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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 25, Issue 40, 26 May 1914, Page 3

I’HKKE YEARS WITHOUT WINDING A slab-sided, mud -covered granger en ’•ered a Broadway clock-store about dusii !he other evening, and with! a bewUdei ec! look, asked: "Mister, is this where a man kin git a dock?" " Yes, s!r.“ said the clerk. “ Wall," said the granger, •* what be that ticker worth ?" pointing to an ornate and intricate piece of time-recording mechanism on the shelf. “ That, sir," said the clerk, ** is a wonderful timepiece. It is worth 8200 and will run three years without winding." “Great Scottl"gaspedthegranger, "three years without winding! Say, mister, how long would the blamed thing run if she was wound up ?" WOMEN AND CHINESE CLASSICS. In a missionary periodical published in Shanghai, Dr. Faber, a well-known scholar, publishes a paper on the status of women in China. He refers especially to the theoretical position assigned to women by the classics. These lay down the following dogmas on the subject: (r) Women are as different in nature from man as earth is from heaven. Dualism, not only in bodily form, but in the very essence of nature, is indicated and proclaimed by Chinese moral ists of all times and creeds. The male belongs to yang, the female to yin. (3) Death and all- other evils have their origin in the yin, or female principle; life and prosperity come from its subjection to the yang, or male principle, and it is therefore regarded as a law of nature that women should be kept under the control of men and not allowed any will of their own. (4) Women, indeed, are human beings, but they are of a lower state than men, and never can attain to full equality with them. (5) The aim of female education, therefore, is perfect submission, not cultivation and development of mind. (6) Women cannot have any happiness of their own; they have to live and work for men. (7) Only as the mother of a son, as the continuator of the direct line of a family, can a woman escape from her degradation and become to a certain degree her husband's equal, but then only in household affairs, especially the female department, and in the ancestral hall. (8) In the other world woman’s condition is exactly the same, for the same laws of existence apply. She is not the equal of her husband; she belongs to him, and is dependent for her happiness on the sacrifices offered by her descendants. These are the doctrine* taught by Confucius, Mencius, and the ancient sages, whose memory has been revered in China for thousands of years. MARK TWAIN’S REVENGE. Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada, who was at the Hoffman House recently, made many acquaintances during the few days he passed in New York. The fact that he led the Republican revolt against the Force bill and his championship of free coinage has added interest to his personality. A gentleman who was introduced to the Senator remarked that he had become familiar with Senator Stewart’s features through a picture of him that was printed in Mark Twain’s “ Roughing It." In this picture the Senior has a patch over his eye, and it is not at all flattering, for the Senator is a very handsome gentleman. It was stated that the picture was published by Mark Twain in retaliation for some advice the Senator was said to have given Twain about the purchase of a certain mining stock, which, if the humourist had followed, would have resulted in a large profit. “ Mark Twain did not print that picture for that reason,” said Senator Stewart, " but for the purpose of getting even with me because I once threatened to 'flog' him. I knew Clements while out West in the mining camp. I was aware that he was a brilliant man, and I took considerable interest in him When he returned from his trip abroad, during which he gathered the material for what I consider his greatest work, ‘ Innocent 1 Abroad,’ he came to Washington. He had no money, having spent his savings on the trip. He told me his condition, and said he was very anxious to get out his book. He showed me his notes, and I saw that they would make a great book and probably bring him in a fortune. I promised that I would • stake him' until he had the book written. I made him a clerk to my committee in the Senate, which paid him six dollars per dav, then I hired a man forlioo per month to do the work.

•• I then had rooms on F street in a house which was kept by an ancient maiden lady. She belonged to an old Southern family whose property was lost during the War oi »he Rebellion.. I had three large rooms or. the second floor and there was also a hal 1 room. I was very anxious that Sam should stick to his work until he finished it, as .1 was almost as much interested as he. 1 took him to live with me, and gave him the hall room to sleep in. He did his work in the room which I had fixed up as a study He would work during the day, and in the evening he would read me what he had written, after which he would stroll out about the city for recreation. He usually returned to his hall bedroom about mid night and would sit up until nearly morning, reading, smoking, whistling and singing. » His noise used to be a source of great annoyance to the landlady. She was very nervous and unable to sleep while any gas was burning in the house. She regarded Sam as a very careless fellow, and I don’i think she liked him very wall. She came to me one morning with her eyes swollen and her appearance altogether betokening a verj dilapidated condition. She said she had been unable to sleep all night, and that 1« fact for a week she had been losing sieep Sam was the cause of all her trouble and she told me how he remained up all the , night burning gas and creating a rumpus. ! informed Sam of the laudlauy s coniplaui' and told him he ought to go to bed at a reasonable hour and not frighten the 010 lady. Sam replied that tnat was all the mo he had, but he promised to mend his ways, and 1 thought no more of the mattot "In t week the landlady '-ame to rr.., agaiv v and this time wilfe tiu.rs in her eyes She said she knew she was receiving a very Handsome rent from me for the rooms, am, that she also was aware she could ncu ren them again during the season, but she wm compelled to ask me to give them up ot account of the way Mr. Clempnts was wear lug her life out. I felt truly sorry for the old lady. I called Sam lu and repeated to him what the landlady had said. I told him I would thrash him if I ever heard another complaint. I said that 1 did not want tc him out because 1 wanted him o finish fcis book He made one of his smart replies ? t the expense of the landlady and I told him that I P would thrash him then and them He 1 begged in a most pitiful way for me nor |o do so and I could not help laughing. annoy" "the* old woman again, but that he certainly get even with me for having threatened to thrash him if it took him tew years to do so. He did get even by printing fhat infernal picture m me m his blamed book." •• John," aaida lady tcher mwcoachman • s he was on his way to the poll to vote, » Are yon going to exercise Ae franchise *r\ CougiiH Golds, and Croup cured by Tonking’a Linseed Emulsion, 1/6, 2/6, 4/0 per bottle at a ,, Ohemifltaand Stores.