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Is-, Pages 5 to 8 HE Pages 5 to 8 1 BROOKLYN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, PAGES. DEPUTY GRAND MASTER, ROBBERS AMONG PICNICKERS. PAYS ITS DEBTS; East River Bridge Gommissioii Spring Things MONEY TO LASTTO JiNDARYL Sontiago testify that the unparalleled colli pse of Gen. Shafters army was very largely attributable to the use of liquor in the rendezvous camps, and at Santiago where alcoholic liquors were obtained frem the Spanish prisoners in exchange for hard tack. Nor Is the proposition to abolish the use of liquor in the army new or contrary to military precedent.

An article, first appearing In the New York Tribune has been widely published through the United States, written by an authority familiar with military affairs abroad, in which the statement is made that after a series of careful experiments under Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, of the British army, with regard to the effect of liquor on soldiers it was decided that whereas, the corps which had received an allowance of pros surpassed the others in dash and impetuosity of 9 attack, yet that after the third or fourth day its memebre began to show signs of lassitude and a lack of spirit and endurance the same manifestations, though in a minor and slower degree, were apparent in the regiments restricted to malt liquors; whereas as men who had been kept from every kind of stimuient increased in staying power, alertness and vigor every day. And the same article asserted that on the basis at this decision Gen Kitcheners army, that has just wpn such a series of remarkable victories in the Soudan, culminating with- the capture of Kartoum, was not permitted a single 'drop of stimuient, in camp save for hospital use. Spirits, wine and malt liquors have been barred from the officers' mess table, as well as from the regi mental canteen, and from generals in command down to the drummer boys and camp followers, liquid refreshments have been restricted to tea and oatmeal And In marked contrast to the expert ence of Gen. Shafters army this same writer says about Kitcheners men, 'there4 never has been a campaign where there has been so little sickness. The Egyptian Gazette, of Alexandria, Egypt, on May 4, published a communication from its correspondent with this same army in the Soudan, in which he said.

Though I am by no means a rabid teetotaler, still it is very satisfactory to notice the staying powers of the troops and absence of all sickness, which I attribute wholly to their excellent and their present beverage, and I can safely say, without fear of contradiction, that for endurance, hardiness and general physical excellence you will not find a better body of men than this tea-drinking British brigade in the Soudatr. their tempers and traits. After some months the old Empress picked out the three girls she liked, and the eldest of these, who was 18 years old, became Empress. The two others became what are called secondary wives, or chief concubines, and these two latter were sisters, one of whom was 13 and the other 15 years old. The marriage of the Emperor was celebrated in elaborate style, and the magnificence of the occasion may be imagined from the fact that it cost the Government 10,000,000.

Every three years new batches of wives are picked out for the Emperor. The prettiest girls In the empire are chosen and the Emperor doesnt allow affairs of state to interfere with him in his amuse ments. He is sort of a holy figurehead and his officials keep making him more sacred every day. In return for which they get unliiptted opportunities to carry on their plots and peculations. The whole Chines court is made up oL intrigues and intriguers, and the nobles are glad to get their daughters in the royal harem for the political prestige It gives.

I Everything connected with the Emperor is regulated by law. He has imperial physicians ho watch over his health. The law even provides just what he shall eat. According to the old Chinese books, there must be placed daily before him thirty pounds of meat in a basin andtseven pounds boiled into Boup. He has a daily allowance of about a pound of hogs fat and butter, and he has the right to order two sheep, two fowls and two ducks, hile his drink for the day is restricted to the milk of eighty coas and the steeping of seventy-five parcels of tea.

The Emperor is lean and unhealthy. He sleeps most of the day and does what work he has to at night, and his life of pleasure has made a physical wreck of him. It fii doubtful whether he understands his real situation. It is said that he has never reviewed his own arrpy and that he knows absolutely nothing about military tactics. The Emperor knows nothing of modern civilization.

He doesnt even know his own country His eunuchs are said to have really more influence with him than any one else. They have been-hls closest associates all his life, and the head eunuch. Pi Tsiau Li, the ally of the Empress Dowager, is one of his confidential advisers. The Emperor was born in 1871, Is the son of Prince Chun, seventh brother of the Emperor Hien Feng, and succeeded to the throne by proclamation, at the death of Emperor Tung-Chl in 1875. He is the ninth Emperor of China of the Manchu dynasty of Tslng, which overthrew the native dynasty of Ming in 1644 There exists in Chiba no law of hereditary succession to the throne.

It is left to each sovereign to appoint his successor from among the members of his family of a younger generation. The late Emperor died suddenly and the Empress Dowager his widow, appointed the present Emperor. The Empress Dowager will be (4 years old next month. She is said to be a most remarkable woman, and she has been practically the ruler of China for the past generation. She was the secondary wife or the first concubine of the Emperor Hien: Fung, who died along about the time of the beginning of our Civil War, and she has been practically the boss of the harem and the empire since then.

She was at the head of the empire during a greater part of the Kalping rebellion. She managed its affairs during its war with France, and she had a little taste of Russian diplomacy in her fuss with the of some years ago. She is said to have a mind of her own, and all of the Chinese respect and fear her. She Is a stickler as to form, and she insists that all business shall be done through the young Emperor, though she really directs hat he is to do. She Is very vain, and she had consented to the spending of about twenty millon dollars on the celebration of her birthday, and this money was being collected for the purpose when the war with Japan broke out The Empress Dowager is even more secluded than the Emperor, and when she receives her officials she sits behind a screen, and the Cabinet Ministers get down on their knees and talk through it at her.

AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING COM. PANY TO BE PAID IN FULL NEXT! TUESDAY ANOTHER MILLION! DOLLARS LOOKED FOR BY THE COMMISSIONERS EARLY IN SPRING. I The East River Bridge Commission met yesterday afternoon In their offices In the Emigrant Savings Bank Building. Chambers street. Manhattan.

