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ing company has issued million dol
lars worth of bonds, all of which Mr..
Hearst retains If later he should sci!
any of them that's his own affair. !
presume the new company will finance
the new paper which Mr.. Hearst is to
start in Boston, where his venture will
surely have big swing.
1t is a common mistake to assume
that Boston is a staid town, which in
slsts upon things solid and dignified.
1t is really a frivolous place, just the
town to appreciate big headlines, while
the surrounding manufacturing viii
lagos are full of advanced political par
tisans, who are anything but conserva-
tive Another advantage that Mr..
Hearst will gain by operating in Bos-
ton is that new paper there will cut
off 10000 circulation which his New
York Evening Journal has there now.
1t may seem odd to speak of cutting
Off circulation as an advantage, but
that is precisely the case when, as with
the Evening Journal, the circulation
is already bigger than any local adver-
tiser will pay corresponding rates for.
Local advertisers are not much bene-
flied by circulation in Boston. BY
starting paper there Mr.. Hearst can
make the Boston advertisers pay for
circulation there; New York men
won't
The Boston press is far inferior to
that of Chicago, where Hearst"s Ameri-
can stirred things up so energetically:
competition will do it good. 1t will in
crease the pay of Boston newspaper
men, which is now low Constant wars
of competition have had that effect in
New York, where the pay of competent
newspaper writer's is probably the
highest in the world.
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SWISS CITIZENS HIP.
How the Native Born Can BE Re.
ieyed of His Military
Duties.

The vast number of Swiss watch
makers who have taken up their abode
in this country will no doubt be inter
ested, says the jewelers. Circular. in
the following warning to Swiss-Amer-
leans returning to Switzerland, by
Consul A. Lieberknecht, Zurich, Switz-
erland:
"The attention of students and 9th
ers intending to remain for any length
of time in Switzerland is called to the
necessity of providing themselves with
passports. Many naturalized American
citizens labor under a misapprehension
as to their old and new citizenship
rights and responsibilities. They re-
turn to Switzerland with naturaliza-
ton papers or passports. only to find
themselves Swiss citizens again.
In this country person never
loses his citizenship, no matter how
long he may absent himself, unless he
goes through certain necessary formal
tiles. If he returns and is owing a
military tax, he is compelled to pay
the same in spite of the fact that he is
an American citizen. The only WY
to be released from old responsible
ties is by making a written request to
his home community for such release
submitting proof at the same time that
he has acquired American citizenship
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are the LATEST people on earth. All
day long they lie about the streets
smoking their gigantic pipes Ga native
pipe is q six-foot length of bamboo
with metal bowl, and is carried
tucked into the neckband and down
the trouser leg). All work, of very
nearly every kind, is done by the
women, who occupy, perhaps, the most
degraded position held by the sex of
any nation. The unfortunate female
population is collectively beast Of
burden, and denied even the most ee-
mentary recognition as human beings
A Korean girl has no name; she is
merely known as Daughter Of"
During the first moon of each new
year the Cho-senese throw off their in
ordinate laZiness and allow their
naturally quarrelsome proclivities full
play. This is the period permitted by
law when anyone and everyone may
fight in the public streets. or anywhere
they choose, with impunity. And full
advantage of the license is taken! Now
are family disputes. which have been
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JOKE PLAYED ON HAWK.
Bird Was Very Curious ut First, Bat
Later On Became Frightened
and Dropped His Prey.

Hawks, writes the author of
Travels in Treetop,' have an unus-
ual amount of curiosity. They are
trapped, he says, almost as often
through their curiosity as through
their fear. Sometimes in winter,
when there is little to attract their
attention, an undated trap, if of a
new shape or variety, is quite as likely
to land victim as if it held most
appetizing mouse
Once a trick was played upon
splendid black hawk that had been
housing over the fields for half the
winter. 1t often perched upon
straw stack, instead of in the lone
hickory tree that stood sentinel-like in
the center of the field. EARLY one
morning plump meadow mouse, with
an inflated bladder attached to it by
string, was placed on the top of the
stack. The bladder and cord were
concealed by the straw. The hawk
was apparently a little suspicious
when he first noticed the mouse. He
was not used to seeing mouse re-
main perfectly still in that way, es-
pecially when he began to circle about
! with his great black wings close down
to the stack. Presently he alighted
in wary way on one end of the stack;
| then he walked nearer, eyed the mouse
sharply. and pecked at it. At last he
seized it in his talons and made of
for the hickory. Halfway there, how
ever, he noticed the bladder attached.
and gave the mouse violent jerk to
free it from the strange appendage.
