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The Brussels Post, 1907-3-14, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS, T110 Mikado asks but, one boen-inde- pendence, Tire Salaam:se goterenurentees etriving to eneourage the estabilsinnent ot all neceeeary manufactui•es in order that the nation may be practically nide - Pendent. In the same way We govern- ment offers the remiesion of Iniel taxes to those who will eultiveto hilleide lands,. in order to increase the agricultural re - 1101115:0S of the country. Great progress is being made in tho estublisliment of textile factories, ,and Japan already is expelling eeriest) cottcal elating. Tire government aids by leening money at lower rates than the goverinnent pays on Ms foreign loans. ln subsidizing stearn. isiaps, establishing branch broths hi foreign countries, providing additional. ochools for commercial and industeiel education( told in other ways great pro- gres.s is made in the development of re- sources. Thero is some nileaSilleSS in business eireles because of the national debt and the nece•ssily for increased revenue Japanese companies every- where are prosperous, but as a large amount is borrowed prosperity or pros- perity on borrowed capital there is some nervousness 'as to the ouleome. The sol- diers who returned 10020 the Nene were feasted by Weir neighbors and began to give feests in Mitten, but We minister of finance publicly discountenanced the practice and warned them that all must economize. The government is even be- coming an active business pariner in order to increase the export and thus at- tain not only industrial independence at home but also bring in a favorable trade balance that will help M carrying the *national debt. Parisian prosperity is mime -MMus. Notwithstanding limited natural re- seunies in respect to coal, iron, and other metals, with not a pound of cotton or petroleum produced within her border, with si stationery population and heavy burden of public debt and national de- fense, France is one of the moot pros- perous of nations. Paris, gorged wilb money, hes become the banker uf con- tinental Europe. The underlying sources of this prosperity are eummed up in a sentence 2 A geniel climate, a soil naturally fertile, and kept 10 the highest point of production by intelligent, inten- sive cultivation; industry and frugality ef living on the part of the working classes; and, above all, the instinct of artistic taste, fosered and developed by education and governmental influence until it hes become a national attribute. France industrially is prosperous be- cause she commands (bo rarest and surest of assets -the esthetic taste which creates models and standards for other peoples, and the consummate handicraft whittle multinlies in the product ten, twenty, or a hundred limes the value of The material of which IL is composed. It is this Which enables French ateliers and workshops to turn out, the choice pro- ducle which defy the tariff walls of other nations and make Paris Mecca. not only of cultivated amines but of the merchants from foreign countries who deal In' the choicest and mosi valuable forms of merchandise. UNCLE ALLEN. "No mem" said Uncle Allen Sparks, "can be absolutely square in this world, and sleet square, without watching his atimers all tbe time." STILT, LACKING. "Soy, old man, bow do you ifice me In my new dress meter "Fine.. Now, if ynu only had a little dignity you'd look liko a heau waiter," HAPPINESS. 'Tis not in money nor in land That life its happine.ss reveals ; It is in dodging microbes and Assimilating three square meals. Shopwalker: "What aro we to do with Heavyhead ? He is aiwnj•s felling esleep." Proprietor: "Oh, send him to the nightshirt department, and ten the 'customers that the very ionic of them sends the assistant to sleep." •Canada's trade agent at Manchester reports to the department that ihe inn pens of wheat from Canada into the United Kingdom in Iii06 was nearly double that of the previous year. Customer ibullgrein(ly): "Look here. this dog I bought 01 yott yesterday is a ferocious brute, 1108 bitten a lump off any boy's leg 1" Dealer r "Well, guy nor, • dien't I tell yer he was wer•y fond of children ?" "Who is Wet long-halred fellow ?" "Lheah Rembrandt Briggs. I1et3 melting quite e nnme for himself." "1 should :thine ho would. If my parents had given Me a introo like his, Til have started to Make one fOr myself at once:" The Scolg Greys peeSeSe inner cap- tured Mien than any other British re- gimen 1. -- To 000 a (1151i:ince of 100 mile,e. an (ili ;server must be at a height, of 6,667 ft. above sea level. The 112terlIg6 annual (tenth -rale of ell the standing armies of the world is 0 pee 1,000. -- FM' Erii•ope generally the Teneuletion finceenece yearly by 41 to every 10.000 inhabilanIet. New South Wake; fend $3.500,000 in fouryeare in lestintiee for rabbits, The six higibOOt 1)1°111110111S kneeen ere till' in the THE HAREM OF THE SHAH 13 SECLUDED LIFE OF A mnsIAN rniNcEss. low