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SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, ISOa.
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Tendered Adihiral Dewey
in New York.
MILLIONS OF PKOPLBl
Witnessed the Grand Haval Pageant
la the HarborCnrqualed Ex
pression of Homage.
NEW YORK. Sept. 29. No Roman
conqueror returned to his triumph of
barbaric splendor, no victorious king
or prince coming home from a success
ful war, ever received such a magnifi
cent ovation as overwhelmed Admiral
Dewey today, as be stood op. the bridge
of the Olympla at the head of the
magnificent fleet of steel thunderers
of the deep, followed, by a thousand
vessels of peace, each tiered and
coated with people, and sailed over
the bright waters j 01 me upper iay f
and up the broad pathway of the f
irfver -whose batik were gay wJLii -
millions of flags and streamers dancing f
in the wind. The sky was blue, the
water rippled under the fresh wind .
that held out the -flags straight and j
Jaunty, and the wharves and piers, j
and rocky heights and grassy knolls'
were black with frantic, enthusiastic
people, who strlved weakly to make I
. - aWAxA V Ant I
ineir moiua aearu
bedlam of; tooting - Whistles that ac
companied the admiral, ashore and
afloat. ;
As the tomb of , General Grant at
Riverside drive, was reached, the
fleet paid its tribute to the memory of
the great warrior with a national sa
lute of twenty-one roaring guns. The
fleet then anchored and reviewed the
almost endless -procession of craft that
steamed pat, so burdened with hu
manity that they looked as if they
would turn turtle before they could
get back o their piers.
Darkness at .last brought relief to
the tired admiral who had stood on
the bridge for six hours bowing his
acknowledgments j to the stentorian
expression of. homage. New York has
rtever before witnessed anything ap
proaching (this wonderful, -cemarka-tle
demonstration. The Columbian
naval parade, the dedication of Grant's
tomb and the reception to the No-th
lAtlantlc squadron, last fail, all pale
before this gigantic .ovation to the
sailor, who. In a single morning, de
stroyed the enemy's fleet without the
loss of a man or a ship. It Is not be
yond the mark to say that , 3,000,000
people viewed the pageant : from
ashore, and that a quarter of a mil
lion were afloat, ,
The officers of the fleet did not wear
their showy uniforms, but were attir
ed in special undress" as It Is tech
nically known In the navy. There were
gold epaulets, gold bound beavers and
clattering swords j abroad. This was
the admiral's order, and added but an
other to the many evidences of ;hls
unique modestyj The brother and
widow of Captain Orldley who fought
the Olympla in -Manila bay, and Colo
nel Bartlett with three newspaper men
were 'the only civilians aboard. ...
Just ae the signal to weigh anchors
was given, a pull on' the halyards
spread the four t starred flag which
Faxragut flew as he ran the fort In
New Orleans. It j was the flag which
was presented to ?Admlrai Dewey. As
It -broke, the sailors at -their stations;
and. the marine on the quarter deck,
greeted it with the " hip. hip. hooray"
we got from our Ancestors, r The flag
i floated proudly all . .through the pag
eant today. It is the most precious
possession of Farragut'a puplV and
when it Is struck on Monday, it will
probably be forever, as It is altogether
unlikely that Admiral Dewey will ever
command Another fleet. " - - V.
Admiral Dewey went up on the after
bridge as soon aa the start was made,
and remained there throughout the
parade. The admiral gave close at
tention, throughout the Journey, to!
everything which; transpired on board ,
his vessel. Several times he ordered
the crew to stand by Hp cheer in some
extraordinary demonstration.
It was not until all the warships
' bad passed In review before the Olym
pla that an Incident occurred which
showed that, with all his geniality,
the hero of (Manila could also be a very
stern sailor. J A stream of signal flags
ordered the I vessel' of .the fleet to
dress ship.- .The order was beautiful
ly executed except aboard the flag
ship, where the fouling; of a. line In the
top of one of the stacks caused delay.
'Admiral Dewey Instantly roared out
a command for some one to ease the
line. It fouled again, and a sailor was
sent aloft to clear it. The admiral
was plainly displeased.' He , sent for
the officer under whose direction ' the
order was executed, ' and called him
upon the bridge.; i am ashamed of
this, he said, "and I " am ashamed of
you. , - , - ' . . " .' -'
DIAZ REPRESENTATIVE.
