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missions are won by Cinnamon revealed
the fact that so far as the mission workers
themselves and the Chinese know there IL
but one such case on record in Chicago.
That the Chinaman might become a
dangerous rival Of the White man in love
affairs if he had equal opportunities is
shown by the fact that in a Eeriod OF
eighteen months in 1904-05 six girls in one
department of one of the big downtown
department stores married six China
men. The first raid upon the department
beauties was by Hop Sun, who won a pretty
young bride and took her away.
whether her marriage to the Chinaman
and the visits Of her chums to her beauti-
fully furnished little fiat on the south side
caused the stampede or W neither the friends
Of Hop Sun met these friends and improved
their opportunities for courtship is not
stated, but at any rate five others on that
hoor welded Cinnamon in the next year
and a half.
Hop Sun refuses to tell the maiden name
OF his white wife and she refuses to tell the
names Of her friends. When questioned
az to why she married a Chinaman Mrs
Hop Sun grew a bit indignant:
Opium lad nothing to do with Il. NV
husband does not smoke and not che Of
his friends who married the white girls
that l kno smokes. / married my hus-
band because l liked him and because
OF money and plenty of clothes. have
my own servant and Hop insisted on my
mother coming to live with US. She cares
for him almost as she would for her W
son.
True, / don't go out much, except 18th
him. I married a Chinaman, and / intend
TO live a. he wants me to live. Ny friends
and l exchange calls. We 20 to the theatre
n d have my babyt to care FOR. am happy
and have comforts that no white man
would have given me-"
When a white girl marries a Chinaman
the problem OF the mother ia settled
81 the same time. Instead of taking the
comic paper view OF the mother-in-law
the Chinaman insists on treating her with
even more regard than he does his wife.
aud in perhaps a third OF the households
in which white brides live with their yellow
husbands the girls mother is one Of tho
inmates who are honored and treated with
Difference.
The social life OF the white brides ~
Cinnamon is limited in the extreme, Not
only are they barred from any intimate
social life with the Chinese wives but the
lines between the tonEs are closely drawn.
II a white girl marries a Chinaman and
her chum happens to marry q Chinaman
OF another company they cannot meet
except aE strangers.
In their own households thew ruIe-E
they prove good hOusekeepers there Is no
trouble. They are supplied with plenty
OF money 20 spend for household wants
and with more than enough for themselves
They dress beautifully and in most caaes
the only complaint uttered by them IL
that they are forced to live in squalid neigh
borhoods.
The C~hinaman's idea OF comfort at bor,a
means the interior. He does not care
about the exterior, how dinRy or even
dirty it may be, and he never "a in the market
FOR exclusive residence property. An alley
appears 70 SUIT him better than a street,
and he seems 70 prefer a downtown street
the narrower the better, TO suburban prop
erty.
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ENGLISH MANOR HOUSES
'' Mr.. bryan Describes Features OF English Lie.

was fitted up by James !. for himself when
he paid a visit to Knole, and the room is
kept az It was,
The bed il said to have cost $40, 900, and
the curtains and bedcover are embroidered
with gold and silver. The mattresses are
OF white satin and the walls are hung with
Flemish tapestry representing genes from
the history OF Nebuchadnezzar,
The great hall used AZ a dining room is
rs feet long and half az wide. At q end
is a raised floor, where the table OF the lord
Of the manor stood; below him sat the re-
tainers and lower members of the house
hold.
A list Of 100, names il preserved. that
being the number OF those who regularly
took their meals in the hall in 1924. In
this hall there is a large collection Of silver
and pewter vessels, handed down from
generation to generation.
The grounds and gardens, 1 need hardly
add. are in keeping with the interior of the
castle. We saw here one Of the prettiest
specimens Of the skill of the horticulturist's
art that has oope under our observation.
Grape vines are grown in large pots ana
trained upon a hooplike trelIis. When We
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along the thirteen miles OF the valley:
In December and January the peasants
and their i've stock are grouped In the
lower pastures. In February they are
living in their villages where the largest
amount Of hay IL stored.
Down tho valley they travel In March
to attend to their vineyards near the o
and In April they are back In their villages
planting the fields and gardens. In May
and a part Of June all are gathered At the
lower pastures.
