mrs. w M. Hurt in Avenue J.
 Mrs. s. J. Weakley and Miss Bula Jo-
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 KNEW HER HUSBANDS STEP.
Mrs. Peary Tells How She Divined the
 Explorer Had Returned.

From the New York Sun.
 Bangor, Me, September 20.-Mrs. Rob- ert B. Peary, wife of Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, is now at the home of her friend, Mrs Evans in Pleasant dale. Me, having arrived there on Sat urady on her return from the far North The reports from Peary of his latest ex- plorations have already been published, but Mrs. Peary adds someting of inter est to the narrative.
 Having passed two winters within the Arctic circle with her husband Mrs. Peary dId not care to remain longer, nor did Lieutenant Peary wish her to stay.
 In the summer of 1900 Mrs. Peary sailed from North Sydney, Cape Breton, in the ship Windward, which was sent by the Peary Arctic Club. with stores and supplies for. tAe explorer. On Au- gust 19 1900, the Windward reached Etah, which mad been Peary's winter quarters and there found instructions to proceed, If possible, to Smith Sound to meet Peary. At Cape Sabine the Windward's course north was stopped by ice, and she went into winter quar- ters at Payer Harbor, across the sound from Cape Sabine. With the exception of the instructions dated April IS that year no word could be had from Peary, who every one knew had gone over the rough, ice-clad shores of Greenland to- ward the pole. .,..
 Speaking of this Mrs Peary said:
 T was, of course, anxious about him, and tried my best to communicate with him. but to no purpose. The sailors of the Windward were not available for work on the Ice, and the best Eskimos could not be had, as they lived on the other side of the sound from where we were. The winter passed slowly, but not unpleasantly. I was in the open air nearly every day, tramping shooting and sedging on the ice. My daughter and myself were both well. The stew ard had his wife with him, and they, together win the captain, my daughter and myself, lived very comfortably in the ships cabin. The Windward was anchored in a sheltered harbor and only once were we in danger from the ice, the danger on that occasion being soon over. None of the wind storms dis turbed us, and we suffered no anxiety whatever.
 When the Arctic night showed signs of breaking. away, l began. to send out such expeditions as I could to find MT. Peary. At last I got some good Eski- mos, and they were accompanied by two
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Troubles of Scribbling Women

The scribbling woman went off for a vacation not long ago. She packed her trunks one warm day and departed for a small hotel at the seashore kept by a member of her own sex. where she had already engaged board. When she reached her destination it was cold and raining, and she thought with ecstasy that at last she was to have cup of hot coffee and be allowed to get into com fortable negligee costume in a comforta- ble room.
 She hadn't many illusions about the conifortableness of the room, for she has been to seashore resorts before, but after travelling six hours, any mattress has a pleasant aspect. All these dreams were, however. dispelled by the member of her own sex who kept the house, for that business-like lady met her with many blandishments and the information that every, room in the house was filled, a bird in the hand always. of course, being worth two in the bush. ! The scribbling woman was furious. She was hungry and she was tired, and shed take any cupboard, she said, rather than start out lunchless in the rain to find Q place to stay.
 This apparently melted the heart of the feminine Boniface and she told the traveller she'd put a cot up for her somewhere so she might go on Into luncheon and telephone for her trunk. When this was done Madame discovered ,-lat, after all, she hadn't corner in which to stow the young woman, and that tired feminine was forced after paying $1 for a very poor luncheon and 25 cents to have her trunk moved again. to go to another hotel
 4ls was the injury. The insult came a couple of days later when the scrib- bling woman was calling on some friends at the hotel where she had been so cavalierly treated. While she was waiting in the office to be announced in hustled to her the hotelkeeper
 Look here, Miss BlanK," she said T understand you're a newspaper woman. l want you to be sure to write some thing nice about The Weston" The Weston wasn't the name of the hotel, but it will do-"at once" Her tone was im- perative.
 T don't know anything nice about The Weston" replied the scribbling woman. meekly.
 The hotekeeper stared. Didn't your paper send you here to write such things?" she asked, sternly.
 My paper didn't send me here at all" retorted the other. I'm here in private capacity altogether. If I tell anything about your hotel 1t will be of the curious way in which you keep your contracts, and I'm afraid you wouldn't like that, so, on the whole. l expect 1t will be better for me not to mention your hotel at all. Good-day." And then, with quite un-Christian exultation, she passe on; but 1t mus. be admitted that she had some provocation for her con duct.
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and Society

