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them better than men. California is still
pioneer state, and the women nave
performed noble work In the upouilo-
ing Of the commonwealth. They are re-
sponsible women and realize what vote
means-that Is. the women with Wnohl
have been identified are Of this type,
and I think it holds generally through
out the state. OF course, they are III
husband and myself much amusement
prior to the election to hear our daugh-
ters and our sons wives talking ABOUT
the procedure. One Of my daughters,
Mrs Darling, was in charge OF her pre-
cinct and for weeks we heard about her
lieutenants and her plan to preserve or
der and to prevent any sort - rs"n "''la-
ton. II wa an odd theme In our home,
where politics have never Played a con-
spicuous role We were both proud that
Mrs. Darling performed her part SO well
and proved such an able leader that
some Of the seasoned Old campaigners
have since asked her aid and even en-
deavored to put the bee for public ONCE
many parents of the older generation
have felt the same pride when their
handsome home-loving children have
suddenly shown high talent Tor ponies
and have opened new view Tor the men
in charge. I have the highest hopes that
the men occupied with other cares VIII
find the women able coadjutors In at
tending to home affairs In the sense OF
framing laws and shaping politics Tor the
betterment Of the home. the city and the
commonwealth"
Senator and Mrs. Works are enjoying a
visit from their youngest child. the only
Californian in their group Of six, Mrs.
Isabel Burritt Of Los Angeles. and her
pretty little three-year-old daughter. Mrs.
Burritt is a widow and will probably
spend the greater part Of the winter
here, In honor of the little girl. the
Works apartment at the Kenesaw he's
been quite gay since the holidays, ana
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o;Ir God with our whole mind but also
TO love our neighbor as ourselves. and to
endeavor 10 heal him physically as well
as spiritually. and then to teach him how
to heal himself soul mind and body and
TO heep himself healed.
:.
Il have come to Washington a, an age
when social pleasures appeal less than they
would some twenty-five years ago. but
nothing interests me more than meeting
strangers and. as it were. broadening my
horizon. / have already fo&nd many SYM
pathetic friends and congenial acquaint-
ances and | look forward TO knowing
Washington people with keen pleasure.
Il am fond of reading, but Of late
years have confined my efforts to serious
books on religion and philosophy. which
l find more helpful. / still like senti-
had a considerable element Of both In
my own life. / am a native of the small
town OF Vevay on the Ohio river. where
IL skirts southern Indiana, and about
half way between Cincinnati and Louis
vile. My father. John w. Banta, was
an ardent supporter of the Union. and
my eldest brothers went to the war in
their tender years. The oldest. Henry,
became a captain of cavalry and saw
hard service throughout those terrible
years. He had spent three years on the
field and then made visit home He
had not seen me during all this time and
/ had budded forth from twelve to fifteen
into quite young lady, and he was very
proud of me. Charlotte Cushman was
playing in Indianapolis and my brother
invited me 10 attend one OF the perform
ances. At the theater that eveNing my
husband. then poor ailing boy just
home from the army on sick leave, was
present. We were not presented. but we
noticed each other and we still talk over
that wonderful play and 1t is our most
precious memory.
Some weeks later John Works came
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else. Here the republic, whatever may
become Of the outlying provinces which
are drifting away from a weakened or
uncongenial control. will survive for many
years il not forever: SO if the English are
acting selfishly. it seems strange that
they should by blocking the financial AID
which Picking wants help the only group
of men in China who are determined ana
are probably able to resist further dis
memberment by any of the predatory
powers.
OF course. today with so many thousand
foreign troups encamped on Chinese soil
or defending foreign concessions i'm China,
the old project of partition is revived and
may at any moment assume practical
shape.
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The worst feature of the new situation
apparently is that the day may come
when. looking at the Chinese question
selfishly. and the western world has~never
looked at 1t unselfshly. we may see that
there are worse things in sight than the
probable results of ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
the long-l:ved empire. and when that day
comes the legendary kingdom of the great
khan will have ceased to exist.