From June nearly to October the peasants
are separated into two groups, n oil
them tending the liva stock at the various
ALPINE pastures and the others dividing
their time bet ween their vineyards In the
Rhone valley and the cultivation and har-
yeztinx OF their crops o their noun
tain villages. Everybody goes down to
the Rhone in October and a part OF Novem-
her TO harvest the grap pes n make wine,
and then back they go to the lower pas
lures again,
The geographical conditions fully ac-
count for the habits Of the AnniViards
and the m multiplicity Of their dwelling places.
Their manner Of life simply responds to
their economic necessities.
They are increasing in number and must
utilize every acre Of their cultivated hay
and grazing lands. The productive ele-
ments Of the soil would o o be exhausted
IL the land were not richly feTtilized.
and so they must needs remove their
live stock from place to place at frequent
intervals.
They prefer to have homes wherever
their labor. require them to remain a few
weeks. Thus each family has four or five
dwelling places. and to one or another OF
! them they are continually removing their
modest household equipment.
The villages proper are the largest
agglomerstions OF houses and the only
settlements in which they build small
churches with steeples rising above the
other structures. Around the villages are
nearly all the tillable areas that the valley
affords, and every square foot Is made TO
yield all the grain and vegetables it will
produce.
At each Of the stations outside OF the
villages proper each family has a house,
a barn, with a stable under IL, a granary
and a cellar. As the family moves from
one home to another it takes comfort in
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IT'S MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, THERE
SWISS PEASANTS VINO BEAT All
FIAT DWELLERS.
they Live ln a Queer VALLEY. Have -Four or
Five Houses Apiece and Keep GOIng
From One TO Another Al Year
Hard Natural Conditions Overcome.

They Live ln a Queer VALLEY, Have -Four or
rive H0Oaes Apiece and Keep Going
From one 10 Another Al Year
Hard Natural Conditions Overcome.
The most primitive end peculiar people
in the western part OF Europe may perhaps
be found in a little Swiss valley Leading
steeply down from the glacier Of the Dent
Blanche to the Rh0ne River. IL Ia known
~ the Val d'Anniviers. IL is only thirteen
miles long and its character il indicated by
the fact that in the distance il rises $500
feet.
Where il joins the Rhone the elevation is
1900 feet above the sea and its Alpine pas
lures nave an elevation OF about 5000 feet.
Here and there in this narrow valley are
patches Of arabic ground. areas Of pas
ture land and meadows yielding good crops
Of hay.
One feet distinguishes the 2, 800 peasants
living here from ell other inhabitants OF the
Swiss Alps. Every man, woman and child
accompanies the herds and fiocks wherever
they are taken, except to the very highest
pasture.
There are groups Of habitations wherever
there is land to till. hay to cut or grazing
for the live stock, and each group il as
OihlAy VI RoPNhnNhOh NJ = hoft yOoA y OtAu >
most Whenever there ID work to 30 dons IN
some other part Of the valley. At any
season OF the year entire families may be
seen either ascending or descending with
their herds and household utensils az though
they were quitting the country forever.
At the head Of each little arava is a
mule carrying the father Of the family.
The mother and the children follow on foot
AID hAhsnI Nhapa rpvna The oatfIa uAata
sheep and pigs, driven by an old woman.
The visitor is impressed by the large
number Of houses and barns scattered
along the valley seemingly without a single
tenant. But the occupants have not left
the country. II is not an emigration but
merely one Of the periodical migrations
of the Anniviards.
This is the way they divide the year
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cant in number when compared with the
homes of the middle classes in the various
cities and villages. but these are so mucf
like the homes in America, both in appear
ance and in management, that it is not
necessary to dwell upon them.
The owners Of these homes are potent ia
Parliamentary elections, as are also the
laborinS men, although the House Of Lords
represents the landed proprietors. more
than one-third Of all the farm lands in Eng.
land being owned by members Of it.
sH~AEEsPEARE's HOME.
We took occasion to visit some OF the
shrines Of Great Britain. or course, no one
place n so rich in historic memories as
Westmir ster Abbey, it being the burial
place Of most OF the illustrious Of England,
One Of the most frequented places outside
OF London is Stratford-on-Avon, the birth
place and burial place Of Shakespeare.
Tn house in which he was born is still
standing, and is well preserved, consider
ing the years that have passed over il:
from it, size and arrangement It Is evident
that Shakespeare's father was a man of
some means. The house is now public
property and serves as a museum where
numerous Shakespearian relics are ex-
hibited.
