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The ChicKasha Daily Express.'
UAWMIN fcKlXUE, Publisher!.
fHK.KilA. . - n.r. TLR.
A Chi a "o to'...-con!t hands every
(It;;:, iter's ;.rd.
In the fclark forest district of Ger
msny a.--? !,4 0 nia-U-r c!cckr.iaker3
and C'jvj wor!;rut-u.
A church b-H has an empty head
and a loi.tr tongue, but it is discreet
enough not to speak until toKtd.
The eultan has forbidden the Turk
ish war department to use balloons or
carrier pistons for army purposes
A French naturalist asserts that
nightingales devour the drones of a
beehive, and never attack the work
era. A mint Ik to be established in Can
ada for the coinage of gold. Hereto
fore the coining of the metallic cur
rency has been done in England.
An official map of Vesuvius on a
scale of one la ten thousand has just
been itsued, being the first since 1S76.
A new plan in relief of the cone has
also been made.
A waggish stranger complained to
the police of Salina, Kansas, that a
resident of that town had fleeetd him
out of a forty-dollar bill. After the
police hi.d spent a day hunting for the
rogue, anJ final!- located try suspected
man, it suddenly dawned upon the
sleuths that there are 110 forty-dollar
bills.
There are few people who decline an
increase of salary, but the Rev. George
C. Lorimer. pastor of the Tremont Tem
ple in Boston, is one of the few. His
congregation recently voted him an
increase of $1,000 a year, but he has
declined the increase, stating that his
present talary of $7,000 a year is
quite enough.
A collection of political curiosities
would properly include President
Pierce's cabinet, the only one in the
history of the country which remained
unchanged during the four years of an
administration. It is remarkable that
the cabinet of Lord Salisbury, which
consisted of nineteen members.had not
suffered a single change in the five
years since the summer of 1895, when
the present government took office.
la some grottoe3 in Algerifrencn
explorers have recently discovered
etone implements mingled with the re
mains of extinct animals belonging to
Quaternary times. Further explora
tions indicate that during the age
hen grottoes were inhabited the coast
of Algeria had a configuration different
from that of today. Among the ani
mals associated with the ancient hu
man inhabitants of Algeria were the
rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, and
various species of ruminants.
"The Bright Side of Humanity," a
new book by Dr. Edward Leigh Pell, Is
said to be the first serious attempt that
lias ever been miide to present the
characteristic noble traits of all races.
In the preparation of his book Dr. Pell
rxamined one thousand works of travel
and although all of them set forth
with considerable detail the vices and
disagreeable traits of the people which
they profess to describe, oniy two hun
dred dwelt at any length on their vir
tues. To supply the compensatory
high lights in these dark pictures was
a happy thought and must have been a
pleasant task.
Little has been said, and probably
as little thought, of the beneficent
work done by the railroads in aiding
and promoting the measures eet on
foot for the relief of stricken Galves
ton. Thousands of refugees from that
city received free transportation to any
part of the country, and immense
quantities of supplies were rushed for
ward without chRrge. This ready re
sponse to the cry of human needs char
acterized all the great railway systems
of the country, the express, telegraph,
and telephone companies. The cash
value of the services thus rendered is
as impossible to estimate as the
amount of human suffering and misery
they helped to alleviate.
One of the most peculiar suits at law
ever brought before any court is soon
to be tried in Van TJuren county, Mich
igan, between two neighbors and old
friends. One of the men. H. D. Burrell
of South Haven, keeps about sixty
colonics of bem. The other is a peach
grower. A few months ago the latter
complained of the former's bees de
stroying the early Crawford peach 33,
claming that the bets came into his
orchard in large numbers, bit holes in
the fruit and rendered it unmarketable
for which he demanded $200. Prof. J.
M. Rankin of the agricultural college
and the entomologist of the Agricul
tural department at Washington will
be called as expert witnesses by the
defence in a suit for damages.
