Kang Yu Wei an Exile From His Native Country. FOR REFORM METHODS. Think Railroads One of Hip Prfnel pal .Necessities of China Took Prominent Hank In the ('nun ells of tin- Emperor lb-form Associations. Kang Yu Wcl was born forty fight yours ago In the Province of Xwang--tung. District of Nam-hal, nenr the city of Canton, says the New York Mail. As ho crow up ho nhlbod Ideas about civilization and overnment vastly dlffort-tit from .'hlnose youth. He showed thin la ils first public work, which was ns president of the Cr nton I'ntvf rslty. During the time he was preside nt of this university he repeatedly memo rialized the Imperial throne, urging the necessity of Introducing proper governmental methods In China. This was between fifteen and .wenty years ago. About that time Knng Yu Wei prophesied, In n book yublished by him, the approach of the Japanese-Chinese war and the disastrous results to China that would follow that conflict, includ- : ;.ng the loss of Korea. I The war with Japan broke out hile Kang Yu Wei was president of the university of Canton. It re- i suited In those disasters he had pre dicted. Prior to this time the Em press Dowager had been in complete control of the'emplre of China, but the disastrous results of the war with ,1a pa n caused her to deride to relinquish her power to the young Emperor, so that he would have to ; shoulder the blame consequent upon J the humiliations heaped upon China. Xo sootier was the Emperor per mitted to take advantage of the pre rogatives of his rank than he Siim nioned Hang Yu Wei to PeUn. lty .that, act the Emperor showed a de sire to be progressive, and Ivans Yu Wet determined to take the fullest possible advantage of his oppor tunity. He took prominent rank In the councils of Cie Emperor, and J89S, for a period of about Kit) days, he was the virtual Prim; Min ister of the Empire. Durltr; theso 100 days there were Issued by I'.vj Emperor, upon tiie reeoi.ii.iendai iori of kang Vtt Wei, rcfoim edicts i which were designed to change ! China from an Oriental to an Occi dental nation. Before s.il!'. i 'nt time had elapsed enable the reform laws to bo enr i' d out, the react ioa-ii -les, under l.e leadership of the Empress Dow- :Ser, soiled the Kmperor. On the 1 ame date, September 28, ISDN, all f the Emperor's leform mlni.iterM ! of t.tate and other persons to the ! number of fifty-three were captured. J Only two of the persons wanted by ihe Kmpress Dowager and her party ' encaped. One was Kpng Yu Wei cud other his pupil, Liar.g Kai Chan. The Emperor v.ns taken, a prls- 1 oner, Into the co-called Pur)!e Pa- J iace, and was there forced to Issue an edict In whkh he Htuftvl that, ow- ' inn to 111 health., he was obliged to lelinqtiish the r"ins of government, j ind nsked the Empress Dowager to again assume the responsibilities . she had laid down two years before. I this edict was forced from the Em- peror, as Is generally recognized throughout the empire to-day. Since that day Kang Yu Wei tins been a fugitive from his native la.M, with a price upon his head. He managed to get aboard the British steamer Ballarat, which was only saved from being sunk by the Chi nese fleet by the timely arrival of several British battleships, Kang Yu Wei escaped to Vancouver, and lm- J mediately began organizing the Po- j wongwhul, or, literally translated, "Protect the Emperor Society," which la known throughout the world as the Chinese Empire Re form Association. Until about a year ago, he lived under British pro tection in various oriental colonies of King Edward, including India, Penang, Straits Settlements and Hong Kong. About the beginning of last year Kang Yu Wei went to Europe and spent a year there, trav eling in all the continental coun tries and Great Britain. The chief reason why my friend was not successful In his efforts to modernize and uplift his fellow countrymen 1b that he did not have nn armed force to support him. Kang Yu Wei Is a great believer In railroads. Railroads are one of the prinol pay necessities of China. In Ihe opinion of Kang Yu Wei, because the Middle Kingdom is a country of last extent and at the same lme of enormous population. Without fa cilities for communication there can be no homogeneous and compact na tion such as Chinese reformers be lieve is necessary to protect their country from the aggression of for eign powers, as well as from inter nal enemies. In order to accomplish his re forms Kang Yu Wei will have to overcome the following obstacles: First, the Empress Dowager; sec ond, the Manchu dynasty; third, those . Chinese