on account of the dust, a certain holy man saw the devil laughing, and, having asked him why, he replied, A companion of mine was Just now sitting on the train of that woman, using 1t as a chariot, but when she litter 1t up my companion was shaken Into the dust and so 1 laughed" |" We no longer believe in devils, either major or minor, but we believe in the propagation of disease by microbes and bacili, and the train of a woman's dress is the very devils chariot for conveying them.
 The Dutch lady thoroughly under stands household management.
 She brides herself upon giving excel lent food, and has a well-appolnted linen press. but superfuous prettiness is wanting.
 One will see fine old silver and precious delft ware at the little dinners she Is fond of giving, but there will be no flowers on the table, and the guests do not dress for dinner.
 Ladies at The Hague and among the highest class are as cosmopolitan, as smart and as beautifully turned out as in any society in Europe, but the bour- geois has not much idea of dressing well and will appear at the breakfast table in dressing gown and slippers, not ex- actly untidy but chosen more with view to the comfortable and the economi- cal than the becoming
 The woman who does not marry and who has a little money can lead a very pleasant life. After 25 years she Is al- lowed as much liberty as If she were a married woman.
 More girls of the higher classes re- main unmarried than of old, and fill their lives with many interests. Living is
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An Opposer of Royal Decorations.

From a Berlin Letter.
 The late Bjornstjerne Bjornson was a passionate opponent of the courtly de- corations of kings and princes and em- perors. like the late Professor Kiepen& the great German geographer, and, in.- deed, was the founder of a Society of Foes of Decorations" consisting of lit- erary Norwegians and Swedes. who bound themselves by the laws and stat utes of their club not to accept any decoration whatsoever Nordensl1jold, who uled a few days ago., was also one of the conspirators, and when he made his historical voyage around the north coast of Siberia his friends were en- chanted with the thought that he would accept no decoration from the Czar As things turned out they were doomed to disappointment. Nordenskjold received a telegram in Ceylon from a high court tunctionary, In which the latter begged and entreated him to accept a certain or der not because of the bauble itself but because the ministers were at their wits ends to nnow what other sort of reward they could suggest to their royal mas ter as fitting to offer him. Nordenskjold yielded, and the insignia were sent to him. On his return home one of his friends greeted him as follows: 'eThe court in Russia was much pleased that you accepted the decoration. They had to confer some sort of honor upon you, and as they knew you detested decora- tions they had determined to make you a present of 310,000 roubles (S23l. .000) The money lay ready to be sent to you; but when they heard that you had accepted the decoration they thought that there would be no occasion to send the roubles as well.
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cheap in Holland, and woman can live comfortably on very little.

cheap in Holland, and woman can live comfortably on very little.
 The New York Times Says;
 There is a Brooklyn woman who has always been noted for the pretty clothes she wears and particularly her stylish hats, who says that she never buys hat without thinking of one of the pret- tiest hats she ever had, bought TOT ner when she was a young girl going Tor the first time to boarding school. IL was really a beautiful hat, a white chip trimmed with pale heliotrope flowers and particularly becoming to the girl who was to wear 1t, and who had hair Of reddish gold and the beautiful complex ion which goes with such hair. But un- fortunately the hat was altogether too pretty in the eyes of the boarding school mistress who took more maternal care of her young charges than boarding school teachers do nowadays.
 My dear" she said, that hat will never do in the world. It is altogether too elaborate for boarding school. l will take you down to our town milliner, and I have no doubt she will change 1t for you for one more simple and appro- priate."
 It goes still more to show the differ ence in the times that the young girl went obediently with the principal. and the pretty hat was changed for another, in village style, quite different from the New York hat. The funny part of the affair came later and the girl had suf f1cient fun in her nature to enjoy 1t, though she had been a loser in the transaction. She was visiting a friend in the town one day when the belle and beauty of the place arrived to make call. She was charmingly dressed, and carried herself with an air of exclu- siveness which might be expected of one who knows that physically and sartorial- ly she is everything that can be desired
 But the little schoolgirl in the corner in her simple little village hat could
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they are as docile as sheep and have the same respect for European overseers Lat sheep nave for a collie; but We in- troduced the innovation of having white men work. On the traveller, on the ma terial as it went up, on the tcpmost points of the rising towers to connect the new pieces as tne crane swung them up, the Americans-and a few British and German sailors I had picked up. with one North Carolina negro who spoke Hindustandi-worked. to the measureless surprise and admiration of the coolies, so that as soon as the con- struction of the viaduct got well under way operations went on with tremen- dous rapidity, some of the 200-foot tow CTS. much like New York skyscrapers, going up in three or four days. When one thinks of the slow progress of an office building, rising gradually week by week, the speed of these Steelton workmen with their train of coolies may be comprehended.