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mWw ELL. if gills nren't the
I mmw meanest:"
0 AAV O HI ulster dried lier eyes
1 )S nml looked up. "But not
KOW nil girls. Will, nnd perhaps
those girls don't "
"Oh, Hint's rlfjlit. stand lip for 'cm,
lifter they've treated you like dirt all
dimmer: For downright meanness nnd
hatcfulncss give me ft lot Of girls.
Why, a crowd of fellows would no
more net the way this crowd of girls
has done than than " And he
itopped hopelessly, as If the thing was
beyond comparison.
Well, of course, boys nre different."
"Yes, they are! When n fellow who
fernis to be the right sort moves Into
town, do tlio fellows of that town
let Mm alon snub him for three
straight months? Don't you think It:
They give him a show they're civil to
hlin. and It he turns out to be of their
kind, then he's one of the crowd, and
that's nil there Is to It."
"Well, that does seem to bo the fair
way. And I don't know I don't know
tvlnit It Is I've done. 1 hnven't done
anything; you see. I haven't had a
chance. I suppose" Caroline's lips
were quivering again "that they Just
don't like my looks."
".Nonsense: Why shouldn't they like
your looks? It's just their meanness."
'Willi Will:" There was a note of
tragic txcUement In his sister's voice.
"There they come now turning the
corner. They go past nearly every day.
They have pleulcs and and things."
Will seated himself on the railing of
the veranda nnd looked hnrd at the
five laughing girls who were coming
toward the house In an old-fashioned
carryall.
'Don't seem too interested, Will.
Don't don't look at them like that."
Why enn't 1 look at them?" he re
totted, savagely. "Guess If I want to
'.ook nt llieiu there's nothing to prevent
it. They're not so much to look at.
anyway."
The "crowd" of girls drove by with
not a glance toward the big house.
)n the veranda of which Will and Caro
line Stuart were sitting.
"They do have awfully good times,"
said Caroline, wistfully, "nnd they
seem awfully fond of one another."
"I guess I'll go up and write some let
ters." she said, a few minutes later.
"I like to keep my letters written up,
becuuse well, you can see that it's
oeen pleasant to get them since I've
been here."
Her brother looked after her darkly.
Toor Cal! She never did a mean
thing In her life. Why any one should
. want to snub her Is too much for ine.
"O mother," he called, as a pleasant
faced woman enme round the house,
'cn't you come hero a minute? I
tvavt to talk to you."
She took the chair lie offered her. "It
Joes seem good to have you home, Will,
mil I'm more glad for Caroline's snke
than for my own. She has had a
pretty hard summer of it."
"That's what I want to get nt. What
iindcr the sun's the matter? What do
those girls mean by lining up ngalnst
Cal':"
His mother shook her head ami
raised her hands hopelessly.
"Will, girls are queer." she said. "I
".nu't understand It. Why, if they'd let
Cal be one of them, they'd find her the
lolllest and best of the lot. When she
first came hero In the spring she saw
right away that they were the ones
he would like '.o know, and she was
o pleased to think that there would bo
nice girls for her to have n good time
with. The first night we sat here on
the porch they went by laughing and
talking, and Cal looked nfter them for
lornly, nnd I remember I said to her,
'Never mind, Cal, you'll be one of them
In a week,' nnd she said she supposed
Jf course they'd call or do something,
but they didn't, and that's all there Is
lo It. They simply net ns If Cal wasn't
In town."
"Well, of all the mean, contemptible
Petty " And then words failed him
"In addition to everything else," said
the boy. nfter n few minutes of silent
fuming, "these live estimable youm.
ladles are acting pretty silly in snub
bing Caroline. Cal could give those
girls nil sorts of a good time, and she
' would love to do It."
"Of course she would. When sh
saw how big the bouse was, she said
to me first thing, 'Isn't It lovely
toother? We can have people hero nil
the. time.' And your father bought
that automobile for no other reason In
the world except that ho thought It
would be pleasant for Cal to take peo
ple out in."
