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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
Some school. Of Picking.

Picking Is not so far advanced as Tlentsin
in the pushing of the new education Still
It has more than 200 new schools and over
10000 children and young men are work
ing away in government institutions. The
schools begin with kindergartens, which
may be attended by children from the ages
of 3 up to {. At the latter age they enter
the second grade primary schools. where
a five-year course is taken, and then the
first grade primary for a four-year course.
In these schools they are taught the read
ing and writing of the Chinese characters
and they begin arithmetic, history and
geography. In the first stages of their in
struction the children study out loud, but
instead of sitting on the floor and sway
ing back and forth, each shouting for
himself. as in the past, they now sit on
benches and read together with one of them
as their leader.
After the primary is passed, the stu
dents enter the grammar or intermediate
grades. Here they study Chinese. foreign
languages, mathematics, geography and
history, and also the natural sciences,
ethics and drawing. In some schools there
are courses in law and political economy.
The most OF these schools are, as yet, not
far advanced, but there are something like
10000 students attending them in Picking
alone, and Of them 1900 or 5000 are Man
chus, The Manchus have a mobiles school
for the sons of high officials who are be-
ing prepared for further education abroad,
The school has now 200 students.
AS to the middle or second grade pri-
mary schools, they are being established
by the thousands. DR.. c. D.. Tennery, who
organized the middle schools Of the
province several years ago. then instituted
over 2,7OO, with something like $1,000 stu
dents, and there are probably one-third
more than that number today. This was
for the province OF Pechihli, In which
Picking is situated A similar work is being
more gradually done in each Of the other
tw enty-Odd provinces Of the Chinese en-
plre.
High schools and normal schools are to
be found everywhere. According to the
regulation every town and city has TO
maintain one, and every provincial capital
must nave a normal school Of the first
grade. These schools are all equipped with
chemical, physical and botanical laborator-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

was born in Omaha and educated in the
public schools, graduating from
the high school with the class of 1896. She
was christened "Iowa's Granddaughter
by the late Judge Murdoch and DR..
Beardsley at the semi-centennial celebra-
ton OF Iowa held in 1896, at which she was
the youngest participant. Her marriage to
Mr.. Robertson and departure from Omaha
took place the next year. But IL is not
only the part taken by Mrs. Robertson
that makes the ceremony interesting to
Omaha people, for Governor Briggs was a
very we'll known and very popular citizen
OF this vicinity for six years, A splendid
floral decoration was sent to the unwilling
by Omahans and Mayor Dahlman appended
a message to the Jackson County Historical
society, expressing the esteem in which
Ansel Briggs was held in Omaha and Flor
ence. r.
The program at Andrew last Wednesday
included the presentation Of the monument
by George L. Mitchell, president Of the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

ethics delivered in Chinese by a celestial
professor, and saw about thirty-two boys
practicing mathematical drawing. In the
latter room 1 asked one of the boys IL he
understood English. He smiled:
"Only a little" but added that he was
studying German. l then addressed him
in German, and found that he could speak
the language better than 1 could.
1 examined the dormitories to see how
the boys live. There are six students to
every room of about fifteen feet square.
The beds are single, and are arranged
against the walls at the two ends Of the
room. In the center is the study table,
and about stand the boxes where the
young men keep their clothes. There is no
privacy, and an American boy could hardly
study in such surroundings. Still, the rate
Of tuition and board is, all told, less than
50 a month, and many of the students who
nave scholarships are charged only for
their food. The boys work hard and learn
easily.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

