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are a prisoner surrounded by Chinese only. Some of the horrible scenes witnessed at home in a moving-picture show come to mind. The guide sees that you are nervous, and ["explains that it is necessary to lock the door, as it would be impos- sible to show goods, for the place would be packed by the curious crowd. Many days afterwards your imagina- tion carries you back to Canton, the city with the greatest population in the Orient, the city of pawn-shops, and curio shops without end, where imitations and counterfeits of every- thing Chinese, delude the unsophis- ticated foreigner. It is a city of oriental riches and barbaric splendor, and a city of the greatest wealth and

The Honam Pagoda, China. the direst poverty. One is glad to have been through the narrow, seething thoroughfares, the blaze of gold and vermilion, and the glitter and glow of showy exteriors. After seeing it all, I felt like the boy who went to the dentist, "it's awful good to be over with." Canton, China.

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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Besides the springs of Dove; A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, — The difference to me! William Wordsworth.