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II can't have YOU tearing a live cral
to pieces protested the investigator.
Goodness. boss said the gentle boat
man in a Mortified voice. Won all doan
think | was gwine to tear up a live crab.
He shook his head vigorously.
'Wust luck in the world he continued
munkey done taught mo nevah TO do
anything to a crab till he's daid Dey
was a man In Pemunkey who oncet pull
ed de claws often a live crab. 'Cose il
didn't hurt de crab none But it was
awful on the man. Mex day his house
burned down and his wife run away wifi
a low-down oyster dredger Man, yank-
in live crab sho' is bad luck"
The Careful Investigator noted the dan
gers of mutilating live crabs and waited
mo, boss concluded the boatman Il
wasn't gwine to teah up crab. ] was
just gwine to hold one and show YOU how
to open him when he's daid.'
There was the chink of passing coin
and the boatman approached the aged
Uncle Jimmy, who was still sulkily SHOW
ing his wheelbarrow.
II kin earn two bits effen | kin git a
crab he Informed Uncle Jimmy softly.
"W'hut does l git?' demanded Uncle
Jimmy coidly.
Piece o cut plug replied the boat
man. The crab was secured, and he re-
turned to the log.
"Fust.' he said impressively you
takes de crab lax dis and reaches for the
back of his shell and den-Lawdee-I4aw-
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Welt did at the time of his attempted
assassination last year. Ii Hung Chang
did not get out of his chair He quietly
asked one OF the bearers for a hand
kefchief TO stop the blood and then
ordered them to carry him on home to
the Buddhist Temple, where ne was
living. When he reached there he
unaided to his own rooms and gave him
self into the hands OF the surgeons. He
took no anesthetic and as they probed
for the bullet they asked him if the
pain was great He told them not To
mind that, but to go on with their WORK
The surgeons kept on probing for some
time but We're not able TO find the bullet,
and it remained in his head TO the day
of his death.
In connection with the doctors a
curious incident then happened which
showed the Chinese nature of Prince
Ii. He had the best of medical tai
ent and the best doctors OF Japan
We're called in; nevertheless, he sent
for necromancer from Shanghai. This
man, so one of his suite told him.
able to cause the bullet to melt within
could do this through nominations. Ii
Hung Chang was impressed by the
story that he cabled the man to come
from Shanghai to Shimonoseki. He re-
manned several days and then left. Lob
Fens Luh and others of the commission
ers reported that the man did not see
Ii, but there is little doubt in my mind
but that he had a chance TO make his
experiment.
How did the Japanese take the shoot
ing?"
They were very much chagrined. As
soon as Princes Ito and Mutzu heard of it
they came to Ii Hung Chang and ex-
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be. retire; but with the empress dowager
TINS was not possible, for there one had
10 remain on his knees and bow his head
10 the floor in humble submission
HAD Ii Hung Chang much influence
with the empress dowagero" | asked.
Yes, the old empress had great conf
dence III him and Ii had 4 great re-
spect for her, but he did not hesitate to
zen her what he actually thought al
thousn ne knew II might result in his
own degradation. 1t was this frankness
that several times lost him his yellow
Jacket and once or twice came near los
ing him his head The empress dowaser
was surprised aud angry AZ the way
things turned out during the Chinese
japanese war. She SuppoSed that her
army was equal to that of Japan and she
blamed Ii because il Was not He was
YOU know. at the head or the chinese
military establishment az far as mod
ern methods Were concerned He had ar
ganiZed what was thought TO be a mod
ern army, and had to a large extent dis
pensed with the old spears and flint
locks. He was refused the money how
ever. which was needed to bring his
troops to a state of efficiency aud be
warned the empress dowager not to on
gage in that war. The empress fhoupht
she knew better and when the Chinese
troops were found wanting she d.
nounced Ii Hung Chang and took AWAY
his high honors.''
But. nevertheless general She an
pointed Ii Hung Chang the head nf
the commission which made the treaty
of peace"
Eyes, the viceroy remained in disgrace
until the time came when peace had IN
be made. The empress dowager knew
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Nav. he makes his constant appearance
before you.
Backing away from the poetry OF
crabdom for a moment-and no crusta-
cean wins more eulogies than does the
summer crab-the reader should first
consider some crab statistics.
