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The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
HOW cHlNAMEN GAMBLE.
they Wager Their Working Years on
Quail and Cricket Flights.

Quail and Cricket Flights.
One Of the most common ways Of
betting in China is with oranges. This
goes on at the fruit stalls and also in
private houses. The bet is on the
number of seeds in an orange. Some
| lines it is as to whether the num-
| Der is odd or even, and at others as to
he exact number Of seeds the orange
contains If at a fruit stand the deal
sr will pay the lucky guesser five times
lis debt, but the loser must pay the
galue of the orange, and also five times
as much as he has wagered.
Quail fighting is done on q table
with a little fence about it's edge. The
Sighting quails have been starved for
some time. AS they are put into the
pen a few grains of rice or wheat are
laid before them, and they at once
begin to fight over them. They are
! trained for the purpose, and n good
fighter is worth EGO and upward
1t is the same with crlckets Their
prize rings are little bowls. The crick-
cts have been trained. They seem to
understand their masters word, and
they are urged on to the combat with
straws. Some of them are very fierce,
and many will fight until they die.
Those which chirp the most loudly
are considered the best fighters.
The Chinese understand how to feed
and groom the crickets for the fray.
They give them honey, boiled chest
nuts and boiled rice and certain kinds
Of fish. They do not allow any one
to smoke near them, for they think
that tobacco is injurious to them. If
the crickets grow sick they feed them
upon mosquitoes and red ants.
In a cricket fight the crickets are
weighed before they are put into the
ring. They are matched as to size and
color. The betting is done just as
carefully as at an English horse race.
The stakes are held by a committee,
which deducts q certain percentage
for those who own the fighting houses.
During the fight the gamblers grow
excited. They scream and yell and
hop up and down, as one insect gets
the better Of the other, and go almost
mad when one wins.
The Chinese have all sorts Of games,
but mostly games of chance. Even in
kite-hying the boys and mentor even
the men fly kites-will try to see
which has the strongest string, fore
ing his string against the strings OF
the others to break them. In such con-
tests the strings are often soaked with
glue and busted with powdered glass
that they may cut or saw the better
AT every feast moreover, there are
games Of guessing upon which money
is staked.
And what, then, is the result of all
this? There are labor slaves in China.
They have been worked within recent
years in the coal mines west of Pekin.
There is q systematic scheme in that
region to involve men in gambling
debts and then take them to the coal
mines to make them work them out.
Once in the mines they are subject
to fines and other charges which
make them slaves for life The Chi
nese Government recently learned of
this condition. and is said to have TAX
en- steps to put a stop to the abuses
London Mail.
The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
EngIlsh Inv of IiheI.

The English law Of libel makes pro.
family a mcney-saying vice II you
call a man a thief, and cannot prove
your assertion, you commit libel. If,
however you garnish your description
with any Of the adjectives usually
deemed unfit for publication, any libel
action brought against you will fall
through, for the law says your pro-
family proves that you have LEST your
temper, and therefore YOU are not ac.
tionable for your words.
The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
List of Officers Together With
Time and Place of rIeeting.
IN THE ALTER OF THESE ASSOCIATIONS
THE FIRES ARE BURNING FOR ALL
THE PEOPLE OF THE SUBURBS.
Citizens Northwest Suburban
Association.
OFFICERS;

President, Charles @. Lancaster;
lst Vioe. President, Col. Robt. L.
Fleming; and ice-President, Hon.
John b. Henderson; 3rd Vice-PIesi'
dent, John Sherman; 4th Vice-PEesi'
dent, Rev. Joseph q. MAllon; 9th Vice
President, Rev. j. Mcbride SterTetti
Sscretary. DR.. j. W. Chappell; Treas
nrer, Charles r. Morgan; Chair man
Executive Committee, Louis P. Shoe
maker.
b4- Total Membership about 100.
The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27

The laying OF the corner stone OF the
new public library on Wednesday was
an event of great importance. When
the building is dedicated it is hoped Mr..
Carnegie will be present in person.
The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27

The May Ladies Home Journal is an
exceptionally splendid issue. An edi-
torial dealing with the country and its
healthy pleasures and quiet content is
especially appropriate at this time.
The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
OFFICERS
Drank Poison Instead Of Magnesla.

