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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28
TEN CITIES IN ONE.

The great powers OF the western
this city, and they have business repre-
sentatives on the ground. There is a
large territory outside the native set
tlement which has been taken by
them. Much of this was seized just
after the Boxer rebellion. when China.
was forced to submit. AS 1t Is now,
every one of these powers has its own
little city, here on the banks of the
Pei-Ho Each concession has It's
police. Its consular court, its town hall
and its own troops One sees COM
panies Of japanese, German and
French soldiers marching here and
there through the streets. The British
have d regiment of Highlanders who
show their bare knees and hirt their
short skirts In the faces of the ma
tives, and Russian Cossacks, with
great fur caps, gallop through the city
on horseback.
There are altogether 10 different set
Elements in the combined city, so that
one may visit a half dozen nations
in the Jnrikisha ride of 4 morning.
These foreign concessions have magnif-
icent buildings. many of which would
be considered fine in London or Paris.
The hotel structure in which ] am
stopping would be good in New York
or Chicago, and there is an English
clubhouse adjoining ii which must
have cost several hundred thousand
dollars to build There are magnificent
bank buildings here. representing mill,
lions OF dollars of capital, and there
are stores with plate glass windows
filed with all sorts of European and
American goods.
In the British concession where live
is large public park where the mill
tary bands give open-ar concerts, and
1T has also golf grounds, tennis courts
and parks for football and cricket. To-
night the club is giving dance, and
by turning Oft the electric light in my
room can see the bare necks and short
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28

Wait for the big I x l. auction sale
commencing September I at 10 a, m. !.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28

Hamlin Paints slgns-Also Houses
Both Phones.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28

canal, which crosses the Pei-ho at TINS
place, and such improvements are now
made without regard to the unions
A BIG TRAFFIC CENTER.
Tientsin is the New York OF north
China. It Is the chief port for the
Great Plain and the thicklN settled
regions north and west OF Peking. Trib-
&utary to 1t is a population of 100000
900. or more than all the people of the
United States, and its connection with
this vast mass of consumers is rapidly
being opened up by railroad. Il came
here from Manchurfa on the sImperial
Chinese railway going through the
great Chimes wall at Shan-hai-kwan
and / shall 20 in comfortable train
on to Picking. road from there Is
now building which takes one north-3
ward through the great wall to Kali
gan. Mongolia, and which will event
ually be connected with the Transs:b-
5erian railroad. Another road has been
projected from here south through the
most thick1y populated parts of China
down to the Yangtse, and In time
Tientsin will have tracks radiating
from her as our roads do from CEica-
go. This city has now perhaps a mill
8llon people. What it will have In the
future dare Rot predict.
Just now business Is bad all over
China. The low price of silver and
the financial distress which has pre-
vailed throughout the world have stop
ped the progress which the city was
making up until about two years ago.
This Is only temporary, and Tientsin
VIII soon be again on the boom.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28
MILITARY EDUCATION.

1'ientsin has long had its military
academies; and it has today large
schools for training soldiers. There
Mere army and naval academies here.
before the JaBan-China war. They
were organized by Ii Hung Chang.
While he was viceroy. Ii had already
seen the need OF reorganization of.
the Chinese army, a need which he
came to appreciate more and more
during the China-Japan war and the;
Boxer rebellion. In the first he lost
his yellow jacket. and the strain of
the second was SO great that he died
soon after
After Ii left the viceroyalty other
progressive officers We're appointed
for Chilli. and among them was
Yuan Shin Kali who acted as such
until a short time ago. Yuan Shin
ISai was the author of the most pro-
gressive of the new institutions Of
Tientsin and under him NOT only the
military but every form of education
has beer pushed. Today there are a
medical college for the education of
surgeons for the army and schools for
the training offotfcers for the army.
and navy. More than this, military
officials are assigned to drill the boys
in all the schools and academies: and
Young China now learns to handle the
musket before he has reached his
teens. The boys drill in uniform; they
are taught modern military tactics
and are exercised every day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28
GIRLS SCHOOLS.

| find many girls schools here in
Tientsin. Woman's education has
never been encouraged by the Chinese.
and today almost no Chinese girls.
taking the vast population into con-,
sideration. are going TO school In the
new schools of the province of Chilli
there are ninety-nine boys to every,
girl receiving instruction. Girls schools,
however, are being started, and the
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
It's Different Here.

