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BRYAN S PLANS ARE IN SHAPE. HE HAS AllOt T FINISHED HIS NOTI FICATION SPEECH. ill I'robnhl j tnnonnre 111* Itiner ary to Imllnnnpolt* To-day-Time n ml Place of Notllicntlon by Popn- H*t* Not Vet Settled ou—Likely the Place Will He Topeka, Knn.-Not True That He NVn* Aliiioml Hit by a Golf Hall. Lincoln, Neb., July 29.—Mr. Bryan is so well along with his notification speech on 1 his plans are so well developed that he hopes to-morrow to be able to an nounce his itinerary for the trip to In dianapolis and return. He has no knowledge of the time and place for his notification by the Popu lists and Free Silver Republicans, and it is not believed his present itinerary takes into consideration that function. Local politicians had hoped that if it was to be in the West, Mr. Bryan's home, in Lincoln, would be the place selected, hut H is now thought Topeka, Kan., probably will secure the meeting. It is possible the trip to Chicago of Secretary Edgerton of the Populist Na tional Committee may have some bearing on the question. Mr. Edgerton left this evening and will remain several days. He expects to see Charles A. Towne while in Chicago. Mr. Bryan and his family attended union services at the First Presbyterian .hureh this morning and listened to a -ermon on “The Divine Oraior,” by Rev. Mr. Rowlands of the Firs* Baptist Church. Later, he and Mrs. Bryan en tertained friends who called. Mr. Bryan says that there is not the slightest foundation for the story sent out from here that he narrowly escaped injury by being struck by a golf ball. STEANIEIFS CARGO ON FIRE. llt lie Liner Reached Philadelphia in Distress. Philadelphia, July 29.—The Clyde Line creamer Goldsboro arrived here to-dav from New York, with a portion of her . argo in flames. The fire started in the forehold. and is supposed to have been the result of spontaneous combustion. As the Goldsboro came up Delaware bay. her distress signals were seen by the tug Alkins Hughes, which went to her assistance, and pumped water into her hold. At Chester the fireboat Edwin S. Stuart drew’ alongside and proceeded up the river with her. Whn the Goldsboro arrived opposite her docks she was tow’ed to the Camden fide of the river and beached in the mud. Her cargo is still burning and the fire boat and several tugs are playing streams of water upon the flames. The steamer is loaded with general mer chandise, and the forward hold contains a large amount of dry licorice root. It is impossible at this time to estimate the amount of damage. The fire was extinguished late to-night after the hold had been filled with water. It is thought that the damage to the ship will be comparatively light, but the lo<s on the cargo doubtless will be considera ble. After the water has been pumped out of the Goldsboro’s hold efforts will be made to pull her out of the mud. She may have, to be lightered before this is accom plished. MADE THE CROWD FI RIOI S. 'lonroe Called Off anil Given tlie Race Over Hiclincl. Providence, R. 1., July 29.—Jimmy Michael, the bicycle rider, was declared defeated by the referee, in his match with Den Monroe of Memphis, at Crescent Park this afternoon. The trouble grew out of terms of the contest for the. race, by which Michael’s manager, J. C. Kennedy, controlled everything. The local track could get Michael here only by agreeing to Michael’s requirements for pace, and "hen the referee called Monroe off the track and awarded him the race, the big crown, which had paid double admission price to see Michael, was furious. WAS KILLED Dl LIGHTNING. Fitzgerald Struck While Walking \ lonji the Street. Little Rock, Ark., July 29.—James L. Fitz gerald, paymaster in the office of the treasurer of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad was instantly killed by lightning during a terrific storm this af ternoon. He was walking along the street with his brother and Patrick Sullivan when struck. Sullivan was badly injur ed and Fitzgerald’s brother was knocked down. Fitzgerald's clothes w’ere entirely torn off and his body disfigured. NO NEED OF A DIVORCE. Man Committed Suicide Before Wife mill Children. Cincinnati, July 29.—0n account of do mestic troubles the wife of Albert Kipp, a hrakeman, recently left him and return ed to her parents. Kipp yesterday got notice of divorce proceedings. He took the papers to his wife to-day, and told her there would be no need of serving on him. Calling for water, he swallowed •wo ounces of carbolic acid and died in grfat agony with his wife and three small children clinging to his body. TEN EYCK WILL NOT GO. Pay* He nml Hi* Cliihmate* Have Ficon Shabbily Treated. Worcester, Mas#., July 29.—Edward H. Ten Eyck. amateur champion single scul ler of the world, has decided not to repre ***it this country at the regatta at the Paris Exposition. Ten Eyck makes this decipion on account of what he calls the shabby manner in w’hich he and his club mates of the Wachusetts Boat Club of this citj have been treated by the com* mitten, and national officers of the Na tional Association of Amateur Oarsmen. Hr*ii>(it for Harry Wclilon. Cincinnati, July 29 During the past wef -k a permanent organization was ef fected here with Judge Ferris as presi dent and other Judges of (he courts ns v *' president, Mayor Flelschman ns treas urer and M. Isaacs of the Enquirer as rriary for a benefit to Harry M. Wel don ii j* Earned from the letters rec*eiv *l that there will be co-operating com mltfr** j n several cities, composed of fi porting editors, baseball men, turfmen, hnxi-rs and others. 