Northport, N. Y. (SpeciaD.--Mrs.
Vienna McCann, IS years old, died here
Saturday after lingering from last Sun
day. when she drank bottle of glacial
acetic acid. The druggist says he had
premonition six months ago that he was
going to have some such accident as
this, but that he had hoped it would not
be fatal.
The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
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The suburban citizen., 1901-04-27
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Recent arrivals from South Africa have
brought, says a correspondent, the mos
wondrous specimens of diamonds" with
them, beautiful to behold; but, alas, they
would not scratch glass, while some a
the most beautiful of all can be cut with
a pocketknife. 1t is tolerably simple e
say whether stone is diamond or not
If you can scratch sapphire with Il.
you want no further test; it is dia
mond. If you rub it with wool or o.
wood in the dark and it phosphoreSces, il
is diamond. If you look through it at o
light and only see one light, it is mos
probably a diamond. The X rays have
discovered that a diamond is nearly il
not quite translucent to those rays,
whereas the brightest paste" contains
most lead and throws the blacklist shaa
ow. And diamond tastes cold. whereas
a paste gem tastes warm.
Major Battersby, o. S. D., writing or
this subject, said that Solomon's words
were very true as applied TO persons Civ
ing information TO those in possession OF
precious stones" Very often "he that
increaseth knowledge increases sorrow.
London News.
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TO CURE THE GRIP IN TWO DAYS
Laxative Bromo- Quinine removes the cause.
GOLDFISH.
They Generally Acquire Their Bril-
liant Coats n Year After Birth.

TneY 1enGEAAg hCAoAFC
liant Coats n Year After Birth.
Goldfish are so common nowadays that
few persons ever stop to think where
they come from 80 how they are raised.
The pets require a careful and systemat-
ic raising that is scarcely appreciated by
those who expect to get them for small
price.
The largest goldfish farm in the world,
il it may be called such, is located in
Shelby county, Ind, about 80 miles from
Indianapolis Here the original goldfish
men in the United States have their prop
agating institution. There are two farms,
several miles apart, both of which are re-
quired to advance the various branches
of the industry. In the northern part of
the county is one farm, of eight of ten
acres. The other is a few miles farther
south and contains about 16 acres. The
two farms constitute the Spring Lake
fishery, and in the various ponds there
are more than 2000 900 fish.
On each of the farms is a large num-
Der of small ponds, some of them not
much larger than ten feet square. These
ponds are all connected by little channels,
that the water and fish can be let from
one to the other without the least diff
Guilty.
The breeding ponds, which are the
most important, are protected from the
wind and cold by high embankments
around the edges. This is all the pro-
lection that is necessary for the fish even
in the winter time. While the fish are
very delicate and readily succumb to
overhanding, they are much more hardy
than is generally supposed.
Many persons suppose that when the
goldfish is hatched from the egg it has
the peculiar pretty markings on its scales
which make it so beautiful and valuable.
This is not the case. In its youth the
fish is just the same apparently as any
ordinary fish. Even an expert could
scarcely tell it from the little minnows
which are to be found in any stream. 1t
is of a whitish, silyery color and shows
not the least evidence of the beautiful
hues which it will later assume.
There are many instances in which the
fish never change TO the reddish color,
but retain their silyery white complexion
until they are several years old. Ordi-
narily the golden shades appear in less
than a year. First the fish begin to gel
dark, becoming almost black. From the
dark color they begin to assume a red
dish shade and finally come out in all
their glory, full fledged goldfish. Often
the fish instead of acquiring a solid color
all over the scales from nose to tail be
come spotted with big red blotches her,
and there at irregular intervals over the
body.
All the fish are fed exactly the same
thing-toasted bread two or three times a
week. Nothing else is given them. The
sun h the necessary agent and the only
one to complete the scheme of nature,
and even this sometimes does not do its
work uecessfully.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Worst Since Appearance Of White
Settlers.
Damage to Shipping
100000.
Destructive Fires Reported
From Australia.

