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THE. OREGON J SUNDAY j6URNAli.I3?ORTINIV ; : SUNDAY;: MORNING, JULY '-7J. 1S07,' ;M':,JOv .;,0- attae emmiscences of 4 Trolley IN Br John Kendrlck Bangs. (Copyright, 17, by Joseph B. Bowles.) . .-m ATURALLY beln' a red'rei or 44 1 I flceholder," Mid the poatmM tar, plastering the cut In his thumb with a 1-csnt lUmp, "I ain't t: ":ln' any aid In thla here question aa to whether a hungry chipmunk really could bit tha heart out o a bull mooae or not I'm here to aell postage atampa and to aee that no thlrd-claat matter goes out that ain't lit readln' fer the young. But I hev my opinion on the subject, which, protected by the aacred confldenee of theae here gatherln'a around the stove, I don't mind aayln' la wholly faVrable to the president o' the United States. I don't believe the chipmunk could do It not from the outalde, anyhow." Them'a my aentlmenta." aald 81 Wotherapoon. "I'm a Democrat, but In thla emergency I a tend by the admin-. titration. "He mlaht ha' done It from the In aide, ' continued the poatmaater, but not from the outalde. If that there chaplain o' the ' Nature Fakirs' union had jm Id that hla chipmunk had found lull mooae lyln aaleep aomewhere nia mourn open ana nsa run down nroai an nmnea nim nv tha hurt. an' then anawed nia war out uruln T in i s-sayin dui wnai meDoe it mignt of happened." "What you talkln' about, Joe?" put In the captain. "It warn't a chipmunk an a bull mooae. It waa a woodchuck an a carioon. n' I aay without no an- K Jhls i 9 aire to curry faror with the prealdent that the thing never happened, became woodchuck ain't what they call a gae tronomlc animlle." "That'a a new one on me," aald 81 s Wotherapoon. "I thought gastronomy had aomethln' to do with the moon and the stars." Jackass Pdetry. "Haw-haw!" laughed the captain. 'That aaatronom.v. St. When we aee a Jackaaa brayln' at the moon, he's got aastrononilc longinga in hts breast, an' la blattin' out all of the poetry he knows. Gastronomy Is the aclence of eatln' meat, an' woodehuclcs don't eat nothln' but greon things, like cabbages, an' lettuce, an' graas. I did aee one. tryln' to eat a waterln' pot once, beln" deluded by Its color Into thiakln1 It waa aome new-fangled kind ' salad, bat be g1a It up-when he'd, got through tha paint, an' found tha thing made o tin, .rA.ny?l?w ",nfe woodchucks don't aat meat, its few-tUe to aay that one of -"' "irwi ine carinou from hla bow uu. ruoa nia throat with hla hind legs. sj'. steadyln' htaaelf by holdln' on to hla tall with hla forepawe. bit hla I in WD. I WOUlAn'f hAllAM 1 .... It ? r r naa arter-davyg from all .... ujun m lQa worm rroro oia row hattan down to them college boya that cornea to the Ine-lenook anmtnar life hldjeoue with their Co 2"nc,n". TJla and aonga about their Bonnie lyln' over the ocean." "I'm arlad to hear vnH ik aa vmi dp. captain." aald the poatmaater. oom plaeently. "Aa the repreaentatlve of the United Statea govment In theae P.".V" 1 ,ort 01 delicate po sition In rerarrl to thla anlmlla laaua I want 10 Da loyal tn th' nr.Mant an1 at the same time I hat to aarrlflp nar. auuai inrnoinin on in airara nr nniitiAa It's nice to know that Irreeneetlve of pany rinauons we are united In tha support of our peerleaa leader at wasn "Hold on. Jna" uM tha rafttath nnt ting hla hand gently on the arm of tha postmaster. "Better save all that peer leaa leader stuff for the heat of a p'llt Ical campaign. It goea better on the atump than from the top of a barl o' prune In time o' peace. 'Taint good policy to turn on the gas afore you're ready to light It" "we don't see many caribou around here theae days," aald 01 Wotherapoon, aa a aort of relief to the situation. Sapphlra the Caribou. ManyT" laughed the poatmaater. 1 gorry, ye don't aee none. I ain't aee one for ao long that I don't know 'a I'dknow 'twas a caribou if one of 'am ahould walk in here an' aak for a plug o' terbacker." "They ain't been none for 10 Tears." aald the captain, moodily. "SaDDbira waa the last one." SaoDhlraT" asked SI Wotheraooon. and the poatmaater In one voice. i "iep, aald the captain. "Sapphlra. waa the net caribou of mine that I used to keen out on the farm. Ha waa I the uaefuleat animlle I aver aee. an It' alwaya been a wonder to me that oon elderln' their Intelligence an' e'ceptlbll- uy 10 irainin ror tne uaerui ocevna. tlona o' life they ain't been no aclentiflo move to domesticate 'em." "I never knowed re had a nat pari. bou. Cap." said the poatmaater, with a wink at me. "Where'd ye git hlmf 'I caught him youna un in Penob- acot." replied the cantaln. "Lemma