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New-York tribune., 1902-03-30

spots a spotted leopard wore "It don't do good
They've counted the stripes the zebras pulled
feathers out Of the ostrch's tail and mmicked the
stayed here a week they would demoralize the
whole show"
So much for the children. who formed the most
irrepressble II not the most prominent feature of
the temporary circus camp. The men Of the cir
GUS not the daring aerial artists the man who
loops the loop on bicycle the beautiful. brave.
bareback riding beauties but those who pitch the
tents. feed the wild beasts, manage the horses
and generally keep the circus moving-these men
interesting.
Friday morning in a big tent, making a picture
that was better than a circus. Their hunger was
superlative as though they had been undergoing
Lenten fast.
ives amt had a square for tree days" apollo
gized one man as he brought out his plate for
third helping OF potatoes and bacon. This eattn'
pick up fashion on circus train Is worse an not
eatin' at all"
The meal was cooked in the open typical cir
ous stoves wide strips of sheet iron prOpped up
over wood fires. Sliced bacon, side at time.
was sprinked over the not surface of stove.
to be scraped off into a pan a rev moments later.
sizzlinp and crisp on another great fIled
with black stuff called coffee. because the liquid
tastes something like coffee; were boiling. Well
baked potatoes came from still another Col
ored walters rushed back and forth with tin plates
and cups which were filled at the stoves.
Ar the long tables covered with red cloths the
men ate so hard that there no time for cOnver-
before eating but most did not. for there no
cirrus r11le on that question. Their manners were
Ing tricks with his knife his neghbor did not turn
nm his nose One man ate with his fingers without
attracting attention except from the visitors One
rule OF table etiquette they did not break. None OF
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
4 QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE.
WHY THE MOUNTAIN MEN AND WOMEN SIT
APART IN CHURCH.

WHY THE MOUNTAIN MEN AND WOMEN SIT
APART IN CHURCH
man was talking his fellow travellers in
Pullman smoker. relates The Kansas City Star
On one occasion he said. Il down IN
the mountains of Tenne ssee. where everything is
primitive, and Sunday I attended a Baptist
church. Much to my surprise and interest. the
women were seated on one side OF the house and
the men on the other. l had never seen anything
of the kind before, and after services were over
1 spoke to one of the members about il. as ne was
a pillar of the church and a 1 knew quite we'll
We have always done it that way he said
in EXPLANATION
So 10 worship God aCCordin' to
sciences. the constitution pervides." he replied
in a matter Of course tone.
But sitting opposite sides of the church
doesn't make any difference with your conscience,
does it?' I kept on.
Don't it,? Re said with emphatic confidence
in the knowledge that il did. Wei. il makes all
the difference in the world Do you mean TO say
that a kin over there alongside Nv mis-
wife. where she kin nudge him in the short ribs
with her elbow every time the preacher says any
thing she thinks ntS his CaSe2 ! say. kin man
do that and worship God aCcOrdin' his con-
scienCe2 Not much he can't. / reckon, nowhere,
an pertickIer not in this neck woods
The explanation and the argument carried con-
viCtiOn beyond ali controversy, and / had no more
saw.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
MR. ET4RTHS PROLIFIC PEN.

While DR. Seward Webb travelling in the
Far West his friends in Vermont had him in mind
for the nomination for Governor. Ia while he
cOurtinS his wife Ga daughter Of William n.
VauderbilO that Dr. Webb began his annual visits
to the Green Mountain State To be near her he
paid call upon the late William NJ. Evarts says
The Philadelphia Press who owned a fine farm
in Vermont.
Mr.. Webb arrived at the ex-SeratOr's house about
noon very hot uay- Luncheon was lust
served in the dining room. the table placed almost
underneath large old fashioned fireplace Among
all with spices. which Mr. Evarts proceeded
TO carve.
Doctor" ne asked. did you ever hear OF the
Magazine?
something new they have just started over in
Brooklyn
We'll Doctor continued Mr. Evarts that
magazine has written me to send them sonnet hing
choice from my pen- guess I'll send them a slice
OF this ham,"
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
THE PRESIDENTS STEMS.