A motherless pig has been adopted
by a hen belonging to Mrs. Henry Laii
ders, of Mantua, N. J. The hen had
been sitting on a ne-.t of eggs, but
those she kic ked out of the nest when
tshe took charge of the little pig, which
lies contentedly under the hen's wing.
It is Interesting to learn that the
Czarina of Russia dispenses so much
in charity as to require to employ a
peeial lady secretary, bearing the title
of directress of the imperial charities,
whose office is to disburse and oversea
the employment of her majesty's gifts.
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China's Patriot
j Reformer. His
H Checkered Career
UN" YAT SZX is a name that
C'ay bec j.T-e irr.mortal in Chi
nese h:.t ..tv. lie is & i-atriot
why aims .t nuihin; sr. ri of
a r v jiut.on. He would over
throw the Tartar dynasy
which has so lor.g overridden and over
borne three hu.idrfc-1 millions of Chinese,
lie would abolish age-loi.g abuses. He
would institute reforms that might place
China on a level wi;h the civilized na
tions of the world. If r.e succeed?, the
China of tne future will call him blessed.
If he faiis he will die the doath of a
traitor. What says the old poet?
Treason doth never profcpr. What' the rea
Hun? Fir hfn It prospers nne dare call it tr.an.
To Americans Sun Vat S.-n is especially
interesting, because he lived amonj
Americans of the Pacific coast for five
years, and because he has enlisted the
purse and the arvn of many Americans In
his service.
Bun Yat Ben is a native of Canton. He
stc-iied medicine In that city under an
Kugllsh physician, and later practised his
profession in Honolulu. While there his
attention was drawn to the doctrines of
Lie "young China'' party, whose aim was
to overthrow the ilanchu dynasty and
give a constitution to China. He became
iin enthusiastic convert to these doc
trines. Returning to China, he swn rwe
to be a leader aroons Uic revolutionaries.
His headquarters were at Hongkong-.
Hither he drew a number of Chinese irom
the province of Canton with the object
of organizing a conspiracy. The viceroy
of Canton was first to be captured. The
entire province was to be overrun. Can
ton freed, it was to be used as a base of
operations to clear the whole of China
from its conquerors and raise a new and
free country on the ruins of the old des
potism. " .-
Before he could strike a blow the plot
was discovered by the viceroy. Sun Yat
Sen and some thirty or forty of the con
spirators were arrested while trav '-
through the province secretly enlisting
patriots. Fifteen were summarily put to
death. In some manner never yet known
bun escaped and made his way to San
Francisco. This was five years ago.
In San Francisco he made the acquaint
ance of a brilliant young Chinese, the
editor and publisher of a Chinese paper.
Sun converted him to hte way of thinkthg.
The paper at once became a power in
spreading ' arguments in favor of the
emancipation of China. Sun Yat Sen
went on to other cities In the Cnlted
States. Everywo.-e be st!r-;d the fhltrfse
to aid his cause. Among hia converts
were many Chinese graduates of Yale and
Harvard. At last he went to England.
It Is supposed hid purpose was to Inter
est the -English rr-vn office In his
scheme, In- order that they might thus
combat the Influence which th? Russians
exercised In China through the closeness
of their relations with the Tailar 11'crs.
There had been a price upon his head
ever since the discovery of the plot
against the viceroy of Canton. One day
while passing the Chinese embassy in
London he was accosted by two China
men. They lured him Into the legation
building, with which he was unfamiliar.
There an elderly Englishman, who, he
afterwards learned, was Sir Halliday
Macartney, the long-time English secre
tary of the Chinese legation, placed his
hand upon him and said, "You are now
In China."
H) added that Sun would be detained
and sent secretly to China. Sun had
already made many friends, who had in
fluence with the British foreign office.
