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RIDER HA G GA RD. WE IRD VIC TI ON
WRITER; MODEL FARMER AND
VOLITK AI E CO NO MIS T.
Makes Official Report on Salvation
Army Colonization Work. Would
Direct the "Waste f orces of Be
ne volence.”
II. Rider Ilnggnrd is a man of gen
lus. At one time, he is writing such
impossible creations as "She'’ and
"King Solomon’s Mines,'' calling into
pi av most vivid imagination and
Bettings, in weird and unreal color¬
ings; at another time, lie is actively
Btii*erinteuding the work on his mag
ni(icent 200-acre English farm; next
lie is studying over Home new imagin¬
ative creation, wandering about bis
home, and not speaking to the mem¬
bers of Ids family for a wed; at a
dime; and again he is making an eco¬
nomic study, under a government
commission, of the social condition
of the poor in America. In a short
interview with him, as he passed
through Washington this year, on Ids
way west, I found that he po •<.....d
eminently practical bard sense, while
the imaginative streak of ms clan ni¬
ter did nol manifest itself in the
least, and I see now, that lie has
just made his report to the tlie Colonies, British
Secretary of State for
on his inspection of the three land
settlements, which have been estab¬
lished In California, Colorado and
Ohio respectively, by the American
branch of the Salvation Army.
Colonization Work of Salvation Army
At these three points the Salvation
'Army 1ms established rural set Ho¬
rn euts, taking worthy poor from the
overcrowded cities, furnishing them
■with small tracts of laud, sufficient
rnon to get a start and make homes
JI. RIDER HAGGARD,
for themselves, repayment for the
ws t of which is provided at low rates
“"5S*........ satisfied
extremely well vvi
hiiKh ween nt the Fort Houile settle
moat in California, »ind the Fort
Amity settlement in Colorado. Tho
Ohio ’Hettlemewt he loaves out of eon
Biderntlon, ns it is principally devoted
to the redemption of inebriates, and
the carrying out of agricultural experi¬
ments. At both Forts Hondo and
Amity, lie found the settlers healthy,
happy, hopeful and almost without
exception doing well. Beginning in
nearly every case with nothing, in the
course of about four years nt Fort Ho¬
ndo. he found those settlers worth
about $2,000 per head, above all their
debts and liabilities to Hie Salvation
Army and others, and at I ort Amity,
nil average of over jfl.000 a head,
■which he thinks is more than they
could have possibly accumulated dur¬
ing the same period as day laborers on
the land or in the cities.
Reason For Wide Encouragement.
It ts true that, although the set¬
tlers themselves are doing well the
Salvation Army, for the reason that
unexpected difficulties in the open¬
ing up of the land were encountered,
was culled upon to pay some $50,oot>
for Its experience. Mr. Haggard de¬
clares, however, tlmt under nil the cir¬
cumstances, and in the face of the
principles demonstrated, and the sue
• •ess won tn every other direction, this
experience lias been very cheaply
bought.
"Further,” be says. “I cannot see
nny cause to fear a repetition of that
loss in the future application of these
principles. to It Is therefore totally In¬
accurate say. as lias been done
widely In press summaries of my re¬
port, tlmt tlies,- settlements are finan¬
cially a failure.”
Would Systematize Philanthropy.
Mr. H.-umurd proposes a RoUeme,
i. e„" to combine a judicious use of
the public credit, with that of what 1
have called, 'the waste forces of be¬
nevolence,’ and by means of these
two levers to lift some ol the mas* of
human misery, which demon trales
it sol f in the .meat v,f to* wi ‘ vi i I ,.v Mon.
t*' "’ i* ici of piouty and content¬
ment.”
He believes that If settlements are
carried out on these Hues, and espec¬
ially if they are located upon good
land, which has cost the controlling
authorities little or nothing there
sUould be, as is indicated report! by the t
bb-s furnished in this no loss,
but even a considerable gain.
G. M.
Aneicut .1 dulteralioas.
Adulteration laws appear to have
been quite as necessary in the good
old days as in tin' sophisticated
Twentieth Century, Even the adul¬
teration of feather beds and bolsters
had to be provided against.