This only served to make the bladder
bob up and down more furiously, and
with scream of terror the hawk
dropped the mouse and all and fled
to the woods. 1t was some time be-
fore he was again seen in the neighbor-
hood of the straw stack.
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How Various People sleep.

In the tropics men sleep in ham,
mocks or upon mats of grass. The
East Indian u.rolls his light portable
charpoy, or mattress. which in the
morning is again rolled together and
carried away by him. The Japanese lie
upon mating with a stiff, uncomfort-
able wooden neck rest. The Chinese
use low bedsteads, often deliberately
carved, and supporting only mats or
coverlets. A popularity OF the Ger
man bed is it's shortness; besides lat
it often consists in part of a large
down pillow or upper mattress, which
spreads over the person. and usually
answers the purpose OF all the ordi-
nary bed-clothing combined. In Eng
land the old four-pos1ed bedstead is
still the pride of the nation, but the
iron or brass bedstead is last becom-
ing universal The English beds are
the largest beds in the world. The
ancient Greeks and Romans had their
beds supported on frames, but not fiat
like ours. The Egyptians had couch
of a peculiar shape, more like an old
fashioned easy-chair with hollow back
and seat
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framing flhahcief' Vanderbilt, he has
already shown some aptitude for bust
ness. Two years ago his faith
or turned over to him some of the
directorial responsibilities he had ex-
ercised, just as John D. Rockefeller has
more recently surrendered to his son
his dictatorship in the steel trust.
Young Whitney will be far richer
man than his father was. New York
remembers when the elder Whitney
was practicing lawyer. He first en-
tered politics by serving term in early
life as city counsel. Wealth beyond a
modest competence was not in his sight
until he married Flora Payne, daughter
of the Standard Oil senator of Ohio, H.
B. Payne. Mr.. Payne purchased for the
young couple Norman baronial man.
sion upon Fifth avenue, paying for it
100000 at great bargain. Modified
within according to modern ideas it is
still one Of the most satisfactory houses
in New York and it is the city home of
Harry Payne Whitney. 1t stands oppo-
site the home of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt. The marriage of young
Whitney to Gertrude Vanderbilt was as
natural as the espousal of two young
village lovers who have lived across
the street and played together in their
childhood days.
The share in her fathers estate of
Mrs. Whitney was $10,00O,0O0.
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as yet entered the official mind, and
that pestilence has not made there its
abiding home is proof of beneficent
Providence. During the writer's So
journ some years ago it was not an
unusual occurrence for the agile
leopard (Korea's most common wild
fowl'O to scale one of the walls, and
entering the nearest house, carry off
child in the darkness. To-day, how
ever, we have changed all that; but
Seyool's greatest need, from western
point of view, is still a decent hotel.
The native dwelling house is an i'm
possibility to all but a salamander.
The flooring, in most cases, is COM
posed of neatly-jointed flat stones,
over which mats are laid Underneath
is hollow space, in which firewood is
laid in bundles and lighted. The paper
doors are then slid into their grooves,
excluding all air, and soon you find
yourself in a Turkish bath. The av-
erage newcomer only tries it once.
The Koreans have far keener sense
of humor than the Chinese or the Hin
doc. They are more kindly disposed to
the poor, and more ready to help them
than are the Japanese. But in child
ish superstition Of every conceivable
kind the Cho-Senese have few, if any,
rivals. The religion is largely Sha-
manism; serpents, as in India, are
reverently worshiped, and the country
is overrun by astrologers, magicians
and fortune tellers.
BERNARD EsPINAssE.
