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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
Chinese CHARACTERISTICS.

For more than 1900 years not only has
it been a political axiom that the ruler
is for the people, not the people for the
ruler. but the civil official always takes
precedence of the military of the same
nominal rank. The civil Viceroy is SUI
preme commander of all the forces in
his Viceroyalty. even though he be ut
terly ignorant of the art of war. In civil
and military rank there are nine grades
These are indicated by knobs of pre-
cious stones on the crown of the hat.
These knobs are usually called buttons.
There are corresponding signs of rank
sewn in gold thread in squares on the
chest and back of the outer robe. In
the case of civilians, these signs are va
rious birds, in that of the military they.
are animals a military officer of GER
tain rank, or '.button.' is not entitled 10
sit down in the presence of civil Off
cial Of the same nominal rank. Literary
knowledge commands profound and uni
versal respect, and marks the rea! upper
class of China: military knowledge Is
held in no esteem. This will serve as an
indication of the love Of peace SO char
acteristic of the Chinese people.
They revere Courteous as something
more than man. They admire the eX-
cellent system of ethics which he has
transmitted. To this system sand the
rich literatu connected with it the
Chinese owe their unity and their high
ideals of morality. To inquire whether
or not their own ideal standard is attain
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

ed by them in practical life is beside our
present purpose. That standard exists,
and is appealed to as the highest and
most influential court in the land No
people appeal to and rely upon reason
more than do the Chinese. Their in
struction from childhood teaches them
to trust 10 reason and not to force for
the statement and the acquisition OF
their rights. Years ago they appealed
in This way to Western nations, by whom
their appeal was spurned with contempt
hence the present horrors in China.
Their etiquette, again. which is strictly
observed by all classes, makes q police
force unnecessary. Their Difference to
seniors, their politeness to strangers. all
combine to form a powerful restraint
on the coarser feelings and on that re
sort to physical force not uncommon
among many Western nations. In all
their quarrels I never saw one China
man, however angry, strike another.
They certainly sometimes do strike with
lethal weapons, and murder is commit
ted but it is SO rare that a case never
came under my own personal observation
contemporary Review.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
For the THANKSGIVING Dinner.

1 think a Thanksgiving Unbeatable
should be differently decorated from one
for any other occasion, writes Anna
Wentworth in the Woman's Home Com
panion. 1t should look loaded. My CEN
tre-piece viii be a big scooped-out pump
kin, with the edges scalloped, filled with
fruit arranged prettily on leaves-ban-
anas. oranges. lady-applcs and grapes.
At one end OF the table will be a
representation of mammoth pumpkin
pie dhis for the benefit of the children).
made from a bread-pan, with crinRled
yellow tissue-paper around the edges
and filed with saw-dust. in which is
concealed trifies. one for each person
present. done up in yellow paper tied
with yellow ribbon. The ribbon bows and
ends Will make the top of the pie. AT the
close of dinner it viii be passed, and
every one will get pull and a package
At the other end of the table / will have
a bowl of yellow chrysanthemums-tfe
flower of the Thanksgiving season. AT
the four corners I Will put horns of
plenty made of cardboard covered with
yellow clinlsled tissue-paper. Out of one
of these corilucopias viii pour chocolates
out OF another figs and dates. out of the
third nuts and raisins and out of the
fourth candy fruits.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
John Tia FARCE on Truth in Art.

''When I work as an artist [ begin at
once by discarding the way in which
things are really done. and transiating
them at once into another material
Therein consists the pleasure that you
and l take in the work of art-perhaps
a new creation between us. The pleasure
that such and such reality gives me and
you have been transposed. The great
depth and perspective of the world, its
motion. its never resting, I have arrested
and stopped upon a little piece of fiat
paper. That very fact implies that /
consider the flatness of my paper a fair
method OF translating the non-eXistence
of any fairness in the world that | look
at. If 1 am a sculptor l make for you
this soft. moving, fiuctuating, colored
flesh in an immovable. hard, rigid, fixed.
colorless material. and it is this transpo-
sition which delights you Gas we'll as me
in lesser degree. wfro have made it,.
Therefore at the very outset of my be-
ginning TO affect you by what is called
the record of a truth, I am obliged to
ask you to accept a number of the great
est impossibilities;r evident to the sense.
and sometimes disturbing, when the con-
vention supposed TO be agreed upon be-
tween you and myself is understood only
by one of the two parties in the carrying
out of the er.'-From The Inter
national Monthly for November.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
CURRENT LITERATURE FOR BUSY READERS