President Nixon was absent. The Commissioners, while rejoicing in the notification from the Controller that there Is 32,000.000 to their credit, expect to have added to It the premium on the 32,000,000. Secretary and Commissioner Lane is firmly con-tinced that the majority of the Board itL Estimate intended to give them 33.387,000. He particularly explained to the Mayor that they wanted the additional 3487.000, in order to easily settle np with tho American Sugar Refining Company, thus leaving 32,000,000 Intact for other uses; and he believes the Mayor approved It. but that the Controller, for some reason not yet explained, 'only allowed 32,000,000.

With this sum, however, the Commission will be able to pay its indebtedness, past and current, to contractors and others, up to the 1st of January next, including the Commissioners' salaries. For tha property ot the American Sugar Refining Company sold to the Commission mors than a year ago they owe about 3363,000, including about 315,000 interest. Arrangements have beea made to pay this Indebtedness and close up the entire transaction on the 27th insL The Commission expects to be -placed In control ot another million dollars late in the winter er early in the sprins by the Controllers introduction into tbe Legislature and the passage of an enabling act that will settle the debt limit question upon lines that will make tha new appropriation passible. With the fresh million thus secured work the two towers and the end fSpanB will be rapidly proceeded with. These and other details of the work were under discussion at yesterdays session.

The weekly report of progress Cfl the work TAas submitted by Chief Engineer L. L. Buck, as follows: Anchorage, New -York Side The first course of grillage is now complete-and work1 on the other courses Ib now in progress. Concreting has been carried on except for part of one day. Nearly 1,350 cubic yards of concrete have been put In place; the largest amount in any one da being 315 cubic yards Tower Foundations, Brooklyn Side-South pier.

About 140 cubic yards-of masonry were laid in the jxp course, of rock-faced work. Many of the coping stones have been cut, and the large force. of cutters hasibeGaqFpiK North Pier About 460 cubic yat of masonry ere ltfid Some timber were added to the coffer dam. The cutting edge is still at about elevation 90 feet. Anchorage About 500 cubic yards of excavation w.

ere removed and about of timber, 850 cubic yards of concrete, and 1,000 square feet of asphalting were added during the week. About one-eighth of the total area ot the foundation remains to be excavated and covered ProliiMionisWhoose Candidates For Election. i KINGS COUNTY TEMPERANCE ADVOCATES MET LAST AND PUT NEARLY A FULL TICKET IN i THE FIELD A LENGTHY REPORT I ON THE ARMY CANTEEN jREAD AND UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. i There was a convention, of Kings County Prohibitionists last night at 615 Fulton street, for the purpose of choosingj candidates for Congress, the Senate and Assembly. A.

H. Walker, chairman of the County Committee, called the meeting to order and presided. In a few remarks he stated the condition the Prohibition party of the State was in, and what the political outlook was. A resolution was adopted congratulating the Prohibitionists of Canada for having worked so successfully in getting the matter of prohibition submitted directly to the people, who were to vote upon it the 29ith of this month. The following nominations were, made for Congress: Second District Wt- Passage; Third, Asa F.

Smith Fourth, B. F. Fifth, Horatio Barry and Sixth, Isaac Carhart. i Nominations for the Senate Were: Fourth District, William Barry; Sixth, W. W.

Perry; Eighth, Isaac Tobias, and Ninth, Harry W.Gardner. The nomination for Assembly were: Seevnth district, Bryan F. Fox, Tenth, A. O. Carlson, Twelfth, Max Stade, Thirteenth, C.

Tyson; Seventeenth, Jeremiah Van Kalkenburg, and Twenty-first, Oliver Morrell. A Nominating Committee, composed of William Barry, Oliver Morrell and A- Walker, was named to choose candidates in the several districts in which no nominations were made last night. Tlfts report concerning the army canteen Vas read and unanimously adopted; Some of the metropolitan papers have been discussing the proposition to abolish the army canteen, as if such a proposition Involved both an absurdity and an impossibility. In answer to them, it ought to be noted that the canteen, as it exiBts in the American armies, is not such an institution as they describe. They speak of it as a place of quiet resort under the supervision of an officer, where excessive indulgence and drunkenness are never allowed, and where nothing harmful is sold.

As a matter of fact its principal, and usually only article of sale is beer, but the concensus of medical authority is that beer is fullyt as dan- gerous as any other intoxicating drink in4 hot climates, and that it is an intoxicating drink the large number of arrests for drunkenness which have cause in beer drinking, and the almost daily record of horrible crimes from the same cause in every city of the United States testifies. In the discussions of this matter, the vague impressions of laymen and editorial writers, inspired by a desire for popularity with a certain class, should not be given any weight against the testimony Of men of experience whose calling has compelled them to give an unbiased opinion concerning the effects of beer upon those seeking hardiness and length of life Headed by Major-Gen. Miles, Gen. Shafter and scoresi of pther subordinate Generals, Colonels! and va-rious officers of the late war, the decision, in the words of Gen. Miles, is that the history of other armies has demonstrated that in a hot climate abstinence from the use of intoxicating drink is essential to continued health and efficiency Had 'we observed the authoritative statement of the well-known English author, Dr.

