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r fe'-a ON THE TRAIL OF THE?"4-1"1' * AMERICAN e By WILLIAM T. ELLIS 1^,1, ottffcieufshad American JoomiHst Is Travel!nf Around the Work! for the Purpose of Ir,Tost I gating the American Foreign Mts- sionary'from a Purely Disinterested. Secular and.Non-Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawings and from Photo*raphi. NO "MORE MISSIONARIES WANTED," KISS BRINGS FIRE ENGINES. (Copyright , 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Tokio, Japan--That mai# or most Japanese Christian say no more for­ eign missionaries are wanted in Japan, and that numbers of the strongest missionary leaders agree with themt at least to the extent of saying that no new forces should be sent out for the present, is the rather sensational conclusion to which I have been forced after six weeks' study of the missionary situation here. A grave crisis confronts the mis­ sions in Japan. How serious it is the church peopler in America have no conception. Thkt an open rupture between the missions and the Jap­ anese churches has\ been narrowly averted, and is still as dangerous pos­ sibility, is freely admitted on all sides. The gravity of the situation is recog­ nized by everybody concerned. It affects present religious conditions in the empire, but, more important still. It has a bearing upon the future of Christian missions in almost every country in the world. The questions that are up for settlement here and now will constitute a precedent for all other mission lands. The very magnitude of the crisis has sobered all parties concerned, so that the bit­ terness anil' hostilities which marked the earlier stages of the controversy are passing away, and 4n every side the extreme views are being modified. Japanese Churches Assert Themselves. The present tense situation has its tap root In the spirit »t Japanese na­ tionalism. This people is exceedingly sensitive and proud. It resents with bitterness and sarcasm being called a "heathen" nation, and thus being classed with the natives of Africa and the South Sea Islands. Equally is it averse to remaining under foreign control and tutelage in its religious life. The sentiment which caused the abolition of extra-territorial political rights to foreigners, and which to this day leads the Japanese prints to speak of the foreign communities as "former settlements," is keenly alive "to what is felt to be an attitude of hymn book for all the Japanese churches. Where the Conflict Comes. The paradoxical statement is true, broadly speaking, that while the rela­ tions between the individual mission­ ary and the individual Japanese Chris­ tian have been cordial, the relations between the missions and the native churches have been strained. The crux of the question has been the, control of the forces and the funds. The missionary and his per­ sonal helpers have worked in and for the local congregations, but the latter have had no control over them. The missionary is entirely outside the Ju­ risdiction of the native church. He works when and where and how he pleases, or as his mission directs. So, too, the evangelists employed by the missionary are governed In the matted of salary and labor entirely by the missionary. When it has chanced that one of these evangelists has received a larger salary than the regular pas­ tor of the church itself, there has nat­ urally been feeling. It must be remembered that the missionary in Japan is not a pastor. He has no congregational duties and responsibilities, such as ordinarily are borne by a preacher in America. Ev­ ery congregation has its own native pastor and officers. These may con­ sult with the missionary, but he can­ not "boss" them. The preaching mis­ sionary's work is evangelistic; he pioneers Christianity into new places. In this he is assisted by evangelists, who work under his personal super­ vision. The money, however, is In the mis­ sionary's controI. Not all the churches, by any means, are self supporting. They muat>4ook to America and Eng­ land for help. With the control of the money has gone, to a greater or less degree, a voice in the direction of the work. Right here comes the rub. The Japanese want to control the money, and in some cases the missionary, too. The talk is all of "cooperation," Missionaries en superiority on thepart of the mission­ aries. Underlying the problem, also, is the ingrained and ineradicable Anglo-Sax- Heliday. but It Is not a cooperation in which the missionary plays almoner. In fact, since the Japanese churches have their pwa mission boards they feel-- auei^iuvu auu mciwii^uic n.u&ivuaA- ^ on sense of superority to other riSei. least, an outspoken wing of I myself have seen enough to warrant the belief that there is ground for the Japanese sensitiveness on this sub­ ject. Not all missionaries conduct themselves toward the Japanese * preachers and Christians as toward ' a