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uvEyr,ov OF pR1yrrxu.
1Ae YChinese Developed the Art sOe9e.
vr1ea Ro4oee Guttenber9.

ne .Chinese Developed the Art sOt1e.
uy1es Before Gutenberg.
Feng Tao "a. D. ss1-s64) is best
known to the Chinese 40 a versatile pol
ftician who served. first and last. uu-
der no less than ten emperors Of four
different houses. and gave himself .
sobrtQuet which finds its best English
equivalent in the "Vicar Of Bray"
In his history of ''Chinese Litera-
ture," published by the Appletons, Dr..
Giles telfs how Tao presented himself
at the court Of the second emperor OF
the Lao dynasty. and positively asked
for a pest. He said he had no home.
no money, and very little brainss .
statement which appears to have p
pealed forcibly TO the Tartar
who ut once appointed him grand ~
tor to the heir apparent.
BY foreigners, on the other hand. he
will be chiefly remembered as the "a
ventor Oh the art of block-printing. IL
seems probable. indeed, that some
crude form OF this invention had al
ready been known in the Tang y
nasty; but until the date of the Eene
Tao, It was certainly not applied to.the
production of books. Six years after
his death the "hre-led" house OF sung
was finally established on the throne.
and thenceforward the printing OF
books from blocks became a familiar
%handfcraft with the Chinese people.
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The customs, traditions and SUPER
stitions connected with Easter are all
most innumesable. Their origins are
in many cases impossible to determines.
because they evidently took place att a
time when the season was still pagan
In its character. Others, again, are.di-
rectly connected with the Christian, OBJ
servance Of the festival. The early
Christians; in many countries used to
greet one another on Easter morning
with the s%alutation:
Christ is risen"
The reply to this was:
Christ is risen. indeed, ami hath
appeared to Simon"
This custom, it is said, is, still OBJ
served I'm the Greek church.
THE giving of eggs at Easter, or the
spring festival, is n of the most
widely known, as it is also one Of the
oldest. Of the customs. Fram the re-
motest times the egg has stood to. the
Eastern nations as the symbol of the
universe. and it's breaking at that time
has represented the opening Of the new
life of the year. When the custom
was carried over into Christian prac-
tice the Easter eggs we're usually sent
to the priests to be blessed and sprin-
killed. with holy water. In later times
the coloring and decorating Of the
eggs was introduced, and in a royal
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and carried away a part of it, and
when they got hack to Washington
again they fastened to support Sena-
tor Sumner in his attempts to kill the
treaty providing for the purchase Of
the islands.
A good many years later another at
tempt was made to buy out Denmark's
possessions in the Caribbean. This
time the price was fixed at less than
IS, 000, 900, but, in spite of the reduce
ton, it came to nothing. Meanwhile
King Christian and the Danish gov
eminent have been growing increas-
ingly anxious to sell. Denmark is not
and is not likely to become a great
naval power, and the chief value Of the
islands lies in the fact that st. Thomas
has a good harbor and commands the
gateway to the Caribbean sea. Be-
sides, the islands are not s~elf-support-
ing. The Danish government is called
upon to face an annual deficit incurred
in their administration, and the treas
ury Of Denmark is not sufficiently
strong to stand such a strain without
feeling it.
Whatever the islands may lack in
any other direction they are strong
in historic and romantic interest. They
were discovered by Columbus on his
second voyage to America, in 1893.
But Columbus was not looking for a
few little scattered islands. and when
he found how small they were he hoist
ed sail and went away after naming
them the Virgin islands. Then for
more than $50 years they lay unvisit-
ed by white men. In 1867 some adven-
turous Dutchmen sailed into the splen-
did harbor Of st. Thomas and started
a little settlement there. That lasted
for ten years. Then the Dutch gave up
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INDIAN M1ys1oxAnY's STORY,
Of Toilsome Ministry Amoa1
A GhnNfANXA

