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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12

\ Nottingham correspondent to Lon
don NJ. \. i. writes: Here is true
story Of Rudyard Kipling. His high
walled garden at rockingham contains
some of the few trees which grace this
wind-swept village One of the tree,
branching over the road. threatened daily
injury to the driver Of the local bus.
Therefore he and his conductor waged
destructive war on all the vulnerable
twigs within reach from the bus roof
Result-a vigorous letter of complaint
from Mr.. Kipling to the bus owner, who
Is also landlord of one Of the local inns.
That evening the landlord laid the letter
before the select company of the bar par
Tor. They advised an attitude Of calm in
difference. Also CropsuS among them
offered los ia cash for the autograph let
ter. Both advice and cash were accepted.
The nuisance continuing. in due course
a second and stronger letter followed the
first. The landlord convened another bar
parliament. and the second letter also
found a purchaser, this time at IL. rs be-
fitted its increased violence And B0ni-
face again sat tight" To him next day
entered Mr.. Kipling briskly wrathful
why didn't ! answer your letters.
sir? Why, | was hoping you'd send me a
fresh one every day. They pay a deal
better than bus driving -
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12
Sign was Misleading.

He was a coarse-looking individual
with plenty of nerve. He was hungry
and he entered one Of those 10-ccnt res
taurants on lower Main street He took
n stool at the lunch counter, looked at
the bill of fare and calmly rdored celery.
He finished the first order, and when the
girl attendant asked him if there was
anything more, he ordered more celery.
He ordered n third dish and consumed it.
Then he wiped mis- mouth with a clean
napkin. arranged his neckwcar. and
started to go. The proprietor of the
place intercepted him.
you haven't paid yom BILL" stated
the proprietor.
L know it, replied the man; Il have
no bill to pay"
why. you've eaten three orders of eel,
cry and | have seen you eat all of it,"
THAT may be true" said the nervy
fellow, "but | still insist that | owe you
nothing. Look at that sign in the win
dow The proprietor gazed as directed.
He saw sign which read:
..........
CELERY FREE.
".....--. ''''''''' ,......,.."
The proprietor turned to his guest.
You are all right. Stranger Come
again when you want something beside
celery"
In a few hours the sign in the window
was enlarged upon. 1t read this way:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ............-.......
CELERY FREE
WITH ALL
MEAT ORDERS.
"...,..., ........'. .....,..........S
That was the original intcntion.-Kan
sas City Times
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12

The large Russian ship Yorkland,
bound for Mobile. went ashore on the
outside beach thirty miles from Pensa-
cola. Her crew was rescued.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12
True Story Of kipling.

That was the original intention
sas City Times.
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vate enterprises without paying them cent for their labor. In the course of time he purchased extensive estates ih the rice-growing regions and raised more bushels of rice every year than the boz manga farmers of North Dakota used to raise of wheat He got his labor for nothing, and his great crop of rice was almost clear profit. He simply turned his soldiers loose in the rice fields and they had to be content with the rations and miserable pittance paid to them by the government.
 The great man also became his own contractor for. army supplies. He would sell his own rice to the government for army rations at an enormous profit and pocketed a handsome rake-on on all other supplies furnished to the tens of thous- ands of soldiers in the Pechili Province. Then he was chief supreme of the cus- tom houses for a long distance around the Gulf of Pechili. and there was noth- ing mean about the stream of gold that poured Into his strong box through this channel. It has long been notorious that one of the methods he employed was to import large quantities of goods through his agents without the payment of cent of duty and then sell the goods at a round figure to his countrymen.
 One of the greatest sources of money getting employed by Li Hung Chang dur ing the later years of hiH career as Vice roy was as money-lender There Is llt- tie doubt that he was the king of pawn brokers the world over Ills loan of- fees were scattered for and wide over his province, and he loaned great sums of money on mortgages and on pledges of personal property. In a country where no ! legal rate of interest is fixed this busi- ness has brought enormous returns to u Hung Chang.
 Li was his family name, while Hung Chang-meaning vast ornamentations-
 was merely a. personal name or, rathess the official form of his personal nama. l He used it when he addressed the En- | peror. and the, officials used 1t when | speaking to the Emperor of him; other wise 1t was improper for colleagues to | use 1t in his presence; It was also print | ed on his visiting cards. His literary | name, however was Shao-ts'uan, or young spice" and this was the one by 1 which he was known to his friends and | by which he was spoken of in the native press. He was also a Chung Tang, or
 ''central hali." which is the compliment l tary title of grand secretary.
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more for the emigration question than the average American docs for the Dig ger Indians of Lower California.
