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and said: "This first page is all editorial.
We don't let any of our advertisers use it.
If we let one they would all want it, and SO
we use it only for ourselves when we have
special announcements and for editorials
and news. The second page and part of the
third page Is news and the ads. do not COM
mence until the latter part of the paper.
We often have to issue supplements to get
In all our advertising, but our Chinese Gus
toners object II we do not put news and
reading matter in the supplement as well.
You note the lines run up and down the
page instead Of across 1t and the beginning
is at the right of the page instead of the
left, as with you. Our lines are about fif-
teen inches long and we count by the word;
not by the line. Each Chinese character
represents word, and our rates are cents
for each ten characters for the first inser-
ton. cents when the advertisement runs
for a week and 21a cents day per each ten
words for all time after that"
Are there many papers in China and do
you find them in the INTERIOR" asked.
NO." replied the Chinese editor. I'VE
circulate all over China, but you do not find
papers published in the native cities. The
governors would not permit them, as the
editors might say things they would not like,
and many of them would not want their do
ings criticised or reported. The Chinese are
very economical. Money Is worth a great
deal here. We charge, for instance, 10 cents
| cash for this paper and we have in reality
a circulation of at least $4,000. though we
print only 1900 papers,
How Is that?" said /.
THE paper Is resold and rented by the
| subscribers and others, so that at least that
| many heads of families get hold of 1t. We
pay our newsboys two cash a copy for sell
ing, or, rather, we sell them the papers, SC
| that we get eight cash out Of the ten. They
| receive in your money just about one-tenth
| of a cent for selling and delivering the pa
per. Well! they cheat the regular customers
| often by renting the paper for six or seven
| cash to outsiders till IL or II O. clock. when
| they will come around and get it and deliver
1t. We can't prevent this here. Then diff
ferent shops subscribe for the Shun Pao and
| their customers come in regularly every
| morning and read 1t. Families pass it from
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sand foreigners, but the foreign settlement
contains more than two hundred thousand
people, the remainder Of whom are natives,
who like to do business and live under for
eign protection. In addition to this there
is within a short distance the native city Of
Shanghai of one hundred and twenty-five
thousand This is surrounded by wallis, and
1t is as dirty and as nasty as are the Chi
nese cities of the interior, where a foreigner
has never been seen. Foreign Shanghai Is a
city of electric lights, of newspapers and of
libraries. The subscription library here con-
tains twelve thousand volumes, and the IL
brary OF the Shanghai Club has more than
five thousand
The Shanghai 400.
The Shanghai Club has a finer building
than any club house in Washington. 1t
cost $4,000 TO build and ruined three con-
tractors. At noon and in the evening you
will meet in it as cosmopolitan a crowd as
you will find in New York or Paris and its
lobby buzzes with a noise which makes you
think Of the big hotels Of Chicago when a
national convention is in progress The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28
NO STRING TO 1T.
He Had Abundant Reason TO BE sus.
picious. However.

From the Detroit Free Press
There was a bright new 50-cent piece ".
ing On the pavement when a bow-back ed
man with a satchel came along from the
depot. He saw the coin while he was We,
twenty feet away, and he made a sudden
forward rush to get it. The movement was
almost instantly checked. however and
he walked slowly forN ard and backed 10
the curbstone and stood there and gazed
at the coin with foxy look on his counte-
nance. In about a minute a pedestrian
came up. saw the coin and reached for II
and put IL in his pocket Observing the
attitude of the old man at the same time
he turned and queried:
1T didn't belong 20 you. did itY'
wall. / swami was the reply.
Whats the natter"
This is the queerest burned town I ever
struck in all my life. 1 was comm I'D this
saw a 50-cent piece lynn jest about here. I
made a grab fur il, fell on my nose and
rolled all over. and finally got up TO find
that boy had a string on the money and
had pulled IL into that doorway"
And so you were shy of this oneT'
"Naas, / was shy"
And are half dollar behind the game 20
"Naas, I'm half a dollar out Say. are
you in a hurry?'
"Yes-great hurry"
wall. I'll hev to find somebody else, then.
1 want to find n Teller who'll sot down with
me fur about two hours and post me up.
I'm comm into Detroit once a week all
summer, and / want to find out what's got
strings to Il and what's lynn around loose
and kin be picked up"
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Gates to woosung Fort.

