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saisi A" ^ ^ * , ; . * . * ' i . i / , : §P •MM MJ ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY Br WILLIAM T.ELLIS Ttt* PtalmUtrf A««Hm JowMfirt U Traveling Around the WorW for th« Pawn «f tiM^lnllm dM Aatricu Fortift Mitikmarjr from a Purely Disinterested, Secular ana Non^Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawinfi and from Photographs. ird- China Awake, Is Showing to the World Her Power Let poets Sing the lark a-wing. The thrush's silvery suing. The mocking-bird to rapture stirred, The robin's r^hmic wooing; Aye! let them praise in lyric lay* The blue-jay pert and perky, But O foor me each time, perdie, The plump Thanksgiving turkey! Shanghai, China.--Whoever gets a square look at the real China knows that he has seen the theater and actors of great events that are immi­ nent and impending. The importance, the far-reaching influence and the amazing rapidity of the transforma­ tion now taking place in this country will be learned with surprise one day by the big, uncaring world outside. In the meantime, it is the office of the present investigator to show how Christian missions have become in­ wrought into every phase of Chines© life, as a shaping influence. Next to the relation between edu­ cation and missions must be men­ tioned medical missions, that supreme proof of the altruism of the west with respect to the east.* Here again the magnitude of the material altogether precludes anything like a systematic , presentatioii of the subject, for medi­ cal missions are found in every part* of China, from port cities to remote Interior towns, placing the healing arts of the west at the service of the suffering east, and thus winning the confidence, respect and admiration of the natives. The Priestess' Severed Hand. An interesting story of contrasts is told in connection with the new American Baptist hospital at Hanyang. Where the imposing modern structure of gray stone now rises, outside the city wall, there was formerly a little temple of medicine, attended by a lone priestess. But the temple languished, and to win the favor of the idol and the people the priestess with the own right hand severed her left hand at the wrist. Now she wears the with­ ered hand as an amulet around her neck. Nevertheless her little temple of superstition has given way to a assistant to carry it--was 3oon exhaust­ ed. In her sudden thirst for new knowledge, China finds herself pur­ chasing by the myriad the books pre­ pared by missionaries. Making Shoes Out of Bibles. In the lavish free distribution of all this literature, it is inevitable that abuses arise; from several widely-sep­ arated missionaries I have heard the complaint that portions of the Bible are being used to make soles for Chi­ nese shoes, since they can be pur­ chased more cheaply than common pa­ per. The donors to the Bible so­ cieties never intended to' help Chinese soles after this fashion. I am assured by the agent of the American Bible society for China that, speaking only for his own society, this abuse has never been charged against any of his more than 100 colporteurs, who are not paid by commission, which is the root of the evil. Less than one per cent, of the total annual circulation of more than hjftlf a million copies is giv­ en away; the cheapest New Testa­ ments and gospel portions, on native paper, are sold at one-third the cost of manufacture. Whatever evils exist in connection with the distribution of the Bible in China will probably be corrected in connection with the forth­ coming Robert Morrison centennial in Shanghai. The great gathering, convening April 25-May 5, which is the event to which all missionary eyes are turned, promises to be a memorable milestone in Missionary history. Committees of experts have been at work for 12 months preparing deliverances upon all the big problems of Chinese mis­ sions. At this time the three com­ mittees which have been at work up­ on the new translations of the Bible. qEaawtflfe T»nr w<-rt United States Consulate at Amoy, China, owned outright by the United States Government. great temple of healing, where a skilled missionary doctor ministers to the sick of that teeming ancient city. The magnitude of some of these mission hospitals Is beyond the grasp of the westerner who thinks that all big things are near at home. . Not one tourist in 10,000 who touches Shanghai knows that out by the west gate of the city is the Woman's Union hos­ pital, in charge of Dr. Elizabeth Reif- snyder, of Pennsylvania, which last year treated more than 60,000 patients, preaching to them all, as well as to the crowds of relatives and friends who accompanied them. St. Luke's