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TO-DAY IN THE CHURCHES.
VISITING MINISTERS A\ II*L PREACH
IN MANY PULPITS.
Rev. I/. C*. Rirclt nl C lirist rhnrcli.
Rev. K. W. CuTvtlion at the Fir*t
Ilai>listt, Rev. \V. 11. Younir nt the
Dotty Street Hnp!ls*t, Ilev. E. \V.
NYay at the First Presbyterian
Chnrehs Rev. Mr. Cawthou Also
at the Young Men's Christian As
■ociation.
The services in the churches to-<lay will,
like those of last Sunday, be distinguish
ed by the number of visiting ministers
who will fid the pulpits. At the Duffy
Street Baptist Church, which has been
without a regular pastor since the resig
nation of Rev. J. D. Chapman, Rev. Dr.
W. H. Young of Athens will preach. This
will be the last Sunday but one before
the arrived of Rev. Robert Yen I>even
ter of Hawkinsville. who was eicted to
the pastorate some time ago, but was un
able before to leave his duties.
Another interesting service of the week
will be that to be held nt the Seventh
Btreet Methodist Church Thursday night,
which will be conducted and addressed by
Rev. S. W. Rogers, formerly of Philadel
phia, but now of the South Georgia Con
ference, who has just returned from a
trip through Europe and the Holy Hand.
One of the visiting ministers to-day is
Rev. li. W. Way of Gainesville, Fla., who
will preach at 11 o'clock at the First Pres
byterian Church.
Methodist.
At the Wesley Monumental Church
there will be services at 11 o’clock n. m.
and at 8:30 p. m.. conducted by Rev. Ed.
F. Cook, fh*‘ pastor. The Sunday School
will meet at 5 p. m. The Epworth League
and prayer meeting will be held on Wed
nesday at 8:3o p. rn. The Junior League
will meet on Friday nt 5:30 p. m.
The services at Trinity Church will be
held in the Sunday School room. There
•tvfll be preaching by the pastor. Rev.
Bascom Anthony, at 11 o'clock a. m.. and
at 8:30 p. m. The Sunday School will meet
at 6p. m The Epworlh league will meet
on Wednesday at 8:30 p. m., and the pray
er meeting wifi be held on Thursday night
at the s.ime hour.
The services at Grace Methodist Church
will he held at 11 o’clock a. m. and at
8:30 p. m. by the pastor. Rev. Osgood F.
Cook, who will preach both morning and
evening. The chorus choir which has
been strengthened by the return of sev
eral members from their summer vaca
tions. will give a. fine programme of music.
The Sunday School will meet at 4:30 o’clock
p. m.
There will he preaching nt the Seventh
Street Methodist Church at 11 o’clock a. m.
and nt 8:30 p. m. by the pastor, Rev. J. A.
Smith. The Sunday School will meet at
4:30 o’clock. The Senior League will
meet on Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. The prayer-
Fcrvice on Thursday night will be con
ducted by Rev. S. W. Rogers of Philadel
phia, who has Just returned from an ex
tended trip to London, Paris and the Holy
Land. He is a member of the South
Georgia Conference.
Episcopal.
The congregation of St. John’s Church
and Christ Church will unite in services
at Christ Church. There will be a ser
vice and sermon at 11 o’clock a. m. and
a service at 6:30 p. m. Rev. L. C. Birvh
will conduct the services. Christ Church
Sunday School will meet at 5:30 p. m. A
service will be held also on Wednesday
afternoon at Chriet Church at ti o'clock.
At is*. Michael’s Chapel, services will be
held at 11 o’clock,when the holy commu
nion will be administered by the rector,
Rev. F. Juny. A service will be held on
Tuesday night at 8:30 o’clock. Sunday
School will meet Sunday afternoon at 5
o’clock. The Rible class will meet on
Thursady night ai S:3o o’clock.
At St. Paul’6 Church, corner Duffy and
Barnard, services to-day will be as fol
lows: Early celebration 7:30 a. rn.. morn
ing prayer 11 a. m.. Sunday School 5:30 p.
m.. evening prayer at 8:30 p. in. Rev. L.
C. Birch will conduct the 7:30 a. m. and
8:30 p. m. services.
Baptist.
The pulpit of ihe First Baptist Church
will be oci'U! ltd morning and evening
by Rev. K. W. Cawthon of Quitman. The
subje<<t for mor ing sermon will be
"Broken Cisterns," and for the evening
"Closed Doors.”
