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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09

DR.. Henry c. Adams. Of the Uni
versity of Michigan. now Advisor to
the Commission Of the Chinese Re-
public on Standardization OF Rail-
way Accounts. at Picking, said re-
Gently:
When I came out to China I dtd
not think much Of foreign missions
or foreign missionaries. but now
take off my hat to the missionaries
have never contributed much to
foreign missions, but when I get
home I shall put everything that
can spare into the foreign mission
airy collection. They are a notable
lot OF men and women and are rem
dering a very great service to the
people OF China"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09
They All Become Christians.

A teacher in McTyeire School for
girls missionary institution in
Shanghai, recently made the state
ment that she had known but one
pupil TO graduate from McTyeire who
was not a church member. and she
was confident that this girl was ~ SIN
cere Christian
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09
SUFFRAGE NOTES

FURNISHED by the Southern States
Woman Suffrage Conference, All
Camp Street, New Orleans, Lao
Ballots and Warriors.
Defense of country. platform heroes
have Historically told us. is an attri-
butte of the vote. Now is the time to
put into practice the oft-repeated anti
suffrage slogan You cannot vote be-
cause you cannot fight" Somebody.
please, enforce that gem argument
called Blank Cartride Ballot, and dis
franchise the non-combatants. BY
blank cartridge ballots one yciept
Johnson General, we presume) meant
that women's ballots would not be
founded on brute force. He forgot
that some men are not particularly
husky. That effective government re-
ouires brain. as well as muscle. IF
only warriors could approach the bal
lot box. what lonely shrine II would
be. But with the Mexican difficulty
brewing. 1t may prove a Maxim ST.
lencer to many a man who loudly
piated of woman's unfitnass for the
vote because she couldn'. serve her
country In time of war Next time
you hear some non-defender advance
the blank cartridge ballot" stuff. put
a gun in his hand and lead him gently
to the recruiting office It's enlist
my suffrage obstructor or else estab-
lish your military record.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09
CHINA FIGHTING THE
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE

Led by the Social Service Com
mittee OF the Y. NJ. G. A. one hun
dred and fifty men took part recent
ly In the distribution of anti-tuber-
cuIosis literature. Some was sold and
some was given away" writes Mis-
sionary James NJ. Yard. OF Chengtu.
West China. We sold 1900 calen-
dars. telling what to do to prevent
tuberculosis. Every street In the
city was covered in our campaign.
TT was fine to see the students
willing to carry big bundles OF tracts
under their arms and to sell them on
the streets. They were serving So
ciety,' as they expressed It. But
that sort OF thing is new in China.
Such men have been brought up on
the gospel"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09
s Ssrr Vacation-Wac hapreague

Home comforts. good Virginia cook .
Ing. surf bathing, boating. fishing.
clam bakes, tennis, bowling, pool hay
rides. automobiling, music. n. Y. p. s.
n r. r. from Norfolk or Old Point.
Booklets A. II. q. Mears, wacha-
preaEue. Eastern Shore. Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09
HOW THEY SAY TT
IN SOUTH AMERICA

The mission schools In South Am
erica yield a rich harvest OF mistakes
in English, says a writer IN World
Outlook. The consonants 30 and 'v'
In Spanish are practically interchange
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09

A beautiful and touching feature Of
tho Louisiana Legislature occurred at
the hearing on the woman suffrage bill
It had q double significance in that a
mother pleaded not only for jucttce
TO her sex. but that the bill was spou-
sored by the soon of such patriotic
mother. II Is natural result that the
high ideals. the staunch principles ami
the moral courage OF woman who
can so heroically stand for Justice and
fair play should be an inherited trait
of her son. Like mother like son,"
la biological fact. The hippaney. ir-
respons fbility and ignorance OF soms
members OF the legislatures can be
explained only In tho light of origin.
This in Itself In an incontrovertible ar
gument against the subsection OF WON
en-, and evolutionary need of their
admission TO the responsibility of the
ballot and the exercise Of intelligent
and serious citizenship.
In commenting on the incident at
the hearing the Pine Bluff. Ark,
Graphic says:
Frank E. Powell, representative In
the Louisina General Assembly from
Beauregard Parish. is father OF bill
TO submit the question of woman suf-
fraee to the voters OF thu State. At
tAtH HGai Ing bSACA u ASb 4S|GttNA NtitN
mittee to which the bill was referred
among those who urged favorable
report was Mr.. Powelrs mother. And
Mrs. Powell cannot with any regard
for accuracy. he characterized as g
new woman Liks thousands OF other
Iowa bile old fashioned mothers. Mrs
Powell has come to realize and appre-
ciate how much better conditions
would be ~ women had had the bal
( lot thirty or forty years ago, and prob
ably to believe that woman who 10
competent to rear family OF good men
and woinen-is as qualified to have a
voice IN public affairs as some OF this
specimens of genus homo who vote
after they have been told how"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09
Progress In seIf-support.