The day may be very near when the
division Of an aroused and militant China
among the predatory powers will be ac-
cepted as the least disagreeable and the
least dangerous horn of the dilemma.
That may appear to be so when the
western world takes short views of the
Chinese question. and when has the west
ever taken long views in dealing with
China?
OF course, the situation greatly resem-
bles that of the far east in 1900 after the
overthrow of the Boxers when north
China was in the uncertain hands of the
allies. Looked at in certain angles. how
ever the dancer of a partition of China
and the danger of a world war over the
spoils is much greater now than then.
Then, when the Boxers We're chastised
and vanished like a late snow in the
April sun, there was fairly efficient
government left in China with which the
western world could do and did do bust
ness.
Such is not the case today. Today there
are provinces which the Manchus control,
and there are provinces where the repub-
licans have installed a makeshift admin
istration, but probably half of China is
without any government at all, and un-
deniabIy the waves OF anarchy and dis
order are rising. In 1900 the United
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STA are concerned. and. of course. they
are very heavily concerned. the fate OF
north China is settled. and the settle
ment would seem to contemplate neither
a republic nor monarchy, or even an
'open door, and. of course. in fact. that
Russia draw Japan out OF kwantung IN
1895, when the Russian fleet, which in
their unsophisticated days the japanese
thought was so formidable. cleared for
action to enforce invitation of the ST
Petersburg editors all the more piquant
and all the more dangerous for China
The deadlock between the rival fac
tions at civil war in China, so danger
Gus to the peace of the world and so
disturbing to the plans of the powers
who would save China from dismem-
berment, is due. of course. to a want of
money and a dearth of credit in both
the revolutionary and the Manchu
camps.
To push a revolution or to defend a
throne is but form of making war.
and war requires money and money.
many times money. Sun Vat Sen
may be, as the cables announce. pre-
pairing to march to the northern cap
ital with one hundred thousand men, or
with one million. there is slight dis
crepancy in the figures but at this in
element season of the year he will not
be able to penetrate very far into
north China by sea or land without
raising a loan. and the Manchus may
be, under or without Russian inspira-
ton and support preparing to defend
Peking to the last ditch, but their de-
Tense will not be effective without am
munition, and ammunition cannot be
had without a loan.
X X
Now WI Ting-fang, who knows the
ways of the banking world, In his ca
pacity as foreign secretary Of the pro-
visional republic, has served due notice
upon the money-lending powers that
the new republic would not recognize
loans made to the Manchus in this
their time of desperate need. The flow
of funds to the revolutionary treasure
chest also seems to be dWindling.
The surprising results which the rev.
olution has already achieved were
made possible by the contributions of
overseas Cinnamon, especially Of those
living in the Malay Peninsula, the
Straits Settlements. in Siam and in
Java. where they have attained con-
siderable influence and a warm appre-
citation Of businesslike methods OF
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coils. the powers agreed to take renewed
possession of the road to the sea at the
first sign of danger, the proportion or
troops TO be required of each of the allies
was agreed upon, and. further and most
important of all, the Chinese government
was forced to acquieSce in advance TO
our Intervention and to the humiliating
fact that we were to be the sole judges
as to when it was necessary The be-
ginning of Intervention was never made
more smooth or more easy. but the diff
culties of when and how and why to
terminate an armed intervention remain
as difficult as they were ten years ago,
as thorny as they always have been and
probably always will be.
Deny it as the sophists and the word
spinners may. the presence of our SOL
diers in China spells intervention-armed
Intervention How far we may go, how
far we may be forced to go. or how far
we may be drawn into the tangle no one
unacquainted with the course of future
events can say now. Intervention is al
ways jump into the darkness, and no
one can tell where We shall land. Lit
tie by little, the thing has gone on, the
legation guards have been strengthened
foreign soldiers have been brought into
the foreign concessions all along the
China coast, until their quota nearly
equals the number concentrated In the
Boxer year.