from Woosung up the whampoa river to
Shanghai. but the water is too shallow for
the largest ocean steamers. and We made
tie journey in a steam launch. The coun-
try lie dead fiat. 1t Is made up Of the rich
sediment which Is carried down by the
1ans-sse- Kiang river from the uplands of
China Standing on the deck of the ship
you look for miles over gray mud plains,
relieved here and there by what in the
cocks Of hay. but which are the graves of
Cinnamon On some of these graves
could see great black collins resting and /
am told that the Chinese often leave their
dead to- years outside the ground, and
that few burialS are made when the ground
Is frozen. Here and there over the land
scape were matched huts surrounded by
trees. and In the creeks. which cut the
plain Ike the canals of Holland, the masts
of TIE ships and boats could be everywhere
seen. All along the river were platforms
OF bamboo, with little sheds at the back of
them and nets hung out from their fronts
into tie water for the catching of fish. We
paJ5e<. hundreds of craft of all kinds from
the little fat-eyed gondola-like sampans to
the ocean steamers bound for all parts of
the world. Near the forts there were scores
o. great Chinese war junks, with cannon
extenciag over their sides, and with great
calls ribbed with bamboo, looking for all
the weld like the wings of gigantic bats
and the whole river was filed with other
tot-l.AS craft, carrying all sorts of cargo
to and from Shanghai. AS for our boat Ii
vas flle1 with foreign and Chinese pas
sengesS- The only three Americans were
Mr.. ard Mrs. Curwin Stoddart of Philadel-
phia a'.d myself. My photographer took a
srap-sho. at us, as We stood on deck, with
All CSirg. the rich Chinese tailor of Yoko-
mama, w.,o was on his way with his wife
ana baby to visit his papa in China
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womnn.s Greatest Enemy.

