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FIRE, DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION.
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Inter saved, had to boat his companion
Into insensibility before he could release
his hold and plunge into the water.
The loss of their hose crippled the Ho
boken firemen. When they reached the
Are at first they set out to confine it to
the pier on which it sorted. They got
their lines out on the two adjoining, and
even ran their apparatus out to pump
from the river. When the flames spread
the hose on the pier was lost. Some of
the apparatus narrowly escaped being
consumed, and as it was. one hose cart
•nd its horse were burned.
Later, Jersey City stripped itself of all
the hose possible and sent it to the Ho
boken fire in a wagon for use. With th.s.
atreams were later gotten on the fire, hut
it was then under control, having burned
itself out.
Hundreds in Hospital*.
All of the hospitals in Hoboken and this
city are crowded with the victims of the
lire. There are scores of men burned
mo badly that little hope is entertained for
their recovery* Hudson Street Hospital
has every patient that it can possibly han
dle, as has also Bellevue, St. Vincent’s,
•nd many of the hospitals further up
town. There were over 200 persons taken
to the hospitals up to 10 o’clock to-nighi,
•nd sufferers were still coming in by the
•core. All kinds of vehicles were brought
into requisition os ambulances.
Saloons, stores and many other buildlnes
on the river front of Hoboken were turned
Into hospitals temporarily.
Burned flic Hunt.
The rapid spread of the flames after
they started in the cotton is largely as
cribed to the dust with which the pier
sheds and rotunda was covered. The dust
•rising from the many different articles,
erueh as cotton, ascends ordinarily and set
tles upon the rafters and beams, and in
•very' crevice. It is said to burn almctu
as rapidly as tinder, and it is believed
it was this which caused the first awful
rush of fire which engulfed the whole
land end of the dock property. It car
ried the flames to every portioYi of the
buildings in an instant, and then the great
tiea: which developed made the work of
destruction rapid.
A Terrible Story.
Sailor Paul Sternberg was one of the
men taken from the Saale by harbor po
lice. He was burned about the legs and
•offered greatly frcm exhaustion and
ahock He managed, however, to tell
graphically what had happened.
"There were forty of us,” he said. “We
had Just had our afternoon coffee and
lunch. It was 3:30 o’clock when we sat
down. By 4 o’clock the boss shouted and
we went forward to work in the hold.
We had been busy five minutes when some
one shouted *Gtt out everybody,
is gone!’ Then such a scramble followed!
Every man turned into a devil. We ran
frightened and clawing and scratching
and swearing for the ladder leading up
to the deck. We found the hatches bat
tened down. Great God! how' the men
did cuss. Some climbed up iho ladder
and pounded their fists against the iron
hatch. They pounded until the blood
ran. Through the iron grating we saw'
the flames. Fire was forward, fire was
in the stern. Everywhere was fire.
"Some of the men started forward. We
had to pass over the coal bins. Part of
the way w r e could walk. Part of the
way we had to stoop. Toward the last
we crawled on our bellies. Think of for
ty men struggling like rats in that black
hole. There was no air, only everybody
was frightened and cursing to £et out.
"We crawled through the machinery end
got upon the pumps forward. But there
were forty, and on the pumps only room
for fifteen or twenty.
"One man tried to pull me from Ihe
place. I kicked his face in and he be
came still. Ten men tried to climb up.
Others kicked hem down. The man that
fell first was stamped on like ho much
coal. 1 guess he is dead now. We knew'
the firemen were working to reach us.
We could hear them shouting.
"But we thought they could never reach
mb. The men tore their clothes off ard
threw them away. Then after a while they
Flopped cursing. The men down at the
bottom did not fight any more. One by
one they just fell down and lay still."
Saale ?it the Battery.
. The steamer Saale drifted down to the
Battery about 6:30 o’cdock. She was
•blaze and her crew was on deck. Capt.
Smith of the police boat, put his men on
• tug and ran to the burning ship. When
the tug reached the Saale, thirty-seven of
the latter’s crew were taken off. Most
of them were conscious. Some suffered
from smoke inhaled. The injured men
tve-re taken to hospitals. All appear to be
foreigners. None could talk English, and
not even their names were learned at the
pier.
The harhor police said the officials of
the steamship company feared the loss
of the Bremen’s chi f engineer and six of
,his assistants who W'erc in their quarters
forward at the time the tire broke out.
They thought the loss of lift* had been
greatest on the Saale. They placed the
number at from thirty to fifty, and said
the majority of the victims were employ
ed as firemen and coal passers.
The fire boat New Yorker devoted her
Attention to the Bremen, and took off more
then thirty members of her crew. As
the steamed by the Saale, there happened
on the doomed ship a terrific explosion.
Flames shot tip forty feet and it seemed
as If the whole upper part of the ship
had teen torn away. The Saale was known
to have had h quantity of kerosene
and other oils aboard, and this is what
probably exploded.
A Fireman’* Story.
A member of the crew of the fire boat
VtnWytk said: “The lire made it im
possible to get to the steerage of the Saale.
We tried next to get the people out
through the port holes. There seemed to
be forty or fifty of them. There were
men. women and children. One woman
in particular attracted our attention. She
kepi calling to the others not to give up
hope, that we would save them.