11. 1405, Is the date of a statute
hibiting the sale In English fairs
markets of these articles, or of
lows. •■except they be stuffed with
manner of feathers." it i
denounced the use of such
and corrupt stuffs" as
D atin'! s or fen-down.’’ The last
stauce is the same as cotton grass,
wns evidently In great demand as
fraudulent substitute In
lu the Eighteenth Century, again,
find complaints of people who
fen-down at a halfpenny a pound,
sold It among feathers at sixpence.
SOUND ADVICE FOR MEN.
’.e 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 so-called
weaker sex have been exhorted, ad¬
vised and ridiculed; and a long list
of conduct of the negative sort mapped
out |„.gj un mg with DON’T, and an
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
sau e for the gander. 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,
vherever they've happened last to use
them?
bo you smoke your cigar in the par¬
lor and let the ashes fall wheresoe’er
they will, and that, too, after the regu¬
lar Friday cleaning? And you en¬
deavor to placate your wife With that
superior sophistry about cigar ashes
keeping out moths.
Do you huii yoirr—tf in the morn¬
ing paper, even ri-ading while eating,
while your wife sits silent at the head
of th table? Do you exclaim, or
chuckle, or swear soltly st the latest
news, without sharing your informa¬
tion with her?
Do you compliment the little wo¬
man when you are enjoying one of
your good dinners, or do you find fault
if the morning coffee is just the least
bit below standard, though the pre¬
vious twenty-five mornings you have
drunk the amber ilquid of surpassing
excellence?
Do you notice the new gown that
has cost, her days of thought and ef¬
fort? Or do you say “fou women
spend a whole lot of unnecessary
thought and time upon clothes,” and
then take your new top-coat back to
the tailor the 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 surprise party of
two? Or do you say “Aw, go to the
matinee if you want to see the show.
I’ll go to the ball game.”?
Do you tell her of your plans, your
work, your perplexities? Do you
hare with her your hopes and fears?
Do you let her know of the real life
you lead go many hours each day?
Or do you turn her questions with a
brief “Women know nothing about
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-meet.”? Do
you ever tell her the things you did in
the sweetheart days? Or do you let
it go, thinking “She knows that any¬
way.”
The woman’s field of labor, big man.
ts narrow and circumscribed. It is
bounded, ordinarily, by the walls of
tlio house and the needs of tho chil¬
dren. This is her province and she
glories in it. But know that she
also longs for contact with the big
world, for the mental stimulus that
compensation for services rendered
Because she ts your wife, because
sho has entered Into the domestic life,
these things uro denied her.
Can’t you lie generous to the little
woman? Can’t you welcome her into
your larger life? Can’t you make her
your roal comrado—your true help¬
meet?
Longest Bridge In the World.
The longest bridge in tlio world is the
Lion bridge, near Saugong, China, sup¬
ported by over 300 huge stone arches
and extending five and one-quarter
miles over the arm of the Yellow Boa.
1
THE MERGANSER WILD DUCK.
the most beautiful
! thuks - with Us liark - K>° ss >' Kreen head.
rU ’ h - 8alm0n colored breast and strong
* ' 5 ' marked wings, its voracious fish
I citing habits make the Merganser use¬
less for foi'd and thus an object but
j little number troubled of local by sportsmen. such the A large
| names ns goo
sander, the shelldrake, saw-bill, diving
.>v <se. the veaser, 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
most remarkable feats of diving and
swimming. Eating is the chief object
in life for the Merganser, who fre¬
quently swallows a fish so large that
it can not descend Into the stomach,
but must remain partially iu the dis¬
tended throat until digested, piece¬
meal. But this process is so rapid as
to always leave the bird with a vora
oious appetite and drive it to desper
ate rashness to secure Rs prey,
the Swift fish currents with deep poois where
hide and foaming cataracts
where they leap are the delight of the
j Merganser, whose marvelous diving and
swimming enable them to take heaw
DESTROYING THE QUEER
LARGE SIMS OF CAPTURED
COUNTERFEITS BURNED UP
AND MELTED BY TllE
GOVERNMENT.