How many barrels of crabs are ship
ned into Washington on average days.
Two hundred.
High record for crabs per daily ship
mento About 700 barrels.
Number of barrels used in the big
craborfums? About sixteen day; some
times twenty.
Manner of shipping crabs? Boat and
express
Number OF crabs in each barrel?
about zoo.
Having passed this examination with
q percentage of one hundred tsee vital
statistics on crabs in the possession OF
any fish DEALER. let US now pass on
lightly to the more human aspects OF
the crab industry, pausing only TO con-
slider finally that Washingtonlans nave
consumed 40 900 crabs in a single day
\
After the Careful Investigator had
gone forth in search Of crab statistics
had graduated in crabology. A wide
acquaintance among newspaper editors
and the record of having once caught
an irritable crab with his fOrefinger.
by placing the finger between the
crabs left jaw as it attempted to climb
out of a barrel. had given him cause
for pride. Whenever crabs were men
toned he felt at home. But 1t was not
until after his tour of the grabbing
spots of Washington that he realized
what q mere child in arms he was
concerning crabs.
Down by the fishing wharves. where the
gentle sigh Of the littIe-neck clam and the
sounds that disturb the somnolent sum-
mer silence, the Careful Investigator
wendell his way He hunted himself a
seat on a squared log that looked as IL
mass meeting of untidy fish had been
held there.
A boat load of crabs had just been
landed. The barrels-the wood curiously
crisS-crossed to permit the air to enter
and the tops covered with gunnysack-
stood about in careless ease on the edge
Of the wharf.
There was a dank smell of seaweed in
the air Near the barrels stood an aged
coiored man who was mournfuly wheel
ing truck back and forth to a line Of
wagons not far off. AS he wheeled his
voice was raised in song:
a crab am. an I doan' give a logarithm dit
eral transa tionp
How many other crabs dcy may be.
rse gwine TO fght. all day an night
An Ise boun' TO git back to de sea.
The Careful Investigator approached the
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was the most effective of all the blood
shed on the Chinese side during the
war. 1t gave Ii and his people the
sympathy syn ,a,.ns Of the world, and it put
they moderated their treaty demands
In fact, before Ii Hung Chang left. he
became rather proud Of having been
shot. The wound healed quickly and he
was soon well again.
How did Ii Hung Chang regard for
eigners?"
That can be easily seen by reading
his diary" replied Gen. Foster. In his
earlier notes he speaks of us as bar
barians and foreign devils. He de-
scrlDes the missionaries as low fellows.
and evidently believed in such tradi-
tons as those which represent them as
killing Chinese ba bies and saving their
eyes for Photographic material Later
on his mind changed. He became con-
nected with the abiest OF the foreign
ers VINO went to China. He was close
ly associated with Gen. Gordon and
Gen. Frederick Ward at the time of the
Tafping rebellion.
He was present at Wards death, and
he describes how the tears came into
his eyes when he saw that great gen
eral dying. SO far away from his home
and family. He had also to do with
the investigation of the Tientsin OUT
RACES, in which the missionary hospital
and orphan refuge were burned. lie
had to investigate what the Christians
had been doing there and punish the
offenders From that time on his opin-
ion Of Christianity rose. and he came 10
have a high respect for missona ries
and missionary work. During his later
years he ranked Christianity with Con
fucianism, and he once told me that IL
he had been born in America he would
have been Christian, but that as he
was born in China he was a follower
OF Confucius. He put the two re-
liSions on ii par systems OF morality
and ethics.
When Ii was shot AT Shimonoseki.'
the general continued. among the letters
OF regret sent in was one from some
Japanese Christians at Nagoya They
wrote that they had been holding meet
ings and praying for his recovery in or
der that he might carry out the great
work I'm the world FOR which the Lord
had destined him. This letter produced
a deep impression upon Ii Hung Chang's
mind, and III reply he wrote thanking
them, and saying that he mad no doubt
but that their prayers had materially
forwarded his recovery.
