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The Indians Relief In Magic.

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat
Very reluctantly do civilized Indians give
up their IDEAS of magic The idea of vor-
Shipping growing objects is quite a settled
one among the tribes, ana some of the
stories which connect corn and flowers with
beneficent delties are very pleasing and at
tractive. Animals. toe, are spoken of in a
very singular and superstitlous manner.
and the different sizes of beasts which are
hunted is accounted for in a story of the
creation which is even more realistic and
practical than the one told in the first
chapter of Genesis. This story, which is
frequently repeated with variations. is that
at the time Of the creation all the beasts OF
the field and forests clamored for priority
In size. Each was va!nglOTious and die
tatCrlal, and one after another was being
humbled by being made smaller than q
ha ted enemy, the idea being that every
thing human and otherwise that was born
had a prior existence, and came into the
world with the benefit of experience thus
derived. The doctrine Of the transmigra-
ton OF souls Is so general among Indians
of various tribes that there was nothing at
all peculiar about this. and 1t Is very prob
abe that some CT the early writers on this
subject got their ideas from exceptionally
Intelligent exponents of Indian Buddhism,
or something very similar to 1t.
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through the pains oil
North China. The steam demon of the
present cutting his way into the most IA
nous veStigeS of the celestial past
These are some of the wonders of the
Journey i am now making over the new
Imperial road OF this vast empire in COM
pany with the party of ex-Secretary Foster
IN the private car Of China'S most powerful
statesman and ruler. Lii Hung Chang We
have Travelled already nearly 200 miles
through the agricultural and mining dis
fricts OF this part of China, and have plant
cd our American sole leather on the Dor
ders or Manchurie- We left the New York
q North China, the great trading city of
Tten-Tsin. and its million Acknowledged peo-
pie, m the early morning of two days ago.
and plowed our way through tens of thou
sands OF brown grave mounds to the east
wand. We PASSED the myriad huts of the
City OF Tong ku, at the mouth of the Peiho
river. anu turned to the north almost under
the shadow of the frowning battlements
and Of the Erupp and Armstrong guns of
the Taku forts. We stood on the platform
and saw the scores of queer wndmilIs
which with their square white wings pump
the brine Of the Yellow sea into the salt
pools OF the government reservoirs, and
watched the gangs of yellow coolies cutting
DOWN the mountains of salt and loading IL
Tor Tien-Tsin, whence IT will be shipped off
az hlSn prices as government monopoly
Tor the people of the interior. We rode for
an hour over salt marshes. upon which
monaghan ponies, red cattle and donkeys
grazed. and then entered the rich gardens
OF the great plain. Here every inch was
cultivated. and the farmers were every
where laboring In the fields. We saw the
wheat planted in rows. two feet apart
sprinsing from the soil in its luxuriant
green dress of the early spring, and could
note the curious methods Of work of these
the best farmers of the world The crops
are planted IN small tracts, and everything
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CHINA'S GREAT WALL.

