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of Shah Jehan the man who made the pea
cock throne which cost s., ,000, 900, a bath
room which cost fortune. 1t had room
alter room of marble and there were hot
pipes and cold fountains and it is said that
one of this mans successors, when he
suspected one of his wives to be unfaithfuI.
was wont to lock her up in this bath, turn on
the hot water and forgot all about her. The
result was that she awoke in heaven, The
Turks of Egypt and OF Turkey, spend a
great part of their time in the bath, and the
Turkish bath is too well known In the
United States to need description.
The Rajahs of India have got the art of
keeping cool down to a science. One of the
finest cities of the Far East is that of Jew
pore. 1t is the capital of native State.
All of its buildings are rose-cUlored and
they were all built after one style of archi
lecture. The palace of the Rajah is in vast
gardens, through which rivers of water flow
in marble beds and in which the luxuriaut
flowers and trees of the tropics bloom. The
harem of the Rajah of Jeypore looks out
upon this garden and its fair ladies are Kent
cool by tanning mills turned BY hand. It
takes score of men to turn the cranks to
keep these maidens cool and man power has
much to do with the refrigerators of the
East.
MAN POWER IS CHEAP,
There are thousands of foreigners. Ameri-
cans, English, German and French now at
work in Asia and each of these does his
bookkeeping under the breeze of Punkah.
The Punkah is long fan-like strip of cloth
fastened to a beam which is hung by ropes
from the ceiling over the mans head. To
the middle of this beam a rope is fastened
and this rope is put through pulley and so
arranged that a man sitting out of doors and
pulling at it will make the fan go backward
and forth over the bookkeeper's head. The
native pulls away all day long and most
foreigners have such rigging put up over
their beds and keep the breezes blowing in
this way all night.
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her. II she is in heaven think she carries
her liberated wound with her. Revenge is
good, but it is only salt to parched mouth.
think it is better to forget even if one can
not forgive. It is avoiding thorn to clutch
nettlesl Do you still insist on seeing Mrs.
Glaye?"
ST will not wake her from her Sleep"
answered, sincerely sdmiring this brave lit
tie maiden, and deciding then and there
that my doubts Of her were an insult to all
honest women. She was little trump, and
parted with her determined to avenge her
friend as much for her sake as my own.
Passing in the open air paused to gaze up
at her window, hoping to eaten glimpse Of
her pretty face. Instead of this caught
glimpse of her pretty white hand, which
moved the spray of golden rod from the lit
tie vase in the window and substitute big
bunch OF wild asters in its placel
Now, see herel NV enemies charge me
with being impulsiVe; and among nv in
feriors among the force they call me
"brass-buttoned weathereockP But this is
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fully moving arms and swaying forms, and
bright flashes of wit and repartee will leap
from finger tips. to be caught up by the
answering fingers, until one fully informed
of what is going on must decide that great
deal is being said.
Tomorrow the Pennsylvania Society for
the Advancement of the Deaf will hold its
biennial convention in the first Presbyterian
Church. on Wood street, and will continue
in session until the evening of July 8. This
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MONEY FOR MOODY.

The Evangelist Gets $4,000 by n Friends
VIII and VIII soon Spend II.
From the Boston Globe.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, is very
popular in hisnative town of Northfeld.
When he works he does so with his whole
strength, and when he plays he keeps up
with the boys. The side he joins always
wins the tug of war in the athletic'sports at
Mt Hermon. He is always particularly
polite to the poorer people and gives them
much sensible advice.
Speaking of Moody reminds me that by
the will Of D. M. Weston, the sugar man,
who died recently, the great evangelist re-
ceiyes $4,000 for himself and $50, 900 is
bequeathed to the girls seminary. But
those who know Mr.. Moody are sure the
$50 900 will find Its way into another school
building, which is much needed at North
field.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

Author of "who is Guilty ?"
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH

