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alive; n a Chinese soldiers invariably
disposes of his estate and bids farewell
to his family forever before going to war.
He knows that he will fight until he is
dead.
The trouble with the Chinaman, in the
battle of today, is that he does not UNDER
stand modern He knows little
of dynamite and nothing OF lyddite; war
balloons are novelties to him, high ex-
plosives barely a name; he is not used
to the Mauser and he has not calculated
upon the tricky qualities of the disap-
pearing gun.
There is another difficulty under which
the Chinaman labors. He does not love
Ql.s flag. His country and his family he
loves: and he may have a devotion to
his cause; but that wild unreasoning
love of flag is a stranger to him. The
national flag does not figure in his home
as 1t does in our country; it is not a
part of his education; he does not sing
about it; and rally around it.
The love of the flag has been the turn
ing point of many a battle. When the
enemy threw in the shot and Shell and all
hope seemed gone. the sight of the dear
old flag, waving overhead, brought lump
into every throat and made every heart
the stronger. The Chinese, on the other
hand, do not thrill before their flag,
though they may honor it. Ii Hung
Chang is once reported to have said that
he doubted if every Chinaman knew his
flag when he saw it. This statement by
no means applies to the intelligent Chi
nese that cross the ocean to live In
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part of Europe but Europe was then at
IT'S weakest. Centuries have passed since
then; and, in the refinement of modern
Chinese civilization, the art. of warfare
has Jared badly compared with other
arts.
Yet Clint has her generals. The
youngest of them all is Tu Tsin, a war
rior who came into prominence at the
close Of the Japanese war. He was
present at the last battle and was one
of the few who We're not shot in the
back; he ran too fast. When asked the
reason of their defeat he said:
1.-The Japanese came at us as though
wild. We shot down those who were
In front, but just as soon as a man fell
in the front ranks some one from the
next line would take his place. You
can't fight people that way. When we
shot down those who took the others
places some one else would come and
fill up the ranks, and on they would
come. You an do anything with
people of that kind. They did not know
when they We're whipped. Somebody
had to run, and as they would not, we
did, and then they shot us in the back.
FIGHT BRAVELY.
Yet it must not be supposed thai the
Chinese are towards. They fight bravely
and when they are face to face with am
enemy, armed with spears, they are the
drawer soldiers of the two. They fight
desperately and to the death. They do
not calculate on coming out of a battle
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The HEADS OF THE
CHINESE ARMY
Generals Who Have Won Distinction
and the Strange Methods by Which
They Achieved Greatness.
BY Charles Edward Schulz.

