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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

of the western world. Today 221 novels,
originally written in English, French or
German, are in circulation. They have
been translated into Chinese, and the de-
mand for them is increasing. In one year
fifty-seven such novels were issued. They
Included translstioGs OF "Uncle Toms
Cabin" Jules Verne's Voyage to the
Moon and Charles Lambs '"Tales from
Shakespeare" One of the most popular Of
the new issues is Conan Doyle's Memories
Of Sherlock ], Holmes and another Is
from the French are Les Miserables" and
"Manon Lescaut," and the most popular
English stories are i'Ivanhoe' and other
novels Of Sir Walter Scott. These works
are published on cheap paper; they are
sold by booksellers in various cities,
SOM bringing as little as 10 cents
apiece. one of the recent TRANSACTIONS OF
this nation sold to the extent of 100000
, copies, and that within a year; another
had a circulation of 1851 600 copies within
eighteen months,
In addition to novels, some heavy works,
such an Darwin $ origin OF Species"
Spencer's Evolution and MINIS Essay
on Liberty" are being published, and the
new constitution has created n demand for
treatises on politics and parliamentary
law.
DR.. C. D.. Tenney, formerly head of the
Chinese university at Tientsin, and now
the Chinese secretary of our legation at
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

near the Jalisco-Tepic boundary where
there is heavy tunnel work, viii have the
use of electric power,
A gyroscopic car Weighing twenty-five
tons and carrying forty passengers has
been successfully tested in England. The
car is propelled by electricity produced
from a gasoline englne-drlVen generator.
American show window lighting is being
introduced in London. 1t is customary in
the English capital for shop keepers to
barricade every window with heavy iron
shutters just as soon as the days business
is over. This is a relic Of those ancient
days when 1t was not safe to leave the
shop unprotected, but. the American plan
of window displays and well lighted store
fronts is being successfully introduced.
II remained for a boarding house full
of girls in the city of Boston to discover
the real merits and possibilities Of the
electric flatiron. with many Of these girls
economy In their habits was strictly neces-
sary, and when they found out they could
get a small electric ~flatlun, which could
be readily attached to the lighting fixture.
and press all their laces or even d shirt
waist, they were quick to invest their
savings for this little household econ
omizer. But one of these self-same girls
with a bit of inventive genius quickly dis
covered that the electric iron could be very
easily turned upside down and used es a
small cook stove. On the flat face OF her
iron she easily boiled wat-r, made fudge
or even fried eggs and dId other cooking.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
R46E TRo/4 CHnNk5E PR/"zSR

Picking, has published q number OF school
books. which are In a general use, includ-
ing readers, primers and Biographies, and
pared n complete series Cf text books ard
m"athematic In the Chinese for the Jap
anese translAtors.
A large number OF the new ,ranslations
come from the japanese. The written
languages Of Japan and CHM are some
what similar, and the Japanese scholar
learns quickly to speak. read and write
the Chinese. In the Commercial Press
editorial room a large number of japanese
men are employed as transla tors, and |
find japanese teachers In all the Chinese
educational centers. Much OF the new
school furniture has been made in Japan,
and a large number OF the modern maps
and charts.
The Japanese teachers viii work for
lower salaries than other foreigners, and
this is one reason for their employment,
AS a rule, they are not thorough. and
the probability Is that they will eventually
be replaced by Americans, Eng,ishmen or
Germans, ! look for the tstesdy increase
in the number of American teachers. There
are hundreds of Chinese now studying in the
United States, and there are many Amer
ican-Chinese graduates In China All of
these have a high regard for our methods
Of education, and they would favor the
selection of our college graduates as lead
ers for the new schools.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
Electrical. Notes.