hospital, of the Protestant Episcopal mission, in the same city, is in quite the same class with it, and both are institutions of which any progressive city in Christendom would be proud. Canton, the Chicago or New York of China, has two notable medical Insti­ tutions in the Canton Medical college and the E. A. Hackett Medical College for Women. Both have hospitals at­ tached, and the latter, in care of Dr. Mary H. Fulton, the only one of the sort in the .empire, has received the highest official and public honors. Everywhere I went in China I found the missionary doctor, engaged in manifestly noble work, and earning the praise of all classes. A Christian Newspaper for China. Before I had got as far south as Shanghai the conviction had forced it­ self upon me that one of the most potent agencies that could be employ­ ed by the missionaries, in the present state of this nation's development, would be a liberal daily newspaper, actually presenting the whole world's news, and at the same time main­ taining a broadly progressive and Christian attitude. There are men al* ready on the field, with a mastery of the language, who are equal to this task. When I reached Shanghai, I found the great Dr. Timothy Richards, general secretary of the Christian Lit­ erature society, bubbling over with the same project. The scheme Is rather outside the scope of any one board, yet it should not be difficult of realiza.ion. Whatever may be the future of the old-fashioned tract, the place of lit­ erature in the modernization and Christlanization of China is obvious­ ly of tremendous importance. The whole nation is giving attention to reading. The work of the Christian Literature society has been vastly use­ ful. The various mission presses, notably the famous Presbyterian Mis­ sion Press, Shanghai, have been in­ calculably influential. An instance of the way Christian literature is being read by all classes Is shown by the wide circulation of Halleck's Almanac, of which this year more than 100,000 copies were pur- chased by individual Chinese. It is an almanac somewhat after the fash­ ion of Franklin s "Poor Richard's Al­ manac," although avowedly used for purposes of Christian propaganda. I watched a missionary selling these In an inland city, and his supply--so large that it took both himself and an a monumental undertaking, will offer the fruits of their labors. These ver­ sions will be High Wenli, Easy Wenli and Mandarin, and they should bring to a consummation a hundred years of Bible translation in China. The Biggest Blunder of Missions. This Shanghai conference will give a decided impetus to the union of all missionary Work. The biggest blun­ der of the missionary movement has been perpetuation of foreign denomi­ national lines on the mission field. Ad the "Shanghai Mercury" recently said, in an editorial upon "Chinese Christianity:" "If it depended upon the Chinese vote, the Christians would all unite together in one National Chinese church, without any of the 'isms' of the west, which ought not to be imposed on them and which mayhap tney will one day cast off." A rather careful inquiry among leading native Christians reveals a definite tendency toward the assertion of Chinese nationalism in the native churches. This nowhere assumes thei proportions or the animus so marked in Japan, but the "independence move^ ment" is a real factor in the Chinese missionary situation. The foreign workers seem well aware of it and hospitable toward it, since the mis­ sionary is not wholly successful until he has made himself unnecessary. The number of self-supporting Chi­ nese churches is quite considerable, and a few are self-governing. They are undoubtedly more in favor with the people generally than foreign- manned and foreign-maintained churches. So earnest are many na­ tive Christians in this direction that they have organized a missionary so­ ciety of their own, to open Christian work in hitherto untouched Chinese villages. While on the subject of union and comity, frank crithjism must be made of some of the smaller and rather "peculiar" American sects, which, like many Independent missionaries, plant their enterprises under the shadow of long established missions and steal away tne converts of the latter. This sort of proselyting is not uncommon on the mission field on the part of these smaller bodies, al­ though by all standards it is dishon­ orable. Givers to foreign missions should assure themselves that the work they support is not of this sort. There is small excuse for these new undertakings going to port cities, when there are thousands of interior cities and towns where not a single missionary has ever gone. Big Feet Becoming