Now here's another good horse
story: Ralph Bachman owns an
old gray mare that has proved to
be a money maker. She is fifteen
years old and her present owner
has sold $3.50 worth of her colts
and has a yearling and sucking
colt notwithstanding Iowa, Excel
sior.
Good, but it is different in this
neck O. the prairie, for when a man
gets an extra good mare he either
lets her 60 because of an extra
$25 or $50 in price or else he thinks
her too good to bred so drives her
to his buggy until she dies from old
age. If Monroe County had have
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
Why Didn't You.

Thursday a lady came to us in
the postoffice and said, or asked:
Say. why didn't YOU? And
then she appeared to be surprised
because that was the first we had
heard of the news item.
That was one item we had lost,
not because of a lack of hustle, but
because the lady neglected to drop
us a card or phone the Office.
We want all news of a local ma
ture and we are working to get as
near all Gt is impossible for any
one to cover a field perfectly as
possible, but there is a limit to any
ones capacity and unless we re-
ceive help from friends sometime
we must skip few items.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13

An exchange has the following
to say, which contains more truth
than poetry: The average news
paper man finds out all the naugh-
ty doings, no matter how secretly
they are planned and kept. If the
papers would publish half the stuff
they hear there would be ten di-
vorces where there is now one.
There would be shotgun matinees,
lynching bees. Ratchet parties, i'm
prisonment, desolation and misery
Many people continually find fault
with the newspapers when, as a
matter of fact, they owe their very
standing in the community to the
editorial waste basket"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13

calomel was was secretly admins
tered and with beneficial results.
the patient sleeping and even TAX
ing some food. This was his last
rally: on the morrow. while storm
was sweeping over the island and
tearing up large trees, his senses be-
gan to fail. He fingered on insensi-
BILE for hours. The storm died
away. Such was the end of the
worlds greatest military genius.
He was buried in his favorite green
uniform, the coffin surmOunted by
his sword and the cloak he, had
worn at Marengo. He was given
full military honors at his burial.
In 1910 his body was disinterred
, and borne to France. Paris opened
her arms to receive the mighty
dead.
There he repOses among the de
voted people who. by his superhu
man genius, he raised to bewilder'
ing heights of glory, only to dasl
them to the depths of despair b!
his monsterous errors. Stolen.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
Complaints.

Still come thick and fast in re-
gard to the dumping of city refuse
in the bitches along the roads en-
tering the city.
We were told Monday morning
by some gentleman of north of city
that the filling of bitches is not
only repulsive and dangerous be-
cause it frightens the teams, but
that the filling of the bitches is
causing the water to go-a-wash
across the road and is destroying it.
They tell US that it is being done
under the cover of night so they
cannot be seen at the work and if
it is not stopped a watch will lay
for the guilty parties, arrests made
and prosecutions begun.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
Criminal Sugar Trust.

New York, May S. Criminal
proceedings as an outgrowth of the
governments suit against the Amer
can Sugar Refining company which
resulted in disclosure of wholesale
underweighing of sugar imports
were begun by the federal authori-
ties here today.
Thomas KehOe, many years
checker on the dock of the COM
pany in Brooklyn, was placed I'M
der arrest, charged with being one
of the men who took part in the
fraudulent manipulation of the
scales as a result of which the
American Sugar Refining company
recently paid to the government
$2,134,OOO duties. Through cOun-
sci Kehoe pleaded not guilty and
waived examination and gave
Z
$500 bail for appearance May
18th. 4.
Dream of the millennium from
the Warsaw Times: Some people
have the wrong conception Of thu
mission of a newspaper and Worl
themselves into a great frenzy if |
] paper sees fit to criticise some sc
Of vital interest to the public gO9e
They should not do this because 4
real newspaper is mot q mere pal
rot, who takes its lessons from i
master, but acts aud speaks for y
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
Scene of Napoleon's Death.