an" Unorthodox !Radical Peace - (loner Won the Good 'Will of a Favorite. With the exeeption ol the•Shab 0111 (110 eunriells, no men leuf a" fete &sloe.; ere permitted to enter that senolunry, the harem of the Shah, "harem' being an Arab \toed which means &moil. The special doom. of tbe favorite, 01112) shall tw called Solyman to me.orve his incog- mitre hare Meal the (menet. of the jealous WIllell envelops iiiis feminine eily. The secluded life and lire lack of educa- tion matte the women iil the Anderoun very Moult, patients, Dr. Solyrnan complains bitterly of Weir childish 1101- '1104.1 011d euperstition. which obliged him 1-) depend 111011e 011 diploneilic talent Wan mahout science, When be came book from London wireve Ire hail spent some j•ears at SL ree'lliolomenes ilospilal, he WAS appoint- ed, says the London Daily Graphic, one of the doctors of the harelhl of his elajee- ty. Ills debut. WaS delimit, for the other Persian doctors, jealeus of his science, rine fearing to see him grow et there ex- pense, leagued againsl bim. They criti- cised his prescriptions, and advised, the patients not to lake medicines prepared by a man who had remained .so long m .centact wilh unclean Christians that he WaS impregnated with their impurity; and, further, his preeceiptions were (te- etered to be conirai•y to ell the principles laid down by the "kings oI medielne," J.okznan, Galeo ani Aoicenna. 1 ad he not ordered a patient suffering from fever to sieve up bis ieed drinks for a 1101. 11011011, 1)'111011 IS 1110 surest way 10 in- crease fever, since Malionnt himself bas Said 1111IL FEVER IS, THE FIRE OF HELL, and thet it 11111441 be combated with Wel water? The Prophet, when he MILS al- back,'d by a violent fever. used to call 111-5 Wives bo IhrOW cold wester over Ills (105 (1. Dr. Soiyman, 111 spite of his appoint- ment as official doctor of the (1000111, 0(115 not coneulted by any of (he meet wives,. only servants and sieves had re:mu:se W les services. Ilowever. 011 0 h85)1,15)0 . , 'When he was retained to attend a slaye ei the favorite, whose grave state 1161113- Rilated eel-131111dt presen(e' soine one came to tell Wm that the Prineess, who WilS having her Artesia., had :darted oet of her eleep screaming, being a prey to terrible pates. As were was no other doctor within call he was -asked to come and attend her. Thm favorite was In the Zirzamin, -the underground chamber Willi a low vaulted. ceiling. paved with white mar- ble, and with richly tiled walls. widen is Wu favorite refuge of Persian womee in s ee. lain with a jet of water \elect distributed 12 •ef •) I • e Cocliteai. ,kct'ood of• wen surrouided the Princess. She WAS 1111111attl:1111 0011n1 1114=1e1PXEIS.SCL'ISI. he- tLi tweon the two doorwuys, facing each other to create a eantinual decrypt. These are the charactedelies of the Zee, 85111 tn. OA the arriA-111 of Dr, Solymen. the women drew their veils over their faces. and eunuch rushed t0. the gate and slopped 111211 0(11110 a custom Wes erected in front of It ^ Ors" lo allow the doctor 1. • appreach the Princess withoui seeing her. When the doctor was at her side ha could al nest only elicit moans in re- ply to hie questions ; but the patient at last gave him to understand, in sentences broken by lamentatioes, that after her lunch she had fallen asleep as usual, and Ihat she had sem bereelf. in her sieeP, surrounded by bad Wirers, who had pierced her chest nail invisible darts which GAVE 111311 HORRIBLE PAINS. Upon that, to the asterrishment of the people present, Dr. Solymen turned to the canuch and asked, without paying any attention to the Wilms, whet the Princess had eaten for lunch. When ho learned that her menu consisted of iced "mast-I(/war" 1eueumber and curds). ho understood that nothing W113 lire matter except indigestion. However, being a conventional man, he wanted to draw an exact, diagnosis of the Case. 8110 con- sented to let him feel her pulse, end an arin emerged from the curtain, lie felt the pulse, but when he desired In see the tongue he had lo enter' on a lenglby par- ley before the curtain opened far enough to let the Princess clesely' veiled, ShOW him the tip of her longue. • Dr. Solyman wrote his pre.scriplion, and We mother of 1110 Princess, a very superstitious person, performed the "Esteicharelin seized 1101' brads at a (Wince place, and Wen began to tell thein oft to the end 110 we vomit cherry stones on a Wale. But et the enure mo- ment the regular cloolor of Me Princess, who had been 521111 101', nrrived. Every- body turned from Dr. Solyman and his prescription as if he had never been 111\0\0•011,en the regular doctor had pre - seethed in bis turn, the "Eelekhareh" )vas performed again, and (his lime the xesult was rinfavoruble. I leaven bad declared itself ; Dr. Solymen trirenpired. His pre- scription produced .such a good end prompt effect -that We delighted Princess would have 110 '01(100 doctor from that day forward. Let es now enter ihe Port des Voluples with Dr. Solyninn. 