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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1911)
17, 1311. : " OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER i . . t'l ,1 N WISDOM OF CHINESE STUDENT AT CHINANFU STAYS WILD OUTBREAK Minchn Reformer, Rejected hy Own Race and Bated by Chinese, Concoct Plan Whereby City Is Saved From Horrors of Wax as Result of Rebellion Throughout Nation. . FT ALFRED TTNGLE.- "AUHBT FORD." -Ttary of the Literary Hurao of the Far Eiit, former, y Foreign Attacae to tbe Utt Govtrmor of Shantung.) CHINAXFL. Shantung. Nov. 10. Thine started Sunday. November S. The students had bean told the tiovernor bad sold Shantung to Gr rranjr for !. 000.000 taela (there had long b-n a loan pending of that amount on the security of tha 81 1 tax), and so they called a maaa meeting for that date. "The Emperor wioti the money to fight the revolutionists, We don't want to fight thm. Why sell ua to litrminr ibmi all? If we are to be sold, let It be England." waa the cry, The meeting passed resolutions againat the loan and demanded some thing like autonomy. Three were pre ented to the Governor for tranamle slon to Pekln. The regent was siren three days. Popular sympathy had been entirely revolutionary for weeks, "but the richer people hare been moving out In shoals and this started tnem afresh. fume have gone from Wu U ' Kan. but not many. All my near Chi nese neighbor have stood firm with ha determination to hoist a Union Jack at each end of the street In case of trouble, and. with mine In the middle. bid defiance to the universe If only I didn't so away. To satisfy themselves on that point they would come In every iav. till I aua-srested that the servants. instead of answering; questlona. should exhibit my atudy. and ask "How long It would take to pack those books and bolt. tieveraer la Danger. Monday. November . I aaw we might be In for a bad time. I'eople were growling threats at the Governor, and his guards were saying. ne won t run awar. We will see to that." Where fore I called at the Big North Mosque. If there was to be looting done. I knew rny friend, the Mohammedana, would be the people to start It. o I got the priests and elders, and tulked to them about consequences, and gave them ad vice. What I didn't tell them. Hushlfu. who went with me. did. He plays an excellent Aaron to my Mosea. The whole bunch of blackguards came to my house next day. and got some more talK. Then the people from the Big South Mosque came to see roe and I went In turn to them. The adherents of the two Mosques haven't been on speaking terms for a long time. Some months ago one fiction threatened to turn Christian In a body to spite the others, and Tuesday they owned up to their nice litUe plan. It was to wait until the other Chinese were busy with the revolution, and then settle their mutual theological difficulties with meat chop pers and other weapons. Under my ar guments about what would happen to them If they Indulged In either re ligious controversy or looting, they got scared and promised to be very good. Also they set to work to construct Union Jscks to protect the mosquea. It was on my way home from our last conference on Wednesday that a man stopped ma and asked If there is going to be any fighting. A knot of women collected at once, looking a bit anxious they were mothers and grandmothers of rr.y "Infantry regi ment." "If I hear of any fighting around here." I told the Inquirer. "I hall come at once and bring this rid ing whip. After that nobody will do any fighting except me. Fight? Who are you going to fight, do you think?" And about that time there waa a snicker from his wife. Maeaes Are Prepare. The Mohammeden quarter was al ready fixing Itself up and getting new Arabic texts posted on Its lintels and generally showing signs of extra piety and goodness. The three days" grace to Fekln being up on Wednesday night nd popular temper very uncertain. I had Liang La and his brother, who was here on duty, sleep In my house. Other places have Indulged In Manchu mas sacres and I had beforehand arranged that these two should take refuge with me If necessary. However, everything was quiet. Earlier in the day Chwang Taotal had come to see me. I hsd suggested to him also that hla bouse waa a likely tn lemnt looters, and this waa be fore I was sble definitely to say I had the Mohammedans In hand. He wanted to pUn with me. and Jhen happened a very Chinese thing. "How about your f..mlIvT" I asked. He lowered his voice. Til tell you In confidence. You mustn't repest It. but I sent them away some days ago. Nobody In Chlnanfu knows It but you." Ten minutes later Hushifu was telling Limit Lu with great gusto how Chwang's servants had told him thst their masters family and valu ables had all been sent away. Secrets never are secrets In China. I had a busy day Thursday, for apart from other duties I had to patrol the Mohammedan quarter, partly to show that I was on the lookout, and partly to reassure myself that they were properly Jn hand. I found three wed dings in progress. This was not really a good sign. When trouble Is antici pated a betrothed girl's parents will hurry the wedding, so that t"hey have one less responsibility on their hands. But other things looked well, and 1 hear that people have been remarking on the wonderful reformation of manners In the Mohammedan community during the last few days. The story of my connection with It haa gone about somewhat and people are thankful that I am back here. Laadlar Stays at Post. At night I got news that my Chinese landlord proposed to send hla family and furniture Into the country: so I sent for him and argued with him. 1 reminded lilm that he and 1 werei In the sarrvoj position, here In the village, that officials are In the city. He took the point and admitted that "good of ficials couldn't do that sort of thing." Them I reminded him that no robbers would coins here, and that If they did I was near at hand and could give an undertaking that no robber once caught would ever rob again. Also, that If his people moved I would no longer protect them. Then he began . -.