sea I think it waa In th winter o' 1896 I waa up on the Penobscot loaerln'. It waa a terrible cold winter. The anow waa tnutty feet deep moat everywhere an' loggln wasn't no game fer a dancin' master, I can tell ye: but we had to do.lt Just the same. I went ud with Ha Woa-ley an' old Jim Wotherspoon Bl'a uncle up at Bangor. Wogley he disappeared after the flrst week, but Jim an' me we stuck to It all through the winter. I remember it waa aome where along about the middle of Jan uary that I waa waked up one night by a terrlflo moanln' goin' on in the woods. Jim heard It too, but he waa for for gettln' it. an' goin' to eleep again. I wasn't p'tlcularly Interested about a-et- tln' up an' goin' out to helD nobodr yself, seeln aa how It waa anowtn' feather beds, an' the th'mom'ter ao low ye could hear the mero"nr ellrkln' against the bottom o' the glasa bub. But I got up an' went out Just the same, fer the voice sounded sorter like He Woggely's, an' I thouaht mehha he'd got a lettle 'shamed o' hlaaelf for goin' off an' leavln us in th' lurch, an' waa tryln' to get back, an' been overtook by the storm. Bo, 'a I aay, I got up, an' put on my duds an' went out with a v aVw?5r ''ea-JeVi.w Xi H If i II m m m m mm w m -e w yy v lantern callln' out: Heal O Hex! They waan't any anawer at first an' after lookln' around I started back, when I waa si most frote by a blood-curdlln' groan from the distance. Thla time It kep' up, until I waa able to trace it down the trail to a place where the treea were thlcker'n usual, an' there I found Bapphira." "uood name, that," aald the poatmaater. Imprisoned by Horns. "Howd ye know . hla name waa Sap- phlrar asked 81. He dldn t hand ye hla vlsltin' card did he?" "No," aald the captain, undisturbed bv the Insinuation. "I named him Sapphlra myself because he'd deceived ma into thinkln' he waa Hex Wogley. But there he waa, a prieoner. He'd ketched his horns In the trees, an' he couldn't get 'em loose, an' by alow de grees the heavy snow that was fallln' j waa covertn' him up. By the time I got 1 to him he was buried up to hia neck. An hour more, 'n he'd been out o' sight" "Poor feller," said tho postmaster, aym pathetically. "Yon come along Juat in time, aa usual, didn't you Cap?" "Precisely," said the captain. "Just in time, for as 1 upled him he fainted. His strength was tmed up, and he waa all in. The first thing I did waa to take out my saw an' saw off the branches that had ketched him by the horna, an" then I took my shovel an dug the snow away, so'a when he come to he'd be all rlf?ht. When I'd got that done, seeln' that he waa pretty nearl ly frose stiff, I built two bonfires out o' driftwood on both sides of him. dashed a cup n' cold wnler In his face, an' rut his feet higher 'n his head, which Is th" best tiling to do when anybody faints. It restorea the clrcy lation o' the blood. Hlmcbv he come to, an' I Just sat there an' hrld his hoof In my hand, an' patted him kind of affec tionate on his neck, nn' scratched his forehead like ye would a kitten's, an' the first think I knowed he was purrln' away juet like he liked It He actohally licked my hand, an' his poor tongue was so di v it took the skin off. so I pulled out my flask full o' Duhsworth unfer mented rye tonic, and dllutln' it with a handful o' snow, poured It down hlit throat, an' he turned over an' went to aleep like a baby. Gratitude of a Caribou. "Well, air," aald the caotaln, address ing me after a pause, "from that time on that caribou was mine. Talk about gratltood beln' a human virtue! Ye needn't tell me that carlboua properly treated ain't got It strong. When morn ln" come an Sapphlra waked up, he come trottln' along to where I was chop pin' down treea, an' from that time on ye couldn't get him to leave me; an' useful! Oee, but he beat everything! To begin with, when we'd got a cord o' wood all chopped up, an' ready to be hauled away, we didn't have to wait fer the team. We'd Juat pile the stuff up on Sapphlra's horns a hull cord at a I time an' he'd scoot alone with It to where the big aledgea and atone boats I waa atandln' an' m it ahnar1 without loaln a atlck. Then we'd naa them horna to hang things on. Dinner palla, bverooats, hata anything we'd ordi narily hang on a tree, so that when It come time to eat Instead of havln' to hont up the tree where our thtnge waa hanging we'd whistle to Sapphlra, an' he'd come bouncln' along like a happy achoolboy playln' he waa workln'. Ex cept on one occasion he waa of great help to Jim and me, an' conslderln' how much he done for us takln' the hull sea son through, we forgive him hla