man, a brother and an equal. Such .men are few, but they Bhould be called home. Their usefulness here is . ended, if it ever existed. To this at- t tltude on the part of certain foreign- - ers may be traced the ecclesiastical inconsiderateness, not to say hostil­ ity, of the Japanese. Missionaries not 1 a few know as well as the native ministry what it is to have their feel- . lngs hurt Church Unjon Ahead of Homeland. The upshot of the matter has been the growth of self-governing Japan­ ese denominations. The largest of these is "The Church of Jesus Christ . in Japan," which includes all the Pres­ byterian and Reformed bodies; there a,re here none of the Presbyterian sub­ divisions that exist in America. Next in size comes the "Kumiai," or Con­ gregational churches, with whom will shortly be included the United Breth­ ren and Methodist Protestants. The Japanese Methodist bodies--North, South and Canadian--have been seek­ ing consolidation. At first the mis­ sion boards across the water which are.Interposed obstacles to this union, # objected, but the Japanese Metho­ dists spoke out so promptly and loudly that all barriers to the creation of one Methodist church in Japan have been removed. The Protestant Episcopal church and the Church of England have likewise Joined forces here. There is little doubt that this union movement will continue, the Congregatiojialists and the Presbyterians coalescing at an early date. " Many predict a speedy *Hiion of all native churches into one Japanese Christian church. Certainly it Is, the consensus of opinion that the minute denominational and sectarian divisions of American Christendom j^v;.'a(Si«inot be perpetuated here. V The present enrolled membership 1 * 1 :pt. the Protestant churches of Japan, ' * i|y the way, is about 55,000, the past V '^year showing an apparent decrease-- • through an error, it is claimed, in the "Cp |»tatistics. Long before the churches 4»f American got together in New ^ v York in the Interchurch Confer­ ence on Federation, there existed a poundly established federal organiza- the Standing Committee of Missions," which has ef- „ r v several < viaoiloal results, »a- - tk y\*, poundly estai 7 *,on here, "th %'•, Co-operating them feel--that the latter should have the entire administration of mission methods and money, with, of course, the full counsel of the missionaries. The Congregationalists have gone practically thus far. The "Kumlal" are practically independent. The American board makes to them an annual grant of money for a specific term of years, at the end of which time, it is presumed, the churches will have become self-supporting. The en­ tire independency movement faees to­ ward the day when the Japanese churches will be "self-governing, self- supporting- and self-propagating." The missionaries of the American Board very generally yield themselves to the counsel of their Japanese associates. One man told me the other day that, in council with the native pastors, they had assigned him his work for the coming year. He says that he finds this relation perfectly satisfac­ tory and that the attitude of the Jap­ anese is in no wise dictatorial, but that all are together seeking the one end of the work's welfare. The Japanese Type of Christianity, All this is no mere racial jealousy. It goes deep. Are the Japanese quali­ fied for ecclesiastical self-government, a& they have proved their fitness for political self-government? Akin to this is the consideration whether mission land is forever to remain mission land, nurtured by outside agencies. The native church in Japan covers the entire empire. It has many self-supporting congregations, and powerful leaders not a few. It is said that in remote government schools where there was not a single Chris­ tian, ^the students are nevertheless divided into Uemura and Ebana camps --these latter being the names of the preachers who are the leaders of two parties in the churches, whose vigor­ ous newspaper controversies are fa­ miliar to a wide constituency. The Japanese church has an established foreign mission work of its own in Formosa and Korea. I have been at pains to inquire as to the character of Japanese Christians. On all sides I hear that the intelligent devotion of Japanese Christians to the central truths of Christianity is imquestioned. Whatever the outcome of the present controversy, the native church will remain loyal to the teach­ ings which it has had from the mis­ sionaries. I personally have seen con­ gregations of Christians here, of sev- eral denominational names, whose de­ votion and sincerity was apparent to than one old blind man with whom I talked, who has been through long persecution for the sake of his faith. Undoubtedly, too, Christianity has come to have a recognized place la the life of the nation. It is a factor in the present thought and develop­ ment of Japan which no Japanese leader pretends to