A SINGULAR COMBINATION.
RIDER HAGGARD. WEIRD FICTION
WRITER; MODEL FARMER AND
POLITICAL ECONOMIST.
Makes Official Report on Salvation
Army Colonization Work. - Would
Direct the "
nevoJence/
“Waste Forces of Be*
H. Rider Haggard Is n man of gen
ius. At one time, he Is writing such
impossible creations us “She” and
“King Solomon's Mines,” calling into
play a most vivid imagination and
nettings, in weird and unreal color
ings; at another time, lie Is actively
superintending the work on Ills mag
nificent 200-acre English farm; next
be Is studying over some new Imagin
ative creation, wandering about his
home, and not speaking to the mem
bers of his family for a week at a
time; and again he Is making an eco
nomic study, under a government
commission, of the social conditions
of the poor in America. In a short
interview with him, as he passed
through Washington this year, on ‘'
way west, I found thnt ho possessed
eminently practical bard sense, while
the Imaginative streak of Ids diame
ter did not manifest itself in the
least, and I see now, that he has
Just made his report to the British
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
on his inspection of the thro© land
fiettlements, which have been estab
lished In California, Colorado
Ohio respectively, by the American
branch of the Salvation Army. -
Colonization Work of Salvation Army
At these three points the Salvation
Army Jins established rural scttlo-
meuts, taking worthy poor from the
* overcrowded cities, furnishing them
with small tracts of land, sufllcicnt
money to get a start uud make homes
SOUND ADVICE FOR MEN.
H. 1ITDER HAGGARD,
for themselves, repnyment tot tbo
cost ot which U provided at low rates
of Interest. '
Ur. llngenrd expresses lilmseir ns
extremely well satisfied with tho re
sults seen at the Port Rdtalo settle
ment In California, and tho Port
Amity settlement In Colorado.
Ohio settlement ho leaves out of con
sideration, ns It la principally devoted
to tha redemption of Inebriates, and
the carrying out of agricultural experi
ments. At both Ports Ilomlo and
Amity, he found the settlers healthy,
happy, hopeful uud almost without
exception doing well. Beginning in
nearly every caso with, nothing. In tho
course of nbQut four yours nt Port Ho
ndo, ho found these settlers worth
about $2,000 per head, nbovo all their
debts aud liabilities to the Salvation
Army and others, and ot Fort Amity,
an average of over $1,000 a bend,
which he thinks Is more than they
could have ]><>.,ilily m-.-imml :!ml dur
ing the samo period ns day laborers on
the land or In tho cltlos.
Reason For Wide Encouragement,
It Is true that, Mllhem.h tin? set
tlors themselves arc dolug well tho
Balvathm Army, for tho reason that
unexpected difficulties In the open
ing up of the land wero encountered,
waa called upon to pay sorno $30,000
■ for its oxperlcnco. Mr. Haggard de
clare#, however, that under nil tho cir
cumstances, and Ip. tho faco of tho
principles demonstrated, and tho suc
cess won in every other direction, this
experience has been very cheaply
bought,
“Further," he says, "I cannot seo
any cause to fear a repetition of that
loss In the future application of these
principles. It Is therefore totally In-
aecumto to say, aa has been done
widely la press summaries of my re
port, that these settlements arc tlunn-
dally a failure.”
Would Systematize Philanthropy.
Mr. Haggard proposes n scheme,
L e*“ to combine a Judicious use of
tho public credit, with that of what I
have called, ‘the waste forces of be
nevolence,’ and by means of these
two levers, to lift some of the mass of
human raiser) - , which demonstrates
Itself la the great cities of civilization.
,o a new livel of plenty and content
ment” —>
He believes that tf settlements arc
carried out on theao lines, and cspec-
al, y K they iare located upon good
land, which has cost tho controlling
authorities little or nothing, there
fV„ on, 2 Indicated by the ta-
blog furnished in this report- no loss,
The Woman's Side of It—Conver-e of
the Proposition That the Wife
Sho Id Not Burden Husband
With Household Duties.
Beginning away back with St. Paul,
who admonished the women to keep si
lent In the churches, the no-called
weaker sex have been exhorted,
vised and ridiculed; and a long list
of conduct of the negative sort mappa-l
out beginning with DON’T, and
equally lengthy array of the positive
sort, starting with DO.
And all this sage advice applies In
turn to maid and wife, debutante and
dowager.
Now what's sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gauder. Why not some
advice to men?
Are you one of those men who con
tinually leave their personal belong
ings, their hats, canes, coats or slippers,
wherever they’ve happened last to use
them? •
Do you smoko your cigar In the par
lor and let the ashes fall wheresq^’er
they will, and that, too, after the regtl
lar Friday cleaning? And you en
deavor-to placate your wife with that
superior sophistry about cigar ashes
keeping out moths.