China has no generals, If the title be an
piled as we apply it in this country, to
men who have undergone a military
training and have gradually risen in the
service of their country to this high post.
The Chinese are a peace loving people.
Every art of Europe has sprung from the
Orientals; they excel in the making of
fine goods, and, before the standards Of
painting changed, their pictures were the
finest in the world. But in war they
were never conspicuous.
The Chinese have a proverbs: mo good
man will ever be a soldier" Fighting is
mentioned as a warning to the boys; they
must never quarrel; and, co, except in
the case of family feuds which amount to
nothing, the nation lives at peace with
itself: rebellions are unknown and the art
of fighting is neglected.
Years ago, when China was almost the
whole of the east, it conquered a greater
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America, but to- the millions stored away
on the banks of the Hoang Ho and the
hundreds of thousands that dwell along
the Yang Use Kiang.
Still nina has some faithful leaders
upon whom she can depend.
These military leaders came lately to
a realizing sense of China's weakness
in war and resolved to remedy it. 1t
was under their instructions hat the
Chinese troops allowed themselves to be
organized by the Germans and taught
the arts of war. When the Germans
took part of China for their own, n
armed it, they selected native Cinnamon
for guards and, after arming them n
u~niforming them, they taught them how
to fire the rifles and how to use the
field guns. The Chinese generals mean
while nodding approval.
LEARNING TO FIGHT.
Russia did the same thing in her own
! quarter of China, or the part which she
claimed as her own; and France also sent
rifles and had her own native troops. The
Chinese accepted the Instructions and
! profited by them. The skill of the present
is wholly due to the faithful lessons they
have SO faithfully learned the past few
years.
A few of the Chinese generals nave re-
fused to become acquainted with modern
methods, claiming that China had always
eNcelled and always would excel in war.
One of these, Wo Tung Lang, fought in
the Crimean war. When about to start
for Corea somebody asked him if he did
not think it would be a good thing to study
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power, the nature of their arms and the
character of their fighting ability. Be-
cause his army was able to pue down the
Mohammedan rebellion, which was prac-
ucally a war between two rabbles, he
supposes that all this trouble with for
eagn DEVILS is because of Christianity,
and so he Is not only anti-fOreign but eS-
pec1ally Christian. His rabble in
cites fear among the natives, whether
Christian or n-Christian, wherever he
goes.
Only a year o two ago when it was
known that he was about to come down
about the region of Pekin there was a
general quaking among the country peo-
pie and awful stories were told about the
cruelty of his men and their disposition
to loot, to rob and to outrage the women
of sections through which they passed.
The difference between his rabble n the
armies of Mich and Yua in an indica-
tion of the salutary influence their con-
tact with foreign soldiers and the repre-
sentation foreign governments has had
upon foreign governments mas had Upon
them.
There is one other general who has re-
Gently become prominent. This is Prince
Tuan, who has charge of the Imperial
father of the heir apart cmfwyptff m
Manchu troops at Pekin. He is the
father of the heir apparent, and the son
of the Fifth Prince, as he has always
ben called. He is said to be n of the
lllOSL "dIllhc VI Oil uAIC lIAApSl4 q AAASS~
If not the m warlike; but the stand
he has taken with the conservative par
tY, which, of course, was forced upon
him by the fact that his son was chosen
bv the empress dowager as the successor
of Kuang Hsu, has placed him in a very
unfavorable lige before the world.
FL, SYMPATHY WITH BOXERS.
It is said that the large majority Of his
troops Joined the Boxers nj the %neighbor-
hood of Pekin and it was this fact that
made the Boxer movement so strong and
so successful in that ~neighborhood. There
is no doubt that he was, like the empress
dowager, in sympathy with them, and
1T was probably through his influence
that General Mich tas rebuked when
his soldiers killed 500 of the Boxers be-
tween Tien Tsfn and Pekin. His army
sets the Manchu soldiers in a very bad
light before the world.
There are two other men who rank
higher among China's military leaders
than all the others put together. And
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AN ERA FOR THE
SUBMARINE BOAT