Il here asked Gen. Foster a 10 wheth-
or he thought China would eventually
become Christian
He replied: All can say as TO that
now going on In China. Many of the
highest officials OF the new republic ar,
Christians. This is so of sun Vat Sen
ana many others. You nave seen how
Yuan Shih kai has recently asked for
the prayers OF the Christian world for
china. l have just received a letter from
Mr.. Brockman, who is at the head OF
the \. NJ. {. A. in that country He
tells ME that enormous meetings are be-
ing held In Picking. Shanghai, Mukden
coming by the thousands to hear the
preaching. and there are thousands of
converts"
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
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that 1t should be eaten as soon as cook
ed. Lots of people lay UP trouble for
themselves by eating soft-shell crabs
that have been cooked long in advance
and left to stand around and develop
acute melancholia. Next to a fried egg
two hours after breakfast time. 1 can
think of nothing so weary and sad
looking as an overlooked. long-standing
soft-shell crab.
1.-The deviled crab is. of course. still
popular for picnics. But people have long
since learned that deviling crabs is not
the proper way to enjoy them. There is
too much foreign substance to make the
dish agreeable.
However a crab is eaten. the flavor OF
crab should predominant. Sauces are
good If they add a bit of piquancy to
the flavor. But no crab should be doused
In salt and pepper and tomato sauce and
vinegar and other things until he shud-
ders every time he remembers he is a
crabi'
The proprietor ceased talking. He drew
his knife across the middle of one of the
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sott-shell crabs where its spine ought to
pc. One half OF the crab he placed in his
little mouth. For moment only his
heavy signing broke the stiffness. \ sin
gle great gulp and he spoke again.
Soft-shell crabs" he declared should
always be cooked on very hot skillet.
Ihey should never be put in cold skill
let and allowed to heat gradually. The
uaVOf oil the crab escapes and
Here he dived for the other half of the
crab. The interviewer. whose mouth pa
thetically followed the motions Of chew
ing, fled, realizing that he had no chance
to steal one of the crabs and get away
with it.
Outside the restaurant the interviewer
walked into a friend, a man who takes
a tender. motherly care of his tummy.
He is one of those men whose diet runs
to breakfast foods Of sawdust descent and
weak tea. Seeing She interviewer he glow
cred.
What are they eating in there?' he
asked. harshly.
Crabs was the reply.
"Who-o-o-o-sh,' shouted the thin man.
why Whoosh?' inquired the investi-
gator.
Crabs. said the thin man in a voice
of suppressed fury. 'Crabs-crabs-crab
crabs, crabs
The interviewer took up the chant
with him and they began together.
'CrabS-crabs-crabs, crabs, crabs,
stop it, yelled the thin man, suddenly
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decree! Lego, you blame fool, Lego,
I say, befo' / break yo' fool face in
He was not talking TO the Careful IN
veStigator, who was still watching inter
estedly. The investigator had not grab
bed him, but the crab had.
Considered as q scientific exhibition of
crab opening it was a failure. But as an
example of artistic posturing it would
have made Delsarte turn green. The crab
chung grimly to the boatman's stumpy
thumb while the boatman leaped lightly
around the wharf and waved his arm like
the grand climax of George NJ. Conan
musical comedy, and disturbed the quiet
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FIabbergasted.

I<NE YORK'S high prices are
enough to fiabbergast anybody"
said the man with Crouch
Young Cornelius Husk came TO New
York last month because a pass was
given him. He stayed I'm New York two
days. When he got back home again.
they asked him what he had seen, but il
appeared that he had seen nothing. He
had done no sightseeing whatever.
What, Corn cried his friends. two
days I'm New York and never saw a
thing
We'll. Corn Husk replied, do you
think l was goin' to pay four dollars a
day for . room and not use 1t all the
time"
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darby boatman who had been loafing
around the wharf made his way toward
the bereaved investigator He grinned
in cOnciliatory fashion, removed his cap
and spoke.
Boss" said he. in ingratiating tones,
docs you know how to open a boiled
crab?"
The investigator confessed a humiliat-
ing ignorance of the affairs Of the interior
department of the crab republic. His
crabs had always been deviled or faxed
or soft shelled.
''Fo two bits. boss" continued the soft
spoken boatman, Il will show YOU
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COWS on the Virginia side OF the river
With his hoarse cries
He danced near the edge Of the wharf
and the crab. bubbiing at the mouth as II
laughing grimly. released its hold and
scutt1ed over the side and into the river.
rs that Incarnation always required
before opening crab?" asked the IN
vestigator.
