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Cantonese which told me what clever
double-crosser he thought himself
to be.
The soldiers who arrested us were
the Chekiangese of Gen. Siam Chuan-
boy scout" hats and sober counte-
nances. THE marshals orders" was
all 1 could get out of them. They
were courteous. even kindly, but firm.
In a native inn we awaited the early
morning train for Pukow. My chief
alarm was for the Chinese lass dressed
as boy. An old law makes
this a. high offense. In addition re-
cent reaction against newly imported
"shingle hobs" had caused a Peking
mandate, issued by Chang Tsung-
chang, making "man-style" hair cuts
a penal offense. Our detainerS might
seize the opportunity TO make things
very hard for the girl. However, 1
preferred to see her in the hands of
Suns orderly soldiery, who would at
least proceed according to law, rather
than held by the ruffians of the Man
churian or Chihli armies.
AT Pukow we were taken to the
railway police headquarters. Here l
found that my long hair was taken
as indication that I was a Bolshevik
agent, while the slight stature of my
two Chinese strengthened the suspi-
cion that they were Cantonese. When
they learned that one was girl in
disguise, they were quite certain that
they had netted something.
learned later that Cantonese wom-
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looked rather boyish to boast such a
siZable child.
Thereafter all went we'll except
the hardship of sitting hour after
hour on the floors of humping box
cars. BY the time we reached the
railroad junction where Gen. WI was
stopping, the northern half of the
province of Honan, which consists
principally of old beds of the Yellow
River. was a vast lake, with .the
thin line of the railway running
through it like dixie.
Refugees, loaded with blankets,
clothing, coops of fowls, and furni-
ture, clambered aboard and on top
of the cars until every bit of space
was filled, and the soldiers beat off
with the butts of their guns others
who struggled to get on. To add to
the misery of the populace, bands of
robbers, many of them peasants who
had lost their all, were taking ad-
vantage of the disruption of the sol.
diery.
AS we neared Chengchow, we heard
OF the recent sack of Jojeeahko, prob
ably the most cruel bandit outrage of
this disrupted era. in which one of the
largest marts of Honan was looted and
burned, 1000 people massacred. and
as many more, male and female, in
cluding several missionaries, carried
away for ransom.
At Chengchow. Gen. WI Pei-fu re-
ceived me Very kindly hut soberly.
found him utterly broken 4 In spirit
from the repeated betrayals he be-
lieves he has suffered from his own
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HungrieSt of Fish.
THE pike is the hungriest and ,

The pike is the hungriest and the
fiercest of fishes. Fish, flesh and
fowl seem alike acceptable to its
palate, and it does not disdain mineral
products; rings, spoons and other
similar articles have been frequently
taken from It's NAV.
Four English boys went to bathe in
1nglemere Pond, near Ascot, England.
One of them, who shall be called
Henry, walked into the water to about
the depth of four feet, when he spread
out his hands and tried to swim. At
that instant a large fish came up and
took the whole hand in it's mouth, but
finding itself unable to swallow 1t re.
llnquished its hold, and the boy, turn
ing round. prepared for a nasty re.
treat. His companions, who saw the
fish, scrambled out of the pond as
fast as possible
Henry had scarcely turned round
before the fish came up behind, and,
seizing his other hand crosswise, in.
flicted some very deep wounds ON the
back of 1t. The lad raised his free
hand, which was still bleeding, and
struck the great fish a hard blow. on
the head. when it disappeared. The
other boys took him to a surgeon,
who dressed seven wounds in one
hand and so great was the pain the
next day that the lad tainted twice.
The little finger was bitten through
the nail and IL was more than six
weeks before 1t was well.
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diers. railway guards and what not,
ton of all Chinese trains, examined
our tickets and passed on satisfied.
A FTER we got under way, the No.
L ticket-puncher, a cocky little
Cantonese. came and demanded
roughly what these foreigners were
doing in the compartment car. /
asked why an underling should object
when his superiors had placed us
there. The epithet made him furious
and from that moment on he ex-
hausted his brain thinking of ways to
annoy us.
Every few stations he re-examined
our tickets, he had our baggage moved
and checked time and again. An ap-
peal to his superiors procured no
tude being that / had robbed him of
face" and he was entitled to every
opportunity for revenge.
