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lobes of their ears have holes in them, each
of which is from half inch to an inch and
a half In diameter, and I have seen such
holes through which mans thumb could
be thrust and not bruise the skin. In some
cases women carry these big Burmese cigars
In their ears and / saw woman's ear yes
terday in which there were gold rings
which would have made good-sized napkin
rings. It seems incredible that the flesh
can stretch as it does, but some of the
poorer vomen's ears are so enlarged by this
process that the string of flesh which hangs
down in the place of the lobe is almost as
large around as the ear ITSELF The high
.sste lady has a hole in her ear about as big
around as her index finger, and the ear
plugs, which are about half an inch long,
are often tipped with clusters of diamonds.
They are sometimes of gold, and in the cases
of less well l-to-do people are plugs of solid
amber. The poorest women wear plugs OF
glass of bright green or yellow. The gold
rings are often hoops of gold of about the
same shape and size of an epen-ended thim-
bic.
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ried before they are 90 As to property
rights the woman's money is kept apart
from that of the mans, and she has an
equal right with her husband in the prop
erty earned during married life. In case of
a divorce she gets back ali of the money she
brought into the family and half of the
earnings. She has q right to her own earn
ings and the laws of divorce are more in
favor of her than her husband. She can
get a divorce If her husband is poor and
unable to support her. or if he is idle and
lazy. If he is always ailing or if he becomes
a cripple after marriage she may be di-
vorced, and on the other hand the man may
get divorce for three reasons. The first
is if his wife has no sons. The second is II
she does not love him, and the third is if
she persists in going where he forbids her.
In addition to this divorces are permissible
by mutual agreement. They are not COM
mon. however, nor reputable, and 1t is a
Burmese saying that a divorced woman
needs small wooing. Another Burmese say
ing is that's
.Monks are beautiful when they are lean,
four-footed animals when they are fat, men
when they are learned, and women when
they are married"
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,awiuily cawse. I never heard OF you befaw
in me life. You are just as rude as can be,
and will not detain you."
'"Thank you, sir, now thoroughly in
censed, 81 will 60 away. I see your method.
You draw me out in conversation, and then
after I have told you all know, you say
you will not detaln me. You say 1t several
times. You do not show me the album or
treat me eourteously, and then, because 1
am shy and ratified, you call me cawse.' L
would be ashamed to treat anybody that
way, Mr.. McAllister. I would not treat
my own wife that way. 1 come in here in
a quiet, off-hand way, and try to make you
feel easy with me, and you take advantage
of it. / put on gay, debonair and naive
air in your house, which 1 really do not
feel at all. I do it so you will not feel that
you must entertain me. I do not intend to
stay to dinner, but just come here to have a
talk as between man and man, about one
thing and another, and you sit up there on
the edge of your chair,
LIKE A SNOWMAN,
with hoe-handle for spinal column, and
expect me to be easy and graceful in nv
manners. cannot do it. 1 am not used
to it. Wherever go am courted and
feted and made much of. In all the gay
centres of young and joyous life, there you
will find me, with my little bon DsOts and
repartee. Here, in the presence of a
Stoughton bottle, a bump on a log. hy-up-
the-creek, cannot think OF anything to
say So appear at disadvantage, and
know 1t just as we'll as you do. 1 feel all
the time that you are weary. You throttle
q yawn every little while, just as you begin
to show the amalgam filling in your back
teeth. / felt somehow all the time that
was possibly boring you, because know
how it bores ieeble-minded person to fol-
low the swift flight of those who think
thoughts 1 am sorry. 1 am panied to
know that I have annoyed you, Mr.. Nc
Allister, for YOU look worn and haggard, as
if you might have been out last evening and
perhaps overbrayed Yourself.
then passed rapidly from his sight, in
tending to 60 via the street door, but in the
frenzy Of my wrath went out the wrong
door, 50 that soon found myself in the
Kitchen. So I stole out through the wood
shed, eating as I went cold Goldfish ball,
which Mr.. McAllister had no doubt at
tended the evening before. BILL NxE.
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FROM A TEACHERS STANDPOINT.
Deaf Murss Do Not Receive Proper ConsId-
GRAFTON In Popular Estimation.