The B. Y. F. U. will meet af er he
mor ting; service. The Sunday School will
me t at 6 o’clock.
The irid-wtex prayer service will le
held cn Wednesday evening. The subject
v.i:l b<‘ th* "Righteousness of the King
dom of Heaven.”
The Duffy Street Baptist Church will ho
with, u i r>as or for oi Iv two
longer. Rev. Van Deventer of Hawkins
ville wll assume chaigc of the pastor
a e on Sunday, Sept 2. The pulpit wi 1 he
ftlud to-day and next Sunday by Rev. Dr.
W. H. Young, of Atherus.
The following willl be ihe order of ser
vices for the day: Devotional m eting of
the young ie< pl* at 10 oMock a. m.,
preaching at 11. Si n ’ay School at 5 p. in.,
and prenaching at 8:30.
Presbyterian.
At the First Presbyterian Church, Rev.
E. W. Way of Gainesville, Fla., will
preach at 11 o’clock a. nv There will be
no night service. The Sunday School w 11
intot as u sual at 5 p. m. The midweek
prayer meeting will be held on Wednes
day e.ening at 8:30 o'clock.
There will l>e preiching at the Lawton
Memorial at 11 o’clock a. in. and at B:3J
p. m. by the pastor, Rev. W. A. Nisbet.
I.n th * • it.
In the Lu'heiHn Church of the Ascen
sion, sejvic'W will b held as usual at 11
o’clock a. m., and at 8:30 p. m The Sun
day School will meet at 5 o’clock.
At Sit. Paul’s Lutheran Church, the r
vices will he conducted at 11 o’clock a. m
by ihe paa O'", Rev. M. J Kpting. The
Sunday School will m et at 5 p. m.
Homan Catholic.
At the Sacred H art Church eer-
Yices wUI be as follows: First mass
at 6:30 a. m., and eecond moss and bene
diction a* 9 a m. Bnt rtainment for the
benefit of th.* Sunday School will be given
on Wednesday. Aug 22, at the school hall.’
Tl 'k ts are for at Conner s bvok
■tore.
riirlutniu Science.
First Church of Whilst, Scientist. Pub-
J# t of sermon "Christ Jesus” Service* 11
a. in. Sunday School 12 m. Wednesday
evening: m- et.ng 8:30 p m. Metropo’itan
hall co*ner Whitaker and President
a re ts. All are invited.
Y. M. C. A.
"Succeas” will he the subject of the ad
dress this aft mo* n at the Young Men's
Christian Asscelation by Rev. K. W.
CawtWnr, who is supp v ng tire pulpit * f
♦ h*- First Baptist Ch irch Mr. Cawtl on
is a y ung man of a illty and his ad Ire s
should prove Inbrestitg. 'lhe will
b gin at 4 o'csl ck.
—When Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews took
formal charge of the University of Ne
braska last week there was no speech
makltig and uo ceremony whatever
SAVANN AH GIRL IN LONDON.
Her Pictures of the Metropolis of the
World.
London, Aug. 8, 1900.—1n this year, when
foreign countries offer novel sights in the
highest development of art, Americans
have been thrilled with a fascination for
the deep and a desire to reach beyond
the continent and share in the world’s
affairs. Many tourists have left the gay
French capital, metropolis of pleasure
and fashion, for cooler September days;
and taken the*r first view of lands be
yond the seas in London. Great, won
derful, magnificent London—gem of an
tiquity—with its houses of Parliament, the
Tower, that has been the background
for the darkest scenes in English history
and containing through successive ages,
relies of men and women who have been
oracles of senates and ornaments of
court. The Duke of Buckingham, Sir
Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Ann
Bolyn. and Catherine Howard repose here.
The British Museum. Buckingham Palace
and Westminster Abbey—a monument of
monuments, in whose silent vaulted
chambers sleep eternal kings and heroes.
This ancient structure, comparable to
naught else, began to exist years back
and passing through its historic chapels
one travels with the various changes of
ages, from the earliest monks of monas
tery to reigns of kings and queens, down
centuries to illustrious genius and poets,
who grandly proved—
“ Man’s life is measured by his work—
not da yes;
No aged sloth, but active youth hath
prayse.”
As one go'*? miles of walk, each step
proves of more interest, monuments in
marble and bronze of such hight and
workmanship, beyond conception.