Finally I had a showdown with
him which resulted in a mutual agree
ment. II l would not report him to
the ministry of communications. he
would apologize and annoy us no
longer. / fatuously took him at his
word and thought that the unpleasant
incident was passed.
But when we pulled into Hsuchow
my Chinese compa Mons and l received
a real Official welcome" in the shape
Of an armed guard which summarily
took us into detention. / caught a
glimpse OF the leering face of the
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officers Four years ago he was the
most vigorous, idealistic man in China;
now he is, like Sun Yat-sen before his
death, an example of the tragedy of
personality in a civilization which
crushes uniqueness.
Il thank you, Elder Brother Ho," he
said touchingly. for giving me good
name in America. That's all l have
left
The Chengchow inns were crowded
with soldiers and we eventually found
shelter in the Standard Oil Compound.
The Chinese gateman and one of the
clerks endeavored to prevent my get
ting in, however, saying, "All foreign
ers are gone; this place has goine into
the hands of Chinese, who refuse to
see any one. / pushed my way past
them and was most Hospitality re-
ceived by the four young American
college men there.
During the night four British
American tobacco men, who had spent
90 hours in a box-car coming 20 miles
from the war area toward Hankow,
arrived and were put up by my hosts
whose resources for hospitality seemed
as boundless as their generosity. The
next morning we started out together
on the Belgian-built railway across
Honan.
The Belgian train-lnspector at
Chengchow gave us the only coupe on
the train-a cubicle with rough
wooden seats in the baggage car. All
the coaches were third class or worse.
The first and second ticket-punchers.
preceded by the mixed brigade of SOL
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gey in squares 902. s7s, 973 and 974.
Craven's account shows that at that
time. 1895, the Ttngey estate had
50, ,131 in the Bank of Washington and
$440 in the Bank of the United States
at Philadelphia. The account enters
dividends received from II shares of
Navy Yard Bridge stock (the stock
was appraised at 1,100) and $500 re-
ceived from George Bomford, executor
of B. l.. Lear. due the estate by Lear.
Among The vouchers is the bill of
- Hill undertaken lit may be II.
or A. Hill), showing that he had bought
from A. Holmead the following:
Twenty-three yards of cambria, $3.92;
II pairs of gloves. $3.50; Is pairs of
gloves, $3.50; pairs of gloves, 1854;
and pairs of gloves, $3.50; pieces
of Grape, $50; 10 yards of Grape, 1915;
of sarsenet 81, $6.47. There is the
bill of James Rhodes for turkeys,
patreages (?l. calves head and feet.
chickens, punches of fish, lard and
mutton. A bill of the Washington
Brewery shows that the Commodore
had bought four kegs of beer in one
month in 1928 from w. and T. Gunton,
evidently the brewers, and the bill for
the beer was receipted by Clement I.
Coote. A bill of Edward Simms.
grocer, for coffee, sugar, herrings, cur.
rants, punches of onions, gallons of
sperm oil. one pair shoes, $50: half
gallon molasses, Csc; bushel of turnips,
Csc; one dozen herrings, Sc; two gal.
Ions lamp oil at 81 gallon; one pound
of cheese at 1914 cents and a barrel
of -four. $S.75. In the docket is the
bill of NJ. Ronckendorff confectioner,
for quantities of pound cake, sponge
cake. jumbles and candy.
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IN one of the stories about Samuel
\. Smallwood, the Rambler gave
you the photograph of brick house
at the northwest corner of Virginia
avenue and Fourth street southeast.
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The Rambler told you nothing about
the house. He knew nothing about
it, He hid his ignorance by keeping
tenn. but not popular. After that
photograph came out I received the
following Informative letter from my
friend Allen c. Clark:
The mansion at the northwest cor
ner of Virginia avenue and Fourth
street was built by John Dempsie
about the year 1900. Dempsie was in
the city councils, twice president of
the second chamber. He was of the
first board of school trustees, so was
Barry DANES Barry. The Dempsie
house was architecturally attractive
more so than at present-before the
change of grade causing the under
building"
Commodore Tingey was comman-
dant of the Navy Yard at the time the
English captured Washington, August
"a, 1914. He made n report of his
action in setting fire to the yard and
shipping to William Jones, Secretary
of the Navy and ! hand you an ex.
tract of that report:
Navy Yard, Washington,
August 27, 1914.
