Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-17
ENTERTAINERS
ALL MAKE GOOD
CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAMS PROVE
UNIFORMLY STRONG.
NG POON CHEW PROVES WINNER
Professor LarimOre's Circus Was
One of the Best Numbers-Sierra
Mixed Quartette Makes Decided
Hit.

The program given at the Chau-
tauqua tabernacle Monday afternoon
by the Sierra Mixed Quartet was one
of the finest musical numbers on the
entire Chautauqua program. 1t was
a popular program and contained
several of the old-time favorites, in
cluding "Suwanee River" and my
Old Kentucky Home" The company
won hearty applause and was heart
lily applauded.
= opened by a short talk by Mrs. H. S.
Palmerlee on the Chautauqua Study
Course. This was followed by a
number by the high school mixed
quartet, consisting of Misses Frances
Hamlin and Mary Weisenberger and
Messrs. billie" Briggs and Donald
Huntley. The number was well sung
and heartily encored, the quartet re-
spending with another beautiful Sc
lection.
Then Ng Poon Chew was intro
duced He soon made it evident that
Ng did not stand for no good. The
speaker, though somewhat handi-
capped, as he said, by the difficulty
of acquiring language utterly un-
like his own after arriving at the age
of manhood, was not only a good
speaker, he was an orator. He spoke
upon the problems confronting the
new republic of China. Laying the
foundation of this lecture by brief
account of how the Manchu dynasty
came to be on the throne and how
it had misgoverned China for the
past 260 years, he went into the
causes of the rebellion, or rather
revolution, and discussed the reasons
which caused the establishment of a
republic rather than the setting up
of limited monarchy.
In his discussion OF the problems
now facing the young republic he
took occasion to make a bitter and
drastic arraignment of the powers of
Europe for their despoliation of
China and paid high tribute to the
United States for its refusal to per-
NIT the partition of the country as
an alleged punishment of the Boxer
uprising
Ans NJ caker was high in his praise
for the attitude of the United States
as regards his country. He stated
that the new nation had much to
thank the United States for, even
though the delay of IA months in
the recognition Of the republic had
been humiliating, Not only. he said,
we're the men whe led the revolution
and established the new republic
Christians, bit they were establish
ing education on a broad scale. For
the first time in the history of China
public money was being used for sup
porting schools. Another problem
they had to face was the taxation
problem. There had, he said, been
no system Of taxation in China, all
money for the support of the Manchu
dynasty having been raised by graft.
Continuing, he said that all the graft
of all the cities, counties and states
of America, if heaped up beside the
graft of the Manchus in China would
look like 80 cents.
1t is safe to say that not a single
person of years of understanding left
the tabernacle after the lecture with
out better understanding of China
and of her aims and people and their
problems than they took there with
them
The Tuesday sessions at the Chap-
tauqua were up to the high standard
previously set. In the afternoon
Miss Maud Williams made a great hit
with her reading and proved herself
more than deserving of the good
things previously said of her.
In the evening the Sierra Quartet
surpassed themselves, singing roles
from the leading operas with skill
and expression which marked them
artists of a high order They also
favored the audience with several
numbers in preludes to other enter
tainments.
Wednesday afternoon the reading
given by Miss Maud Willis was even
more interesting than that of Tues
day afternoon. She read the play
Every Woman" which is on the or
der of an allegory and was a great
depletion of variety of characters.
The ChildIens Circus.
The children's circus given at the