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Show LIFE OF TOTS OF MIXED BLOOD itcrctlng -- i ChlckenKillifljr Lynx SL j In New York County After Numerous and Cot! rj Depredations Had Long Terrorized I .Neighborhood, Study Medc In Kindergarten in the American Metropolis Where little Chinese Children Are Taught Their Obedience to aa census the child- CCORDIXG unot-flcla.- 1 ren of New York' Chinatown number about 100. Thia census waa taken In shop. at the achoola and with the help of the atrajr Chine guides who are alwtya ready to give Information and lead strangers to the different polnta of Interest in that peculiar part of Manhattan. not only These 100 children the pure blooded Chinese, but also those at mixed parofiiage Irish and Chine, Italian and Chlnere or American and Chine. It is interesting to atudy the combi nations of race The American and Irish traits in nearly every Instance predominate over the Chinese, while with the children of Italian and Chinese parent the r;ml-larttof complexion and coloring of hair and ryes make It difficult to them from the pure blccdod Chinese. It Is not an easy matter to find the children of Chinatown. The time and place must be chosen well They do pot run wild in the atreete like the children of other tenement district Especially ta thia true of the children of pare Chinese blood, who are, na a general thing, carefully housed. The children of Chinatown nr sot early risers. They ar unlike the American child in thf na In tunny ether respect. The aaytng Early to bed and early to rise' la without Meaning to them. The Chinee work 1st end play late, rarely retiring before 1 or I oclock in the morning and sleeping well Into the day. The children nr not excluded from the work or the play, and consequently on aeeka la wain for Jhem in the morning bourn. They ar still In the arms of the Chines Morpheus. Perhaps the best place of all to atudy them la In the schools, for they re elusive little creatures and on moat get them where there la little hope of escape. There ar two In Chinatown. One hold It session la the late morning hour, the other only In tb after noon. At the first one you are Introduced to Wing Quong, Bessie Wing, Kay Guey, Ka Son and the also ran" Wing Quong engage special tot crash Wing to to ha sent to Chinn at the request of relatives to remain until ha la IS. He la now about T and ooka serious enough at the prospect M tha coming separation from bla rel- !1tm sad Mv.hool chums. ' The first question the American toman visitor la sure to ask relates, if course, to the Chinese feet, for In b feminine mind the bound foot la is closely associated with Chinese justoms ns the opium pipe la In the masculine. She la assured that tha gnatom has gone out with the fashion of yesterday. The costumes of this school are as hybrid aa the children. The American dress prevails. There are funny Uttle trousers which have a home-madlook and awaken doubts In the minds of aa to tha direction the the tookere-oWearer will take. The Jacket are of any shape or atyls, dependent apparrather ently on charitable Impulse than set Ideas. But If one ha n keen tense of humor, ta well at of pathos, one visit the afternoon tchool. It ere thould children come to costume liu-lud- e The afternoon session opens with prayer la Chinese and some hymns are sung, sometime In Chinese, someThe prayer and time la. English the occasional hymn are the only Chinese spoken In the school. It la a source of great grief to the Chinese Inhabitants that there Is no place where the children can be taught their own language, but no such mUooI ex 1st la Chinatown. The children have wonderful memories, they are great iuntatoi. Tell them a story, sing them a song, and they will repeat both parrot like and "-- y e n 'I y 3 A Little Flower of Chinatown, memorise what would be lmpoeslbl to an America child of the same ago Bat their reasoning and standing and thinking faculties are not developed. There the American .child has the advantage. The Chines home consist usually of three rooms, the front room la which the Idot la, the general Uvtog room and the bedroom. The Cbtneae women are, generally speaking, good housekeepers, and neatness and ordar pro-tai- l. The children nr so obedient that they seem hardly human to the American observer used to different manners, but the Coniuclon discipline still prevails and the pert, precocious, disobedient child la unknown to Chinatown. Just what form of discipline has brought about this result, who can say 7 One Chinese child admitted that he waa whipped when be was bad, but