of that Brahmiu order of New England,
which he first had classified and chris
tened. He had too keen an appreciation
OF genius not to recognizes his own. He
enjoyed his work as much as his most
feryent admirers. Ind openly enjoyed,
too. their applause. I remember ono
evening that ne quoted one Of his poems.
and / was forced stupidity to acknowledge
that I did not know IL He fairly
jumped to the bookcases. took out the
volurIe. and read the verses, standing in
the middle of the room, his voice trem-
bling his whole body thrilling with their
meaning.
There he cried at the end, his eyes
flashing. could anybody have said that
better? Ah-h,' with long indrawu
breath of delight as he put the book
back.
He had the fervor. the irr:tability. the
tenderness OF u woman. and her whim-
steal fancies. too. He was. unlike womer.
eager to help you out with your unrea-
sonabIe whiuis. One day 1 happened to-
confess 10 a liking for old graveyards and
the strange bits OF human history TO be
found or guessed at in them. The result
was that he became my cicerone the next
day TO Mount Auburn.-Rebecca Harding
Davis in the November Scribner's,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
A Wnnnan's Hour.

Please state TO the court exactly what
you did between andr3 o'clock on We'd
nesday morning. said a lawyer to a
delicaIe-looking little woman on the wit
ness stand.
Well she said, after a moments re-
Election. 81 washed my two children and
got them ready for school, and sewed a
button on Johnny's coat. and mended
rent in Nellie's dress. Then I tidied up
my sitting-room and watered my house
plants and glanced over the morning pa
per. Then / busted my parlor and set
things TO rights in il. and washed my
lamp-chimneys and conbed my baby's
hair and sewed n button on one of her
little shoes, and then / swept. out the
front entry, and brushed and put away
the cllildren's Sunday clothes, and wrote
a note to Jollnny's teacher asking her to
excuse him for not being at school on
Friday. Then ] fed my canary bird and
gave the grocerynlan an ordeia Ga
swept off the back porch and then ! sat
down and rested a few minutes before
the clock struck .. That's all.'-Phiia-
delphia Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
America Is a Coalshipper.

Having found the markets for their
Goals. it is but reasonable TO expect that
American capital and enterprise will soon
provide the ships to carry them in. and
we shall expect to see many a self-trim-
nler. flying the Stars and Stripes in the
near future Nor can we. after a care
it1l- review of the coal resources OF the
United States, of the exceptional ease
and cheapness with which they can be
mined. and of the readiness with which
the very best coal in the States can be
brought to the seaboard, but admit that
America will, in the near future, be Eng
lands most active competitor in the coal
trade of the world. and, next TO the Eng
Iish, the largest owners of ocean col
Magazine.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
"A Near View OF DR.. Holmes.

Physically he was very small man.
holding himself stiffly erect-hts face
insignificant as his figure, except for a
long, obstinate upper lip cleft to me, =
ne said one day. .by some il!-condytioned
grea.-grandmother"), and eyes full OF
wonderful fire and sympathy. No one
on whom Dr. Holmes had once looked
with interest ever forgot the look-or
him. He attracted all kinds of people
as brilliant exctable child would
attract them. But nobody, I suspect,
ever succeeded III being familiar with
him.
Americans at that time seldom talked
OF distinction. OF class or descent. You
were only truly patriotic if you had a
laborer for a grandfather and were glad
of ii. But the Autocrat was patr.cian
enough to represent the descent Of a
Dafmfo, with 1000 years of ancestry
behind him. He was the finest fruit
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