"Well, mother." said Will, quietly
"it's just a clear ease of snub, Isn't it?'
Perhaps the whole thing would not
have happened If Just the week bc
fore the Stuarts moved to Elmwood
Marlon Foreman had not read n story
about some people who were "vulgarly
rich." No one lu Kimwood was "vul
gnrly rich," and as Marlon's liunglua
tlon was such that she was bound to
fix the phrase on some one, it descend
ed upon the pcoo who were expected
in a few days to move into fhe hi
house.
ii:nt night sho asked her father nil
about the new family
"Why, really. Marlon." he sold, nfter
she had put a half-dozen questions to
uim in rapid succession, "I enn't ac
count for this sudden Interest of yours,
i can t say that I know a great deal
about the Stuarts. The man, so I am
told, made a great deal of money last
year iu the oil country. He is coming
here to live because lie has tome In
terests near here, and then 1 dare say
he think it will ho n plenwint place
, for his family. I think I heard some
one soy that there was a young girl
Olid a boy. I believe they ure very
nice, sensible people,'
"They ure vulgarly rich," commented
Marlon.
"They uro newly rich." corrupted her
Jot her. resuming his paper.
But in the story the newly rich people
had also been vulgarly rich. nd
Marlon lefused to aepnraro the ideas
lo her mind. The next tif ternoon,
on Caroline
SUSAN KEATING GLASPELL '
when the little crowd of five girls was
making fudge at Kitty Benton's, she
told them all about it, half-unconscious-
ly attributing to the unfortunate Stu-
nrts the qualities possessed by the peo.
pie in tne story.
'There is a girl," she informed them,
and I think she is about our age. I
suppose she will attempt to buy her
way Into our crowd. She will wear
better dresses than any of the rest of
us, nnd sho will think that Just because
she has more money than we have that
It Is her place to lord it over us. Now,
we must show her that tho old fam
ilies of this town are not going to suc
cumb to mere wealth. AVe must be
quite oblivious to her guady display.
it is fortunate we understand the situ
ation before she comes, for now she
will be given !io opportunity to hu
miliate ns."
All of this made a deep Impression
upon the four other girls. Marlon, be
cause she was the most imaginative
of tho crowd, had become in a sense
Its lender. She had a peculiar, quick
way of assimilating tho things she
rend, and that made her companions
feel that Marlon had attained to n
very deep understanding of life.
The first day Caroline Stuart walked
down the main street of Elmwood,
they felt their suspicion that sho would
attempt to "lord it over them" to be
confirmed. Her gown bore tho marks
of a city dressmaker, and she walked
very straight and carried her head very
nign. That Was partly because she
had been taught to do so at school, and
In part because, feeling timid with so
many strange eyes upon her, she
sought refuge in dignity. Her Impulse
was to look with friendly interest nt
the five girls ns slie passed them, but
feeling shy, she looked straight ahead
Instead.
Well, of all the airs'." gasped
Marlon.
It is evident that she feels miles
ibove us!" sputtered Kitty Benton.
We will not trouble her," comment
ed Doris Morton, with dignity.
"Its just as I told you," insisted
Marlon. "Now the only thing to do
is to Jet her absolutely alone."
They did. When sho passed them
ii-on the street they were deeply ab
sorbed In one another. They studied
the art of passing her house -without
knowing it was there. When she be
an driving In her pretty pony-cart
they regarded It ns a personnl affront.
Tho strange part of It all Is that they
were in truth kindly girls, nnd would
have felt very badly indeed at the idea
of hurting any one's feelings. Their
attitude had grown upon them to such
an extent that with the coming of the
big red automobile, tho first to be
seen In Elmwood, the Ignoring of Caro
line Stuart had become a duty.
Perhaps few girls of her ago have
ever passed ns unhappy a summer as
Cnroline Stuart passed that year. Of
a warm-hearted, sunny nature, she was
a gin to wnoni menus were a neces
sity. She was so free from any idea
of distinctions created by money that
the secret of the thing never dawned
upon her. Sho supposed, on the other
hand, that the girls did not like her.