statesmen who sup port the reactionary Manchus; fourth, that deep-set feeling among the Manchu people that whenever China makes progress the people will recti re power that will at once de otroy their dynasty; fifth, the lack of cohesion among the Chinese peo ple. ' I might add that within the Em neror's party are found the most sincere supporters of the cmnese" Government (tint are to be found. Their support Is given with more patriotism nnd more understanding of the needs of their country than Is found In nil the rest of China put together. It Is the hope of the pnrty that by spreading the propaganda of education among the rising genera tion, on the death of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor will be re-f-tored to power, nnd they will be able to assist him In enforcing reforms. MALRY.MPLE OX CIVIL SERVICE. (ilnsgow'n Railway Expert Opposes American System. Jnnies Dalrymplo, General Mana ger of the Municipal Railways of Olnsgow, Scotland, whose coming to America to give his opinion of municipal ownership, In a sweep ing statement, dealt a strong blow to the advocates of Civil Service, when he said: "Municipal ownership could not survive In the same field with those ehorlshed American Institutions, the civil service and politics. Disas ter would be the inevitable out come, of trying to run street rail ways, or any other public utility, .'tampered with the restrictions of civil service nnd the cherished pre rogative of political parties to make u clean sweep of employes nfter each election, ejecting one set and putting in Another, or to use the shibboleth of partisanship, 'turning ihe rascals opt. "My position Is that of a man who has charge of a street railway or of any other public department, must have the same po,or to hire and tiiseharge which any man In any other business has where he has any number of men under him. The manager of a railway, just the same James Bali jniplc ns the manager of a department store, must have continuity of ser vice under him. He must have sole control over hi.-i subordinates. "No hoard can determine by an examination In writing or otherwise what applicant for a position will make a good conductor or a good niotorman. That must be deter mined by practical experience. "If any of the men whom I dis charge should have the right to np peal to somebody else It would work disaster In the business. Where he has the right to appeal to the courts, as Is the ease hero, I understand, that only makes the matter worse. Such a system is pure nonsense. One man, the manager, must have power to hire and to discharge. Where somebody else steps In Is to f-ill Into chaos. You must have dis cipline, and there can be none un less the man whom the manager discharges stays discharged. "I hire all of my men, and watch to see what they can do. I hire the best men I can get, but I sometimes lind It necessary to dlcharge some. I will not keep a man about me un less he does satisfactory work. When I discharge, that Is the end of it. The man never even thinks of objecting to it. "I have had no experience of the operation of civil service, but I nhould think it would be a handicap to a manager of a public street rail way or any other munlcipul depart ment. "What do you think would be the effect upon a municipal street rail way If some of the employes were under civil service and the rest were liable to be discharged and sup planted by new men after every election, say every three or four ears? I "I believe any man at the head of any municipal enterprise should be head and shoulders above poli tics. I never voted in any munici pal election, and would not vote for even my dearest friend as a menin ber of the City Council. Yes, the Council hired me. But what I ald about continuity of service in connection with civil service applies to politics. You cannot run a rall load system or any other public de partment on any other lines than jou use In any private business. I( must work disaster if new em ployes are to be appointed with every change in the political admin istration of the city government. Municipal ownership would make a bad yoke fellow with politics. Pub lic and private business must be conducted upon the same lines. The street railway system of Glasgow operates 150 mile of track, and has 4,400 employes. Since the people took the ownership of them It ia possible to ride for 2 cents." The diameter of the funnels there are two of the new Cunarder Caronla, 1b so great that were they laid on their sides a couple Of loco motives could paBB abreast. .S- " Vi ml THE