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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
A FAMOUS MUSICIAN.

Edward Jones was born in Wales in 1852.
and ne early developed great interest in
the harp-Once greatly used in Wales and
still used there more than anywhere else.
probably He also became interested In the
whole subject OF Welsh minstrelsy, for the
rninstrels OF ancient Wales were usually
harpists.
So Jones took up the study Of Welsh min
strelsy. and devoted his entire time TO It
and 20 study Of the harp. He was himself
& wonderful PLAYER on the harp-probably
The greatest harpist OF his time-and in l7S
was appointed bard TO the Prince Of Wales
lie was beloved OF the Welsh people. who
endearingly called him ~Bardy Brenin.'
Ebenezer Jones. an Englshman born in
$50. whose few poems gave promise OF
greater work. but who died when he was
only forty Henry Jones, born I'm ireland in
1921. who worked his way int literary So
'ciety by hattering the men above him. and
who used TO write poems to his landlsdies
instead Of paying his board bills until the
publication OF hts successful Poems ON
Several Occasions Ernest Charles Jones.
IN English poet politician and orator. born
H. 1919 whose politics GOT him imprisoned
= nose Oratory stirred up much enthusiasm
end criticism. and whose poetry has been
judged really worth while. and Sir william
Zones. born I'm 1746. whose writings deal
with Oriental subjects. and who was one
cf the greatest linguists and Orientalsts
ever born IN Englsnd-these are among the
mon whose work with the pen has helped
give the Jones name it's high standing in
history
William Jones. Of Maryland. born In 1926.
who wrote treatises on music. composed
anthems. opposed the French Revolution
and was a man Of vast learning on matters
theological and Samuel Porter Jones.
known as Sam" Jones or the Mountain
Evangelist, who worked largely I'm the
S,ufh after his ordination in the Methodist
Episcopal church South in 1872. arc two
non of the Jones family TO win fame in the
religious world.
John Winter Jones. librarian Of the Brit
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SUCCESS IN OTHER STATES.

or Socialist success elsewhere, the near
est TO New York was the election % 'wo
Councilmen in Elizabeth, y. j., and gen
eral doubling of last years vote zen
cities I'm Ohio. five I'm Utah and one i'm Penn
svlvania have Yielded to the MARKHAM call.
workers. unite, You have nothing to
lose but your chains; YOU have world 10
cain " The State Of Mississippi. suppos II
" indifferent. like all the Southern states,
10 the creed of collectivism almost put thc
Socialist candidate. James X. LesteH, IN
the Lieutenant Governors chair. Rhode
Island the smallest state OF the nion'
elected its first Socialist member OF the
General Assembly. Or. j. j. Reid. OtiA =
victory was chiefly in mining towns, VI re
the Western Federation OF Miners Is
strong two good sized Ohio cities
Lima and Canton. the latter the home
NJ NcI<inley-put I'm Socialist Mayors, and
there were eight lesser cities that did he
same Columbus elected four Socialist
councilmen,
In PENNSYLVANIA Reading was lost 10y a
narrow margin and New Castle was
eaptured by the reds I'm the latter city
free speech fight has been waeing. ana
Socialist editors OF the local Free Press
weekly have been sent TO Jail. Socialist
Mayor Tyler OF New Castle is railroad
brakeman. Reading added five councilmen
to it's last years record OF socialist mem
Der OF the Legisla ture.
The red" vote of greater New YORK Is estl-
mated at 5000. against about 1900 last year.
This rate of increase Is far behind that OF
the remainder OF the country and does not
satisfy the Socialists. 4 number of eX-
plantations are given for the comparative
backwardness OF the big centres in accept
ing the doctrines which theoretically make
the greatest appeal to masscd and regi-
mented tolers. The chief Socialist writers
and orators live and agitate in big cities.
Plenty OF propaganda work Is done There
are street meetings. lectures. daily news
papers I'm several languages. New York has
three Socialist dailies--"Tho call" For
ward" and the ''Nolkszeitung.
One OF the most important OF recent con-
tests in which the Socialists have scored Il
preliminary victory is that at Los Angeles
At the primaries job Hartman had about
10000 votes OF toward 1900 above his near
est competitor Alexander. fusion candi-
date. Since then thousands of newly en-
franchlsed women have registered and will
take a hand i'm the final voting on Deem
her s. The Socialists declare that they will
set the support OF the majority OF the
women. whom they have been busily en-
loling II is said that the women who
would support the fusion candidate are not
as anxious to vote as the wives. daughters
and sweethesrts vi the working class men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
AN EXCLUSIVE POOR FARM

