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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-10-07

day, when the man of the family has To
be cajoled into thinking home is the
best place after all is a small chicken EN-
casserole, with peas and carrots. Each
casserole IS first rubbed with garlic.
which gives delicious indefinite flavor
to the whole.
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A simple way of sailing almonds is to
put a little olive oil in the chatting dish
md then add the almonds. which have
peeu blauched and dried. When the nuts
are n delicate brown, remove them aud
sprinkle at once with salt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

ket, but presently she returned. and COM
ing up to the stall she again pointed
out the stew piece.
How mooch?" she asked as before
The dealer informed her that the price
was still 23 cents.
You no take less:" she asked, hope
fully.
Cant do it, said the dealer. so the
little woman again went away. A quarter
of an hour later she was again seen to
approach the stall. And again she point
ed out the particular piece.
How mOoch-now?" she asked, eagerly
this time.
The provoked dealer told her that that
piece of meat would be the same price
all day, and if it lived, afl the next day
and she stood and looked at him a mo-
ment and walked patiently on. Then the
dealer informed a spectator. who was
struck with the woman's persistence. that
she was a regular in the market, and that
she pursued that method every day.
Presently he said. she'll come back
and buy that same piece of meat for %
lieves it will get cheaper as the day gets
long. Oh. she's only one of a Dozen.
Watch these women here" whispered a
Disadvantages man. You'll see some
thing interesting The acquaintance he
addressed took notice. There were sew
eral women at the counter. and one in
particular was noticeable for her costume,
for she wore a one-dollar forty nine
shirt waist. with the collar band turned
in and something near a thousand dollars
worth of diamonds on her fingers and in
her ears. She made her purchase without
any parley and departed. The next woman
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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
steadily on. and in 1916 one Chinese in
every twenty will be able to read and
write, and will have received some edu-
cation in our modern civilization.
One in twenty! Five per cent 1t
seems small, but it bulks large. Five
per cent of these people means twenty
millions. and this will be the educa tional
army with which China will start on it's
present not one in hundred Chinese
can read the simplest characters of his
language. and 1T is safe to say that not
more than one In five hundred 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 it is safe to say that the ma
jority Of the people will all have gone TO
school
came here from japan. 1t is now
constitutional movement like this which
is now being inaugurated here doubt
whether education was more advanced
there at that time than in China now.
Today every boy and girl in the Japanese
empire Is receiving more or less educa-
ton. and more than one-tenth of the
whole nation is going to school. No one
who has not seen the educational awak
eiiIS Vi tle ldIlO OF lne MlkaQO ca.l
appreciate what such movements mean.
Here in China they Will be multiplied
many fold by the character of the race
and its vast population.
This movement is full underway.
found Manchuria stirred up over it, and
attended schools of various kinds in the
city of Mukden. 1t is going on in Mon
golia and along the borders OF Thibet 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 instruc-
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ment was started only four years ago
by the great empress dowager at the
advice of Yuan Shih Kali. Chang chi
Tung and other progressive statesmen.
BY an imperial edict, the old system Of
examinations, under which China has
been working for centuries. was wiped
off the slate and the new education be-
gun. Now there are colleges in every
provincial capital and modern schools in
the 1000 walled cities. A government
department of education has been insti-
tuted. and over it is one of the great
imperial boards. In the new constitution
: which was issued last year, a system of
common schools was provided, and COM
pulsory education along modern lines will
q. Toe instituted at the earliest possible mo-
mcnt. 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 text books
began in 1908. ard d large number of
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promenade round 1t, reminding one Of the
quadrangles at Oxford. There are many
courts and many buildings, and the whole
has a college atmosphere quite equal to
Princeton, Cornell, Harvard or Yale.
l was especially interested in the library.
with its thousands of old Chinese vol
umes, now mixed with sparse and scat
tered collection of books in English.
nese books are on fine tissue paper.
printed in characters like those one sees
on the tea boxes. The most of them are
bound in paper or cardboard, and some or
the works comprise many parts. There Is
an encyclopedia, for instance, which close
ly fills a set of shelves twelve feet in
height and thirty feet long. 1t contains
over 5000 volumes and has perhaps 1000
600 pages. 1t was printed from blocks
within the past five years and each of its
characters had to be specially cut. THESE
characters must run high into the mill
lions.
This book is only one of about nine en-
cyclopedias which are now in use In
China. The most OF them are equally
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 22OOo
scholars to write 1t and required sixty
volumes for it's table of contents. 1t was
never printed, but I understand that the
manuscript Is still in existence.
X
In looking at the new encyclopedia l
asked one of the professors if it was re-
vised from year to year and kept up to
date. He replied that it was not, but that
extra volumes were added from time to
time recording the changes. ] doubt Sc
riously If the work is of any value; it will
probably soon be consigned to the arch
ives 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
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after the Boxer rebellion, and II is now
teaching the modern languages and
sciences. through Japanese and European
professors. and the Old Chinese literature
through Chinese. 1t is not university In
