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HILLSBORO, N. G. SATURDAY, JULY 4. 1891.
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NEW SERIES-VOL. X. NO. :7.
Prussia has only 1 '0i citizens, whose
s..:iual income i k" 25,000 sr. 1 12,
r:'l whose'iricome I'scedh Ti(i)0.
V,'. I. Flef-rher an expert on insanity,
.,; i before the National Conft-rei.ee of
C, armies and --Correction in Ir.dianapolis
it too many persons are sent to asylums
.1:1 i irI-1 -oa s 1 1 v he cnre.l at home.
jr s estimated that . at leant .U,00 0,
,) ( f tie- ' Jovernment's paper money
; ! to be in circulation has been
: or destroyed. IJy the sinking of
,. Vr--'A o!T Urn Atlantic coht , .some
; :i- 'l,0'rt.O')") in greenback was
O,-." third of trie- .students in Europe,
. W '-ill.
prematurely from the ef
, .oils acquired at college,
prematurely from the ef
corifinciucnt at their
the other third govern
','. In i ,
A p'-rmanent horse exbih'.ticn In con
with a hospital for th" treatment
' k ahd wounded horses is to he es-'.'i'-heil
in I J'-: ! in. A school for the
. " of coachmen ami stablemen is
t!
( u ne-: j o;i as a
part of the exhi-
r' as we have got heartily tirea of
:', ',v'.-in th"--i!ot. business, remarks
. Louis S'-tr- iyiwjAt the English
riiiueMt h adopting .it for the distri
uf p,)-,-i,r'- seini)i, anl machines
v i ; i n 'r attached to
1'uder anv circum-
?:;e Mot iiu'-hine is a nuisarics,
i.tii -the complb'a.ions attached to
. ; : j 1 -1. 1 i is" in London, it ought to
,',r ;i failure in less than a month.
T''i'' iaimiiTation from Europe to tht
j. .:- of I5.i-.ton and I 'hila.hdphn, as web
t-the jiortrtd' New York, has jieen
v 'l-'iiilv heiv'y thus far this year; auJ
t!.i: -e ports as at this portai rirjje pro
jurti'iaof the immigrants are Italians,
av-, an 1 Ilussinu. Hebrews. Tiiere is
(.:. also, of the arrival of many immi
at several cities of the Southern
i boar 1. l4V"e trust," comments a
New York viper, "that the inspection ol
i ''rage pa--se,i;;ors at all our ports will
- mad-- thorough as it now is here.
li the immigration laws hal been en
f "p '. at Xe.v Orleans in pasi times, the
M i'! liti s and oUe r foreign criminals whe
sr.- n o-, -'.here would not have been al
iovcl to l ie I, and the city would" have
!-".':i si ed from their misdeeds."
();. of the most unique attractions ot
ta' ( u:.: i-) '.vpositioa will bo a bazar
'1 a i a it t1)!!--1, which is to 1)3 locttol at
ti." r aion of Midway plaisauce with
J . :. I'ark. The Exposition Direc-?..-;,
liV :;r mted space for the bazar, and
y ' i' i: t eight a-ucs for it. - In this area
i? ' tcl to be erowd" 1 stores of every
u.t'ioa on the globe, and all of them will
t i'; ,w I to sell trophies and relies of
the l'.xp situ'i. Native merchants will
I ia e'.i uge of these stores, in every
A company in Japan has sent in a
i j i' t to be allowed to build a Japanese
'' with picturesque streets, and to
1 it with .Vd Japs. Similar pro-
- ''itions have been received fro n Cairo
a:; i several oriental caouatries, and the
-' uads and buildings committee i
!': :'.h- 1 to tind space for them all.
