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and her daughter resembles her more In
characteristic than in appearance. She
keeps up the old home in Brookville in
the same state maintained during the life
of her distinguished husband. Mrs.
Shively rarely misses yearly visit to her
old home, and it has long been her Gus
tom to spend part of the summer with
her mother, Just as Mrs. jerks Invariably
passes part of the winter with the Shive-
lys. Just now both ladies are spending
as much time at the Capitol as they can
spare from the task of getting the home
in running order.
While / do not believe in women en-
tering a political life and becoming in
any sense politicians. / believe in their
learning all about politics and being
able to comprehend how their country
is governed" remarked Mrs. Shively,
land there is no place for viewing the
entire scheme as from the galleries Of the
Capitol. Since Congress opened my en-
and nothing seems too dry or formal TO
quench our thirst for knowledge. But
1t has been limited that this is the zeal
of the neophyte. and all new senator's
and members wives are constant in at
tendance for a week or SO. Something of
the same kind has even been said about
the lawmakers themselves. But to me
1t is revisiting old and dear familiar
scenes under very happy circum-
stances. and / look forward to spending
every minute l can spare from other
duties listening to the congressional de-
bates.
II rejoice at this opportunity Of being
In Washington because / come from le-
gal people on all sides of my house and
we expect our sons to become lawyers.
My father was one of the most revered
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many of his photographs and portraits
his swords and side arms and many of
the battle flags used by the Army of the
Cumberland. Gen. Thomas library, with
many of his manuscripts, is in this
house. and is in many ways an undiscov-
cred mine for researchers after hidden
facts in the civil war.
''One delightful feature of living in
Wash neton," said Mrs Shively, lis the
with the interesting men who are making
present history. In my coZy library.
where my children study. they see these
portraits of Gen. Thomas, and his swords
in gold and enamel hang over the mantel
The interest which this sight inspires in
boys of sixteen and thirteen is stipend
Gus. and they have read more civil war
history in their three weeks residence in
Washington than they would generally in
a school year Gen. Thomas married Miss
Frances Kellogg OF Troy, N. Y, and it is
house has descended. Then in the Cap
itol my boys and little daughter find in
finite delight in having the great men of
the country pointed out, and really they
know many from their pictures. AS for
me. l can scarcely believe that all these
years have passed. Life seems identical
with the life l remember on Capitol Hill.
The men look the same and even the
speeches seemed to have a familiar ring.
But this is merely the sense of the same
environment, and probably in a weeks
will appreciate how times have changed
since Grover Cleveland laid down the
burden of Office.
Mrs. Shively will have her mother.
Mrs. George A. jerks. with her this win
ter. Mrs. jerks is still in middle HE
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brothers, husbands or children, as the
case may be. For. married or single,
few women are without some one de-
pendent on them for all the creature
comforts which men look to to women to
provide. | see nothing derogatory to any
woman, no matter what her position in
life may be. in finding her first duty in
making home happy. in being the one to
cook sew or do anything else needed
for that end. In my philosophy the whole
question gets down to what the disagree
able man said about literary women: Too
many women writing books. Not enough
left to keep them busted or to scrub the
library floor Too many women with
missions. Not enough for the real du
ties of life in the home
Mrs Shively will rank among the
younger matrons of the senatorial set.
She MARI ed very young and retains so
much of girlhood charm that it seems inn
possible to realize that she is the mother
six feet in height. During her residence
in Washington as the daughter of Judge
jerks she was accounted one of the
beauties of her day, and will still be
named among the most attractive young
matrons in the senatorial circle. Mrs.
Shively may also be named among those
to whom official life does not come as
burden Accustomed from her childhood
to the duties which public position brings,
she long ago mastered all the intrtcacies
Of tradition and learned to accept the
routine gracefully. Senator Shively has
leased for long term the home of Mrs.
Kellogg on l street.