It was a beautiful day in September.
and her young, naturally buoyant heart
made her wish to get outdoors and bo
doing something, even if she must do
it by herself. Will and her father had
gone in the automobile to an adjoining
town, and her mother wns lying down
with n headache. So she started out
alone to drive up the winding river
road which skirted the edge of the
woods.
j ne couniry rounu Kimwood wns
very beautiful, and Cnroline threw
herself Into the spirit of the day, tell
ing uerseic nine somo time. In some
other place, she would find friends to
enjoy the world with her, and that
meanwhile she would try to enjoy It
by herself.
She was succeeding In getting more
pleasure out of the drive than had
been hers for a long time, when sud
denly she hoard laughing voices, nnd
peering through the trees, saw the five
girls Into whose friendship she had at
one time supposed slie would bo taken.
They were spreading a cloth upon the
grass mid opening some parcels. She
watched them through dimmed eyes
until they sat down and began to eat,
Thc.l, when she could bear It no longer,
she whipped up her pony and started
briskly up the road.
The day had lost Its charm. She did
not see the woods and the river and the
soft sky. She knew only that the
world seemed a hard, lonesome place,
and that Jier heart was yearning for
friends and companionship, for the
kind of fun thoso girls were having.
It was very near the same spot that
upon her return, a half-hour later, she
saw Marlon Foreman and one of the
other girls helping Kitty Bentoit down
to the river, It was evident that sumo
thing una befallen tier, for she was
Hopping on ono root, and moving ns
If it pained her. Caroline guessed nt
once that the girl had sprained her
ankle, and that they were helping her
to tho big, fiat rock close to the river.
They did not notice her until she was
near them, so near that she beard
Marlon call to tho girl behind, "Of
courso this had to happen the very day
wo walked Instead of drove!" and
then they glanced up and saw her, and
looked with studied care out at the
river.
Caroline drove by, her heart beating
very fust. Kvery Instinct prompted her
to offer to drive Kitty Benton back to
town. But would they accept the
offer? Would they not think she was
trying to intrude, nnd tell her in so
many words that they did not care to
have anything to do with her?
Of courso they would, and she would
not go back. But the Idea of leaving
any one in trouble when It was within
her power to offer help came over her
as too dreadful to he considered, and
she wheeled the pony sharply round.
"I beg your pardon," she sold her
effort to keep her voice steady made it
sound very cold but I believe you have
1 hurt your foot. Xf you care to liavo
me drive you back to town 1 shall bo
glad to do so."
"Thank you," said Kitty Benton,
shortly, "hut I think we ran get along
all right."
Caroline turned her pony and drove
quickly down the road.
"Maybe It seemed mean," said one
of tho girls, as they stood watching the
pony-cart.
"Nothing of the kind!" declared Mar
lon. "Did you notice how, she did It?
Why, she never so much as looked at
us! Just looked straight beyond ns, at
if she were talking to to servants!"
Marion end Doris Morton were ap
pointed to go into town to get a buggy
for Kitty. They had gone about half a
mile when, making a sudden turn,
they enme upon the pony-cart tied to a
tree. They saw thnt it was empty,
and Just as they were about to pass
on they heard a strange sound. They
looked at eucb other queerly, nnd then
they heard tho sound again, a deep,
long sob that went straight down Into
their hearts.
"She's crying," whispered Doris,
"crying dreadfully."
Marlon looked uncertainly down the
road, and then took n few noiseless
steps lu among the trees. Under a big
tree, her face burled in tho moss, lay
Caroline Stuart, her pretty blue dress
much crumpled, her whole body shaken
with sobs.
Then the real girl in Marion Fore
man, the real, true girl that was there
in spite of nil her foolish notions,
swept nwuy all else. Bunnlng quickly
to the sobbing girl, she sat down beside
her, and put her arms round the shak
ing figure. "Is thpro anything we can
do? Is there anything at all? We Just
can't bear to see you cry like this!
Isn't there something we can do?"