Deaf Tutes Do Not Receive Proper ConsId-
Grafton In Popular Estimation.
Viewing the subject from the standpoint
of a teacher, whose interest naturally centers
in the helps and hindrances which the deaf
experience in their efforts to acquire an edu-
cation and the ability to improve their con-
dition, the outlook for their future is GER
tainly very promising.
We have seen their education in this
country rise from one school with four pu-
pills in 1917 to SO schools with some 5000
pupils at the present day, while the results
attained in the way Of instruction is simply
marvellous, and have placed the American
system far ahead OF all others. This combi-
nation of circumstances is tracesble equally
to the jealous efforts and perseverance, Of the
devoted men and women who have raised
the profession Of teaching the deaf to such
rank that it has engaged the attention Of
some of the brightest intellects Of modern
times-and to the hberality Of our Stats
Legislatures which, in most instances. have
amply provided for the deaf children within
their respective borders. Even the Govern
ment at Washington maintains a college for
the deaf, which, by the attainments and
high positions held by its graduates, attest1
the wisdom of affording the deaf facilitiez
for an extended education.
Our schools seek after the best attainahl.
results, special attention being Oiven to ths
inculcation Of the idea of the Sunrsrna Te,;,,,,
and our moral obligations. to the acor;r;,,ss
Of 3 correct knowledge Of the Enoiisb 1ar.
guase, which to the deaf child Il a foreign
tongue; to teaching articulation and 10
reading where practicable, and to the ac-
cushion Of manual trade. In lheiF en-
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A,yIIlare nra,den,s Dress.

The fashions do not change in Burmah and
it ought not to take Burmese lady long to
make her toilet. The tsmehn is worn by all
classes and in all parts of Burmah. The
village girls and the women of Mandalay do
not use the silk vest, and in its stead they
have a strip of cloth which is wound tightly
around the bust under the arms, leaving the
neck and shoulders bare in much the same
wav as the women OF Siam. There is scarf
which is sometimes thrown over one shoul-
der, and this falling under the other arm is
caught and is so arranged that it can cover
both shoulders if the girl should desire it.
One meets many women, however, who do
not use this scarf, and the ordinary dress Of
the interior village belle is about as decol-
lete as that of our fashionable society ladies.
The Village girls wear as bright celors as do
the ladies of the better classes, but their
tsmehns are of cotton. They are in plaid
patterns and are fastened with simple knot
at the waist.
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Living in Tents.

Living, as they do, the Burmese can not
have much of heme life. The houses of the
great majority are more ike tents than any
thing else. They are made of plated bam-
boo walls matched with palm leaves, which
are pinned to rafters of bamboo the size of
fishing poles. The most of the houses are OF
one story, and this is built upon piles so
high above the ground that you can walk
under the floor without stopping. Under
the house the live stock of the family is
kept and there is sometimes a work room
inside this lower foundation. The house
has no furniture in an American sense; the
family sleep upon mats and they keep their
heads off the floor by resting them upon
bamboo pillows. Still they are wonderfully
civilized considering their surroundings.
They are the kindest and most manly people
1 have met since leaving Japan, and their
women are bright, intelligent, and in the
cases of the younger ones, beautiful.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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LOTS OF CROOKED NOSES.
Hardly Anybody's Nasal Appendage ExnctIy
Straight and Regular.

Hardly AnybOdy's Nasal Appendage ExnctIy
Straight and Regular.
Lewiston Journal.1
I have been making study of noses late
ly, and really it's astonishing to find how
large proportion of, the noses are twisted
to one side or the other. Try to find the
median line of persons face by tracing it
from the tip of his nose and see how you
come out | Many people who imagine that
their noses are perfectly straight would find
by close inspection that those appendages
gee or haw 1ittle-perhaps to their amuse-
ment and maybe to their chagrin.
A Portland dentist tells a story to the
point. Says he: "After had fitted set of
false teeth to lady, she exclaimed, 'Whyl
YOU haven't got the middle of the set in the
middle of my FACET
''I looked again and told her thought I
had.
"'But just look at my noseP said she.
The middle of the set certainly is not in
line with the middle Of nv nose.'
I" That may be- said /, but your
"sDo you mean to tell me that my nose
amt straight?'
'''I think that you will find that such is
the case.'
"'How much is your bill? I'll pay it
and you can keep your old teethP
''She paid the bill, threw down the set
and founced out, as angry as an angry
woman could be. She went home. her
friends told her how foolish she was. she
laid awake all night, and the next day came
back, apologized and had her work I'm
ished {"
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Woman,s Rirhts.