one little departure from the paths of rec titude. "Te ee when night come on. with the thermom'ter regiiterln' all the cold It could, en' pleadin' for aeven or eight more lnchaa & degrees to git at the real truth, Jim an' me used to let Sapphlra come into the cabin an' sleep on the floor 'longslde of us. An' I tell ye he waa better 'n a atove. Tho amount of animlle heat he give out would ha' turned a steam radiator green with envy, an' ye didn't have to keep tendin' to it either. No gettln' up a 4 o'clock In the mornln' to put another log in the atove. No goin out into the woods after klndlln' to git things started. No plpea freetln' one minute, an' buatln' the next. All we had to do waa to draw up a leetla closer to Sapphlra an' ferglt It twasn't summer. The only trouble was that Sapphlra was altera hungry, an' one mornln' while Jim an' me waa aaleep he caught sight y the straw an' hay stlckln out of a bole tn Jim's mattress, an' when we woke up he'd eat up pretty nearly all the atuffln' In Jim's bed. Jim was Dretty mad about it at first, an' wanted me to give him a good larrupln". an' aort o' harped on It all day, but the next night when Sapphlra eat my mat tress, too, he come down off hla ro venreful nerch an' thought It was a pretty good Joke." Did Chores on Farm. "Ain't It funny how the Joke on the other feller's altera a good one?" aald the poatmaater. "Yea," aald tne captain, some joaes allera funny, an' aome ain't. Ilow- Bomever. Sapphire stuck to us all win ter, and by Jlngs if he didn't foller me home when I come back, an' for three years he atayed mere on my rami doln' more chorea than any 10 hired men an' a team. He'd haul the plow for me Juat like a hoss or an ox. When the hay waa cut he'd go out an' toss It with them horna o' hla like he had a dnsen pitchforks onto hla head. Him an' me together could load four wagons with hay while the hired men waa tam- ln' how to load one. An' patlentl My goodness that feller Job waa a victim of the brain storm habit alongside o' Sapphlra. My wife used to make him stand out In the sun for six to ten hours a dav with tableclothe an' sheets a-dryin' on his horns, an' he never even give a algn of not Ilkln' It; and when my grandson waa born we used to wing him In a hammock between two o Sapphlra a antlers, ana that there caribou would rock him to and fro for hours, without stampln' his foot or fivln' an impatient wriggle of hla tall, tell ye. I'll never have another pet like Sapphlra, caribou or dog." "But what became of him. captain?" I asked. "I ahould like to Bee him." "So ahould I," sighed the captain. "But I never will nor you, either. He's gone forever." The captain brushed the back of his hand roughly over his eyes. "No, sir, ne'a gone forever." he con tinued huskily. "Ye see, the trolley come through the next year, an' I, like a dern fool, gave 'em a right o' way along the back o' my pasture. They told me the track would attract all the Ughtnln' on my place, an' my barn an' house would thereby escape beln' struck, so I give It to 'em, an' about alx months! fftir..uleT 15 I fl11, M gepehtr took It Into hla head one-day to go down an' lnveat gate It. How enV t d2 , It I don't know, but ha waa foolish. wire" 0 Mm horn c"ttMJ, death r 1 Wld" "XnA WM h Slid Off Like a Troflej. '''"" "Not a bit of If aald the eaptaln. "Te couldn't kill old Bapphira with', nothln' like eeleotrlolty. He was too trong for that. What did happen waa) wuaa. The minute hla horns got hooked on tha ' wire the power carried htm awlngin' down the road at a mil a minute. He knew aomethln' queer bad happened the minute he got goin', an' he tried to braoe hlaaelf on the ralla. He put hla off hoofs on one rail and hla nigh hoofs on tha other, an' the first thing he knowed ha was scootln' off down tha track, elidln' along, an' belUr. in' with wrath, Ilka a streak of greased thunder." "You don't mean to say " I began excitedly. ' ' "I mean to say that the last wa seen n' Sapphlra," said tha captain grim I v, "he waa atreakln' along them tracks Ilka a trolley car exoeedln tha speed limit, like he and them had been lied, an' his horna hooked on tha wire, an' no war this side o' Kennebunk or turnln' tha power off. You might's wall her tried to catch a telegram as gat aholt of him, an' after chastn' along for aa hour try In' to ketch up I quit." "And you never heard of hint again? I orled. . "Yes," said the captain. Ther was an account In a Boston paper ot how what they called a Trolley Caribou had been seen scootln' through Salem, $9 miles away, that afternoon, but when I got there and aaked about It I couldn't