As soon as he disappeared they suspected
the cause, and set a watch upon the peo
ple of the Chinese minister and tho people
of the legation. The premises meanwhile
were carefully guarded so that no one
could be removed surreptitiously. Under
international usages the British govern
ment was powerless to search the em
bassy. Not until it was discovered that
the Chinese minister was chartering a
ship for China were the friends of Sun
positive as to his whereabouts.
As he had become a British subject dur
ing his residence at lionirkoruf. Ills re
lease was readily effected. Sir Halliday
himself shaking ha mis with the reformer
when they parted.
For the next two years he spent the
greater part of his time in the larger
cities of the United States and Canada,
in the Pacific islands, in Singapore, Ma
cao and Japan wherever, In short, Chi
nese were to be found in any number. In
the meantime, Kwang-Yu-Wel, the great
reformer, had reached the ear of the
emperor, who, though a Tartar himself,
saw that the continuance of his dynasty
depended on his yicilding to the demands
of the more progressive Chinese and put
ting China on a footing of equality with
other nations by developing schools, free
papers, commerce and mechanical in
dustries. Kwang Su Immediately began to put
these Ideas in operation. The Chinese
people were delighted. The reformers
had gained their first victory. Then the
ruling Tartars and the "literati," who
governed China, seeing that their offices
would soon be at an end, planned the
great coup whereby the empress dowager
dethroned the emperor, assumed supreme
control and banished all rt formers.
Straightway the reftrm move ment, which !
before had been unorganized, was solid;- I
fled into one great society, wi ll head- :
quarters at Singapore and branches at j
San Francisco and other important cities ;
with large Chinese populations. Millions j
of dollars In money were freely sub-
scribed for the cause. The purchase of '
arms and supplies of war was arranged
for.
Now that the allied forces have driven
the Tartars from Pekin, the reformers
have placed their men In the field. Over
twenty thousand of them are under arms
at the city of Wel-Chaou, near Canton, in
such a position as to practically control
the situation there. Tho viceroy can de
pend with certainty only on the few ilan
chu 4nd Tartar guards whom he has with
him. The bulk of his provincial forces
arc Cantonese, who hate him as much
as the reformers do, and who will in all
probability flock to the standards o? Sun
'Yat Sen.
In the valley of the Yang-tse-Kiang. at
and near Ta-Tung. the reformers have
nearly 30,000 men. They are preparing
to march northward to meet with others,
who will rescue the emperor, and, plac
ing him at their head, return either to
Pekln or Nanking, there to four.d a for
ernmnt. There are among the reforo forces
many Am.ri-ans, ere of shorn. Homer
I.ea, left San Francisco some months ago
for the pun .se if rcr-jitir.g a. id di Tiling
so! ;b-rs. Lea v as a stud- nt it iS-anfurd
jr.lvtrsity, and sail b f r; h - 'eft there
that he would pra. r eally b . o.-e.- e:m
mav.d r-ewri. f cf the Chitt-''? lev-du-ti.-.r.ary
f;rs, and that be tad V.r..:ie1s
of A'.r.eri art. n:ar.y of ?! em ki iiers. o.fi
eers. unlv-r ty stu!-.-n;s ;:vi p: or,
who were will "g to .V.!o h:n; to China.
H" s.'.l! ! for S'.n-ip.-re. ,'' tally sup
plied v i:h rr-L-r. ..' f jr exn-i-. A !t
Wi eks ago he wr ote fro n Sh u:;; iai, say
ing th:vt he was alij to m trt for Can-
ton. and that he took Ms 1 c if
hands.
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The opening of hostUtl.s ir'tibUy fol
lowed lmn.e .'at-!y up n his urrivii at
Canton. The Chinese F.m!r: !'-.:'oi!n as-
n?r In one of the Uall .g restaurants in
Chinatown to c le'orate the commence
ment of their struggle for Independence.
