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Mails FOR Newfoundland by raH to North Sydney and
thence by steamer. close at this daily ~ ana
connecting close here Monday Wefnsssop m
SATURDAY. MalIs Tor Miquelon by rail Boston 40
thence by steamer close AZ this Office and
for Cuba. by rail Florida and 49, 49, p n.
dispatched daily. except
connecting closes for dispatch Port TsnID. maj
Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays ar f5.90 a -, ~
dispatch via Miami Mondays SATURDAYS a. a %
2. Mails for Mexico city, overland unless snects,,
addressed for dispatch by steamer close al tb5s
daily except Sunday at 1-3O p. m and m m once
Sundays I 2. m and 1880 D m Mails 49, ..s
RiCa Belize, Puerto Cortez and Guatemala nv 80, -
New-Orleans. and thence by steamer Close a, 49,
Office daily except Sunday at II 20 p. m. SunSavs az ~
p. connecting closes here Mondays Belize P1s-a
Cortez Guatemala. and Tuesdays for Ciost. pts
Registered mail closes at p. N. previous tay '-
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WILLIAM II. HICKS.

William II. Hicks died yesterday at Yonlers He
born seventy-nine years ago In this city. For
many years he had lived In retirement in his
home, at YOnkers
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The following official the Weather Bureau
shows the changes in the temperature the last
four hours in comparison with the corresponding date Of
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Dental candidate In 1900 While a member of Con-
gress Mr., Cummings did abandon newspaper
work. but contributed TO many newspapers letters
on national capital topics.
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Highest temperature Yesterday. GS; lowest average
90 Average tcmperUtIr, corresponding date last wear
90; average temperate, corresponding date las,
twenty-five years. -.
Local forecast Showers and probably thunderstoruns
TO day stationary temperature fresh south Winds
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MARRIED.

Burne tt's COcOnIne kills dandruH anavs Irritation
and promotes a healthy growth OF the hair.
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Address all communications relative
Advertisements to THE TRIBUNE New-Yor< Civ
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BRITTIN-Entered into rest at Madison n J., Thurs
BrittIn. Notice OF funeral hereafter.
CURTIss-On Thursday morning. May l. suddenly Henry
Wheeler Curtss, at his residence. 49thst
New-York city, IN the 5Tth year his age Funeral
services at St Bartholomew's Church Saturday
morning May 3. at $50 O'Clock. Interment al con-
Of family. Kindly omit flowers
DAVIS-On Thursday, May l. 1902 James Morgan Davis
his late residence Crvmes hin staten
Island. sunday May T. , clock Carriages IN
waiting arrival OF o'clock boat York.
heart Benjamin Thompson rockingham IN the
Goth OF his at Chestnut Hill Philadelphia
nternent at Greenwood at convenience the family
GEDNEY-At White Plains. y. Y, on Friday May .
bartholomew Gedney Funeral services from his late
residence Gedney Farm Monday Nav 3 at n m
Carriages will train leaving Grand Central Depot
1888 p.
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changes IN pressure Indicated by The Tribunes SELF
eeot1s barometer The dotted line tempera-
ture as recorded Perry's - Eo'N
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DIED.

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AMOS J. CUMMINGS DEAD.
FOUGHT HIS WAY FROM PRINTERS
CASE TO THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVE
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Baltimore, May 2-Congressman Amos J.
Cummings of New-York. died at 1915 o'clock
tonight at the Church Home and 1nfirmary of
this city. He came to the hospital about three
weeks ago to be operated on for kidney trouble.
He reported to be convalescent from the
operation when double pneumonia set in, which
caused his death.
Printer, soldier, editor and Congressman Such
is the life record Of Amos J. Cummings one of the
best known of the newspaper men of his day in this
metropolis. He born in ConGlng, Bro ne
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TRIBUNE LOCAL OBSERVATIONS
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BY EARLY MAIL TRAIN.