The North Dakota is the first ship OF
our navy to he equipped with electric
ranges for the officers mess.
The wireless apparatus on the cunard
liner Caronia 10 the most powerful OF any
in steamship service. having a radius Of
200 miles,
In a few more months It may be possible
to telegraph photographs across the At
Inntic from New York 10 London by pro-
cesses now being perfected.
A new windmill apparatus for generating
electricity for farm use has been perfected
In England. A storage battery supplies the
current when the wind Is not blowing.
Tho contractors building the Southern
Pacific extension through the mountains
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
IN n HHNOARIN Inn SCHOOL.
HNHIlkE MCZlaNERY rs N0NW PRESS

the missionaries. One OF the largest presses
Of the far east is that OF the Presbyterian
mission at Shanghai, another of consider
able size belongs to tho Methodists, and
there are a few Of other denominations.
The only large secular house which has
yet been organized TO take advantage of
new conditions is tho Commercial Press of
this city. 1t was established u little more
than ten years ago, with a paid-up cap
ital Of $4,000 silver. 1t has since grown
until 1t now has a plant covering acres and
humming with modern machinery.
1 went out to- see this establishment last
week. 1t lies within two miles or so of
Shanghai proper, on the other side of
Hongkew creek. on my way to it / drove
past a mile or so Of fine foreign residences,
with wide p~orticos and galleries about
them, by many stores occupied by Chinese,
by schools and colleges run by the mis-
sionaries and on out into the country l
wal accompanied by one Of the managers
and with him went through the various
branches Of the establishment.
The Commercial Press is making every
thing from kindergarten lesson books to
English-C Chinese dictionaries, Biographies
and books of mining and engineering. 1t
has a large lithographing plant, where a
dozen presses are turning out school books
In colors. In one room they were printing
u calendar for the coming year, using
twelve different colors, and in another
making cards OF many oolors, depicting
plant and animals for teaching the Chinese
babies. Much OF the printing was done
from stones, but there were also large
etching and half-tone plants with COM
plete Photographic appliances. In one well
lighted department l found a dozen Japan
csc artists working away, and in another
was shown machines for reducing drawings
to any scale. Some Of the engravers were
cutting out copper plates for new national
currency. and others were etching out
plates for school book Illustrations, l spent
some time watching them printing bank
notes. The photographic stones were placed
on the presses and the various colors APP
piled in succession giving sufficient time
between the different impressions for the
ink to dry. Where many colors were re-
CURED the sheets were passed on from
press to press, a separate stone being used
for each color. This was to avoid wasting
time In changing ink. one set of presses
being equipped with red, another with
green and others with blue, yellow or
black.
Our alphabet has only twenty-six let
tiers, and the characters used by our prin-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

under the command of Lieutenant Colonel
Baehr, and for the first time In the
history Of Omaha militia companies, the
three companies are housed under one
roof.
The hall has been admirably equipped for
the purpose and viii tend TO increase the
esprit de corps of the militia organizations
here. Following the reception of Monday
evening, which was attended by a large
number OF men and women OF Omaha, a
dance was given, being the initial military
ball In the new armory.
The regular nights for drill will be Mon
day, and the public is invited 10 visit the
armory on these evenings in order To be-
come better acquainted with the National
Guard. and to learn what It is and what
It is for,
The establishment OF the new armory has
already had the tendency 10 increase the
enlistments In the several companies and
Il Is hoped that in due time they will be
recruited 10 their maximum.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

Adiutant General Hartigan Of the Me-
braska National Guard was present as the
special representative OF the governor.
Lieutenant Colonel w. e.. Baehr OF the
First regiment Nebraska National Guards,
acted as master OF ceremonies. The Six
teenth United States Infantry band from
Fort Crook furnished the music for the
affair.
The address OF welcome was delivered by
Mayor ]. g, pahlman, and short addresses
We're delivered by Brlgadier General Nor
ton, Colonel Cornelius Gerdener Of the
sixteenth United states Infantry, Judge Lee
Estelle and Adjutant General Hartlgan. All
the addresses bore particularly upon the
necessity for an organized National Guard.
az a nucleus for a volunteer army In the
event Of war.
The new armory will house the provi'
slonal battalion OF the National Guar
consisting OF Companies ! and q of the
Second regiment and l. OF the First rsgi
ment. The provisional battalion viii b
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

