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Miles of Ribbon Used.

It is calculated that about $4,000
yards of ribbon will be issued with
England's South African war medals.
This estimate is made on the as
sumption that about 100000 men will
secure the medals, there being nine
inches Of ribbon served out with each
medal.
No decision has been arrived at as
to whether any of the ribbon will be
sent out to South Africa to the men
who are entitled to it.
The custom has been to distribute
the ribbon OH the return of the troops,
and this will probably be the course
adopted in the present instance.
Meanwhile, these regiments already
back from the war can put in their
claims for the ribbon, and can wear it.
1t is about an inch and quarter
wide, and is made of ribbed silk Of
three colors-red on the edges, dark
blue next and orange in the CENTRE
London News.
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life, the illiteracy, Is not to be unchar.
itably charged against the guajiro to
his discredit.
Americas special interest in this
group at the present time Is. or should
be, in it's place in that political future
OF the island in which America IS so
deeply concerned, and for which she
has assumed such important response
bility. To some extent the guajiro
took part in the Cuban insurrection.
Yet it is doubtful if anything more
than q small percentage took any ac-
tive part in the operations. The great
majority of the original followers of
the instigators of the revolt of 1895,
like those who supported the earlier
Ten Years War, were a less response
BILE element, consisting Of plantation
field hands. The raids Of Gomez and
Maceo, westward from the home OF
the insurrection in Santiago province,
demoralized and, in large measure,
destroyed the productive activities of
the central and western provinces.
Some of the small peasant farmers,
reused by the enthusiasm Of the move
ment, Joined the flying raiders and be-
came it's most effective fighters. Many
remained passive, and constituted the
class known as the pacificos, the
peaceful, the non-combatants. Some
of these materially aided the insur-
gents with such as they had to give,
though unwilling to take active part.
There were few, whether they were
active or passive, who did not lose
their little all. Insurgents and Span
iards seized their crops, their cattle
and their poultry for "the needs of
the army" Often their homes were
burned, sometimes in wanton destruc-
ton, sometimes in alleged punishment
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an important consideration in all Gu
ban affairs. Without them, our sugar
would be 4 costly article. and none can
say what Cuba would be. Yet equally
if not more carefully to be considered
in Cuba's political future, Is Cuba's
sturdy and peaceable peasantry. The
guajiro is peaceable man, tractable,
easily governed, asking nothing save
justice and fair taxation from his
rulers. He Is no discontented mis-.
chief maker. His greatest desire Is to
live in quiet, cultivating his little
farm, chatting with his neighbors.
disturbing none and desiring that none
disturb him. His Is no strenuous
life," and advocates of that sort Of
thing may regard his life as contemp-
tlblc, yet it is the life Of the majority
Of the worlds population.
In the politics of the time this man
has little place and his voice is little
heard. He is probably the man who.
in days to come, will de- mine what
fashion of government Cuba shall
have, but he is not yet ready for such
definite determination, and he figures
but little if at all in the plans and op'
erations Of political leaders. He now
has no political organization, though
such Of his type as cast their votes IN
the recent election doubtless voted
with the Cuban National party.
He is the backbone of Cuba, and
Americans, in their consideration Oh
the island and it's political and social
needs, should give due place to the
guajiro, the sturdy. patient, tractable'
peaceable, plodding majority. - New
York Independent
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.cro,d,no,ber at Twenty-six.

A grandmother at twenty-six is the
unique distinction Of Mrs. Mary Camp
bell, ho lives in the mountain dis
trlct" Of Western North Carolina. and
is about as far from civilization as
one can get in this part of the world.
Mrs. Campbell married when eleven
years old. She was the mother OF a
daughter when but twelve, and her
eldest child has now become a mother.
Mrs. Campbell has had nine children
and is in good health. She does the
little housework that is to be done In
such establishments. '1akes all the
clothes the childre lear. does the
cooking and fills in the time working
In a rocky cornteid.-Buffalo Times
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SOMETHING ABOUT RolLs.
Slight Injuries, High Living, and Close
Shaving Alike May Cause Them.