Do you bury yourself In the morn
Ing paper, even reading-whHe eating,
while your wife sits silent at the bead
of th table? Do you exclaim,
chuckle, or swear sottly at the latest
news, without shariug your Informa
tion with her?
Do you compliment the little wo
man when you are enjoying oue of
your good dinners, or do you And fault
if the morning coffee is just the least
bit below standard, though the pre
vious twenty-five mornings you have
drunk the amber liquid of surpassing
excellence?
Do you notice tho new gown that
has cost her days of thought and ef
fort? Or do you say ‘‘/on women
spend a whole lot of unnecessary
thought and time upon clothes,” and
then take your new top-coat back to
the tailor tho sixth time because “It
doesn’t set just right?”
Do you surprise your wife occa
sionally by getting seats at the theatre
and giving her a surprlso party of
two? Or do you say "Aw,‘ go to the
matinee if you want to seo the Show.
I’ll go to the ball game.”?
Do you tell her of your plans, your
work, your perplexities? Do you
share with her your hopes and fears/
Do you let her know of the real life
you lead so many hours each day?
Or do you turn her questions with n
brief “Women know nothing a.iout
business. It will only worry you.”?
Do you sometimes take her in your
arms and say “Little woman, you are
a good wife—a real help-moot.”7 Do
ycu ever tell her tho things you did in
the sweethear.t days? Or do you let
It go, thinking “She knows that any*
way.”
The woman’s Held of-labor, big man,
Is narrow, and circumscribed. It Is
bounded, ordinarily, by the walls of
tho house and tho needs of tho chil-
This Is her provlnco and she
glories lu it. But know that sho
&I30 longs for contact with the big
world, for tho mental stimulus that
comes from dally association with men
and affairs, for the Joy of recognized
compensation for services rendered.
Because sho is your wife, because
sho has entered Into tho domestic life,
theso things nro denied her.
Can't you bo generous to the little
woman? Can't you wolcomo her into
your larger life? Can’t you mako her
your real comrado—your true help
meet?
DESTROYING THE QUEER
LARGE SUMS OF CAPTURED
COUNTERFEITS BURNED UP
AND MELTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT.
Coin* Stamps, and Other Imitations
Accumulate In Uncle Sam's Strong
Box In Large Qunntltlefi.—VaJuable
Counterfeiting: Machinery.
The periodical destruction of coun*
terfelt currency, spurious coin, post
age stamps, revenue stamps and other
contraband material captured from
counterfeiters by the aecret service,
has been ordered by the Secretary of
the Treasury. The accumulation of this
stuff In the treasury is larger than
usual. Three clerks In the cash room
of the treasury have been delegated
a committee to see that this “queer"
money is done away with.
Every two or three years so much
counterfeit money and counterfeiting
tools and implements accumulate In the
office of Chief Wilkie, of the secret serv
ice, that it is necessary to destroy it.
The chief notifies the Secretary of the
Treasury, who Issues an order which
scuds the coin to the assay office, where
all tho silver and gold Is melted
duced from the mass, run into Ingots,
by the Chinese and presumably intro
duced Into this country by them. It
consists in taking a* bag of gold dol
lars and shaking them violently about
for hours at a time, the result being
that they are taken out badly worn and
with a small deposit of gold at the bot-
tom of tne sack.
The government also has In its pos
session numerous counterfeits of for
eign currency, principally Italian, Ger*
wan and Austrian, though there it
soma English and French. The gov
ernment holds that it is as great a
crime to falsify or counterfeit foreign
obligations as it ii to counterfeit our
° One of tho features of this curious
collection is the number tt advertise
ments so closely resembling money or
stamps thnt the government officers de
termined to take charge of them.
Restoration In Government Crounds
of Tree Twenty fact
This picture represents the ug
tree in'Washington and ops of
T s his n -- of the National capital.
has a strong attraction tor btra
from afar and especially from
cast and the south. This pleco
tree stands In the grounds of th
partment of Agriculture, cast
Administration building.
The giant came from tne
XaUoUrarklnCaUfprniaand
exhibited at the Worlds Fair at
cago. At the dose of thei fair It
brought to Washington. It la
CHARGES ADMISSION NOR
CHARITY.
CniEF WU.KIB
Ot Tb« been t Servlc
and sold, while the rcat ot the stuff, in
cluding tho base metal, euch aa files,
Longest Bridge In the World.
Tho longest bridge In tho world la the
Hpn bridge, near Sangong, China, sup
ported by over 300 hugo atone arches
and extending fivo and one-quarter
miles oyer the arm of the Yellow Boa.
eluding me ease mciai, eutu «*«■»,
sumps, etc.. Is taken cither to the navy
yard or to a foundry and there de
stroyed In the presence ot secret sprv-
ica officers, who make affidavits of tha
deotructloa to tho Secretary, : :
There has not bcea a home-cleaning
of this kind since November, 1902.