T. Lauder Brunton, That injuries which to other people would be but slight, are apt to prove serious in them (beer drinkers), and when it is inecessary to perform surgical operations upon them, the risk of death is very, much greater than in others, our noble army would not now be in a state of collapse I Dr Benjamin Ward Richardson, the eminent English medical authority, sas 'We see the most useful of the lower animals performing i laborious tasks, undergoing extremes oif fatigue, bearing vicissitudes of hot ani cold, sus- tained by solid food with no other fluid than simple water We see dgain whole nations of races of men who labor hard, endure fatigue and exposure and who live to the end of a long and healthy life, taking with their solid sustenance rwater only as a beverage. Prof. Liebig, the great German chem 1st, has said that "if a man drinks daily eight or ten quarts of the best Bavarian, beer, in the course of twelve months he ill have taken into his system the nutritive constituents contained in a five-pound loaf of bread If this be tru, it is easy to calculate the effect of an effort to secure nourishment through beer-drinking to the consequent exclusion of nutritious food. Jacob Green, president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany.

speaking ojf a study of beer-drink- ing risks, says Robust, apparent health, I I INSTALLATION OF WILLIAM G. CALDWELL ON WEDNESDAY. Chief Deputy United States Marshal William G. Caldwell, on Wednesday evening, was installed as District Deputy Grand Master of District No. 2, of the Odd Fellows of Kings Coutny, the installation taking place in the rooms of Laurel Wreath Lodge, No.

233, in the Masonic Temple, Manhattan and Mese- role avenues. WON BACK HIS FORMER WIFE. MRS. NOON REJOINS HER VORCED HUSBAND. About ten years ago Mr.

and Mrs. 'ttoon separated. Mr. Noon went to Boston, started a bakery and prospered, while his went to Freeport, L. with her three children, to live.

No effort was made bjy either husband or wife to secure a legal separation until quite recently, when the wife applied for a divorce The decree was granted a few months ago. After the divorce was granted It was noticed that Mrs. Noon was receiving attentions from a young man named Hope, who lives in Brooklyn. A few days ago Mr Noon appeared in the village. He saw his former wife, and, it is said, they agreed to be united and try to live dot the past.

Mr. Noon left the village and was followed shortly afterwards by his divorced wife, she leaving the children in Freeport with friends. It is claimed that she has joined her husband, and they are about to locate in Cambridgeport, Mass. IRISH CARMEN. Their Droll Humor as Shown in Witty Retorts.

INCIDENTS THAT HAVE CHEERED THE WAY OF TRAVELERS IN'THE GREEN ISLE AT TIMES THEY TURN THEIR SARCASM UPON THEMSELVES, The Irish carman or the aa he is styled-in his native isle enjoys wide celebrity as a comical fellow. Sometimes his humor is absolutely unconscious. He says the quaintest things imaginable, without the slightest striving after effect or the least intention of being funny. But oftener he is consciously drolL He possesses a rich fund of natural wit and humor, a readiness in good-humored retort, and a mellifluous brogue, hich make him an excellent traveling companion on a long drive. A few years ago there was a waiter in one of the hotels of Dublin who was so HI it was with difficulty he was able to go about.

He always made it a point to stand at the door to see the visitors off. A commercial traveler remarked to the carman who drove him from the hotel: That poor waiter looks very ill; Im afraid he wont last long Last longl exclaimed the jarvey, Sure hes dead these two months, only hes too lazy to close his eyes. A proprietor of a hotel, overhearing a car driver in Cork asking an exorbitant fare of an unsuspecting foreigner, expostulated with him on his exaggeration of the, tariff, rconcludlng with the reproof, wonder you havent more regard tot the truth 4Och, indeed, thin. Ive a grate dale more regard for the truth than to be draggin her out on every palthrey occasion was the reply. The sarcasm of their rhetoric Is, as a rule, deprived of its sting by the quaint manner in which it is employed.

A visitor to Ireland ho engaged a car driver at the North Wall, Dublin, promised the driver 2s 6d. more than his fare if he succeeded in catching a certain tram at Kings-bridge. This the driver failed to do, but he claimed the extra half crown, notwithstanding. Sure, its no fault of me or me baste that ye missed the train, yer hon-ner, he quaintly argued, its all owin to the lateness of the boat, and would yer honner be so hard as to punish me for that? The ways in which the drivers convey hints to fares are also often very laughable. A long car full of passengers was toiling up one of the steep bills in the county of Wicklow.

The driver leaped down from his seat in the front and walked by the side of the horse. The poor beast wearily its heaty load, but the passengers were too eagerly engaged in conversation to notice how slowly the car progressed. Presently, the driver opened the door at the rear of the car, and loudly slammed it to again. The insides were somewhat startled at first, and then thought the dm er was only assuring himself that the door was securely closed For the second time the man repeated the same action; he opened the door and slammed it to again with a louder bang. One of the travelers inquired why he did that.

Whist, he whispered, spake low, or shell overturn us. Whos she? asked the astonished passenger, who began to think the driver must be mad. The mare, to be sure, he replied, Im disarm the crature Every time she hears the door slammin that way she thinks cne of yez is gettin down to walk up the hill, and that rises her spirrits. The insides took the hint. A military officer who passed through the Tirah campaign was recently on a visit to the Irish metropolis He engaged a car to drive him from the Richmond barracks to the Kildare Street Club, and pn arrival at his destination presented the driver with a 'shilling, Pat fixed his eyes attentively on the coin, and ejaculated viciously.

Wisha, bad luck to the Afradays Why7" asked the officer "Because, thin, they ve killed all the gintlemen that fought agin em. The officer was so tickled by the remark that he promptly doubled the fare. They can be very sarcastic at times, these jarveys An English traveler complained at the unevenness of the roads over which he was being driven. Arrah, sure, if they wor any betther yd import thim to England, was the ready response. Some years ago the Lord Mayor of Dublin happened to be an exceedingly superior and fidgety person, who was enormously impressed by the dignity of the office to which he had been elected for a year.