The clubs in Washington are having much arnuse-
ment incident OF Prince Henry's recent
visit which appears to have escaped the notice OF
the Argus eyed reporters As the story goes.
says "Harpers Weekly President Roosevelt
wished to do the nations guest IN private COM
pument which the formalities of his public enter
tainment put Of the qUestion-to wit. prove
TO him that the peoples drink OF the Fatherland
had 5 foothold in the New World
II has long enjoyed in the Old To this end the
President ordered from a leading German restau-
rant supply Of Wurzburger Hofbrau for in
formal supper which was 10 he served at the
White House. AS The table equipment Of our re-
publican palace does include the covered stems
necessary give this beer its proper relish the
same restaUrateur directed furnish several
of the finest specimens from his own stock When
the Prince brought 10 the table ne found the
beer already in place each stein being filed 20 the
brim and ready for action II a most pleasant
surprise, which he aJteSted by proposing a merry
round OF healthS As he drained his stein his eve
caught by something the bottom Of il and
the smile on his face relaxed. He cast glance OF
QuiZZiCal alarm, nrSt toward the President and
then toward the door. as If he than half ex-
pected a raid from the COnStabulary. His COM
panOns, consumed with curiosity. tipped their
stems and peered in In rich blue capital let
ters burnt into the clay, this inscription stared up
at them from the depths stolen from Blanks
Deutsche NirthschafJ, So,6i3 Pennsylvania-ave-'
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30

children on the ground and they arrived in swarms
and droves in the rest of the day. Even meals had
no power 10 draw them away. and the circus men
could not drive them off.
The cages were covered with canvas and the ami
mails carefully screened from view. AT first the
horde of youngsters content to gaze at the
red paint and tinsel which showed about the edges
OF the cage wagons. For a time the marvellous
masterpieces in the way of animal pictures the
wagon sides caused small eyes to stare in wonder
and litte mouths to cape Then curiosity insJilled
them with courage They advanced the cages
and lifted up the canvas that they might peek in
at the rare Wild beasts of every species Lions
roared at the disturbance of their domestic pri-
vacy. and half dozen youngsters trembIed with
fear. Then they tried 1t again. In five minutes
making the lion roar the popular game.
Huge grizzly bears. with long. dangerous looking
claws grOwled angry protests when the peeking
operation tried them. Then the beasts
struck savagely at little hands which We're poked
between the bars. The lion roaring game was for
gotten for the more exciting OF making the
bears swat" which meant seeing how near one
could come to getting finger crushed by a huge
paw without getting hurt.
That injured due to the vigilance
of the circus hands. but their task was an almost
impossible one.
said one of the animal men IS he returned putting
from his efforts drive off a score OF small boys
who were trying to settle bet how many
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
CIRCUS MEN IN CAMP.
THE SHOW, COMING TO TOWN, STOPPED
IN \ JERSEY CITY SUBURB.

Good Friday of the Lenten period which dies to-
day will long be remembered by the children Of
Jersey City. Not for the reason that it great
religious day for certain denominations but be
cause the circus, which is coming TO New-York this
week halted on the outskirts of the city. 1t came
by train from Columbus, Ohio-this monster com
hined show, which bears the names of both Fore
paugh and Sells, names which are Synonymous
with three or more rings menageries. hippodromes
and other circus features. 1t stopped in Jersey
City 10 rest animals and men before descending on
the ferries and making the actual triumphant entry
into the city
Jersey City children must have smelled the cir
Gus, Its coming was not announced by Earing bill
boards or the haring trumpets of a parade 1t
sueaked In the Pennsylvania road ii the dark
ness and took possession OF a vacant lot in Marion
a suburb. Yet at a. m. there hundreds Of
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
THE SENATOR'S ErADED A DUEL.

The recent altercation the floor Of the United
States Senate between Senator's Tillman and Nc
Laurn, of South Carolina. has revived an old story
OF a difficulty between Ben Wade. OF Ohio, and
Bob" Toombs, of Georgia, which grew out or
Preston Brookss assault upon Charles Sumner
Everybody thought il would terminate in duel,
says The Washington STAR TOombs had at
tempted TO defend ana justify the conduct OF
Brooks Wade became more than angry-savage-
and IetOrted in a manner neither complimentary to
the South in general TOombs in particular.
In fact insuIted the latter, and did il in most
offensive way.
When Wade approached on the subject with
a view asCertaining whether he recognized the
code it discovered that he would fight. that his
choice would be rifles. and more that with this
weapon he dead shot
This information prevented the sending or a
hostile message For few days afterWard the
two Senators exchanged no word or look OF recog-
milton. and TOOmbS seemed suLen and uneasy but
finally leaning toward Wade, whose seat was near,
he said:
Il don't know that there is any for US to
make d fools of ourselves any longer
Nor l. Wade retorted. looking him squarely N
the eye, but some folks can't help it
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
BRYAN AND HIS BARN.
WHERE FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDI-
DATE IS LIVING WHILE HOUSE
Is BUILDING.
AT Fairview, near Lincoln, Neh.
photograph by Clements.)

