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ROMANCE OF A WAITRESS. MARRIED A RICH GENTLEMAN OP GERMANY. Cnßlxier in Mills Hotel No. 2 Married Her While She Was Employed There—An Heir to Great Estate. liaised to Opulence by Death of an I ncle—Entertained at Court and Showered With Honors. From the New York World. Announcement was made yesterday by her sisters in the village of Patcbogue, L. 1., of the death of Nancy Homan. The villagers who knew her. and who had told their children, as though narrating a fairy tale, the 6trange 6tory of her life, were stunned by the tidings. Knowing that grief should not be disturbed, they shun ned the little cottage where Nancy Homan had spent her girlhood days and where her sisters mourned. In a manor house in Germany lay the body of Nancy Adelaide Louise von Ran ken, its mistress. She and Nancy Homan were one and the same, and as for the weight of woe which her death had brought over one of the oldest and richest estates in the Fatherland and over a hum ble Long Island cottage, the balance swung level. The story of Nancy Homan reads like fiction. The events of three year® took her from poverty and hardship to riches and happiness. A tragedy closed her life when it was brightest. Nancy Homan was born twenty years ago at Yaphank, L. I. She came of good family. Her father Capt. Mordecai Homan, made and lost three fortunes and ended his days in poverty—poverty which he be queathed to his daughter. Nancy was frail of figure, but of courag eous spirit. She was the youngest born of Captain and Mrs. Homan. When four years old her mother died, leaving her to the care of the child’s sister. Mrs. Isaac Monsell, of Patehogue. Nahcy attended the district school while her sister toiled for her support. Her Joylen* Childhood. Before Nancy had reached her teens she resolved to ease the burden of her sister and take care of herself. She had enjoyed few of the pleasures of childhood, and her stern lot had matured her rapidly. In later years she often said, though uncom plainingly. that she had never seen the world through young eyes. Shortly after her twelfth birthday she became a servant for one and another of the villagers. Among her employe* were Mrs. John M. Conklin, wife of the village druggist, and Prof. J. Ortho Lan sing. Later she worked at the summer home of the late James M. Thorburn. In her efforts to provide for herself she overtaxed her strength and her health gave way. Again she was taken by her sister, Mrs. Monsell, who was then house keeper at the country estate of William Platt Pepper, a Philadelphia millionaire. Mrs. Monsell, however, found it was im possible to give Nancy the care her con dition demanded, and the girl was pla:ed in a hospital in this city. After long months of sickness she recovered and re turned to Patehogue. While in New York she had seen enough 6f city life to believe that it offered greater opportunities for her progress. Throughout her early struggles she had talked with her sisters of rising above her then condition and resuming the station that the wealth of her father had once made possible. In her letters home, after her rise to wealth, she described as dearest memories the hours she had shortened while working over pans and spoone by building eaytles. in which home comforts, a loving husband, children, and the means to succor her sisters were fixe foundations tones. In the summer of 1898 Nancy came to this city end found employment as a waitress in Mills Hotel No. 1. After a few months she was transferred to Mills Hotel No. 2. John von Ranken. a tall, manly fellow, whose bearings was elo quent of patrician lineage, was employed in the hotel as cashier and bookkeeper. He. had been reared in luxury, but mis fortune had overtaken him, and, coming to this country, he had sought for a live lihood and taken the first chance to work that came to hand. He was born in Baden and was a grad uate of a German University. One of the accomplishments which had been a pas time. in his old life, but which he put to practical use in the new, was bis skill as a musician. To add to his in come he gave up his evenings to playing at entertainments. And They Were Married. Nancy Homan and van Ranken became acquainted. She was different from other girls employed in the hotel, end friend ship quickly ripened into love. Nancy was of medium hight, with dark, wavy hair md brown eyes. Her face was demure and sweet in its simplicity. Her form was elight and of graceful bearing. It was but 4 hort time after their acquaintance that von Rauken told her of his love. He did not tell her, how ever, of his former life, of his family, nor yet of his hopes. Their positions in life were on a level, and each took the other for the other’s self alone. Neither mingled with others in the hotel, nor did they betray the tie between them. In December, 1898, Nancy again was stricken with weakness under the strain of her hard life, and was