Burmese women are treated well in the
family and they are the equals of the men
in family affairs. They have their say in
all business matters, and the only place in
which their inferiorityis noticeable is in re-
ligion. The Burmese are Buddhists, and
Buddhist woman has no chance to go to
heaven, save by her soul at death passing
into the body of man. If she is wonder
fully pious during this life such transmit
grafton may take place, and note that the
chief worshipers at the pagodas here are
women. Buddhist teachers put women much
lower in the scale of morality than man,
and they maintain that the sins of one
woman are equal to the sins of 5000 of the
worst men that ever lived. There are about
200, 600, 600 Buddhist women in the world,
and none of these have any other hope of
immortality than this. Nevertheless am
told that the Burmese women are more
honest than the men and that their business
promises are more to be trusted. They are
not educated, as rule, and it is only lately
that there have been schools in Burmah for
women.
The Baptist missionaries are doing a great
deal in this direction, and I visited a fe-
male seminary here which contained about
100 girls. They were very bright looking
girls, too, and the President of the school
told me that many of them could speak
three languages and that they were fully as
bright as the average American girl.
During my stay an English spelling match
was gotten up for my entertainment, and
class of 80 girls were spelled down. They
were all clad in the Burmese costumes and
bare-footed, bare-hesded, and with these
tight dresses about their limbs they stood
and spelled the words almost as rapidly as
the teacher could utter them. They had a
queer pronunciation and accent but they
did remarkably well, and two of the girls
remained on the floor for full halE-hour,
going almost through the spelling book in
that time. As the girls missed they one by
one went back to their seats, some laughing
and some pouting. But the two who re-
mained to the last tired out their teacher,
and as she said "enough" they walked off
proudly kicking out their bare heels as they
lifted them from the floor in this approved
Burmese fashion, which serves to keep the
dress closed in front.
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A Burmese Beauty.

