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The entire stolfof a bankrupt neckwcnr factory just as
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partly made.
Your choice of all the FIN'EST
NECKTIES in the whole
stock , worth up to $1.50 ,
Special Good Values
aid worth
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Thousand pieces ) black mohuir bd'ltantine. ' the coolest and most serviccablu
dress fabric made , { ro in three lots , at 25c. 30o and 50c , worth up to SI.
40 INCH WIDE PURE SILK AND WOOL BUCK
BENG&LINE GLORU ,
Never olered less than $1.50 yard , go M nday at 75c.
42IXCH PURE SILK AND WOOL
Worth SI.75 yard , go at OSc in this sale. '
All Wool Armure , All Wool Nun's Veiling ,
All \Vool Basket Cloth , and All Wool Figured
Granites , worth § i , go at 500 yard.
Ono thousand womnn's fine Swiss Ribbed
SILK VESTS
in pinks , light blue , ecru , cream and all the latest
shades , u orth SI c
6,000 WOMEN'S
J.ISLE THKEAD VESTS
Riehclioa ribbeu , square or V-neck , with wide fancy silk
crochet trimming , worth 50c
An energetic. BOSTON STORE Silk movement without parallel In history bsglns
Monday. Ladies will buy Silks as they nevcf bought Silks before. A dozen failures
of others contribute. It's a Silk culmination such &S Omaha women have never
witnessed before , and never could witness ! outside of BOSTON STORE.
Yard
CHINA SILKS In blacks ,
cardinals , blue and
changeables ; also Surah
Silks in ail colors , go on
our front bargain square
at I5c yard.
' If jou wish 1o ctrry cut tha comparison , how
ever , you must let the great river extend
further west. If you could stretch It on a
straight line It would goito Denver , and still
be navigable for largo" boats and barges.
You must push It on further west to San
Francisco , and you are Btlll 500 miles from
Its source. U Is said to be 3,500 miles long ,
and has Its rise In the mountains of Thibet ,
and has tributaries all along Its course. It
tops two great lakes , wh'Ich give It canal
communication with other provinces , and the
most of the tea of the world ccmss from the
lands south ot it , and Is shipped across the
Pcyang lake , near where I now am , and sent
to Hankow for sale.
A OHEAT INLAND SEA.
In coming Into the Yangtse Us mouth is
so wide that It Is hours after you see the
muddy color of Its banks before you can
distinguish the banks , and , for the first fifty
miles of our Journey -we passed through
what seemed to be a great Inland sea rang
ing from twenty to fifty miles In width.
Our first hills were passed about fifty miles
Inland. Seven hundred miles from the coast
I found Its width to be more than a mile ,
and It holds that width nearly all the way
from Shanghai to Ichang , a distance of
about 1,000 miles. It. contains many
long , narrow Islands , and It now and then
branches out Into different streams or cut
offs from the main .bed of tha river , which
at high water materially shorten the
course. It Is as full of modern steamers as
the Mississippi , and bag in addition the
thousands of odd boats , and junks ot the
Chinese. I could fill this paper with the
mention of the different kinds of craft and
their loads , and among the ships there are
many which would bo a surprise to Ameri
can readers , There are Chinese life boats ,
for Instance , everywhere. They are low
junks with oars and sails , and they watch
the river during the storms and pick up
such tampans and fishing boats as are over
turned. They are under the control of the
districts through which they go and form a
sort ot river police.
Now and then they capture a smuggler era
a pirate , and here and there outside of some
of the villages I saw boats which had been
cut In half and set up on end. I asked what
they were , and I was told that they had
belonged topliates and thieves. The cul
prits had been caught , and beheaded , and
their boats were thus put , up as warnings
to their brothers to beware of the law. Such
boats are usually put up at the places at
which the crimes were committed.
Everywhere , you meet -with native and
government officials , * The different pro
vinces have their customs ofUcors , and they
levy a heavy tax on all the native boats ,
each official gets his squeeze , And the taxa
tion Is terribly heavy. The customs col
lected for the genera ) government are In
the hands of foreigners , for the emperor
cannot rely upon thej honesty of his own
officials , and so an Irishman ; Sir Robert
Hart , collects hladuties' for him , and his
boats and officials' are pt all the leading
ports. You see their customs officers scat
tered all along the banks of the river , and
at high water they sometimes use the little
huts of bamboo , which "are brought down
In the rafts from the upper Yangtse.
