QUEER THINGS IN CHINA THE LAND IN WHICH WOMEN AND PHGS RIDE TOGETHER. Uncomfortable Trnvellnir—TVny* of Get ting About Thnt Trouble—Occidental VIBI torn— How tbe Emporor .Journeys Abroad—Comfort on tle Water. A squealing pig on one side of a Chi nese wheelbarrow, balanced by a woman on the opposite side, the entire outfit propelled by a stalwart resident of Boxpr land, is not an uncommon sight 011 the thoroughfares of the Ce lestial empire. The woman Is eom placent—tlie squeals of the swinish passenger not even attracting her at tention. The wlicelharrow is used as a means of transportation in Central and Low er China, where horses are scarce. It Is the vehicle of the common people, the sedan chair being used in all sec tions for officials and Chinese of some standing or great wealth. To one unaccustomed to riding in Chinese wheelbarrows the sensation is not a comfortable one. It does not com pare with an American barrow. The carrying of the woman and the pig in the same load is not a foolish custom. It is a part of the routine work. The pig Is a most important animal in China. It must be taken from place to place, perhaps to* mar ket. or perhaps to the Chinaman's home. The wheelbarrows are built to carry a load on each side. It is quite essential, that a load of a hundred or more pounds on one side be bal anced by some weight on the other side, and thus it is made to serve rs a carrier of both pasengers and freight. In some parts of the Empire a Chi naman precedes the wheelbarrow and helps pull it by a rope, while the Chinaman in the rear holds the han dles and pushes it along. This prac tice prevails specially at Kinngsi. HUMAN I.IVERY STABT.ES. Human Chinese livery stables are one of the sights to foreigners on first entering the Empire. The men who carry pasengers in sedan chairs or other vehicles and those who carry baggage are, with the vehicles, quar tered in convenient parts of the cities ready to serve the public. Foreign ers who would adapt themselves to China and the Chinese, or those who care to travel extensively, must be come used to the modes of travel in that country, although these modes are among the strangest and most uncomfortable in Christendom. A COMFORTABLE VEHICLE. The common people of China are denied the privilege of riding in the large sedan chairs, which is the most commodious means of transportation in China. It is carried by two men, who raise the carrying pole to their shoulders and walk briskly, making four miles in an hour through the average range of country. This chair is lightly built, handsomely decorated and fitted up with cushions. Travelers declare thnt of all the strictly Chinese turnouts, the large se dan chair is by far the best, and that once accustomed to it, the foreigner can really ride with some comfort. This, however, cannot be said of all sedan chairs. The smaller ones are built in such a manner that a cramped position must be assumed the moment a paseonger takes his seat. HOW THE EMPEBOR TRAVELS. The Emperor and some of his high officials use different styles of chairs on different occasions. Often he rides in one of peculiar shape, i& which he sits high above the heads of the bear ers. Tills style of chair Is built ex pressly for the purpose of exalting the ruler In the eyes of his people, nud that he may better command a view in his travels. THE CARTS OP PEKIN. In and about Pekia horses are used to a considerable extent, but owing to the crudeness of all the transportation equipment to which they are attached, as much comfort can be taken in a wheelbarrow as behind a steed. With all their skill in the manufacture of so many things beautiful and useful, tbe Chinese still lack the handiwork which goes to make a suitable rig for a horse to draw. ''And yet a thousand two-wheeled carts may be found in Fekln waiting to serve the public. The wheels of these carts are in many cases n solid piece of wood cut in a circle and fixed upon an axle, resembling much some home-made carts for cLlldren" fount] ifc I'ncje couutrv. Chinese carts , are minus springs. The owners at tempt to supply this deficiency by means of cushions. The driver sits close to the horse. Pasengers climb in and get out at cither side of the box-like contrivance which holds them ► in place when the vehicle is in mo tion. COMFORTABLE BOATS. But of all the Chinese modes of travel, none equals in importance the boat. The great waterways of the country are the redeeming feature of all that Is next to unbearable 011 land. The maritime architecture of the Ce lestials is unquestioned. The skill of the mariner is, too, a notable trait. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese live in what we call houseboats. They live comfortably, too. The Interior of a Chinese boat compares favorably with the better residences of the sur rounding country. Of course, not all the vessels ; re used for transportation. Some are fixed residences, which, af ter they are once built, are given a place by the river master and never again change their position. A Chi nese authority once estimated the number of boats in the harbor at Canton alone to exceed 80,000. The length of an average vessel for trans | porting the commercial products is about 100 feet. Residence boats maj not exceed seventy feet. For many years there have been American navigators on Chinese wa terways. They have found it a lu crative business. Foreign passengers seek passage on their vessels. A great percentage of the tea. of China is transferred from place to place by means of vessels.