Just before the ship went down a tug
drew alongside with a Roman Catholic
priest aboard. He called to the people,
who seemed to he of his faith,
and with uplifted hands, imparted abso
lution to them just as the ship sank anl
water, rushing in at the portholes, drown
ed them like rats. During the time the
frteemshlp Main lay at the burning dorks
with the flames playing all about her,
aixteen men lived on board of her. When
she was hauled out from between the
burning docks at 11 o’clock laet night,
these men were still alive.”
naming nt 12 O’clock.
At 2 o’clock 6unday morning the. Are is
•till burning and presents a brilliant
sight. No estimate of the loss of life
falls below 100. The bodies on the deck
•nd in the hold of the Saale will probably
be recovered by divers, but the dozens
who Jumped in the North river some
will never be found at all.
PLiuiiiDiiß r\[>eh neon.
Man With Wurllilea* < liitUr Hull*
From ( linrlmliin. '
New York, June 30—Thomas Loynes
• Herbert Plumrtdge, who was arrested
yesterday on a charge of passing worth
less checks, was arraigned In Police
Couit to-day and held In 3500 ball for
examination Monday. Plumrldge, when
arrested, said he was formerly In the
employ of F. W. Wagener, a banker, of
Charleston, S. C. In his possession were
found two checks on the Enterprise Na
tional Hank of Charleston, payable to
himself and signed "F. W. Wagener.”
Roosevelt at Chlcnsto.
Chicago. Juno 30.—00 v. Roosevelt of
' Ne* York srrlved in Chicago to-night,
•n route (o Oklahoma
BRYAN HAD VISITORS.
A Stendy Stream Poured Into Ilia
Home in Lincoln.
Lincoln, Neb., June 30.—Lincoln divided
with Kansas City to-day, and to-night
the task of framing a Democratic plat
form and selecting a running mate for
William J. Bryan. All that was lacking
to make it a first-class convention city
was the crowds, the shouters and the
brass bands. But if Lincoln lacked In
noise, it made up for it in having the
• candidates and some of the leaders of
the party who will play n leading part
in writing the r* solutions to be presented
to the Democratic National Convention.
The two questions uppermost during
♦he day were the financial plank of the
platform and the vice presidency. There
tvere no mistaking the sentiment of the
gentlemen in Lincoln on the first propo
sition. Ir was a free silver crowd, nearly
as radical in its stand as Mr. Bryan him
self four years ago.
Col. Bryan was the central pole around
which gravitated the Democratic hosts.
His city home was the Mecca of the
party pilgrims, and a steady stream pass
ed in and out throughout the day. It
w'as useless to attempt to secure any
statement from Mr. Bryan on the burning
issues. He simply reiterated what he has
said for many days, that he had nothing
to eay on politics for publication.
PRESIDENT AT CANTON.
Warmly Greeted by His Old Friend*
and Neighbor*.
Canton. 0., June 30—At 10:13 a. m. to
day President and Mrs. McKinley reach
el Canton. Fifteen minutes later the
President was in his own home, the re
modehd cottage in North Market street,
made famous in the campaign of '96. A
minute later he was on the porch, in re
sponse to the calls of a vast crowd which
filled the streets and lawn and tramped
the grass just as the crow'ds did four
years ago President McKinley said:
Mv fellow citizens: It Is needless for
me to say that we are very glad to get
home again, and to be with you and be
one of you as of old. And the pleasure is
very greatly enhanced by the warm and
hearty welcome which my old neighbors
and fel ow citizens have given me here
this morning, for which I most profound
ly thank you all."
The President’s remarks were rereived
with bols erous applause.
DE WET’S GINS SILENT.
Hr In Said to He Holding Hln Fire
for Close Ruarter*.
Pretoria, Wednesday, June 27. —Gen.
Botha’s force continues encamped east of
Bronkersprutt. There is an occasional
exchange of shots between the patrols.
The machinery of government is grad
ually organizing here. Anew paper, the
Pretoria Friend, has been started.
Advice© from the Orange River Colony
say the Boers are deserting Gen. DeWet.
Those who have been caught were ordered
to be shot. The silence of Gen. De Wei's
guns Is attributed to the scarcity of his
ammunition, which he is reeervlng for
close quarters.
DeWet Hemmed In.
Pretoria, June 30.—According to a report
received from Missel's farm, Gfn. Clery,
with the Fourth Brigade, has arrived at
that place, which is nine miles from Stan
derton. To-day’s movement completes the
hemming in of Gen. DeWet. The country
in this vicinity is flat, and nothing can
be seen of the Boers.
31HS. ARRINGTON DEAD.
Sister nt R. A. Denmark raises
Af*ay Near Qnttmnn.
Quitman. Ga., June 30.—Mrs. F. R. Ar
rington died at her home in the Hickory
Head District, this morning. She had been
ill for a year or more. Mrs. Arrington
came from one of the oldest and most
prominent families in this section, being
a tdster of Hon. B. A. Denmark of Sa
vannah. and E. P. S. Denmark of Val
dosta. She leaves six children, all grown.