But one of other chief pleasure derived
by an American from a visit to London, is
a view of Her Royal Highness, Queen Vic
toria, who comes several times a year,
and in this season for the garden party
at Buckingham. On the brightest of a
July day with no shadows save blue
skies, providentially sent when the Queen
travels (so the Londoners say)—near the
famous Hyde Park corner, stood the great
mass of humanity waiting eagerly and ex
l>eeiamly. At the appointed hour equerries
rode by, following came the Italian ser
vants of Her Majesty brilliantly arrayed,
then the Life Guards in gold and scarlet
on line steeds, in front, and at the roar
of the royal equippage, ’mid cheers and
shouts, this sweet, serious-faced little wo
man. in whom the hearts of England and
Ireland are centered—this great Queen
loved in such a degree as are her domin
ions vast, passed on thro’ the gates of
Constitutional Hill to the palace beyond,
followed by members of the royal family,
nobility and aristocratic ladles in splendid
victorias, with high mettled thorough
breds. and gorgeous flunkeys, wearing ex
quisite toilettes—resembling the chic Pa
risienne.
London is rated the largest city in the
world. with its distinct customs and style,
that quite differ from the American, ’tis
as a great scene where one comprehends
the whole of human life and all its varie
ty; in brief, one of the most remarkable
cities across the seas.
A Savannah Girl in London.
THE PARSON'S ADVENT! RE.
< ang It t One of Ills Church llretheren
Mealing Ilia Chickens.
From the Baltimore. Sun.
Hampstead, Md., Aug. 2.—The Rev. S.
J. Derr, the Lutheran minis;er at Hamp
stead. Carroll county, had a novel ex
perience a few nights ago. He had re
turmd home from attending to some |>a
rochlal duties and was putting up his
horse when a noise occasione I by the
fluttering and cackl ng of the chickens
in his henhouse caused him to direct his
attention to that quarter. As he. approaeh
d he saw a lame white boy whom he
knew limp away fiom the henhouse and
s omi’ir off noieehssly. The minister
with *qnal caution and discretion silently
took the place the b y had been O'cupy
ing at tiie half-open door of the henhouse
and waited.
In a f w s conds a pa r of pullets was
hand and out, then another pair and another
until he was holding a half dozen of his
own chickens, which h party inside was
benevolently bestowing with a very free
hand. The minister concluded that half
a dozen chickens were quite as many as
he could conveniently hold so he said: ”1
think 1 have enough for this time.” The
remark brought the party inside to the
front in pr < ipitaie haste, when to his
great surprise the minis er recognized a
memb r of bis own c >ngregation. a broth
er who bore a fair reputation for piety.
It w uld require a geo 1 de.il of repu
tation. however, for any brother to stand
up straight in such a predlc iment. The
minister mildly chided him for disturbing
the slumbers of th fowls, bade him re
turn these of which he was the receiver
to the roost and told him to go home and
pray for forgiveness.
Tlie More the Merrier.
A4 a certain country manor in Derby
shire, says London Spare Moments, there
lived many years ago a jocund squire,
noied as much for his love of a good joke
as for his sporting propensities. Being
out hunting one day. he rode so well that
the only rider in front of him was his
servant, Sammy.
He. however, soon disappeared, as, In
vaulting a hedge, he dropped into an old
disused quarry on the other side.
The squire, close on Sammy’s heels, im
mediately followed. He found Sammy
shouting warning as hard as his lungs
would permit, lu< he stopped him with:
"Sam! Sam! Sam! <ha’ silly fool; ho’d
thy noise and let a few more come in.”
LEMONS AS MEDICINE.
They regulate the liver, stomach, bow# !•.
kidneys and blood as prepared by Dr. H.
Mozley, in his Lemon Elixir, a pleasant
lemon drink, it cures biliousness, consti
pation. indigestion, headache, appendici
tis, malaria, kidney diseases, fevers,
chills, heart feailure, nervous prostration
and all other diseases caused by a tor
pid or diseased liver and kidneys. It
is an established fact that lemons, when
combined properly wiih other liver tonics,
produce the most desirable results upon
the stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and
blood. Sold by druggists. 60c and $1
bottles.
REV. JOHN F. StNDKII* WHITES,
Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga. : j have
been relieved of a trouble which greatly
endangered my life, by using Mosley’a
Lemon Eiixir. My doctor declared mv
only relief to be the knife, my trouble
being appendicitis. I have been perma
nently cured and am now a well man I
am a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, located in the town of
Verbena, Ala. My brother. Rev. E. K.
