The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-14

The drought continues in Chih-li. Chi na. As last resort viceroy Yuan Shih Kai ordered all the prisoners condemn ed to death to be released from prison and set to kow-tow to heaven for rain. free pardon to, follow success. But notwithstanding the most prodigious kow-towing no rain fell. The executions , will be duly carried out.
 Concerning the 510 graduates of the Massachusetts Agricultural college at Amherst before 1897 the Boston Adver- tiser reports that 1S9 became farmers, twenty-five market gardeners, twenty three farm managers, twenty-two teachers in institutions for farmers children. sixteen farm veterinarians, eleven stock or poultry breeders and eight entomologists. <<: very sharp Baltimore immigrant told five of his friends about his beau tiful cousin who lived in Russia, and they clubbed together to pay her ex- penses to this country, she to marry that one of the five who suited her best. When the girl arrived it developed that she wasn't the young mans cousin, but the girl to whom he had been engaged in the old country, and so they were married and the five friends got left.
 There are some wideawake people in Oklahoma. One of them is planning to secure from the coming session of Con- gress a law to provide free transporta- tion to Washington and return for every person in the United States of eighteen years old and over. It is believed to be in the interest of the elevation of the nnings--the morals and the patriotism of the peopfs~ that each grown citizen should once in lifetime visit the capi- tai of his country.
 The fall in French rentes has been attributed to the controversy between Church and State, but more reason able explanation has been found in the recent extensive sending of French cap itaI out of the country. Of this there is striking evidence in the latest re- turns of the government savings banks, which show an excess of withdrawals over deposits amounting to eighty-two million francs. Some of this money is thought to have gone to England and the United States: some of it is known to have gone to Germany.
 The American invasion is still going on. The London Morning Advertiser announces that at the public auction of building sites in Kings Way, which will be the finest boulevard in London, joining Holborn and the Strand, New York real estate brokers will be among the chief bidders. One of them, the pa- per adds, wants a corner site for big American office building, from twelve to sixteen stories high, with six eleva- tors. Other Americans are said to be anxious for sites, including John Wan amaker and the siegel- Cooper con- pany. . %~
 The Rev. Edward A. Fredenhagen of Topeka, Kansas, is conducting an in- teresting work on behalf of prisoners In several western States. He has or ganized a society, with local organiza- tions in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma, whose objects are the prevention of crime, reform in criminal law and prison management, evangelis- tic work in prisons and the assistance of discharged prisoners by securing work for them The Society of the Friendless, as it is called, has been of substantial service to hundreds of pris- oners, beside contributing materially to the introduction of several important reforms in criminal laws.
 The Banker and Miner explains that President Diaz hopes that by four years from now there will be two well organ ized political parties in Mexico, neither of them revolutionary in it's temper, a friend and pupil of his own at the head of each It was to bring about this re- suit that he accepted another term. Probably the most significant feature of 1t all," says the Mexican contem- porary, lis that the moneyed interests, notably a tinid class, keep right on making investments of large size in Mexico. This would not be so if there was any doubt about the stability of the republic of Mexico, due to fear of any change of policy. Faith in Mexico s future credit, it must be remembered, is