Coin, Stamps, and Other Imitations
Accumulate in Uncle Sam’s Strong
Box in Large Quantities.—Valuable
Counterfeiting Machinery.
The periodical d truction of coun¬
terfeit currency, spurious coin, post¬
age stamps, revenue stamps and other
contraband material captured from
counterfeiters by the secret service,
has been ordered by the Secretary of
the Treasury. The accumulation of this
stuff in the treasury is larger than
usual. Three clerk.s 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
sends __________________ the coin to the assay office, where „„ v .
all the silver and gold is melted or re
uuced from the rr j, run into ingots,
•
CHIEF WILKIE!
Of The Secret Service.
and sold, while the rest of the stuff, in
eluding the base metal, such as dies,
stamps, etc., is taken either to the navy
yard or to A foundry and there de¬
stroyed in the presence of secret serv¬
ice officers, who make affidavits of the
destruction to the Secretary.
There has not been a house-cleaning
of this kind since November, 1002.
Valuable Counterfeiting Machinery.
At present the contraband includes
In addition to counterfeit notes, coins,
postage and revenue stamps, valuable
and costly typo, by means of which
counterfeiters print the Latin numerals
on “queer” note:;; 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-Hancock notes will he burned.
They are known as tho “Hancock 2s”
They were made by the celebrated coud.
Uwfeitor Johnson of Detroit and wera
so nearly perfect that tlio government
suspended the issue of this note. No
doubt many of these counterfeits are
still in circulation and performing the
functions of real money.
A number of notes made by the no¬
torious but now “reformed” counter¬
feiter Brockway will be destroyed.
Even Bennies Counterfeited
In the store room of the Secret Serv¬
ice Bureau are many boxes of bad coins.
Every coin of the. United States from
cents to $20 gold pieces lias been im¬
itated, counterfeit nickles being found
more frequently than silver or copper
coins.
In the collection is some gold coin
that has been sweated. Sweating is an
ancient and simple trick, long jiracticed
toll from the finny tribes. Cold has
no terrors for these tough creatures
and they swim as nimbly in the icy
rivers of tha north as in tho waters
of the Carrlbean. They “dive at a
flash," and are as diffe ult to kill as
the “water witch” itself.
Only the most guileless housekeeper
will look at any saw-billed 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 once
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
close to the young birds, and several
times swam across the how- of the ca
noe in her efforts to draw- my atten
non from the brood and to offer her
self as a sacrifice for their escape.”
by the Chinese and presumably intro¬
duced into this country by them. It
insists in taking a bag of gold del
. rs and shaking them violently about
W- hours at a time, the result being! j
mat they are taken out badly worn and
With a small deposit of gold at the bet
"om of tne sack. j
. The government also has in its pos
-sion numerous principally counterfeits Italian, of Ger- for- j
siign currency,
..an and Austrian, though there gov-1 is ;
:uB« English and French. The
frnment holds that it is as great a
crime to falsify or counterfeit foreign
obligations as it is to counterfeit our
own.
k One of the features of this curious
§>■ fients so closely resembling money or
stamps that the government officers de¬
termined to take charge of them.
charges admission for
I CHARITY.
European and Diplomatic Gossip.
James J. Van Alan, the expatriated
American millionaire, has taken a hint
from the Duke of Westminster, who
has for some time past charged ali
tourists or excursionists who desire to
explore Eaton Hall and spend a day
Vimong the beautiful scenery on his
sCheshire estate, 12 cents a head. So
%(j “great KTi-l®-.) has been the influx of tourists
Hall, Mr. Van Alan's his¬
toric place in Northamptonshire, dur¬
ing this season, that, commencing with
January 1, he proposes to follow the
Duke’s example with a condition
Slightly changed. The income derived
from tho Duke’s visitors is divided
among local charities. Mr. Van Alan
will charge a maximum of 25 cents
to all 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 he means to estab¬
lish in the neighborhood for the bene¬
fit of workingmen, it i3 estimated that
next year,when 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 pai tner of
Yhoroas S. Walsh of Washington and
Colorado, possesses considerable real
estate in the French Riviera. His de¬
KING LLOPOLD OF BELGIUM.
mesnes are at Villefranche sur Mere,
near Nice. They aro called the Col du
Caire, and the Passable. Both have
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 the newly acquired property a small
Iiort has been, constructed for the
King’s yacht.
known in this country from her great
work in the interest of the temperance
movement, has a woman footman, a
female butler, and women in charge of
her stables.