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character as he is in the instincts
which, contrary to those of his neigh
bors, early led him to throw open wide
his gates and welcome a heterogeneous
commingling of races within his bor-
ders. You will find him facially re-
sembling the Tibetan, the Mongol, the
Hindoo, and even the African, with
sometimes the oval face cast of the
Egyptian. The higher classes of the
kingdom are not infrequently as fair as
the Caucasian, with features distinctly
Of the Aryan type, the eyes straight
and devoid altogether of the conven-
tional slant" The hair varies from
deep black to light brown, but red hair
is totally unknown in Korea. Physi-
cally, the average Korean, though
muscular, is understood, and rarely at
tains to more than five foot six; the
women seldom reach this.
Broadly speaking, it is hardly an ex-
aggeration to say that the Koreans
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he performed a wonderful acrobatic feat,
something no other bird ever dreamed
of doing. He rose in the air to great
height, and dropped straight as an ar
row to the branch he had selected, break
ing it with his weight and catching it
before it reached the ground.
While Zozoka was busy breaking the
tree branches, his mate searched the
shore and river banks. She brought long
strea1ners of seaweed, red and brown.
green sea grass and wisp or two of salt
hay from the marshes. With these she
wove new lining for her home, and
soon 1t held two spotted eggs, little
larger than hens.
When the babies appeared there was
work indeed. Zozoka would swoop
down, dive into wave and come out
on the opposite side, with catfish in
his claws. Before starting for his home
up the river he always turned the fish
edgeways to the wind, for he was wise
bird, and knew that if he carried it
broadside out it would present larger
surface to the winds resistance.
belOhe week udu IdSSeu lH6y were
famous flyers. To learn to fish success
fully was very difficult indeed.
Firs. the young hawks fished almost
wholly in the river, not venturing to try
their luck in the ocean, but one day the
bold son flew far out over the breakers,
farther than he had ever been before.
Suddenly there was splash and he
saw great fish gamboling below. Paus-
ing moment to take good aim he shot
downwards, struck. the fish and firmly
imbeded his claws. He attempted to
rise, but to his dismay was drawn down,
down, deeper and deeper beneath the
water. He struggled desperately to dis
entangle his claws, but now his lungs
were filling with water; his strength was
ebbing. His struggles grew more and
more feeble. His ambition had cost him
his life.
The next morning, when the hawks
flew seward, they saw a great Goldfish
lying on the beach, with dead young
osprey grimly clutching its back.-Bos,
ton Globe:
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k0RBA-IAND OF
THE MORNING CALM
Peeuiorities of the Little EosterD Kingdom That Is Now
Wor RiddeD by JapaD and Russia.

seething for whole twelvemonth,
settled in most primitive fashion,
and often half the town is drawn into
the brawl. The creditor, catching his
debtor abroad, ray thump and pound
him to his hearts content, and no one
may interfere. For Ia days veritalhe
pandemonium reigns, and as a method
of clearing the air" it is certainly
not without interest-for the spectator.
seyool, the capital Generally and in
correctly spelt Seoul by the westerner),
on the Hang Kang river, is an untidy,
ill-built city, surrounded by 20-foot
walls. The curfew system, common to
feudal England, still prevails as in
most Korean towns. A great bell is
rung at sunset, and the gates are i'm
mediately closed not to be reopened
until the following sunrise. No lights
may then be carried in the streets, and
no one may go in or out of the city,
with one rather startling exception.
All funerals, by immemorial custom,
take place only at night, and for this
purpose there is special exit called
"The Gate of the Dead" Between the
hours of sunset and dawn, no male is
allowed to be abroad in the streets;
these hours arc sacred to the women,
and constitute their only privilege.
They usually employ the time in pay
ing visits. Up to few years ago any
masculine philanderer found out after
dark was beheaded, but since the Eu-
ropeans have introduced their own cus-
toms the entire system is in danger Of
revolution.
Seyool is one of the filthiest and
worst-kept towns to be found in all
the east. The idea of drainage has not
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yon mountains, was with four other
deer at the time it was found, and had
not this been true, the hunters would
not have taken it for a deer. Its white
coat made it far more conspicuous than
the remainder of the herd, and it is per-
haps for this reason only albino deer
are stunned by their mates.
The aibino deer bears exactly tho
same relation to the deer family that the
albino of the African race does to the
human kind. Aside from its white coat
and pink eyes. it is like all other deer;
possibly its fur is softer and more silky.
The specimen found in the pine forests
of the Canyon mountains will be made
part of the exhibit of albino animals at
the Smithsonian institution.
