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he Emperor left his Impress on his en-

the Emperor left his Impress on his en-
pIre.
For three months i'm the summer of
tsS, the Emperor was emperor From
his youth, lac was Interested in the out
side world He studied some English
anc sent for l29 kinds OF books. most
OF which We're of a religious nature.
He guessed the dark ignorance Of his
people ana he started reforms that were
Immediately crushed.
Thirty EdiCts Signed.
Thirty edicts ordering the establish
ment of a university for the study Of
languages and western science, the pro-
motion or railways, the creation Of an
imperial postal system. the organization
OF "a patent office, and ordering the sons
OF imperial CllnSmen 10 travel and
study, went forth with his signature.
The Empress DOWageT took charge.
she Took away the seal OF the Emperor.
She beheaded the SIX councillors She
nasSdcred the reform leaders. But the
new ideas were sOWn, and with the out
side world CultlVating the germs. prog
reSs began which meant martyrdOm for
It's adheIents, but which grew neverthe-
less
The Boxer uprising is history. Il was
the Empress move .lNuang HSU Op-
posed it. ana advised that if general
war were m6de on all nations as plan
ned, that China would lose all friends
forever, and never be able TO have
peace. His popularity brought many
statesmen TO his side, but they were
cverruled, and the war of 1900 began.
1t Is said that when in the last con-
ference. the attack on the legations was
planned, ku2Dg HSu became fearful and
1etulant. s3hbing In rage, not so much
at the danger TO his country, but be
cause Ia could not have his own way.
Had No Children.
Kuang Hsu had no children. He him,
self seems 30 have always remained
one. He was a dollhouse plant. reared
in uselessness and the author Of great
reforms only because he was the spokes-
man for certain statesmen, who tried
to awaken China.
Kuane Hsu was the son OF Prince
ChUn the seventh son OF Ta5-Kuang,
and, Therefore, chosen BY the Empress
DOwageF to rule. although he was not
entitled to the thr-ne. He was bG<h
Zugust 10. 1871 il is supposed, although
few know the facts in any matter in
which the imperial family is concerned.
BY his title of ''SOu OF Heaven" the
Emperor is supposed 10 be the ruler Of
the world, with China as che central
kingdom and other nations as 1epen-
denotes. 1t is that which gives rise
TO the court etiquette that surrounds
with so great dignity a weakling SOW
ereisn.
Since 1891, foreign ministers have
in that year that he gave his first audi
ence to others than the councillors. His
gentlenes5 and pale, melancholy face
were attractive. and although his peO-
pie did not know him, he was popular
with ali classes.
The Washington times., 1908-11-14
FIRE LOSS SIS

Fire Of unknown origin about $50
o'clock this morning did So damage TO
a room on the third floor OF the home
OF John Brown, Jzls Fourth street north
west The fire department and the re-
serves Of the Tenth police precinct ra-
sponded to a false alarm shortly after
O'Clock this morning from box 50.
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GARMENT WORKERS QUIT.

BALTIMORE, Nov. l4-Between 500
and Goo garment workers walked out of
the Coatmaking department OF Henry
Somehow & Co.'S clothing mandatory
here, as e protest against the piece
work system, which was about to be
inaugurated. Heretofore the hands
were employed by the week They say
the change means a reduction of at
least 80 per cent in wages.
The Washington times., 1908-11-14
Cancer Cured
In 10 Days.
4 Discovery That Has Startled the
Medical World. Mailed Free.

have discovered what the medical
world has been looking for. for years, a
sure cure for cancer. so sure that il can
be absolutely guaranteed. This / do,
and / can prove il. I have cured hun
d-eds OF the most hOrrifying cases in
from 20 70 % days. after celebrated
physicians and surgeons had given up
all hope OF saving them.
The Washington times., 1908-11-14
WIFE WHEN
BABY is NOT A BOY

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Nov. 14-PearI
Robertson, after spending a night n
jail charged with wife desertion, was
released on his promise to return home
he left, his wife says, because q child
bonn 10 them was a girl and not a boy.
Robertson confirmed his Wife's state
menr
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WIRELESS ON LOCOMOTIVE

