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IN / TURKEY

Both men and women for .he most
part wore the European costume. with
the exception of fezes on the heads
o. The men and shawls thrown round
the heads OF the women. The sermon
was intended to calm and fortify the
minds OF the people who were much
excited over the JOINT note of the pow
eTs and the rumors of massacres to
t..rea.
There were many wealthy Armenian
merchants and Ian q owners In Angora
before the massac-es; hut they were
Catholics or Gre-Lrlaas. Indeed this
city was the great Catholic strong
hold O! the interior. These sects how
over We're no less obnoxious to the
Turkish government than the. Protest
sGt nation. Wherever the members
were wealthy And by the way, sects
are always called nations by the
Turks, because the government rules
the infidels through their church or
ganiZatiOns. ses s. Z
This old city of Northern Cappadlo-
cia was for several years an awful
warming to the Osmanlis of what was
to be expected from the rapid progress
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PART OF GREAT CONVENT.

the 18th century than most others oi
Europe, retain to greater degree
their primitive customs and dress.
They, are not of one type. either, il
frequently happening that entirely diff
ferent faces are found in districts but
a few miles apart.
The Moor left his impress. which
Will not soon be eradicated. The Goth
perpetrated his fair hair and blue
eyes over g. large area. The purely
1berian race survives here and there
unadulterated.' Nevertheless, all are
Portuguese in sentiment, Strongly patri-
otic, ready to repel an invader from
whatever direction he comes.
The Spaniard must keep his own
side OF the mountains-they want
none of his rule. Their ances tors
fought with Wellington to drive Ma
poleon's legions back to France. To
DAY the young men serve their terms
in the army. and the people willingly
bear the heavy burden. that they may
have-these six millions-a force to
fight with should the integrity of their
land be menaced.
Cintra-the summer residence of
royalty and diplomacy-is less than
q miles away and l must get there
before Dos Carlos if ] intend to view
the interior of the palaces. The first
thing to be done after alighting from
the train was to drive to the Cas-
tello da Pena, a well-imitated me
diaeval castle which the King-consort
Ferdinand erected or the site of an
old and disused monastery. Only the
Moorish castle, a short distance away.
dominates the Pena. where King
Charles lives during the summer sea
son.
This CASTILLO dos Mouros, as its
name implies, is a veritable relic of
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dominion estsrd:aS from Cau; asus to
Atlas from Taurus 70 iH-ieuaas.
Tbs " as a good starSI = 1o.rt for
the bra.ry, intrepid eX:>ar sfonists, l
thought as | looked away over the
fertile plain extending to the south
ward g tbsr tGck upor tee hills TO
the rort Fer Holasr tolls rs that
this plan ard the aiiis. once covered
with greater 4 rests !. an they can
boast to-day, s%1 Hardy Phrvg;anS
and strcC Z. beautiful norses TO the
Trojan war Il was to the grain fields
OF the p!aln. 10 Lee sprIres and rich
pasturage OF TIE nils. and to the
gold-dust- NeaI'iI & "iEu.etS flown into
the San gariu t";st Af'as turned for
the sources of his wealth. Ard the
country is stlil wholesome place for
man and beast Or would he u-,Ger q
thoroughly mo.erDizel government
The houses Of the people We're just
such as we were desJii ed to see
throughout tle ier gtn o. Asia Minor.
The poor infa bitants EvGd in one
story houses built of suu-dried bricks
and no plaster or painted wood re-
lieved the d., 81 mud co!or Of exterior
or interior TIE we'l-to-,!o tra:iers and
land owravs. however. put up sub
stantial two-story nouses. The daz-
zling wniteress of these dwellings,
their mary wlrdcws. their interior
clear lii e@s ard tie walled gardens
often s'rrc'-a din :. ti'er1 make ne bet
ter quarters OF an AnatoiiaE city at
tractive even to the critical Occidental
.solourl er
a short walk brought us TO the
khan. w.2ici proved to be . buildirs of
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cost, as may be imagined, are stu
pendous l wonder with what feeling
the overtaxed people of the country
regard this monument of imbecility.
There are many other places In Por-
tusal to which the traveller who has
sufficient time may well turn, but let
us close with Handsome II active.
wholly Interesting city of the present.
day, hardly second to Lisbon itself in
attractivenesS.
Oporto is very few miles north of
line drawn east from New York
about as far away as London, and yet
less known to most of our people than
Buda Pesth or Odessa. A fairly good
steamer makes the direct passage once
in six weeks, ] believe. but the Yam.
kee would probably prefer the round
about road via England. France and
Gibraltar.
1t is not too much to say that no
American city of it's size has so pretty
site as Oporto, whose 10000 in
habitants are spread over dozen hills
on both sides of the gorge through
which the Douro flows to the sea.
The common people, from the west
ern point of view, are not Common"
at ALL but I'LL the streets with ka-
leldoScoplc procession at which one
never tires of looking. The women
seem in all outdoor pursuits to far
outnumber the men. AS they pursue
their several ways with the inevitable
burden poised on the head, the sinuouS
movement of the strong body is as
rhythmic as an Arab dance. With the
feet bare, the skirt held up by a loose
band around the hips, the torso and
head absolutely rigid, all the mNsse-
ment of walking takes place below the
waist.
'Queenly' is the inaccurate and in
adequate expression that rises at once
to the lips when the poorest market
woman passes. Even the children ac-
quire the same gait, for hands are
never used to carry any article that
can be poised aloft. A girl of 12 has
just filed her bucket with water at
the fountain opposite my window, and
now goes down the street with 30
pounds on her head, erect square
shouldered, full-chesd, very picture
of grace.
There is solidity to the city that
impresses the beholder, massive ma
sonry, tall towers, architectural gems
everywhere. The numerous open mar
kets are filled with meats, fish, vese-
tables. fruits, flowers, the latter in
rank abundance. Except the profess
sional beggarS no one seems idle and
nearly all look strong and we'll.
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FACTS ABOUT woopcHycks.
Prefer Hillside or Knoll in Which to
Diq Their Dens.

