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Kt« ii.': ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN HtSSS * V. "• •%i By %VIULlA>f T. £1.1.13 This DisUnetf shed American Jcurn«Hst Is fp»eBn» Around the World for th« Purpfise or W^^rtWfc""Slfe;AlSMtan' (ioiurr from a Purely Disinterested, Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated With Drawings «nd from Photoeraphs. STUDENT IMMQJRALITY IN JAPAN . rr--\r- v t <$>* $'• Wi Tokio, Japan.--Toklo Is a nest of problems. Here the "Far Eastern Question" has its focus. And an In­ vestigator finds that it is by no means one abstract question, but an Inter­ woven mass of perplexities, each with 4i relation to the other. Out of the •whole I have tried to extricate the two that appear to be fundamental education and morality; and both have a direct bearing upon the mis­ sionary and religious situation which * I am studying. Tokio is the greatest student cen­ ter in the world, w#h more than 50,- 000 students of the higher branches. Here young Japan, infatuated with the •western learning, has concentrated ate ambitions. The streets teem with young men and women students. The procession of these that may be seen any day along the moat by the im­ perial palace is the most significant spectacle in all Japan. It is the crux of the nation's anxieties; I do not wonder that the elder statesmen are shaking their heads and looking grave over it; for reasons which I shall presently show. So great is the craze for education that, although the rather loose figures of the Japanese government give 94.43 per cent, of the population of school age as under instruction (an Ameri- i •can educator here figures It as 69.05 fy* "i per cent, according to western reck- f^^oning), there is not room in the In- ^ •>'t 7& fiu< utloxtS of highor grade for all the s* ' ti -applicants. Japan has only eight col- I/; ,«,*-* leges and two universities, but each u* > '&X of these has a very large enrollment. ^T*~' 1 heard the other day of 1,000 stu- •dents being examined for entrance into a class that could admit but 70. ; ,/.» The rejected students feel disgraced, and this is one cause of the suicides that are so common among this class of the Japanese. It is freely stated that much of the modern education Is quite superficial. Certainly the students prove a fertile field for the exploitation of socialists and other agitators. There are not places in the nation for these educat­ ed young men commensurate with their ambitions. So there is consid- J «erable political as well as social un- vest. One striking result of the craze for -education is the universal desire to !§»<£ ilearn English, which is regarded as the language of progress and civiliza- \ tion. There is no similar zest for '.f: French or German. The higher pub- U, lie schools teach English, and tens of >;' thousands are learning it privately, s Train boys, railroad men, waiters, -v -shopkeepers, editors, students, fellow ' .• passengers in trains--all sorts of Ia5' . Japanese have come to me since I >1liave been here for help in English. JP* Any good-natured foreigner could , ' fy keep busily employed 24 hours a day M . ; instructing the Japanese in the mys- - teries of English. Recently I visited : 1 « mission night school'in Kobe which "was literally jammed with young men employed during the day as teachers, clerks, etc. Not only were the rooms |§;< crowded but outside of the doors and ^ -,rv ^ windows stood clumps of eager stu- V W dents, each having paid the tuition . fee. The mission force was inade­ quate, and two outside helpers, Eng­ lishmen, had been engaged temporari- >r It was highly edifying to hear fflB enthusiastic young man teach his •class, as model sentences, "There are tmany, dogs in England. I have got a dog." It is only fair to the mis­ sionary force to say that they them­ selves are college bred men and •^romen. Leading a Nation to School. 4 lit was the missionaries who intro­ duces higher education into Japan. One of them. Dr. David Murray, was f the government's educational adviser end led in the organization of the present school system. The first of the Japanese institutions of higher learning was the Doshisha, founded by the runaway youth, Joseph Hardy Neesima, who was trained in a home jand is now esteemed by the nation as rone of its great men. The Doshisha, -which is located at Kioto, is the most ; famous of mission schools in this . -countty, and ii is still doing success­ ful work, with about 600 students. The average age of the latter is lower than formerly, as seems to be .he that a disinterested philanthropic work is done by those schools in be­ half of the Japanese. At present thero is need for all the schools that can be established. The demand for education is greater than the facilities. But steadily the condi­ tions are changing and students