OMAHA, Nov. 14-Dr. H AlIIlner.
an electrician in the Union Pacific
shops. has equipped a locomotive with a
wireless device which railroad officials
declare will enable train dispatchers and
station agents TO signal engineers be-
Jwen stations, thus putting them prac-
ticsuy - constant touch with running
trains.
The Washington times., 1908-11-14
CHINESE REPORTS
ARE CONFLICTING

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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-10-18
The Truth Shall Make You Free

tocracy, nor could they have had any means
of knowing of the vast amount of money
continually expended to mislead the mass
of the people-the people who produce the
country's necessities, and induce them to
tie their precious votes over obscure issues,
leaving the country to be wholly ruled by
a plutocracy as cruel and opposed to the
real progress and intelligence of the nation
as is that of china.
Nor could the children in the Girls
Hall of Learnig' have had any real knowl
edge of Christianity, its history and pur-
pose. Their instruction along this line had
been wholly superficial and one-sided.
Else one of them would not have averred
that the Gospel of Jesus Christ would be
benefit to China, or that it could change
the hearts of the people and give them true
light. The child had been taught nothing
of the 1,500-year rule of Christianity In
Europe-darkest of all dark history. Moth
ing of its clanking chains, Its dungeons, its
racks and its stake-burnings. Nothing OF
the immortal Bruno and thousands of others
whom the Christians put to horrible death
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-10-18
BLUE GRASS BLADE

of Freethinkers. Not so with the priest
fulfil scripture, Suffer not witch to live,"
and other kindred teachings of the holy
Bible. Numerous estimates of the number
of witches put 10 death by the most com.
petent writer's foots up from seven to four
teen millions, while one of the most con-
sentative estimates fixes the number at
5000 900. These women witches were sup
posed to be in league with the devil work
ing for the allurement of souls from Christ
and Christianity, and for blighting the har
other injuries of a temporal nature. While
witchcraft was recognized, to limited ex-
tent by paganism and Mosaism, We read Of
no tortures or murders before Christianity.
The torture and murder of these innocent,
women was reserved for the Christian saw
ages of the dark ages, whose priesthood
often boosted of the number that they had
burned at the stake. The laws for the
punishment of witches were in every in
stance the work of the priesthood.
Although witchcraft was believed in by
all classes, at one time, and the witches
were tried condemned tortured and put to
death by the civil authorities, the priest
hood was back of all, Protestants and Cath
olics alike were the instigators of the pros
ecutions The Bible being their authority,
it became the special duty of the priests to
hunt up, furnish proof. convict and rejoice
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-10-18

over the agony of the dying victims In
time these thinking men, Freethinkers,
awoke from the general hideous scenes and
began 10 reason on The matter. Although
the proof OF witchcraft was overwhelming,
it was so incredible, so at war with the
laws OF nature, that thinking men finally
refused to believe that the witch stories
could be true. These men nnally resorted
to ridicule as means to stop the persecu-
lions. they said it was impossible that the
the same time, or that she could go up
chimney and ride through the air on
brOomstick, or that she had the powers of
producing famine, pestilence and the like;
in court and believed by the judges. In
time common sense was aroused and COM
menced to investigate. Then witches grew
less and less, until witchcraft was no
priesthood, who stood in their last ditch
with their holy Bible as a breastwork. In
the end the cleric had to give 1t up, though
it rested ON Bible authority. Now a man
or woman would be looked on as insane if
he or she should attempt to maintain these
Bible statements, just as well authenticated
and Just as false as all the rest of the Bible.
Ny next will necessarily be long; it will
deal with the revival of learning in Europe,
the work of Freethinkers.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-10-18