1 Heath of an Ex-Congressman. Manaseas, Va., July 29—Bx-Uongress ?' an E. E. .Meredith died at his home nr ’ r this afternoon, from an acute ob *r 1 Mon of the bowels. Dr. J Ford J ' mpson of Washington, and Dr ‘ ’i n of Alexandria, 'were summoned to i>erform an operation, but death ued while they were making prepara • os for the operation. Kev. Horace Porter May Die. ■fw York. July 29 Rev. Horace Por- Tr " Jlr* assistant pastor of Plymouth ( hureh. Brooklyn, is dangerously ill it’ 0 Private sanitarium, Brooklyn, and hi* u 'very j# doubtful. His condition is the r ' ‘ult of being thrown from his bieycl■* ° r ! Hro< >hlyn bridge about six weeks ago, n is believed to have Buffered an injury t 0 the spinal cord. WARRANT FOR E. L. SWAZEY. *old n Mortgage on Cattle Belong ln K to Another Party. Kansas City .July 29.—A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Edward L. Swazey, charging him with intent to de fraud by selling to the Third National Bank of Springfield, Mass., a mortgage of $7,250 on 261 head of cattle owned by J- H. Kenney of Hemphill county, Texas. It is alleged that Swazey represented that the mortgage was a first lien, where as it was a second lien. If true, the op eration is identical with those pursued by Grant Gilrette, the Kansas plunger, who remortgaged cattle to the amount of over a million dollars. Gillette crossed to Old Mexico, where he has since resided. According to a report from the office of the Bankers’ and Cattlemen’s Protective Association, the Swazey irregularities ap proximate $70,000. Until the time of its financial collapse three months ago Mr. Swazey was a member of the local com mission firm of Lass, Penny & Swazey. The firm did a general cattle commission business at the stock yards. The loss is said to be generally distributed among banks, some of them In the East, so that it is not heavy on any one person or con cc-rn. Swazey is said to be on board the steamship Hprmas, sailing for Buenos Ayres, South America, having gone on board July 5, just two hours ahead of De tective Kirk The Journal will say: Later development in the alleged em bezzlement of E. L. Swazey indicate that he has been operating on a much larger scale than was at firs* supposed, and that the alleged fraud may run into the hun dreds of thousands. Stockmen and others w’ho know the staius of the case compara tively well say that other arrests will fol low if Swazey is taken. FATALITY IN A COLLISION. One of IliitVnln 111 If* Trains Ran Into by a Freight. Detroit. July 29.—Section one of the Buf falo Bill W ild West Show’s train suffered a severe collision near Milwaukee Junc tion shortly before daylight to-day, result ing in the smashing of a show' employes* sleeping car containing some forty sleep ing inmates. One of the latter, Edward Sullivan, aged 37, of Bridgeport, Conn., porter of the canvas car, is dead, and nine are in hospitals here more or less injured. The Wild West Company gave its ex hibition at Ypsilanti on Saturday, and show-s at Pontiac to-morrow. At the time of the collision the train, consisting of twenty w'agon and stork cars, four of the show sleeping cars and a Grand Trunk caboose, were* being transferred from the Michigan Central to the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee road. The train was being pushed backward from the “Y” at the Milwaukee junction, when it was struck by an outgoing Grand Trunk freight train. All the victims will recover shortly excepting three. LONG’S SECRETARY IS DEAD. Finney** r>emt*e Wan Due to nn At tack of Fever. W ashington, July 29.—News was received here to-night of the death of Lewis Har vie Finney, private secretary to Secretary Long, at Warm Springs, Va„ this fore noon. He had been away from the office for a month and more as the result of an at tack of fever. He was a native of Vir ginia, where his people are well known. He had been private secretary to Assist ant Secretary Soley and to Secretarv Herbert, and was highly thought of by naval officers and public men. The inter ment will te in Washington. FIFTH WILL GO Tt> f lint. Second llattnlioa Will Leave Santi ago tie tuba To-dav. Santiago de Cuba, July 29.—The second battalion of the Fifth United States In fantry, Maj. Borden commanding, will leave to-morrow for the United Slates by the transport McPherson. The companies at Guantanamo and Baracoa will be taken aboard en route. The officers have received instructions to prepare warm clothing for a hard win ter campaign, and to be ready to embark shortly after arriving at New York. All the men are enthusiastic at the pros pect of active service in Chinn. Cl HA'S DECREE IS APPROVED. Cnbono Says United States Have Been Frank and Honest. Havana, July 29.—The decree calling the constitutional convention and providing for the election of delegates meets with almost universal approval at the hands of the Cubun press. The element which has always clamored for Independence sees in the convention the probable con summation of the plans of a lifetime. The Cubano says that the United States gov ernment has been "frank and honest In declarations that are of vital imiortance to Cuba.” Transfer Steamer Sunk. Memphis. Tenn., July 29—The transfer steamer General Pierson, plying between Memphis and Hopefleld. struck a hidden obstruction to-night and sank in eight feet of water. The boat cost $65,000 and is own ed by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company. It is believed the boat can be raised. Dentil of Cnpt. .folin I.title. Washington, July 29.—Gen. Brooke, at New York, has informed the War Depart ment of the death at Governor's Island last night of typhoid fever of Capt. John Little of the subsistence department. Capt. Little was a native of Tennessee, and graduated In ISSo. He married a niece of • e late Gen. Sherman. Btfr Hares at Columbus, Columbus. 0.. July 30.—The grand cir cuit meeting opens to-morrow. The big race will be the free-for-all trot for stal lions for a purse of $5,000. Thursday. Six horses will probably start, Charley Herr, Crosceus. Gayton, Tommy Britton, Dare Devil and GratCan Boy. Miners Given nn Incrrnse. Huntington. W. Va.. July 29.—One thou sand miners in the Davy coal fields to morrow will be granted 10 per rent, of In crease In wages. The mines throughout the state are running at their fullest ca pacity and unable to keep up with orders. Well-Known German Dead. New York, July 29.