For all points In United States (ousde OF Greater
D.,,v NeT-Yorkl. Canada and Mexico.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

cry department being the antipodes o!
the rush and whirl and marvellous
celebrity of the modern American publ
cation.
When the paper is set up it is printed
on an American press, but the type
the symbols, are all made in China.
There are three other newspapers
published in san Francisco besides the
one describod-Jhe Chinese World. the
Oriental News and the Commercial
News. Nearly all have some special
object i'm view. Thus the World is a
reform paper. virtually the organ of
the Empire Reform Association, a club
or society which is very influential in
Chinese circles in San Francisco and
said to include fourth of the entire
population. The World opposed the
Boxers, is pro-Amercan in its ideas; its
editor is Tong Chong, friend of the
late missionary, Mr.. Masters; man Of
high culture and many attainments,
who has, by the aid of the society, of
which he is Secretary, attempted to
reform the entire Chinese Natlon.-Sci-
entific American.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

with it a contrast which for the mo
ment makes even prison seem u very
cheerful and pleasant place.
When one entered the old prison one
was admitted by lowering gate heav-
lily barred with iron into a low-cell II
inged room where many activities
seemed to be crowded into small space
and where the file of visitors waiting
to see the prisoners always tended to
overflow into the warden's room and
down the dark corridors leading to the
cells.
A splendid suite of offices has now
been provided for the wardens and
clerks, several sizeable rooms where
prisoners can be searched and where
they may see their counsel, and still
others where their friends may be
searched before visiting them in their
cells. In the old Tombs the conven-
fences were of the slightest, and made
quate to bear the burden laid upon
them. The old tub and showers were
inadequate. Under the new rules pris-
oners will be compelled to take two
hot baths week. There are two
shower baths at the end of each cor
ridOr. and besides this are special bath
rooms in which new prisoners will be
compelled to submit TO good scrub
blng with soap and water before being
placed in a cell. Another excellent
feature that is great advance on the
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

old conditions is the roof garden,
where the prisoners viii take the air
instead OF dlsmally filing around the
narrow corridors as they do at present
getting their only healthful draughts
of ozone through the narrow, heavily
barred corridors. The roof garden is
on the top floor, directly under the
steep pitched roof.
The completion Of the city prison has
been delayed far beyond the time speci-
lied in the contract. The building was
begun five years ago--during the ad-
minisuation of the late Mayor Strong.
Warden Van de Carr is delighted
over getting into the new building.
Since he resumed his duties several
months ago the contractors have made
rapid progress toward the completion
of the building. 1t is expected that
the present administration will pro-
vide a detached house in the prison
yard for the use of the Warden. The
Warden's family now occupies dismal
quarters.
The removal Of the west wall along
elm street by the rapid transit contrac-
tors MARKS the beginning Of the de-
structlon Of that portion of the jail
yard where the old-time Sheriffs of
New York County hanged their con
demned prisoners.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
A SAN FRANCISCO CHINESE NEWSPAPER.

door a mystical sign, and beneath it
The words Chung-sal-Yat-P the daily
newspaper; and if curious he may as
cend the narrow stair and reach the
editorial and other rooms of one Of the
several Chinese papers published Ia
this Chinese American city, Little Can
ton. as it is sometimes called. This pa
per was first started as a weekly, but
was changed TO a daily, and is now
an influential organ of what might
he termed the Americanlzed Chinese,
or the New Chinaman, as the editor
is n Chinese minister of the Presby-
terian Church, IA man of high cultlya-
ton from the American standpoint
He Is the Rev. Ng PoOn Chew, and one
OF his literary advisers and aids is
John Fryer, LID. who fills the chair
of Chinese literature at the University
OF California; but the typesetters, the
clerks, in fact all the employees, are
Cinnamon, some of whom are gradu-
ates of American schools In the bust
ness office and editorial room there Is
lllAlt " hlAldNl Ant AAANhAAphs
lean desks and chairs and telephone
are the appliances Of The workers; but
when the visitor enters the composing
room. a high, cheerless brickwall-in-
closed room. he is confronted with the
fact that here as we'll as elsewhere in
China things are upside down. In a
word, the typesetter is quite as i'm
pOrtant a factor as the editor; at least
such is the impression gained by the
observer who faces the extraordinary
cases Of the Chinese compositOr.
The American typesetter is obliged
TO be familiar with twenty-siX letters,
ten figures and a few signs and sym
hols, as periods, dollar marks, etc, but
the Chinese compositor must be ia
miliar with 1000 characters of this
archaic language. Gbout which PrOfes-
sor II. X. Douglas says: Every root
is a word, every word is root. 1t is
without infleXion or even agglutination,
it's substantiyes are indeclinable. and
its verbs are not to be corrugated; il
is destitute of an alphabet, and finds
its expression on paper in thousands
Of distinct symbols
1t is needless to go into a description
of this marvellous language to explain
the difficulties of the Chinese cOmpOs
itor but one illustration is sufficient
Certain sounds often stand for several
hundred words, the difference, often
vital to an intelligent presentation OF
an idea. depending on certain diacrit
ical marks accompanying each word
There are thousands of these symbols
which are engraved, each one repre-
senting a type, but a well-regulate(
newspaper will require but IL 900 char
acters; if others are needed they arr
made in the Office. A font Of type II
the Chinese language requires 11,OOt
spaces, and in the large and spacious
racks here shown each word instead
OF each letter, as in English, has {
place for itself. There is also a pc
culiar grouping or classification of
symbols into groups to further facili
tate the mental labors of the typese.
ters. Thus in the immediate vicinit!
Of the symbol for flsn would be founl
the symbols for scales, net, fms, tail
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
A Peculiar Pear Disease.

