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Chinese Love Of Music.

We had a most interesting visit at the
Episcopal mission at Hankow, where we
found the Rev. Arthur Sherman, formerly
from Long Branch, and Rev. Mr.. Gilman.
formerly from North Platte, Neb, in
charge of prosperous congregation. At
tina cathedral they have a vested choir of
Chinese boys. who sing beautifully under
Mr.. Sherman's direction, and connected
with the cathedral is a school at which
they are taught music as well as the ordi-
nary branches Mr.. Sherman says that,
contrary to the usual impression. the Chi
nese have correct ear. good taste and
great love OF music. Their children can be
trained to sing and to play any instrument
quite as readily as those of any other race.
This fact has also been demonstrated at
other schools and missionary orphanages.
AT st. Johns College, near Shanghai, for
example, the students have glee club and
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NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
i. s.

which had been intended to serve as base
for our attack, the Japanese extended
northward and occupied the whole range of
hills and the Yentai mines. Samsonof' S
sotnia of CosSackS diSmounted and de-
Tended our positions with the utmost cour-
age. but were gradually driven back.
Retreat to Mukden.
1.-THE enemy was now established in an
extremely strong position on the hills. and
it would have been too hazardous for our
left flank to attack them, in view of the
losses sustained in the previous five days.
We therefore withdrew to the village of
Talienko, and 1 decided to retire to Muk-
den, the retreat being accomplished on
September 7.
1.-THE evacuation of Liaoyang began and
was concluded the morning of September
4. All our equipment was removed and
there was no time to save the commissariat
reserves, which was sufficient to last the
whole army eight days. These were all
destroyed. The pontoon bridges were dis
mantled and carried off by the troops,
while temporary pontoons were burned and
retired in perfect order. The enemy at
tempted to pursue, but were repulsed.
Precautions were taken on September 3
and to prevent turning movement from
the east. The Japanese to the southwark
took no vigorous initiative, but General
KurOk assumed the offensive to the east
ward. Our detachments holding positions
at Talienko sustained furious night at
September 8. We retained our position,
but suffered heavy losses, one regiment
which bore the brunt of the fight. losing 500
in killed or wounded.
Danger Past
by evening Of September the danger of
a simultaneous attack on our front and left
flank had disappeared. The removal of our
artillery and transport and baggage trains
was effected in the face OF immense diff
culties, but was successfully concluded Our
retirement on Mukden on September Z was
covered by strong rear guard OF cavalry.
We abandoned nothing from August 80
up to the time of our arrival at Mukden
Our engineers worked with the greatest
devotion. Throughout all the fighting they
rendered invaluable service in making and
repairing roads and assisting in the rail-
way traffic" -
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Confession Clears Adolf Beck of Crime.

A cablegram from London last night says:
At the Old Bailey today William Thomas.
alias John Smith. pleaded guilty to the
charges against him. including the admis-
sion that he was convicted in 1877. under
the name of John Smith. and served a
term of five years imprisonment for obtain
ing money and jewelry from women under
false pretenses- 1t was in mistake for
Thomas that Adolf Beet. who was recently
granted free pardon" served two terms
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Died in Railway Depot.

A dispatch from Charlottesville, Va,
says: While waiting for a west-beund train
to convey him to his home. e. ]. Calhoun
Of Gladys. w. Va. aged twenty-six years,
died Wednesday In the waiting room at
union station. The unfortunate young man.
in company with his sister, Miss Viola Cali
houn. was on his return from Asheyille, N.
c.. where he had been some months under
treatment for tuberculosis.
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OrlomS troops OeIsateo.