Melons ore being shipped in great quan
tities now, the South Georgia Railway
alone has hauled over 115 cars in the pant
ten days.
VNDKR MILITARY GUARD.
Jack Mornn, the rc*, Will Be Sent
From Atlanta to Rome.
Atlanta, June 30.—Jack Moran, the ne
gro who is charged w ith assault in Floyd
county and who has twice narrowly es
caped lynching, will be sent to Rome
some time next month, under guard of
an Atlanta military company, to pro
tect him from mob violence. Judge
Henry of the Rome circuit called on Gov.
Candler yesterday concerning the caj;e.
Gov. Candler decided it would be best
to send him to Rome under the protec
tion of the military, as he determined
that Moran shall have a fair trial.
WHEELER AT CHICAGO.
The General AVas Aeeorded n Hous
ing Welcome There.
Chlca'go, June 30.—Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
the new commandant of the Department
of the Lakes, was to-day formally wel
comed to Chicago at a public reception.
Gen, Wheeler, accompanied by his daugh
ters and the members of his staff with
their families, was escorted by a battalion
of the First Illinois Regiment to the First
Regiment Armory, where Mayor Harrison
delivered an address of welcome. Gen.
Wheeler was cheered erthu lastlcally when
he rose to respond to the Mayor.
FIRE AT SIOUX FALLS.
The Total I.oaa Amounts to SIOO,OOO
Partly Insured.
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 30.—The Cata
ract House, valued at *60,000, together with
the Hollister block, the Sioux Savings
Bank, Western Union Telegraph office
and American Express Company, were
burned to-day. The total loss amounts to
*IOO,OOO, partly Insured.
$400,000 LOST IN EIRE.
Great l.nmher A'nrds Cnnsnmed at
Block Hock, N. X.
Buffalo, N. Y., June 30.—The great lum
ber yards covering half a mile area at
Black Rock, were destroyed by Are to
night. Loss, *400.000. C. M. Belts & Cos.,
lose *300,000; Holland. Manbert & George,
*20,000; Erie Railway Company, *75,000.
$200,000 LOST IN CANTON.
The Fertilizer Factory of Griffith,
Boyd A Cos. Burned.
Baltimore, June 00.—Fire to-day de
stroyed the fertilizer factory of Griffith,
Boyd & Cos., and the factory and shops of
the Elliott Machine Company in Canton,
a suburb. Loss. *200.000.
bond's Purchase Humored.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June SO—lt is ru
mored here that negotiations- are under
way here between Russell Sage, owner of
the Chattanooga Southern Railroad, from
this city to Godsden, Ala., and the own
ers of the large cool and iron lands In
North Georgia and Alabama, for the pur
chase of the road by the coal men. The
Aoad Is about ninety miles in length
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULV 1, 1900.
NO WAR YET WITH CHINA.
Continued from First Page.
dispatches and in the absence of official
statements, meets the unqualified ap
proval of the administration.
RAILROAD RESTORED.
To-dny Fixed by Boxer* for the Mn
• nere of Foreigner*.
London, June 30.—A special from
Shanghai says the railway between Tien
Tein and Taku is now in working order.
A telegram from Che Foo, dated yester
day (Friday), reports that a Japanese
j steamer has arrived and a number of la
dies and children from New Chang, which
| is now defended by Russians and Japa
| nese.
The Chan Tung province is now up in
arms, according to special dispatches from
Shanghai, and the rel>elts are destroying
the missions*. The foreigners are escap
ing by means of an escort from the gov
ernor.
Boxer placards have been posted at Yat
Kai Ding a city a day’s march frem
Shanghai, fixing Sunday as a day for mas
sacre of the foreigners and the burning
of the missions. The consuls have detain
ed a steamer, which will take away the
foreigners.
Young Mr. Denby, son of the late United
States minister to China, Col. Charles
Denby, has been reported from* Shanghai
as being safe.
According to Chinese advices the Ger
man coal mines at Chow Fu in Shan Tifng
have been set on fire. The. Germans, ac
cording to the reports, are awaiting a
cavalry escort, which is expected to re
lieve them.
The of Chin Chow*, according to
other advices received from China, has
been attacked by the Boxers, who are now
looting it. The missions have been de
stroyed. The mem Derg barely escaped with
their lives.
MINISTERS AT PEKING.
Kempt! Wire* Positively That They
Are at tlie Capital.
Washington, June 30.—The navy depart
ment has received the following cable
gram from Admiral Kempff:
"Che Foo, June 30.—Secretary of the
Navy, Washington: Ministers at Peking
were given twenty-four hours to leave on
the 19th. They refused and are still there.
The Peking relief forces got half-way.
They were attacked by imperial troops on
the 18th. McCalla was in command. Four
were killed and twenty-five wounded.
McCalla and Ensign Taussig wounded, but
not seriously. Now over 14,000 troops
ft shore. Commander Wise commands at
Tong Ku in charge of transportation, rail
and w’ater. The combined nationalities j
find it necessary to make use of some ci
vilians to operate railways. Kempff."
ALARMED FOB FOREIGNERS.
Names of Americans Killed an<*
Wounded In Relief of Tien Tsln.
Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press
Taku, June 27—The greatest anxiety
exists concerning the foreigners at Pe
king. Admiral Kempff believes that large
reinforcements are necessary to reach
Peking. Maj. Waller’s command, with 410
Russians, was ambushed three miles from
Tien Tsin on June 21. They were com
pelled to retreat, the Americans aban
doi ir>| a 3-Inch rifle and a Colt’s pun and
los'ng rour killed and sven wounded.
The American casualties in the relief of
Tien Tsin were as follows: Privates John
Hunter and Nicholas killed; Sergeant
Taylor, Corpl. Pedrick, and another
wounded.
Lieut. Irwin and Cadet Petting'll. with
40 men. were found in good condition at
Tien Tsin.
CHINESE FOUGHT WELL.
Allies of tli** British Repelled an At
tack by the Boxers.
London, June 30, 2:59 p. m.—The war of
fice has received the following dispatch
from Col. Dorward:
“Che Foo, June 30.—The arsenal north
west of Tien Tsin was captured during the
morning of Juno. 27 by the combined forces.
The British troops engaged were the na
val brigade and the Chinese regiment. The
naval brigade had four men killed and fif
teen wounded, including two officers. The
Chinese regiment had no casualties. The
latter checked an attack by the Boxers
on our left flank with heavy losg to the
enemy.”
WIRE FROM RAGSDALE.
Consnl nt Tien Tsin Confirms
Kemp ft ’s Report.
Washington, June 30.—The following ca
blegram has been received from United
States Consul Ragsdale nt Tien Tsin, dat
ed the 27th instant, being the first com
munication received from that officer in
nearly two weeks:
“Siege of Tien Tsin raised. Troops
sent for the relief of the legations re
turned; in vain. Fighting seven separate
battles. American loss, six killed, thirty
eight wounded. On the 19th ministers
given twenty-four hours to leave Peking.
Refused. Still there. Ragsdale.”
Were Safe on June 25,
Washington, June 30. A cablegram re
ceived at ihe siate department to-day
from Ambassador Choate' at Lon ion
states that the foreign minist- rs were
safe at Peking on the 25th instant. The
Chinese minister here, Mr. Wu, has pri
vate advices to the same effect, which
he has brought to the attention of the
state department.
BROKE THRIVE RECORDS.
Old Imp Proved Herself Wonder
fully Speedy nt Slieopsliend.
New Y'ork, June 30.—Imp broke three
world’s running records in the Advance
Stakes at Sheepshead Bay to-day. The
entries were Imp, Maid of Harlem and
Post Haste. They got away at the first
attempt. Old Imp set sail and showed
two lengths in front. She began to in
crease her lead at every stride. She
went to the half in 0;49 1-5, to the five
eighihs in 1:01 1-5, to the three-fourths in
1:14, to the seven-eigh<hs in 1:26 4-5 and
to the mile In 1:39 2-5, two-fifths of a
second faster than the fastest mile in a
race this year. To the mile and an eighth
she went in 1:52 2-5, close to the world's
record. Running like a piece Of ma
chinery, with little Odom sitting still, she
flew, reaching the next quarter In 2:05,
faster time than was made in the Su
burban or In the Brooklyn Derby this
year—in fact, faster time than either of
those races was ever run In.
She was after more records and she
stretched out her stride until the earth
spun away. To the mile and three-eighths
she went in 2:18, anew world’s record.
Sabine ran the distance at Washington
Park in 2: . with 109 pounds up.
The crowd held its breath, tor Imp was
still going easy, and still drawing away
from the others. There was the mile
and a half pole ahead, and she reached
it In 2:32, two seconds slower than Good
rich's record, also mode on the fast Chi
cago track. But she smashed the next,
the mile and five-eighths held by Hindoo
Craft, 2:45 1-5. Without foltering, and
still running within her speed without
urging, in fact un-ler a puli, she turned
In the stretch. With hoofs that seemed
scarcely to touch the ground, she came
on. and past the post she flew In 2:69 1-5,
a fraction faster than the record.
PERUNA CONQUERS DISEASE
WHILE DOCTORS DISAGREE.
MEMBER BOARD OF HEALTH,
ALBERT LEA, MINN,
DR. LEANDER J. THOMAS.
To The Peruna Medicine Cos.:
“I have repeatedly hud oc
casion to note Ihe valuable
qualitlen of Peruna in cn*en
of di*ea*e* of the bladder,
kidney* and other pelvic
organ*, nnd I recommend it
in cane* of weaknes* pecu
liar to women, a* it *eem*
to afford *peedy rc*lef and
a permanent cure.’’
DR. LEANDER J. THOMAS,
Albert Lea, Minn.
Dr. Thomas is a member of the
Board of Health, Albert Lea,
Minn.
A person who has chronic catarrhal
difficulties and has not given Peruna
a fair trial, is unfortunate, indeed. To
be afflicted with chronic catarrh and
not try Perum. is as foolish as to
have the old-fashioned chills and fever
and refuse to try quinine, or to have h
broken bone and not allow the doctor to
set it.