N" that Stanley has returned tc
i-v: o-e th" sale' of hi !o.k may be said
''hive pr.e'tica'ly endel. Most of the
."xcription agents have finished up their
-r.x and a survey can be male f the
r 'hs. I learn that it has b '-u one of
tn st suecesful ventures , ever under
U was thought that the book
i- !-..'t miking much of a hit, but this
'..:.'.y shows how quietly success was
h.rved. Some parlicuhu1 of this sale
. ; ie uueresiuig. 1 ne cnou
! -i t; ti 1. 1
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miev '0 in c is'a ! -for
a line was
vrilteu. They recently settle 1 th" ac-
:at to date by payiaj; hi:n another
j '),' )', representing a vile of l(...),000
' ;. .-. as their contract "require them to
huu fifty cents o;i 'each copy Si)M, in
;- iiti m to the tir-t '(. The book
v i for, various price-, from $7. a) to
bat it h is been average i at S.."0,
' - at the house receive, in gross, jSoO,
ir.;n the enterprise. After paying
'ia'.'ey his HH).0d0 and the large com-"-'ss'.ons
to canvassers, averaging about
''' per cent on the retail price, there
r -a. a- a net prof.t to the lira 4 of at
s, o 11 00. Alto-ether th book
o-.e;i .1 striking ex tin pie of business
' ''r 1 'v and sagacity, ail' I the S -ribners
to be congratulated oh their brilliant
MY BACK YARD.
Jft off school at ten year old,
But have my share or. knowledge,
And I am educateder
Than any chap from college;
Ideas have been tanned into" me,
Jest biled and stewed in hard.
Jest bakei in by the sun thet shines
In my back-yard.
An' I believe it's Bible truth
If man wants to be wise,
He's got to live out in the air
beneath the open skies;
The tulip in the sunlight breakg
The earth's skull, old and hard,
An the sun sprouts thoughts in my ol' skull
In my back-yar l.
Take your brains out in the sunshine.
If you want your thoughts to sprout
Strong-stocked, purple-culorei fancies,
Flow rser faitb, not "we-Hs er doubt;
Give yer bare brain to the sunlight,
L--t its lane-.s stab ye hard.
An yer'i! fhi' sour thoughts wortfrthiuking
In my ba'-k-yar !.
Tie-re's thoughts tb."t's .salted down in-books,
bike salt pork in a berrul.
An' boys in seho irwill eat th i stiuT
Jf rammed in by a ferrule;
Hut new untainted moat er thou 'lit
Thet don't di.-st so hard,
Is l.;iin out in tlie o,ijn air
In my 1 jiek-yard.
Th iwyr tlietm ikei t'.i' parsnips grow
An' -j-routs the early grain.
Will l art the-tendrils er the soul.
An-' ferliliz.' the brain;
1 -va !i in a Mindiuth, an'
11' -t, h r s ctk in hard,
An' ?.tron;. red flowers er thought arc grown
In my baek-yard.
Th. bri 'litest thoughts a fel3ow thinks
Ar.; th's he tliinks himself,
They ain't in any book fli p's fou a'
n any libr" v sh -lf ; . ' '"
Xo eolh'ge ivsi lait eoul I think
If h; thought long an' har I,
Thoughts like t!i" sua soik-iat ) m?
In my back-yard.
V. W ; ''(js-f, i Yankee Blade.
THE FONTENOY FLATS.
j:v nr.r.F.N Fonnivsr ouaves.
"Weil," said Mrs. Delfold, "we've
got to move. That's very piain."
"Yes,'' sail Miriam, "we've got to
move. Xobody could . stand that silk
lactory that's being built opposite, with j
its whizzing machinery and the livery
stable in the rear."
"The next question," said Rosamond,
"is where we are tc go."
A dead silence followed this proclama
tion. The Dedfold family typed each
other, and nobody spoke until Mr. Ded
fold, a bald-headed man, with weak eye
and a fringe - of sanely wdiiskers on each
.side of his face, broke the portentous
silence.
"For my part," said he, "I should
like a liitle pl.Vce in the country, where
we could grow strawberries and toma
toes and see the green grass. -
"Pa!" remotistnfted Rosamond, who
was a tine, talV young woman, with a
good deal of color and sparkling black
ey. ))
"Quite outof the question'" said Mrs.