One oil painting Of him, made when
he was still a young man, would indicate
that even then he enjoyed some distinction
among his fellows, although succeeding
generations have appreciated him vastly
more than his own. The grammar school
which Shakespeare attended is still to be
seen and at the church they have the bap-
sE.-..l 3D. $500 a kg- 49, ~
parish register in when his baptism and
burial are entered.
His grave is in the floor OF the church,
and there IL nothing to mark the stone slab
that covers it but the familiar lines:
Good friend, for Jesus sake forbesro,
TO digg the dust enclosed heare.
Bleste be We man vt spares thes stOh es,
And curst be he " moves my bones.
IN SCOTLAND.
Knox and we're impressed anew with the
tremendous influence which he ensrted
upon the religious life OF Scotland. Seldom
has il fallen to the lot OF one man so to
stamp his thought upon so many people.
In Edinburgh also stands the little chapel,
less known to tourists, in which the Cow
snanters met and in which the struggle
began between them and the Church Of
England. II is hard to believe that 50
short a time ago there was a bloody war
between two branches Of the Protestant
Church in which thousands suffered martyr
dom for their religious convictions.
We visited och Katrine and Loeb To-
mond, to which scott has given a per-
manent place in literature, and after see
ing them will not enter into a dispute with
any Highlander, oweve e~xtragavant his
praise Of these beautiful lakes. And, IL I
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A few weeks ago = pageant illustrating
the history Of the castle was gtvon on tho
banks OF the stream INC attended by some
10000 visitors.
So much for the great estates OF England.
They are still maintained and the systsm
IL still defended by many English states
men as the u best calculated TO preserve
the family and the present social structure.
There does not seem to be a. much oppo-
sition here ~ an American would suppose
10 this system under which priority OF birth
carries with it so great an advanta &c over
those born aiterward.
The younger children, reared to expect
little except in case Of the death OF those
older, seem to accept the situation as a
matter OF course, and enant descended
from generations OF a seem to aouui-
esce without protest In a tenure which de-
prives them Of the prospect Of ownership,
ri WAY AND ENoLIsH WAY.
While one can appreciate the beauty Of
the manors and admit that they could not
be maintained under any other system
than that which gives them entire to
member OF the family and prevents aliena-
ton, still an American hnds his admiration
for American institutions increasing while
he travels, for to him the advantages
that flow from individual ownership and
the division Of estates at death seems in
hnitely greater than any that are TO be
derived from the English system. A hun
bred farmers stimulated by hope and Sc
cure in their holdings contribute more than
one country gentleman and ninety-nine
tenants possibly can to the strength and
vigor OF a state.
After all, the large estates are insigniH-
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~ ~rLIa.M sEsNrnos nnrAn.


frryrfoit. 100. Nv Joseph n. BOuoIeS Copyright
"a GSaal Br0ain - An riahiS rsssrseL
LINCOLN. Neb., Sept. iO.-He who sees
onty the cities and villages OF Great Britain
misses one ot the most interesting features
Of English life. Land tenure in 40 different
there from tenure in the United States that
the reader will pardon a sketch Of the old
fashioned manor.
In England the right Of primogeniture
ttill remains, and the family home descends
10 the oldept. son. II not only descends to
him, but il continues its descent through him
10 his son and his sons son, aud II not sub
ject to Alienation II Was our good fortune
to be invited to several Of these homes,
some q them rich IN family heirIooms and of
historic interest.
Our Ambassador, Mr.. Reid. il occupying
one Of tho most famous estates in England;
II is known az Wrest Park and is about
forty miles from London.
During the London season many spend
the weeks end Mt their country homes,
and after a fortnight's experience in on
don we would appreciate the necessity of
Il, for the Inner our is 8 or Sis, while
receptions and balls begin at any hour from
30 to ~. The House Of Commons hoes not
convene until , O'Clock in the afternoon
and generally sits until midnight. Little
wonder that there is an exodus on Saturday
morning.
We spent our first weeks end at Wrest
Park and were shown through its spacious
grounds. The house itself is only about
seventy years old, but the land has been in
the hands OF the family for several GEN.
turtles.