"Will Be Received and Escorted
with
Becoming Honors.
Chicago. Sept. 1 23. A sedal to lhe
Chronicle from ' San f Antonio. Tex.,
ays: General Chalmers McKlbben,
commanding the department of Texas.
ith headquarters at Port Sam Hous
toa, San Antonla, has been designated
as the representative of. the coresident j
IscaU . vice-president end mlntatef of
foreign affairs for .Mexico, at Basle
Pass, and escort him to Chicago, show
ing him all proper courtesies during
his stay In this country,, r , . j
General McKlbben has been advised
by wire of his selection to act as the
president's represenUtive In the re
ception -and entertainment of-the dis
tinguished guest from Mexico, and was
directed to proceed , to ' Eagle pass
about October 2d, accompanied by one
of his staff officers, for the purpose
of meeting Mr. MariscaL He will es
cort the visitor to Chicago, : and upon
the termination of . the function at
that place, is directed to return to bis
station In 'Texas, unless otherwise or
dered. tMr. -Marlscal wlH arrive - ac
Eagle Pass on tbe morning of October
3d, where, be will be met by General
McKlbben and civilian committees.
OFFICERS MMEP.
SEVERAL SALEM ITES ELECTED
BY THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Work of the Grand Commandery of
Oregon, at Its Session in Ashland,
Yesterday. . ;
ASHLAND, ' Sept. 28. The grand
commandery of Oregon, Knights Tem
plar, in session here today, elected
and installed the following officers for
the ensuing year: s
Curt B. Winn, of Albany,! eminent
grand commander; ' Frank A. Moore.
Salem, deputy grand commander; W.
T. Wright, La Grande, grand gener
alissimo; Frank E. - Allen, : Albany,
grand captain general; L. Roney, Eu
gene, grand senior, warden; Geo. H.
Hill, Portland, grand Junior warden;
D. C. Agler, Ashland, grand prelate;
B. G. Whltehouse, Portland, grand
treasurer; Jaa. P. Robinson, i Eugene,
grand recorder; Finley C. Perrtoe, Sa
lem, grand standard bearer; E. V.
Carter, Ashland, grand sword bearer;
Frank J. Miller, Albany, grand war
der; Gustaf Wilson, Portland, grand
sentlneL
MACARTHUB AT PORAC.
The Filipinos Were Defeated After a
Brief Resistance, r
.Manila, Sept. 28, 8:30 p. m. General
iMacArthur entered Porac after, half
an hour's fighting.! The American loss
was slight: the Insurgent loss Is not
known.. The enemy fled northward
and when the Americans entered the
town they found It practically desert
ed The attacking party moved on Porac
in two columns. The Ninth infantry
with two guns from Santa Rita was
commanded .by General Wheeler, and
the Thirty-sixth Infantry under Colo
nel Bell, with one gun accompanied
General MaoArthur from -San Antonio.
Both columns struck town at o'clock
and opened a brisk fire, which L was
replied to by the enemy for half an
hour. .Then the Insurgents fled, and
the Americans marched over their
trenches and took possession . of the
place. -' -- .
Just before the fight Smith's com
mand at Angeles made a demonstra
tion by firing artillery up the rail
road track.? LIscumb reported one
casualty, and Bell reported four men
of ' his regiment wounded. The t artil
lery did not lose a man, killed or in
jured. . .. i-
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VENEZUELAN Rl FMLS.
Have Invested , the , 'arIta? -tJovorn-ment
Troop re Jefe.it.l.
Xjw York, Etpt. A dispatch to
th Herald from Port of s?p;Un. Trini
dad, cays: Caracas is practically in-vttd(bj-
the revolutknit.' G?nf ral
CIprlano Castro's, fi-rcr.. moving- from
Valencia and Vlctrla, s-parHtd into
thrne divisions. The right twing. his
already captured San Cosimir and
umare, and is now occutylnn the val-"
ley cf the Tuy river and commanding
the road to Caracas thirty milfs dis
tant. The left ina is Kcui4ing Car
alucia and the entire ?coat to Pw
to Cabt llo, and is moving forward to
ward La Guayra with the special ob
ject of cutting off President Andrade.
