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or lady, Tor no working woman could
wear them. Another badge of high blood
is the long finger nail. protected by
sheath of silver or gold to keep it from
breaking.
No one can go through the streets OF
Mukden and not be impressed by its bust
ness. There are miles of one-story booths,
back of which are warehouses filled with
fine goods. There are streets OF fur
stores and streets devoted to the making
and selling of silver. copper and brass.
There are innumerable peddlers. who go
along crying their wares. and places
where the goods are put out in the open
during the day and taken in at night.
Some of the latter are odd. as, for in
stance, the peddlers selling false pigtails.
Each of these has white cotton sheet
stretched taut over a framework of ham-
boo This is leaned against the wall OF
house where the crowd is the thickest.
Upon 1t are pinned many long black
switches OF human hair of the length or
ones arm. Each switch is divided into
three strands. SO that they can easily be
braided together. forming a beautiful
queue. Many Chinese men are inclined to
badness, and they buy this hair 10 braid
into their few remaining locks thus MAX
ing false pistail of luxuriant growth.
SOMETIMES pldch SILK is used 10: TINS pur-
pose.
Mukden has a large trade in hats. caps
and shoes. There are winter shoes and
summer shoes, shoes for workingmen and
shoes for officials. There are mems boots
Of leather, mems boots Of felt, and crea-
tions of all sorts i'll silk, satin and fine
leather for women. The felt shoes have
soles an inch or more thick, with uppers
whose thickness will average quarter OF
an inch. They look clumsy and heavy.
but are wonderfully light and remarkably
cheap The coolies wear SHOES Of leather
much like nloccasins. and the officials
have high boots of black silk and velvet
The shoe merchants display their wares
on the sidewalks and there the cobbler
sits and mends your boots while you wait.
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way l. Is tWenty-SlX hours from Pekihs
and just twelve hours from Shanhaikwan,
at the eastern end of the great Chinese
wall. 1t is the biggest city Of Asia, lying
north of Peking. and is one of the most
important of the whole Chinese empire. 1t
is the home of the Manchus, and the
birthplace of the dynasty which now rules
the iO0. 0on.o00 Chinese. II has scores of
noble Manchu families, and it furnishes
a large proportion of the Chinese Off
Gals.
Mukden is emphatically a Manchu town
II makes one think OF the Tartar section
of Picking, except that ii is better laid out
and its streets are smoother and cleaner
The city has two great walls about it.
The outer one is OF mud and is thirteen
miles long. Tie inner is about four
miles in length. and it incloses circle of
houses a mile or so wide, comprising the
old Tartar camp Of the past.
The inner walls are of brick. They are
forty feet high and so wide that two
two-horse wagons could be driven abreast
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sun. For months last year the palaces
were filled with wailing officials. who went
there day after day to weep for the
Emperor and the old Empress Dowager.
X
Mukden is the seat of the Viceroy of
Manchuria. The palaces of this man are
larger than those of the emperor. They
cover | should say. half dozen acres,
and contain hundreds of officials, in addi-
ton to the viceroy himself Tartar SOL
diers with guns in their hands stand at
the gates and richly dressed Manchus
may be seen going in and out at any hour
of the day. The viceroy's palaces are OF
modern construction. They are immense
and two story buildings. surrounded
by walls twenty-five feet in height. They
are of chocolate-colored brick. well con-
structed. and are among the finest build
ings north of the Himalaya mountains
| should like to give you view of Muk-
den from the great Drum Tower which
cuts the two main streets at one corner.
This tower is about one hundred feet high.
1t rises from pedestal nifty feet VIDE.
through which two tunnel-llke roadWays
cross at right angles. In passing II this
morning | noticed the wicket gate open,
and without asking permission | slipped
in | found two flights of stairs with
high narrow steps. up which l climbed
slowly to a great drum which is hung
among the pigeon roosts under the roof.
Suppose you stand there beside me and
look over the city. Below us extending
out to the wall on all sides is gray
mass of low one-s.ory brick buildings
which cover at least one thousand acres.
Through ii run wide streets cutting eacn
other at right angles. and over the whole
rise the red walls and yellow roofs of
the imperial palaces
The common buildings are of the same
architecture. They are of gray brick with
ridge roofs of black tiles. the round comb
of each roof sloping up into little horns
at the ends. The wider streets are lined
with stores and these have double roofs
SO regularly fitted from house to house
that they form a sharp valley. banked
with tiles running through the air along
the roadway from one end of the city TO
the other.
Flowing up and down the street is
wide stream of white blue and black,
made by the clothes of the people as they
go back and forth. There are carts and
horses by scores and the scenes are as
busy as i'm the busiest cities in China.
Mukden is one of the richest places of
the whole empire. 1t has vast trade,
and its people are on the go from day
light TO dark.
But let us crawl down the steps and
take a walk through the streets The
Manchus are quiet and we can go where
we please We shall have to pick our
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MUKDEN'S GREAT DRUM TOWER.
is about 100 feet high