-.it hnw robbers have, been sys tematically working the country roads of late, picking up unconsidered trifles In the way of refugee' money and jewels: so he went home again in per fect agreement with me. .About 10 o'clock that night three giina were, fired as a salute to the au tonomous State of Shantung, consti tuted that moment. We pay a nom inal sort of respect to the Emperor of China, but run our own affairs. The Betresentatlvi Assembly haa reorgan ised Itself and became the aupreme legislative assembly. It continues to employ the. Governor and most of the officials who have been appointed for merly by the Emperor. The Governor baa acted In a most statesmanlike manner, and In the best Interests of the people. He held out as a loyal gentleman as long as possible, and then submitted and helped to avoid ship wreck when ha found Pekln was going to d nothing. But the statesman who startles me most Is Liang En. mr own siuaeni suu disciple. I always liked and respected him. but thought him lacking Am he Is also honest. en. there seemed so political future for him. As an honest would-be reformer he had no Place among his own Manchu people; ajul u a, Manchu and aa boa- l rsr3 ,. -e:"-Jft.i.;s TVyajr j ' 3Aw est man. none among; the Chinese. Boms days ago he was with me, very blue, hatching plans for making a bare living when the crash was over, ana lamenting his all-round failure and the fact that he would soon be without clan or country. Plaa Is Llfe-Saver. By Wednesday he had a scheme un der way, by which he will Insure) his future and save the lives of the Man chus In Shantung about 15.009 men. women and children. Nobody else thought of them, except a few foreign- era Left alone, they would have starved to a point: then, being armed. would have robbed: and next would have come reprisals and massacres. The whole thing will be put through In the next few days, almost without a doubt, and all sorts of bloodshed saved. I'm very proud of my student. By the bye. he Is a Christian, and I think he alone would serve as an an swer to the question I am so often asked: "What good are the mission aries doing In China?" What his plan Is, actually, would take too long to ex plain, and It turns very much on tec nlcallttes and history. Friday everything was so quiet tn the city that as late as ( T. M. a pos tal official and his wife thought I was joking when I mentioned the change of government. There are a lot ot sol diers on the streets, keeping guard: but the bualness goes on just as ususl. I wrnt my rounds tn the morning and found every one "as good as gold." i7-wsiT.. . ' aX .w wi an, -x e n ijvy., a, r 1 ""is f " ''f fi" - t n ) sa 1 us m, tj V--p- . ... 1 1 iswsswsbi 1 ?r6yAzv7' ryees? Oregon's Rick Agricultural Land Needs Only Men to Develop It Millions of Dollars Already Being Turned Out From Soil Easily Capable of Developing Many Times That Amount. BY JOEL. 8HOMAKER. OREGON holds a place of prominence In tha story of agricultural wealth given to the publlo at the close of the 1911 harvest. The state stands well In the class of Uorthwest produc ers of apples, strawberries and other fruits, wheat, oats and other cereals and hay and general forage crops. Ore gon has contributed a fair share of the farm and orchard total of Dearly 19. 000.000,000 added to the circulating me. dlum of the United States In the Au tumn of this year's prosperity. The value of exports of domestic for est products aggregated more than 1101.000.000 for the year, the highest ever reported in the Nation. Oregon Is doubly Interested in such figures, be cause of furnishing much of the lumber making up that grand total, and for the reason that the annual cutting of timber is opening a new way to suc cessful cultivation of new lands. In new fields of agricultural development. For the rapid cutting of merchantable timber la Increasing the number of acres ot logged-off lands available for farming purposes. . Fertlaad Holds Key. Portland stands at the entrance to the markets of the world, on land and sea. and grasps the key to the financial situation which portrays' a wonderful future to those who will till the soil now being released from the primitive reserves of nnture. In the forests of the Western borderland. Millions of acres will soon be left In e. logged-off condi tion, awaiting the ax of the woodsman, the stumping machines of the devel oper and tie plow of the farmer to bring Into ,the City of Portland a vol ume of trade equal to tlOOO a year for every family engaged In carving a five or ten-acre farm from the forest. Western Oregon needs more farmers, more gardeners, more frultgrowes and more dairymen to make of It one of the most productive regions In the agricul tural werld. The reports for the year 1 B 1 1 show that the wise men and women who have gone upon the lands and made homes and established farms are rated among the wealthy, content ed and peaceable people of the world. They make good cltlxens because they are successful, optimistic and progres sive residents of a rich and up-to-date commonwealth", abounding In the pre cloua gifts of nature. Edaeatlea Plays Big Par. Education Is one of the potent forces In the work of developing modern agriculture. It has worked wonders tn very section of the Paclflo Northwest, and Is doing great act In revolution ising the farms of Western Oregon. In olden times It was thought that the boys had to be educated to fill profes sional positions, according to their natural Inclinations. Tha boy smart , '. Jdt' i'.rSo jfGwr SAjvrwy' My own "Infantry" were out In par ticularly full force, much to the amuse ment of certain more regular cavalry men. The future for all