 LIS Courtesy.
 bi Hung Chang was princely in his courtesy, oonsidorate. strove to divine some way of conferring a favor. would. .- possible anticipate your wishes and do 1t offhanded He would send his steam yacht fifty miles to render a service to the ladies of the legations. His in- dustry was incessant an he kept in touch with everything. He would in nocently read teleErams passing to Pelxin through Tien Tsin, and if at all vague would send inquiry to the receiver as to their meaning. 1 remember that a for eign minister heard of the death of a member of his family through a message of condolenee from the Viceroy. which arrived before the dispatch containins. the news. The dispatch had been in- trusted to the Viceroy and was belated in Its delivery. This tendency of the Viceregal mind to keep informed by oth- CT peoples telegrams was, if runner were correct. utilized by some of the en- bassies. It Is saie that when negotia tions came to a hitch they would be advanced by a confidential message of a warlilze character addressed to an admiral through the Tien Tsin office, advising him to prepare for serious business.
 Sharp Practice.
 It is the custom that when either pa- rent dies the sons shall resign honors and employments to repair to the ances- tral tomb. and there in sack-cloth and ashes mourn for long period. When was in China as minister there was speculation in political, and especially Opposition. circles as to what would hap pen upon the death of the Viceroy's moth- CT. She vas then in extreme old age up in the Anineties-end in the course of nature mat soon pass away. This meant the resigXation of the Viceroy-his en- forced retirement from all office and political revolution.
 It came to pass In time. and Ii hur- ried home to celebrate the rites as his mothers grave. His brother. Niceroy at Wu-Chang, accompanied him. Ii had finally gone. and then what? Opposition had full sway. and before the season of sorrow was over his place would be filled and his power a memory. Sudden ly like bolt from the blue. came de- cree from the throne. signed with the
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so deep in the book that for some minu- tes he did not see his visitor. After while he raised his eyes and gazed at pr. Coltman with a piercing look and said: "Dr. Coltman, do you believe this boolx?'
 He answered. "Your Excellency. if did not believe 1t I should not have the honor of being your physician (medical missionary). believe it with my whole heart.'
 Are you sure that this is not hearaay and human talk?" he asked again.
 Quite sure"
 How do you know itT' he went on.
 By a sign that the book itself men tons. Is it not written that bad tree can bring forth no good fruit and a good tree no bad fruit? Your Excellency has already admitted that the condition of the people in Western lands is far better than in the Orient, and 1 can assure you that the prosperity and happiness of the various nations that you recently visited correspond exactly to the degree in which they follow the precepts of this book. Would to God Your Excellency believed 1t. tool''
 Why I believe your would like to make a Christian of me-" said he, half joking. half seriously.
 Not only you" answered Coltman. but also your young Emperor ana all ms peopie.
 We have Confucius," said he. You have Jesus. Are they not in many re- spects alike?'
 Here the Viceroy was interrupted by important news, but when his servant took the Bible from his hands to carry 1t to his bookcase he said: Don't put 1t in the bookcase; lay it on the table in my bedroom. l want to look at it again
 How He Became Rich.
 u Hung Chang was called the richest man in the world. This assertion is easier made than proved, for nobody knows how rich he was. His fortune many sertainly be counted by millions of dollars, but how many millions Is purely conjecturaL It is enough to say that he was very wealthy and had accumulated nearly the whole of his fortune by taking advantage of his opportunities and mak- ing opportunities during his long service as Viceroy of Ranking and Pechili
 One way in which u for many years made an enormous sum of money was to use thousands of soldiers in his own prl-
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and did it well, simply listening to the conversation, while I saw in the back ground that another had opened win dow an'inch, and was listening from out side. These attendants arc. aiv avs pres ent at official interviews extraordinary as such a habit may seem to us, and the natural result is that most of the foreign representatives each have one Yamen in their pay, and that there are few secrets which money will not bpy After l left Chung Tang 1 met face tious acquaintance, who inquired where I had been. Talking with the Viceroy," l replied. Oh" he said. "Ill get all you said to him for couple of dollars tomorrow"
 John 3. Young.
 John Russell Young wrote as follows of him in an article in 'grhe Review of Reviews:"
 How far the career of Lii Hung Chang Will justify the estimate of General Grant history will show But he is undoubt- edly one of the notable men of the cen- tury When I first saw l.lm in 1879 he was in the fullness of activity, an alert, imposing parsonage; tall. with a soldierly bearing, and the touch of the poet in his glittering eye. He had less of passive Oriental manner than was common to Eastern statesmen. the result. presume, of much contact with foreigners. He would give you the English grasp of the hand, or more likely rest his hand upon your arm in a gentle, caressing way when taking leave. He had an abrupt and at times turbulent manner with capacities, I was told, for vehement anger-and there were occasions when the courtiers and high people would seek safety in flight. u was never vouchsafed to me in this condition, was always a stately imperative person, with a capacity for asking questions, and given to mockery and banter and unique views of Western affairs. He welcomed talk running into narrative, did not disdain gossip, liked to hear of the customs of other lands. relished anec- dotes of eminent men-Lincoln, Grant and others. He had read international law and I remember his handing me a copy of Wheaton in Chinese, and asking me to point out the passages in which Whea- ton had it down that negro should have more privileges in America than a Chi naman. The Viceroy intended this criti- cism as an offset to some demand l was presenting. for in his soul he cared no
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These charges have led to the looking up of other deaths of patients that have occurred under Miss Toppan's care, and the list of murders of which she Is now suspected comprise the following:
 Mrs. Mary E. Davis. Cataumet, Mass.
