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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

day is typical of the farm Christmas in
many ways-it is family reunion day.
The middle classes take to the thea
ters in the afternoon and evening. The
Christmas matinee is one of the most
profitable performances of the year, and
for the evening every house is sold out
days ahead. Church entertainments
provide amusement for thousands OF
others, and still Others, especially the
younger element, turn to outdoor sports.
Should Jack Frost fail to cover the
park lakes with a heavy coating of ice it
would spoil the Christmas pleasure of
thousands. This is the most popular OF
outdoor winter sport in Chicago because
it is the most practical. There are no
hills for coasting, though in some of the
parks artificial toboggans are built. The
middle classes are cot owners of horses
and sleighs, and the supply at the liver
les are both limited and costly
To no other city in America probably
has the country contributed so large a
percentage of the population, and back
to the country go thousands for the holi-
day season, there to find mirth and en-
joyment that is not possible in the city,
and in the foreign settlements the
Christmas festivities are patterned after
those of the fatherland.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

under military banner than this of Cor
don, Eor seldom a more heroic one.
Soldiers of fortune from practically
every nation of Europe and America,
men who were fighting merely for the
adventure and pay the service promised,
yet the power of one man not only made
heroes of them, but heroes of the Chi
nese coolies as well. 1t was an expert
ment that proved possibilities under
right conditions.
OF capable military leaders China de-
veloped but few during the TAPPING re-
bellion, or since that time. OF the few
Gen. Ching, who served with Gordon,
after his desertion from the rebel forces,
was notable character, and of great
military ability. During the several
petty foreign wars in which China was
engaged down to the time of the out
break of the war with Japan, no char
acter of anything like equal ability was
developed nor did the more important
conflict with Japan bring to the front a
leader of such worth as to be classed
with him. This lack of military leaders
would seem to place China as a non-mil-
liant power of whom the world need
have no fears.
1t takes training to make perfection,
and the training of the Chinese soldier
is the one great essential lacking.
Through all its defeats administered
since the days of the coming of the white
man, the empire has never felt the need
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

which was to be % miles long and from
the canal had been completed at that
time and the construction was being
pushed 1t was proposed to establish a
dry dock and naval station at La Porte
which would cost from $4,000, 600 to $40,
100000.
But Galveston refused to be pushed
off the island, or be run out of business
by little thing like the Gulf of Mexico.
Something of the Chicago spirit possess
ed her. If Hollands 1000 spare miles
of territory, much of it below the sea
level, and which supports 100000 souls,
could be protected by 100 miles of 6ikes
along the Zuyder Zee, surely Calves ton S
few miles, five to II feet above the level
Of the sea, need not be abandoned be-
cause once in its history the water had
risen to height Of Is feet and the wind,
the flercest known to annals, had blown
120 miles per hour. The protection of
Holland, the elevation Of large portions
of Chicago, and of nearly the whole of
Sacramento, Cal, proved that the Cal
weston problem was merely one of engi-
neering detail.
Never for single hour, even during
the darkest period of the awful storm
has Galveston entertained the thought
that the city would be wholly or in part
abandoned. Eight days after the storm
vessels were loading at the wharfs. The
local papers never missed an issue, al
thnnoh fp fou do NC hot IIi
single sheets, the size of hand bills, run
off on job presses. The banks opened
for business on the third day. Mer-
chants ordered new stocks of goods as
soon as the telegraph lines were opened
1t had been said that the rebuilding of the
railroad bridge would take two months,
but in IL days trains were running regu-
larly into the city.
Galveston is the natural water gate
way to the southwest. The city is built
on narrow strip of sand 80 miles long
and one to three miles wide. 1t has been
well said that the city was born of geo.
graphy and commerce and that she can
not die while there are great west and
ships that go to sea. The economic
general export port of the country still
exist. The years business following
the storm showed substantial increase
over the year preceding. Cotton re-
ceived to August 81, 1901, was 81, ,177 1888
that received to August 81, 1900, was
$1.710, ,263. The grain exports for 1900
Oh were 14,010,37S bushels, that for the
year before the storm. 1S99-O0, were Is,
531 ,839 bushels. AT least S. 900 900 has
been spent in repairs and restoration OF
the city since the storm of 1900.
But the all-absorbing problem has
been the protection of the city from fur
Their inundation. In 1902 81 ,715, ,217 were
spent for permanent protective improve
merits The appropriation made by con-
gress for deepening and widening the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