Cowan, recommended the Lemon EllxiV
to me. Ship me a half dozen large bot
tles C. O. D.
mozlevs lemon elixir.
Cured me of a long-standing c.vo of chills
and fever by using two bottles.
J. C. STANLEY.
Engineer E. TANARUS., Va. & <_Ja. R. r
MOZLEY’H LEMON ELIXIR.
Cured me of a * ase of heart disease and
indigestion of four years’ stunding. I
tried a dozen different medicine*. None
but Lemon Elixir done m* any good.
TULES DIEHL.
Corner Habersham and St. Thomas Sta.,
Savannah, Ga.
MOZLEY’# LEMON ELIXIR.
I fully indors© it for nervous prostra
tion. headache. Indigestion and constipa
tion, having used it with most satisfac
tory reaulta, after all other remedies had
failed. J. W. HOLLO,
VYt KuX Atlanta, Ga.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1000.
THREE ROUTES TO PEKIN.
FROM THE SEAPORT BY BOAT, 111
DIRT ROAD AVI) 111 II AIIJtOAD.
One Wny for the Allied Armies—Tlie
Most Interesting Eighty Miles in
the World To-day- I Tle Boat Trip
Occupies Four Day*—T he .Mul* ( art
Taken Three Days, the Itn llroad
Train Three Hours—The Hail roads
Are \ou Destroyed and the Allied
Armies Can Only Get to Pekin by
Dirt Hoad Method, the Most Dan
gerous to Life.
By Prof. Isaac T. Headland,
of Pekin University.
(Copright, 1900, by I. T. Headland.)
New York, Aug. 17.—There is no eighty
miles in the world to-day which is at
tracting so much attention as the eighty
milts of space between Tien Tsin and Pe
kin, and it is the problem of transportation
and travel over these eighty miles that is
engrossing the experts of Europe, America
and Japan. Hannibal and Napoleon cross
ed the Alps, but I doubt If that was n feat
which required better engineering or more
endurance than would bo required to
transport an army from Tien Tsin to Pe
kin during the months of July and August
and a part of September. Winter’s cold
stimulates to greater exertion; summer’s
heat only enervates. Climbing mountains
in winter tills m< nV b ood with fire, wading
through mud and water and miasmic
swamps in the heat of summer fills men’s
blood with malaria and saps away their
lives. Food can be kept for a whole army ;
in the cold of the Alps, but it soon spoils
on an August day in the heat of a Chi- j
nese plain.
The trip from Tien Tsin to Pekin under 1
ordinary circumstances may be made in
three ways: first by boat, second by dirt j
road, third by railroad, and as we have j
— : —— — —
'hinese wall near the city of Tsun Hwa, Northern China. 1,000.000 bodies buried
here as fast as they died.
made the trip in all three ways and at
all seasons of the year, a description of
how we made it may not prove uninter
esting.
The Trip ly Boat.
An American, in Pekin who wishes to he
married must either import the United
States consul from Tien Tsin, or himself
go to Tien Tsin to be married. We chose
the latter method, and started from Tung
Chou on a bright day in the early part of
June. It was in the evening when we
weighed anchor, which we did by unhook
ing the ant'lior from the shore, the ladies
of the party in one boat and the gentle
men in another. The wind was not quite
fair, and so our boatmen concluded to row
rather than hoist the sails. We traveled
until about 10 o’clock, when we drop
ped anchor by hooking ourselves to the
bank out in the open country. The next
morning the wind was blowing so strong
as to make it almost impossible to travel,
but we insisted upon moving and offered
extra money for extra work. About ten
o’clock, however, the wind was so strong
as to make It impossible for us (o round
a particularly sharp curve and we were
blown against the bank, where we re
mained three days and nights, the wind
blowing a gale, and the air tilled with
clouds of dust so that we could not see
a distance of a hundred feet. We shut
our boat up tight and concluded to wait
for the storm to pass over. All day it
blew and the boats being full of cracks
and holes, the dust and dirt sifted in on
us from every side. We wont to bed and
in the morning when we awoke we could
not open our eyes, the eyelidts wore glued
together with mud. I cannot toll how
my wife looked, but 1 know I was the
most unattractive bridegroom that ever
looked into a mirror. We arrived nt
Tien Tsin, however, after four days and
I
Ch!n si .ini k on t Hot river.
were properly married In the presence of
the consul.