Peruna has come to be so universally
recognized as a specific cure for ca
tarrhal affections, acute or chronic, that
it is amazing that any one should con
tinue to suffer on with such a persistent
malady, neglecting to take a remedy
that is sure.
THE CITY OF PEKING.
H. W. Lawson in the London Daily Tele
graph.
Peking lends its*if to nickname and allit
eration. An English minister described It
as the place of "dirt, dust and disdain.”
Others have found it, like Lord Amherst,
a city of despair. Henry Norman says
that the two momems when one appre
ciates it are the first sight of Its frown
ing gates and the last. Whatever it is
or is not to the -men of long views” it
must always be one of the nerve cen
ters of human interest and international
relations. During the djnasty of those
Mings whose name was the war cry of
the Taiplngs, and is to-day in the mouths
of many of the secret societies that form
the great difficulty of Chinese rule and
management, it was a city of hut sec
ond rate importance. Their attention was
given to the embellishment of the now
half wasted city of Nanking, often called
"the national capital,” but Peking has
been the imperial capital since the Ta
Tsirgs seized the throne, and those who
are qualified to speak are of opinion that
any notion of degrading it from its pride
of place to suit the conveni nee of Euro
pean diplomacy is foredoomed to failure,
it is not only the capital of the Manchus,
it is the. capital of the mandarins. The
official world is of the Pekinese stamp,
and Pekinese is the official language, the
tongue of the graduate and educated man.
To the ear it has a pleasanter and soft
er sound than the rough dialects of the
provinces, and it has been developed and
moulded to the elaborate and ornate
phrases of polite society'. The ”sh” is of
ten heard instead of harder and more un
couth conjunctions.
in the tour cities which make up the
capital, and particularly in the imperial
city, live most of ihe leading and opu
lent class, and, therefore, the houses are
of a more important and solid appear
ance than is the rule elsewhere. High
brick walls, with a single stone entrance,
surround a multitude of courts, flanked
by tile roofed dwelling rooms. It is a
curious and universal custom among the
Chinese to put up immediately facing the
outer door a stone or brick screen, bear
ing tablets or painted scrolls, inscribed
with the names of ancestors or classical
texts. The object, according to time hon
ored superstition, is to ward off evil spir
its, for the and mon on entering knocks hi*
head against the obstacle, and, being de
void of all sense but an elementary ha
tred of mankind, Is repulsed and goes
away sorrowful. Why the aforesaid de
mon should have the cleverness to turn
in at the gate, yet not sufficient to wheel
round the screen, is difficult for the un
initiated to understand. There is no at
tempt at ostentation, or even of decent
comfort, about these dwelling places.
Cities Within the City.
The four cities of Peking are the Chi
nese, the Tartar, the Imperial and the
Forbidden. Each Is quadrilateral and
marked off- by a wall, from outside to
center, in the order given, save that the
Chinese city is an excrescence, and joins,
but does not encircle, the remainder. Or
iginally the Chinese had to be kept at a
safe distance in subjection to the Manchu
conquerer, but kuch a precaution is now
superfluous, altimugh there survives a
perceptible variety of type, in spite of
the mixture of blood, and the Manchu
women dress their hair in a different
fashion, secured at the back by a long
bar that is turned down after marriage.
Within the Chinese city is a vast open
space, the two great inclosures of which
ore green with trees and dedicated respect
ively, on the north and south to the Tern
pel of Agriculture and the Temple of
Heaven. In the middle kingdom there are
three great systems of religion, of wor
ship and of philosophy working together
in harmony with a government w’hich
patronizes and conforms to each wiihout
friction and without fusion.
Of all three the founders lived about the
sixth century D. C., but Taoism has had
the popular advantage of being aide to
Identify Itself with every object of the
wonder of veneration of men. If the
official classes, by reason of their train
ing, are mainly Confuslanlst—that is to
say, agnostic, in their intellectual sym
pathies—that does not absolve them or
their imperial master from the regular
and elaborate observance of the great
state services of the year. The mighty
spirits of earth and heaven are Invoked
by the Emperor without the Intervention
of ecclesiastic, and. by deputy, through
civil officers throughout every province,
To the powers of earth and heaven he
professps himself subject. He styles him
self "Son of Heaven by Imperial Succes
sion.” and he asks for the “efficient aid"
of the ‘'imperial spirits of earth and
heaven," by sacrifice find oblation.
An American's PrlvllegV.
Foreigners are rigidly excluded from
' the Temple of Heaven, where once a
year, at dead of night, the Emperor goes
j In solemn procession. The gates are kept
j strictly closed to all but the duly quall
tiid. It was not always so, and there
Congratulations Pouring in From
All Parts of the World to Dr.
Hartman for the Success of
His Universally AcknowF
edged Catarrhal Tonic.
CHIEF GUARD RELIEF CORPS,
ROBSON POST, G. A. R.
MRS. CLARA THOMA 9.
To The Peruna Medicine Cos.:
“I suffered with severe kid
ney and bladder trouble,
used different remedies for
over a year without finding
relief. Peruna was spoken
of so highly that I tried it.
I am glad to say that to-dny
I nm a perfectly well wo
man. thank* to Pernna.”
MRS. CLARA THOMAS,
Albert Lea, Minn.