Our party consists of six Americans, three
Englishmen and two Chinese officials in
addition to a retinne Of servants and train
men. The Americans are Gen. John w.
Foster. ex-Secretary of State. and his wife:
MIR. Orr. a wealthy citizen of Evansville,
Ind. and his two young lady daughters. who
are related to Secretary Foster, and who
are making the tour of the world with him,
and last of all, your correspondent. who has
been sent out here to write up the modern
movement in China. The three Englshmen
are the officials in the employ of Ii Hung
Chang. First there is Mr. G.. ID. Church
ward. who has built railroads in Australia
and New South " alss, and who Is one- of
the best of modern civil engineers. He Is
in charge of the locomotive works of the
yiceroy at Tong Snan, ard in the absence
Of Mr. Kinder, the general manager OF the
Imperial railroad of China. who is carrying
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ard stones which formed the filling of the
greater part OF the wall in ba skets, and
this earth was rammed down by means
OF discs of stone or iron as big around as
half-bushel measure, and from six to
eight inches thick. 1t Is in this way that
the entertainments of the railroads are being
built today 1t takes eight men to each of
such discs. There are holes cut about its
circumference and in these ropes about ten
feet long are fastened. The men stand at
equal distances about the disc and by
pulling back raise 1t and throw 1t upward
often to height above their heads and Il
falls upon the fresh earth with a thud. A
ninth man often sings a song while these
men thus work, keeping time to his music
with the weight, and Joining In the chores,
the weight falling at the end of every verse
and line. 1t is the same with the packing
OF the earth with wooden stamps Each
man has one of these of about the weight
OF the dasher In an oid-fashioned churn and
the gang OF stampers sing as they work
The bricks were made by hand, and men
and women aided in their LAYING. Such
wood as was used in the towers was pulled
up by human muscle to the top Of the wall,
and the saving of the timbers was with
croSS-cut saws.
The Napoleon of Chir.a
The organization required for the bu,I5-
Ing and the defense of such an arn,v of
laborers shows a high state of civilization.
The man who began the work was ona of
the great men of the worlds past He has
been called the NAPOLEON of China, and he
10 large extent was the founder of the
chinese empire His name was Tsin chi
Hw&ngu, and he consolidated the MANY
kingdoms OF China into one. He built at
MS capital vast palace, with many build
ings, which were connected by coIonnades
ana galleries. Each set of these BUILDINGS
ne mad made the exact counterpart of the
palaces of the rulers he had CONQUERED and
When the whole was completed he brought
tAen 10 his capital and kept them there in
state He built this great wall In ten
years, and organized many public works
like Alexander and Napoleon, he grew
VAIN as ne went on in his conquests. and
ne ceclded that Chinese history should he
gin with him. With this view, he com
United an act which has made him in the
eyes or the Chinese the most despised and
detested or their emperors This was fine
coiectlng of all the libraries and histories
OF China together and burning them. He
nau All or the copies of Confucius and Men
Gus that could be found Committed 70 tb !,
names, and for fear that there might no
other DOCKS written than such as he do
slred ne Killed the five hundred most emil
nent OF the scholars of his empire II +.
s3iu mat not single perfect COPY of the
NhIiese Classics escaped destruction and
such as exist today are made ,ID from, tba
parts remembered by scholars vino We.
not known to the emperor and which rvars
written out after his death
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SODA WATER EADS,
HypOchOndriacs and Their Devotion
to Queer Mixtures.

to Queer Mixtures.
From the Chicago Times.
Nervousness seems to be a fad Just
now" said the man behind the soda water
bar. ''fialf the trade is from persons who
think they need something to pick them
up. First. it's phosphate. then bromide
in some FORM and then something stronger
I don't know where the craze will end.
The soda fountain has already become q
bar for mixed drinks and a prescription
counter, where every customer is his own
doctor. l guess the next Improvement will
be nickel-in-the-slOta attachment for pull
ing teeth while you wait.
You needn't quote me as saying So" the
loquacious :nixologist went on, but it's a
fact that must be apparent to every one
that the soda water fountain is rapidly be-
coming a menace and a nuisance. It's q
good. cheap affair for young spoon to
march his best girl up to on hot summer
night; It's less expensive than the fee cream
table. and therefore 1t is an economical
device, but II gets men, women and chill
dren into the habit of drinking all sorts
of villainous decoctions about the effect
Of which they know nothing and which
they don't need at all.
Il don't mind serving ice cream soda to
bevy of pretty girls. for that is a harm
less sort of beverage and the girls are gen.
orally kittenish enough to give the service
a certain amount of interest. but when your
COfueS ln-lNe 1eiioW VINO
is blessed with perfect health-who doesn't
know that he's got stomach except when
he's hungry-who knows about liver only
as something that goes with bacon, and
about kidneys only viands incest when
they're broiled-when such a man comes in
and studies out something he has not yet
tried. why, then / want to go back to
Iowa"
With that awful thought in his mind the
egg-shaker gave the marble counter a swipe
with a towel and sent drops of Waukesha
water flying all over the chewing gum.
The worst feature Iof the business,
though" he said, returning to the attack,
lis the medicinal end of it, Men want
bronchitis and bronchial and some ask
for Quinine and others bicarbonate of soda;
some get whisky, and have a regular cod
liver oil patron. Another man wants pep
sin in his. and peppermint is common
enough. Plenty Of them come to the soda
water clerk as IL he were a doctor and ask
for something for ills, real or maginary,
of which they may or may not be seized
or possessed as I have heard a lawyer
friend of mine say"
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KITE FLYING POSSIBILITIES.

