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The age-herald., 1900-07-15
AMELIE RIvE5 IS DYING
Pretty Little Room in Which thu Vii .
 ginia Beauty is Now Corf1ed

From the Washington Post.
 Amelia Rives, once Amelia Rives-Chan- Ter, now Princess Troubetzskoi, the famous author of the "Quick or the Dead.' is ly- ing almost at the point of death at the home of her father, Colonel Albert l.. Rives, at Castle Hill," Albermarle County, Va The final chapter of her romantic career is being written, and though the end may not come for some days, perhaps even weeks, it is known that the Princess is but a wreck of her former self
 For almost month her husband, Prince Troubetzkoi has been with her. His stu dio in Washington was hurriedly closed three weeks ago when a crisis came, and though he has only paid the princess semi monthly calls hitherto, this time he has remained by her bedside. Unusual interest in the condition of the invalid is felt in Washington, not only because of her per sonality, but also because her husband is a prominent feature of Washngton's s social and artistic life.
 Many months have elapsed since Amelie Rives returned to her fathers home, aban- doning the gayeties of Paris and the large cities of this country, in order to become a recluse. Neighbors called on her, but she would receive no one.
 The Princess has lately become a victim to the most severe attacks of rheumatic ghout; her nervous system Is entirely un- strung and her health so broken that she is physical wreck and is confined, a vol untary prisoner in the little white bedroom in the west wing of the famous old colonial mansion in Albermarle County.
 It is not dark and cypress-draped, this lit tie room, but is bright and light as the room of a young bride, with her girl things about it still. The walls are fresh with pictured flowers blue as the ragged robin; the mantel is slender-paneled and draped in blue silk and cloth-of-gold, with the word Abba richly embroidered. This drapery was given to the Princess by a Persian nobleman. The windows are fuffed with white muslin and blue India silk belted in by circlets of silver. The canopy over the brass bed is also white and blue; the furniture is white enameled, on the stained floor are white fur rugs, and there are many rare sketches in oil and charcoal, suggesting wood paths and the landscape of home and foreign atmosphere, as we'll as paintings of the sea.
 Many chapters of her life and her novels are suggested here in this room. In one corner, like a gathering mist, Ia the soft white satin gown, with it's lace and silver trimmings that was worn by her grand mother when she was presented at the court of Louis Philippe. A naked sword crosses it, so that it recalls Excalibur held out of the legend lake by the hand clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful" The same antique oak carved table pressing down on the sphinxes bodies is still there,
The age-herald., 1900-07-15
WHY THE CHINESE
 HATE FOREIGNISM
Former Missionary Explains Their Manners of Worship and How
 Foreign Progress lnterfereS.

and quiet by throwing open the door to people of rude manners and divergent tastes and interests7
 And the Tartar conquest in the latter part of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century did not alter this ats titude towards foreigners. In fact it was in- tensfied, if anything, by the constant fric- ton occasioned by the presence of armed foreign troops garrisoning their cities, th9 opposition to which led to numerous rebels lions against the throne The policy of the Tartar government has wisely left the peof pie in this, as in most things to goverp themselves.
 Infated Seif-sunciency
 Other than this inflated self-suficiency as an explanation of the Chinese demaud to be let alone, there is to be considered the agglomerate of national superstition. Theib no, ons Of psychology also come in here.
 Men are supposed to possess three sou1S, One remains with the body; another goe3 into the ancestral tablet; a third hies to Elysium or Tartarus as the case may be- Two festivals are held, in the spring and fall respectively, at which food is placed at the graves and before the ancestrU tablet for the spirits maintepance. PapeB semblances of clothing, houses. household furniture, money and so on, are also rpan+ ufactured for the occasion and are burnt at the graves, which, by the way, haV9 been cleaned and white washed These, 1t 10 held, go off Tn spiritual shape Into the Otle& world to be used by the dead. large goW ernmetna charity provides food and paS per offerings for this holocaust at Pekin, so that those who have no descendants to provide for them may not be In want.
 The fuller meaning of all this is observed when we come to consider that far-reaching product of unadulterated deviltry-"Fung. Shui" Literally translated, this compound word means "wind-water." Dehned-x definition be possible-"it is that influencS good or bad, affecting the living and tha dead, the latter directly, the former mora indirectly, which resides in the currents of the moisture in earth and air"
 Current of Fung-Shui
 When a good current of Fung-Shui is playing upon the grave of properly-burie4 man he is satisfied and blesses-at leaSG does not harm-the living. But when th9 Flung Shu is bad, or where in connectioU with a good current of Fung-Shui th9 coffin is not easy, or does not lie at the exact angle required in it's relation to the points of the compass, the living becom9 victims of the malice of the dead. u Hung Chang carried his coffin with him in his nd-the-world tour. This was in line Witn what one sees in the homes of thousands of Chinese who have provided suitable burial grave clothes and coffins sometimes years before they die. So, too the dead are sealed up and left unburied in their houses
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ditches. Hollow bamboo pipes tubes are sometimes used for distributing water over the fields. They rest upon wooden supports and branch in every direction from the source of supply. The chain pump is also a common means of lifting water, the chain running up from the water on a slant and being provided with little buckets at intervals, which. as they reach the highest point and begin to descend, discharge their contents. These machines are worked by buffaloes or some times by human labor, a man working a crank with his feet some thing after the manner of riding bicycle. The most primitive and laborious method is the ancient well sweep. such as is seen to- day on many an old New England home stead.
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Summer Ribbons.