from that of the cities of China. These
Manchus are not like the small boned.
sawed-off Celestials we have in America,
with yellow compile Xions. snub noses and
eyes which look out OF button-hoie Suits
III their faces. They all have more or
pure Tartars. They remind one of our
American Indians They are giants IN
comparison with the people of Canton: l
see many men who are six feet tall. with
hg frames. heavy bones and large heads,
fastened to broad full shoulders. Their
compilations are more like copper than
cream: their eyes seem wider apart ana
their noses are often quite prominent
They are not unfriendly looking; and as
a rule they do not run when we point
our cameras their way.
The Mukden women are especially fine.
They are hig-framed and often pretty.
and they stand straight as they walk
along the streets with a swing. Their
feet are not bound ike those of the
Chinese women, nor do they fear to look
a man in the face.
Indeed they seem to dress for the
streets And such dressing! They wear
pantaloons, but over them long coats
coming down to the ankles. The coats
are often of silk lined with fur. Every
girl paints her cheeks and eyelids with
rouge, and her head is more gorgeously
dressed than those of any other women
of Asia. She has silver framework.
which rises over her crown like the comb
of a rooster. and about this she twists
her black locks in a gorgeous creation.
The marcel wave or the pompadour
would be Puritanlike in Mukden.
Some of the women have plates of sill
YER gold or other metal, ten inches
long and two or three inches wide. which
they faSten on the back of the head.
They wrap their hair round it SO that Ii
stands out like great wings on each side.
They go out upon the streets without
hats and seem proud of their clothes.
These women have shoes of various
kinds. Some wear footgear of silk and
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way, however, and must now and then
jump into the stores to keep from being
crushed by the crowd. In addition to the
freight carts carrying bean cakes. coal
grain and al sorts of merchandise, hauled
by donkeys and mules. single or double
or three or four tandem. there are in
Vulnerable pleasure vehicles. great two
wheeled cabs without springs, covered
with blue cotton. drawn by superb mules
which go on the trot. Some of the ca his
red plumes: and now and then there is q
foreign carriage with coachman and foot
man in livery The town has some
droschkies left by the Russians, the
horses of which have great hoops over
their shoulders There are numerous lin
rikishas brought in by the japanese
There are also huge wheelbarrows push
cd by sweating Chinese, and last but not
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upon them. They run in almost per
feet circle around the inner city, being
entered by eight gates. each of which has
walled Enclosures about il. so that You
wind in and out going through. The
Manchus do not believe in straight roads,
for they think that evil spirits may be
lost or turned back by the winnings.
The most important part of Mukden il
the inner city. This contains the palaces
OF the Emperor c. China. in which are
stored fortunes in jewels and precious
stones. wonderful carvings in silver and
porcelain. worth their weight in gold.
The palaces rise high above the rest OF
the city. They are great temple-like build
ings. with curved roofs of the imperial
yellow. Their woodwork is painted in
bright red and green and Is wonderfully
carved. The roofs are of porcelain. and
the yellow tiles shine like gold under the
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least, l must mention the long three
seated blackboard of the Astor Hotel.
This was brought to Mukden by an
American patent medicine man. and for
long time IL had the name Of President
Roosevelt painted upon one of it's sides.
1t is now the hotel bus, and 1t makes
daily trips to the railroad station four
miles away.
The crowd on the streets is far different
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coat. Such q coat is large and
full. the fur being afterwarC cut and fit
ted to the shape of the wearer. Many
such fu:S are used for Innings, lie out-
sides being of brocaded satin or silk, and
some are worn by the Chin. Sc with the
hair outward, the .nir., bein.s of silk or
other materials. There are also rugs OF
various sizes and furs TO, sale 10 foreign
dealers. such as sable and fox. There are
buyers who come here from all parts of
Asia. and large shipments are made every
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said that dog farming is carried Oh much
after the manner Of sheep farming IN
Australia. In some places the dogs are
single farm may have a hundred or So
In such regions dogs are ofteg given as
wedding presents, and IA girl may receive
a half dozen as her dowry. 1nasmuch as
cog is ready to breed III eight months
il will be seen that fortune could easily
arise from such beginning. Such dogs
are fed upon millet, and they have also
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AN in Mukden. the
capital of Manchu-
ria. II is a city of a
quarter Of a mil
lion, lying twelve
hours by express
train almost due
north of Dalny,
and twenty hours
or more south OF
the Russian from
tier. BY the I'm
perial Chinese rail-
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satin with thick fiat soles like those of
the men. Others have beautiful shoes
built upon soles three times as high as
the spool-heels used by our ladies, and
such shoes are even more inconvenient
for walking. The soles themselves are
quite thin. but attached to them are
wooden supports. which extend down
from the center of the shoe, much like
French heel. Such a shoe is the badge
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TARTAR Citv Wit