Years Of Toilsome Ministry AmoR1
the Choctaws.
Little York, Ind, April 1.-(Special.-
Twenty-fiv years ago the Rev. Z. II.
Thompson left Indiana. For a time no
preached in Arkansas, afterwards n
tering on the regular missionary work
among the Choctaw Indians.
For five years he lived and labored
among the full -bloods Of the Western
prairies, until, on April 5th, 1886, hav-
ing lost his wife. ne left the circuit On
which he had preached so long, ana
commenced travelling missionary work
among the Indians OF the various tribes
scattered in the West.
This irregular work involved a great
deal of travel over the prairies. The
drinking Of so much alkalt water
brought on kidney troubles which ter
minated in Diabetes.
Finally, while labortng among the
Creek Indians at Wagner. Indian TER
ritory, his noble man was stricken
down completely. A Chicago special.
list was summoned, and after a careful
examination declared that there was
not the slightest chance Of his recov-
ery. Besides the prescriptions OF the
doctors, he tried many other nsedicines'
but all to no avail. He y
II had concluded that my days wers
drawing to a close, when I picked up
an almanac telling Of the cures OF Dia-
betes by the use Of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
I sent for two boxes. 1 gained strength
and spirits from the time I commenced
to use Them, and so I sent for more. l
am now completely cured, and have not
the slightest symptom Of my old trou-
BILE.
II am es years Of age I tell every
body of the wonders Dodd's kidney
Pills have done for me. I can certaihly
endorse them heartily, and vouch thae
they are all that is claimed Tor them:
They have certainly been a Goo-sen"
to me-"
Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only rem
edv that has ever cured Bright's Dis
ease, Diabetes or Dropsy, n they
never fail,
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to, keep the town clean. Almost every.
house has a balcony across the front
Of it's second story.
One of the most picturesque sights
to be seen at St. Thomas is the process
sion of. coal carriers, which is cease
lessly passing from the docks down
into the holds Of the vessels lying
alongside. The coal carriers are all
stalwart negro women, who carry great
baskets filed with coal on their heads
They work in day and night shifts,
and, after darkness falls they sing
weird songs as they work. In spite
of the fact that the Introduction Of
steam has taken much business away
from st. Thomas. it is still q busy
place, and as a result its people have
little of the tropical lassitude and lazi-
ness about them. They do not even
die of the day.
Prior to 184S both St. Thomas and
the larger island Of Santa Cruz pro-
duced large quantities of sugar. In
that year Denmark freed all the slaves,
and as a result, most of the negroes
left the plantations and gathered into
the towns. The sugar planters could
not get sufficient labor to work their
plantations, and the industry almost
disappeared. More recently it has been
resumed on a considerable scale, par
ticularly on Santa Cruz where there
is a great quantity Of fertile land. On
this island many Of the former slaves
have set up rs the proprietors of small
plantations, and it's annual production
Of sugar is now 10000 tons, a supply
sufficient to supply the wants Of the
United States for two days. r
The temperature Of the Island Of
Santa Cruz ranges from 66 to 81 de-
grees. 1t has, many magnificent drive
ways, leading through avenues OF
palms, tamarinds and bananas.
There are two towns on the island
Fredericksted and Christiansted. Mel
Their is of any Importance, from a COM
mercial standpoint. Practically all Of
the 10000 inhabitants of the island
speak English, and the only sign of
their allegiance to Denmark is the flag
and a little garrison Of about 100 Dan
ish soldiers. Fredericksted is a tum-
ble-down town of stuc%co-covered, two
stored buildings, the assures in the
walls and the tumbling walls being a
result of the sack Of the city in 1873,
when the negroes OF the island revolt,
ed against the Danish government.
One Of the differences between men
and women is that men have to die in
order to become angels-so says a
woman writer.
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on which less than a thousand people
live. Altogether the purchase would
add but 1000 people and less than ITO
square miles of territory to the United
States.
In 1867 Secretary of State Seward
made an attempt to buy these islands
Tor 81, 500, 000. The Danish government
agreed to make the sale. provided tho
people of the islands were agreeable
Do It. The Rev. DIR. Hawley, pastor of
Che church which the secretary attend
I'D at Auburn. N. Y, was sent to st.
Thomas to supervise an election held
30 give the people a chance to express
their views. On all three islands but
twenty-five votes were cast against the
proposed union with the United States,
several thousand being recorded In its
Favor. The sentiment of the people
vas almost unanimous. But the plan
had many opponents in congress. Chief
among these was Senator Sumner.
khen the head of the committee on for
pdgn relations. He pig%eon-holed the
treaty and prevented its consideration
for a long time. Meanwhile q On
ressional committee Of inspection had
been sent to make a trip through the
islands for the purpose of seeing that
che United States vas getting a good
bargain. Unfortunately this commit
tee started out during the annual hMr-
ficane season, which begins on July l
and continues for three months. The
visiting statesmen happened to be at
st. Thomas when the great hurricane
and tidal wave Of 1867 struck the town
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Origin of Easter Hats