Except for the Holland and Lake sub
marines there seem to be no other sub
surface boats that work with success.
1t is somewhat curious that after the
the French lately set about the con
struction of a considerable number of
submarine torpedo boats news should
have come that their government has
recently issued orders that work on them
should be stopped.
One would have thought that the
"Narvals' having been ordered after a
set Of very extensive trials with the
Gustaye Zede, Gymnote and other boats,
the French admiralty had finally made
up its mind as to the practicability of
the new types. But now, almost before
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Yet they are not generals. They are the
TWO Vi@eroys. They are Ii Hung Chang,
whom everybody knoWs. and Chang Chih-
tung, who is almost unknown in Amer
lea. 1t is somewhat singular thai these
w men should have the names they
have. They are the Smith and Brown,
o. the Brown and Jones of China, as in
dicated by the following Chinese pro-
verb. Ia the Chinese primer for girls
tn y have this couplet:
Have You ever learned the reason Why
your ears should punctured be?
Ills that you may never listen to the
talk of Chang and Ia.
Nov, as a matter of fact, if the Chi
nase had listened to the advice of Chang
Chih-tung M Ii Hung Chang, China
would be far on the road to progress at
the present time. Lii Hung Chang, as is
Wen Known, is the yiceroy of the two
Kuanes. and Chang Chih-tung is the
vccerOy of HuDeh and Huan. It is the
latter Who is telegraphing to urge the
powers not to send troops to China.
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punished defeated generals by %beheading
them. They carried out the practice
through all the family, leaving none of
his name or blood alive. After the Japan
csc war it was decided to make an excep-
tion in the cases of the commanders of
that campaign, as owing to the pecul-
1arity of the Japanese methods, it was
impossible to win. General Yuan Shin
kIa, therefore, escaped with his life and
his family were not beheaded.
General qua was the Chinese repre-
sentative at the Corean capital when war
broke out in Corea. When the first battle
was fought the vessels were all taken
off the line between Tien Tsin and Gle
mulpo, and all the foreigners. myself in
cluded, We're stranded in Corea. But an
offer came from the captain of a British
cruiser to carry all foreigners over to
Che Foo. and General Yuan was included
among this number. He is like General
Mich in his good nature, and like him in
his general understanding of he power
of western governments. When Yu
Hslen, another general, was recalled
his place. He appointed his brother to
take charge of his troops, and at once
he began to put down the Boxer move
ment; but no sooner had this been done
than the brother was recalled by the en-
press dowager. This, of course, was
proof positive that the empress was in
sympathy with the Boxers.
Notwithstanding this, General Yuan
has steadily gained control of things and
is spoken of very highly by those who
are in those disturbed regions. Some of
the leading missionaries write that sit
is evident that the military officials are
doing all they can to put the movement
down, but in this they are not very hear
tily seconded by the civil authorities"
HATES FOREIGNERS.
The most anti-foreign general and m
who presents a direct contrast to the two
just described, is Tung Fuhsiang. This
general won his reputation in Kansu. the
northwestern province, a Few years ago
in his ba titles with the Mohammedans
then in revolt.
All his life he has been shut off from
intercourse with foreign yernme
and knows absolutely nothing about their
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the geography Of Corea.
Geography OF Corea!' said he. What
do | care about the geography Of Corea! I
will just go over there and lave two or
three engagements with them and that will
be the end of 1t. There is no use Of my
bothering myself about the geography of
As a matter Of fact, he went over and
had the engagement, but the result was
not what he had predicted. On eof his SOL
diers, who was laid up in a hospital after
his return explained what happened. He
and the Others in most Of the hospitals were
shot in the back.
general prominent in past wars was
General Yell. He was, however, suspected
OF stealing the government money and was
removed. The direct cause of the removal
Was the Iact that, though money was reg
ularly sent him for the troops, little, If any
OF 1t. ever reached it's destination.
a man who will lead the troops is General
a aina; ne ,e i ga a big, fat, good-natured man.
ana as sentimental as a poet. It is difi-
cult to picture General Mich in battle. But
ne VIII go to war, mounted upon his horse,
enemy. '"o
A BRAVE LEADER,
General Mich is at present located at
IL Ial, which is less than 100 miles from
lien Is1n. He is the most popular of
49, senerals, n has the greatest de-
gree OF control over the troops.
HAD he been allowed to On On with
llIs OF the Boxers a few weeks
ago 1t would have saved the Chinese gov
a large amount of anxiety as
wen as a great deal of trouble and ex-
pense. General Mich has ALWAYS mand-
rested a kline disposition toward Ioreign-
ers' and so far as l have ever heard,
1nere has never e any trouble between
ms soldiers and the foreign residents i'm
Iong ku or Tang Shang, or indeed in
any other part of the country east of
Tien Tsin and Pekin,
A popular man is General Yuan Shin
kal. He, too, is big and c%orpulent, stand
ing higher and measuring broader than
any man in his regiment. The general
US fond of foreigners, and one cannot
thank mat ne relishes the idea O. exter-
minating the white races from the face
OF the earth, as the Chinese in his COM
mand feel positive he will do. He was in
the Japanes war, and though he did
not gam any particular glory, he escaped
alive, which has always been considered
a considerable feat.
Tn Chinese have for hundreds of years
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In 1858 another diving boat, the inven-
tion of a Frenchman. was exhibited at
Amsterdam, and in 1923 the River Dat
was the scene of another experience with
either a submarine boat or some species
of living machine, the design of one
Symons. A quaint picture of this was
published in 1740. The hladder-like OBJ
jects shown at the bottom OF the weird
look ing vessel were said to be BOTTLES
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THE WONDERFUL
MORALS Of JAPS
(By David Belasco.)