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n Dydk Of Bor1eo. is not an uncommon
thing in japanese house to see lady at
her bath, or if you be guest to have one of
the servants come in and offer to rub you
down. Carter Harrison, of Chicago, was
much surprised at this during his stay in
japan, and he scalded the flesh off of his
fat calves in Jumping into the tub to get out
Of the way of an almond-eyed beauty who
came In to assist him.
CUSTOM MAKES IT PROPER.
1 know q wealthy man in Washington
who was travelling in Japan the same time
that was who could not get enough of
these hot baths and who made number of
trips into the interior of the country in
order that he might have them with all
their old japanese favor. In many of the
public bath houses of Japan both sexes
bathe together, and on a hot day of July or
August they splash and play with one
another as innocent as our parents were he
fore the fall. In Toxic and the other large
cities OF the empire the foreign influence
has produced an order against this common
bathing Of the sexes, but id the villages
where such an order has been made ali the
people have done is to draw string through
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A ONE-WHEELED BUGGY,

The Novel Vehicle an Atlanta Physician
Proposes to Ride In.
The Atlanta Journal publishes descrip-
tion of what it describes as "the queerest
looking vehicle that ever came from the
carriage makers hand" It is the property
of DR.. Thurmond and will cost him about
$500. The doctor believes in having things
just like he wants them, and he went to o
carriage builder who drew plan
like large wheelbarrow with q
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Not Much Hurt.

LADY, heard you had fire here and are
selling goods at bargain2
Butcher-That's right, ma'am. Look at
those fne hams for IA cents pound, only
slightly damaged by smokel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
FROM FINGER TIPS
0ratory Will Flash at a Convention
in Pittsburg This Week.
BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE DEAF.
How:the Secret of Instruction Was Guarded
Seventy Years Ago.
THE WORK OF THE ELDER GALLAUDET
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

AAO WScA 10 W nAtueoo
a convention of a kind
unique in this city of
notable gatherings. In
this assembly no vocal
eloquence will call forth
rounds of applause, for
tongues will be at a dis
count. There will, how
ever. be no lack of dis
course or conversation.
Eloquence will flow from
II e.. f-z, c~-aaa-
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fans are beautifulIyA Malay Bonadr.
painted, and the pictures on them are the
best exhibition of Chinese fan art.
Every japanese man and woman carries a
fan, and the fans which we get from Japan
are OF the cheapest variety. In Japan the
gentlemen usually use folding fans, and
they carry them in their bosoms, under their
collars or stuck into their girdle 1t is the
ladies who use the fiat fans, and it would be
contrary to etiquette for a man to appear on
the street with fan that would not fold up
Japan has its fan etiquette, and there is as
much language of tine fan as a language
flowers. The pretty Yum Yums OF Toxic
and Kiota express through tanning what
American lovers convey by kissing, for the
hot osculation of America is unknown
among the Japanese either in the summer
or in winter.
UNIQUE AUTOGRAPH COLLIE CTIoNs.
The Japanese have autograph fans, as we
have, and many of the young people make
fan collections containing the signatures of
their friends or verses of poetry written by
them. One of the most striking characters
of Toxic is an old fan seller. She is a
woman of about so, who goes around with
fans and brooms and who cries her wares
from house to house.
An important cooling recipe of the Far
East is the bath, and the hot bath is taken
by the japanese several times day. The
bathing is done in the public bath rooms or
in the private tub and no soap is used.
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Many japanese are
now parboiling them
selves in water raised
to 1900 Fahrenheit,
and the whole family
bathes in the same
tub. There is a model
OF one of these tubs at
the National Museum,
and the average jap
anese bath tub is about
three feet high, oval in
shape. and it has a lit
tie furnace with a stove
pipe running up above
the top of the tub set
into one end OF it. A
board keeps this stove
pipe from touching the
skin, and a few mo-
ments will heat the
bath to boiling. The
Japanese have 10 false
modesty as to showing
of their person, and it
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sucker coats and nannel shlrbs. Flslleu
the National Museum to-day to see the ap-
pliances which the people of the tropics have
to keep themselves cool The Korean gen.
tleman has wicker-work shirt which keeps
his clothes away from the body and acts as
sort of ventilator, lying between his abdo-
men and his gown. He has wicker cuffs
which run from his wrist to his elbow, and
which are made of the finest of stiff straw.
These keep the sleeves away from the per-
son, and the Korean Embassy at Washing
ton is the coolest of all the legations.
1t is from these wicker bustles worn over
the belly that the Koreans get their reputa-
tion of being such fat race. They are fat,
but not half so fat as is supposed. 1t is this
wicker arrangement that increases their ap-
parent avoirdupois, and as fatness in Korea
is a sign of wealth, there is no hesitancy
shown by thin man in trying to make him
self look like the tat man in the dime mu-
scum. The Korean has the lightest sum-
mer hat known to the world. 1t is of the
sugarloaf variety, is made of horse hail, and
it weighs but few ounces.
SOMETHING ABOUT FANS.
The fan collection of the museum repre-
sents all the countries of the East Even
the Sandwich Islanders have fans, and
some of the South Sea maidens hide them
elves behind a fan made of fragrant
grass, and not more than six inches in di-
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Cheap Enough.

