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their eyes and ears, as Mr.. Davidson shows he
has used them. This book, based on experience
and diligent research, will be found very useful
at once to our captains of industry and to those
Americans who are ever on the alert for fresh
fields to conquer. The author not only points
out the great trade opportunities in Formosa
but treats his subject in such a way as to in
terest even readers having no immediate in
terest in the island. AS an historian he may
lack dignity, at times displaying an unseemly
levity in relation to serious matters, but to his
credit be il said that he is never a state paper
historian" in the reprehensible sense of the
term. We may add that he exercises admirable
taste in refusing to detail the horrors incidental
to the various military campaigns in FOrmosa,
horrors over which too many writer's the
Orient appear TO glOat.
Step by step he traces the history of the
island, from the first vague allusons TO it in
Chinese annals. The story of its occupation by
the Dutch and of their expulsion 10y Koxinga
the noted pirate chief is faithfully related Mr.
Davidson is a warm adnirer of this chief who
certainly showed unexpected moderation in his
treatment of his foes, after the great outrages
they had inflicted upon him. Although We can
not agree with him in his contention that KoX-
inga was not pirate who warred for profit, we
are willing to admit that the great object Of his
invasion Of Formosa was not vulgar gain but
the establishment of a kingdom where the Ming
loyaIists, crushed by the victorious Tartars,
could take refuge. 1t is to his credit that he
established this kingdom and managed it in ad-
mirable fashion That the Tartars ultimately
acquired the island was no fault of his, for he
had long been in his grave when his craven
grandson, Cheng Ko-Shwang, who had come to
the throne by usuTpation, Internationally sur
rendered to the Emperor Of China.
The history of Formosa from that time until
the japanese obtained possession of it is mar
rative Of rebellion after rebellion, coupled with
constant battling against the abOrigines, who
are even now making much trouble for the Jap
anese. Despite this, as Mr.. Davidson shows
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OF ENGLISHlIEN IND AMERICANS.

From The Contemporary Review.
Many Of my readers must have noticed the
different nuauce in the talk Of English and of
American gentlemen TO women In America,
though the women have not as yet votes, except
IN few States they have attained a different
social position from that which we hold in Eng
land. and consequently American man talks
up TO Us, very visibly taking it for granted that
We know as much and have as good a judgment
cf the subject in hand as himself. An English
man, on the contrary, usually talks down to US
He assumes that We know little or nothing and
that our opinions Of We have any) are hardly
worth ascertaining- This he does pretty uni
Fersally TO ladies who are strangers TO him
only if he happens to know that the woman to
whom he is speaking is the possessor of brains
he IS apt TO treat her in a still more aggravating
manner and to imply, in all he says that she is
not as other women are, fools and slight" but
STANDS apart from her seX-a very great insult
as We must all consider it, After a certain
number Of years Of the new regime I am con-
NInced that the minds Of women would. grow
larger and stronger, even as their bodies have
cone IN the last forty years by fresh air and ex-
erclse, and then generation Will arise in which
women viii scarcely be called any longer the
weaker SEX
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/ TOM4N COMPOSER,
From The Derby Mercury.

From The Derby Mercury.
A correspondent has much that is i'm erestinG
to record of Derbyshire's 81, atest composer. NJ
Robert ArkWright. of Stoke Hall, between Grin-
dleford and CaVer She was the daughter Of
Stephen Kemnle. and when her husband was a
militia captain in Newcastle. ninety years ago
he saw her on the stage and married her.
Seventy years go she used to delight Thomas
Moore ana her neighbor the first Lord Denman,
with her tasteful singing of her own songs. then
known in every musical household, and htr
Landing Of the Pilgrim Fathers was in New
ENGLAND almost a national song. 1t IS now rare
" heard Her beautiful setting of kingsley's
sands O. Dee" has been appropriated by an
other composer Her Treasures Of the Deep
is 4 fine solo and would make a finer Slee and
har Hebrew Mothers Farewell narrowly
missed Handean grandeur
These and other airs may still be bought IN a
shilling volume called Mrs. Hemans's Songs,
with Music by Her Sister the odd thing being
that several of the songs are not by Mrs. He
mans nor was Mrs. ArkWright her sister. Can
anv one explain why she published so much
music under the name of Mrs. Hemans's sis
ter Mrs Hemans had been Miss Brown, Of
Liverpool. lived apart from her husband, became
ore Of our greatest song writer's, and is buried
in DaNson-st, Dublin Not only is Mrs. Ark
wright Derbyshire's greatest composer, but she
NAV be Classed the greatest female COM
poser OF England except Mrs. Bliss
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4 PHILANTHROPIST
How DR.. HaGSs Labored Among Siberian
ErileS
ErileS.
rom Longman's Magazine.


