that Edward holds amount to $3,600,000. Others have taken risks, raising the figure, a practice not permitted in this country and condemned as an act savoring too much of gambling. Sir The physicians in attendance upon the King rank among the highest in the medical profession of Great Britain. Lord Lister is an eminent scientist, famous for his discovery of the antiseptic treatment in surgery. Sir Thomas Smith, sergeant surgeon to the King, was lately Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir Francis H. Laking is physician in ordinary and surgeon apothecary to the King. Thomas Barlow is physician to his Majesty's household and professor of clinical medicine and physician to the University College Hospital. Sir Frederick Treves, sergeant surgeon to the king, was surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria. The King's disease, perityphilitis, is said to be appendicitis in an advanced stage. He was much relieved by the operation performed on June 25. Prayers for the King's recovery were offered not only in the churches of Great Britain, but in all parts of the Empire. By direction of the Pope, prayers were recited also in Catholic churches. On July 5 Edward gave dinners to some 500,000 of London's slum-dwellers, who met in parks and halls. The dinners were followed by music and variety shows. was Owing to the accident to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, the imperial conference of colonial premiers interrupted. Among those present at the first sessions were Edmund Barton, of Australia, and R. J. Seddon, of New Zealand. On July 12 General Kitchener returned and received an ovation in the streets of London. On July 13 Lord Salisbury resigned as Premier of Great Britain and Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour was appointed to succeed him. Salisbury's resignation, which had for some time been expected, was due to his failing health and his advanced age. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, also resigned. By his resignation at the age of seventytwo Salisbury closes a notable career. His public life began in 1853, when he entered Parliament as member for Stam ford. In 1866-67 he was Secretary of State for India; he also held the same post in 1874. Three times he was Premier, in 1885-86, LORD SALISBURY. 1886-92, and 1895-1902. His foreign policy has been characterized by vigor and aggressiveness, and he has upheld a strict enforcement of law in Ireland. The new Premier, Arthur James Balfour, is Salisbury's nephew. He was born in Scotland, July 25, 1848. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered Parliament in 1874 as member for Hertford. He was private secretary to Lord Salisbury when the latter was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 187880. He became a member of the Cabinet as Secretary for Scotland, in Salisbury's second administration. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1887-91; leader of the House of Commons and First Lord of the Treasury, 1891-92, and again, 1895-1902. He is an able debater, second only to Mr. Chamberlain. Balfour's intellectual attainments have won for him several scholastic positions. He is the author of several remarkable books: "A Defense of Philosophic Doubt" (1879); "Essays and Addresses" (1893), and "The Foundations of Belief" (1895, eighth ed. 1902). EUGENE PARSONS. many other benefactions of its donor, Hackley Public Library and en C .$ 230,000 and endowments 110,000 Hackley Manual Training School and endowments 600,000 Statue of Phil Kearney. Statue of William McKinley.... 12,000 Endowment of Home for the 25,000 150,000 .$1,132,000 CHARLES H. HACKLEY. HACKLEY, CHARLES H.-WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR MUSKEGON.-The unveiling, at Muskegon, Mich., on May 30, of the first statue (see page 1473. in July issue) of the late President of the United States, William McKinley, directs attention to the Mr. Hackley was born at Michigan City, Ind., January 3, 1837, being the eldest of five children, and received his education in the schools of Kenosha, Wis. In 1856 he went to Muskegon, a poor boy, and began his career in the lumber industry at the foot of the ladder. He worked his way up through the various stages as an employee and partner, and in 1880 the present firm of Hackley and Hume, of which he is the head, came into being. For fourteen years the firm did one of the largest lumber businesses in the state, and the larger portion of Mr. Hackley's fortune was made during this time. He is interested in many of the industries which have grown up in Muskegon since the decline of the saw mills library, was bought up, the buildings removed, and the grounds transformed into a park, a monument to the soldiers and sailors being erected in the center. In 1900, bronze statues of Lincoln and Farragut (Charles Niehaus, sculptor) and Grant and Sherman (J. Massey Rhind, sculptor) were erected on the square. (See illustration, page 1602.) In 1891 Mr. Hackley presented the board of education of the city with $75,000 as an endowment fund for the library. This sum was invested by the board in the erection of best class in this country." The cost of the first building and equipment was $70,000. Improvements and endowments have increased this sum to $600,000. The training school, a large building of gray stone and red brick, with its gymnasium and power house covers nearly an entire block. There belongs to it a technical library costing $5,000. The building has accommodations for 1,200 students, and is provided with machine and forge shops, departments of wood turning, art, cooking, dressmaking, plain sewing, millinery, weaving and basketry; model dining and bed rooms, laundry, and a spacious auditorium. The gymnasium is well equipped. On Memorial Day, 1901, Phil Kearney Post No. 7 of the G. A. R., Muskegon, unveiled in a small city park, a handsome statue of Phil Kearney, a gift to the Post from Mr. Hackley. The statue of William McKinley unveiled this year as a gift to the public schools, stands directly in front of the Hackley school