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No Ill Will Against Europeans.

Raisuli said that he bore no i'll will to
Europeans but that the only way to bring
the Moorish government to its senses was
by capturing Europeans until the foreign
powers were awakened to realization Of
the existing conditions
Mr.. Perdicaris said that Raisuli is pos
ing as patriot who wants to the
country happy and peaceful. and he Is Of
fering to accept the responsibility for
maintaining the country from Tangier to
Fee free from robbery and crime If he is
backed up by the powers. He found Raj
suli to be educated and intellectual
The only time the prisoners were anx-
ious was during the last two days. when
they were at Barabin. the village Of Zelai,
the governor of the Benz M'Sara tribe
More than three hours were lost there In
the exchange of compliments. Rafsun re-
fusing to talk business until the last mo-
ment. being apparently suspicious Of an
attempt to capture him. When he received
the money and the men turned over to
him by the ransom party he hurried away
toward his village.
Messrs Perdicaris and Marley immedi-
ately mounted horses and started for Tan
gier journey of sixteen hours.
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An Imperial City.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The budget Of New York city for the
coming year is to be $10G074, $500. Even
without the cents these figures are stu
pendous. No other city in the world APP
proaches them For standard of COM
parison we must turn to the revenues of
nations. An imperial city? The term used
to be fgurative but now 1t is literal.
China is an empire. yet her revenues are
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Building Permit Issued.

A building permit was issued today to
j. w. Brashears for one two-story frame
dwelling on Winthrop Heights. Cost, $780,
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Elmer Mason and RoIla McDarmon of
Beaver Dams. Ohio. were found dead along
side the railway tracks east of Lima yes
terday.
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June Sale of
housekeeping Linens.
Very Attractive Bargains

100 dozen Of 16-inch Pure Linen
Frfnged Plain White and IN
Colored Border Doyleys. hIpC
Special Price. dozen W.
go dozen of 14-inch Colored Bor-
der Doyleys. hemmed IN
ready for use. Special sue.
Price. dozen. .............
18-inch Pure Linen Undressed Sill
yer Bleached German Damask
Napkins. m m Q d ~ ~
ready for use. Sps- oil .QbQD
cial Price. dozen. 10y wv
13-inch Pure Linen Extra Heavy
Qualify silver
Bleached German o.
Damask N apkins. SN. rs
Special Price. dozen. SO
1S-inch Pure Linen Silver Bleach
ed German Damask ~, M
Napkins. Special Sill .QDQD
Price. per dozen. .....%
2o-inch Pure Linen Extra Heavy
Quality silver
Bieached German n
D m a X Napkins. NH ~
Special Price. doz. 80. Wv
19-inch Pure Linen Heavy Quality
Bleached Irish Satin d. ~s
Special Price. doz. ....
1S-inch Plain White Heavy
Quality Linen Crash. Sps- NC
cial Price. yard.
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Lived in Filthy Hut.

At Tsarradent the captives lived In
filthy hut. They were not allowed to go
one hundred yards away from 1t, and were
strongly guarded. When the shereef OF
Wazan arrived big tent was placed at
the disposal Of the prisoners and In other
ways the shereef was able to alleviate their
condition. The attitude of the Moors
changed from insult to fair treatment.
Spies of the pretender. who were In camp
all the time tried to induce Mr.. Varley to
accept a post under the pretender.
Raisuli daily held long conversations
with the prisoners. He said the country
was in a state of anarchy. The luminosity
o. the people. he said. was not directed
against the sultan but against his gov
errors.
Raisulfs father. Mr. Perdicaris said.
left him much property and cattle, which
aroused the enmity Of the kaids. who In
duced the pacha by presents. to rob Raj
suli of his belongings. and finally to i'm
prison him for four years at Mogador. On
his release Raisuli interviewed Moham-
med ell Torres. representative of the sultan
at Tangier. concerning the restitution Of
his property. and. this being without
avail. Raisuli swore to take the law into
his own hands, with the results already
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BUSINESS HOURS, AN. TILL 6 PM.