The estate consists Of about 1000 acres,
most Of it in cultivation. but enough is left
.sdjoining the house for woods, parks. lawns
and gardens. and these have been laid out
and ornamented by landscape gardeners.
There are walks lined with ~statuary, green
stretches Of velvet turf, miles Of well kept
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MODERN BUILDING METHODS.
Two Novelties In One Excavation THAI
Halt the Passer-by.

Halt the Passer-by.
Steel piles and an electric pile driver
make a combination Of novelties sufficiently
attractive to keep a line OF people all the
time looking over the railing in front Of the
excavation for the foundation Of the new
addition to the Hoffman House.
These piles are channel beams of uniform
length OF about thirty feet; stacked up in
the excavation the piles waiting to he driven
look like a pile of structural steel. For
driving they are not sharpened or pointed
in any way, as wooden piles are, but a beam
is hoisted up between the loads or guides
Of the pile driver, set precisely in ~ proper
place and position, and then simply driven
down through the yielding earth to the
desired depth.
As these channel steel piles are not 10 he
used as supporting piles they are not driven
in clusters. They are driven as sheet piling,
though not in long continuous lines, but
here in assemblages in different parts of
the excavation, each ~assemblage outlining
a square enclosing an area six feet or more
in diameter. They are faced alternately
in and out so that their fanges clasp, and
down the joints thus formed are driven
what are called 2 irons, with projections
ONCiAuDHhhk VIZ Cu4cb VI tuC ldhEFS Wv WV
piles to make the joints tighter and help IN
keeping out moisture when these squares
Of sheet piling, practically 80 many square
steel sided boxes driven deep into the EARTH
are brought to their final use. which IS as
a substitute for caissons in foundation
building.
The earth within these squares of sheet
piling will be ~excavated, and in these eN-
cavations will be built up the concrete
foundation piers upon which the weight Of
tie building will rest.
The electric pile driver has an upright
frame just like that Of any other pile driver
and its hammer plays up and down IN the
leads just the same, with the wire rope
from il running up TO and over 4 shIeve
in the top Of the frame and on down. all quiJs
in the usual manner, to a drum at the back
on the pile drivers base. But here you
notice a new feature in the form Of a low
iron shield, shaped somewhat Ike the
top shell Of an elongated turtle. ms
shield covers the electric motor, which IS
geared to the drum.
There ~ no steam boiler set ur here, no
flaming fire, nc pile Of coal TO feed me
boilers furnace, no steam engi'.e attacheH
to the driver; the power comes rom a street
main through a flexible CT Die attached
TO the motor and made long enough 80 that
the pile driver can be mON I'd about any
where w. thin the exCavatiCI.
The pile driver operator vurns The power
on or OF by means OF a controller inuch
like that used by the motorman on IN eiecc
trio street car, and for further %contro. 81
the machine he uses a lever braL". INA
SO. without any fame or smoke or steam
anywhere around, ne keeps the hammer
going, driving down those channel stee'
piles.
The steel frame Of the new United states
Express Building YVES set up without the
aid Of steam, electricity being employer
on the derricks and in running the air COM
prcssor for the pneumatic riveting too''.
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: hedges of holly and box and cedar, sta tely
leaks, summer houses, teahouses, green
y houses and everything in the way OF orna-
mcnt that taste could dictate and money
e supply.
IS The gardens are especially attractive.
They we're shut in by high walls, and against
theee walls fruit trees, vines and flowers
sare- trained with artistic effect. In the
dollhouse peaches are Tipening before
I their season and huge punches Of grapes
are growing purple.
y Cucumbers, tomatoes aud many other
vegetable, "a well a. fruits which we
grow out OF doors. are in England raised
and ripened under glass. The Strawberries
g are of enormous size and the g~ooseberries
are rs large as pigeon eggs.
Within the house are spacious rooms
hung with pictures OF the nobility that nave
occupied the estate and OF member OF the
royal family who have visited there. The
library contains several thousand books,
accumulated through many generations.
= Not far from the house stands the manor
church, supported by tithes. the owner OF
the estate usually selecting the minister.
In many places the living, as il Ia called.
z has ceased 70 be of great value.
The inheritance tax is quite a heavy
burden upon the owners of these estates
!. and many OF the landholders are 30 i'm
poyerished that they are obliged to rent
their estates in order to raise money to meet
the tax.
= .sACkguLE wEsr's HISTORIC SEAT.