"Sir: After receiving your orders Of
the gath instant directing the public
shipping. stores. ETC., at this establish
ment to be destroyed in case of the
success Of the enemy over our Army,
no time was lost in making the neces.
! sary arrangement for firing the whole
and preparing boats for departing
from the yard, as you had suggested.
About 4 pm. / received q message by
an officer from the Secretary of War
with information that he could protect
me no longer. Soon after this / was
informed that the confiagration of the
Eastern Branch Bridge had COM
rnenced and in few moments the
explosion announcing the blowing up
of that part near the draw, as had
been arranged in the morning.
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In an article last week Upton
Close Josef Washington HalD re.
counted his experience among the
Chinese Mohammedans in Rafan
when he was denounced in the
mosque as an inf1del at the Fes-
tivai u the Change Of Clothing.
In the course of the authors
peregrinations in China, he has
come to many dangerous passes,
but no matter how grim the stu
ati,n, his cheerful disposition has
remained irrepressible.
Mr.. Halls knowledge Of the Far
East is exceptional. He has tray
eled to many out-oftheway cor
ners as a correspondent repre-
senting an American news serv-
ice, a Sino.American agency, and
the English language newspapers
OF China and Japan. He is a
lecturer on Pacific Asia at the
University of Washington.
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Tingey Conspicuous Figure Time Washington Was Capt

it seemed to me that il was not the
smile she gives to Mrs. Smith when
she drops in for lunch. 1t seemed to
be more like the smile she gives the
man who comes to collect the install
ment on the furniture. / could feel
that a cold wave was coming. Well,
| put on a minuet record, and we
played piquet, lasquenet and quadrille
instead of eucher. and my wife served
toaster crumpets and gooseberry wine.
which she referred to as win de Cahors
quite a good wine in the days Of
Monte Cristo. There was a great wag-
ging of wigs and tongues and the
noble guests seemed to make my par
Tor sort of a slaughterhouse for repu-
tations.
Well, after jolly time, the ladies
put on their pattens and called their
chairs. Soon after this my wife said:
Harry, will not permit you to bring
such persons to this house, They
may be friends OF your youth. but
you should take them to a cafeteria
l viii not have women coming to this
house who use snuffi The women are
fun of paint, powder and strong per-
fume, and the men have their hair
and mustaches creased with pomade.
but they are not cleani / have never
heard such gossip since l heard Sir
Benjamin Backbite. Mrs. Candour and
Lady Sneerwell in Mr.. Sheridan's
School for Scandal" which / attend.
Ell at its opening at the Theater Royal.
Drury Lane, in 1777! That old frump
Queensberry told that the Duchess Of
Yarmouth had been on petting parties
to Vauxhall Gardens and Ranelaeh.
and Mrs Yarmouth said that Mrs
Queensberry wasn't even married To
her own husband The Duchess of
Kendall told yarns about Duchess
Yarmouth and King George II, which
almost could not be printed in a vel.
low journal. 1t spreads red doctrines
to criticize our rulersi Get out of the
draft, for l am going to put up the
windows. Mary. bring the patent
carpet sweeper and run IL over this
room, while 1 brush the powder and
snuff off the chairs"
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1.-THE intended fate of the yard had
power, among the inhabitants of the
vicinity, in order that they might take
every possible precaution for the safe
ty of themselves and their property.
Immediately after the announcement
of my purpose, several individuals
came in succession, endeavoring to
persuade me to deviate from my in.
structions. / invariably informed
them that their efforts were unavail
ing unless they could bring me your
written instructions nding
those previously given. A deputation
'of the most respectable women came
also on the same errand. ! was pain
fully necessitated to inform them that
further opportunities would cause the
matches to be instantly applied to the
trains. !, however, at the same time
gave them the assurance that IL left
mt peace i would delay the execution
of my orders as long as possible.
Capt. Creighton's arrival at the
ward with the men who had been with
him at the bridge, about 5 o'clock,
would have justified me in instant OPP
Grafton, but he also was strenuous in
the desire to obviate the intended de-
struction, and volunteered to ride out
and gain positive information as to
the position of the enemy, under the
hope that our Army might have raj
lied and repulsed them. / was myself
very desirous of delay, for the reason
that the wind was blowing fresh from
southwest and immediate action would
probably have caused the destruction
OF all the neighboring private prop
erty north and east of the yard.
was of the opinion that the close of
the evening would bring with it a
calm, in which, happily. we were not
disappointed. Other gentlemen, we'll
mounted. volunteered. as Capt. Creigh-
ton had done. to go out and bring in
positive intelligence of the situation
and movements Of the enemy.