Fashionable. The disproportion in which many matters Chinese have been viewed in the Occident Is illustrated by the foot- binding practice. Westerners have been led to believe that this has meant constant agony and hardship for the Chinese women and girls, and tjie subject has been a stock argu­ ment in arousing sympathy for the poor Chinese. One isrtherefore un­ prepared to find these "lily-footed" women such a merry, lively., lot, as they toddle about on the points of their distorted feet. In answer to a remark upon this, an, experienced missionary said, "There is no doubt that the suffering incident to foot- binding has been greatly exaggerated." If China had no worse evil than this one she would have small need for missionaries. Not that the foot-binding is other than a bad practice; it is* needless, stupid, hurtful and probably worse than the tight lacing of the white woman. Progressive Chinese and mis­ sionaries have all united to break up the custom. The girls of mission schools are always required1 to un­ bind their feet; the chief reason why older Christian women do not always do so is because the pain suffered from unbinding would be greater than the inconvenience of the small feet Peasant women are usually big-foot- ed; so also is the empress dowager and all other Manchu women. The Manchus never followed the practice of binding feet. So substantial has been the prog­ ress made in this reform that the Anti-foot Binding Society, vigorously led by Mrs. A. Little, and served by many European* ladies, recently closed out its affairs, after ten years of ac­ tive campaigning. The fight for big feet is now so far won that its further prosecution is left to the Chinese themselves. Waging War on Opium. Everybody knows that Chinese smoke opium; strangers to this land do not realize to what an extent it has permeated the national fabric, so that it has debilitated the physical strength of China and sapped the moral fiber of its countless victims. To an even greater extent than strong drink, opium unfits its user for use­ fulness. For years the missionaries have hammered away at this seeming­ ly hopeless subject, Rev. Dr. H. C. DuBose, of Soochow, being the most tireless and dauntless opponent of opium in the empire. At last the lethargic nation has been stirred. The Chinese them­ selves have become concerned at the spectacle of their public men made inefficient by opium, and their newly educated youth rendered powerless by the drug. In an inspection of the great opium smoking resorts in Shang­ hai, (there are 21,000 in that city alone) I was impressed by the fact that it was the young, the prosperous and the educated who furnished the patronage; the old, the poor, the wrecked were smoking In miserable hovels in obscure streets where a few cash would suffice to satisfy their cravings. Now China is treating with Eng­ land to secure a cessation of the im­ portation of the drug into the empire; and England, moved by a militant sentiment at home against this dis­ graceful situation,4 is lending a listen­ ing ear to China's plea. For its own people the Chinese government faas issued an astonishing anti-opium edict, which is already being put into effect. The edict declares "it rouses our deep indignation even to speak of the matter. The court is now ardently determined to make China powerful, and it Is incumbent on us to urge the people on to reformation in this respect, that they may realize the evil, pluck this deep-seated cancer, and follow the ways of health and harmony. "We therefore decree that within the limit of ten years, this harmful 'foreign muck' be fully and entirely cleansed away, and we command the council of state affairs to consider means for the strict prohibition both of opium smoking and of poppy-grow­ ing in China itself and report their deliberations to us for approval." In all this progress the missionaries have borne a foremost, though often unrecognized part. So, too, in elee­ mosynary Institutions the missions have pioneered the way for the new China to care for its own. In Canton alone one may see a school for blind girls, an asylum for the insane, a home for the untainted children of lepers, an orphan asylum and school for children of various ages and condi­ tions. It is fair to say that the missionary is a school-master of civilization to the Chinese. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) R 6* PcLOUZCM W Fair Madge may pet her paroquet As wond'rous wise and wary, And Mistress Maud may loudly laud Her cunning young canary; Content am I as days slip by, And skies abovo grow murky, If it's my luck to hear--"cluok! cluck! The plump Thanksgiving turkey. Then let prevail the love of quail, Ye skilled men of the cartridge, Give meed profuse to grouse and goose, To wood-cock* and to partridge! Faith, naught I care how others fare, If sour they look or smirky, • When hot for me is served, perdie, The plump Thanksgiving turkey! . Test of Self-Sacrifice. "If there is one thing," remarked the man who had just lighted a pan- netia, and had taken two or three puffs with every evidence of enjoy­ ment, "that tests tfie powers of self- sacrifice, it is for a fellow to have one cigar left, to be unable to get more, say, till the next day, and then to have put up to. him the question of giving that cigar away or keeping it for him­ self. Of course, it is easy to say we should put the law of hospitality above that of personal comfort; but how about it when the possible donor knows that the possible- recipient doesn't need the cigar half so much as he does? Shall he strive to obey a high ideal of politeness and hand nut the cigar with the best smile he can command? Or shall he simply say nothing about it? • "The worst thing he can do Is to give away the cigar and them regret the action till the last bit of ash has been flicked off. In such regrets fb« essential weakness of human nature It evidenced." Tommy Twaddles' Thanksgiving. By EDWARD H. LEBENS. Tommy Twaddles was tired. He had lived through a day of unadulter­ ated fun; as he himself gleefully said, "nawthin' but eatin* de whole day." There was old Goby, the big gob­ bler, by whom Tommy had often been conquered, if a sedate promenade on that gentleman's part--meant proba­ bly for the edification of certain turkfey belles and resulting in Tom­ my's ignominious escape through the garden gate--could be called a con­ quest. Even without the cannibalistic fun of eating him, Tommy was glad that Goby was out of the way. How often he had wished it while his fat little sausage-like legs were taking him at a lively gait across the farm-yard! How Goby's many good reasons for hostility toward him flashed through his mind at these times! How he repented of the sticks and stones thrown over the fence, of the faces he had made, of the venom with which he had stuck out his tongue and wrinkled up his nose, as soon as the slamming of the garden gate as­ sured him of his safety! How he re­ pented of the impulse which so often eaused him to run along the garden fence, taunting his enemy! He was awfully glad that Goby was out of the way. However, there was Goby, brown and crisp on the outside, white and tender underneath, with the juicy gravy dripping down into the apple filling that spread itself around the dish. Then there was, according to Tommjj, who counted it off on his fingers* before dinner, "cranberry sauce, an' apple sauce, an' cel'ry, an' aweet purtaters, an' reg'lar purtaters, an' chicken, an' ham, an' tongue, an' corn what came in a can, an' pickles, an' onions, an' coffee wid four lumps of sugar 'stead of one, an' puddin' wid white stuff on top, an' mlnoe pie, an' pum'kin pie, an' candy an' nuts 'tween times." This had all been - enjoyed, and Tommy was tired. He waB seated be­ fore the fire in the large wooden rock­ er, watching the firelight, when the door opened softly and some one en­ tered. Tommy supposing it to be his mother come to put him to bed» did not turn. fTO i) Study In Natural History. Teacher--What are marsupials? Boy--Animals which have potichee in their stomachs. Teacher--What do they have pouches for? Boy--To crawl into and conceal themselves in when they are pursued. "There Stood Goby." "Tommy Twaddles!" came a sol­ emn, sepulchral voice. Tommy started, jerked his head around, and there stood Goby. His body was brown and crisp, just as it had come from the oven for din­ ner. The head, which Toommy had chopped off at the invitation of his elder brother, was fastened on again somehow, a red flannel cloth conceal­ ing the wound. It was covered with dust, just as Tommy had left it after kicking it around the yard vindictive­ ly. His one eye was swollen from contact with Tommy's copper-toed boots. From the other he glared at Tommy fiercely. "Tommy Twaddles!" repeated Goby, arranging the flannel oloth more comfortably, and resting his browned arm on the door knob, "I have come for you." Tommy grew pale, and his Hps trembled so that he could utter no sound. Goby cast a furtive look around the room with his uninjured eye and then gobbled softly three times; a won­ derful thing to do considering the con­ dition of his neck. In response to the evident signal. three gobblers of great size and fierce demeanor entered. They stood in line, erect, and with folded wings, until Goby waved his browned arm toward Tommy. Then they approached, keeping step like soldiers. One jerk- ec1. Tommy