for being unable to believe the Christian
dogmas Else, she would not have builded
her hopes on this vilest of religions to work
any reformation in China Nor had she
heard of the toiling millions in America,
of women who sew by the midnight lamp,
and slave children who yield up their lives
in factories, in order that Christian mil
lionaires and Christian fakirs may live in
luxury and ideness. Had the children been
taught the real TRUTH they would not have
builded their childish hopes on a mere
will-O the wisp, a changing from an au-
tocracy to a plutocracy, or a changing of
worship and faith from one savior" to
some other.
Could our children be taught the real
truth in these schools that cost so much in
time and money, how straight and true
would be the path up the mountain side of
Evolution. The truth indeed shall make us
free. Oh, the pity that we waste away
children's precious time teaching them
falsehoods of the Instability of Confucius,
or Jesus or Mohammed, when they would
as well learn the truth that is to make the
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-10-18

to an end. Popedom lost all, and its doom
IN Europe was sealed forever. Likely To
be driven out of Europe The present pope
is laying his nefariOus schemes to capture
our country and make it a second Christian
hell on earth. In this he has gone so far as
10 form an alliance with our political lead
ers, VINO, in exchange tor the Catholic vote,
bulls of Rome. This nefarious scheme be-
gan with Harrison, continued under Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt and now has en-
trapped both Taft and Bryan, who stand
ready to barter off American freedom for
the presidency.
The subject of witchcraft has played too
important a part during the contest in
Europe to be passed over in silence. A
little of it here and this article must close
So little has been heard of witches in the
it a small affair and that mostly confined
to Salem Never were they SO sadly mis-
taken. For more than 300 years the shrieks
from every nook, corner, city, town and
precinct in Europe was heard the dying
groans of countless women as they were
being tortured by every device that the
priesthood could invent, and finally the
smoke assembled from their quivering flesh
and cracking bones only to tell of their last
agonies, which still rouse the sympathies
history of those times that tried the souls
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-10-18
How Pitifu to Waste a Childs Time by
Teaching it superstitious FaIsehood.
(By Julia c. Coon.D


"A crowned caprice is god of the world;
On his stony breast are mis- wings un
furled;
No ear to hearken, no eye to see,
No heart to feel for a man hath he.'
The little story of Chinese children in
the Girls Hall of Learning" in The
Youths Instructor, reveals a sad aspect.
Awakened to some of the wrongs in their
own land, these children imagine or have
been taught that America is a free nation,
simply because every four years "the people
write down the name of the man whom they
wish to govern the country, and the man
whose name is written by the greatest
number of people is chosen ruler
1t could hardly be expected but that
children would think that this must be the
essence of liberty They truly, could not
yet have mad an opportunity to learn that
the rule of an ignorant majority would not
be likely to be better than that Of an au-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-16
PREPARING A YEAR HENCE
While Sanborn County Took Second
Place at the Corn Palace They
. Want First Next Year.

Woonsocket News: The corn pail
ace has come and gone, the last of
summer festivals. The citizens can
now get down to real hard work un-
til another spring at least. Some
very fine county exhibits We're on
display and it is a source of salts
faction that we are able to
that Sanborn County secured second
prize. Hanson taking first. 1T will
be remembered that Sanborn was
put in sixth place at the fair, and
while Mr.. Warner had only $50,
with which to gather his exhibit,
Sanborn was at least entitled to see
ond or third at the fair. Next year
we trust that the county commits
sioners will see fit to set aside 5000
or more to aid II carrying on the
work. Hanson county had $500
with which to carry ON the work,
and with such an amount as this to
work On Sanborn could resume her
old position at the top of the lader.
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Were Married OH Sight.

Spokane, cash., Oct. 13.-Miss
Lizzie Gait, of Petersburg, Ind, and
w. j. Moore, a rancher at Blue Greek,
stevens county, WASH, We're mar
ried by Rev. H. Edward Mills in
Spokane after a courtship by mail
and less than two hours after the
bride stepped from a w~est-bound
transcontlnental train. The couple
had never met until Miss Gait ar
rived in Spokane. She was accom-
panied by Miss Fowler. The cor
respondence started when Mr.. Gait,
brother of the bride, showed Moore
a number of photographs to clinch
his contention that the girls in Ind
ian are as beautiful as those in
Kentucky. One of these was a
likeness of Miss Gait. Moore was
%enraptured and begged for a letter
of introduction. This was granted
and after the correspondence was
established Moore sent daily mis-
sives, finally asking the girl in Ind
lana to marry him. Miss Gait re-
piled Yes" asking hat the we'd
ding take place Immediately on her
arrival. This was carried out. They
will live at Blue Creek.
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How's This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars re-
ward for any case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. +. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio.
We the undersigned have known
+. j. Cheney for the last Is years,
II believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions, and
financially able to carry out any OBJ
legations made by his firm.
Walling. kinnan & Marvin.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O..
Halls Catarrh Cule is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
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Praying She Lost Her Speech.