We went to Corea on our wedding trip,
lnndlmr at Chemultpo the tiny the Japa
nese landecl their Hist troops. We re
mained at Chemultpo two weeks and then
went to Soul, where tve stayed two weeks,
when we were nsked to leave by Ihe sec
retary of the legation, the present minis
ter. Ilr. Alien. We left there at sunset,
and at 5 o'clock tiie next morning the
Japanese took the Corean K ing prisoner.
We took passage on a river boat which
was so crowded that xve had nowhere to
sleep but upon the hurricane deck, and
when we arrived at Chemultpo we dis
covered that the steamers hod all been
taken off to be used ns so that
we could not return to Tien Tsin.
After two weeks, however. Capt. Rodg
ers of H. M. S. Archer offered to take
us to Che Foo, and after two weeks here
we returned to Ttcn Tsin.
knllinu In llouil Heds and Cornfields.
Now came the trip hock to Pekin. We
hired a boat arid scirted about 3 o'clock
In the afiemoon with n fair wind. We
pushed or pulled ourselves with boat
hooks up through the maze of barges and
boats until we had paaaed through the
stend bridge-of-lsvits. when we hoisted
our sail snd started on what promised
to be the firs* pleasant sail of otir honey
moon. Boon we discovered that the whole
country was Pooded. nnd Just ofter wr
passed the native city of Tien Tsin the
boatmen left the river course and turned
off on a branch which nod formed a deep
in an old roadbed. The Chinese
have a saying that “An old road will be
come a river and an old woman a moth
er-in-law,’’ and we found the first half of
the proverb to be literally true.
After passing a wav from the main bed
of the river for a little distance we found
the whole country was flooded, and it was
not long until wo were sailing through a
< ornfield. As the sun went down in the
West the moon came up In the East, and
we continued to sail, very much on faith,
for we had no compass until nearlj* mid
night. when we dropped anchor, still in
a cornfield, the boatmen went to bed. my
wife went into the boat, and 1 stripped
; and plunged into the water, the first and
only time I have ever taken a swim in a
cornfield.
The next morning the wind continued
fair and we continued our sail, the water
gradually becoming shallower as we near
rd Tung Chow, and we confined ourselves
to our old road-bed.
j On the third day out I saw what struck
me at the time as a rather remarkable
. ight. An old man and his son had been
out in a boot trying to harvest some of
their corn, and were on their way home
with a boat load. They came floating in
from a side road, and as they came into
lour larger road-stream the old man with
• a. rope around his body plunged into the
' stream and ■ warn across towing the boat
j with him, and when he got to the opposite
side, be used the rope to pull his boat up
I me stream. When we entered the main
1m and of the Peibo river we were within about
twelve miles of Tung Chou, in other
words we had sailed “across lots’’ about
sixty-eight miles, or following the course
r.f the river 108 miles, for by the river
is I_’ miles from Tien Tsin to Tung Chou.
It is always necessary for people living
in Pekin to get an annual shipment of
“stores" from San Francisco, so canned
foods cannot be gotten into Pekin except
at greatly advanced prices, and as our
were at Tien Tsin we had taken
them vith us to Tung Chou. When we ar
rived here, however, we discovered that
U < nuse of the bad roads and the Chinese-
Japanese war, carts and even wheelbarrow
men were asking outrageous prices, and
bo we left our “boy" with the stores on
the boat and we sent a man from Pekin
to get them, agreeing with him for 60
much per hundred weight. Without going
into a detailed account of all the delays,
difficulties and aggravations, we will only
state that it took that man two weeks to
transport our few stores—about three
wheelbarrow loads—from Tung Chou t3
Pe kin, a distance of fifteen miles. This
trip cost us thirty dollars and four days’
time, end it is this kind of travel that the
Boxers” aid the conservative Chinese
are fighting l’or at the present time.
After such a description it is unneces
sary to comment on the. difficulties that
will confront a European or American
general who undertakes to transport an
army f.om Ti n Tsin to Pekin during
the months of July and 'August or a part
of September. In the first place, he is
vitln.ut boats. In the second place, he
is without men to dr.ig, push, row or
sad ihe beats if he had them, and in the
third place, he has a contending army
to encounter who could harass him on
every hand, and as a last resort could
strand his b.ats-if he had them—high,
but not dry’, In the mud and sediment
f some unfriendly cornfield or malarial
swamp, and the “red-coat” and "blue
jacket,” or "Tommy Atkins” and "Billy
Blue” would be left to extricate them
selves from their dilemma in disgrace
and defeat.