Members of reigning families,
princes as well as princesses of the
blood, have to obtain permission from
the sovereign before they can leave
the country. They are always expect¬
ed to notify the monarch when they
intend to absent themselves from the
town or city where the court happens
to be in residence at the time.
The late King Humbert of Italy on
one occasion called his niece, Duchess
Helen of Aosta, to severe account for
having left Italy to visit her mother
in France without previously obtaining
his sanction.
This rule, which Viceroy Lord Curzon
also introduced in India, can 'd almost
open rebellion among a number of the
more powerful maharajahs and gaek
wars of the empire, who on a number
of occasions disregarded the Viceroy’s
rule and left the empire not only with¬
out his sanction but against bis strict¬
est instructions.
The wealth of some of the Russian
churches in ccstly gems, jewelry and
precious stones is ;>’ r■ ti. Some
vharches in the United St: notwith¬
standing they are not supper' ! by the
government, as they are in 1L ix and
other countries, ere gradually acquir¬
ing rare paintings, statuary, stained
vestments.
For instance, the most costly mitre in
the United States, a mitre which rep¬
resents $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
a father of Mrs. Daisy Hanna, wife
of Dan. Hanna, son of the late Senator
Hanna. VAN CALAVA.
“Old Probabilities” In Japan.
While Japan has had meteorological
stations on some of her very high
mountains since 1S90. these were only
in use during the summer. An all the
year station will now be opened on the
summit of Mount Tsuknba, near Tckio.
Rockefeller Scores In Japan.
The British steamer Monarch sail ■d
from Philadelphia recently tor Japan
with a cargo of 2,470.700 gallons of
refined petroleum, one hundred barrels
j of lubricating This is oil the and great 1,200 st oil cases of
wax. cargo
ever shipped out of the United St-.--'.
A SEQUOIA GIGANTEA.
In . Government Grounds
of tree Twenty reet lnicK.
This picture represents the biggest
in Washington and one of the
sights” of the National Capital. It
a strong attraction for strangers
afar find especially from the
-ust and the south. This piece of a
stands in the grounds of the De
of Agriculture, east of the
building. the Sequoia
The giant came from
Park in California and was
at the World’s Fair at Chi¬
At the close of the fair it was
brought to Washington. It is twenty
feet in diameter and is called The
General Noble in honor of the Secre¬
tary of the Interior under whose ad¬
ministration so much good was done
for the big tree reservations of the
Pacific coast. The cost of its trans¬
portation to Chicago was $10,000.
The interior is hollow and a spiral
stairway leads to the platform at the
top.
A Dress Made of Postage Stamps.
An American lady wore a ball dress
at a ball in Bermuda recently in which
30,000 stamps were used. Years were
spent in the collection, and the dress
was covered with stamps of all na¬
tions. An eagle made entirely with
brown Columbian stamps was the cen¬
tre of the breast. Suspended from the
talons was a globe made of very old
blue revenue stamps. On either side
of the globe was an American flag,
the stripes of blue and red stamps. A
collection of foreign stamps was past¬
ed on the back of the bodice in the
form of a shield. A large picture hat,
covered with red and blue stamps,
a mask and a very pretty fan cov¬
ered entirely with pink, completed the
costume.
Improvising.
“I admire that last piece you
played, professor, immensely,” said
Mrs. Gaswefl. “It had a kind of wild
freedom about it, you know, a sort of
wierdness that touched me. Was it
your own composition ?”
“Madam,” coldly responded the em¬
inent musician, who had been hired
for the occasion, “I was putting a new
string on my violin.”
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