Notwithstanding usual custom, commencing Tues
day. July s. and notice our store will close evenings
o'clock; Saturdays excepted
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PERDICARIS CAPTIVITY.
Raisuli's Former Prisoner Tells His
Experiences,


Ion Perdicaris. the American who last
week was released by the brigand Raisuli.
was much better today. and in an interview
told OF the circumstances of his capture
and of his experiences while a prisoner In
Raisulis camp.
He says that on the night of May IS he
had just entered the drawing room after
dinner. and. hearing a noise among the
servants, he and Cromwell Marley, his step
son, went out to investigate the cause.
They were Immediately surrounded by
armed Moors. who bound and maltreated
them. Mr.. Marley resisted, and was struck
on the head with the butt OF a rifle and
slashed across his hands with a knife. max
ing a serious wound. At first 1t was
thought Mr.. varley's skull had been frac-
tune ed p.
Messrs. Perdcaris and Marley were then
carried away. bound. on horseback. Round
about roads Were taken in order to avoid
villages The bandits stopped at Tsarra-
dent, twenty-four hours from Tangier. and
Raisun allowed Mr.. Perdicaris to write to
his wifo next morning. and also to the
shereef of Wazan, asking them to send aid
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where TO admission is free except on
Friday. Saturday and Sunday nights
The place is a godsend to the east
side, II is becoming a fayorite center
for weddings, parties and festivities OF
all sorts. The concerts are decorum
itself.
Now this is a hotel II serves
liquors with meals. There is no bar
A good course dinner is served for 80
cents. have just eaten dinner there
tonight, not for the FIRST time There
was practically no drinking AZ the
tables about ME, but to run a hotel IN
New York without liquors and expect
the very people 1t is necessary to
reach would be fantastic. Clinton hail
Is a business proposition 1t pays hEe
per cent, No one feels as If he were
accepting a charity in patronizing IL
Others like II are 10 be bulIi Ia differ
ent parts OF the city,
The most interesting place of pub
lie resort in the neighborhoud Of CIin-
ton hall is a down-ccllar restaurant,
whose proprietor has made money by
furnishing four kinds Of wine to his
dinner patrons and filling up Their
glasses as fast as they empty lhch1
Rows of carriages stand IN front Of
the door waiting for people from up
town with plenty Of money who have
come to see bohemian life After
dinner everybody goes upstairs to
drink more stuff and to sing and irol
tc. More than half the people who eat
there any night arc more OF less
sprung The music is tantail1lnG
the heat Of the place proyokes thirst
Which influence in the neighborhood
is the worse that Of this free booze
place or Clinton hall? This is the
Kind of problem New York likes to put
before visitors,
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Invade PeddIers Ranks.

Yet another element of the strikers
have turned to the avocation Of the
pedler as a means of making a living,
and Of these a part remain in the city
and a part invade the country, supplied
with a small stock that may be carried
from house to house or sold from a
tray upon the street corners.
The necessity of earning a living
have led some of them into odd lines
One who calls at my home two or three
times a week now is selling dressed
chickens, and pushes the fowls as a
substitute for the prescribed beef
steaks, He was more fortunate than
many of his fellows. for he had a cot
tage and small yard back of the stock
yards, in which he had been raising
chickens, and is but selling off his own
stock. He insists that he proposes to
remain in the business, as he has found
it more lucrative than work in the
yards.
Another that | know of attempted to
invade the field of selling vegetables
but was driven out Of the lucrative ter.
ritory by the Greeks, who virtually
have a monopoly in that line, and
divide the territory among a recognized
few. These few find many ways in
which to discourage competition. From
vegetables he went to fruit, but in this
he found the Italians as closely banded
together as the Greeks had been ID
the line Of vegetables. He Is o sell
ing popcorn at a school house corner
and advertising his wares as a good
substitute for beef.
One entire family, consisting Of the
father, mother and five children, are
scattered over the city selling shoe
strings, lead pencils and chewing gum
They claim to be making a much bet
ter living than they did when employed
by the packers.
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YELLOW DIAMONDS FAVORED