Perhaps no wild mammal is more
familiar to country people than the
woodchuck. Every hillside and mea-
dow is dotted with the small piles of
earth which mark the doorway to his
home The woodchuck prefers a HID
side or knoll in which to- dig his
hole, for here he can easily make the
end of his den higher than the begin
ming. thus avoiding the danger OF be-
ing drowned out.
What could be more unlike in gen
eral appearance than a woodchuck and
a squirrel? Yet they are cousins, both
belonging to the same family of mann
mails The trim body sharp claws and
agility of the squirrels make it possi-
BILE for them to lead an arhoreal life,
jumping recklessly. from branch to
branch. while the flabby form and
short legs of the woodchuck better
adapt him for digging than for running
or climbing.
The nature of the food of the wood
chuck is such that he cannot lay up
stores as the chipmunks do, nor is II
Of such a kind that it can be obtained
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A Queer Tes st.

An old lady applied at a registry
office for a maid.
'1 want a little girl. between
eighteen and twenty-five years of age,
who is fond of mushrooms
Fond OF mushrooms" inquired the
agent. That is something / never
inquire about from my applicants. |
don't understand"
well. | am very fond of mush-
rooms myself. and there are so many
mistakes made. The idea came to me
several years ago. and it was a dis
pensation of Providence that it did,
or | should have been Killed. | make
my maid eat a portion of all mush-
rooms brought to my house before
any are served to me. | always re-
quire it," replied the old lady. y
have lost two excellent maids from
toadstools during the last five years,
and. of course. ] could not think of
taking the risk of eating mushrooms
unless l had maid TO test them"
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The New Chinese Minister.

Sir Liang Chang, the new Chinese
envoy to this country. is many-sided
man. He is 80 years old and was one
of the 12O students sent by China. be-
ginning in 1872, to learn American
ways. He entered Amherst college.
but was unable to graduate because OF
recall by his government He was an
expert catcher and pitcher on the base
ball nine at Phillips and Amherst He
is fond of society and is an entertain
ing conversationalist. 1t remains to
be seen whether he can approach the
retiring minister Wu as an after-din-
ner speaker. Sir Liang is widower.
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81


thp nonr Of sursset we
Ntegped froin the tram In Es-
sstHiiSfsir and rnused on the
silAttorM 10 fslen to the call
\ a 1T the n,cazzin whose words
lea forth in fsllr rich toises ard then
usisHe efiss & nctes. as he lea, ed over
11Ie lofty balcony Of TIE lcarest min.
aYets
Quickly our thougits Travelled bac'e-
Ward to the DAYS OF OsIssGa, tt,e fouau-
sdBr of the Turkish dyi astys for mere
We were in the center OF wl,t Was
OSman's hrst little .:ir,Snoin and wi ut
VAS destined to beco,, the nucleus
of the Otto.can empire. In the li.tle
village yOrrser Osynat visited rcus
ulselkh and :S.-g cur-;s.I the dang l.
ter MAlkhatoor. And TO tine moi til-
ward few hours by wagon---we had
passed not far from 1t or the raiIroau
wAs the place where the future con-
qnaror had his famous dream. 20 often
told to-day by the proud Os'nanl,'s.
~ the Turks of the Ottoman empire
call themselves. Il was the dream
that won him his bride and foretold
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J
CITIES OF | I 4

