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house, and I knew that Miss Blossom s
guest was the whitest man on the stock
range, Sheriff Bryant Naturally, 1 had to
go and see old Dick, so I told Curly to
keep good, quit the parlor, crossed the
passage, and walked right into the dining
room, one hand on my gun and the other
thrown up for peace.
Dick played up in the Indian sign talk
Long time between drinks
Thirsty land" says my hand.
"Now may inquirer says Miss Blossom.
"Wan, ma am'--oId Dick cooked his gray
eye sideways-"this Chalkeye person re-
marked that he 1anguished for some
whisky, upon which rebuked him for pro-
jecting his drunken ambitions into a lady's
presence
The way he subdued Miss Blossom was
plenty wondrous, for she lit out to find him
the bottle.
Sheriff." says /, as we shook hands, '.yo'
servant, seh.'
IT left the sheriff part OF me in my own
pastures" Dick wrung my hand limp. ~
don't aim to ride herd on the local criminals
heah, so the Ratchet Is buried. and the
chiefs get noee-paint Miss Blossom,
ma'am, we only aspire to drink to the
II look toward you, mann"
IT du despise q hatterer," says Miss Bios
som, but saw her blush.
wall, to resume" said Dick. this lady
guest, Miss Hilda Jameson of Norfolk. in
old Virgtnie. is entitled to her own habits
She Is wounded most unfortunate all day,
but all night she's entitled to bulge around
In free country studying moonlight ef-
fects."
"6he's due to be whipped" says Miss
ION scenes OF domestic bliss 1t is not my
purpose ma'am, to intrude. only eliude
to the fact that this young lady was per.
vading Main street late last night, happy
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capable Of being turned into enective nsh
ing men.


Numerous hardy, emdnentiy teachable
ana fearless" wrote Frederick Greenwood
the other day, eft can no longer be main.
tanned that they do not know what patriot~
ism is, or only understand to despise it.
Never accurate. It is no longer safe when, as
we have lately seen, political anti-foreign
boycott organizefin China IL promptly taken
I'D by Chinese communities out OF China
And other writer's as distinguished are de-
claring that the Chinese undoubtedly drew
their own conclusions for the future from
the practical ineffectiveness OF the Euro
pean invasion of 1900, as well as the exam
pie set by the Beers in a country far less
difficult and engai1ng than China.
1t Is a fact, Of course, that China's great
military program for the future was decided
upon comparatively recently. But ever since
the Boxer uprising In 1900 the celestial en-
pire has been engaged IN reorganizing on
European lines the army which she now
possesses, and 1t has been no secret that her
efforts in that direction were proving I'M
commonly successful. Few, however, were
prepared for SO striking tribute to the eff
cheney Of the Chinese army Of today as-that
which the London Times recently printed
from It's far eastern military expert late
with Gen. Nogi. Unconditional ana not likely
to indulge in extravagant statements, this
expert, who was one Of the few foreigners
to witness the recent Chinese military ma
neuvers at Ho-chien-fu-the first ever held
In China--decIares that what he saw there
came as revelation and goes on to
praise almost every branch of the Chinese
military service in fashion that must be
described as little short of extraordinary.
X X
AT the outset he declares it has always
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the new Chinese army was announced as
long ago as last October, but 1t is only re-
Gently that the date of his departure for
Picking had been definitely settled.
Meanwhile 1t is no secret that China's
new army. which is TO number 10000 men
and cost 5000. coo, 900. will be modelled on that
greatest of all European military machines
the army of the kaiser Wilhelm-and Gen.
Yin Tchang is undoubtedly the person to
do n. Sent as young man to study the
art of war in the school of Moltke and Won
Clausewitz, he was brought up as Ger
man officer, spent seven years in the kali
ser's service and returned to China in 1899,
Just in time to take an active part in his
countrys struggle against the Japanese
year later
II was ne who conducted the brilliant de-
Tense of Tien-Tsin against the mikados in
vincble army of invasion, and this per-
Torrance made him recognized as undoubt-
edly the most able soldier under the dragon
flax A few years later he left the army to
enter Chinas diplomatic service, acting first
as minister to Vienna and later TO Berlin.
Slight of build and extremely youthtui-
looking in spite of his forty-odd years, Gen.
Yin Tchang speaks both English and Ger
man fiuently and is the most accomplished
after-dinner speaker in the Berlin diplo-
matte corps.
Like most Chinese diplomats, Gen. Yin
Tchang is difficult to interview, but in re-
ply to your correspondents question as 10
whether the great army which he is TO Or
paniza would ever be employed in race
struggle against white men IN ASIA ne
made a significant reply,
Have we reason to love the whites? he
asked do they love us?' Then he went
on to point out that China would always be
held in subjugaton until she was able TO
defend herself. We purpose no longer.
he said, depending for our territorial In
texrity upon the good graces Of foreign
mowers and their alliances. We can never
command respect until we are in position
to enforce It. Neither can there be real
friendship between China and foreign ma
tions until we stand with them on basis
approaching equality-untl their estimate
of us is governed by our power to repel In
suits and enforce our rights
3
Aided by the many japanese experts who
are already engaged in drilling the Chinese
army Gen. Yin Tchang may be expected
TO do great things with the forces of the
hermit kingdom. And in that task he ls
likely TO beueit greatly by the advice of
seven keen-wftted young Cinnamon who,
following his example. have been serving
their apprenticeship officers in the Ger
man army, and whom the world may some
day have occasion TO acclaim as the Oya-
mas Kodamas, Nogis and kurokis of their
race.
Most of them are TO return home as mem
bers of General Yin Tchang's staff Sons
of mandarins and representatives of the
new spirit of modern China, these alert,
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CURLY
A TALE OF THE ARIZONA DESERT.
BY ROGER POCOCK.
Author OF "a Frontlersman," etc.
Copyright, 1905. by Little. Brown & Co.,