Caroline's grief was too deep to admit
of surprise. . "I'm lonesome," she
sobbed out, "so lonesome! I can't bear
It! I can't! I can't stand it to have
you all treat me like this! I want
friends! I oh, I want to go to your
picnics!"
"But hut we thought you were so
Ich!" stammered Marion. "Your house
is so big, and the pony-enrt and tho
automobile and and we thought "
Caroline sat up then, amazement
checking the sobs. "Well, what has
that got to do with It?"
Why why, you see, we thought that
you were O dear. I don't know.
Maybe we've been all wrong. I I'm
sorry.
Do you mean,-'' began Caroline, very
slowly, "that there isn't anything hi
particular the matter with me, that you
don t hate me, and thnt you actually
thought that I didn't wnnt to have
anything to do with you?"
But Marion, covered with confusion,
was crying herself now, which was
perhaps the best thing that could hnve
happened, for they put their arms
around one nnother nnd cried together.
Any one who knows much about girl
nature can tell the rest of tho story.
Of course Caroline went back for
Kitty, nnd theu there were more ex
planations nnd more tears, and every
body ngreed that the whole thing had
been too silly for words. Each girl
confessed that down in her heart she
had wanted Caroline ns a friend for a
long time, but ha J not known Just how
to say anything about it to the others.
Will Stuart was disposed to think
his slsler should refuse to have any
thing to do with girls who were so
silly as that, but his mother saw It
differently. "Just see how happy sho
Is, Will, just see how she's changed.
and don't say ono word against those
girls. I tell you, every timo I hear
Cal's laugh ring through the house I
give thanks for joy."
At the end of the first week Marion
Foreman told the story to her father
It was truly remarkable that she had
kept It as long ns that. He talked to
her very seriously about how wrong
she had been, nnd she received the lec
ture with considerable humility.
"Caroline is tho finest girl I ever
knew," she assured lilin. "It comes
natural for her to do kind things for
people. I suppose," she added, nfter
a moment of reltectlou, "tills instance
goes to prove that rich people nre not
always ns black as they aro painted."
"My dear daughter." said Judge
Foreman, "you will find ns you go
through life that it Isn't money or the
hick of it that makes the man or
woman. It is the heart that is with
in." Youth's Companion.
Knox H'ii Obeying Orders.
Senator Knox's physician advised him
to give up smoking a few days ago and
put him In the sanio class with Sena
tor Spooner, also smokeless after forty
years of it. Senator Knox's physician
happened up at the Capitol and went
Into tho Senator's committee room to
pass the time of day. He found Knox
smoking a cigar. "Here, Senator," he
said, "I thought I told you to quit
that." "Quit what';" asked Knox in
mild surprise. "Why. quit using to
bacco." "Tobacco! Why, my dear doc
tor, I am not using tobacco. I urn
merely smoking a cigar Senator Dol
liver gave me."
Tim Llnn' Hlinrti.
Two brothers, of whom a writer In
the Washington Post tells, got on nona
too well with each other, for reasons
which will be plain to all.
"Here," said their mother to tho
older of them one day. "here is a
banana, Divide it with your little
brother, and see that he gets the lion's
share."
The younger child a few minutes
later set up n great bawling.
"Mamma," he shrieked, "John husu't
given mo any banana."
"What's this?" iqulred the mother,
hurrying in.
"Why," explained the older boy,
"Hons don't eat bananas,"
A KaTorl Instruiuaut.
The story U told of a newly rich
woman who on the occasion of her
daughter's wedding gave a large re
ception, for which music was furnished
by an orchestra of twelve pieces.
The leader of this orchestra was a
violinist who hud achieved a social as
well as a professional success, and the
rich woman evidently wished to recog
nize this fact and muke clear her
knowledge of It.
When tho evening was half over, the
butler approachej the musicians, who
were having a short intermission, and
lu his loftiest manner he said, alter re
ferring to the paper in his hand:
"The violin eats in the dining room;
the rest of the Instruments eats lu the
pantry."
THE M'KIRLEY MONUMENT.