From Longmans Magazine
While minstering to the physical needs Of
these unfortunates Haass was thus often able TO
hghten the far heavier load of mental suffering
which left many with ray of light in their
souls, to whom. deadened by despair and bereft
of all hope. life was but "a deep wide sea of
misery" With tender Solictude for the reIa-
IVes and friends left by the prisoners, Haass
made himself the means by which cOmmunica-
ton with them could be maintained writing
letters and transmitting to the far-Off Siberian
G0nVicts gl1ts OF money books, etc, from home
we hnd him also distributing immense numbers
Of copies of the Bible and other books among
the prisoners, receiving much financial assist
anCe in this work from rich English Iner-
chant Of st. Petersburg; endeavOring also to
impress them with a sense of living personal
sympathy amid the hideOus conditions and
temptations to which they would be subjected
in the new life upon which they were entering,
he, at his own expense, put together in a little
book quotations from the Bible, St Francis de
Sales and other writer's, carefully selected and
welded together by simple words of his own, in
which the keynote was love for others and an
unchanging belief in the better side of human
nature. copy of this small volume Haass per-
sonally presented to each prisoner in little
bag, and to insure its safety during their long
march they hung it around their neCks. No
wonder that he was loved by the prisoners, that
the memory of the holy DOCTOR" as they came
to call him-the gentle old man TO whom they
could confide their sorrows, sure of sympathy
became to many an inspiration and comfort not
less than the words which were contained in
the little keepsake Of his which they carried
in the words of Mickiewicz, the great Polish
writer that in our intercourse with our fellow
creatures no matter what their class or cOndi-
ton, it is essential Ito have heart and to look
into the heart"
There are, indeed. many touching instances of
how Haass lived in the hearts "Of those made
better by his presence" To select only one out
Of many, w. A ArzimOvitsch relates how, when
Governor of Tobolsk and making tour Of in
specticn through the district, he stopped in one
Of the villages at the house of a former exile
who had now become prosperous settler living
in comfort, surrounded by a numerous family.
The Governor had already taken his place in
his carriage and was on the point OF driving
off when his host a fine cid man with a long,
gray beard and wearing a blue coat made Of
rich material suddenly threw himself on his
knees Thinking that he was going to petition
for some favor perhaps for complete pardon,
the Governor begged him to rise and say what
il was he wanted. Il have no request to make,
your exceIency; I am quite contented, an
swered the old man. without rising; only and
he Wept with emotion tell me, tell me 2 hat l
can learn from no one-is Feodor PetroUits ch Of
Moscow, still alive?'
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were dangerous men whom it was necessary TO
retain in confinement But the Servians were
al that time but little less barbarous and un-
clVlIlzec than their recent rulers the Turks
The fact that Lord Aberdeen, in England, long
persistenty declined to attach Layard to the
embassy at Constantinople, while very dis
couraging, could not keep him from clinging to
the East and working zealously at every COM
mission which Lord Stratford Canning would
give him. He invariably acquitted himself with
credit, and the pleasantest relations were estab-
lshed between him and his chief Sir Stratford
IS portrayed in this book with the koenost ap-
Preclauon, naughty and very difficult. but
man OF great distinction with some very low
able traits. There is delightful anecdote given
in Illustration Of his fierce temper. and of the
manner in which one courageous parsonage
Yentured TO stand up to him" This man.
greatly daring, was Ahmed Vefyk Efendi who
dining at the embassy night fell into dis
cussion with the ambassador "as to the i'm
prisonment by the Turkish police at GaIata of
some British subject, a rascalIy Ionian or Nal
tese, who had, no doubt been seized fdgrante
GeiIcfo, when committing some crime richly de-
serving punishment" The episode developed as
follows:
The Efendf attempted to Justify the conduct
OF the Turkish authorities. Sir Stratford main
tanned that they had violated the capituations
bg apprehendlnS a British subject without going
through the required foTmaties, which, it may
he observed usually enabled the criminal to
eject ms escape The spute waxed warm, and
the expression on the countenance of the am
LaSsauOr announced approaching storm.
suddenly striking the table with his fist he ex-
claimed: And suppOsing I went down myself
10 Galata with d CANVASS to effect the release of
the prisoner, what would your authorities vent
Lie 10 do!' Why" replied the Effendi, with
ms lmperturbable calm, they would probably
l-l you and your CANVASS in the prison to Join
hin-and they would only be doing their dutyY'
II would be difficult to describe the burst Of
anger to which this somewhat audacious answer
gave rise.
Sir Stratford Canning was proud Of the poetry
he wrote, and was fond Of reading it to his at
taches- once he gave Layard a copy Of verses,
telling him they had been written by his daugh-
ter's governess, and asking him to express his
opinion Of them Layard thought they were
ridiculous, and said so, only to have Sir STRAIT
ford admit, with laughter, that the verses were
his own. Scores Of other amusing and some
times romantic stories belong TO this period OF
The autobiography. Then the narrative brings
before Us Layard's transactions in English poll
tics his art studies, his association with the
Arundel Society, and his labOrs in the develop
ment Of certain Italian industries. The record
far as II carried in these volumes closes
with the embassy TO Madrid 1t is not as we
indicated at the outset, full would like
il 10 be But, il stands it would furnish forth
material for half a dozen ordinary biographies.
Layard was always doing something, and it was
always something worth doing and worth the
telling.
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after STORM.