NNO&'N17 M "ENHt ~E5ssIyfVfN.
Rev. J. Sundstrom. Southern Bap-
list missionary In Kong Moon. China,
tells of very encouraging progress in
the direction of self-support on the
part of Chinese churches. He says:
II am pushing the matter of self
support and can report good prog
ress along this line. The churches at
ku Using and Hokshan will be en-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09

Bishop Basford says that the
Chinese Christians are undoubtedly
making "a distinct contrthntinns ssto.
Christianity
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09

best missionary lecturer in the world.
An hour passed like a moment, the
vast audience laughing with delight
at his humorous touches"
Doctor Cell speaks twice in the
Mems Conference. and his subjects
are: "some Missionary Heroes I
Have Met on the Firing Line" and
The Ascent of Man
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-09

tirely seif-supportins during the year
1915, and another at Nan Tung will
soon take the same step. Many OF
the members OF these churches are
In the United States, but send back
money literally to the SUPPORT of
their churches here.
The liberal gifts of the Chinese
will enable me to push the work into
still unoccupied places. of which there
is an abundance in this field. i ought
to open chapels in a dozen places right
now"
When the ship owner in whose yes
sci Robert Morrison sailed said sheer
ingly, And so, Morrison. you really
expect that you will make an impress
sion on the idolatry of the great Chi
nese Empire" Morrison replied: mo.
sir: I expect God will"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
His Glass Eye in Pain.

A very peculiar accident happened
to o. r. McColley. While walking
with ono of his customers, James L..
Boyd, he suddenly threw his hands to
one of his eyes which he had had re-
placed with glass one.
He exclaimed in great pain that
something had hit him in the eye. He
was nearly frantic for some time, when
Doctor Cogswell was summoned and
the patient was removed to his Office
After the pain was relieved the eye
was removed, and it was discovered
the back of the glass eyeball had
broken and the vacuum from the hol-
low inside had drawn the optic nerve
through the broken part, which caused
intense pain.
The inside part of the eye is badly
inflaned and it will necessitate the
placing of a new glass eye as soon
as it has healed ufficiently.-From q
Wolsey Is. Dak.) Dispatch.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
CHAPTER VIII.
At the Villa Bernotto's.

"Look well, though, don't 1, Miss
Smith? White is, after all, the most
becoming. But one must have a good
skin. Mine is still quite smooth. No
one would think had been a year in
this dreadful place, would they?"
mo" was the calm answer.
Sylvia Arnaud considered herself for
a moment longer in the glass. Then her
eyes wandered past her own reflection
to that Of her companion behind her.
Miss Smith, in a pearl gray dress of
severe cut, was more than usually I'M
compromising. The soft brown hair
had been dragged back and smoothed
into order with a merciless hand, leav-
ing the small, oval face without a
softening line Sylvia laughed gayly.
The contrast with her own radiant
femininity pleased her.
Sometimes l really think you are
not a woman at all, Miss Smith," she
said quizzically. "And now 1 am
ready"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28