ignore. Broadly speaking, there Is now no hostility to Christianity; yet I yesterday saw one of the old edict boards which SO years ago decorated the highways,' threat­ ening with death any one accepting Christianity or harboring a Christian. All of the many Japanese writers and teachers with whom I have thus far talked freely concede* at least an im­ portant place in Japan's future to Christianity; while Christian authors, like Matsumura, confidently declare that it is bound to swallow up Budd­ hism and Shintoism. Japanese Chris­ tians are beginning to have their own schools and orphanages, supported by themselves, as well as their own re­ ligious books and periodicals. Why No More Missionaries. The foregoing is an endeavor to give a clear glimpse of a situation that seems to be understood very *slightly in America. Back here one hears echoes of fervid reports of "Japan's Religious Awakening," and "Japan's plea for missionaries." Over these I have seen old missionaries shake their heads. At the recent meeting of the Council of Missions of the Presbyterian and Reformed churches which struggled with the present burning issues it was declared openly that no more new missionaries should be sent here until the present problematic situation has been ad­ justed. It may be that some men al­ ready here will have to return home. To a mere observer it appears reason­ able that a man who has been in Japan many years without having learned the language, or acquired the Japanese viewpoint, or attained sym­ pathetic and fraternal relations with the native Christians, should consider himself called to some more congenial field of labor. A recent issue of "Mis­ sion News," a monthly published in Kobe in the interests of the Ameri­ can Board Mission, contained these striking sentences: "The time for extra-territorial' Christianity in Japan is rapidly drawing to an end, if it is not already passed. Missions and mis­ sionaries are being tested. They have accomplished a mighty work in the past and it is in their power to do even greater work in the present and immediate future. Will they meet the test and rise to the opportunity that is theirs?" On this last point the Japanese are quite insistent. They say the new day demands a new kind of help from America. Instead of men to do preach­ ing and teaching--for which some as­ sert there are now sufficient qualified Japanese--they want men of the char­ acter and calibre of President Charles Cuthbert Hall, of Union Seminary,, New York, who made a pronounced impression during his recent visit to Japan. They want statesmanlike leaders, men of large culture, great learning and broad sympathies. The best that America has In the way of teachers and pastors may profitably be sent to Japan to lead her native leaders and inspire her native inspir- ers. In the meantime the majority 'of missionaries, as well as many Japan­ ese, declare that Japan still needs the missionaries. The native church is not strong enough, either in men or money, to go it alone. Japanese preachers from outlying parts of the empire say frankly that this whole uproar is a Tokio product, and they hint at the ambition of certain Tokio leaders to control the Japanese church. An English missionary told me that the control of funds could not be turned over to Japanese until the lat­ ter, as a nation, have learned new ideas of trusteeship. He cited the case of a treasurer who used trust funds to pay his father's debts, saying naively that his obligations to his father took precedence to all other ob­ ligations. On the other hand, some missionaries assert that such charges are the mere race prejudice of the white man. Out of the confusion of hundreds of conflicting opinions upon this all-ab­ sorbing topic of Japanese ecclesiastic­ al independence, I have gathered at least one conviction, namely, that so long as the present state of uncer­ tainty and turmoil exists, the Ameri­ can missionary organisations would do well to send no more young preach­ ers toi Japan, although the field for unordalned teachers is large. -• • Infectious Sympathy. Medical authorities and hospital boards here are wondering if there is not some mysterious but yet unfa- thomed infectious sympathy which produces appendicitis through over- contact with those suffering from the disease, says the Philadelphia Ledger. This state of mind Is inspired by a remarkable series of attacks brought to light here. . Dr. Frederick Zimmerjfchief surgeon in the City hospital, spent one after­ noon operating on several critical cases, then went home to dine with his wffe and daughter. Immediately after dinner Miss Stella Zimmer, a handsome girl of about 16, suddenly became very ill. Her father was amazed to find that she was suffering from appendicitis, and to verify his diagnosis called in two specialist col­ leges on the hospital hoard. Miss Zimmer was taken at once to the hospital and operated