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then Bernstein, introduced Harry and
me to some fashionable people at her
drums and routs at Tunbridge Wells.
Among them were Her Grace the
Duchess of Queensberry, Her Grace
the Countess of -Walmoden,
to whom George III was attentive, and,
as l remember, the Duchess of Ken
dali, Lord Marlborough, Lord of
March and others. The great Mr..
Johnson would come over from Mrs.
Browns tart shop. where he had had
II cups of tea, and Mr.. Richardson,
who wrote "Clarissa," would join us.
At the club at Whites in London. |
met my Lords Rockingham, Coventry
and others, and l met several of the
haughtiest nobility at the Wooden
Horse in Marybone Gardens. where
Figg and Sutton tried to break each
others jaw. I have kept up my
acquaintance with these friends dur
ing the intervening years-about 167.
Some of them were in Washington
few years ago. You know that no
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matter IN what part of the world you
meet people, they always come to
Washington that you may take a day
off from the ONCE and introduce them
to the President and climb the Monu-
ment. When i heard they were in
Washington / said to my wife: ).
Dear, we do not care anything
about society and it seems to care
little for us, but ! notice that you
read the society news and know the
name of the fellow the most pronf-
nent woman ran away with and the
names of all the men she has di-.
vorced and caused other women to
divorce. Il You know the names of all
the grarlddaughters Of Queen ANA
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the parior and we will have an illumi-
nation"
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COME of my guests came out to the
~ house in a hackney coach and
postchaise, and some of the ladies
came in sedan chairs and palanquins
with bearers in knee pants and cooked
hats. My wife met em at the front
door and 1 made the presentations.
Ellen" l said, Her Grace the Ouch
ess of Queensberry! Her Grace the
Duchess of Yarmouth and Walmoden!
Her Grace the Duchess of Kendall.
My Lords" etc.
The ladies made low and flowing
courtesies, and my wife smiled, but
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BY UPTON CLOSE.

r HAVE Travelled by many different
conveyances in China, from
wheelbarrow to special train and
airplane, and in many different
circumstances, from the dignity
Of an old viceroy requisitioning en-
tertainment from governors to the i'm
dignity of a beggar. but on my recent
trip from Peking to Shanghai l had
a new experience.
Since then, ] would recommend to
tourists that the most comfortable
way to travel in China is under ar
rest, provided one can get oneself re-
garded as sufficiently important
criminal.
With an armed escort to maintain
hzeathing space about one and keep
the luggage coolies from extortionate
demands to appropriate the best quar-
ters in crowded train or boat or inn,
and to bluff cooks into leaving the
garlic out of their noodles, travel
under guard as a Bolshevik spy is not
without its compensations, although
ones itinerary, of course, may vary
considerably from prearranged plans.
My difficulties all came through my
determination, at any price, to pay q
call of respect on my old chief, WI
-Pei-fu. When I eft Wu four years
ago, he was practically dictator of
China, placing in Peking the govern
plent which he chose, kowtowed to by
the Chinese and lionized by foreigners.
My last mission for him, before /
took typhoid fever and was shipped to
America to recuperate, was to nego-
Uate with Ii Yuan-hung in Tientsin
for his return to the presidency to fill
out his term so rudely interrupted by
the ten-day monarchial restoration of
1917
Many changes have taken place
during these four years. WI Pei-fu,
suddenly ruined by the Christian
generals detection in 1922, as sud-
denly came back to control of the
Peking government a few months
ago, and few weeks ago was again
catastrophically ruined by the aniaz-
Ing northern push of the Cantonese
rReds" and the desertion of his own
commanders.
Other changes, aside from those af-
9ecting the fortune of native politicos,
have taken place. The foreigner, who
four years ago could pass, with utter
immunity, from army to army with all
the military information he might
choose to carry. has lost his prestige,
] found, to the extent that he is
seized, examined and held, the same
rs any other suspected spy.