will, soon cease to attend mission schools merely for the reason that they can find room elsewhere. What, then, is to be the future of the mission schools, maintained at so great cost? The missionaries make prompt an­ swer that St is needed to provide the nation with Christian leaders and teachers; if Christian colleges are a necessity in America, they say, mych more so here. But I find educational experts drawing the deadly parallel. They declare that, from an educational standpoint, the mission schools are now generally inferior to those main­ tained by the government. Even in the study of English a government ex­ aminer assured toe, the mission schools, despite their high proportion of foreign teachers, are below* the level of other schools. Mission work­ ers themselves say that all persons who come out to be teachers should be required to possess a teacher's cer­ tificate, as well as a college educa­ tion. 1 am told that the Kobe college for young women, maintained by the Congregational Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior, Chicago, and the Presbyterian school for young women, Tokio, still rank among the leading girls' schools in Japan; but even these feel the changed condi­ tions. On all sides I. hear that the Congregational kindergarten and training school for kindergartners at Kobe, conducted by Miss Howe, eas­ ily leads In this form of Instruction, and it would rank with the best insti­ tutions of similar nature at home. What Japan Wants from America. In conference with a score of Japa­ nese leaders, only two white men be­ sides myself being present, I bluntly asked what Japan thinks of the mis­ sionaries, and what form of mission work now needs doing. By common consent their spokesman was a man whose conspicuous work has won him a decoration, from the emperor, and as his judgment coincides with the views expressed to me by other candid Jap­ anese, I quote his opinion: "Japan most needs help in educa­ tion and philanthropy. If mission schools are to be maintained, let them be $rst-class as schools. But If Amer­ ica realy wants to help us most ef­ fectually she should send teachers, strong, able, Christian teachers, to enter the various middle and higher government schools throughout the empire. Every one of these would welcome such a one to teach English. Then by his influence and by person­ al work, which after all is what counts for most, he could do untold good in shaping Christian character among the students. Japanese re­ spect teachers, and especially foreign teachers; and such men would have more weight than those whops busi­ ness it is to come out and fry to make Christians." This man ha<f In mind something even further advanced than the work of the Young Men's Christian Associa­ tion teachers. The latter are men se­ lected by the international Y. M. C. A., with headquarters in New York. These men receive no mission aid whatever; they have an absolutely independent relation with the govern­ ment and are supported entirely by their salaries. But by means of Bible classes, personal conversation, the in­ troduction of the students Into their homes to learn foreign ways and the creation of foreign literature, they are doing an Immeasurable service for Christianity. Japan is eager to In­ crease the number of these men and, as one of the teachers said to me, "There is no better place in the world for a qualified American who wants to do a great educational work than right here." Student Immorality. The whole student problem In Japan must be viewed from a moriTx^Me While morals and ethics have a plsfei ia the curricula of all higher schools, ' ' -- -- »-- ~ OVUUU1S, -case with all long-established mission they have not an equal place in the ft" ^schools. £ Must Mission Schools Go? • The intensely national spirit among the Japanese, together with the crea­ tion of the new educational system, lias largely altered the status and character of the mission schools. "Whatever changes the future brings, tt is evident, however, that from the mission schools Japan has received m tremendous educational impulse, a luwt of trained teachers, and a com­ pany of unselfish counsellors. Fur­ thermore, it must be admitted that at the present time great service is be­ ing done by the mission schools, which are maintained throughout the empire by the various denominations M such numbers and variety that tspace cannot be spared even to men­ tion the score or more that I have personally visited. The size and scope of these Institu­ tions--of which the Doshisha at Kio­ to, the Protestant Episcopal, Presby­ terian and Joint Methodist Episcopal wchools at Tokio. the German Re­ formed school at Bendal and the Southern Methodist school at Kobe, may be cited as conspicuous exam­ ples--is beyond the knowledge of the people of America. That one country -should contribute