Plan of the Memorial to lis Jlullt
t Canton.
The accompanying picture shows the
deslgu accepted by the McKinley Na
tional Memorial Association for the
monument to be erected nt Canton,
Ohio, President McKlnley's home. The
contract for its erection has been
awarded and the association has col
lected ?."00.(00 to pay nil expenses of
the work.
The association has purchased about
twenly-fivc acres of laud adjoining
Wcstlawn Cemetery In the western
portion of Cnnton, Ohio. Including a
mound some seventy feet In height.
Upon this will be built a mausoleum of
pink Mil ford granite, circular in form,
seventy-live feet lu diameter nt the
base, nnd about 100 Teet In height from
the foundation.
This structure will be reached by a
flight of approach steps fifty feet In
width, in four runs, with wide land
ings between, constituting a rise of
fifty-five feet in nil. The hill will be
terraced to conform with the Inndlngs
on the staircase, presenting on the
whole a terraced mound surmounted
by tho structure proper.
At the base of tho staircase will be
built a plazu 200 feet lu width. The
main approach will bo a mall about
1000 feet In length, 170 feet In width,
With a waterway in the centre, and on
either side a double row of trees paral
leling driveways.
Tho Jury appointed to select the arch
ltect was composed of two architects,
Walter Cook, of Now York, and Bob-
r :
ACCEPTED DESIGN OK THIS McKINLKY MONUMENT.
ert S. Penbody, of Boston, and Daniel
Chester French, of New York, tho
sculptor. They chose the design sub
mitted by II. Vnn Buren Magoulgle, of
New York City.
The interior of the mausoleum will
bo circular and finished in light gray
Knoxville marble. Excepting the door
way there will bo no opening but that
through tho crown of the dome. In the
:entre of this mortuary chamber will
be the sarcophagi, so designed that
they appear us two In one. They are
.ut from single blocks of polished
granite. In front of the mausoleum a
statue of President McKinley will
stand. New York Sun.
The adverse vote of Bath, England,
on Carnegie's offer jf SM.I.imk) for a
public lllnary was taken by means of
postal cards sent out by the City
Council. ,
Type of Goat
A MALTA
AUTOMOBXE JTOWER WAGON.
Not ulone Is Glasgow, Scotland, milk
ing a success' of the experiment of mu
nicipal ownership of public utilities,
but in the operation of the street rail
ways is using every up-to-date device
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ACTOUOniLB TOWKB WAUOK.
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CURTAIN FOB FIREMEN.
Portable Shield Which Protects tl
flame- Fighters.
An ingenious Omaha inventor has de
signed an entirely new lire-fighting ap
pliance. While Its use is entirely re
stricted to fires in building of small
Tortable Fire Shield.
proportions, such as low stores and
dwellings etc., tho portable fire shield
will, no doubt, find many advocntes. It
consists of a wheel truck carrying a
folding fire screen of fireproof material.
When collapsed the entire outfit does
not tnke up as much room as u honk
nnd ladder, and Is drawn to the scene
by horses, who ure immediately de
tached and taken out of harm's way.
The truck is then wheeled in front of
the burning building and the shield
raised by means of a hand gear op
erated by the firemen, the general plan
of arrangement being apparent from
an Inspection of the accompanying cut.
Such a portable shield would prevent
the spread of the Haines to adjaei-nt
property, and occasionally It might
enable firemen to approach near
enough to n building which was burn
ing briskly to effect a rescue of a life
or property which ordinarily would not
be attempted because of the danger In
volved from Intense heat, but from
which the shield would screen the lire
man. Philadelphia It coord.
Invitations are to no .'ssuud ly Bel
gium to other nniionf '. send .epre
sentathes to an Internationa; confer
ence on the (ttuly of e polar regions.
Introduced Here. -
COAT.
which makes for speed and thorough
ness in Installation and repair, lu thn
latter connection there has lately been
added to the service an automobile
tower wagon for overhead trolley work
which has proved quite uu Improve
ment over the old horse-drawn vehicle.
