davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1919-11-18
'1ElARgSs Hla19k, ri, lS-ssa Iil|epada, el,

g1osc, 1poza ki1ku artyykkulasnpi
dziennikarskiemi, poza jed1aayy1mna;
.czy dwoma wieczoraui dysklsgii,
.nemi u mas W kraju, poza, wfeszz-.
Gle, luznemi j do niezego; nikogo
ME oboWiazajacemi pogaweaakaa-
mi ma gruneie paryskim niczego
ME uczyniono ola spopularyzowa
MIA, ME m6wiac juz Q realizacyi,
idei zwiazku Polski z krajami
ma baltyckiemi, tax, jak ME zro-
biono niczego absolutnie z naszej
.strony by idee te wysunac na po-
wiierzchhhie opinii politycznej To-
tewskiej *estonskiej. W ostat-
mich dopiero tygodniach nawia-
zany zostal pewien, chwilowy ere
sta, kontakt pomiedzy rzadem
}otewskim, a naszemi miarodaj-
nemi czynnikami politycznemi.
Tymczasem Litwini It. wv. rad
litewski) oddawna juz, energicz-
ME krzataja sic dokola porozu-
mienia Observation-Disclosures, ME
omijajac przy: TEN kazdej okazyi,
by przedstawic~nas jake nar6d
zaborczy,--nawskros przenikniety
tendencyami ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
najgorszego gatunku.
N%alezaloby tedy, wreszcie skon
eye z asza"niezrozumia1a z~aistc,
powsciagliwoscia czy tez niezde-
cydowaniem W stosunku do spra-
wy KRAKOW nadbaftyckich. Gas
juz wielki, by W koncu jasno i
wyraznie. powiedziec. Ketyszom i
Estonczykom, re w%szystkiemi 81
1ami i sposobami poprzemy ich
.dazenie do niepodleg1osci, re ra-
zem Z mimi chcemy bronic sic i
walczyc przeciwko wsp6lnym
wrogom. Zwlekanie,. ogladanie sic
ma o~statecza decyzye kongresu
pokojowego, moe nam przyniesc
niepowetowane straty, - moe
bye pc prostu kleska ola las W
najblizszej przyszloSci.
Niemcy, kiedy pc swej kapitu-
lacyi ma Zachodzie, zrozumieli, re
ME beda W stanie utrzymac sic W
krajach nadba1tyckich - dok}a-
.daja wszelkich staran, by kraje
tc wr6cily z powrotem pod jarz-
mo rosyjskie. - w ten spos6b
buduja oni most pomiedzy SODA,
a nawa (%w1asciwie prawdopodo-
bniej stara) Rosya, ia droga chca
.oni dojsc do ujecia w swe rece
kierownictwa odbudowa Rosyi.
Kierowana ~ Berlina akcya baro-
now nadba1tyckich, akcya wojsk
ksiecia Lieven a, dis pozornie
ME przedstawiajaca sic niepodle-
g}osciovym dazeniom Kotwy
Estonii, PREY pierwszej sposobno-
Sci zwr6ci sic przeciwko niepodle
g1osci tych KRAKOW. Ia niemiecko~
rosyjska polityka przypuszczalnie
ME jest ca1kowicie obca pewnym
koalicyjnym sferom.
Ready panstw koalicyjnych u
znafy faktycznie panstwo naro-
dow i rzad6w 1otewskiego i eston
skiego i popieraja je dis W: wal
&c z bolszewizmem. Kto vie jed
max, czy ostatecznie koalicya, t.
j. przedewszystkiem Anglia, kt6-
rel CLOS tutaj prawdopodobnie
bedzie d%ecydowal, ME uzna "a
st6sowne, z tych. czy innych
wzgled6w, oba nadba1tyckie kra-
je zwr6cic Rosyi.
. Temu niebezpieczenstwu, tax
groznemu dla mas samych, - mu-
simy wszelkiemi sposobami pre-
ciwdzialac.