reserved for the babies and the sick.
One of The miss!onar Is TOLD me sne Ma4tt
each day to another part of the legation,
in constant danger of flying bullets to
get slice OF white bread for her sick
baby. The woman having the flour baked
loaf each day, not for the use OF her
family, but for the sick.
While there We're three ladies on. the
standing committe of housekeeping, all
the ladies took their turns in looking
after the cooking. serving, table-settine,
&c. As there were seventy in this fam
lily, they were dyidsd into three messes.
,And 1t WAS necessary to- have three
of each OF the meals AS the dining
room was also living and sleeping-room.
it required much work to keep il in
presentable condition. One Of the hard
est things to bear was the utter impos-
sibility of having quiet. There were
timeS when it was unsafe for any one
to be outside the building. and all work
had TO be done with a large number
in The room. Outside was the roar OF
artillery: inside, three busy sewing
machines. and women and children, and
servants at work besides all the men
not required outsds on the Notifications
or at the mill This constant noise
and mpossibllity TO be alone-was more
wearing upon the nervous system than
any amount of w rk.-Alice Hamilton Rich
in Lesies Weekly
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
Heroic Woman at the Siege of pclsin.

Heroic Woman at the Siege OF Pcktn.
Lady Macdonald, Mrs. Conger, and the
other ladies' Of the legation offered their
curtains and portieres for use. and the
scissors ruthlessly cut up most exquisitety
embroidered draperies into sand-bags,
while those who were in charst Of the
Notifications continually sent messengers
asking for more more One of the
mission ladies had just laid in a new
supply Of table linen, and some OF the
native Christians finding it and knowing
whose it was, brought it to her. This
with all like material, was used, as We're
drawnwori linen sheets and pillow-cases,
while bolts OF rare damask linen were
cut up without conjunction. In fact,
all sense of cost, and even sense of
beauty. seemed to be lost in the eager
desire to furnish the means of protection
to human lives. Besides these beautiful
things thus sacrificed. there wers' also
used common materials, such as old Mon
gol tents. hanging to sedan chairs. and
stacks Of old Chinese clothing. Thess
We're cut out and sometimes sewn by
foreign ladies unused to other than deli
cate work. However, the foreign ladies
were greatly assisted by the Chinese
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
Raiiadc o!.tiic Football Man.

Many there be that golfng go
- Upon the links TO have their swing,
YcIad in garments gay that glow
AS doth the sun when westeTins;
sun some rnere be 70 baseball cling.
And tennis claims it's little clan;
But if you want TO see 1.-The thing,
Behold tlle lusty football man.
Forsooth he lets his hair to grow
AS doth the festive sprout in Spring;
And should both eyes be black as woe
'Tis. pride he feels therein-no- sting!
His followers make the wel1in ring
From far Beersheba unto Dan;
And if you'd gaze upon d king,
Behold the lusty football mani
In midnight dreams he tackles low
IA touchdown you will hear him sing
Although there ne'er was such a show
He's every girl upon the string
When he goes forth his foes to fling,
The head-guard, nose-guard, shin-suart
plan
Makes him sight for marveling-
Behold the lusty football man.
ENVOY.
Prince, all the other games are slow,
And fall beneath the public ban;
There's only one game now-and so
Behold the lusty football man.
Clinton Scollard, in December Smar
Set
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

girls of the mission schools and by the
women of the families of native Chris
tians. OF the former there We're some
$50. Besides the supplies brought from
the foreign stores there were great rolls
OF cotton cloth, also Of silk and brocade
satin from Chinese stores. The Chinese
at their funerals wear SPECIAL garments
Many of these were used, the long, large
sleeves being well suited to the purpose
of bag-making. 1t was continual sur
prise that new supplies from new sources
came in each day as needed.
The housekeeping committee and those
who worked in the diet kitchen were
particularly i,ard-worked, being constantly
busy, and exhibited an ingenuity In Plan
ming and preparing appetizing edibles that
was marvellous. The materials were
horsefesh Called pony meat, coarse
wheat flour. and a dark-colored rice.
These were the staple materials There
was a small quantity of canned meats,
which was used as IN occasional relish.
The white rice and all delicacies were
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25
Ghe Days N7esyoqo.