such tremendous ^influences to the upbuilding of an •otfeer is certainly an evidence of the altruistic character of Christian mis­ sions. While it is true that by far the larger proportion of the gradu- - *te» become Christian it Is also tfue conduct of the young people whom they are supposed to affect. The min­ ister of education and other national leaders are frankly alarmed over the situation, and they have turned to the Young Men's Christian associationrfor help. The latter with the Young Women's Christian association, is erecting self-supporting dormitories where many have safe homes. States­ men who are themselves arrant rationalists declare that the students must have some religious motive for the desired morality. Even the dally papers are wrestling with the subject of student immorali­ ty--a contradiction of the statement made by some leaders that the recent shocking revelations have not caused a ripple of Interest in Japan. The immorality has centered largely about the dormitories and student boarding houses, the latter especially. It has been shown that hundreds, If not thousands, of girl students purchase their education at a price that would seem incredible to western ears. For instance, it is admitted that nearly all of the 1,500 Chinese students here af­ ford homes to Japanese girl students, or pseudo students. The Chinese stu­ dents--most of whom, by the way, have wives at home--are not neces­ sarily more Immoral than the Japa­ nese, but they are possessed of more money. The average expenses of » Japanese college man. Including tui­ tion, board, books, clothes, etc.. are less than 15 yen a month, which is seven dol'ars and a halL The average expenses of a Chinese 'Student la Tokio are estimated "at a minimum of 30 yen. The expenses of a girl stu­ dent are less than those of a man. The terrible situation here with re­ spect to school girls Is not, as has been carefully explained to me over and over, because Japanese girls do not prize virtue; but because they prize other things, an education, and fealty to parents far more. Girls are sent into To kip from the country to get an education who have no idea where they are going to board or to attend school,( and lack the money tq, do either. . : In all this It it tob^remembered that the attitude of the Japanese toward the relation of the sexes ia very different from that of the Occi­ dent. The social evil is licensed, (though by no means confined to those holding licenses) and it is com­ mon for a parent to sell his daughter into a life of shame. Ninety-eight per cent, of the prostitutes in the empire are secured In this manner. "Sale" is not the woFd employed here; the keeper lends money to the father, to be repaid out of the daughter's earn­ ings. The former takes good care that the debt is not wiped out until he is ready to let the girl go. (The lat­ ter never thinks of rebelling, for filial obedience is. the first article of the Japanese creed. Yet it is significant that no swords, knives or sharp weapons are ailowed in the "Yos'ni* wara," which is the name of the dis­ trict set apart for this purpose, lest the unhappy girls make away with themselves. It is said that the aver­ age number of visitors to this quarter of Tokio is no less than a quarter of » million a month. I can believe this, because of what I have seen. The night I visited tho Yoshlwara, in company with a mis­ sionary, the streets were so crowded that policemen stood in the center ot the road, holding aloft lantern* to di­ vide the traffic, which is eutlroly pedestrian. Two inexpressibly shocking aspect* of that night's experience especially impressed me. One ^*s the number of boys and young men, thousands ot them in student dress, who openly fre­ quent the Yoshiwara. The crowd was like that which lings the down town streets of an American city on the night of a presidential election. Not pnly were tljere myriads of men on the streets, but women 'and children also were out enjoying '.'life." These*^would, unabashed, Jp;nat. with the girls in the cages, ..the latter seemed to have no feelings of dis­ grace. An Anglo-Saxon does not relish the sight of human beings displayed in cages. Yet hundreds of these Mne the streets of the Yoshlwara, each con­ taining from a dozen girls upward. True, the cages are beautifully gilded and lacquered, some of the rear panels being real works of art; and the girls are elaborately dressed in gaudy gowns, each seated before a toilet box where she perfects her 'painting apd powdering in public. The cages are cages, and the poor painted creatures within are human beings, thus offered for public inspection and sale. One hour in the Yoshlwara is suf­ ficient to turn any white man forever against the licensing of the social evil. Adjoining the Yoshiwara and a part of it, is the hospital for derelicts. Everything