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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

Secretary of State Sam H. Nichols has rendered his
resignation to Governor Hay to take effect the ap
pontment of his successor and it is rumored that the
appointment has been rendered to former Governor AL
bert E. Mead. 1t is expected that in the very near
future vacancy will in the insurance office and
is limited that E. K Erwin has been slated for that
place. Both Gov. Mead and Capt. Erwin are men Of
sterling integrity and have been tried in many official
capacities Prior being elected of the state
Albert E. Mead prosecuting attorney of Whatcom
county and made most envable record in that office,
which went long ways toward making him governor of
the state. For four years last past Capt. Erwin
treasurer of Spokane county and for four years prior
to that he county clerk of Spokane and in both
places he made splendid record and today stands
high before the voters of that county That both of
these gentlemen will make ideal state officials is fore
gone conclusion.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07
Amid all of this exposure the average citizen Of

Amid all of this exposure the average citizen of the
state would like to know what has become of Murky
Matt of the Seattle Daily Times that abored during the
entire session of the legislature to prevent invest
cation of the state officials and especially the insurance
office and likewise the office of secretary of state
Through the columns of his paper he poked fun at it
from the very first time it sprung until after the
committee actually began to make disclosures when it
ceased it vituperatve abuse of former Senator Wilson
and Governor Hay In his efforts to prevent the inves
tigation he ably assisted by State Senator Bobby
Booth of the thrty-seventh senatorial district who
must feel equally spotted the turn of affairs as
Murky Matt The Times is not saying very much these
days over any of the exposures and the horse laugh
seems very much on it. 1t got scooped on the Ham-
ton escapade but got out extra after it read the
news in the P.-L
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

Wise men change but fools never" is an old ad-
age and there is denying the fact very wise one
While State Senator A. S. Ruth president of the SEN
ate bitterly opposed the investigation of the state off
GERS yet when the committee began to make the nves-
tigaton and things began to show up the surface
that exceedingly damaging to those interested he
at admitted that he had been deceived and had no
hestancy in advising the officials that it would be much
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

According to dispatches from Washington City Sec
retary R. A. Balinger is in hot scrap with Secretary
Wilson and hot has the scrap become that the whole
matter has been referred to the president for settle
ment Mr.. Bainger is of those peculiar bodies
that alwys gets into dispute with his colleagues as to
how things should be conducted He for the most part
is right than wrong, but whether right or wrong
he must have II the president decides adverse
y to him nine chances of ten he will resign his DO
sition and come homes He is man that finds himsel
totally unable to brook opposition to his views on any
matter from the other fellow.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

many moons It must have taken them many weeks
to work up the story that printed in the P. last
Wednesday morning concerning General Hamilton and
his connection with one Hazel Moore and his downfall
Notwithstanding the fact that General Hamilton had
wife, he became enamored with the Moore woman and
practically deserted his wife, and not yet satisfied he
squandered thousands of dollars of the states money
to maintain the woman in extravagant luxury. Thou
sands of dollars of the peoples have been voted
to the National Guards by the legislature and first one
and another put in charge of it, who had the right to
spend at pleasure and without having to account for
it to any 1t frequently happened that deficit
would and the legislature without stopping to in
quire into the cause voted more money General Ham
ilton is now a ruined and if he gets his just de-
serts he will spend goody portion of his life in the
states prison.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

The Exposure Light of the Post-Intelligencer are
showing up many of the state officials in questionable
lights that each morning rushes to get the paper
and excaims who has been exposed in this ssue Mich
os Schvely and Hamilton after the other has gone
down and out and the question is Who will be the
next? II feel certain that the real big fish has not
been caught as yet came from we'll known polit-
clan one day this week, "and he may be caught
but there no doubt in my mind and the minds of hun
dreds of others throughout the state that there is still
great mud cat in the political pool that ought to be
caught and trust will be caught before this exposure
business is terminated If right in my conjectures
when that big mud cat will have been harpooned it will
be discovered that the state has been euchered out of
millions Of dollars instead of few thousands Mich
ols-SchiveIy exposure has brought out and the Ham
ton escapade has likewise shown the state has lost.
want to see the good work go bravey if it
suits the defeat of the Republican party from stem
to gudgeon.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