compelled *o give up her place. The hotel physician advised that she return to a hospital. Von Ranken heard the physician's orders. Hastening to his sweetheart he placed his arms about her and told her she must not go to the hospital. They would t>* married at once, he said, and he would nurse her back to health. They were married Dec. 31. Von. Ranken was then forty and Nancy twenty. With his bride Von Ranken re mained in this city for a few months to fillow her to regain her strength, and then the couple started for Chicago, where the husband had a wealthy aunt. Mrs. Charles Steinecke, whose son, Edward R. Steinecke. has an office at No. 195 Sixth avenue, this city. Mrs. Steinecke took the young couple to her summer home among the Wisconsin lakes to spend their honeymoon and Von Ranken and bride enjoyed to the fullest a long season ©I rest and happiness. Alter their return from the lakes Von Ranken followed the profession of a mu fclciun in Chicago. A son was born, and In accoidance wi # h the fathers wish the hoy was christened Lionel Gordon von Ranken. Lionel boing a family name in the house of Von Ranken and Gordon a token of the mother’s family. I 4 V|| Heir to a Fortune. In a newspaper one day the young wife saw an advertisement calling for the ad dress of John von Ranken. It announced the death of hm uncle end gave notice that the Von Ranken manor at Sfortzheim In the province of Baden, Germany, would be turned over to John von Ranken upon identification. The uncle, William von Ranken. had made his nephew hia sole heir. Since coming to this country John had had no communication with his fam ily, and all trace of him had been lost. For the first time Von Ranken tod his wife of his distinguished lineage and the birthright that awaited little Lionel. The mother’s heart beat quick and she was im patient to reach the Fatherland and give to her son hia own. Von Ranken. with his wife and child, came to this city, and during the two weeks’ preparation for the sea voyage remained at the Marlborough House. They engaged passage M.irch 21 last, aboard the steamship Kensington for Antwerp. The voyage was completed safely, and they reached Sfortzheim April 3 In her letters to Mrs. Monaell and to her other sister, Mrs. George Cortson. of Patehogue, Nancy told of the splendor of *ha home-coming. The manor house Into which she went as mistress was of white marble. A park four miles long and three broad surrounded the house. About the house also were broad gardens heavy with the fragrance of spring flowers and the green of budding shrubbery. Marble fountains were on either side of the ap proach to the massive entrance. As the new head of the house of Von Ranken drove up to the lolgekeeper’s gate he stepped from his carriage with Mrs. Nancy bearing Baby Lionel in her arms. Then through a long line of cheering servants they walked slowlv up the winding drive, through the gardens and past the fountains. Mistress Nancy, too overcome to notice the proud glances cast toward her of her husband as he led her into the ancestral home. In a letter to her sister dated June 8 i's new mistress described the interior of the manor house. She said the estate had been handed down for generations, and was cared for by a host of servants, lodgekeepers and gardeners. They Give a Grand Ball. “It is beautiful,” she wrote, “and I am the first American who has ever been mis tress of the manor. We entertain exten sively. We gave a ball to which the elite of Sfortzheim came to the number of over 250. I cannot describe the‘beauty of the scene. Imagine a large room, almost as long as the Pepper house, with waxed floors and flowers in banks and pyramids and brilliantly illuminated with ekctric lights. A stiing orchestra of 150 pieces fur nished the music. Beautiful gowned wo men flashing with jewels filled the place. In The conservatories fountains splashed in basins of marble and roac trees and palms were esconqed behind banks of mai den-hair ferns. No one ever saw such ear nations in America. The lights low, giving the scene in the conservatory a moonlight effect.” That the splendor of her new surround ings did not cause her to forget home ties was proved not only by her letters, hut also by gifts sent to her sisters on m,my occasions. “Baby grows so cunning and has two teeth,” she wrote another time. “He creeps ell over and I can hardly wait for him to talk.” Then she told of the long line of an cestral paintings hung in the high-ceiling ed hall and how the picture of Lionel, a man grown, would some time hang beside one of her own. Shortly after she had been established in her new home Mistress Nancy went with her husband to Berlin, where they were presented to the Emperor and Em press of Germany The occasion was the coming of age of the Crown Prince. When her sisters at Patehogue read of the mag nificence of the scene described by Nancy, they told the villagers of it, and It was a fortnight’s wonder. “My