AS the foreign situation is far from
clear, the internal situation is very far
from improving. All the golden bridges
which have been built to bring about
an agreement even of a temporary char
acter between the contending parties
have fallen to the ground under their
own dead weight The Manchus do not
let go and the republicans do not take
hold, brigandage is rife, and the basic
feeling which animates all Chinese
being anti-foreign. and not unnaturally
So we should feel justified at this juno
ture in sending troops to defend the
threatened lines of our people, even if We
were not bound by treaty 10 act jointly
and in combination with the other pow
ers whose purposes are like our own. up
to certain point. which is yet to be
determined.
Here, indeed, is the difficulty. That
certain point is undetermined. conse-
quently as TO location and character It
is most uncertain. The dangers of the
joint occupation of north China and or
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After he had decanted miniature
removed his Collar and cautiously
picked up from the Floor his Stick-Pin
and the Watch and the Remnant of the
Check cashed at pm. he felt his
way over to the Window and denounced
in unmeasured Terms an English Spar
row that had perched on the Sill, merely
to annoy him.
In little while he remembered that
he was Resident of the Planet known
as Earth. Soon after that his Name
came back to him and then he recalled
his Boyhood and the Fact that when he
passed the Parsonage the Presbyterian
Minister would ask him to pick some of
the Lilacs and Snowballs and take them
home to his Sister Alice.
< x
From that Point he groped through
his Life History up to the Twilight on
which the Regulars had arranged
Send-OH for OLD Buck, who was pulling
out for Seattle. In order to help Buck
to remember them as True Friends.
they had covertly planned to get him
Stewed to the Eye-Balls and then ship
him on to his new Home spread out in
Stateroom B, with long-stemmed Roses
laid across the Remains. This form Of
homicidal Gayety is perpetrated under
the name Of American Hospitality.
Our Hero remembered the polite Get
away on the Low Speed with everybody
Respectable, after which the Fountains
started to gush and Walters began to
come up out Of the ground bearing
Fairy Gifts of Liquid Variety. Some
what later in the Evening he found
himself balanced ON one Toe on a
swiftly-moving Cloud, announcing to the
Stars of Night that he was True Sport.
!. :.
In other words, he realized. as he sat
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government so lacking at home. But
for the moment the revolutionary
treasury is empty also.
Like all amateurs, the revolutionists
probably underestimate the cost of the
campaign they entered upon with such
light-hearted optimism. The astounding
successes they have achieved, Of course.
invite further contributions. They will
without doubt be forthcoming but in the
meantime. valuable, indeed from the
revolutionary standpoint. invaluable mo-
ments are slipping away.
On the other hand. the Manchus who
have money seem disinclined to hazard
the clan treasure in uncertain military
operations. They are acting with the
caution and timidity not unnatural to a
privileged class who, having drawn pen
sions for 800 years. suddenly find very
formidable influences at work to stop
further payments. OF course, we In
America. where pensions never stop, but
always grow, cannot visualize this situa-
ton.
The question is, should they-the Man
chus-hazard their savings to obtain a
continuance of pensions, or should they
let their pensions go. if they must. and
content themselves with living more mod
estly on the amassed loot of three cen.
not unnatural, is most disgusting to Yuan
shi Kai. who would now seem to have
burnt bridges by which until recently he
retained safe passageway back into
the camp of the militant republicans.
The Manchus are practical men ant
they recognize that their interests are UNI
alterably different from those OF theil
premier, who is also, or rather who would
be, master Of the situation. The Man
chus would doubtless be willing to ven
ture their capital If success meant re-
turn to the old ways OF doing business
when one-third Of the world with all its
activities paid tribute to the drones in the
Chinese hive. but if the old system is gone
beyond recall, and Yuan Shi Kai seems as
decided and determined about this as DR.
Sun Vat Sen. why should We. argue the
astute clansmen, leave our capital in the
business stall.
So today. as in every other crisis of re.
cent Chinese history. all interest centers
upon the making or not making Of loan
and the attitude Of England. which Is gen.
orally interpreted as opposing English OF
any other money going into the Manchu
treasury. is severely criticised. whether
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from the adjoining county to Vevay and
entered the high school, where l had been
a pupil for some time. l can recall the
morning he entered the schoolroom as
wildly as the things which happened.