is minutely regulated by a special department of the government. The latest ofllcial statistics show more than 50,000 licensed prostitutes in the empire, with more than 30,000 geislm girls in addition. Taking all classea of prostitutes, there are said to be, ao- cording to the latest publication oa the subject, "How the Social Evil Ii Regulated in Japan," no less than 2,- 000,000, or five per cent of the popular tion of Japan, or ten per cent, ot th# female population of all ages! In the light of the foregoing. It A seen that one of the tremendous tasks undertaken by the missionaries, and especially, through the girls' schools, is the creation of the Anglo-Saxon con­ ception of morality in< t£te Japanese mind. A missionary is also chiefly responsible for the agitation which re- lted in the law a few years since* giving the enslaved girls a loop hole of escape from the life, under certain difficult conditions. A rescue home is maintained in Tokio by the mission­ aries and the W. C. T. U., and three others throughout the empire by the Salvation Army. The most tangible and promising efforts for the better­ ment of moral conditions among tho students are those put forth by dis­ tinctively missionary agencies. QCopjprlgbt, by Joseph B. Bowles.) GIANT CUTTLE-FISH. Two Hemrakable Model* Added to • British Museumf1"^?!., remarkable models pt glznt cuttle-fish have jtist been placed in the shell-fish gallery of the Natural History museum at South Kensington, England. One of these Is of an octo­ pus from the west coast of North America, which measures no less than 20 feet across the great arms that make these creatures so terrible to divers, and even to bathers. The other Is of a huge "squid" from Newfoundland, which from the tip of its longest tentacles to the tip of its tail, measures just 40 feet! The long­ est tentacles, Just referred to, are rep­ resented by a pair of terrible grasping organs Just 30 feet long. During rest they are withdrawn into the body un­ til they project no further than the re­ mainder of the tentacles; when pur­ suing prey, however, this creature, so &s hs has come within, striking distance oT his victim, shoots out the long arms like a pair of piston-rods; and these being armed at their tips with a cluster of powerful suckers, es­ cape is impossible for anything upon which they may have fastened. When the writhing victim is once grasped It 1b drawn and pushed nearer and near­ er to the great and horrid beak, which, shaped like that of a parrot, tears the living body la pieces with merciless fury. ^ At times even the cuttle-fish, how­ ever, may meet his match. If possible, conflict Is avoided; a way of escape What a Man Is. A man is not what he seems to his enemies; they will magnify his failings £nd hide his. virtues until he will seem to be a devil Incar­ nate. A man Is not what he seems to his friends, they will laud his goodness and decorate his weak­ nesses and gild, his follies, till he almost feels the wings begin to spread. A man is not what he would have his fellows think him; he would have all men think well of him, and so fashions his life that they may be fascinated with that which Is pleasant. A man is what he Is in his lnnerchamber when he sits alone with himself.--«ev. James N. Kaipe. His Step Ladder. One evening Roy and his mamma were sitting ia the twilight talking. He had a faint Idea of a second mar riage, but he desired to know more about It, and commenced to ask his mamma questions, among which was, "Mamma, If you should die, would papa's second wile !#• »* atep lad­ der r r • • Uff&ICA.) Lotv&Z (3) GSU The Fighting Apparatus of Monster Cuttle-Fish. The Sucker Is from One of the Arma. The Parrot-like Beak Haa Two Tearing-Jaws the Slate of a Man's Fist. being found bjr the ingenious and ef­ fective device of ejecting clouds of Ink In the face of the pursuer, the ejector, under cover of the cloud, making good his retreat by darting backwards, as the result of a stream of water ejected from a special tube, known as the siphon." This ink furnishes the pig­ ment, beloved of painters, known as sepia;" and even its fossil state still retains its power. It must not be sup­ posed by the way, that such giants are peculiarly American products. Specimens quite as large Juupe been obtained in British waters! FOR MECHANICAL DRAWINQ. Home-Made Adjustable Table for the 'Amateur Draughtsman. A very handy and useful drawing table for draughtsmen and others who do mechanical work at home, can be easily made at very little expense. In the table here illustrated the adjust­ ment Is ̂ accomplished by means of sheet iron strips, cut out in the center as shown and fastened with thumb screws in any desired position. An • Ma/ ' ' ml * mj - • 5 Adjustable Height and Inclination. arrangement of this kind provides for adjustments of both height and incli­ nation and will be found much more rigid than many of the expensive ready-made tables, says Popular Me­ chanics. A small shelf, S, fastened to the right end of the table will provide a convenient place for laying tools when not in use and will be especially useful when the board Is inclined at a steep angle. When not In use a draw­ ing table of this kind may be folded into a very small Space and put away. SCIENCE OF TEA-MAKING. Ninety Per Cent, of Americans Do Not Know How to Brew Beverage. That 90 per cent, of Americans do not know how to brew tea is the as­ sertion made by L. Beling, who con­ tributes an article on the subject to The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal. This is the more ^em&rka&ie, it true, in that so few elements enter into suc­ cess in this regard. We have only, it appears, to use good tea, see that our water Is boiling, and not allow it to stand too long on the leaves. It would seem to be this last particular In which the American tea-brewer most often fails. Says Mr. Belin: "A nauseating decoction is produced by housewife and servant-maid alike stewing the tea-leaves by letting the Fig. 1.--A Serviceable Teapot teapot stand on the hot utove and add­ ing hot water for a second, third, and often a fourth 'drawjng.' Tea, as a beverage, must possess extraordinary virtues and attraction for the human system, or it could not have survived such mistreatment and still retain so large a measure of popularity. * * * "The correct preparation of tea be­ comes a simple matter when a few facts are kept in mind. The principal thing to see to is that the liquid tea is strained oft from the leaves or 'grounds' in from three to seven min­ utes, according to the kind of tea used and the strength desired. Unless uns is done yon can not oxpect to inake good tea." There are numerous devices to In­ sure the separation of the tea from the leaves at the proper time, That shown in Fig. 1, where the leaves are placed in the perforated tank, is pro­ nounced simple and good, but if the «*• . !.»•-- M, ' PRINCE FU8HIM1, OF JAPAN, LOOKING WESTWARD. Rayal Quest of England Anxloue to the United States Before * ,Hi« Return to the Flow- / ery Kingdom. .. Ptioee Ftishimi, of Japan, who la now visiting England on a special mission from the emperor, will not be satisfied unless the opportunity comes to see the United States before his re­ turn home. Like the rest of his dis­ tinguished countrymen he is aleYt and Intensely progressive: 4nd it is but natural that he should desire to see again the land he visited in 1904 when he came to the internatioiial exposi­ tion at St. Louis as special representa­ tive of the emperor. Prince Sadanaru Fuslilm* is the head of, one of the imperial families of Japan, being a son of the ?ate Prince Kuai-iye, and wag born on April 21, 1858. He wedded the iPrineess Toshi- ko, a daughter of the late Prince Ari= sugawa Takahito, On October 6, 1878. She is a sister of the Prince Arisuga- wa who visited this country in 1805, Prince Fushlmfs eldest son, the" Prince Hiroyasu, is married to a daughter of Prince Tokugawa Keiki, the last of the Tokugawa line of Shoguns. Prince Hiroyasu is a commander in the navy, and was wounded while with Admiral Togo on board the Mikasa in the bat­ tle of the Yellow Sea on August 10, 1904. . Prince Sadanarui Fushimi has had a long and active military career, and has rendered conspicuous service to his country. In Japan all officers of the army have on joining to serve one year in the ranks, the first three months as private, the next three months as corporal, and so on, and Prince Fushimi might in due course have J>een seen drilling^ rifle in hand, and knapsack on shoulders, Bide by side with men of the humblest rank, during his first year of military serv­ ice. In the Japanese army the only difference made between the son of a marquis, for example, and the son of a small shopkeeper, it may be, while undergoing their first 12 months' training, is that the youth who is to hold officer's rank Is Invited to mess with the officers of the regiment from the outset. The imperial princes all go through this* routine of training precisely as do the sons of the people. and possibly these early associatlona> have something to do with the strong attachment that exists between tba rank and file aad those who lead theiji ; Id battle! Prince Fushimi graduated from thft military school and obtained his first > commission as lieutenant in 187% From that time he steadily ascendeif the ladder of promotion until he at­ tained his present status of full geii»* era! in the imperial army, having alsb been appointed a member of the su­ preme council of war. As major gen­ eral he commanded a brigade in the northern part of Japan in 1892, and ' subsequently in the Japan and China war of 1894-5, when he fought in th» Wei-hal-wei region, as well as in the ml Fig. 2.