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PLAYING HOSTESS.

When Maggie takes her Thursday out,
/ have a lot of fun,
Ana up and down l fly about
Till everything is done.
Because we say that on that day
The house belongs to me.
/ ask--its such Il lovely play!-
My pa and ma to tea.
Now, ma am" / say. don't let me make
Your cup of tea too sweet;
And, DOCTOR take a piece of cake,
It's from new receipt"
Then pa replies: My dear Miss Brown,
Your cake is always nice;
You make the very best in town
I'll have another s!ice!'
Then mamma asks what luck l had
With my last raspberry jam,
And papa says he should be glad
To try my cold boiled ham.
And then pass the cups about
It's such Il lovely play
III Only Magg!e's Thursday out
Came every single day!
blanche Trennor Heath, in Good House
keeping.
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ALBINo DEER KILLED.
Its Coat Was Pure White. It's Eyes
Pink and Its Fur of Softest
and silky Texture.

An albino deer, with coat as white
as the drifting SHOWS, eyes a delicate
pink, and with tread as soft and dis
Greet as an elk fawn. was killed in the
Canyon mountains of southern Oregon
recently. 1t was one of the very few al
bino deer ever seen in the mountains of
the west. Old hunters tell of seeing
them, usually separate from the main
herds. and at various times during the
early days; but they were too shy and
discreet to be approached near enough
for shot
The deer shown in the accompanying
Illustration, from the Scientific Ameri-
can, and which was killed in the Cam
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quickly. The rank
and file did not of course get such ex-
traordinarily advances. They came
floating in from other cities, some
from far California. And they woke
up the town again. Some Of those
men have found that when their con-
tracts expired their services We're less
valuable. But it is not Mr.. Hearst's
fault that they did not save their
money while they were getting it.
ST. Louis and San francisco having
aided in the education Of New York,
along came man from Chattanooga,
Mr.. Ochs. and turned the New York
Times into one-cent paper. He also
taught New York to think. New York
thought it thought the experiment a
failure. But Mr.. Ochs, without sacri-
ticing the quality of his paper has run
it up to nearly 100000 circulation, and
now has combined the Times and Led
ger of Philadelphia into strong pa
per, besides building a 16-story home
for his New York paper. So much for
Chattanooga
The latest instructor in journalism
is Mr.. Strauss from Des Moines, la.
The Commercial Advertiser is the old
est paper in town. For years 1t was
conducted by Hugh Hastings, of the
famous Albany Regency For 20 years
it has lived at "this poor dying rate"
Mr.. Strauss has renamed it The Globe
for the characteristic reason that
newsboys can yell that bctter-dropped
the price to one cent and sells the pa
per for Is cents hundred Wholesale
At that rate he loses money upon the
actual cost of the white paper
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett is the
only New York newspaper proprietor
of consequence who was brought up in
the city. Its publication business is
constantly revolutionized by men from
smaller towns.
OWEN LANGHoN,
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Shey wish.
1t is the correct thing in New York
Tor very wealthy bachelors to dwell
In mansions Of their own and there
entertain. Mr. James Henry Smith,
the silent man of Wall street" is
soon to erect house remarkable
enough to suit remarkable man.
Mr. Smith was almost unheard of
up to the time when his bachelor uncle
died in London few years ago, leav
ing to the nephew an estate which paid
the greatest succession tax on record
in the British metropolis. Since then
Mr. Smith has come rapidly forward
IN social circles in New York, and has
had the best of chaperonage for his
lavish entertainments and his new
house will doubtless be the scene of
highly considered functions" Mr..
Smith is one of the heaviest owners
in the st. Paul and others western
lines and is credited with acting in
harmony with the Standard Oil party
In their administration. He is anxious
7y, but with scant hope. eyed by New
York mammas as the most desirable
match in the city.
The house MIR. Smith is to build will
be remarkable. In the first place
seyen-story hotel was pulled down to
make room for it, as part of the ex-
traordinary campaign which few mil
aionaires have undertaken to prevent
trade from going up the avenue beyond
the house of Miss Helen Gould In
the second place, it will be the most
conspicuous example in the city Of
tasteful and lavish decoration; for the
commission for it's erection was not
given to any architect, but to firm of
decorators.