"As soon as the left flank in the vicinity
of the Yentai mines, on September (Or-
lofts detachmento, occupied the heights to
the north of the mines. holding a strong
position facing south. he opened fire with
two batteries and engaged the army In an
artillery duel orloffs right flank was then
four miles from the left flank and the re-
mainder Of the army: In order to aid our
troops holding positions near Sykwantun
Orion sent part Of his force from the hills
and attacked the enemy In the direction of
the village Of Sakhumoon. This move
ment was carried out In cornfeids. Our
men. with a frontal and flank fire. and.
losing their bearings In the cornfields. began
to retire. The troops remaining In the hills
also retired westward.
by that time Orloff's detachment was
within mile and third Of our other
forces. Orion himself was wounded. as
died.
after the evacuation Of the position
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Announces Another Expedition.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: Commander r. E. Peary, the Arctic
explorer, announced tonight that contract
had been signed for a new arctic ship which
he Is to use in another attempt upon the
north pole, and that re expects to start
north again next summer.
At the eighth annual geographic congress,
which is being held here this week, on be-
half of the French Geographic Society.
Prof. Cordier presented MIR. Peary with
gold medal.
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of Imprisonment ON the same charges, ow-
ing to police conspiracy. 1t is claimed. for
which the government offered compensa-
ton In the sum of $4,000, which Beck re-
fused insufficient. A commission has
been appointed by Home Secretary. Ackers-
Douglass to inquire into the case
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The Bartlett. Frazier & Darlington Co.,
Milwaukee brokers. allege to have lost.
through two former trusted employees.
George D. Emery and Carl III. BaumRnn.
$153.048. Accused are under arrest charge6
with embezzlement.
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Kipling i'm India.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
Mr.. Kipling is always thought of as a
young man who bounded almost Immediate
ly into fame. He certainly did not have
to wait long for appreciation of his great
gifts; but if he was kept waiting anywhere,
it was in his own beloved India. Mr.. E.
Kay Robinson, an old friend of Kipling's.
writing about the latter in a recent num-
Der of w. c., has this to say on the sub
ject:
What surprising at Lahore was
that scarcely any one seemed to have the
same opinion as 1 of Kiplings genius. Men
laughed at the club when l said that the
day would come when they would be proud
of having known Rudyard Kipling. 1 made
a bet with one man on the subject, but
whether / won or lost will never be decided.
Kiplng was certainly world famous before
the time limit of the bet was reached, but
the other man was then dead. He had be-
lOnged to the official aristocracy of India,
whose tendency was to regard Kipling a
clever yOungster, with an easy knack OF
jingling rhyme, but no sense of the prOprie-
ties; and as for genius Even among the
young of both sexes-and perhaps the
women of all ages-to whom Kipling' S
verses were a constant delight, the opinion
that he a genius scarcely existed; and
at the club, when l affirmed that he would
be the writer of the century, l would usual
ly be met with the retort that L was
cracked about Kipling.'"
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CHILDREN IN CITIES.
They Lose Something Of Their Birth
right and Miss Much JOY.

New York Independent.
All children that are born and bred in the
great cities are orphans. They are the
little bottle babies of civilization, begin
ming life afar from the native heath OF all
childhood, where there is a silent green
world, bounded by bright horizons and
Swallowed by the stalwart form Of good
father trees. They are defrauded OF ma
lures background to memory, and moth
ing ever really atones to them for the loss
From the first they are entertained with
artificial devices. Every toy is a make
believe, and the very wallpaper in the
nursery is a gay panorama Of Mother
Goose fables or Little Red Riding Hood
lies. Their fatuous little faculties are
never steadied by the real thing, not even
by so much as the song OF a cricket CHR
ripping in the grass. They grow inteIli-
gent by heresay, without ever becoming
acquainted with the many sources of in
formation so familiar 10 their little berry
stained cousins in the country They read
of the squirrel, and learn to draw a gram
mar-school likeness of one on the black
board, but they have never really seen the
gay little knight of the forest within his
summer castle amid the green boughs Of
nuts in the sod beneath for winter refer
ence. They know that birds build nests,
but they have never seen anything better
than a dusty sparrOws tenement district
under the caves They have heard of the
locust, but they have never experienced
the awe and delight of coming upon his
bleaching shell. fastened 10 some tree
trunk, which proves his winged resuTrec-
ton
The fact is, it is sort of legacy to be
born in the country. a fortune in butter
flies. sunshine and green-hill shadows that
every child is entitled TO receive. And no
one else is so capable of enjoying such an
inheritance. For, later on. the old salow-
Tipped, avarice-eyed world wins us away
from the heavenly Kindness OF this
pastoral existence; and ever afterward
we are blind TO many miracles that little
children witness. We lose the original
sense OF things that once made the
meadowlarks song a part OF our sunrise
consciousness. We lack the fine appre-
citation we had then OF dewy spider-web
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Short-Story Writing.