111.0 in the orengery. Is this by the irony of fortune or by the symbolic tvili of the eovereign, who wishes lo surround We gale of his harem lee the emblem of virginity ? The 111118- .21(22' pie, 5(101115d emu gniden leeks end bolls, tees forierely gerneled by two giganlie deaf and clun11) negroce, rilwrrys ready to fell with their elubs .01 slivre with gold spikes. any resh man who &night to enter. • Tnelay fern' of the death penally which would inelanny 1)5 inflicted 111)011 1110 Irespleicer has Ken 1110 place of the ilegroes, und (heir clubs hove been' conred into money. Onee through the gate you ere in a ennelynrd surrounded by The gender's. of She eunuchs. There nee (Wont forly in Ile" imperial herein, end helm only nre they numeroue, for yew seldom find eunuchS 111 the harems of Persia except, tho.se of grandees. - THE EUNUCH IS A LUXURY 1)0 le Very eepeeieve to buy- Th a Most esteemed are the tall bronzed Absssintan and the blacic of the temitire A thoeSand polinds 01 (11000 IS paid for one. From the eunuchs" courtyard of the Shahs harem 0 COrrillor leadS le 0 second gate, which opeus oil a large, square garden full of geometrical parterres of shrubs and flowers, With Very high plane tree,s snipped a all their bouglie except a tuft RA We top. This garden IS. S11r- r011uded will1 innumerable quer-Mrs fee the Shell's ladies -buildings Of two stories, whet have a brilliant effect es they eneircle the grounds with the ela- borate tracery of their arched windows - an effect enhanced by the glitter of gore genus Wes, In this huge scprere yoin 0 and go bevies if women in the 111014)110 indoor 1-00- 1 11011.' will) an immense veil of light col - ton or .silit laid over We top of We head, in wheel they envelop themselves more or ices, or leave IL open and trailing on the ground. Tho lute Shell did mil folloe. the exem- pt)) of hie predeeessires, Selymen says 111111 1111 hail enly twelve Wives, The Anderoun wits 001 nmeh lees crowded for Ihnt teasers for 1110 Mations, Ille slaves, and the :relearns of these wives --inusicians, dancer& fortune tellers, jesiere, merehants, 011 of them neces- sarity fernales.-gave a eonstunt anima- tion le the "Paints des Volupies." All theee women seemed to live In 11 perpetual anticipation of the judgment of Paris. It eves who should be the most ireauliful 2 who should po.esess the most fascinating tvardrebe. Jewels and pre. 012)05 slimes excited the greatest cove- tousness. The Shah distributed them prochgelly. and on his birthday and at the New Veer lie gave away turquoises, sapphire& pearls, rubies, emeralds, even diamonds. by Mindful& This did not hinder them from larying jrwelS 011 their 00(11 001)01111 1 from the merchant women who come into (Ole harem Thev desired to eclipse their rivals by the riclmess of the fabrics 'Itbch 1 hoy • • $•11 IR•1 • 1 • I •, of ashen, shawls of Nieman could not, be kid expensive. and fabrics feorn Europe ((2101) 1101 less populer. Worth, the great litivislan dressmaker. sells off in Teheran his specifil silks, when they are left un his hand's long enough ki be out of rashion, He ha$ a very clever lady Were to represent 111111, who is adored by rill the fair or Teheran. Often a woman who wanls to be the only pnssessor of a spe- cially buys the whole roll AT NO MATTETI 'WHAT PRICE. They Moe' much more lendeney 10 do lliis noW. 101' seveval times a women. jealous of tire admiration which a rival hail 00,311 with a coStufne of a new mater- ial, weied buy some of We same 11)11100- 1 01 and have a costume made of it for one of her slaves and then invite the "dear friend" to lea served by Ural slave. The riVRIS gratilleaLiOn can be imagined. In tho middle of the Anderoun garden stands 0 ravishing white palace, 801101'e 111 8118118. two s es ltiglI, clllIOiflabiflg ill a lerittlee With 011 OpeliWOrli balUStrade supporting yeses at tutervals. This, which ie euggestive of the Yildiz Kiosk at Constaiiliiinple, is the Xhaingall, or Pal- ace of Sleep. There 18 a very low ground floor. sur- rounded by a cireular colonnade widell carrie.s lite balcony that goes nround We first floor. In Whiell bread White marble stairea,e of !Mem stops gives IleeesS. NUrnettotis French windows. very high and wide, open on all four sides at the house, which has a riehly sculptured cor- nice. II. i$ rt very bright and white build- ing, Mailed teeth delicate sculptural orna- mentations. Here his elejesty slept, under a guard of eunuch% and women, who have this special appointment, for Lo the Anderoun the functionaries of the 13eeroun aro (ipplicated. Unscrupulous doctors and dervishes freely exploit the credulity arcentiusled in these grownup children by the passion ' for Inalertuly. 