out of the rocker, while the others, as if drilled in their parts, took a position on either side of him. They dug holes in his ears with their sharp claws and passed stout lines through them. One they gave to the third gobbler, the other to Goby. Tommy tried to call to his mother, but the gobbler to his left clapped his wing over Tommy's mouth. And so they dragged him from the house. Tommy stumbled after his captors directly to the large barn; his hopes of rescue fading with each step. When they reached this place Goby gobbled three times again--not so well this time, for the cold air seemed to affect his throat--whereupon the great doors opened magically. An immense fire burned in the mid­ dle of the barn, lighting up a strange scene. There were all sizes and col­ ors and forms and qualities of turk­ eys. Old beldams and young buds, and ̂ gobblers who avoided the bel­ dams and walked with the buds, gob­ bling softly such tender things as gobblers can. There were drakes who walked more soberly than the fas­ cinating gobblers, holding their arms for the ducks beside them, and show­ ing plainly that they were invited guests by the frequency with which they cautioned numbers of ducklings, their offspring, to politeness. There were also geese, Jealous of the ducks, who, with their family of goslings around them, looked in vain for their truant ganders. These, hav­ ing found the corn bin, chose to par­ take freely of Its contents with cer­ tain speckled roosters of low birth, with no characters to lose, who took their corn like topers and crowed like veterans, to the secret admiration of the ganders. There were guinea hens and cocks, running here, there, and everywhere, 'tending to the things like elderly ladles at a church fair. All the hay had been thrown from the loft, and was scattered in rows along the ^floor, making comfortable seats for those who wished to sit down. Directly in front of the fire a divan was erected, over which was ar­ tistically draped Mrs. Twaddles' best parlor tablecloth. Here sat in state, and in all the gorgeousness of his plumage, a peacock. To his left, and on a slightly lower platform, sat his wife, while surrounding him was a body guard of roosters arrayed in their shining co'ats of red. They strutted around haughtily and held their heads very high, though, as a matter of fact, some of them were of stock just as plebeian as the speckled roosters in the corn bin. There were other roosters here, some in pure white, which shone like satin, and some in black and white like ermine, and they bowed and scraped to dow­ ager hens and to their daughters, long-legged, short-winged, bashful creatures, who were henpecked for their behavior, good or bad, by their mothers upon the departure of the roosters. The whole arrangement reminded Tommy very much of a chromo in the parlor, under which, BO Mrs. Twaddles had told him, was printed "King Ferdinand's Court." As Tommy, led by his captors, ap­ proached the Peacock's divan, there was a general rush from all sides. They all wanted to see him. They cackled and screeched, and crowed and gobbled, and clucked, and quaek- ed, and shoved and pushed, and pulled and tore, and elbowed in their efforts to get a point of vantage. Hereupon a small bantam rooster, evidently a cavalier, judging by his heavy spurs, and acting as a cavalier, flew on the pitchfork handle, and in a shrill voice cried; "Ladies and gentlemen will please take seats and refrain from disturbing the quiet, by special command of King Peacock." Tommy decided the Peacock was truly a power when he saw how rap­ idly even the busybody guinea hens took seats. The quiet of graveyard reigned throughout the barn. The Peacock on the parlo* table­ cloth looked BO stern and mighty that Tommy's eyes sought the ground in fright. "Tommy Twaddles," said the Pea­ cock, after clearing his throat and throwing his leflt leg over his right. "Tommy Twaddles, answer me. Do you know why you are here?" Tommy was about to plead ig- noranoe, when he happened to ob- ' serve Goby. His answer died in his throat- "Aha!" said the Peacock, rubbing his claws together briskly, "he knows, but let everything be done fair. Lord Bantam, kindly read the charges, and then for the punishment." The fowl of equestrian rank pro­ duced from under his wing, which ev­ idently served him as an inside pock­ et, a document of great length, and read in a ringing voice such a list of crimes as made Tommy wonder at his own hardihood. He was accused first of cold-blood­ ed murder. He had chopped Goby's head off. He "waB charged with having caused the death of a tender duckling by stepping on it while trespassing in the poultry yard. This was called