Contrary to the common belief boils
are not indicative of blood disease.
They are really indications of local
poisoning by puss-bearing germs. and
the boil is On absccss. Every pus
prick, every scratch, every abrasion,
every cut with i razor or pocketknife,
every splinter that enters the skin
may cause a boil. Nor need the wound
be a serious one; it may be so minute
as to be invisible to the unaided eye.
Nor is the result always produced. for
if it should be, every slight wound,
every thorn prick, every scratch Of
cat, every bite Of dog, every abra-
sion Of the skin. would be followed
by disastrous, If not fatal, conse-
uuences. Tue reason for this immu-
nifty is that there Is certain inherent
power of the body to resist these nox-
lous agents, and it Is only when the
powers Of the body are weakened by
disease that the morbific agents can
thrive In the body and accomplish
their evil work.
In this sense. then. boils are dis
eases due of the blood, but it is not
disease in itself High living also fa-
vors boils. DR.. Reid. speaking Of pus,
and incidentally Of boils. says: Job
was probably run down by long Pc
riod of debauchery. We read that the
devil had him in tow some time before
his boils broke out. If, now, he could
have had the counsel Of three good
physicians, instead Of as many tire.
some theologians, he would have had
his system toned up; his broken pots
herd, with which he scraped himself
withal,' thus spreading sympathy and
infection, would have been taken from
him, and he would have been taught
few lessons in sanitary science in
stead Of theology"
The reason why boil Is always in
the worst place is because that is the
most exposed place. The back of the
neck, where the collar rubs the mi
crobes into the skin; the wrist. where
the cuffs irritate, and make the en-
trance Of germs more easy; the top Of
the foot, where the shoe pinches; the
razor-swept chin - are all favorite
worst places. From the American
Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record.
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Mortrapin9 the Bad Loans.