1 he most, extravagant. medicine and charms are often tried, purchased at their •eight in gold. If woles gall does not succeed the wife will try the swallowing of a little of the sa- cred earth from Kerte:en. One wife, with Al 110111 all these ailempls had been un- successfill, was advised as a. last resort to grate even dee a piece of brick which was supposed to ba benught, from We 101111) of a holy Munn and to take II. in- ternally after early morning prayer.. Site look this prescription so .seimpulous- ly that All'En A \-1111I.E SHE DIEle OF IT. A11)01114.110' most highly esteemed talis- mans are the fried elcius of a hyena, mouicey's liver, lynx's hale, rind tee beeklione of an owl --not to mention the most amazing decoctions and broths, and, of ere:Ruse, tronecribed prayers Which are inclosed in leather for hang- ing termer(1 the neck and waist, or hivo- cations end sacred or cubalislic names written ou parchment, which is washed 111 a 0111) 01 (101 writer for the ink lo dis- solve. •The water is Wen regarded as illIpregnaleCI Willi the virtue' of the words, and lint* as potion when 11)011' 11(1) a wish. If One adds n pinch or We powdered muzzle of a monkey -which is made ler charring it -the effect is much heighterred. The ocimpelions and aniusemenle of the Sluiles tt Wes ere restricted end varied. Like all the rich Persian 0)001011, Ihey lleVer ese their (Ingres. Even em- broidery and lace -making ere beit to in_ feriors. Meet. of the time is spent ki idling turd chattering end visiting al - wine retie:Jed by icalyaile, cups of ten and se eel Meets. Like their less fortunate Algiers, gen- erally they have no educatinn. 11. np- /reale, however, Ihel some of Ille wives 1(1 ihe late SOVerelgll 111100 been educeled. One ef them line the ',opulence) of being literers•-a poetess. She has sung lire praise Of her 11103161' ill eVery mood, mid all the runnels of creation ore cited in her poems for comparison with the king of Icings, Tntriger 1. (11210 0110 of their favorite erenpatione-intelgue lo lake awny from a rivet We Teem. of the leing, cie politic:11 1111rIgne. inslinelne 2111)10(51 2103' is brought into action 111 these ensre with Inc siiiillY• is NOW solue n111111110118 men hay., recourse. 10 the help of Weir wtves, elle, by 1)000e0t:3 and 1ln arty, win In1111011Pril Support in the Shales harem. eloc Wan one important efralr 12125 been Ilers brought to n successful ceneluelon, more limn one favor eo ob. tinned, The woopn eil the bailee are 0111111 kh end erreily 'morsel, Starvisliolts elories, more or less Wised on 1110 "Menem nettle,- in which the delaile reel/Mug to love ere recounted with Inconceivable Nudity. We buffooneries of Old women. their linrieeque Inifielione, their 0101.111 - ravish theee. 041.0 of these has well lir Teheran the reputation and vogue a Yeette Guilbert with us. Slie tells StOrieS Mid illustrates Wein herself, in) pereonating the characters of the re inence, She 111111ele,s with as 11111ell fidel- ity the ally attitude of tt blushing bride 1115 simpering of a middle-aged wo- man. And when 11. (tenger), a devil, or a Winn ('1311)08 .11110 the plot, she succeeds 111 pullieg the skin of her face, Miming tip her nose wilipa siring, turning her eye- lids out, and set on, assuming 1110 moSt tedeble and monstrous aspects imagin- able, A store' told by her is as 001011 up- peciated in Teheran, and es highly paid, as a monelogue hy (enevaller in London. THE CONVICT'S STRUGGLE JABEZ nwoun WANTS TO AIAKE ANOTHER START, Regarded as a .Great Scoundrel by Most of His Countrymen in England. "Jabez 13altour will see you to -morrow al ten o'clock." Had the note informed me that some member of tire royal family was going to grant me an audience I shouid have received tha intelligence with less .111 - !erase writes a Lonilon (England) cor- respondent. F(re ;labia. Balfour has often been described es a prince -a "prince or swindlers." Scarcely since the bursting of the South Sea:pebble have Otero been financial selkelAS so ruinous to confiding-!:list-Aeleirs as bls companies. The losers through -their collapse in 1892 Were literally to Le numbered by thousands". They were lorgely the very people who could least afield to lose-seiclotys anil orphans and aged people of small means. Before the smash came the name rif Jabez Balfour was an. honored one. He WaS a Member of the House of Com- mons, one of the most enthusinstic fol- lowers of Giadstone, one of the slainrch- esl champione of home rule curd one cf the sterne.st reprovers of the House of Lords for ifs plutocracy and for Os con- temn. for the common people. Tried before a jury of Ws peers he was found gulIly on two CIIUIIIS-bssu(flg isiso b ance sheets and diverting to his own use: money entrusted to him for inveat- ment. For each he received the maxi- mum sentence -..seven years' penal ser- vitude. He dieaPreared from public vretv. amid a storm of execration. A few months ego lie regained his free- dom after spending ten years and five i Months in jail -three years and seven 1 menthe representing the' remission of sentence which Ile had gained by good conduct -all [hal he could gain, For whatercr else may be said of him Bal- four, no man ever made . A BETTER PRISONER. I drew a mental pietwe of the sort. or man I should find him. In my mind's eye he assumed the shape of a broken inan-he 15 63 -pallid, bent, Wrin- kled, weaiened, crafty face and shifty, eunting eyes. I iningined that bis cony -million would belvey the cant- ing hypocrite. . In eeerything-looks, talk, meriner- he was not a 1)11. 