The center and main di.Ulon of the
rebel army, under the personal com
mand f General Castro, is moving on
Los Leques, and purp'1 t combine
with the forces from the Tuy valley to
make an assault on Caracas, .
; t'aitro surprised ' the government
trjops n the idaJns of Valemrfa, caiis
Inis a tc Andrade's forces. of Hit)
men in kill d and . wounded. General
Adrian, of the irovernim-nt army, was
anirng the slain. The lo?s t the rnv
clu.icrJsts was s'ltht. t The province
of Cero Is now held by Uie rr.urgenis.
Tlve city , of Carupano ,hu tilm up
arms in favor or the revolutk'iu
ORIGIN OF THE KIS3.
Prof. Lombroeo in the ; August Pall
; MaU on Its History.
r Down to Homeric times the kiss bore
a "solely maternal, significance. Thus,
in Homer, kuveos meant only the
kiss of father to child, or the kiss of
the supplicant, like the Prod who kiss
the bands of Ulysses. The kiss never
occurs In the love scenes between
Venus and Mars, 'Ulysses and Circe or
Parts and Helen (Iliad iiU. nor yet be
tween Hera and Lao.- who are dis
tinctly depicted em In the bonds of
love IUad viv.. In the scene with
Andromache, Hector consoles her toot
with a kiss but with a caress of his
hand. Even in the ancient Egyptian
the definitions of "kiss" (except bach,
which is an obscure point) refer to
"embrace," and not to kissing with the
lips. e .;f, -; ' ... ,-.,:-.-
la ancient Sanskrit poetry, again,
the kiss is always maternal, and the
kuaiaml (Sanskrit for- "kiss") is ex
clusively filial, although, later books
go far. as to differentiate twelve vari
eties of the kiss.
The wife of Callfa in the Ramayana,
bewailing his death, recalls the hand,
not the lips, that -caressed her. So
also the wife of the king of Cambodia;
whilst tbe father Ball kisses his son.
And again: "And the mother licked
her son's face with her tongue, and
made lamentations like a yearning
cow. bereft of her calf, the father
fondling him the while." (Gorreslo.
vol. L, p. J3S.) ;
; It would seem, .then, that the k:,
which amongst ; ancient , and uncivil
ised peoples is unknown as a symbol
and harbinger of love, sprang from the
entirely material jact of feeding com
monly practiced by birds, and very
frequently too by savages. .We are
told that the Fueglan do not use any
kind of cup, but assuage their thirst
by sucking up water from the spring
through a reed. A child would die of
thirst if the mother did not supply his
needs by filling her own mouth with
water and thence Introducing It into
the mouth of hejr babe. , From this
act the first kiss was probably evolved
a kiss not amorous therefore, but
maternal Children kiss only when
they have been taught to' do so, and
not before they have attained the age
of six months. '
WAR IS CERTAIN
l'ltUSIDKNT KltUEGER HAS LOST
H JI ES Vdli l'HACE.
Transvral and- frange Free Stnt
Troops .Mov to the Front 'Jonllict
Momentarily Exacted.
U'NL'.'V; Sept. 29. -A dlipvtch from
Uicemfcnteln, Orangf Free f late, says
that in .Bcit eajloit the raid his
laed a etringtnl c.nm:ini of law.
The burghers who have left the Orange
l- ite Ftato recently have ber ordeinl
to return iu default of MC fine, flvu
yetufc imprisenment and conn- .ion
,Z-1 ..l,tZ r,7h . Vh
Kt their i-roi'tUy. A dispatch to the
Tln.s,. from Pretoria. iay
"It Is generally exprcteJ that a Uti
of war will b i-roclainK-a at any mo-
-nent. rev.acni ixnur , toaay ae-
t larcd he had d..ne all possible fr the-; ahoe8; a. Lempke. saloon; B. McAr
eake of peace-. , . V . thur, furniture and second-hand goods;
I askfd KiU'ger if thre w tUll -a wu, Mailory, barber, shop; F. W.