gown was of ivory white satin,” Nancy wrote, ‘‘with high bodice and made entrain. It was festooned at the bottom with garlands of lilies of the valley, and >eal duohesse lace was in cascades all down the frent I wore emeralds and dia monds. My hair wa% done in the latest style, parted at the right side and brought back to the left where It was caught in a double coil. I wore a diamond tiara. I forgot to say my gown was made by Worth and cost $450.” Then she told of the magnificence of the German court, of Che throne room and of the silver throne. ‘‘John says I carried myself beautiful ly,” she said. “Being an American, I had very little to say. A great many of the German officers danced with me and I managed to waltz very well.” Then and Now. Reverting to her own beautiful home, she says: ‘‘To think that I, the poor, despised Nancy Homan, am the mistress of all this splendor! Imagine me decked out in jewels worn by the fairest ladies in Europe. Of course, they are the family heirlooms. My housekeeper relieves me of a great deal of care and I spend hours in study, as you know my educa tion was no-t befitting my present social standing. I get on very well, though, as our guests are German and speak English only brokenly, so that I do not appear to disadvantage.” Soon after Von Ranken and his wife reached their new’ home, they sent for Mrs. Steinecke. She sailed June 6 on the Noordland, and arrived safely at Sfortzheim. She lightened many of the burdens of the young mistress, and, having been accustomed to wealth and the management of a large house, she soon taught Nancy much that only long experience and perhaps many heartburn ings otherwise would have given her. During the two weeks that Von Ran ken and his wife spent In this city be fore sailing for Germany Nancy had vis ited her.old home at Patehogue and tak en with her Baby Lionel to show her sis ters. At heart she was he same Nancy Homan who had been reared among the villagers, but the latter nevertheless were awed by her elegant gowns and remem bered her best in gingham frocks. Thrown From Horse anil Killed. A cablegram was received July 7 by Mrs. Monsell telling of the death of her sister, Nancy. Details of the tragic man ner in which the mistress of Von Ran ken Manor mot her death were not re ceived until yesterday. She was thrown from a horse while riding over the estate and died scon after the accident. She was accompanied by Count Disdas ieo. They were far from the manor hou.se when her horse, a spirited animal, took fright. Count Distasieo and the grooms attempted to restrain the horse, but she was thrown heavily to the ground and injured internally. Mrs. Steinecke had cautioned h*r to be careful, as the horse was restive. Grea*t was the sorrow in the manor h use when a groom announced the ac cident. Celebrated physicians were sum mon and, but despite their efforts the mis tress of Von Ranken Manor died. The shock of her death to her husband brought on an attack of brain fever and for a wtek his life was despaired of. In accordance with her wish she was laid out in a white silk gown and placed in a white casket. The funeral services were attended by many of the nobility. Awaiting her husband’s recovery the body was pieced in the Vcn Ranken family vault. It will be cremated In Berlin. The ashes are to be forwarded to her sis ters, as was her wish, and will remain in Patehogue. In her last letter home, the unfortunate young mistress of Von Ranktn manor house wrote: “Yfiars after we are dead. I think the Von Ranken descendants will look upon our picture.- as we now upon the pictures of our predecessors. 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Refuse the weak, watery Witch IT at el preparations represented to be “the same as” POND'S EXTRACT, which easily* sour and generally contaiu Pl 3| “wood alcohol,” a deadly poison. POND'S EXTRACT —Tm is sold ONLY in SEALED bottles, enclosed in buff x-jt- walls of ihe ceiling I think my picture will be hung, painted by some famous artist, and be there among the ladies of the manor. This will be the inscription. Nancy Adelaide Louisa, wife of John Herman von Ranken.’ Then, under John’s will be the inscription. ‘John Herman von Ranken, fifteenth descendant to the Royal von Rank* n Manor, succeeded by his young heir, Lionel Gordon von Ranken.’ Thus they will look upon our pictures when we are dead.” CONCERNING GINSENG. Facts About an American Product Sold in China. From the New York Sun. “I noticed not long ago a dispatch in the newspapers from Corbin. Ky„” said a Kentuckian of pretty general infor mation, ‘‘to the effect that the Chinese disturbances had interfered eo eeriously with the business of shipping ginseng that the ‘sang’ diggers of that part of the state had about lost their occupation. Pos sibly you do not know it, but I can tell you that China uses our entire product of ginseng, and while you may never have given the subject any thought, the fact remains that for more than a hun dred years we have been shipping gin seng to the Chinese and that the Celes tials in that time have consumed in the neighborhood of twenty-five millions of dollars’ worth of a root that the majority of Americans never saw and a good many never heard of. Since 1820 we have never shipped less than 46.000 pounds year ly, and shipments have reached as high as 753,000 pounds annually'. These large shipments, however, occurred in the earl ier history of the trade and before the supply began to diminish. Values have changed accordingly, also, and the 753,717 pounds shipped in 1822 represents a value of $313,943, as against a value of $840,000 for 179,000 pounds shipped in 1897. Ship ments for 1898 amounted to about 175.000 pounds, valued at $500,000, and for 1899, 125,000 pounds, worth, say $600,000. show ing a continual decrease in quantity and increase in price. The Chinese disturb ances, however, have knocked the trade all out of kelter, and a? the demand for ginseng has ceased, dealers are not buy ing and the ‘sang’ digger la out of a job Such a condition has never before occur red in the ginseng trade, and as it can not continue the wise dealer will buy up the roots at the present low prices and realize on them later. “More or less mystery has always at tached to the use of ginseng by the Chi nese, and while some persons assert that it is a tonic of rare powers, the general belief is that its use is influenced rather by superstition than by science. Ginseng is supposed to be a corruption of the Chi nese word ‘jenshen,* which means man wort, the root of the plant much resem bling the figure of a human being. The more nearly It resembles the humai form the more powerful it is considered to be, and when of extra good quality the China man will balance the scales with gold for his ‘sang.’ Physicians and chemists in this country' have made, a study of gin seng from a therapeutic standpoint, and they have concluded that about the only virtue the root has is the high price it will bring among the heathen Chinese, the figures ranging ordinarily from $8 to >25 a pound. The same being worth in this country, from 51.75 to $3.50 a pound, dry. Green ‘sang,’ that is the fresh roots, are worth only about 40 or 50 cents a pound to the digger, and they are not often cold in that shape. “Ginseng prevails all along the eastern sections of the United States and Canada, but it is found now only in the remoter parts, as the root needs sandy soil in the deep woods. Kentucky and Tennessee fur nish large quantities, although of an infe rior grade, and I fancy that the typical ‘sang digger’ does not exist elsewhere as he does in these states and in West Vir ginia and North Carolina. Here he is at his best, and when he can scratch around all day in the cool shadows of the primeval forests and get a dollar for the sang he dig’s he is perfectly content. During the Civil War the ginseng trade was disturb ed be reason of the mountaineers going off to fight, and for four years the roots were left to grow in the fastnesses of the hills. That made a fine crop for the re turned soldiers. “Some efforts have been made in various localities to cultivate ginseng, but so many difficulties are encountered that not a great deal has been done. Kentucky has several fairly successful ginseng farmers, and Prof. Garman of the Kentucky Agri cultural Experiment station at Lexington has written a bulletin on the nature and culture of ginseng which Is an interesting and valuable work. Kentucky has no laws protecting the ginseng farmer, hut West Virginia has, and there Is also such a law in Canada where ‘sang’ has been pro duced since 1716. There is not a state east of the Mississippi river in which some ginseng Is not produced, but the hulk of it comes from the less settled or moun tainous states. China raises a lot of her own ‘sang,' and some comes from Japan and Russia, the Japanese using a con siderable quantity themselves; but. as far as statistics ehow, the hulk of the 'sang' used in the Orient comes from North America. What the results of the present disturbances In China will be cannot lie known for some time yet, hut If 'the for eign dog must go, and China's ports be closed, you may soon expect to see 'sang' schooners headed to the westward and hear stirring stories of the 'sang' smug glers, for John Chinaman must have his ginseng and we’ve got it to spare for the next few years anyway.” Knglsrrri for Speed. From the New York Press. I believe ail locomotive engineers are for speed. Certainly there is none who boasts of going slowly. The proudest man on the New York Central is he who takes out the Empire. Slates Express, and he who has the most top-loftlcal air on the Pennsylvania is the driver of the Chicago lambed between New York and Philadelphia. There was a short road In a distant stale on which a schedule of twenty miles an hour was established, but every day the engineer stopped half way between terminals to make believe something had happened to the machinery. He would lie under lire boiler and ham mer away for an hour or two, then clam her lazily back Inlo the cab, "pull her wide open” and reach home on time. He played this trick for over n year with the connivance of the regular passenger* iwho picked blackberries to while away ihc tim'd, but without the knowledge of the company’s officials, who were always abusing the engine for breaking down whenever they happened to bo on board. 