voluminous, and all are largely based on
the great encyclopedia written during one
of the first Ming emperors. That work
contained 22,937 books; it took ZOO schol-
ars to write It and required sixty volumes
for its table Of contents. 1t was never
printed, but 1 understand that the manu-
script is still in existence.
In looking at the new encyclopedia 1
asked one of the professors II it was re-
vised from year TO year and kept up to
date. He replied that 1t was not, but that
extra volumes were added from time to
time recording the changes. / doubt seri-
ously IL the work is of any value, It will
probably soon be consigned to the archives
of the old Chinese past.
The Picking university is the same insti-
tuition which was founded years ago under
DR.. w. p. Martin. 1t was reorganized
after the Boxer rebellion and It is now
teaching the modern languages and
sciences, through Japanese and European
professors, and the old Chinese literature
through Chinese. 1t is not a university in
our sense Of the word, but its courses will
be added to from now on, and II may
some day become one.
While at this university l saw the stud
ents go through their regular afternoon
urn. Every poy CdIltu u gun VI ~
modern make and the companies marched
like veteran soldiers. And still they seemed
odd. They wore blue uniforms with low
crowned, broad-brimmed hats Of sky blue
felt. The hats looked as though they came
from a millinery store, and as the boys
wheeled about and showed their long.
braided queues, they made me think OF
girls dressed in boys clothing.
Nevertheless, they marched well, and are
learning to shoot. l saw a similar drill at
the language school and in the schools
everywhere a constant military training
is now required by the government. This
is so, even in the primary grades, and the
result will be that the new education will
make the Chinese a nation Of soldiers.
1t will also give the boys physical de-
velopment, Athletic sports are now popu-
lar in all OF the schools. Every playground
has its gymnasium, and the students play
base ball, foot ball and cricket. There are
college meets, over which high officials
preside and the spectators go wild over
the 1OO-yard dash, the pole vault and the
broad jump. Not long ago 5000 competitors
entered in an athletic meet at Canton, and
at one in Hankow, Chang Chi Tung, a
grand councillor of the empire and its most
famous scholar, along the old lines,
awarded the prizes. Truly strange things
are now going on in this old Chinese en-
pire. FRANK G. CARPENTER,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
Army of Scholars.

One In twenty! Five per cent. 1t seems
small, but It bulks large. Five per cent Of
these people means 10000, 900, and this will
be the educational army with which China
will start on its career under the new con-
stitution. At present not one in a hundred
Chinese can read the simplest characters Of
his language, and It Is safe to say that not
more than one In 800 has an education
along the old lines so advanced as that OF
our grammar schools. All this is to be
changed, and by the next generation 1t is
safe to say that the majority Of the peo-
pie will all ave gone to school.
I came here from Japan. 1t is now thirty
years since that country began a constitu-
tional movement like this which is now
being ~inaugurated here. I doubt whether
education was more advanced there at that
time than in china now. Today every boy
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

This movement is full underway. found
Manchuria stirred up over 1t, and attended
schools of various kinds in the city Of
Mukden. 1t is going on in Mongolia and
along the borders of Thibe and away down
south on the edges OF Indo-China. Every
governor is pushing it, and every city is
organizing new schools as fast as 1t can.
In Fuchow there are thirty native schools
Of foreign instruction, also a normal school,
a high school and a military school. That
city has a police training school,, a medical
school and a large number of private
schools. Tientsin has all sorts of educa-
tional institutions. from kindergartens to
colleges. l have already written of it's
half day and night schools, There are
similar ones in Picking, and among them
a halliday school for officials who wish
to improve themselves along modern lines.
This was closed during the twenty-seven
days of deep mourning which followed the
emperor's death, ~wheTeupon one old scholar
of 70 objected because it interrupted his
studies.
China is establishing Industrial schools
where the use of modern machinery is
taught. and where the boys learn mechsnl-
cal trades. There are several here at the
capital, and some are for Tartars alone.
The Chinese city has an industrial institute
under the board Of commerce., which cost
100, 900 taels to erect. 1t was started two
years ago, and it Is now in full swing with
500 Students at work. The school teaches
twelve Industries and II gives a course of
three years. In addition to this there are
seven other industrial schools in Picking
and the Manchus are starting some in the
Tartar city.
During my stay at Flemish l visited an
industrial school, established by Yuan Shin
Kai when he was viceroy there. 1t has
about 500 students, who are learning weav-
ing, sewing, embroidery, porcelain making
and to be carpenters, woodworkers and de-
signers. In the weaving room there were
forty or fifty hand and foot looms operated
by Chinese boys. The work was well done,
and they made beautiful cloth. Another
room was devoted TO match manufacture
and others to fine china and glass ware.
Those boys are receiving 10 cents a day
during their instruction. and this Is enough
for their board and clothes. They have
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

