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two pounds of our best put in the incest
box we had. He said he'd had q mis-
understanding with his wife the night
before. and hadn't been home, and he
had to do something to square himself,
OF he'd lose his happy home. He lock-
ed quite worried too But | saw him at
the theater a few nights later devotedly
attentive to woman. who. / guess, was
his wife. so il seemed to work all right.
Just then party of three young men
came in. They We're real young men,
too, and they began at once to make up
10 the pretty girl.
why. said one. with considerable
show OF surprise. Il haven't seen YOU
for long time. Where have ycu been?
Saw You a few days ago on the street,
but couldn't get n chance to speak be-
cause you had fellow with YOU l re-
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fleet. That country has already a navy
consisting of eight battleships. seven
cruisers, some gunboats and nearly fifty
torpedo boats. 1t has what Belgium most
lacks, a race of skillful and daring
sailors. Nearly 1900 men man its fleet
and from it's 600 naval officers command
ers can be drawn TO instruct the Belgian
recruits.
The Belgian army has increased to
threatening proportions without attracting
the attention of the great powers, and
the Belgian navy will spring into exist
ence before the powers have time to think
about it. When the next war comes the
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QUEER Phases and Incl
~ dents Regarding the Pur-
chase of Candy in Washing
ton Confectionery Stores
Many Men Prefer the Sweets
and Buy Them to Nibble
Upon While at Workplaces
of Candy Range From rs
Cents to SI.oo Per Pound
Seminary Girls Have Clever
M h o d S of Smuggling
Sweets Past Watchful Eyes
of Their Chaperons.
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tional movement in China. saying that l.
had come to stay and that there would
eventually be up-to-date public schools
iii every city and town.
| asked to the new constitution.
His exec lleEcN replied:
There is no doubt that China will have
a constitutional government. Our plans
for it are we'll established, and the prep
arations ire now going or 1t is a
great task to raorsaHiZe 3 government
like ours. We have been moving along
our present line for over thousand
years. and we have to introduce our neI%
administrative methods step by step.
We have a fixed plan for educa ting the
people to the new government, ard this
is already in operation over the empire.
Our educational plan rurs through eight
years, and at the end of that time
We shall have a parliament at Picking
and shall have become constitu-
tional monarchy. The prince regent
is in favor of the scheme, and since the
deaths of the emperor. kwangSu, and
he great dowaser a number of imperial
e.licts have been published urging that
the work be carried on along the lines
upon which 1t has been startai.'
/ here referred to the Canton Hankow
railway and which they finally sold
back TO China, and asked whether that
road would be built. His excellency re-
piled that the matter had been given
over to other officials but that he thought
that it would be rapidly pushed on to a
completion. | understand that the road
is resurveyed, and that the rails for il
are already being made at the Han Yang
iron works
The vicercN tells me he is anxious to
Lave railroads built throughout his prov
inces. and that their Industrial re
sources will probably make Wuchans
and Hankow great railroad centers. lie
then referred to the fact that one can
row so from Hankow TO Paris by rail.
There upon the American consul rather
facetiously Nentursd that the time might
Yet come when one would be able To so
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ExPLOITER of the Kongo
IL Plotting Secretly to Erect
a Great European Power on
the Union of the Low Coun-
tries and Dictate Terms to
France, Germany and Eng
land-Army of Flanders to
Be Increased to 100000 Men,
While Antwerp Will Become
a Fortified Port Menacing
England, and Holland, I'm
der a Secret Treaty, Will
Furnish the Nucleus for a
Powerful Navy-B el G ia n
Statesmen Laugh at Europe's
Threats to End Kongo Mis-
rule.
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colony and make her insults laugha BILE"
Belgium's defiance of England is not so
laughable as it may seem. 1t is Eng
lands present policy to maintain foreign
alliances. and alliances are gained by
those who bid highest and prove they
can pay. AS things stand Belgium can
give more to continental allies than Eng
land can When her military reorganiZa-
ton is completed she will have an army
of oGo.GD men. of whom $1,000 will suffice
for home defense, while 12O.Gn will re-
main free for foreign service. capable of
immediate mobiliza ton the frontier
without any of the danger and delay
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UNITED NETHERLANDS THE DREAM OF LEOPOLD OF BEL GIUM

treated of military affairs. His ministers
have not been SO circumspect. Last sum-
mer, when Sir Edward Grey made a
declaration i'm the house of commons as
to the possibility of England acting alone
for the suppression of the abuses in the
kongo. cabinet ministers and eX-minis-
ters in Belgium threw discretion to the
winds.
..Engand's threat is terrible. said NJ.
Francotte, eN-mnister of industry, but
England will find Belgium can threaten
also, and follow up her threats by
action"
Members of the present cabinet spoke
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from Hankow even to New York in COM
forta BILE cars.
