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Show CHANGE IN CHINESE LAWS V NORTHWEST NEWS SUMMARY Nine men (explosion at vre killed In a powder Emtiot-iu- Ia. Numerous yellow fever eases are Lelng reported from lanama. In a passenger train wreck near Ellis, Kans., llie engineer and two unknown tramps were killed. Eight persons were killed in the farming country north of Phillips-luirg- , Kansas, by a violent storm. Three persons were killed and fifteen Injured In a rear-encollision on the Illinois Central railroad near Vine (tlrove, Ky. Lee Furman- - and John O'Hrlen were hanged at Lancaster, Pa., for the killing of Hamuel Kessler, an aged toll gatekeeper, on the night of July 1. 2001. The Hrltish ship Glen-Jturof Greenock, which sailed from Sau Francisco October 25 last, bound for Liverpool, has been posted at (Lloyd's as missing. General Lieutenant Grippenberg, mho was returned from Manchuria jfor disobeying the orders of General Kuropatkin, has been appointed inspector general of Infantry. I The Cuban house of representatives (has passed the rlco bill. The passage (of this bill, it is expected, will open the Cuban market to American ried 'and encourage the culture of rice ia three-maste- n ICuba. Confirmation has been received at jCapetown of Chief Marengos reported victory over the Germans at German Southwest Africa, on June 22. It is said that 100 Germans jwere killed. James E. Britt, lightweight chant-blon- , and Kid Sullivan of Washington, D. C., last week signed articles for a twenty-rounmatch to tako place July 21 before the Hayes Valley Athletic club of San Francisco. Six persons were killed and twenty injured, sixteen of the latter seriously In the storm that struck Pittsburg, Kans., and in that vicinity. The destruction to property and crops will run far Into the thousands. The grave of Molly Pitcher, at Carlisle, Pa., the heroine of the battle of Monmouth, was appropriately marked last week amid impressive ceremonies, which were in charge of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America. I Kar-asber- g, ; Under the terrible charge of Willed and eaten many children whom they had stolen, twenty gypsies Jiave been arrested near Jas.bereny, Hungary. The leader of the band alone is alleged to have eaten eighteen children. The correspondent of the Dally Telegraph with the Japanese army says thut General Ilalyakoff has succeeded General Kuropatkin lu command of the first army, and that Kuropatkin is now on the line. A serious strike of farm laborers has broken out in Hungary. In some sections little work is being done, and as a result the crops ars suffering. There have been riots in many places, and a number of strikers have beeu killed by gendarmes. The Vigo County National bank ,at Terre llauto, lnd., issued the statement that Cashier Coiuman has resigned and thut he is short about $16,000. Conzman bus turned oxer securities amounting to $60,000. Later a run was started on the bank, but all demands for deposits were promptly ,met. A windstorm did mueh damage to Plankiugton and Arlesians, S. L. At Plankington a muu, bis wife and daughter were killed by Hying timbers. Artesian was struck by a tornado, and two men were Killed and several houses were wrecked. A dispatch from Erlvun reports a new and alarming feature of the slum-'liolu ttie desire of hi the Uanra-u- s, llie Persian Mohiunmcduns to join their brethren ueross the border, which Juncture would convert a racial .strife into a 'holy war.'' 'The gov eminent, says a dispatch front Hongkong, has issued a proclamation, to heroine effective Immediately, ileilariug StmUiiolm, Kails-krona- , Gothenburg and Farostind to bo war iMirts. anil excluding ail foreign warships Iroiu the polls. It is reported that M. Nelldoff, the Jiusslan ainhassudoi at Puns, has to accept the islilou of pome plenipotentiary, nnd that M. Muravieff, the ambassador of littssla at Koine, will go In bis plure. No continuation of the rutuor is obtainable. , n United States Marshal E. K. Henry Juts arrested four soldiers belonging to the Twenty fourth regiment of coast artillery, stationed at Camp McKinley, Huwdil. on charges of conn-te- l passing and possessing felting, spurious gold coin. One man has confessed. Eighteen lives ate known to hnvo been lost as a result of a cloudburst in tbo mountain above the town of Las Vacua, Texas. The damage W property Is enormous, as the waters went through the fertile valley In a mighty Hood, earning cvety thing before It. Arthur Holmes, a lineman, was instantly killed in Spokane by coming in contact with a Jive wire. The bank at, Kelt, Mont., was burglarized, the big safe blown open, and about $1,000, mostly in silver, taken away, Three soldiers of company E, Eleventh infantry, while rowing on Sloans lake, home miles