11120 what 1 thought he would be. He is a stout little man with a pink, chubby face, singularly free from wrinkles. There is nothing slumped on it, that reveals In any way the terrible experience through which. lie has passcd-nolhing that, indicates the unscrupulous villain he is popular- ly supposed to be. Savo for his white hair, scant at the top, and thin, frosty beard, he doesn't look his years. His ey'es are bright, clear and steady. Thera WEIS nothing remotely suggestive of cant in his tnik. 13111 more than any- thing else his cheeriness impressed me. Ho seeme to be a happier man than nine out of ten you 1•1111 across who have passed lime score. His manlier invited the utmost frank- ness and after we had been talking for some little Nt'hile rested to Um Balfour. In the eyes of the law you have expiated the crimes of whieh you twee convicted, but you knew that most of your countrymen still regard yoe as one of the worst sooundrels unhanged; you were once a very wealthy man, you are now poor; wind, tlre world galls success you can never achieve. 'You ought lo be one of the most miserable 211 men, and yet you a1'e-01' Seelll to be -a happy man. What, is the secret at it' That would be 'something worth revealing to mankind." ' "I suppose,' said Mr, Balfour, "most ot 11 1(24(3 be put down to temperament. I MANE THE 13E8T When 1 wns sentenced I never expected Is survive my term of imprisonment, but 1 made the best, of my lot in jail. No bad marks Were 61'e1' Sel. 1100111 against rile. What scant privileges could le obtained by good conduct I obteinet. Every confidential postlion which 0 prisoner. could be entrustecl Mirth I filled. Seice 1 have been miens- eil 1 have acted on the same principle -it-inking the best of It. 1 have eought no aid from old friends, though I have heen gratificd to find that some of theme sbilb heil faith in nrt. I Mid rny living 10 make, iSly. prison expevience pro- vides me with Me means for a while nt least, there ere things I should pre - for 10 write 01)0211-1 have always been interested In politics and. social ques- tions -Mit IL Is a ease of needs must. "when the Devil drives." "But rime con-cience-nee 37011-4" '1 know what you mean. 1 81111.10 no queelions, and niy answer to the ques- tion yon would risk is, 1 rim not guilty, When 1 eny that. 1 Minty that I shall not le believed end WM, most people tvill only Ilenic the worse 01 1110 for say- ing 11, But I slick to it. When I stood, my Mini I WaR WILI10111 We private means neerssary to mince a big fight, for 1 lirol lost MI the envi»gs 01 111) rime al ri very sueeessful life In the stete o. publie foreleg ageing 1110 I knew II was Impelegs to expect an normals]. 41 Wag inlininted to 2110 that tr I Wended guilty 1 should receive n much lighter erreence nem 11 1 Mended rod (3111113/. Keowing that t Mill pleaded riot guilty. Of mony or the lennsuctions Mimed me 1 lorew 11511)11v. For sevrieel seers before lire crash came 1 Mid ceeeecl to 110.a director of the Liberaler company, for the contInct of wither -1 ilni en/eosed to bave been chiefly re- sponsible. But It Is useless to go Int these wetter.% The verdict stand against Me rout I must endure the ills gene° 41..3 to the ene of my Ilfe," I am sure Jinxes Balfour did not lel me the Nvhole of the secret of Ws in domItable cheerfulness, 11- 15 too rime] to expect a man to lay bare Hie intnos depths of himself to the easualinter viewer. 13111 whatever view 1110y b taken of Jabez Baifoures post, 1 tun cell vinced 111111 he .possesses a lot of MISERLY HET -TY GREEN SAW TO DE THE RICHEST WOMAN IN AMERICA, o No One Knows Except Ilersoll How She 13 '11.011.11, Probubly Over S1 00.010,000, ADINIMABLE QUALITIES. 110 'shows. rare pluck in beginning life's battle Orer agahe at Ins age, under hls nwn name, with all the odium Wet at- taches lo 10, Instend of slipping off some- where, whei•0 wider an assumed mime be 101(3(11 11)01)0 a fresh start with a clean sititre lem professional matters the talk drifted to prieon reform. That is a sub- ject on wince Jabez Balfour. is quailed to speak as an expert, but space permits me only briefly to summarize Nyhat he said. "The English system of penal servitude Is about the most stupid and unrea- sonably that could be devised, 11 1(18(00.) no distinctionbetween the first offend- er. or the casualdelinquent and` the hardened professional criminal. They are all on the same plane in prison - ail treated alike, From beginning to end punishment -the exacting of Me pound or nesh-is the predominating principle. Genuine reformatory Influences are ut- terly lacking. , "The basis of a rational system should be discrimination. If I Were allOWell a free hand in the running of a penal servitude institution I would have. a separate depar•iment for