Just 88 years ago Napoleon Bona
parte, who had scared to the zen
it'll of military achievement and
civic glory, passed to the world be-
yond. Touching indeed was the
end, which came on May S, 1921 at
Yonewood, on the island of St.
Helena, where he was held prison.
or. The life of this great man, his
achievements and his downfall are
familiar to everv reader. 1t was
early in April, 1921, that he first
realized that the end was near. For
some time past a sharp internal
pain-the stab of a penknife, he
called it had warned him of his
doom. Vomiting and proStration
: showed to him and the doctors
that the dread ancestral malady OF
: cancer was sapping his lifes
. blood.
OUTLYING his mighty empire, girl
: round by thousand miles Of Inn
prisonine ocean,. guarded by his
most steadfast enemies, his son, {
I captain of the court of the Haps
= burgs, his empress. openly faithless
he sinks from sight like some bat
y tered derelict. He feels the grip o
! cancer, the disease which carried o.
his fathers, and was to CLAIM
: the, gay Caroline and Pauline. A
d the close Of ApriIthe symptoms b
came most distressing aggrayatet
as, they were, by the refusal Of tn
a y. a.. -. 49,. - food =
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13

time is getting rid of hubby's mon
ey as fast as they can.
An automobile for eight is the
selection for the couple whose pre-
vious wish was for something cute,
just enough for two.
Some women are born for the
stage, and the husband never finds
it out. This spoils happiness for
many fellow who elOries in being
loved.
On pay day it may be affection
which makes her cling to you. Any
other day it may be just a little
headache from jealousy, caused by
expressing admiration for the first
girl you CHANGED to meet.
The wife who nags is gotten rid
of easily, but the wife who follows
everywhere you 90 becomes a bit
embarrassing to you if that's the
kind you got in the lottery Flori
da Times-UniOn.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13

work for the interests of the town
in which it is located and in so do
ing if it should at some time step
on your toes, don't be so uncharita-
BILE as to rise up and condemn it,
but feel just as friendly toward it
as you would if it were working
for your own interests alone.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
't,r: DEMOCRAT
TERMS SI.OO PER YEAR

Entered at the postoffice at Monroe
City, Mo. las second-class matter.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13

nursed her fancy mares, as Arabia
does. for the past thirty years, the
county would be as noted for it's
horses as Arabia is.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13
THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1909.
Compensation.

her knee,
Then through the soft web of a wee
red sock |
She wove the bright wool, mus
ing thoughtfully; |
j Can this be all? The great world
is so fair,
| hunger for its green and pleas
ant ways"
A cripple prisoned in her restless
chair
Looks from her window with a
Wistful gaze.
"The fruits | cannot reach are red
and sweet,
The path forbidden are both
green and wide;
O God! there is no boon to helpless
feet.
So altogether sweet as paths de-
MED.
Home is most fair; bright are my
household fires,
And children are Gift without
alloy;
But who would bound the field of
their desires
By the prim hedges of more fire
side joy?
Il can but weave a faint thread to
and fro,
Making a frail wool in baby's sock
Into the worlds sweet tumult |
would 90,
At its strong gates my trembling
hand would knock"
Just then the children came, the
father, too;
Their eager face lit the twilight
gloom.
Dear heart" he whispered, as he
nearer drew.
How sweet it is within this lit
tie rOom!"
God puts my strongest comfort
here to draw
When thirst is great and common
wells are dry.
Your pure desire is my enerring Law
Tell me dear one who is so SAT
p as l?
Home is the pasture where my sou
my feed,
This room is a paradise ha
grown to be;
And only where these patient fet
shall lead
Can it be home for these de-
ones and me"
He touched with reverent hand Il
helpless feet,
The children crowded close al
kissed her hair,
"Our mother is so good and kind al
sweet,
There's not another like her an
where!"
The baby in her low bed open
wide
The soft blue flowers of her tin
eyes,
And viewed the group about
cradle side
With smiles of glad and innoc'
surprise.
The mother drew the baby to
knee,
And smiling, said, The st
shine sole tonight;
My world is fair, its edges sw
to me;
And whatsoever is, dear Lord,
iehtP' May Riley SIN
In Doyble Harness.
= .,.,.. f.asaaes,ea.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-05-13