Providence, Rhode Island. enjoys the use
OF the most valuable poor farm owned by
any municipality In the world. all because
Ebenezer knight Dexter I'm 1924 made be-
quest leaving a big, stone strcwn meadow
and several parcels OF land Tor that pur-
pc Sc. To-day the property Is valued at no
less than 100000, and is in the centre OF
one Ct the most fashionable residence dis
tricts OF Providence. But while this II a
poor farm II Is very exclusive one 70
say the least BY the terms OF a very rigid
and iron clad viii. none can be- admitted
or assisted except those who once owned
ana paid taxes upon real estate in Prov,
dence or whose father or mother was rear
estate taxpayer In that city. No other
Rhode Islanders and no person from any
other part OF the United States or from
any foreign country may knock at the poi
tai To obtain admittance and secure shelter
and food
The Dexter Asylum is more than sell
supporting With limited Attendance 50
TO speak, IL is said that the interest on ~
Nestment or income is enough to furnis'
every inmate a trip To Europe each winter,
with accommodations at the best summer
hotels In the summer. During tue mar"
times In Providence, when there was q
great need OF work for poor people, an on
clause In the Dexter will providlng loI =
stone wall built around the place Was tahc'
advantage of and many poor people Weit
given work National Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
Is Common
Glorious History
Many a Proper Name
and We

ish Museum Library from 1856 10 1915, n
man of Welsh descent: Owen Jones, an
English architect. born in 1909. whose spe-
cialty was interior decorating; John Per-
cival Jones born in 1880, the we'll known
Senator from Nevada. who made his big
fortune in mining: Henry Arthur Jones
born in 1851. the successful English play
wright: lingo Jones famous English archi-
ect. born in 1873. who planned the Palace
of Whitehall and executed part OF IL; John
Jones. born in 1929, who was George WASH
inetons family physician for time IN
Philadelphia and who attended Benjamin
Franklin in his last Illness; Alfred Gilpin
Jones, Canadian statesman. BORN in IVA
who favored close commercial relations be-
tween his country and the United states;
Arson Jones who began life as physician
and became President OF the Republic OF
Texas in 1874; and Alexander Jones, born
in 1902. an American inventor. who also
began his active career as a physician, who
invented an improved cotton gin, among
other things. and who devised the first code
of ciphers used by The Associated Press
all had careers that lend distinction TO the
good old name of Jones.
Copyright. 1911, by the Associated Literary
pTessD
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
HERO OF MANY SEA FIGHTS.


Jones was thrty-two at the time OF this
fight. He had been on the sea much Of the
time since he was twelve. when he was APP
prenticed 10 an English merchant who
traded with America, He had lived much
i'm the New World. and at the time of his
great fight of Marlborough he had al
ready won great fame with the colonists;
on enc cruise TO the West Indies he had
taken sixteen prizes in forty-seyen days;
on another cruise he commanded the Ran
ger, the boat over which the Stars and
Stripes are said TO have 1oated for the first
time.
John Paul Jones was not the only mem
her Of the Jones family TO gain high
place in the military history OF the United
States.
Jacob Jones. born in 1858, an American
naval officer. began life as physician, but
gave up his practice 10 become clerk OF
the Supreme Court of Delaware. In 1893
he entered the United States navy as a
midshipman. and in 1903 was captured with
the Philadelphia in the war with the Bar
barry pirates Jones was kept imprisoned
for a year and hale After his release he
rose steadily, and in 1910 was made com
mander
In the war Of 1912 Jones saw more active
service on October IS. 1912, bis vessel,
the eighteen-gun sloop Of war Wasp, capt
ured the eighteen-gun British sloop Frolic
after a hard struggle. He had just finished
transferring the prisoners from the Frolic
10 his own vessel when the big British
seventy-four gun Poictiers appeared. and
captured both the Frolic and the Wasp.
In spite Of the unfortunate end TO Jones s
undertaking he was looked upon as ma
tional hero He received vote Of thanks
and a gold medal from Congress and $4,000
In prize money for the crew OF the Wasp.
Thomas Catesby Jones is another Ameri-
can naval officer who helped the military
standing Of the family. He was born in
Virginia in 1887 and entered the navy in
1906. He was sent TO the Gulf Of Mexico
70 suppress pirates. smuggling and the slave
trade, and his experiences there strength
ened his resourcefulness. In 1912 he en-
tered service against the British and won
fame when he tried TO keep some British
vessels from crossing Lake Borgne, an in
let OF the Gulf Of Mexico. But in spite OF
his gallant effort his boats were captured
and Jones himself was severely wounded.
David Phillips Jones, born in lSl an
American naval engineer who served in the
Union army In the operations OF James
River. Virginia, and ST. Johns River, Flor
ida. and who took part in the battle OF
Bermuda Hundred, and Charles Colcock
Jones, born in 1881, who served in the Con-
federate army as a lieutenant colonel of
artillery under General Joseph E. Johnston,
are two men who made the name Jones
stand for bravery and loyalty TO the cause
they believed in in the Civil War
Although there has been no very great
man named Jones in the literary world.
this family is we'll represented by lesser
writer's. One OF the most interesting OF
. them is Edward Jones, whose works on
music and many publications on the sub
joct Of Welsh minstrelsy are both valuable
and entertaining
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
A DYNASTY OVERTHROW
OnIy That Will Awaken China.
Say the Chinese. -
DECAY UNDER MANCHU RULE
Revolt, They Say, Is Only De.
mand for Education and
Modern Progress.