III ONcl anu
have a drink together for the sake Of
college days" said one Of the Chicago
friends pointing to small saloon
across the street.
1t was not a commodious place, and
there was nothing for it but to line up
against the bar and drink.
What will it be?" asked the Chi
cagoan.
rs it possible to secure an oldfash-
ioned cocktail?" asked the Harvard
man, with trepidation, after looking
about the place.
Whisky can't go in this crowd" re-
tured his friend. champagne isn't half
good enough. Give us a quart of it.
Mike"
The bartender opened up the bottle
just as though he was used to ii, and he
is, and the trio disposed of two or three
OF them before quitting but the Harvard
man pronounced that the lilit when he
told me of it.
Drinking champagne, of genuine
French vintage at that, over stock
yards bar" said he. why. | wouldn't
have believed it, even of Chicago, if l
hadn't been there myself. Such a pro-
ceeding is wilder and woollier than any
thing | ever dreamed of"
But drinking champagne over bar
Is an every day occurrence in Chicago.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

| the city will rise up. up, up until her
streets are on a level with the broad,
fiat top of the sea wall. Future genera
tions will listen with absorbed attention
to the stories of how Galveston used to
be Hooded by the encoraching waters of
the gulf, of how in the terrible storm of
1900 the city was nearly swept from its
foundations and washed into the bay,
but they will never see Galvestons
streets rushing rivers of water, they
will never know the horrors of the cat
astrophe of 1900. A new Galveston-a
monument to the triumph of man over
nature and natures elements. This new
Galveston, rising grandly and confident
ly above the ruins which the raging
waters of the gu left behind them, was
not so much as reamed of before the
eVentful year of 1900. Frequently the
city had previous to tha year been un-
der water, but her people had simply
waited for the waves to roll by, and then
went on doing more and more business,
as the great southwest develu, her
ineXhaustible resources. But when the
15-foot tidal wave swept in upon the
city the inhabitants awoke to a sense Of
the danger which confronted them, and
the prophecy made over 10 years ago
came true
Stephen F. Austin, the Virginia pio-
neer, who led the first American colony
into Texas, rode across the coast plain
few feet above the level of Galveston,
and saw far inland a stranded schooner.
Tho vessel had bsen carried there by
some great storm wave of the gulf and
had been left a strange and hopeless
wreck upon the prairie. Some day."
said the founder of Texas, the clements
which did that will sweep over this
coast again" And they did. There was
no meteorological station In those days
to record the highest of the water and
I the velocity of the wind, but the waves
which bore upon their crest the great
schooner far inland and then abandoned
it to the lonely stretches of the prairie
waste may have been as high and mighty
as those that rolled on Galveston in
1900. II that thriving commercial city
resting SO dangerously near to the level
of the waters of the bay could only have
realized the full meaning of Austins
prophecy. perhaps years ago, the build
ing of the sea wall and the raising of the
grade of the city would have been un-
dertaken. If it had been seen what would
have been saved? Six thousand precious
lives, and property valued at SIT 600 600,
enough treasure to cover the cost of the
present improvements five times over.
But it is true always and everywhere
that individuals and cities and nations
provide adequately against catastrophes
only after a crowniEg disaster has fall
len. Then treasure boxes are opened and
energies set in motion which brina
about some such Transforming scene
as that which is being enacted at Gal
weston. ,s.i s.,sss..sS a.. {. - sa..ys
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

of remodeling its system of training
In fact, the soldier in China is held more
in contempt than esteem. The men who
are entrusted with the destinies of the
army must prove their efficiency in the
sacred writings of Confucius rather than
in the science of war. The officers Of the
army are drawn from those who sue
cessfully pass the civil examination the
training for which is useless not only
from the military standpoint but the
administration of civil duties as well.
Aside from these examinations the only
other test required is intended to prove
efficiency with bows and arrows, a relic
of antiquity scarcely to be imagined
outside the wilds of Africa.
Even with such force it might be pos
sibletO accomplish something as has been
shown by the success of Gen. Gordon,
were they given any practical training
One of the prominent features of the
drill of the army consists of teaching the
recruit TO assume an attitude and eX-
preston to frighten his opponent At
the time of the opening of the war with
Japan, and, in fact, at the present time,
much of the armament consists Of hall
herds, pixies, bows and arrows and long
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

der the command of the governor of the
operation between them. This fore"
numbers less than 100000 men,. though
its paper strength is more than 500, 600.
This makes the total army of China num-
Der about 100000 men on the present
peace footing, with paper strength, or
war footing, OF close to 100000.
That the Chinese army as it now eX-
lists, with all its crudeness and super
stitions, is useless, or even worse, was
proven by the war with Japan. That it
is possible to make soldier of no mean
ability of the Chinese coolie was proven
by Gen. Gordon, but China will have TO
take long step forward and forget the
superstitutions of centuries before she
can do in a large way what Gen. Gordon
did with a small force. With militant
Japan as a drill master. it is possible
that the army of the empire may be made
into formidable foeman for Russia,
but it cannot be done if war comes
quickly.
China, with its 4OO,000,000 people,
could easily dominate the east, and pre-
vent her own disintegration, if she sue
ceeds in making soldiers of her raw ma
terial but TO do so must be the growth of
generations and not the work of day or
official edict, and the chances are the
modernized army will not come in time
to save the empire
. DANIEL CLEVERTON.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