on. The operation was performed about nine o'clock. Before the dawn had fairly broken Dr. Zimmer was urgent­ ly called back to attend one of the nurses who ̂ had assisted him at his daughter's operation. While he was operating on that nurse he got word that he would have, to hurry and per* form a similar operation on the other nurse, also suddenly stricken. The Twe Davises. A number of years ago there- were two men In the employ of the. Santa Fe who were named Davis. One was James A. Davis, who was then in charge of the railroad's industrial de­ partment. The other Davis was la charge of the railroad's refrigerator line. James Davis was a "hot air" artist whom the company always se­ lected to "jolly" state legislatures. The oilier Davis was also a genial fellow, but owing to the fact that he had charge of the iced goods which went over the road and could not hold a candle to James A. when it came to talking things out of people, he acquired the reputation of being somewhat chilly. •, One day the president pushed the office boy's bell button and the young autocrat hastily put in an appearance. "Boy," safrl t&& president, "tell Mr. Davis that 1 would like to see him right away." The boy started for the door, hesi­ tated, thought a moment, and then turning to the president he said: "Mr. Davis, sir?" "Yes, Mr. Davis." "Hot or coldr Love Ye One Another. Isn't it the open secret? "Little chil dren, love ye one another!" It is the universal law. It is the law of heaven; it is the only law that will make the eatrth like Paradise. "Little children love ye one another!" Neither king nor peasant, neither high nor low neither rich nor poor--ohly one great human family, with one great human Heart yearning warmly over the be­ ing it created, with the one great law pulsing through its arteries: "Little children. Oh, my little children, love ye one another!" -- Grace Keon. Postman Embraced Girl, Who Upset Lpdder Against Fire Box. A simple little kiss, Imprinted the lips of a pretty typewriter in one' of the downtown office buildings one day last week, brought several fire engines and hook and ladder com­ panies racing to the scene of possible conflagration, hurried out the police , reserves, blockaded Nassau street for half an hour and caused several thou­ sand persons to congregate, according to the New York Press. Tenants of the office building in question have noticed of late a flirta­ tion between the handsome young let­ ter carrier who delivers the mall and the pretty typewriter. At the office In which she is employed the letter carrier devoted far more time to pick­ ing out correspondence for the firm than was absolutely necessary. The postman was swinging along the corridor the other day, his heart beating a trifle more quickly than usual, as he neared the office where his sweetheart is employed. Just then the door opened and she came out. The couple walked along a few steps together, chatting gayly. The corridor was deserted, and the gallant letter carrier decided to embrace the opportunity and the girl at the same time. He succeeded in kissing her, but the suddenness of the affair startled the girl,and she broke away from his encircling arm. In so doing she upset a small ladder, which fell against the fire alarm box, smashing the glass and pressing the electric button in full accordance with the printed rules. The girl fled to her office and the postman disappeared around a corner of the c#ridor, and began delivering mail with fiendish rapidity. When the firemen arrived they saw the broken alarm and the prostrate lad­ der and promptly summed up the situation as a false alarm. They didn't know how the ladder happened to fall, but blamed the usual skylark­ ing boys. But the girl knows and the postman knows. So doesf one of the tenants, who opened the door of his office just in time to see the comedy. But he isn't going to tell. PALACE ^ * •' -V > - _ MEW CAREER>OR FORMER 'BEAU­ TIFUL HOME OF EMPRESS. Magnificent Building on the Island of ~*Jorfu Once Occupied by Elfaff^ toeth of Austria Has ^ Been Sold. * • To lire Jn * palace once the resi- dence of an empress Is not Oppor­ tunity which comes often to the tour­ ist, and no doubt the American travel­ er in his foreign jaunts will only too eagerly avail himself of the privilege of stopping at the magnificent palace Achillelon, on the island of Corfu, where the late empress of Austria lived for several years in Itncurious but melancholy seclusion. This pal­ ace, built at a cost of $5,000,000. has Just been purchased by a Swisa-Qor- man syndicate which will convert it Into a hotel and sanitarium. The sale of this magnificent palace brings to mind many strange memories of th« murdered woman. A dozen years Kg?) she was the most patfiotic of th« prominent figures in Europe, Fol Sow­ ing the tragic suicide of her son, the Crown Prince Rudolph, her majesty failed rapidly in mind and body until became