But how could that be- said the vice
roy. You cannot cross the oceans by
railroad.
No returned the consul, but we can
go under the Pacific ocean at BerinS
strait. and we might possibly make a
bridge there by which we could cross from
Siberia to Alaska. and thence go by land
to New York. You know. Asia and North
America are only thirty-ffve miles apart
at that point, and If Russia is willing, |
think we can build the bridge"
Upon this l burst into laugh, in
which both our consul and the viceroy
joined.
The next subject was the boycotting of
foreign nations by the Chinese. His
cXcellency said that lie hoped there would
lie nothing of that kind in the future in
Chinas trade relations with us. He
thereupon added some kind expressions as
to the United States. saying that the
Chinese have always felt that the Amerl-
cans have 10 desire to take any part or
their empire, and they look upon us as
their safest friends. 1t was 1t this point
that I asked his excellency if he would
not send greeting to the people OF the
United States through this newspaper.
He replied that he would gladly do SO,
and that he would forward it with ms
photograph by one of his deputies to
Hankow.
This message has just come in. ! have
taken it out of its long white envelope
bordered with pink and it lies before me
as ! write The message covers two
sheets of yellow paper. the characters be-
ing beautifully written by the viceroy's
hand Translated, ii reads:
Sir: The friendly relations existing be-
tween my country and yours have long
been known TO all nations on earth l
therefore appreciate the courtesy OF a
letter from the Secretary of your Depart
ment of Agriculture. whose reputation
has so long been known to me. | should
have been glad to have had a conversation
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mental army. considerable already, soon
will be 100000 strong. while England 8
military strength. as far as aggression Is
concerned. remains practically nil. ex-
plains the fact that not single govern
ment the continent consented to join
England against Belgium on the kongo
question.
The change in Belgium's military sys-
tom is not being carried through without
political battles in the chambers but it is
accepted willingly by the country. 1t is
welcomed abolishing the suspense
which attended the old system Of the
army ballot. which took place every year
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in the same strain. and a short time
afterward one of them explained the de-
tails of Belgium's plan. The Belgian
army is to he placed on a peace standing
of 1900 men. while eight classes of
men. robust and well drilled. are to be
kept ready for immediate mobilization.
The field strength is never to be allowed
to fall below 0,0OO men.
IAN army like this he said, will pre-
vent England from attempting to inter-
fere with Belgium's action regarding her
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Continued from Second Page
speaks English as well as ! DO 1t lasted
an hour. and as we sat thus touching ell
bows ! had chance to study lne IL
roy Chen Kwe-Lung is the personlhca-
ton of the typical we'll fed Chinese offl-
cial lie is a fine-looking man of medium
height. weighing. | judge, about nv
pounds. He stands straight and walks
with a swing of the arms. reminding one
of the mobiles of Korea. He had on TODAY
a long black silk gown with lining of tho
whitest of lambskn. Below this showed out
black velvet boots and above it rose his
big head, VIII ch was crowned with black
hat whose brim was turned up all around.
and whose crown was ornamented by a
long peacock feather fastened there
by a button. The feather extended
out for eighteen inches back of the hat.
and it bobbed up and down as he shook
his head while he talked. Out of the back
of the hat hung a long queue of an oily
black hue.
His eXce!lency's hands rested on the ia
BILE IN front of him. They were as soft
as velvet. and | venture that they have
never done stroke of rough work. They
could not and preserve the fine finger nails.
The nails on the hand nearest me were an
though cared for by one of our fair mani
cures.
The viceroy opened the interview by
asking me the usual questions as to how
long had been in China and whittier I
was going. He spoke kindly of the United
States. and in referring to our return of
the Boxer indemnity said that his people
from one eni, of the country 10 the
other felt grateful to MS, and that they
were glad to be bile to send many stu
dents to be educated in the American
schools. At this point the consul re-
marked that ! was an author of school
books and had written some text books
on geographical subjects. This evidently
improved my standing in the viceroy s
eyes. and lie talked of the modern educa-
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ELGICM, preparing
for war. has aban-
doned the volun-
tary system of re-
cruiting and declar-
ed for CONSUMPTION.
Iienceforward ev-
cry family i'm Bel
gium Is to furnish
one soldier to the
national army, and
her forces are 10
be made twice as
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had been explored. when he assumed Il
most chasrined air. and exclaimed in
great disgust:
why, | declare II | haven't left every
bit of change in my other clothes. |
don't see how l happened to have that
one quarter even. If that doesn't beat
anything"
He again went through his clothes with
no financial result, and then had half
the candy removed and put in half
pound box and departed, minus the i'm
portant air.