—William Kramer, a millionaire real estate owner, founder of the Atlantic Garden Music Hall, owner of the Thalia Theafer, and one of the best known Germans In New York, died to day. aged 66 year*. Good llninfnll In Indin. Bombav. July 29.-The rainfall in Guxe rat is good, an<l general prospecl* have greatly Improved. The crops already sown will be saved. Commissioner IJuell In Hesign. Syracuse. N. Y., July 29 — Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duel!, contem plates resigning at an early day. *o d’- vote his entire time to his private busl n<ps- lldwnrd K. Poor Is Dead. New York, July 29.—Edward Erie Poor, ex-president of the National Park Bank, died to-day in Liverpool, ages! 63 years. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 30. 1009. GEN. GORDON'S BOYHOOD. Life in Georgia in tile Old Days "Be fo* do With.” From fhe Youth’s Companion. My birthplace was my father’s planta tion in Upson county. Ga., on the banks of the Flint river, and there my early boyhood was passed in the days before the war, when there were no railroad*, no telegraphs, no daily newspapers, and few mails in that portion of the country. The cost of postage on a letter was 5 or 10 cents, according to its size and the distance it was to go. The mails were carried in well settled districts on horse back, and between important towns in stage coaches. As the coaches, drown by teams of four horses, with bugles sound ing their approach, swept along the roads, they aroused in the country people more interest than would now be excited by the finest train of Pullman cars. The driver, mounted on their lofty seats, were the envy of aspiring boys. The building of the first school that I attended stood in a woodland not far from the main highway. It was built of hewn logs, but was well finished inside and out. At each end of the room there was an im mense chimney, and in those broad fire places during the winter months great log fires were kept burning. The logs for this purpose were cut and brought in by de tails of the larger boys. The schoolmaster was an Irishman named Doster. with ruddy complexion, clean shaven face, and hair as black a* n raven. He was a man of medium size, but when engaged in his favorite amuse ment of flogging, he seemed to grow to huge proportions. His seat was near the center of the room, and he kept eager watch over the whole of it. The larger students were seated at desks arranged about the center. The small boys sat on a bench which extended from one end of the room to the other. At specified hours all the small boys were required to spend a certain length of time in writing with pen and ink. The pen was a goose quill, converted into proper shape by Foster's sharp penknife. During the time given to writing lessons, we little penmen turned our faces to the wail in order to use a sloping desk which was attached there. Thus our backs were turned toward the teacher. Instead of requiring us to write words and sentences. Doster compelled us to fashion fishhooks, tongs, acissors and other objects of utility. The master moved quietly behind this long line of youngsters and peeped over their should ers. If be discovered a boy forming his fishhook upside down or making some other mistake, he would storm nt him from behind, “what are you doing?’’ Of course the culprit’s pen and the pens of half a dozen other startled hoys shot across the whole page. This nervousness and waste of paper furnished Doster with •he opportunity for teaching greater skill, self poise and economy by the rod. On (he plantations of that day there was no machinery for compressing cotton into bales. The long bag was hung under a platform with a large round hole in the floor, through which the lint cotton was thrown by hand into the swinging bag below. The packing was done by the most faithful and stalwart negro on the place, who stood inside the bag and tramped the cotton with his feet as it came down, and then pounded it with an iron bar. The packer on my father’s plantation was the negro foreman, known only as “Captain’’—a very impressive i>ersonage. tall and straight, with side-whiskers, and of austere bearing. He seemed to “boss” not only the negroes. bu everybody and everything on the plantation. He would come out of this packing process covered from head to foot with a thin coating of lint cotton, looking like a man of snow with a black face. His habit was to get rid of that fine fleecy lint by burning it off. Applied near his ankles, the flames ran over him in a second, cleaning off the lint with no perceptible damage to his clothing. When about six years ol<l 1 was stand ing by the fire, when Captain came out of the cotton bag covered with an unusual amount of lint, and ordered me. "Touch me off now'!’’ I obeyed. The blaze swept over him, cleaning off the lint from foot to head—and the sidewhiskers, too! This cured him of that habit. Several years after this my father mov ed to North Georgia. Although planta tion life there differed somewifrat from that peculiar to the cotton belt, there were fhe same ivatriarchal and kindly re lations of the white master to his black slaves, the same free intercourse between the white and black boys on ihe planta tion. The young white masters felt themselves responsible for the protection of their black followers in case of con flicts with other boys; and I may add (hat the. black companions of my* boyhood drew me into a large number of pitched battles in their defense than I afterward fought In my four years of service in the Con federate army. The smaller boys, black and w r hlto hunted rabbits in the daytime and ’pos sums and coons at night with dogs. The larger boy’s rode in the fox chase W’ith packs of carefully bred hounds, and In the exhilarating pursuit of wolves when these ravenous beasts had stolen into the sheep folds at night. Thus Southern boys gen erally became expert riders. THINGS A HAH REII NOTICES. Men Afraid of Being: Struck by Lightning in the Chnir. From the Baltimore AmerKtnn. “A great many men refuse to be shaved during a thunderstorm or when it looks threatening.’’ said a Lexington street bar ber the other day, when the sky was black and there had been a few ominous growls of thunder. “They have the idea that steel attracts lightning, and fear that the blade of the razor on their faces will bring sudden death by means of a shock. I nev er beard of a man being struck by light ning while in the chair. I have had men make me stop shaving them when a thunderstorm came up suddenly. The same is true when they are having their hair cut, for they are afraid that the scis sors may attract the thunderbolt. “Some of our customers have the belief that the hair should only be cut between the time of the new moon and that of the f U H—never when (he moon is on the wane —and they never have their hair cut ex cept then. They hold that it makes the hair thick and darkens its color. I never noticed that It did, however. There is a belief (hat barbers are superstitious about a razor that has been dropped on (he floor That may be the case with some of them, but the only thing that keeps me from using one after T have dropped it is that it is likely to have a few nicks in the blade when I pick it up. Then I send i( to be ground, but the chance* are that it will not be good for anything after wards. Grinders very often burn (he edge and take all the temper out of It. so that it can never be sharpened again. However, it is worth taking (he chance. You may lose the thirty or forty cqits that you pay for having the blade ground, while, nn the other hand, you may get hack the use of a razor worth $1.50 or ?2. “It Is, of course a well known fact (hat a razor needs a rest every now and then, and I had a funny experience in that way once. I had nicked the edge of a razor by dropping it, and sent it to be ground. When it ram o back I honed it and honed It, hut it wouldn’t cut a hair. I thought I (Was ruined, and threw it into a drawer. Fully a year after I found it again, and determined to make one more effort to get an edge on it. Now It is the beet razor T have. “It is a funny thing, but there is such a thing as getting n blade- too sharp for ,ome beards. A comparatively dull edge will cut them much better thon a sharp one. 1 suppose that it is because when the blade is sharpened the teeth are larger and farther apart, and the hair gets (an gled up In them, as it were.” AN EMPIRE OF KINGLETS. CHINA IS SOMETHING I.IRE A CON FEDER ATIOV Each Viceroy Almost King Pro vincial Official* Keep in Their Own Hand* Army, Navy, anil Coin age Subject to Tribat • to Pekin. From the London Telegraph. What Lord St well called “the usage nd practice of nations’’ gives no rule or guidance for the vague and informal ar rang mints which have b en made by the great Powers of Europe for (he break-up of the Chinese empire, all anxious to maintain the balance of Eastern Influence, or, in some cases, to upset it to their own profit. The partition of China is in the first stage of dangerous uncertainty. In the Yang-ts’ Yal ey, by the letters of February, 1898, we have by the hand of ‘ the English in nister laid claim to the 'Yang-tse region” and the provinces ad j ining the Yang-ise as the English “sph< res of interest.” This is the new’ and indefinite term of European diplomacy, supp sed to connote something less than ch equally indefinite “sphere of in fluence.’’ These provinces may be six or j eight in number, but in cither case they contain a majority of the Chines© peo ple and the test of its agricultural and n.ineral lands. At present no move has been mad** (o change our status in this part of the empire, the old heart of (he Middle Kirgdcm Things are as they were and one of our China consuls infeormed me that the only tffecl of the letter had hi en to make the Mandarins more stiff necked and unpleasant than ever to deal with, because they had begun 10 fear that (h ir sph re cf pew or and profit might be curtailed by further British interference. Before long, however, occasions are bound to arise when Great Britain § ill have to show what she meant, if she meant any thing, by the Yang-tse declaration, and ii is as well (hat the public at home should git cut of their mind the notion that the Tsung-li-Yamen, or any other Yamen, can make its writ run in all this vast terri tory. Not long ago Lord Salisbury spoke of the. Chinese government as “u going ' concern, which must b* treated as such." If he bad talked of Ihe dozen viceregal governments as “part going concerns’’ he would have been nearer the mark. Viceroy 1 !inng-< 1 i-Tung a* nn Ex ample. To illustrate the general statement by an example, le-t him take the leading case of the provinces of Hupeh and Hu Nan, and their Yiceroy, Chang-chi-Tung. This statesman is one of the oldest and mo** | powerful Chinese provincial officials, and the sent of his government is at Wu chang, opposite the great trading city of Hankow. He is said to be the one hon est mandarin in the empire—a man who has spent all his “squeeze” on the prov inces that he has governed, and has left them as empty as he came. In the las* extremity, and when the “gunboat argu ment” is in use, he is subordinate to Pe kin, like any other of his class; short of j that, he exercises most of the attributes \ of an autonomous ruler, and he would he a clever man w r ho could do much in i his provinces against the Viceroy’s j wishes. He has his own army, his own j navy, and his own mint, and. except in | regard to foreign trade, (he regulations of which are dependent on foreign gun boats, he is to all intents and purposes supreme! The ships of his fleet are now lying on the broad bosom of the Great ! river, and there -they w’ere. for (he all important duty of official salutes, in 1895, but in that year the Chinese government happened (o be