Dedfold, tossiug her aquiline nose.
"I don't see that," reasoned Mr. Ded
fold. "Doctor Fortnum has offered me
the refusal of that pretty Gothic cottege
of his not more than half an hour out
on the New Jersey road with four
acres of ground "
"Doctor Fortnum, indeed !" said Mr3.
Dedfold. "I w-ih he'd mind his own
business. Because he chooses to burrow
in the country himself, is that any rea
son he should compel other.peo'ple to do
So?" (
There's quite a pleasant little socie
ty there," suggested Phebe, the young
est of all the Dedfolds, who had an ap
pleddossom face, with inquiring blue
eyes and the palest shade of yellow hair.
"Society!" echoed Mrs. Dedford
"out on the New' Jersey road! Frogs
and mud-turtles, and owls that's tht
sort of society? I imagine."
"I haven't seen anything that I liked
better than that Hat oa Foatenoy
street," said Miriam.
"Too high," said Mr. Dedford.
vOnly eighteen hundred dollars a
vcar," plea-Jed his wile. And such a lo
cality !''
"It's over a confectioner's shop!" .
"That's no objection, " insisted Mrs.
Dedford. "The finest flats in the city
and all the .first-class hotels, you know
are over stores. . And D Artagnau 3 w
an exceedingly select place. The Staf-'
fods aud Ballingers live in the Foate
uoy Flats, too!"
Mr. Dedford groaned.
"I never did fancy living in a flat,"
said he. "Packed in with everybody
else, like sardines in a box!"
"I think it would K- perfectly de
lightful," said Miriam, ecstatically. .
"It would certaiuly minimize the
trouble of housekeepiag,'' observed Lei
mother.
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"And it would be so stylish,'' added
Rosamond, clapping her plump, white
hands.
"And you know, Paul," added Mrs.
Dedford, "you always leave these do
mestic affairs to me."
The head of the house rose, with a
shrug of his shoulders.
"Well, have it your own way," said
he. "Where are my gloves? Plhebe, !
lid I leave my cane down stairs? Why,
child, what arc you cfying for?" j
"I don't know," faltered the vellow- I
haired lassie, her head drooping for an
instant on her father's shoulder, as they
stood together in the dimly-lighted hall.
"I think it's because we've got to move.
And I do so hate the idea of a Hat."
"So do I," chuckled Mr. Dedfold.
"But cheer up, Phebe-bird! We can't
always hav3 our own way, and mothe
and the girls are determined, it seems."
While Phebe and her father were ex
changing confidences down stairs, Mrs.
Dedfold and her two elder daughters, in
the room above, had resolved themselves
into a committee of the whole on the
questiou of ways and means.
"We must have new carpets through
out," said the sage matron. "Aud 1
don't see how we can irct along without
an Eastlake parlor suit and a piano
lamp.'1
" What wi
pap i say'?"' breathed Mir-
1am. .
"Well, I don't care!" flashed out Ros
amond. "Xo.v that we've really got
into good so-ietv "
(0', in short," saucily interrupted
Miriam, 'Jow that you are going to be
the Countess Scagliosa
"Don't, Mirry!" cried Rosamond,,
blushing and laughing. "What nonsense
you are talking!"
"Well, I don't care; he is very hand
some," declared Miriam. "Ami that
diamond stud he wears is a regular
headlight. JIow jealous Fanny Duplex
will be, and the Nottingham girls! And
oh, Rosamond, how nice the saloon par
lor in the Fontenoy Flats will be for the
wedding 1
you going
wedding breakfast ! Mamma, where are
?"
"Why, if we really are going to de
cide . on those apartments over D'Artag
man's," said Mrs. Dedfold, "we must
engage them at once.. Such a bargain as
that don't go begging long.".