William Jennings Bryan is living in a barn. on
his country place. Falrview. three miles from Lin
coin, Neb 1t is time for Populists to howl with
delight the man they would have put into the
White House at Washington has come down to
their level But don't tell them that within
stones throw Of this temporary dwelling place the
foundation Of a $4,000 house is in place and walls
Of expensive brick rising rapidly The Pop
ulists will not be so happy when they hear this
The barn In which the eX-Presidential candidate
Is living IS also Of brick, and One-half stories
high There is no hardship about living in It, and
Of course. ii sounds we'll In fact tho barn IS
more elaborate than the house in which Mr.. Bryan
lived when he was first nominated for the Pres
idenCy- The building Of this country place is
isfactory evidence that running for high office IS
profitable. even though the runner IS left great
way behind. II does very well for who sends
out weekly predictions that the country is going
10 ruin. Undoubtedly Mr.. Bryan does not propose
10 go with the country.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
PART ii.
TWELVE PAGES.
THEY MET CECIL RHODES.
HE GAVE THOUSANDS OF ACRES AS
SITE FOR AN AMERICAN MISSION
IN SOUTH AFRICA-EATING
ANTELOPE STEAK IN
HIS TENT

The way in which Cecil Rhodes to make
certain American interests thoroughly home in
Rbodesia is interesting story. 1t the
suit OF an accidental meeting and seven days COM
nanionship with two Americans. DR. W. L. Thomp-
son and the Rev Mr.. Wilcox. on board a steamer
DR. Thompson. in course of a recent visit TO this
city gave the following account of the matter
when ! 70 Africa Il a member of
the East Central African Mission. Soon after nv
arrival at Durham, Natal, several conferences were
held between members of the Zulu Mission and the
East Central African Mission. and ii was decided
10 a more favorable site. and Mr.. Wilcox and my
self were directed to visit Gazaland and prospect
when We set sail for Beira, the port Of the
region We We're visit. found Cecil Rhodes on
board steamer; also two of Gungunyana's
uduras returning from England, where they had
been by that chief to take a message to Queen
Victoria Mr Wilcox and I were starting on this
tourney the interior without guns mine not hay
ing arrived from America and his having been left
Al luhamhane. where the steamer did not stop to
PICK uG. We had hoped. When Mr. Rhodes
learned Of plight he presented us each with a
Martini Henri riie-most valuable gifts as any one
familiar with life in bush and jungle can well
understand
Hearing Of our quest. he gave Us In writing the
promise Of three thousand acres OF land which has
since been increased 10 twenty-four thousand, as
a site for mission"
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SHE REMEMBERED HIS PREFERENCE.

Senator-elect McCreary. Of Kentucky. in
Washington a few days calling upon his old
friends in Congress whom he knew when he repre-
sented his State In the House.
"McCreary was a fine campaigner." said Ken
tuckan 10 a washington Star reporter When
he went the rounds of his district he kissed the
bab bes praised the cooking Of the housewives
Judged the cattle of the farmers and adapted him
self 10 all circumstances. One night he drove up to
the house a farmer stop all night. but arrived
after the supper hour. The good woman of the
house insisted on getting him supper, but he re-
sisted and said he would take anything cold that
.sbe told him she had cold ham and cold
biscuits and would warm the coffee.
Never mind warming the coffee, madam said
McCreary. I prefer it cold Next morning at
breakfast the good lady handed him cup of
sickly looking liquid saying. Governor. you seemed
TO enjoy the cold coffee much saved some for
your breakfast "
New-York tribune., 1902-10-20
PERSONAL.