To neglect the putting on Of some
entirely new article of dress on Eas-
ter Sunday was regarded by the Eng
lish of olden times al u to bring bad
luck, and certainly this is one Of the
practices which has lost nothing with
the increase Of years. Only now 1t has
been slightly altered. so that to have
no new clothes to exhibit at the Easter
parade is considered sufficiently bad
luck in itself. without the fear Of any
further misfortunes that may result
from it. After DOMINIC their new Eas-
ter garments the English country peo-
pie dined of tansy pudding and bacon
or tansy pudding and good red her
ring" the tansy being the symbol Of
the bitter herbs commanded to bs
eaten at the Paschal feast.
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OUT IT CAME WITH A LOUD "oW!"

OUT 1T CAME WITH A LOUD "OW!"
but I rather think he knew Is much
about the nests as they did.
Egypt was q sly old fellow. He
liked buttons and pennies, but he had
the greatest fancy for pins. He would
pull them out Of every pin cushion in
the house when he could get a chance.
90 you might search through room
after room. and not come across a
single pin. Nobody knew what he did
with them all. He was fond Of eggs,
too. and I am afraid this was the rea-
son that the children had such a long
hunt for them. and found SO few.
At last they climbed up the long lad
der into tho NOV. The hay was piled
almost to the roof and covered the
windows. It was 80 dark that Nanny
and Kitty were q little bit afraid, but
Billy went first. laundering along in
the hay. Just as you wade through q
snow drift.
Guess there are nests on this beam"
said Billy. 'but it's 30 dark I can't
zee. I'll feel"
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DenmarkS II Three !
& Little IdandJ

- " " -
The Danish West Indies, which Den
mark has just been notified must not
be sold to any other power but the
United States. r three little islands
lying Immediately east of Porto Rico
IT the gateway Of the Caribbean sea-.
santa Cruz is the largest Of the three,
Ind contains seventy-four square miles
.pf territory, more than five-sixths Of
which, Is under cultivation. Its total
population Is 10000, most of which Is
,bf negro descent. st. Thomas Is the
becond In size. and is the first in i'm
portance because of its situation and
ene harbor.. st. Thomas also contains
the commercial metropolis of the is
lands, the Town of Charlotte Amelia,
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In went billy's hand. and out 1t came
in a second. with a loud "Ow!"
Its hornets or yellow-jackets or
something!' he screamed. Fetch the
barn lantern. Kit, and I'll knock EN-
QUIT"
Kitty brought the lantern. and then
ran to the other side of the barn, for
fear Of the yellow jackets. Billy held
the lentern over his hear and peeped
in.
What did he see? Not hornets. but
pins.
He had run his hand into Egypt's
own little "hidy-hole." whore the sly
little rogue had laid away a whole pile
Of his favorite treasures. No wonder
they pricked like hornets. But what
the queer old bird was saving them for
I never knew.
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Children's Easter

1t was the Saturday before Easter.
and the children all ran out to the
barn to hunt eggs, with Egypt, the
taEe crow, hopping after them. Nam
ny was sure there must be several
dozen eggs in the hen house, Billy
thought the haymow was the best place
to find them, and Kitty said she had
seen old Topknot flying out from Dob
bins mahger. Egypt said nothing,
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MARKET PLACE OF CHARLOTTE
AMELIA,
quarters Of the famous pirates and
buccaneers who so long infested and
ravaged the Spanish Main. Before
steamships were invented st. Thomas
was more than It is today. a roadhouse
of the seas. a sort Of ocean halfway
house between the continents. Into
Its great harbor Spanish galleons .lud
heavily laden. slave ships ran for shell
ter, and the buccaneers hanging close
about were certain Of good picking.
Sometimes the pirate ships even pur-
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puzzL,No