That's an old stunt" said the girl who
had waited Oh him, as he disappeared
''He Thought the candy was a quarter
a pound until he came to pay. Some
times they come i'm and inquire the price
of candy, and then stand and calculate
a while before they buy ~ cents worth
of the thirty-five-cent grade. Old men
are the ones, who buy good ldy and
don't inquire the price
And married men who want to make
it up, you know" interrupted another
girl.
"Oh, yes. that's awful funny" exclaim-
ed the first girl. Zone day a fine look
ing man came in and said he wanted
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them, but they never hassle about the
price. Now, women are naturally more
economical than are men, and they stop
to consider before they pay dollar a
pound for candy. and they do not pay
sl5 for basket or box in which to put
it. Two or three dollars is about as high
as woman will go for receptacle for
candy. and TO cents is the average price
per pound that she allows herself.
x +
What is the most popular candy"
Chocolate. by all means, though car
amels are also great favorites. Both men
and women seem to prefer chocolate and
VIC make speciality of our chocolate
candies. Our matinee crowd rs very large
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III. little quotation.
SU Gets I q the
$ W c G w II | C n
s % I'M Il $ merely
sentimental n d
suggests Il charm
ing simplicity, in
reality means thou
sands of dollars
spent in Washing
ton daily for sugar
dainties, for there
are over 40 con-
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committally on his way, while the mamm,
glowered.
Aside from the retailing of candy in
Washington, thousands of pounds arr
shipped out of the city to foreign trade
every day, one of the large stores sending
to France, England, Belgium, Italy.
Japan and even to Egypt. Washington
sweets are shipped everywhere, and
Washington candy manufacturers MAX.
known to the world at large that the
Washington public is discriminating and
may be excused for spending a snug little
sum daily in sweets to the sweet of the
city.
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Fear Of Germany on side and
France on the other threw Belgium and
Holland into each others arms Fear
OF England, as Frances ally, has lately
come to strengthen their fears and their
alliance. Antwerp. which ii was formerly
thought English troops would garrison
FOR Belgium. in the case of war, is now
being further fortified as defens g
against England
1t was the theory in Belgium that the
country should support an army suffi
ciently strong to hold invader in check
until the great powers that guaranteed
Ter independence had time 10 come to
her rescue. While this theory pre-
vailed. an army OF $1,000 men was
thought To be sufficient and at one mo-
ment. when invasion threatened. in 1870.
such an army was found to be sufficient.
Since 1870 the number of men required
to defend any given area has been
greatly reduced, owing to the improve
nent IN modern firearms. Vt Gravelotte
the French army. I.0.op strong. covered
$4,000 yards. while the German army Of
.abLn men MAS spread over line OF
LOCO yards. This represented racticalIy-
len men per yard for the defendants
aud eighteen per running YARD for the as
sailant~. In the Russian Japanese war
varied. respectively from and ~ men
to -, and ~ men pcr yard and i'm the
Boer war the density was still less. Not
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to supply the deficiency of volunteers.
About 5000 youths took part in the
ballot every year. Under the new system
no more than 2S.OOO families will be called
on annually each to supply recruit of
it's own choice. OF the recruits SO sup
piled 1G.GOO will be exempted from service.
annually, for one reason or another. Tn
der the old system those who drew bad
numbers" in the ballot could buy substi-
tutes. In the future each family's repre-
sentative must serve; but ii is probable the
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another five pounds of the candy. pro-
ducing the handsome box in which to
put it.
Il told papa she remarked, as her
order was being filled. that he was
better judge OF good candy than 1 am my
self"
When she departed she left stunned
group behind her.
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care about the manager: he and l are
great friends. he don't care how much
I'm in here Just then he looked
around and there was the manager stand
ing right behind him. You ought to have
seen his face. He didn't stay but a min
ute or two after that you bet
1t is most amusing to see the ingenious
manner in which the young ladies of
some OF the SelninarieS smuggle sweets
the forbidden sweets which are sup
posed to be ''sweetest'-into the various
institutions of learning where they are
pursuing the road to knowledge. Some
of them have it put into large box
similar to shoe box, and carry it safely
past the official censor: others have it put
into number os small boxes, which they
hide in their sleeves or muffs. In this way
they manage to run in several pounds at
time past the blockade
That age has nothing to do with the
taste for sweets is evidenced by the fact
that many OF the confectioneries have
regular customers who are feeble old Ia
dies. Mos. OF them are dainty old dears.
