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Show Treste?0Htt'a! Voles Since 1S64 the total vote at each successive suc-cessive presidential election has shown an increase over the vote of the preceding contest Prom 1864 to 1868 the gain was 1,700,000; from 1868' to 1872, 700,000; from 1872 to 1876, 2,000,000; from 1T6 to 1880, 8C0.C00; from 1880 to 1884, 8U0.000; from 1884 to 1888, 1,300,000, an abnormally large increase not accounted for by the admission ad-mission of new states; from 1888 to 1892, 700,000, and from 1892 to 1896, 1,900,000. This year the probab'e total popular vote Is estimated at 16,000,-000. 16,000,-000. Mary Anderson-Navarro attended a bazaar in England the other day in aid of a religious community and was told by the father rector that she was a mother to them. "Our Mary" is, of course, no longer in the full blush of youthful beauty, but this remark rather startled her for a moment. In the course ,of a short reply she good-humoredly good-humoredly said that the reverend gentleman gen-tleman might at least have called her a sister. EjepJorer' Aboful Suffering. Sven Anders Hedin, the noted explorer, ex-plorer, has added another chapter of valuable information as the result of "Remarkable Journey. Here is a picture of Mrs. Elizabeth Burns and the youngest of her six ' -children, who have just completed probably the most remarkable journey ver made by any family, all of them having covered 700 miles on foot The woman is a widow of Grand Rapids, Mich. The undertaking is one of the pluckiest ever attempted, and that it has succeeded without a mishap U declared de-clared marvelous. Mrs. Burns' husband fell a victim to consumption, leaving his family in destitute circumstances, and on Miy 6 last the mother sold her belongings and with a small hand-cart, containing contain-ing necessities, she began the journey from Grand Rapids which she expe t-ed t-ed would end at Odin, 111., where her father lived. It took six weeks of steady walking' to reach Odin, but disappointment awaited her there and she was compelled to push on, her search not being rewarded until sha reached Poplar Bluff, Mo., 700 mlks nis recent explorations explora-tions in- the heart of Thibet. Overcoming Over-coming hardships that it is hard to believe the human body capable o f sustaining, scaling the icy mountain of the Altai Tag and crawling for whole days at a - ' time on nis lianas d. a. nwum. and knees over the torrm alkali deserts des-erts of Thibet. Dr. Hedin defied death in a thousand forms that be might be the first white man to set foot upon the shores of Lake Lop Nor. There he found the mouldering ruins of a magnificent mag-nificent city a city of beautiful marbles mar-bles and exquisite mosaics a city of grand terraces and intersected by broad driveways the tombstones of a decayed civilization. E. W. Vaughn, the nonagenarian vicar of the church of Liantiert, in the vale of Glamorgan, Wales, seems perfectly per-fectly In keeping with his surroundings, surround-ings, as the church he preaches In 13 built on grounds which represent the most ancient Christian center in the British isles as a daughter of Carac-tacus, Carac-tacus, mentioned ' by St. Paul under the name of Claudia, is said to. have founded a Christian church there about A. D. 63. A. JunK. CTree. The accompanying picture represents a single pine tree in the shape of a junk growing a few miles from Kyoto, the western capital of Japan, in the grounds attached to the golden pavilion, pavil-ion, which dates back to the fourteenth century. This tree is a monument of patient care and devotion. In the Mikado's empire landscape gardening MRS. ELIZABETH BURNS, way - from the starting point The family is none the worse for the trip and is now with kind relative. There Is to be an exhibition of an-eient an-eient and modern examples of gold-miths' gold-miths' art at Florence in connection with the celebration of the fourth centenary cen-tenary of Benvenuto Cellini's brth, Nov. 2. The first congress of Italian goldsmiths will be held in that city en' the same' occasion. W. J. "Bryan's Tastor. There is considerable trouble in the fashionable First Presbyterian church of Lincoln, Neb. The pastor, the Rev. man, has been asked to resign. Mr. Bryan Is- a member cf the church, but he has as yet taken no part in the affair -which has agitated ? the other members, and it is announced that he does not . . Rev. Hindman. intend to do so. At prayer service the other evening if r. ' Hindman denounced one of hi3 elders, Dr. T. M. Hodgman, a professor in the University of Nebraska, declaring declar-ing that views expressed by him at the meeting were at variance with the Presbyterian creed and teaching. The discussion, although spirited, was as nothing, compared with the set-to at the close of the services, when charges of considerable bitterness were flung back and forth. The charges against Mr. Hindman, . co far as can be learned, are world-llness world-llness ad lack of proper attention to pastoral duties, but no specifications are given. Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts was 74 years old last week. In answer to a letter from a friend congratulating him on his excellent health, Mr. Hoar said: "I am thoroughly thor-oughly over that disease known a being 73 years old." , CfAe Greatest Irishman. There is something of a controversy In England a to who was the greatest great-est of three' great Irishmen the late Lord Chief Justice Russell, Lord Duf-ferin Duf-ferin or Lord Roberts. At the 1898 banquet of the Ulster association in London, Lord Dufferin referred to Lord Kussell as "the most distinguished Irishman of ur feneration." J JAPAi, ri JUNK TREE, has for generations been studied as a fine art, and Is thoroughly characteristic characteris-tic of Japanese aestheticism. About six times as many campaign calls are made for Senator Depew as for any other orator and they come from all parts of the country. The republican campaign committee has not yet arranged Mr. Depew's appearances, ap-pearances, but he will deliver a great many speeches between now and November. No-vember. , Musical Tigeons of TeKin. A picturesque feature of the life in Pekin is the flight of the musical pigeons overhead the city. The thrifty Chinese, unwilling to lose their flocks of pigeons, have invented small whistles or sets of pipes, which they fasten to the tail feathers of their pigeons before liberating them for exercise. ex-ercise. The air rushing through the pipes makes enough noise to frighten away hawks, who would otherwise pounce upon the pigeons. The sound of these "aeollan" pipes is aid to be extremely musical, a "sweet, sad strain" of harmony. |