our sense of the word. but its courses will
be added to from now on, and it may
some day become one.
While at this university I saw the stu
dents go through their regular afternoon
drill. Every boy carried a gun Of the
most modern make and the companies
marched like veteran soldiers. And still
they seemed odd They wore blue uni
forms 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 show
ed their long braided queues, they made
me think Of girls dressed in boys cloth
ing.
Nevertheless they marched well and
are learning to shoot. | saw a similar
drill at the language school, and in the
schools everywhere a constant military
training is now required by the govern
ment. This is SO even in the primary
grades, and the result will be that the
new education will make the Chinese q
nation of soldiers.
1t will also give the boys physical de-
velopment. Athletic sports are now pop
ular in all of the schools. Every play
ground has its gymnasium, and the stu
dents play base ball, foot ball and crick-
ct. There are college meets, over which
high officials preside. and the spectators
go wild over the 1o0-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 empire.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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The dealer shows it to her and she asks
to taste it. She is given a taste of it.
Then she smells it, scrutinizes it thor
oughly and orders cents worth.
II cannot sell you 5 cents worth,
madam he tells her.
Very WE'LL, she says, with dignity,
after moments mental calculation, you
may give me quarter Of a pound
The next few customers buy pound
or two of butter each. and make no
trouble about 1t.
That's the way said the butter and
egg man. The one who makes a lot of
fuss over purchase seldom buys enough
to pay you for the time we have spent
on her. Sometimes / have a lot of them
come right after each other. and I get
all up in the air for the day. Then we
have people who are regular customers.
buying d pound Of butter week. OF
something like that, and they come in on
Saturday. buy all their stuff. four or five
dollars worth, and then come over here
to have their baskets delivered. OF
course we do 1t, but it's an imposition.
They should have the dealer who sold
them the most attend to the delivery, but
they never seem to care
How much are the eggs?'
Thirty cents, madam"
Are they freSh?"
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WRITE of the great
est ellectual
movement of all
time. This nation
of four hundred
millions Is starting
to school, and thou
sands Of teachers
are already at work,
beginning to in
struct 1t along the
lines of our civiliza-
ton. The move
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shopping bags, and all of them intent
upon bargains in edibles. The expert
enced housewife rubs elbows with the un-
SOPHISTICATED bridelet of a fortnight. the
carriage lady buys from stall next TO
one patronized by the daughter of toll.
Sometimes man contributes his stunt
TO the passing show, but mostly it is the
women who loom large on the scene. as
they apparently appreciate the fact that
that is their own part cular sphere.
IF women bought like men do said
an owner of a meat stall. I'VE wouldn' t
have much trouble Of course, there are
men once in a while who are trouble
some-some old mollycoddle-but mostly a
man sees thing, wants 1t, and buys IL.
When he gets it he goes on about MS
business and don't take up any more OF
our time. He don't care SO much what
thing costs as he cares to have what
he wants. see? Now, woman is diner
ent. She most always has to maggie
little bit before she buys. Women are
all right, mind you-I'm married myself
but they certainly are tryin' to your
nerves when it comes to sellin' EN- stun
to eat. Now, for instance. q woman with
a thirty-do.lar hat on will come in and
quarrel for a half hour because the price
of bacon has gone up a cent. She don't
mind what she spends on her clothes. be-
cause she can show them, but she won't
cause nobody knows about that. It's right
funny sometimes but mostly we are so
mad with them that we can't see the
comical side of it"
How much is this ham?" says a stern
voice, and the owner of the meat stall
excuses himself at the call of duty.
Gould / have slice of this that would
weigh just pound? And what would 1t
cost me for a pound?
That's a special, madam politely re-
spends the dealer. Il can cut you a
pound for % cents"
Is handsomely gowned and not anxious
about the cost. it would seem. "Cut me
only a pound This the dealer skill
fully does. wraps it and hands 1t to the
lady.
How much is it?" she asks.
twenty-five cents. madam.
'Oh. l couldn't think of giving you %
cents for that Why, it has bone in it
j will give you ~ cents, but l wouldn't
give cent more for it
Madam. you asked what a pound
would cost. and l told you. You told
me to cut pound and did it, and you
see where you have any reason to refuse
to take it. You looked at 1t before you
ordered it. and saw that there was a
small bone in it. All ham has that. you
know" She argues awhile, grows angry
and winds up with:
II will give you 20 cents and not cent
more. What do you think, that I am
a fool?'
Eyes, madam sincerely replies the
man. and replaces the meat on the sell
ing slab. The woman sails out in high
dudgeon leaving an exasperated merchant
behind her.
Another dealer takes an entirely differ
ent view OF the situation. He was
comfortable-looking person with an i'm
portant air. and he does not think that
women are any more "fuSsy' than men.
"It is a womans place to market. not
a MANS he says, with an air. II have
no trouble with them, l assure you,
and"
when you are at leisure" says wom-
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A little woman in black, evidently a
foreigner, paused at the counter and
carefully inspected a piece Of stew beef
lying there.
How mooch?" she queried
''Twenty-three cents, madam
mo less dan dat?" craftily
No. it will be % cents. That's what
it's worth. and that's the price" The
little woman went on down the mar
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T has been eStiInat-
ed that more than
half the families Of
Washington b u y
their food at the
city markets. This
being the fact. 1t
is no wonder that
these martS of
trade are thronged
with a conglomer-
ate crowd Every
Saturday. a NOV
ing mass of mar
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New Schools Of Celestial Empire Are Being Revolionized
PEkING, 1909.