Spokane, Wash, Oct. 13.-While
kneeling beside her aged mother,
giving fervid utterance to prayer,
Mrs. K. I. Franklin, 20 years of age,
living at 924 Herman avenue, Spo-
kane, was stricken a week ago and
has since been unable to speak the
English language. Instead of artic-
ulate words she uses a mixture of
sounds, which, in infection and tone,
resembles the languages of the or
lent. Mrs. Franklin, who was a resi-
dent of Sacramento and Elmonte,
Cal, until coming to Spokane ever
al years ago, declares in a written
statement that she has received "the
gift of the tongues" adding that she
was cured of hip disease, consumpt-
ion and fainting spells while at pray
er in California three years ago.
Local physicians ascribe the woman's
sudden loss Of speech to paralysis
of brain centers controlling the vo-
cal organs, but they admit that the
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-16
BRYAN's spEo19gs RECORD.
Judge Iuft Points Out the weak
Spots in the NebrasIsan' Polit-
fc;tl Ht.inrN.

(From Ta1t's Cincinnati Specch.)
What is it that we have to expect
from Mr.. Bryan? Have we anything
to expect but what he promises! Have
we anything to expect but what is
based upon his %eloguence and his
adroitncss rs a public critic? Has he
ever given amy practical demonstration
OF his ability to meet problems and
solve them: Has he ever done any
thing but formulate propositions in his
closet of an utterly impracticable
plausibility. and very little with a view
of their operation? BY their fruits
we shall know Them
with the record of promises and
prophecies unfultilled for a period of
twelve years; With his record Of a
hunt for an issue upon which to
achieve the presidency with his rec
ord of reputation. of negotiation and
of running away from national respol
sibilities. Mr.. Bryan comes forward
and asks that the people now give him
an opportunity TO put into operation
new reforms in respect to trusts and
in respect to guaranty OF bank depos-
its, wholly unJried. wholly theoretical,
and on their face bearing evidence of
their impracticability and of having
been devised 10y the ready brain of
II looking for plausible arguments
rather than real reforms. He only in
a qualified way approved the postal
savings bank recommended by the Re
publican platform. which is a tried
and proved means of encouraging the
wage-earner and small farmer to make
deposits in Il bank absolutely secure;
but much prefers q system which takes
a mans money to pay another mans
default, and which instead Of strength
ening our banking system will break it
down by destroying the value of the
banking character and experience and
capital and by Offering inducement to
reckless and speculative bankers with
out character or capital.
1.-The record of Mr.. Bryan and his
character, as it is understood by a
twelve years acquaintance with him.
have impressed the business communi-
ty of this country and those whose
Judgment dGltIlllllleS WllelleT or NOT
capital shall be invested that he is not
a safe man with whom to try eXpcri-
ments in government; that he loves
financial theories that are full of So
phistry n are impractical; that he
advances propositions With but little
sense of respect as to how they nav
be carried ont in practice, and that he
gives but little attention to the wei
fare of the conservative business com
munity in his suggestions of reform.
Certainly his record justifies his juds-
ment of him by the business men. If
he was to be elected. unquestionably
because of his record, however much
now he may seek to pose as a conserva-
tive-because of his record. because of
the failure of the theory which he has
proposed for the last twelve years
his election will mean a paralysis of
business, and we should have a recur-
renee Of the disastrous business con-
dition OF the last Democratic admins
tration."
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PER
Doctrine that tl.e Poor Are Growing
Poorer shown to he False.
(From the Los Angeles Timcs.)