When a woman is troubled with head
| aches the cause should be discovered. II
possible. the overwork stopped the mental
anxiety or distress removed. the errors in
! diet corrected. or the late hours exchanged
for early ones, writes Elisabeth r. Scovil
! in the Ladies' Home Journal Then a SIM
| pie laxative may be needed 10 prepare tie
| system to benefit by a tonic-cod liver oil.
! iron. gentian. quassia, or whatever the doc
! tor recommends as best suited 10 the par
ticular case. The diet should be abundant
and nourishing, avoiding rich, made dishes.
pastry or anything liable to disorder the
/ digestion. Exercise in the open air, stopped
before there is any feeling Of fatigue. is
| important. When the first unpleasant
symptoms are felt lie down with the head
| low. and take a teaspoonful OF aromatic
spirits of ammonia ia a little water. IL
there is chilliness put a hot-water bag 10
the feet and cover warmly with a blanket.
II there is nervousness and depression take
half a teaspoonful of tincture Of valer1anate
OF ammonia. instead OF the aromatic spir-
its Of ammonia, and repeat the dose in If
teen minutes. Have the room darkened
and endeavor to sleep.
Should these remedies not avert the at
tack, and the pain and nausea begin to
manifest themselves. take a tablespoonful
of strong tea or coffee without milk II pos
sible, very hot, or very cold. and repeat
every fifteen minutes for four doses IL the
nausea continues the sufferer usually i'm
AGNES that IL will be relieved by the act OF
vomiting and is anxious 10 have an emetic.
This may be the case IL the headache has
come on Immediately after eating. when
the stomach contains a mass of undigested
food, otherwise Il is better TO try to soothe
the gastric disturbance and check the de-
sire TO vomit. Effervescing citrate OF mag
nesia, iced vichy or soda water will often
produce this result.
When the pain is severe piece Of linen
may be dipped in alcohol and water and a
single fold bound on the forehead, wetting
IL as soon as IL becomes dry. Sometimes a
flannel wrung out of boiling water and ap-
piled as hot as it can be borne Will give re-
Lief
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Nearing Shanghai Is like sailing into one
3f the great harbors of the Mediterranean
You see foreign city lining the banks Of
the river and the smoke stacks of a dozen
great factories send out their black clouds
into the blue sky. There are several miles
of these factories, and one / noted which
covered many acres was In ruins from a
recent IRE. 1t was big gray brick of
many stories, which the Chinese had built
for the manufacture of cotton and in which
they have for some years employed hun
dIeds Of hands and had the finest of mod
ern machinery Until within a few months
they have been paying for insurance to
the foreign companies about 81 800 a year
IN gold. The fall in the value of silver to
about 80 cents on the dollar made them
grumble at this and when their policy
lapSed last fall they economical by not
renewing it. The result was that the fire
cost them a million and a half of dollars
and as Ii Hung Chang and others of the
officials were largely interested in the
stock the people Will probably be squeezed
to make up their loss. Going on up the
river through great house like barges
known as opium boats past mile or SO
warehouses, almost touching our side
wheeler gunboat the Monocacy, we landed
at the French wharf and a moment later
were in the greatest foreign settlement Of
China the Paris OF the east, the city of
Shanghai.
The Paris of the Orient.
There is no town on the globe like Shang-
hal 1t is city of the rich, who out here
en- the shores of Asia. within a stones throw
of the poorest people Of the world. live more
luxurious lives than do the wealthy people
OF the United States or England 1 speak
of the Shanghai of the European and the
American The Chinese who are mixed I'D
in 1t are as poor or as rich as they are in
other parts of the empire. The foreigners
have the right to the land in what is known
as the concessions. These belong to Eng
lard. France and the United States and the
government is made up of a council elected
by them, so that there is In reality here a
little republic. which makes it's own laws,
has its own police force and manages it's
own business independent of the celestials.
The land nominally belongs to the emperor,
but IL is the property of the foreigners by
their paying a certain ground rent, which
has been fixed by treaty. This amounts to
about five gold dollars per acre a year
When 1t was bought it cost something like
two hundred dollars per acre, but much Of
it has been sold for from sixty to one hun
dred thousand dollars per acre, and thus
made the fortunes of the original holders
Upon It all sorts of improvements have
gone up. and along the river there are now
&c fine houses as you will find anywhere in
tie world. Business blocks of immense size
Jc just back Of a beautiful park between
che river and the street, and big city has
grown up on the ground owned by the for
e'sne-S. There are only about three thou
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dollar and a half in our currency. The
editors get from thirty to forty dollars a
month. and reporters from eight to ten dol
lars a month in silver. according to their
efficiency. The printers do night and day
work for seven days in the week and 1886
days in the year at these wages and it
takes no slight learning to be Chinese
printer. There are in the Chinese language
1900 different characters, and each of the
cases I saw in this composing room, the
editor told me, contained about 10000 diff
ferent characters. Think of that, We printers
of America, and thank God you were born
in land where the alphabet contains only
twenty-six letters. and where there is not a
different sign for every word in the Ian
guage. In Chinese printing office the
cases are ten times as big as ours and
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terminable tangle Of trees and vines, be-
fore he Is half merged in the mighty morass
terry and to struggle beneath the burden Of
its silence, its solemnity and its shadows
Moved by such thoughts as these. / turned
to my gondolier:
who cut this canal?" said I.
George Washington said he.
did he do it with his little hatcher
said I.
II reckon not, boss; 1 spec he done 1t
previous line of thought.
1t Is true. however, that Mr.. Washington
did cut this canal or ditch. He owned a
farm at the exterior terminus of il, also a
saw mill and other articles of vertu and
bric-a-brac and the ditch was needed to get
In and out Of the swamp on. George was a
straight man, as we all are pleased to be-
lieve in these later days, and he laid off
this ditch by the lines of his character,
with the result that there isn't a crook in
its entire course. Just what kind of look
ing canal a leading politician of today would
construct, following the same rule. it would
be-however, that is another story, as
Ruddy Kip. would say.
After three hours of paddling-the ditch
is too narrow for oars-we came to the
lake and the Hotel Dismal on it's margin.
l say margin" advisedly, for this lake
has no shores. There is no earth to make
shores of, and the trees and vines and
reeds come down to the waters edge nay,
even into the water, and they are cncroach-
ing upon the boundaries of the lake year
by year, so that some day 1t will all be
swamp. AS the lake is only seventeen feet
deep at the deepest and some Of the trees
are nearly a hundred feet high, they could
now wade out into 1t without getting over
their heads. But they don't.
Hotel Dismal.
The white-washed plank hotel is Of the
Venetian style of architecture; that is. 1t
has water for a fountain, and soft water
at that IT is impossible To 90 tyenfv-five
feet away from 1t in any direction, except
by boat, and boat exercise after the sec
ond day, I imagine. has a tendency to give
one the bow knots in the limbs, to say
nothing Of how painfully indurated the
seat In a boat becomes after one has ap-
piled his person to it for several hours
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Of two days. with a lifetime of interest an
novelty in IL, this to the Dismal Swan
takes precedence of all competitors, and
should be taken to be appreciated.
w. J. HAMPTON.
n. b. We had a poet with us. a poet
ess. / fancy, for 1 saw two young wome
towering over the whitewashed sides o
the hotel. and later 1 found this hand
writing on the wall:
stretch Of sky in gray and blue.
A house by lonely Drummond's shore.
maiden in a white canoe,
One sheet upon a bed-no morei
That somehow doesn't seem to sound Tx
Tom Moore, unless IL might be at his hes,
SO IL must have been the young women oe
fore mentioned. w. j. l.
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Woosung bar to guard this entrance to
sheir mighty empire. Standing on the snip
1 could see the guns frowning down upon
US from the ramparts. and could almost
hear the queer cries of the officers as they
drilled their cotton-gowned, yellow-faced.
a1nond-eyed troops. We lay for sometime
right opposite the entrance to the fort.
Chinese structure of gold carving, looking
much like the gate to temple, and our
vessel was surrounded by the big gunboats
CT China's modern navy. 1t Is twelve miles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28