"Huh?" inquired the boatman. rubbing
his thumb
''All that dancing" explained the in
vestigator.
The boatman drew himself up with
simply dignity.
Boss said he. Il don't allow nobody
10 sit around and kid me-.
And quietly he walked away.
Slowly the investigator made his way
up town. Not far from the Aharves is
establishment devoted exclusively t.
the worship of the festive summer crab
n visitor enters a garden. seats himself
at n little round table and specifies the
manner in which he will have his crabs.
Later. gorged and mussy. he arises and
totters to a car. The amount of crab
meat that the human system will hold
is a source of never-ending wonder to the
scientist
Into this place the investigator wander
ed and, through special dispensaton.
was permitted to go back into the room
where the crabs We're being boiled for
the evening repast. In "a huge kettle
We're the crabs, hundreds of them ap-
parently. boiling away and giving forth
an aroma sweeter than the song OF the
dying Phoenix. White-capped. white
aproned darkey was experimenting the
work
How do you boil crabs?'' inquired the
investigator
'Jes' boil en- replied the cook sue
cinctly.
The investiga tor waited patiently
knowing that professional pride would
eventually overcome reticence.
You see continued the cook re-
lenting, after while, you has to put
EN- in alive. Den you puts in lots of
salt and pepper so de water is a reg
ular brine. De water is boilin' when you
puts de crabs in. Aftah dat you lets
EN- boil and boil. But you aotter Stir
EN-. Don stir EN- too much. jeS'
enough to keep EN- gong. stirrin' 'em
right is Il lot in cookin' crabs
But protested the investigator.
isn't it pretty rough on the crabs to
put them in the water alive?'
''Oh. gee complained the chef Che
styled himself chef, "ev' ybody done got
de idea dat you hurts a crab when you
boilS him.
We'll he doesn't enjoy it. does he?''
demanded the investigator.
HE doan' min it at tall said the
cook. "A crab amt got no mo- feelin s
dan an ashman."
He stirred the huge pot refectively
Leaving him still polling around in his
big pot the investigator drifted forward
seeking further adventure in the king
dom Of crustacea
As he reached the door the proprietor
of the establishment hove into view
You have fed the public with crabs
these many years." remarked the inves-
tigator more as a statement Of fact than
as a question.
A tear cleaned in the proprietors
faWnlike eye.
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SPENT an even
ing this week
with Il man who
for more than half
a century has
been nolding the
affairs OF nations
Ia man who has
formed not only
an integral part
OF our domestic
a n d diplomatic
history, but who
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OILED, deviiei and
talked, the crab has
reached the height
of his summer glory
now. He is omni-
present. Turn right,
turn left, you
meet him. Some
times the color of
an autumn sunset
and sometimes as
virginia. white as
apple blossoms in
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Behind the Scenes of
the Treaty Commission
How China Saved
100000 Taels-
LIS Fortitude Versus
That of Roosevelt
Stories of His At
tempted Assassination
The Chinese NEGRO
mancer w hat Ii
Says of the Empress
Dowager = Christian
ity Versus Confucian-
ism and How the Great
Niceroy Put Them on
a Par-The New Chris
tian Nj owe m ent in
China. Etc.
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with the single exception of Andrew John
son. he has held important commissions
signed by every President since then
from Abraham Lincoln down to and in
GLIDING William Howard Taft, of
blessed memory. / refer to John w.
Foster, soldier, ambassador, Secretary
Of State. international lawyer, states
man and author, who now at seventy
seven has an eve as bright and mind
as keen as when he began the practice
of law at Evansville. Ind, more than
hfty-three years ago.