phere, or the articulate spirit OF the
madness which caught up the refrain
and yelled it back to her in drunken
triumph She sang the "Marseillaise."
her splendid eyes fixed on the red,
white and blue strip of bunting nailed
on the wall opposite, her mouth, even
as she sang, curved in a subtle line OF
mockery. A little to her right Chas-
seur d'Afrique crashed out an accom-
paniment on a tinkling piano, which
quivered under his merciless hands. A
zouave, scarce able to keep his feet,
reeled backward and forward, banging
out the rhythm of a pair of cymbals-
"Allons, enfants de la Patrie-"
They rose like one man, chasseurs,
zouaves, few French legionaries, and
shouted with their empty glasses held
high above their heads. While they
sang the woman was silent, her sleek
head with its massive coils Of smooth,
black hair bent so that her face was
hidden in shadow. The man with the
roses crossed the intervening space and
stood opposite her. She turned slightly
and looked at him.
Good evening, Mademoiselle Ra-
chael."
Good evening, monsieur"
"You see, have come again."
after all these months?
He nodded.
Monsieur is marriedf'
$50 they say"
She laughed, throwing back her head
so that the light fell on her bold
Semitic features. He laughed, too, anC
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
Mice Help to Catch Other Mice.

A little device has just been patent
ed which transforms any standard pre-
serving jar into a mouse trap. The
traps which kill the little rodents lose
their usefulness after a time by rea-
son of the fact that the odor left by
the deceased vermin acts as a warn
ing to the acute noses of others, so
that to be of use the tray must be
scalded or otherwise funigated at reg
ular intervals. The preserving-jar
mouse trap does not held any odor,
and, being of glass, it catches an I'M
limited number of mice, one after the
other. The bait will catch the first
mouse, and after that the newcomers,
seeing their fellow inside, will be
prompted by curiosity to follow, and as
each one enters the trap entrance is
automatically set for the next one.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
SEAL WAS HIS SIGNATURE
Letters Instead of Going Through
the Formally of Signing Them.

Practically every man of any stand
ing in ancient Babylonia had a seal
cylinder or seal, the impression OF
which upon the document or letter
served the purpose of his signature.
Thousands of these have been found,
cut out of all kinds of hard stone,
which had been imported from distant
lands, for Babylonia is an alluvial
plain.
AS a substitute for a seal the indi-
vidual would make his thumb-nail
mark upon the soft clay or impress
upon it portion of his ziziktu, which
was a cord attached to an undergar-
ment. This in all probability is to
be identified with the zizith mentioned
in the Old Testament (Num. 1878
39O, and even at the present time
worn by orthodox Hebrews.
In all periods scribes are very nu-
merous. This is inferred from the
fact that in some periods almost every
document is found to have been writ
ten by different scribe In the AS
syrian period women are known to
have belonged to this profession. The
scribes wrote the legal documents, as
well as the private letters of individ-
uals. They even placed the seal i'm
preston upon the legal documents, in
proximity to which they wrote the
name of the person to whom it be-
longed, usually the obligor or the wit
ness.
In the time of Hammurabi (about
1000 B. c. there was at hand an Off
Ger called the burgul, who was pre-
pared to cut temporary seals upon a
soft material for those who did not
possess them. This is the custom in
oriental lands in the present day.
In Constantinople, for instance, the
curbs of certain streets are lined with
scribes prepared to write for the IL
literate. An occasional man among
them is provided with little blank
stamps in soft brass, and with an en-
craving tool is prepared to cut the sig
nature or initials of the man upon one
of them while he waits. The impress
sion of the stamp is affixed to his let
ter in place of his signature.-Prof. A.
T. Clag, in National Geographic Maya
zine.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28

its latticed galleries and stately pill
lars cleaning white and iridescent."
This is comparatively modern, of
course. The oldest building" in the
mine is the Chapel of st. Anthony,
dating from 1851. 1t contains three
affairs, a pulpit and much statuary, all
deliberately carved out of rock salt.
But services are now held only in the
more modern butts equally elaborate
Chapel of st. Cunigund, which is en-
tered down 46 salt steps. The chapel
is 80 yards long, Is yards wide and 80
feet high, and is used regularly for
worship. The ballroom is a huge
place, where miners festivals are Of
ten held. A miners orchestra plays
regularly in this hall not only for the
dances, but for the entertainment of
visitors, for the mine is one of the
wonders of the world and is much Wis
tied by tourists. There are other big
halls in the mine carved in the same
way. The mine has been worked for
at least 800 years.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
The Red Mirage
4 Story of the French Legion
in Algiers
BY |. A. R. WYLIE
(Ail rights reserved. The BObbs-Merrin Col
BY |. A. R. WYLIE