Writing upon the subject. why the
Chinese Revolt" Edward Nlsworth Ross
saws in THE Independent:
..In gorgeous native restaurant in
Picking sat Al meat with FIVE mon. and
four languages were needed for commune
cation. The one white man was born In
China. the son OF missionary. The rest
were foreign educated Chinese, retained In
government service as experts. One was
Berlin PHI D.. another a Cornell doctor
of philosophy. third came from the Ini-
versity Of London and had spent two
years in the British postofiice. The fourth
was an A. VI. OF the Antwerp School of
Commerce licentiate OF the University OF
Paris. and had served two years In the
Ranoue de France. They had been In gov
eminent service for from two to sir
months.
How do you Ike IT,? asked
"They threw up their hands in despair.
They were patriotic. eager TO apply their
hard won knowledge to their counirys
need. but all had found that the Manchn
blocks the way What is the use said
one. OF my studying the gathering OF sta-
tistics in the various countries and report
ing a plan for the coming imperial census,
when nv chief IS an ignorant Mancbu. who
Will light his fire with IL?
How can I put any heart into working
out reform for the postofiice' said the
London man. after ! realize that my
recommendations are not even read
I'VE now see. said another. disguised
". that the government gives us posts and
salaries in order TO keep US educated men
under surveillance here at Pekins. where
we can't reach or influence the people. Re-
form is all for show. and the one absorb
ing thought of our rulers f. to keep their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

business mcn many OF whom believed IN
Lunn. IL not In socialism. This was IN
dicated by the fact that he ran about
1000 votes ahead Of his ticket.
Is Dr. Lunn rcformer. parior Social
list or Christian Socialist? Here Is what
nc said when he learned that he had been
elected;
THE Socialist Mayor Of Schenectady Is
no dilettante. milk water. parioF 90
cialisi He is not rosewater revolution
list am a Socialist of the revolutionary
ORDER without the r: ! am OF the uncom-
promising school OF Karl Marx. am )ust
as radical as Eugene V. Debs, Just as
much opposed 10 the existing Industrial
order Moreover. I consider Debs a great
preacher poet. orator-one worthy 10 ne
classed with Lincoln himself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
Z BIG TEXAS DAM.

Voters OF Austin. Tex, have decided N
favor of the proposition OF William H..
Johnson for the building OF great dam
10 take the place Of the one destroyed IN
the flood of 1860. The dam will be s. feet
nigh. and viii form a iaKe twenty-seven
miles long through q beautiful stretch Of
country The dam Is 10 he equipped TO pro-
duce 100 horsepower. which is TO be the
cltys exclusively. and minimum of 5000
horsepower hours month is guaranteed
a dam Of 1O0O0.tO0 Cauacitv H. also to nc
built This impror ement will mean reduced
rates for water and light. and Is expected
10 induce the movement of number az
factories 10 n oue nms c9st 10 nc dtf
psid when the work has been accepted hy
ty-hye years. Manufacturers Record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