Valuable Counterfeiting Machinery,
At p resent the contraband Includes
la addition to counterfeit notes, coins,
postage and revenue stamps, valuable
and costly type, by means ot which
counterfeiters print tho Latin numerals
on ’-queor" notes; Inks, paints, acids,
photographic apparatus, dies, molds,
stamps and other accessories of the
art of making fictitious money.
This year a large batch of the John-
son-llancock notes will bo burned,
They are known aa th* "Hancock 2s. 1
They wero mado by the celebrated poun
terfelter Johnson of Detroit and were
so nearly perfect that the government
suspended the Issue ot this note. No
doubt many of these counterfeits are
still In circulation and performing the
functions of real money,
A number of notes mado by the no
torious but now “reformed” counter
feiter Brockway will bo destroyed.
Even Pennies Counterfeited
In the* store rocm ot the Secret Serv
ice Bureau are many boxes otkad coins.
Every coin of tho United States from
cents to f-’O gold pieces has been im
itated, counterfeit nlcklcs being found
more frequently than silver or copper
coins.
In tho collection la some gold coin
that has been sweated. Sweating Is nn
ancient and simple trick, long practiced
hut even a considerable gain’.
O.M.
Ancient Adulterations.
Adnlteratlpn taws appear to have
been quits as necessary In the good
mi. a* la th. sophisticated
Twentieth Century. Even the udut-
teratlon of feather beds und bolsters
5“**.*® *»• BWTided against. October
if-1* thp date of a statute pro
hibiting the sale In English fairs or
markets of these articles, or of pll-
Iowa, “except they bo stuffed with one
manner of feather*.- It expressly
denounced tho use of such “unlawful
and corrupt stuffs" as “scalded
feathers, or fen-down." The taat sub
stance ta the same ns cotton grass, and
was evidently In great demand as n
■ fraudulent substitute In bed-stuffing.
In the Eighteenth Century, again, we
find complaints of people who bought
fen-down at a halfpenny a pound, and
•old It among feathers at sixpence.
THE MERGANSER WILD DUCK.
One of the most beautiful of wild
ducks, with Us dark, glossy green head,
rich, salmon colored breast and strong
ly marked wings. Its voracious fish-
eating habits make the Merganser use
less for food and thus an object but
little troubled by sportsmen. A large
number of local names such ns tho goo
sander, the shclldrake, saw-bill, diving
goose, the weaBer, have attached them
selves to this large, handsome swim
mer that studiously-avoids man, even
though-no sportsman would trouble
him, and that eludes pursuit by the
moat remarkable feats ot diving and
swimming. Eating is the cnlef object
In life for the Merganser, who fro-
quently swallows a fish so large that
It can net descend Into the atomach,
bat must remain partially In the dis
tended throat until digested, piece
meal. But this process Is so rapid as
to always leave the bird with a vora
cious appetite ami drive it to deeper-
ate raBhnees to secure Its prey.
Swift currents with deep pools where
the fish hide and foaming cataracts
where they leap are the delight ot the
Merganser, whose marvelous diving and
swimming enable them to take heavy
toll from tho finny tribes. Cold baa
no terrors tor these tough creatures
and they swim as nimbly In the ley
rivers of the north as In the waters
of the Carribcan. They “dive at a
flash,” and are as difficult to kill as
the “water witch" Itself.
Only the most guileless housekeeper
will look at any saw-blUed duck In
market—the serrated mandibles Indi
cating that the organ is used as a fish
chopper, and fish food never makes
good game meat
The drake is a goregous but vain and
selfish bird and Immediately deserts
the neighborhood when the six to
twelve creamy buff eggs are being
hatched. All the domestic duties then
fall upon the devoted mother. “I ones
paddled after a brood,” says Chamber
lain In the Nature Library, “and
though several times they were almost
within reach of my landing net they
eluded every effort to capture them.
Throughout the chase the mother kept
cIom to the young birds,.and several
times swam screws the bow of the ca-
no* la her efforts to draw my atten
tion from the brood and to offer her
self as a sacrifice for their escape."
European and Diplomatic Cossip.