We'll, of all the impudencev'
That's what my wife says-impudence.
VIII the dawg bite If 1 inquire for Misteh
Curly McCalmont?"
My blood went to ice. and j reckon Miss
Blossom collapsed whole lot, to Judge by
the bang where she lit.
wall, since yore SO kind, ma am, I'll
just step in"
l heard him step In.
This way!' the lady was gasping for
breath.
THE dining room? Wall, now, this ts
shorely the purtiest room, and I do just
admire to see sech fiowers!'
Miss Blossom came cat-foot to shut the
parlor door, and heard no more.
Curly was changing the cartridges In her
revolver, as she always did every evening.
Search" she inquired, sort Of sarcastic
about the nose.
Shut yo' haid. D'you want to be cap
tured?"
1T would b sort OF relief from being
so ladyiike."
Then a big gust OF laughter shook the
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Musical Criticism in Massachusetts,

From the West Roxbury News.
Mr.. Benjamin L. Whelpley presided at the
organ, and he was In loving communion
with his medium from the. moment he
caressed its keys. Expressions, now lofty.
now subdued, exultant, penitent, paeans,
lullabies, stalked majestically, walked with
bowed head, galloped with mad abandon
or rocked themselves across our plane OF
hearing, and always that subtle vibration
that communicates itself to the chords Of
our inmost heart and transports the mortal
into the realm of Immortality.
That sterling artist, Mr.. Leon Van vliet,
was present with his cello and fairly en-
thraIled his audience with his sixillful
manipulation Of that wonderful instrument.
Arc there such thinaN an glaA wailings,
sweet sorrow. good devils. sanctifled sin. the
laughter Of tears, then the cello is thar
medium OF expression. In the hands OF q
master like this the human cry Of this in
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CASUAL GLIMPSE
OF THE SMART SET
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles')
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.