 Alden P. Davis. Cataumet Mass.
 Mrs. Annie G. Gordon. daughter of the above. of Chicago, Ill.
 Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, another daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Davis of Cataumet, Mass.
 Mrs. A. O. Brigham of Lowell, Mass. i; died August 29. 1899.
 Florence M. Caikins. housekeeper in the Brigham family: died January 15, 1900
 Mrs. F. F. Bannister. Lowell. Mass; dled August 27.. 1901.
 Murders Planned With SubtIety.
 All of these crimes are said to have been committed by the use of poison. They appear to have been planned with hendish subtlety and executed with sure ness. patience. and without the shadow of remorse. The viscera of Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Gibbs have been exhumed and submitted for examination to Prof. Ed ward s. Weed of the Harvard Medical school. and as the result of his chemical analysis he reports finding large quan- titles of arsenic fin the organs.
 Last summer the little village of Ca taumet was startled by mysterious train of deaths. which particularly wiped out the family of Alden F. Davis. Mir. Davis wast a wsll-to-do man and an old resi- dent of the town. He had formerly kept hotel and in that business had made a little fortune of s25,0c0. His energy had done much to build up Cataumet as a summer resort. and he and his family were well liked and known to the regular summer visitors of the place.
 MT. Davis was somewhat peculiar In many of his views. and in 1879 attained some notoriety as juryman in the Free man murder case. Freeman killed lit- tie daughter in religious frenzy. and Mir. Davis stood out strongly for the acquit- tai of the man at his trial, on the ground that Freeman was insane. For this he was hDrshly criticised at tho time. He was a man of testy temper. little cratic and n.s-ays Inclined to lsce5 hGs.ness af-
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From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 N ENERAL Grant declared. after 1T his famous voyage around the aN< world. that he had met four
 N great men-Beaconsfeld, Bis marclS.s Gambetta and Ii Hung Chang. On his part u rcciioned that he had known only two entirely great men Gordon and Grant. statuettes of them. and of them alone, adorn his audience room in his official residence at Tien Thin. To all visitors he was courteous end hospitable. but he never failed to ask them characteristic Chinese ques- tions, and pertinaciously to insist upon answers to them.
 How old are you?" he asked, and 1t was idle to attempt evasion. And then. Are you happily married?' and "How old is your wife?'' Or if you are not married. "why not?''
 Mr. Henry Norman. who called upon him a couple of years ago. writes as fol- lows of the interview:
 The viceroy was dressed simply. not to say shabblly, in the ordinary Chinese stiff round hat a thicllly padded upper garment of some kind of yellow silk, and an under garment of gray silk. His hands were tucked into his wide sleeves. and only came out twice during our conver- sation, once when he wished to blow his nose, which he did in the familiar but indescribable manner of the tramp in the street and once when he was startled by a little piece of news. Yet he smoked pipe five feet long. An attendant stood with pipe. smoking materials and fire at the back of the reception room, and every five minutes he walked solemnly forward, filled the pipe, blew the fire stick Into a flame, the Viceroy opened one corner of his mouth. the attendant inserted the stem and applied the light 60 the bowl, the great man absorbed the smoke and opened his mouth again, when the pipe bearer withdrew as he had come. This occurred a score of times at least, and never muscle did the Viceroy move, excepc just to open the corner of his mouth wide enough to admit the pipe stem
 Attendants to Listen.
 Three or four attendants did nothing.
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fer, as was most frequently the case,
 1t was generally stipulated that he could
 serve on probation for an indefinite period
 in the house of his bride, just as Jacob
 served Laban to make Rachael his wife,
 Many drudged for years with this hope
 before them. When the young men dis
 covered that this was not the custom
 among the Americans they zealously put
 forth the fact to their future parents-in-
 law and so won their brides without
 binding themselves to work for them. When a wedding among natives was de- termined upon the betrothed went to the priest not necessarily together, kissed his hand, and informed him of their in tentions. The friar named his fee. which was on a sliding scale, and adjusted ac- | cording to what the zealous father | thought he could get. The bans were ] verbally published after the benediction | following the conclusion of the mass. The ceremony almost invariably took place after the first mass, between and in the morning. In the evening prior to the marriage the couple had, of course, to confess and obtain absolution from the priest. Mass having been said
 those who were spiritually prepared pre-
 scented themselves for communion and the sacrifice of the eucharist.