In an article which appeared IN
American Agriculturist September "a,
1902. Professor #. G. Stewart, Of the
New York Experiment Station, called
attention to the spotting and cracking
of fruit, and particularly that Of the
Flemish Beauty pear. The specimens
received from w. II. Phillips, of OnOn
daga County, New York, were sub
mitted to Professor Stewart for exam
ination, who reports that the difficult!
Is the same as that described in his
previous article. Very often it Is i'm
possible to determine the variety o.
fruit on account of its diseased conc
ton.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
WHAT MOST IMPRESSED HIM.
How Young Moody Came to Admire
Fortitude of Stephen.

How Young Moody Came to Admire
Fortitude Of Stephen.
Paul d. Moody, son Of the evangel-
list, was class deacon and a power
Of righteousness in his class at Yale
1901. To his strength Of character
were added companiDnable qualities
that made him very popular with his
fellows.
One day Paul was induced to get
into the exhilarating game cf "niggeT
Through a conspiracy 1t devolved
baby"-a favorite campus pastime.
upon him to pay the rigorous penalty
Of the game. which consisted In
crouching against Alumni hall while
the other participants. fifty feet away
took three shots each at him with a
tennis ball. Great was the hope OF
the Philistines that q worldly, un'
deaconlike cry would burst from the
target at some stinging hit, but none
came.
81 guess you sworo under your
breath once or twice, anyway; now,
didn't you, Paul?' a fellow player
asked, when the ordeal was over.
mo, | didn't" replied Moody frank
ly. "But, tell you when Bob Rob.
ertson (the Varsity pitcher) was
throwing, appreciated as never
before the magnificent fortitude' OF
Stephen, the stoned martyr"
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
THE OLD TOMBS PRISON
AND THE NEW.

~ REAT interest centres la the
disappearance of the 0ld-time
. wall about the original struc-
turo or the rombs Prison in
New York City. aud the substitution
Of the new granite inclosure. The
change attracts daily attention from
the little crowds OF loungers who hang
about the neighborhood Of the Grim.
lnal Court building. The process Of
change from the old 10 the new is so
gradual vet So sure. that the ancient
regime Will De merged into the new
almost without anybody knowing it.
The removal of the administrative de-
partments of the city prison into the
new commodiOuS quarters on the Cen
tre street side has already taken place
The change from the semidarSncss
and musty. long out-worn conditions to
spacious and modern quarters brings
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FRONT.
Embarrassing Mistake Made by
Visitor to Hayti.

