established in Bulgaria for the purpose of teaching young maidens the use of the Yankee sewing machine, and that the idea came to us direct

from Turkey, where our missionarries first put it in practice. All through Turkey the man of the family may be seen before the home seated at his sewing machine mending or making all manner of garments, while his wife and daughters, relegated to rear apartments, unseen by man, also trundle away at the Yankee machine. Throughout Turkey, Persia, the Holy Land and Russia industrious Oriental teachers. make their way from home to home initiating the unenlightened. into the mysterious mechanism of "the machine that sews," and the Orientals adapt it to needs we little dream of, so that it is not at all unlikely that other economic lessons will come to us from the near East.

There is one physical defect, however, from which the true Oriental suffers, that will ever keep

him from becoming our equal so far as the skillful manipulation of the modern sewing machine is concerned; he cannot use his hands and feet effectively at one and the same time-hence our little brown sisters of India often discard the newer foot power machine for the old reliable, but now almost antiquated hand machine. So well understood is this inability of the Oriental to bring under one control all of his muscles at one and the same moment, that European magistrates in India watch the bare feet of the witnesses on the stand and know from the involuntary twitching of the toes whether or not the Oriental is bearing false witness, for with his entire mind concentrated upon keeping a placid facial countenance, his toes invariably run wild. The awkward pose of the Indian at his sewing machine in the market squares

about the temples of Hindustan is often noted by the stranger, and as for the little Jap woman who has never sat in a chair in all her life, she seldom makes any attempt at using the treadle, But calls upon her Jack-of-all-trades husband to fashion her some sort of electric gear that, attached to the electric light wires found in most Jap houses nowadays, will do away with the necessity of working hands, feet and brain simultaneously, an complishment seemingly still beyond acquirement by any but the white race.

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It was a keen, energetic and farseeing Connecticut agent who introduced the public sewing machine school in China, after Li Hung Chang had bought a machine in Yankeeland for the Empress. The idea spread like wildfire; even the wealthy mandarins and merchants. sent their many wives and daughters to learn to sew with their hands and feet, and as the Chinese

alone of all Oriental women have for centuries been accustomed to the use of chairs, despite the smallness of their feet, their progress has been encouraging. Moreover, the Chinese women make the most patient, obedient pupils in the world, so that it seems quite possible that in time they will so master the Yankee invention as to be able to do their embroidery and wonderful picture work in silks directly on the machine. In Europe and America there are women so expert that they copy any oil painting on the machine so accurately that at a little distance it is impossible to tell the original painting from the copy. All that is needed is patience and an eye for color, two requisites in which the Orientals excel. Once they learn to manipulate the treadle with their feet, or the electric motor successfully usurps foot power in China and Japan, the most wonderful embroidery picture work known to

man (that has made these two nations famous in art for centuries), may again deluge the world with yet more delicate and wonderful designs; for strange to say, the machine is capable of more accurate and lifelike picture work than the hand alone. With the spread of sewing machine schools in the far East what new wonders in art work may we not expect these remarkable people to accomplish?

Even the King of the Cannibal Isles uses a Yankee sewing machine, and the Caroline Islanders one and all delight in the American. invention that has come to them 'hand in hand with the Bible. In fact a sewing machine is now a part and parcel of the missionaries' paraphernalia. In Africa, as soon as the Scripture is expounded, the natives are taught to use the machine for sewing together more appropriate garments than are usually worn there. The sewing machine has found its way even into the compounds of the South African diamond mines where the thousands of native workers are compelled to herd together in an immense cage, covering the mines, until their contract with the company expires. The Yankee sewing machine agent has actually invaded this forbidden ground, where he freely sells machines to the diamond workers, to be paid for out of the contract money at the end of the term of service, when the native who has mastered the art of making the machine sew trudges hundreds of miles to his home in the forest wilds to teach his wife the intricacies of his new and useful toy, or to swap it off with his chief for more cattle or a new wife or two. At any rate this American inven

tion has revolutionized the home life of the African savage, for the Yankee made sewing machine is used intelligently even in the jungles of Ethiopia, and never solely as a household ornament.

In Yucatan the pure blooded Yucca Indian girls pride themselves on the skill with which they use our machine that sews, but throughout the South American continent it is the German made imitation article that sweeps the field. However, a Yankee concern is now erecting a factory, in Canada, that will employ nine thousand hands, solely for the purpose of making sewing machines to contest with Germany for supremacy in the only field that does not pay tribute to the stockholders of the American sewing machine companies. Soon the finest store buildings in the southern continent will be employed as display places for the Yankee product.

The first familiar sights to greet the eye of the American traveler abroad, are the sky-scraping American insurance buildings, and the extensive, gorgeously decorated shop windows in which the Yankee sewing machine and its marvelous picture embroideries are displayed in the main boulevards of every foreign capital and large city. Only in Germany has capital had the temerity to invest in native companies that hope to compete with the American machine. Here, unprotected by patent laws, the Yankee invention has had to win by merit alone-the survival of the fittest. The German companies at first ridiculed the gorgeous window displays of the American firms, the very expense of which they predicted would bring about their

B

OSTON has a new District Attorney, an active and determined man. This fact is evident from the intense public interest that has recently centered around the actions of that official.

The Constitution of Massachusetts provides that the District Attorney shall be chosen by the people for such term of office as the Legislature shall provide and the Legislature has provided that such term, in the County of Suffolk, shall be for three years. It also provides that the District Attorney for the district including Boston may ap point a first and second assistant District Attorney and a clerk.

, Obedient to these provisions the late Mr. Stevens, who held that office for many years, appointed as his first assistant Mr. Michael J. Sughrue, a man of acknowledged ability, who was holding the office of first assistant in the summer of 1905 when Mr. Stevens resigned. The Governor thereupon appointed Mr. Sughrue to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Mr. Stevens. But the law provides also that the appointment of a District Attorney to fill a vacancy made by the death or resignation of a predecessor shall only be until a successor shall have been chosen and qualified.

Therefore, after the resignation of Mr. Stevens, it became necessary in November following to elect a District Attorney to serve for the

unexpired term. Under these circumstances Mr. Sughrue, having offered himself as a candidate, was promptly nominated by the Democratic party and received the approval of the Republican, as the logical candidate and successor of his late chief.

At this juncture there arose a man of remarkable life and achievements, who commenced and conducted single-handed and alone what has been called the most remarkable political campaign ever waged in the United States. This man was John B. Moran, the present District Attorney of Suffolk County, who entered the field as an independent candidate and on the 18th of October, 1905, appeared for the first time upon the platform, unannounced and unintroduced, and presented to his assembled constituents the following brief platform: "MORAN'S BRIEF PLATFORM "Official freedom from politicians and grafters.

"Official action with the Grand jury, instantly on receipt of information from the press or private sources, without waiting for the Lower Court. "Fair treatment to all lawyers and favors to none.

"No withholding of evidence favorable to the defendant.

"No intimidation of jurors by reasonless challenges.

"No intimacy, social or otherwise, with jurors.

"Rigid enforcement of laws against grafters and bribers.

"Trivial offenders leniently treated with the idea of reformation.

"Justice, tempered with mercy, to

all."