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Show SOME USES FOR CHEESE. OF TRANSIT IN CHINA. -- THE FAIR MILLIONS. Krlla. portaat Fart. Cheese is so much tin demand this w inter that it is nice to know how to keep a variety in the house at small r!ou Substitute That Art Found expense. Buy an Edam and a large The lu the HI title. The (bluaman pineapple, either of which will keep Then Travel by Water When lie (an The for a long time if necessary buy a pot of Roquefort and a tumbler Jlnrlk.ha. af club house cheese, keeping these in a cool, dry place until needed 'CHINESE TRAV-el- s A dinner menu lie commay by water when pleted bv water crackers and Eoque-fortjhe can, and no won-del- '; dessert. delicious da.li.lty "for" the Ybuds for an' afternoon tea is. the popular rin his country are macaroon spread with thinly sliced J Cheese iTj'jt.rT eery poor, and most sage cheese as a sandwich the traveling ac- - crusts are nire for an impromptu comIFJn C c ojn modations on pany luncheon. They are made from All Sort of of Which STREET CARS UNKNOWN IN LI HUNG CHANG'S LAND. Source rii nlted Whoa 4 Ibo Ian J '5re"5tiCrat'nr bad as the roads. In the southeastern part of the empire there are scarcely any w heeled vehicles. In north China, however, they are very common, particularly in the region arouii J lek in. The Pekin cart shown in this picture is one of the better class of these vehicles. It is better only in respect of the wheels, w hich are often solid and are a great deal heavier even than the clumsy wheels shown here The wheels are attached to a short axle tree, and above them rises a soit of oblong box which is fastened to the axle The passengers sit in this box, whkli is cushioned to alleviate the jolting. Passengers get in or out usually at the front, though sometimes tiiere is a slidu door at the side for their accommodation. All these carts are drawn by one horse and the driver sits as he is shown in the picture. Hundreds of these carts may be hired for a pittance. The discomfort of rid- - FOR. Mllliooalrp'a Ciitfr 44 m twuator 11 U Tvrrn of Oflro 44a Matn a 11a4 m 1 1 -- Itorc Cae. 7 amen g i air. hose great for- tune promises to be vlgUrouM" kmtCnt-j-e- d lot, left wealth estimated at from $10,000,000 to w I hjSCIr OF WEALTH NOW ing lie was a 000,00a renin rkable ilitw-- t sliced oT StHlS "bread" fter- -j rat ion of tlie trimming off the hard crust, Upon these oblongs of bread put a tableby this couutry for spoon of grated cheese and brown native energy and of be in the oven. These the development may slightly tiood English thrift Born in Clogher, County Tyserved hot or cold. cheese is used for Welsh rabbit There rone, Ireland, on Dec. 3, 1831, he came Tial I re tn the l'n ited States instruction at the public and some training in poorly paid employment until he was 19 were all the preparation he had received for his future, when the California are A little be book cheese with a French biscuit for breakfast. Keufchatel and water crackers generally follow the pudding course of an elaborate home dinner menu. Cheese of some description is an important item of the Dutch Supper, which is so common this w inter after the the theater or at card parties. Indeed, the matron who likes to be able to oiler her casual afternoon or evening visitor some simple refreshment pays as much attention this season to her supply of cheese as to that of ei ackers or tea. llrooklyn Eagle. For the Sake of a Drsrljr Loved Daughter. To the late M. L'uruy, the French historian, are due man3' of the privileges France has given to women, lie gold fever broke ont. Fair was a big strong boy, quiet, steady, industrious and determined to succeed. In the spring of 1849 he joined a caravan The about dossing the continent overland pilgrimage completed iu August, he woiktd with pick and pan as a miner for some time, but w itboiit success. Turning his attention to the construction of mills, he fared better, soon demonstrated his superior ability os a mining engineer, and not long after lie had attained his majority he was in charge of important mining operations as the general manager of the famous Oplnr mine in Nevada. In 1S57 he was npcrinteudenl of the lFch in the tom-stocHale and lode, and liis wealth was accumulating mpidly. Mr. Flood became liis paitncr, and later tiie hnn was increased by the association with it of Maehav and U'hricn The Bonanza" firm obtained control of mines which soon became known as the ( dated and Virginia." and which paid moro than SlOO.OlHUKU in dividends in three rears. Mr. Fair did not continue to devote himself to mining. He invested freely and variously in California, principally injreal estate in San F'rancisco, and also in railroads, ranches, and mills, conducting his ventures with so much business sense that his enormous fortune continued to steadily increase. Hard work and business anxiety had told upon him in 1880, when, by the