gotten byways, unknown to the great
ones who saunter about the Place Car
not listening to the band or take their
absinthe on the gaudiy decorated cafes
of the Algerian boulevards None the
less these unsupported byways exist.
They are very narrow and very dirty
On the border of this region lies the
Cafe du Tonkin. 1t is comparatively
respectable, and occasionally tourist
or newly arrived official under escort
makes his appearance In the bar in
order to acquaint himself with what
he cOnceives to be the real thing"
Therefore when Capt. Desire Arnaud
sauntered along the narrow, evil
smelling street he attracted little no
tice, the more so as dusk had already
set in and deepened the eternal shad-
ows to a c0ncealing darkness. Captain
Arnaud entered the unguarded door
way. He was evidently on a serious
errand, for he did not appear again.
Instead some ten minutes later a man
in ragged, ill-ftting clothes lurched out
on to the pavement and skunk on
deeper into the labyrinth of alleys and
lightless passages. He wore a broad
brimmed hat pulled well over his eyes
and a bunch of roses stuck in his half
open coat He chose a narrow passage
running between two empty houses,
and felt his way over the uneven flags,
his hands touching either wall to keep
him from stumbling. The music sound
ed nearer. Abruptly the passage
twisted into an open square, dimly
lighted, and the music became a deaf
ening discord of voices. The contrast
after the dark eastern reticence of the
region behind him was bizarre and
brutal. Red lanterns had been strung
across from one low-roofed house to
another, and their soft light fell on a
scene which might have been painted
from a wild dream of Montmartre. The
place was full. Long tables built a
rough semicircle round a central table,
laden with empty bottles and Clipped,
wine-stained glasses. On a free cor
| ner a woman sat with folded arms
| and sang. Her voice was rough and
| feelingless, but it harmonized with
what surrounded her-it was like a
shriller note of the red-tinted atmos
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
Bismuth In Alaska.

A considerable ledge of rock, carry
ing bismuth in commercial quantities,
has been found in the Totalanika coun-
try OF Alaska by a well-known miner
named John Leach. Tests demon
strate that the ore carries bismuth
from 20 to 80 per cent pure. Bismuth
brings from $500 a ton upward, and
of all metals is perhaps the easiest
to mine. 1t melts at temperature
slightly above 26S degrees centigrade,
and can, therefore, be melted with
wood fires, obviating the necessity of
shipping the ore outside with the
heavy incidental transportation and
melting charges, burden other min
ing interests have to bear because of
the governments policy Of forbidding
the development of coal mines in
Alaska. While the presence of bis
muth ore in Alaska has long been
known, the Leach claim is the first
discovery Of a large deposit. Here
toforo most of it used in the States
has been imported from Saxony and
Bohemia, although Connecticut has
mines from which considerable guam
titles of the ore have been taken. Bis.
muth is used principally as an alloy
constituent, but also enters into the
preparation of paints, medicines, face
powder, etc.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28

cold weather they will wear "timiak,"
which is made of bird skins and is
purchase BILE for about four dollars. The
women also wear short trousers of
seal fur with the hair outside, with or
namental stripes stitched down the
front. Long seal-leather boots known
as "kamiks," dyed to suit the various
tastes of the wearers, are worn by the
women. The kamiks come nearly up to
the knee and are topped with some
sort of lacework which comes we'll
above the knee; the kamik has loose
lining of seal fur with the hair in.
side. The poorer women are only
able to afford the cotton coat, the
short trousers, and kamiks.
The mems clothing consists Of an
ordinary European tweed cap, an ano-
rak, which is a sort of cotton jumper
with hood to go over the head-this
is supplanted in cold. weather by a
timiak, a heavier garment-and as
often as not European coat and trou-
sers. Sometimes in place of European
trousers the men will wear seal-fur
trousers with the hair inside; for leg
wear they have short kamiks, which
come about half way up to the knee,
showing a band of an inch or two
of fur turned over from the inner
stocking at the top.
Crime Almost Unknown.
The inhabitants of Greenland all
profess Christianity, and they live
quiet, uneventful lives, crime being al
most unknown in the country. There
is no police force of any kind and
no apparent means of enforcing the
law, which is administered by the
'bestyrer" in each colony under the
resident inspector of North or South
Greenland and the governor of the
colony. who is usually resident in Co
penhagen.
The country is liable to sudden, vio-
lent storms, especially those which
come up from the southeast and which
are quite local in their incidence; the
neighborhood Of the copper mines
seems to be particularly favored by
the visits of these violent storms. At
Godthaab last year there was a fall
of snow of several inches on August
%, but that was exceptionally early
in the year for such an occurrence.
At Julianshaab in October of last year
the water in the harbor was covered
with sheet of ice. On the whole the
climate is very wet; during some sum-
mers it rains on nearly every day. The
aurora borealis may be seen on prac-
tically any cloudless night, but it is
only white, not colored.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
Bird on Trial For Its Life.

