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Show Heads Tou Lose, Tale I Win. The Chinese have offered a reward of so many taels (a Chinese coin) for the head of every Jap who can be killed. Somebody says this is a case of heads you lose, taels the other fellow wins. New York Times. . 'iii general we may say mat the don keys belong to a vanishing state of human hu-man culture, to the time before carriage ways existed. Now that civilization goes on wheels they seem likely to have an ever decreasing value. A century ago they were , almost everywhere in common use. At tho present time there are probably millions of people in the United States to whom the animal is known only by description. In a word, the creature marks a stage in the development de-velopment of our industries which is passing away as rapidly as that in which the spinning wheel and the hand loom played a part. Professor N. S. Shaler in gcribner'a, .,i . i mi., ,i i in, i I, n ,! mi |