advice of his physician, he made a tour of the world. U pon liis return he was elected a senator of the United States The suc from the state of Nevada. cessful mining operator was not an DuringJhis six impressive senator. years of service he made but two speeches one a testimonial of respect to the memory of Senator Miller of California and the other advocating the passage of a bill to settle the claim of A. 11. Emory for a testing machine, the value of which Mr. Fair had learned by experience. The Bonanza senator made no display of his great Personwealth while in Washington. ally he was just a plain retiring man, sensitive to opinion, conscious of his to adapt himself to the inability whirl of which he became but a small part, very indifferent to political ambition, ami sincerely glad yhen his senatorial career ended. liis wife, M rs. Theresa Fair, sought a divorce from him in 1881, after they had bee'tf Mr. Fair married twenfy-on- e years. did not oppose the divorce and amicably agreed to a settlement which gave to Mr Fair a large share of his estate. Mr Fair died in 1891. The children are Mrs Herman Oelrichs of New York, Miss Virginia Fair and Charlie Fair. Mr. Fair's will, filed for probate the day of his death, left the bulk of his property to be divided among his children, and gave liberal k onsoli-Callforni- a A PEKIN ing in them is about equal to that of the elevated roads during the crush hours. A more comfortable way to get over the ground is in sedan chairs. There are two kinds, both of which are shown in the picture. The narrow-soris made of bamboo, and oftentimes it is too narrow for the comfort of any one with the slightest tendency to obesity. To add insult to Injury, the uncomfortable fat person is not permitted .to ride in the wider chair CART. decided that women who could pass successful examinations in medicine had as good a right as men to become doctors; he instructed professors of the College of Medicine to encourage women students; he licensed public classes for women who wished to receive as good an education as their brothers, thus starting the movement for lycees for young girls that are being organized throughout France, and he bad the Sorbonne classes opened to women, lie also sat to a woman, Miss Nellie Jacquemart, for his portrait, which afterward won a place of The moving honor in the salon. sprihg of his action in all this was the love he had felt for his dead daughter and to pay a tribute to her memory. All In One Ton of CoaL From one ton of ordinary gas coal may be produced 1,500 pounds of coke, gallons of ammonia water, and 240 pounds of coal tar. By -- destructive distillation the coal tar will yield 69.8 pounds of pitch, 17 pounds of creosote, 14 pounds heavy oils, 9.5 pounds of naptha yellow, 6.1 pounds of naptha-line,4.i- 5 pounds of napthol,2.25 pounds solvent naptha, 1.5 pounds phenol, 1.2 aurine. 1. 1 pounds benzine, 1. 1 pounds analine, 0.77 of a pound toludine, 0.46 of a pound anthracine, and 0.9 of a pound toluene. From the latter is obtained the new substance known as baeeharinc, which is 530 times as sweet as the best cane sugar, one part of it giving a very sweet taste to a thousand parts of water. Science. Kellis Grant Rartori a General Favorite. Mrs Algernon Sartoris, nee Nellie Grant, who has elected to live in Washington, is a conspicuous figure in society there and present at all the important dinners and other fashion- 20 TIENTSIN WOMAN IN JINBIKSIIA. to the quality. The common people are prohibited from using this chair, but those who have any sort of privileges may stow themselves away in the commodious ailuir and go teetering along at the rate of four miles an hour. Two men support it on their shoulders, and it is a very convenient, and comfortable article of the sort The jinriksha is an innovation from Japan found almost exclusively at Tientsin and other of the larger treaty ports. It is a great improvement on the wheelbarrow used for carrying people and goods In some parts of the empire, and particularly in the province of Kiangsl This wheelbarrow is propelled just as our ordinary wheelbarrows are, but it has an additional motive force in the shape of a man tugging awsy at A rope in front. Unless he belongs j . THE LATE SENATOR FAIR, number of people in manlegacies to his immediate relatives, and the cities gain their livelihood by to many of the charitable institutions of forms various convey these ning of San Francisco;, without discriminaaneeA They stand at the street corners tion of denominations intimaHarper's the on to start slightest ready Weekly. tion that their services sre wanted. YUKICHI FUQU2AWA. Many of them are the employes of small capitalists, whose money is InSomething About the Greet Commoner Others vested in the conveyances. f JftfHUfco Sedans themselves. own the turnouts ' The Japanese tidsjnonymea of the and their deafer are" hired atlm words And