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To tell the truth be w”; ”I“ I COUId not bear to look at him. WW. spam; or Burdock Blood "WE REPAIR-. gnant nature. Through its :rful blood purifying proper- it gets at the source of dis- ease and completely mocx eradicates it from the system. ”Mums. 11ers Th ashera and Millmen Who can think a 0' some aimpb "line to patent? a ' may b" you wealth Nliffipi RN St a“? z . PD, Que "WE MAKE .- FOUNDRYMAN ales, Power Staw Cut .ir Furnaces, Shingle Band Saws, Emery for Dart Cured by Dean's ghs in usc. Dating and Saw Mills. terson, Croft St., Am- makes the following “Having- beey trou- morpfldtâ€"s'. ail?! poonhtiona. court in undo PP .0 These fifteen girls were put into training. Their paces were tested and all sorts of experiments were made as 'to their tempers and traits. After some months the old Empress picked out the three girls she liked. and the eldest of these. who was 18 years old, became Empress. The two others be- came what are called secondary wives, or chief conoubines. and these two lat- ter were sisters. one of whom was 13 and the other 15 years old. The mar-~ riage of the Emperor was celebrated in‘ elaborate style, and the magnificence of the occasion may be imagined from the fact that it cost the Govern- ment 010,000,000. Every three years new batches of wives are picked out for the Emperor. The prettiest girls in the empire are chosen and the Emperor doesn't allow affairs of . state to interfere with him in his amusement. He is a sort of a holy figurehead‘. and his officials keep ing went on. until the thousands had dwindled to the hundreds, the hun- dreda to scores, and the scores at last down to fifteen. _ . The choice lots were dressed in the finest of clothes. and were carted from all parts of the empire into Pekin. They were here submitted to the in- spection of the old Empress Dowager. beinghrought into her presence in lots of five. She passed upon them as fast as she could and weeded out the poor- est and dullest. Those who remained were taken out for the time and brought in in new _lots, and so the 8(3th The Emperor was 17 years old at the time of his marriage, ten years ago, and the Empress Dowager gave him three wives to start with. The selec- tion was curious. All the pretty-Tan- tar girls of the empire, numbering many thousands, were gathered to- gether and sorted, and the best of! them were sent on to Pekin. The se- lection was first made by the Govern- ors of the provinces. and no girl was presented who was over 18 nor under 12_years of age. a chance for the young Emperor to ex- tricate himself from his subservient condition, even if he wanted to, which he__apparently doesn't. The young Emperor is a decidedly weak character, and doesn’t even do his own thinking. The Empress Dow- ager attends to that for him. It is said that he occasionally goes into fits of rage when he is crossed, but it is the rage of a child. and is over as soon as he has exhausted himself. He has been. under the thumb of the Empress Dow- ager since he was a baby. She super- vised his education, and picked out his wives for him. She has him so hemmed in with officials and wives. who are hen sworn allies, that there has never been; The streets are fixed up for the occa- sions. All the booths and squatters are driven away, and the roads are covered with bright yellow clay. Yellow is the imperial colour.‘ Upon these occasions Europeans are warned not to go out at their peril. for the Emperior is always accompanied by soldiers, and the man who peeps around the corner or has his eye fast- ened to a hole in the matting is liable to be blinded with a bullet or arrow- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the actual condition of his people. When he goes out into the city mat- ting is hung up in front of all the houses, and strips of cloth are stretched across the alleys and side streets through‘ which the imperial procession must pass. eunuchs who have ever set eyes on He knows. Forbidden City. Inside of the latter lives the Emperor and his family, the , ladies of the royal harem and the thou- sands of eunuchs who make up the staff or royal servants. ‘- The Emperor himself lives in the north-western part of the inclosure,‘ and the Empress Dowager has a palace1 near by. In another part of the in- closure is the hall of literary abyss. or the imperial library, and in this the Cabinet officers hold their sessions. and it contains also a department of the royal treasury. No one outside of the foreign legations ever get into the palaces of the Emperor of China, ' ' building in which fined one has to most secluded monarch in the world. He is surrounded by officials whose chief duty seems to be to keep him from coming into touch with the out- side world. Before reaching the the foreign legations ever get 0 the palaces of the Emperor ot na, and no foreigner is permitted see him. Even the Chinese of Pekin not know how the Emperor looks, THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. pass through three I not being guarded of eunuchs. First ' .. fohniéhi ho was well. 89' at‘told me vgho be m. but I): â€"â€" “In fact, coffins, were agreat neces- sity at that hospital," says Dr. Wen- yon. “When Iwent there I found that they had laid in a good stock. 80 the people came to us. It was a question of coming to our hospital for acure or going to the “Hall of Ten Thousand Virtues" for acotfin. One day there came a, stately gentleman, a learned man belonging . to the upDOr classes, A staff of native “doctors" was found and the building was called “The Hall of Ten Thousand Virtues.” It was a splendid building, but somehow that did not assist the cures. Two afflicted friends came to Fatshan, and they de- cided one to go to Dr. Wenyon's hos- pital and the other to the rival place. In three weeks Dr. Wenyon's patient was well, and on going for his friend to the other hospital found that he was dead. The doctor tried to console him by saying that they had buried him in asplendid coffin. The literati, who are the great in- stigators of riot and murder in China, declared that they ought to open a rival hospital, and they did open one. Every Chinaman has got something real or imaginary the matter with lhim, and there was great curiosity to see the methods of the foreigners; therefore, when Dr. Wenyon arrived there was no lack of patients. They came daily by the hundred from far and nearâ€"from an area three or four times that of England. In seventeen years they numbered many thousands, and some of them, as Dr. Wenyon says, became the centre of an influence more or less favourable to western thought and western