That the character of the frequent
revolutions in Hayti tends decidedly
toward opera bouffe is attested by a
story which has gained currency In
the navy department during the last
week. It emanated from a man who
held. under one Of the mushroom gov
ernments OF Hayti, the post If admiral
of the Haytian navy, the same office
held by Admiral Killick, who is re-
ported to have gone to the bottom
with his ship, the Crete'a-Pierrot,
when it was sunk by the German gun
boat Panther.
The admiral was standing In the
doorway of hotel in Port au Prince
in company with another American,
who was familiar with Haytian Gus
toms.
Down the main street came a band
of negroes. They were ignorant look
ing and seemed little inclined to
march ahead, but were forced along
against their Wills by the persuasive
powers Of long black whips in the
hands of brilliantly uniformed per-
sons, evidently officers Of the Haytian
army.
"Who are those--conyicts?" asked
the admiral, tuTDing to his friend.
The Friend appeared surprised, for
he had just finished talking Of the rev.
olution reported to be raging outside
Port au Prince. Why, no indeed,
they're not convicts," he replied
"They are volunteers going to the
'front.'
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

perfect justice ruled, be the highest
paid.
The composition Is staid and dig
nihcd individual. and as he slowly
walks from symbol to symbol picking
up those ''hich ne requires with pro.
voking caumncSs the American com
poSitpr might well wonder when the
work would be- completed; ana to set
Up the limited type required for o
small fom-pagc daily paper the con
Stant lahors Of eight or nine skilled
Cinnamon are required for twelve on
thirteen hours, the entire work in cy
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

the cover Is closed down. Any de
sired method OF closing bottles or
TASKS may be employed in conjunc
tlOn with the lock. Not less wide
field for the use of such a device Is
to prevent unauthorized persons as
for instance, servants. from meddling
with liquors. perfumes, etc.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

that look like coarse yellow parch-
ment. The casual visitor passes them
by unobserved. and with little idea
that he Is on the tracks of tragedy,
for the parchment scraps are not por.
tlons of the notices of prehistoric
church wardens, but the actual frag'
ments of the skin of some bygone
malefactor. caught red-handed in rob
bling the church, his hide being nailed
to the doors as a perpetual warning
to evlldoers. Tradition reports that
he was a Dane, but more probably he
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

A specimen of the pear infested with
this disease Is shown In the accom-
panylng illustration, furnished us by
Professor Stewart. This disease IL
caused by a fungus and can be pre-
vented to a large extent by thorough
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

iy spraying with bordeaux mixture
However, where the fruit on the trees
cracks regularly each season, 1t would
perhaps be best to graft the top with
some other variety.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
Look on nottle.

Many safety poison phials have beer
devised, but It Is doubtful If any ont
is so secure as the simply locked
stopper Illustrated herewith. No ont
in the dark. or sunlight no mattei
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
ALoftx Steamboat Ronts.

The loftlest steamboat route in the
world is doubtless that just opened be.
tween Puno and Chllaya, Peru, on
Lake Titlcaca, 1852 feet high or twice
the altitude of Mt Washington.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

gills. This simpllfes the labor which
in any event must be so strenuous thai
It Is evident that the composltor's end
Of the Chinese newspaper should. If
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

how pre0ccupied or dcranged by sur
fering, could possibly accidentally
take Il draught OF poison from such
II flask, AS will be seen by the sketch
the lock is opened by small key
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
TRACES OF A TRAGEDY.
GrewsOine Reminder of Savage Days on
an English Church Door.

A ghastly relic of bygune days is to
be seen on the church door at Penn
bridge, England
The handle Is fastered b. some elab-
crate irOnwork to the stout oak boards.
and round the edges of this, says the
Queen, may still be seen fragments
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
NewfoundIand sparaeIy settIed.

The island Of Newfoundland--a ter
ritory as large as the state of New
York-has only about 250.O00 inhab-I
itants. and these are sprinkled along
ths coRal line
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

From a twenty-year-old mulberry
tree 21S pounds Of leaves have been
picked In year.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06

was some Welsh marauder OF the
mountains, and at any rate this day
the ghastly memorial of his crimes Is
still visible.
The suburban citizen., 1902-12-06
Chinese Press
i'm America.
By Charles F. Holder.

