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ROCK LAND VOL. LI II. NO. 201. ROCK ISLAND, ILL., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1004. PAGES 9 TO 12. THINGS SEEN AND PARTICULAR DA YS AT THE EXPOSITION 1 SPECIAL DAYS. Events of Worldwide Importance Crowd One Another on the Season's Pro grammeMany Congresses and t Conventions to Meet Each of the remaining days of the World's Fair season has a programme filled with ficiul events that offer ad ditional attractions for late visitors. National and state governments, mu nicipalities, secret societies, trade or ganizations and college fraternities liave arranged to participate In the special days allotted to them, and thousands of persons -will be drawn to the World's Fair upon these occasions. Missouri Is to have an entire week at the Exposition, and the Lumbermen cf America will Le present for six days. St. Lwuis day Sept. 35, will be one of the big days of the Exposition In point of attendance. Some of the largest events. Including the great air ship races, have not yet been sched uled, and they are not Included In the list of attractions given here: SPECIAL EVENTS FOR AUGUST. 22 Missouri week begins. Pythian day and convention of National Firemen's association. Iiorsa and mule show In Live Stock section; closes Sept. S. 23 Itathbone SlsterB dny. 24 Leutscher-Krleger Uur.d day. 2& Conventions of dental examiner and Institute of Bank Clerka. 20 Ramsey family reunion. 27 Liberal Arts day. Sh-Inauguration of great Olympic games, hammer throwing, running and Jumping. 30 Tennis tournament and Marathon race In Olympic (tames. 31 Eagles' day and Tyler family reunion. International tug of war In Olympic gameH. SPECIAL EVENTS FOR SEPTEMBER. 1 Tennessee and Indiana day. lJumbbell competition and hurdle races In Olympic Karnes. 2 Jewelers' and Silversmiths' day. 3 Sons and Daughters of Justice. International team race In Olympic Ka nies. 5 Labor day and beginning of Lumber men's week. 6 Oklahoma day. . 7 Convention of postofflce clerks and Erigham family reunion. B Modern Woodmen day. 9 California, Odd Fellows and House of Hoo-Hoo day. 10 Reunion of Spanish War Veteran. 12 Maryland day. World's amateur cricket contest. C'attlo show opens in Live Stock sec tion; clones Sept. "4. 13 Catholic Knights of America. It Woodmen of the World and State of Ioiilslana day. 15 St. Intuit day. IS Mexico day ami Oermanlc congress. 17 MriMsachusetts and Colorado day. 13 Congress of arts and science and Ari zona day. Olympic golf championship tourna ment. 30 Nevada dny. Archery contests. 21 Illinois day. 22 Arkansas day. 23 1a wis and Clark Centennial exposition day and Virginia day. 24 Idaho day. So Fraternal dny. Military athletic carnival. 27 North Dakota and Apple dny. 25 International congress of lawyers and Justices and Utah day. JS Knights and Iadlea of Security day. 8 Kansas day. SPECIAL EVENTS FOR OCTOBER. 1 Indian Territory day. Equestrian polo championship con tests. New York day. bin ep and swine exhibition In Live Sfook section; closes Oct. 13. New York State and Advertising Men's day. 6 Rhode Island day. 6 Maine. Ohio, New Jersey and German day. 7 W. C. T. IT. and Daughters of Con federacy day. Ch lea fro Press day. 10 Cuba's national day. 11 M !sourl day. 12 Italian and Michigan day. 13 -Connecticut and City of Detroit day. 14 A. A. V. Wrestling Championship day. 15 Mystlc Tollers' day. 17 Am-rlonn Library Association day. IS Alatika. Nebraska and Helen Keller lay. 10 JefTtrson dny. Co Meeting rf Colonial Dames of America, II Omgr-gitipnnl day. 22-FraternM Mystic Circle. 24 Honkers of the World day and Nation al Council at Women. Poultry, pigeons and pet stock exhibi tion In Elve Stock section; closes Nov. 6. 25 Clergyman day. !( and cat exhibition In Lire Stock section; closts tct. 2S. 26 Nut growers, dairymen and silk cul- tnrlsts" congress. 27 Farmers' mass exhibition. Turners' mass exhibition. 2 -A. A. 17. gymnastics championship. Home mui.sonary convention. A. A. U. gymnastic championships. SPECIAL EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER. 2 Convention King's Daughters and Sons and National Humane society. 1 Collegiate Alumni association. b Missouri University dny. 7 Interscholustic football games. Southern breeding cattle exhibit in Live StoJi section; closes Nov. 13. 10- College relay racing. 12 College f.K-tball. la Urooklyn day. IS Association football. 