git no satisfaction. Even the editor of the paper that printed the atory of tha Trolley Caribou said he thought It waa a lie, an' was goin' to bounce the feller that wrote It as a Nature Fakir." The captain rose up and bade us all a sorrowful good night. "I aay, SI," aald the poatmaater after the captain had gone, "I'll give ye a stamp If ye'll writ to your uncle Jim and aak him if that ever happened." "I ain't got his addreas." said Si. - "What! Don't aou know where your! own uncla ljve af 1 .demanded the poet-J master. ' I "Not now," aald El. "He'e dead." "That's a common habit amongst tha captain'a witnesses," growled tha post master. "I hope I don't never aee noth ln' ex-tryordlnary along; with him." Missions Are Worth While on Ceylon's Spicy Isle Br William T. Ellla Vp7ti(ht, 1907, bf Joupb B. Bowler) aOLOMBO. Ceylon. Reginald Heber (hns taught more people than have the gengraphlea that there Is auch V a place aa Ceylon, and he haa de terminer! their Impression of it For everybody knows hla hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountalne," which runs "What though the eplcy breeaes Blow aoft o'er Ceylon'a Isle, Where every proepect pleaaea, And only man la vile." That Is a trifle hard on Ceylon, but It has forever marked this island aa Identified with Christian missions. And thev are here, not so apparent, remaps as the pleasing prospects for thla la a singularly beautiful land, hut still easily discern hie to s seeking eye. The first signs of Christianity In this land of palm, spices and tea are the lofty church splrea of Colombo, the next the etlver crosses aoout tne necas or ae diving boya. The Diving Boys of Colombo. As the ocean liner approaches her moorings she Is surrounded by a fleet t home-made canoes containing native hoys, crying: "Dive! Dive! Ten cents! All right! All right! Dive! Dive!" 'JVnd wonderful little ar.iphiblous animals ung coin clear to the bottom of the rT indulging ma rigni unoer water fnrTaesslon or it. Given opportunity, one or tne lustrous-eyea urcninB wun the sun-bleached hair will dive 30 feet from the shin b rail in pursuit of a coin ,ong after the passengera have wearied of the amusement the boya will atlll surround the ahip with their crlea and teir ort-reneatea song, i a-ra-ra-Doom-de-ay," until the traveler la quite ready to aasent to tho hymnwrltera declara tion that the Singhalese are "vile." These boya are mostly Roman Catho lics, as are nine tenths of the Christiana in the island. So effective haa mission work been that Christians are always in cluded by the natives In any enumera tion of the religions of Ceylon. Ten per cent of the Island's population of 3.600, 000 people la Chriatlan. The prevailing faiths are In thla numerical order: Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedan and Christian. Except for the croases and dcapulars (the natives do not wear clothes enough to conceal their scapu lars) the ChrlstianB may not be known fcy any outward token. In the case of men, they commonly wear long hair and tne como on iop or tneir heads, wnlcn gives them a Mephlatophellan appear ance; the poorer people are naked to the waist or wear only a breech-clout. The same Is true of the tuddhists. The Hindus are Tamils from India, and are smeared on face and body with vari ous sect marks in ashes. The Tamil rlngswomen wear nose rings, bracelets, finger rings, anklets and toe rings. The jUahommedan men wear turbans or fes raps and their women, at least of the better class, go veiled. The Singhalese are a fine-looking, but nomewhat feminine people. With good featurea, an erect carriage and lithe, well-formed bodies, shining in the aun. these aoft-eyed men look like philoao nhers: it is distinctly a shock to find that practically everyone you meet Is either quick to Deg a gratuity or skillful jn cheating you. The children, veritable tiacg cneruDB, run arter your carria-, touching their foreheads -"id crying. io mommer, got no popner. rieaae fer. penny." It is not walling men. ancy: the persistent little beggara are 11 the wlule trying to smile the money it of your pockets. But the spirit of ervllJty seems fireneral; self-respecting JnuepenaeuuD ia a quality cmeiiy nuiuuie )for Its absence. ' 0-eiJkw i iv&wmi$rt msz iw " -i Aim MII.IVS'' ..... MT III I Ib'itMMM W I B WM$h.. IT.. .. as " .. , ,. . "4,, it". .? 