IN roaming through the famous
Chinatown Of san Francisco, IT'S
lanes and alleys the stroller will
/ perhaps observe over a narrow
New-York tribune., 1902-03-24

Campbell -Bannerman will have a record which
Will repel political support, whereas Lord Rose
berry will have the reputat ton of taking a pa
triotc stand and of keeping abreast with the
supreme issues Of the empire. There can be
little doubt respecting the superior attractive
powers of Lord Rosebery in a contest before the
general electorate after the 1t is simply
incredible that there can be Little England
politics for a generation after the race conflict
in South Africa The trend of events is wholly
in the direction of imperial federation, and
Mr.. Chamberlain and Lord Rosebery are the
statesmen most competent to take it up in a
sympathetic and practical spirit
1t is often urged by Radicals that there will
be a taxpayers reaction against the Tory
Cnionist government as soon as the war ends.
This assumption is not based upon any signs Of
fnching the part Of taxpayers. The burdens
Of the war have been borne with uneXampled
patience and fortitude Not a single bye-elec-
ton has been carried against the government
through any default of taxpayers loyalty.
There have been no public protests against the
magnitude of the war expenses There is no
evidence at this moment, when Lord Methuen
has been Unexpectedly taken prisoner and his
column of twelve hundred men disastrousy
routed. that English taxpayers have begrudged
the enormous sums expended upon the war for
the empire. There are unmistakabe proofs
however, that the English people are thoroughly
discontented with the ineptitude Of ministers In
the management OF the campaign. The political
experiences Of the Crimea would have been re-
peated without doubt. and the government
would have been either overthrown or ade-
quately reorganized, II the Opposition had been
conducted with patriotic spirit and iniexible
resolution. Lord Rosebery. with his Indictment
Of the government for inefficiency at all points,
is in a position to appeal to the taxpayers on
the ground that their money has been wasted
and misappled. For this reason he is greeted
by great audiences whenever he speaks. and
the English press instinctivey knows that his
message is which deeply impresses the Eng
lish people. When an English statesman per-
sists in delivering a message which the nation
wishes to hear, IT is idle 10 talk of slamming the
party doors in his face and Of dismssing him
contemptuously to his lonely furrow.
l. n. T.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-24
DIED.

BROOKS-The Mary Washington Colonial Chapter. D
A r. announce with death their mem
ber Mrs J. Wilton Brooks March q. 1902 Funeral
services at No. 500 West T6th-st. Monday morning
March "a. at 10 a. m.
COE-Suddenly on the 21st inst. Dresden, Germany
Margaret s Duryee. wife of Edward P. Coe. OF Engle
wood, y. J.
EsTE-Edwn Este. r Funeral Monday evening. at $50
o'clock. his late residence. No S4l East 157th-st
Internent at PleasantvtLe-
NEWMAN-At her home. No Z East 124th-st.. on sun
day. March % 1902, Alice STinburn. OF Thomas
H Newman Notice OF funeral IN Tuesday morning 5
papers
ORTON-On Saturday. March %. 1902 Metuchen
y j. Bella Knapp wife OF Frank NJ Orton daugh-
ter OF Deborah E. ana the late Jacob F. knapp
Funeral service Monday the arrival OF the
sylvania Railroad train leaving New-YOrk II :55
a. m. Relatives and friends invited Interment
Woodlawn-
PADDOCK-suddealy, a Tarrytown. Sunday. March 23
Florence Hubbard youngest daughter OF Right
Rev John Adams Paddock. d. D. Funeral at the
Church OF the Holy Apostles. 9th-ave- and 2sth-st
New-York Tuesday. March 25. al p. m Tacoma
papers please copy
PRAIL-ou sunday March %. 1902. at her residence
Murray FIu Hotel, Eliza A. Prall, daughter the
late Abraham A PraN Funeral services St Bar
tholomews Church at $50 a on Wednesday, March
20. Kindly omit flowers.
RICHARDSoN-on Sunday March %. 1902 at his late
residence NO. 127 South Oxford-st. BROOKLYN, DR.
John p Richardson Funeral services will be held in
the Emanuel Baptist Church OF Lafayette-ave.
James Place. Brooklyn, Tuesday evening March
IS, 1902, 5 o'clock