firs1 offenders, where et'ery opportunity should be giv- en. them to regain their selreespects to prove themselves worthy of truel, wouid, institute some sort of a class system which would recognize progress in reformation by conferring special privileges on those who showed them- selves deservirig of them. On similar lines, but under harder. punitive (ren- ditions I would, treat second . offenders. Perhaps, too, third offenders. But tbere should be a definite recognition a stage where the criminal efflers the incorrigible class. For them some place should be found --the British Empire Io large enough-wireve they could he immured for life. In this way they would be prevented from tenger prey- ing on. society and a limit waled be put to their highly UNDESIRABLE PROGENY. "So convinced am I that. tile great majority of first offenders under a nit:anal system of prison treathient mieht, be reformed thal if ever 1 should start a business of my own agnin-or run a publication of some sort -and it ie -quite on the cards Mat I may do. either one or the other -I would have all the subordinate positions lilted , by men who had served one tem of im- prisonment to afford un object lesson to the world. My porter, my bank messenger, my junior clerks should all be ex-conviets.' "But why restrict the ex -convicts to, the subordinate positions?" - "I would not provided I could find (x - convicts capable of filling the higher ones." Jahn Balfour hopes some day to visit Wo United States to study its penal institutions and lecture on prison re- form. On such a subject be would be well worth hearing, en. he has shown hi many n great meeting beside the House of Commons that he is a tor'ce- 11(1 speaker. ANOTHER CANCER CURE: TWO WELSH BROTHERS TREATED MANY CASES SUCCESSFULLY. English Physician 'Who Invesligated Reports Tells ot Remarkable rtesulls. Welsh papers have been telling of late tales of • wonderful cures of cancer effected at Cerdigan by two brothers named Evens by means of herbs. Occa- sionally one or Ittio 01 111050 glories evere quoted in the London papers, but no- body paid much heed, considering them met.° tales of country quackery. BM there is some truth in 11)0111 after ell. Dr. Hugh Riddle was commiseioned hy a newspaper to' investigate, end this is what he reports "For more (hall twenty years theee practitioners have been treating nil kinds of external diseases with ointments and salves made entirely from herbs, but only lately has their. Nine spread ab"1:21'0111iidp. cOepentem by trade, they origi- nally used their simple remedies as a side iesue only. 13111 foe some yenrs now they have been kept busy visiting their patients.. KNONV LITTLE Ole PATHOLOGY. "The pathology of cancer Interests Wein but, Wile. They believe they 0)111 demonstrate that the melesales in the neighboring glands are not separate growths originating fi.orn cencer oells and brought, to the glands through 1110 lymphatics- from the °legend growth., bui WM Ilieee secondrus invelvements ere extensions or the rool,s of the pri- mere' growth he direct continuity. "1111310 method is to imply an heital ointment or decoction to the eanCer, Whleh, according to them, causes the eools an all Side10 WilildraW MI° the originel growth, which then falls off. After this tire skin heals over 1110 2001)11(1. They assert She', they never turn cosee Wive had only one or. two (0(1' 11108 in. many yeare. "Patients have come lo them nom all over We his and 8eolland and even a few CM111LIVI21 IN 001131' MANNETI. 'rho brothere livh very unprelonlinusly on their fermi about two 1111 IPS from Car- digan. Every Inorning Ihey walk inLO LOWn with Weir pockets tilled with leaves Mid preparations of 111510 secret remedy. They have a small surgeoy, where Were are 11 bow beds for 1110 worst ceses. Wee are storm of. (Efferent letWes arid herbs, also' their collection of specimens 111 81,111'ernlYtyliero Wore 8001115 to be Me same emnfidenee these Simple physt. ohms, Env from being nilveplising quaelcs, with n, 110306 ter DOI oriely, they are deeply religioue men, end 11. 10 very difficult to get firstirend icnowledge of (hely method, Theyeepealt very little English end understand lees. Mr.& Iletly Howland Robinson Green, believed lo be the richest women 10 Anieden, celebrated her 7211d birthday the other day. "Hotly Green," as she is familiarly known, bas her place of busi- ness in the Chemical 1.311111t, New "York, but lives in humble quarters in Hobo- ken, .New Jersey, and to eecnpe Ille as- sessor, has her. nIlletar residence at Bel- lows Falls, Vermont. No ono loTows except Hotly Green hOW 11111511 Holly Green is worth, Keen look- outs of the financial world to -day rote her at $100,000,000. And there' are still others who would put IL as high tie $125,000,000. j INHERITED WEALTH, lielly gmen has not made something out of nothing. Tho hotted of gale which she hns piled up for her son Ned did JIM grow from a thousand. It began with milliene. Her progenitme, the llow- IMICIS, 0111110 Orel' In 