The Journey by Dirt Rond.
The Chinese have a saying that "Men
may travel by’ dirt read or by wat* r
read, but the wat r r.ad is much the
preferable.” If what wo have just de
scribed is the best methol of travel in
’ hina any one can imagine the less de
sirable m thods. However, to imagine
t cm a little experience is necessary.
One of the Chinese ministers in Wash
ing on a few years ago ii speaking of
the various methods of travel, said:
• Vrs, your floating 1 palaces and Pullman
cars are all right for rapid transit, hut
for real solid comfort give me a PeK.n
cart.”
The Pekin cart is like a large Saratoga
truck on two wheels The shafts exten I
out behind a foot and a half and form
a platform on which to strap one's bag
gage As the mule trots the cart Is given
a rocking motion backward and forward
s ml'ar to the motion one gets In riding a
camel. The cart Is without springs
and the wheels are made suffl
clenth strong to carry the weight If they
were without tires. The tires are put on
in sections eighteen Inches In length and
are only to keep the wheels from being
worn out on the ground. Add to this the
fact that the Chinese never "work on the
ronds," but that a road Is wherever the
carts happen to drive, and you get some
idea of the "solid comfort of a Chinese
cart." The passenger Is bumped up and
down, until he wishes hie brain were rest
lng upon a patent air cushion; he i
bumped up and down, until he wishes his
brain were resting upon a patent air
cushion, he Is bumped backward and for
ward and from side to side until
If he is not careful his head will be
pounded into a Jelly or covered over with
scars as though It had come In contact
w Ith John I-., homebody's strong right arm.
The only way to sit In such a cart Is to
sit tnllor fashion. In which case your test
go to sleep and your legs become cramped. |
You are compelled to arise at 3 o'clock in ]
the morning and travel till about 9 or 10
, without breakfast and then get your
: Lieakfast in a Chinese inn which, if you
see it cooking, would “turn the stomach"
of an American pig. Your bed at night in
this Chinese inn is brick, and when you
arise in the morning, after having had
mosquitoes buzzing about your ears all
nigh:.. you are liable to wrap in your bed
ding three kinds of insects which, for the
sake of my reader’s tastes, I will not take
the liberty of naming further than to say
that one is an acrobat, the other goes w ith
the bed and the third with the beggar.
For three days you must bump over
these roads breathing in the clouds of
aikalie dust which is kicked up by your
two mules or perhaps by the mules of
a cart or two just ahead of you, so that
when you come into the inn you are cov
ered from head to feet with dust in a
way that would make a coal digger as
compared with yourself a respectable
looking guest.
Still another method of traveling by dirt
road is by mule-litter. The mule-littc*
is a sort of a sedan chair swung betwee..
two mules, one before and the other be
hind. If you are not in a hurry and not
affected by sea sickness it may seem to
you that this method is better than the
rart, especially if you have good mules,
Jf your mules, however, are frisky either
the one or the other is liable, at any mo
ment to jump out from under his bur
den and disappear across a grain field
wagging his tail at The passenger he has
just left, and you are compelled to wait
until your driver is able to recapture and
reharness your snorting steed. It will he
well for you if you do not come down in
anything worst 1 ' than dust. You are just
as liable to come down in the mud, or
in one of the shallow streams over which
you must cross as on <erra flrma, for
fording small streams is one of the pe
culiar antipathies of the Chinese pack
and litter mule.
It should be remembered that one or
the other of two conditions exust on Chi
nese road. Either it is an ii#h or two
deep with dust or a foot or more deep
with mud. The former is the condition
of the road between Tien Tsin and Pekin
a good part of nine months, ond the lat
ter the larger pert of the other three.
These other three months are July, Au
gust and September. As I have indi
cated in our boat trip you may look out
over the country as far as the eye can
reach and you see nothing but water,
unless it be here and there a village of
mud huts built upon some natural or
artificial knoll, to and from which the
inhabitants are compelled to go in boats
until the waters subside, and it is a con
dition of this kind in Shantung to which
the present uprising is more or lose; due.
There are two other methods of mak
ing the trip from Tien Tsin to Pekin by
dirt road. The one is by horse, mule or
donkey back, and the other is afoot.