A TART A r City With
"A Thirteen Miles of Wall
Its New Government Build
ings and Its Imperial Palaces
-Red-cheeked Manchu Girls
With Big Feet-Among the
Stores-False Hair Peddlers
The Fur Market and the
Dog Farms Queer Medi-
cines-The Sad Story of the
Two Dachshunds.
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what they can get by foraging outside.
The flesh Of the animal is used for food.
dog meat being largely eaten i'm both
Manchuria and Korea. In Seoul there
are certain seasons when the flesh OF
these animals is considered the sweetest
| have tasted dog roast in Seoul and in
Canton | once visited a restaurant where
a dog stew was cooking.
Connected with the fur business are
certain drugs. which come in as by
product. Among these are tigers bones
and claws Several thousand pounds OF
tigers bones are annually exported from
Manchuria to China, and the deer horns
used for the same purpose numbered six
teen hundred pairs in one year. 4 good
pair of such horns Is worth sos and one
with many antlers will bring as much as
$500.
The Manchus use dog meat s medicine.
and rule the flesh of a black dog Is
considered the best. Not long ago a Ger
man consul came here bringing two pet
dachshunds along. One was brown and
the other black. At about the same time
Chinese doctor had a Manchu mandarin
as one of his patients and was trying 10
cure him. The mandarin had the dropsy
AGAINST which the doctors tiger bones and
cats claws did not avail. One day the
doctor saw the German consul going
along with his puppies, and he straight
way told his patient that the only med-
cines that would really cure his dropsical
legs were two long-barreled rt-legged
dogs with dropping ears.
What YOU need. said he. lis to get
a black dog of that species for Your right
leg. and a brown dog of the same breed
for your left leg. Cook their meat into
stews and the rich broth will flow down
your legs and drive out the dropsy"
The mandarin thereupon sent out his
servants and the dachs.unds We're soon
In the soup. When the consul came to
look them up. he was told that he would
find them In the right and lef: legs OF
the offender.
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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thousand skins are annually exported A
large part of the product goes to Ameri-
ca. and among the things sent there are
thousands of dogskin mats and dogskin
rugs as well as bales of squirrel tails
and fox tails for NUNS and hat decTa-
ton.
Some of the furs are fine. There are
tiger skins. which bring as high as Stp
and leopard skins at from twenty 70 sixty
dollars apiece. Something like otsn Sd.
hes are annually exported. the best OF
them yielding S45 skin. Last year about
1000 silver foxes were sold. some OF
which Melted so a skin. Over 10000 red
fox furs brought from ten to thirty dol
lars each. and as to the skins of wolves.
badgers, goats and lambs. they were SOLD
by the tens of thousands.
The biggest part of the fur trade with
America is in dosskns. The country is
so cold that this animal grows long
thick coat worth SO much that dogs are
raised for their skins The best skins
bring 81 apiece. and they make beau
tifu rugs. | am told there are many
dog farms between here and Siberia,
where the animals are bred for this pur-
pose. They are killed just before spring.
while their coats are still long and warm.
The killing is done by strangulation. for
the reason that knife might injure the
fur. The dogs of the cities are treated
in the same way. I see many in Muk-
den today winch doubt not Will De tulil-
ed into American rugs in the next year
or so.
The people here look upon dogs as so
much live stock and bitterly resent their
being killed on the ground of hydropho-
bia or for sanitary reasons. AT the close
of the Russian war when the japanese
took possession of Mukden they cornered
the dog market and made something
Ike $4,000 in selling the skins. The
scheme was originated by a party OF
hn charged
hrihinp certain of their military officials
into passing an order that all the dogs OF
the city should he DESTROYED on the
grounds of hydrophGbia. This order en-
abled their own killers to accompany
them and thus they got possession OF the
skins which numbered some 10000 or SO.
Among these We're many pet dogs. The
people would not stand such an outrage
today.
In the northern parts of Manchuria il is
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Copyright 1899, by Frank g. CarpenterJ
Special Correspondence Of The' Star.
MTkDEN, Manchuria, 1909.
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winter to Shanghai, Tientsin and Picking.
During the coolest weather the Tartars
in the northern part of the empire wear
almost nothing else but furs OF one kind
or another. The coolies have suits Of
sheepskins and goatskins, while the ma
hobs wear foxskins. mink and sable The
Manchu houses are poorly heated. and
fur-lined clothes are worn indoors and
out. AS a rule the best furs are ex-
ported. I had thought to have bought
an overcoat here but am told that 1
can purchase one at much lower price
in Picking.
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Last Weeks Places Where
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Hobo in the Presidents Private Car