Copyright, 1909. by Frank g. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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who was overhauling tray full Of that
article
"Ah wants to buy some of it," said the
man.
We'll. buy it them said the merchant.
land then you can play with it all you
want to, but while it's on the counter.
leave it be- The darby bought the
sausage and departed.
A countryman came into a market and
bought some meat, and while he was
waiting. he placed a large fish on the
counter against the fresh meat displayed.
The butcher happened to see 1t in time.
and ordered him to remove it. He did
so. and then walked around and placed
his muddy foot upon the edge Of the
chopping block.
I'm the name of reason, man." cried
the exasperated dealer, what's the mat
ter with you. If you haven't any sense
it's time you learned some. If You don't
take that foot down and get away from
here I'll give you the first lesson right
away" The fellow took himself off
without waiting for the proffered instruc-
ton.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14
GUERNSEY.
Farmers Up, With Work
pa Needed.
2aA Needed.

Special to the TELEGRAPH.
Guernsey, May 12.-Rev. Calvin
Cox preached at Bots DARE church
last Sunday.
The fish fry was wei repres ented
at Guernsey May Day
Mrs. Matte Eason and children,
of Washington, were visiting home
folks here Sunday.
Some of the Spring Hill boys
were in our berg Sunday.
Miss TIME Houston, Of DeAnA
is visiting Mrs, Tom Lee this week.
The singing at Mr.. r. ellis last
Sunday night was a su cess.
We are sorry to learn that our
bailitf, Mr. O. G. Houston, is on
the sick list this week.
Mrs. Matte Franks, of DeQueen
is whiting Guernsey friends.
Jessie wants to help in the Pow
ers store this fall.
Tom Lee and wife visited the lat
tiers folks at Laneburg last week.
Mrs. f. |. Houston is i'll this
week.
Weather clear and cool. We are
needing rain badly. All are up
with crops aud we have fshed until
We can almost taste fish.
Lost strayed, or stolen-one
girl. Regardless Of age, size, or
beauty, finder will call on Bud Gil
bert and receive reward.
If you have business to transact
at Powers, see Pat. He will attend
to it for you.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14