He wore a short pea jacket then the
proper regalia, with his army uniform
to complete his costume, and he looked
so tired and i'll that the instant l saw
him was irresistibly attracted. That
feeling OF compassion changed with a
deep and abiding love and remains the
sustaining part of my life. We studied
together at the high school and l gradu-
ated and taught school while my husband
studied law. We were married just as
soon as seemed consistent after his law
o'actice had began to grow, and very
S.uly can l add the favorite ending of
the story book, we have lived happy
forever after.
California now seems so much my homo
that Vevay life looks far back in the
past But Indiana is much beloved still,
and my brother, who took me on that
eventful jaunt to see Charlotte Cush-
man, still resides there. He has reach
ed the venerable age of seyenty-three,
for the men who We're captains in the
civil war are no longer in their prime.
He lives at Hanover near Madison, and
my children and grandchildren have fire.
quently been his guests.
I'VE have been making history out on
the Pacific coast in recent years, par
ticuiarly history which relates to the
sex. the amazing sex, as l believe we
are popular.y described by publicists |
have never felt the least desire to share
the responsibility of man in directing
public affairs, but then my life has been
sheltered and happy, and, having a
splendid husband and good sons and
sons-in-law. there has never been the
shadow Of an excuse for me to consider
the problem. But now that the vote has
been given to women, and the men OF
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at the Building and wonder if the Town
had always been as Quiet as at Present.
After he had stuck for a Fortnight
the desperate ENJOYS from the Indian
held it in front Of him and splashed
it on his Clothes and begged him to
step aboard with them and go right up
to the 18th Floor.
Probably IL they had let him alone he
would have come sneaking back into the
Reservation to watch the red Whirli-
gigs and pick a few of those Night
Blooming Martins, but when they tried
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BY MARGARET b. DowSI>o.

HAT a man OF such
characteristics as
j o h n d o W n @ y
Works. now sena-
tor from the golden
state, should have
chosen an uncorn-
mon type of woman
for his wife seems
d logical sequence.
Mrs. Works is of
broad gauge and
unusual, because
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He sat back and pulled the Grim Smile
which Savanarola wore when they piled
the Fagots around him. He was .
Martyr and proud Of his Job. BY the
same Token, there is no Brand of Rec
titude that grades SO pure and spotless
as that exhibited by the disinfected
Dove who has not touched Drop for
nearly "a hours
They saw him go home with a Maya
zine under his Arm and then they sat
around until all Hours, tapping It up
and progging his Finish. They said he
never would last a Week. and when he
Fell it would be Some Splash.
They began to issue daily Bulletins
and watched the Case with much Anx-
iety. because they really liked the Old
Scout in spite Of his Eccentricities.
When they learned, at the End Of a
Week, that he had played Buttermilk to
a Standstill all up and down the Quick
Lunch Circuit and was at his Desk
every Morning with his Face clean and
a Flower in his Coat, they called
Meeting of the vigilantes and decided
that the Joke had been carried far
enough.
In the meantime Our Hero had
learned two new kinds Of Solitaire and
began to call around for a Dish Of Tea
with some distant Female Relatives who
had long supposed him Dead. Along
ABOUT the Cocktail Hour he would find
himself sitting first in one Chair and
then in another. but he Cashed big
every Morning when he awoke and
found that Henry Katzenjammer was
not sitting on the Foot-Board making
Faces at him.
Only sometimes he would stop on a
Corner and look all about him and up
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to Stampede him the old New England
Stock asserted itself, so he substituted
Rivets for Straps
He is now the honored Associate of
those who play cribbage i'm their own
Homes and eat Apples before turning in.
But if you want to get Line on his
Real Character just ask the Wet Broth
ers. They will tell you that he wasn't
there with the Strength of Character so
he simply sank out of sight
Moral: The Way of the Ex-Trans-
gressor is Hard.