17 Cross country championship. It AsHociatlon football. IS IaterachclaLsUc football. i - . CONCERTS BY MASSED BANDS Prizes Aggregating $30,000 to Bs Dis tributed at the World's Fair. Never were musical events in Ameri ca planned upon such an elaborate scale -as those of the World's Fair. A series of coueerts will be given by competing bands in contest for prizes offered by the World's Fair. These contests will take place in Festival Hall, Sept. 12 to 17. Nine cash prizes, aggregating $30,000, are offered for the successful bands. The prizes are divided so as to give to the organization scoring llie mgnest number of points 53.250; ?2.500 will be given to the band scoring the second highest number of points and $1,500 to the one getting the third highest num ber. The above division is made for bands in Class A, which consist of twenty members. In the B class $10,000 will be given in prizes first, $4,500; second, $3,500; third, $2,000. Class C, which Includes bands of thir ty-five members, will enjoy the division of $12,750. For the organization scor ing the highest number of points a prize of $0,000 has been named. The second prize is $4,000 and the third $2, 700. Bands employed by the Exposition are not permitted to contest. All play ers must be bona fide members, and each musician must have been enrolled at lenst three months prior to the date of the contest. Each band must send to the bureau the name of its members and a nominal entrance fee. Festival Hall concerts by massed bands will be given at 7:P.O each day during the contest, in which all contest ing bands will take part under the di rection of a distinguished conductor. All bands entering must agree to play one concert in addition to the compet ing concert and massed concerts. A separate programme has been pre pared by the Bureau of Music for each class, and each band will play through the full programme of its class. The numbers In all three programmes are by eminent composers and are chosen with the view of bringing out the qual ities of the bands performing them. The list of composers includes Wagner, Gou nod, Offenbach. Verdi, Salnt-Saens, Bi zet. Strauss and Leoncavallo. WHAT PHILIPPINES HAVE ON EXHIBITION Complete Department of Island People Alone Covers Forty seven Acres. Not even in the henrt of Manila city could there be found forty-seven acres of Philippine territory as interesting ns that amount of space covered by the islands' display at. the World's . Fajr. LOUISIANA PCBCHABB MONVMKST, WORLP 8 FAIR. Here is an exposition witnm an ex position, a little wheel that revolves Independently of the larger one encom passing it. Scores of buildings are filled with ex hibits, native life is depicted by as many different villages as there are trilx's on the islands, military drills are given by Philippine troops, and con certs are rendered by native bands. For its amusement features the Philip pine exposition has the humorous Igor rote, who dines on dog meat, and visitors are entertained by Vlsayan uctors and actresses. Nothing is lack lug to make the show complete. The Administration building is a rep lica of the government othces in Ma nila, while the Art and Education building reproduces in miniature the cathedral within the walled city, even the mellowed tints of age being faith fully rendered. A section of the an cient but still serviceable town wall has been reconstructed to serve the dou ble purpose of a gateway to the show and a museum of arms and war relics. The other main edifices are types of Filipino homes, beiug built of undress ed timber, bamboo aud rattan, with thatched roofs and broad verandas. Then there are the tribal villages nestling under the trees, some of the houses perched high up among the boughs, others on piles above the wa ters of the Arrowhead lake, all of them actual dwellings fashioned of native materials by native workmanship and Illustrating the manners, customs and pursuits of their occupants. Here are women weaving a coarse cloth on a rude hand loom, others making bas kets, others tending Irrigated fields of rice. One group of men are in village council, trying an offender according to their tribal laws: others are slowly moving in a circular dance to thehump of tomtoms and the clang of brass gongs; others, again, are smelting iron by the aid of a primitive but most In genious bellows, $ he. constituent . parts or which are a bamboo tube and an air tight mop of feathers working therein like the piston of a syringe. And these are but a few of an almost endless va riety of life pictures. The ethnological problem Is a some what complicated one; but, although there are no fewer than sixteen races represented among the village dwellers, the scouts and the constabulary, each race speaking its own dialect and fol lowing Its own customs, all may be roughly classified Into four groups the true aboriginals or non-Malays, the pagan Malays, the Christian Malays and the Mohammedan Malays. The first are the dwarf Negritos, with dark skins and woolly heads, wearers of scanty raiment, proficient in the use of the bow and poisoned arrow, a race of nomads and forest dwellers, pagans pure and simple. They live in their own stockaded village. Next to them are the Igorrotes. whose origin Is traced back to the first wave of Malay invasion. Here, again, we have scanty clothing, amounting almost to nudity, but copper colored skins, long wavy tresses, pleasant fea tured faces and fine physiques, even though the stature be small. Among these pagan Malays are the head hunt ers and the dog eaters. They are sav ages, yet have their code of laws and a knowledge of several primitive Indus tries. The Christian Malays, produced by the second wave of Invasion, are rep resented by the Vlsayans. a tall and handsome race, dressing well, living in pretty homes, skilled in weaving, dye ing, basket making, hat making, wood carving and