AID many times marshma lows. a pound
at n time. for their own consumption
evincinS as much Judgment in selection
when they were twenty. And there
are some old men who come in and with
a sort of fugitive manner buy or
10 cents worth of sweets to "f1ll a sweet
tooth they claim to have, though. as
one girl said. bless their souls, some
times they haven't tooth OF any kind
to FILL"
In some of the candy places they make
a certain sort of small candy especially
for the trade among business men. one
confectioner having them wrapped SO
that they may be dumped into the coat
pocket for better convenience without in
Jury to the clothing. A favorite among
men is the candy having a nut in the
inside, such as chocolate almonds, pis-
tachios or the new Mexican nut called the
cashew. These they carry about with
them and nibble upon they work, and
II is asserted that one would be sur
prised at the number Of solid business
men who go about Washington. unsus-
pected, each with handful of candy in
his coat pocket. Confectioners say that
the men who are fond OF candy are
seldom men who drink to amount to any
thing
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A young girl accompanied by youth
came into a candy emporium, and super
intended the purchase of a ten-dolIar
box. which was ordered filled with the
choicest French fruit glace and bon
bons. AS the order was being filled the
young lady explained that she had just
been married to the young man and the
candy was intended as post-nuptial
propitia tory offering at the shrine of her
mother, who. she said, was very fond OF
the sweets selected. The box was sent
in the name of the bridegroom. One
hearing the story wonders how it came
out. Was the gift acceptable in the way
the young couple hoped. and did they all
live happy ever after?
1t quite frequently happens that
young man will enter a candy store ac-
companied by fair enslaver of whom
he is obviously very proud and will in
quire with a great deal of anxiety what
kind of candy she prefers. If the prices
range from 35 cents to so cents 1t
usually happens that the damsel prefers
the best. and it has been known to fol-
low that the young man has called her
attention to something else while he
has box filled with the thirty-five-cent
grde, slips the change into his pocket
while she is not looking and -four
fushes'' his way to her good sraces,
while he saves the price of his next
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large as they need he If nothing more
was required of them than defense of
Belgian territory.
The Dutch are the most Immediately
concerned in the military affairs of Bel
GUM. and their most intelligent observer,
the Centrum, of The Hague, summed up
the situation correctly In saying:
The motor in all this affair is the
influence OF Leopold ii, whose ideal is
Known. He intends by means of per-
sonal and general service to make Bel
gium military power. Slowly and sure
~ he is pushing the government along
that way.
BeIgiums alliance with. Holland is one
of the chief means by which King Leo
pold hopes to attain his end. That al
lance is of an older date than paople
know In 1S4s. and again in 1850, Bel
GUM and Holland made secret treaties
of onense and defense. III 1883. when
King Leopold III visited Holland. AN open
alliance was entered into, and the Official
organs of each country announced that
the ancient union of the Low Countries
was reconstructed.
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The near approach Of the Christmas
festivities causes boom in candy trade
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ei-n torrc>rondrurr of Tho Sta
BRU SSEL.S, November 26
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0be = effersonian

not bestow the political privilege of the bal
lot and of office holding upon these elegant
women.
What shame it is that millions of mere
brutes have been given political privileges,
which are withheld from our young men and
from all of our women
Now is the time for the South to take ac-
ton in support of the policy herein outlined.
1t will win. There is nothing to check it, if
you will once put it in motion. See your
State Senators, see your Representatives in
the lower branch of the Legislature and
pledge them to enforce such laws when next
your State Solons are convened
Up. SIN this connection, it is but lust to
Senator John S. Beard, of Florida, to say
that he made a manful fight In the Florida
Legislature for just such law, and succeeded
In passing it through the Senate. I hope he
will rise and come again, and win the next
time.
am going to see to it that somebody tries
it in every State where [ have got friends
and followers. These disfranchisement laws
which we have been passing have not operated
just exactly as we hoped they would In
States like Alabama, very disquieting infor-
nation comes to the effect that they have dis
franchised more white men than negroes. We
have got to adopt bolder, honester, director,
more radical policy. Now that the West has
ce-question of it's own New England need
not expect any support from that quarter
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What about your absolute fact, Parson?
You as good as called me ''the father of
les. You virtually declared that eternal
shame and infamy will attach to the man. >
[ being said man.
Now, sir, YOUR "ABSOLUTE FACT"
HAS, BY INCONTESTIBLE EVIDENCE,
BEEN SHOWN TO BE Az ABSOLUTE
FALSEHOOD! Even Corey and Wakefield
have apparently abandoned the effort to dis
prove those reports.
Father of les is not pretty name to give
to human being,-and if anybody has lied
about what Wakefield said, it wasn't I. By
your Incorporate zeal, Parson, you hare PIT
yourself IN the aoohaoard attitude Of givinq
the lie to Mrs. NonseU, brother pre0o7er's
aOife
WHAT VIII YOU DO ABOUT IT.
PARSON?
?. Swatch him, brethren, and note his
action in the matter