About Eighteen Hundred Feet il the
Maximum Altitude Reached.
From the st. Louis Republic.
1t Is one of the most difficult undertake
fngs imaginable to even approximately es-
Innate the height of a kite above the earth.
This is on account Of the fact that objects
noating in the air seem to be farther away
then they really are 1t may be safely said
that 500 feet is the maximum altitude that
can possibly be attained by a single kite.
Kite flying at the height mentioned will
appear even to a conservative observer to
be nearly If not quite a half mile above the
surface Of the earth, but a careful feasure-
ment or a string and it's angle will quickly
prove that 1t could not have been more than
fourth of a mile above the ground. Ordi-
harliy Kite VIII 60 no higher, even If more
string be paid OUT this is because the
wind depresses the cord and causes the
kite to really recede when it appears to
rise. 1t has been said that 1t is possible to
arrange several kites in such a manner
that they will reach q higher altitude than
1t Is possible to attain with a single kite
In this manner where three. four or even q
dozen kites have been used remarkable
heights have been reached.
when more than one kite is used only the
main one is attached to the end of the
string, the others being attached along tn :
main. line Qn manner similar to the ar
rangement or the hooks along a "trotline')
at an average distance of about twelve feet
apart. Hinkleman, who made experiments
at Buda-Pesth and Irson and Watson,
whose Investigations, under the Russian
Academy of Sciences. We're carried on at
Edeenea, Finland, report curious results.
Where single kites could be forced into the
atmosphere to a height of l 800 feet a pair
could be made to ascend to a height of frol.
ZOO to 200 feet, and a tandem easily
reached the high water mark of $500 feet.
The three experimenters alluded to believe
that with a proper arrangement of kites,
ana with scientific adjustment of both the
tail and string, q height Of two miles will
eventually be reached
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KISSING OUT OF DATE.
Circulation Discouraged by Modern
Science.

From the New York Commercial ADVERTISE
kissing goes. they say. by favor. Ana
experts say that II is certain through all
time that kissing has a certain favor ana
a great many other elements which appeal
to the Imagination of mankind: therefore.
when band Of women in Brooklyn decide
that kissing is out Of date and not to be
encouraged it behooves every body who has
been or expects to be kissed to look into
the subject Men and women have kissed
for some 5000 years. and sociologists agree
that the race was never more perfectly de-
veloped than it is today. The new school
insists that kissing is apt to convey disease,
that when lip meets lip bacteria are inter-
changed; that all sorts Of infectious diseases
are passed along by these enchanting labial
mediums. Are these medicists right or are
they wrong?
There are many kinds Of kisses The kiss
of mother is not the kiss of a lover and
people VINO make practice OF kissing
babies do not attach as much importance TO
the exercise as people who kiss only when
some strong emotion prompts them. Long
experience shows that kissing is newt be
Otherwise the world would not have kept ON
kissing through all these years and down
through the ages fun Of change and yicissi-
tude. Nobody viii deny that science has
advanced with gigantic strides during ths
last decade, but when science tries to de-
priNe the world Of OSCILLATION il attempts
population has increased. life has assumed
4 thousand new and benefcent phases and
yet kissing has been going on all the time
Zymotic diseases have been consiSerab ly
prevalent in preceding periods Of the ycrld's
history and they may have been inter-
changed by communication Of the lips. but
the race has managed to survive and here
We are today.
The experience is wen remembered OF than
medical student who found IN his first year
az coilcse that he was possessed of all the
Ills Of which he read. The chances are that
every cold-biooded scientist who has over
kissed or been kissed imagines himself TO he
afiilctcd with every possible disease thai
can DO communicated by kissing Ii is oot
worth while to discuss how manifold thass
diseases are-the fact remains that the rec
has managed to worry along in spite Of
them.
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when he goes into the country. on the other
hand, expects to find everything innocent
and pure. 1t Is associated, in his mind, with
that idea. Very well, so it is innocent and
pure In many things, but Just let the city
Nan begin little trading and he will find
that he has shrewd race to deal with, and
let him buy q horse and he will be quite
surprised to find that the countryman gets
the better of him every time.
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e ARE JUST NOW
In the height of po-
litical excitement.
The new republic of
Hawaii is to be IN
augurated on the 4th.
The supporters of the
revolution are exult-
ont. The royalists
are intensely disturb
ed and feeling about
for some possible
way to prevent the
event X is evident
fl-nt &c 81 49, -
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,sI go!
For the Feet Of Young Men at Sum-
mer Resorts.
THERE ARE SOME DESIGNED FOR GIRLS
The Spurious Foreign Nobieman
and the American Adventurer.
OUR COUNTRY COUSINS
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