--An English Invention. tafitc la not lifted out in time its pur­ pose is defeated. In the form shown in Fig. 2 the leases are placed In the upped section, aand the pot is tilted back while the tea draws. Jta. order to pour off the tea, the pot must be brought into the upright position, which automatically separates the leaves and the liquid. Whgre no spe­ cial device is at hand, the writer recompends the use of two pots, one for making the tea, and the other to hold it when poured off. In conclud­ ing, the author recapitulates his rules as follows: "1. Strain the tea from the tea- leaves in from three to seven min­ utes. "2. Use fresh water that Is really boiling. "3. Let your teapots be of china or earthenware and warmed, it possible. "4. Use one teaspoonful of tea or less, according to kind." * Hovel Tunnel Device. , A niWeT feature in tunnel design de­ vised by Mr. Charles M. Jacobs, the chief engineer to the Pennsylvania tunnels under the Hudson river, is found In the screw piles, which will be placed at' intervals of 15 feet throughout the length of the tunnels. While the silt forming the bed of .the river is sufficiently tenacious to hold the tunnels in perfect alignment dur­ ing construction, it was not consid­ ered firm enough to do so when the tunnels are in use. To forestall this possible danger screw piles will be sunk to a solid foundation, and upon them the tunnel proper will rest. The piles will be 27 inches outside diam­ eter, and the shell will be one and one-quarter Inches thick. The sec­ tions will be seven feet In length, and will be bolted together through inter­ nal flanges. The, lowest spctlon will be cast with one turn of a screw four feet eight Inches in diameter. Wood as Strong afc Iron. Recent official tests of the many valuable hardwoods native to west- era Australia have made known the extraordinary properties of yate, be­ lieved to be the strongest of all known woods. Its average tensile strength Is 24,000 pounds to the square inch, equaling that of good cast iron. But many specimens are much stronger, says Youth's Companion, and one was tested up to 17*4 tona^ to the square Inch, which is equal to the tensile strength of wrought Iron. The sawn timber of yate is probably the strong­ est in the world. The tree grows to a maximum height of 100 feet, and has sometimes a diameter of two and one-half or even three feet > „ r . i m £ ' . Peculiarity of Crazy People. Crazy people never act together, de­ clares the superintendent of a large asylum for the Insane, quoted in the Medical Times (New York, April). "If one Inmate attacks an attendant, as sometimes happens, the others would look upon It as no affair of theirs and simply watch it out. The moment we discover two or more inmates work­ ing together we would know they were on the road to recovery." It is on this account that there are so few concerted mutinies in insane asy­ lums; so that the number of ntfraA aats doe* not have to be large. - > ^ Interlocking Rubber Tiling. The growing popularity of inter­ locking rubber tiling is shown by its invasion of new fields, being exten­ sively used in kitchens, vestibules and bathrooms of the better sort; in fine ocean liners, lake steamers, ferry­ boats and yachts, where Its non-slip­ pery character and the fact that it re­ mains unaffected by constant wrench­ ing strains render it very valuable, and now it may be seen in one of the finest cathedrals In the country and in one ot tlit; l&rjjest of our public art galleriea. 1 > '"t v « .« | Polishing Paste. Mftlt together two parts of paraffine and slx\ parts of lubricating olf; then mingle Vlth eight parts of infusorial earth one part of oleic acid and a few drops of «U oi »irban» are to bf addert* V, •» «_ ..." » 51 W ."•".as ^ f J ̂ i ̂ : Prince Sadanaru FfJsbimi, Island of Formosa, being awarded at the close of the campaign the Order of the Golden Kite, the decoratioa tnost coveted by those who are in the military and naval services of Japan. The prince was promoted in 1898 to be lieutenant general, and became commander of the Tenth division, sta­ tioned at Himejl in southwest Japan, and later of the First division at To­ kio. In this position he went to the front during the war with Russia, his division forming part of the second army, and he was engaged in the se­ vere struggle at Nan-Shan, and after wards with the third army in the at­ tack on Port Arthur. • ' As In war, so also in peace, the prince has rendered the emperor im­ portant service. He represented his majesty at the coronation of the czar of Russia in 1896, and was specially dispatched by the emperor to the in­ ternational exposition held in St. Louis in 1904. ^ PLAN f"*9- SUGGESTION THAT ONE BE ES­ TABLISHED AT NEWPORT. Thought ^Advanced l»y Vice President #f; Universat Peace Union Who % > fV0U'c' Rebuke