MairA raad1 iilke q ~ = n
Of Louis XIV. HstSR u M
and 1880 the aveT1te Z number -
men emplcyed was I4.760 W1lh
mum OF 5000 men One u s66k asti.s
ished to learn that tAe cost, @2O. -
(equal to double that At ! 4teo4he
prices), left the nation m = state -
bankruptcy. y; i;;l - s ii # !
are included in the scheme, besides
barracks. The fOur-storied building
forms = rectangle measuring SzO by
72O feet. There are said 70 be $500
windows and 5000 doors. The chimes
in the towers. comprising 81 bells.
cost $2,OO0,OOO alone.
As these monks were expelled with
the others. many years ago, this gtgAns!
tic folly is only used now rs = place'
for exhibition, and may all be inspec4
ed for 25 cents.
John Nv. is credited with this, but hes
only followed an idiotic example: h
order to show how grateful he wag
for the events which secured the tnde
pendence of his country, King John l..
husband of Philippa daughter of John.
of Gaunt) proceeded to wreck it fnan
cially by starting the immense struct.
ure known as Batalha. From 1888 to
1851, the ruinous work went on. Inn.
poverishing the country.
Afterward the earthquake OF 17b5,
combined with the usual tactics Of the
French invaders OF the last century
made sad havoc with it. At the pres
ent time it is as valueless - the ons
at Mafra, except to attract tourfstA
which are few. The figures OF size ana
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the Arab occupation, and occupies, as
was usual with those astute conquer
ors. a rocky height difficult of as
sault
Coimbra interests the traveller, as
it contains the only university in Por-
tugal. The town, which is somewhat
nearer to Oporto than to Lisbon con-
tains about $4,000 inhabitants, and
has some 500 students. 1t is pic
turesquely situated on Montego river,
the embankment wall of the esplanade
being some 80 feet in height, and
the ground rising gradually toward
the rear.
The region in the government-own-
ed hills of Bussaco are worth page
In themselves, instead of the trivial
mention that can be allotted them
here. The people are indebted for
this splendid reservation-as they are
for many more in Portugal--to the
monks, who have such an unerring
eye for grandeur and situation, and
showed such taste in adorping the
vast estates which they acquired.
The story OF the great convent at
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trimmings. The second story. old oak
timbered work, with buff cement pa
nels coined. The roof is of red Span
ish tile. The hall and three main
rooms are finished in mahogany with
wood mosaic floors. The walls are bur
Tapped and decorated in Oil: divans,
book cases. buffets. etc, built in; sec
ond story finished in native hard
woods.
Plate and art glass hot water heat
and modern plated plumbing. AS 6; l
as house can be built. complete out
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to cure all oases of ingrowing nail
without recourse to the knife. He
proceeds as follows: With fiat probe
or match he slips q bit of cotton be-
tween the edge of the nail and the
infiamed flesh. Another strip of cot
ton is put along the outer margin of
the liberated area and the space be-
tween these two strips of cotton, and
which is occupied by the ulcer, is
thickly powdered with nitrate of lead.
The whole is covered with cotton and
the toe is bandaged. The dressings
are repeated the following day, and
every day until the incarcerated edge
of the nail is plainly visible. Then.
with patience. the edge of the nail is
lifted away from the flesh and q bit
of cotton is introduced under it to
keep it up. AS it grows it will gradu-
ally take it's proper position above the
flesh, this having meantime shruuk
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Freakish Musica, Conductor.