Those of us who are outside the smart
set and who have no wish or expectation
ever to be within it have of course only a
vague idea of the life it leads. What Is
called the smart set includes only 81 few
among the great mass Of Americans, most
Of us being working people. to whom each
day brings routine of duties and who are
perfectly satisfied If we make both ends
meet. and have little over at the end OF
the year.
It would not be fair to say of the smart
set that it is composed of the idle rich.
They too, are In the minority. A great
many wealthy men and women are anything
but idle. They toll as strenuously as the
poorest, they do a great deal of good, often
without ostentation, and they are not even
on the edge Of the set about whom we are
thinking.
A woman may wear sables and diamonds,
go to Europe every year. live IN great ere
gance and entertain royalty and still be as
sweet and simple and gentle as her neigh
Dor who manages a small income with
economy and makes bright her little nome
1t is not what we have, but what we are
that makes true womanhood lively ana
charming. A may administer millions
and be as good and true and honorable as
the humblest clerk in his employment II
is dangerous doctrine which teaches that
of their poverty, or the rich worse than the
poor because of their wealth. Automo-
biles are not inventions of the devil, nor
are sumptuous houses dens of fntquity.
We who have no acquaintance with the
smart set except as the society column IN
the newspapers report its goings to and
fro, it's weddings. divorces and remarriages.
have recently been afforded peep at 1t IN
the pages of a popular novels said to be
written by one who has had special oppor-
tunities for knowing whereof she speaks.
The glimpse of the smart set given US IN
this romance Is distinctly depressing Gath
ering about a central figure, that OF beau
tiful orphan girl, are men and women who
seem to have about as much OF the milk or
human Kindness in their veins as wolves
In a pack. The women gamble, the men de-
worse As for any ethical standard, II the
House Of Mirth'' Is to be trusted, 1t does
not exist In the smart set.
Men and women are openly or furtively
unfaithfu1 to their marriage vows; mar
ried man does not hesitate to take con-
temptible advantage OF the helpiessness OF
a girl who has been his wife's intimate
worst of each other. and Of the women who
are their kindred. Chivalry d apparently
q lost art Honor II faint mirage on q
remote horizon. A girl incurs dnanCial OBJ
legations from man, and thenceforth be.
comes more and more entAng1ed Ia web
az duplic1ty, and In meshea which fatally
efssuaro her. Her intentions are not evil.
but her very inability to comprehend tdat
any values beyond those that are dnAnciai
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Acknowledged young men are not noyices at
the game of war. Each of them has ffn-
ished a four years course at the great
Chinese military academy OF WuchanB,
which Is founded on German models. and
they are practically doing ''post-graduate
work. In Germany now. Three Of them are
assigned to the artillery branch, three to
the cavalry (hussars) and one to the engi-
neering corps. Their headquarters ia Cas-
sci. one of the most important military CEN
tiers In north Germany. Almost all OF them
command the German language sufficiently
to get the full benefit Of German training.
Some of them speak 1t fluently They wear
neither Chinese nor German uniforms, but
a specially designed costume, which is a
combination of the French and Gillian uni
form, white shakos being the only feature
in which the three services represented are
alike. The hussars wear helmets upon
which the Chinese dragon is a conspicuous
feature.
AS the father of the yellow peril' theory,
{. fS understood that FmperOr Wilhelm was
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Saving of Curly.