north of Cheyenne, were drowned, owing to the boat leaking. Doctor Mary A. Latham, the pioneer physician, recently convicted of arson, is starving herself to death In prison at Spokane. She refuses to cat, saying site is not hungry. Mis. Phoenix, ihe wife of a prominent real estate man. who owns all t lu land between Goldfield and Columbia, last week shot Attorney Hayes of (loldllcld because lie refused 10 vacate a claim which Mrs. Phoenix said belonged to her. A bloody duel was fought by Italians a the Sweetwater coal camp in Wyoming. S. Dominick Collet! was slashed by a knife in the bands of William Kemallo nd disemboweled, and Lawrence Vorglotto shot Kemallo Jn the mouth and through the right grm. Kemallo Is In Jail charged with murder. James S. Kearl, once president of .the Montana Society of Civil Engineers, who shot and killed Thomas Crystal, bartender in a Helena saloon, three years ago last April, was sentenced by Judge Leslie at Great Falls to ten years in the State penitentiary for manslaughter, the maximum pun. well-know- - (Special Correspondence.) avenue the bursting of spring, the from the road is along a wide Inside roadmakers. out by good little colony of Trappist monks in laid the parare the offices, the monastery R. their enter I., upon Cumberland, beautiful the rooms, the guest lor, fifth season of agriculture. the refectories, Nearly five years ago, when Father chapel, the cloister, the fathers and of rooms the the sleeping Murphy approached the bishop of the and housekeeping brothers diocese of Rhode Island, find snggest-e'thut, he and several fathers and rooms. brothers of the order of Trappisls would like to found a home in Rhode Appearance of the Farm, The farm at the present time preIsland, he was Informed that the only land which the church could trant sents an appearance of activity. There fathers and him was some wild farming property are about twenty-fivbrothers of the order living at the in Lonsdale, a part of Cumberland. "Very well, said Father Murphy, monastery, there are several guests "then we shall establish our new in Ihe rooms, and there are many men employed about the farm. colony on this land. At that time Ihe property was abThe fruit trees planted three and Those parts of it four seasons ago are all in a flourishsolutely barren. were deep ing condition. which were not More land will lie in the mire. There were no redeemunder cultivation this year than ever ing features to the swamps, and when before. More cheese will tie sold this the farmers in the neighborhood year than in any other year, and the heard that a few monks were going to spring water business is quite sure to try and reclaim the land they shook grow rapidly with the coming of sumtheir heads. mer. But Father Murphy and his three or The old farmhouse at the end of the four people came, and they built a property will be used as a guest little dugout In the side of a hill. And house for women during the coming they began to work and to plan for season. The bouse will be under the the building of a larger house. In a care of a matron, and it is expected that the house will lie as filled with women loa rders as it was last year, when 125 different hoarders registered, All of these methods for obtaining money are looked upon by Father Murphy as good methods methods whereby the order is able to return the most of good for the money red e rock-boun- First Home of the Fathere. few months the new house was completed. and there was also a serviceable cowshed and a hennery. In the cowshed they kept a few fine Jerseys, and the milk was rich in cream, and they made it into rich eheese, and established a sale for the milk and the cheese. They had already begun to turn a profit and to see that the sterile acres would yield if intelligence directed the movements of the people who worked upon them. So they sent away for more brothers in the order to come and Join the colony. Ttiev bought more cows and horses and henS. They began to plow the ground, and they piled the great rocks Into heaps along the sides of the newly made roads. In the property there were nearly GOO acres, and most of It was covered with stones. So they decided to sell the stones to the townspeople for use In the atone crusher. More profit resulted from this. And all the time the fame of the cheese and the milk was going abroad. It had ceased to be a fad. It was now a commercial product, and it sold as fast as it could be made. House for Guests Established. There was a farmhouse at the farther end of the farm, nnd they decided to use this for a guest house, where people who wished to be at rest for awhile might come and live. At once the place was filled with guests who enjoyed the quiet of the country and who liked to eat the fresh food that was raised on