Pssilillty of, ptace.'No.. he rf pliet. jElake,. confectionary and restaurant;
adding after t puu., uulis the olh-r jpjUace hotel; Selffert & Schmidt, mar
kle will, do som thing lo make, ie:Me jTcet-and-candles Kessler's Jewelry
poeanble.' ' ..-...-v.-tf' ' "Store; Scott Griffin, hay, grain and
r A.equadion of l:rltl.-h cruiser ha ffeed;, J. L. Yokum, shoe ' shop; Mrs.
gathered at ,Cw Twn.. A telfxmm, Mallory restaurant; ;W. A. Paddock,
r;ved today, says tw battel is of second-hand store; C. St. Louis. Jew
fleld artlllcrj and 5-0 burg ber . have Jeler.
stMrUd fx.r Volkrusf. and that ancth- ; The majority of the buildings were
t 600 will go there today. The streets lot wood, but the business houses of
pretent a km of srebt mlitary anl- 'Frank Fetsch, IL Smith, T. B. Cornell
matloiu A i md hurt hers and. arttl- and W; E. Dean .were in one-story
lervmen are ildinar abr-ut. ani Arid brick' buildings, which were levelled to
-..rr.fts are beln;; engaged in warning
burghers to be in readin-.i at a no
ment's notice.
ARMY SUI PLIES.
New Orlears, Sept. 29. Major Sco
111, of the Liliish army.--baa chark-rr
1 the steamship Mount Royal, making
tbe third transjort. J I o.mIs.i closed
another contract for mul.-s. an-1 ha
placed the first order for grain and
forage and for army supplies, to ba
mj to the TrantvaaL'
OKEaT INCITEMENT.
Johanrccturg, Sept. f9 There is
great extitmnt in consequence pt
the, trdeis.to take the field. 1I
path riders have gone to the front.
.. VOLUNTEERS CALLED. . '
Durban, Nat.L Sept. 29. Th-i sum
moidng of voluuUtrs has raused Me
Mifcd excitement- Men rtpcndel
tealily, and iCO ; trt-ops. with numer
ous guns, will entrain Umoi row.
MORE GOLD FOUNiX
A Great f trlke t Cape Prince of Wales
North of Cane Nome.
Tacoma, Sept. 2. Anotrn-e story of
pi.IJ discoveries in the Ncrlb has ben
brurht down by Co!. Frank Hatxht.
a well-known Salt Lake mining: man,
who ha mining interet-t in Alaska.
Colonel Haight was one ; of the ' few
passengers vho came down on tlie Al
liance who had come directly out frvm
Anvil City, f---, H . says that w khort
while tefre h ifft there me proi
1 ;tors came In with a report f a
Mtritro &t Pit Trinne of Wal.
which is axut 10 r!l;s north of Cspe
Ntme. Cclonel Halsht iiys there was
an inr. mediate umied ' fir the new
grounds, and many of the ?.iners wno
had good claims on the team ai cpe
Noioe Jolne-I in. .. -
FAST MAIL TRAIN.
To Ron Between Chicago rand San
Francisco -Next Month.
Salt Lake City, Sept. 28. High offi
cials of the Southern Padflc. Union
Pacific and Chicago St Northwestern
railroads held Important conferences
at Salt Lake City and Ogden , today.
It was decided that. In addition to
the present passenger train service,
wth east and west bound between
Chicago and San Francisco, that a
fast train In both directions win j oe
niawi in servioe October 15th. .These
trains will make the run between Chi
cago and San Francisco in seventy
two hours. ' . . -j,
Tb duke of Devonshire l said to fca
the fchyest man in Great Britain.
PHli
Heaviest Eire Loss in
Its History. '
A STE0NG WEST WIND
Drove the Flames In Three Directions
Work of Department Almost
Jf utile The tinfftr- r.
GRANTS PASS. Or.. Sept 29. The
most destructive fire In the history of
Grants Pass began at 12:30 o'clock
today, in the Palace hotel, a two-story
frame building. -
Although the alarm was promptly
given and the fire department was
very soon on tbe ground, inside of 5
minutes the building was a mass of
flames. A strong tjreeze'from the west
added greatly to the fury of the flames,
which spread in three directions in an
incredibly short time. Front street
was entirely wiped out for one ; block
from Wade's grocery store to Dixon
St MoCroskey's two-story brick build
ing - The fire also extended south and
east of. Fifth street and completely
destroyed every building on the west
half of the block.