were so crowded that they couldn't
have looked healthy to the most Cd.
timistic OF tramps. But there was a
Pullman. and 1t looked nice and dark
and so the wanderer strolled in and
hid himself.
1t was Letcher. one of the porters
who found the visitor crouched in a
dark corner of the tiny kitchen. He
made dive for the man and got him
In a clinch. Then he called his fell.
low porter, Anderson. The two of
them had the tramp SO scared that he
could hardly see by the time the
secret service men came in and nut
him under arrest.
AT Bridgeport the tramp was turned
over to the police. He tried to saw
that he was brakeman on the New
York. New Haven G. Hartford road
but the trainmen knew better. Mr..
Taft slept right through it, and never
knew thing about 1t until the next
morning.
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May Paste Million Posters.

Artists, billpOsters, printers, paper
manufacturers and tuberculosis fight.
ers are all united in gigantic crusade
against tuberculosis which is about to
be started under the direction of the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis. In
addition to the gifts of free space on
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made by the Associated Billposters
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Poster Printers Association several
hundred paper manufacturers have
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artists from all over the United States
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The posters are nine feet long and
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IT is the custom for the senate pages
to hold two or three mock senate
sessions every winter. These sessions
are held on afternoons when the sem
ate is not sitting, and are conducted
with all the solemnity and poise Of
a regular meeting.
One day the youngsters were con-
Quoting mock trial of the Swayne i'm
peachment case. BILLY" Amin was
presiding. Another youngster was pos
ing as Anthony Higgins, counsel for
Judge Swayne, and was interrogating
a witness. Senator Spooner of Wis
consin, came into the senate chamber
Unexpectedly. and, seeing what was
going on. took seat near the entrance
to the cloakroom.
Presently an intricate parliamentary
question arose, and half dozen pages
were on their feet asking for recogni-
ton. Mr. Spooner thought he might
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Pages in the Senate Minnie Big Men

be able to clarity the question. Ac
cordingly he approached his seat and
called out: Mr.. President"
The irrepressible BILLY" was NOT
taken back. The chair will recognize
the senator from Wisconsin" he said
as he brought down the gavel and nod
ded to Mr.. Spooner.
The ease and poise of the youngster
startled Senator Spooner, and 1t was
nearly minute before he could con.
troll his twinkling eyes.
is 1t not out of ORDER" he asked
ito permit so many senators to ad.
dress the chair at the same timer"
1T is decidedly out of order" said
the piping voice in the vice-president's
chair.
THE point made by the senator from
Wisconsin is we'll taken. The senate
will come to order"
In the house of representatives there
are 20 pages, and in the senate 16.
According to the regulations, no
page can be under IL years or over
16 years of age.
The position of senate page pays
salary of $75 a month when con.
gress Is in session, and, like all other
employees of congress. these young.
sters receive an extra months salary
every year.
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The Barriers Down.

John Ford, who, as the English bus
band of Miss Cavendish- Bentinck i
related to the Ogden Millses. the Ma
turin Livingstons and many other not
ed New York families, talked. at
quiet dinner at The Plaza, about Eng
fish society.
New York society,"" said Mr.. Ford
lis really more exclusive now tina,
that OF London. In London last sea
son an episode was narrated that illus
trated well the breaking down of tn,
old barriers.
Society is going to the how
vows grumbled young marquis a
a Piccadilly club.
What's the matter now" a frien,
inquired.
'Moneylender's wife at receptio,
In Belgrave square this afternoon
said the marquis. wearing all M
wife's emeralds.'"
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RESULTS OF FOOD
Health and Natural Conditions Come
From Right Feeding.

Man. physically, should be like Q
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A slight arrangement causes undue
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A well-known educator of Boston
found way to keep the brain and the
body in that harmonious cooperation
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1.-TWO years ago." she writes, "being
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Il generally make my entire break
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Another Worlds Record.

"Spealdn' o closefisted corpora
TONS" remarked Jed Spearman as he
helped himself to another handful Of
prunes, reminds me O. tn 'speriencs
I had with tn skidOo route in 70.
Mandy an me was talSin' tn trair
70 60 an visit her folks, an when tn
tnjine come along doggone big no,
cinder few right plum Into my eye
We'll, had terrible painful time
with that eye fer bout week and
fin'ly had Z go t a oc'list an have tn
cinder dug out.
And, do y think that measly rail-
road w'd pay my doctor bill r enJ
thin?
Not them. When | went t. see tn
superintendent bout 1t he threatened
& have me rested fer stealth coal"