Customer-Did you say 10 cents?
Barber-Is that too much for shave?
Customer-Not at all. It would have cost
me $50 to have surgeon do that amount of
cutting.
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ameter. The yslm leaf
fans of this country and
Europe are all made al
Canton in China, and the
Chinese are among the
fine fanmakers of the
world. During my trip
around the world I visited
Peking and a number of
other Chinese cities, and I
found whole streets de-
voted to the sale of fans
and lanterns. Swatow is
q city lying on the coast
between Shanghai and
Hong Kong, which is
noted for its fine fans.
These fans are of fine pa
per stretched on a frame
which curves at the top,
and which thus produces
q sort of bow, catching the
wind and making them
delightfully."- cooling. The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

statesmen at tue
Capitol are in
t b ir summer
clothes, and every
man has his recipe
for keeping cool.
1 know of a Sena-
tor who takes u
baths q week at
the Governments
expense, and there
are Is members of
the lower House
who wear seer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

is society organized by the deaf for the
deaf. The programme includes papers and
addresses on the religious, moral. social and
industrial status of the deaf in Pennsyl-
vania, of Conversations, soirees, q banquet,
and to wind up with grand excursion to
Rock Point on Thursday.
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LONG LOOKED FORWARD TO.

To say that those most interested are
filled with great expectations is very mod
est expression of the truth. 1t has been the
talk TOR weeks and months with the deaf
everywhere, and nowhere is the anticipation
of good time at higher pitch than among
the older pupils at the Edgewood Institu-
tion. The burden Of every letter has been,
please let me 60 to the convention" or
"Please send me money for the convention" !"
There will be perhaps 300 in attendance.
They will come from all parts of the States
and visitors from Ohio and New York are ex-
pected, And these are but a handful of the
deaf mutes in Pennsylvania. Multiply 800
by 10 aud you have an approximate number
of the deaf mute population of the State.
Allegheny county alone could furnish
nearly 200 outside of the school at Edge
wood.
Almost all the trades and several pro-
fessions are represented among the deaf
There are skilled employees and Iaborers in
rolling mills, carpenters, shoemakers, cork
cutters, dressmakers, cigar makers, chain
and hinge makers, artists and teachers,
bookkeepers and printers engineers and
6remen, tanners, butchers, bakers, stone
cutters and iron molders, painters and glass
blowers. In fact, there is not more thrifty
and industrious class to be found in this
great industrial center than the deaf There
are no known tramps or idle hangers-on
among them, for they do not tolerate them.
LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR AGED.
Besides a free and open discussion of
every present-day interest, one great object
of the P. s. A. D. is the raising of funds to
found a home for aged and disabled deaf
mutes. New York has such refuge for its
helpless ones, and other States are taking
up the good work. The sustaining of a
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the center of the bath vat, and the women
and children are on one side, while the men
are on the other. At a famous hot springs
in the Japanese mountains saw both sexes
hopping around together in the water,
splashing each other and enjoying the sui
phurous fumes without thought that there
was ANYTHING indecent about their actions.
The Siamese are so near the equator that
they have about the same hot weather the
wear around. Every man, woman and cnlld
in Bangkok takes plunge into the river at
least three times day. OF the 9OO,UOo
people in the city at least 100000 live In
floating houses, and inasmuch as the sum-
mer costume of the lower classes consists OF
garment about the size of Turkish towel,
it is not much trouble for them to go IN
bathing. They hattie on the steps OF their
houses and stand up to the waist in the
water, grunting delightfully."- as they pour
bucket after bucketful over themselves and
their neighbors.
THE BURMESE WATER FEAST.
The Burmese man and woman takes
bath every night after dinner. This bath is
is merely pouring water over the person.
Soap is never used and particular care is
taken not to wet the hair. At New Years
when the weather is as hot as our summer
these people have what they call water
feast, and at this time the whole nation