The wind carried embers across the
railroad track as far as the Western
hotel, and started a half dozen small
fires which were Quickly put out,
Inside of an hour and a half sixteen
business houses and eight warehouses
end smaller buildings had gone up In
smoke and flames. The scene on Front
street is one of desolation. Beginning
at tha eastern extremity of the burnt
district the buildings were as follows:
Dixon St McCroskey, dry goods and
ing; A O. TJ. W. hall and lodge
t, i.. nfiw W v.
Dean; Red Star store, dry goods; Her
bert Smith, racket store and shoes;
T. B. Cornell, groceries, hay and feed;
irt,inr wm nt
the ground. , Railroad park is covered
with merchandise of all sorts, which
is being guarded by a detachment - of
Company H., O. N. G. The fire was
stopped on the west y Wade's two-
story brick, and on the east by Dixon
1 MoCroskey's two-story brick. V.The
'origin of the fire Is not known., but it
U supposed to have .been caused by
a defective flue.
. The total loss is 175.000; Insurance.
$20,000. ' -. , . -
AT ANGELES.
MACARTHUR, , WHEATON AND
WHEELER IN HEADQUARTERS
Win Remain Until General Advance Is
Ordered Efforts to Release
Spanish Prisoners.
MANILA. Sep. 29. General Mao
Arthur's column has returned to An
geles, where Generals MaoArthur,
Wheaton and Wheeler have establish
ed their headquarters, with 3,000 troops.
It is expected they will remain there
until a general advance Is ordered. -
The Spanish commissioners, who re
cently spent a month at Tarlae, arriv
ed ; at ; Angeles today. They will pro
ceed to the Filipino lines. The commis
sioners say they are confident they
wlU arrange for the liberation of all
Spanish prisoners. Lieutenant - How
land, of General Wheaton's staff, has
visited the Filipino outposts, presum
ably to notify them that the Spanish
commissioners were coming, lie met
with a friendly reception.
A CIVIL GOVERNOR.
Chicago, Sept. 29. A dispatch to the
Record from ' Washington says: There
la an accumulation of information to
the effect that the president will soon
appoint a civil governor In the Philip
pines. The '. president is advised that
he can appoint an official who, acting
under military authority, can go ahead
and form a government and give a
civil administration. He can form this
government to the extent of having
it complete for adoption by this gov
ernment if congress should so choose to
act. n.v . - , - - ?--;.,-' '--:-:.
This advice to the president to based
on the military administration , of af
fairs la the territory t ' California
Just before it was taken Into the Un
ion. The president had appointed a
military governor for . this territory.
He created a government and it was
so complete and satisfactory that when
the. territory waa taken Into the. Un
ion by congress, the existing govern
ment was accepted. If ; tbe president
should appoint a civil governor and
that officer . should proceed to the for-
mainn - nf m. rnwrnmMt salUifsctorv.
the party leaders might be Impelled
not to interfere in. the next congress,
letting the policy stand for itself in
the presidential - election.
. ALL IN GOOD TIME.
Muncie. Ind Sept. 29. At the annu
al meeting- of the Delaware County
Veterans' Association, a letter recent
ly received by a member of the organ
isation from General Law ton. division
commander in ; the Philippines, was
read. The letter in part says:
"This Is a beautiful country and the
people In my opinion are not half so
bad as they are sometimes pictured.
Centuries of bad government and bad
treatment nave made them suspicious,
and it will be some . time be
fore 3 we u can , persuade them
we are not. here for the purpose of rob
bing them and making them slaves.
As soon as they are assured of our
good will and . intentions, and we are
able to show them by example that we
mean only for their good and welfare,
I think we will find &h Filipinos as
good Americans as any of our foreign
element." ,
WEEKLY REVIEW.
INCREASE IN TRAJ E THROUGH
OUT THE COUNTRY.