1 CHINESE BOAT Bl ILDERS. They Turn Oat I ply Craft, With Flimsy Material, but Most Sen worthy. From the London Mail. The main features of Chinese ship and boat building are the light, atul apparently frail nature of the material with which vessels of every size and ah ape are con structed; the clumsy form given to his work by the Celestial artificer, and the marvelous ease and safety with which craft, both large and email, ride out the roughest weather on sea and river. This last is no rash statement, the writer well remembering witnessing, when him self sailing the China sea in the teeth of a typhoon, the total wreckage of more than one European vessel, while the junks and even small native boats in sight simply reefed or struck their mat sails, and triumphantly passed with the British ship through the Ly-ee-moon Pass, into the sheltered harbor ol Hong Kong. The reason for all this Is not far to seek. The beam of the junks is usually broad; they sit upon the water like a flat Moorish arch. Their sterns are round, and by consequence, icsistive ol any ten dency to "take aback.” A peculiar and noticeable thing about them is the Brobdingnagian “eye” which glares out from each side of the piow. This is an ancient superstition. The ship’s bamboo plunks, if such a term be allowable, are in many parts put together with vegetable rope, nails, I be lieve, being used only in the hull pioper. Right aft, a large cabin is appropriated to religious purposes. Here is enthroned the image of the God of Waters, before which the aromatic Joss stick is forever burning. The Chinese sailor is nothing if not a slave to his faith in omens, and all and sundry the supernatural beliefs ot his countrymen. He is, when he likes, a fairly good hand on board ship, but, being by nature and educative example a coward,, he more often than not seeks to save his skin at the expense of his duty. There is very little difference in form and fitment be tween the war junk and the commercial variety. The weapons are not of the same de scription as are those in the few Euro pean-built steam warships possessed by the Chinese government. Of a long obso lete pattern, they are not very formidable except to themselves. China has not as similated Western ideas with the eager ness and rapidity of the Japanese, at any rate in the matter of naval progress, whatever she may have done of late, as we are told, in the acquisition and mighty laying up of advanced types of land arm ament. Piimitlveness is still writ large upon her marine, warlike and domestic, and al though the present widespread revolution may fond to bring about a certain Gilber tinn “topsy-turveydom.” the Chinaman may perhaps accomplish that “upside down,” which in his normal position he has for centuries failed to appreciate and even attempt. The Yang-tse-Kian river boats; the quaint “sampan,” seen by the new arri val rooking on the gentle swells In Hong Kong bay; the barbaric gorgeousness of the mandarin’s barge—each and nil are dear to the native soul, and will be im proved away only when improvements can no longer be resisted. That John China man can learn much of his Western brother in this connection is, of course, beyond question or argument, but that the Occident may not find something in teresting ar.d instructive in the methods of the Orient.as exemplified by its oldest and vastest community, only the most bigoted devotee of European civilization will venture to deny. CYCLE* OF CATHAY. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Some years ago a paragraph ran through the American press which sum med up in a few words the peculiarities of education in China, railing attention to their ancient method of employing char* a< ters in p!a e of letters, the r w riting from right to left, in direct opposition to our own plan, and closing with this vague personal phrase, "a lb He creature wit h out an alphabet.” The leading educational Journa soflh s coun ry copied the para graph without comment, but it proved a “bee in the bonnet” for one reader, who was more and sturbrd over the curious Eng lish of the phrase than *he lack of Inte li gence among the Chinese. A flash 1 of men tal searchlight solved the problem and suggested the true meaning of the pl< 1 sentence: ‘‘A literature without an al phabet.” The meaning of Tennyson's verse.which bor.d frachtrs have explained to worse bored children by times and season* ever since