Rosamond sat looking out of the win
dow with sparkling eyes, and lips half
parted in an involuntary smile, while
Miriam ran after her mother,! .pleading
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to be aiioweu to go, 100. 1
"Isn't it nice about Rosy and the
count, mamma? ' said she, breathlessly.
"Won't it be splendid to talk about 'my
sister the countess?' Do you suppose
she'll have a chateau on the Lake of
Comoaud a palaz.o in Rome? Of course,
she'll have Phebe and me to stay with
her very often."
"Mrs. Dedfold smiled a complacent
smile. The idea of a titled son-in-law
was 'ineffably dear to her heart.
"Do you suppose he really is a
count, mamma?"
There stood yellow-haired Phebe,
close at their elbow.
"Really a count !" sharply echoed Mrs.
Dedfold, "Why, of course, he is. I did
not suppose, Phebe, that a daughter of
ipme could stoop to the' degrading vice
of jealousy."
Phebe colored scarlet.
"Mamma," said she, "I am not jealous;
but1
Mrs. Dedtold broke abruptly in with
short and sudden directions as to the
marketing and dinner, and presently
Piiebe was left alone.
"Mamma," said Miriam, "can't yoc
see it all? Phebe" is simply infatuated b
those Fortnums. She and papa'havt
neither of them any pride. What will
Count Scagliosa think of a country doctor
for a brother-in-law?"
"It mustn't be allowed to go on!N saiJ
Mr?. Dedfold, authoritatively. "Now
is ju?t the turning point of all of your
live'. If we can keep up a certain ap
pearance and style for the next two or
three years and if pap 1 -will only take
mv advise we can oa-ily secure as bril
liant matches for Phebe and you as Ros-.t. j
mond has aireauy btameo.
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swelling "wit a
And with her Heart
pride, Mrs. Do .1 fold saiie.l iut th- Foa
tanoy Flats and asked to see :he vacant
apartment."
The regular janitor, a genteel creature
in black, with English side whiskers and
a white tie, was out; bit his deputy, a
cood matured little Irishman; ciie
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promptly for war-i.
"Is it the fourth flr, mVain,
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one over D'Artagnau's?" asked he.
"Til look at both of them." said Mrs.
Dedfold, with the dignity of a future
householder. "
44 Well, ma'am," said the janitor, "if
you'll excuse the pastry cook "
"The what?" exclaimed Mr. Ded
fold. It's D'Artagnan's new cook," explained
the smiling Irishman. "He ;ets a power
o wages, aa? kapes his piany rg' hi:
P00le, ; like a gintleman, an' q oalyf
wor3 at the pasthry three hours ia the
maarnia' an' throe in the afthernoon.
An they tell me he's going to be married
to a rich lady an' turn gintleman alto
gether pretty soon. bare it s a foine
thing to be a furriner, wid a resafe foi
claret punches an paddyfoy-grass, that all
the genthry's wild aftherl And D'Ar
tagnan is buildin' a boodewar for him at
the back, but he's settled down moight
comfortable Ln the impty flat till it's let,
so he is. Rut if ye don't mind the piaunj
an the poodle-
And thus speaking, the attendant
flung the door open, shouting:
"La lies to Ink at. the flat," Misthei
Scaggles!"
The strains of a piaao ceased some
what abruptly, a shaggy little dog ran
forwanl, shrilly barking, a tall man in a
negligee- velvet jacket and a tasseled fez
"perched sidewuse on his locks, rose and)
turned half-way around, revealing a
swarthy complexion aud opaquely dark
eyes.
"Count Scagliosa!" cried out. Mrs.
Dedfold.
"Sure an' ve're mistook altogether,"
sail Patrick. "It's the new cook,
ma'am, from D'Artagnau's restaurant be
low stairs."
The culinary count staggered back and
volunteered never a word in his own de
fense. The little dog barked ceaselessly;
the Irishman looked from one to the
other with puzzled mien.
"P'raps you'd rather see the other flat,
since the puppy's so unceevil," said he.