Vancouver, b. g., January 20 The
steamer Aorangi, from Sidnsy, brings
the storylof the most disastrous hurricane
known in the history of New Britain
since the appearance there of white set
tIera quarter of century ago. The
storm began December 7th, and extended
over period OF three days, causing dis
tressing scenes OF devastation, injury and
death.
The seas carried everything before
them, and at the white settlement OF
Herbertsbohs, the beach was. in few
hours strewn with the wrecks OF shipe.
boats and lighters. The steam yacht
Antonius, belonging to the Sacred Heart
missionaries, Just arrive ed from sydney,
broke from her mooringa and within an
hour she was pounded to pieces. The
government wharf was washed away, and
thrown high up on the beach. The
Maori, a 26-ton cutter, was IL fled on shore
by the fury of the wind and water, AMI
broken up like kindliDg wood. The
storm continued to increase In severity.
and on the following day Forsythe's
wharf was demolished. several loaded
lighters being driven ashore and broken
up.
:: The stone breakwater surrounding the
wharves of the New Guinea Company,
was totally destroyed, and the boats In
side were dashed TO pieces.
On shore the ravages OF the storm were
marked by hundreds Of fallen trees,
many being torn up by the roots. The
banana plantations were devastated, and
those In the north coast were completely
destroyed.
In consequence OF the disaster the ma
tives will suffer great privations. Two
natives were drowned, two Others were
thrown down with such fury by the gale
that their legs were broken, and dozens
were bruised and otherwise injured.
The damage done to shipping alone will
exceed $4,000.
A calamity is reported from Australia.
From the Albury district come accounts
OF serious bush fires. which have de-
stroyed all vegetation within an area ex
tending from WaliandooI to Cubarin.
| Inc wheat crop had promised better than
during any season for twenty years, but
| 40, 600 acres OF ripening grain were
burned and many farmers we're utterly
ruined, and not few rendered homeless
In another of the districts timber wa'
abIaze for a distance OF twenty miles In
one direction, and ten miles in another
Thousands of heal of cattle and many
OF the sheep were buTnei. Many persons
are missing, but no positive fatalities arr
reported. Women AMI children wert
placed IN water holes, while the men
fought the flames.
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body throws off each day more than II
receives through food, air and water, and
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the largest amount Of vitality will be gen
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| stairs without the most extreme exhaustion
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Mas. ASIA wooD, Nurse,
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Byron loved to look at himself far down
the yistas of posterity. But what would
his lordship say could he read the follow
ing advertisement OF rural storekeeper:
'You will find everything you want at
my store. have groceries, meats, stoves,
ranges, millinery, corsets, Byron's works,
in four volumes. Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress and salve that will cure bum
ions; also Tennyson and fresh cabbage in
season. l can save you 20 per cent on
books and beef"
Think of Byron on the same counter
with beef-which he abhorred!-Atlanta
Constitution.
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on the train which leavss here at
O'Clock in the morning. and Is due IN
Botson at Bz o'clock In the morning.
Ii it were GRAHAM who cid this deed,
and who took this O'Clock train from
Portland, rhe would have had ampls time
co have eaten his breakfast and then
gone 20 the Klmwood House and regis
tered for his room.
IL will be remembered that Graham
says that he regisoeredtthe night before
the murder, or on Thursday and Friday
AZ the Salvation Army barracks, where
he paid IS cents for his lodging. On Sat
urdny morning he says he went to the
Elmwocd House and peid VI % In ad-
vance fora room which he kept only two
days according TO his own story.
Mira. Shuman saws that when Sheriff
Plummer came to the Elmwood HOUSE
with Graram, she recognized the man
as the ons who had come to the house on
Sunday morning, January 18th, the
morning after the murder, and she was
positive that she was not mistaken in the
time nor In the Inan.
county attorney that he registered In
Portland at Smiths Hotel on the night
of October 10Th, the day he was released
from Thomaston. The register OF
Smiths Hotel shows that E. X. Milliken
and wife registered there on that night,
and went away the next day. Graham
also says that he was in Portland SAnu'
AIRY 18th, and registered at the Hotel
Temple. The name Of E. X. Milliken
and wife appears on the Hotel Temple
register January 8, He came to tna'
nouae at q. 10 O'Clock from Saco, and hao
a woman with him. Both of[these sigma
tures are evidently written BY the samt
person.
IL will be seen by the above facts thai
Graham has some time to account for,
as his story In some particulars at least
is not absolutely correct. The comfy
attorney is said to have remarked yester
day that he thought the state had su nc
Tent evidence to hold GRAHAM for the
grand Jury at the preliminary hearing
which will come of In about ten days.
Graffam's reputation Is not yer,
EAVDIy Ou6s lac Woa oce SAAs
mixe1 up in the famous case OF Jame
Lewis, who was accused OF numbering
Byron q. Coburn, in December, 1898
but he was also sent to the state prison
for attempting to rape the sister of hi
wife. II
1t is said that some time before CoburI
was murdered, a pedlar named stuck wa
found dea1 beside the read IN Scarboro
with evidences Of foul play ON his body
GRAHAM was seen riding with this ped
lar a short time before he was found dea'
but no evidence against Graham wa
ever found in this case.
Yesterday, at meeting OF the citizen
OF the town Of Gorham, reward OF sou
was offered for the arrest and conviction
of the murderer CT murderers OF Clif1ort
Mosher, the sum to be paid to the Der
son giving the information which woult
lead to the arrest or conviction on tn
statement OF the selsctmen OF that tow
and the county attorney.
The coroner's jury Will meet Monda
morning at ten O'Clock in the count
attorneys room, City building Corone
Perry has summoned twenty-three wit
nesses for this inquest SO far.
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breads First nights.