manslaughter. He was accused of chasing with a stick on various occa­ sions certain defenseless females, the most noteworthy case being that of an elderly white-haired goose, who took to the water, and barely escaped drowning. He was forced to hear that he had thrown stones--not only at Goby and at certain roosters--but also at a blind hen, who, not being able to dodge, has suffered. He was accused of having, on fre­ quent occasions, Interrupted the crow­ ing of roosters, by rushing upon them in the midst of their crowing, to the severe injury of their dignity. When Lord Bantam had finished there was an intense stillness, and everybody strained his ears to hear what sentence the Peacock would in­ flict. But the Peacock turned slowly to Goby, who looked decidedly shabby u "I Thought I Was Burning Up." against his background of gay roost­ ers. "Col. Goby," lie said, "the most heinous of this youth's crimes has been directed toward you, and to show my appreciation of your past services, I now give to you the privilege of .se­ lecting the method of punishing this youth." Goby bowed profoundly, and gob- gling gently to try his voice, said humbly: "Your royal highness, the punishment I would suggest Is at hand. There, in those leaping fiames," and he waved his browned arm to­ ward the fire. Tommy's knees gave way, and he sank to the floor, hardly hearing the loud clapping of wings and cheers that greeted Goby's speech. "Good, very good, Col. Goby, very appropriate," said the Peacock, laugh­ ing loudly. "He will get what you got in the oven. Ha! ha! very unique." Then he became stern again, and continued: "Well, In order to save time and trouble, you, Lord Gobble- strong, and you, Lord Gabblestrength, carry out the sentence." The words had hardly been spoken when two immense gobblers seized Tommy and hurley him bodily into the flames. * "Mamma, mamma," Tommy called Inarticulately, in his anguish. The effort of speaking awoke him, and brought Mrs. Twaddles in from the kitchen, with a "Why, what's ailing you?" "I thought I was burning up," said Tommy. "Well, no wonder, with you right on top of the fire." PAT'8 THANKSGIVING TURKEY. Yez may sing wid yez llligant varses Av the turkey thot's luvely an* brown; Shure, Biddy and Oi are contlnted To sit wid another burd down. The turkey Ol mane was created Widout any wings fur a flight; He was born in the say, so it's stated, Near the banks of the Georgle's de­ light. Smothered up wid crame-gravey he's luvely. .Wid praities arranged In foine stoile-- Thot's a Thanksgiving faste sotls- folng Thot make the hull fomily smolle. The Cod!! Bless the Maker of fishes! Bates turkay that's luvely an* brown-- Smothered up wid crame-gravey ta dishes. A faste fur a king to put down. --H. S. Keller. A Winning Throw. Cobwigger--I hear you won the tur­ key at the raffle. Old Snowball--Haw, haw! I'se t'row de winner out ob de winder an* run off wid de turk. T*ie *lret Thanksgiving Day, The first Thanksgiving day in America was appointed not by the Pilgrims, as many persons mistakenly bett#v#, but by members of the Church of Kn giand. It was celebrated at Mohegan, off the Maine coast, near the moutn of the Kennebec river, as far back as 1607--thirteen years prior to the arrival of the Mayflower In Plymouth harbor--and Chaplain Sey- mow * •*rmoQ thanks for our happy metynge and saffe aryvall into the country." The earliest Thanksgiving day of the Plymouth colonists was in 1621, when, after their first harvest, GOT. ernor Bradford "sent four, men on fowling" so that they "might after a special manner, rejoice together," and when Massasolt and ninety friendly Indians participated in the three days' feast, themselves contributing five deer, which they brought to the plan-, tations and bestowed on the governor, Ga$t. Miles Standish and others. His Opinion, Mr. Hen peck--Doctor, I've taken s housA at Mudleigh-on-Sea. Do yos think it's healthy? Doctor--I believe so; but do jam think the climate wiU disagree artUb your wife? <* Mr. Henpeck Oh! It wouldn't dare to. What haa become of the old-fashion­ ed boy who believed that handling toads would cause warts to grow oa kla hands? BIG ODD LOT BUYING TRANSFER BOOKS CONTAIN »IO^ ; ||| , stockholders than evei^V ?; RELIEF TO STRINGENCY/ ? Numerous Currency Projects Submtfr • ^*4 ted to President and Cortelyoi* ' " ^ >-4merest In the Centrif • , ; l"nk .sXHIfg New York.--Investment buying hi $ small lots of railroad and industrial : * securities In Wall street still contin- -Jj. ues in unprecedented volume, and 'i-fv stock transfer officers are over- whelmed with work transferring tbe names of new security holders. **•, ; This enormous odd lot buying, bring- ing as it does thousands of dollars into circulation, has been in progress for several weeks and is doing more than anything else, perhaps, to effect a relaxation in the stringent currency ; conditions. Washington.