at war wfith Japan, and an order came from Pekin that the Yang tse fleet was lo proceed north and join forces with the Pe-chi-Li fleet, drawn up nt Port Arthur. Did Chang-chi-Tung. then Viceroy of Kiang-Tsu, obey? Not a. bit of it. He said that it was Li Hung Chang’s war, and he did not mean to send his ships north -to be destroyed by the Japanese. Probably they were safer in the river than they would have been in the gulf, but if the navy is in this decentralized state, it does not tend to strengthen -the central power. It was much the same thing with the army. Pome soldiers were, it is true, sent down by boat to join the imperial forces, but they were not real soldiers. The Viceroy refused to let what dlsci ; plined forces he had go, on the ground 1 that it was wanted for home service. AH he sent were the coolies, dressed up to look like soldiers in coats of many colors, whose lives were cheap, and who, in fact, were even ready (o srll their chance of life for a small consideration, pnid to their families principally, for the propert transportation and burial of -their corpses. This was not a difficult or out of-the-way proceeding, for every Chinese commander employs coolie soldiers for the purpose of inspection and drawing pay. Out of n given force of 500 men on the pay sheets of (he provincial war bureau, not more than half at the outside would have any existence; the rest would he made up of the lowest class of coolie, en gaged for one day only. When the in specting mandarin appears on the parade ground (hey shout and rush about ns hard as their regular brethren, bu* they are. in fact, merely playing what they call here “fool pidgin.” ( lieck* Upon Independence. Nothing in China must ever be pressed to* a logical conclusion, or at least to the conclusion of Western logic. Tt does not. therefore, follow' that provincial king dom** make provincial Kings, or that in dependence lends to rebellion. Our ex amples of Chinese history are not encour aging to *he ambitious Viceroy. Two cen turies ago the Prince who played the pa * o' Gen. Monk to (be Manchu dynasty was. after a long struggle, hunted to sui cide. and hie family rooted out of the land. Every Viceroy is. in theory, obso lutely the creature of bis Emperor. By edict he may be degraded to he rank of a coolie, or brought before the Board of Punishments. In practice every Vice roy has his party at court; his friends, who, like the undertaker* of the eighteenth century, take his poy to defend his inter ests. In (he palace, too. the imperial policy has ever been to play off magnate against magnate, and never to allow any one official to become too strong. The advantages of a balance of power are well understood in the Forbidden Pity. Then, n Viceroy can pay the pa!a<e “squeeze,” and everything In China has its price. Of recent times only one or two Viceroys have actually been degraded, and that w’as due solely to the insistanr pressure of the great Powers. On the other hand Viceroy and Governor have a very renl liability in person and family; hev have given, outside (heir govern ment. so many pledges of good behavior. No official is set over the place of his birth, for by one of the earliest of the fundamental lows he mc<t not he ap pointed to any office within 200 miles of it. For example. TJ Hung Chang is from Nganhui. and his family are still there. In them he would always be vulnerable, and it is not only n case of the vicarious sacrifice of his cousins and aunts. An official has to think of the shades of his ancestors. If they were disgraced and their bones scattered he is from that mo ment on utter abomination. It comes to this. A Viceroy does not fac© the risks of open resistance, but he has nt his command, infinite forces of obstruction. There are always reasons why it would be dangerous to carry out this or that reform, to allow the “foreign devil” this or that franchise, and these reasons can be stated at interminable length in i**ti (ions to the throne Only the highest of ficial * have the right to direct petition to (he throne. Like the procedings of the i o'd Court of Chancery, the rebutters at>l the surrebutters may go on •<> the end i o'time Unless the Pekin nn*horlties have ; the strength of the early Mings, or the (great Manehus. official ev avion and pro crastination are invincible. The stress In these days of China’s weakness only comes when a gren: European power puts down the maiU*d fist. Chang-chi-Tung is in many ways an en lightened ruler, and he lias now' at his call .i regular force of cavalry ami in fantry some thousand strung. In the up per part of the city at Wuchang they have had built for them military bar rackis and a large military school close by. with gymnasiums and classrooms tached. Over them have been placed German officers, and lately some Japa nese have bH-ll ndded to the s-fuff of instructors. These German officers have b- en secured from the German Army, and are in receipt of annual s.ari*s from the Viceroy, mid they wear a curious mixture of German and Chinese uniforms -blue cloth, with many dragons embroidered on it. Their dally round is hard and continuous, for they have to do the work of sergeants as well as that proper to thrir rank. They drill the sol diers, both horse and foot, and instruct them in shooting; they superintend the gymnastic exercises; they have nfilit ary classes on ail subjtvts for the officers and cadets, and, in addition, they have ihe duty of making plans for all (he fortitb-.i --i floras in the provinces. What struck me j as (lie most tiresome task of all was the necessity of translating ihe manuals and I classbooks into Pekinese. The system in j vogue, like all German systems, is well I thought out and elaborate in detail, and, as regards the men in (raining, a fair amount of time—a year or so—is given for carrying it out. Wheiehr (he result is worth all the care and expense involved is another matter. 