She was q typical Burmese beauty and
she sat with her legs crossed fat on the
straw mat of her booth with shelves of silks
behind her and with gay-colored clothes on
the floor all around her. In her mouth was
q Burmese cigar at least foot long and
full inch in thickness. She offered me a
Whit when I looked at her goods but upon
my refusing she handed the cigar over to
her sister and attended to business. Pulling
down one piece of bright silk after another,
she spread them out on the mat before me
and chatted and laughed while she sold.
Girls mature here at Is and IA and this
bazaar daisy was perhaps 16 years old. She
was as straight as post and as plump as a
partridge, and her rich Burmese dress was
we'll fitted to show out her Beauties The
Burmese women are clad in two garments.
One of these is jacket of silk or cotton
which reaches to the hips and the other is
che tamehn. This is a wide strip of bright
silk about FIVE feet square, which is wrapped
around the waist and the limbs and fastened
with a twist at the front. 1t has the effect
of tight American pullbaek without the
hustle, put on without underskirts. The
opening Of the skirt is at the front, but the
women walk with a throwing out of the
bare heels, which prevents the folds opening
70 an immOdest degree.
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France. The city of RangOon has about
lac, 600 people, and it is the center Of trade
of lower Burmah. Much of the native bus
iness is done in immense bazaars, covering
many acres. These bazaars are rooted with
heavy wood or iron to keep out the sun. and
some Of them cover several blocks. Their
interiors are divided up into streets, which
cut one another at right angles. These
streets are walled with cases of goods of all
kinds, which rise from the back of a ledge
five feet wide and as high as q chair seat.
Upon these ledges the bazaar's sellers sit
with their goods piled around and behind
them, and in these bazaars the Burmese
women compete With merchants from all
over the East. They are as sharp at bar
gain as the Parsee merchants and the tur-
baDed Mohammedans who have stalls ad-
jacent to them, and the Burmese manufac-
lures of all kinds are sold by them. Without
education in arithmetic and without know
ing how to read and write, they can count
profit and loss like so many lightning cal
culators. bought some silk of one of them
to-day. The price first asked was three
times what finally gave, and the girl who
sold me made, doubt not, % per cent
profit. ...
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mother-in-law. She has no rights that
her husband is bound to respect, and he can
sell her when he is tired of her. The
Sianese girl, though step higher intthe
order Of human rights, has to support the
family, and she is, according to law, the
property Of the king. The Malay woman is
secluded in the harem of her husband, and
the millions Of women Of India, Egypt and
Turkey are never seen upon the streets.
The Burmese girls are the brightest char
acters of the country and their gay silks,
bright eyes and graceful figures fill every
place with color and beauty. They mix
with the men and they have equal rights in
property and social standing with their hus-
bands. During the first years of the mar
riage the man must live with and help sup
port his mother-in-lsw, and he is by no
means the master of the house. The woman
holds the purse. She is the business man of
the family and though at times it is said
that wife-beating takes place in Burmah.
such instances are few and far between. /
heard of one to-day in which a man enraged
by shrewish wife attempted to strike her.
A crowd gathered around and she taunted
him, saving "Beat mel beat melp' The
man raised his stick and brought it down
Sgain and again within an inch of the
Eoman's back, but did not dare to strike
aer.
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A LIVELY BEAR CHASE.
Bruin Is Pursued From West Virginia
Through MaryIand to Pennsylvania.

BruIn Is Pursued From West Virginia
Through Maryland TO Pennsylvania.
A bear hunt, which extended over three
States. ended at Chambersburg, this State,
on Sunday. On last Friday big 200
pound black bear was driven out of the
mountains of West Virginia by a party
of hunters and swan the Potomac
river. Bruin made his first ap-
pearance at Williamsport, Nd, on Satur-
day morning, and terrified the town, several
dozen hunters and packs of hounds going
after him without success. He then crossed
the Mason and Dixon line into Pennsyl-
vania, and made his next appearance near
Green Castle. There another big hunting
party was organized, but the animal escaped
the men and dogs.
On Sunday morning Bruin was seen near
several small towns in franklin county,
Pennsylvania, and the whole neighborhood
turned out to hunt him. Late in the after
noon he was seen near Quincy, eight miles
from Chambersburg, making his way up
the North Mountains. A big crowd of men
and dogs started after him. The dogs freed
the bear, and be was finally dispatched after
showing fight.
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of saying that the two propose to live to-
gether as man and wife. The matches are
sometimes made by the parents and some
times by professional matchmakers. The
most common method. however, is by the
young people fixing the arrangement for
themselves and carrying on their billing and
cooling the same as we do at home. The
Burmese groom furnishes the wedding
breakfast and he carries il to the house Of
the bride. After the marriage rice is thrown
after the couple as they go to the bridal
chamber and they are expected to pass seven
days in seclusion, though this is not COM
mon. The newly married pair live with
the brides parents for several years at least.
and in case that one of these parents dies
the other becomes an inmate of the family
for lifetime. 1t is presumptuous for a
young man to set up housekeeping immedi-
ately after marriage and he is supposed to
work for certain time for his wife.
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HARI-KARI IN JAPAN.
The Ancient and Barbarous Custom No
Longer in Vogue.