One day his carriage was stopped by an ancient four-wheeler, which impudently turned around in Dawson street, under the very shadow of the Mansion House and thus checked the civic dignitarys horses in their fiery caieer An altercation took place between the footman and the driver of the fcab, and the Lord Mayor putting his head out of he window, cried: Mahony, take his number and have him summoned. The jarvey, with appalling audacity, retorted: Arrah, go in out that, ye ould twelve months aristocrat, and drove off. The drivers often vnt the powers of sarcasm on themselves. A friend of mine, landing rt Kilrush pier on his way to Kilkee, gave his luggage to one of the dozen fellows who clamored vociferously for his patronage. The others then began ejaculations like these: May I niver, if the gentleman is not going with Feeney.

Fnix, hell be in Kilkee for breakfast to-morrow mornln If no bad luck overtakes him. "Och, Feeney, yer mother hid little to do whin she rared the likes of you Niver mind thm. sir, cried Feeney to his fare the dlvil has hard work to furnish these fellow with lies. Theres not a betther horse nor a than mine in the kingdom. We'll be in Kilkee, sir, before yur comfortably seated in the car.

Boston Herald. THEY LOOTED A HOUSE AT WHITE- STONE LANDING. While the members of the Martin Burke Association were enjoying an excursion at Whltestone Landing, L. I.f the residence of Thomas Reilly was broken into and looted. When this was discovered Detective Henry Haggerty was notified.

He suspected some of the excursionists, and by sending some young fellows among them had oon gathered Information enough to warratn several arrest. He accordingly took into custody by Policemen Thompson and Cramb. IS years old. ot 698 First avenue, and Thomas Walsh. 16 years old.

ot 838 East Thirty-sixth street, both of Manhattan. Just as Haggerty seized the ringleader, Babe McCarty, a soldier named Frank Bower, wearing a uniform of the Twelfth Regiment, Jumped upon the arm of Detective Haggerty, breaking the officers hold and allowing McCarty to escape. Bower also escaped, but was arrested later. McCarty was caught in Manhattan yesterday. The four prisoners were arraigned before Judge Smith, at yesterday, Markey and Walsh were discharged, and McCarty was held in 31, 0M te appear for examination to-morrow.

Bower was held in 3500 for examination for assisting a prisoner to escape and interfereng with an officer in ihe discharge of his duty. All the plunder was recovered with the exception of a gold watch. ARE CARED FOR. Camp Wikoff Sick Brought to St. Johns Hospital.

THIRTY PATIENTS ARE CARRIED ON STRETCHERS FROM A PASSENGER COACH TO THEIR COTS BY A COMPANY OF TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT MEN. Under the personal supervision of Dr. J. Elliott Langstaff, thirty sick soldiers from Camp Wikoff were brought in a passenger coach, of the, Dong Island Railroad last night to the Albany avenue station, from which point they were conveyed on stretchers to St. John's Hospital by forty uniformed men of tbe Twenty-third Regiment, under command of Lieut.

Potter, of Company B. The following is a list of those taken to the hospital: Harry Aldrich, private. Company Thirteenth Infantry. F. Bazlm, private, Company Twenty-fourth Infantry.

George S. Biudgett, private, Company Eighth R. Erannigan, private. Company Eighth Infantry. George W.

Call, private, Company Sixteenth Infartr. E. Cloomyer, private. Company Tenth Infantry. James F.

Dietz, private. Company First Illinois. -y Diessman, private, Company Second Cavalry. Lister Fink, pri Company Twenty-first Infantry, Henry C. Giles, private.

Company Twenty-fourth Infantry. W. Greenwood, Company Second Infantry Charles B. Hall, private. Company Third Cavalry.

H. private, Twenty-fourth Infantry. J. Jackson, private. Twenty-fourth Infantry J.

Jones, private, Company Twenty-fourth Infantry. B. Lockwood, private. Company Second Infantry. Charles McNeai, private, Company Ninth Cavalry.

D. McClerten, private. Twenty-fourth Infantry. Jesse P. Moody, private.

Company Sixth Massachusetts. C. Moritz, private. Company Second Infantry. George A.

Reid, private, Company Twenty-fourth Infantry. E. H. Root, private; Company Fifth Cavalry. Denis Roberts, private.

Company Twenty-fourth infantry James Rowland, private, Company Tenth Infantry. Charles R. Sehieber, private. Company Second Infantry. Emil Schultz, private.

Company Eighth Infantry. C. Simmons, private. Company Twenty-fourth Infantry. E.

B. Wickes, private, Company Fourth Artillery. Morton Wilson, private. Company Sixteenth Infantry. R.

Wright, private. Company Twentieth Infantry. A large crowd surrounded the sick men while they were being removed to the car and several encouraging cheers were given them. Private James Jahn, of Company Second Massachusetts, was taken to St. Peters Hospital yesterday by friends.

The soldier had been in Manhattan for several days and his condition became so serious yesterday that, on the advice of a physician, he was removed to the hospital. John is suffering from malaria and lack of nourishment, and It will be several weeks before he will be able to return to his home. Corporal Walter F. Gregory, of Troop Rough Riders, who on last Saturday left St. Marys Hospital to go to Washing-ton to get hi pay, returned to the institution yesterday morning.

He succeeded in getting his money after some trouble, and while in Washington he called on President McKinley. He told his comrades yesterday of the many kind things tbe President said of the Rough Riders. Gregory left the hospital last night for his home in Phoenix, Arizona. TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL. SICK SOLDIERS AT CAMP TRANSFERRED.

All the sick men left behind by the 201st, 202d Regiments when they started from Camp Black for Camp Meade were transferred to tbe Nassau Hospital yesterday. They rest on fine cots now, and will have the beat of attention. Ther are about sixty men in all, and they were transferred from the hospital in Camp Black in ambulances of the Red Cross, the Nassau Hospital and in army wagons. Mrs. Richard Howland and other women of Garden City are sending delicacies to the sick.