building. It represents the late President as he appeared delivering his rounding it on three sides is a bench or seat with high back cut from solid granite. On the inner side of this is inscribed the following sentence from the Buffalo speech: "Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war." The ends of the plinth or seat are ornamented with flaming torches, representing liberty, and eagles grasping bundles of sticks, symbolizing the Union. The order for the statue was given by Mr. Hackley within speech at Buffalo the day before his assassination. It is seven feet three inches high, weighs about 1.100 pounds, and is, like the other statues, of bronze. The pedestal rests upon a platform of stone 31 by 2112 feet, reached by three steps which form the segment of a circle. On the front of the pedestal are carved two wreaths intertwined: below them is the simple inscription: Forty-five stars. герге- McKINLEY senting the states of the union, are around the top of the pedestal, while sur 1844 1901 six weeks after the President's death. The unveiling on Memorial Day was witnessed by some 50.000 persons, almost half of whom were from out of town. The parade included civic societies, national guards and war veterans from Muskegon and adjacent cities, a battalion of soldiers from Fort Sheridan, Chicago, a detail of marines from the U. S. revenue cutters Fessenden and Morrill, and Governor Bliss of Michigan with his staff. The address of the day was delivered by Clarence W. Sessions, a prominent attorney of Muskegon. A few days before the Memorial Day celebration, came the announcement of further gifts from Mr. Hackley. The Humane Union received $25,000 as an endowment for the Home for the Friendless, in which Mrs. Hackley has long been interested; and the trustees of the First Congregational Church of Muskegon received $150,000 in trust for the erection and endowment of a public hospital to be known as Mercy Hospital, with a training school for nurses in connection. The hospital will have fifty beds and the pavilion plan will be followed. There will be one large administration building with two corridors extending left and right and terminating in two pavilions placed at right angles. The boiler room, domestic department, laundry, nurses' home and detention hospital will be in separate buildings. The foundations of the hospital will probably not be begun for some months, but the buildings will be ready for use in the fall of 1903. In view of the fact of the multiplicity of hospitals in the state of Michigan bearing the name of Mercy, the directors of this, the latest gift of Muskegon's benefactor, have decided to change the name to that of its donor, calling it Hackley Hospital. C. W. WHITNEY, B. S. Chicago. report IMMIGRATION.-The official shows the arrival of 493,330 immigrants at the port of New York during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902. This is an increase of 85,000 over that of the previous year at this point alone, while many have come in at Baltimore, Boston, Portland, New Orleans and San Francisco, and others have crossed the boundary from Canada, making a total for the year of 550,000 or more. The largest number of foreigners come from Italy, because, although its manufacturing is on the increase and there is a great demand for labor, the rate of wages does not correspond favorably with that received in this country. The second largest number of newcomers are Poles and Slavs from Austria and Russia, many of them belonging to an undesirable class. Many immigrants come from Syria and other Turkish provinces to escape persecution and severe taxation. These are inclined to commerce, and, beginning with shoestrings and lead pencils, some of them attain the dignity of a fruit stand and afterward a store. Others deal in oriental fabrics, embroideries, and rugs, but unless the American buyer is himself a connoisseur, it is wise to beware of native dealers in their own goods. Comparatively few are now coming from Ireland, and the arrivals from Sweden and Norway have also fallen off, although the new military law is liable to drive many a sturdy Norwegian to our shores. The Scandinavians are a thrifty people, usually honest, sober, reliable and inteiligent. In the poorhouses and jails very few are found while none of them can be called illiterate. They send a large proportion of their earnings to the mother country, either to support the aged or to bring the younger people to America. During the year ending June 30, money orders were drawn at postoffices in the United States for payment in Norway to the amount of $701,739.92, while the sum of $1,728,943.70 has been sent to Sweden. These are larger amounts than have been sent in any preceding year, but during the last ten years the people of Norway have received from America $5,735,828.08, and Sweden during the same decade has received $14,027,423.64. The records show that the greatest number of these money orders are issued during the few weeks preceding Christmas and Easter. INDIAN CONJURING EXPLAINED.The wonderful feats of Hindu jugglers are still to a greater or less extent a mystery to the western world, but many things have been simplified to those who have recently visited the far East for the purpose of investigation. The most careful observer may learn very little the first time he witnesses a performance which seems miraculous, but the second time he is liable to notice that certain professedly accidental features of the performance, for instance, the dropping of a given article, or a pretended slip of the memory are repeated. It is then safe to suppose that the pretended accident is an essential feature, and he may be able to discover the real reason of its introduction. The Indian conjurer who is usually a Mohammedan wears so little clothing that there appears to be little room for the concealment of duplicate articles; but the folds of a loin cloth take the place of pockets, and are more easily available, and the same may be said of the turban, the long hair twisted into a knot furnishes another place of con |