There to be little doubt at this writing that
Hon. Harry L. Wilson will be promoted to the position
of minister plenipotentiary to Mexico. Harry Wilson
was for many years one of the leading politicians of
the state Of Washington and the leader of the Re-
publican party of Spokane county where he and his
brother resided
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-07

The latest gay lotharo of the state to be shown up
for having squandered the states money is former Ad
iutant General Otis Hamilton, whose trail the seuths
of the PostIntellgencer has been camping for good
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

What it will have in the future I dare
not 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
stopped the progress which the city
was making up until about two years
ago. This is only temporary, and
Tientsin will soon be again IN the
boom.
Ten Cities in One.
The great powers of the western
world fully realize the Importance of
this city, n they have business re-
personalities on the ground. There
is a large territory outside the native
settlement which has been taken by
them. Much of this was seized just
after the Boxer rebellion, when China
was forced to submit AS it is now,
every one of these powers has it's own
little city here on the banks of the
Pei-Ho. Each concession has it's po-
lice, its consular court, it's town hall
and it's own troops. One sees COM
panies of Japanese, German and
french soldiers marching here and
there through the streets. The Brit
ish have a regiment of High1anders
who show their bare knees and firt
their short skirts in the faces of the
udllVCS, duO RUSSIAN COSSaCkS, With
great fur caps, ga1lop through the
city on horseback
There are altogether ten different
settlements in the combined city, so
that one may visit a half dozen ma
tons in the jinrikisha ride of a morn
ing. These foreign concessions have
magnificent buildings, many of hich
would be considered fine in London
or Paris. The hotel structure in which
I am stopping would be good in New
York Or Chicago, and there is an
English clubhouse adjoining it which
must have cost several hundred thou
sand dollars to build. There are mag
nifccnt bank buildings here, repre-
senting millions Of dollars of CAPITAL,
and there are stores with plate glass
windows filled with all sorts of Euro
pean and American goods.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

while he was vicerOy, Lii had already
seen the need of a reorganization Of
the Chinese army, a need which he
came to appreciate more and more
during the C~hina-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 v~iceroyalty other
progressive officers were appointed
for Chilli, and among them was Yuan
Shin Kai, who acted as such until a
short time ago. Yuan Shih Kai was
the author of the most progressive
of the new institutions of Tientsin,
and under him not only the military
but every form of education has been
pushed. Today there are a medical
college for the education of surgeons
for the army and schools for the
training of officers for the army and
navy. More han this. military off,
Gals are assigned to drill the boys
in all the schools and academies;
and Young China now learns to han
die the musket before ne has reached
Ills teens. The boys drill in uni
form; they are taught modern mill
tary tactics and the exercises every
day.
Girls Schools.
I find many girls schools here in
Tientsin. Woman's education has
never been encouraged by the Chi
nese, and today almost no Chinese
girls, taking the vast population into
consideration, are going to school. In
the new schools of the province of
Chilli there are ninety-nine boys to
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

By Frank G. Carpenter.

es the river right in front of the depot
and a half doben other bridges at diff
ferent places. Riding along the Pei-ho
yesterday, / observed a new bridge
with a wooden fence at each end, and
asked our consul general why the way
was shut off. He replied that the
bridge had just been completed, but
the people most benefited by it on
the opposite side Of the river had re-
fused to pay their share for macadan-
izing the road leading to it, and the
authorities were keeping the bridge
shut to bring them to time. There
are also bridges over the Grand canal,
which crosses the Pei-ho at this place,
and such improvements are now made
without regard to the unions.
A Big Traffic Center.
Tientsin is the New York of North
China. 1t is the chief port for the
Great Plain and the thickly settled
regions north and west of Picking.
Tributary to it is a population of 100,-
100000 or more than all the people
of the United States, and it's connec-
is rapidly being opened UP by rail-
road. / came here from Manchuria
on the ImpeT l Chinese Railway, go
ing through the great Chinese wall at
Shan-hai-kwan, and l shall go in a
comfortable train on to Picking. a
IOdu liOil lIeI is now OultulIIS WHICH,
takes n ~northWard through the great
wall to Kalgan, Mongolia, and which
Will eventually be connected with the
TranS-siberian Railroad. Another
road has been projected from here
south through the most thickly pOpu-
lated parts of China down to the
Yangtse, and in time Tientsin Will
have track radiating from her as
our roads do from Chicago. This city
has now perhaps a million people.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