 Then an acolyte placed over the should CTS of the bridal pair thick mantle or pail. The priest recited a short formula of about five minutes duration, put his interrogations, received the muttered re- sponses, and all was over. The bridal party as they left the church were ten dered a bowl of corn. The bridegroom
 passed a handful of the contents to the
 bride, who accepted it. and returned 1t to the bowl. This act was symbolical of
 the bridegroom's giving 10 the bride his worldly possessions.
 Then the two walked away with stoical faces. surrounded by their admiring rel atives and friends, and preceded by a band playing discordant music. The pro- cession struggled along over to the home of the bride. where long tables were
 covered with every delicacy known to the Filipino palate. Filipino weddings today that are performed by a priest still fol-
 low this fashion, except that American competition has made 1t impossible for the friar to demand an exhorbitant fee
 He is obliged to meet the imported for eign labor of the missionaries and chap lains. and consequently must cut his price not merely in two, but to a few paltry dollars.
 Among the Moros in the southern is- lands, who are Mohammedans. the mar
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xermilion pencil. commanding u to lay aside mourning and at l-e end Of three months resume office Such a decree was without precedent. To suspend the mourning rite in Chinese eyes was as if the Pope were to suspend one of the saeraments. But the Emperor was sa- cred and the command ,Tas supreme. His brother. Ii Hang Chang. vas per mitted to remain at the tomb and do hral reverenccs- Ii hung Chang re- turned to Ticn Tsin.
 I was at Che-Foo when the summons was issued. and one morning I saw the Nicoroy's yacht come into harbor. I sent my duty. and said that if visit would not be an intrusion upon his period of mourning I would go on board and pay my respects. His stan officer came with not onlv cordial invitation. but the ex- presssen Of an earnest desire on the Vice TOYS part to see me When I met the Viceroy saw the signs of mourning He looked like a starving begger. He wore the coarsest raiment. His beard and forehead had not been shaved and his queue hung down from a clo1ted mass of hair. Lines of sorrow streaked his face. and his hands were grimy as fl he had been lying in ashes few days later when I met him at Tien Tsin. the beggars mein had vanished and he was again the sumptuoGs and well appointed nobleman.
 A Man of His Word.
 II was never an easy matter to trans act business with Lii. and vet I always found him a man of his word. He would turn a question over ant over again-look into it minutely-Quick to detect the slightest error in your statement IL was never safe to go to him without having your case prepared. nc would take nothing for granted nor accept ..assur- ances. or understandings No Rialto usurer was severer in the reading Of the bond. Establishments or menaees were in vain. He knew the tension which each would endure-what was meant by Glad stone of Salisbury ascendency Tn England and the meaning of Democratic or. Re publican advent to power in the United States He knew how to play one against the other-when to give significant smile to the ambassador of one power or a no less significant shrug 10 the envoy of another power. He never over looked the relations between Germany and France. nor neglected the jealousses of Russia and England. But when once
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you had an understanding with Li-a complete aoeord-the matter was done. /
 u and Grant.
 Tho relations batween General Grant and Ii had almost the element of TO- nance From the moment that General Grant arrived in China the Nieeroy took the deepest interest in his movements Messages from him awaited us at every point. Arriving at Tien Tsin on an Amer jean war vessel. before We could debarlk the Viceroy came on board. I remember the meeting. the long. searching. curious glances bestowed upon General Grant the courtesy. the difference and the re- spect.~ The fact that General Grant had held sovereign power sank deeply into the Viceroy's mind. And sovereignty could not be divested by any mere resig- nation or supersession by electoral forms. Then came the element of imagination to be expected from poet like Ii, whose mind was permeated with hyperboie and Oriental fancies. He and General Grant were born in the same year. The name of General Grants opponent was Lee. His own name was IL Their stars were in accord. I recall the ferver with which the Viceroy evolved this graceful fancy, as though it were message from the stars
 His cynicism and haughtiness vanish ed. The fates had ordained their meeting for some high purpose When General Grant returned his visit the Viceroy sent a guard and an official chair lined with yellow silk. Yellow was the imperial color. It could only be worn by the Elm peror or princes of the royal house. For the Viceroy himself to ride in such a chair would have been saerilege. But Grant had been sovereign. American men of war gave him royal honors- and wny not? And so nil Tien Tsin saw, and with wondering eyes, the yellow chail surrounded by a guard. No such sight had been seen by Chinese eyes. For il the Emperor had been in the yellow chail every house would have been closed and the inhabitants in hiding from the glow of fOo rouch sylorv