other handicrafts, musi cians of no mean merit, the one group of natives who came early and thor oughly under the influence of the early Spanish settlers. Very different are the Moros. who swept into the islands from the Malay peninsula last of all, bringing with them their Mohammedan religion, also a knowledge of gunpowder acquired with the Koran from the Arabs fana tics like their teachers, pirates, blood thirsty, treacherous and vindictive fel loes, ever at war among themselves and with the whole outside world. De spite their ferocity they are a clever race, dress handsomely, have their sul tans and their slaves and are expert seamen, while long continued pillage on the high seas has surrounded them with many of the luxuries and conven iences of western civilization. The buildings of Agriculture, Forest ry and Fisheries show all the varied natural products, also the extremely primitive processes as yet in vogue, while in the Women's building we are introduced to a number of native man ufactures, including the beautiful fab rics from the Jusl. banana and pine apple fibers. This information is collat ed In the Building of Commerce, where a unique and most effective method of exhibiting Is followed. In one hall are samples of all the articles produced for xport, among which manila fiber, of ourse, holds the chief place of prom inence, while in a second hall are all the manufactures from every country that are Imported and find a ready market among the populace. Thus the business man gets a dual lesson. He sees what he can profitably take from the islands, and also what he may profitably send to them. When it is added that a large number of represent ative Filipinos have been brought over to visit the Exposition and study Amer can business methods and manufac tures. It will be recognized that great benefit both to the islands and to the world at large must result from this work of mutual enlightenment. Creek Indl.tnn Stomp Dnnrr. Within a few weeks will begin an other favorite summer sport of the Creeks which Is now on the wane, the stomp dance, suys the Kansas City Journal. Stomp dances wore formerly held In all the Indian towns, but now on ly in the strictly fullblood settlements. These come on about the time green corn is old enough to eat. A ftoinp is called, and all the town, sometime two, combine and assemble. The bucks go out and hunt until they have kilW enough game for n feast. The roast lng ears are pulled and prepared, and the eating and dancing begin. The dance resembles the gait of a ram Just as he starts on a charge, and it Is ac companied by such noises as only In dian voices can produce. The dancing and feaftlng are kept up from one to three days and end with a big ball game and feast. Then the medicine man. without occult ceremony, extin guishes the fires, builds a new one, and from this new one each family takes home fire and starts a'fl-e on lta own hearth. Preferred a Bird In the Hand. "Mr. Heavyweight." said the minis ter, 'is willing to subscribe $10,000 for a new church provided we can get oth er subscriptions making up the same amount." "Yet you seem disappointed." said his wife. "Yes. I was in hopes he would con tribute a hundred dollars in cash." Brooklyn Life. Imasrinat Inn Rons Riot. "But." the publisher complained, "the chief characters in your story are a man and a woman who go on making love to each other for years and years after they are married." "Well." the young novelist replied, "you must remember this is a work of fiction." Chlca go Record-Herald. TEA EXHIBIT. Twelve Hundred Kinds Are In China's Show at the World's Fair The Most Populous Nation of the World For the First Time Makes an Exhibit Worthy of Her Greatness. Many expositions of stupendous char acter make up the World's Fair of l'J04. Each part is a vast and distinct show. Each building shelters many acres of wonderful things wonderful because they are the choicest of their SOUTH ENTRANCE PAT.ACK OP XJBEBAXi AltTS, WORLD'S FA IK. kind. Every nation on the globe is represented. Every state and territory is here with its best and making the most of its greatest opportunity. The fact that China has not been a large exhibitor at world's fairs gives to her great exhibit here a prominence quite exceptional. It is a wonderland of ingenious productions. Wo know China best by reason of her extensive exports of teas, which have found a vast market in the United States for generations. Her commercial interests therefore prompted her to make a dis play of teas that we should not for get In sealed glass Jars China displays in the Liberal Arts Palace some 1,200 kinds of tea. Young Hyson and Old Hyson have a string of tea relations longer than the genealogical chnin of a Plymouth Itock. They are neatly se lected "chops," in the language of the tea fanner, and these classes do not embrace medicinal teas, which are quite another lot in the rather modest number of 400. The teas exhibited vary in price from a few cents a pound to some rare and exclusive kinds that are worth their weight in gold, the tea In the latter cases being placed on one side of the scales and pure gold on the other