Notwithstanding the protests and pray
ers of the natives. The Chinese be-
came greatly excited and said that de-
stroying the walls would ruin their
city. "a town tho walls" said
they, lis like a woman without a
kootsu-that is without pantaloons.
1t is disgraceful and it cannot sue
coed"
Nevertheless, the powers tool the
pants off of Tientsin, and since then
the old municipal lady has been trot-
ting along at Geographic speed. h
macadamiZed road on the site Of the
walls has been copied all over the
place, n there are clean streets
everywhere. The city has grown far
beyond the old walls and a great new
town has sprung up, with factories
and foundries and modern schools OF
every description. The Chinese ma
Jobs have built magnificent residences,
some of which are Of two or three
stories, and they now ride about in
their carriag es, with Joachim and
footmen in livery.
The Bridges of the Pei-HO.
Tientsin lies on the Pei-ho at about
ninety miles from the sea. In a
straight line the distance is not more
than half that, but the river winds
in and out like the coils of 4. snake all
the way. 1t is winding in the city it
self and canals are now to be cut to
shorten it's course. When I was last
in Tientsin the railroad station was
outside of the walls on the north side
Of the river, far away from the town,
and Ii Hung Chang had vainly at
tempted to have a bridge built which
should carry passengers and freight
right into Tientsin. He had erected
stone piers and was ready to lay down
the orders when the unions of boat
men and cartmen objected on the
ground that a bridge would ruin their
business. The result was Ii had to
submit, and the station was left far
out in the country. The city has
ness houses ON every side. There is
also an iron drawbridge which cross
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31
FRANK G. CARPENTER DE-
SCRIBES TIL MIGHTY CHANGES
GOING ON IN TIEN-TSIN.

1t Will be the New York Of North
China and a GTea Railway Center
Its Modern Schools and Educationa
MuseulnS-The Military Schools and
q Medical College for WOnen-WO-
man DOctOrS-An Opening for Chi
nese WiGows-The New Foreign
COncesSiOnS-Ten Cities in One
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

IUiIctIf1all JaptaI1ese SeCtlOH OF IlcIl-
tSin.
every girl receiving instruction. Girls
schools, however, are being started.
and the center of the movement is
here. [ understand that about 10
per cent OF the Tientsin school chill
dren are now girls and that their
schools embrace all grades from the
kindergarten to the nigh school.
There are also normal schools where
Chinese girls are being trained for
teaching the primary schools, and
there is a school Of domestic econ
omy, where they learn cooking. sew
inc ori HOrCp-kppnino
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31
copyright, 1909, by Frank G.. Car
penter.)
TIENTSIN. 1909.

LIEN O14N, 1919.
The awakening of China.
I am in the midst of it here in Tien-
tSin. The Yellow Giant has his al
mond yes open. Yea, he has sprung
from his bed and is fast drawing on
the clothes of our civilization. The
ruts and filth of the old city are dis
appearing and macadamiZed roads,
electric trolleys and iron bridges are
taking their places. The old wall,
forty feet high and twenty feet wide,
gray with age, has been torn down,
and a broad avenue, as smooth as
the drive in Rock Creek Park in
Washington, now runs aroun the
great city. There is a car line upon
it, and it's motormen have driven the
passenger W~heelbarrow coolies quite
out Of business.
The tearing down of that wall was
one of the rude blows which made
Tientsin rouse up and take notice. It
was done by the foreign troops at the
time of the Boxer rebellion, and that
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