a wreck of her former uoautiful self. A terrible restlessness possessed her towards the en 4 of |ier life. She could not stay for long in any one place, constantly moving about from Tyrol to Corfu, from Corfu to Switzerland, and from Vienna to Venice. But at Achillelon she seemed to find most consolation for her many sorrows. A Greek, who served the empress as reader in these lonely years, has left an account of her life in this great white palace by the blue sea. The empress, it is said, used to roam about quite alone on the seashore talking to fishing folk and peasants she met there. She suf­ fered greatly from insomnia and was often seen walking on the terraces outside the palaces long before dawn, like a beautiful ghost in the pale morning. When the empress left the/palace for the last time, in 1890, s>e felt that she would never see th,e place again. With tears In her eyes she said to a friend: "Something in my heart tells me that I shall never come to this beautiful spot again." It was only .a few weeks later that the empress was murdered by a half crazed fanatic, who called himself an anarchist as she was about to board a steamer at Geneva. The palace, which is of pure white marble, has a fine situation on the : f - r MORE THAN QUEEN * ' " . : > ' V. • \ WAS DOLLY I^ADISON IN TNft ' •• %•>.' -U,N° " " ' * ^ ^ - ' < Over Antftte** tft£lit§E V'V t h e F i r s t L a d y o f T h e L a n d -- ^ «g,\ with Madlaoa Wat •.V" - Her Second. I V , Columns and Statuary on One Side of the Palace. east coast of Corfu, which is the most northerly of the Ionian islands in the Adriatic. The building was designed by the famous Italian archi­ tect S. Carito. There are 128 rooms and a chapel. In an effort to . hide her grief in magnificence the em­ press spared no expense to beautify the place. The grounds are especially splendid, being planted with some 2&,- 000 rose trees. Altogether it is one of the most beautiful residences among the many magnificent places In southern Europe. OLD "IRONSIDES" HISTORIC CRAFT OF COLONIAL FAME STILL SHOW FEATURE. Being Overhauled and Restored Her Former Condition After She Had Been Ordered Destroyed. It is probable that bo exhibit at the exposition at Jamestown will attract more attention than the old frigate Constitution. Certainly no other fea­ ture of show can equal in historic in­ terest this renowned old vessel, the 'famed "Old Ironsides'" of song, and The Stork and Its Ways. The home of the stork is Holland and Denmark, but many birds of this variety are found in Germany and in Friesland. It is a familiar thing to see in any of these countries one or more large white birds sitting or standing in their housetop nests. The stork flits southward in the winter and stays until it grows warm­ er in his real home. It is not a wild bird, though it has been found ex­ tremely difficult to introduce the stork Into strange countries. Several un successful attempts have been made to rear young birds in England. Not Altogether Without Hope. "But," said the lawyer, "your case teems hopeless. I don't see what can do for you. You admit that you beat your wife." "Yes," replied the defendant, "but my wife's testimony will discount that. She never admits she was beaten. His 53-Year-Old Coat. John P. Ledyard of Clinton town­ ship, Wayne county, Pennsylvania,- is wearing an overcoat the wool ol which was pulled from the pelts of the sheep, carded and spun, and the cloth was cut and the garment made 53 years ago by his mother. The coat is without a rent or break and as perfect as when made, with lecieu Hevera* pmuuuui |V^ftlttdii*j|. JN» production of a common uusei ver. A riper or more saintly i the exception of gauwiug a alight lau- character it would be hard to find | lng with ace. ^ Getting Desperate. Passionately he seized her hand. "Miss Golde--Lotta," he said, "I can not live without you." * The heiress blushed. "Ah," she faltered, "you have said that to so many girls, Lord Algie." "But never," he Insisted, "when the upkeep of a private garage was any thing like what it Is to-day."--Chicago Chronicle. naval actions of this nation also went overboard from the shipyards of that New England city. These were- the Hartford and the Merrimac. Only one other vessel which flew the stars and stripes can hold an equal place with this trio--that one being the original Monitor, from which haB been evolved the steel clad battleship of modern days. TRADE THAT IS EXTINCT. >, Qreek Proverb. A Mky man goes far, pud he who Jhuns labor labors' "Old Ironsides," as She Looked Housed Over and Before Work of Res­ toration Was Begun. story, and whose exploits must ever be an immortal memory to every patri­ otic heart in this land. It was about half a century ago when this renoWned vessel wasjs^ved from the scrap heap by the ptfeni of Oliver Wendell Holmes, written at the time when It was proposed to ^reak her up as being unfit for furtherrserv- Ice. The