the farm. Business was booming at the farm all this time. The fathers added more cows to the herd, they built a larger barn, and thin they bored for an artesian well. Water was not found until they readied u great depth, hut it is the purest water in the state, and they have built a windmill over it. New fences were being strung ail over the farm. New plots or land were being seeded with grain and other cereal. The demand for stones for the crusher nnd for milk nnd chi esc was constantly increasing. Something mu- -t lie done to supply the demand. By the rules of the Trappist order thev iiiiiv not solicit aid. They may only increase the fundi of the order by selling rile product of their hands atni bruit s Father Murphy saw that a stone monastery with a curst house v. w , ' r e Monastery, In one part of it would be a gunt ndvnuce In the work, so he made hi newr pluns. and the monastery, with guest room in the south side, I the result, The building I of stone, most of it being blasted out of the farm. It i a magnificent bttlldlrg. and look out of place In It surrounding- - There Is a beautiful veranda, and the approach : read chao chueh or strangul sentence. This Is supposed far more honorable death thani tation and was formerly resm princes and other great men atd Jation, however, has its distinctions, and the penaltvV chueh will be hereafter chiao chlen hou, or awaiting n under sentence of m miiKuiat0 difference is the difference certain death and having a cha CC( s'i reprieve. Among other complications of r, nese law and its execution 8 4 and rather racy method of a!' with prisoners by lottery. year the vermilion pencil of m'V authority is waved over a chan which the names of convict Inals are written, and those xhu'1 includes In a haphazard sweep executed forthwith. The rest J 1 4 executions year. tin are postponed for aco'1, Another Important reform is of the condemned on the faces of prisoners. Hither, abolition fc all who have been sentenced to lshment for robbery and other ous crimes have been tattoed on face, in order to mark them as inals for life. t Fatal Flaw in Young Mans SchemL Facts for Remembering Names and sent me to a hardware store BonjJ errand. My system on a pc consisted in asswir ing the man in my mind with son. simple article connected with trade and prefixing or suffixing a later or more as necessary. For ia stance, Sanders the grocer would bt associated in ray mind with sand, ane I would of course remember to adi the three letters needed to form L name. Well, I framed up a plan on this system to remember the hardware mans name, and in two weeks I cane back again. My system was working I walked in as brisk n beautifully. you please and hailed my friend. 'How are you, Mr. Snails? I said. Something in the mans face made me fear that there had been a slip somewhere, Are you not Mr. Ssslls? t asked. Young man, he said fon at too blamed fresh. My utw la Stacks. Joes Brilliant Idea Uncle to Escape Conscrir tion Foiled by Stupidity of Medical . i, --. v v. v ' - ST, The Refectory. more plain than that of any the country. They use plain tin ware, steel knives and forks ami wooden spoons. But thoy are healthy and strong Ttie routine of work and prayer is begun at 2 o'clock each morning Precisely at that hour on even morning of the year they repair to the chape! and begin the long services of chant, of ing. piayer, and for the priests tite saying of masses. The services are continued, with a short intermit slott. until 6, when a cup of cuff, e and a piece of Pry bread taken. This constitute the morning meal. r this meager breakfast they go into i Ibid- - or to some ,Brl f ,1(1 wheie (lore m WOrk to do at form their work until 10:;o, there Is an hour of free time. V 11. there Is a collation roucli food, -- althss and pepper a'ways, in the simplest K.x a,Ml ih ot,ai.t ,t 0 s which never hop, r en exiavac.iiiee They seek (1 e tile lMa-appetite, l,t j,npv , the body in hi tilth. Af'er dinner there vvrk until v p. r time, the time Is alhcvd for meditation in the cloister ter lighter than the dinner is eat, s.in,lt 5. After Mipp, r there is the chant, ing of t he evi lung hymns, splrlnnl rending, ami at 7 o'clock they L 'J'oir hard beds without icmovtig C Olio s. to sleep until the meals Is prison in I ter New ' i GREAT SCHEME THAT FAILED in - 011 SYSTEM THAT DIDNT WORK .Some of the feats in remembering names and laces of persons only seen once performed by bank clerks and persons in similar positions are astonishing, but it is a fact that very few of them owe this faculty to any, of the artificial systems of mnemonics so widely advertised. Either the sift is a natural one or' is acquired at the expense of much hard work. The Trappists and Their Vows. The cashier of a downtown bank The order of Trappists