Signor Creatore arrived in New
York a few days ago with an Italian
band of some half hundred perform
ers and has taken the town by storm
According to published accounts he is
more of contortionist than Strauss
and Sousa put together while conduct
ing his band. He appears to cajole,
command, urge and inspire the players
by turns and generally works them
into musical frenzy that is almost
PATHOLOGICAL.
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of the Giaours in education and com
merciai power. The fine houses III
town belonged to the Armenians and
the land i'll the country round about
was coming into their possession
W'h aIe the Turks, the Faithful. had
been masters, they Wee now but SER
wants. an1 the Giaours We're hearing
it whispered. This thing must not
ne."
Certainly the old Orient was not SO
slow-going after all. There was poll
TICS enough and to spare. and the daily
conversations of the people lost some
OF their monotony and gained spice
fTcu the varying passions of the crisis.
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would say. A good meal of poached
eggs, madZvu. or curded milk. most
excellent wheat bread, white butter
made from sour milk or cream. and
rice cooked iuscream was soon served
After an Interesting call from the
Armenian pastor of the Protestas.t
church in the town. we slept soundly
and We're ready 10 start when the en-
gine whistied at sunrise the next
morning.
Under the blessing of the morning
cas' to prayer, the train steamed away
from the little station and we were
soon gliding across the north eastern
corner of ancient Phyrgia and out
upon the limestone plateau of Central
Asia Minor to the city of Angora
Although the city had no less than
25,0OU inhabitants and the Armcnians
constituted at least a third of the pop
9ulatiOn. the Protestant sect was weak
seF than IN many places, was too poor
fact, to own church, SO that we
GRGad services next day in large
Spo& near the pastors house.
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Sa,e witn a History,

The famous Humbert safe passed
along the boulevards yesterday and
attracted considerable attention |.
was removed from the Hotel Drouot
on dray drawn by three horses
adorned with flowers. ribbons and
bells, and was conveyed to the resi-
dence of it's purchaser. A large band
of calico stretched over the vehicle
bore the inscription. This is the
100000, 900 franc safe while on the
safe itself rabbit-personificatio OF
the ''lapin pose par Nine. Humbert
had been roughly sketched in chalk.
The men in charge did not appear
to be in a great hurry. Perhaps they
had been instructed to make the best
possible use of the opportunity
offered for cheap advertisement, but
in any case they made frequent halts
at taverns. while an. admiring crowd
surrounded the dray.-Paris Daily
Messenger.
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k
hour by express from Paris.
As pretty land as one could ask
for, an interesting and courteous peo
pie. scenery to delight rather than
astound. hotels--only a few, it must
be admitted, quite up to date-with
prices as low or lower than Switzer-
land or Italy. Yet nobody comes here.
except on business or very adven-
turesome tourists.
have seen just four Americans in
my eight weeks in Portugal and her
near islands, and perhaps a dozen
English since l reached the mainland.
My letter of credit, issued by an old
and substantial London hank, gives
just one place in all this country to
draw money, which shows what it's
makers think Of the proba bilities.
1t is generally understood that Lis
bon is beautiful city. but it's mis-
view. is that it is not on the direct
route to anywhere. And there is a
prevalent idea that when one has
seen Lisbon he has had all that is
worth seeing in Portugal.
Now, Cintra alone is worth jour
ney across the Atlantic. Busaco rivals
the Bavaran Alps, Coimbra has at
least as many charms as Heidelburg,
MARIA almost causes you to forget
Escorial, Batalha is one of the great
sights of the world. And these are
only the beginning
The Inhabitants, less touched by
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during the winter, Tie case OF this
creature during the winter seems to
me, therefore. ''sleep long and soundly
or starve.'' During the winters sleep
or Information life processes go on
very slowly. Breathing is reduced,
and the heart beats become so slow
and feeble that they cannot be felt.
They come from their winters sleep
about March l in New York.-Country
Life in America.
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1t win be mighty influence in the
creation of a new and superior type
of men and women That women are
growing more and more to realize this
is evidenced by the athletic tendency
of the modern girl If she will COM
bine Herewith an Intelligent effort
after well-balanced and harmonious
development. the results are bound
TO be satisfying in the extreme.
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"consumptive" 100 Years Old.

Dr. Harry Helfrich of Altoona Pa,
last week celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday. All 80 they said he
was going to die of consumption. but
to-day he sleeps. eats and dieests we'll
has first-rate memory and never
wore spectacles. DR.. Helfrich still at
tends to Office patients and works in
his garden u couple of hours daily.
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LAST Lafayette Flower Girl.

The last of the Lafayette flower
girls of Morristown. n. J., is dead. She
was Mrs. Mary l.. Morrow 90 years
old, and she we'll remembered the
great generals visit to Morristown in
1925. She was then 13. With fifty
other girls she was selected to carry
flowers for the festival and her COM
panions made her their queen.
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~. ina Athl.tic..