they were written, takes on anew interest "Better fifty years of Europe than a cy cle of Cathay.” Sitting on the tombs of their ancestors and meditating, or Imbibing the slow fumes of opium, has not been conducive to progressive methods, and it is rot sur prising that< hna has net advanced any 111 a hundred years, and is prejudiced in favor of her own costumes and her relig ion, which would be a very fair religion for the hea'hen If hvd up to as a dally law. They had their Confucius five hun dred sears before our Christ came. He said: "Do unto another what sou would he should do unto you. and do not to an other what you would not should he done unto you. Thou only needest ihls law alone; It is the foundation and princ pie of all the rest." An Intelligent Chinaman who has lived ill Chicago thirty years and sp'-aka Eng lish unite fluently, In discussing things past and present of China, said: ‘Vonfuclous fall down In China— ha no; pick up—loo long past out.” Although wearing the full garb of his people, with the shoes and queue, he is In sympathy with this country In Its ad verse relation* with China, iind declares that his own relatives there are fighting the Boxer*, hut he accounts for the dis like to the fereigner* and Americans by declaring they “too much bo**.” "Why they kill German minister—he like King or Emperor—he hear ot fight ing ansi ride out all military style—go seven or eight miles—say, ‘You stop fighting go back!' How you like here 1 go In eourl—strike the Judge with a cane - tell him elo like my do? Americans wont to be boas—that make ail the trouble. He want to build house—he say, 'You give me land for to build fine home.’ He not gel, then he take.” This Chinaman did not believe any tactual harm would he done to the lega tions If they obeyed orders and stayed within wall*. Then he resumed his dusting of small Ivory gods, rickshaws of tortoise shed cunningly carved and the 1 other Innumerable pieces ot bric-a-brac which his artisans have been making for us ever since the days of the ark. Miehle, who lived long in China, says that there prevails there a superstition* belief thut the missionaries bewitch the people and kidnap the children. This is not n belief of the Ignorant classes alon-. but of the high caste Chinamen, and if houses fail to sell, or shrubbery to grow, or any evil happens in a family. the cause is laid at the door of the missions. The Chinese ore firm believers in ghosts of a malignant sort, who are endlessly punished by being compelled to stay on this earth. The greet teat fear is of en countering the ghost of a person who com mitted sui ide in front of a look ng glas, such ghosts being fiercer and more dan gerous than any others. They employ music to render those ghosts harmless. Any one who has ever listened to Chinese music will understand its power not only to lay a ghost but to create one as well. If Dr. Johnson had lived in far Cathay he would have named music as the most instead of the least, disagreeable of sounds. They have no harmonies in com mon. and two performers will play the same tune together in different keys. The nearest they reach to sweet strains is the plaintive flute like notes of fhe birds, which they learn from nature and repro duce from bamboo whistles In clever im itation. Their songs and tomtom? have not the slightest affinity for musical sound, but fascinate and attract by their hideousness and play a part in their ware like the war whoop of the Indians. Was it a Chinaman who first discovered America? Chinese imperial annals record the account of some Chinese mariners who were wrecked 3,000 \ ars ago on tbui part of our coast which is now California and Oregon. The Chinese were then a jp±.uri time people, and among their crew W- re five Buddhist monks. Wo have trace of them in prehistoric times by coin of their country found by the Indians, and their strange implements of worship and sacri fice have been unearthed in America, where they hud been buried for centuries. It was an American who advised Li Hung Chang to move the railroad that skirted the sea near Sban-kal. It was within two miles of the coast, and the guileless American showed the Chinaman how exposed it was to attacks from the sea, and that high caste official had it moved inland far enough to be hidden from coast craft, adding $125,000 to the or iginal expense of construction. The Chinese Sunday School class in American churches will probably be abol ished—it should never have been Institut ed. The youngest and prettiest or most charming of American society girls were the instructors, and each Chinaman must have a teacher to himself. He made handsome present? to his instructor, fell in love promptly, and bee towed his at tentions until father or brother interfered and stopped further demonstration. Their education proceeded as far as reading a verse from the Bible in an unknown dia lect. After Sunday School they finished the day playing