Mrs. Thomas is Chief Guard
nnd Flag Bearer, Relief Corps.
Robson Post Grand Army of
the Republic, of Albert Lea,
Minnesota.
are old Peking residents who have In days
gone by entered the precincts in Chinese
dress, one, In particular, being Li Hung
Chang's popular secretary, Mr. Pethick,
an American gentleman who has lived in
China for many years. An exception was
made in the case of Prince ‘Henry of
Prussia, but, unhappily, the result has
been, according to Chinese logic, to in
sure continuance of last year’s drought,
and to hold up the rain clouds to the ut
ter impoverishment of the land. The con
nection between cause and effect does
not seem very close, but not less so than
the popular belief reported recently from
Persia that a like failure was due to the
setting up of a stone by a foreign sur
veyor.
Beyond the area of temples a random
aggregation of wooden shops leads up
to one of the principal gates, pierced in
the Tartar wall, the second and famous
wall of Peking. In all, this wall is twalve
miles round, flanked by protruding bas
tions and solidly faced with broad baked
bricks, the twenty feet of space between
the sides being filled up with mud re
duced to the consistency of cement. The
storied towers above the gates are tiered
with inclined openings, made to look as
if they masked cannon, and actually
painted with white and black circles to
make the delusion complete, in order to
cheat the god of war as he passes by.
These painted bricks are a good example
of Chinese civilization. Even though they
be but simulacra, it Is the natural duty
of a Chinaman to respect them as if
they contained the finest of artillery. The
appearance is right and the appearance
is everything. No gate in China admits
direct to an inclosure, and inside the
great gate of Peking there Is a curve and
then another gate, similar to the first,
leading to the most important and busiest
thoroughfare, in which are to be, found
the principal trades and hostelries.
A great difference exists between the
imperial capital and the provincial cities,
in that the main streets of Peking are of
adequate width, although stalls and booths
have been set up between the frontage
and the roadway on either side. The
buildings are rarely two stories high;
most of them have a flat roof, protected
by a carved wooden parapet. Another dif
ference between the north and the mid
lands is that the cold of the Mongolian
desert and the high latitudes made the
people close in the fronts with boards
and paper windows, while a wadded por
tiere keeps out the wind. Signboards,
scrolls, banners and trade emblems are
in front of every shop or place of busi
ness. Scarlet, brown, yellow and black,
with characters of brightest gold, they
make a striking show of color that Is a
relief from the uniform monotony of
Chinese costume, and the gold Is partic
ularly effective as a means of distinction.
Amid trade signs, some, notably those
of the barber and the pawnbroker, are not
unlike the old signs of the West; the
bootmakers have the same as can be seen
in Nuremberg to-day; others, with many
colored paper scraps and strips, are less
intelligible.
A certain amount of fantastic carving
in wood is used for external decoration,
inclosing the wildest caricatures of man
and beast, and on the wooden doors of
the hous-s are painted the figures of Chi
nese gods and heroes, designed to strike
terror into the unwelcome intruder. The
Infamy of the paving and roadroaklng of
Pekin has passed into a proverb. Origi
nally the stone flagged pas sways that lead
from the Chinese to the Tartar Wall, and
to and from the several gates must have
been grand achi vements. made up as
they are of substantial blocks of lime
stone, clamped with Iron bolts, but no
body has ever troubled to keep them in
the slightest semblance of repair, al
though a large sum of money is annually
paid over to the officials for tho pur
pose. The consequence is that they are
broken up by deep ruts and cavities,
which testify to the enormous length and
weight of the traffic that has passed and
to the Inanimate stupidity and corrup
tion Of the authorities in letting the mis
chief go so far. Apart from the flags,
Ihe roads and lanes are formed and main
tained with a composition that Is enough
to bring MaciAdam from his grave. On the
Chinese principle of "waste not want
not," the roads are made up and repair
ed with the contents of the drains and
resspools, and in the dry climate of Chih
li the dust Is ankle deep—l had almost
said knee deep—of so delightful a mix
ture. This dees not exhaust the Ingen
uity of the local authority. In order to
keep the dust within the bounds of res
piration the roads ore plentifully wa
tered wl h the liquid contents of the sew
ers, ladled out at every hour of the diy
In enormous wooden spoony. The sort of
smell emanating from this road material
would require the pen of M. Zola ade
quately to describe.
hanguagr Difficulties.
Of a grand Chinese house of the old
style the English legation; formerly a
princely palace. Is not a bad example,
and its tiled pavilions are kept in a ren
dition of repair and spick-and-span or
der which mark the extra-territoriality
be'ter even than a fer Ign flag. In the
c rap mid live not only the minister and
the subordinate officials, but also some
twenty student interpreters, who spend
two years In learning the element* of the
GUARDIAN GRAND CIRCLE,
WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT.
MRS. JOSEPHINE BENSON.
To The Peruna Medicine Cos.:
"Last fall I contracted a se
vere cold on my lung* which
persisted in remaining in
• pite of all ntedieine* nnd
the bent care. Pernna work
ed wonder* for me, not only
completely healing the lung*
hut curing the catarrh of
the head ns well, which
had set in.’* MRS. J. REASON,
Seattle, Wash.