James J. Van Alan, the expatriated
American millionaire, has taken a hint
from the Duke of Westminster, who
bos tor some time past charged all
tourists or excursionists who desire to
explore Eaton Hall and spend a day
among the beautiful scenery on his
Cheshire estate, 12 cents a head. So
great has been the Influx of tourists
to Rushton HaR, Mr. Van Alan's his
toric place In Northamptonshire, dar
ing this season, that, commencing with
January 1, be proposes to follow the
Duke’s example 1 with a condition
.lightly changed. The Income derivei
from the Duke’s visitors 1s divided
among local charities. Mr. Van Alan
will charge a maximum of 23 cents
to alt visitors from abroad and 12
cents to excursionist parties other than
those who may come from the county
of Northampton, to whom the grounds
will be free on Mondays and Satur
days. The income derived from all
sources will be divided between the
local infirmary and an institution for
social intercourse and educational Im
provement which be means to estab
lish In the neighborhood for the bene
fit ot workingmen. It ta estimated that
next year.whcn the house and grounds
may be seen at the best, the income
derived from this project will not fall
far short of <5,000,
King Leopold of Belgium, who Is of
ten mentioned as business pat tner ot
’i homas 8. Walsh of Washington and
Colorado, possesses considerable real
estate In the French Riviera. Hta de-
A SEQUOIA GIGANTEA,
strangers
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i twenty
KINO LEOPOLD OF BELGlUlf,
mesnsa are at Villcfrsnche Bur Mere,
near Nice. They are called the Col du
Cairo, mid tho l’assauls. Both lmve
been enlarged some few years ago,
notably the Passable, to which has
been added the whole of the western
side of Cape Ferrat. In this portion
of tho newly acquired property a small
IHjrfc has pew constructed for the
King’s yacht, " "
Lady Henry Somerset, who la well
known In this country from her great
work In the Interest of the temperance
movement, ha." a woman footman,- a
female butler, and women in charge ot
Hgy stables.
Members of reigning families,
princes as well asftftSMMM cjf Jhe
flood, have to obtain permission frdld
the sovereign before they can leave
the country. They are always expect
ed to notify the monarch when they
intend to absent themselves from tbo
town or city where the court happens
to be In reeldence at the time, *
The late King Humbert of Italy on
one occasion called' hie niece. Duchess
Helen of Aosta, to severe account for
having left Italy to visit her mother
In France without previously obtaining
his Ban. llou.
This rule, which Viceroy Lord Curzon
also introduced In India, caused almost
open rebellion among a number of the.
more powerful maharajahs and gaek-
wars of the empire, who ouVnumbei
of occasions disregarded the Viceroy’!
yule and left the empire not only with
out bis sanction but against his strlct-
The wealth of some of tho Russian
churches In costly gems, jewelry and
precious stones'Is proverbial. 8ome
churches In the United States, notwith
standing they sro not supported by the
government, as they are in Russia and
other countries, are gradually acquir
ing rare pointings, statuary, stained
;lass windows and costly vestments,
‘’or Instance, the most costly mitre in
the United 8tates, a mitre which rep-
reecnta $10,000 worth of jewels and
precious stones, Is worn by Bishop
Horstmann of the Cleveland diocese of
the Roman Catholic Church. Most of
these Jewels were presented to the
church by Mr. Gordon, who also donat
ed to the city of Cleveland his magnifi
cent Gordon Park. Mr. Gordon was
father of Mrs. Daisy Hanna, wife
of Dan. Hanna, son of the late Senator
Hanna. VAN CALAVA.
f’OId Probabilities” In Japan.
White Japan has had meteorological
stations on sent* of hey very high
mountains since 1899, these were only
ln use during the summer. An all the
year station wilt now be opened on the
summit ot Hoont Taukaba. near Tokio.
Rockefeller Scores In Japan.
The Britlah steamer Monarch Sailed
from Philadelphia recently for Japan
with a cargo of 1,170.790 gallons of
refined petroleum, one hundred barrels
ot lubricating oil and 1,100 cases ot [I
wax. This Is the greatest oil cargo
ever shipped ont of the United
feet ta diameter and ta called The
General Noble ta honor of tho Secre
tary of the Interior under whose ad
ministration so much -good wins done
for tb# big tree reservations of the
Prcific coast The coat of its trans
portation to Chicago was $10,000.
The Interior is hollow and * spiral
atalnvoy jeods to the platform nt the
wp.
A Dress Unde of Postage Stamps.
An American lady wore a ball dress
at a ball In Bermuda recently In whlob
30,000 aUmps wers uisd. Tears were
spent in th# collection, and tbo dress
was covered with stamps of all na
tions. An eaglo gadf entirely with
brown Columbian stamps was the ..
tre of tbs breast Buapended from the
talons was a globs made of very old
blue revenue stamps. On either side
of tbo globs was an American flag,
tbs stripe# of blue and red stamps. A
form ot a shield. A largo picture bat
covered with red and blue stamps,'
mask and n very pretty fan cov-
' with pink, completed the
Improvising.
“I admire that taat piece
the era-
id been hired
ns*
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