men. Dr. Wenyon has; many curious stories to tell in connec- tion with the medical work. {lam-r Ideas In the Mecllrnl Mm- aro Mel WI": Anumg the Chinese. In an interview with Dr. Charles Wenyon, the famous medical mission- ary in China, we are told that medical science in China. is not. as advanced as it was in Rome 2,000 years ago. The so-called doctors cannot tie an artery, open an abscess, or reduce a dislocat- ed limb. ' ENGLISH DOCTOR’S EXPERIENCE. The Empress Dowager is even more secluded than the Emperor, and when she receives her officials she sits be- hing a screen, and the Cabinet Min- isters get down on their knees and talk through it at her. She is very vain. and she had con- sented to the spending of about twenty million dollars on the celebration of her birthday, and this money was be- ing collected for the purpose when the war with Japan broke out. The Empress Dowager will be 64 years old next month. She is said to be a most remarkable woman, and she has been practically the ruler of China for the past generation. She was the secondary Wife or the first concubine rebellion. She managed its affairs during its war with France, and she had a little taste of Russian diplomacy in her fuss with the Czar of some years 380- She is said to have a mind of her own, and all the Chinese respect and fear her. She is a stickler as to form. and she insists that all business shall be done through the young Em- peror. though she really directs what he is to do. Perot 18 A STRONG CHARACTER. r °3.§1.13t°d by law. L October 20, 1898. is the W'e are not in this world merely to do the pieces of work, large or small, that are set over against our hand. We are here to grow in strength and beauty of character. And it is not hard to see how this growth may go on continually amid life's daily toil and cares. If we are diligent. careful. faithful. prompt. accurate, energetic in the doing of a thousand little things of common life. we are building these qualities meanwhile into our soul's tap bric. Thus we are ever learning by doing and growing by doing. There is an unseen spiritual building rising within us continually as we plod on in our unending tasks. Negligence in common duties mars our character. Faithfulne. in sliwork builds beauty into the soul. , s the same Arabic word as “cipher." and signifying “nothing." the lowest tem- perature observed by him at Dantzig during the winter of 1709. which he found was that produced by mixing equal quantities of snow and sal-am- moniac, or common salt. and the space between this point and that to which the mercury rose when expanded by! the heat equal to that of boiling water or plunging the thermometer into boiling water. be divided about the year 1720 into 212 parts. Doubtless the selection of the freezing point of water as zero, which was made about 1730 by Rane Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, who lived from Feb. 28. 1683 itill Oct. 27. 1757, was simpler, readier, more familar. and natural. The sys- tem was adopted also in 1742 by An- ders. Celsius. the Swedish astronomer. and physicist. who lived from 1701 till 1756. and whose thermometer is divid-' ed into 100 degrees between the freezing point and boiling point of water. as Reaumur’s is divided into eighty. It is therefore generally dis- tinguished as the “centigrade” or of a “hundred steps." and is the one em- ployed in other parts of the European continent. and for international pur- The Inventor Was Burn In Germany and [Merl In Holland. In September, 1736, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit died in Holland. probably at Amsterdam, in which city he had settled many years previously, and where he found more suitable scope :for his scientific researches than at Dantzig, the great seaport in north- east Germany. where he was born on 'May 14. 1686. Till just before the sev- enteenth century men could estimate the temperature by their personal feelings only. but several attempts' were then made to measure the de- gree“ of heat or cold by tubes contain- ing spirits of wine, oil and other sub- stances. Instead ot the first and all of these. Fahrenheit in 1714 substitut- ed mercury or quicksilver. which is a metal natunally fluid. He selected for his scale as zero. a name derived from t" I‘. II. 4’5! 5M_ FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETER. GOLD DUST. Many English word: are taken di- men of position in Spain. Bye brad without «may need: wouldn't be :70 brand at all. Gunny in 1 mm. Ellen." The llunmook nixâ€"you; m... a?“ "809- “am 11mm the 8mm. 0n the way from Moje to Shanghai the Pathan ran into a typhoon lasting seven hours. All movable things were washed from her decks. a steam pipe was‘broke-n. boat chocks were carried away and woodwork was stove. She was thirteen hours at Shanghai making repairs. f The fourteen Japanese dogs are own- ed by the ship’s officers. who bought them on speculation. The monkeys are mostly from Singapore. and are owned by members of the crew. who will sell them to animal dealers here. revolvers, and there was brisk firing, in' which fourteen coolies were hit and the ship’s woodwork was pockmarked by bullets. The coolie girls who had been passing the empty baskets back to the coal carriers clambered up the side of the ship and attacked the sail- ors tooth and nail. The Malays did not hurt the girls, but carried them to the ship’s side and dropped them on the pier. The first volley of the officers was fired in the air. The coolies jeered and dramatically invited the English- men to kill them. The Englishmen fired to wing merely. ;A Japanese court at Kobe held an exparte trial of the Pathan’s officers and crew and decided that the owners of the ship should pay one hundred Mexican dol- lars for each man wounded. The Bri- was mottled with black. Officers and castle from the volleys. Only the first officer was hit. The officers came on deck with revolvers, and the crew. most of whom are Malays, got cutlasses. Fourteen Men Slim In a Coal llnmllen' Strike at Mole. The British steamship Pathan. from ports of the far East, arrived at New York on Monday with a hold full of curios, a log full of incidents, fifty big and little monkeys, an orang outang, fourteen Japanese dogs, and a lot of cockatoo. The Pathan left Yokohama on June 22. She coaled at Moje, Ja- pan. on June 29. The coolies carried the coal aboard in baskets. Some of. them declared that the baskets were being overweighted, and there was a s.trike After throwing down their bas- kets, the coolies armed with soft coal charged on the ship. In an instant the white superstructure of the Pathan SHIP FOUGHT JAP COOLIES. SPANISH WORDS,