ST JOHN ADCOCK. IN THE SPEAKF
Darkling swept the rain
over hill and plain,
Leaving peSt-trOdden
Meadows dank and sodden.
AIIry road and lane.
Now the storm is done.
Life IS Te-begun;
TremulOus leaves and grasses.
As the shadow passes.
Stretch to feel the sun
sudden spIendors sift
Through each cloudy rift
Down on dropping bowers.
And their heads the flowers
As from weeping lift
Shared in moss and mud,
flushed and tanned, the flood
Rounds 10 puddles hazy:
Here and there a daisy
Shows its jewelled bud.
Thought OF peace enskied.
Dreams Of heights untried
Ia each pool lie yearning,
As if earth We're turning
HeaVenward Open-eyed.
Bloom, and leaf, and bird
Scatter, subtly-stirred,
Songs Of life and May born:
Creeping things and clay born
Sing with them unheard.
Voice and silence blend,
Breathing praises penned
In no prisoning psalters,
While from green earth-altars
Incense -mists ascend
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FORMOSA.
An Important York on the Oriental
Island.

THE ISLAND OF FORMOsA PAST ANr, pprs.
tN6. kN6. HISTORY. PEOPLE. REsOU RCEs
GAMPH0GRN HS0GNM F4+G ERSi4L 4 PR PROSPECTS; TEA,
PRUR PE 6I}i- IE3.GG0NoNICAL PLANTS AND OTHER
66hO0DICIIONS. By James ". Davidson +
X. 9. s, Consul Of the United states for For
TTGsa. with Two New Maps. Frontispiece in
tolor'. one Hundred and Sixty-aight Il!stra-
tis tions IFom Photographs, and Colored Reproiuc-
% 10Hs 1I Two Chnese Posters Imperial Svo pp.
Mr.. Davidson has long been known as q man
deeply interested in the future Of that tight lit
tie isle in the Orient that passed from China to
Japan as consequence of the war Of 1894 -'95
and he has already given US a great deal of in
formation concerning its history, commerce and
peoples. But the present volume must be
deemed his most ambitious contribution TO the
literature Of Formosa. It would deservedlv be
called important if it were only because It
serves to demonstrate the wisdom of appointing
TO consular offices men who know how to use
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Lila Bilodeau.

case of diphtheria has resulted ia
tally in town. Lila Bilodeau, aged II
years, was taken very ill, Friday night,
and, Saturday, a physician was called
in to sec her. He at once pronounced
the case diphtheria. The house was
Immediately ordered to be quarantincd
and proper precautions were taken.
The little girl died. Monday afternoon,
and the body was inferred the same
evening. She was Il pupil in the pub
lie schools, in the 5th grade in the
Garfield building on Leavitt street. She
was in regular attendance and was
present at school on Friday. The case
is particularly dangerous, as she had
been with the other children right
along. and as late as Friday night took
part in a concert. The Board of Health
and the school board have taken the
matter in hand and have ordered both
the Leavitt street schools closed for
one week, or indefinitely should fur
ther cases be discovered.
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CLERGYMEN MEET.
Central Maine Theological Circle and
kennebec, Somerset and Waldo Assn.