Niezlomna VIOLA narod6w }otew
skiego i estohskiego, gotowwh
walczyc {. swa Intercollegiate do 0
statniej kropll ~krWi, poparta. e..
nergicznie przez Panstwo Pol
skie, portrait zwyciesko odeprzec
wraze zamachy i unicestwic pod.
stfpne knowania + zasadzki, maj
die tez ona niewatpliwie popar-
Gle W tych. sferaeh, opiniii euro
pe:jsko-amerykanskiej, ola. kt6-
rych has1o samookreslenia sic ma
rodow ME jest czczym tylko fra
zesem..
-
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1919-11-18

tell. polskich celem przekazywa-
mia do kraju tylko dolary W got6w
ce, pocztowe przekazy (Mone.y
Order) czeki bankowe (certified)
albo tax zwane "Cashiers Checks
on New York Funds. Wystawione
powinny bye IA "Consulate &C.
neral Of Poland,' ME przyjmujc
zas celem przekazania ami papie-
row wartosciowych i k~siazeczek
kas oszczednosci ami tel rubli ko-
ron lub marek, ami tez czck0w ME
certyfikowanych.
Posiadaczom koron, rubli hub
marek W got6wce to radzi sic wo-
bee obecnego niskiego ich kursu,
ME pozbywac takowych lecz albo
zabrac je re SODA do kraju albo
oddac osobie godnej zaufania do.
kraju jadacej.
Rad Polski wsprowadzajac no
wa walute "zlotych co W maj
blizszym czasie nastapi bedzie wy
mienia1 mark i korony IA "zlo-
te". Co sic tyczy rubli to W kraj Il
MONA "a ME zakupic polska View
netrzna pozyczke Panstwowa opie
Waiaca ma ruhle.
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than that of the United States and
Canada combined there is scattered
to-day population of less than
100000 white men, In the vast
region Immediately north Of China
that to which the japanese are now
laying tangible claim to right of
settlement-between the Pacific and
Lake Baikal, there are fewer than
100000. The japanese plan is evil
IDENTIFY to assist General Kolchak, as
the other Allies and the United
States are doing with supplies, to
recover European Russia from the
Bolsheviki, and then to obtain in re-
turn either permission to colonize
throughout Siberia or to acquire an
extensive territorial transfer con-
tiguous to Manchuria, with coast
upon the Pacific One of several
reasons for the United States, if not
also for the Allies, in maintaining
nominal forces in Siberia is prob
ably to restrict this claim.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Eyes on China

For the moment American atten-
ton has been turned away from
Siberia and concentrated on China,
due to the special agitation which
President Wilson's Shantung settle
ment at Paris has created in this
country and to the propaganda
which Chinese officials, aided by
several Americans in their employ,
are conducting in this country. 1t
is the Chinese policy to embroil us
in trouble with the japanese, being
unable to protect their country with
their own inadequate military
forces. They are a nation many
times the size of Japan, with pop
ulation estimated to be between
300,OO0,000 and 40O,0OO,O0O and
with a territory in all greater than
that Of the United States. If they
were not a backward people the
United States and Great Britain,
through her colonies, would probably
consider the Chinese a greater men
ace than the potentially powerful
Japanese Empire, but China is I'M
aggressive and defenceless. Hence
her appeal to America and to some
extent her hold upon this country's
sympathy.
Why is the Eastern Colossus in
adequate in her own defence? The
answer can best be given by de-
scrlbing the condition of this pecu-
liar people whom the numerous
American missionaries working
among them, almost without excep-
ton, admire and favor. What other
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Many became Christians because
they received help or protection in
one way or another from the mis-
slonaries. Many were discarded
children, left in the roadways to die.
whom the Catholics gathered in.
chrlstened. raised and found work
for. In recent years Buddhism Tao
ism and Confucianism. the three
great religions OF the country, have
broken down and are fast disin
tegrating, while Christianity is alone
making progress. The Christian is
now no longer despised but rather
envied. The English language.
which many mission schools teach,
has been proclaimed by edct as the
hnguo ffa1ca Of the country. Many
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himself, who had as their mission
to replace in the home circle those
who had gone to the front.
But it was too late to retrace his
steps. And his regrets seemed to
him as vain as his desires. SO he
leaned his elbows on his belvedere
and waited for the night to approach,
touching one after another of
the great living masses before
him and abolishing them in turn, so
that on earth there was no longer
anything but nothingness.