In consequence Of the abandonment
of lands in the arid region there IL
now a deserted belt. on which are sit
uated empty towns and vacant home
steads. New England. which has lent
most of the money for the building
Of the West, lost enormous Sums by
the desertion of these farms. The
shrewd New Englanders had for SO
long a period found excellent security
and high-interest paying investments
in Western farm mortgages. that,
being ignorant of arid land conditions,
they readily offered their cash to help
the settlers Of the plains. In many
cases clever swindiers. realizing what
was sure to happen, took up home
steads merely for the purpose of put
ting mortgages on them, after which
they abandoned them. - Philadelphia
faturday Evening Post.
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ant, the farmer, ell hijo del cam
po (the son of the country. as distinct
from the man Of the city and town..
he is the man who is locally known as
the guajiro (wah-hee-ro). Taken
broadly, this class will include white,
BLACK and mulatto. though the great.
er numDer are white. In Cuba the
term "white" has latitude which is
not recognized in the Anglo-SaXon
race. The swarthy Spaniard may
owe the darkness of his skin to some
old drops of brownish blood from the
long years of Moorish occupation Of
the peninsula.
Numerically the guajiros constitute
probably some sixty or seventy per
cent of the people o. Cuba. At the
present time an exact classification is
impossible. The processes of war de-
Etroyed the homes of many of the
class, and they have been forced to
seek such employment as might be
open to them. This they have doxe
with a patient and submissive endur-
ance which Is one of their chief char.
acteristics. Gradually, as best they
can, they seek to pick up the threads
of the old life, to return to the spot
of the old home to build anew the SIM
pie structure and to resume the old
occupations.
The type Of dwelling occupied by
tine guajiro is misleading to those who
20 mil with ho xy-pr1l'c G
ant and pioneer life. 1t impresses
such as a hovel which can only be the
home Of poverty, unthrift and social
degradation. So does the rock and
mud hut of the South African veldt.
the humpy Of the bush settler Of Aus
tralia, the nipa hut Of the Filipino, the
dugout of the Western pioneer, and
the log cabin Of the mountaineer. Yet
each uses for his dwelling that mate
rial, whether it be earth, stone, brick.
wood, bamboo, or palm, which is most
readily and economically available for
his purpose. The nipa hut Of the Fill
ipino and the log cabin Of the noun
taineer may be and often are quaint
and picturesque. The cabin OF the
Cuban guajiro seldom suggests any
thing other than the crude and the
primitive. Yet, like the corresponding
homes of other lands, the roof thatch
may shelter very worthy man,
good husband and father, hospitable
host according to his means. The
rudeness of these houses Is no true in
dex of poverty. Wealth the Cuban
peasant does not have, yet his little
in6,,stry will and does give him as
large a percentage of what he wants
and needs as that which falls to the
lot of many who would be disposed to
pity him. A hut, n few acres Of land,
q few farming tools and an OK make
him well to do. Two oxen and a
horse will number him among the af,
fluent.
The guajiro is usually a small farm
er. He cultivates for his own needs
with such surplus as he can for sale
or exchange to crafty such desires
or ambitions as he may have for him
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ment, it Is asserted, will preserve milk
l.: sweetened condition for seventy
five hours in all climates. In applying
the principle for household use the
charcoal is suspended in the bowls or
pitchers used after the manner Illus
trated. The holder consists Of fine
wire gauze receptacle, with thin metal
arms attached for its suspension.
New charcoal has to be used on each
occasion. AS applied to the dairy
mans needs, the charcoal is contained
in two perforated metal cases, one in
the bottom Of the churn, or can, and
one attached to the inside Of the lid.
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ago by the famous comparative anato-
mist, DR.. Joseph Leidy. The study Of
fossil and recent horses is one Of the
most interesting and convincing OF
evolutionary theories. In Eocene times
the ancestor of the modern horse had
four toes, so he could run over the
marshes. Later, in Miocene times he
lost one toe from disuse. Pliocene
times saw only the central toe predom-
mating, when in the modern horse the
extra toes do not penetrate the skin,
and are only recognized anatomically
as the splint bones.-Philadelphia Rec
ord
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MThe American Type"

Those who direct the State, who ad-
minister the cities. control the Legis-
Iatures, the fnanciers. merchants. pro-
fessors, journalists, men Of letters
those whom I met in sOciety-are
nearly all Of American birth and all OF
marked American type. 1 rarely heard
a foreign accent or saw a foreign
countenance. The American world is
practically run" by genuine Ameri-
cans Foreigners are more en- evil
dence in London or Manchester. it
seemed to me, than they are in New
York, Philadelphia or Boston.-Fred-
eric Harrison, in the Nineteenth Gen.
tury.
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portation of coolie labor brought the
Chinese.
The color line is far less definite
than it is in the United States. The
census of 1899 gives the following de-
termination: White Cubans, 910,299;
white aliens, including Spanish,
French. English, German and Ameri-
can. 142, ,19S; negroes, 234,G3S; mulat-
toes, 270,S05; Chinese. 1857. Com
pared with earlier census returns the
negro and the Chinaman show a
marked reduction. The returns Of
1862 give: Negroes, 422,OoO; Chinese,
$4,000.
Somewhere in this somewhat hetero-
geneous lot there is the type which
may be rightly called the Real Cuban,
the Cuban race type. place this
type, and I believe with entire cor
rectness, on the soil. He is the peas
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A School Teacher,s Application.