Mrs. BenJ*on is Guardian Grand
Circle, Women of Woodcraft, of
Seattle, Wash., the largest wo
man’s organization on the Pa
cific coast.
Chinese language before they can enter
the Consular service. Tp obtain any real
knowledge of the language is said to take
an intellig nt European at least ten y ars.
but It is possible to pick up some three
thousand of the characters in a shor.er
time. The other odd ten thousand must
be left to chance and circumstance. Of
the tones, some are never mastered, and
as every Intonation conveys a dtferent
meaning, it is not wonderful
that In the conversation cf
half-baked Chinese scholars hail
ing from Europe there occur mistakes of
pronunciation at which the Chinese are
hugely amused. Every vowel has four
tones, and to the untutored ear three sre
. very much the same. There is a theory
abroad that too much Chinese learning
makes men a. little mad. 'end among our
consuls it is a standing joke to echo the
talk of their fellow countrymen and say;
“Of course, we are all lunatics; you see,
we talk Chinese.” One wonders how far
the isolation of the Chinese has contrib
uted to the extraordinary difficulty of
their language, and how far their isola
tion is due to it—clearly a case of action
and reaction.
In the Forbidden City, which contains
the imperial palaces, no foreigner ever
sets foot, except when the staffs of the le
gations carry their congratulations to the
Emperor on the New Year Day—the 6th
of February of the Chinese calendar—and
in the rare cases of special audience, one
of which took place when Prince Henry
of Prussia was personally received by the
Emperor at the very door. This question
of audience has for the last 100 years been
of the highest political importance. First
came the demand for the performance of
the kotow; then the right of audience,
completely conceded in 1873; lastly, the
place of audience, toward the satisfactory
solutlon of which much was done when
Sir Nicholas O'Conor was received, not.
as fomerly, in the Hall of Tributary Na
tions. but at a palace within the Forbid
den City. Chinese prejudice never dis
appears before the light, but it is daily
being broken down by its own weight un
der external pressure. In years to come
even the horrors of the Peking cart may
be discarded by foreign residents in favor
of the foreign rickshaw, but this depends
more on the mending of Chinese roads
than on the mending of Chinese manners.
How long will the dry bones live? Hut for
the interfering hand of the barbarian
certainly would they live in saecula sae
culorum.
GEN. MILES'S NEW UNIFORM,
Its Failure to Bench Him Canned
Dire Distress nt Beaver.
From the Pittsburg (Penn.) Dispatch.
After having spent months in consulta
tion and a small fortune to carry out
the details it would have been a great
pity to have had the principal day of the
Beaver Centennial spoiled by the loss of
a military uniform. Yet that catastrophe
almost happened. Gen. Nelson A. Miles
wps the little city's guest. He was to be
seated in the front carriage of the big
parade, attired in the regalia of his rank,
the observed of all the thousands of ob
servers, the Idol of the soldier's heart.
Gen. Miles arrived in Beaver. He was
met by a Reception Committee, volleys
from the guns of Battery B and blasts of
music from many bands. But the Gen
eral whose mistakes in war have been
few, committed his new uniform to the
care of the railroad company, Instead
of keeping it In sight. The result JM
not become known until the eleventh
hour. .Just when it was time for the po
rada to start it was discovered the uni
form was missing. It hud been placed
In a trunk atid turned over to a baggage
master. That tells, the story. Railroad
companies with bnggagemasters as ac
complices don't permit little things like
country centennials to worry them.
So, while the Geoeral was waiting and
the committee was forming the innocent
trunk with its priceless contents was be
ing banged about somewhere between
Beaver and the point whence Gen. Miles
had started.
Special committees met each arriving
troln In Beaver, to no purpose. At .!
o'clock the derelict was given up and
Gen. (Miles borrowed a campaign hat
braided with gold and took his place in the
carriage. And he looked, in the campaign
hat, every inch the soldier he Is. It would
take more than the loss of anew uni
form to disguise that characteristic.
The residents of Beaver and people from
all parts of Beaver qounty did themselves
proud in according lo him a reception
which vied in its enthusiasm with any
that has ever been bestowed upon a mil
itary hero by the people of the United
States. The day was one long ovation,
beginning at 10 o'clock In the morning,
when the honor guest first set foot within
the holders of the county, until the sun
sank to rest behind the hills.
Tnrvlia for Governor.
Covington. Ky., June 30.—James P. Tar
vln opened his candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor here to
night. He advocates on amendment to the
Goebel election lav
MANAGER PFAU, OF THE CEN
TRAL TRUST CO,
J. LOUIS PFAU, JR.
To The Peruna Medicine Cos.:
"I.ant June I had n severe
attack of nasal catarrh,
which was very annoying
and dchilitrited my Myniein.
Seeing your nd vertinement*
1 wrote you for advice. I
used Pernna constantly un
til last November, when the
*> niptom* disappeared en
tirely." J. LOl IS PFAU, JR.,
Suite 201, Ti ines-Herald
Building, Chicago, 111.
Mr. Pfau is manager of the
Central Trust Cos.