privilliberty, right, ings erected for the purpose, and sn ege, duty and obligation,press them is American who patronize and speech, are said to be productions doubtless reminded of ooV livery of his He introduced public speech, stables. In Canton the men who carry RANT SARTORIA NELLIE 6 which, as exercised in western counthese chairs have s nickname signify- - able functions incident to the fashwas unknown in Japan. Some - ionable season in the national capitaL tries, ng tailless horse a years ago Mr. Fukuzawa and twenty Mrs. Sartoris graciousness, tact, and his followers nsed to gather in a small unaffectedness have added largely to room to practice elocution and oratory. A a Understanding. circle of friends and admirers. The writer was told by the grand old She You must remember that ours her " 'Trad man himself that they nsed to have was a summer engagement BftnL paper screen between the speaker and He That means, if you see any one " Well, old man, how is business? Booming," said the manufacturer the sttdienc of companions and friends, you like better, youll break it Of sporting goods I have just so that he should not feel bashful or Yca" an order for 4,000,000 pair of j fail In courage! Shortly after, when And if I see any one I like - bet" ' printing shoes for the Chinese ter army." there were some who could brave the ' 111 sue you for breach of promise." Indianapolis JonrnaL gaze and attention of the Audience, . a An enormous i 1 ed A- S- small hall w as built on the campus of his school, and there public meetings took place fortnightly. The hall still standA UI serves the same purpose. Oratory, which had its embryo in this humble edifice, has made much progress, and has become a common thing iu that country at present, even to the introduction of fists and blows iu some mass meetings showing that they are quite up to the standard of European, and American assemblies.) Although Mr. Fukuzawa himself is uot an orator of great fluency and eloquence, there is much convincing power and ease in bis Bttarwwtk. with the clearest of or rather lojgic, 'and a kiudly, fatherly, way which draws the attention and comels the respect of his listeners. Of his pupils some have tiecome noted speakers and im !.- - than forty ..of them., thereoccupying seats in the imperial diet, Mr. Fukuzawa as a writer has his own individuality and peculiarities. In some degree he has caused a revolution in this sphere, says Harper's Weekly. In the domain of literature be has also ,y original. It la k ABOUT THOMAS NAST. the H Foisted Out the IT to the Great Firtur Maker of Ho Ua 8uk from Fublte Notion To-da- y, Good Work He Accomplished. -- and to some extent colloquial, but not vulgar. To this might be attributed the great success and large circulation of his works. Ills easy and pleasing style is a great inducement to any reader. Journalistic work was undertaken by the great man later, and the Jiji (Times) stands foremost in reliability of news and in soundness of view a It lias the largest circulatiouof all the important daily papers and ij independent in politics, being neither of the government nor of the opposition. At present he expresses himself through tliis organ, which is managed by his younger colleagues, as au adviser and counsellor to the people and government. There may have been some instances where he was too radical, but this may be considered as a small fault w hen we think of him as an originator lie is not an of ideas and movementA udiuinibtrator, anil thus the details, of management rest w ith those who undertake the execution ' of his suggestions, whether in social or in industrial I 'hemes A Old OF Iliuik is popular, not classical, CHIEF OF THE IROQUOIS. New kork ItnmAU ttko I Fcail CREAT CARTOONIST DAYS GONE BY. o T HAS OCCURRED to many persons ho are familiar with the Influences which procured the overthrow of the corrupt ring of which Tweed was the chief, to com? service rendered by the artist Thomas Nast in that work with what has been done by Dr. Parkhurst in the later revolution. Excepting the fact that both men were prominent in, undertakings of a similr nsturer There la, after, all, little to furnish a,' comparison. Mr, Nast's service was important He represented in the concrete, and by the weapon of satire, the public opinion which W as then making against Tweed and the vulgar thieves by whom he was surrounded. He was able to catch the spirit of the public opposition, and so suggest it by his pencil as to show the publie by cartoon what it was thinking about liis most famous cartoon represented Tweed SB a money bag. With a skill which has never been equaled in this country, Nast converted, by a few strokes of his pen cil, the representation of a bag of gold into a caricature of Tweed's face, and FAMOUS .w . i "'Vz rVU Jy M rs. i f V ''---- j , r -- H rjK: 1 .THOMAS f4'- NAST this expressed week after week what everybody had in his mind, that