BY the slimmer af green and golden,
The leap and sparkle OF spray;
BY the heart. of the rose unfoldsfr
To the breath of the summer day;
by the shout and song OF the reapers,
Binding the npened shcaf:
BY the sweet of the honey Of lilies,
BY the fan OF the loosened leaf;
By tbs fields all brown and sere-
Through the march of the changing
season
we measured the passing year.
by the brave things thought or spoken,
BY the true deeds simply done,
BY The mean things crushed and con
quered,
And the bioodless battles won:
BY the days when the load was heavy,
Yet the heart grew strong to bear:
By the dearth, the dole and the lasor,
The fullness. reward and cheer:
BY the book of the angels record,
We measured the passing year.
Margaret e SdnGster.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

DOWN AMONG THE CRACKERS. BY
Rosa Pendleton Chiles. Cincinnati: The
Editor Publishing Company. Bound in
cloth. 32S pages. Price, s1.5o.
Thomas Nelson Page AHA joel Chandler
Harris have preserved for this and future
generations the type Of the old-time darkey;
George w. Gable has given US the. charac
teltstics and the patois of the half-breeds
of Louisiana: Mary E. Wilkins has drawn
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

81 am net at all certain" said the "a
ther, that my daughter loves you sufIi-
ciently to warrant me intrustng her TO
your keeping for life
Well" replied the young man. perhaps
you haven't the same advantage for o.
serving things as have'-Stray Stories.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

TOMMY AND GRIZEL. BY James NJ
Barrie. New York: Charles scribners
Sons. For sale by The Rel Book ant
Stationery Company, Richmond, Va
Bound in cloth. illustrated, y mo, 80,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12
CHAPTER XIII.
Amateur Detective.

About twelve the next day Mr.. Pur-
day, the pawnbroker in Tottenham
Court-road, had customer, a lady in
black, closely yelled, who bought a
half-guinea article and then asked him
if he knew anything of the purchaser
of the ear-drops now produced, an
American.
Glare made her inquiries ardoitly,
and got more than Sc had at all ex-
pocted. Purday said the said Ameri-
can was stranger, but told Clare all
about the other customer present that
day. who he (Purday) was sure the
lady recognized though he did not rec
ognize her.
'*She didn't seem, ma'am, as if she'd
like him to know her, fancied." said
Purday, ''and he gave me his name as
Mr.. George Crewe, Is, Prospect place.
Islington, e general oddly store"
Clare thanked him and went away.
Her very heart throbbed with hopes
and fears. Heaven, she had but TO
change her visit to the Crewe instead
of Mrs. Dexter. with far less risk, too,
Of her disguise, as old Mr.. Digby. the
lawyer. being suspected. He would be
trapped whether he were Arabelia's
uncle or father or neither. and brought
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12
Mabel Crewe Cor Marsh).
Died January 4th, 1SS-.
A Qed fiftv-fOur vears

"Crewe, she told me, being her own
born name, and she had no right to any
other, never having been married. She
gave me also letter to be posted after
her death addressed merely to Alpha,
Poste Restante, London ard a sum
of money, her Christmas allowance.
she said. for me to pay her doctor,
any other trif1es she owed, her fun
eral, and for the gravestone. The res
idue was for the poor of the parish.
This is all can tell you beyond that
which you already know. i am yours
NATURALIZATION Fielding
Glare looked up to meet Wilfreds
gaze, anxious, questioning. She ans
wered it as if the lips had spoken.
''Oh, no not bad news at all; only a
little matter of business which must
see to as soon as you are able to spare
me for about twenty-four hours"
Il can spare you tomorrow, to-day,
if it is for your good" he said, eagerly.
What dear, unselflsh fellow you
are!' Clare said, with rather tremu-
lous smile. Il must see how you are
tomorrow. l hate to leave you at all
in all this trouble; but"
Never mind that, Clare; don't think
or worry about me. Heaven knows
how | shall miss you every minute;
but then there is your coming back
to me to look for
And it will only be a short alb
sence,' added Clare. but you will
have to take great care of yourself"
Il will do everything anything you
bid me-"
Like my own good boy" said
Glare, lightly; but she stopped to pat
Scamp. We'll, 1 shall give my COM
mands tomorrow before I leave. will
take the 10.5. and get home early the
next morning"
All, yes, do-do. I shall send a car
riage TO meet the eleven train"
Glare smiled at his peremptory 81
shall" but said he might send unless
she wired a later train.