PIIODUCTIVBWEALTH. .
This valley of the YJangtso Klang U a
vast garden. All along its course the grass
Is as green as Egypt In .winter , and two or
three crops a year aro. every where grown.
In looking over the landscape you sea no
fences or barns. The pgople. live In villages
made of thatched huts , with walls ot plaited
reeds , which they plaster Inside and out
with mud. Sometimes the huts stand alone
la the town , and at other times they are
Joined together In block * ; The best of them
are not more than twenty feet square , and
the averagj farm house-lini only one story.
The earth forms the floor. You could , I
venture , build a good one fcr 15. The
houses stand flush with -the slimy mud side
walk , and the filthier aqd dirtier this Is , the
bett-r It seems to pleaaa. the people. Each
village lias a clump ot tree * about It. and
In looking over tbu valley you ace hundreds
of these clumps , and realize the force of
the statement that the whole empire Is one
vait village. Many ot the villages , I am
told , consist of only one family or clan , and
the Chinese are said to take better care of
their relatives and to work together better
than any other people of the world.
CITIES AND VILLAGES.
The best of the towns here are close to
the river , and we have passed many walled
cities , with pagodas and temples rising above
the other rldge-slmpd roofs. At some of
the nlpger centers this ship stops to take
on and discharge cargo , . and I have gone
through a number of cities since I came to
China the names of which I had nsver heard.
Take the city of Nganklng nit Nanking ,
the old capital of China , you have all read
of that but Ngankiug. How many of you
have ever realized that it exlsteJ ? Well ,
we have just left it. It Is a city cf about
500,000 people and Is bigger than St. Louis.
It Is the old capital of the ( state of Ganhui ,
which has n population of more than one-
third of the whole United States , though
It Is not as big as the state of New York.
It Ites right on the banks of the Yangtse ,
abfiit 150 miles above Nanking , and It has
miles of walls about It. These walls are
twenty-five feet high and so wide that you
could drive a buggy around the city on the
top of them. Nganking Is well built and
rich now , though It was nearly rulnd during
the Talplng rebellion , back In the fifties. At
that time , the rebels held It under siege , and
food became so scarce that human flssh was
used , and , It Is Bald , was sold lu market
places for Its .weight In silver. The city
has now a great native trade , thsugh It Is
not one of the treaty ports , and foreign
steamers cannot stop at It. It has one of
the finest pagodas on the Yangtse. It Is
a seven-storied tower of rose pink , rising ,
as It were , right from the banks of the river ,
to a height , I Judge , about half that of th *
Washington monument. It Is many-sided
and Its top la decorated with n beautiful cap
of bronze , which Is built In rings , like those
of some of the temples In Slam , to a point.
This tower was being repaired when I visited
It and a framework of pole scaffolding ex
tended from Its base upward to a height of
moro than 100 feet. Upon this hundreds
of Chinese masons and painters were workIng -
Ing , and away up on the sixth story I could
note little fiy-llke celestials clinging to the
wall and patching up the ravages of the
weather. I was glad to sse It , for It showed
mo that there Is at least one place In China
where the monuments of the past are re
spited , and where bcth the religion and
the temples have not gone to seed.
1'lt.lTTLE UfTltK
When a child has lively Imagination , but
has not yet reached the age when It can
reason , truth has a hard time of It occa
sionally. Little Edith U. , 4 years old , some
times shows temper. Her nurse asked her
to do something the other day , and Edith
flatly refused. When the nurse Insisted
that Rdlth must do U she raited her doll
with youthful passion and , throwing It down
violently , shattered Its head to pieces ,
"Edith , " said her mother , "when your
father comes home you should go to him and
tell him what you have done. "
Edith's father came home at the usual hour ,
but she did not offer to tell him anything
about the doll. As he had been told by the
mother what had happened , he finally look
his daughter on hU knee.
"Has Udlth been a good girl today ? " he
asked.