Demand fr Goods Grows and Wages
Are Itttr Than Ever Recon
structing Indutttles. ,
NEW YORK, Kept. IS. R. G. Dun
Co's Weekly Kevitw of Trad Mill
Jay tomorrow: v
r. September is the twelfth cons wit lve
month In hach the volume of tusl
nesa both at New York and outside of
New York has leen greater than the
name month of any-previous year. In
the twelve months'- payments throigh
the. clearing houses have tx en !,'. -',
sgalit Hl.200.co0 In the twelve
months ending - with September, 1S92,
an lncree0 of over 46 percent.
i When tlie tremendous expansion be
gan, men called it a replen'shment of
the long depleted stocks; then for a
Jme it was called ft craxy outburst of
speculation, and when the demands
still expanded some permanent In
creaso of the biuiorii wm recognised
rs a result of tbe Increased popula
tion, farnlr.c better wages. But the
demand still grows, now ranging about
W per cent greater than In 1892. while
the t'opulation, according to the treas
ury estimates, is 16 per cent greater
and wages quite. If not . over, 10 pr
rx nt greater. The reconstruction of
business end industries, of the pro
duciitg and traniKi ting fores,ls In
progress throughout 4he land, alth
results wtoich none run now measure.
THIRSTY LONDON.
In 1894 the astounding total of 122.-
000,000 gallons a day was reached by
the combined water companies of
London.' This was supplied to the
five and a half million 'Inhabitants at
the rate of. say, thirty-two gallons a
bead for all purposes. These figures
represent an enormous volume of
water, though small when compared
with the mighty river that flowed Into
old Rome. We can only deal with the
figures roughly; the supply fluctuates
to a considerable extent at different
times in the year, It is therefore not
possible to be mathematically accu
rate. Allowing for a slight increase
since the last return, and taking in
other sources to which I shall rcfr
a little later, we may pretty rafely
put the- present London water eur ply
at about 200,000,000 gallons a day. Let
us try for a moment to realize what
these figures mean. .
With 200,000,000 gallons of watsr we
could fill a lake a mile long, a quar
ter of a mile wide and five fiet deep.
The water in it would weigh nearly
a million tons. This lake would stretch
from the Bank of England right away
to Clement Danes church, yet it would
be emptied In a single day to assuage
the thirst of London. Or suppose we
could freese all. this water,' we could
build up a great block of Ice a thou
sand feet long, a thousand feet wide,
and thirty-two feet high. If we al
low!; for the expansion of freezing, the
block' would of course be still bigger.
Sixty-five of tbe largest lronclsds In
the British navy could float in the
water we use every day In London.
When we come to compare our supply
with the mighty torrent of Xlirira,
we belittle it. The water , goes thun
dering over the , falls at the rate of
two million tons a : minute, or four
hundred and twenty million rations
Our whole dally . supply would be
whirled over long before the second
hand of a watch having traveled once
round the dial. And could we divert
tbe magnificent torrent for only three
hours we could supply London with
water for a whole year at the present
rate. Niagara is a big thing.
TWO -HOURS' FUN.
Young Man of Baltimore Loses 10,
000 at Roulette.
While this is probably the heaviest
gambling; year Saratoga : has known
for a decade there have been few sen
sational plays such as that cnade toy
John Gates of Chicago last season.
when be lost J 60,000 at faro at the Sar
atoga, club, says the correspondent of
the New York Herald. Just now the
roulette wheels in the' parlor la East
Congress street are all the rage, and
the other night young Harry Frag of
Baltimore monopolized one of the sin
gle layouts and kept two couplers
busy for two boars. - ,
With unlimited credit, he began by
losing $8000. Then his lack changed.
and in less than a dozen rolls of the
l.ttle iaH he was within $30 of toreak-
, lng even, having the entire contents
of the check rack-ia front of hpx.
Another complete rack -was brought to
the table, and the crowd around grew
more nervous and impatient than the
quiet, nervy player himself.
Xh new rack proved a stumbling-
block. Cor ia exactly 13 rolls - he had
transferred every chly to the couplers
and had bought another thousand dol
lars worth 10 stacks of S100 each.
He had been playing- one system
throughout, keeping IUV on the middle
column, covering the 0 and 00 and
first six numbers individually and at
all corners, with the limit ti'i, and
then playing the six numbers com
bined for two stacks. $200, occasional
ly relieving the monotony by placing
$400 oh tbe color and fairly concealing
the entire center column , with chips.