COLUMBIAN, nil isiisi People arc Earnest 'Promoters of Education. ITS GREAT COMMERCE. Scientific Sugar Cane Cult lire. Finest Coffee In the World Converting Waste Lands School System Modified After That of Inlted States. When the revolution of 189ft put n end to the Hawaiian monarchy a prominent resident of Honolulu ro tiiurked : "I have thousands of dojlnrs of "onl estate In the best business quarter of the city, and I could not to-dav raise $100 on the whole of !t." From the organization of the pro visional government In that year there came an Immediate change. I'nder native rule there had never been any dlftleuly In getting a llb- tral appropriation from the royal . treasury to pay the expertses of a chief'B funeral, but It was Impossl- ! tile to secure even limited sums for ' the construction of necessary public j work. The provincial government began at once to enlarge the water front, facilitating the docking of large ves sels, and to dredge the harbor. A liagulflcent road was completed I'rom llilo, on the island ofll.ivuli, to Klleaun, the great volcano, smooth as the boulevard of a city and set on either side with bread fruit trees, mangoes and alligator pears. Other highwaya were sur veyed nnd finished and the sugar plantations began to improve with all else. So long as revolution was Imminent at any time there was nat ural unwillingness to experiment in nev and costly methods of cane cul . ure. When annexation to the Fulled ttates Insured political liability ud undisturbed public credit the ac tivity which began with the passing of the monarchy was Immensely Hlniulated. Aside from the tempo rary dislu r! itiee pending the discus sion of admission of Cuban sugar into American markets r.t, a nominal tariff the commercial development of the Islands has been phenomenal. The evolution of one plantation on Oahu Is an example. The land Iiad been considered worthless, ly ing on the leeward side of the island, but tt was found that by Irri gation and fertilization it could be made productive. It bad also been 3upposed that the water on the low lands obtained by boring wells would be too brackish, but it was also found that the cane could en dure a certain per cent, of salt and thrive. All manner of modern ma chinery was Installed, clever con tr'vances, like a wonderful shredder invented by Mr. Scott, of llilo, being devised. The mills nre now bril liantly lighted by electricity, run ning day and night, while grinding Is in progress. The sugar is taken through nil the processes except re f.nlng on the ground, and It Is so pure and light In color when tt leaves the mills that there Is little left for refiners to do. From the time that the cane Is fed into the hopper, labor formerly performed Dy stout, sturdy Japanese women, until it is being put into sacks ready to trunsfer to the waiting schooner little more than three hours elapses. The most expert chemists are em jloyed who as part of their work make frequent analyses of the soil, Indications of exhaustion being promptly remedied by the use of the proper fertilizer. What has been Accomplished by theso enlightened scientific methods may be guessed when it Is stated that whereas in '893 the maximum yield was Ave tons to the acre the best land3 can now be made to produce ten, while eight tons is of common occurrence. The native Kond coffeo is the fin est in the world, not excepting the famous Mocha of Arabia. It has great strength with exquisite flavor. It has been affected with a dostruc vented Its export In largo quantities; it is nevertheless well known to the epicures of New York and San Fran cisco clubs. The work of reclaiming the naked mountain slopes and other arid re gions by planting algoroba and eu calyptus trees has gone on steadily. The rainfall had been seriously di minished by the felling of the indi genous forest for cane growing and by tho ravages of wild cattle that run at large in Hawaii and other of the islands. The city is furnished with an in comparable water supply, the rain fall drained from the mountains p.nd filtered and distributed from reservoirs. The sewage is carried out to sea by an ingenious contriv ance which may be roughly de scribed as a series of tanks, through which it is forced, thus avoiding the danger of contaminating the harbor. As there is comparatively little manufacturing, and fires in private lesidences and hotels being re quired only In (he kitchen, disas trous conflagrations are very rare, the burning of Chinatown in the spring of 1900 having been due to carelessness. There is now, never