"Yea , she's been very good , " was the
modest answer ,
"Are you ure that she has been good
ail day ? "
"Let me see , " said Edith , Razing afar off
in a thoughtful way. "Yts , " with em
phasis , "I think that the has been a very
good glr' all doy "
"Has Mamie ( the doll ) been all right to
day ? '
"Oh Mamie , " said Edith , coolly , "was not
a good girl. She went out when I told her
not to go. She was walking along when
she fell down on the sidewalk and broke Uer
WITH AN INSIDE HISTORY ,
Thousands of dozens ladies fine fast
I black Pure Silk Mitts ,
which cost 250 to import ,
go tomorrow at I5c.
See dozen ladies' highest grade
I youese Silk Mitts ,
regular 750 quality ,
go tomorrow at 250.
IN OUR BASEMENT.
50 pieces double
fold black wool
illuminated dress
goods , worth 390
go at loc yard.
100 pieces small
plaids and
checks wool
cheviots , worth
35c , go at gc
yard.
' Just received over 1000 pieces Butter Color
'A Iicices and Insertions , all the latest styles
and patterns , in very fine , soft , lacy effects ; all
go at half what they would cost in a regu'ar way.
kReally |
Really worth up to SI.OD a yard.
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BOSTON STORE , OMAHA. CHrDEni . liTH ! ! iOSTON STORE , OMAHA.
AL'NC THE YANGTSE KIA8C
Bema of the Wonders of the Greatest Eiver
of Ohina.
THE IMMENSITY OF THE YANGTSE VALLEY
A Vast implro Cut Up l > y CnnaU Country
mill VIlliiKC" How 1'Iratcs
Are Trcutcd-Tlio Wiilloil City
of
( Copyrighted 1S34 by Trunk G. Carpenter. )
ON 110AHD A CHINESE STEAMER , 600
MILES FKOM THE MOUTH OF THE
YANGTSE K1ANO , April 15. ( Special Cor
respondence of TheHee. ) I have been rid
ing for days upon the great Yangtso river ,
nnd I write this letter in almost the center
of the Chinese empire. I am within less
than 100 miles ot the Chicago of the celestial
land , the vast city ot Hankow , and am pass
ing through the country where the Chinese
mobbed the foreigners n year or BO ago ,
burning down the houses of the missionaries
and killing some of the English officers of
the Chinese customs. Last night I left
Kluklang , a big trading center at the mouth
of the I'oyang lake , and during the past
two weeks I have passed a halt dozen cities
of the size of Cleveland or Washington , and
have traveled through about the same num
ber ot great states , having an aggregate
population ot something llko 150.000,000 of
people. All the towns I have visited I have
found packed with a throng busier than you
find on lower Droadway at noonday , and I am
amazed at the Immensity of this great
Chinese empire and its enormous populi- .
tton. I entered the Yauctse at ita mouth ,
twhere It flows through the Chinese province
or state ot Klangsu. This is the center
of the cast coast , and it has an area about
aa big as that ot Pennsylvania. U contains
more than half as many poeple as the
-whole United States , and Us population Is
nqunl to that ot the British Isles. The
r.tnlo of Qanhul , which I next entered , is
no bigger than Kansas , but It supports 27-
000,000 people , and the state ot Hupeh , in
> vhlch I am now traveling , has over 20,000-
000 , This great river itself has millions
who arc born , live and die upon Its waters ,
and at every landing I see a thicket ot poles ,
each of which springs from the homo of one
ot the millions of families which make up
Chlna'u 'joat population , I am amazed at
the wonderful resources of the country ,
My vyus bulce out at the muscle and In
dustry ot its people , and my head buzzes
In trying to understand the curious sights
which'are crowded upon me.
KINO OF ITS KIND.
China's great rivers are among the won
ders of the world , and the Yangtse Klang
U the king of Us kind , U has a greater
volume of water than the Nile or the Amazon
zen , and It has built up a greater country
than Egypt along the law lands of China.