the charities distributed through this
great institution at this time of the year
are manifold they are not indiscrim-
mate.
Hull House as it stands to-day, with
its commodious buildings, it's far
reaching influence, is growth Of a lit
tie more than IA years. 1t is the product
of an European trip by Miss Adams
and Miss Ellen G. Starr. On that trip
they studied conditions among the poor
of Europe, and determined to do some
thing for the poor of Chicago. They had
nothing to start with but their own in
domitable courage, but they rented one
floor of a building--a ramshackle affair
erected by Charles Hull in 1859, and in
1889 used by sweat shop proprietors, old
gan attracting about them the poor and
outcasts of society who needed the guild
ance of stronger personality than their
own to help them upward.
Miss Adams explains it's object and
its methods in this way: "It must be
grounded in philosophy whose founda-
tion is on the solidarity of the human
race, philosophy which will not waver
when the race happens to be represented
by drunken woman or an idiotic boy. -
With such a foundation it is small
wonder that Hull House is one of the
bright lights of the Chicago holiday sea-
son.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

and Christmas dinners, either at home or
at the settlement houses for the families.
AT practically all of the social settlement
houses no discrimination is made so far
as creed is concerned, and all are given
an equal welcome without having any
special religious teachings forced upon
them. The same is true in the majority
f mission churches and Sunday schools,
hough at times one will find one that is
narrower than the general rule
An instance of this kind may be cited
in the poor district of the South side. A
wealthy Michigan avenue congregation
maintains mission there attached to
which is both a kindergarten and a sew
ing class as we'll as a Sunday school.
The pastor of the church objects to any
child receiving the benefit of the kinder
garten who does not attend the Sunday
school, or any mother receiving any
benefit from the sewing circle who is
not regular attendant at the mission
church. At this mission Christmas en-
tertainment is to be given, but it is for
the members of the Sunday school only,
and the other little waits and strays of
the neighborhood will not be permitted
to view the festivities.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

liOilS LOT lnGlr
share of seasonable
cheer is varied. In
the wealthy homes
it is becoming more
and more a day de-
voted to the chill
dren. The Chicago
millionaire is a
home lover, a fam
/ y Low r. On
Christmas day the
children and grand
children are gath
cred about the
home fireside, and
the little ones are
made happy with
an over-abundance
of C os tt y t o y s.
With this class the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

1ete east, during
the recent stock
show at the stock
yards. 1t was the
easterner's fl + s (
visit TO Chica 60,
and he came to be-
lieve most any
thing of the woolly
west. Of course,
he visited t h g
stock show, and
while there met
two or three friends
of his college days,
n o W prominently
connected with the
packing industries
of the city.
LET all of US go
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

and the missions of
every large city in
creases among the
poor, for whose
benefit they are
maintained. 1t is
at the social set
Elements and the
missions that thou
sands of the city
poor get their only
taste of Christmas.
There are Christ
mas festivities and
e II er a i n ments
provided. S o m e
even undertake to
provide Christmas
presents especially
for tba children
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

tI.C pun dI Vii lSl-
mas time. Miss
Jane Adams ex-
erts a wider inhu-
ence among the
poor of Chicago
than any other one
person engaged in
philanthropic work
in the city, but she
does nothing that
is not practical for
I h e m Il V err y
G hri S t mas ar
rangement at Hull
House is devised
for practical pur-
npSeS and though
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