theless, perfect fire protection, one company being maintained by the Chinese, who contributed tho engine bouse and its equipment to the city as a free gift. For its population Hawaii has the largest commerce In the world. It lies in the direct route of travel to Australasia, Japan, China, the Phil ippines and the Far East. The cramped schooner and the weather beaten whaler have been supplanted BLOOMsBURG, PA. by groat twin screw steamers, float ing palaces which equal thse that make their flying voyages across the Atlantic. There arc also well equipped linos plying between th Islands, now supplemented by a Tilreless telegraph system, while Widely separated nnd Isolated plantations are brought within talk ing distance by telephone. The ma ilue railway Is still a substitute hardly adequate to the enormous In crease of commerce since the closo of the Spanish-American war for modern dry docks whose construc tion is merely a matter of time. Washing I, ace Ciiitiilns. First shake the loose dust free and ihen fill the bath or tub full of warni water, to which has been add ed some dry son)) or soap jelly. Leave the curtains sonklng In this mixture over night. In the morning lake hold of the end of a curtain, ;nss It through and through the wa ter to get rid of the dust; wring out, lot all the dirty water go and make another lather of warm soapy water, put back the curtains and leave again for some hours. Then awlsh them through the water and llnse them through cold water, to which has been added a tinge of ll Qitid blue. After this comes the starching. Mix the dry starch with enough cold water to moisten It; pour boiling wnter on, stirring gradually all the lime till It becomes rlear and trans parent looking; then add an equal quantity of hot water to It, nnd It will probably be about the tight consistency, though people's Ideas as to how stiff curtains should be differ so much that It is difficult, to give any hard and fast rub'. If the curtains tire to bo white odd a little bluing to the starch; if a cream color Is desired add a little well strained coffee. A deeper yellow shade Is obtained by pouring boiling water on saffron, letting it stand till the coloring Is extracted,, and adding enough to th" starch to make it the required tint. Before Ironing laeo curtains or Giber starched articles rub the Iron with a bit of wax candle lied in a clean piece of cotton. A I'.islxip on ; ; ml ' i ii; . The Bishop of Peterborough, ad dressing a large gathering of clergy and church wardens at Northamp ton the other day, said that with the spirit of gambling gaining strength on every hand, all earnest Christian men must take a decided fctand , against ' it In all forms, whether in horse racing, in rallies at bazars, or in Id. points at whist. Subsequently, he urged the clergy to discourage the gossip of mischief making, scandal-loving women In their parishes, because the "talk ing of these old cats often led to se rious dissensions iu a parish." London Standard. A Chance for Inventors. The Government of the Nether lands has instituted a competition with tho object of discovering a pro ("s of cutthig diamonds which will dispense with the use of nn alloy dangerous to health. For a com plete solution of this problem a prize of $2,275 Is offered. The an pwers must be written In English, French, German or Dutch, uud sub mitted to Prof. L. Arousteln, chemi cal laboratory of the Polyclinic School, Delft, Holland, on or before January 1, 1906. Robert T. Lincoln. , who declined to bead the board of di rectors of the Equitable Lifo Assuranoe Society, is noted in the business and diplomatic, world. He has been Secre tary of War and United States Minister to Great Britain, and is now President of the Pullman Palace Car Company. He is the eldest Bon of President Abraham Lincoln, and was born at Springfield, 111., in 1843. I The Sbake-lland-Less Salute. Dr. Nalpasse is preaching In Paris the gospel of the shake-hund-leBs salute, which he declares partly re sponsible for tho excellent health prevailing In unhygienic Turkey. You put your hand to your heart, lips and forehead successively to ex press that your friend is always in the heart, on the lips and In the thoughts. It is pretty and you neither give nor take microbes. I A Russian Mystery. At the present time Russia has at least two hundred thousand troops concentrated in Central Asia; and fhe has a sufficient force within striking distance of He tut to take that city within a week. Despite the drain upon her military resources, pays the Bombay (India) Times, she has