Archaeologists Are Discussing Probable
Creators Of Rare Antiques.
In 1897 the English took possession
Of Benin. one Of the most famous OF
african cities, and found In it many in
t~sresting works Of art, mainly fash
toned Of bronze and ivory.
sIundreds. of. these were brought
70 Europe and, after they
had found their way into public and
private museums, the startling discov-
ery was made that in some of the
mussums there were already duplicates
~ Some OF the ivory works Of art, but
Mat no bronze work Of art could be
.sound anywhere. The question then
arose. Since the people Of Benin have
for centuries been workers In. bronze
and IVORY how Is it that 20 many
epecimens Of their ivory art work have
been imported into Europe from time
b tfmesand long before their city was
captared, whereas there : very few
Europeans who had ever seen any Of
their bronze engravings before 1897!
OF this curious fact various explana-
tdons were given, but the one which
was accepted q being most plausible
y that these Benin artists who worked
hn ivory. were permitted 70 export their
i bares, and that those who worked In
,ronxe were not allowed TO do 20.
those whom this discussion at
Gacted was Herr +. ron Luschan. z
YEnFrHs9s 81 ~ 49, Ia NsFIa1Et q -
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his hectic, and it is difficult to avoid
the conclusion that, If these symptoms
are removed by the purity Of the air
outside, they must have been largely
caused by the impurity Of the air
within the house. Nor have we any
right to assume that it is the con-
sumptive only who suffers. Doubtless
the healthy struggle against and over
come evil influences before which
those who are tuberculous succumb.
but that is not to say that in the
struggle we do not suffer; and, indeed,
the facts recently brought forward are
sufdcient to show that the stufty life
Of warmth and comfort which civilized
man now enjoys" is bad for the
health. even Of the healthiest. We
make u windows At. we pad our
doors. we shiver at a draught, we sur
round ourselves with wooden curtains,
dusty carpets and fluffy. luxurious
upholstery. We breathe the same air
over and over again. and then we
wonder that we are not strong and
vigorous. The fact II. we are daily
using up the exuberant vitality with
which nature has provided us in strug-
Cling against, artificial conditions.
How powerful for evil. how deteriorat-
ing these conditions are, are shown BY
the fact that their mere removal gives
back to the consumptive that vitality
which enables him to overcome the
seeds Of disease within, him. Fresh,
air is not . thing to be taken In little
doses nee . day, but . thing to live
on.
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History Repeating Itself.

A. Cane .Town dispatch says that tbs
british generals in South Africa regard
DeWet as demented.
The defeated Austrian generals, after
Napoleon's first campaign. wrote the
Austrian emperor:
..This young soldier is crazy; he ig-
nores the established rules Of war; no
fights in the winter time. and turns up
in all sorts of places"
Gen. Banks wrote the secretary OF
war in the early part Of 1862:
ITO my mind. my opponent, Jackson
is crazy."-Denyer Times.
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Nufure,s Easter Girl.

The gladstone Easter-tide comes on,
The sesame of spring:
When birds begin to u n the voice.
A summers praise to sing.
The leaves upon the trees bud forth,
The daffodils unfold;
All nature opens like a bud.
The sur foods earth with gold.
No more in this, our better age,
Do maidens seek in dress
And costly bonnets to express
Their Easter happiness.
The modern maid, with brimming health
Gives locks a saucy curl:
Brings forth her bike and natty suit
She's Natures Easter girl.
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which is better known as st. Thomas.
charlotte Amelia is a town Of 10000
Inhabitants, and the total population of
the island is only a few hundreds larg-
0r. st. Thomas contains but thirty
three square miles of. territory, most
Of it too rocky for cultivation. The
third island in the bunch for which the
United States now proposes to pay
%, 240, 600, is st. John,a little rocky islet
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CHRIST Is RISEN! y

year at this, season testify to the in
genuity expended in devising new and
attractive objects In which the idea of
the Easter egg shan be preserved. In
Paris these Easter presents are gener-
ally given ON the first day Of Passion
Week. All are emblematic of eggs,
and are known Is "oeufs dss Paque."
or "Paschaf eggs"
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Miss Mason to BE a Ilawyl