This home is among the historic spots
of Washington. inasmuch as 1T was built
by Gen George Henry Thomas, and still
contains the furnishings collected by him,
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the newest Partisan models would pro-
duce on the part of their American
cousins. Aside from the novelty of hav-
ing many young Chinese women OF
high social station resident at the Chi
nese legation is an innovation in no
menclature. Any young nIen who make
the acquaintance of these oriental
bellies, Ii any do. need not fear the OLD
time battling similarity of names. The
newcomers rejoice in the names Alicia
Lily. May. Emily and Isabel.
Two of the girls, Misses Alice and
Lily Chang, are the daughters Of tho
new minister. while the other three are
the daughters OF Tang Shao vi. the
Chinese statceman who came to this
country as special ambassador a short
time before the inauguration Of Presi-
dent Taft. Tang. who now has in his
own country the rank of president Of 1
ministry and governor Of a province.
was one of the first group of Chinese
boys brought to this country to be edu-
Gated several decades ago and has A.
ways been enthusiastic on the subject
of American education for his country
men. The great leader OF the progress
sive element in China has emphasized
his educational preferences In the most
practical manner, and four of his
nephews who are here for the purpose
of acquiring an education are now liv-
ing at Springfield. Mass. in the same
house and with the same people who
were SO kind to Tang Shao Vi in his
youth.
Until a few months ago. however,
there presented itself no good oppor-
tunity for the education in America OF
the young women of the Tang house,
hold Then came the decision to send
Chang Yin Tang as minister to Wash
ington, and since the two families Were
connected by marriage it was decided
that the three daughters Of the famous
statesman should accompany the en-
voy's family and that all five girls
should be educated together. Tang
Shao vi, who has the kindest recollec-
tions of his own life as young man in
New England, is anxious that his three
daughters, Isabel. Emily and May. shall
spend some time among his old FRIENDS
at Springfield. Mass. and consequently
the young ladies will divide their time
between Washington and the old Bay
state. All five of the young ladies arc
yet in their teens and will not minGle
in society to any extent for some time
to come. Nor is it expected that they
will attend either public or private
schools. The present plan is 10 have
them receive all their instruction frO,l
tutors.
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legal minds Of his day. He was the last
democrat elected from the district In
which my old home is situated. Brook
vile. which is i'm the vicinity of Pitts
burg, rather a stronghold of republican,
ISM His success was due largely to the
personal feelings with which he was re-
garded. irrespective of political creeds.
This sort of political success appeals to
me strongly, and i should like to feel
that all parties We're influenced more IN
that direction. One of my boys is pre-
pairing for college in a local school and
the other will go to the high school,
The daughter of Senator and Mrs
Shiyely, Miss Mary Shively. is
pretty little girl OF ten and will attend
the Friends School, which is in her
immediate vicinity. Miss Mary will be-
come the associate of Miss Genevieve
Clark, daughter of Champ Clark. leader
of the minority on the floor Of tho
House. Hitherto Miss Clark has been
the only democrat in the entire mem-
bership of the Friends School and she
has been very lonesome. All the SHIN
ing lights of the other party send their
children there. and for several years it
was the alma mater of Charlie Taft
Quentin Roosevelt. Philander c. Knox,
jr., and the sons of former Senator For
aker- Both young misses look for a
cieties. John Shively the tn rteen-
year-old son, will go to the Western
High School. He is an enthusia site adj
mirer of sports and will become a leai-
ing member of all athletic branches.
He is especially proud that his homo
city, South Bend. has a university.
Notre Dame. which comes after Yale I'm
the foot ball record and holds the score
throughout the middle west This
knowledge will confer immediate pres
tige on the senator's son, and his ex-
periences IN personal observance of
such brilliant tacticians will be le-
garded. George jerks Shively. who is
sixteen, entered the Preston School
last week
The home of Senator and Mrs. Shively
is in the center of what was once ono
of Washington's most exclusive sections.
1t is in ] street between 18th and 18th
streets. Here was the stately home OF
William c. Whitney when he was Secre-
tary of the Navy, and the entire neigh
borhood is filled with impressive memo
ries of past regimes. Mrs Shively is
prepared to do her entire duty socially,
but her plans are Yet unformulated. She
will observe the general senatorial
ception day, which is Thursday, and one
of her hospitable intentions is to set
day apart when she will be at home 10
the Indianians domiciled in Washington.