Mayor Wilson Of Berkeley. Cal, passed
from the pulpit to Socialist office some
months ago.
pr Lunn Is under thrty-eight. Of slen-
der build and iron gray hair He is an
orator. politician and an indefatigable
worker. lie mas wife and five children.
He was born i'm LenoX. Iowa. At the age
of twelve he started cut 10 seek his fort
.une and went to Omaha. He reached that
city after spending his last nickel lie
got work as a driver of delivery wagon.
After while he decided to study for the
ministry. and with IS in his pocket began
his studies i'm Bellevue College. Nebraska.
While in college he preached in small
churches and managed TO pay his way
through. lie spent one year at Princeton,
and then enlisted az a volunteer in the
Spanish War regiment commanded by
William Jennings Bryan. After his dis
charge lie. entered Princeton. but was
taken sick. and when he recovered he en-
tered Union Theological Seminary. DR..
I.unns first important pastorate was
i'm tho Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
church. in Brooklyn. His former parish
toner's speak highly of him to-day. lie
remained .Free years in Brooklyn ana
then went TO Schenectady and became pas
tor of the aristocratic Dutch Reformed
Church.
Here the future Mayor so stirred up
things by attacks on local vice and cor
ruption that he was forced 10 resign.
Then he started a Peoples Church in
an opera house and advocated the Social
ist remedy for all evils. DR.. Lunn con-
tinued his vice crusade and exposed UNI
equal taxation. The local newspapers put
Il ban on him and he started weekly
paper of his own. This was a year ago.
lie added the First Congregational Church
to his Peoples Church. He developed a
great personal following. even among
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
THE TARTAR GARRISONS

when the ManchU Tartars oycrpowered
China. they placed Tartar garriSons M the
chief cities. These 'banLermen, Twins.
privileged caste, i'm their own walled quar-
tor. and led by government rice have vege-
tatcd and multiplied for generations. tsu-
ally the Tartar quarter is dismal picture
Of tumbIing walls decay Incidence AMI
souaIor. on the big drill grounds YOU see
the rlIpvavS along which the horseman
g?liops and shoots arrows al target while
the Tartar military mandarns look on.
These lazy banncrmen were tried out in the
now army. but proved habby and good-for-
nothing; they would break down on TWEEN
ty-mlle march. Fattening on their heredi-
tary pensions. they have given themselves
up to sloth and vice and their Door chest
development small. weak muscles aud d.
mnishine families foreshadow the early
dying out Of the stock.
II talked with an eminent Chinese dlplo-
mat known I'm two hemispheres who Was
en- route to Pel<ins TO sit on a government
board. 4 don't suppose | shall be able TO
accomplish anything. he said. The men
who make the present government Of emma
are Incapable and selfish. and their sole
policy is to keep their lucrative places.
II was tifiining at the Aston House At
Shanghai with two old American diplomats
who had known China for decades. Do
YOU realize, said one. that China has long
been on the down grade? Marco Polo. II
he traversed the empire to-day. wouldn |
begin to find the beauty he found in il six
centuries age It's no use trying TO do
anything with the present dynasty. The
Manchus are Intellectually and morally e.
fete hence incapable OF providing an cth-
ccnt government. The Chinese have All
the brains. The country needs new dy-
nasty. for only DISCRIMINATION. and that
soon. can save China from partition yes
agreed the other nothing can be done III
they get new dynasty.
"'All my best students said the prcsi-
den, OF an American mission college. are
i'm these secret snt,-dynaStic societies that
ramify all South China; the finest minds.
the noblest spirits. But the selfish. cacu-
latng fellows steer clear of conspiracy. tor
they cast I'm their lot with the powers that
be and are on the lookout for government
iobs A"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

with S0.00O population. \ Mayor and
eight out of thirteen councilmen were
elected. The first Socialist Assemblyman
i'm this state was also elected from that
city The Rev. Dr George II. Lunn who
heads the Socialist administration or
Schenectady. is not the first clergyman TO
he elected on revolutionary platform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
Those Whose Family Cogno
men Is Jones Will Find
Many Reasons Here
for Pride in 1t.