1t is reported that the English star
ling, harmless, grub-eating bird
when imported to this country in 1890,
has become predatory in it's habits and
is rapidly driving out the native song
sters, in addition to eating all fruits.
So general have become the COM
plants that the department Of agri-
culture at Washington has sent an ex-
pert investigator to this place to be-
gin study of the bird with a view to
exoneration or determination.
The starting has prospered, until to-
day he nearly doubles in number any
native bird in Connecticut or Rhode
Island and is routing the native birds
from their resting and feeding places.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28
HAS GREATEST SALT MINES
GaIician Town of Wleliczka Is Built
over Most Wonderful Caverns
In World.

Wieliczka, in Galicia, is an interest
Ing town, not for what is in it, but for
what is under 1t. The salt mines
there are the greatest in the world,
and the most wonderful. They form
what amounts to an underground
town, which might have suggested to
Jules Verne his underground commu-
nifty in the Children of the Cavern.
The Wieliczka salt mine is two and
one-half miles long from east to west
and 1850 yards wide from north to
south. 1t has seven levels, the lowest
being nearly thousand feet deep, and
is entered by eleven shafts. The diff
ferent levels are connected by flights
of steps hewn out of the rock salt In
the mine there are chapels, tramways,
a railway and railway station, ball
room with a regular orchestra) and
several other halls, all hewn out of the
rock salt with elaborate architectural
decoration. For a hundred years the
mine has belonged to the Austrian
government. 1t employed a thousand
workpeople and turned out 10000
tons of salt year.
There are 65 miles of pony tram
ways and % miles of railway in the
Wieliczka salt mines. All these lines
and the principal passages or streets"
meet in a sort of central railway sta
ton, with spacious waiting rooms, Of
fees and an excellent refreshment
room all complete, all hewn out of the
rock salt, and looking, according to
one description, more like a summer
pavilion than a railway station, with
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ing in its natural features and the
life of it's inhabitants. Though it
is somewhat bigger than the con-
tinent of Australia, of it's vast area
only about 10000 miles, on the west
coast, are habitable. The population
of the country consists of about 1000
Greenlanders, 200 government serv-
ants, and the workmen at the cryolite
and copper mines, to the number of
200 in summer and 100 in winter. In
addition to these numbers there is the
400 population of the only east coast
acknowledgements
The Greenlander is a cross between
the Eskimo and whalers and sealers
of Danish, Norwegian and Scottish ma
tionalities; he objects to being called
an Eskimo and much prefers the term
of Greenlander. Some of these Green
landers are quite European in appear
ance, others are more like the Japa-
nese, Monaghan or Red Indian; the
great majority, however, resemble the
lower types of the hairy Ainu of North
Japat.
ne lIdu0 VI GIeeulduQ Is pTdCllCally
a Danish government monopoly and
consists mainly of whale, seal and
shark oil, the ivory Of the walrus, blue
fox skins, ermine furs and the elder
duck. Communication is entirely by
water as no travel of any kind is pos
sible on land. There are no domestic
animals except for a few half-wild
dogs of mongrel breed or an occasional
COW or goat kept by a government
servant for his own personal use. The
country, consisting as it does of bar
rem rock-mostly granite, gneiss or
schist-there is no sedimentary rock
renders all agriculture impossible !;
it is only just here and there that one
is able to see thin sprinkling of soil.
In consequence of the lack of agricul-
ture the natives eat no vegetables, sub
sisting mainly on the carcass of the
seal, which provides them with an
equivalent for mutton; the seal also
gives them skin for clothing and for
covering boats, and oil for light and
| fuel