Mamie Briggs Robertson, the governors
granddaughter, formerly Of Omaha, pulled
the unwilling cord.
Governor Briggs came to Omaha to make
his home with his son, John S. Briggs, in
1878, and remained here until his death.
He had left Iowa several years before and
spent several years in Florence, going
thence to Montana and returning to
Omaha He was buried in a cemetery here,
but the body was xhumed and removed
to Andrew, Ia, where the monument was
erected last week.
Mrs. John S. Briggs Of Omaha was a
spectator at the exercises.
Mrs. Robertson, who unveiled the mono
iith, is now a resident Of washta, Ia. and
the wife OF Alexander ID. Robertson. She
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

The Pullman company long since gave
up this particular feature OF pas
senger luxury save in a few isolated
cases. 1t had ceased 10 be a particularly
profitable business-this serving OF fine
meals for 81 each-and the railroads took
It up. prepared TO make It a cost business
for the advertising value. Each railroad
plumed itself upon its dining car service
and was willing TO lose a little money II
1t might induce travel 70 come its way.
But. as the price Of foodstuffs continued
to rise, this form Of advertising began
20 be more and more expensive and 80 the
dollar dinner" is dying out. In its place
is the foreign a la carte system, where the
price OF each dish is fixed according 10
cost. In this way the railroads are begin
ming 10 worry less about the advertising
value OF their dining cars and even to es-
tablish their commissaTy upon a money
making basis.
The dining car idea Is being extended
all the while to branches and trains that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
From the Story Teller's Pack

that the woman should be the head Of the
house, They would have her dominate
over her husband as Mrs. Cudlip was said
to dominate over hers.
Mrs. Cudlip-to give you an idea of her
perfect domination-said one day to her
husband. sharply:
"Jethro. who was the greatest general
In history?'
"Jethro, not to be caught mapping, an
swered, calmly and meekly:
Joan of Are"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

During my stay here in Picking l nave
visited many of the higher schools and
colleges. This city has its law schools,
and medical schools. One OF
the law schools was founded by WI Ting
fang two years ago, and it now has S0J
students. 1t teaches law and government
as well as political science, and one may
see 500 students there at some Of the lee
lures.
There is also a languag school of high
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
The Delicious Kind.

II. X. Adair, a western detective, was
being complimented in Grand Rapids about
an abseonding banke he had run to earth.
"Oh, the man gave himself away" said
Mr.. Adair. He SHE'D too much. Every
thing seemed, In his morbid mind, to point
suspicion at him. He was like the old
wildly woman.
"An old wildly woman went to an under
takers to order a coffin for her deceased
husband.
He was very. very, very good 10 me-
she said, and I'll have a coffin Of the best
yellow pine
Yes, madam. Thatn be NA' said the
undertaken. And what kim OF trimmings
will you have on the eoffinr
'Trimmin'sr cried the WILDLY woman.
And right well ye know. ye spalpeen. that
IN have no trimmin's at all. when Il was
the trimmin's that the poor lad died or,
BAD luck 70 emil New York Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

- eNAACbAH ohh NAAONEaAAub al ANaiAA
ers are already at work. beginning to in
struct 1t along the lines OF our civilization.
The movement was started only four years
ago by The great empress dowager at the
advice OF Yuan Shin Kai, Chang Chi Tung
and other progressive statesmen. BY an
imperial edict, the old system of examina-
lions, under which China has been work.
ing for centuries, was wiped off the slate
and the new education begun. Now there
modern schools in the 1000 walled cities. A
government department of education has
been instituted, ard over IL is one of the
great imperial boards. In the new consti-
tuition which was passed last year, a sys-
TEN Of common schools was provided, and
compulsory education along modern lines
will be instituted at the earliest possible
moment BY that constitution China will
have its parliament within eight years
from now, and the work OF training the
people for self-government is to go on by
fixed steps from year to year.
The lines of the development OF the new
education have been carefully laid out. The
composition of textbooks began in 1908, and
a large number OF these will be published
this year. In 1910 schools for easy learning
will be further extended over the empire,
and by 1912 they will be in all the villages
and market towns. The work will go stead
lily on, and in 1916 one Chinese in every
twenty will be able to read and write. and
will nave received some education in our
modern civilization.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

flee was that Of sheriff. In the meantime
Iowa was admitted as a state and at Iowa
City, September "a, 1875, the democratic
party held a convention to nominate a
Jackson county was known as
the banner county" because it had given
the largest proportional majority 20 the
which had Just been submitted.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
JOY that Killed.