Greatest assortment in Birmingham,
 25 different styles, to 5 inches wide, finest quality taffeta Ribbons. AEN plain, hemstitched, or drawn %gAn worked---at l5c, 19c and. ...... - ~S
 Fancy Ribbons---endless variety of to inches wide newest fancy summer Rib bons, all pure silk, in newest plaids, stripes, checks. satin edged taffetas gauges, satin stripes and great many of the much wanted hemstitceed effects and all colors of finest French taffeta ribbons greatest ribbon bargain in the city Gn- Monday at, per yard, 10c, 15c HE
 Narrow Fancy Ribbons, 15 different styles, to 9 inches wide, all colors, plain tafleta, moire and satin ribbons, fancy hemstitched taffeta ribbons and newest checked, plaid, and striped fancy " ribbons, choice of the entire lot at, s1G per J<ru. '...
 Ribbon Pulley Belts, made in newest styles of pure silk black double HE faced satin ribbon, all sizes, in AG two lots, 49c and. T. ......... "
 Ribbon Sashes and latest Bow made free of charge while you wait.
The age-herald., 1900-07-15
BY GUY E. MITCHELL

Although the vast mobs which infest Pekin and the larger cities of China, work ed up to state of frenzy and fanaticism, have rendered impossible any satisfactory action by the available forces of the pow CTS, the great Chinese population proper is agricultural and naturally extremely peace full and peace-loying. Agriculture, how ever, is most primitive and the wonder is how such an immense population can be supported from the soil, until the great economy practiced in all things is under stood. On the Great Plain of China every available foot of land is utilized for grow ing something and every particle of fer tility returned to the soil. Waters are used for irrigation and in many cases laboriously distributed over the fields.
 The Great Plain itself is one of the most wonderful sections of the globe. It is 700 miles in length and varies from 200 to 400 miles in width, occupying the northeastern part of the empire, and containing over 2OO000 square miles of wonderfully fertile soil. The most interestir/ feature of this plain Is Its enormous population, as it sup ports, according to the census of 1872 not less than 177.0OO,0o0 human beings. making it the most densely settled of any part of
 
 amounting to nearly two-thirds of the en- tire population of Europe.
 Of strategical Importance
 The most wonderful feature in the physi- cal geography of China is the existence of vast region of loess in this portion of the empire. Loess is very solid but friable earth, brownish yellow in color and Is found in many places from 800 to 1000 feet deep. The loess hills rise in terrances from twenty to several hundred feet in height Every atom of loess is perforated by small tubes after the manner of root fibers, only the direction of these little channels Is al- ways vertical The loess region of China Is perhaps the most broken country in the world, with its sheer cliffs and upright walls, terraces and deep cut ravines Ow- ing to the ease with which 1t can be work ed, caves made at the bases of straight cliffs afford homes to millions of people in the densely populated northern provinces where the Boxers have thus far been most active. Whole villages cluster together in carved out chambers, some of which extend back more than 200 feet. The capabilities of defense in a country such as this, where an invading army must necessarily become lost and absolutely bewildered in the tangle of interlacing ways and where the defenders may always remain conceal ed have innumerable means of escape, is peculiarly significant at this time when
The age-herald., 1900-07-15
HammOCkS.