There is an old proverb in Japan which
applies to the entire moral structure of
their social government. 1t is this:
"a woman must not look upon two nus
bands"
Their is no evasion of this law in the
daily lives of the Japanese people. This
remarkable condition of supreme NOR
ality is, at first, confusing to the modern
diamajtist of our so-called civilized u
tries.
With such a law to confront the author
of dramas and comedies constructed to
please modern audiences he you'd he
seriously hampered at the beginning Of
his efforts.
Imagine the insurmountable difficulties
of constructing a society comedy under
the social s~terility of such a law.
IA woman must not look upon two
husbands To our accepted ideas of plot
and passion both on and off he stage
such a maxim seems impossible.
u Not that we are without the sentiment
this proverb conveys in our effete civil
ization nor that the customs of our coun-
try are not sustained by a large COM
munity. on a high moral basis, but.
whereas in Japan, emotional suppression
is the first rule of life, in our country
and in Europe expression is what we are
striving for.
The Japanese do not express what they
feel. as we do, because they are taught
that the emotions are serious outbursts
Of the soul and must be disciplined to such
uses as apply only to a %virtuous improve
ment of their natures. Whereas, in our
country, rage, hate and scorn, in fact,
all the evil passions of our natures. are
being used as material for authors and
dramatists, the Japanese stiae these eX-
| pressions, and yield to them only in VII
olence of deed. rarely in words or dia-
logue.
A crime in Japan is az act of despic-
able impulse, and it's punt hnnent is as
silent and irrevocable as the crime itself
The highest aim of japanese are reflects
the life of this serious people-tragedy.
During a short visit to Japan it was
my privilege to attend their theaters, AND
I found that the underlying motive of al
their plays was a lesson to the people
sustaining the virtues of patriotism, ma.
tional loyalty, flial respect, ceremony o
rank and chastity of woman.
The dramatist in Japan is not con,
fronted with the physiological confusion
of sentiment and morals which his broth
err author encounters in the western hem
isphere.
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THE IRIS TROUSERS.

According to George MacAdam, who
writes " About Clothes in St. Nicholas
for September, the first p%antaloons or
trousers were made in Assyria. In the
reign of King Asshurizirpal (SS5-S5S B.
c. horses were introduced in the army
as cavalry. Here. now. was a problem;
the cavalryman a to nave some sort Of
a uniform, and 1T was Impossible for him
to wear a skirt and SIT astride a horse.
The tailors to his majesty's armies
wagged their heads a long time over
this problem, n finally decided that the
only way out Of the difficulty was to cut
the cavalryman's skirt from hem to
waitsband in bOth front and rear, letting
each part fall on its respective side OF
the horse. AS can readily be imagined,
this split skirt made ar exceedingly poor
article of clothing. The law Of herdity,
however. is full of surprises; this humble
apology for a garment was destined ia
be the father of the original p%antaloons.
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SENT TO A DANES SCHOOL.

So many great men have been credited
with extraordinary precocity. in youth
that it is refreshing to hear of a great
man who was only an average. Such a
man Is Lord Kitchener. He showed no
peculiar cleverness, and, what is more
surprising, in view of his present tire
less activity, he was inclined to be lazy,
His father, Col. Kitchener, who died
within the last ten years, was a strict
disciplinarian. The story goes that on
one occasion, when his son Herbert was
at a public school, and was working for
a certain examination, it was reported to
the colonel that he was idling.
The report did not please Col. Kitch-
ener and he told the future conquerer Of
the mahdi that unless he succeeded in
passing that examination there would be
no more public school for him for the
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a Beautiful Baby Boy