T IS NOW A WEEK
since I st e a m e d
through the mouth of
the great Yang-tse-
Kiang river into the
wide waters of the
w h a m 20 a, on the
French mail from
Japan, and was an
chored N d er the
shadow of the i'm
mense Notifications
which the Chinese
have built at the
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TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are urgently 10
Quested to hand In advertisements
the day prior TO publication. in
order that insertion may be as
sured. Want Advertisements will
be received up to noon Of the day
OF publication. precedence being
given to those drst received
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28

F THERE BE A
word in the English
language which. more
than any other, car
ries its lugubrious-
ness with 1t in its
sound, that word is
dismal; then, when
one combines with
1t the word swamp"
which. also. is not a
morass of merriment,
there is a resultant
combination which
finds fitting material
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each printer stands surrounded by three
walls of type, running from his feet to the
top of his head and sloping out from him on
all sides.
After look at the business office of the
newspaper, was shown the only illustrated
paper in China, which is also issued from
this establishment. 1t is published every
ten days. 1t is about as big as an old-fash-
Toned almanac, and 1t always appears in red
or green covers. 1t publishes many descrip-
tions of life in America, and it's pictures of
foreigners and their ways are laughable in
the extreme. There is no prospective shown
in the drawings, and the Chinese stories are
full Of blood and thunder of sentiment and
humor. Here the Chinese Romeo woos his
almond-eyed Juliet, and there the tragedies
Of love. abduction, of crime and superstition
are depicted by the Gillams and Reming-
tons Of this celestial land.
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Z op~~k 4. CuAy..As~

How many foreign languages can your
wife speak?'
'"Three-French. German and the one she
talks to the baby."-Demorest's Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28
MODERN SHANGHAI
How Foreigners Live and Sport in
the Paris of the Pacific.
4 FOREIGN CITY In THE HEART OF ASIA
A Visit to Big Chinese Daily and
aTaIk With Its Manager.
THE CHINESE CONvEYANCES

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
Copyrighted, 1894. by Frank G. Carpenter)
SHANGHAI March % 1894
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IN THE GREAT DISMAL
A Lamptonesque Description Of a
Swamp Exploration.
THE TRIP BY DITCH
How the Geographic Society Made
Merry in the Morass.
TOM MOORE SURPAS SED
TOM MOORE SURP SSED

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-08-18
CaAsas s Ann vwo % or,oss
Express Asest Aiekssser shsrs o.
nta Accounts 4 rev ereas ottses