maintained this largo garrison in Central Abla und she ha said nothing about It. To what end? Thomas F. Ryan's Successful Rise in Financial AlTairs. HIS HUMBLE BEGINNING. Career Contains no Records of Po-Mi-uctlon of Properly or Rail roads Details of Nogot bit Ions Never Published Remarkable Inventive Capacity. Thomas Faulkner Ryan, who In a day persuaded James Hazen Hyde to do what other financiers nnd good counsellors had been unable for months to convince Mr. Hyde should be done, has sometimes been called the grontoHt. "opportunist" that ever rauie to Wall Street. Ills persua sion of Mr. Hyde to sell a majority of the stock of tho Equitable Life Assurance corporation will surely be accepted as a good explanation of what Is meant by the complimentary term "tho great opportunist." Mr. Ryan h regarded by financiers as having acted not only opportunely, but at exactly whnt Is sometimes called the psychological moment. He and those who are with him have already received a majority of the vnpltal stock of this Institution -one of the largest In the world, In r.ssets, business and surplus and have given to Mr. Hyde their check for this stock. Mr. Ryan Is of that rnce of North ot Ireland pioneers who settled along and upon the slopes of the Blue Mountains. I'nliko many of tho youth of those mountain districts, who, when they, were old enough to venture away i'loin the boyhood home, turned - ' -f. 1 bourns I . Ryan. their fttces to tho West, young Ryan made his way to tho East. Balti more just after the close of the civil war seemed to the young men of the South to offer tho best chance. He was self-taught, self-contained, self-confident and tremendous ly in earnest, so greatly In earnest that he was never self-conscious; and to this day one of the most stri king of the characteristics of Mr. Ryan is utter hick of self-consclous-r.ess. He must have Inspired the confidence of his employer, Mr. John D. Barry, nnd probably was brought Into close touch with many men of Southern birth engaged 'n business in the South who had set to work vigorously to repair the for tunes that were Impaired by tho civil war. The understanding has always been that when Mr. Ryan came to New York he brought with him assurances of business, of finan cial trusts, given him by some of the Southern merchants and finan ciers, and It has always been pre sumed that much of his earlier suc ceuses and some of his later tri umphs were made possible by the association with him of Southern financiers and the intrusting to him of Southern capital. He was a Wall Street broker when only twenty one years of age, having opened an office here in the spring of 1872. That very act Is typical of Mr. Ryan's entire business career. Mr. Ryan was also one of the first to understand the possibilities that were in tho transportation of pass engers In such cities as New York und Chicago, and It was doubtless through his early comprehension of the magnificent opportunities that New York city offered that he was orought into association with the late William C. Whitney and what, afterward cume to bo known as the "Philadelphia syndicate." That was in the closlug days of Mr. Cleveland's first administration as President, in which Mr. Whitney served as Secretary of tho Navy. Just as Mr. Whitney and Mr. .Ryan were perfecting their plans for the consolidation of the street rullways of New York Mr. Frauk L. Sprague was demonstrating the capacity ol the electric current, operating through newly invented apparatus; to propel street cars. Mr. Ryan buw the enormous pos sibility that was in that use of elec tricity, and with steady, always si lent and secretive, but certain, pro gress, he, acting with Mr. Whitney r.nd others, at last consolidated the various street railway systems ol New York. Mr. Ryan has been Bpoken of as a taciturn man. It has sometimes been thought strange that he had not the volubility, the excitable temperament which are sometimes thought to be characteristic of th race from which Mr. Ryan sprang But he is taciturn only in the sense that he Is a much thinking man. jeopty ausorueu, not given to tri viality, ulthough he has a delightful sense of humor. He is sometimes upoluu uX y uX the burduiit working men In New Yorkj but there Is no sense of drudgery with him, no labored and perfunctory ap proach to his task, for his work In a sense Is a recreation, since ho finds his highest gratification In tho work ing out of problems and In the rec ord of success. It Is a sense of Achievement with him flint Is his re ward for all that he does. Ho It