Garfield County Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 17, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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KKING.— A Chinese dinner
of 47 dishes, a glimpse in-
to a Chinese theater and a
visit to a popular lecture
hall -the latter not one of
the least significant evi-
dences of a remarkable
educational purpose be-
hind the workings of the
flciality in method may bs brought
against her 4iat Ih brought against the
Japane e educational leaders Is not
true. The Chinese educators have
proven in their work in Tientsin that
they ran apprehend the seriousness of
a great problem and grapple with it
swiftly ami stronglfa. Kindergarten,
primary schools, middle schools, col-
Chinese government -end- leges, a university and again normal
lentsin schools for the training of Chinese
ed our visit in
with an evening of great "«<' women teachers, are Ht opera-
liuerest Thanks to the constant at- j Hon, all purely Chinese, some managed
tontlon and companionship of Mr. Rob-. by the government, some by private
orM.m V m. C. A. general secretary in individuals. The board of education
Ti mi' sin, and Mr. Pay, a Chinese resl- <s under fearful pressure; a great cam-
(I..ill, and a Mr. A. of Yale, the most j taiga of education must be carried
progressive city under Chinese admin- ihrough all over China within ten
Jsi ration was opened up to us In a ' years if the nation is to he saved. As
manner that fairly Illumined Its edu- j u result, teachers must be trained in
rational, social and religious prob \ a hurry. Instead of turning out see-
Imiis , and 1 want to put before you a
t iv, facts that group themselves about
three tilings: The broad a.ul wise pol-
io of tiic local Chinese government
under the greatest of lis men, Yuan
Hid Kai, the terrible borderland b'
fween Hi" Chinese city and the foreign
nettlements and Hie strategic position
occupied by the Y. M A.
To say sliat China is nwakenli g or
vill awaken is a false statement of
the ease; i<i say (hat China has awal;
•ined is a platitude It Is self evident
and stares you In the face on every
corner in every block, on every street.
Just as we judge the possibilities and j
the quality of a man's mind by his j
I.eM work, s i we must judge of what
China not only is capable of doing,
but will Jo, by what her best men are
accomplishing and have accomplished
Tientsin Is the product of one man's
mind That man, Viceroy Yuan Shi
Kai, is now prime minister, or practi-
cally that in Peking for the purpose
of working out his same plana for ;
the whole empire ns he has done for j
tii own city. Therefore what Tientsin
li< t.iday China will be, and will be
very soon, for i believe Mr. Robert^
non knows wiiai lie Is talking about
when lie lays that the conviction that
China must have progress and the
determination lo change has seized
upon evory official of high standing
from one ond of the empire to the
other. And I believe I hat every one
who knows i lie Chinese agrees that
where the Chinaman has the will
tia will And the way.
Thet China is progressing by leaps
aud bounds Is truo, but that the
name charge of carelessness and sapor-
ond grade teachers with superficial
training, the following method is
adopted to "get results quick:" A
normal school, for example, for women
is established with a complete dormi-
Itory system, the entire expenses of
the scholars is borne by the govern-
ment and ten dollars a month is paid
to each student besides her expenses,
thus placing a premium upon this
method of preparation. On the other
hand, examinations are held in the
different provincial centers, and those
students are selected and admitted to
the school who havo the highest
standing. 1 went through such a school
myself and talked to the teachers, who
were Chinese, of course, but who&pob?
Kngilsh. There were about 140 girls
preparing for teachers. An apparently
Inexhaustible treasury has been de-
voted to the equipment of the schools,
which surpasses anything 1 have seen
in Japan in the way of scientific labor-
atories for chemistry, physics, biology,
physiology and engineering with its
various brandies. An Industrial school,
again with a complete dormitory sys-
tem, where some TOO men and boys
were hard at work learning trades,
showed that the Interest In academic
education had not bUndcd the educa
tlonal department to tue value of in-
dustrial education. We visited but one
Industrial school and one establish-
ment under government supervision
lor the promotion of home Industry,
an "Iron works," but there are many
fjch enterprises.
The Chinese government Is surely
doing Its best. Gambling has been
prohibited within the city on pnin of
USED AS FATE'S PLAYThlNG.
Real Hard Luck That Was Visited on
New York Man.
Ho had been down on his luck for
rome time, and a few days ago had ex-
hausted his money, with the exception
of a solitary nickel. In a newspaper
office where ho went to look over the
'Help Wanted" list he saw an aJver- j
'Isement to the e'-ect that a man liv- '
ing near One Hundred and Twenty- |
fifth street, Harlem, wanted to pur- |
chase a shaggy dog.
The Brooklyn unfortunate has a dog j
which certainly comes under the desig- '
nation of shaggy, having a trace of
the St. Bernard in his makeup. The
man had owned the dog for years, but
he had reached his limit, and in the
"ad" he saw an opportunity to be
grasped.