1 saw ihe men at drill, and was courteously shown something of (he various depart ments. Needless to say that the appear ance of the regiment was vastly different from anything of purely native brand. The Yang-tse soldier Is merely n coolie, armed on high days with an ancient rifle and clothed in a brilliant cotton jacket of due and red or orange and green. Asa rule, he is equipped vvih nothing more formida ble than a Chinese umbrella. Compared with this soldier a riro the Gerrhan trained man is the pink of perfection. He has a neat dark blue uniform of (Chinese cut, with a black cap bound by a black pugga ree that looked not unlike a small turban. At drill he moves like clockwork. Whether lu* would even now be a good fighting ma chine it is hard io sa>. The German officers complain of want of (self-reliance and independence of character, and (he grade of non-commissioned officers has J>een done away with because the Chinese ’mind could not appreciate the distinction between commissioned and non-commis ioned. In tine, these instructors lean to the opinion that their men would only bo valuable as part of a mixed force with European stiffening. One curious point was mentioned. They have, it seems, an armament composed partly of German and partly of Chinese made rifles. The latter look like the real article; they are cer tainly very clever reproductions in slock and barrel; but to use (hem for firing any thing Inn blank ammunition would be dan gerous in the extreme. Such a farce re minds one of the. torpedoes fillet! with coal dus( that were put down in the lower riv ets during the period of the Japanese war. “AH fool plggin,” the old Chinese pilots said. Some Queer Minin. In all provincial governments there is n piovincial mint turning out coinage oc c- rding to the “tael” standard of the dU trb’t, and L rd Charles lb re ford suggests a uniform coinage as one of his cures tor th.- sick man of the Far East. When the Mandarin gives up his *v q ue ze,“ then there may be a uniform coinage, but not before. It ;s unnecessary to demonstrate how rich u harvest is provided for thi> subordinate official by the operations of the mini, akin to the old clipping and cb - baring tricks of (he Stuart Kings. At Kurkin, which is the city of another vice • egal administration, was a delight ful arrangement. Until recently the Nan kin mint was entirely in the hands of na tives, nd in order to incr ase and equal ize the “squeeze” a much as possible, the master refused to crd< r any improv ed ma- bines, and by adhering to tin- old principles of hand labor, th - amount al lowed for wages out of the provincial ex chequer was kepi at its original figure. For stamping the copper “cash,” which i ’ the current small coin of China, none hut the simph st (appliances wer* used. Ihe metal was put under a punch work ed by a strap, and to every strap t her** was a workman Unfortunately, in order to make up the offic al salary, it was found impossible to engage more than a quarter of the. men rturned o employed In milling, so that when the annual In spe. fion by a h>gh-prc-d Mandarin took place it was necessary to s-ar h out som<- <f the coolies of the disirict In order to make a decent show. At the exact moment when the Mandarin entered <;very coolie pulled his s rup, ard all the copper was instantaneously stamped. To look at th** output would hav. been beneath the dig nity of th** inspector, sj he wnt away happy, the |ay was drawn, and it was only the coin that suffered from being punch and in so many unaccustomed spots. There Is now an English as ay or as ’ho-s’ and this gentleman has to be on hisguord agalrit-t the p-rverted ingenuity with which the c ins are light*ned and adulter ■at* and. As with Nankin, so with other pro vincial exchequers. Tin* coinage of China is a magnificent rerqulsite of the Manila rins, against the loss of which they would struggle with far greater obstinacy than against the loss of the dynasty. OliNtuelcM to HnforuiM. Granted that the provincial officials keep in their own hands army, navy and coin age, subject to the payment of tribute to Pekin, and the possibility of removal so soon as they are no longer able to bribe • heir partisans at (he palace, it is at once apparent how fatuous are (he schemes for the reform of China baaed upon the sov ereignty of the Man 'hu and the Six Boards, when provincial rights and priv lieges are in question. The principal of home rule is conse<*ra(ed by long ages of Chinese administration. It is bone of the hone of Chinese government, and all pro jects to tlie opening up of the empire must proceed on separatist lines. There is not a single man of experience or authority, be he consul, missionary or trader, that has come into actual contact with the Chinese outside the treaty ports where ih<* comprador, or Chinese agent, | all in all, who l>elieves in (he possibility of re forming China by way of Pekin or by Chi nese machinery. Edicts may be issued and punishments Inflicted for non-compli anJe, but the bureaucracy of the rnnnda rlns has its own way of meeting them by carrying out the time-honored maxim “that the secret of all government is in action.” Chang-chi-Tung has often b?en summoned to I’ekin. but, somehow or other, he never gets there, He finds him self detained by Illness, or recalled to his apltal by a sudden and alarming confla gration. His diffi* ulties ar* peculiar. A viceroy or high official has no scruple about going to I’* kin, if he have the where, withal to pay the clue amount of “black money,” o: they term It, to the- mandarins of ih< palace and t* the Dowager Empress herself. The dollar hushes up ever of fensc. 