Philadelphia Record.
The frequent complaints of publishers
about the dearth of good short stories
Ga dearth of which the reader of maya
zines can harbor no doubt might sug-
gest that there is a lack of persons with
literary aspirations or else that the knack
of storytelling has not been widely dis
tributed. In truth, the persons who are
trying to break into literature by the
short-story route would form a consider
able army. A magazine published recently
offered a prize or $500 for the best short
love story. and he received $500 manu-
scripts. The representative story of the
magazines does not encourage the expec-
tation that many of these manuscripts will
prove to be highly entertaining.
The exaggerated reports of the rewards
of men and women who have scored sue
cess in fiction have induced a vast number
OF people who are engaged in other pursuits
to invest in pads of paper, pens and ink.
Naturally it Is difficult for one to decide
whether he can write good stories until he
shall have tried. The woman who could
not say whether she could read Greek be-
attitude of a good many people toward
story writing, save that they are disposed
TO have some confidence in their own abil-
ity. Even n finished story does not always
determine the question, since its rejection
by a publisher may mean only that he is
mistaken as TO its merits. a publishers
opinion has been adverse in the case of
some of the most enduring of lit
had their first (and often their
besO manuscripts torn to tatters in
the Journeys from publisher TO pub
Usher. IL is admitted by the most exper-
ienced OF publishers that no one can tell in
advance what will be the fate of any story
In all this there is ample encouragement
Tor the multitude TO seek the glory and
money of sccessful authorship 1t would
be sad should possible great author go
to his grave as an ingloriOus tailor or
typewriter or something else, merely for
lack of an effort 10 discover whether he
could write If he would. The cost of paper
is trifling.
cessful books measured according 10 the
sales) OF recent years have been written
by men and women who We're wholly I'M
known The writer's have been regu-
larry employed in other occupations. and
their literary work appears to have been
accidental or the amusement of leisure
hours. IL Is not often that these books
have shown a disciplined imagination or
a trained pen; they give no evidence of
that labOriOus apprenticeship to letters
which was served by Stevenson. Daudet
and the successful French writer's of short
stories AS a rule the new writer's who
have, with the important aid Of modern adj
least one novel or series OF sketches, have
confined themselves TO historical romance
or else 10 the presentation of local condi-
tons and characters, as suggested by Mr.
HOwels.
Anyhow the demand for short stories
seems 10 be great. and there is nothing in
!. the world TO discourage persons who sus-
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tapestries. and gone from us forever is
the happy comradeship we once enjoyed
with lily ladies and cattail knights. And
gone are the goblin shapes that threat
ened us from the edge OF things. For in
those days no real dangers beset US, and
the first call of our little hayridden
imaginations was for sDooks and hobgob-
Inns. And every little girl had the wings
of a dove she few home through the
cleaning from the hery-eyed dragon in
the calf-pasture. and every little boy knew
where 20 look for Jack-o-lanterns. Long
since we have learned 10 lock the door
of our house against real thieves and
murderers but every child born in the
wide world of silence. far beyond the noise
OF city streets, begins life at the same en-
ehanted angle OF vision, sees double all the
beauties and charms OF nature.