Tweed had, by his political power and control of the city of New York, been able to make a great fortune for himself. The cartoons were of immense im g portance in thus formulating or public opinion. It has been said that Tweed himself looked upon them as one of the most important in fluences in causing his downfalL Mr. Nast is of European birth, hav ing been born in Bavaria fifty-foyears ago; but he came early to this country, and is one of the- most en thusiastic and loyal of Americana IBs first work as a cartoonist or a sketch' maker for the illustrated weeklies was done before the civil war. He went to England,' and sketched the famous prize fight between Ileenan and Say era, and he also followed Garibaldi tinring the most important of hia en gagementa It was by means of hia pencil that America became familiar with these Important events Coming back to the United States, he became associated with the Harpers, and sprahg into general fame when he began to tell in satire the story of Tweed's eorrnptlon. Be became atill farther known by his illustrated lectures delivered all over the country. Lately Mr. Nast ha mad on or two ventures of hia own in illustrated journalism. He was the first of the great American cartoonists, and pointed the way torKeppier and crya-talizin- ur MBS. HARRIET MAXWELL CONVEBSB. grace end dignity. Her grandfather became a child of the Iroquois nation in 1792; her father. Congressman Maxwell, in 1804, and herself in 1890. She, through adoption, ia a descendant of Red Jacket; therefore has been accorded all the high tribal honors of In 1891 si. t was raised the Seneca to the rank of chief of the Six Nations, and every year since has achieved some special distinction. ABOUT AMERICAN POTTERY. A Field In Which Women Hnvn Benched - the Very Front Book. America owes her first pottery to a woman. The Rock wood, "which la modeled in-d- ay that has to be kept wet while it is being worked upon and is then flowed with a transparent glaze and fire, was founded by Miss Maria Longworth Nicholsnow Mrs. Storer. The Cincinnati pottery, which is made in the same general way, was also founded by a woman a Miss Louise The Chelsea pottery, McLaughlin, which was wrested from the buried past of the Chinese, where it has been lost for hundreds of years, the secret of the famous Ox Blood coloring, the beauty of whose ware, lies in the hardness of the pottery and the marvelous coloring that the glaze takes on, employ a woman decorator, but she merely follow the copies made for The Low pottery is modbj srtistA in clay and then flowed with eled colored glaze The nse of. tile for decorative purpose is rapidly on the increase In this country. The first building to be tiled In this country was the Fulton bank of New York. When the 5,000 Limogee underglaze tiles contracted for were in the kiln in the crucial hour of firing the pottery caught fir and was burned down. It was supposed that of course every tile would be lost, but the ruins fell about the kiln and preserved it, and only a few tile did not come out perfect. 0 Th Teat ta Com. ( Mr. Meadow I hear there's a great religions revival In your town. Descon Cornvllle Well, the meetin's air crowded, an hundreds air prayin fef gruce, but Its a leetle too soon to Judge yet. Wait till w begin pa&sin the contribution box " G 111am. SIO. CIOLITTL Th limit Ii-Frl- m Minister Who Vow Coder ArrML I The Issue of a warrant for tha arrest of Italy, of Sig. .Giolitti, an emphatic reminder that tha Italian It ia scandals are far from finished. now are that they clear, however, about to take another direction. Their latest development, says . the New York Herald, has arisen ont of the action of Sig. Giolitti in aubmitting to the chamber of depntlc certain paRomans pers relating to the Banca Modal X.'- IN FOLK LORE. Woman Owon, Worth Know In. Mb Mary Alicia Owens of St. Joseph,-Mo,- , is .one of tha first folk lurists of the world. I was. I am, she says, a folk lorist born, nut made. I live in the finest possible field for folk lore, where superstitious black, red and of a piebald nature abound. At first I absorbed all of this without considering that I was acquiring material Charles U. Leland at length made it known to me that I waa a folk lorist I had already written considerable, and one day I sent Mr. Leland some tales that seemed to be remnants of hia Algonquin legendx On hia finding that had an extensive collection of the same, he urged me to publish them, and the result was my first book,1 Old Rabbit, the Voodoo. I am the only while voodoo in existence, says Miss Owens, further, and was initiated with all.due solemn- - : ity some years ago. Perhaps my being 'descended from the seventh eon of a seventh eon ha something to do. with my o easily winning the confl Ml Indian. Harriet Maxwell Converse enthe universal distinction of being, joys a chief of a tribe of Indians, notably the Iroquois nation