Nothing can be more beautiful than
pure white, old mine diamonds, but the
yellowish Cape stones are the ones most
frequently seer in the ears and on the
fingers of the noyeau& riches. Many
women seem to wear diamonds simply
as a method of advertising their hus-
bands success in business. 1t may be
useless to anathematize the diamond
engagement ring, which seems to have
such a firm hold upon the conventional
mind that the troth seems hardly bind
ing without this glittering adjunct, yet
what of roman or poetry there is con-
neeted with IT has never come to light.
Around the pearl, on the other hand,
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saved a small capital, and it Is from
this class that the merchants are re.
cruited.
A firm in the city that makes a spe-
cialty of stocking small stores claim to
be fitting out a number Of the strikers
with general stocks. and shipping
many such stocks for them to country
towns. The values of the stocks vary
from $50 up to $500. The same concern
is authority for the statement that the
sons Of toll from the city who invade
the commercial world in the smaller
towns seldom make a failure of their
enterprises.
Others of the strikers are, and have
been for a number Of weeks, leaving
the city. Many of them are so nearly
destitute that railroad fare is out OF
the question, and whole families are
forced to walk. 1t is a safe estimate to
say that not less than 5000 people have
left the city in this way within the past
month. They are locking for work on
the farms and in the villages where the
cost of living is small by comparison
with what it is in the city, Several
hundred of them struck for the har-
vest fields of the northwestern states
and the Canadian territories, They say
they aunot be worse off than they are
by staying in the city, and the change
may he for the better.
others of those with a small capital
to invest are seeking the country tc
either buy small farms or take UP gov
ernment claims and many of this class
have gone into the Canadian northwest
for the latter purpose,
Altogether, but little more than half
OF the men who struck at the yards a
few weeks ago are now to be found
in the city. They are scattered to all
parts of the world. for a number OF
them returned to different countries OF
Europe.
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know no limit, The II boxes which
u oma takes with her to Europe
nowadays do not represent a desire
do represent altered objects of travel,
The idea is no longer self-Culture, Wis
iting famous galleries, meeting intel
lectual people. Society is the goal,
while the shrines of art are neglect
ed, Trunks are necessary to carry
dresses for a continuation of the ex-
travagant ~gayeties only interrupted by
the ocean trip, Even at sea an osten-
tatious will don a different
costume every evening to crowd her
way into the smoking room, not to
smoke but to play cards,
The incoming people are at least as
interesting as the trunks, Here is the
young countess OF Yarmouth, for in
stance; she who waS Miss Alice Thaw,
of Pittsburg, and whose mother put q
fun-loving generation under obligation
by stating officially for the first time
Just how much a title does cost,
The earl of Yarmouth-the mobile
earl" who owed little debts to half the
smart men in Newport, who went upon
the stage as an actor to provide hin,-
self with pocket money, who has for
years led his creditors a merry dance,
does not accompany his wife, Mrs.
Thaw says there has been no quarrel
Perhaps there has not But Britain,
while 1t holds more vicious men than
the earl, can scarcely hold one ore
worthless.
Yet the cruel game goes on. Miss
Lulu Pti2er, Of Brooklyn, Is the latest
She is to marry VisCnunt Newry, heir
of the earl of Kilmorey. Her elder
sister IS engaged to a German baron
The Pliers are prominent in polo
playing and horse show society.
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perpetual amusement to the hotel bell
boys, Quite the proper thing In Eng
land for an archbishop. II irrcsistibly
appeals to the risibles here to see a
solemn, clerical c"OuntenanCe rising out
of p~riestIy black and above q pair Of
knee brecches.
The primate of England will find in
America the same questions Of high
church and low church that worry
him in England. He will see on the
west side a great ritualistic church,
where more men than WOmen kneel in
prayer at all the numerous services, A
little way further down he will see
another, smaller, 60 high church in its
tendencies that 1t owns but q nominal
obedience to Bishop Potter and looks
for spiritual direction to a bishop
away off in Wisconsin.
Upon another local problem that
has troubled Bishop Potter the arch
Episcopal visitor took a prompt stand,
He cannot see why Bishop Potter
should be criticized for assisting to
open a decent inn, such as English Co
religionists have found so useful, and
he calls Bishop Potter a great and
wise leader Of the church"
Time does not lessen the virulenCe
of the discussion Of Bishop Potter's
part in opening the Subway Tavern, -
But a good deal of the quarreling IN
this world would stop If people could
meet each other, try to see with each
others eyes; try to understand,
The advocates Of the Subway Tay-
ern say: 1T does not poison people,
like the cheap hells about it. It tries
by every honest means to encourage
the sale Of coffee and soft drinks or
even beer instead of fiery stuff. 1t is
a kind of club house, with games and
newspapers for evening entertain
ment."
The denouncers say; ITO open a
saloon under decent auspices encour-
ages people to drink who might not
otherwise do SO, 1t Is traficking with
the evil one"
think the solid sentiment Of New
York is behind Bishop Potter, Admit
that the joke is rather caustiC when
young men Of the east side talk about
dropping in for a "sanctiled cocktail. "
1t does make you vince a little, And
yet
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MOI LOT years mas lhere oeeh such d
ueniana from parents 0 permits 0
tAelr chlIdFeh 70 WORK instead OF pelng
lorceu 10 attehu School as at Tue Oe-
ginning Oh lhe present term.
HothefS nav assured 'Ae onlclalS mat
no1hlhs ouL 'ne poy ) "ase9 SIoou oe-
tween the 1amlIy ana S~tarVatloh' IN
Vestlsalloh mas pIOFeu the 'rulh Vi
theSe statements ana eon"it'ohs nave
.orceu 'ne lS7ulhs u an unusual mum
oer ol pelLhItS 'oi 'H'AoIeh W WITH
1heSe cohuIliohS nave Ieit many a
vacant oeSk IN lhe poorer dIstrlcts OF
the CITY, ana a laI'lhg on IN the oirth-
rate Is causing empty SchooIroofnS ID
the rich residence SectiolS' mayor
harrison S "aro is an instance OF the
latter u OF empty seats win a
steadliy growing population there are
to-day a less umoer OF children OF
school age in the ward than there were
two years ago. IN arlstocratlc Ken"
WOOD, Where the School seating ca
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built this wonderful place for Mus
cbcnhcim, who has been a tAyoriio and
successful restaurant keeper. me
managers of the great hotels are nov
aday8 mostly German-Boldt, OF the
Waldorf Astoria; Hahn, Of two OF
three big places, Muschcuhtlm, OF the
Astor. For a time the new place, four
miles as the crow flies from the city
hail, will be the acme Of possible lux
uTy in public accommodation. II takes
a good deal to phase Il blaae New
York crowd, but the street front OF
the AstoT Is blocked with gazcrs Won
dcring at SO much OF It's magnificent
appointments as can be seen from the
pavement. The hotel is not larger
than the Waldorf-A6toria but IN mag.
nihccnce Of furnishings it Is not sur
passed in the world, Its fire protection
is the best that art Can devise, 1t has
a great Louis XIV. ballroom, Il grill
room decorated in american Indian
STYLE" appropriate for burning at tho
steak" 1t has a suite Of room for
rich Collegians, decorated with wall
paintings Of college sports. A yachts
man an have q suite fashioned like
the cabin of a ship, an idea that may
have been suggested by the stern9 OF
Spanish galleons initiated in the win
dows Of the New York Yacht club on
fOrty-fOurth street.
The building of a great 81, 600, 900
hotel is no experiment for Mr.. Aston.
There seems to be no limit to the pres
cnL taste for luxurious surroundings,
The 20 splendid and costly hotels OF
New York are Its most successful ones
Mr.. Astof's personal holdings In New
York real estate are assessed at $780,
000. 900. On real estate he pays the
heaviest tax in America. Marshall
Field of Chicago pays upon A larger
total, but $780, 600, goo in his cast Is per
| %sonaIty, partly merchandise. Mr. rs.
tors wealth Is really far in excess OF
S35, 900, 600, His mother, Mrs. Astor,
and his brother, w. W. hstOr, Of Lon
uOT, are DplH b'Nat h"lN''H !" '"'N'
lands. The latter is assessed for ST.
100000. The three Astor fortunes in
| clude half a dozen great hotels, fine
apartment houses and rows Of private
residences. 1t Is SO great that 1t in
sures Itself and saves money by 20 do
ing. like some Of the great steamship
companies. Its property grows IN
value without care and without fail.
The erection of a record breaking no
tel is merely an incident in the i'm
proyement' Of q certain piece Of land,
What will stand there when this mar
bic magnihcence has In turn become
behind the times?" Where Is the
limit?
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Fred Grant, son of the great war com
mander, to be Corbin's successor in com
mand of the department of the Atlantic
and Maj Gen. Fred Funston, whose me-
teoric career in the army since the war
with Spain has made a unique chapter
in the army's history, to take command
of the department of the west.
The assignment of Gen. Corbin to the
Philippines is significant of future
honors in store for him. President
Roosevelt with that devotion to civil
service principles that has marked all
his public career, believes that in the
army men should be fitted by experience
for positions to which they may be pro-
NOTED. He believes that the lieutenant
general of the army and chief of staff
Ahould be an officer who has had prac-
tiCal experience in every department Of
the service. For this reason he consid-
ers 1t essential that this officer, who is
virtually head of the army, although
nominally the president and secretary
of war are superior to him, should be
thoroughly acquainted with conditions
In the Philippines. 1t is appreciated
that the most important army problems
are involved In that archipelago, and to
have a proper conception of conditions
there the ranking officer of the army
ought to have had actual experience in
army administration in the Philippines.
With this end in view, President
Roosevelt has asked Gen. Corbin to take
command in the Philippines. The as
Segment is somewhat of a surprise to
those who unwarrantedly supposed that
the president would promote Brig.
Gen. Leonard Wood to military com
maud of those islands, President Roose-
welt is Gen. Woods friend, but not to the
extent Of Partially. His assignment of
Gen, Corbin to the Philippines is proof
bf this, as it is no secret that the friend
liest feeling does not exist between Cor
bin and Wood. When Gen. Corbin has
served a year or so in the Philippines he
will be recalled and will succeed Lieut..
Gen. Chaffee as chief of staff. He will
then have rounded out a career that in
cludes every feature of army admins
s~ration, as his term as adjutant general
embraced the Spanish war and the Phil
ppine insurrection and gave him knowi-
edge OF every branch of the service.
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IT IS CHASTITY GAMBLING.
Risks Taken by English Insurance
Companies on the Lives of
Monarchs.