And he added, as thev went down stairs,
"Yez'Il plaze to excuse the furriner,
ma'am. He dhriuks a good deal, and he
isn't always presentable."
Miriam looked with agonized eyes at
her mother.
"I I don't think we'll look any
farther to-day, mamma," she faltered.
And the two ladies left the Fontenoy
Flats without arriving at any definite con
clusion. 2
Fortunately llosamoad Dadfold's heart
was leis involved in the Scag-ioa alli
ance than her pride. Rut pride, as w
all know, is a sensitive spot, and the
wound was deep.
Honest Mr. Dedfold never knew why
the count's stock went down so sud
denly in the domestic market.
"Not but what I am slad of it," said
he. "I never did believe in foreign hus
bands for American girls. And so you've
all come around to my view of the mat
ter, have you? Well, I don't think you'll
ever regret it. And as for the nevv
home eV"
'I thin!:, u: the .vhole." said Mr.
Dedfold, "that countrv -air will be
good for the girls, and rents seem to be
t deal cheaper in New Jersey. So if
Doetor F -rtnum hasn't let that Gothic
i-ottage yet " . "
"liidn't I tell you he was keeping it
or me:" said Mr. ! Dedfold. But in the
arrangement of the rooms, you needn't
make any allowance for Phebe here" -putting
his arms caressingly around her
shoulder. "She's to be married to Doc
tor Fortnum in June,"
"I'm so glad!" said Rosamond, with
a little quiver to her lip. "Phebe de
serves th- b '-t husband in the world."
"Ye-," cried honest Miriam, she nevei
was :Jazzl'-'d by diamonds and titles."
And the big. "To Let" still hings in
the window; of ..the Fontenoy Fiats.
But D'Artagnau's famous foreign cook,
lured by a better pecuniary oiler from a
(''hic-tg restaurant, masquerades ia so
cle: v ;:o more. .i'ir-i AVv'.f.
Kaie ana remale Asparagus.
It has been ascertained by recent ex
periments witl'i male and female asparagus
plants that the male plants gave an
average of fifty per cent, more yield than
the female and the shoots were also larger
aad the crop earlier. It was found that j
the differences 1:1 vield were greater in
! m . . .
the early pa
t ot trie season mm in tne
latter part. Jiaie .uqk 0:1 li- saureu
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for a certainty by the division of old
plants, or better, by the selection from
two-year-old seelling- of such as do not
bear seed. It ha ln?en contended for a
Ion- time bf growers that there wa a
difference in prof;
b-tw'-eu the two.
a-;C
experiment- wmo.i have prove
lii" f.r, vtt it
to
be a fact are timely.
IN FAR-OFF AMOY.
nuTi'RKs or Mri: on
ciii.viisi; coast.
thi;
How Itii(l i: otu)iav is IractH-nl in
a I.aiul That is ) er populated
I n fat houia!)!.' Iguiram o ami
Peculiar Supers! it ion.
Contrary to the statements cf menda
cious travelers, the Chinese do as much
maritime commerce as anv European na
turn. The bay at Amoy s always crowed
with native craft. The cse!s are not
very handsome, but they .htc verf cheap.
They begin with the sampan, which is
halt scow antl half gondola. It carries
from three to twenty passengers and can
neither capsize nor founder. Its ovnr
lives in it, having a miniature stove and
pantry, tiding the floor as a bed .and mak
ing a nightly roof out of a bamboo mat.
He pays 1- for the sampan when new,
spends d a year in brightening up the
scarlet, ultra-marine, gold and green
paint with which it is decorated, and
charges two cents to ferry a passenger a ;
mile. Then come the freight sampans,
which rauge in size from a Whitehall boat
to an eigthty-foot lighter. They bring
tea, brick, tiles, terra cotta and produce
to Amoy and 'carry away merchandise.
Avast fleet, of fishing boats is the next to
be noticed. They are clumsy and fragile
things in appearance, but in reality are
strong, swift and seagoing. Their oc
cupants fish with trawl or dragnet,
which they fasten to the stern, and are
always successful. What they catch .is
thrown into water tanks aboard and de
livered alive atThe fish market. A coolie,
with bamboo rod gently but constantly
stirs the fish to keep them alive till sold.