We sell good Hammocks for. .......... 49' Q UT lSO kind for. 9St
The age-herald., 1900-07-15
Shirt Waists.

Our Clearance Sale gives you a number of stupendons bargains in our Waist and Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Departments values that no house can surpass. These are not ends of lines and discontinued styles, but bright, up-to-date garments. The usual retail price is twice our Monday asking.
 50 dozen good quality Lawn and Percale Waists-large assortment of colorings and patterns, made with yoke front An and back-75c waists AHE for. .................
 Another wonderful Waist value---one that is made of good quality black lawn, with plain front, French tucked AAA back and laundered collar and HE cuffs---a $1. .OO waist for. ......
 White Lawn Waists, made with pew French back and soft cuffs. trimmed with embroidery inser- nE tion---an actual S1, ,25 value for
 100 dozen waists, made of fancy lawns, organdies and dinities, with good quality lace edging These waists are nn> unmatchable at $2.00; our Mon SnI day price. ..................... "
 Allover Tucked Waists, in white, black, pink, heliotrope. This waist M6 An has been the talk of the Au.2H town---at. ............. -.
 White Lawn Waists, front tucked and with rows of Valenciennes lace inserted French back, laundered col @a A0 lar and soft cuffs--this is AI.& S2, ,00 waist for............
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give you the best obtainable bargains.

give you the best obtainable bargains. A L. yard for Standard Merrimack
 4sC> Ss1hirting Prints in neat pink,
 blue and black and white pat ! -e1ns, for boys waists and children's dresses.
 A a> yard for Light Ground Fancy AnC Colored Lawns and Printed Bat | ists, in Dresden effects, figures | and scrolls, on pink, cream, white and light blue grounds, fast colors. Hl yard for Standard Indigo and 1nE Gobelin Blue Prints and Simp- " sons Satteen Finish Foulards, in all new blues, gobelin blue and navy printings.
 0i- yard for fine striped Batists and hnE Lawns, in the latest summer " printings on light and medium colored grounds; worth 12Hc.
 6n- yard for Scotch Batists, Lawns HHE and Dimities, in fancy Dresden
 or scroll effects, on all white and colored tinted grounds-never sold for less than 15c yard.
 9ni yard for high grade imported u/@ Corded Mulls, Lawns and Dim- ..kO ities, in fancy Persian designs, also one special lot of Oxford Bicycle Suitings, best colors and double faced plaid back Golfng Coverts-regular 1ec goods-Monday at 1211c.
 eE yard for fine imported sheer
 French Organdies and Mousse IVY lines, in the most exquisite high art designs, such as floral and spray ef- fects-worth 35c-special for Monday at 15c
 Special in higher grade French Mous- seline de Soie and Morcerized Silk Foul ards. AE- yard for exquisite Silk Elm AAn broidered Dotted and Printed wv Mousseline de Soie and Silk | Organdies, 30 to 32 inches wide, in black, | new blue, navy blue and heliotrope effects, | also one special lot of Mercerized Qike silk)-goods that sold early this season up to 75c---Monday at $50 a yard.
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Mosquito Bars.

A full size Bar at $1.oo, ready to hang. We sell Al Bobinet Bars on Dixie frames, frames for either brass or wood bedsteads.
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DEWBERRY

DEWRERRY & Sons, ? 12 1st Ave-. are
 wholesale and retail deal CTS in office and school supplies, school books, tablets, writing paper. box paper, wrapping paper, paper bags, pens, pen cils, ink, etc. F>
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Lac eS and EmbrOiderieS.

Prices cut 10 pieces regardless of COS or yalue-dont miss this sale.
 TRIMMING LACES--Wash laces, sucf as Point de Paris. No1mandie, Valen ciennes, Net Top and Torchon Laces, oi the very finest quality, made from the nar' row to the very wide widths, in newest de- signs--edges and insertions, at n> yard 127ac, 7c, Dc, Sc A
 SILK LACES, black and white, of fine French and Belgian make-Edges, Ga looms and Insertions, up to 8 in- nn> ches wide, at, per yard, 1213c, ZUE 15c and. .......... ......'.t.'
 MARROW WvALENCIENNES LACES- Those dainty narrow French Valenciennes Laces, so much different from the coarse English makes shown-an endless variety of pretty new patterns at, 1Es for dozen yards, 39c 29c, 17c and IVY
 FINELACE AND EMBROIDERYALL- OVERS, tucked and lace inserted All overs--white striped Normandie Valen- ciennes Alloyers-E Embroidered and Lace Inserted Allovers, and Allover Embroid- cries in great variety of newest ex- quisite patterns, at half the An> prices elsewhere--Monday at, S1nE per yard, 59c to-. ........ ....
 EMBROIDERIES, EDGES AND IN STATIONS of Cambric and Swiss, best makes-new Guipure openwork designs, in medium and wide patterns, great
 ly reduced for Monday at, per yard, nE 15c, 1Cc and... .........
The age-herald., 1900-07-15
BY N. R. WILLIAMS