that is to say, the tea of this expensive kind is worth about ?20 gold an ounce. Only a very small quantity of this ex clusive leaf Is exhibited, and it is grown in carefully guarded tea planta tions or gardens right under the shad ows of the great wall of China. Its cul tivation is prohibited for any use save for the imperial family of China and a few of the favored high officials. Mention has been made of the word "chop" in connection with tea, and It may be interesting to the everyday reader to know what the word actually signifies. The tea leaf is grown in va rious districts of the Chinese mplre on m 60CTH ESTRAKCE PALACE OP MAXCTAC TCBE3, WORLD'S PA1B. large areas of ground which are often mistaken for single plantations. This is hardly ever the case, as the large tracts are very often owned by hun dreds of different men. whose individ ual plots of ground bearing the tea plants are carefully mapped out. so that each individual owner may culti vate and pick his own crop of tea. Each owner likewise markets his own tea and puts his own special mark, or "chop," on the packages. Hence the term "chop" signifies an individual growth or picking of tea by one owner. In an area of tea land of, say, a thou sands acres, all apparently under one ownership, there may be some forty, fif tT or .morejawxiera -Of loeDlautation and consequently a like number of "chops" of tea. It must not be imagined that all these different owners of the tea get the same price for their commodity far from it, as each of these individual tea growers has his own secrets for im proving the quality and flavor of tea. Take, for instance, the .Amoy and Fu chau districts, whence most of the tea for the United States comes. The own ers of "chops" of tea varying from 10 to 200 chests of GO pounds each bring samples of their goods to the various foreign merchants for sale. These lat ter turn the Chinese tea growers over to the good offices of the foreign or American professional tea taster, who passes on the goods as to price. The tea taster has the samples infused, not boiled, in his presence and passes upon the quality, flavor, twang and manner of curing, fixing a price accordingly, from which there is never any varia tion and which the tea grower must ac cept or go elsewhere to dispose of his wares. In a single tract of tea land like the one cited above the price has ranged from 14 cents, the lowest, to 48Vj cents, the highest, per pound among sixty-one different tea produ cers. A matter of great moment that also figures in the price of tea is that very often tea from the same dis trict will have the various "chops" blended together In order to produce special flavors. WAGE EARNERS AT THE FAIR Prominent Men Planning to Help Workers See the Great Exposition. Wage earners of America are to see the World's Fair by tens of thousands uixler the auspices of the National Civ ic Federation. A new bureau of the Federation has just been established at St Louis upon the World's Fair grounds. Back of the movement are G rover Cleveland, David 11. Francis Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius N. Bliss and others. Plans are making to have a vast number of the wage earners of the United States ee the World's Fair, the most glorious spectacle of the age end the most influential factor in the education of the American citizen. The bureau is in charge of Miss Ger trude Beeks, secretary of the Federa tion's welfare department, of which Mr. II. H. Yreeland, head of the street railway system of New York city. Is chairman. The bureau headquarters is in the east end of the I 'a lace of Trans portation, on the ground floor. The Ex position management is in hearty ac cord with this movement on the part of the Federation to induce the large manufacturers and other employers of labor to provide ways and means for the wage earners of America to visit the Exposition. President Francis is displaying personal interest in the un dertaking by affording the Federation every facility for the consummation of Its efforts, and in this connection ho has directed Theodore Hardee, assist ant to the secretary, to co-operate with Miss Becks and Kalph M. Easley, chairman of the Federation's executive council, in every possible way. The Exposition management has also equipped this bureau with clerical as sistance and a full supply of World's Fair literature. The bureau will be used as headquarters for all wage earn ers coming to the Exposition under its auspices. The aim of the Federation is to make it feasible for the largest pos sible proportion of wage earners to vis It St. Louis and see the World's Fair. It will see that they are met at the de pot by responsible persons and con ducted to suitable lodgings, where they will be treated fairly. There will also be furnished, free of rharge, appropriate itineraries Indicat ing the points of interest to be seen within a limit of one week, which Is about the average time each party will spend here. It will also indicate the objects of special Interest to various craftsmen In their particular lines, so that they may devote as much time as possible to the objects of peculiar Interest