S's Gss0 Ne"'OssSe.
The universally increasing attention
now being given. especially In Anglo
Saxon countries, to out-of-doOr sports
and to physical culture is q sign of
the best omen. No class can have
greater solicitude for the fuysher-
ance of this movement than the art
lists, for they cannot create beautiful
forms without having beautiful forms
around them from which to draw in
spiration, says u writer in Outing.
The art of nation is mirror of
that nations ideals, and faithfully re-
fleets their slightest change. The new
conception of the value of athletics
will add dignity. interest and standing.
making it a factor second to none in
the development of our civilization.
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Paper Coal a New Discovery.

Paper coal is form of Ignite found
near Bonn. in Germany 1t splits nat
urally in films as thin as paper.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and
those who want it the most always
like it the least.-I4ord Chesterfield
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Decline of German Jews.

A statistical return OF the religions
professed III the German Empire.
based on the census OF 1900, has re-
Gently been issued. 1t appears that
the number of Roman Catholics has
increased in greater proportion than
the number of Protestants, while the
increase in Judaism as compared with
the Christian professions has been
very small. The Protestants mum
bered 35,231.104 in 1900, as against
81 .026,S1O in 1890 or an increase of
1876 per cent: while the Catholics
numbered 20,327 913 in 1900. as against
17,674,921 in 1890, or an increase of
Is per cent The number of processing
Jews has only increased from 567 .SS4
to 5S6,94S, which gives 4 percentage
Of "a. OF every 1000 persons in the
German Empire 625 are Protestants.
361 Catholics 10 Jews. and 4 OF differ
ent or undetermined religious creeds
A dishones man suspects every
honest man he encount ers.
The woman made no reply, but got in.
to the carriage, and. taking "a pipe
from her pocket, she filed it with
strong twist tobacco, lit it. and look,
ing to the clergyman. said: .'Ye
thocht naebody cud smoke but yerseI
my bonnie man."
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side o. hot water heat and plumbing
/ 81, 800.
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Cure for inerown Nails.
Tardif says that he has been able
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and shriveled by reason of the appli.
cation of lead nitrate.
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Especial Letter.)

Especial Letter.)
E0OW this Portugal grows on
I" one. A very terra incOsnit1
|1llIylJl only two and half days BY
steamer from London, or &C
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-06-05
Monday Night Blaze.

About midnight Monday night fire
was discovered in the second story Of
the building occupied by II. W. Lyle
& Co., grocers. The fire department
responded promptly and the flames
were soon extinguished. What might
have been a very serious fire was mar
rowly averted by good work on the part
of the fire laddies. Considerably more
damage was done by water than by the
fire. Most of the stock of H. W. Lyle
& Co. was carried out and saved. The
second floor was occupied by the Impe-
rial Chemical 20. and it's stock was
badly damaged.
Summers, Barton & Parrott sustain
ed the most serious damage by water
They occupy the adjoining building
and their shelf hardware was flooded.
The stock of Lynch on the west side
was slightly damaged and some papers
in the law Office of j. B. Cox were wet.
The loss is fully covered by insur-
ance.
The fire is supposed to have been
caused by some one throwing cigar
stub near the closet on the second floor
of the Lyle store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-06-05

"The best is the cheapest. Go to
X. 2. Jones Il Co., corner Buffalo and
Cherry streets, for material for your
new house, barn or fence.
l am authorized to offer reward of
$25 for proof sufficient to convict any
person of maliciously breaking the
windows out of anyof our school build
ings. T. V. MCCowN,
Sec'ty-Treas. Board of Education.
Senator w. II. Nelson is down from
Backwoods today. He comes to dis
charge his committee ON credentials
and few other convention obligations,
and is now ready to go to the Senate
as soon as a little formal election is
held.
A. Parlett was down from Bristol
Tuesday for few hours. He saw how
the fire boys worked to put out the fire
Monday night and approaching the Of
fort to save the telephone exchange has
mailed the company a check for $50 as
a token of his appreciation.
There will be congregational meet
ing at the First Presbyterian church
next Sabbath morning at 1890 a. M,
June 8, for the purpose of calling a
pastor if the way be clear. All men,
bers are urged to be present. BY or
der Of the session.
r. A. WooD, Clerk.