Ia DOubIs Harasss.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02

tion before you Judge. To decide on
half evidence is as sensible as to buy
pig in a poke. The poke may be
what you think It and the contents
make you wish for your money back.
For being candid The opinion that
does not stand for your true feelings
generates untruths. Say a serious
thing 10 be polite and You will gen
orally have 10 back II up with down
right lies before you are through.
For holding your tongue. II once you
give II a start II will lead you a sorry
chase Keeping silent never stirs up
trouble. II in doubt. don't ask
For not banking on gossip. Believe
only what you see and not then un
less your eyes are good for motives
as well as appearances
For believing in mankind. The wom
who sees no good In her neig.Uors
is like unto the rosy apple in a basket
Of spoiled ones II Is suspected OF
sharing The general rottenness.
For owning up when wrong. To give
IN gracefully is like taking a tumble
into net-it let's you down easy.
For forgiying an injury. You'll be
sure TO forget It In time, so why not
gel the credit OF a generous natures
The woman who lets her wrongs ron
kle rarely can get back at her enemy
and turns herself into "sourball"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
ReAL PROBLEM oF TAE FARMER.

The Mail and Breeze concludes a
discussion of the report made by Pres
ident Roosevelt's Country Life Com
mission, as follows:
As we have said there is not a new
suggestion in the report The farm.
ers, generally speaking, understood
that they need more cooperation than
they have, that If they would stand to
gether they would do better, but the
natural tendency Of farm life is against
cooperation. The farmer lives sepa-
rated from his neighbors and natur-
ally gets in the way Of attending to his
own business in his own way without
consulting with his neighbors. It is
too much trouble to hunt up a neigh
Dor who lives a mile or two away and
consult him about what is best to do
After all, the thing that will make
farming really popular is an improve.
ment in methods that will enable the
farmer to make plenty Of money with.
out having to work so blamed hard
1t is coming all right, but there are a
good many farmers who haven't got
next to a plan that involves anything
but long hours and hard work They
don't use their heads. They depend
on muscle and lack business system.
The time is coming when farming
win be about the most popular and
profitable business in this country and
the farmer will be looked up to as the
real aristocrat of the land. but it viii
be after a good many Of the older read.
ers of the moral guide have gone to
their heavenly reward.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
BURGESS ANNOUNCES

published for and Paid for by Ben
Bur ssJ
Chickasha, Okla, Feb. p, 1909.
To the Voters of the City Of chicka-
sha, Okla: AS the time is near at
hand wherein it becomes necessary
that a selection be made for the in
cumbent of the office of city clerk,
desire to announce to the voters
of the city of Chickasha my candidacy
for that office subject to the action
of the Democratic voters of the city
of Chickasha. In making this an
nouncement I desire to state to those
who do not know my qualifications for
the office. that | attended the public
schools of my home at Pulaski, Tenn,
after which I attended the high school
at Knoxville. Tenn, for term OF
ten months, after which ! enrolled
with the Southwestern Baptist univer-
sity at Jackson. West Tennessee, for
two terms of ten months each. / have
been a resident of the city of Chicka
sha for more than eight years and my
record for that time is before you
After careful consideration of my case
If am found to be worthy and quail
flied for the place l most humbly be
seech you for your support and influ
ence. Allow me to thank you in ad
vance for any and all favors. I bel
to remain sincerely yours.
3-1-3t Ben Burgess.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