Bishop Leighton Coleman of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, of Delaware. has just returned to
his home in Wilmington having completed his an
hIal vacation tramp. Every year the Blshop
dons a rough suit of clothes and starts on an ex-
pedition of this kind His lat, st tour was Two
hundred miles in the mountains OF virginia, zen
neSSee and North Carolina, all on toot ne IIdNeis
lncognitO. stopping overnight wherever ne mas ~
most convenient and mlnghng with all sorts OF
people.
Bishop Favier. of the Roman Catholic mission az
Peking. has had stroke of apoplexy His left side
is paralyzed. The Bishop has great influence
among Chinese and foreigners. The Chinese Gov
ernment recently conferred upon him nlgh otIelal
honors. and appointed the Bishop as delegate on
commission To settle disputes between Chinese ana
christians in one of the provinces
Ex- Congressman James Hamilton Lewis. OF
Washington. has removed to Chicago. He has
been chosen first vice-president and general coun-
sci of the Great Western Beet Sugar Company.
The Great Western is the trust that lately paid
Lewis the 100000 fee for devising method or
orSaniza tiOn and sustaining the same IN the Fed-
eral courts at Chicago. by which the trust was
exempted from liability the stockholders OF the
constituent companies.
The Rev Morton Culver Hartzell. who has just
been appointed pastor of the Centenary Methodist
Episcopal Church. in Chicago. was born at Ctncin-
natl IN 1876 He is "a son of Bishop Hartzell- For
a year he preached in New-York as assistant pas
tor at the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church. and in 1899 he went to Europe He stud
led theology at Berlin and at the United Free
Church College Glasgow Two years ago he toured
through Palestine and on his return he was called
to his first pastorate at Elgtn. from which he has
now been transferred to Chicago
New-York tribune., 1902-10-20

4 Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the
nongress which will he held this weel In tbe
.American Museum of Natural History is the
t1act that IL is the FIRST one 10 convene in the
United States. The Society of Americanists
was organized in Europe more than a quarter
of century ago, upon the initiative Of the
Duke Of Loubat and il has met every two
years since its formation. In all that time ,ts
hittings have been held on this side of the At
aantic only once. and on that occasion in Mex
aco. Gratifying as IL is 20 know that European
scholars are interested in studying the origin
ana traits Of the aborigines OF the New World
5snd the influence OF contact between Europe
and America few centuries ago. no one sun
poses that their enthusiasm is greater than
that OF the people OF the United States. Album.
dant evidence 10 the contrary is found in the
magnificent chronological and archaeological col
lections which have been brought together in
hah dozen or more cities in this country
Further testimony is borne by the sagacjrv and
enterprise Of American explorers and by the
generosity OF such patrons of anthropology as
Morris h. Jesup There are i'm the United
STATES, too several national organizations
which are devoted 10 the same branches OF re-
search as The International Society of Ameri-
canists, and but for the existence and activity
oi the former no doubt the latter would have
been persuaded 20 visit this country nuch
sooner
An important preliminary 70 solving the oues-
lion where the pre-Columbian inhabitants of
the New World came from is an examination
OF relationships between the OCCUPANTS of diff
ferent parts Of the continent Such a comnart
son must be as broad as possible in its seone
craniology alone may lead TO false conclusions
concentration Of attention upon anv other
single characteristic, language. religion. arch,.
lecture or industrial art. would be eauallv in
3udicious. Only by considering as many
phases OF the subject as possible can = safe ana
satisfactory decision be reached. When the
inquiry is thus hroadened out, OF course II
may, and thus far il actually has. become high
ly complicated. On the one hand afinities are
discovered For instance. Professor Putnam
notices resembances between the civilization
Of the earlier Mound Builders and that OF an
cfent Mexico. On the other hand marked di-
Sersities exist, not merely in culture. but in
anatomy Snch differences suggest the posi-
bility, not 10 say probability, that there were
several migrations 10 America from the Old
Woric, and that these did not ali proceed from
~ same region OF by the same route Though
New-York tribune., 1902-10-20