The man who brought the Jones family
its greatest fame was not really named
Jones AT all. He was naihed John Paul.
and why he adopted the name Jones will
probablS always remain mystery. Blu,
soon after his arrival in Virginia as
young man he began to call himself John
Paul Jones. and the world has followed his
example
The fight that made him famous took
place on September %, l7Is, by the light
Of the bright harvest moon on the still
waters of the North Sea
At nightfall Of that day Jones. command
INK the ship Bonhomrne Richard. q eift
from France to the American patriots, and
feet OF five vessels. fell in with forty
one British merchantmen. under the pro-
lection of two powerful men-ofwar just
OF Marlborough Head
one OF them. the SerapiS. at once en-
gagged ia a desperate fight with the Bon
homme Richard For time the Bon
homme Richard seemed To he getting the
worst OF a. and the master gunner OF the
ship. thinking that both Jones and his
lieutenant had been killed. ran panic
stricken to lower the flag i'm sign of sur
render. but the flagstaff and flag had both
been shot away. and all the gunner could
do was 10 call out to the British com
mander that he would give mp
Jones. very much alive, came TO the res
cue declared that he would never surren-
der and the fight went on. The bowsprit
OF the Scraps had been thrust suddenly al
most upon the decks of the Bonhomme
Richard. and Jones with his Own hands
had dashed the two boats together, so the
hghting was at close range and told on the
British as well as on the Americans. Final
ly. when most Of the sailors and men were
killed the commander of the Scraps
struck his colors. II was II o'clock at
night, and the fight had been waging for
almost four hours. The BonhCmme Rich
ard was 50 badly damaged that she sank
two days later. and the victorious Jones
was forced 10 transfer his remaining sal
ors TO his prize the Scraps But in those
four hours Jones had made himself not
only one of the most picturesque figures Of
the American Revolution. but to this day
the most widely known man OF his name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
FORCED TO ABSURD ACTS

THE head of a provincial college. a ripe
scholar, a Han-ln man, i'm fact told me
he could hardly endure his position How
can | keep my self-respect he broke out
when constantly the Boa"d Of Education
at Picking forces me 20 do foolish things?
Here is an applicant thirty years old who
passes brilliant entrance examination;
but Picking won't let me admit him 10 my
college because. forsooth. he IS not
graduate Of a middle school.
THE Manchus are not a cultured people.
mark tou. and when they climbed into The
saddle of empire about the time Of Crom-
well. they were on a level with the Afghans
Of to-day They are 10 the Chinese what
tho Goths were 90 the Romans. and
Manchu directing the new education ~
Chira is as out Of place az Goth presiding
over the schools OF Athens In the fourth
century. II is the brilliant Chinese. not IN
Manchus. who travel and study abroa J.
Yet when they return they are baked by
the huge pervasive Msnchu machine.
"Sometimes high Manchu officials arc to-
tally illiterate. and ! hoard Of one Manchp
literary chancellor who could not even
read the examination ESSAYS submitted ior
provincial donors. So he pied them on io'
Of his led canopy. poked them with mt
cane as ne lay smoking. and the thirteen
that slid off first were declared winners.
In tho Board Of War at Pekins are 'IN
hundred employees. hut fifty do all the ~oik.
Tho rest are Manchus who sit in a chair'
suck the piDo and watch the CLOCK.
zone of the directors OF the Shanghai
Hangchow Railway purely Chinese Inc
told ne their chief trouble in building i"'
road was the harassing Inspections which
Obliged them to bride the officials In order
10 go on with the work. Moreover. PeklnG
forced upon the company large, unnceded'
foreign loan which would have been eN-
pendad by government men without the
stockholders knowing how much stuck 10
the fingers Of the officials. So instead oil
using the money for building the road. the
company loaned it out in small amounts AZ
a high interest and will repay II as soon
&c tho terms of the loan permit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
rRpoLl plsANILEp COMMANDMENT FROM The Italian FILE

while the battleshp moves slowly on, all
her guns keep their ruzzles rigldly d.
rected toward a point on the coast
The cease fire sounds is the sun
sets" Later on he writes: "The Turks
have left in the forts enormous quaint
ties of ammunition, but they have car
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

GUN IN A TURKISH FORT AT I
Describing the bombardment Of IripolI,
which he saw from the Garibaldi, Sienor
Luigi Bsrzini. writing in The Daily
Telegraph" said every ship is muir
derous machine, regular and exact. ::
On the platform the gun layers regard
their target through telescopes, and