Tills self-propelled repair wagon is
equipped with a twelve horse-power
motor und is capable of a maximum
speed "f sixteen miles an hour. Fast
runs aro dally made to points where
breaks occur, mil the saving lu lime
is so considerable that several similar
wagons will shortly be added to the
service nnd the old horse-ilra wn ve
hicles wltlidravu. The Illustration is
reproduced from Motor Age.
Mrs. Him Vninllnl by I'luttxry.
Mrs. Jullu Ward Howe who. at eigh
ty six, Is still addressing audlcm-v
with wiahated vigor, was recently pre
sented In a most Haltering way by an
enthusiastic presiding uilleor. "Dear
me," said Mrs. Howe, as she ruse lo
her feet, "It Is lucky luy name wn
mentioned, for I never should haiv
recognized mynclf from Unit description."
YUAN SIIIII-KAI,
The Most Iiemnrkable
in China To-Day. -
1:
BY A. G.
UJ4 t'AN SIIIII-KAI has sum
jfL.. V marlly dismissed I'rofessor
O V b C. D. Tenny, his foreign
if
- K superintendent of educa
HQT tlon for Chlh-ll. Yuan has
deprived his colleague, Chang Chili
Tung, of the pleasure dear to a Chi
nese general's heart of disbursing 13,
000,000 taels on army mnneuvres In the
south, and will himself see that the
money goes to buy cruisers to patrol
tho Yaug tse against what? Boxers?
Yuan Is quite the man of the hour. If
be orders a company of his forelgu
drlllcd riflemen to change station for
tho merest sanitary reasons. It is tele
graphed around the world. Yuau's war
pony stands saddled day and night, and
Y'uan's retinue waits by hours outside
the Empress Dowuger's gate. But who
is Yuan Shlh-kai?
Yuan Shlh-kul, the viceroy of Chlli
II, the capital province of China, is the
most remarkable character In China
to-day, not even excepting the Empress
Dowager herself; not only Is he the
strongest man in China, the craftiest,
the subtlest and ablest courtier, but he
Is n barometer of political events; his
attitude forecasts the trend of national
affairs. Viceroy Yuan can, If he de
cides that it comports with his for
tunes, change his attitude with the ce
lerity of a weather vane, but despite
this, and albeit ho has removed his fa
vorite foreign educator because of anti
foreign prejudice und anti-American
pressure, he must not bo supiosed to
be the mete puppet of external Influ
ences. He is an active, thinking force
lu the empire's affairs, but over and
above all he Is the supreme great op
portunist, who neglects to take advan
tage of no tide or current which will
carry him a little closer to the steps ,f
the great dragon throne from which
Ids countrymen were rudely thrust
three centuries ago by a foreign inva
der. China is a land of contradictions,
and Yuan is one of the living contradic
tions. Like 1. 1 Hung Chang, he has
risen to greatness under rulers who
thrive by grlndiug down the people of
Ills race, for Yuan, who is the right
hand of the Manchu dynasty, is him
self Chinese. A soldier in a country
where prowess at arms is despised as
a characteristic of rowdyism, he alias
distinguished himself as the first sol
dier of the empire, the best horseman
nnd swordsman thereof, and yet Is si
multaneously the adviser of royalty ou
profoundest problems of state. Iu time
of peace he is the staff oh which a de
crepit Uovernment leans; iu time of
war he Is the sword arm of the Coveru
uient. Yet the versatile and useful viceroy
of the capital province has not always
been the unquestioning tool of his Man
chu masters. He has flagrantly set
aside the imperial will in one or two in
stances, and daringly disobeyed com
mands telegraphed hlin from the
throne, but he has ccme through it nil
without shedding one bright peacock's
feather or losing a jade button. Per
haps the strength of this remarkable
man witli the Pekin Government was
best shown when he precipitated the
coup d'etat which placed the Emperor
Kuaug Hsu, the Son of Heaven, in the
position of a captive, and gave the
Government over to the reactionaries
who constitute the Empress Dowager's
own personal cabal. Commissioned by
tlie Emperor officially to nssassinate
tlie Governor of Chlh-ll Province, who
actively opposed his Majesty's reform
schemes, Yuan, Instead, bade the Gov
ernor to flee to the Empress Dowager
and tell her all that transpired. The
result was that the Emperor was
clapped Into a palace prison, and since
that day the Empress Dowager has
handled both the reins and the whip
of Government; but the world does not
know what part Yuan Shih-kalto
whom so many foreigners owed their
lives In 1!MH), the man who has actual
ly Introduced many practical reforms
into China played In bringing tibout
the Emperor's downfall.