Tbe ball fell In the five boles three
times in succession, then Into No. 6.
and after 00 had won twice for bint'
Mr. Prag cashed In $6500, retaining
$2000 to .play with. An unfortunate
roll or two and be was again a pur
chaser, but this time taking off the
$350 at the foot of the table, his win
ning .bets did not offset his losing
ones, and as he had asked to have the
limit taken off It (was not kng 10
rolls or less before he was $10,0u0 to
the bad on his evening's play.
He then Inquired of the manager
the cost of his two hours' fun, and
walked quietly out of the building.
During the play Mr. Prag remained
standing and rank nothing but min
eral water. He was very particular to
arrange his chips In order, and fre
quently asked for time to do so. The
previous- evening, after toeing $10,000
loser, be had pulled out and won
$3600.
Nobody attempted to play at the
table while Air. Prag was operating.
The only big winner at the faro tables
recently was Hugh Kane of Dallas.
Tex., who left with $20,000 of te Sara
toga club's money. Men who sre In
a position to know say the - strong
boxes In the big club house contain
more than $300,000, taken from the
season's visitors. :
THE DEWEY A ROIL
Will Be Made Permanent In Marble
and Bronze. '.
New York, Sept. 29. Following the
suggestions that the Dewey -arch t
made permanent in marble and bronze,
prominent citizens have Joined in a
cauee to rear an arch that shall be in
lasting commemoration not only of
Dewey and (Manila, but of the heroes
and engagements of the American
navy. ,. .
Among those (who have given their
assurance of support are: Ex-Vlce-
Presldent .Levi p. Morton, ex-Secreta- -ry
Cornelius N. Bliss. ex-Secretary
Daniel 3. Lamont, J. Pierpont, Morgan.
Anson R. Flower and Jefferson Sellg-
man. .
Petitions Will be circulated In ahe
chamber of i commerce and stock ex
change and In other prominent busi
ness places. A meeting will be held
next week for organization. Such an
arch as that suggested, it Is estimated,
will cost $1,600,000. One of the promot
$50,000. , x h 7
IN SOUTH AFRICA.
British Troops on the Frontier, Ready
for Hostilities.
London, Sept. 28. A British Infan
try detachment with some engineers
has arrived at Deaar, southwest of
tbe Orange Free State, and an Impor
tant railroad Junction. Extensive for
tiflcatlons will be thrown ud there.
and the town will be mtd the base
of operations from that iMde against
the Orange Free State of the Trans-
vaaL More troops will shortly arrive
at Deaar.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
New York, Bcpt. 2S. The weekly
bank statement shows:
Surplus roerve, decrease... ..$1
Loan, decrease 7.T.f-2.T0
jcle, der.rcate 4 C17,VH
Leal Under, decrease.. ... KyOOO
The banks ntw hold tl.TIi.'O In ex
resa f legal lequlretnt-nts.
This statement ltuws r suits of four
days' changes.
BRYAN'S WEALTH.
The assessor's returns on the prop
erty of William Jennings Bryan shows
that he Is no richer today than he was
when he was nominated for president
on the democratic ticket. The sched
ule shows: Three horses, $50; three
carriages, $30; four watches, clocks.
etc.. $25; one sewing- machine, ; one
piano, $30; gold and silverware. t2i;
diamonds and Jewelry.- $50; one t Mi
llard table, $5; household or office fur
niture. $250; other property required
to be listed. Including money and cred
its, 12,500; total. $r,r0.
ARIZONA'S NATURAL BRIDGE.
The most valuable natural bridge In
the world is to be fonud In Arizona,
lying across a deep chasm 40 feet In
width. It is a petrified trte about four
feet in diameter and about 10 feet in
length. It Is pure agate all through
and therefore is much more valuable
as regards material than any bridge
of marble or granite would be.
NOT . THE SAME.
"Jack Nurvy called upon old Mon
eybags last night and asked him for
his daughter's hand." .
.-'That was brassy of him. What
did the old man say?"
. "Said. m compromise with you.
young- man. and give you my foot.'
And he did." Catholic Standard an J,
Time. . . j
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