Senator Tnlman was praising the humor
Of a republican congressman.
His humor' however" he concluded. lis
rather grim. ! told him the other dav
about a mutual acquaintance who had
died. a man he had never liked.
And his wife is dead, too said. He
himself died on Monday; his wife died two
days later. The papers didn't say what
killed her.
" S n was tickled to death, / guess,
laid the congressman, grimly. Ne York
Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

For that reason it was given first say in
the placing Of a candidate in the field,
and Join J. Dyer. a fellow citizen Of An
drew. nameo Ansel Briggs. The first bal
lot was decidedly In favor of Briggs over
two others, and in the following election he
was chosen over the whig, Thomas Nc
Knight, by a majority Of 247.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

] asked him for the time"
"1 haven't got a watch, he replied.
"'YOu are a beaut OF a railroad mar
without a watch l insisted. What kline
Of a road Is this, anyway
You don't need a watch on this train
he Informed me, what you want Is a
calendar kansas City Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

les and in some of the cities. such as Tien-
tsin, there are also teachers museums,
where models and books describing the
teachings in foreign countries are ex-
hibited. The normal schools are largely
attended by those who wish to fit them
selves for work along the lines of the
new development.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

JsEL BRIGGS, first governor
of Iowa, who died in Omaha In
1881, has been honored at
Andrew, Ia, with a granite
monument which was dedi-
Gated September q. MIRA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

Mrs. stuyvesant Fish, In the course Of a
recent antizsufffragette argument In New
York. said. with a smile;
'rOo many OF my sisters appear to think
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
where He Needed a Calendar.

OT so very long ago. said
John f. Young. the actor, II
was on a sleeping a going
over a certain road in Ar
kansas. My watch had stopped.
When the porter came my way
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
Short Reach of the Dollar

HE table d'hote dinner the
famous dollar dinner" Of the
American railroad is fast dis
appearing. The constant in
crease In the cost OF foodstuffs
Is largely resnonsIhIA for this.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

KING, 19O9.-(Special Cores
pondence of The Bee.)-I write
Of the greatest intellectual
movement of all time. This ma
ton Of 400. 600, 900 is starting to.
school. and thousands of teach
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
Cursory

Eddie" said the teacher, can
you give a definition of cursory?
The word is generally used in con-
nection with public speaking. For
example, we often read that some
body made few cursory remarks.
Please write sentence containing
the word cursory."
After a brief struggle Eddie
evolved this:
Yesterday my pa helped my
ma to hang pictures, and when the
ladder fell after pa had climed to
the top of it he bumped his head
against the corner of the dining
room table and then made a few
curSory remarks"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
THE NEW RAILROAD.

The grading on the new rail
has been completed to Dillon and
the grading force will be doubled
back to Clio and put 10 work laying
rail. The road comes into Dillon
at the rear of the High School
building and follows Seventh
avenue down 10 the Dillon Mill
where it crosses the Coast Line.
The depot will be located at the
intersection of Seventh ave
nue. and Main street where MeSsrs.
J. w. Dillon & Son have given a
site 1000 feet long and $50 feet
wide. Right of way has been
given down Seventh avenue and
right of way has been given al
SO down the alley from Seventh
avenue up to Railroad avenue to
point in the rear of the Dillon
Hardware Cos. store. The rail
road people want siding along
this alley tc deliver goods in car
load lots to the hardware stores.
A right of way has been given
down Second avenue to Main street
The property on the lot opposite
E. II. Elliott's stables will be taken
over and a siding will be built for
the delivery of goods in car load
lols here also. There are about
90 laborers in the grading force
and they have been making good
progress. The road from Dillon
to Little Rock is as straight as an
arrow, the first curve being just
beyond Schaffer's store at Little
Rock. The new railroad expects
to be hauling cotton by Sept.
18th.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
HOW IT FEELS TO FLY.