Policies, Ill wager, are already be
Ing taken out in London on the life of
little Alexis, the new heir to the Rus
sian throne" said an insurance agent,
recently, reports an exchange. THE
English gamble horribly in life lnsur-
auce, and Alexis must appeal to them
as n wonderful risk, They Will pay
high for him, though.
THE insurance rates on all royal
lives arc a tribute TO the power Of the
nibiIists and anarchists, for they are
50 huge as TO be almost prohibitiVe
The rate on the king Of England Ia
enormous, and among mODarchs his
Is n lowest rate Of any That on the
Russian ear is the highest. The car
Is a bad risk. Many companies would
not insure him on any consideration.
But Lloyds, the great London con.
Germ, would insure anything or any
body-Prof Langley going up in me
If his flying machines, a japanese SPY
about to enter Port Arthur, a Russian
battleshlp going into battle. And
hence Lloyds is willing to insure the
poor little Russian heir, and a certain
class of men. taking advantages OF
this fact, are procuring policies upon
the baby's life.
Gambling on lives is a ghastly
form of sport, and ] believe that 1t ia
practiced nowhere but in England. II
ought not be practiced there. The law
ought to prohibit It. At Lloyds, how
ever, it is always going on. Policies
at Lioyds are continually being taken
out on persons Of eminence all
the world" f6#$&
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for years a prominent republican Iess.,