Still larger than the fishing smacks are
the great trading junks which in build
and rig resembltTthe Spanish galleons of
the old buccaneer davs. Thev art' vast
1
structures of bamboo, rattan and soft
light wood. The sails are constructed
of grass matting, stiffened with bamboo
ribs, and when set look 4i-ke a bat's
wings. These boats encounter the
fiercest typhoons with impunity, while a
European ship or steamer would founder
in a few hours.
La?t are the China steamers. These
are all of English or German make and
always have Anglo-Saxons of some sort
for captain and engineer. The crew,
officers, agents and owners are Chinese.
They do an ever increasing business and
are becoming formidable rivals to foreign
coastwise commerce. The steamers are
managed like our own. All the other
Chinese boats are conducted in a very
different manner. Each is a floating
home, or village. The smaller ones have
one family on board; the larger, two
three and up to ten. On these un
wieldly craft the boatmen are born, grow
up, marry, have families, and die. The
women are as good sailors as the men.
In Hong Kong the commanders of most
boats are women. The children are ex-
perts mariners-at six or seven years of
age. The boatmen are a hnrdy, intelli
gent and. prolific race. There are said to
be oOOjOOO of them in China. They all
prosper financially, and many are quite
wealthy, from a Mongolian standpoint,
owning boats on the water and "stores and
houses on the land. When they become
pirates they are the most dangerous and
bloodthirsty extant, neither giving nor
asking quarter under any circumstances
whatever.
How hard life becomes when a land is.
over-jKqvulated ! There are more than a
million souls ia and about Arnov alone.
They are so crowded together that when
you see them you forget they are human
and imagine them ants or bevs on a larger
scale than .usual. They have to live, and"
they do it in a way that won! 1 a-touidj
a citizen of the great repuo!: . Labor is
drug in th- marktt. An expert joiner,
carpenter or m-taUmith receives twentv
trve cents a day, a we-k, or ;'".-
a month. A laborer i--g!ad to get fifteen
tents a day, or 'A.Z) a ino-th. An ! i
women or a sntaii boy recrjivea J a
month.
Rut to live upon ttit-e rates demvi h
j infinite -economy, an 1 this prevails everv-
j , n .
I where m ..ami. At tow ti l
Llie i ei'. ;i
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1 n cr owaf-'l witri m
women aad
C ii
drea. They gather se moiiaa 1 range
it into nu.rit;ou fool, sea wor.t an 1
sea urciijcis and by slow cocking trias
mute t!R-e into mysterious s'--s ail
chowders: The dnftwoo 1 thrown up
by the sea is drie i ao 1 u,e 1 for f ie'..
Even the. tiny animd wlii'-'a b rN hit. -sh-ll
h ease in the Hi id 'or uo r r ?m
and boulders are prie 1 out. :.: by one,
aud served upon the dinner table. 5 Two
. ir -1 "
hundred scarcely fill a siaiU cup aad re
quire four hourV hard work to gather,
Init they are in the market every day and
sell for thr e or four cents a pound. The
children are trainel to pic up dead
leaves, sticks and straws and put them
aside to dry until useable as fire-wood.
One child keeps a family supplied by
working eight hours a day. Necessity
teacjaes them how to prepare for food
what w c consider worthless weeds. The
tops of turnips, carrfsts, sweet potatoes
and omoa?, t.he seeds of watermelons,
squashes, sun'lo.vers aad fruit, the cn
trals of animals, the fins aad bones of
fishes 2re alt utilized, and it must be con
fessed made into very savory dishes.