to them. These and many oth er efforts will be made to help all wage earners to enjoy the benefits of this great Exposition comfortably and at an expense within their means. TO KEEP OUR PETS WELL Benefits of Antitoxin Extended to the Animal World. Domestic pets are now being Inocu lated with antitoxin in hope of ward ing off various complaints to which they are peculiarly subject Some lalorutories are now putting up animal antitoxins, and some men are making money inoculating domestic favorites brought to them by their owners. The method used is to inject the serum beneath the skin of the animal by means of a needle pointed syringe. "Vaccination" In the case of a dog or cat does not "take" as it does with a child. There is no eruption. The serum is injected into the blood, and. according to the ndvocatts of tl.ii method of treatment, renders the ani mal immune to the disease it is In tended to fend off. The greatest demand Is for a dis temper antitoxin. One dog doctor de clares that he caused a numlier of dogs which he had inoculated with the serum as a safeguard against distem per to be housed with dog that were not treated. A dog affiicted with dis fempec.was ihfTASociated.wjiJj .Uie animals, and," although live out of six of the noninoculated animals contract ed the complaint the four dogs treated with the serum continued their canine careers in serene indifference to the presence of danger and had not the slightest trace of the disease when re turned to their regular homes. The complaints to which eats are subject are much the same as those that attack dogs, and antitoxin is used for the feline family. Monkeys and rabbits arc also inoculated as a safe guard against various diseases pecul iar to the species. More important than the Inoculation of the domestic animal for the purpose of warding ofT diseases of the common variety is the series of experiments now being conducted to determine whether or not there is any means of eliminating rabies from the list of the terrors of dngdom. REPRESENTATIVE MEN EXPRESS OPINIONS What Distinguished Statesmen and Others Say of the Educa tional Value. The public utterances of distinguish ed men who have visited the world's fair have but one note, aud that of emphatic praise. Here are some of their comments: Hon. John Hay, secretary of state: "I have never seen nor heard of anything so fine." Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treasury: "Any father of a brlfiht boy can afTord to eend him to the Fair simply to study any one of at least a thousand ex hibits." Hon. Charles II. Grosvenor of Ohio: "A visit of ten days by a man of ordinary aptness and appreciative capacity to the Fair 13 almost equal to a postgraduate course in a university." Hon. Benjamin B. OuMl. governor of Kew York: "St. Louis h.is been badly mis represented by accounts which say that her weather is unbearable. The Fair is wonderful." Hon. George C. Pardee, governor of Cali fornia: "The governr of the Golden State, who has spent all his life within her bor ders, linds that he knew only a. little about his state until he came to the Fair and saw all her varied products assembled together." Hon. .Albert B. Cummins, governor of iCJsgKF'-' KORTH FXTI'.ANCE PATjACE OP MINES AND UEXJLLLKGT, WORLD'S FAIH. jowa: "i iie Louisiana I'urCTiasc Tixposl tion i3 en the grandest scale of any expo sition tho world hns ever seen." Hon. Richard Yates, governor of Illi nois: "The more I see of the Kxpositin the more I enjoy It." Hon. Fenniinore Chattertnn, governor of Wyoming: "I wish the Fair the ereatest BJccess. It certainly deserves It." Hon. Franklin Murphy, governor of New Jersey: "It Is well wortli coming from fCew Jersey to see even a small part of this Fair." Hin. A. B. White, governor of Wept Virginia: "I cannot ppak too strongly of the greatness of this Fair." Hon. William J. Bryan: "The Exposi tion Is an unparalleled wonder." Hon. John Sharp Williams, member of congress from Mississippi: "The most wonderful thing of Its kind." Hon. Hoke femith of Georgia, formerly secretary of interior under President Cleveland: "I ora highly pleased with the Kxposition and believe it to be one of the triumphs of modern civilization." Hon. I'erry Belmont of New York: "In magnitude and beauty the Fair is wonder ful. It is worth comir.g a long distance to see." Hon. Daniel J. Campau, chairman of the Michigan delegation to the Lv-mocratlc national convention at St. Ixuls: "It is positively sinful for parents to fall to bring their children to se the Fair." M. I'aul Dupuy. editor of t Petit Parl slen of Paris. France: "I admire the Kx position for Its immensity. Its spirit of the sublime, its general beauty and its com petent S3." Prince George of Bavaria: "I have never seen anything prettier than the Ht. Louis World's Fair buildings whn outlined at right with their millions of electric lights." Hon. Louis K. McComas of Maryland: "The greatest Fair In the world." Hon. John F. Dryden cf New Jersey: "The people have no ida of the greatness of the Exposition. Kvtry American should ee it." T. P. Shants. president of the Clover Leaf route of Chicago: "The Fair is a big success