i>oker—they were heath ens. A lady who had seen one of the Ce lestials in gorgeous clothes at the C street church called at his laundry to have him send to her hotel for the weekly wash, when this dialogue ensued: “You stlanger?” “Yes.” “Then bling policeman—he know you— me not.” A MAMJAIIIVS BCTTOKH. IlSglicst Honors lii‘N(oiTod I'pon LlirgeNt I'oouliitorM. From the London Mail. The hosiilities in China cause us to hoar so much about mandarine, and we in Eng land are so apt to look upon thorn as Chi nese officials of great importance and wealth, that it will be news to many to know that practically every Chinese gov ernment civil servant is a mandarin, and that there are thousands of them scatter ed about the Celestial Empire whoso offi cial salaries do not exceed £1 per month. These are of the lowest, or ninth class of mandarins, and have Just passed their first examination and are usually petty officials in one of the numerous custom houses. When promotion follows in due course our budding viceroy, provided his peculations have not exceeded the bounds of moderation, becomes successively a mandarin of the eighth and seventh classes. These two steps, however, mean very lit tle advance in rank, and before the sixth division ran he entered another examina tion has to he passed. A little knowledge and a great deal of bribery having been successful in getting him through this, our mandarin is now a person of some lmi>ortance, a sort of district magistrate probably, and his button is of pure white quartz. In this capacity he can supple ment his income gloriously by substantial presents from both plaintiffs and defend ants alike, and in a few years has prolv ably extorted enough from unhappy liti gants to join the ranks of the fifth eJas and wear a transparent crystal button on his cap. Yet another grade, by the same moans, he may advance in due course, and upon attaining to the dignity of a fourth-class mandarin a turquols button is substituted for the crystal one. Here it is that many Chinese stop in their upward career, for before another step in advance may bf made another ex amination has to be '‘passed,” and this is i terribly expensive process. Should the resources of our mandarin, however, prove equal to the occasion, he proudly enters the third class, and his button, though still blue, is transparent like ame thyst. By diplomacy and cringing, still more bribery and cunning, the second class is at last open to him, and with a carved red coral button upon his cap he proudly gov ersn one of China's great cities. He can now go no higher, save by ob taining the good will of the Emperor or of the Empress. The mandarin ship of the first class is the direct gift of the reigning monarch, and t arries, with it *tlll a red coral button, but quite plain and smooth instead of being carved, as in the* second class. There is a title. “Kting,” which Is very rarely bestowed, and which is practically equal to a dukedom. Instead of descend ing from ftither to eon, however, it goes hack to his ancestors, aI! of whom are en nobled eti bloc*. The examinations referred to In this ar ticle are usually held in large halls. The Examination Hall, or Koong Yuin, as it is called, at Canton contains 7,800 ceils. Each cell measures 4 feet by 3. and is high enough to stand up in. The furniture con sists of two hoards, one to sit on and the other for writing at. The cells arc arranged around a number of open courts, so that the soldiers who guard the place can look In ami see that no student communicates with another. The characters on the cells indicate each student's particular plat**. Confinement In so cramped an area, where it is slble to lie down, is said to cause the death of many students, some of whom are quite old men. A A Strong Fortification. Fortify the body against disease by Tutt’s Liver Pills, an abso lute cure for sick headache, dys- I pepsia, sour stomach, malaria, constipation, jaundice, bilious- j ness and all kindred troubles. “The Fly-Wheel of Life” Pr.Tutt; Your Liver Pills are the fly-wheel oflife. I shall ever be grateful for the accident that brought them to my notice. 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Editor, 480 Courtiund avenue, Atlanta. Ga.. April 26, IMO. Columbia Drug Cos., Savannah, Ga.: Gcnilemen—lt gives me pleasure to heartily recommend infants’ Friend Powder, and to give to you a singu lar little coincident connected with It. During the Cotton States and In ternational Exposition I whs presen ted with a little box of this powder, and was ro pleased with it that I was exceedingly onxlaus to get more, but on looking at the box I found nothing but Savannah, Ga., no other address. I have often wished I knew where to get it. This morning’s mull brpught your .Ircular with en closed sample I immediately re ferred to my box, and found it was the Infants’ Friend Powder. It is without doubt the best powder I have ever ueed. Respectfully, MRS. WM. KINO. 7