the u in the hands of the Spanish in:
fantry. The musket carried a two-ounce
ball. and sometimes brought down at one
fire W or three mailed N nights. The
French sent a flag of truce to remon-
strate against the use of such barbarous
weapons.
Alexander has four inc of cavalry
the cataphraeti, or heavy armed horse;
the light cavalry, carrying spears and
very light armor; the acroba1istae, or
mounted archers. used for outposts, pat
rolls, and accommodating duty; and the
d1machoe, or troops expected to act
either as cavalry or infantry. Alexander
the Great ~reorganized his fathers army.
The file or lachos of sixteen men was the
unit; two files made a diloohy; two
d1lochfes made a Hierarchy; two tetr-
arches a taxfarchy; two of these a
~syntagura; sixteen of these a small
phalanx; four of these a tetra-phalan-
garehy, otherwise known as a large
phalanx.
The Greeks attacked in a phalanx, the
spears fnterlocked and shields overlap
ping. After the first onset the spears
were dropped and the day was decided
with the sword. The cavalry attacked
the enemy in the rear, if possible, and,
In case of victory, undertook the pursuit.
-Pearson's Weekly.
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WHAT ONE WOMAN THINKS.

Happy the man who is a hero to his
own family.
There are homes where hospitality
seems to meet you on the threshold,
One III thought spoken is worth two
left unsaid.
A man feels very cheap when he gives
himself away.
some women marry only to become a
superior sort of MISUNDERSTANDING.
Visit a family where there is a baby If
you want to listen to conversation re-
stricted to one topic.
You are never sorry when you have re-
Trained from saying something mean.
Judging by the odd matrimonial com
blnations one sees, one should say that
some men and women get married on the
grab-bag principle.
1t was q woman, of course, who ga III
she would be willing to wager that tbe
name of the next president will be Will
lam.
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present, for he would be taken away and
sent to walk in the solemn procession
of pupils to a DANES school. II he failed
there he should be apprenticed to a hat
ter.
In spite Of these threats young Kitch-
ener failed, and thereupon dropped out
Of his place in the public school, and
was seen in the ranks thai walked
through the streets, two and two. escort
ed by the good lady Of whom his father
had spoken. When he again went in for
his examination he passed. Possibly the
world lost a good halter by his success,
but it gained a better general.-Youth's
COmpaniOn. ~
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CONTRASTS IN QUEENS SERVICE

Queen Victoria's servants ait Balmoral,
as ait Windsor, or even in the gardens
of buckingham palace, always strike
one as such curious contrasts in color.
costume and nationality. There are tho
ordi nary clean-shaven, livery-coated,
English looking men servants Of ordi-
nary life, with their pale faces and per-
feet manners, wearing the royal scarlet:
There are warthy-complexioned, white
t%urbaned, gold embroidered Indians, and
there are also the tartan-clad HIGH
landers, with their native bagpipes.-
London M. A. P.
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]. G. Human. representative Inter
Mountain Branch office. Postoffice News

Livingston, Sept. 20, 1900.
The appearance of the council room in
the city hall has been greatly improved
by wainscoting.
Geo. M. Winslow returned from Hun
ter's Hot Springs Tuesday somewhat i'm
proved by the use Of the waters there
of an acute attack of lumbago, though
HI is still unable to attend to business.
DIR. B. L. Pampel, president of the
county board of health, has received a
letter from the newly created United
States Leprosy Commission, requesting
information regarding cases of leprOsy
that may have come under his notice.
The doctor was unable to furnish the
commission with any data on the subject.
as such a disease has never been known
in this part of the country.
with a force of fifty men, and George
White, the superintendent, was in town
the first of the week looking for addi-
tional miners, but they are difficult to
find. on account of the activity in all the
coal mines of the state this time of the
year.
Word was received here yesterday Of
the death of Harry Elmer, who formerly
tended bar in this city, at Great Falls
Tuesday afternoon of bronchitis. He was
a son of DR.. w. w. Elmer, of Spokane,
WASH, was 81 years old, and caves a
wife but no children. At one time he was
quite a turfman and jockey. and three
years or more ago rode Marcus Days
Starlight to victory at Louisville, KY,
in a race.
Judson L. Wickes has sold to James
Maloney lot II, IN block 70, for the sum
of SIS.
John w. Criswell has filed or 500 inches
of the waters Of Little Cottonwood creek
for use in irrigating.
Mrs, w. N. Hefferlin entertained In
honor of Mrs. Sloane Wednesday even
ling. Euchre was played. DR.. Alton and