First nights? Heavens! Don't speak
Of theml 1t makes me feel bad now to
think of the Thursday when we first
gave The Monks of Malabar.' Really.
felt like taking train and running
away when that evening came around,
and ir ii hadn't been for my wife coming
down from New Rochelle with me l be-
lieve l should have tried to swim across
the sound and lose myself on Long Is
and.
First nights! Whew! They're worse
than frostbites, mosquitoes and the vel
low jaundice all at once! Don't let's talk
about 'em. I'm not a bit superstitious,
but the man who invented them owes nee
his life. / have an idea where he is, and
| hope hen stay there till l reach him. y
Francis Wilson in Success.
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Lient. Dixon Reports to This Effect
to Gen. Lee.
Report Confirmed From
Other Sources.
Marshal Bennett Says Situation
is Now i'm Hand.

Omaha, Neb., January 2S.-6eneral
Lee tonight received a tslegraphio re
port from Lieutenant Dixon, command
ing the troop of cavalry sent to the some
OF the Greek Indian troubles. Hs states
that be has not yet made full investiga-
tion, but has learned enough to warrant
his saying that the reports of an upris-
ing have been greatly exaggerated. Thus
far he has encountered no violence on the
part of the Indians, and he anticipates
none. The report from Lieutenant Dixon
comes from Henrietta, which place he
reached during the forenoon,
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BOERS ENCOURAGED.
Write That They Have Practically No
Opposition In Cape Colo NY.