1. ymi : V a' S CX.jimnS.nev3XLL university T.M.CA'aS.OF.CEYLo. A False Tooth Worshiped. This Is a center of Buddhism. It is to Kandy. the ancient , capital, that Buddhists make pilgrimages from all pvar the island, and alga from India. Our Buddhist guide naively Informed us that "All the world comes to Kandy every full moon." For at Kandy la the famous shrine containing Buddha's tooth. The tooth that Is annually dis played Is bogus, the original having been taken away and destroyed by the Portuguese, although the temple at tendants deny this. Said one of them: "Of course this is the real tooth, else why would millions of people worship It?'1 This reasoning satisfied him, as It did the other devout worshipers whom I saw at the shrine of the tooth. In this temple there is a rather startling representation, in a series of pictures in colors, of future punishments; it was surprising to find that a warm destiny awalta llara; my experience with Budd hists had led me to believe that there must be a special merit attaohed to lying. In the temple area sacred rabbits were reverently considered; for was not the great Buddha once a rabbit? I saw men worshiping the aacred bo tree, under which Buddha sat and meditated. One of the pictures In the temple waa de scribed as the "Buddha Christ, the Buddha who Is coming again," show ing by the phraseology the Influence that Christlcnlty has bad upon Bud dhism. Here in Ceylon Buddhism is aggressive and mo4erf,..adapting Chrla- tian metnoas. j nus it employs street preaching, Sunday schools. Young Men's Buddhist associations and tract distri bution. - - The Bo Tree and Cricket Match. Ask tha driver of a Colombo ghari to take you to aee a banyan tree and he will drive you to tha Young Men's Christian association grounds, where a large and beautiful specimen of tha fa mous tree shades tho imposing red brick building which represents America's in terest in the , young men of JoloratD. On the other side of the; front of the building la a sacred too tree, which Im parts sanoUty to tha alts, ia tha ayea ot . -a- w . the Buddhists. the association The original location of buildtnsr. riven bv the city, took In thla bo tree, but aa It could not be cut down without a riot, the building waa finally erected between the bo and the banyan treea Better proof of the worth of the as sociation than these environments, in the eyes of the foreign community, at least, la the fact that ita dusky mem bers make such a good showing In athletics. It waa my fortune to see the T. M. C. A. team defeat the proud English cricketers, on the latter's own grounds, to the music of 147 to 62. The Englishman Is a good sportsman and the victory waa greeted with cheers from the clubhouse. The whole altuatlon Is extraordinary, conaldering the white man's attitude toward the native races, and it la a fine tribute to the association. As throwing light on the old charge that native Christians are thieves and liars, and the least de sirable employes, I waa informed that the crack bowler on the association team Is the only native clerk em- filoyed In the government stores who s permitted to go and come as he pleases, without Inspection at the door. A Polyglot Institution. The vigor and popularity of the as sociation in Ceylon are attested by the iaci mat mere are in Drancnes scat' tered over tha island, with 1,260 mem bers, of whom SSO are members of stu dent associations comprising Burghers (aa the half-casters, or Eurasians, are called here), Europeans, Singhalese and Tamila Rellfloualv. these ara itt. vlded Into Par sees, Mohammedana. Buddhists. Hindus and Christians. Tn one of the small branches four man lodge; one of these la a Canadian. Otli I linnrnt Mai trial a Burgher, oaa fcUflgla a&4 qo young Women's Christian AjsoolaUon Tamil. Altogether, the association pro vides residences for 22 men. A strong Doay or leading European residents di rect the work, and there are many Eu ropeans in the membership, but these are such principally from altruistic mo tives; the membership that enjoys the privileges of the association la clearly native. I found the reading-room and restaurant and gameroom being well patronized. The distinctively religious work Is well developed, 14 weekly classes for Bible ptudy being main tained. A young Canadian, Mr. C. A. Adams, of Mapill university. Is the sec retary In charge of the V, M. C. A. work throughout the Islands. Young Women's Mission Work. It is somewhat noteworthy that in this old and famous mission field so prominent a place should be occupied by those modern organizations, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Assocla tion. Of the latter there are 13 branches in. Ceylon, Miss Campbell of Kandy, an English young woman, be ing general secretary. A young woman from Iowa, who was for some time sec retary of the Y. W. C. A. at German town, Pennsylvania, Miss M. F. Cross, la In .charge of the association in Co lombo. In a charming palm-shaded bungalow a home is provided for young women, and a social and religious center maintained. While more than a little social work is done among young wom en, the success of the religious depart ment has overshadowed all else. - Four teen weekly Bible olasses for young women. 