One morning the woman who did
his housekeeping and brought him
his provisions each day announced,
in rather hostile tone of voice:
There is no more tobacco. There
is no more. And they don't know
when there will be any more. After
all, one can get along very we'll
without tobacco, when so many other
things more necessary are lacking
in this poor world"
Leonard made no protest. This
misfortune seemed to him a just
punishment for his egoism. Since
he had always lived for himself, in
the presence Of his dream, wasn't
it just that he, too, should suffer
from the general shortage Of things?
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standards. Even in the period of his
ephemeral splendor he had not aban-
doned the studio of his apprentice
ship-a big room, high up in a Mont
martre building, in which he ate on
the corner of a table and slept
stretched on divan. 1t served him
also as dormer window open on
the world. At all seasons he saw the
city spread at his feet and the first
fringes of the countryside, with their
perpetually changing aspects. He
felt no need to go and study these
at shorter range. He created with
his eyes closed, following his inner
vision and the phantasmagoria of
his memories. He didn't wish to
be either accurate or precise, but
to suggest to men the idea of that
great unknown which always fasci-
mates them.
His only outing, when he took one,
was to go to the galleries and visit
the old masters. The Louvre always
excited his liveliest emotions. There
he found those who, before him, had
imprisoned their dreams in the
magic of colors, and in all countries.
under all skies, had fixed the eternal
in the smile of a woman or in the
restless eyes Of an adolescent. Why
visit far-off countries when one,
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ton of the Siberian Railway. and
on at least one notable occasion re-
fused to obey the orders of the
japanese commander-in-chief, an in
ciGent which, accompanied by many
evidences Of suspicion, caused the
Japanese more seriously to regard
Americas Asiatic policy as inspired
primarily by hostility to them.
Japan Would Col0nize
The Japanese government, press
end people have come to consider it
necessary to their existence and
protection to have an outlet for
their surplus population and an en-
plre from which they can draw
natural resources, and they find at
hand vast extent of undeveloped
territory in China and adjacent
Siberia, the latter being ample for
the settlement of millions upon mill
ions of their people, for though the
themselves to the more eastern sec
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That creature had told the truth. He
could well renounce the sole enjoy
ment which was left him. He in
tended to renounce it in the future.
He took his pipe, cleaned it carefully
and put it in the case-from which
it would never again be taken.
But he felt clearly that his slender
portion of happiness was now ex-
hausted. This sacrifice, benign in
appearance, robbed him completely
of his faculty Of evocation. He had
no longer any zest in life. In the
evenings, instead of contemplating
the horizon, which melted in shadow
into the infinite, he turned his back
on the window, buried himself in a
chair and dreamed Of nothing.
If only death would come to carry
him away from this bankrupt scene
But it delayed. 1t preferred to take
the young and the vigorous, The
thousands and thousands of young
men whom it led in its train and
then moved down like the ripe grain
of the fields! But Leonard remained,
disdained even by death.
Nevertheless, one night, an idea
came to him. The next day he got
up early. He looked for his palette,
put canvas on the frame, fresh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
The Last Sm0ke-By Jean Berthero0
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ened his brushes and began to paint
feverishly. He painted without a
model, as he had almost always done
since he had learned his art.
His little picture was almost moth
ing at all-hardly even study in
still life. It was the portrait of
meerschaum pipe, whence arose in
spirals thin, light curl of smoke.
Practically nothing at all But the
smoke it was that which repre-
sented the imponderable, the dream.
Never had the old painter attempted
anything which had cost him such
an effort. The pipe - that was
reality. The smoke - that was the
dream.
When he had finished he signed
it as did all the masters whom he
loved: Leonard pincit. Then he sat
in his chair and watched the smoke
which, light and impalpable, mounted
from the canvas and passed away,
no one knew where, into the domain
of the unreal
Toward evening the housekeeper,
although it was not her hour, pushed
open the door. She carried in her
hands, like something precious, a
little package wrapped in yellow
paper.
II found some. Here it is. You
can enjoy yourself"
But the old man rejected the be-
lated offering.
Thank you, l don't need any.
Give it to anybody you wish"
And he fell back into his dreams.
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Chinese Field Artillery

which the feet was conducting upon
town across the river.