(From the Los Angeles Times.)
United States held 81. 1886. This
was a poor country then compared with
now. The amount was only an average
of - cents for the population of that
time. That amount of average economy
was very small.
Now the people of this country have
$3.69O,S7S.945 in savings banks. This
is an average for the whole population
OF this time of over $40. The actual
dapositcrs have an average OF $500 to
their credit. In 1920 only $685. per-
sons in the country We're rich enough to
have a savings bank account. Now
there are S,5SS.S11.
When James Buchanan, the last
Democratic President in a long line.
went into Office, there was about SlOO.
100000 in the savings banks of the
United States. BY 1870, after fighting
out the grea.. war, the people. undrl
Republican rule for twenty ears. lad
S550,0O0,0 600 in the savings banks. When
the next Democratic President took his
seat in 1883. the savings of the people
had passed the billion point. BY 1898
the savings had doubled again.
So there it is. In 1920 there were
only about 5000 people rich enough to
have a savings bank account. Now
there are over S,OOO.OOO. In 1920 the
savings were 10 cents per capita now
they are over $40.
That the poor grow poorer and the
rich richer in this country is as true
as any other Populistic notion.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-16
First Lessons in Elections.

Quite a crowd of boys responded
to Secretary Whittaker's invitation to
meet at the Y. M. G. A. rooms Mon
day night. At the meeting the boys
decided to make a canvas of the city
schools and organize the republicans
and the democrats. On Thursday
night the democrats will meet and
go through the steps required in pri-
mary elections, such as filing petit
lions and voting. The succeeding
night the republicans Will meet and
go through a similar process. Meet
ings will be held until all the steps
are gone through with when a gener-
al election will be held. The train
ing the boys will receive will be of
great value, as it gives them a prac-
teal idea of the primary steps of
government. 1t is interesting to
note hal at the first meeting the is
sue seemed to be evenly divided be-
tween the democrats and the repub-
licans.
Secretary Whitaker has been
making Improvements so hat now
the Y. M. G.. A. rooms have a very
p~resentable appearance, mission furn-
iture has been put in and rugs laid.
1t is the intention to further deco
rate the walls and ceiling.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-16
HOT SHOT.
On Haskell.

Governor Haskell's utter unfit
ness for any public position of
trust or for association with any
man anxious to make an appeal
on a moral issue to the American
people has been a%bundantly
shown.
AS an American citizen who
prizes his A~mericanism and citi-
zenship far above any question
OF craftsmanship, ] regard it as a
scandal and disgrace that Gov
ernor Haskell should be connect
ed with the management of a ma
tional campaign.
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To Bryan.

In my Judgment the measures
you advocate would be wholly in
effective in curing an evil, and
so far as they had any effect at
all would merely throw the entire
business of the country into hope
less and utter confusion.
1 put Mr.. Taft's deeds against
Your words. | ask that MI. Taft
be judged by all his deeds, for he
wishes none of them forgotten. l
ask that You be judged both by
the words you wish remembered
and by the words that seemingly
You and your party now desire to
have forgotten.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-16

L hope and believe that all far
sighted citizens who wish to see
this country prosperous in mate
rial things will support Mr.. Taft.
but above all ] ask for support
for him because he stands for the
moral uplift of the nation, be-
cause his deeds have made good
his words. and because the poll
cfes to which he is committed are
of Unreasonable consequence
alike to the honor and interest of
the whole American people.
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Bryan.

Bryan.
He talks in the morning and talks in
the night,
he talks when he's wrong and he
talks when he's right;
He talks in the office and talks in the
hall,
He talks in the church and he talks at
the ball.
He talks to the Senate and talks to the
House,
He talks to the people as poor common
He talks to the press and he talks to
the crowd,
He talks and he talks with a voice long
and loud;
Like an old clapper mill he'll sound to
the end
And die disappointed for office and
friend!
John A. Joyce in Baltimore Ameri-
can.
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an extremely interesting proplem, In
view of the fact that Mrs. Frankli~
is in good health, tuough docto,
declared in 1905 that she was be-
You'd medical aid.