TOR years a prominent republican ieades
IN virginia. Such a position in this
rock-rlbbed democratic state naturally
gave him notoriety.
During President Grants administra-
uon he was given the place of consular
agent TO Zanzibar, South Africa, as a
slight recognition of services he rem
oered to the party.
II the idea was to commit him to OBJ
security by sending him to that far-oft
station, the state department reckoned
without its man. He had not been thaxs
very long before he came prominently
oetore the public. A man Of some
means, he set up an establishment With
his family that was considerably abaya
those maintained by the native officials,
no matter how high their rank. The
Judge insisted on the observance of Of
fetal etiquette and the amenities Of Dip
lomatic life.
The manners Of the natives were very
primitive, and their customs grated
upon the finer feelings of the Judge and
his family. 1t was the habit Of the
queen Of Zanzibar and her court to take
her daily bath in the waters immediate
ly in front Of the United States consul
late. The dusky monarch was not
trammeled by any restrictions as to bath
ing costume, and the appearance of her
and her attendants with no suggestion
Of a bathing suit shocked the United
States representative, who warned them
to desist from the habit. He accom-
panied the warning with a threat If they
persisted in bathing in this style he
would drive them out of the water with a
gun.
The queen refused to regard the
threat seriously, and the next day sha
and her suite assembled at the usual
place and prepared TO battle, The judge
wasted no words, but took his gun,
which he had charged with salt and pep
per, and fired into the crowd. The queen
received most Of the singing charge.
and there was a tremendous Commotion.
The incident was reported to Washing
ton, and the judge recalled. He has lived
most of the time since in Washington,
and has always delighted in relating his
experiences as the representative Of
the United States in far-off Zanzibar.