Skeelty, who thought he knew how to manage these people, allowed every man, at the close of work on Saturday, to purchase a pint of whiskey from the company store, charging an exorbitant price that netted a huge profit.

So there we were, this black bro' frisks me down with his bitonal paw and relieves me of my wallet.

Chufou.—Ninety miles south of Tsinanfu on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway is Chufou, the place where Confucius lived and is buried. When the railway was being constructed a few years ago, the Duke of Kung, a lineal descendant of Confucius, objected to the defilement of the sacred place by such a barbarous thing as a foreign railway and so was able to keep it out of Chufou, where he is very influential. It is therefore necessary for the visitor to ride five miles in a Chinese cart or wheelbarrow from the railway station. The fact that the Duke is now a wiser man and regrets that the road does not touch his city does not make the-ride any shorter. The principal point of interest at Chufou is the great cemetery, covering about 600 acres and containing the bone 3 of the Confucian clan in all its branches for 2500 years.

He was angry about the magnetic effect the coverage was having on the youth of America, 'angry about how their newsmongery was drawing a disproportionate number of kids to the district that was already overcrowded', as he put it, 'thousands of young foolish kids who fell for the Love Hoax and expected to live comfortably poor .and take their place in the district's kingdom of love'.