Copyright 1872 by George Ade.l
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bumped over in the Morris Chair, hold
off and roll across the Floor, that he
had been Snooted for Fair, Plastered,
Ossified, Benzoated Piped, Picked. Spit
flicated. Corned, Raddled Obfuscated,
soused and Ory-Eyed.
Six hours before he had stood on a
Table and declared for the Brotherhood
of Man, and now he crayed but one
Companion, and that was old Colonel r.
E. Morse.
Standing over in the Sunlight by the
Window, where he could see the Shop
Girls going blithely to their Sc a week.
he lifted the trembling Right Mitt clear
above his Head, and then and there de-
clared himself to be on the Cart until
the great Celestial Bodies should skid
in their Orbits and the Globe itself
dissolve into vapor.
Just as he pronounced the Words.
NeN-Eh-A -Seu he IeiI a great tOOu
of worthy Resolutions arising in his
new Moral Nature. He would buy a
Winchester Automatic and devote the
remainder of his wasted Life to shoot
ing up Barkeeps. And when he died the
whole Estate would go to the W. c.
r. u.
Just after he had double strapped
himself to the Wagon and started up
Settler Avenue he realized that an Inn
mediate Absinthe Frappe would be
worth $4,000 to him. but instead of or
dering one he resolved to write Doc
Wiley Letter advising him that while
he was putting his Nixey Mark on that
Green Magoo he should include all other
Colors bestowed upon the Essence Of
Tribulation.
That afternoon the Survivors of the
Midnight Massacre got together at
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HERE is I e q | ] v
nothing sensation
al a b out the
Chinese situation.
1t develops and
"A d V a n c e S with
the sober gait of
a glacier. Every
move is rumored
weeks and even
months before it
is realized. but in
the end 1t is al
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my family freely voted to grant them
this privilege. shall faithfully perform
my part. / registered. but I came to
Washington before l could cast my vote,
and now really regret that l did not re-
main until after the election. 1t was
an epoch in California history, and
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: SIZES S5GR&F59fAB LESBSkANGG H8121S :
THE FABLE OF THE LONESOME RIDE ON
THE SPRINKLER 1.-THE HON
ORED ASSOCIATE.

Club to compare Hang-Overs and find
out what had happened after the Roof
fell in.
Our Hero appeared just as the Boy
He was greeted with ribald Shout and
told to come running and Save Himself.
The Moment had arrived for him to
be a Man. Surrounded by Ice and
Squirters and Mixing Spoons and Orange
Peel and Jiggers and Jaggers, he drew
himself together and made the An
nouncement.
For a Moment they were stunned by
the Impact and then every Son Of Peo-
ria leaned back and let out a YowI. To
think that a real up-to-date Fellow
would pull any of that Old Stuff! A
puny Mortal trying to get Toe-Hold on
the Demon,
They told him to forget it and quit
his Spoofing and remove his Overshoes
and ease a couple of ellis into his
I1cSSIsOI dHu W Uc d oClA6,
however painful the Effort.
He came back with q few Gems from
the Family Medicine Book about the
Effect of the Accused Stuff on various
Organs. He did not propose to feed
himself anything that would cut the
varnish Off OF Wood Work The Hard
Stun had passed out Of his Life.
The Cackles died away and were sue
ceeded by looks Of Blank Dismay. They
saw that one whom they had long re-
garded as a reliable Woodworking
Union Lush had turned in his Card and
deliberately made himself an Outcast
They saw him order vichy and go to
it as il it were Beverage, and then
they tore up his Credentials and burned
his Photograph and told him to go out
into the snowy Streets and find a new
Home.
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NE pleasant morn
ing the Chief of
the Society for
Promoting the Inn
p or t a ii ion of
Scotch Merchan-
disc awoke after
a Balloon Voyage
which began Six
Feet below Sea
Level in a Rath-
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MRS. JOHN DOwNEY WORKS.
think it will be the beginning OF an era
OF unexampled prosperity and improve
ment.
Il do not expect the millennium be-
cause women vote but I do expect that
they WILL take many things in hand and
do them better, because they understand