This Illustrates where Yuan Shih-knl
Ftood nt the time of the great Chinese
coup d'etat of'lNUN; but when the
Boxer trouble arose lu l'.HX) and threat
ened to sweep the country of foreign
ers, Y'uau had executed another one of
thoso graceful political I'.cuilvolts of
his which aligned him witli a mightier
power than that of the dragon throne
namely, the allied powers of the world.
For reasons not unconnected with
Germany and her mailed-tlst policy in
Shang tung Province, Y'uau Shih-knl
was made Governor of that province
Just previous to the Boxei uprising,
and the rich hinterland that the Kaiser
chose to regard as his Chinese land of
promise was carefully and surrepti
tiously seeded down to dragon's teeth
by the wily Governor. Suddenly the
plot thickened, and athwart the dark
ening political sky loomed great war
spectre of Great Britain, America,
France, Kusslu, Austria, Italy nnd
Japan, ns well as Germany, and there
was at least one Chinese official who
knew that China could not cope, In
her then state of unprepnreduess, with
such mighty forces. Tweaking the tail
plumage of the German eagle would be
as nothing by comparison, and Y'uau
began to cast about him to see what
might be saved from the generul
wreck
"For a few months," lie may have
communed with himself, "my country'
men will doubtless -make It very dls
tresslng for tho foreigners iu China;
nfter that the foreigners will land In
legions nnd will scatter the imperial
troops like chuff. If I cuu prevent the
massacre of foreign women and chil
dren in my province I shall be lu a
position to intercede with the forelgu
communders on behalf of my unhappy
countrymen, and when the trouble lias
blown over us nil of poor China's
trouble have blown over, sooner or
luter the Dowager will huve the 'fuce'
to deny nothing to Jier most humble
servant Yuan."
At Iciitt, events came about along
these lines as accurately as If Yuan
had so disposed them. The Kightecus
Harmony Fists arose lu their might
tad drove the foreigners out or killed
THE SAUAUIUUS.
Character
EAMES.
them hi the remote places of North
China, stopping nt nothing until they
felt the hot breath of the foreign rWles
In the settlements along the Pel-bo.
The Big Knife Society sanctified 111
namesake emblem in a thousand vil
lages by imbuing it iu the blood of
"foreign devils" or of their "second
ary devils" (converts or servants of
the foreigners) when no foreigners
were available. With tht report of
tlie Shan-sl and Pao-tlng massacres
telegraphic orders reached Y'utiii Shlh
kai from the throne, "Exterminate all
foreigners."
Governor Yuan called the foreign res
idents In his capital together, and, pur
suing the same genera! plan as be bad
when sent to kill Yung Lu, informed
them that lie was under orders to kill
them, but added thnt he hud no inten
tion of complying, telling them, as he
had told Yung Lu, thnt it would be
necessary for them to take active meas
ures at once for their own salvation.
Not a foreigner was killed or a foreign
house looted or destroyed In Sliau
tnng Province, and early in tho nutumn
of 1!)!XI the foreign residents were able
to retiyn to their stations, and found
thnt, through the forethought of the
Governor, sentinels had been posted
over their property, which had thereby
been preserved intact.