—Philadelphia Rec ord. USEFULNESS OF DRAGON FLIES. They Are "red n<l United to Extermin ate MofK|iiltoen. Experiments are to be made In NCTV Jersey and in one or two other places to see if the turning loose of dragon flies, or devil's darning needles, as the children name them, will not redeem some sections of the country from the pest of mosquitoes that makes them uninhabitable during certain seasons. The "darning needles" are bred in slowly running water. They will not mature under the stagnant conditions which make mosquitoes thrive. It is necessary to keep all flsli and frogs out of the nursery of the dragon flies, because nearly all kinds of fish and certainly all frogs co\sider the hatch ing insects a delicacy. The dragon flies thei - 'ves in tt '"-val state are fed 011 cut-up fresh fish. If they don't get plenty of this food they turn can nibal and oat one another up. When the time is ripe they are transported to tlio mosquito water stretches and then lurned loose. C. H. Murray, of the United States Fish Compassion, is authority "or tlio statement that mosquitoes attack and kill ha by trout when they come to l.e surface. It is also held by many scien tists that the mosquito may carry dis ease germs from one person to another by means of its cutting and blood sucking instrument. It is luntcd that the r.prerl of disease f n this manner Is more prevalent than people believe, and thus another reason lias evolved for the forming of a dragon fly army. The hammer-head dragon-fly, which may be known at once by a glance at the shape of its head, is said to he the most voracious of its kind. One of these creatures was injured accident ally by n£ experimenter, who had knocked oIT with a blow at least seven segments of the insect's body. To test its life tenacity and its appe tite as well the seven segments were fed one after the other to the injured insect. It ate them readily and with apparent relish. If the people living near mosquito pools have not had the forethought to lay in a supply of em bryo dragon flies let them sprinkle this spring a little crude petroleum over the surface of the infested water, and the result will he the dying of all the mosquito wigglers that He in the depths. This means is inexpensive and certain, though far less interesting than the unleashing of a few battalions of darning needles to overwhelm and devour the stinging swarms.—Cincin nati Enquirer. Wall-Paper** Stow Advance. While varlouii kinds of 1 rimed fab rics were known to the people of most remote anti.piity, it was not till the eighteenth century that wall-paper lu anything like Its present form came Into common use In Europe, though it appears to have been used much ear lier in China. A few rare examples which may be as early as the sixteenth century exist in England, but these are imitations, generally in "flock," of the old Florentine r.nd Genoese cut velvets, and hence the style of the de sign in no way shows the date of the wall-paper, the same traditional pat terns being reproduced with little or 110 change for many years. It was not till the end of the last century that the machinery to make paper in long strips was invented. Up to that time wall papers were printed on small square pieces of hand-made paper, and were very expeu3 : ve. On this account wall paper was sl„- in superseding the older mural decorations, such as tap estry, stamped leather and paper doth. Sherlock Holme*, Jr. "My necktie is deranged," Sherlock Holmes, Jr., suddenly exclaimed. Ills companion looked at him and said: "How do you know? Von haven't felt of It and there Is no mirror here thnt you could have looked Into. Some times, Mr. Holmes, I am almost forced. In spite of your declarations that you do these wonderful things by reason able human processes, to believe that you must be gifted with second sight. Nyw, what has you that foul' necktie Ts deranged?" "I uotjeed a man lock aj my tie just now and then feel of his own," the great detective answered. "Wonderful! Wonderful! Only your tie is all right."