The surgeons who were in charge of the men have gone to Camp Meade to rejoin their regi BLACK ments. A $2,000 FIRE. A two-story frame dwelling on Metro- polltan evAnue, Eastern District, was destroy. fire yesterday. The house Si occupied by George Gunz.

ThV pily escaped with most of their effects. cause of the fire could not be learned by the police. The house wag owned by Philip Door, and was In-sured. The loss is placed at $2,000. Abdicates in Favor of the Dowager Empress.

A RUMOR TJATJE IS DEAD. GREAT DIFFICULTY IX LEARNING THE TRUTH HUNG CHANG LIKELY TO BE RESTORED TO POWER AND RUSSIAN INFLUENCE INCREASED PRINCE KANG YU MEI TAKES FLIGHT DETAILS OF THE EMPERORS LIFE. PEKIN, Sept. 22. An imperial edict that was issued to-day announces that the Emperor has abdicated in favor of the Dowager Empress.

The latter has ordered that henceforth the Ministers shall deliver their official reports to her. The edict proclaiming the abdication says that the Emperor three times requested the Empress to reassume th Government, and that she yielded at the third request It is difficult to learn accurately what is happening in the palace. There is little doubt that the reform edicts led to the deposition of the Emperor. The Dowager Empress nas content to let the Emperor alone so long as he as merely a figurehead, but when he Initiated or sanctioned a policy that was opposed to her views she compelled him to abdicate. The Emperors chief adviser.

Prince Kang Yu Mei, has evaded the efforts that have been vigorously made to arrest him. It is said that he has fled in the direction of Shanghai. Everybody expects that Li Hung Chang will be reinstated in office, and that the Emperors reforms will be peremptorily smothered. The English foresee an Increase in Russian influence, and corresponding damage to their Interests. Numerous rumors are in circulation, some of which are alarming One report has It that the Dowager Empress Is actuated by the determination to Marquis Ito, the Japanese statesman, who, it is understood, visited Pekin for the purpose of arranging an offensive and defensive alliance between China and, Japan.

When the Emperor received Marquis Ito in an audience on Tuesday last he showed him great honor, and expressed the hope that he would give advice respecting the proposed reforms. Another report says that wordy scenes occurred between the Dowager Empress and the Emperor in the Tsung-li-Yamen. The Dowager Empress is believed to be greatly incensed by Russias passivity and by the degradation of Li Hung Chang, and is now courting Russia with all her might. SHANGHAI, Sept 22 It is rumored here that the Emperor is dead. It is declared that the gates of Pekin are closed.

The Emperor of China has been the most secluded monarch in the world. He is surrounded by officials whose chief duty seems to be to keep him from coming into touch ith the outside world. Before reaching the building in which he is practically confined, one has to pass through three sets of walls, each set be-ing guarded by a small army of eunuchs. First there are the great 60-foot-thick walls of the Tartar city, then the walls of the imperial city, which are six miles in length, and then a third set, inclosing what is known as the Purple Forbidden City. Inside of the latter lives the Emperor and his family, the ladies of the royal harem, and the thousands of eunuchs who make up the staff of royal serv ants.

The Emperor himself lives in the northwestern part of the inclosure, and the Empress Dowager has a palace near by. another part of the inclosure is the hall of literary abjss, or the Imperial and in this the Cabinet officers hold their sessions, and it contains also a department of the royal treasury. No one outside of the foreign legations has even got into the palaces of the Emperor of Chira, and no foreigner is permitted to see him. The American Minister had an audience, but even the Chinese of Pekin do not know how the Emperor looks. There are not 6,000 men outside of his eunuchs who have ever set eyes on him.

He knows absolutely nothing about the actual condition of his people. When he goes out Into the city matting is hung up jn front of all the houses, and strips of cloth are stretched across the alleys and side streets through which the imperial procession must pass The American Minister warns all Americans not to go out at their peril, for the Emperor is always accompanied by soldiers, and the man who peeps around the corner, or has his eye fastened a hole in the matting, is liable to be blinded with a bullet or arrow. The streets are fixed up for the occasion. All the booths and squatters are driven away and the roads are covered with bright yellow clay. Yellow is the imperial color.

The young Emperor is a decidedly eak character, and doesnt even do his own thinking. The Empress Dowager attends to that for him. It Is said that he occasionally goes into fits of rage when he is crossed, but it is the rage of a child, and is over as soon as he has exhausted himself. He has been under the thumb of the Empress Dowager since he was a baby. She supervised his education, and picked out his wives for him.

She has him so hemmed in with officials -and wives who are her sworn allies, that there has never been a chance for the young Emperor to extricate himself from the subservient condition, even If hd wanted to, which he apparently doesnt The Emperor was 17 years old at the time of his marriage, ten years ago, and the Empress Dowager gave him three wives to start with. The selection was curious. All the pretty Tartar girls of the empire, numbering many thousands, were gathered together and sorted, and the best of them were sent on to Pekin. The selection was first made by the Governors of the provinces, and no girl was presented who was over 18 nor under 12 years of age. The choice lots were dressed In the finest of clothes, and were carted from all parts of the empire to P-kin.

They were here submitted to the Inspection of the old Empress Dowager, being brought Into her presence in lots of five. She passed upon them as fast as she could and weeded out the poorest and dullest. Those who remained were taken out for the time and brought in In new lots, and the sorting went on, until the thou- sands had dwindled to the hundreds, the hundreds to scores, and the scores at last to fifteen. 1 These' fifteen girls were put into1 training, Their paces were tested and all sorts of experiments war made as to sjjri ast Night' at the Loeg Island State Hospital a MANY DIPLOMAS AWARDED. DR.