What cannot be digested bv the human
stomach is reserved for the pigs, chick
ens and ducks, with which every coolie
.family is provided. Thus nearly all the
vegetable growths have esculent tips
when they begin to grow. The coolie
housewife boils them until they are soft
and digestible, cuts otl the extrgme por
tions for the' human members of hex
household and puts aside the remainder
for her var.ous animals. I have seen
grass, clover, thistles, cabbage stalks,
cactus, century piants and even palm
tops treated in this way, and witnessed
the dc light shown by the people to whom
they wa re served as the chief dishes ol
their -daily provender. The rich man
darins go to the opjKsite extreme and
dine on birds' nests -at $S0 a dozen, oc
hand-fed goldfish, fattened frogs, tigorY
livers, preserve! (tucks- eggs, trutnes,
bamboo oysters, cocks' combs ami other
luxuries. Frequently a mandarin din
ner will cost from $2 to $50 a plate.
When it is reiymbered that little or no
wine is used at these, repast, the extrav
agance of the euUiue is easily appreci
ated. The domestic life of the Amoy Chi
nese is admirable and detestable. The
wife is not a companion, but a drudge.
Unless she belongs tt the coolie or boat
man r!as her feet have been bandaged
in infancy so that her gait suggests a
young boy learning to. use stilts. Her
costume is unique, consisting of four to
seven blouses, as many trousers, hose ami
low cut shoes. She wear no hat, and
in lieu of gloves buries her hands in the
folds of her long sljeves. In appearance-
she is neat as a fashion plate. Her hair,
oiled every day, shampooed every week,
gleams like carved jet; her fare shines
from soap, water and friction, hercloths
are spotless and are brushed and honed?
every morning. Sin; is mild mannered
ar.d courteous. Rut her iguorence is
unfathomable and her superstition a
wonder. She burns joss sticks at the
door to keep away evil spirits; in the
garden to scare mildew and parasites
fiom her plants; in the dining room as
an antidote to poisons, and in the bed
room to intimidate the nightmare, bur
glars and wild beasts. She receives no
company but the few women of whom
her husband approves. She knows no
men outside of her lami.y circle. It is u
b adly insult to ask a Chinese gentleman
how his wife is. If he dies it is her
duty prescribed by a custom 7"00 jear
old to commit suicide, so that her on
can erect a monument to their mother as
'a virtuous widow." She goes nowhere,
reads little or nothing, sees no.' amuse-.
Hients. and has no social pleasures. She
Lever complains, because she. has been
t eight to be what shs is,' and no thought
of enaiige .r difference has probably ever
crosM-d her i:::ud. Her happiness is in
her kitchen, h"r garden and her children.
It is through having nothing else to do.
that she had acquired her niaryelous skill
in raising silk worms,- in sj inning the
thread, w iving the tissue and making
th'exqui-i?e embroideries f or which Chins
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Two Military Giants.
1 Comparatively f w -pero::s know that
tae Worth moiium.'r.t ia M idivm Squire,
be-i les b-ing a ::; n ii-at t the brav-e-t
of th- brv-" whom "a;. or patriae
ducit." U a t cm .-ton- as wed. l$4t it
1 t
s .Worth, u gallant
-r, v!'."-p4 un ierneath
and sace'---diii vo
the -!-'.;-: wh'-reouh
tured, and h in irejs
wh'tta the n: ovmieo'
know nothing..! th
w;e r iis'-f. At o:.e
aide to i'-m ra! ott
- battle are sculp
l thousand to
is a d.ily sight
m in to whom it
tune Worth w&t
Seott was mx feet
Worth -ix f tt two
ivur inc.- utrh m
icches. Scott admits that he considered
himndf hjn-isome ; Wor'tu .-t ackaow
iedged to he the hari !-oaj'.-,t man in the
'ioriou si:
the two giants
w-lk i in the
-t have c: 1 i
g-jr. ci- ui.ii.jr.a d ho'f a eeulury ago
lu a IJroel Aay triiy ie-1 ! qo trtr,
or .s liKiVre I a ai ag to- b'o'..U and fair
t Jifcs (Jf th j,; d IV". .Wi? Y-tr'c -Si a.
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