Her mother, Mrs. jerks. win have a
day on which her old friends and the
friends of her old friends from Penn
sylvania will be received.
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cedence at all official functions according
to seniority of service at Washington, it
goes without saying that China will have
an advantage, If she can steal a march,
in this respect, on the other two nations.
X
For all that the new minister has drawn
a line between his business and social
activities by his plan for the maint enance
of two separate establishments. the indi
cations are that China's new envoy will
do the major portion of his work a; home
and may visit the legation offices com
paratively seldom. Already Minister
Chang has converted the immense draw
ing room on the second floor of his new
residence into conference ROOM and
there is a spacious alcove which affords
an ideal retreat for special confahs of
confidential character out of hearing of
the other persons in the room. This
room, like the others in the minister S
residence. is replete with oriental art OBJ
jects of rare interest and value. Indeed.
every apartment in the big four story
house represents, in it's contents mix
ture of the oriental and the occidental.
When Minister Chang and his retinue of
fifty-five persons arrived at the capital,
worn out from their journey across the
continent from San Francisco, they did
not find an empty and cherries house
awaiting them, as has been the expert
ence of some diplomats under like cir
cumstances. Secretary kwai-a former
veteran in the service of China's branch
office here-returned to America from his
native land with the special embassy
some time since. but when the royal Wis
TORS departed Kwai remained and was
consequently on hand to take up prepara
lions when it was announced that he would
succeed DR.. Yen as the foremost "Ameri
canized" Chinaman on the staff of the
minister at Washington. That the new
minister was able to establish his
new home forthwith, was due not less
to the forethought of Mr. kwai than to
the enterprise of Washington furnsher
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the fear that l might be bunked out of
my p per cent of the doings So | told
him that I'd father fetch back the ore
specimens on my next run back for him
to see and have assayed. He agreed, and
/ beat it for my train and made Hill City
a couple of days later.
Il could hardly wait for the train to
pull into Hill City before picking up my
moccasins and beating it to the national
bank where / was to get those speci-
mems of ore that would assay 5000 to
the ton. / rushed, all out of breath, into
the bank. and, painting, said | to the first
bank man l happened to see, the cashier
4
HAS there been a package OF ore left
here by Mr. James Blankerine.' giving
the little middle-aged mans name as he
had given it to me, addressed to me-?
The cashier grinned. and turned to
wink at the paying teller. Then the pay
ing teller. coughing to attract the receiv-
ing tellerS attention, winked at him. /
looked at 'em blankly.
'.Well, the little old bug has put the
bee on you, too. ell, SOM said the cash
Ter to me. Don't you worry. though.
You're not the only one. They're com
ing in here right along-folks, | mean,
who want us to hand out bundles of ore
left here for 'em by Mr.. James B anker-
inc. Mr.. James Blankerine, son, is e of
the colony at the Hill City BOBBY hatch,
if you get that; that is. he's the main
bug over yonder at the building you see
on the butte; the Hill City Insane Asy-
lum, that is. But don't take 1t to heart.
He's stung a lot more besides you
That's how my white yachts went
a-glimmering. And not only that, but l
lost my run OH account of it. Generally
sold a hundred dollars worth of junk
on that run, but this time, so great was
my chagrin, if you apprehend what that
means, over the way the hornet had been
stuck on me, that l only sold fifteen dol
lars worth this time. and when / got
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1 listened. 1t sounded auriferous to me,
If you get that.
The trouble is the keen-looking mt
tie man said to me, that nobody around
here in Hill City has got anything. the
folks here are not there with the develop
ing con. They all know that I've got the
most promising, most potential the most
magnificent property in the Dakotas, but
that doesn't help me any. What | need
is the coin to drag this stuff out of the
ground. 1t could be done for so paitry a
matter as $4,000. But l don't know
where to get even so silly piece OF
change as that Now. son, you're a
bright kind of a lad, and you're moochlng
up and down a lot, and your headquarters
are in Omaha. Do you happen to know
any folks there in Omaha whove got
little nerve and the pluck to take a
chance that would pay them about MIL
lion per cent?