Watervile entertained two clergy
mems associations, Tuesday, both
meetings being held in the forenoon,
one at the Chemical hall at Colby and
the other at the Congregational church.
The first was that of the Central Maine
Theological Circle and DR.. w. III. Spen-
Ger of Skowhegan formerly of this
city, presided. Resolutions on the
death OF the late DR.. A. T. Dunn as
prepared by DR.. Spencer, Mr.. Huse and
Mr. Hope were read and accepted.
l.. H. Clarke of Gardiner, read a fine
essay on Meeting and Making Condi-
lions with a Special Reference to the
Pastors Work"
The second was a regular meeting OF
the Kennebec, Somerset and Waldo
Association of Congregational Minis
ters The program of this consisted of
a paper by Rev. A. G. Pettingill of the
Unitarian church of this city on Ralph
Waldo Emerson" "a Review of James
Varieties of Religious Experiences" by
Rev. Arthur Marley of WinsloW, and
planning a Summer Campaign" by
Rev. Robert Scott of North New Port
land. Those present at this meeting
dined at / o'clock at Mrs. Smiths The
next meeting of the association will be
held in October and monthly after that
through the winter here in the city.
Both these meetings were well at
tended and very much enjoyed by those
present
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THE NEW COURT HOUSE
At Bangor Dedicated With Appropriate
Exercises, Tuesday.

Bangor, Me-, June 2. = Penobscot
county's new court house, one of the
handsomest buildings of it's kind in
New England, was dedicated with ap-
propriate exercises, Tuesday forenoon,
in connection with the opening of the
June term of the law court. Besides
large attendance of lacal lawyers and
citizens, there were numerous prom
inent out-of-town guests and the oc-
casion was notable one that will be
long remembered.
On the bench were Chief Justice Wis
well and Associate Justices Emery.
Strout, Savage, Powers, Peabody and
Spear.
The exercises, carried out under the
of a committee of the Penob-
scot bar of which Franklin A. Wilson.
ESQ.,. was chairman, included the trans
fer of the keys from the contractor. M.
c. Foster of Waterville, to the architect.
Wilfred E. Mansur of this city, who. in
turn passed them to the chairman of
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primary Sunday school work. Many
questions were asked during the latter
part of the session and answered as
fully as possible by her. Edward a.
Mason, general secretary of the Maine
State Sunday School Association, pre-
sided in the afternoon.
The program of the evening was very
similar to that of the afternoon, the
meetings being more of conference
between the Sunday school workers
and Mrs. Petit than anything else
There was a larger attendance than III
the afternoon, and this session was alSo
very interesting and instructive.
Gen. Sec. Mason will assist MRS
Petit in all the institutes held in the
state and they will go from here &c
Dover and Foxcroft, Wednesday, Wherc
similar institute will be held i'll the
Methodist church.
From there they will go to Presqu'
Isle, Houlton, Machias and Ellsworth
spending a day in each place From
Ellsworth they will go to Bangor
where they will be June IL and this vii
conclude the series as planned.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE
At Congregational Church-Large Va
riety of Interesting Subjects.

One of the Sunday school institutes
that are being conducted by the Maine
Sunday School Association was held at
the Congregational church on Temple
street, Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Mrs. Alonzo Petit of Elizabeth, n. j.,
is employed by the association to speak
at the Institutes which are now being
held throughout the State. A large
number of subjects of interest to Sum
day school workers are taken W and
discussed In very interesting manner
by Mrs. Petit and questions that any
one in the audience cares to ask are
answered.
This was the program, Tuesday af-
ternoon. and there was q large attend
ance. The object of the institutes is to
give Sunday school workers the in
struction of experts and to take to
them as many fresh ideas as possible.
The meeting, Tuesday afternoon, was
very interesting for any one and es--
pecially for Sunday school teachers and
none could fail to get many new ideas
and a great deal of help. Mrs. Petit
is very interesting and fluent talker
and has had large experience IN
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Funeral of Late Gen. |. S. Bangs.