In approaching It from the ocean I found
the water * discolored by Its muddy fluid
many miles out at sea , and It turus the
salty brlno yellow for fclxty miles from Its
mouth. Here It U about an thick as pea
coup. You draw up a bucket and in a mo
ment Its bottom will have a thick sediment
ot mud. I bad been warned not to use the
cplgot which runs from the bottom ot the
boat Into my bath , but this morning tha
boy had made It too bet and I tried to cool
the barrel of filtered water tn the tub with
about a gallon from tha Yangtse. I thought
the amount was so little that U couU not
affect the rest. The result was that the
clear water became the color of mud and
my bare foot left an Impression on the .bot
tom as marked as 'that of the savage which
so scared Hobtnson Crusoe on the desert
Island. U is a sort of gritty silt , but I
am told that there is no river on earth
which brings down a sediment more fertile.
The whole of the great plain of north and
central China has been made by it. This
plain Is TOO miles long , and It supports more
than 100,000,000 of people. The yellow river
runs through It 100 miles north of this point ,
and this river. In combination with the
Yangtse , has built the foundations of one-
fourth of the Chinese empire. Today It Is
estimated that the amount of dirt they carry
down from the highlands of Thibet and of
China Is so great that It forms every two
months an island a mile square In the sea
and at the mouth of the Yangtse. I sailed
by the Tsung Ming Island , which Is thirty-two
miles long and about ten broad. It has
been built up within 100 years or so , and
now has cities and villages and supports
more than 1,000.000 people. The sea at the
mouth of the YanRtst : Is filled with llttlo
Islands , many of which has grown up within
the memory of men now living , and along
the low banks of the river I can see the
strata of soil which It has brought down
from year to year. At some points these
lines of sediment ar from one to two feet
thick , and they are of as marked colors as
strata ot rock. The river has a vast volume
of water. A line of freight water-tight cars
reaching frm New York to Chicago and
carrying twenty tons each could not hold Its
one day's discharge Into the sea , and Its rise
and fall at the city of Hankow , about G50
miles from UK mouth , ranges during the
year from forty to fifty feet. Within the
past ten days the river has risen thirteen
feet and It Is now going up at the rate of
a foot a day.
CANALS AND DIKES.
The rise In the Yangts'e Klang Is so great
that embankments have to bo built along Its
course for more than 1,000 miles. All of the
country I have passed through Is diked , and
this , net only as to the river , but also as to
every creek and canal connected wltb It.
Central China. Is more cut up by waterways
than Holland , and there aro. more dikes hereto
to the square mile than you will find In the
Netherlands. Sailing alcng the Yanjjtto you
see these dikes In every direction. They are
about twenty feat high and from thirty to
forty feet wide at the base , and their tops
form the roads and paths of the country.
Along them you see all sorts of Chinese char
acters trudging along , their figures allhoutted
against the blue sV.y. Here goes the great
freight car of China. It Is a wheelbarrow
and a native coolie pushes It. llehind him
comes another species of the same , a man
carrying two great loads fastened to the
ends of the bow-like pole which rests upon
his shoulders. Next you tee a brightly
dressed girl , wearing red pantaloons and
a blue sack , carrying a parasol of paper
and looking very gay as she hobbles up
the bank. You note mandarins riding In
blue chairs carrlfcj between ' two bare-legged
coolies , who trot along In' front and behind ,
and among the nobles , the common people
on foot.
Here and there you may tee a sheep era
a hog , but the horses ore comparatively
few. and the only cattle are the half hog
half cow known as the water buffalo. You
see these working In the , fields pulling rude
ploughs or turning the wooden water
wheels which are used In fame parts of
China for Irrigation. They are for all the
world llko the saklyeha ot Egypt , and
there are many things about you which re
mind you of the laud of the Pharaohs , You
see na cattle cr horsca dragging burdens
upon the embankment , and the canals and
rivers , in fact , take , the place of roads. In
all this part of China , it Is Eald , you can go
to every man's bouse In a boat , There are
numerous creeks that empty Into the Yangtse.
The mouths of tutia are filled wltb junks ,
and on them and the canals , which cut up
the land like a net you see the masts and
calls of boats walking , as It were , rapidly
over the green fields. Often there will be
several lines ot theie boats ruonlag parallel
Yd
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New Striped and
Small Plaid
Worth a DolJar.