G. w. Farlowe. East florence,
Ala, writes; aFor nearly seven
years | was affli with form of
skin disease which caused almost
unbearable itching | conId neither
work, rest nor sleep in peace. Moth
ing gave me permanent relief until
| tried Hunts Cure. One application
relieved me one box cur, ne, and
though year Las passed, ! have
stayed cured. am grateful beyond
expression"
Hunts Cure is guaranteed remedy
for all itching diseases Of the skin.
Price soc
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14
WITH OUR CORRESPONDENTS

mer.
The regular annual meeting at
weet Home church for decorating
the graves, last Sunday, was well
attended. There was an entbusias.
tic singing in the afternoon.
Memorial services were held at
Bell's chapel last Sunday, i'll men,
ory OF Bro Bolls, who was amen
Der of that church.
Mrs. c, c. Handy and infant,
of Prescott, visited Mrs. Handy S
father, + T. Wells, last week.
Rev. Stead, of Prescott, who is
member OF the Baptist Missionary
board, will lecture at Wellsville
Baptist church, next Sunday, and
the balaneeof the day will be spent
in singing.
All day singing at Avery's chapel
|the first Sunday in June.
Born-to' Mr.. and Mrs. Willie
Spears, at the home Of the latters
parents, last Friday night, son.
Col. Mullin and wife made bus
mess trip over in Red Land last
Friday.
DEWEY.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14
.lAKAa)NES..
Personal Mention Of This Lo-
Cahty.

Special to the TELEGRAPH
Jakajones, May PMS, "A 1 :
Smith and children visited friends
in Washington Sunday
Misses Chlora Barrow and oze1la
Goodlett, of Ozan, spent Monoay
afternoon with Miss Angie HON.
David Holt Jr. returned to Hope
Monday, after short visit TO His
parents.
Misses Willie Barrow and lnez
Goodiett of Ozan are the guests VI
Miss Clara johnson
Mesdames l.. W. Spears ana D.
W. Merrell were shopping in Hope
Friday.
John Ray returned Monday from
a visit to DieGls.
c. X. Benson made a business
trip to Blevins Tuesday.
Mr., j. w. Holt accompanied
Mrs, w. e. Holt and Misses lne7
.Goodlett, Katherine H 0 1t an d
Willie Barrow to Wallaeebusg last
Monday.
Miss Lucia Smith visited friends
at Blevins the past week.
L. A. Holt has made several
trips to Hope this week delivering
alfalfa.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14
SARATOGA.
Good Crop Year Predicted by
Citizen.
DEWEY.

| special 10 me ELEdRAPH.
Saratoga, May Y -Messrs Joe
Green, Y Il. Price an d II. A.
Calrigan, of Ozan, spent shree days
fishing on the lake this week
We saw j. F. Digger aud Gus
Monroe returning from the fishing
faces last Saturday.
Dave and w. L. Ellis attended
t he Sunday School convention at
Columbus last Sunday.
J. II. Wallace returned from
Mineral Wells, Texas, Monday.
Mrs. +. Mills and daughter, Miss
GA, are Vi iting relatives at Fore
man this week.
We went to see Mrs. Drab Sun
day and attended church at st.
Paul, hearing presiding elder W.
/ C. billiard preach a magnificent
discourse on the text Whatsoever
We ask in my name | Will do it," 1t
was helpful sermon, eloquently
delivered.
The second Quarterly Conference
of the Mineral Springs circuit en-
braces next Saturday and Sunday,
at Columbus.
Our people are up to date with
their farm operations. Corn is fine
and cotton is being chopped right
along Cool and dry is fine weather
for work, but rather hard on the
young cotton plants.
Gardens are splendid, but fruit
will be rather light yield.
Ike Pardue is farming, and we
saw him marching through town
with hoe on his shoulder, but he
can't fool old Drab" if he thinks
/ he can make Ms believe he's going
to chop cotton-"nary chop"
Ny. L. D. Stanton predicts
good crop year this seasoh. He says
! the year 1881 was just like this
year so far; cool and dry, but a
fine yield of cotton and corn re
warded the labors Of the farmers
that year We hope he is prophet.
Old Bill Mack says he "can t see
why some people makes such mira.
ton ODER der preachers, when dey
can't colonize h ii If de cousti
nationality of de disturbances oh
de gospill as obliterated by dem"
Ellis 4 Co. have received the
third carload Of corn for their Gus
toners. Nearly 1000 paid out for
that which should have been grown
by our farmers. How long will it
take to learn some people that they
can't afford to raise co ton to buy
corn and meat with2 DRAB.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14
pI'rMOS.
Depot Raided. and About $14
Se9stred.