That which marks the earliest distinction
between children bred I'm the city and those
in the country consists Of the difference in
the quality OF their humOr. The first has
conventional, brick pavement ideas OF pro-
portion, and derives amusement from any
departure from his standard. lie notes
quickly the incongruities of life I'm the
streets, laughs at the street urchin's antics
or the organ grinders monkey But the
latter has a more catholic wit He cOmpre-
hends that natures humor may be ex-
pressed I'm the grotesque shape of a katydid
or the DOmpOus sOlemnsty OF "A black beetle.
He knows that IL Is funny for long. green
grasshopper 10 squat forward and click his
hind legs together, or for a clustering bum
bic bee 10 alight by mistake upon the same
rose with a fierce little honey bee. because
world which gives a tickling significance 10
such events. And the sense OF proportion
has nothing 10 do with the matter. With
him humor Is not so much a smile as II II
a psychic intuition that takes in every form
OF life with charming comprehension and
silence.
And this gift OF silence IS another point
where country children differ from the gar
rulOus little prodigies OF childlife In the
cities. The dullest lad i'm the fields really
has more wisdom along the way he goes
than many a blue-ribbOn scholar in the
city schools His limitation Is that he cam
not tell what he knows, while the other -
so practiced I'm the art OF expression that
ne can always proclaim by rOte more than
he has ever observed. He Is a little gradu-
ated hyperole Of textbook information. but
the country boy has learned the earth
secrets of wisdom at first hand. And his
reticence. so far from being an evidence OF
ignorance or stupidity, IL often the deeper.
incontestable silence OF one who knows. lie
Is a young philosopher among the corn and
clover who has not yet grown words wise
and strong enough 10 convey his meaning.
Many OF them never do: but when one does.
we have a poet born among US. spirit OF
woods and fields let loose with the wings OF
heaven and the heart OF the earth In his
song.
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bill to Mr.. Caven, in the Senate chamber.
In answer the senator called attention to
the hubbub about them. 1t was then near
ly noon. and everyone was yelling end
gesticulating at once. Even the speaker
could not make himself heard. Mr.. Short
ridge turned away with a dOleful look, but
as soon as he had gone Mr.. Caven got up,
bill in hand. His popularity once more
came to the rescue, for the uproar instaEtly
ceased. He not only had the goodwill of
ALL but they knew he would not take UNI
necessary time. The bill was briefly ex-
planned and the motion prevailed. 1t was
read only by title. part of the contents be-
ing mumbled over by the clerk merely for
FORMS sake.
After dinner Mr.. Shortridge again came
TO the railing and again Mr.. Caven as
sured him that IL would be impossible to
get anything passed amid such confusion.
Besides. Shortridge," said he, there is
now another difficulty which is absolutely
insurmOuntable."
What is that?" asked Mr.. Shortridge,
his countenance growing longer.
It's already through, replied the SEN
ator.
Mr.. Caven still enjoys his little joke and
the memory of the look of inexpressibe
joy which spread over Mr.. Shortridges
face.
The ten years of Mr. Caven's mayoralty
Slapped his purse and his strength. The
mayor in those days also police judge.
and presided over the City Council. He was
Obliged to be his own clerk and to attend
personally to his official correspondence
upon any public occasion, be it social, re-
ligious or political Mayor Caven delivered
fifty-seven addresses to returning soldiers
alone. One of his most important speeches
was made on the morning after Lincoln's
assassination. During war times he was
one of the men Governor Morton leaned
upon, and was at his side in many an hour
of distress when serious news was ex-
pected from the front.
Mayor Caven is now eighty years old
and is "busily engaged" he says. ''in
doing nothing" Although he lives largely
in the past, he takes several newspapers
and is keenly interested in all the affairs
of the day. One of the greatest disappoint-
ments if his life was caused by breaking
his leg in youth, for il barred him from
going to West Point and learning to be
a soldier as he and his father had planned.
Years afterward this proved TO be the
best however, for by being in Indianapolis
during the war he was worth a regiment
of soldiers, and had great influence upon
public sentiment.