Go af 39c Yard ,
Worth
lOOPieces
Ootion
Ghallles
With Small
floral designs ,
worth 12ic ;
go at 3 c.
Yd
New Spring Colors
and Black
irs Antique
Regular 75c quality ;
goat39c.
BEST GRADE
LAWNS ,
fn Black and Navy
Blue grounds , hand
some colored figures
worth loc ; go at 5c.
2,000 YARDS
Fancy
Crinkles
Worth 20c ; go Mon
day at 5c yard.
,
with the river , their white sails growing
smaller In the distance , until they form
white specs upon the dim line of the horizon.
The cost ot making and keeping up this
series of embankments must be enormous.
The Yangtse changes Its course every now
and then ; It cuts away the soil and new
dikes have to be built. In many places there
are several rows of earth , one behind
the other , and the remains of discarded
embankments are everywhere visible. In
the summer the river rises and floods every
thing not so diked. Houses are often swept
away , villages are destroyed and the land
becomes a great Inland sea. All alone the
course are the vestiges of past floods , and
here and there you see graveyards that the
river has eaten Into , and you note the eao-
Inu holes left by the coffins. At one point
about 100 miles from where I now am , I
i > aw a cofQn extending half way out of the
bank. It undoubtedly contained a skeleton ,
and the wood was rotten with age. The
water was then within a foot of It , and by
this time It must have been washed out to
sea. Here and there we could see men Irri
gating the soil by tread-mill pumps , worked
by half naked Celestials , and everywhere
man seemed to be waging a brave fight with
nature and cettlnc the best of It.
DISPOSING OP THE DEAD.
Speaking of coffins , I could see them now
and again lying on the river banks. They
were generally covered with a thatch of
straw , and this Is a common way for the
people to dispose of their dead. They have
not enough money to give their friends a
decent burial , and they lay the coffins out
to wait until they can earn the funeral ex
pense. Near Shanghai I saw Jiouses for
the storing of dead bodies. They were little
one-story huts , with a window or hole near
the top. The fresh coffins' are put Into this
window and placed upon the ledge , half
sticking out. The next comers push the
coffins on the windows into 'the enamel
house and put their own Infant dead Into
their places , to be shoved In turn by those
who follow them. As to the scenery along
the Yanstse , however. It Is a general Idea
that China Is one vast plain , covered with
grave mounds. I saw some graveyards. It is
true , but they were comparatively few. The
people bury near their houses when they -can ,
and the graveyards were probaby far back
from the river. They use the elevated spots
and the hills. A largo part of the country
Is rolling , and the Idea that China consists
ot one vast flat plain Is incorrect. Where I
am now writing I am surrounded by mag
nificent hills , and all along this great river
you find breaks of rolling country. I saw the
snow on the mountains when I came up past
the city of Kluklangand at Ichang , above
here , there arc gorges which compare with
the canons of the Colorado In' their mag
nificent grandeur. These ore 1,000 miles In
land , and the sources ot the Yangtse are two
miles above the sea.
These gorges are narrow chasms , with a
current so swift that the boats which pasg
up them have to be hauled along by gangs
of men , and the water in them , it Is eald ,
sometimes rises 100 feet , above Its .ordinary
level. They are comparatively short ! and If
they could be passed by steamers the vast
region of the Yungtse could be tapped , and
steamboats could travel 2,000 miles Into the
Interior. There Is still talk of building
steamers Email enough and powerful qjtough
to ( Withstand tbo current of these gorges ,
and It is not an impossibility that the
whole ot Interior China will at some time
bo opened up by steam.
A COMMERCIAL HIGHWAY.
The Yangtse today Is one of the greatest
tride routes of the world. China U said to
have more boots on her waters than there
are In all the rest of the world combined.
She U the best watered country In God's
green earth and has more wonderful water
ways , Suppose you could stretch a river
wider than the MUsUslppl In an almost
Btralght line from New York to Chicago
Suppose U to be navigable for the biggest
ocean ( learners for that distance from May
to October , and let chlpa from Itussla , Ger
many. England and other parts ot the
world sail through It and load at Its
wharves. This would be aleut what can
to done on tbo YansUc Klans belotr Ichang.