ringing lines of the poet put to shame the thought. / Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should Bink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there Bhould be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, .And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale! Once more the, history vessel has been saved from destruction, thia'time because of a petition signed by 30,- 000 citizens of Massachusetts, and who forwarded It to Mr. Bonaparte, late secertary of the navy, with the earnest plea for the gallant old craft be preserved as long as her timbers can be made to hold together. The navy department went further, and acting on its recommendation con­ gress appropriated $100,000 to have the vessel restored as far as possible to her original appearance. The work of restoration was delegated to Naval Constructor Snow, who has been fur­ nished with the ship's original plans along with some photographs showing how she looked in the glorious days when she floated mistress of the seas. The constructor recently made a trip to Salem, Mass., where there is a mod­ el of the Constitution as she was be­ fore being reconstructed in 1845. This model was presented to the Salem Ma rlne society by Commodore Hull, and is the only one in existence showing what the Constitution was In her days of glory and renown. The Constitution was built in Bos ton, and it IB a rather curious fact that the two other vessels which were participants in the most momentous The Dealer 8ays There's No Longer a Demand for His Leeches. The leeches like hairless black cat­ erpillars, clung to slim reeds that pro­ truded above the water in the aqua­ rium. They were torpid, as though hyp­ notized, but when the dealer put one on his finger it fell to work as busily as a Barataria mosquito. It could be seen swelling and flushing. "That'll do, you little rascal." And the dealer removed the leech, hurried­ ly, then Bighed. "Mine is an. extinct trade," he said, "like that of the armorer or the sun­ dial maker, and I can't make a living out of it any more. But in the past --why, great Scott, in the past leeches were so much used by doctors that a doctor used to be called a leech. "I used to sell to one hospital in this town 50,000 leeches a year. That hospital now takes 50 or 60 yea«iy. I had on my books 200 doctors^ each of whom I supplied regularly every morning with a dozen leeches. They carried them about in little pocket cases, as they now carry hypodercic syringes. "My father had a leech farm for some years. He- raised the Hungarian speckled leech--that's the best--in a New Jersey pond out Matawan way. He did fair. He got an annual crop of 1215,000. "t.eeches are no- longer used be­ cause bleeding Is no longer believed in. You couldn't boost bleeding a bit, could you, in the paper? I might majce it worth your while."'--Philadelphia Bulletin. Dolly Madison! Truly the name self is one to conjure with. To out even who forgets all the dates and battles and great generals and other momentous events of history, it clings with persistence like the lingering per­ fume of some old sweetness, writes Cora A. Moore in Broadway. It means? dimples and coquetry and laughing eyes and all the charm and witchery that make some women wonderfoL All this Dolly was, the demure Quaker maiden from Philadelphia, who burst from the chrysalis of a somber girl­ hood to the brilliant butterfly exist* ence of a womanhood that found her the absolute queen of society, the arbi­ ter of the positions of the day, the first lady of the land! Her parents, who were Friends, had moved from Virginia to Philadelphia for the advantages of the religious associations here afforded. Dorothea --they called her Dorothea then--used to walk on Chestnut street in that afternoon promenade which Chestnut street still celebrates, and she wist­ fully watched the ladies of fashion in their gay brocades and bright-colored silk stockings that peeped beneath their petticoats; for her heart dearly loved all the sinful, pretty fineries that her faith rebuked. At 19 she mar­ ried, as her parests wished, John Todd, a staid and proper Quaker, a lawyer of Philadelphia. At 23 she was a widow, and then it was that she W- gan to develop as herself. Aaron Burr had asked permission to bring to call on her ene of the rising statesmen of the day, and all in a flat* ter the gay young widow wrote a wom­ an friend that the "great little Madi­ son is coining t6 see me this evening." She got herself up In a mulberry satin govfn that set off to advantage the pearly white and delicate rose tinto of her complexion, and when, in her mother's candle lighted parlor, rite ex­ tended1 a soft, dimpled hand to th» un­ impressive little man in a suit of black, with ruffled shirt and silver shoe buckles, he was almost overcome by the radiance of her beauty, the laughing eyes of Irish blue and the saucy black curls that