throw water upon one another. All the
pretty girls 60 out with buckets, and the
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Unique Methods Adopted by the PeO-
pie of the Far-0ff Orient to
Keep Themselves Cool.
WICKER-WORK BUSTLES IN KOREA.
Luxury of the Baths and the Amusing Per-
formances of the Burmese During
Their Water Feasts.
MOST OF THE WORK DONE AFTER NIGHT.
Drenmafine on Lines Of Comfort and Architecture
That Lets the Breezes Through.

tcoHREsroEDKNCE OF THE DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Washington is
sweltering under a midsummer sun. The
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-03
Iulr Fourth. 1890.

July Fourth and many returns OF the
dav. Nay the acknowledgements
children of the small boy and girl who
are firing off torpedoes this Fourth of
July, and making the day a terror
throughout the whole Union, be doing
lust the same when the birthday of our
national independence in turn catches
them.
ONLY the unterrifed small boy and
girl who shoot off fireworks have had
occasion to look forward to this Fourth
with something of misgiving. Their
misgiving was that there might not be
fireworks enough to go around. China
supplies the world with this sort of ma
terial. In the winter large consign-
ments were sent as usual by the Chinese
to help celebrate the birthday of free
dom in a country to which they We're
not allowed to go themselves. But
storms and misfortune overlook several
of the ships and their cargoes were lost,
so there was not the usual quantity to
be sent into the air when the Fourth
came. Still, after the rockets, candles
serpents are all spent, which is usually
not for several days after the glorious
day itself. we shall be of opinion that
there were, after all, enough.
We who have come off safely vii
thank heaven we are yet alive and have
not been burnt out, and we shall hope
that all of us will be alive to celebrate
next year another return of the only ma
tional holiday directly connected will
the political history of the whole nation
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-03
The Farmers Movement.

Three-fourths of the people of Kan
sas are either engaged directly in agri-
cultural pursuits, or are following some
calling which is closely allied to and
depends for success upon the strong
arm of the tiller of the soil. Farming
is the fundamental business, the foun-
datiOn stone for the success of every
occupation in this state. The prosper
ity of our state depends upon the sue
cess of our farmers. Poor crops or low
prices to the farmer leads to CONNER
cial depression and to the paralysis and
ruin of every commercial enterprise.
Until recent years this great interest,
upon the success of which depends our
prosperity, has had but little direct as
sistance by way of legislation. 1t may
be seriously questioned whether the
farmer himself is not responsible for
much of the neglect shown by our state
legislators and cur congressman. How
ever this may be, there is a present
determination on the part of the farm
ers to see that in the future only such
men will be sent to Topeka and Wash
iDgton as shall be a guaranty that the
interests of the farmer will be protect
ed. They come not as class, asking
special privileges and immunities, but
simply as enlightened citizens having
proper respect for the calling in which
they are engaged and fully realizing its
necessities. having carefully considered
then magnitude of the interests involved,
and actuated by firm belief that what
ever tends to promote the interests of
agriculture will surely add to the pros
perity of those engaged in every other
occupation and will tend to increased
intelligence, to enhanced prosperity, to
the highest welfare of society and to
the greater permanence of our free in
situations.
With these ends in view, a large
number of republican farmers have
joined the alliance. If by such assOci- |
alton as the alliance affords the farmers |
can collect and disseminate important |
and useful information concerning ag-
riculture and can discuss and agree |
upon such legislation as they believe |
will best promote the interests Of the |
farmer, then will they have accom-
plished much toward the amelioration
of their condition
When the farmers have once decided
what legislation is desirable, then
arises the most difficult and important
question as to how such legislation can
be most surely attained. We are aware
that the democrat in Kansas and the
union labor politician have solved the
n
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-03
Keen Hands OFF.