"1 guess it's up to you, old pal," he
said to the dog. "You must go or your
boss don't eat. Come on."
Man and dog Btarted for One Hun-
dred and Twenty-fifth street. With
wonderful prevision he decided to save
the nickel for a return trip if neces-
sary and walked from his home to
Harlem. It was a long and tiresome
trip. The dog was panting, and the
man had to stop every now and then
for rest, but finally he reached the
place designated. The man rang the
bell and inquired for the advertiser.
Doga are not allowed in the house, so
the Brooklynite had to wait i
hall, his heart beating hopefully and
the faithful dog looking up at him, as
if wondering what was going to hap-
pen. It may have been five minutes,
but it seemed an hour to the anxious
man before the advertiser stepped out
of the elevator. The suspense was
soon over.
"You're Mr. So and So, who adver-
tised for a shaggy dog?"
"Yes."
"Well, here's the dog."
"'Tain't shaggy enough." And the
advertiser turned away.
Imagine the feelings of that poor
Brooklynite. His last hope gone and
miles from home, with onq, nickel ir.
his pockct.—N. Y. Morning Telegraph.
WOMAN'
BACKAI
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Best to Avoid Native Dishes.
A writer in Die Woche warns tour-
ists against the temptations of the bill
of fare and commends the old German
adage, "What the peasant knows not
he will not eat." "Special or national
dishes," he says, "should be avoided
because, in order to appreciate them,
one must be accustomed to them. We
always form an idea as to what these
dishes should taste like, and our first
experience with them is always dis-
appointing. It you must eat these na-
tional products of >he kitchen, order
them in the best hotels or at the first-
class restaurants, for there th^v are
idealized by careful preparation and
superior ingredients.
The writer gives special warning
against the dishes with quesr names
which are served in Austria and ad-
vises tourists to ask what these prepa-
rations ace before ordering and eating
them. As an example he quotes "Hun-
garian partridge," which may be
found on nearly all bills of fare. This
is really a dish made of pork "leav-
ings," namely, ears, tails, muzzles, etc.,
"and as little like the name as the
Englishman's cheese preparation is
like a Welsh rabbit."
The back is the mainspring of
woman's organism. It quickly call;)
attention to trouble by aching. It
tells, with other symptoms, such ;ia
nervousness, headache, pains in the
loins, weight in the lower part of
the body, that a woman's feminine
organism needs immediate attention.
In such cases the one sure remedy
which speedily removes the cause,
^ „„ and restores the feminine, organism
n the 1 to a healthy, normal condition is
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Mrs. Will Young, of C Columbia
Ave., Rockland, Me., says;
441 was troubled for a long time with
dreadful backaches and a puin in my
side, and was miserable in every way.
I doctored until I was discouraged and
thought I would never get well. I rend
what Lydia E. I'inkham's Vegetable
Compound had done for others and
decided to try it; after taking threo
bottles I can truly say that I never felt
bo well in my life." .
Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl,
Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
441 had very severe backaches, and
pressing-down pains. I could not sleep,
and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound cured mo
and made me feel like a new woman."
FACTS FOR SICK WGSVSE&L
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear-
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
r//£ EX£C</r/l/£ PALftCE OF FEE EHEEEO/?.
every form. A search for an opium
den proved the efficiency of the law,
and inspection wiped them out of ex-
istence.
Perhaps the least said about the out-
rageous doings of the foreigners in
Tientsin the better. It is a subject
that people do no# like to discuss and
do not wish to have brought before
them. It is true, nevertheless, that
In the foreign settlements the Chinese
are finding endless opportunity for
the gambling which is prohibited by
their government in their own city,
and is nevertheless openly coun-
tenanced by several consuls of for-
eign nations in spite of their agree-
ments with the Chinese government.
"The China Times," a Tientsin paper,
is waging an open war against houses
of ill fame and places of amusement
of outrageous character which are act-
ually protected by the representatives
of foreign powers. The papers are
full of It One paragraph ] will copy,
for it is suggestive and can stand by
Itself: "The Alhambra & Its Pic-
tures: Mr. Pratt, British vice con
sul, sat in the British consular
court on Saturday morning to hear
a charlte against Mr. A. Harper of
the Alhambra Russian concession of
exposing Indecent pictures. . . . The
consul for defense: The first one
he thought was undoubtedly coarse,
as to the second and third that
were called indecent, that, of
course, was a matter not of indi-
vidual opiulon so much as of opin-
ion of the court trying the case. It
was rather a stretch of the imag-
ination to say that one of the
reasons for objecting was that the
Chinese went there, and that it did
not look well for Chinese to see
what foreigners did ill this way. He
had no doubt foreigners did lots
of things the Chinese did uot ap-
prove of. If these pictures were
permitted in London he did not see
why they should not be permitted
here." People have a way of saying
that "There ain't no Te:i Command
ten years' Imprisonment—gambling iu j nients" beyond Suez, und thcu dismiss-
ing the matter with the feeling that
they have made a rather clever and
telling observation.