boston, Janusry 25.-Joaeph O'kane,
clerk OF the Boston Common council, has
received q communication from Chas ID.
Pierce, consul general of the Orange Free
state and treasurer OF the Boer relief
fund, acknowledging the receipt OF rssolu-
lions by the common council OF Boston.
extending Its greetings to President
Kruger and expressing desire that ne
may visit the city of Boston. MIR. Pierce
says:
1 am pleased TO inform you that news
from South Afr lea Is OF the most en-
couraging character. There ara under
arms on the Boer side over twenty thou
sand determined invinoible patriots.
Three thousand of these invaded Caps
Colony only short time ago. Their
numbers are now increased to nearly ten
thousand. They are. meeting with prac-
tioally no opposition in Cape Colony, az
Kitchener has only sufficient force to
guard the largest towns.
The invaders daily recsive large acoes-
slons to their ranks They are also get
ting food, ammunition ana horses. OF
which they now have a sufficient quanti-
ty to carry ON the war aggressively. For
the past six or eight weeks the British
have been acting altogether on the de-
| fensive.
or the 10000 men landed in South
Africa, from Great Britain, 40 DER cent
OF that force has been lost or inoapaoitat-
ed, and the cost to Great Britain has
been over 500, OOo,OOO. with no prospect
OF the end being at hand.
| The Beers total loss in killed and dy'
ing from wounds has not exceeded 1900,
| but their Is in property and the i'm
poverishment of the peopls have been
very great.
| Great Britain Is commercial nation,
and the question is how much longer II
can stand such terrible loss Of life and
/ treasure.
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Feather In His Can.

''None shall wear feather but he who
has killed Turk" was an old Hungarian
saying, and the number Of feathers in his
cap indicated how many Turks the man
had killed, hence the origin of the saying
with reference to a feather in ones cap.
The information is contained in the
Lansdowne manuscript in the British
museum describing Hungary in 1899.
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PILES CURED WITHOUT THE
KNIFE.
THE

Itching. Blind. Bleeding or ProtrudIng Piles.
No cure, No pay. All druggists are authorized
by the manufacturers of Paz0 Ointment TO re-
OF piles. no matt OF how long standing Cures
ordinary cases In six days; the worst cases In
fourteen days, One application gives ease and
rest Relieves itching Instantly. This is new
discovery and Is the only pile remedy sold on q
positive guarantees, no cure no pay, Price soc.
OF your drug list don't keep II In stock send US
5ec 10 postage stamps ana we will forward
same BY mali Manufactured by Paris Medi-
cine Co., St Louis. Mo. Manufacturers OF
Laxative o-Quinine Tablets.
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The Willy ceIe.tinl.

''Why does a Chinaman purchase his
burial casket and make all the prelim-
mary arrangements for his own funeralP'
asked the man who thirsts for informa-
ton.
Because" answered the man with
diplomatic experience. "those people know
better than TO trust one another any far
ther than is absolutely necessary
Washington Star.
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ENDORSE MRS. NATION.
HoBsoN.s ILLNESS WAS SERIOUS

New York, January s5.-Tomorrow,
Lieutenant X. r. Hobson viii leave the
Presbyterian hospital, where, since De-
aember l, ne has been suffering from ty-
phoid fever. Several times,it was admit
ted tonight, Lieutenant Hobson had been
much nearer death than had been pnb'
Iicly given out, but he is now out OF dan
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SHOT WITH SALOON RIFLE.

] New York, January 25.-George Dressed
was shot through the heart and instantly
killed tonight In a shooting gallery ON
the Bowery. Walter j. Kelley, VINO bel.
the rifle. Is under arrest, charged with
murder, The shooting was accidental
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silent guard over the coffin, with guns
reversed and arms crossed and heads
bent. The silence IL unbroksn save by
an occasional shuttle from the soldiers
In changing their uneasy position.
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induiging In the war dance are at WORK
Il is trus that q few Indians are at
tempting TO enforcs SONS OF their old
laws wherein msmbers OF their own tribe
are concerned. ChscOtah is In no danger
of affack.
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NOTHING TO FEAR.

Checotah, 1. T., January a5.-H q.
Turner, of Brush Hill, where the Snake
band OF Indians are supposed to be In
camp, was in Checotah today, and says
there is no truth in the report from
Eufalfa OF an Indian uprising. The In
dinns, he says, who are supposed to be
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CARNEGIE CAPTURES STEEL CAR
co

New York, January 26.-The Journal
and Advertiser tomorrow Will say:
Andrew Carnegie has secured control
OF the Pressed steel Car Company, which
Is paying over two millions year in
dividends.