EVAN J. SMITuf SECRETARY OF BOARD OF MANAGERS, GIVES THE NURSES ADVICE REGARD TO THE TREATMENT OF INSANE PATIENTS ADDRESS BY THE SUPERINTENDENT. The first annual graduation exercises of the training school of the Long Island Stas Hospital for the Insane were held last night fei the entertainment hall of the which was decorated for the occasion with American flags and bunting. Dr. R.

M. Elliott, superintendent of the hospital, presided, and made an introductory address, in which he said: We celebrate to-night the first annual graduation exercises of the Training School for Nurses at this department of the Long Island State Hospital. Although the institution is an old one, it was not until after its transfer to. the State three years ago, that a school for nurses was organized This department of the hospital, while it is now a unit in the New York State Hospital system, it differs from the other institutions, an that the property is only leased by tbe State or a period of ten years at the expiration of which time it is intenjled to vacate. In view of this no fund6 will be available for improvements in the buildings and plant, on the other hand the policy will be one of gradual dismantlement.

But this circumstance does not relieve us from the duty of keeping pace with the other institutions -4n the actual care and treatment of our patients. It is incumbent upon us to and maintain a standard of efficiency in respect second to none. Dr. Elliott then stated that Dr. Dewing, the general superintendent, and Dr.

Truman J. Backus, president of the Board of Managers, was unable to be present. He then called on Dr Evan J. Smith, secretary of the Board of Managers, to make an address. Among other things, he said: Graduates of the Training School of the Long Island State Hospital, At the bidding of your honored superintendent.

Dr. Elliott, I have come here to talk to you, aas you are about to begin your life work, as best I may, and to say to you and your6 friends here assembled a few words of encouragement and cheer; and, if I may be permitted, of admonition. You are here at this time to give public and formal recognition to that ceremony that has been termed and named the commencement, because It is regarded as the beginning, or tbe commencement of an educated busrheW professions life, the taking of a first of a university or professional degrep. This is the day above all others to which the student looks with fervent hope and selfish pride It is the date from which he dates or records the incipiency of a professional career, and may be fittingly called the commencement of your life-work and studies. It is now, better than at any other time, that you should realize that you have advanced to the portal of your akna mater and about to be admitted to the shrine of the goddess Hgea, at whose feet you Shall learn the simple lessons of nature, and have inculcated into your minds how to preserve cleanliness, to protect the Injured and the invalid; toreswe in the one and aid in the other tqJthe renew al of that vigor and vitality teftned health, or to smooth the way which leads on to eternity.

You must bear in mind that you are not only the chosen representative, armed with authority to encourage, bless, cleanse and minister to the body, diseased, Taut have been tutored by skilled and trained minde to a duty more sacred than that of any other calling can recall, even that of administering into tbe soul diseased, end that is to administer to the mind which has been engulfed in the mira and miasma that we term insanity. Your training and work In this special field has by the will and Judgment of your alma mater fitted you to withstand trying and exacting ordeals. You must, to be successful, not only have absolute control of yourselves and your every act, but withstand the trials, undergo the fatigues end triumphantly withstand the temptations which will daily beset your path You should feel especially proud of the fact that you are to receive the first diploma from this your alma mater, and from Dr. Elliott and his efficient staff, for several reasons. One, I may be permitted to mention, is that you have been the recipients of efficient theoretical and practical instruction from a well qualified and practical corps of instructors.

Another is that you are the first class of your kind to be licensed under the State hospital system of the great State of New York, and. not by any means the least, that you have ben educated and trained in this old institution, which has stood as one of Kings County's chart- table monuments for over forty-five years Dr. Elliott, with a few well-chosen words, presented the diplomas to- the graduates, after which the exercises were brought to a close and a collation was served. Dancing was then enjoyed by the attendants and the visitors. The graduates are as follows: Mary ONeill, Nettie L.

Williams, Mary J. OMara, William Kelliher," Alice Van Staveren, Patrick Flynn. John P. Dunn, Elizabeth Gilbert, Kate Reilly, William Munn, John OShea, Anna Farrell, Ella Reilly, Mary OHanion, 'Anna Connolly, George J. Sechler, Bridget Feeney, Mary Hamann, Julia Farreliy, James Gallagher, Agnes Christal, Alicia Martin and Marie Dickert.

Following is the staff of the hospital: Dr. Robert M. Elliott, inedical superintendent; Dr. I. O.

Tracy, first assistant physician; Dr. D. E. Warren, second assistant; Dr. F.

M. Nehrbas, third assistant; Dr. E. A. Hoffman.

Dr A. J. Capron, Dr. S. L.

Parker, Dr. Caroline Stengle, and Mrs. Mary A. Johnson, Matron. The Microbe of Baldness.

No medical subject has caused more discussion than -the statement by a famous physician that he has dfecovered the microbe which causes baldness Tlfti are other scientists who claim that there la no such thins as a microbe of this kind The most that can be said of It ts that time alone must settle the It was long aco settled that Hostetters Stomach. Bitters Is a standard remedy for the common ailments of mankind. Yean ago it pamd tha exparlmaittal laga. It ia a trua stimulant, a true cure for dyspepsia and indigestion, a true medicine for the week and nervous, a true etrengthener and appetiser The benefits of theee Blttere are last-ins and permanent. People who take them Uve longer, feel happier, sleep sounder and look better than those who dont.

Nearly every disease that afflicts the human family can be overcome with Hostetler's Btomach Bitters. FLOWERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. AMERICAN INSTITUTE'S SHOW AT THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN. Wild flowers will form one of the most Interesting, beautiful and important de-partments of the national exhibition of photographs, flowers and fruits, which will be opened Monday, Sept. 26, by the American Institute at thel Academy of Design.