Yd ,
30-inch heavy black China Silks and
3fMtich dark China Silks with
small floral designs and heavy
Brocade Silks for trimmings and
waists in light and dark colors ;
worth np to 9Sc a yard ; go on our
front bargain square at ftilcyard.
Yd
Real Kabutai
That sell regularly at
"
98c , go at 5Oc
SOO Pieces Finest Grade
French [ mporfed Sateens ,
In dark
worth up to flflc ;
go at 15c a yard.
IOOO YARDS
| T
\
40 inches -wide ,
in dark and light
grounds ; vyorth
29c ; go Monday
at 12ic yard.
Yard
PLAIN AND FIGURED
China Silks
With large and small polka
dots and floral designs ;
worth up to 75c yd ; go at
25c yd-
Yd
20-inch ALL SILK
BLACK FAILLES
Ml DUCHESSES
and Extra heavy and
wide satin , worth
S1.25 , go at75c.
4O-INCH
Extra fine quality ,
worth Snc ; go on
( sale Monday at
100 PIECES
Unshrinkable Shirting
and Outing Flannels
Worth 12'TcTlo on' Jj J
on sale at 4Jc
a yard.
head off. "
Five-year-old Flossie hail been battling
with her mother all day. "There , child , "
said the latter on putting the child to bed ,
"sleep well end don't be so cross when you
wake up. "
"I notice , " retorted little Flossie , "when
' It's mo you say 'cross ; ' when It's you , you say
' ' "
'nervous.
Teacher Now , Harry , In the sentence ,
"Mary gave Itobert live caltes , " you have
parsed the word Mary as masculine gender.
How do you make that out ?
Hnrry Well , 'cause If she did what the
book says she was a dandy.
Sunday School Teacher Why did Judas
Iscarlot hang h.mself ?
Tommy I guess because be couldn't berry
a revolver.
Tottle Ma , does tenderloin come from a
cow ?
Ala Yes , dear.
Tottle Then "sirloin" comes from a gen
tleman cow , don't it ?
Charles S. Scanlan of the Cincinnati En
quirer John II. McLean's newspaper was
once sent Into n small town In the south
west to get the story of a woman evangelist ,
Who had been greatly talked about. Scan-
Ian attended one of her meetings and occu
pied a front seat. When those who wished
to be saved wera asked to arise Scanlan
kept his seat and used his note book. The
woman approached and , taking him by the
hand , said : "Come to Jesus. "
"Madam1 said the newspaper man , "I'm
here solely on business" to report on your
work , "
"Brother , " said she , "there Is no business
so Important as , God's. "
"Well , maybe not , " said Scanlan , "but
you don't know John McLean. "
Some weeks ago an old deacon In Penn
sylvania was very self-willed , and on two
or three occasions made endless trouble In
church. At last the church clerk got up
and Bah ! :
"Brethren and sisters , I wish Deacon
Jones was In hell. "
The new pastor and the members were
horrified , and thapastor said :
"Brother Smith , such a remark Is unkind
and unchristian. Why do you use such ex
pressions about a brother ? "
"Well , pastor , " ho replied , "I'll bet that
If Deacon Jones was In hell ubout six months
ho would bust It up. "
New Clergyman ( In rural district to
barefoot bay met during a first walk )
Well , my lltllo maul Are you a farmer lud ?
Barefoot Boy Yes , sir.
New Clergyman All farmers hereabouts ,
are they not ?
Barefoot Boy Yes , sir.
New Clergyman All simple , honest farm
ers. eh ?
Barefoot Boy Not nil of 'em. Most of
'em keep summer boarders.
"Why , Mr , Gchoncs , I did not suppose
that you cored anything for base ball , " said
the deacon. "I am surprised to cce you
here. "
"I didn't come out to see the game , " an
swered the simsatlonal evangelist. "I get
a good many expressions for my sermons
from hearing those fellows on the cheap
etuts talk to the umpire. "
" \Vhon the assistant fell upon the chancel
stairs this morning he reminded mo of the
father of the prodigal ton. "
"In what respect ? "
"Don't you know , when he saw his son
afar off he ran and tell on his neck. "
"I nm to unJer-tand , then , that you view
the istate of future punishment merely as a
condition" "
"Net even that Merely as a theory , "
Sweet breath , sweat ttomacb. sweet tem
per ? Then use DeWUt'a Little Early IlUera.