in is the third in the United States. They who is noted for his memory for are not an offshoot, but are closely names and faces got talking the other identified with the Cistercian order of day about his faculty and confessed Uiteaux. Fiance, although there are that It had been acquired with much labor. but two French monks in the When I was a young fellow. he colony. Their monastic vows are the same said, T was secretary to the president and their routine of prayer and labor of a New Jersey bank, and I made up are identical with the routine of those my mind that a good memory for seolusive picturesque and orders names and faces would be a valuable which have been identified wirh the asset, and set to work to supply what church work of the Iottin countries nature had not given me. I invested $50 in an elaborate system of mneduring the past ten centuries. They are abstemious to a degree. monics. and the first opportunity I They are vegetarians in the strictest had to use it was when my employer sense. In all feasting they abstain from meat and fish. Their service at , ttteti. be termed compound decanit.i. the entire removal of the head posure of the same, must h , Ting-fang- ceived. In a short while, as now planned, there will be a new monastery erected on a hill near a clump of pine trees, which will be the permanent and exclusive home of the order. Then the present monastery will lie remodeled into a large guest house a sort of sanatorium, with nature as the best physician. st. Jack and William Ilooth cneuunteicd Arthur McFarland and Will MePhud ot the road two miles from Saratoga, Wyo. ami severul shot wcio e.x changed, none of which, however, don tt un barm. Tho trouble was one of long standing and gtew out of uu old cattle feud. Between now and September 1, a party of John Da, Ore., bo.vs will lilt the all for the Lewis and I'lurk fair at Portland. They will navigate the waters of the John Da.v river and tho t'oltnnlda river in a row boat, ami expect to he on the water about t wce day. pn-- t George M Kuhn, defaulting master at West Seattle, attempted suicide liv swallowing poison, lie bad hidden in the woods all night to escape arrest. Early In the nuun lug Kuhn slipped to tils home and tool, a Mg dose of morphine. Physicians Inter saved Ids Ilfs long Chinese minisin ter in Washington, has succeeded at government the imperial inducing Pekin to abolish some of its cruel punishments. An imperial edict of April 24 gives Wtt and Slien Chiapen credit for suggesting the changes and then of the proceeds: "At the beginning extenddynasty when our sovereignty ed within the great wall, the most severe punishment was beheading. In the year of Hsiu Jttl, however, when we revised the law, we permitted the introduction of those punishments which had been prevalent in the Ming dynasty, lienee ling chi (cutting to was allowed for certain pieces) crimes. It has alw'ays been distasteful to tts to resort to those punishments. and it does pot fulfill our Imperial idea of showing mercy to the people. Now that we are once more revising the laws, therefore, we hereby order that for all variations of the crime of taking life, beheading shall be the extreme penalty in future: ling chi, exposure of the detached head and mutillation of the corpse must be abolished forever. As a consequence of this abolition all the other punlsnments are moved The laws down a grade In severity. where the words ling chi occur, for instance, will have chan chueh, or simple decapitation, substituted. The penalty of chan hsiao, or what might Wu ill'. With ishment Mr. and Mrs. Frltieh, who came to North Yakima, Wash., recently from California, were awakened by the odor of smoke. They rushed from their apartments only to find thnt it was a false alarm. When they returned they found that a purse containing nearly $4000, which they had left in their hurry, had been stolen. MisT. G. Denton, a soula, Mont, mining man, had & close icall with an enraged mother cinnamon bear, and but for his quick presence of mind in climbing a tree too thickly limbered for bruin to follow, would have been killed. As it is Dentons clothes show several ugly rips from claws of the anitfial. E. A. McDonald, until recently State Pure Food and Dairy Commissioner of Washington, Will become a deputy dairy inspector in the sorvlco of the National Department of Agriculture July 1. The coast states, Nevada, Idaho and Montana, will be under his Hi headquarters will jurisdiction. be In Seattle for the present. Although every possible effort has been made to keep the matter quiet, it leaked out that Mrs. Lillian R. McConnell, wife of Robert J. McConnell, of Cheyenne, has applied for a divorce on the grounds of non support and desertion. The couple was married In February, ISO". Mrs. McConnell