China has never left willingly her her mit's cell even to take little healthy na- tional airing and exercise
 With population keenly alive to trade, her junks in the remote past cast anchor in many distant Asiatic ports, and her fishing smacks swarmed in her own rich waters. But relations with the outer world were confined to the business in hand-and her relative superiority to those with whom she dealt gave her the right of might for centuries to an exclusive policy, not to be questioned
 It was only when the white man-power- ful in personality and resource, and auto cratic as powerful-loosed from Euro pean moorings, and anchored in Chinese waters, that the almond eye of Cathay fell before keener glance than its own, and the problem was faced of an open door.
 In the march of fast crowding event often at the mouth of the cannon, con cession after concession was made, and the final struggle between Chinese egoism and foreign altruism seems now being waged.
 When we look at the conditions out of which Chinese national character has grown, we discover that there has been ex- cuse for this seclusiveness in the wonder ful resources of country whose sustenta- tion was not dependent upon importations from abroad, and whose interior traffic af- forded large scope for the energies of her people.
 Chinese Were Superior
 None of the surrounding peoples proved equal to them tradesmen, and all of these were inferior to them in art and in vention.
 With gun powder, and arms, rudely adapted to its use, the compass directing the course of their vessels, an extensive literature facilitated in its dissemination by slow, yet useful, contrivance for printing; thoroughly organized govern ment of long standing, it was not strange that these people, so numerous and with so large territory, should plant their feet upon remote antiquity and contemplate with satisfaction the unparalleled stabili- ty of a government which had stood the shocks of ages practically unmoved, and which they could not but believe would stand in the future all the other shocks that time had for it laid up in store.
 "The Children of the Sun,' ''the Sons of Heaven''-these were surely not extrava- gant names for people so highly endowed and so firmly fixed 'The Middle King | dom," the central figure in all national | life, that was no blatant conceit that writ that as the name of so great a land. Why should they court the favor of out side barbarians? Why disturb their peace
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Wash Dress Goods.

Do not be satisfied with tag ends when you can secure fresh, stylish goods at these remarkably low prices, We can
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HandkerChiefS.
Millinery Clearance.

Our final reductions on trimmed mil. linery. There are about 50 trimmed hats in stock on which the former prices were from $500 to $16.00, and gaod values st these prices, but in order to make quick
 clearance we have reduced M0 XII them to only $e.5o, s4so AZ.9u
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

bringing the opportunity for profit
able business in banking within the
reach of moderate capital. Many are
already availing themselves Of this
privilege,
During the past year more than
nineteen millions Of United States
bonds have been paid from the sur
plus revenues Of the treasury, and in
addition 100000 Of 2 per cents
matured, called by the government,
are in process Of payment. Pacific
railroad bonds issued by the govern
ment in aid Of roads in the sum of
nearly forty-four million dollars
have been paid since December 81,
1897. The treasury balance is in sat-
lsfactory condition, showing on Sep
tember l $135,419,OOO in addition to
the $15O,000,O00 gold reserve held
In the treasury. The governments
relations with the Pacific railroads
have been substantially closed, $124,-
42l, 900 being received from these
roads, the greater part in cash and
the remainder with ample security
for the payments deferred.
Instead Of diminishing, as was
predicted four years ago, the volume
OF our currency is greater per capita
than it has ever been. 1t was $21.10
IN 1896. 1t has increased to $26.50
on July 1, 1900, and $26.85 on Sep
tember l, 1900. Our total money on
July l, 1896, was $1,5O6, 4434, 966; on
July l, 1900, it was $2,O62, 1925, 1876,
and $2,O96,683,042 on September 1,
1900.
"Our industrial and agricultural
conditions are more promising than
they have been for many years; prob
ably more so than they have ever
been. Prosperity abounds every
where throughout the republic. [ |
rejoice that the Southern as well as
the Northern states are enjoying
full share of these improved national |
conditions and that all are contribut-
ing largely to our remarkable indus
trial development"
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14
MCKINLEY AND THE NEGRO.