Chlna's appalling poverty is one
OF the reasons for the selfshness
OF her people. The great majority
OF them go through life with onlv
all occasional relief from the other
wise permanent pangs of hunger.
Tens of thousands die annually
with undated regularity from star
walton. Many mothers in the poorer
quarters of every town and village
destroy female babies because thew
are unable to feed them. The par
ents frequently sell them into slav
cry, both honorable and disgrace
full. In times of drought and fam
inc a regular traffic is conducted
in children. The price goes as low
at times as rs cents for healthy
child, nothing being paid for a
sickly one. Under ordinary con-
dltlons strong young girl will
bring from $40 to 500. In or
binary times a regular practice of
stealing children prevails in some
regions. The local governments, be-
ing incompetent, are unable to pro-
tect them. The children are con-
veyed generally in boats to the
larger cities and sold privately.
Nominally slavery does not ex-
list, having been abolished by an
imperial edict of the Manchu court.
but many rich men, even govern
ment officials, possess several wives
and a number Of purchased con-
cubines and servants. The late
President, Yuan Shih-kai, had a
very large number of living de-
scendants, numbering, it is said,
over seventy, although he was but
tifty-fve years of age when he died.
The Chinese are married by their
PoASileo W NllCIl Tx 81 WIVES dC IllIoCn
or sixteen years of age.
Footbinding has also been abol-
ished by edict, but that practice
still prevails. Even the female
children Of beggars are submitted
to the terrible torture in order that
they may find husbands, for a pref
udice resembling superstition pre-
walls against the woman with ordi-
nary feet.
The father of family has the
power of life and death over an of
spring. He may Stay son as we'll
as daughter, and no law restraints
or Furnishes him. The writer knows
of a case Of a policeman in Picking
whose infant, boy, had been weak
from birth. The mother became fond
of it and wanted to keep it, but the
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pations. The latter Japan desires
to forestall and prevent. OF course,
the japanese are also inspired by
ambition, realizing that if they con-
troll Chinas vast population and
wealth the empire they create may
rival that of the famous Kublai
Khan and make them not only
wealthy but able to defy the world.
China has been seriously handi-
capped for want of money since the
republic was established, and since
the European war began she has
been able to obtain important loans
only from Japan. These loans are
usually given with security that
further impairs China's sovereignty.
There is an opinion in Western
countries that China possesses a
modern army. This is entirely fiction.
Nominally, China's standing army
numbers 100000 men, but prac-
tically this army is ineffective and
incapable of defending the country.
The Chinese military service suffers
under the disability of being a de-
splsed profession. Men serve in it
only because 1t provides wages or
opportunity for graft or plumber.
The Chinese armies generally to this
day fight each other and sack each
others cities. Chinese students in
this country will argue that such
was the case formerly, but is not
today; but as rule these students
know less about their own country
than many American observers and
investigators. The reason that
Yuan Shih-kai, in 1915, when the
japanese made their famous de-
mands, carefully withdrew all
troops, both modern and old style,
from the regions Of Shantung which
the japanese occupied, was known
III Peking to be because he did not
wish any incident" to occur to give
the japanese troops excuse to pene-
trate the country further. Yuan
shih-kai and his foreign advisers
realized fully the hopeless incou-
petence of the Chinese forces.
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thanks to the miracle of painting.
can know and possess the universe :?
Leonard, returning to his studio,
on the top Of the hill, leaned his
arms on his belvedere and watched
the clouds of smoke rise in which,
for him, were condensed the life and
the thought of a people.
Then the war came. The works
of art were removed from the
capital. The old painter never went
out any more. Weary, forgotten, he
mad ceased to stick his thumb in his
palette and seat himself before his
easel. But the third companion of
his existence remained - his pipe.
which he lighted toward evening
while he recalled the past.
The idea that he had wasted his
life now tormented him. What had he
made out of his youth or his maturer
years? Nothing had occupied him
except that chimerical pursuit, that
illusion of glory, OF which he had
retained only 4 doubtful shadow.