He had me spinning by this time. I'll
hand him that. He knew how to get any
body spinning. l already began to think
of the day when I'd be chucklng my
candy butcher kit and smoking four-bit
cigars.
Il told him: No, 1 didn't exactly know
tackle on the project directly, but that l
knew how to get TO some men there Win
money: which l did
All right he said to me, you get to
them in whatever way you can just as
soon as you arrive back in Omaha. Then,
when you come back here, you tell me
what they say In the meantime. III
leave at the national bank here some ore
specimens that assay close to 5000 to the
ton, understand? Nearly 5000 to the
ton. You call for those specimens-Ili
do 'em up in a package addressed to you
at the bank when you hit here again,
and YOU carry those SpecimenS back to
Omaha and have the people you talk to
get 'em assayed by the official assayer:
Understand? And, when the company is
organized, why, you get 20 per cent or the
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Picking is following the example of some
of the other great powers. notably Chinas
chief rival. Japan. Heretofore, the resi-
dence of the Chinese minister, the abode
of most of the secretaries and other mem
bers of his official staff and the legation
offices were all to be found under one
roof. This was the plan followed when
the Chinese representa- yes had their
and then in another in the vicinity of
Dupont circle in Washington. 1t was
also the policy after the oriental states
men moved into the new 100000 legat on
on Washington Heights which WI Ting
fang built during his first term as min
lister and which is owned outright by
the Chinese empire.
Much the same plan was followed In
the earlier days by Japan, one of the
first nations to acquire by outright pur-
chase a house and lot at Uncle Sans
seat of government. Latterly the ambas-
sailors of the mikado have broadened
their mode of life. The original. rather
uupretentious brick blu lding which was
acquired when Japan's branch was only
a legation, has been retained and is now
used as the embassy offices and as living
quarters for secretaries and attaches,
while handsome mansion. much better
adapted to extensive entertain ng, has
been leased as the private residence of
the ambassador. NOW emma IS, III erect,
following in the footsteps of her eastern
sister.
OF course the lately arrived Chinese dip
omats Go not admit that this amendment
TO Chinese policy in Washington has
been in any degree influenced by the ex-
ample offered by Japan. On the contrary
they declare that the fact that the new
minister has large family and personal
household makes it desirable for him to
have home of his very own. whereas,
coincident with this is the circumstance
that the large official staff of the new en-
voy will make unusual demands upon the
living quarters of the legation building.
Whatever the $ gnificance of the innova-
ton the fact remains that Minister Chang
is payin annual rental we'll nigh
equal to the income of an American con-
gresham. for an imposing mansion on
Connecticut avenue In the very heart of
fashionable Washington and has turned
over to his secretaries the legation build
ing half a mile away. AS 1t happens all
save one of the new secretaries are bach
elors. Mr.. Yung Kwai, the popular
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A Quaint Endorsement.

j. diocesan convention in New York
amused group of clergymen with a
story of minister.
He was as ignorant. this good man. of
financial matters. said Mr.. Nc. gan. las
the ave age financier is ignorant of mat
tiers ecclesiastical.
He once received a check-the first he
had ever got in his life-and took IL to
a bank for payment.
But YOU must indorse the check said
the paying teller, returning IL through his
little window.
Endorse it?' said the old minister, in
a puzzled tone.
".Yes of course. 1t must be Endorsed
on the back
81 see,' said the minister. And turning
the check over. he wrote across the back
of it:
81 heartily indorse this check"
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CHANG YIN TAN&
NEW CHINESE MINISTER

Chinaman lately designated as first sec
rotary. will live with his American wife
and their livey family of children in
house of his own, but all the Other Off
cial aids to the new envoy will reside at
the legation. which thus becomes liter
ally bachelors hall
In Yankee official circles, where this
interesting new move on the part of the
Chinese has provoked no end of gossip,
there is speculation as to whether there is
not an additional motive underlying the
change. This is embraced in the query:
Is China preparing to elevate her lega-
ton in Washington to an embassy, thus
advancing the rank of her envoy in
America from that of minister to ambas-
sador? There is reason to believe that
China has been considering such a move
for some time past and it was extensively
ruInored to be impending when the special
Chinese embassy visited this country
some months ago. Students Of interna-
tional affairs declare that the officials at
Picking feel that Japan has rather had
the advantage OF China in diplomatic ne
gotiations at Washington ever since the
Japanese emperor sent to Washington an
amba ssador who as the personal repre-
sentative of his sovereign can always go
straight to our President with any mat
ter, whereas the Chinese envoy with the
lesser rank of minister and representing
merely his government instead of his soy
erelgn in person. must be content to do
business through the State Department.