Miss Blossom was at the front door, hay
ing great arguments with q man.
IF you got baby carriages 10 SELL says
she, II claim TO be spinster, and If It's
lightning rods 1 don't hold with obstruet-
ing Providence IL it's insurance or books.
or planolas. or dress patterns. or moving
machines. you'd better Just 20 home. I'm
proof against agents Of all sorts. I'm not at
home 10 visitors and ! don't feed tramps.
Thar, now. you Just clear out.
"'Scuse me. ma'am, L"
mo, you mayn't."
ALLOW mo TO Introduce"
mo, you don't. You come to the wrong
house for that"
"Wall, I'm blessed IT,
"Yo'ro much more apt to get bit by my
dawg, cause yo' breath smells Of liquor,
and Tn engaged"
"Giad to hear II. ma'am. congratulate
ths happy gentleman you've chosen
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are known in the world. complicates the
situation for her. Married women write
compromising letters to men whom they
meet socially, who are supposed to be
friends of their husbands, and In one case
the man who is more nearly gentleman
than any other in the book, simply tears
such letters in two and losses them into the
waste basket. There is hardly, in the whole
story, q character who could decently pass
muster among ordinary men and women
the two who are supposed TO be patterns
of goodness being singularly destitute OF
humor and common sense.
If the smart set be like this, SO heartless,
so corrupt, so cruel our conclusion is that
its career must be short. There is far too
much essential reality in America to endure
very long that which is wholly false and
meretriciouS.
X x
We are fam to believe, however that the
picture is overdrawn. There must be be-
hind the silSen portieres and velvet hang
ings of these exquisite homes some who
have kept unframed a fairer ideal. All the
young women who go to French dress
makers and wear gowns that cost fortune
are not like poor Lilly Bart, who from baby
hood had been taught that the only life
worth living was a life of display, and that
1t were better to die and be done With than
to be out of the fashion. All the men who
understand the ups and downs of finance
and whose names are spells to conJure with
in the market are not SDfUlQ ana mean ana
rapacious Our Hebrew friends have right
to protest against their representative in
these pages that profess to depict with truth
the successful climbing of one of their race
to the perch which seemed to him a fitting
goal for his ambition. Notwithstanding the
melancholy muddle of it all, there must
hnger shreds of human kindness and COM
nlonplace goodness in the smart set.
Yet the picture points a moral and indi-
Gates a warning. 1t is like a danger signal
on the road. We in America are striding
forward at tremendous pace. We are be-
coming nomadic, not contemed with perrna-
neuce and stability, with homes that gather
to themselves the sweetness of fond asso-
Citations and the glory of old tradtions-we
are becoming accustomed to a migratory
life.
man need not be a multi-miHfonaire to
own three or -four homes and spend only
fraction of the year In any OF them. Fam
iMes not of the smart set are too prone to
disintegrate. The wife and daughters are
not unwilling to let the ocean roll for
months together between themselves, and
the hard-working father, who Is busy ac-
cumulating more millions at home. Young
men too early allowed control of large
sums grow irresponsible and wasteful. and.
ard or the suicide. AL history combines to
prove that too much luxury breeds eorrup-
ton, tempts individuals to dishonesty, and
rnenaces the very continuance OF domi-
nant people. That which happened in the
dim past to Greece and Rome may happen
to America In the twentieth century of the
Christian era IL we shut our eyes to lessons
that are given In the 61impses we have OF
the smart set,
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
BERLIN, January IS, 1905.
wv 9TH 100000 rifles of the latest
pattern on order in Europe,
NM and contracts signed for 300
w modern batteries, the Chinese
empire has made highly eff
fective start on its big army reorganiza-
tion scheme which is already causing such
hard thinking in various quarters of the
world
1t can now be added that the actual ere
alton of China's great war machine of the
future will probably begin in earnest some
time in April or May, for late in March
the man who has been chosen to take the
business in hand will leave Europe for
Picking for the purpose of beginning his
mighty task This Is, OF course, Gen. Yin
Tchang, China's greatest soldier, who for
the last three years has been representing
his country at the kaiser's court. Gen. Yin
Tchang's appointment as generalissimo of
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AS the father of the yellow peril' theory,
It Is understood that Emperor Wilhelm was
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PLANS FOR ORGANIZING
CHINA'S NEW LEGIONS
cepzsht SEQ BY caztl. Brawn BRITISH nlgAt. Rs.srvsa

Of Acknowledged
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Rummage of Mattings.

Japanese Mating in carpet effects.
Colors red, blue, green and tan.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-25
FOUR-ROUND GOES
AT DREAMLAND
PAVILION.