—Chicago Tlinos-Her ald. A Queer Hewnril For lJrnvery. About four years ago the house of rich Hampshire gentleman was broken Into by burglars, who hut for the In surrounding a round central one, them single-handed would have made off wl'h a large haul. Including a su perb diamond ring valued at over S2OOO. On Ids return the gentleman effusively thanked Ids servant, and | promised that 011 every anniversary of the abortive burglary lie should be permitted to wear the riug lie had saved. Singular ltew.rd For llerol.in. No more singular reward for hero ism can well he imagined than that which a certain John Vesper will carry with him to the grave. Some fifteen years ago, when a poor clerk, he saved, at great personal risk, a lit tle girl from drowning. The grateful father, who was a professional tat tooer, offered in return for (he great service he had rendered to decorate his entile body with specimens of hie art. POPULAR SCIENCE. | According to chemical analysis | fifteen parts of the flesh of fish have j about the same nutritive value us j twelve parts of boneless beef. j The French statistician Dr. Llvrier, | I says that half of all human beings die j before seventeen, that only one per j son in 10.UUO lives to be 100 years old, ■ and that only one person out of every lot Ml lives to be sixty. In 3850 Professor Hclmlioltz ad vanced a theory that the sun's heat is maintained by the slow contraction of I its mass. Hi- calculated that an an -5 nual contraction which should reduce j the sun's diameter to the extent of 500 j feet annually will account for Its eu | tire heat radiation in a year. | It has been found taat the pain j caused by the sting of nettles is due j partly to formic acid and partly to a ; chemical resembling stinko poison, j Our nettles are comparatively harin- I less; out in India, Java and else -1 where, there are varieties the painful effects of which last weeks, and in I some eases mouths, like snake bites. j Dr. L. L. Seaman offered, through I the Military Service Institute, a prize for the best essay on the ration for use of the army in the tropics. Dr. Muuson's essay received the prize. He considers that the present army ration contains too much nitrogenous food and hydrocarbons and not enough [ carbohydrates; also that the ration is 1 too generous The sugars and starches | should be slightly augmented. j The substance called radium emits | radiations resembling the X-rays with out tlio application of work or energy j from external sources, and without ap- I preeiable loss of weight. This seems j lo be inconsistent with the law of the conservation of energy; but the mys -1 rery is explained by the calculations of | M. Becquerel, which show that a loss !of weigli so infinitesimal that ill a thousand million years it amount to no more than a milligram would suf j (ic-e to account for the observed effects. According to this explanation the emanations from radium consist of 1 material particles. But how infinitely | minute must those particles be! Klk nnil Wolf. 1 We had just entered a range of sand j hills, which characterize the Dismal River country, when we were attract ed by the strange antics of a bunch of j elk. They were cows, calves and spike bulls. When we first saw them they were huddled together in a round bunch and seemed "milling" about like cattle at a round-up. As we stood looking at them they broke into a run, going lot) yards or so, and then stopped and knotted up again. | At first we could not make out what j tlio matter was, hut 011 going closer to them saw they were being har rassed by a couple of buffalo wolves. The elk would bunch up, with the cows and young bulls 011 the outside, heads out, calves in the centre, the wolves circling round the outside and trying to break tip and sentter the herd so they could single out a calf. The wolves charged again and again, hut for a long time the elk stood firm, we lying 011 an adjacent hill and watching the sport. At last the wolves withdrew and seemed to give it up. At this the elk broke into a run again. As soon as their organization was broken the wolves returned to the charge, and this time succeeded in cutting out a two-year-old heifer. As soon as the heifer was separated from the bunch her fate was sealed, as the wolves kept between her and the rest until they were well out of the way, and then closed with her. One of the wolves seized her by the ham, and In an instant she was down, with ham string severed. The other wolf then sprang at the throat, and the jugular vein was cut as quickly as it could he done with a knife.—Forest and Stream. Tlip Queen'* Irish Guards. Nearly every detail Is completed with respect to the formation of her Majes ty's regiment of Irish guards. The bat talion exists at present only on paper; hut when the approval of the Queen lias been received for the propositions made with regard to uniform nud badges. It will nt once come Into exist ence in considerable strength. The regiment will form at St. John's Wood Barracks as soon ns the necessary or ders arc issued. It Is decided, and on ly her Majesty's approval is required to give effect to the proposals of the War Office, thijt uniform of the new rcglmoiit shall tie the same as that of the existing guards, with sonic distinctive variations. The buttons'on the tunic will be arranged in fours, nud there will be four buttons on the sleeves and the skirts of the tuuic. The design on the buttons will bo that of a harp and crown. The collar badge is to lie a shamrock, but it Is not yet settled whether there shall be 011 the shoulder-strap a shamrock or the star of St. Patrick. The forage-cap will be either a green hand or a green piping, with the star of St. Patrick in front, and the plume in the bearskin will be of St. Patrick blue. There have been many applications from suitable re cruits to join the new regiment, lint till these details of uniform have been approved by the Queen it has not been J found possible to enlist them.