Do they realize, I wonder, that, in
some Chinese ports the term American
woman is synonymous for woman of
111 repute—or prostitute? Thank God
it Is not so in Tientsin. The American
and Hritish governments are acting so
far as Christian nations in this city,
even if the individual American men
and Britishers are showing themselves
anything but Christians. The -Chi-
nese government is not going to
"stand for this" long. There will be
a day of reckoning if the foreign con-
cessions go on putting a premium on
vice ns they are doing now. Men
who have lived in Tientsin for years
do not hesitate to say that matters
come to a crisis soon. It is
Thrifty Tenors.
Italian tenors seldom retire from
the stage nowadays with shallow
pockets. Ther> is gener^Uy a pic-
turesquely located villa somewhere
down in the boot-shaped country to
which they can withdraw between
seasons to hold communion with them-
selves and count their money and
later on to enjoy their sunset days.
Bond, Caruso, Zenatello—not one of
| them within sight of the "farewell"
| age—already own ideal residences in
; Bologna, Florence and Verona, re-
] spectively. Bassi, too, has an impos-
ing Florence retreat. Masini, a tenor
of note throughout Kurope, one of
sunny Italy's elder sons, has decided
at last to bring his public career to an
end with a series of special appear-
ances at the Italian opera In St.
Petersburg, and he, too, now full of
years and riches, has a handsome villa
at Vomero, Naples, in readiness.
New Chart Corrects Errors.
The great practical utility of the
magnetic survey made in the Pacific
ocean by the yacht Galilee since 1905
is shown by a new magnetic chart,
from which it appears that the charts
previously used by navigators in the
pacific ocean were erroneous along
some much-traversed routes to the ex-
tent of from three to five degrees,
and the errors at times were syste-
matic. Errors of this magnitude are
of importance in practiial navigation,
where the indications of the compass
should be as accurate as possible.
"Internal Revenue" Collections.
The term "internal revenue" has
been restricted in its meaning to such
revenues only as are collected undet
the internal revenue bureau con-
nected with the treasury department
and does not include all revenues that
are, properly speaking, from internal
sources, that is, trom sources other
than duties .levied at the frontiers
upon foreign commodities. Thus,
moneys arising from the sale of public
lands, from patent fees, or the rei e-
nues of the postal service, are not g<n-
erallv known as "internal revenues."
Urge Tea for Soldiers.
Tea Is being strongly recommended
: by the German military authorities as
| a beverage tor troops on long marched
in place of the coltee which has hith-
erto been the sole refreshment s*ip-
muBt come to a crisis soon. It is plied. Special tea-making machines
In the interest of the people at homo are being constructed, for the troop*
and of the United States, it seems to Tea consumption in Germany is ven-
ule, to understand what Is going on. slight compared with other nations,
j ihe Germans ranking fourth In 1903
Tills brings me to my third point, with a consumption of less than two
which includes a kind of summary of
all the rest, namely, Iho important po-
sition of the Y. M. C. A. In Tientsin.
A record of some of the activities of
niy very good friend Mr. Robertson
will be most conclusive In showing
that the Y. M. C. A. is a power for edu- head
cation and for righteousness needed
and esteemed by tho Chinese educa- j
tors. On one side Mr. Robertson
conies in contact with a vast number
of school boys. lie has sevoral
classes In various schools In physics,
and takes his students to all the cen-
ters of the city, such ns the Western
telegraph station, telephone building,
power plant, etc. He also Is manag-
ing a regular nthletlc campaign, has
Introduced the games of association
football, conches the teams and pro-
motes the truly western idea of "be-
ing a thorough sport."
Through (he efforts and personality
of Mr. Galley and Mr. Robertson the
Y. M. C. A. is in a position where It
an have a tremendous influence for
und education and righteousness If
the wheels can only be oiled with a
little nor'i mon£y.
ounces per head of population,
compared with the British six pounds j
per head, the Russian 13 ounces, and
the Dutch pounds. The French J
consumption is very small, and re- |
mains at less than one ounce per i
Guar at*
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antiseptically clean and free from un-
healthy germ-life and disagreeable odors,
which water, soap and tooth preparations
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of exceptional ex-
cellence and econ-
omy. Invaluable
for inflamed eyes,
throat and nasal and
uterine cararrh. At
drug and toiTet
A Cause for Thanks.
"Ah, my dear Mr. Hriefless," said
Mr. llardcash, seising tho young bar-
rister's hand and shaking it warmly,
"I am so immensely obliged to you.
That case the other day, you know—I
won it."
"Thanks," replied Hriefless, doubt-
fully. "Rut did I represent you?"
"No, my dear fellow," replied Hard- j stores, 50 cents, or
cash, "you represented the other | ^ymQ'* postpaid.
man."—Modern Society. Large Trial Sample
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