However. I have known members of our
university in Pekin who, when- going
from the city to the western hills oil
horseback, had to dismount, strip and tie
their clothing to their horses* head and
swim with their horse across the roads
which had turned into rivers. In such
a condition 1 of affairs it is easy to under
stand w'hat would be the difficulties of
making a trip to Pekin in the heat of
August, by soldiers who ore unaccun
tomed to the climate, where a drenching
rain comes up in half an hour, and one’s
shoes are covered with a green mould
o\er night, when they are compelled ro
carry with them their bedding and drag
after them all the accoutrements of un
army ond be prepared to resist the at
tacks of a hostile army strongly intrench
ed and accustomed to all the surrounding
conditions. Those who criticise the al
lied troops for saying, it is Impossible to
go to Pekin before September, do not
know the existing conditions in North
China.
To Pekin by Railroad.
The third method of going to Pekin from
Tien Tsin is by railroad. By rail we are
able to make the trip in from three to four
hour with all the comforts attached to
railroad traveling. Second-class the fate
is seventy-five cents, first-class twice that
amount, and in the postal car. which cor
responds to our parlor or sleeping cars,
the fare is two dollars and tseventy-five
cents. And yet this is the method the
conservative Chinese are fighting cs com
pared wiih the other two I have just nam
ed. Their practice, however, is better
than their theory, for when wish o
go from one place to the other they go by
train and not by boat or cart, and the
railroad as a consequence, in spite of all
the cheating done, has been paying sotae
20 to 30 per cent, on the lnvestm*u.
Of course under the preseit conditions it
is unnecessary to speak of this as one of
the present methods, for the railroad is
more or less comparatively destroyed, and
probably’ not be used until peace is restor
ed and fhe railroad repaired. It is folly
to talk ahou* the Chinese having burned
the large bridge at Yank Tsun, because it
is made of iron and could noi be burned.
A few of the cross-ties might be burned,
but otherwise it is fireproof. The smaller
bridges over small streams, and places
where streams are allowed to pass under
the railroad during the rainy season,
might easily be burned if they could get
other fuel to pile up round them. But this
is not an easy’ matter in a country where
one may walk miles without finding a
piece of wood large enough for a walking
stick. However, 1t is certain that both
the railroad and some of the bridges arc
destroyed and that when the allies wish to
go to Pekin they will have to go by dirt
road, w’hich is the worst of bad methods
of travel In China.
STYLES IN PAPER WEIGHTS.
It run re Png, or l.ion, Expansion
Prices Seem to He the Favorite,
From the New York Sun.
“Of all the furnishings of the writing
desk none Has received more attention
than the weight and none is more
expensive,” said the clerk in the station
ery department of a large jewelry store.
“Tkose unaesihetic people who hold down
their papers with an ink bottle or a five
cem metal knob can never realize the
thrill of genuine delight that eomi-s to the
fastidious writer who utilizes expensive
lltt.e brass dogs and such things to keep
his accounts and manuscript In place. To
one of this latter class it is a pleasure to
open the window, once In a while, and let
the wind scatter loose leaves seven ten
ways for Sunday, just to be able to have
the sails faction of clapping down a high
priced dog in the midst of the disorder and
paying it iutnphantly. ‘There, now. Stay
there, will you?' There are cases where a
proceeding of this kind can produce an
high as as) worth of satisfaction. It all
depends, of course, upon the value of the
dog or whatever other animal or product
of nature is reproduced In the paper
weight.
“Styles In paper weights nre as varied as
the tastes and financial resources of writ
ers. The average business man uses a
weight made of a little bar of glass which
costs anywhere from five cents to a dollar,
according to the solidity and detail in
workmanship. Most of the weights here
come In silver and bronze and range in
value from f5 to s7a. Bronze Is most ex
pensive. It Is a funny thing, but noth
ing stands so high In favor for a paper
weight as a bronze dog or lion. Perhaps
this Is because the tall and head of these
animals form such handy projections for
the fingers to close over when the writer
reaches out In a hurry for something to
clap down on flying papers. But it is not
to be Inferred from the foregoing remark
that these two specimens of the animal
kingdom monopolize the paper weight
market to the exclusion of other birds
nnd beasts. All prominent representatives
of the fauna and flora of the earth are re
produced In bronze and are made to sub
serve the utilitarian purpose of holding
down papers.
“The workmanship on some of these pa
per weights Is exceedingly fine, and that
alone brings the price up to an astonish
ing figure. That Is one reason lions come
so high—there ! an opportunity to put so
much work on them. Here are two min
iature lions, one couchant, the other ram-
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