Warlike Sur- roundings of Place. A ̂ eaed temple at Newport, A. I., standing as a living protest to the war college and torpedo station close by, and in full view of Fort Adams is the project for which David H. Maitland Villa Suggested Peace Tem­ ple for Newport. Wright, vice president of the Univer­ sal Peace union, has issued an appeal Mr. Wright suggests the purchase of the Maitland villa estate, which comprises a fine old mansion and some 15 acres of ground valued alto­ gether at $20,000. Paradoxical as It seems, his chief arguments in favor of the locality are its warlike surroundings, and the cos­ mopolitan and varied character of the visitors that come to Newport in the summer. The estate is but a short walk from the naval college, and in full view of Fort Adams.' "During my visit to Newport laat SQ?won," says Mr. Wright, "four of our large war vessels left for Manila; to be gone three years; we were told that they were worth $32,t>6<3,060. They had more than 2,000 men on board, and they spent $20,000 in Newport for provisions. To see from the Crag drive, this vast sum of taoney floating out to sea, and to think of the 2,000 homes with one member gone from each, was indeed a very suggestive subject of study for the peace student" Mr. Wright also advances the argu­ ment that many foreign ambassadors spend the summer at Newport. It has been called the summer capital, and men of prominence, both in the Unit­ ed States and foreign countries, con­ gregate here in vacation time. A striking monument to peace in such a diplomatic and cosmojoWttfh center would be more appropriate. The villa itself was built by Rob­ ert L. Maitland, who had made a huge fortune in drugs in New York city. It was one of the show places of New­ port at the time of it& erection, for marble houses and other two-miilion- dollar summer homes had not yet come into vogue. Miles away on the cliffs there were a few houses that were its equal in elegance, but along the shore of the bay it was the only one of its kind and a striking sugges­ tion of what the summer homes of millionaires might be 40 or/t>0 years later. There was a grapery, conserv­ atories and a farm attached to the place, while beautiful trees grew all about. On the front lawn there Is now a fine grove, with one magnificent red oak tree. For 40 years the place was occu­ pied by Mr. and Mrs. Maitland and their two children. Then, the par­ ents dying, it passed into the hands of real estate men. It readily found tenants for a few years, but after a time it ran down and became a board­ ing house. Many army and navy of­ ficers come here With tucir itimiuOS to spend the summer. It is very pop­ ular on account of the superb outlook and the delightful breeze from the west. The house is reputed to have been the residence of Jay Gould at the time when he "mapped out the financial plan resulting in "Black Fri­ day." This is the site planned by Mr. Wright for the peace temple, and the picturesqueness and symbolic signifi­ cance of his scheme are apparent. CLEVER FINANCE. ? "Remember," said Mr. Bumblebee to his wife, who was about to buy a new gown, "it is not to cost more than $50. Now, can you get a good dress for .that price?" Mrs. Bumblebee sodded hor head emphatically. *Of course I can, Josiah." "Very well, then, It is a bargain, said her husband, sternly, for he had had some previous experience of femi­ nine bills. "I^ifty dollars--not a pen­ ny more. And," he added, in a lower tone. "I don't care how much less It costs." a month later, with a red face and a piercing eye, he approached his wife, "in his hand he flourished a bill. "What is the meaning of this?" he demanded.. "Sixty ^dollars, and you solemnly promised to keep within the $50 wo agreed to." Mrs. Bumblebee met his Indignant glance with smiling unconcern. "It's all right, dear," she assured him;" I was able to do that from what you told me." "From what I told your roar^J her . ; ' W **&Y. "Yes; don't you see, I fouDd a dress that had been marked .down from $60 to $50, which is what you allowed me to spend." "Well?* "Why, that meant that I saved teia dollars. So I--I spent the ten on A hat--which I had a perfect right to do." And then, patting him on the cheejt in a coaxing manner, she added: ^ "There, you see, with all your busi­ ness talent you men don't know bo much as a woman.** And Bumblebee, with a groan, ad­ mitted that this was true. His High Purpoaa. "When I started in business," salit the self-made man, "I made up my mind that for me there should be no such word as fall." „ ^ "Yet It Is generally understood that \ you got most of your money while ac|- " Ing as a receiver." U ; "Well, as long as other people 1^ i sisted on failing 1 felt that it was no * more than right to discourage th* practice as much aa4p«pl|a^"?T<^i|fpi,. , go Record-Herald. „ , | '*£« .* ? v 1 A