Eastern Asia constituted the most convenient
source Of supply some Of the observed pecul-
iarties Of physique and culture can be most
easily explained by assuming that this CONT
nent was also invaded from Africa by way of
Europe or the lost Atlantis The time has not
arrived for a final verdict hut of late years the
doctrine of the unity of the American races
has been less firmly held by prominent ethnolo-
gists than it was quarter of a century ago.
This. of course. is separate question from
the one which touches the unity of the human
race as whole A few anthropologists incline
10 the view that man was evolved from sep
arate ancestral stocks in various parts Of the
earth. just as certain lower animals and plants
had independent origin The late DIR.
BrintOn. one Of the most level headed of Ameri-
can ethnOloEists, declared that that opinion
was not widely entertained by those whose
judgment was entitled to respect. But even II
a branch Of the human family was not devel-
Oped on this continent out of the lower primates
which are known TO have f1Ourished here. II i
not unlikely that the first migrations hther
We're effected hy a savage people, and that the
high culture attained in Peru and Central
America was exclusively development of the
New World
Numerous and fascinating as are the prob-
lens which relate 10 the inhabitants of America
prior TO 1922 they will not monopOlize the at
tention Of the society whose sessions VIII De
held this week in West Seventy y-seventh-st. The
destiny Of this continent was completely
changed by the settlements made here three or
four centuries ago Whether or not Columbus
should be regarded as the true discoverer OF
the New World. his voyages certainly opened
a new era in history. In ali that relates 10
the commencement of this tremendous revou-
tion every student Of the past must feel the
IiveIiest interest
New-York tribune., 1902-10-20
MARNLNGs TO PLENGERS-

Mr.. Keene and Mr.. Belmont may possibly
have done something in quiet way to check
the hoisterous and offensive operations of pro
fessional gamblers on the turf. Al the Norris
Park meeting the loud voiced ''plungers" are
not so vOcferous and inSolent they were on
the Long Island tracks II high time to
tell them that they would ruin high class
racing if they continued 70 make Alsatias of
the betting rings. as they did on the other side
of the East River
NewJersey cast them ont years ago. and has
never permitted them 10 return. If New York
would send every one Of them packing hon
orable sport worthy of public patronage. would
gain so much that the benefit would be almost
ineStimable.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-20
GERMANY IN THE EAST

Many comments, apt o. inapt, were made
upon the German Emperor's visit TO Turkey and
falestlne as the business trip of an imperial
commercial traveller. Whether the extension
OF German trade was or was not the Emperor's
foremost purpose is a question which we may
courteously leave unconsidered; though in
deed If trade follows the flag" and if it be a
ruler s duty 10 promote the prosperity Of his
people, II is difficult 10 see why such an errand
"oula not be worthy of a monarch. The
concrete fact of the present situation at any
rate' Is that German commerce with what
western Europe calls the Near East is decid-
eoN booming" AT a raIe which bids fair to
give the shrewd and enterprising Teuton some
'hihs approNimating 10 monopoly OF that
promising field.
LEI us for example. note what has been and
Is oeihs done in the way Of Levantine com
Mefce by the one port of Hamburg II is of
course the chief German port: Vet there are
Others OF considerable Importance. and there
New-York tribune., 1902-10-20

doubtless is a large overland trade by rail and
river In 1890 Hamburg sent TO Runania ex-
ports valued at S25O.00O, and in 1901 the figures
were S5OOGGO. Exports TO Greece in the same
time rose from S25OO0O 10 81 100000 Exports
10 Black Sea ports other than Rumanian or
Turkish Increased from S400o00 10 $4,000. 600:
and TO Egypt from S1S4OO0 TO S2.175.00o- Those
were splendid gains. but still more noteworthy
were those effected in trade with the Ottoman
Empire. For Hamhurg's exports TO Turkey In
Europe. which were S250,O00 in 1890, We're
So 100000 in l901-increasing tenfold in eleven
vears-while to Turkey in Asia they rose from
only $4,000 10 S2.50O,OOO. or more than 3.233
per cent. Truly such results were worthy of
an imperial drummer!
These figures show not only what is being
done by German commercial enterprise in gen
eral. hut also and more particularly what is
being accomplished by such special enterprises
as the German railroad in Anatolia. To this
latter we must credit a large share of the enor-
nous increase of trade with Turkey in Asia.
and from such figures are 10 he derived the
strongest Of arguments for the execution of the
German scheme for extension of that railroad
system 10 Bagdad and down through Nesopo-
tamia-a blessed word 10 traders!-to the Per
sian Gulf. There are not many great routes of
commerce in the world which need and deserve
opening up more than does that one. and il is
inconceivahle that factious political opposition
will be able 70 prevent the doing Of so benefi-
cent a work. Germany has evidently found the
WAY 10 the revival of commerce in the East
and even her trade rivals must wish her con-
tinued success in a work which promises so
much gain for all the world.