Of course it may be (hat many people
have not yet come to know of this rem
edy for catarrhal affections, but it is
strange it should be so after such multi
tudes have been cured by it, and so
many papers have heralded it from one
end of the country to the other. Men and
women of all ages and rank, the rich
and poor, the learned and Illiterate, are
daily giving unsolicited testimony to the
fact that Peruna will cure all catarrhal
diseases.
A free hook on catarrhal ailments, writ
ten by Dr. Hartman, the compounder of
Peruna. will be sent by The Peruna
! Medicine Cos., Columbus, O.
PEOPLED BA* MANY MURDERERS.
Town* That Were Originally Settled
by Desperate Malefactors.
From London Answers.
The most una sputed record among
towns is h Id by Huddlersfield, Yorkshire.
It owns Itself. Beginning life in a model
dw.ling owned by the town, the young
workman goes to his work in a municipal
tram. He ge s his gas cr electric 1 ght
from the city; his wife hires her gas stove
from the city, purchases her provisions
from the city market and sends the
week's tvaFhing to the municipal washer
woman. Their children play in the-. city
parks, their dust! in is cleared out by the
town authorities and their letters are c i
leeted by a iram. the prope:ty of tho
town. If they are ill they are removed to
the town hospital; if they are unlucky in
financial matters they find a home in the
municipal lodging-house and when they
die. rich or poor .they are buried by the
town in a cemetery owned by ihe town
Bristol stands alone in the number of
its charitable inst tutions, taking into con
sidc.ratirn the number of its inhabitants,
ihe drnati ns 10 the Mull r orphanage
f r exceed 1,59\099. It is the boast cf
Bristol's inhab tanls that they have be n
the donors of he greater amount of the
above sum.
On the other hand, the city of Arrena,
in Italy, claims the undisputed record of
having no man among its inhabitants who
has not either committed murder or tried
to do so. For two centuries Ihe ItaHan
authorities have ignored its existence and
when any criminal succeeds in escaping
to Artena lie is Jgft alone. As .such .way
farers reach the town they are, asked
what crime they have .committod, and
should they not be alii:- to. give„c*ear
proof that they have really committed
some offense in clie eyes of the law they
are not allowed to enter. Some criminal,
sc ing the humorous side of this, surrep
titiously posted the following: "It is
easier for a camel lo pass through the
eye of a needle than for an innocent man
to enter Artena." -
A r cent traveler in Bavaria writes:
"We entered the town of Nun piberg. It
is the birthplace of the doll The archives
sav that the first dolls which were made
after the likeness cf men were made in
Nuremberg 1,600 y-ars ago. From that
date to the pres iv day every working
man, woman and child, save those who
cater to the wants of the Inhabitants,
stends life making dolls. The whole town
Ilvfs upcti dolls, rates and every kind of
tax being paid by the price of dolly free
dom. Over 30,001,000 dolls are expor.ei
yearly.”
There are two towns In Switzerland
ho and!" g urdlsputed records. The munici
pal authorities of Braunlingen are so rich
that not only do they require the inhab
itants to pay no rates of taxes, but sup
ply free grazing ground to every family
for one cow. Even here their generosity
finds not enough scope and Jan. 2 every
year they present every resident with 2
P'ttce, a cartload of wood and six printed
invitation cards, which the recipient is
requested to s->nd to any friends of un
blemished character living elsewhere, ask
ing them to ppek up their goods and come
and liv iii Braunlingen. If they accept
the invitation, and their note to that ef
fect is received among the first 200, the
t wn pays for their journey and any ex
tras up to the sum of £3. The money is
raised from the rents of the houses which
were formerly owned by a Swist noble,
man, vhese pet object in life was to bui'd
a town.
Every inhabitant of the town of Flum
gen has bona waipr rr is the chi and of a
wait r. being tra net! by hits paren s for
that profession The populate n numbers
B.COO odd and the local paper, after giv
ing important news of the world In threc
li e paragraphs, is given up en't'rely to
the (Rings of the va'ter world. Thus, in
one of the later issues, the re cue of the
Kltnl erley garrson by Ofti. French wai
record and thus: ‘ Brl Ish Gen Fr nch has
r iieved Kimberley. The war c nizjues "
On another page th re was a four-eo'umn
article cn tie terrii 1 > erect tie war Is
hiving on London wallets.
The afL irs of F.umgen rr> rr s'ded over
by a council cf inhahHants. But when
any very important subject Is mooted a
general council of alt the male Inhabitant*
Is summoned. While such a rounell was
recently slttitg a traveler who happened
to be passing through the town put his
head in at the door. The whole as-entbly
was wait ng in s lence th- yearly flnan
c'til announcement. Suddenly the traveled
called out "wai er!" In a moment the
whole rarllament lose ns cne man. shout
ed "coming, sir!" and then, after watting
rime ten minutes, taunfered toward the
dtor. But the stranger had fld.
Won Three Out of Four,
London, June 30.—Out of four events
which Princeton contested at the sum
mer meeting of the London Athletic Club
at Stamford Bridge to-day the Princeton
men won three.
Brooklyn for Taku.
Hong Kong. June 30.—The United
States cruiser Brooklyn has proceeded to
Taku b'-sr