At present a large proportion OF the new
text books are printed upon the mission
presses. The missionaries have been at
work in China for a century, and they
have established schools in all parts Of
the country They were the authors OF
the first new text books, and as teachers
their graduates are now in demand The
American Presbyterian mission press at
Shanghai has been pouring out volumes
for a number OF years at the rate OF co.
100000 pages per annum, and the consol-
dated mission press Of the American Meth
odists has also published numerous edu-
cational works. The American Bible So
clety distributes between 10000 and 1000. p
600 volumes Of the Scriptures in Chinese
each year, and there is now a mission edu-
cational association, supported by all the
Protestant scots, which is preparing new
text books for the schools. At some OF the
missionary stations they are making school
museums, including such things as stuffed
birds and animals, mounted fishes, cleo
trleRl machines, globes and mod-i rail
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
CeIe.tinI nook Piraten.

China has no copyright law. l found the
Commercial Press stealing everything thu,
It's managers think of value for the new
Chinese school, No matter what the copy
rights are, foreign authors must be con-
tent with the hope that their books may
do good, even though they do not add To
their financial receipts. AS l looked over
the volumes printed by this company for
the new education l found many well
known American text books which have
been translated into Chinese. l saw also
stacks of my own Geographical Readers, -
published on cheap paper, with abominable
Illustrations. / was told the whole series
had been prepared for the press, and that
my books on North America and Europe
were already in use. The matter has been
translated by the English Chimes scholars,
and, as far as possible, verbatim, but how
correctly only those who can read the
Chinese teachest characters can know.
AS l looked at my books the manager
of the company said they sold we'll and
that he expected to get a good revenue
from Carpenters ASIA" which was then
in the press. He explained apologetically
that they had been forced 10 change SOM
of the literary matter In the chapters on
China, as their people did not like to be
told that they had buttonhole eyes, pig
tailed heads and deformed feet. He made
no bones about taking my books without
pay, and even offered to make a royalty
contract with me IL 1 would write him a
new reader or so especially adapted to tbs
Chinese market. / replied that | was very
busy, and he thereupon suggested thai
the book could be written for me in theil
office, and that 1 could revise it. But IL
that case they would expect to pay q
much less royalty. | told him such Q
proposition was out OF the question, blu
Notwithstanding this he brought it VI
again and again, and urged it upon me a
a Chinese dinner which he gave me thaI
night,
Among the other books in the ware
house l saw piles of Chinese-English dc
tionaries. They were in two volumes eacr
as big as an ordinary table Webster. They
are practically a translation of the stand.
ard dictionary, which is so largely used il
the United states. They were edited by
DR.. yam, who has been connected viii
our. legation in Washington. The two vol
umes are widely distributed they sell TO
about So in gold. Pocket dictionaries ar
also printed, and a native law dlctionar!
is now in press. This will be sent out t
the law schools, which are now being es
tabllshed at all the provincial capitals.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
school %AunpIIca.

After visiting the editors, was taken to
another large building, which contains a
curious branch of this publishing house. IL
is devoted to school supplies, and makes
everything from desks to blowpipes for the
chemical laboratories, 1t manufacturs ;
pendulums, globes. Indian clubs and dumb
bells. The dumbbells are cast from pig
iron; they are made in great quantities,
and Il is Intended they shall be used In
all public schools,
Every room OF this school book factory
is lighted by electricity, and all are CON
nected by a telephone system. The ma
chinery is up-to-date, and on the whole
1t shows one something OF what Is going
on In the new china
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
Copyright. 1909, by Frank G, carpent