In her handsome street, apartments in West Forty-nint- h New York, there are ample evidences of the fact that she is a favored child of the tribe. Mrs. Converse is a remarkable woman,- - talented, and, besides all this, a geniuA From her great grandfutber, who was in early youth adopted by the Indians, she inherits an intense Interest in the Indian race, and her power over tribes as well as individuals is that of something more than, chief, the title she bears with such later against Giolitti to create a scandal and a stormy sitting, with overwhelming accusations against the ministry, and so to get a surprise vote, under which it was hoped that the ministry would resign, and then, with a new cabinet, dependent more or less on the radical vote, the whole affair would be put out of sight and remembrance, burying Crispi at least Big. Gjplitti the year before lost his nerve and resigned before the vote, but this time Crispi was in the mood to fight, and he did not shrink from th measure required to control the excite- Bient . j Parliament was suddenly prorogued after Crispi had denounced the papers as a mass of lies and slanders, and information was lodged with the pub-li- e prosecutor charging Deputies Gio- litti and Mszzini and big. Martuseelli. the official who had inspected the books of th Banca Roman, with forgery. It ia to be observed that the charges against big. Crispi do not seem to be based upon original document" at all, hut rather upon note appended to certain transaction of the Banca Romans by Mazzini and Martuseelli Moreover, the committee of five appointed to examine the papers came unanimously to the conclusion that they do not contain a particle of real evidence beyond what refer to one or two undisputed transactions between Sig. Crispi and tho bank, which were of a perfectly legitimate character end were thoroughly investigated long ago. Party spirit, however, runaao high in Italy that the chamber was not in a condition to take a dispassionate view, and a prorogation was resorted to in. order to give time for angry passions to cool down and to v ntilate the charges completely. Sig. Giollltl left Italy hurriedly as soon as the storm burst. Mmrr Allrlm MISS MART ALICIA OWKNA deuce of the folk.' By the way, 1 paid a long visit to the Potlowatomies, Klckapoos, Sacks and Iowas this past It summer, during their corn dance was a great sight Miss Owens is a member of the En- glish, Italian, Hungarian, American and Chicago folk lore aocietiea She also belongs to the famous Viking club. Besides her published volumes, she has read many notable papers before folk lore aocietiea, tha most meat- -' v arable, perhaps, having been at the International Folk Lore congresses, held in London in 1891, and in Chi' cago in 189L Miss Owens has Says Mr. Leland; given to folk lore many, of the most -valuable and original contribution that hate yet been made. -- - Ma snd Womca ta New York, These papers, it was understood, had census reveals some cnrlou.. ' The come into Sig.Giolittl'i possession when facta about the distribution of New he was prime, minister. The docu- York's excess of women. New York ments were referred to a committee city has 20,000 of them; Brooklyn, 17, 000; Albany, 5,500; Troy, 5,000; Utica, 8.000; Rochester, 4,000; Syracuse, 1,10a They are all, practically, in the larger cities of the state, the one exception being Buffalo, which baa 4,000 more men than women. It wonld be interesting to know more about these 4,000 superfluous Buffalo men, whether they are Polacks, Italian lake sailors, canal boatmen, or merely Uvely young bachelors from the country in the western part of the state who have gone to Buffalo to seek their fortune New York city's business opportunities, which attract 'crowd of men, seem to attract quite aa many women. Yet the excess of women in New York is comparatively amalL The city has women to every forty-fou- r forty-fiv- e men, while Brooklyn haa twenty-si- x BIO. eiOUTTL women to every twehty-fi- v men, and for examination and were found to con- Troy eleven women to every ten men. it happen that in the sutain paper Implicating Sig. Crispi in a Why should nearest New York counties transburban financial number of disgraceful more men than women-- It The object aimed at waa the IhefextiautiFbe action wonld seem that of the overthrow of Sig- - Crispi, and it seem drawn by the metropolis to population this end of the that pecuto be generally agreed State the unmarried men wonld the were liar manner in which the paper nearly all live in the cities, and the classified and selected gave evidence dwellers in the suburb would for the of a atrong desire to blacken the pre- most part be people with familte Yet the suburban counties all show an exmier's character. cess of men 1,300 in Westchester, as same that waa the The scheme 1,700 in Richmond, and 2.300 la Queens. and employed in 18?i Bgalnat Crispi, 1 si-- y . |