49, X \
MANY things have been laid at the
door Of the bolsheviks in recent
years. This loss of the white mans
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rilla and the sons of King Jaune. /
have some old friends in town and l
mean to make whirl in society and
write something complimentary about
ourselves and take 1t down to the
papers. / will give a party. You
must put your apron in the cupboard
and wear that dress Aunt Agathy
sent you, when she was done with it,
from Nantucket, and which you dyed
and made over. l want you to look
swell. Please wear the pearl neck
lace 1 bought at the curio shop on the
Boardwalk when we took our wedding
tour to Atlantic City. Also wear the
long pendant amethyst earrings which
were my t-grandmother's. Get
one of those yellow chrysanthemums
in the yard and put it in your hair.
Yellow and red are so striking, or
combative. When you serve our home
made gooseberry wine please speak of
it as Beaugency, Chambertin or the
wine of Anjou. Light both jets in
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BY THE RAMBLER.

. NE Of the Commodore Tingey
papers at our deeds office is
this: ITO all whom it may
concern: Be is known that
Thomas TingeY of the County
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. William Scott, of
E. Oak Crest avenue, entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Conroy at
dinner Friday evening.
Miss Elizabeth Joslin, of Mill
road, has returned home for the
vacation from Temple University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Meyers,
accompanied by their daughter and
son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Falkenberg, and their two little
granddaughter, Elya and Carla
Falkenberg, motored down from
Germantown Saturday Mrs. Falken-
berg and daughters will remain
until after July 4. The rest of the
party returned to their home
yesterday.
Miss Vera Joslin, who recently
graduated from the New Jersey
State College for Women at New
Brunswick, has returned to her
home on Mill road.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Scott, Of
East Oak Crest avenue, entertain
ed party of friends from Phila-
delphia over the weekend.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
JACKSON SPEAKS
TO LIBRARY Assn.
Gives Talk on Books as North
4 field Organization Has
Meeting
INTEREST IS GREAT
Spicy
Notes

Adventures in Bookland was
Professor Halliday Jackson's theme
As ne addressed the Library Asso-
citation in the City Hall Thursday
night.
His talk was very interesting and
inspiring. AS member of the
Chautauqua Reading circle, he told
of the plan of the circle to read a
certain number of books in a year,
and related many interesting stories
of his adventures in reading, OF
America, of England, Continental
Europe, Greece and Rome.
He spoke of Classics, as the
spiritual and intellectual food for
the mind, but said that different
types of people required different
types of books. A classic good for
one, was not necessarily the right
one for another person. A good
taste for books can be cultivated by
some one telling parts of some OF
the most interesting books.
He gave many points of the value
,of the. library service in the COM
munity and told of the peoples
interest in books. The way of intro
.ducing harder books to children is
ITO interest one child and he will
bring others.
The members of the association
are greatly encouraged by its rapid
growth during the year of its exist
,ance, and by the interest shown in
its future.
Miss Lizzie Price. the City Librar-
ian reported 316 books in the
Library, including adult fiction,
non-fictfon, juvenile and primary.
Many books have been r eceived
from the citizens but are not in
.cluded in the number reported.
There are 1872 borrowers registered,
of which so are juveniles.
The library will be open during
the summer months on Tuesday and
Friday evenings, from to 8 o'clock
George Meredith, president, pre-
sided at the meeting. Refreshments
were served and a social time en-
joyed after Mr.. Jackson's talk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
CIVIC CLUB HAS BAZAAR
Girls Entertained by Marie Smith
at First Street Home.

GiTIS EHLSi IdiI'Su Wy H"iiS
at First Street Home.
The Junior Civic club held an
enthusiastic meeting last Thurs
day night at the home of Marie
Smith, First and Davis avenue.
The entire meeting was given
over to the discussion of plans for
the bazaar which was held Satur-
day.
The girls expressed their sorrow
at the death of Mary Wilkinson
who had attended several of the
meetings, and expressed a desire
to join.
Donations brought in at this
meeting made the girls sure that
their efforts would be successful.
Mrs. Chambers extended the in
vitation of the Women's Civic club,
for the girls to attend their next
meeting Tuesday, June 2S at which
will have a social and small play.
At the close of the evening the
hostess served dainty refresh,
ments. Very few of the members
were absent from the meeting.