--Details of many new V :J projects for improving the currency are being submitted to the president and Secretary Cortelyou and are re- f celving such attention as the other exigencies of the financial situation permit. Secretary Cortelyou is a good listener and usually digests quickly essential points of the various plans which are submitted to him. Measures relating directly to tho currency which are being discussed among bankers and incoming mem­ bers of congress may be roughly' grouped under four heads--a central bank of issue, a central organization of the existing national banks, the1 issue of additional circulation against 1 various classes of bonds other than United States bonds, and the issue ef circulation upon general assets with the security of a guaranty funds. The project of a central bank, based upon the general outlines of the Bank .of France or the Imperial Bank of Ger­ many, has apparently been attracting' more attention of late than at any pre­ vious time in recent years. Senator Hansb^ough of North Dakota, who is a member of the finance committee, < has announced that he will introduce a bill for such an institution. Mr. Wexler, vice president of tho Whitney-Central National bank of New Orleans, is openly in favor of a cen­ tral bank and says that the New Or­ leans press, taught by the strain of the cotton situation, is generally with him. CRISI8 SOON IN PORTUGAL. Signs That the Country Is on Eve of Revolution. Paris.--Reports representing Portugal is on the eve of a revolution, are received here with caution, as dis­ patches coming directly from that- country have been censored and those indirectly across the frontier are held more or less under suspicion. Both the reports of the banishment of the crown prince and the mutiny of the fleet are denied by the Portuguese ambassy here; nevertheless, the malt­ ing of arrests, the suspension of a newspaper and the repressive meas­ ures which have been taken by what Premier Franco terms an administra­ tive dictatorship, seem conclusive evi­ dence that qaatters in Portugal have entered upon a critical phase. Senor Lima, "proprietor of the newspaper Vanguardia, of Lisbon, which was suppressed, is now In Paris and considers that a republic is inev­ itable and that the issue will be de­ cided before January 1. He declares that the people are hostile to lb dynasty and that the army is disaf­ fected. NOBEL PRIZE FOR CROOKES. Achievements of the Famous London Chemist Are Recognized. Stockholm.--The Nobel prize for chemistry will be awarded to Sir Wil­ liam Crookes, of London. Sir William Crookes discovered thallium, an element, in 1861, and in­ vented the radiometer in 1874. He was knighted in 1897 and has been closely, identified with many of the most important advances in science. Prof. Crookes recently discovered a process of extracting nitric, acid from the atmosphere, which it was an­ nounced would sonn be available for commercial, industrial and agricul­ tural purposes and would revolution­ ize the nitrate industry and the world's food problem. Rudyard Kipling will reoelve the Nobel prize for literature. Noted Opera Singer a Suicide. „ Berlin.--Theodore Betram, the cele­ brated opera singer, committed suicide Sunday at Batruth. He had been melancholy and despondent since the death of his wife, who was drowned on February 21 last, in the wreck of the steamship Berlin ott the Hook of Holland. Bertram's most successful roles were Wagnerian and he made hi? greatest reputation as Wotan. Hungarian Arrested for Swindling. Columbus, O.--On the charge that he had been trying to swindle Hun­ garians throughout the state by means of a sick benefit and burial as­ sociation of which he is alleged to have been president, secretary and' treasurer, Istvan Harvath, a merchant of this city, was arrested Sunday at Newark, where he was about to ad­ dress a meeting of a local Hungarian society, and taken to Akron. It if said Harvath Is wanted on simil^ chrages at Cleveland, Barberton, Mag--- sillon and other cities. Philippines Needs Teachers. Washington.--The bureau of in« sular affairs has received a cablegram from the governor general of the Phil­ ippine islands indicating that probably 300 teachers will be required at thft beginning of the next school. * Royalty to Give Horse Show Cope. London.--King Edward, Queen Ale*» andra and the prince of Wales have each promised to present a gold cufc valued at about 15,000, in connection, with the international horse show tg' London in 1908.