with the prominence of the United
States as factor i'll the far eastern sit
uatiOn it would be by no means strange
if China should conclude that she shou a
give her accredited agent at Washington
every advantage, and If such a new Off
cial and social status was inaugurated
the proxy of the Chinese emper or wou
have need of just such an establ shment
as Chang Yin Tang has provided. Nor
will it be strange If the change, if it is
to be made is made soon, for it is known
that two other powers, Spain and the
Argentine Republic. are considering ele-
waiting their legations at Washington to
embassies. Since ambassadors take pre-
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uAu;o copyrighted by Cline'linst.l

M the entire second term of Nr. Cicve-
lanI he acted in the latter posi- and dur
I'M; this period my happ est remem-
ORANGES of Washington We lived all
tins time at the old National Hotel now
30 far removed from the center of fash
iunable life. Tiut what good times We
had in those DAYS. ] believe | must he
among those who pine Tor the old sim
ri city which marked socia! intercourse
som. twenty years ago.
Mr.. ShivelN. then in Congress. was
among tGose who made his home in the
hotel, so some OF my fond recollectionS
are quite comprehensive. We were not
married ia Washington however, but at
my old home in Rroohville, Pa i am
now here for the fourth time and I'm a
new rank of society at each sOjourn. Ii
will lie an engroSsing occupation to note
the changes which time has wrought in
social customs. ] am tod that every
thin has changed and that a new dis
pensation has been established | am
yet to learn eysryiiai--s A~r last spring |
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MSS EMILY TANG

LOME Life of Minister
1 1 Is Picturesque Branch
of American Omcialdom-
Notable Feminine Contigent
Arrives With New Chinese
Ofhcial-Rank Of Envoy in
America May Be Advanced
to Ambassador-New Minis
ter Draws Line Between
Business and Social Activi-
ties-Has Plan for Mantle
nance of Two Separate Estab-
ishnents - Chinese Women
Are Interesting. and Wear
Latest Fashion Creations Of
China.
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rniddIe-aged man who was lounging
around the depot. He was there, with
that conversations thing larger than a
prospectu; writer for Florida near-orange
groves, and | didn't mind listening to
him. 1t helped to put in the time. But
after a while / began to chirk UP. He
got to talking mining and everybody in
Guiding candy butchers, had at least the
symptoms % the mining bug out IN thai
country in those days.
The shrewd-looking little middle-aged
man began unreeling stuff about a gold
and silver claim that he said he had right
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TO this country the largest household
that has ever accompanied a Chinese en-
voy including the most notable feminine
contingent. but he will live in Washington
in a different manner and on different
scale from any of his predecessors Tn
der the Chang regime for the first time
the diplomatic and residential establish
ments of the Oh nese representative will
be separate and distinct institutions.
In thus separating the business and
social activities of China's branch Of
flee" i'll the new world the government at
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dianian, while | was born i'll the key
stone state, and love every inch of its
sol, Then / have lived in Washington
often and long that it seems like
home ard | enjoy living here and renew
inc old associations. l began my school
life here IN Wash nZton and made friends
10 whom / am still devoted. Then in
the first Cleveland administration my
father first assistant secretary of the
interior and then solicitor general. Dur
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lie home life of
Chang Yin Tang,
the new minister
of China to the
United States. pre-
sents features new
to the most pic
tureSque branch of
American official
dom. Not only has
the distinguished
successor to WI
Tin g-fang brought