11 will even insure a “reformer" a merciful execution, by a single sirok of the sword, instead of an indefinite nurniKT of small cuts. Chang-chi-Tung, however, has no money to give**, for he has been the pattern governor of the empire In one respect. All the “squeose” that he has had to take he hos given hack to his provinces. “He can handle treacle, rind not lick his fingers,” said a Chinese Tal pan. Consequently, for him to go to Pekin would be Indeed to walk inf * ihe spider's bailor, especially when Li Hung Chong, with his £IO,OOO,CuO, is ever on the* watch to trip him up. • ■rent I* “Sijorei.e,** Old Chang-chi-Tung has spent his money in u curiously Oriental fashion; with the best of intentions ho has squan dered most of It through want of an ele mentary knowledge of the Iswk of trride. ||. wished o develop th* resources of his province/ as against the* foreigner, and so he has set up cot<on mills and iron works I at Wuchang and Hanyang, but with the ' most unfortunate results. In order to de- I feat the foreigner he began by employ- Scotch and Irish Whiskies. We are agents for the most celebrated Scotch and Irish whiskies, imported direct from the distilleries of Scotland and Ireland. These Scotch whiskies are the blend of the finest Highland whiskey matured many years in wood before bottled. The expert Analyist describes this Scotch whis key as the perfection of Highland whiskey, and is special O. V. H., selected Old Yatted Highland whiskey from Glasgow, Scotland. The latest novelty in Scotch whiskey is distilled by Rutherford of Leith, Scotland, and is called Scotch Cherry Whiskey, and very palatable indeed. We are also agets for the famous old Irish whiskey, imported bv us from Wheeler, Belfast. Ireland. LIPPMAN BROS,, , Agents for Scotch and Irish Distilleries. REMOVAL NOTICE. We move back to Broughton street Oct. 1. Our lo cation will be 112 west. We don’t want to spend much money on drayage. Therefore have decided to sell entire stock at ZERO PRICES FOR CASH, and will make accommodating terms to time purchasers. Our summer specialties are Awnings, Mosquito Net*, Odorless Refrigerators, the only kind; the Purita* Wickless, Oil Stoves (Blue Flame) for cool cooking. You know where to find us. iK LINDSAr&tfOROAN -J lug him, and foreign engineers w’ere con pultofi on the working of the iron. They advised him to tlx his works where the deposit was found, bu< this was against the old man’s fixed idea that the foun dry should be under his own eye. in fhe very center of his city. So he built it on a swamp and had to pay more for the foundations than for the rest of the building, and in addition he has to bring all •he Iron ore a distance of fifteen miles for smelting down the Han river. Then, the Viceroy never gives any European manager his confidence for a sufficient lime to allow him to make a succees of his position, and continual changes in management do not tend to commercial profit. As it is with the iron works, so it is with (he cotton mills, in the first year more than £4,500 had to be paid for missing parts of machinery, especially brass cops and plates, which had been stolen by the employes for want of prop er an*i honest supervision. "Squeezing himself, the high official—this old gentle man always excepted is always afraid that he is being “squeezed” by Ids Euro pean assistants, and 4hat not on the prop er scale. A great deal of moral plafltu dtnlzing has been, very properly, expend ed on tin* universal Fhlnese principle of “squeeze" or what the Americans often call “hoodie.” That it Is a had sys tem. and a demoralizing one. goes with out saying, but what else can the poor Chinaman do? He pays more for his of fice than he run ever get out of his ofli rl;d salary. The Taotai of Shanghai pays more to his head clerk than he receives from his ,-ity, and yet he is expected to give 100,00') taels, equal to some £14,000, for a tenure not exceeding three years. If a Chinese official did not “squeeze” he would starve. As regards (he vast mass of the people, "squeeze” is n regular and anticipated Impost, and the scale Is almost as well known and fixed as a lawyer’s charges. They pay and grumble, but they consider it. if It he not of an exceptional kind, a matter of course, and they talk of it as the ra4e payer in London does of his de mand note. In (he ease of rich men plunging In litigation, it may he quite another matter, and at Nankin T was told of a right clalmnnt to a large Inherit ance who was kept out of It by ho bribes gi-cn To (be Yamen by his wicked nephew, the man in posses sion with the nine points of law in his favor. What Is quite cer tain is that the ordinary Cinna mon is not squeezed out f the means of existence. For his protection the trade guilds ore a powerful agency. Sometimes they will go *o the length of a generil strike until some individual <use of in ■ justice or oppression is set right, and even the Governor is too much frightened of riot and disturbance to brave them for long, when he has no case worth speak ing of. As in many more advanced coun tries than China, it is the hangers-on or the courts, the smaller! officials and *it rendnivs, whom the average man fears and suffers from most. In every Chin* oily (here is countless crowd of stud ents. who have token their degrees and ar e waiting for appointments under the government, some of which never come. Hoping against hope for a i*ire living, they attach themselves to the nearest Ynmen and batten and breed on (he ex tortion of palm-oil. These Yamen run ners. like the petty tchnivniks of Russia, ire (he curse of the poor when they get i hem Into their net. It is n common say ing that it is not the big devil that U* to hr feared—lt Is all the little devils. “Whoever knew (he people of the Flow ery [■and leoru anything from the barbar rlan. but often have (he barbarians learn <•■<l from the people of the Flowery Land.” This quotation from the sophist Mencius Is ever in the mouths of the educated Chinese when they come Into controversy with missionary zeal. Verily, there is one of facts that they can teach us. and (hat is the futility of talking about and acting upon the government of China ns If It hod any 11 ken res to the centralized, and sovereign power* of the Western World How often is !