A Kansas school board received the
following letter the other day from
one of the teachers: 81 would like to
have the refusal Of the school SO long
as you are willing to hold it for me,
though I can't say positively that I
will not teach, nor positively that
will. IF am married, as think
will be, of course I will not want the
school. But you know the old story
about many a slip, and I would hate
to be out of job as we'll as the other.
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Preserving Milk by Charcoal.

a rather unusual melnod Of pre-
serving milk has recently been brought
to public attention in England, the
chief feature of which is the use Of
charcoal. 1t is asserted that charcoal,
if immersed in, milk, will absorb all
the impurities resulting from the
chemical changes which are constant
ly taking place. This simple treat
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for their attitude. From this class
there came the large percentage of the
unfortunate reconcentrados. Upon
this class the burdens of destructive
warfare have fallen most heavily.
Ruined planters may be numbered by
scores. Ruined guajiros count up into
the hundreds of thousands.
The few hundred of great planters
in Cuba are an essential feature in the
islands development. They are the
employers of thousands of laborers.
Their rights and their privileges are
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None of them, perhaps, is more ANUS
ing. from the western point Of view,
than the camel cavalryman shown in
the accompanying picture. The rider
is a Sepoy of the Twenty-sixth Balu-
chistan Rcgiment-a British East In
dian soldier-and his steed is a part
Of the loot taken at Patachu.
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Of Sabine Pass. It is known as the
"oil pool" and the surface of the
water there ls perpetually smooth from
petroleum which floats up from the
bottom.
The proposition now is to sink pipes
from the surface, which, after pene-
trating the bottom, will be sunk far
enough to tap the oil supposed to ex-
list in large quantities in subterranean
caves far beneath the surface Of tho
Gulf.
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The owners Of automobiles in Ohio
constitute a new force in the good
roads movement. There is plan un-
der way for the building of boule-
ward from one end of the State to the
other, touching the cities and largest
towns.
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200 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE REAL CUBAN
BY Albert Gardner Robinson.
HE people of Cuba, like those
of the Philippine Islands and
tho TTnited SrotpS ora n COM

e poSlte race. The carly ye.lrs
of Spanish occupation saw Spanish
blood commingled with that of the So
called Indians" whom the discover
ers of the island found in possession.
Later Spanish settlement established
lines of distinct Spanish blood, and
produced also a further commingling
in varying proportions with the ma
tive blood. In later years q measure
of immigration followed from the i'm
mediate surroundings. The French
man and the mixed French came from
Hayti and San Domingo. The mixed
Spanish came from Mexico and North
ern South America. Slave trade
brought the African negro, and the i'm
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Snan Shot From China.

The clash Of the eastern and west
ern military methods in China during
the past year has brought many
strange things into the public eye.
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Fvolution OF the Horse.

Dr.. Gidley, of the American Museum
of Natural History, of New York
City, recently spent some time In this
city studying the type specimens OF
fossil horses preserved in the museum
of the Academy of Natural Sciences.
These specimens were described years
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SUBMARINE PETROLEUM.
Project Afont to Sink Oil Wells in the
Gulf

Texas capitalists are now interested
in a company which will drill for oil
in the Gulf of Mexico. 1t has been
discovered that considerable oil field
underlies the Gulf few miles outside
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The average value Of the annual
raw silk exports from Syria may be
put at S5,O00,000.
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hour and half from Sydney, Austria
liza, up the Parramatta River. Messrs.
Adam and Eve are both enterprising
business men, and appreciate the ad-
vertising value of the firm name. 1t
is interesting to note that, as diapers.
Adam and Eve are in q very appropri-
ate iness.-Proftable Advertising.
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An Australian Snapshot.

This picture is produced from
photograph taken at Parramatta, a
fiat, hot, and sleepy town, sail Of an
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ant, the farmer, ell hijo del cam
po (the son of the country, as distinct
from the man Of the city and town..
he is the man who is locally known as
the guajlro (wah-hee-ro). Taken
IL Al ix,ol.,da r--lito
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Newspaper Difficulties in Japan.