Special to the TELEGRAPH.
Patmos, May 12.-Beaeh Wood
Camp 800 w. O. w, of Patmos,
unveiled d monument to the mem
DRY of the late Sow. w. J. Orr, at
Liberty Cemetary, two and half
miles southeast o f Stamps, last
Sunday. The whole proceedings
We're grand. A recitation from Miss
Daisy Rider was as fine as we ever
heard. Hon. Steve Carrigan. il :
delivered an e.oqnent address which
the W. o w. were indeed proud
of. Sow. Dr.. Stokes, J. II. Kent
and others composed the quartet
and the Band music was furnished
by W A. Formby, violin; Elias
Fornlbyf guitar; Earl Formby,
violin cello; and Fred Formby,
mandolin.
Mr.. 7. H. Btfns of Huttig was
visiting his father and friends here
Sunday and Monday,
II. G. Harlow, with Fox Bros,
Pine Bluff, was talking hardware
hers last Tuesday.
Some one of a curious disposition
broke into the Depot here last Sun
day while most everybody was at
Stamps attending the ulyeiling,
and secured about Sl4 or $50, the
guilty party has SO far kept his
identity concealed
Everybody well up with their
fam work now aud preparing for
u half week fishing and May haw
gathering. BY the way, we will
Just give all of our friends an in
vitation to come down when May
ha19s get ripe,
Crops are all very backward on
aeconlst At cold aid dry weather.
F. l.. Ward and Miss Alice, Wis
tied their mother at Bodtaw this
week
Grandpa Reeves, of SarAfs neigh
borhood, was in town W ednesday,
we don't know his age but he is
thelolaest man in this township.
Runty snrveyorO 7 Campbell
s working in this community this
week.
Uncle Kell Burns visited around
Alton this week.
Mrs. Toward visited her daught-
er Stamps Wednesday.
There is no sickness in oraround
Patmos Don'tsee why people don't
come here for their health anyway.
Mr.. Mcllarty, the chicken man,
went to Hope the FIRST of the week,
bun has returned looking all rght.
Cotton chopping has opened up
With some Of our farmers.
WILLIAM Dixon.
-
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14

for the past few days, attending
the case IN Chaneery court of W
Y. Frazier against j. C. Ligon and
w. b. Florence, the nature of which
was mortgage foreclosure. jude.
ment was awarded the plaintiff, ".
". Frazier.
Sweet Piekle, z dozen for IS cents,
Colds Cash Store.
Good 3 year old mule for imm..
date sale. See S. O. Gold.
Manager j. R. Lanier, of fbe
Grand View plantation was in from
the farm Wednesday.
W, J. Johnson left Sunday for
Texarkana, where he is serving on
the Federal grand jury.
California Pears 2O'cents per can
or two for IS cents at Colds.
7. Y. Williams visited Texark.
ana Wednesday.
E. w. McGough is victim of
the mumpa this week. His position
as principal of our high school is
being filed by Miss Nolie Trimble,
Special values viii be given in
queensware beginning May IS and
lasting until May d.
Colds Cash Store.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
B. Caruth, of Nashville, Ark,
Monday May 10th, a girl.
Mes ps. W. NJ. Thompson and
7. C Wilson spent Tuesday night
on Boards lake
c. Y Jagersfeld Jr, thepopnlar
drummer Of Hope, was interview
ing our merchants yesterday.
Mothers fresh hominy grits l0c
per package at Colds.
Representative L. F. Monroe
and wife returned from Little Rock
yesterday.
Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 18??-1940, 1909-05-14

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relieve. For aches, pains, stiff joints,
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quickest and surest remedy ever
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