With the Thomas-Fitzpatrick fight
out of the way the sports are turning
their attention TO the four-round bouts
scheduled for Dreamland Pavilion to-
morrow night The heavyweights nat
urally are the attraction and Jim Casey
will have the chance that he has been
looking for ever since his memorable e
go with Sam Berger, although it will
not be with the big Olympic Club boxer.
Bob Ward. the husky teamster who has
won all of his scraps with his terrific
wallop inside of two rounds. will en-
deavor to stop the Irish pugilfst. and
a short and torrld mill is looked for
by the friends of both boxers.
The special events are to be fur
nished by well known featherweights,
two pairs being slashing mixers and
the other of the scientific class Johnny
Murphy the tough youngster, who has
yet to be knocked OF his pins. will
tackle George Curran. one OF the hard
est hitters in his division Al Emick
and Harry Williams. who fought such
hurricane battle three weeks ago.
have been rematched, and IL they dupii-
cate their previous exhibition the
sports cannot ask for anything better
Young Dempsey, a lightning jabber,
will take on Southside Jack O'Brien.
who is deemed one of the speediest
youths of HIS weight. Johnny Hogan
VS.. Ed Lovejoy and Ed Weber VS..
Charles Mccarthy round out a we'll
balanced card
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-25
PLUNGER YEAGER
Is COMING TO
CALIFORNIA.
BYE. e. MuIl1oIIand.

Plunger Joe Yeager is headed west
ward again. He wired from New York
yesterday TO Secretary Treat of the
California Jockey Club asking for
eight stalls at Oakland. and his horses
are now on the way. Not so long ago
frequently sent an s TO chance TO
the post with a decided list to the
starboard. owing TO the extent of his
big wagers- II was in California that
the plunger first saw the clever work
Of Hildebrand in the saddle, and later
ne secured a contract on the services
Of the California boy. 'Hildy," by the
Yeager freside, will be out here this
season, too. il is said.
Trainer Bill Carroll reached Oakland
yesterday with nine thoroughbreds
from A B Spreckels' Napa Stock Farm
Among the consignment is Marius II
the English horse one of the premier
stations at the Napa breeding estab-
lishment and now nine years of age.
Marius II was purchased in England
for Mr.. Spreckels by Enoch Wishard
and was considered a great horse over
distance If the big fellow from the
other side stands training he will be
started in the Thornton stakes, at four
miles, among other engagements the
coming season.
superintendent Jim Grant has his
men hard at work on the course over
the bay and the checkers are getting
their chronometers oiled up in readi-
ness for expected fast workouts jim
is an expert judge of a track and is
prepared 10 meet all comers of the
kicking brigade.
John EIlerd and Stewart Polk. who
have been racing in the northwestern
country, arrived at Oakland with their
strings yesterday.
President Thomas H. Williams and
Handicapped Horace Egbert of the
California Jockey Club are due home
either tonight or tomorrow.
The boys are arriving slowly. Bar
ney Schlamm, smiling and pleasant as
ever. and Joe Dinkelspiel. well known
bettor, are two of the latest to register.
Ed Gaylord. the Denver turfman,
viii book at Oakland again the coming
winter
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-25
PLEA Of SANTA f
AVA|LS NAUGHT.

Los ANGELES. Oct 24.-United
States District Attorney LawIer and
the Federal Grand Jury resumed in
vestigation at 10 O'clock this morning
of the charges that the Santa Fe Rail-
road Company is guilty of rebating in
freight charges to certain furniture
and implement dealers in this city.
Judge Ollin Wellborn OF the United
States District Court decided late yes
terday afternoon that the railroad com
pany must produce its freight books In
court on subpoena. The books will ac-
cordingly be produced when wanted.
Indictments will be sought under the
Elkins law not only against the rail-
road company but also the firms and
individuals alleged to have received
the rebates. 1t is asserted that the
Southern Pacific Company and possibly
the Salt Lake Railroad will be drawn
into the investigation
Pursuant to the courts order the
Santa Fe today caused to be hauled to
the Tajo building, where the court and
Grand Jury Is sitting, two immense
loads of old waybills and other mis-
cellaneous documents that had the ap-
pearance of having been stored in a
basement The mass of papers was
guarded by two armed United States
deputy marshals- Deputies also guard
ed the doors and prevented any Of the
witnesses from being interviewed.
OMAHA, Oct. 24--Interstate Com
merce Commissioners E. E. Clarke and
Frank K. Lane continued here today
the hearing on matters connected with
the grain trade. About 200 grain men
of Omaha and Council BLUFFS have been
subpenaed to testify and 1t is under
stood that others will come from diff
ferent points in the State. Attorney
John h Marble represents the commis-
sion.