Tientsin IA long had its military
academies; and it has today large
school for training soldiers. There
were army and naval academies here
before the Japan-China war. They
were organized h" II Hung Chang
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

with decision. than 1 could be that
girl again."
I thought Conyers deserved an I'M
common kicking. but I felt little sorry
for him. II didn't know I had entirely
gotten over il" Miss Dean continued.
Until 1 saw you flirting with Agatha
] had supposed I'd always care for you
that one couldn't put such a thing
when 10 had meant sOmething-aside.
but when 1 saw you passing on to her
what you had given newly. then I
knew just what I had been saved from.
what you'd saved me FROM" so I
have been your preserver from the fate
Of being my Wife," ne said, laughing
dissgreeably. From being a very un-
happy woman" she corrected. There
was long silence. and then I heard her
walk across the room TO the door.
Wait. Just one moment" he begged.
and I could hear his quick steps as he
got i'm front of her. You say you are
not the same woman-that YOU couldn't
be the one you used TO be. Couldn't
you can't you, look at my side and see
that I have Changed-that I'm not the
same person I VASE" He spoke per-
suasivsly. gently. as if things still hung
I'm the balance. though it seemed 10 me
they had been very carefully weighed
and found wanting NO. You're older
fore it was an impulse. ''The one inn
pulse / can't outgTOw, Margaret"
Apparently she shrugged her Shout
ders for he said quickly: IF you are
thinking Of Agatha" ne broke off Inn
patiently. shes outside the question
merely a pretty. silly sort Of a girl
U'd like to give him one for that) "and
of a type that could no more be interest
ed I'm me than 7 i'm her. One could flirt
80 4rr fa-rr 81
amusement-but when ones in love
with "a woman. and has been cad 70
her, and can't apologize without being
more so. and is so bitterly ashamed that
he'd like for her To trample on him
that's different
Ny nerves were so uustrung between
a sneaking sort Of sympathy for Con-
! yers and a hearty wish that he would
/ get out before I was discovered, that 1
| felt a perfect wreck
1--WE been ashamed to the dust for
| six years" Conyers went on. At first
/ I thought less and less about # and
meant merely a summer Irritation, each
| of US would forget. and then, just before
/ I graduated. something happened In
/ put a new light on things-tOO late for
/ it to make any difference. One Of my
| cIassmates-a fellow whose father had
made a lot Of money as a ward poll
tician and had handed down the money
and the manners Of the ward TO his son
got to talking about a girl he'd met
| during his last vacation out west and
! been engaged to.
| He went back to college and forgot
/ all about her. he said. saw somebody
/ else he liked better. and got So he didn't
open the girls letters. She wrote every
week for a long time. He picked up a
handful of letters out IF his drawer
Continued on Page II.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

were-that you were engaged to some
pretty girl cared. Yes, I cared a good
deal" She spoke rehectively and casual
ly and 1 wondered just how Conyers
felt
Il had a good deal Of faith in human
nature Miss Dean went on, and il
took some time for me to understand
how little it all had meant to you.
had two or three letters and d ring
you'd given me. but I knew it would
be silly 10 send them back to you when
you'd forgotten the whole episode, so
dropped them I'm the lake" She was
talking as quietly as you please, in that
slow. rich voice of hers. and ! didn't
lose a word. Margaret" Conyers tried
to speak. but she interrupted. Wait,
pleasei I want to explain to you why
il isn't necessary, as told you the other
day, for you to feel that you owe me
an apology" Her voice stung. You We
been Of such service to me! I'm CRATE
full It's enabled me to grow beyond
myself of that time-my very crude
and impressiOnable self. I could no
more care for you now" her voice rang
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