12 in. English, one In Singha lese and one In Portuguese, are main tained in Colombo 'Slone. The refined. atmosphere of the work commends ner. peculiar man Dusky Salvation Army Lassies. Like, and yet unlike, home are the native Salvation Army lasses, in the fa miliar red waist and wearing the nickel shield badge, whom one meets in Cey Ion. They do not, however, wear the hideous poke bonnet, but, like all na tive women here, go bareheaded. In traveling into the interior one flnda them at almost every station offering, with the melting smiles that make all Singhalese women attractive, a sub scription book. In lieu of the "War Cry." The report Is that very good work is done by the Salvation Army among the lower classes of natives: thev make an Impression upon the higher castes. Caste obtains here, as in India, and is a barrier in religious work. The schools do more than a little to over come It. while these articles are con fined to American and Canadian mis sions, the excellent work done by the many British societies Is met with at every turn. Most of the missions that dot Ceylon are British; it is to their praise that there ia verv little criticism of missions here, and moat of that is a mere echo of the prejudice against missions which exists tn the world of travel. The educational side of mis sionary service has been emphasised; there is less need for medical missions than In some other lands. This is a British crown colony, and the govern ment maintains a system of medical dispensaries, these being, by the way, a development of medical missions. The only two missionary hospltala in Cey lon are maintained by the American board at Jaffna. Breaking Down Caste Lines. It is claimed that "India's coral strand", is really at Jaffna, northern Ceylon,' where tha; coral formation is extensive. 4 Probably that had nothing to do with tha planting at Jaffna, 0 ond oldest mission. Thla mission, the only strictly American one on the la land, waa established in 1828, and it haa maintained a successful existence ever alnce. In truth, ao soundly ee tabllshed and reputable has Christianity become that one of the missionaries oomplalned to me that the church mem bers are in danger of becoming worldly, Juat like church members at home! The oldest mission school for girls is at Jaffna, having been In continuous existence since 1823. It now hss 200 girls in dormitory. The students are chiefly high-caste natives, aa are most of the Christians, and recently a nota ble victory haa been won by the mis slonaries In requiring the hlgh-caate pupils to associate closely, on a basis of equality In all things, with a number of low-caste students who have been admitted. In the school there are no cHte lines whatever. Despite this fact, and despite the fact that the school Is strongly Christian In character, nine tenths of its pupils becoming members of the church, high-caste, heathen Hindu parents continue to send their daugh ters, paying a higher tuition than else where. Jaffna 'district has a Proteatant pop ulation of 4,499, of whom half belong to the American mission, the other be ing divided among several English missions. There are 27.1 g 1 Roman Catholics in 1,2S square mllea. The whole population is 800,851. The Amer ican mission, when all Its workers are In tha field, fis a force of 14 missions- - -v rles, 18 churches, 10 ordained pastors, 23 unordalned catechlsts, ii Bible women, 6 higher educational Institu tions, 128 lower schools and 1 Industrial school. Missouri Editor's Troubles. From the St Louis Bepublic "Some people ara under tha tmpres slon that a country newspaper office carries a stock of every known article said J. P. Campbell, editor of tha Pros pect News, at Doniphan, Missouri. 1 ' manage to have people drop into my place every little while under the im pression that I run a general merchan dise store. "The girls that set my type have a, habit of hanging their hata In tha win dow, and not long ago two country wo men dropped In. "Ia there anything wa can -do for you?" asked one of my girls. " Yes, ma'am.' replied the country woman, 'we would like to know the price of that hat In the window with the red cherries.' 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