the American teachers say that they never see the children punished. But whatever the method It la efficacious and ta earnestly recommended to mothere of different creeds New York Sun. and Disorders In Court Some years ago there was a very dignified old fellow elected Justice of the Peace in one of the township of Berks county. This elevation cauaed him to look for certain degree of deference on the part of ell with whom be came In contact and at any shortcomings ta this respect he would show marked Irritation. One while walking along his dignity was ml fled by one of a group of boys addressing him rather familiarly. Young man, 1 fin you f$ for contempt of court," said the provoked Justice "But. Judge, the court 1 not la session." Interposed the youth. , This court la always In session," said the other emphatically, and consequently always an object of con- tempt" A French Dog Story. ;ME ENDS The following dog story la vouched for by the Petit Parisien as true: A lady named Mm. Amelle Hongr went out yesterday morning for a walk In tha Avenue de Cllchy, taking with her a toy terrier, which eh held by a string. While ah waa looking Into a shop window two mlschevloua boyt substituted a bone for the dog. A Great Dan then appeared on the scene, and, seeing the hone, made a dash end (wallowed It, string Included. The lady turned round, and. to despair, cried out that the Qreat Dan had eaten her pet The Uttle dog was found later on, much, to the. Joy ot Ml. mistress, who carried him off In a cab. - HE ONLY really animal that evar lnv ed New York city hi own.fr ae wlll lx r' j, iq more. For a month aad i a half the people of I Tremost, Hlghbridge, Fordbam and of Westchester county of. a in general have been victim strange apparation consisting for th moat part of two green eye peering out of strange nooks and corners In the dark toys and accompanied by vigorous attacks of imagination on the pait of the victims. The first thing that was known of the lynx waa when the ben roosts of IPgbbrfilRc were robbed and the mangled bodies of rhithena left half eaten. Then polh emeu at the Hlghbridge station, pa ing long and lonely beats along the-- swamps, woodland paths of the Bronx, came in and side-hill- s with Complaints that they had felt all night as though some oue were following them and staring at them from behind trees and rook. They had turned again and again to see who waa shadowing them, but never taw anything. Old Adirondack guides would bare smiled at tbese reports and said "Lourifees!" This la tha back country name for the lynx, an animal that growi aa large aa a big and abort dog and has a hob-tai- l prick ears with tassels on them. Tha lynx when hungry will attack a man, and a big one will make trouble for him if he le unarmed. on the line of On night a motor-matrolley running up Jerome avenue earn In with a story of a atrange animal that leaped out of the darkness at Featherbed lane and clung dee perately to the fender of the car for S minute, falling off Into the street aa! yX acaje and was at large. But the bear does not leave a carcass In that way. . When Bruin kills a sheep prarabblt he eats, it and leaves the skin carefully rolled up on the ground as though be thought it a shame to waste what h could not eat and politely left It. for the owner. When reporters went into the mye terious Bronxland to investigate these stories they generally came back empty banded. Bnt sure it is that there have been continued rumors of a mysterious wild animal at large thete. And the strangest part of it Is that 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 00000000600000000000000000 t - Do You Want Some? full-grow- n When You are In need of DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES Co to the: " CASH BARGAIN STORE COALVILLE. UTAH g snow-stor- cold-thril- ll - A Bid for Election. Raymond Bayle, a candidate In the French - Parliamentary -- election, ha sent the following letter to the voters, of Valance: My Dear Fellow Citixons: 1 am a1 bachelor. Should you have the good fortune to elect me aa your representative, I will choose my wife from the community which gives me the most votes. I will also give a bachelor dinner to all my electors. In the case of two different communities plumping for me equally, I will give the dinner to the one and marry a girl from the other ' Point Overlooked. Superintendent Smith of the Manhattan elevated road was showing a Western railroad man over, tb sys, Tv' tem the ether, day. When they ctra ; to the Junction. t Ninth avenue and . Fifty-Thirstreet the Chicago man reevident astonishment: with marked, Half end Half, end there ate tnaiiy interesting sights ,y dont see any derailing awitchea to prevent collisions." for the student of human nature. 