The managing director of the association,
In an inter-. I.w with Xs Yora H'r;!d
reporter, stated that above all things th
soldiers of the reform movement In China
would respect the livts of foreigners; that
their war was only against the Tartar
invaders who had held the throne for
two and a half centuries, and their only
acts at the present time would be to re
store the progressive and liberal Crrp-ror
Kwang Su to the throne from which he
had been d' posed by the Ignorant nd
vicious dowager empress.
C'HISA'S CRl'EL FASHIO.
Supposed Origin of Binding; the Feet
of Children.
All who have the slightest knowledge of
Chini have heard of the custom of bind
ing the feet of Chinese girls, but few are
acquainted with the painful process
adopted to secure the diminutive feet
which the Chinese prize so highly. It Is
not known how this cruel cusLom origi
nated, and the Chinese themselves seem to
be uncertain as to when It was adopted, j
but tradition relates that a certain em- j
press of China, somewhere back in the ;
twilight of Chinese history, was afflicted j
with club feet, and compelled all the .
ladies of the court to bind their feet. In
the attempt to secure artificially the same
deformity which nature had intiicted upon
her.
There are two distinct styles of binding
the feet in vogue among the Chinese, but
the process Is the same In both cases, the
different results being secured by the way
in which the binding Is done. The in
strument used is a small roll of firm cot
ton webbing about two and one-half
Inches wide. This webbing must have
no stretch or give to- it, and is woven
especially for such use. The process is
usually begun when the gir'i have
readied the age of six or seven years,
though In some cases r.here a particularly
dainty pair of "golden lilies," as the Chi
nese call these poor deformltios, is de
sired, the binding Is begun as early aa
the third or fourth years.
The foot is taken and all the toes ex
cept the great toe bent under the Instep,
which is thus forced up. When this has
continued for some time and the foot has
become quite pointed in shape and the in
step considerably arched, the binding Is
exlendod and the heel and toes drawn to
gether, thus preventing the growth of the
foot in length. In the style of binding
In North China greater pains are taken to
preserve the pointed effect, while in
Southern China the shortness of the fool
is so much desired that the pointed ef
fect is almost lost and the feet become
mere stumps.
The excruciating pain endured by Chi
nese girls In the process of foot binding
is Impossible to describe. Taken young,
while the feot are growing, they are
bound and wrapped so tightly with the
webbing that circulation is alomst en
tirely cut off, and the bandage Is left on
just as long ad possible, for it is a saying
that every dressing of the feet loses a
mite of daintiness. But the Worst of It is
that the torture is drawn out through a
lifetime, for the binding can never cease.
The seams and fissures caused in the feet
by their distortion become sore and often
gingrene sets In and carries off the sufferer-
In order to prevent this it is cus
tomary to powder the feet with saltpetre
while binding tlcm, thus literally putting
them in pickle to preserve them. The re
sult of this binding is that all the weight
of the body in standing is thrown on the
heel and the foot loses the power to bal
ance the body. A small-footed woman
cannot stand still, but like one on stilta
she must constantly be stepping back
ward or forward to keep her balance.
It is fitrange how this cruel fafmlon
freak has fastened itself on the Chinese
women, to whom it has become the badge
of respectability, and whose elegance and
distinction are measured by the greatness
of their deformits'. The most advan
tageous marriages are made by those
whose "golden liliiw" are the most petite,
and those otherwise undesirable becoma
prizes if possessed of tiny feet.
The custom la peculiar to the Chinese
for the Mongols and Manchus have never
adopted it; but so dear is it to the Chinese
that the greatest emperor of the present
dynasty, who successfully imposed upon
the Chinese the wearing of the queue as a
badge of subjection, did not dare to risk
his authority in an attempt to tamp out
the custom of binding feet, though he
prohibited the practice within the limits
of his capital at Pekln. The work of
missionaries is, however, beginning to
make Itself felt, and native societies are
at last pressing to abolish the cruel and
ancient custom.
The Odor of the Knilin Yit.