1110 Mayflower and Settled in New Bedford, Mass. Her father was one of Ihe old masters of 1 bo nearly deed whaiiim industry. Along in 1865 llo died bequeathing to her it fortune Weting from the blubber of yeers of voyanes 1110 seas. ln 1867 ehe married Edward 11. Green, who bad come home, after twenty sears spent ln the Far East, with mope than a million made he the lea teade. Before she 'recent° the wife of liciWard Green she mede 111111 sign en agreemenl that none of her money should ever be held liable foe debts incurred by him. Cireen lost all his money in Wall Street. up to the lime of his death, in 1002, he subsisted on an allowance which she made hen. There was a separation after Green lost his money, but in the end, when death ems claiming the husband, the wife went to 111111 hi his old faintly home at Bellows 175115, Vt., and mused him, Before Hotly Creen and her litisleind decided to live npart two children had 00010 LO 1.1101n -the son, who is 11000' !Wyly -nine years old, and 1115 daUghler, Sylria A1111 Howland 1.1.10011. This daughter is named alter spInsler aunt of Holly's, who swelled the beginning of the presen1 stupendous fortune with a bequest of her elllire estate, worth mil - 11"s. klEd AlEAN LIFE. If one would know bee as she really is, one should follow her any evening dew Mc the Innetas street ferry, New York, and arose tho river to Hoboken, N.J. One woeld 110L LeSe her In the crowds, for it, would be impossible to miss the old black bonnet end rusty cape which she invariably wears, indeed, site i3 not much better dressed than the bank's scrub woman, whom she passes every afternoon IIS she walks out of the bank. Remould lead you a brisk walk le 'rite Barracks"-thet is, No. 1203 Wnshinglon street. If she should elude a follower there would he reo use in ask- ing if Mrs. Green lives theve. Whee this strenge old woman leaves the New York shore" bellied, she leaves lietly Green. 'Us. C. 'Morton" lives in the flat on the seeond floor, which costs 826 a month to house lee being of one whose gold can make some icings tremble. Once lielly Green enters the 13ai.rneics n! an evening it is 801(10211 that We world sees her again until the following dawn. She Is an enrly riser. She spends part, cd the night in doing her washing, the little housework that the flat demands, or outlining sonle scheme of the morrow. She (Ivies her handkerchiefs by plastering them ngeinst he window panes. The tradesmen of the neighborhood know her, but not. pleasantly. 1118 usually in Ilie morning that she buys what is to be her food for We day. Hardly ever does she spend a dollar. and she has been known to haggle over a cent or two in change from a half a dollar. , 111311 BUSINESS DAY, Once on tho New York side of the river at the beginning of the day -the beginning is seldom later ihim 8.90 --she mks by the shortest route lo We Chenn cal Na Hemel 'Bank. From the menlent she seals herself behind a 111,,10p elesic in a room in the rear of the banle se1 01)1111 101' bei' sole use, IL is work, Work, work. Sila knoWs what is 111101-loning 111 Wall Sired. The slightest naweinent on the Stock Exchange is known to her, and na she works money of her own in and out of the market on this rise or that de- cline, she is busy We while lending gold for 21 mien to speculaters who may be ruined by esome scheme of her. millions before the any is done. IS IT W0111•11" WII11,1?.. Mrs. Green esterliy perlakes 'of" her micidn meal in a cheap restaurant. She lets been going to one restnurant 101. six yeers, all thin time her lunch ()heck 11115 1100e1' exceeded twenty: cents. The summer -luncheon of We riches1 woman in world consists usually nf crackers and oink. Iler whiter repast is slightly 11101e elaborates 11 is ham and beans, with it'erip of coffee or ten. Airs, Clicen has a weakness for eecoantil. pie, and she sometimes orders a Mere. When she does, she cuts off the lea or' coffee 00 ,1111)1 1110 check emeres to the 3111110, And lllere is 110113'.11021108(01 'Robinson Coven, We richest. woman in We world, 'Meet is her life day alley day-potly dickerings, etripendous selietnee. She is all ,nione, lier son, for WI10111 8110 IS ho. 101011 to be einessing ell hee 1111111011,0 lo make lern the 01)11001 1(15(3 in We world, 1", away In Texas bound dnwo by the (10. 1)111(1411 of Ihe great funds ilIVeSted there. Sylvia Ann, the daughter, is either with Itis CounlosS Annie .1.e5ey, who In re- ronL years has taken her under her sorted ra• elms 111 the Green home in Bel- lows Falls. How many more sines are left to her re) one Nur Irel, bill is all Wal she Ites clone end ell that she hopes M do worth 0111107 AUTOCIIAT'S REVENGE. She 1 "Ile .sorry you lost your temper °veoltilf;r 01112: e" rs(NiVItr'eni,'1(nr"1101. 