'Great Scott man." exclaimed the This schoolroom Is on the ground How Most Chickens Go. floor. U la decorated with garlands Manhattan man, do yon consider how, of evergreen and colored papers and far a derailed train would have to niysterlous animals la the Lord Angleseys Scented Car. timid parents living among the ma . Lorg Anglesey is credited with befa very bright and cheery When the drop?" land of Westchester refused to teacher la not there cpt.rae, as someing the pioneer rf the Idea of a low their children to go out at ni . Priests Go en Strike. times happens, Annie makes a very scented motor car. Thus when he goes ha Perhap It was as well.it wag, A sfrcwaf strike, pf priest good cicerone. abroad a hi car. Instead of the fume Llabonu" men talk at West Farms that cr Annie ta the oldest pusm' hd is a taken place at a Wary at the gasoline or some other noxious had of wolves the of a a from member escaped She th Three rvllgloo fairly tali. p!easant-kkin- g girl. priests, 0(pr feeing left to his train, there tx confides that her parentage Is mixed congregation, were suspended. where- park and pow and then people Urs fraffrance of eau de Cologne. - nely farm houses-- wt and that her mother la Irish. Her upon others. In sympathy with them, in M'illiasj bridge found the mangled toly of, last name Is Lee In deference to her declined to act till, their colleague petrofeum In Burmah. father,1 Thch!!dren at mixed par- were pardoted. Their anterior are cat beside the road, torn and d rifty million gallons of petroleum difficulty routed In a frightful manner. entage have usually two names, the much embarrassed and the produced to Burmah and Assam Fordham people said that a has cot yet been solved. flrvt game given by the mother. year- -- t t0 o 0 Probable Cause of Trouble, since Grant Zanr, n farmer at a place called Chestnut Ridge, six or seven miles from hlUr Plains, is said to have caught a genuine and lynx In a trap a week ago there have been no more cat or chicken murder In Westchester and no mere stories of in. mysterious animals have, com They say Zarr came down to Whit Plains with the story that his chicken roost had been robbed of thirty fowls and that ohe had been eaten while the rest were torn to pieces and left scattered about. He set a trap for a weasel and caught a big lynx. It took three rifle balls to kill him. As no lynx hav been killed In Westchester for many years and as the animal is extinct In that part of the state, it la now believed that this was the mysterious animal that worked south from tha North Woods Into the very outskirts of Greater New York, and even shadowed some of Cohlmlsaioner Greenes finest in an able and uncomfortable " manner. After an Investigation that led the reporter on many wild goose chases, the report be makes to the city desk The Fabled Monster. ; is that he found many people who had a with , disappearing been told and "had heard and street a screech. Featherbed lane Is who "thought" there was a wild anirunning from Jerome nvenue west to mal loose In the Bronx, and that it U Washington bridge, and la a rustic, generally believed that the creature but beautiful place in dry weather, On the night of the first this year the night watchman pacing his lonely beat among the cages in the New York xoologlcal park found the lynx cage the scene of activity. "Tha two animals were to 'he wide awake aad appeared watching the faraway fence of fit park. Once in a while they wosld sniff the air and utter their fierce, l cry. This was followed by a chorus from the wolves, foxes, the bird - cages and the chatter of the awakened monkey In the primates house. The timid deer on the rentes shrank into their houses. The sat morning a man living in One Hundred and Eightieth street found a larp, track trailing through the enow clear around the park. It came down de Boston road, across Klngsbridga, tp the Boulevard, and back up peibaa avenue. This man had once been boy among the Franklin county hHlt to Maine, and he thought he knev the track. He expected to hear tin one of the lynx from the park bed Heard the told-ThriScream, escaped, but Inquiry proved that Bote bad green eye. The cate on the backhad. yard fences of Fifth avenue hav After the. printing ot the stories green eyes at night, But the Bronx breathe easier since Grant Zarr shot his lynx. N. 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