He SHARES THAT
await the shrewdest
city man when he
goes on his vacation
into the country are
as numerous, almost,
as the sands OF the
seashore resort he
visits. or as the
leaves of the trees
about the mountain
hotel. He must p;o-
vide himself with
more money than he
xr,onl1 Spopd I'm the
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~ III ISL- NJ
gal special train run
ming through North
China, from Shan
Hal Kwan to ITEM
Tsin-by railroad to
the great wall of
China On a special
train through some
of the least known
parts Of the Chinese
empire. ID a 5 h ing
along at the rate of
forty miles an hour
fhrnttUh the nla;noaf
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A Trip Over the New Imperial Rail
road to It.
HOW fHE WALLS LOOK IN 1894
It Cost Millions of Lives and Oceans
of Money.


Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
Copyrighted, 1894. BY Frank G.. Carpenter.)
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A Probable Peaceful Change in the
Hawaiian Government.
THE ROYALIST STILL PROTESTING
Provision Made for the Representa-
ton of Alien Residents.
PRESIDENT AND CABINET

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
HONOLULU Julv Q $50
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needs appreciated. She should take
advantage of the present opportunity,
the election of candidates for the trus.
teeship of Illinois state university, thus
demonstrating her high purpose and
her ability to carry it into a dignified
and worthy effect.
This opportunity is woman's priv.
lege to unite with man in the control
of the peoples education, as well as to
see to it that instruction particularly
necessary for her own sex, including
the kinds suited to practical use both
in cities and rural districts, be included
in the curriculum.
AS long as public schools of any
grade of instruction are entirely under
the control of man it is impossible to
secure for woman the public education
that she knows her sex needs, and
which she is anxious should be eStab-
lished as an advantage for the girls
who are the prospective women of the
future.
This present privilege of trustee
ship on the state university board is an
important chance and also an invita-
ton for woman to secure special means
of educational growth for her own sex,
as well as a chance for her to be active
ly engaged in qualifying and promot-
ing general information.
q Every woman should not only be will
ing to do her part in promulgating
public instruction-she should be eager
to do so.
II is not only her privilege to intelli-
gently accept the present representa-
ton in public instruction-it is her
duty TO act upon it. Therefore it is the
duty of every woman to participate in
the election of the candidate of her
own sex that she accounts the better
qualified to hold that eminent position,
no matter how conservative are her
opinions, or how QUIETLY may she de-
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panorama was enjoyed. 1 beheld the
greater part of the island; tothe north,
the Capo Corso; to the west, Porto Sa-
gona and Ajaccio. To the east, the
blue Mediterranean was plainly visible,
dotted with the islands of Monte Cristo,
Pianosa, Capraja, and Elba, and farther
away was the mainland of Italy. The
entire island resembled vast, rocky
relief map, its principal mountain
chains, with their rivers and valleys,
being distinctly recognizable. To the
right of US on the lofty SUBMITS of Mon
te Rotondo, were fields of snow and ice,
with the greenest of verdure close to
the snow. At the side of the road, for
miles, were little brooks, and on the
edges of these brooks were washer
women, who cast inquiring glances
upon ms as we whirled by"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
DUTY AND THE BALLOT.
The Subject Discussed by Mrs.
Charles Henrotin.
why She Thinks That Women should Vote
for School Officers Wherever They
Have Been Given the Chance
Tho Illinois Election.