and will continue to become a greater success a.s It progresses." Worse Than Ibe I pper Ten. "Only the iipit ten go to your church, don't they?" Inquired the plain person. "Yes." replied the organist of the swell church, ' but they're not a cir cumstance to the uppish tenor la our choir." Philadelphia. Press. . ifP lifts FOR FARMERS. Biggest Department of the Great ExposU tion Ready For the Inspection ol t&e Army of Men Who Made Its . Creation Possible. Now that crops have been or are be ing laid by, the farmer prepares for hl3 trip to the World's Pair, a treat that has long been promised him and for which he has patiently waited. No ex position has offered so many induce ments for the farmer's presence as this one at St. Louis, nor has any previous exposition given the prominence and space to the subject of agriculture. August and September are ostensibly the farmer's months at the Exposition, for it is at this season that the agricul ture exhibits are the freshest and best. Products of the new crops are pouring into the booths from every state in tho Union, and additions are constantly being made to the gorgeous display. Headquarters for visiting fanners may be found in every state section of the great Agriculture Palace, but for their special convenience there has Just been completed a Grange House, situ ated in the south end of the building. It is equipped with a reception room, ladies' retiring rooms aud check rooms, where parcels may be left free of charge. Here will be kept a list of moderate priced rooms to aid visiting farmers aud their families in procuring accommodations. The largest building on the grounds is the Palace of Agriculture, covering twenty acres, while the Palace of Hor ticulture near by covers about a third as much space. These two immense structures are filled with exhibits of the farm, garden and orchard of the most extensive and elaborate character, every state in the Union and most of the principal countries of the world being represented. Agriculture is given more prominence than any other department at the Kx position, the paramount importance of this grcaf Industry having been fully appreciated from the very beginning of tho World's Fair movement. About seventy acres of ground are covered by the ngriculture and horti culture department at the Fair, large outdoor spaces being devoted to this Industry. Outside there are growing crops, trees and flowers, an instructive eix acre farm maintained by the Unit ed States Government Plant Industry, and gardens in all parts of the grounds. There are more exhibits in the Agri culture building than in any other sec tion of the Exposition. This building Is considered by many people the most interesting part of the World's Fair. The exhibits in the palaces of Agri culture and Horticulture constitute a display vast enough and Instructive enough to occupy the attention of vis itors for many days. Nothing to com pare with them was ever attempted be fore. They are the climax of several decades of educational work which is placing farming on a high plane and is making scientific agriculture a pleas ing reality. The conspicuous role played by agri culture at the World's Fair should bring untold benefits and wealth to the farming community of tho world and impress all farmers with the Im portance and dignity of their calling. Passing through these colossal build ings, studying the attractive exhibits and fascinated with the bewildering encyclopedia of rural life which Is spread out before his 'yes. the World's Fair visitor Is impressed with the Im portant part the farmer pl.iya in the great world of Industry, and every farmer who views these Interesting ex hibits Is given a new pride In his vo cation if filled with inspiration aud Im pressed with new ideas In harmony with the progressive strides that farm lng has been making for the pnft few years. The visit will give an Insight Into up to date farming on the most approved plan and will bring new hopes and blessings to the farm. How properly to rotate crops, how to get the best results from fertilizing and irrigation, how to protect crops and fruit from the ravages of inserts all these and many more things of vital interest to farmers and fruit growers are taught at the World's Fair. Baa on (hlnete Foot Blndlnar. The Jupnti'-ru government in For mosa has d'Treff! the abolition of foot binding in the island. A line of ?1 will be imposM for every breach of the law, and ('hJnefe trtrls under six years of ace whose feet have been bound must now have Ihem unbound. After tLat age the feet are hopelessly deformed, bat young children's feet re turn to their natural shape. Chinese mothers are making a great lament over the enactment, but in a few year the enforcing of the law will bo ac knowledged to have lecn wise. Concentration. The weakest living creature, by con centrating his powers on a single ob ject, can accomplish something. The strongest, by disposing of his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bore its passage through the hardest rex k. The hasty torrent rushes over !t with hideous uproar aud leaves no trace be hind. Carlyle. ...... j