The funeral of the late l. S. Bangs
was held at his late residence on Col
leg avenue, Tuesday afternoon. The
hour fixed was 1 o'clock but was delay
delayed little for those who were ex-
pected on the first afternoon train from
the west. The services were brief and
marked by simplicity and dignity. Dis
tinguished soldiers and civilians gath
cred from all sections of the State to
pay their last tribute of love and re-
spect to beloved comrade and friend.
Rev. A. G. Pettingill, pastor of the
Unitarian church. opened the service
with brief remarks on the soothing and
inspiring power of religious thought on
such occasions and was followed by
Rev. e. c. Whittemore, pastor of the
First Baptist church. who offered
prayer. The benediction was pro-
nounced by Mr.. Pettingill.
The Department of Maine, G. A. r.,
was represented by its present COM
mander General Joshua l.. Chamber
lain of Portland, and past commanders,
Richard Is. Gateley of Portland, John
ID. Anderson of Gray, and James L..
Merrick of this city. The Logan Lee
gion was represented by General Sell
den Conner of Augusta, and Major
Henry S. Burrage, recorder of the
Maine Commentary. The naval branch
of the service was represented by John
Shaw of Bath. Captain A. E. Fletcher
of Burnham, who was with Gen. Bangs
in New Orleans, was present.
The representative of the Knights
Templar was John w. Ballou, Dunlap
Commandery, Bath, past grand COM
mander of the Grand Commandery of
Maine. Delegations We're present from
w. S. Heath Post. G. A. r., and Gar
field Camp, Sons of Veterans, Water
vile Lodge. No. SO, f. and A. M. and
St Omer Commandery of this city. The
business and professional life of the
city was represented by some of their
most distinguished members.
The bearers We're Willard B. Arnold,
Dr. Frederick c. Thayer, Captain II.
S. Blanchard and Hon. Charles F.
Johnson. The interment was at Pine
Grove cemetery.
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BATES HONORS.
Announcement Made of the Fortunate
Students, Tuesday.

Lewiston, Me, June 1.-The Bates
commencement honors are announced
as follows:
General scholarship, Miss Hazel Don
ham, Hebron; Miss Theresa T.. Jordan,
Auburn: Miss Lillian A. Norton, Lew
istOn: Miss Nellie Louise Prince, New
Boston. n. H.; Norris Samuel Lord,
Limerick; Howard c. Kelly, Saco;
George +. Ramsdell, East Hebron; and
Robert A. Brown, Bowdoin Center.
The department honors are as fol-
lows:
Mathematics. physics and astronomy
Miss olive G. Fisher of Lewiston; C. f.
Stebbins. Shelburne Falls, Mass, and
Raymond L. Witham of Lisbon Falls.
Chemistry and biology, Miss Anna
Louise Clark of Exeter, N. H.; Carl d.
Sawyer of Lewiston; and Lester II.
Trufant of Auburn.
English. Miss Edna Cornforth of
Skowhegan; Lowell e. Bailey of North
Arson, and Carroll Linwood Beede of
Lewiston.
Ancient languages, Miss Ida M.
Manual OF Franklin Falls, N. H., and
Chas. f. Hicks of Danville junction.
Modern languages, Miss Clara II.
Williams of West Bowdoin and Bur-
ten w. Sandcrson of East Waterford.
Philosophy Gncluding history and
economics), Miss Lucy l.. Freeman of
West Gray and Mr.. T. A. Lothrop of
Lewiston.
The speakers chosen from the junior
class at Bates College to appear before
the public at the Junior exhibition of
commencement week have been chosen
as follows: The Misses Bessie and En-
ma Bray of Auburn, Alice Imogcne
Frost of Norway, Bessie L. Russell of
Lewiston. Alice l.. Sands of Lewiston,
Viola j Turner of Palermo Center,
Judson c. Briggs of Caribou, John A.
David of Chelsea, Mass. John Fl. Gould
of Yarmouth, Frank W. Rounds of
South Paris, Albion X. Soofford of
South Paris. and Frederick NJ Swan,
Jr.. OF New Sharon. The prize for the
best essay went to George H. Harmon
of Bath.
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Colby VS.. Bates, Today.

Colby will meet Bates on the col
lege field at 2.30 this afternoon, for the
last game of the season. Colby had
an easy victory over the Lewiston team
in the first game but is not expecting
tic repeat the trick. Since then
Bates has amply demonstrated her
ability to play fast ball and will be sure
to give Colby all that is coming to her
in this game. 1t promises to be hot
contest for, although nothing in par
ticular depends on either team winning,
both will want their game on their
side of the record. Colby is now COM
pletely out of the running for the
championship, this now being between
Bowdoin and Maine. But it ought to
be a good game to watch just the same,
whoever wins.
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the board of county commissioners.
Charles l.. Hathaway of Passadumkeag.
The speakers were Hon. Albert w.
Paine of Bangor, the oldest practicing
lawyer in the United States; Hon Jo-
siah Crosby of Dexter. Charles F.
Woodward, Esq, of Bangor, Rev. Ed
ward MCSWceney, pastor of ST. Johns
Catholic church. after which remarks
were made by Chief Justice Andrew p.
Wiswell.
Among the out-of town men present
were Judge Clarence Hale of the
United States district court which
opened its June term ut the Federal
building in the forenoon and immedi-
atcly adjourned in order that the Of
ficers might attend the dedication.
Lieut.. Col. Frederic Hale of Portland,
and Deputy United States Marshal
Burton Smith, besides numerous
others from the nearby towns.