Gen. Foster graduated from college at
the age OF nineteen. He began to prac-
tice law at twenty-one. and he was
not yet twenty-five when, without So
licitation, he was made a major in the
United States Army. That was in 1861
He commanded regiment during the
war; being made lieutenant colonel and
colonel. and was mustered out at it's
close at the head Of division of cav
airy as brigadier general
Mr.. Fosters diplomatic career began
before he was forty. Gen. Grant then
made him our minister to Mexico, and
or less connected with our diplomatic his
tory. He has represented the United
states as minister or ambassador I'm Rus
STA and Spain. and he has been a special
tries as Great Britain. Russia. Germany
and Brazil. AS an International lawyer
during the intervals of his diplomatic
services he has acted as the counselor
Of Mexico. China and other nations. and
he was invited by the Emperor of China
10 aid in bringing about the treaty OF
peace with Japan at the close Of its great
war with that country. In those neSo-
tiations he saved China an immense loss
of territory, and the actual payment of
"a
~ an author Gen. Foster has added
much to the valuable history Of our coun-
Try Ills Century Of American Dipio-
macy; published in 1900. is standard
matte works can be found In every IL
brary. and his Diplomatic Memoirs.
printed in 1909, are intensely interesting
and have had a large sale.
TO interview a man like this makes
one feel as Aladdin must have felt when
he first rubbed the old lamp In the cave
and saw the vast quantities Of gold and
Jewels about him. He did not know what
10 take first Gen. Foster has done so
much, been so much, and seen SO much
that IL Is hard to know what questions
10 ask or what lines Of his life to touch.
! have settled this question in favor OF
China, and that because OF the manu-
script of a diary OF Ii Hung Chang which
Gen. Foster has been examining. with the
purpose Of writing an introduction there
TO. for the Houghton Miffiin Company. 1t
* not generally known that this diary is
In existence. IL consists of memoranda
and notes collected from the archives of
the high offices which Ii Hung Chang
held during the seventy eight years of his
life. 1t begins with his early manhood
aud runs from then on until his death in
1901. giving most interesting pictures Of
what has been going on behind the scenes
III the China OF the past nifty or sixty
Years.
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has mad MUCH q DO with making
the history OF others of the great world
powers Born in Indiana during the
presidency OF Andrew Jackson he
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Said Gen. Foster: The diary was not
written from day TO day, but only as
matters Of interest and Importance sprang
up. Some parts of 1t came from the pri-
vate papers in the possession Of Ii Flung
Changes family. Other parts were found
In the records which he left in the ar
chiyes of the yamens at Shanghai, Tien
tsin and Canton. Many of the notes We're
written 1T Picking. and not few were
dashed off at the close of his interviews
with the empress dowager. Prince Ching
and others OF the highest Chinese off,
Gals. In all cases he handles things
without gloves, saying Just what he
thinks. describing just what occurred and
making emphatic observations thereon
lie usually speaks OF the empress dow
ager as the "Old Buddha." and often tells
how she went into a rage and ordered
him out of her presence. At the end of
one interview he writes that the Old
Buddha manifested an ebullition of pas
sion such as he had never seen, except in
his own family. and he rather patheticaliy
continued that the chief difference was
that while he was at his home he could
controi his own actions. and, it might
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copy gated. 1918. ~ Frank !. c4rp.n.rra
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-07
California Will FIGURE
IN BIG ATHLETIC MEET
ON SOLDIERS FIELD

Philadelphia, March 1.-The admis-
sion Of six new colleges into the inter
collegiate A.. A. A.. A. at its annual
convention gives the association the
largest membership that 1t has ever
had. Among the new entries there
are two which are sure to make lots
OF trouble at the coming champion
cambridge. They are the University
OF California and Georgetown. Both
OF these institutions applied for MEM
bership last year, but on account Of
the fact that both had been members
in the past and had dropped out they
were compelled to serve one year OF
probation. Both were given to under
stand that when they we're admitted
a second time that they would retain
their membership in the association
and send 8 track team regularly to
the intercollegiate championships.
A great deal Of interest centered in
the coming Of the University OF Cali.
f0rnia. whose team last year won the
western Intercollegiate championship
by a big margin. The westerners have
a splendid all-round team and one
which is quite sure to score points
IN nearly al Of the events. Their best
mar Is Allen. who won the broad
jump last year and was a competitor
at n Olympic games in Stockholm.
He Is consistently better than twenty.
three feet. and is probably better than
any man In the cast. with the possible
exception of Captain Mercer Of thc
Pennsylvania team.
georgetown university has two men
VINO arc likely to make trouble. One
10 John Gallagher. last year a fresh.
man at Yale and who later distin.
Eutshed himself by finishing No. Z in
'soe @s%atnon race At Stockholm.