The Manhattan Nationalist takes
pleasure in running up in double loaded
re-iteration d statement by Judge
PETER that John A. Anderson is the
fittest man for congress that the Fifth
district contains. Well, supposing
Judge PETER did say that, what of it:
What earthly influence on the people of
the Fifth district should the opinion of
an individual out of it have? Does
Judge PETER, living at Topeka and in
no way interested in Fifth district af-
fairs, presume to dictate what shall be
done here?
Too much meddling with Fifth dis
trict politics is going on. The Topeka
politicians are not alone in failing to
mind their own business. There is
George Martin down at Wyandotte.
Just because he once lived in Junction
City he must continually advise and
admonish the people of this district
how to vote. What do they care for
George Martins advice? 1t counts for
nothing except in the opinion of the
uninfuential portion of the press which
is subsidized in Anderson's favor.
Again there is the Atchison Champion
which devotes much thought and labor
to calculating the problems which con-
front the people in this section.
These and other agencies which pre-
sumo to dictate should be given to I'M
derstand once for all that the people of
the Fifth district desire them to keep
their hands off. We do not care what
Judge PETER or George Martin or
Phillip Krohn think of the situation;
we are able to fight the battle for our
selves and all they can say will have
no influence. If they will kindly and
persistently attend to their own knit
ting they will win the plaudits of the
people whom they are so anxious to
instruct.
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A Safe Investment.

Il one which is guaranteed to bring
you satisfactory results, or in case OF
failure q return of purchase. On the
safe plan you can buy from our advertised
druggist bottle of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption. 1t is guaran-
teed to bring relief in every case. wheI
u.s. d for any affection of Throat. Lungs
or Chest, such as Consumption, IDflam-
nation of lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma
Whooping Cough, Group, ETC., etc. 1t II
pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly
safe, and can always be depended upon
Trial bottles free at j. NJ. Gleissner'i
drug store,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-03
RnbY's Letter.

A letter from Mr.. J. w. Ruby, Union
CITY, Ind, ssys have used your Clarke't
Extract of Flax (PapilloD) Cough Cure
and find It complete cure for deep
seated cold II has done more than two
of our most skillful physicians. Ny
children had the WhoopiDg Cough and
with the aid of your Cough Cure, they
had il very light compared with neigh
bOrs' children who did not take 1t.
believe 1t to be the best Cough CuIe in
the market" So it is. A large bottle
only 81 90. Clsrke's Flax Soap for the
skin. It leads them all. Price % cents.
Cough Cure and Soap for sold BY Barnes
& NOrthcraft's drug store. fe-2Od&clw
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-03

Geo. w. Crane makes a proposition
to Cliff Baker that in Shawnee county
the two candidates for state printer be
voted on at the republican primaries
to see which shall have the delegation
to the state convention. Crane need
not worry. He does not stand the re-
hottest ghost of a show for nomination
or election. The people of the state
have no use for him and his blank book
robbery. The northwest would prefer
seeing a man from this section of the
state have chance, but such thing
is almost too good to hope for.