All who have had the good for
tune to ride the aeroplane unite in
their description of that first SEN
sation. There is no jerk in start
ing, though the machine leaps for
ward with powerful swoop. The n
comes-with some-a brief sense
of nausea, a feeling as if the blurr-
ed ground were dropping away
from beneath.
A slight thrust OF the left hand
lever lifts the flyers head, the
ground drops away still faster, and
then as the machine climbs into
the air ones eyes adjust themselves
to the proper focus and the surface
of the earth below seems to be rip
ping past at railroad speed.
BY this time, says writer in
Outing, you have forgotten the
clack of the noisy motor, the flap
and whir of the propellers, the
grinding of the chain and sprocket
gear that drives them. All vibra-
tlon has practically ceased and you
float along with a sense of springy
ease and buoyancy such as you can
gain from no other means of loco
motion. That you are flying fast
you know only from the roar OF
the wind in your ears and the
slight difficulty you have in filling
your lungs with air, the same SEN
sation one gets in racing against
the wind in an auto.
Then comes the first turn. The
machine rises to it, taking its own
angle sideways, just as a motor
car leans on the banked curve of q
racing track. You have no sense
of leaning sideways. though-nc
feeling that you must tilt yc ursel:
as you do when the auto turns &
corner, for you sit upright. the ne.
rodrome Slanting of its own voli.
ton to the necessary angle, and
slanting you with it. y glass OF
water set on the floor of the flyer
could be carried around curve after
curve and still not lose drop.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
hOW'S THIS FOR MUD?

Of all the yarns that ever came
down the line regarding deep mud,
the following should be entitled to
the blue ribbon. 1t happened in
the place where mud originated.
A man was walking along the
roadside one summer day and no.
ticed a fairly good looking hat out
in the road Reaching out with
his cane, he gave it cut and was
startled to hear a voice exclaim:
Here, what the deuce are you
doing?"
Then he made the astonishing
discovery that the owner of the
headpiece was under the hat, up
to his ears in mud.
Great heavens!' exclaimed
the man who had hit the hat.
Is that mud as deep as that"
"Deep?" cried the victim.
why man alive, I'm standing
on a load of hay!"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
SECOND CROP IRISH POTATOES.

After digging the first crop. the
potatoes intended for seed for the
second should be stored in dry
cool place. They may be spread
out on the barn floor and covered
with straw, hay or dry sand.
The second crop of Irish potatoes
is usually planted during the lat
ter part of July or first half of
August. For two or three weeks
before planting the seed potatoes
are sometimes exposed to heat and
moisture which hastens sproutirg
and MAY aid in securing a better
stand.
If the potatoes are sprouting at
planting time it may be we'll to
cut them, otherwise probably it is
best not to cut them.
AS the weather is usually hot
and sometimes dry at the season
the second crop is planted, they
should be planted rather deeply in
a well prepared, vich soil. Rol-
ling after planting is advised to
coniraSt the soil which has been
loosened by thorough preparation.
Raleigh IN. CO. Progressive
Farmer.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-07-29
ROY WILKES PROTESTED AT LATTA
RACES

A formal protest was entered
against Roy Wilkes, the famous
little trotter owned by Mr.. How
ard Cannon of Florence, at the
Latta races last Wednesday. 1t
is alleged that Roy is what is
known in race track parlance as a
ringer" his name having been
changed to cover an official record
of 2.13 which it is said was enter
ed against him in Atlanta. Roy has
been a great favorite in the Cir
cult where he has won quite a
number of races and if he is bar
red from further participation in
the meets ur is taken out of the
2 20 class it will be a great dissap-
pointment to his many admirers.
In justice to Mr.. Cannon, how
ever, it may be stated that he knew
nothing of Roy's record and has
a written guarantee from his for
mer owner, a wealthy race horse
dealer, that Roy's record is not
below the 2.2O class. Mr.. Cannon
says when he first bought Roy
that he could not go mile in 80
and that he was sold to him under
the name of Roy Wilkes. If it
is shown that Roy is ringer"
no moral responsibility attaches to
Mr.. Cannon who is held in high
regard all over the Circuit.
President Gibson of the Pee Dee
Circuit, is of the opinion that there
is no foundation for the charges.