Because of the general interest that women take in flowers, and because of the number of exhibits made in the show of amateur photographs by women, the coming novel exhibition will be peculiarly a womans show. The exhibition will be opened in the height of the golden rod season, and will be timely for other late maturing species of American flora that are recognized by the many and that are popular favorites. The veteran authority on horticulture. Dr. P.

H. Hexa-mer, who is the most ardent and active of all his associates in the Board of Man-agerof the American Institute Fair in organizing the flower show, promises that the coming exhibition of native American flowers will be most valuable as a practical botanical lesson and a thing of great beauty as well. Aa incident of the exhibition that may more particularly appeal to the ''Interest of women than the men will be a competitive exhibit of hand and bridal bouquets, the latter openg to florists employees only those that excel to In foi their designer cash and other desirable prizes. The largest department devoted to any single flower will be that of the dahlia. This flower is yearly in-creasing In popularity with flower fanciers, and its cultivation and variation is now the centre of attraction for florists, professional and amateur.

The American Dahlia Society, attracted by the fine exhibitions of itB favorite flower hich have been made at the last two annual fairs of the American Institute, have abandoned Philadelphia as the scene of the national annual exhibitions and incorporated them in the American Institutes Flower Show, thus imparting to the latter the strength of its organization and contributing liberal cash prizes. In the photographs sent in from all over the United States to this the first representative national ex hibition of American photographs to be held, the exhibits marked with feminine names attest that women are taking an extensive and important part in the progress of photographic art. CUBAN EVACUATION. THE AUTONOMIST GOVERNMENT AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. WASHINGTON, Sept.

23 One of the embassies here has received dispatches to the effect that the Colonial Govern ment of Cuba is taking a hand in shaping the terms for evacuation. This Colonial Government was established by Spain, There are five Cabinet officers and legislative body with two houses. There is now more or less co-operation between the Colonial Government and the Spanish Government. This creates a condi tion in which the United States must deal, not only with Spain, but with those who assert that they are the rightful rulers of Cuba, and the de facto rulers. This Autonomist Administration is well organized and has large influence the people.

It is believed that evacuation will begin within the next month. If one ship sails every day it will take over three months to transport the 100, 000 soldiers now in the Island. TO RESUME REGULAR SERVICE. THE ST. LOUIS AND OTHER CRUIS ERS NEARLY READY.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23. The work of restoring the big auxiliary cruis ers St. Paul, St. Louis, Harvard and Yale to the condition they were in before being taken by the Government is progressing so rapidly that the International Navigation Company has announced that the vessels will be placed In the regular service again on Wednes-day, Oct.

12. The St. Louis will be the first of the great ocean liners to resume her trips to Southampton, and she will be quickly followed by the St. Paul, Harvard and Yale. I MAC ENDORSED.

The Rosette Democratic Club of the Twenty-third ward, at a meeting at the McDowell Hotel, on the Boulevard, Wednesday evening, at which Sheriff Creamer, Bridge Commissioner Shea, ex-Naval Officer John C. McGuire, and other leaders were present, endorsed John P. Mac-Cabe for Assembly In the Eighteenth district. Mr MacCabe, who is vice-president of the MacCabe Manufacturing Company, plumbers. 1662 Fulton street, last year made a close run for the ana feels confident of election If nominated.

WOODBURY STARTS TO-NIGHT. BURIilNGTON Vt Sept 23. Sx-6ov Woodbury, who was recently appointed a member of the War Investlsatlon Committee, will leave thi city to-night tor Washington to attend the flrat meeting of the committee at the Wh'te House tomorrow morning. I asphalting of the south and middle lockets is practically completed, and that of the north chamber about one-half done. AMUSEMENT NOTES.

The Columbia Theatre will open for tho season next Monday evening under the management of Col William Sinn, of the Montauk Theatre, which in itself is a guarantee of a season Of first-class plays and general good management. The opening attraction will be Stuart Robson in his new play, The Meddler. -'Going to the Races, an entirely new acrobatic and spectaaular production, will be presented for the first time in Brooklyn by the Brothers Byrne, at the Bijou Theatre, next Monday ev-ing. H. Wests Big Minstrel Jubilee, with jost of new talent, will be the attraction next week at the Grand Opera.

House. "The White Heather will continue its successful run at Coi. Sinns Montauk Theatre next week, the same big cast remaining that is presenting the play ttua week. The Mordant and Black Stock Company wpll be seen In Brooklyn for the first time nixt week in Sardous Diplomacy at the Amphion Theatre. In New York will be presented next week at the Park Theatre by a big cast that ill include nearly the full strength of Leonard Grovers Stock Company.

The Castle Square Opera Company will offer on Oct. 3, the first souvenir of the season to celebrate the 250th performance of opera In English at the American Theatre, Manhattan. The commemorative token will be of sterling silver and the management requests each recipient to donate a penny In deference to a time-honored superstition. A Trip to Africa will be the opera presented by the company next week. Langdon EIw Mitchell, -who has been at work for five months on a dramatize- tion of Vanity Fair for Mrs.

Fiske, has finished three acts of the play. Mr. Mitchell visited Manhattan this week for the purpose of reading the completed part to Mrs. Fiske, who some time ago, accepted his scenario. The drama will be finished, at tbe specified time, Nov.

1. USE OF AN INCLINE. RAILROAD COMPANY- WILL ASKED FOR AN EXPLANATION. The local board of the Ninth District xne in the office of Borough President Grout at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and after a brief session adjourned until Oct 7. Alderman Helgans, Schmidt and Lange, and Councllmen Wllliama and Hester, were present.