100 pieces wool
serge , double
fold de beige ,
at i2/tc yard.
Hnmlsomo all wool
storm screes and
extra line Enjj-
lish cnuhmcrcs ,
blacks and col
ors , worth ut ) to
SOo , RO at Uoc a
yard.
coxxuniA LIT tus.
Henry C. Brown , aged 75 , the multimillionaire
lionaire and owner of Brown's hotel , Den
ver , was married last week to Miss Mary
Louise Matthews , aged 30.
Sometimes you can tell about how much
a man really loves his wife by noticing
which of them carries the baby when they
go out together for a walk.
Won Yip Hong of San Francisco , who
has been In California for fifty years and Is
now 70 years old , has Imported from China
n 10-year-old wife.
The marriage of Yung Kwal of the Chi
nese legation to Miss May Burnham ot
Springfield , Mass. , will take place on May 23.
Husband They say of married people
that they are but one. Which one , I wonder ?
Wife The woman , of course. You are the
winner , you know ; consequently I must bo
the won.
Good Advice Father Do you really de-
slro to make my daughter happy ? Tha
Suitor Certainly , Father Then don't marry
her !
A New York girl of social position has re
fused a. nobleman , and that nobleman a
prince ! Her friends In bociety are , ot course ,
looking after her very tenderly In the hope
that the aberration Is only temporary.
A number of Norwegian women hi Chicago
have organl/ed a club for securing model
husbands. They have taken an oath to
marry no man who uses Intoxicants or to
bacco. In addition candidates must bo In
telligent , honest , good-natured and clean.
The Vassar girls the other evening dis
cussed the question , "Does higher education
unfit a man for matrimony ? " and decided In
the ufllrmdtlva. They seemed to think that
a man full of Greek roots and Hebrew
hieroglyphics would not likely want to walk
the floor at night when the baby was cut
ting teeth or had the colic. There may bo
somethliiK In It.
Aurella ( anxiously ) Have jou seen Gcorgo
this evening , papa ? Ho promised to call.
Papa Yes. Ho did call and I entertained
him for an hour before you came down
stairs. Aurella You entertained him ,
papa ? Papa Yes. I gave him n list of
all the new dresses you had last year , and
the cost of each. I never a\v man mora
Interested , yet he left very hurriedly.
The reported engagement of George Mere
dith's daughter and Henry Sturges of the.
well known Boston family Is an International
alliance a llttlo out of the usual order.
Sturges Is American only In name , for both
he and his brother Julian are thoroughly
anglicised by long residence In England.
Meredith IB one of the brightest of HvinK
novelists.
The country bride and bridegroom with
clothes cracklngly new walked lovingly
hand In hand down the broad hotel dliitng
room In Washington , two souls with but a
single thought , and blindly oblivious to all
things else but each other In this great
happy earth of ours. Almost crowded on ono
chair , ho fondly fed her as the parent bird
Its llttlo chick , "Darling , " he murmurlngly
clucked , "ahall I skin yo a pertater ? " "No.
deary , " she gurgled , "I've one already
skun. "
A kiss Imprinted on his sweetheart's llpa
has Involved Henry Ives , a Ilergon comity.
Now Jersey , farmer , In a suit. Several months
ago Ives met and wooed Mlxa Annlo
Hufferty , a comely young woman living In
Manchester township. Ills wooing soon
ripened Into a betrothal , Mies HafUrty had
told him during their drat tryst that she-
would permit none but her future hiibbaml
to give her a lover's kiss , and her coyness
won Henry's heart , When about to go away
on& evening several weeks ago Mr , IVCB gav
hli Hweetlienrt a long parting kiss , during
which the gold filling l Miss Kaffcrty'i
teeth came out. She told him ot the nils-
Imp , thinking he would compensate her for
her lo . He did not , however , and row Miss
Itafforty has retained counsel and bun
brought vult against Ives , Sue had Ilia
teeth refilled and has furnished the lawyer
with a bill of expenses. The young woman' *
suit has frightened the farmer and the eu >
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