—Loudon Standard. —— The Ilor.o Breeder'. Specially. A Britisli army officer, who was re cently collecting cavalry mounts in Australia, received the following note from a horse breeder: "I can supply you witli horses for cavalry, nrtilry and infantry. But I think my special ty is in the bors de combat as the French soldiers call him, which meant officers' war horse or charger." Where to Locate? WHY, IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE Louisville Nashville Railroad, -THE- Srcat Central Southern Trunh Line, —IN— SENTI'CKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA. WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers. Manufacturers, Investors. Speculators and Money Lenders will find the greatoat chances in the United States to make "big money" by reason of tho abundanco and cheapness of Land and Farms, Timber end Stone, Iron and Coal, Lcbor—-Everything. j Freo sites, financial assistance, and free* j doin irom taxation tor the manufacturer. Laml and farm* nt SI.OO ;-er n re and up wards, and 500,(00 acres in West Florida that san be taken gratis under the U- S. Home* I btead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District I Will make enormous profits. Half fare excursions the first, and third Tuesdays of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will fcell you where and how to get it—but don't delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all information free. Address R. J WEMYSS. General Immigration and Industrial Agonl I.ou ftvll/'A. Kv. There is more Catarrh In this section of the country than an other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed tobe incurable. 1;or a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly fnilinn to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to lie a constitutional disease and therefore requires I constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ! manufactured by F. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo.' | Ohio, is the onlv constitutional cure on the 1 market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. it acts directly on i the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, rhoy offer one hundred dollars for any case if fails to euro. Send for circulars and testi- i menials. Address F.J. ( TLENKY.fe Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are tho host. Of the 4,110 varieties of flowers known and cultivated in Europe, scarcely 400 have any odor, and of these nearly 50 have an odor which is, if anything, dis agreeable. P/oiug Is as simple as washing when you uaePoTNAM FADELESS D\KS. Mold by all druggists. The Spanish import duties paid dur-. ing the first -i\ months of the current year exceed by 55.000.000 pesetas those for the corresponding period of 1899. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of UHOVK'S TAHTKLFRS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tastoieas form. No euro—uo pay. Price 50c. The island of Guam is .1,500 miles | from Honolulu and 1,600 miles from Manila. To Cure n Cnhl In One I>ay. Take LAXATIVE PROMO QUININK TABLETS. All druggists refund tho money if it fails to cure. E. W. GKOVK'S signature la on each box. 25c. When the British sparrow-hawk is fly ing toward its dinner it cleaves space ' at the rate of 150 miles an hour. Pyspopßla is tho bane of tho human sys tem. Protect yoursolf against its ruvages by tho use of lloemun's I'epsln Gum. The 24 o'clock system is to be intro duced throughout Spain on January 1. The Manufacturers of Carter's Ink have had forty years' oxperienco in making it unci they certainly know how. Send for "Inklings," freo. President Kruger, it is said, has shipped £7,000.000 to France since May. Mrs-Winslow'sSorwiingFytup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inllammr tion. allays pain, cures wind c011c.25c a bottle, India has a greater variety of plants than any other country in :hc world, j t{Thas a costive-looking face. ( A* A Ma T, H' s breath knocks you down. \ CTIa ra^ s s k c * - WT/P" 1/v r\ Listeners to his talk turn their ( I 7jL U heads the other way. His breath poisons God's pure He ought to keep clean inside, —that means sweet breath, quick braih, swift moving feet. You can't feel well and act well with your bowels clogged, sending poison all through your system. Clean them out gently but thoroughly and keep them clean with C.ASCARETS Candy Cathartic. Be sure you get the genuine. CASCARETS ar>> never sold in bulk. Look for the trade-mark, the long-tailed "C" on the box. You will find that all bowel ills and the nasty symptoms that go with them are quickly and permanently Get the genuine if you want results! Tablet is marked "CCC." Cascnrets are never #o 'd ' n bul *'' but only and always In the light blue metal box with the long-tailed " C." Look 25c. DRUGGISTS J \ -*8 (SEE KSIM" 0 " 10 "*"° ° n ' r nee( ® jr mortal, who can't afford to buy, we will mail a box free. -d ffSSKT 4 Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. iu StTFEBLNG AND BELIEF Throo Letters from Mrs. Showing that Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound Cures the Ills of Women Wrote for Hrs. Pinkham's Advice November, i 897 j 44 DFAR MRS. PINKIIAM : —I am a great sufferer, have much trouble through j the lower part of my bowels, and 1 am | writing to you for advice. Menses are j irregular and scanty, atn troubled with leucorrhnea. and I ache so through my | back and down through my loins. I j have spells of bloating very badly, | sometimes will be very large and other : times very much reduced."