singularly free from the small Jeal ousy of others who have also suc ceeded, not having any envy for those exploits that are constantly brought before the public. Ilia habits of life are correct to tho ut most; his family, his farm, his llol stoln cattle and his kennels give him nil the recreation that he desires or needs. TIIE DEADLY "KALA AZAU.' Mortality In this Disease Reaches IIO Per Cent. Interesting particulars of the Kala nzar and Its newly-discovered hut at present nameless parasite were given recently In an address by Major W. B. Lolshman, M.B., pro fessor of pathology at the Royal Army Medical College, Russell Square, W. C. "Kala azar" signifies black sickness, and was given to It by the natives because of a darkening of ihe skin which It Induces. The disease, said Major Lolsh man, has been known in India sine iStiit, but It was first met with In epidemic form In 1SS2. The para site litis also been met with la Northern Africa, Tunis, Algiers and Arabia. The symptoms include an enlarge ment of the liver and spleen, a shriveling up of the legs, a corpse like appearance of the skin, fever, an enormous reduction of Ihe white corpuscles In the blood and dysen tery of an intractable kind. Women are as liable to attack as men, nnd the parasite hits been found In a baby a year old. For some time white men were thought Ir bo immune but recently the para site was discovered in a soldier at Net ley. "We do not know how the para site i.e's out of the body or Into tho body, but we know that Infection runs airing the trade routes and c'lns'.s to a bouse In which patients 1 tio had tho disease. It will prob ably b found that the parasite lives In the soil through the aid of an in termediate host of cid blooded habit, such as a reptile." London Vail. C'letficter in Slioes. A certain shoemaker Is a firm be liever iu "shocology." He says: "Worn shoes go ahead of the art of lortune telling from tho lines of the hand. In one shoe, for Instance, see Irresolution, hangoablonoss. Inclination to slovenliness and occa sional fits of ill hurtior. Show me any person's footgear after two months' wear and I will describe the character of the person. If the soles and heels are worn evenly, then the wearer Is a reso lute, nble business man, with a clear head, a trustworthy official or an ex cellent wife and mother. If the sole is worn on the outside, the wearor 13 inclined to adventurous, uncertain, ftful (beds, or, If a woman, to bold, celf-wllled, capricious tricks. The solo being worn on the Inner side shows hesitation and weakness in a man and modesty In a woman. l-endor of Salvationists. To the world outside tho Salva tion Army Mrs. Brum well-Booth is but little known, for she has few of those oratorical gifts of the Booth family. Yet all who have followed the Army's soclul work know that Mrs. Brumwell-Booth is the very soul of tho movement, and the desire among those interested in the social efforts of the Army to meet her was gratified yesterday at the Interna tional Headquarters in Queen Vio toria Street. Calm eyed, quiet, al most timid in manner, the fair hair moothed In bands from the fore Lead, the complexion of a healthy child, the simple dark blue dress of .he Salvation Army that is Mrs. Bra m well-Booth. Otllclal Papers in Russia. In Russia you must have papers of some sort, but outside the cities it matters little what they are. A high official some time ago Btartod from St. Petersburg with a view of showing tho absburdity of the sys tem. He had his papers. Having crossed into Rounianla, he returned at once, handed out his pass, and reached home without question. Then ho exhibited his passport la triumph. You may not bring live stock across the frontier without a permit. And this was to "pass one MR." Land of Jewels. A recent auction In Calcutta which attracted buyers from all parts of the world serves to illus trate the large amount of wealth ihut must bo burled in jewels in In ula, says the Englishman pf Cal cutta. Precious stones form a con blderablo portion of the heritage ot every princely house in this country. Every respectable Indian family lays out some of its riches In this di rection. Silver ornaments decorate the wives of all laborers not abso lutely on the verge of starvation. Cigar Fallacies. The thorn in the side of the cigar manufacturers of to-day is the exist ing cruse for light colors. The de bired result is to convince the smok er that a light colored cigar is not necessarily a mild one. In fact, tt has less reason to be so than one with a dark or medium shaded wruuuer. Tobacco.