Mr.. Moreton Frewen, who contributed
. many articles 10 the silver literature in
/. 1885, and whose wife is OF American birth,
g. took us down TO his place. Brede, which is
within sight OF the battlefield OF Hastings.
II ". a fine old house. with a splendid view,
and the oak doors and woodwork, although
e 500 or 900 years old, are a. good as new.
On the way to Brede We stopped for
luncheon at KnOle, another famous country
4. place, owned by the West family. The
present occupant, Lord sackville West, was
once Ambassador 20 America. 1t is a
hstorio place and has seven courts, fifty
swo stairways and So5 windows.
o. The earliest record sh o that tho Earl
Of Automatic gave the estateto his daughter
when she was married to the Earl Of Penn
broke. Afberward it came into the possess
aion Of Lord Say and Sele, and he conveyed
IL to the Archbishop Of Canterbury. who at
his death bo1ueathed IL to the See Of Canter-
bury.
Crlnunsr occupied the place in the six
Nonth century and conveyed it to Henry
VIII: Cranmer will be remembered as one
OF the three Bishops who were burned at
> the stake. IL was once in the possession
81 Queen Mary and afterward Of Queen
Elizabeth. who conveyed it to Dudley,
her favorite Earl. ..
The house Is a veritable museum and art
gallery and contains hundreds Of pictures,
many Of them Of kings and others promi-
nent ia English historS One Of the rooms
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were there the clusters OF ripened gra pes
added to the beauty of the vines.

were there the clusters Of ripened era pes
added to the beauty Of the vines.
DUTIES OF THE ORD or rHE MANOR.
We spent one. night at Broughton Castle
a. the guests OF Lord and Lady Lennon.
The host and hostess have often visited
the United States and are quite liberal in
their political views. They are also identi-
fed with the community, encouraging
artistic industry such "a wood carving
and the like by which the young people
may add TO their income, a. well as develop
their taste.
In this connection it should he explained
that the owner Of an estate occupies a
responsible position. While he draws rent
from his tenants, he ia expected to be their
patron and protector as we'll AZ their general
adviser. He provides the Christmas fes-
~tivities, gives presents to the children and
looks after the sick.
Tn moral standards which he sets up
nave a large influence upon the religious
and social life OF the community, and the
conscientious land owner is able to do a
great deal Of good.
Broughton Castle iA near Banbury the
Banbury Cross, immortalized in child rhymes
by the woman who rode a white horse
and was f~requented by Cromwell and his
chiefs. In fact, in one OF the rooms, as
tradition goes, the death warrant Of Charles
l. Vyas signed.
The house Is of stone and the roof is
covered with stone tiles an a good roof
it still Is, though 600 Yeas Old. In some
Of the rooms fine oak paneliing had been
painted over, and in other rooms handsome
akann suona bod haan AiaR O11raN nth VIoafar
but the present occupant Is restoring these.
As in many Of the larger n older country
places, Broughton has a little chapel OF its
own, where the family assembled for divine
service. The castle is surrounded by a
shaded lawn, ornAmented by hedge, ever
greens, flower beds and rose covered arbors,
and around all these runs the most, fed
from ~neighboring streams.
The memory OF fsudal times is preserved
by the towers, drawbridge and massive
gates.
English history is Illuminated by these
ancient country seats and much in English
home life is explained that would other
wise be difficult to understand.
CASTLE.
Warwick Castle is near Lexington and
but a few miles from Broughton. II is
probably the most visited OF all the castles
OF England and is still in the family Of the
Earl Of Warwick, the king maker.
IL is built Upon the banks Of the Avon
and has n deep, dark dungeon and lofty
towers and all the accessories OF al ancient
fortress The great hall is filed with armor
and heiriooms. The house contains a
valuable collection of paintings by old
masters and the furniture Of the sleeping
rooms is a. remarkable for It's design a. for
its antiquity.
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New Count NecensarY.

WV From the Washington Star.
OF a political Transaction that had a .us
picious look. Senator Beveridge said:
Though In the thing there is nothing on
which we can lay our hand. IL certainly an
pears flshy. 1t reminds me OF a Washin9tou
waiter.
gentleman, after eating a good dinner
find have only just money enough 70 pay
YOU. bill P'
The waiter seized the bill hurriedIy.
tered" ~ "N''