That was straight from the shoulder
If anything ever was, and 1 fairly ached
to see how COnyers took if. I dOn't
doubt you are right" he said. Mr.
Greer is everything am not, and there
fore suppose you are going to marry
him. There was a silence you could
have cut with knife. why don't you
tell me? I might be the first to hear il
for old acquaintance sakel' Some
how Miss Dean seemed to think this the
last straw, for her voice. for all it was
SO low, was so passionate ] would hard
ly have recognized it. I would no
more mary Mr.. Greer than I would
marry you" And that is as strong
as you can put it, is it," "'Yes-quite
as strong" And yet, 1 remember"
COnyers began and then stopped dead
as if he had seen a ghost You re-
member, you mean, when I used to be
in love with YOU" she said steadily. !
squirmed and prayed for help.
L am not blaming YOU" she protest
ed politely. Il said, at first, I took you
au pied de la lettre. And when you
didn't write, and the boys spoke in their
letters of how popular and gay you
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
He Who Hath Ears
BY MAY HARRIS.

Agatha to catch on. for. of course, if
II wasn't for her pure, good nature
she'd have been bored into blue fits.
The rest of US sulked. Conyers-
somehow I couldn't place the way he
felt; none of US ever could-loOked like
our professor of chemistry when he'd
been mixing things to a finish. I didn't
know what Conyers' particular COM
pound was. but 7 could see ana lyzing
It didn't give him pleasure. At frst
thought. it was because Agatha was so
interested in Greer, but something
opened my eyes a bit. The first sus-
picion was when I saw Conyers had
discovered that Greer was IN love with
Miss Dean. His black eyes had d
CLEAN about theml Well. I never set
up for an observer, but l began TO OBJ
serve, and / discovered that Miss Dean
could look like a pTincess-really.
One evening we had just gone into
the hall from dinner and Greer was on
his couch near the fire, with Agatha
lowering near him like a white butter
fiy-Conyers asked Miss Dean tC sing
He spoke in a rather low voice, and as
] was sitting near I happened to hear
him under the chatter-everybody was
talking at once-and I was surp. ised,
for I didn't know Miss Dean could sing
a note. Agatha sings, but I'd as soon
expect the Sphinx to sing as her half
sister
She turned around when Conyers
asked, and 1 got another surprise. She
didn't look like the same woman: her
eyes like cut steel, and a smile so far
off and cOntemptuOus, ] think if I'd
been COnyers I'd have shaken in my
shoes. she looked superb Knocked
out my old idea of her. Expression has
a lot to do with faces, ana hers always
looked as if every bit had been COW
cred up; but when Conyers spoke, very
haTmlessly, / thought her face was sim
ply transformed like fire playing over
all.
It was just for second, and when
she spoke her voice was quite soft and
Indifferent.
Il never sing noW-eXcept for my
friends" 1t 1OOred me! She said it as
simple as you'd say Good morning"
Conyers sat looking at her, stroking his
beard, and he didn't seem surprised.
Then l can never" He began look
ing straight into her eyes, as could
see over the top of my paper. Jenkins
was telling his automobile story for the
seventh time, and the others were try
ing to hurry him up by sppiauding be-
fore the right time.
You are my brothers guest" she
interrupted, and bending her head
slightly she got up and went across the
hall to where the others were.
That was my introduction to the af-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

open the door" 81 will notr' Conyers
said furiOusly.
I own l was never more curious and
utterly dumfOunded i'm all my short and
simple years, but I'd nevertheless have
given anything short of my mead to set
out of the box I was in! If they stood
still and merely fired blank caTtriGges
at each other and didn't proxl- But
i'm exciting scenes on the stage actors
always prOwl-gO ranting round all
over the place with their hands I'll the
breasts of their buttOned-up coats. and
make all sorts of discoveries. Well, ]
simply had TO chance it. and hear every
world If they found mel calculated
when the next train would leave.
You are writing to Greer" Conyers
went on behind me, his voice as hard as
nails. and I thought he was pretty i'm
pertinent. She didn't say a word. L saw
him write note to you" Conyers was
kind enough to explain. "and slip it into
a book and send it to you. Quite A
charming idea-rOmantic, deeply orig
inal,' Don't sneer at Mr.. Greer she
said clearly, he is worth a thousand of
such men as YOU"