11:110i:11erlillie1,1'01111,"1.111101 consider flre corleieprenere, Yne ItInde creek very inigry, and stri, rimy (11)011(5 'I pub us 011 bread and water," RAREST OF TITLES GIVEN STORY OF Tim GARTER, TEIE ItIOStiv VALUED ORDER. The Admission At a Knight 15 Ono of' the Most Gorgeous Ceremonies in the World, "iCnight of the garter," is the" rnrest. al England. WI* that erne be conferred by the Xing About, one-third of 1140 'origins at the" present Wire are ivigning kings or 8111- 1)e1010, Ille Shah of PrrSia, the •EWPere or of • japan, the lenisee and the King. ce• Spain being ainong other members. of Lim "mos1 noble orcier." 11 was founded far back in Edward H.'s reign, the date being ascribed to New Year's Dey, 1344, but, authorities differ. 'The legend -which even the ro- mantic Froissart contradicts -runs to 11115 purpose: A certain Countess of Salisbury having lost, her gerler at a. ball his Majesty, Li:awned II., picked it rip and res'ored it. Whon the courtiers trilled to hid their smiles tho King re- proved them 'with (ho wards, "Horn son mil mai y pense," which is still Ille• motto of the order... That, is the Tegend. The words are Mee isserthed in the ma- te which banned 111. eeleseed for his. second 'Frellele.calllpflig11. Bur it is strict that the garter existed still earlier, though DOI under royal de- cree, Xing Illi•hard I, having a eelect- band of knights at Acre who Nvore 11. leather bend around tbe left log. THE FAMOUS iteelf is a band of blue velvet an inch. broad, heavily incrusted with .gold and, bearing the motto "Horn son qui mary Pense in lelere of solid gold. Charles I. wore a prier withea blazing array r 412 diamonds and these he did not sheinle from wealeng 011 Ille At Wimiser (ensile niter the new knight has been elected by the chapter of the order -e ceremony which le Poe- eibly allowed to inpse-lhe two junior knights protod to the door of the chap- ler-roorn aloe peeceded by the garter. long of arms, Who carries the Insignia on 0 cushion, conducts the newly elect- ed Imiget to the sovereign. With tius essislance of the two junior knights present, the Xing btu -Ides it on; thee while the neW knight. kneels the King Puts the ribbon over his shoulders. Tlie collar, which, like the collar sr ell orders, by 1120 way, is a badge c.f servitude, is of gold and weighs nearlyo ter ounces. It Is made in 26 pieces. coy- Ideronding to the Olathe) number ef members. The star, with its brilliant rod cress, was founded by Charles 1. mrd .Is In- tended to be wren when the e231g111. 15 •not in his 001105. This star, which has nllered gradually in shape in the lest 303 years, was restored by King Edward 141 ITS ORIGINAL SHAPE wet year. The insignia are all present- ed to the knight by the King, but on Ms death they hese to be returned to - the sovereign. The mantle is of purPle velvet, lined with white silk, with the badge of tho order" on the left simulder. The neck Is (eased by a corder( of purple silk aud gold in equel parts. Queen Victoria's mantle 00113 eine feel, in length (the knights have mantles slightly shorter tbmn lag% IsteovreeLegign)w0. Tho rn011 the left leg . over a white silk stocking end is bal- anced on the right leg by a Main band or white silk ribbon 'lady knights weer it on the left arm). The hood and sue - corn are of crimson velvet, lined with white taffeta. admisicion of n enight of the gar- ter is one , of the most gorgeous cere- nionies in the world. UNCLE JOle•S PHILOSOPHY. Sometimes breeklust cereals ain't' quite what they're cracked up tew be. Dew untew. others not ez "most oth- ers dew tiniew 3e0'. ° Sonietimos these things edorie while yew wait" would bey been done bet - Mr ef yew hedn't waited. Whoa pus -son says Ile eaift hes aimed made up his mind Wet he Wait ri-goini low try, Nobuilde thinks Wet all is fair en love an' war 'cep!, We feller who comes. aout ion top. 11. Is nonsense fur the Inner who.can'S iceep hia heed above water tew try tew paddle hie own centre. It's not good fur man tow be alono et they's a very big pile 00 motley Marin' him in the lace, They's mey one thing fur a man who gile stuck in a Mess trade 1' dew, one ef he don't dew 11 tse. sartinly deserves Mb he gles. Ef evirybuddy practiced what they preach Ulf: World would be op good !het 11 tvould be onsefe fur a bad mon tew «0 aorn 011 We streets at night 'alone, THE WAY OF IT. • "W1111, thie evilness doesn't seeni to know even what he is talking about." "Of memo he doesn't. Wrisn't bs called in as an 03(1)011 10 the cesee• "I'll give you a postlion es clerk to ' sleet \vine" sled lire mere:Irene "end pay yult 1011111 you 11re Worth, Is that Sa'is- factory r' "011, eertalnly," replied the eollege «rodent', ; "1m1 e1-41 0 you think 111(11,11121 0011 afford it 7' "We so herd to eay 'Good-nIglie I" re- marked nn ininteeled yOlIng 111511 ai the nmni door, "I met nnd 11 in nry heart bo bnbhply'13 ,5:1,(,111(11rioygd10-111.111ingw.111.1a,1•i111 110.11e81111iti ilrlleilr)liy100-•- (1.11--gi:-',11'0, 111'011171;1s; he eine to ,say 'Good -morning' I" Dolly "I don't ,e0e how yroung '('('1(3. 111(12 COLIN possibly ire a greeter bore Wan he is: Ile does not btnI. giggle int the lime." Polly : "MOM, if W. didn't giggle 110 might talk, and peewee that, would 50 \verse,"