Miss Ruth r. Mason, daughter Of
Senator Mason, proposes to Join ner
father and brother in h law business
She will be graduated by the National!
university law department in June, ana
is making preparations to begin a gen
eral practice. Senator Mason says MS
daughter will make a good lawyer, ana
he approves her ambition to oeeln
nractice in this city.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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the attempt, and a few years later the
Danes took their place. Since then
the English, French and Spanish have
a%lternated in the control Of one or
more of the islands. which finally
passed under the permanent control
Of Denmark in 1916.
But the chief romantic interest when
attaches to st. Thomas lies in the fact
that it was for years one Of the head
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Not a. ExpIainer.

Not m Explainer.
"I'm afraid that you won't be 70
explain your attitude in this matter"
said the friend, doubtfully.
'.I'm not going to try to explain"
said Senator Sorghum. Life 10 too
short to do anything but go ahead ana
transact business. I can hire people to
do my explaining for me ."-Washing-
ton Star.
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roll Of the time of Edward IL. which To-
preserved In the Tower of London,
there is an entry Of 18d. for 400 eggh,
to be used for Easter gifts
In the last few years artificial eggs
Of candy, china and other materials.
and e~gg-shaped articles of all kinds.
have largely replaced the real, eggs az
Easter gifts. The shop windows; each
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To CURE. A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Tsle LAXATIVE BRono QuININB TADLHTs. An
druggists refund the money II 1t fails 70 cure
Il. ". Groves signature is on the boz &c.
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Pile end Fistula Cure.

Sample treatment Of our Red Cross Pile ana
Fistuia Cure and book explaining cause and cu!e
Of Pies, sent free to any address for io9r cents u
stamps. Rea Bros. 4 Co., Minneapolis @m"" I
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tdo not believe Pisos Cure for oonsuupso.
has an equal for coughs and coloe.-o."
poyn.. Trinity Springs. Ind. ten' u. W.
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Nlrs. WlnsloW.D soothing Syrup
For childrea teethins, softsnst the gums, rodueee e
dsm1afoo, aliaYe pad. cnyos W5adoolic. 0ceooeso
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WE CAN SELL YOUR BUSINESS. Have sons
.ttrsctive epeninss In all lines. Refersncea
oSium. Kurtxman CO. Phoenix BID Minneapolis.
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Incredible.

stranRer-Could you direct me to the
Carnegie library?
Citizen-Thc Carnegie library? There
is none in this town.
what"
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He who would leap high must take .
long run.
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Through the long night Of darkness and gloom
We follow Thee unto the opened tomb.
49, And, standing by its side ~
a.. Behold life Slorined,
J Know immortality.
Because Of Thee.
Through the bright morning still We follow Thee,
Our fear forgot, our faintest doubts shall deA
9$a Let praises linger long.
For death 10 conquered. ~ ~ sg
s64 II Io! the .farthest skies
s5 Are filled with song!
o heart, rejoicei Art blinded 1T the door
or thy safe tent? Thy Pilot went before. 4
He leads thee in; then sing.
"Ours II the victory,
&935&#%@E O suffering One
Because Of TheS!" AZ 3*% 33E#t 5& -
Homeless ere yet He knew tho dafkened. eomp.
&8 Homeless hencefortn NO more; q eaon slad nsaFt 1As Ae0A
aN And SWaI the Easter song. ~
Ana every bird awning - -
1 The rssiSs peslong!
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Much broth is sometimes made with
little meat.
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,Axs I'VE TIMES 40 MUCH - coHR
1nv Iice laads In 3. I. Texas md Q.
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Jssafnas. La; Eirsn I. Hhselssi QH,yssese, &
When the wound u healed the pain u
forgotten.
Counsel after action = like rain aatn
harvest.
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