lias four living husbands, having secured divorces from three, ami she now seeks a separation from the last one. John King, a criminal who lias caused the police of tne west more trouble titan any other malefactor, must serve the life seiiteneo in the penitentiary at Walla Walla which Judge Gridin of the supreme court Imposed upon him in March, under the new cumulative law. At tho time sentence was Imposed King gave no notice of appeal, Imt he has taken steps to perfect it, and the time I past. George Hammond, the Itearmouth train robber, was convicted at Phillips-burg- , Mont., on his second trial in connection with the famous holdup. The Jury fixed his sentence at one year. Railroad otliclais were much illssap-pointm- l over the verdict. Joe Itlggs, a seven year-olboy, was killed by electric enr in Portland. The I itt itfellow was riding on the rear step of an ice wagon, Hinl when tho cur was within a tew feet of the wagon jumped off directly lu front of tho ear. He was ground to pieces. Armed guards are protecting all Grant county, Oregon, streams from usurpation by cattle and sheep men. and men lane been instructed to shoot If in rders do not Great n cotton cloth have posters printed In en posted warning sheep nnd cattle Barbarous Modes of Punishment Long in the Celestial Empire Have Lately Been Aboll On Trappist Farm NOTES bell ilngsjit ej, 2 In rnirtg. of the proposition that women remove heir but at church? Rev. Mr. Wysc-Th- lnk of Whv It I the ntot absurd thing j rv,',J heard of! What do they nk , women come to church for (, if anyway? J The qualities essential to ueccae In te caution, prudence ' tact and Integ'lb-Lo- rd Avchurv buslles said the Speaking of conscripts, sailor, as he laid down a hook on Russia. 'did I ever tell you about my Uncle Joe? 'Well, Uncle Joe. in the time of the Civil War, had a friend, named Hiram Haines. Hiram was conscripted, but, when he came to take the medical examination, he didnt pass. The doctors said lie was no good for a They said he wasn't :'.rong enough to fight. "Hiram told Uncle Joe about this, and Unde Joe said, after thinking a little while: Hi. I'm conscripted, 'Look too. and my examiration is set for next What'st the matter with Thursday. you taking it in my name? I'd pass for Im as sure, if I took it nijM-lfstrong as an ox. But if you took it for me, fakin, you know, why Id get But the risk, says Hiram. TL: of the risk. Joe. Oh, by Jimmy, tie couldnt do it. There ain't no risk.' says C::: In these confused times, Joe. the army doctors examinin' thousu. of conscripts a day', there ain't Hurt Come on. Hiram. Oil? whatever. me. I'll give you $2t0 if you do.' "Such a lump of money a :U' brought Hiram to terms. He saidhd off. year." take the 'examination in Uncle J name, and sure enough, in dote first gettin his pay in advance. wasnt detected, cither. But. hyjw' this time the doctors pa cd tt This time they declared him souait wind and limb, and the matin's o i fust rate soldier. "That Is why Uncle Joe Las I'-sdown on war all his life. He see, $200, and had to fight Us K RUSSIAN CAPITAL IS GAY Present Conflict. With National Prestlf!' Stake. Has Very Little Depressing Effort War or no war, the aristocratic Rus- Russian tea, served In a glass sian pursues hi pleasures with an lemon, is hut the pale comparison abandonment that speaks of unlimitsparkling champagne. The WP nnce of the streets tell of 1'4 ed resources or unlimited recklessness. The pleasures of the table are too. No finer equipages exist where than those which, lmistti protracted to an Inordinate degree. A steeds, dash at full lunch, in which the courses are plen- In lofty disregard for the mere tifully watered with eliampagne, will down the centra! strip spread Itself through ttie afternoon. wood pavement in the prim ipal You may bandy at 5 o'clock, pects," as the wider alnsi art though you began to cat at 1. The nominated. Holding the d in host never sits down, plying hi two hands, with arms guests with a sin cession of good the driver, mediaeval In dre. Even tho tho things, liquid and solid. summary, methods of a Ro1 afternoon lea In middle-clascircles charioteer. Indeed, there is snmctfc'tC Is a very formidable econd of It of Imperial Home In thl undertaking. Includes disbe of various sort, in Hal of the czar. Correspondent fic which meat will certainly figure, nttd the puli Mau Gazette. coal-blac- 'P-J- out-tret- r- s -- TO THE UNASSUMING DAISY Repair My Heart with Gladness nnd J of Thy Meek Nature. Wordswort" Share Ph Unit' hci Of tllil.g. 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'Mien all my reverb ate eiill thee, ami tn Ibat eleioe I'1 Hwert alletit riialun! Tlmt hreath at with me In Jin Ihmi, a thou ait wmiil l heart with ahubiea. and Df thy meek natnie' -- William 1 ' ' |