II is long-recognized fact that edu-
cation is the vital principle of progress
sive civilization.
rotin in the Chicago Mail, that intelli-
gent women should be interested in
any movement that conduces to the
improvement of methods and sources
of education for the people. And es-
pecially are they fitted to take part in
all causes that pertain to the instruc
ton of children and young people, be-
ing both by nature and custom in full
sympathy with the development of the
mind from the period of infancy to the
attainment of mature Judgment.
There is no doubt but the spirit of
all public schools of the age must fall
into line with new views, and must
also practice the new traits of indus
trial training. A practical preparation
for taking a part in the general prog
ress of civilization is now a necessity,
for the assurance is clear that educa-
tional competency must be dominant
in future progressive enlightenment.
1t is apparent that popular education
should be broad, covering all phases
applicable to conditions of life and gov
eminent. Political economy, house
hold science. agricultural science and
mechanical skill should be as impor-
tant in the course of study as mathe-
MATES and language. Mental growth
and preparation for intelligent ''liv-
ing" should unite in the knowledge"
that is power" for the greatest ulti-
mate good.
1t must not be lost sight of that the
needs of women should be included in
the educational consideration. She
herself should strive to have those
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24

It's midst. Stranger still is the fact
that those Included" foreign bodies
lie generally disposed in planes meet
ing each other at an angle of sixty de-
grees, the result being to produce the
phenomenon of ''ssterism," which is
the term given to the white star Of
light which is observable on certain
Jewels cut with a rounded surface.
Very frequently the imprisoned body
is minute bubble of gas or drop Of
liquid, containing sometimes little
crystals of it's own. The microscopic
cavities containing these things are
often very numerous. For a long time
the nature of the gas and fluid con-
tanned in the cavities remained mys-
terry. The English philosopher, Brews-
ter, was induced to investigate the
subject by hearing that ruby which
an Edinburgh jewcler had placed in
his mouth had exploded while in that
position, with unpleasant results.
Other investigators followed, and it
has now been made certain that the
fluid is no other than liquid caTbOnic
acid gas, reduced to that condition by
being under great pressure.
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and had by a formal notice interdieted
the defendant from damaging the crop
by trimming the grass over her sisters
grave, which had been done for thr 60
years. When the young lady persisted
In visiting the grave he followed her,
took hold of her, and, with contempt
uous remark upon the flowers which
she had placed there, knocked them OF
the grave with his stick. The reverend
sutton lost his case because he was only
q perpetual curate. Had he been REQ
tor he could have recovered. A Lon
don newspaper in commenting upon
the case says: "By two sentimental tic-
lions the churchyard is Gods acre, and
the church. the national or the peoples
church. But in dry law Gods acre is
the incumbent's freehold, and the only
right of the people in the national
churchyards is the right to be buried
there. The rude forefathers of the
hamlets,' the village Hampdens,' and
all the rest, when once laid to sleep,
merely serve the purpose of enrichmg
the soil which produces the parsons
hay crop, and their posterity may only
visit their graves subject to the pernais-
sion and convenience of the lord Oft
soil :"
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sire to regulate the affairs of her own
life and those of her family.
Not to engage in this election is the
practice of Indifference concerning the
educational welfare of the citizenship
of the state. Such an Indifference
would, indeed, be a humiliating dem
onstration of womsn's lack of compre-
hension of the vital principle of pro-
gressive civilization.
The privilege of using the ballot for
woman's representation in educational
matters has passed beyond an ''inclina-
ton" to make use of it. It has be-
come an imperative duty that she
should do SO, leaving prejudice and
partisan spirit entirely out of the obi
cation. Every woman should select
her candidates, according to her I'M
biased conviction in regard to fitness
for the position, and should use the
ballot that is ready as a means of
her representation in educational gov
eminent in the state of Illinois.