escaped frosa the demure cap of white tulle. She was the loveliest woman be had ever met, and he went at once about his wooing. In a few months the rumor of an engagement was afloat in so­ ciety. Martha Washington, with the privilege of a family connectioe, made bold to ask Mrs. Todd how matters stoed. When the widow bJushingly admitted the truth, she was assured that it was all right and that the match should have the blessing of President and Mrs. Washington. There followed a splendid wedding. The dun colored Quaker abode in Phil- a delphia was not grand enough, and so it was celebrated in Virginia, at Harewood, the home of the bride's sister, fcnd it waa a very different scene from the first wedding that took place Is the friends' meeting house. WEALTH FROM THE PACIFIC. Valuable Products from Sea Water oil Our Western Coast. Californlans have solved the prob­ lem of the alchemists and are making gold out of sea water. The golden state has taken golden treasure out of h^r mountains, has made her val­ leys yield millions of dollars' worth of golden fruit, has amassed tourist gold iu exchange for her sunshine, and now turns to the great lazy Pacific ocean and ransacks its coffers. There is no rush of prospectors to m new field, however, as the gold is coming out of the sea in the form of salts of potassium, magnesium and bromide, which would elude the pau and the rocker of the prospector. Of several "diggings' of this nature one at least is active and prosperous and one is approaching activity. The San Pedro Salt company, which re­ cently entered into the field, has suc­ ceeded in manufacturing a quantity and quality of salt whJch has found a ready market and has already assumed place among the exports of the port of San Pedro. The fact that San Pedro Is a lively and thriving port, with almost no out­ going cargoes, makes the development of this trade both easy and important. Since the first of last year the coast­ ing schooners returning t$ the north­ ern coast have taken away over a thousand tons of thfs sea salt. at ' Meaning Made Clear. The 250-pound heroine rushed the villain with arms extended. "I throw myself on your mere she gurgled. As he sunk to the stage beneath her avoirdupois, he gasped: ' N-uow I r-realize the m-meantng of the power behind tjie t-thrown."--Hiicago Daily Newt. The Snowshoe Rabbit. JCature has tried many means of saving her own from the snow death; some, like the woodchuck, she puts to sleep till the snows shall be over. Others she teaches to store up food and to hide--so she deals with the woodmouse. To still others, as the moose, she furnishes stilts. The last means she employs Is snow shoes. This, the simplest, most scientific, and best, is the equipment of the snow- shoe rabbit, the Wabasso of Hiawatha --a wonderful creature, horn of a snowdrift crossed with m little brown hare. The moose is like a wading Wrd of the shore that has stilts and can wade well for a space, but that soon reaches the limit beyond jwhjeir ft is no better off than a land But the snow- shoe is like the swimmer--It skims over the surface where It will, not caring If there be one or 1,000 feet of the element below It. In this lies its strength. Wabasso has another nfeme--the varying hare--because it varies in color with the season; and the sea- cms in all its proper country are of two colors, brown for six months, white for six. So all summer long, from mid-April till mid-October, the northern hare is a little brown rab­ bit. Then comes the snowy cold, the brown coat is quickly shed, a new white coat appears, the snowshoes grow fuller--and the little brown hare has become a white hare, the snow- shoe hare of the woods.--Everybody's Magazine, Mads and Spent Money. Rufus Brown Bullock, ex-governor of Georgia, who died near Alabama. N. Y., a few days ago, was a big and easy money maker, but he spent his income as fast as he earned it. He was careful, however, to carry a large life Insurance. His motto was to make good money and live well, pro­ tecting his family through insurance. Mr. Bullock in his youth was a tele­ graph operator and 'was among the first to .receive rapidly the Morse code in dots and dashes. When he was an operator in Philadelphia the telegraph business of the country was done by numerous small companies. It was at his suggestion that these small concerns were united in one large company, and this was the basia for the Western Union. A Curious Fact. "I havQ had some very strange let­ ters of introduction," said the caller. "My friend," answered Senator Sor­ ghum, "I don't reiy too far on commu­ nications of that Kind. A man will give you a letter of introduction de­ scribing you as possessed of every noble quality in human nature and in the next breath refute to indorse your note for $20." Big Production ol Saltpeter. ^ Electric furnaces at Notodden, Nor­ way, are capable of producing about 1,000 tons of aa&uaUjr*