From the foreigners point of view.
writes correspondent at Toxic, the
fresh accession to Western methods
more difficult to get on with. The latest
instance in point is very quaint one.
The: postal authorities took exception to
the Kobe Chronicles description Of itself
as an "English-p printed newspaper" on
the ground that the classification gave
no indication Of the frequency Of pub
LEGATION, as required by the Japanese
regulations. The Chronicle amended It's
subheading by adding the words, "a
morning newspaper. After two or
three months the authorities again raised
the objection that this was not sufficient
IL specific, and wanted to know il the
paper was published on Sundays. The
words published daily, Sundays and
holidays excepted, = were then added to
the title. with the result that the paper
was etliately taken to task for pub:
sishing on the. japanese harvest festival
sof November q. sss
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EXTRAORDINARY COINS.
Recent Sale in London Brings to Lixh
Some Curious Specimens.

Recent Sale in London Brings to Light
Some Curious Specimens.
The London Daily Mail tells of re-
cent sale of coins in that city which was
rarely excelled in the annals Of numis-
MATES. The coins, to the number Of
the present era, and they represent four
teen years hard search on the part Of
A. F. Schepens of the Chinese imperial
customs, who has hunted them up from
all parts of China, from the province of
Yunnan to the province Of Manchuria.
Their authenticity is guaranteed by Her.
bert A. Giles, formerly Of the British
consular service in China, and ]. H.
Stewart Lockhart, colonial secretary Of
Hong Kong.
To the average person who devotes his
time to collecting the commonplace cur
rencv Of the country tor personal use
some of the coins which will be offered
on Thursday will suggest that the Chi
nese lady who went shopping in 2255 B.
C. used to carry her pin money around
on a 14-span bullock dray. The K'ung
Shou Pu. for instance. which is one of
the Oldest examples IN the collection,
looks like an axe head, measuring near
ly inches from top to bottom. and
about 4 inches across. But the K'ung
must have been sort of threepenn,'
piece to the ancient Chinese lady, for the
Chi tao, Leih Kua and the Ming tao,
known as the knife coins, and which
used to be handed out for a pound of
Pekoe in the dusty ages. are exactly the
shape of the modern razor blade. and
vary in size from I inches to inches
long. while the Yuan Fa is a flat coin
about the size of a trumpet. and it has a
square piece punched out of the center
like the merry fantan chip of present
use.
In addition to these there are hundreds
of coins, representing twenty-four differ.
ent Chinese dynasties. besides many
quaint specimens from Chinese provinces.
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MAI #i@ft n
THE GIRL WITH THE KANGAROO
- ',' "'" WALK.

A wheel quite essentia! is loose in her head
And throws the whole works out OF gear.
You'd think from her LIMP, ridiculous tread
Her brain was decidedly queer"
She looks, II you'll pardon classical term,
A woozy. goo-goelsh young gawk,
AS onward she moves with slide and Il
The girl With the kangaroo walk.
She travels the pave in mechanical way,
With never a symptom OF grace;
A monkey would gaze in alright and turn
And wonder who built her that face:
Ayv o syS WITH h the LOOK Of an nc
Her figure would cause dried mummy 10
laugh,
The girl with the kangaroo walk.
All sensible women look on with disgust
And want to secede from the sex,
And men! Well, they laugh till they fear
they will bust
Yet, as If unconscious she Is such a fright,
She pegs along block after block
And thinks that her style is away out OF
sight,
The girl with the kangaroo walk
She claims that she follows Dame Fashions
obeys her great majesty's rule.
And one who would Sneer at At her her, idiccy
To tell her she ridicules maidenly grace
Would give her poor nerves quite shock
And win but frown from her simian face,
The girl with the kang lroo walk.
The ludicrous fad will he brief in its reign,
1t soon will no longer be seem
And victims will think while observing its
WaNp
What dear silly fools they have been.
They'll try to forget what exhibits they
were,
And ali will feel tempted to knock
The heads Off the fellows who'll dare 10
refer
To the dead and gone kangaroo walk.
james Barton Adams in Denver Post.