The kudzu vine, which has become so
valuable in rapidly covering trellises, pll-
lars and building?, has been esteemed i
mainly on this account. Its growth of j
,iv: r a hundred feet in a single season is j
truly amazing. It was clis.ributed as j
Dolichos Japonlca, though it Is tiow said
Its proper baptismal name is Pachyrhlzua
Thunbcrglanus, derived from its enor
mous roots. It appears that wh'-re the
piant has b, como strongly established, all
the branches of the past yar do not die
back to the ground. From thene endur
ing stem, spikes of brlcht purple, bean
like flowers lsue. They are io hidden
by the folmge as to be unobserved, but!
soon make themselves Known by a de
lightful odor that is wafted to long dis
tances around. Meehans' Monthly.
Fnme.
" 'Opportunity comes once to every
man." "
"That's right; and any man Is bound
to become famous if he only lives Jong
enough."
"Oh, I don't quite believe that."
"You don't? Suppose a man lives to
be 'l;o years old. Wouldn't that make
him famous?" Philadelphia P.ecord.
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Old FalrhanK House.
Ona must starch far and wide to
find a more curious and interesting
c'.d dweilicg than the ancient Fair
ban!: house in the town of Dedhain, a
few miles from Boston. This old
, house was built by one Jonathan Fair-
banks in the year 1C30. and it has
' been the Mecca of hundreds of pil
', griini interested in the architecture of
mnrp th:in ".O vrir 3 2fl
It is easy to
the men and women who have lived
and died beneath its roof. One regrets
that so little is known about the his
tory of the old house, but no written
history could add to the picturesque
ness of its appearance. Generation
after generation of the Fairbanks fam
ily have occupied the old house. In
deed, it has never been occupied by
any one but descendants of its builder.
AX ANCIENT HA CITATION.
It came near being destroyed by fire
in the spring of the year 3S93, when
it was struck by a freaky shaft of
lightning that killed a dog lying under
a bed on which Miss Rebecca Fair
banks was lying. Miss Fairbanks her
self received no worse injury than a
shock to her nervous system.
yVe Haven Fine Old Elm.
New Haveu, the "City of Elms," has
.been so neglectful of her fine old trees
that in a few years the bet of them
will be gone. In violation of law,
horses are hitched to them, and they
knaw the bark so that the trees prac
tically are girdled. Insects destroy the
leaves and bark, and the pavements
coming so close to the trees keep out
the moisture which is absolutely nec
essary to the life of the trees, and keep
in the poisonous gases from the gas
and sewer pipes. More than 20 per
cent of these trees, which have been
the pride of New Haven for Two cen
turies, have died In t'.,c las' fifteen
years, or else are so J imaged now
that their early death is certain. For
I ten years the subject has been causing
serious concern in the city, yet nothing
positive has yet been done looking to
the certain preservation of these elms.
Paul aiU for Hepairs.
The American liner St. Paul is now
at the Cramps' yard at Philadelphia,
for repairs. It will take months to re
place her star
board engines and
propeller, which
vere ruined when
: he struck a sub
merged derelict in
mldoccan. An ex
amination of the
hull by the Cramps
nt the navy yard
dock verified the
rpport of Naval ,
Constructor Bowles
The St. Paul, that neither tho
hull nor the rudder had been injured,
but the damage to the three engines
connected with the starboard propeller
was irreparable.
"The working parts of the St. Paul's
machinery on the starboard were torn
apart," said Charles H. Cramp. "Ev
erything has the appearance of having
been subjected to a tremeiidous pres
sure." Ghe "Butterfly Fad.
The latest fad cf women, delicate
little paintings on the shoulders when
in evening dress, was started by the
Gaiety Girls, who now set the London
stylos. Two of them appeared at a
supper party given by a spendthrift
young earl r.t the Lyric club dressed in
extreme decollete gowns, and on each
yase-r. -
shoulder was a delicately painted,sma!l
but corceoiis hued butterfly. The work
was exquisitely done by a prominent
water color artist.