Now, in contrast to the position
the Democrats take on the race or
Negro suffrage, the following, show
ing the number Of appointments
by President Mckinley will be Of in
terest to such would-be Democratic
Negroes:
H. A. Rucker, collector internal
revenue, Atlanta, Ga.
J. H. Deveaux, collector Of Gus
toms, Savannah, Ga.
c. G. Wimbish, collector Of port
Atlanta, Ga.
|. J, McCottrie, collector Of port
Georgetown, s. G.
Budd Coffee, collector Of port, st
Marys, Ga.
R. R. Wright, paymaster in army
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

A. j. Seligman, eX-member Mon
tana legislature, New York.
The Hon. T. J. Edwards, mayor,
Helena.
Carl Rasch, attorney, Helena.
A. NJ. Hotter, merchant, miner
and capitalist, Helea.
Cushman's friends gave Senator
Frink like unto that given Mr..
Cushman at Seattle.
Senator Fairbanks is to twist the
''tiger's tail" in Seattle.
Elmer Metcalf, ranchman, Stew
ensyille.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

MVO MORE SUCCESSFUL business man could
AN have been found in the Northwest than Hon
Charles Sweeney, Of the four presidential cleo
tors named by the Republicans Of this state for the
suffrage Of voters. For many years Mr.. Sweeney has
been Of Spokane's leading business men as we'll
as one of her honored citizens His nomination was
by the result Of political shrewdness but
genuine of 1.-THE office seeking ihe man.. No
nominee on the ticket will bring it more personal
votes than Mr. Sweeney, who is largely interested in
all the leading mining communities of the North
west. Sweeney and Cosgrove are splendid subjects
to represent Eastern Washington.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

The Hon. D. J. Tallant, ex-mem-
Der Montana legislature, Great Falls.
Joseph M. Dixon, ominee for leg
islature, Missoula.
Tiese men oppose Bryan because
Of his Populistic tendencies and anti
expansion views.
Maine remains the same, Republi-
can by $4,000
W. R. Logan, ex-agent Blackfoot
Indians, Helena.
J. E. Morse. banker, Dillon.
A J. Bennett, banker, Virginia
City.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

where the Republicans would might, no
more popular could have been found to cast in
connection with his three associates the vote Of
Washington for Mckinley, than Mr.. Cosgrove, the
political idol Of Garfield County. He has been
resident of that section now for many years. and the
only thing any one has against him is that he has
always been for the Republican tickets success.
Had not the nomination for governor gone to King
County it most assuredly would have gone to Gar
field County, and Sam. Cosgrove, in that instance,
would have been the nominee
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

castle, were much panied to learn Of
his death at that place last Saturday.
Mr.. Ogelsby went down in an old
deserted mine to rescue a boy who
had gone down there for some trivial
matter, and was overcome with black
damp. Both were instantly killed.
No blame is attached to the mine
authorities, and, according to an ex-
perienced miner, Mr.. Oglesby did no
more than would any other miner
have done-go to the rescue Of a
man in a dangerous mine. He was
buried last Sunday. He leaves a
brother somewhere in the state and
mother and three children in the
East. He was one Of the best miners
in the camp,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14
PERSONAL.


Do not use other folks things
without their consent.
Hon. j. E. Hawkins reports a
most pleasant stay in Portland. He
returned last Sunday.
Mr.. F. B. Morton, Of San Francis
co, is attending court in this city.
Mr.. Morton is one Of the most con-
spicuous Afro-Americans on the Pa
cific coast.
Mr.. H. B. Jones spent a few days
in the city this week. ''In my opin-
ion the colored men Of Franklin are
going to vote as suits them best, and
they will pay no more attention tc
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-14

Mrs. Mathew Brown is moving
her household effects from Newcas-
tie this week. She has been quite i'll
for the past two weeks, and her trip
to the mines this week was her first
getting about.
For some unaccountable reason
quite few Of the colored miners
have left Newcastle for British Co.
lumbia and California within the
past month. 1t does not pay to keep
changing around, as it takes much
money for travelling expenses.
Master Benny H. Moore, the mes
senger at the Republican headquar-