The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-02-08

ton of this city, concerning the revolu
with:
SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 7, 1912
Dear Mrs. Hutton: We are now hav
ing vacation and have had one since
December 80, since the Chinese have
adopted the foreign calendar beginning
this New Years and therefore we are
celebrating our New Years holidays
| School will not reopen till March frs
or a little later SO that we have lots
of time on our hands. | am planning
to go over to Japan for a month with
Rosenberg, starting this next week and
doing a walking stunt through unfa-
miliar parts of the southern islands OF
Kyusha and Shikoku.
The college has dismissed all of it's
Chinese teachers with a few exceptions
and is paying the foreign instructors
month by month, without contracts, ex-
cept in my case. We are being paid
in all kinds of money. One month l
was paid in the new Dragon" dollars
of the now practically defunct Manchu
government. They are a handsome
coin, but the foreign banks discounted
them 10 per cent so we had quite a
time getting rid of them in the stores,
through the exchange shops, etc. The
next month l was paid in tael notes
of the Imperial Bank of China, another
bank whose notes were not received,
though they are again, now This past
month l was paid in notes of the
Republican China Military Govern
ment;" for wonder the foreign banks
are receiving them at par. Still they
always wait until exchange is at the
very lowest before they pay us so that
we have to figure to get our salary
out of the dollars paid. This month
they figured at 80 so that my 300 taels
only brought 1915 in military notes.
However, exchange went up to 81 the
day after SO that this time | did not
lose as l changed it all over to taels
at once. The proceeding payment in
dragon dollars was also made at 80.
and exchange hung around II for a
month after that paymsnt, besides the
10 per cent discount so that We got
soaked plenty. | don't suppose this
money business is of special interest
to you, but l thought Hutton might
be interested in some of our trials.
Things are going on about as usual
in Shanghai except that there are
mostly Chinese, SO that everything is
full-up. We have been having the
peace conference, which seems to have
come to deadlock just now. In the
meantime military preparations are go
ing on apace and thousands of troops
are passing through here from Canton,
FoochcW and other southern points,
on their way north. A great deal of
recruiting is going on in Shanghai, and
some 5000 are encamped in Lii Hung
Changes garden near here and are
marching songs while they drill and
there is therefore lots of noise with
this and the blowing of the bugles, ct
cetera.
Queue cutting is going on apace.
They are rather the exception in the
Shanghai streets just now. All of our
servants have cut theirs. The Number
boy presented me with his for a
Hutton will remember that
he had an especially fine one. By the
way the boy yesterday brought in
a couple of pairs of shoes which he
asked me to send to Mr. Hutton with |
his compliments.
Three of our students have gone to |
America and l have already heard of |
their safe arrival. On March 20 three
more will start They will reach San
Francisco about the Sd week in April |
and are very anxious to go east by
way of Spokane so as to run down to
Moscow to see Hutton. | will let you |
know further if we are able to ar
'ange it.
One of the interesting things of the
present revolution is the interest the
Chinese girls are taking in it. -Four
hundred of the student class have for
ned a military company and are
lrilling. They have been refused arms
light along, but at last 80 have been
ront Some of my students have in
ormed me that they are mostly under.i
wenty and all of the higher classes
nd educated foreign style.
Another interesting thing is to see
he girls outside more than they used