Vp Coe-t Price.
The price of beef, pork and mutton
has been put up one cent a pound by
the beef trust. This trust controls the
price of meats throughout the entire
country, and one cent a pound will pay
the trust an Increase profit of 15,0o0,
000 on beef alone, 120,000,000 on pork
and $4,000,000 on mutton, making a
total addition to the profits of the
trust of 139,000.000 a year.
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Queen Tirana "Reported "Dead.
Quetn Drat'a of Scrria, whose mar
riage to the yourig King Alexander a
few months ago caused fuch a sensa
tion, has died of fever. The death of
Drag;t Maschin is regarded by many
here as a fitting, if tragic, climax to a
strange romance. She was a lady in
waiting to Queen Natalie when the
young king fell In
love with her. Na
talie was indignant
at the presumption
of her waiting
woman in receiv
ing the attentions
of her son. When
Alexander publicly
announced his be
trothal to Mme.
Maschin the minis
try resigned, and
Queen Draga.
ex-King Milan
threw up his position as commander-in-chief
of the army and left the coun
try. Nevertheless the people rejoiced
in their king's choice and the nuptials
were celebrated by fetes throughout
the country. Since their marriage Mi
lan is reported to have plotted to kid
nap Alexander and to have him con
fined in a madhouse. More recently it
was reported that King Alexander had
declared he was tired of his wife and
would divorce her.
Crime and Cold Weather.
When cold weather begins street
robberies suddenly become frequent.
Either there is an influx of hard cases
from the country to the city when the
life of the tramp becomes chilly and
disagreeable, or the shorter days give
more hours to footpads in which to
work. It so happens that nearly every
year there is about this time what is
popularly called an "epidemic" or
"carnival of crime." Men and women
are stopped on the streets and forced
by threats of violence to give up their
property. The community takes alarm,
asserts that there never was so much
crime before, and denounces the police
force for its inefficiency.
The tlejcandroxJna Hat. Q
This bewitohingly pretty hat ha3
been christened in Paris the Alexan-
ma
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drovna.a new French compliment, ap
parently to the cherished Russian alli
ance. At all events, this is the stylo
par excellence of the moment, and
young women are wearing this shape
to the exclusion of all others. The
example photographed here is of ashes
of roses velvet, faced with masses of
close folded cream chiffon, the top
overlaid with yellow lace, and there is
a mass of yellow and blush roses under
the left brim.
To Hccome a Hapt'ut,
Henry C. Smith, the successful con
gressional candidate in the Second
Michigan district, may be credited
with having set a new political fash
ion. Whether it will become a favor
ite with candidates remains to be seen.
Mr. Smith's district is a somewhat
close one. This little southern Michi
gan hamlet has been noted for its
piety as well as its politics. Its re
ligion apparently is Haptist. In one
of his meetings there Congressman
Smith promised his audience that if
Woodstock went for him he would
join tho church by immersion. It is
probable he never dreamed that he
would be called upon to redeem his
promise, as Woodstock was supposed
to be hopelessly against his party.
When the votes were counted Smith
was found to have Z plurality. Wood
stock has unanimously and enthusias
tically extended the risiht hand of fel
lowship to Brother Smith. A delega
tion of the viliag"rs has waited upon
him and notified him they expect him
to keep his promise, and he has In
formed them he will do so with the
single condition that the interesting
event shall not take place until warm
er weather arrives, in anticipation
of his Immersion the ladies of the vil
lage are making him a handsome bap
tismal robe, and undoubtedly great
numbers of the population of his dis
trict will be in attendance to congrat
ulate him when he enters the fold.
JcbL and floriculture.
Max Schoenft-ld, a former Philadel
phlan.but now a resident of Rorschach,
Switzerland, has just given $10,000 to
the national farm school at Doyles
town. Pa. The money Is to be used
in the purchase of farms, which are to
be rented in graduates of the school.