The Ancient and Barbarous Custom No
Longer in Vogue.
London Globe.J
The ancient Japanese custom of Hari-
Kari, or Happy Despatch, has received its
death blow. For centuries it has beeh usual
for any exalted japanese dignitary who may
have mortally offended his sovereign to re-
ceive polite official intimation to the effect
that his suicide will be pleasing to the
authorities, and until recently it has been
the unvarying practice for the offender
to acquiesce resignedly, and, after summon-
ing his relatives around him, to formally
disembowel himself in their presence. II
the culprit happened to De of exceptionally
high rank, the sovereign would, as mark
OF honor, send him jeweled sword, with
which to operate upon himself. But all
these things are now of the past. Not long
ago the Mikado was grievously hurt by the
words and conduct of high court official.
The man was an old and very valued servant
of the Crown; but his crime was unpardon-
able.
Next day, therefore, an officer brought
him the fatal sword, magnificent weapon,
with blade inlaid with gold and handle
encrusted with diamonds, together with a
sympathetic intimation that his early death
would be regarded as a benefit to the en-
pire in general and to the Mikado in partic-
ular. The culprit received the sword with
all proper respect, but, as soon as the ennis
sary had departed, the willy Japanese-in
whose mind European habits of thought
have evidently taken frmer root-walked
down to the quay, went on board mail
steamer that was bound for Havre, and
upon reaching Paris incontinently sold his
sword Of honor for $4,000.
We never met with better illustration
of the eminently practical nature OF the
Japanese character. It is exceedingly un-
likely that the Mikado will ever again trust
one of his subjects to execute himself. Still
less will His Majesty be inclined to favor
exalted criminals with jeweled swords of
honor. The Offices of Lord High Execu-
toner will probably be called into requisi-
ton instead, and wicked mobiles will, for the
future, be saved the trouble and anxiety of
having to be their own butchers.
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The Btdse Young Man. "Hamlet" because he
has heard it so often before. He says Booth
isfailing. Hedon' think thatJ Jeferson speaks
so distinctly as he used to do. He is sorry
for everybody, and pities everybody, and
wishes he could split up his knowledge and
give the slivers of thought and experience
to the poor.
The blsse young man never had any real
fun in his life. Even his attempts to be
real bad were disappointments. He will
criticise his harp when he gets it and get
his crown stretched before he will wear it.
He will also speak of the dampness of the
cloud he is sitting on and make sarcastic re-
marks because he cannot wear pockets
stitched on the outside of his robe or ny
about with shawl strap full of canes,
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of American blooded trick jackasses to 400.
Did You think of it yourself, or did some
newspaper man put the idea into your
head7"
II owe nothing to the press, Mr.. Ali
Mr.. All"
"Nye is my name. N-y-e. Mr.. All was
my partner. Mr.. All Sin. of California,
formerly of Hong Kong. My name is Nye.
We come from the De Nyes, who got some
the time of Looey the I. and so came to
this country, Still there is no royal blood
in our veins. We can say that, truly. We
have been great family for hauteur and
reserve, and we can truthfully say that no
dissolute monarch has ever been able to in
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AGay Costume.

The Weather ladies wear these dresses so
long that they trail upon the ground. The
colors are those Of the rainbow aud the most
delicate Of yellows, Of pinks and of blues
are used. Ny fair merchant wore skirt of
bright green and gold, and her silk vest was
q rich cream yellow. She had several
strands of pearls about her olive-brown neck
and her ears had great buttons in them of
clusters of diamonds, each as large as cuff
buttons. She had bracelets on her arms
and there was a golo ring on one Of her
toes, and in her hair was bunch Of bright
artl6cisl flowers. She was, L judge, Eve
feet high. Her eyes we're large, soft and
brown, aad above these were dsintil ily-srched
but not heavy brows She had a wealth or
Fich. glosss, black hair rolled up in pyrs-
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EASY TO TELL A DIAMOND.

A Simple Method Of Distinguishing the
Genuine From the False.
St. Louis Globe-DemocraT.
'It doesn't require an expert" said DR..
De Menil, ito tell whether diamond is
genuine or not. The test is very simple.
and can be made in any, place, and in a
moment. All yeu need is piece of paper
and lead pencil. With the latter make a
small dot on the paper, then look at it
through the diamond.
sIf you can see but one dot you can de-
pend upon it that the stone is genuine, but
if the mark is scattered or shows more than
one. you win be perfectly safe in refusing
to pay ten cents for stone that may be
offered you at $500.