I
There has been rattling II dry trncs--
let outs. changes and prnnutinnp TN the
Wells FAIRY" Expr~sr company. un the
division, ~ the past few lays. aud TuE
CtrtSN exclusively gives the follow ing
| Information
W. 7. Alexander. Who was agent G,r
, the company nj Fast Las Vegas rncr
trtnh-r last, was fnuIpi phnr, IN bic NJ.
c"nn,r uInu an invrrtiga ION. aud II
court" Was let cut. lie II under arrest,
aud II he can't make gud hir shurtAs.
IN given time be will he subject tn a
trial The officials state that they have
very strong case against Mr. Alexander.
W" ~ one ~ the oldest employees II Ia.
company on the santa ~ rad. Tor long
time running a. mcH~enIrr between Kan.
nar CITY aud III PAHn II" proved COIN
l+t"nt and Trustworthy. and was pr,.
Inotesi a. the agency At Nick-rrpn, Kan.
rss. lie remained there for A short tim.
I" the satisfaction ~ the company, when
lac wsA given the wichita, kAnsAn, Office,
with an increa1ed salary, and lAs, Oc-
t"lrr, when h- changed ~ with the Las
vegas agent, hir accounts wpr' square a.
the cent. lie IN universally liked 10y alt
Las NrRanr who had business with the
rtprrSS office, anil his present trouble iH
therefore mach regretted lie dueH not
account fnr HE shortage. which amounts
H. several hundr,sl dollars
{. RANKIN, cashier fnr the cumlany
here, ruccr'-is Alexander a. agent Ut
East Las Vegas Mr. Rankin came tn
this city only short time ago from Colo.
raj" springs, aud his prumuiiun proves
that h" had gained III" confidence ~ the
COMPANY THs titlLHS cnugrAtulAt.n
Mr. Rankin, AMI tAkrs this m-,huI "
telling the ITnple "f Las Vegas tina, they
viii md him muHt excellent gentleman
with whom to do business
W - Du"tuun, who arrived her. a few
days aRu aud was made the local depot
agent Tor III" company. Ia promoted tu the
CASHIERS Iuritinn, made vacant by the
promotion uf Mr.. Rankin. Our acIuaInt.
Anc- with Mr.. Du-rpnu II limited. tn,
tr'm thos- with whom he In thruwu Ia
daily intercourre, u II learned that hr
IL n pleasant, accommodating gentleman
Success a. the new cashier.
j. u. Psrrin". who has been running AZ
messenger on the LAmy braLch FROM the
Junction Ia Santa Fr, will Arriv. To- night
from the north, and he then tak.p the
r"s',i"n male vacant by Mr. Du-rson
&. T., King, who had messenger run
"n the Rad up Ia the r-can, strike, since
then all emrloye of tue company At the
local depot. left the city on M. las,
nigh, I" take charge nf hi- promotion
that II mcSr-ugrr between LaIny junction
and santa Fr Tug CirrEKS IL personally
acquainted with Mr. King, aud consul.
rr-,i him on" ~ the hes, fellows in the
employ 81 the company located here. lie
ha. happy faculty II making friends,
and this paper tAk"a pleasure ~ recon.
intending him 4" the people II Santa FL.
where he will reside IN the future
Marcus by rne, the lucRl driver, takes
the position vacated by Mr.. King. and |
Mr.. Trott.r assumes charge ri III. old |
position ~ Mr. Byrn,. Both gentlemen
ARE well known Ia our citizens.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-08-18

CnIdSin Cundia mfnrmH TuK CITIZEN
that the gentleman who In in charge ~
at"n. round glove contest between "Glad.
lainr" Flynn, Il Lns C-rrillos. and "Pu-
Rllis," Morgan, of California, reports
pr"grss I" HIM. aud expects to have
everything arranged for public announce
men, IA short time. The gentleman,
=" states ia" captain. SAys that Morgan
has gone I" Al.,.i"nrs, wher. h. IL TAX
ing baths, using the dumb bells, skip
ping ia. rope. and running ,-n.mile
Jann'r every morning under the tu,o,.
ship IL "snapp"r" Reuter-. of Coney
Island. while Flynn In frustrating down
IN the pVlnt village 1T lsl.tA, being
trained by TUG" warriur.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-08-18
In the sp~p,As OF M,.rry

Though endowed with wealth "beyon,i
the dreams ofavarice. Ia. wretch.d sui.
f"rrr from chronic dyspepsia In pluug.-i
~ the depths II misery from which b. or
rh" seldom energies even for day al =
stretch. There In u way Ia down III. imp.
iny"k" the aid II Ho~satt-r's Stomach
Bi,,-rs aud lac departs. Keep using the
medicine. and the relief you promptly ex-
lSrrienc- finally becomes I.srinA n-nt aud q
thorough CURE ir effected. Heartburn,
ha'ul-nc-. nn.aSin-zS aud sinking at tn.
plt ~ ia. stomach, nervousness, iusnm-
nA-th.r. arr the -ymptomr first relieved
AMI finally cured. with their cAua., by
shrr ,nrtiahly reliable specific. Liver
complaint AMI constipation. brother L,r-
mentors 81 dyslelsia, arr alto sent to lin.
Il" u! III" Bit,"rr, ~ arr rheumatism,
malaria and kidney complaint Use this
helpful m'-iic'ne Systematically. mol by
ti,s aud starts.