They will thus have an opportunity of
demonstrating the value of whatever
instruction they have received and the
capability of Jewish youth to support
himself by means of agriculture.
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Co t'td Humanity.
Daniel O.-nris, a Oretk iciUlonalro
residing In Pads, h.i ius;ii,.,tcd a
prize on the lines htid down by Mr.
Nobel, though his offer Is for French
men only, except in u ?aris exposition
year, when it becomes universal. He
has set aside a sura to be awarded
every three years in pfrp'tuity to the
discoverer, inventor or producer of
the most noteworthy i'ie.i er object for
the benefit cf humanity. The priz is
to be never less than 100,000 francs and
may Le double that sum.
May Succeed Te1tigrett.
Congressman Robert J. Gamble of
Yankton, who it is said will succeed
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, in the
United States senate, has received, ft la
understood the pledges of more than
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eighty out of the 113 Republicans who
were elected to the legislature.
Irmy "Reorganization.
In the plan of army reorganization
prepared by Secretary Root congress
should recognize what appears to be a
final and satisfactory solution of a dif
ficult problem. ,In brief this plan pro
vides for the establishment of a per
manent organization of 00,000 men.
This will be the nation's regular army,
the nucleus of whatever land force is
to be raised in time of war. The pres
ident, by the terms of the plan, will
hold discretionary authority to in
crease this army up to a maximum of
100,000, each company of sixty men
beiug recruited up to Its full maximum
strength of 120.
ttfale Liks Kilt.
During the tirst years of his married
life the Prince of Wales spent a portion
of each year at Birkhall house, in
Scotland, and in those days both tho
prince and prim ess made a point of
annually visiting the great Scottish
chieftains, a splendid welcome belnj
accorded to them at Duurobin. whic h
at that time was twenty-five mll-s
from the nearest railway station.
When in Scotland his royal highness
Is fond of wearing the kilt, and he als
prefers to see those about h'.iu so clad.
myj Cirl Merchant.
The town of Chicago Junction. Ohio,
is a little city. It contains about 4.000
people, and to supply their needs a
number of large
shops are conduct
ed. One of them
is owned by Mrs.
Strceter & Daugh
ter. This is the
firm name. Durin?
the list two years
Mrs Strecter has
not taken an active
part in attending
to customers or
buying goods.
Really, her daugh
ter has been tho
head of the store.
Ethel Is nine years
old, but does
neven. She has
not look
to buy and
over
Roll
cloth for dre?ses, pins, needles,
and other notions, hats, shoes,
china, tinware, groceries and a thou
sand and one thlnns which go to make
up what Is called in the United States
a "gemral store." She knows the
prices of everything on the shelves,
the proper qualities to buy, keeps all
of the accounts in the little desk in
one corner, writes the business let
ters in a plain, round hand, carries
the money to the bank to be deposited
and does everything but sign bank
checks, which, according to law, sho
Is too young to do. Ethel has two
clerks, both of whom arc much older
than she, to direct.
"Ridding Ha-Vana cf 7o.
Havana used to be overrun by own
erless dogs almost a badly as Con
stantinople. The man:;ey curs were
everywhere about the turrets. Sin-e
the American occupation the work of
clearing Havana of these nulsr.nces has
been golnf? on, and now the streets are
comparatively free. In the last year
nearly 6,000 stray do'rs have been cap
tured 1n the streets and killed by the
municip.'.l dog catcheis.
Pari Fair Close.
The fifth Id the series of internation
al exhibitions held in Paris by the
French government, substantially at
eleven-year intervals, beginning In
1Sj5, has Just closed, having registered
an attendance of over 50,000.000, as
against 27.o39.521 at tho exposition In
tht cllv In 95 191 97S In 1Sca
- J '' ' -'
Paris, 16,032.725 at the same place In
1878. and 9,910,95 at Philadelphia ia
1S76. ...
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