—MRS.CHAS. | IS. JoUN" HON, Box 33, Rumford Center, | Maine, Nov. 20, 1807. Improvement Reported December, i 897 | 44 DF.AR MRS. PINKIIAM:—I wish to tell you that I am improving in health. I am ever so much better than when I i wrote before. The trouble through | the lower part of bowels is better and lam not bloated so badly. I was very much swollen through the abdomen , j before I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege -1 table Compound. I still have a feel | ing of fulness across my chest. I have 1 used three bottles of it and am on the ! fourth."—MßS. CIIAS. E. JOHNSON. BOX I 33, Itumford Center, Maine, Deo. 13,1897. ; j Enjoying Good Health June, i 899 . 44 DEAJB MRS. PINKHAM : —Since a year ago I have been taking your medicine, and am now strong and enjoying good health. I have not been so well for 1 three years, and feel very thankful to you for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- [ table Compound hns done for me. I would advise all who suffer with fe male troubles to try your medicine."— • MRS. CIIAS. E. JOHNSON, BOX 33, Rum- 1 ford Center, Maine. June 1, 1899. I Fits permanently cured. No fit* or nervous ness after first (lav's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $3 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.H.ll.kLiNE.Ltd.lßl Arch I In 1870 there were 9.000 Shakers in the United States. At present they do I not number more than i.oco. Piso's Cure is Ihe best medicine we ever u=ed j for all affections of throat and lungs.—Wu, O. ENDSI-EY, Vaubureii, lad.. Feb. 10. 1900. The first book ever printed in Switzer land bears the date of 1470. GRAND PRIZE--W; 1 PARIS EXPOSITION lo A. .11A It K in cull in* lii *<i ii wil li nonr) v (if I v exhibitors I roin ail |inrri f lhe IIA It Til, Til IS ONI. V <;it\\l> lItl/l-: .-VI-P award nl for \it TI I'l ( I\ 1. 1.1 (I lis. Tin- CitWl) I'ltl/.i: rnnkM above ilie <•<)!.l> .iIMI) M. and is the IIII.IIISST AW Alt I). A. A MARKS,7OI hroauway, .\ew York. DKAII SMI: My right leg WHS amputated fonr inches above th* knee. In 1H; I pur chased UII artificial LEG of von. I AMI com- | i piled to say after ten years of constant use i I HIII convinced that I made no mistake in i taking your patent. My occupation is farm- I I often saw vrnocl all day: I have : picked l<io pounds of cotton in a day, ami ' that was about as much as I was able to pick , iMdore 1 lost my leg. I. CLI'CK I A . A. MA it 70l Uroadwav, New York. DEAR Sin: -I have worn one of your rubber fM>t fur over fifteen years wit n entire satisfaction. lain a truckman and have to lift several h u udre d weight at n time. l'. 11. liUKWSTKit. ' m"'! n Artificial MmH 530 pnc mil HOO a ■ uinyo 701 B'wrt, ! llluAtratluuii. A complete work mi Ike rcatoruiiou ol ike maimed. A. A. InAHKoi New York. If a woman's crown of glory is her hair, Jessie Fraser, of Fine, N. Y., must be a queenly ; woman. She wrote us, last January, that her hair was nearly 64 inches long and very thick. And she gave Ayer's Flair I Vigor all the credit for it. | Ayer's Flair Vigor may do I this for you. We don't claim the 64 inches every time, though. J. C. AYER COMPANY, Practical Chemist*, Lowell, Maw. i Ayer's Sarsapariila j Ayer's Hair Vigor Ayer's Pills Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ayer's Ague Cure | Ayer's Comatone WIN CHILDREN' ARE OrmS ilzi* lUt'TWM..tgl-'}x > flaJCy?ataTi results may follow. The medicine which for the past 00 years j has held the record for successfully rid j ding children of these pests is Prey's Vermifuge— made entirely from vege • table products, containing no calomel. 25 cts. at druggists, count rv stores or by mai I, ; postpaid. E. As. I'rky. Baltimore, Md. DROPS i cp8. Bojlt of teßtimciiinhnd lOiluv.' weatmeua Free. Dr. H. H. GKECM 8 BuNri. Do* B Atlanta. Q. P. N. U. ,'9. 'CO. That Utile Book For Ladies, ALICE MASON. ltociiJtbThß. N. Y A. A. MAK*. J Til Broad way, I DEA*< SIII: I *ell morning I papers on tlie railroad train*, j frequently i'Pt oil and oft" a j train when in m<>ti<>ll. Very ; few of my friend* know that i I lost one of inv feet. I .IXII SCHAIQ'F. A. A. MARKS), 701 Drondwav, New York. I> EAR Sin: I received the pair of artificial legs you made for me in line time: th v fitted ami I have worn them constantly I from the s nrt I work o'clock in the morning until ten nt night The limhe are lighter than 1 expected and appear E.'B. SCFCX.
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