Yuan did not participate In the battle
of Tlen-tsin, where the Allies first
broke tho power of the Chinese, who
up to that time .had been dominant and
hud kept the residents of the settle
ment practically piisours. His plen
was to have an army in the buck
ground, believing that whoever proved
to be the victors would be too badly
exhausted after the fray to invite on
encounter with fresh troops, nnd that
thus he would hold the balance of
power, which would enable him to pre
vent tlie unnecessary taking of life.
The battle of Tien tsin began nt
earliest daylight on Friday, July 13,
I'.hki, witli a furious cannonade by the
circle of butteries that ringed Tien-tsin
settlements, and before day fairly
broke the Allies hail deployed into line
of battle, the Itussiaiis with the little
detachment of German nnd Austtiau
sailors to the eastward of the settle
ments, the British, Japanese. Ameri
cans, French and Italians to the west
ward, where they maintained nil day
long tho terrific nnd seemingly futile
assault upon the southern face 'of the
Chinese city. Hardly hud the troops
moved into position, though, when the
eager watchers on the towers of Gor
don Hall and the German Club de
scried a strong force of cavalry man
euvrlng on the open plain to the west,
far beyond the positions of the Ameri
cans, British and Japanese. At first
these were taken to be a mounted de
tachment of British or Japanese
thrown out to reconnoitre the country
In conformity with the general plan
of attack. Although fired on several
times the stranger riders did not mani
fest any signs of hostility. They never
came straight on, but Invariably swept
around In a semicircle and disappeared,
in the dust clouds to the westward.
The marine outpost later reported that
a body of them had galloped toward
the western gate of the Chinese city,
and had seemed to hold a parley with
the people on the walls. Theu they
came back toward the Allies and nude
another demonstration or overture, but
met with discouragement, nnd went
away again. Later it transpired that
they were Yuan Shili-kal's cavalry.
Despite his disobedience of the man
date to "exterminate all foreigners,"
Yuan's star has been in the ascendant
ever since tlie return of the court from
Its Sheti-si exile. First he was ele
vated to the vice-royalty of the capital
province, then in addition made com-mnuder-ln-clilef
of tlie nnny nnd navy.
His standing with the outer nations
has been so good, as a progressive of
ficial and friend of the foreigners, that
it is doubtful If be would sacrifice it
by yielding to any nntl-forelgn clamor. .
unless he wns convinced thnt the days
of the foreigner in China were nun;,
bered. Dining the days of the coup
d'etat nml the Boxer uprising, he dis
played a prescience of national and In
ternnlloniil events that seems like a
gift of prophecy. Has the prophetic
mantle fallen from It I tit. or is there
handwriting upon the wall for the for
eign nations to read? San Francisco
Argonaut.
Ithkftfl Ilia Mnnnr,
Thomas Murray recently spent nn
afternoon in town attending to some
business matters, and on reaching his
home, feeling very much fatigued, he
Immediately prepared to retire. While
disrobing he placed his pocketbook,
containing several bills and two !M
gold pieces, on top of the heating stovo
lu bis bedroom.
There was no lire In the stove that
evening, but next morning one of the
members ot tlie family started li lire iu
tlie stove without noticing the pocket
book lying on top of it.
When Murray smelled burning leath
er he knew at once whnt had happened
and did some hustling to reach for his
pocketbook, which he found hud been
burned through, us were ulso the bills
which it contained. He lost no time
in driving to the Leavenworth Na
tional Bank, where ho informed Ed
ward Carroll of his loss. As the num
bers of the bills were easily made out,
Mr. Carroll sent the bills to Washing
ton, where they were redeemed by thn
Treasury Department. Leaven worlU
Times.
Arl!tli'tle Kaera.
In the recent great athletic niert'nj
at Canton, China, arithmetic r:ire
were a feature. Tuplls from the ,
schools carried (.lute ami pencil, nnd In
the course of tho race they encoun
tered a blackboard containing a sum to
be solved. The boys were lined up as
they reached the goal, und those whose
calculations were wrong were then
eliminated. -The first three left lu th
Hue were counted winner.
The King of Spu:u has a civil ll,
fixed by the Cortes, of 7,000,1)3'.) i.ctt
t, or iSO.CUO, year.