Copyright, 1909, by Frank @. Carpenter,)
THANGHAI, 1SO0.-(special Corre-
spondence Of The Bee.)-One OF
the problems which China Is
- facing Is the making OF text
E& books. A public school system
- Is being established all over the
empire. Academies, colleges and UNIVERSE
ties are being organized. and books are
needed for teaching the new learning,
When the system Is in full sway millions
Of volumes will be required, and at present
there Is practically nothing on hand. The
old text books describe the earth as flat,
with China covering the most OF Its sur
face, and the other countries skirting the
edges. The chief studies OF the past were
the reading and writing Chinese and the
committing to memory the sayings Of
Confuoius and Menaclus. Today the nation
wants one scheme OF modern education.
The government has resolved that II shall
have II, and q compulsory system Of school
ing is to be generally established. Suppose
that tomorrow our president and congress
should enact laws wipIng out our public
schools, replacing them with others vitality
different, with an entire new list of books.
That is the situation in China today,
.
DooAH lot FOur hundred MtillOnA,
China, moreover, has four times as many
people as the United States. Its children
OF school age are more than l0O,OOo, 900, and
in the new scheme the grown-ups as we'll
as the babies are anxious to learn. There
are kindergarten and primary departments
Tor the little ones, there are night schools
for civil officials. military schools for the
army, and law schools for would-be states
men. All these are under way. and there
are no books to feed them. The situation
Is one OF the %strangest in history. 1t has
no counterpart in the past, and will prob
ably have none In the future.
In the meantime books are being inn
ported from half a dozen different coun-
tries. The great school book publishing
houses Of Great Britain, the United Sttaes
and japan are studying the field and are
shipping in TRANSACTIONS OF text books OF
one kind and another. The MacmiIIans OF
London and New York have published
some, the American Book company and
CHM Of the United States others. and as
FOR the Japanese, they are piratlng the
school books OF other nations and sending
them here by the ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

A on the street cars at night thai
wv sometimes the lamps which
- light the cars bnrn very dim
HSSYEg5g for a minute and then seem to
gy burn very bright? Sometimes
they almost go entirely out, then suddenly
come on again, To the ordinary traveller
all this is very mystifying, but to the cleo
trical engineer it is simplicity itself.
If a small hole was drilled in a water
pipe just above a faucet, the water, under
pressure, would rush out at terrific speed;
but if you should open the faucet the
pressure would Immediately drop down so
low the water would all but cease to flow
out Of the tiny hole, This is exactly what
happens to the incandescent lamp in a
street car when they suddenly grow dim.
only it is electricity we are dealing with
instead of water. To start a loaded street
car requires an enormous amount of cleo
triclty, the motors fairly eat up the cur
rent in order to get the necessary starting
power, or torque, as 1t is called. Using
such a quantity of electricity relieves the
pressure, or voltage, Of the system, and Of
course the lights burn dim until the car
is under way.
Nearly all street car systems operate at
$50 volts pressure, The lamps in the car
consume current at 40 volts pressure aud
they are connected In groups of five In
series across the 550-volt circuit. When
the voltage for these lamps drops below
40, because Of the large amount of eur
rent going to the motors under the cars,
not enough electricity is being forced
through the lamp filament to heat it to in
candescence and of course the light is
dim. Opening wide the current conductors
to the motors suddenly lowers the line
pressure, which in turn reduces the pres
sure on the lamps. once the car is under
way the motors do not require so much
current and the pressure returns to the
lamps and they continue to give their rated
candle power until the next time the car Is
started.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

formal opening OF the new
National Guards armory in old
Fraternity hall, on Harvey, op-
poslte the public library, was
ma ie the occasion OF a brilliant
military event Monday evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
Carnegie of China.

In this connection a bright woman clerk
of the mission book store of Shanghai said
TO me today:
What China needs more than anything
else IL a system of circulating libraries,
which shall contain the simpler Books of
our modern literature, including the scrip
lures, c~oncordances and the western
classics. These people are p!ning for the
new learning, but they are unspeakably
poor and cannot afford to buy books. The
Chinese women want them. In every com
munity clubs are already established where
the women come together weekly or daily
to gossip and talk II they could have
such books they would be read aloud at
these meetings and a great educational
movement might thus be instituted. As to
the Chinese TRANSACTIONS, they are cheap,
The concordance of the scriptures costs
less than 20 cents gold and there are few
books of any kline that sell as high as a
dollar
l cite this conversation as a suggestion
for some rich American who would like to
be known as the Carnegie of China.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

ways, They have printed charts, OF the
Chinese provinces, with the principal In
dustrles and resources marked upon them,
and have -inaugurated new methods OF
teaching the people. Indeed, the work
which the missionaries have done cannot
be overestlmated, and the situation here
just now is such that money spent upon
missions will return q thousand-fold
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