The question aa to the right of the Brooklyn. Elevated Rail- road to run an incline on Atlantic avenue. East New York, on Its Rockaway line was laid over until President Uhlmann could be heard from at the next meeting. Alderman Helgans presented a petition from a committee of citizens of the Twenty-sixth ward protesting against a barbed wire trocha built along Vesta avenue from Sutter avenue to New Lota road, and which made a long walk necessary in OFder to get on either side of the street The Alderman was asked to present the matter to the Board of Aldermen next week, and an adjournment followed. SENTENCE pOMMUTED.

WILMINGTON, el Sept 23. Upon the recommendation of the Board of Pair. i dona. Gov. Tunnell has commuted to' im- prisonment for life the sentence of the Rev.

William Fisher colored, convicted of breaking into Mrs. Maria Hunt at night OjUijP'WlOt ot committing aJ fMon finis' and sentenced to be baniHtf BROOKLYN LEAGUE'S POSITION. ENCOURAGES ASSESSMENT EQUALIZATION EFFORTS. John M. Pullman, of 741 Union street, stated his opposition to the movement suggested by a local real estate firm for securing an equalization of assessments, in a copy of a letter which he left yes-terday at the office' of the Brooklyn League, 1 200 Joralemon street.

Pullman is not a member of the league, but he holds the view, that Inasmuch as the league was organized for the purpose of securing an equalization of assessments, all other efforts In the- same direction should be discouraged. The secretary of the league has written to Mr. Pullman that on the contrary, all such efforts are to be encouraged, in letter which reads as follows: Sept 23 1898 John Pullman, 741 Union street, Brooklyn: Dear Sir, I have read the copy of the letter which you left at this office. I think It is Just as well to have the real estate firms of the city take up this question of securing an equalization of assessments and I think aH persons whether they be Interested Individually or as business concerns, who undertake to interest Brooklyn taxpayers In this matter shouid be encouraged That is the way the officers of the Brooklyn League feel about it. We are making a general fight for the equalization of assessments and we are not inclined to do anything which would discourage interest or criticise methods adopted by otherA The Brooklyn League aims to be well supplied with facts and figures, go that when the members of the league go before the assessors next spring they will be welt prepared to prove a general inequality of assessments, if the Tax Commissioners who are at work now fail to obey the mandates of the charter in that respect When the last Legislature had been in session for six weeks the league discovered the infamous Grady bill, which, If it had slipped through quietly as its framers intended it should, would have taken away from Brooklyn taxpayers the right to seek in the courts a revision of Jheir assessments on the ground that a general inequality exists between assessments In this borough and in the Borough of Manhattan.

The league called the attention of the legislators to the fact that the principal inducement to consolidation was to he wiped out of the charter and the" Gray bill was not heard of again. The leagues plan is- to prepare tables showing comparisons of assessed and real values In Brooklyn and Manhattan in several thousand Instances. This plan has been approved by Albert G. McDonald and Joseph A. Burr and no better authorities can be found in Brooklyn.

When these gentlemen held the office of Corporation Counsel they had much to do with litigation in the tax department. The league would be glad to have your active co-operation and the sup- port of every Brooklyn taxpayer. The league 18 In this business every day in the year and will continue to devote all its energy to this important work until the question, is settled, to the satisfaction of Brooklyn I am. yours respectfully BPARD B. LENT, Secretary what woid many a poor editor do, thw daya.

wtr, it not for tha poorer poeta full muscles and a fair outside, increasing weight, florid faces, then a touch of cold or a sniff of malaria, and! instantly some acute disease, with almost inari-ably typhoid symptoms, was in violent action, and ten days or less ended it all This, corresponding identically with the recent official statements cf R. Gillette, medical director, and Emory McClintock, actuary, of the Mu-, tual Life Insurance Company J. W. Alexander, vice-president, and J. Q.

Van Cise, actuary, of the Equitable Assurance Society, voices almost the unanimous opinion of experienced officer tof life insurance companies Tho do not talk for effect, but really have a business interest at stake. Any student of contemporary history is well aware of the fact that Ihe de-spised Turk has exhibited remarkable soldierly qualities both in the war v. ith Russia and in the more recent Greek ar The following quotation, from Sir Charles E. Ryan, M. F.

R. S. I who sert ed as a surgeon in the Turkish I Army, at Plevna and Erzeroum, may throw some light upon the subject. Dr. Ryan says in his recently published book: In alt my surgical experience I have never known men to exhibit such fortitude under intense agony as these Turkish soldiers, nor have I ever met patients who recovered from such terrible injuries in the remarkable iay that these men did.

They were magnificent material for a surgeon to work on men of splendid physique, unimpaired by intemperances or any excesses. Occasionally one found isolated cases of intemperance among the higher officers in the Turkish army: but I never saw a private soldier under the influence of liquor during the hole time that I was in the country. It was impossible to get them to touch alcohol, even as medicine. On the other hand, It ought to be remembered that the Greeks, who in their lack of courage and endurance, so bitterly disappointed their friends, went into the opening battles of their disastrous war plentifully supplied with brandy. Sir William Fenwick Williams, the English general who commanded the Turkish army that held Kars agairst the overwhelming force of the Russians, and made that siege one of the most memorable events of military history, said (as quoted by Winskill in The Temperance Movement, Vol.

Ill, P. 76). I am indebted to a gracious Providence for preservation in very unhealthy climates, but I am satisfied that a resolution early formed, and steadily persevered In, never to take spirituous liquors, has been a means of my escaping diseases by which multitudes have fallen around me. Had not the Turkish arms at Kars been literally a cold-water army, I am persuaded they rever would have per- termed the achievements which crowned them with glory. Hundreds of soldiers returned from I r- A.