<SA ALVESTON will within the
N/V>,$ y next three years be in posi-
MVIT tion to bid defiance to the
w SkEEE worst storm and tidal wave
NIElM which the Gulf of Mexico can
kick up. The 17-foot sea wall
facing the gulf side of the city has been
about completed, and the work of rising
the grade of the city to the level of the
top of this barrier is to begin, according
to the terms of the contract, within the
next GO days. The board appointed by
the governor has awarded the contract
for this work. The plan which the con-
tractors propose is to construct canal
20 feet deep from the bay inside and
about 200 feet from the sea wall. They
estimate that it will take II 600 900 cubic
yards of filling to raise the city to the
level of the sea wall. This gigantic en-
gineering feat will, when completed, take
its place as one of the nine wonders of
the world, and will cost the county under
the contract price of 1872 cents per cubic
yard nearly 100000, for which the
city will issue bonds.
At the time of the awful catastrophe
of September, 1900 when the city was
almost wiped out of existence and 5000
residents perished, the prediction was
quite generally made that the city would
never be rebuilt; that the thriving me
troplis had received blow from which
she would never recover. Industrious
newspaper men and magazine writers
under such captions as The Solving of
Galveston's Problem, THE Lessons of
Galveston's Flood" etc, told how Gal
veston's site might be abandoned for
safer location. La Porte, the only ele-
waited point on the Texas coast, being
80 to 40 feet above the mean sea level,
was picked out as the probable location
of the new Galveston. Twelve members
of the rivers and harbor committee of
congress, with Chairman Theodore F.
Burton, of Ohio, at its head, inspected
La Porte. A ship canal was projected
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

city none are more
appreciated or ac-
complish greater
results than the
Salvation Army.
For days past 6
Salvation Arm v
lassie has stood on
every corner of the
downtown streets
holding a stick
from which was
suspended an arti-
fetal turkey, into
which the public
were invited to
drop their spare
change as stuff
ing" The artifi-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

blematic of the use
TO which che money collected was to be
put-the purchasing of Christmas din
ner for 10000 or more OF Chicago's poor.
Nor is the dinner all the! is to be given.
The sad-faced child, into whose life
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

In the Ghetto district of the West side
Hull House is the great rendezvous of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

The Christmas festivities of those not
dependent upon the charitable organiza-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24

Chicago provincialism was illustrated
to a Harvard man, direct from the eff
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
THE HOLIDAY SEASON
How 1t Is Kept by Both Rich and
Poor in Chicago.
WORK OF SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS
Salvation Army Provides Christmas
Cheer for Many ThOusands-The
Public STUFF the Turkey-Fes-
tiyities Oh Middle Classes.

Chicago-As the holiday season draws
near interests in the social settlements
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
The Salvation Army.

OF all the many organizations which
work in His name for the poor of the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
To Attempt TO Make
Soldiers Of The Chinese

Army OF the Empire TO Be Reoraani1ed- What If
Now Consists or Quaint Body OF Soldiers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
The Making OF a New
City OF Galveston

How The Water Gateway OF The Southwest Is TO Be
Protected From the Rava8es OF Storm and Tide.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-30
JOIN THE CROWD.

The New Northwest is increasing from
immigration, BY 200, 900 people yearly
This region offers field tor farmers,
stock raisers, miners, lumbermen. mil
lers, fruit growers, and all classes OF
labor. The Cody Wyoming extension
into the Big Horn Region offers splen-
did opening for the live stock and wool
business and for farming by irrigation.
The industrial expansion that is now
the basis Of wealth in the East, will be
repeated in the Northwest. Give some
thought towsrd home in Nebraska or
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, North
eastern Wyoming, Northern Idaho.
Washington the Puget Sound and Col
umbia River region
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A Pennsylvania hotelkeeper was
fined 81 cents for swearing'at his serv-
ant whowould not get up when called
A man who advertised for cookand
music teacher received nine answers
to the former advertisement and 3S9
to the latter.
Sheriff de Bragga, Of the Queens
county jail, New York, has purchased
dogs to assist him In the capture OF
escaped fugitiyes.
There are 43 submarine valleys
known where soundings show more
than thee miles Of water, and eight
where 1nore than four miles has been
registered.
The number Of employees in the New
York municipal service has reached
1929, of whom IL, 900 arc teachers and
10000 members OF the police and fire
departments
Among the many interesting exhib-
its from Mississippi at the world fair.
St. Louis, will be an immense panel
made from specimens Of Sc different
varieties of wood grown in that state.
It is told as true story that John
Chapman at Galena. Kan, fell down
20-foot tramway at the Blind Tiger
mine and dislocated his shoulder. He
went home and stumbled down the
cellar steps and in falling his shoul-
der was thrown back into place. He
took drink and returned to work.
A man with many eccentricities re-
Gently died in England. He was Harry
de Spencer Kingdom, of Wilihayne,
Devon, who was formerly known to
fame as breeder and exhibitor OF
mastiff dogs. In his home were found
the embalmed remains Of his mother,
Who died 40 years ago, and Of his wife,
who predeceased him by Is years
NJ. Jusserand, the new French am
bassador to the United States, brought
with him to Washington some Gobelin
tapestries which have been donated
by the French government for the
decoration OF the embassy there.
These pieces are reproductions by the
celebrated state mandatory OF an
cient tapestries. 1t is said that the
cost of manufacturing the pieces in
question exceeds $4,000.