He had never loved anybody. He had
neither wife nor children. He was
alone. And that seemed to him mon
strous, now that all the others were
united in a common concern. He
almost envied the fathers who wept
for their sons, and the old men, like
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Chinese Caralry Of the Commanding Officers Staff

should make such progress, the SELL
timental objection of the small mi
nority of educated Chinese might be
offset by the material benefit to the
vast majority.
Since the defeat of the Boxers in
1900, missionary work has assumed
a remarkably important place among
the Chinese. Prior to the Boxer
rising of that year the Christian
convert was more or less an outcast
among his people, like a Mormon
among US. Most of the converts
came from the lower or poorer
classes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

A LITTLE over seven years
ago the world was amazed
< "A at the announcement that
the Oldest monarchy in the
world was about to become a repub-
lie, and few months later-for the
revolution was accomplished quickly
the news came that the reigning
.lanchu Emperor, child of about
eight years, would continue to
laintain his court and bodvguard
III vast palace inclosure that lies
north and south across the heart of
Peking. and whose very name rings
With romance and intrigue - The
forbidden City. Eight years prior
10 that the breakup of China was
being discussed. Russia was extend
!ng her sphere of influence" nearer
and nearer to the gates Of the capt.
5al, and the rivals Of that aggressive
country were taking measures to de-
fend their own interests in those
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

nation surviving to-day can trace its
history back to period nearly three
thousand years before the coming of
Christ? What other men have rec
ords of their individual ancestry ex-
tending back several centuries be-
fore our era?
For period Of many years the
civilization, administration and gen.
eral advancement of China were the
foremost in the world, and the
greatest empire that has ever been
known developed under her benevo-
lent administration in the thir-
teenth and fourteenth centuries,
when the empire included Corea,
Liaotung, Mongolia, Tibet and
many countries of Central Asia and
Cochin China.
Now, however, even the eighteen
provinces Of China proper no longer
remain intact, while her Dependent
cies are of no more value to her
than so many deserts. The names
of them are known to us as Mon
golia, Tibet and Chinese Turkes-
tan.
Pacitism is one Of the real trou-
bles with China. Unlike the Jap
anese, the Chinese have been will
ing constantly to submit Their
territorial greatness was attained
under conquerors and not by lead
ers of their own. They have been
likened to a sea that salts all that
enters it; they have absorbed all
their conquerors, and, finally, as we
have recently seen, with the Man
chus, they have been able repeat
eddy to throw off the aggressor.
Having long absorbed the doc
trines of the peaceful Confucius
they seem to have lost their sense
of duty to the nation, until to-day
a comparatively few among the
mass who are leading in the at
tempt to rouse the nation to its own
defence curiously are, almost with
out exception, former pupils of the
American and other missionaries
and foreign teachers.
Chinese Poor and Selfish
So poor is the patriotism of the
Chinese masses that British, French,
American lin 1900, Russian and
Japanese invaders have always
been able to purchase or hire as
sistance in one Chinese town when
proceeding TO attack neighboring
Chinese town. On one occasion the
Governor of Yangtse city enter
tanned the commander of a British
fleet at reception and feast while
within gun sound of an attack
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Z WAS an elderly painter,
named Leonard. Perhaps
X N his vocation had been pre-

determined by his name,
which related him to the greatest
creative genius of all time; for they
tell us that there is a certain mys-
ferrous predestination in an appella-
ton conferred by baptism.
Since the age of sixteen he had
taken the palette and the easel as
his life companions. Presently he
had added a third companion-his
pipe, which he smoked necessarily,
from morning till night, while
Eliminating his chefs d'euvre. For
he believed himself genius, and
without doubt he had a spark of
genius in him. His prodigious man.
ual skill was supplemented by a
spirit, inquistive and subtle, which
pursued reality to the extreme limits,
where it ceases to be tangible and
vanishes into dreams. 1t was at
this mysterious transition point that
he kept his attention fixed on it, in
order to add to the verisimilitude
of things that atmosphere of the
transcendental without which art is
only cold copy of nature.
Sometimes he almost succeeded.
Regarded at first as revolutionary,
he had had his hour of celebrity. At
that time his canvases brought high
prices and amateurs disputed for his
smallest sketches. He had been out
revolutionized in his turn. Now he
was classed as commonplace by the
young men, who were holder and
more modern" Such is life.
Yet he had never altered his