• assumed in pub lic speeches, nnd even In diplomatic pa pers, that the hierorehy of Pekin can and does impose its will and enforce it* au thority upon provincial governments. In spite of the long lesson given us by the Viceroy I>*h between 1856 end IfiSO. In whn* would i>e styled In parliamentary lan guage, “the warlike operations” round Canton? The reality of eovereign power hiis some simple testn, and If these be ap plied to the relations between the Impe rial nnd Viceregal government* of Chinn, It will be found that the whole *<>hem** is one vast mass of confusion nn*l pro crastination. What makes a proper un derstanding of the condition* so intense ly important at the present time is that every mouth we or** contracting nornc new obligation or sanctioning some fresh concession, the burden of which will have to be borne in due season. —A Ridiculous Fad -Mrs. Jackson—Dat hi faint in Mrs. Y\ a shtubb am puttin’ on lot* o’) airs, lately; trying to act J<a’ like white folks! Mrs. Johnson—U’m! Wot a:n her latest f Mrs. Jackon-Whv, do mot redlkilous flng yo’ evah heerd oh! She am suin’ her hutband fo’ nen-suppoht!—Buck. Mr. Hau-kecp My wife broke a fairy lamp. two vases, and a cut-glass flower, stand in our r*rlor las evening, but she u *. mi llsht and h r purp re. Mr Asctim- For goodness’ sake, what wat her puri ore? Mr. Hauskecp—To capture a clothe* moth she saw flying around.—Philadelphia Press. ALWAYS ON DECK. BALL PLAYERS ORGANIZED. WILL DEW AM, THEIR BIGHTS FRO,I <U R OWNERS. They Shj Tliej lo Not lu(cn<l to An (iiKonlze the Mugniten, tint They Waul < linn gen In (lie Contract, and Wont to Stop (lie .Selling and I’firming Out of Player*—‘•Chief’* /.fruitier of Pltlnliurg Wan Mnda I'reniflent. New' York, July 29. -The Baseball Play ers’ Protective Association was formed in this city to-day. A permanent or ganization was effected, constitution and by-laws adopted and officers elected. “Chief” Zimmer of the Pittsburg Club, was (‘boson president; Hugh Jennings of the Brooklyn Club, secretary, and Wil liam Clarke of the Boston Club, treas urer. The meeting to-day was the second held by the new organization. Unlike th© first, however, when only three delegates from • ach (dub were allow* *1 nt •he meet ing, to-day’s session was open lo any members of the association, and nearly 100 [ layers attended. The delegare* pres ent were: Jennings, Keeler and Kelley, Brooklyn; Burkett, Young nnd Donovan, St. Louis; Beeliley and Corcoran, Cindn naH; Griffith, Ryan and Callahan, Chi cago; Delahanty, Murphy and Donohue, Philadelphia; Zimmer, O’Brien and Ely, Pittsburg; Duffy, Clarke and Collins, Bos ton; Doyle, Freeman and Smith, New York. The constitution wan prepared by Henry Taylor of Buffalo, the organization'* coun s* '. It was adopted unanimously, but Just wli.it (lie constitution contains none of those present would divulge. Mr. Taylor stated that the principal object of tha players’ orguiizatlon would be to fight th© magnates in the matter of selling and farming player*. The present system of contracts will also 1• bitterly fought by the | layers’ organization. Piny era Want Tli*lr ltl*lit*t. "There are many things that ore in equitable in (tie contra i* presented to players now,” said Mr. Taylor, “and wo propose to i- medy them. Well, we will probably draw up a form of contract and present it t* the magnates (his fall. I shall lake th* * < ntrnets used (n the Na tional, Eastern, Western and American Leagues, and after modifying them, draw up anew form. That will In- presented to the mug nates for consideration." “And supposing the magnates should ig nore your body?" was asked. “Well, this Is a conservative organiza tion. There Is nothing revolutionary about it (in<l w* don’t propose to keep men from playing ball. But the magnates have ground* and grandstand© and they want bill games. They can't afford to have (heir property He idie. Our demands are Just and modest and we don’t antici pate trouble. A grievance committee has been appointed, but (heir names will b% kept secret for the present.” “How Hrong is your organization?” “Well, there ar • just two players in the big lea go* who are not numbers, aid they will he members in a day or two. We have received word from the Eastern and Western League and American L* ague and every player In those two organizations Js anxious to Join. We ex pert to have as members • very profes sional ball player in the country.” At th* conclusion of the meeting Hugh Jennings said: “Our organization to-day is strong, and we are ready to talk bu*ln<*. It is not our objt ( to bring atxxit a tight with ths club owners. We want Justice, and In tend lo get it in a straight, above-board and businesslike way. All of the players are with the organization, and we are chockful of enthusiasm. We are only fighting against methods in the contract system and the scheme of selling and farming players.” Tnllnhitne© News Note*. Tallahassee, Fla.. July 27.-The Tampa Foundry and Machine Company has been incorporated by letters patent Issued from (he office of the Secretary of State, with a capital of $40,000. William T. Damon succeeds Charles O. Dyer In the office of the St. James, the la tier going to Jacksonville a* landlord of ihe New Geneva. Iter llnd> Sent lo SI. Louln. N* w York, July 29.—Th** body of Nellie Blair, or Ogle, (he young woman who committed suicide at the Presbyterian Hospital on Friday, was to-day sent to 81. I xml* on order of the dead girl’z mother, Mrs. Ogle of St. Ix>ule. %rreefed for Homicide. Richmond. Ind., July 29.—George Jenkins and William <lh ** were arrested to-day for killing Rarlden Meek. The latter ordered blackberry hunter* off his prem ise* and was killed in the altercation which followed. Ilnse Hall Game*. Milwaukee Milwaukee. 4; Cleveland. 0. Kan* City Kansas City. 5; Detroit, 4. At Chicago— Chocopo, 6; Buffalo, 8. English papers have It that Henry James his been offered an associate pro fes.sorshlp of English at his alma matar. Harvard. 5