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yer, Journalist, legislative reformer.
The World made him wealthy in five
years. He bought the site of its pres
ent building with single check, the
profits of less than year. He erected
million-dollar building the next year,
paying for it as it went up with his
weekly profits taken in across the
counter Meanwhile he had overturned
every newspaper tradition. Managers
we're no longer content to sit and take
what advertisements came in, but went
out and hustled for them. Pictures
were printed. The journalism that does
things was introduced.
Some of the World people seeded
to take hold of the Recorder, forgot
ten paper, which in its brief day had
an extraordinarily able staff In a
week the wages of capable men went
up so per cent. and they have never
lost the advantage.
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balancing OF city
gossip. But then
n e W S p a p e RS in
New York are al
ways doing things.
The report that
Mr.. Hearst has
m O r t g a 6 e d his
newspapers for a
million dollars has
gone all over the
country and in
that form does
him an injustice.
What he has do9e
is to organize a
"holding com :
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is now to get!
Wien l came to
the sown it was
a + fiji C t e d most
shocklngly by dry
rot. N Q W S paper
writer's earned low
wages. Advertis-
ing rates were
high In proportion
and managers new
er canvassed for
business.
First came from
st. Louis Joseph
Pulitzer, private
s older in the
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Journal. He need
ed men. He could
get them gradual
ly, but that wasn't
his way. Instead
he would hire $50
a-week men for
$125 a week and
give them con-
tracts for one, two
or three years as
was necessary. 1t
was expensive, but
in a very short
time he had a fine
staff. In no other
way could 1t have
henn acsemhlad ca
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upon the avenue
where he keeps
bachelors h a ii
with the aid of a
complete staff of
servants. He has
given generously
and unobtrusively
of his means to
Z a lie university
and is one of the
men in New York
W h o are lie S S
known than they
d e S erve to be,
though quite as
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GOSSIP OF NEW YORK
What Is Being Talked About in the
Eastern Metropolis.
YOUNGSTERS WITH FORTUNES
Aome of Them Must Carry Grave Re-
/, possibilities with Their Money
"A Glimpse MT the Newspa-
per Field.
: New York-By his fathers death
Harry Payne Whitney is added to that

COQSlQeraDle num-
b er Of young
Americans w b o
have i n h e rit e d
large responsible
ties w h lie yet
young. Like Clar-
ence Mackay and
Alfred Vanderbilt
at the time of the
deaths of their re-
spective fathers,
Mr.. Whitney is a
thorough sports
man. Like Mr..
Mackay again and
unlike the Younger
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Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa
has 8 rival in the Temple tower al
Bristol, in England. 1t is a square tow
or of early Gothic architecture. ALI fta
parts still preserve their normal rela.
tive positions, without cracks or ifs.
sures. The tower; which is about Ill
feet high, is five feet out of parnendleu
lar at HE summit.
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Asia. In that little, knobby
peninsula of Chosen GLAND of the
Morning CalmD, mixed and irrecon-
cilable nationalities jostle one another,
keeping alive the antagonisms OF
caste and kind The son of the mikado
is at daggers drawn with his celestial
cousin, most of the Europeans are not
on speaking terms, and the Korean
himself cordially detests everybody
and is in turn distrusted by all parties.
Korea, in regard to it's limited area
(about two and half times the size of
Scotlandl, is more prolific in interne
cine dissension than any spot on the
globe. In no more suitable area could
be struck the first blows of the worlds
approaching Armageddon.
Situated at the elbow of that bone of
contention, Manchuria, with the direct
road to Picking stretching from the
western gate of it's capital, Seyool, it is
not surprising to find the Monaghan
leaven prominent in Korea. Originally
conquered by Korai, a warrior of Fuyu,
it acknowledged the suzerainty of
China for several centuries and annu-
ally paid tribute. The latter custom,
however, fell into desuetude, and was
renewed only as late as ten years ago,
when Japan first began to flirt with
her cousin of the Yellow sea. Never
theless, the Korean is not faithful to
any blood-strain, and is as thoroughly
cosmopolitan in physiognomy and
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New York's Rich Bachelors.
Oliver Payne, bachelor of studious
tastes, occupies a fine mansion