It's easy to be fool. and it's foolish
to be easy.
When everybody else is satisfied the
reformer has the blues.
Some people would rather say roth;
ing than speak a kind word.
The average female likes to pose as
the reformer of some man.
After some men get a start in life
they don't know when to stop.
Frankness makes people disagree
able, but not all disagreeable people
are frank.
Happiness is the result of being poor
and respectable-according to the
story books.
A widow always tries OF console her
self with the belief that she cant do
any worse next time.
A widow is willing to admit a mans
superiority when it comes to translat-
ing a railway time table
Fortunately but few people are mind
readers. therefore they never discover
what their neighbors really think Of
them.
At the age of c a boy thinks his
father is the smertest man on earth +;
at the age of &c ne imagines that he
has forgotten more than the old man
ever knew Chicago News.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
HE Has SIGNED A BOND.

Fred G. Conrad is so strong IN his
claim that his play, "A Dangerous
Friend" will give the best of salts
faction, that he has signed bond with
the manager Of the opera house that il
any patrons are not pleased with the
performance, he or she can have their
money back Ipon demand of same.
play viii be at the opera house. Fri.
day evening, March 5.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
sruNe RY a EIeNp.

One thing is proved since the last
crop of American dramatists have
sprung up. that it is the American play
for Americans, and Fred G. Conrad
comes bravely to the front and lands a
success. A real playa story Of in
terest; heart story--a play Of today,
yesterday and tomorrow. "A Danger
GUS Friend" will probably penetrate
every corner Of the United States. We
know that Friend" we have all had
him or her for friend" There isn't
one of us who at some time has not
felt the sting Of dangerous friend"
Mr.. Conrad deals with this type Of
character in a clean-cut, concise style,
never descending to anything sensa-
tional, yet at the same time is thor
oughly realishc-it is :. play for the
millions, and millions will listen to its
message. It is from the hand of a
man of the world thoroughly conyers-
ant with all condition Of life in Amer.
lea. "A Dangerous Friend" will be at
the Wagner Opera House Friday
March 5.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02

"Thorad-x" or "radio-thor" is the
name OF a cheap substitute for radium
discovered by a celebrated physician.
Surgeons and scientists claim that It
is going to prove a great boon TO hu.
marity. The only reason We have not
mentioned It sooner was because the
name caused us to fear that it was a
patent medicine
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
FOR SALE OR TRADE.

Part or all Of Lippincott double
soda fountain; can be seen in Roddy
building at 3l2 Chickasha avenue. VIII
put in as good condition as new or
sell reasonable If taken as it stands.
For price write Mrs. John Tobin, 221
Harrison avenue Oklahoma City.
Phone 3577. Or Mrs Roddy, Chicka-
sha. 25-6t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
Department Notes

Washington. D. C.. March 2.-The In
terstate Commerce Commission has
been petitioned by the Corporation
Commission OF Oklahoma. IN behalf of
the Robinson. Crawford. Fuller Lum.
Der company. a corporation with main
offices in Duncan, Okla. for a repara-
tion OF s2.464.77. which the corpora.
ton alleges was extorted from It by
the Chicago. Rock Island & Gull
Railway and the Texas & Gulf Railway
companies
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
You wILL NEvER eE soRRY

Louisville Herald
II you thing before you speak. The
other way round doth breed regrets
as doth a rabbit her young.
For being honest and above board
Something to hide is as dirigible as
an airship that has lost its ballast
you live in dread Of Its landing.
For hearing both sides of the ques-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02

Purcell is another town that has
Joined the procession Of live ones.
They are building a fine high school,
putting in sewers and laying side
walks to beat the band.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02

W observe that the editors are now
hard at work pointing out TO Mr. Taft
his path Of duty and the golden oppor'
funitIes that are his.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-03-02
DEATH OF A LITTLE ONE.

Alice, the 2-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. T. Crane died last night
at S07 North Sixth street. Funeral
services were held at the !. o. o. f.
cemetery this afternoon.