ihefe were present, IN adaltloh 10 the
representatives OF the local militia COM
panies, a number OF the governors military
staff and a number OF officers Of the regu-
lar army connected with Department OF
the Missouri headquarters and adjacent
military posts.
Those OF the regular army were Brlgadier
General Charles Morton, commanding the
Department Of the Missourii Lieutenant
Ohio Il. Michaelis, aide-de-oamp; Lieu
tenant Colonel f. 4, Eastman. chief com
mlssary; Major ID. Il. Mccarthy, chief
Quartermaster; Colonel Cornelius Gardener
Of the Sixteenth infantry, Captain JOSEPH
" Gohn. Sixteenth infantry, and Captain
w, X. Jones, Sixth infantry, assistant
ouartermAster United states Army
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

China's biggest Publishing House.
Up to the present time most OF the mod
ern text books IL use have been made by
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
with the Bindery Girls.

fetch the types from other parts of the way
room. Chi
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

New Chinese Literature.
The inauguration of the new school sys-
tenn and the new civilization is bringing
in TRANSACTIONS of the most popular books
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

10 has not noticed when riding
on the street cars at night thai
sometimes the lamps which
light the cars bnrn very dim
for a minute and then seem to
burn very bright? Sometimes
The Mena weekly star., 1910-12-29
ONLY GOOD WILL.

The Mena Star is extracting much
JOY from wild rumors. which is the
next best thing to deriving benefit from
real facts. DeQueen Bee.
Really, Brother Editor, that's I'M
kind-not just the Christmas spirit,
you know.
OF course it is assumed that you
refer to the wild rumors" about
the Kansas City Southern division
coming back to Mena.
Not one of those rumors has
brought more than a smile in Mena,
and il true census of real feeling
could be taken today. The Star be-
lieves that the preponderance would
be on the side Of sympathy that our
neighbors to the north and south
Heavener and DeQueen- should have
such rumors to contend with. Tn ey
hurt Mena for fifteen years. and now
that load has been lifted, which is not
Mi fnd.
Rest Rest z cosy friend The Star has
The Mena weekly star., 1910-12-29
Took the Girl Home.

Zone of the choicest bits of gos
sip among the Hiawatha women, >
says the Hiawatha tKss J Democrat,
lis the fact that a girl about II
years old, who was in the habit OF
meeting trains and flirting with the
travelling men, was successful ir
landing beau one evening off the
plug. He asked to walk home with
her. She gaily consented---here was
real romance. But the ending was
more romantic. The gentleman, a.
he proved to be, stepped up on the
porch and rang the bell. Her moth.
err came to the door and Mr.. Travel.
ing Nan dotted his derby and said.
Madame, here's your daughter. /
advise you to keep her away from
The Mena weekly star., 1910-12-29

given publicity to none of those ru-
mors to your deteriment. and will
not. You have, through no fault Of
ours, nor, perhaps, through any
special virtue of your own, gained a
goodly number of people who were
more than happy to call Mena home.
AS you know, they did not go be-
cause they loved your city more, nor
Mena less. Through it all you
should and will add to your growth
and prosperity. Mena has no feel
ings of envy. She is. through her
great advantages in climate and
health and beauty, drawing to her
self people to take the place of those
who have gone. Many hundreds are
coming where they can live well, and
enjoy life. Some are taking up cur
nw-priced farm lands and will pro :
'er in raising stock and the crn4,4
Ntdt tati DC StOWu iClC Will ldI bNt.
ter average results than in man.
places where it is much harder 4,
get a start. Others are finding
openings in bushes in the city.
where the best of schools and ad-
vantages are to be had. And yet
another class, who have made their
competence and come and make
their homes among us because here
they have health and comfort not to
be found elsewhere.
No, friends. neither Mena nor The
Star will throw any rocks at you.
You have done us no unkindness and
your future prosperity will take
none of the good things from US.
So here's to you---A Merry Christ
mas and Happy New Year.