China Is very black Indeed. The chief point is that, for the present, none of my people have cut one another's throats, none of the children have been hurt, and we think we are going to do wonders. Also, the officials have been pretty well shown up as Invertebrate animals. Official Takes Advice. There Is a story of how the former President of the Shantung Assembly came to resign. He got a letter from LI Yuan Heng. the rebel general, which read in part: "You are a dead man, not a live one. Dead men should not be exposed In a public place, such as Assembly Hall. Be conveyed Into the country, like a self-respecting corpse, and be burled." So he did It. Certainly It was worth coming back to China to watch this sort of t ting. We shall have a lot of distress In the Province, or State, as it is now called, this Win ter, and little chance of raising the hard cash that will be needed to relieve It. A few foreigners, and some money to make a road or two, would do some good just now. But It Is no good dis cussing that: and anyhow, the Yangtse Valley Is going to attract, as usual, all the attention of the "charitable rich." I wonder whether they will again send from America, flour and corned beef, which a starving South erner will hardly look at, while the Northern men thrive on It? enough to cheat his schoolmate and then lie out -of It and ward off a whipping at home and In school, was msrked for a lawyer. The boy with a sympathising heart, sad eyes and lifeless body waa selected for a preacher. The boy who had a cloth and twine to bandage up- the wounded toe of his schoolmate was educated for a doctor. Old systems placed only dull boys on the farms and gave them wives from the homebodies of girls, not taking to the polished affairs of the world. That part of the teachings waa not objec tionable But, the Idea fhat none but stupid boys and girls, too slothful to get an education, were to go to the farms, while their brothers and sisters were sent to the cities, prevailed too extensively. In former times. That education placed many men, who would have made good farmers, In the cities, where they failed as poor laborers. Now, the scenes have changed, and a large proportion of the best educated men and women enter upon the land, as farmers, because It offers the best financial Inducements. i College Graduates oa Farms. College graduates are going from the classrooms to the country to give their lives to the advancement of agri culture. In that field they see greater possibilities than anywhere else In the worll. and thoy behold a Nation of contented, peaceful and prosperoua peo ple, for Ihe reason that the soil Is the source of wealth, and. through proper methods of handling, can be made to produce not only a competence for tbe farmers, but the breed and meat and clothing for a Nation having mora than S.O00.0OO people looking to agricul ture for the dally food and clothing necessities. Tbe general Government, through the Department of Agriculture. Is carrying on one -of the most Immense farm edu cational systems known to the civil ised world. In the past year It has operated 71 farmer demonstration trains, carrying object lessons In prac tical agriculture on tours of 40.000 miles, and having for pupils millions of men. women and rhtldren. Agri cultural colleges, experiment stations and fairs are being sustained In all sectlor s where the soil Is fertile and valuable. Great Area Available. Western Oregon has an area of logged-off lands that la large enough to give homes and profitable farms to several hundred thousand people. The sections once covered by forests are all desirable In every way for cultivating to farms, gardens and orchards, and present sites favored by the elements of nature, such as water, timber for building, rolling land naturally drained, soil ailed with humus from decaying leaf mold and an under formation of compressed vegetation that Insures. WMttMkiM! MlM- , . ' a-e- wMMikm milk ' l ,,? J A complete line of Victor Victrolas. Prices from $15 to $100. A Christmas Feature which has pleased hundreds of patrons. This is a hornless talking machine of the very latest modelt portable, compact and complete. Sound waves are magnified by the construction of the tone chamber, so that the music is exactly the same as that from which the original records were made no cramping or distortion. The spring motor is powerful and noiseless. It plays either ten-inch or twelve-inch records of any make, and can be wound while running. A convenient adjustment of speed is pro vided for, which allows the operator to ob tain the best results possible from every record. Price, $22.80, includes 24 selections of music, vour own choice. $22.80 cash, or TEN CENTS A DAY. In the New Eilers Building permanent soil fertility. There are no objectionable features such as the presence of alkali in the soil or. water, hard pan near the surface or barren spots lacking- In the essentials of plant foods. Commercial as-lcultur has practi cally no drawbacks In the lands of Western Oregon. Waterways are open to convey products to market. Rail roads are constructed to deliver mer chandise from mills and factories and facilitate general commerce between city and country. Rural mall service haa been established In many dletricta. Telephone lines cross the forest roads and border the loggea-on larms, linking- city and country In direct com munication. Then, the schoolhouses have been erected on logged-off lands and churches and assembly halls for fraternal organisations are every where present. If pioneers have cut the trails and erected homes on the logged-off clearings. Few Fall la as-rlenlrnre. Every successful attempt at culti vating the fertile soil of Western Or egon has became a personal agricul tural experiment station and returned profits to the entire community. Few men liave failed in any branch of mod ern agriculture. Oregon gardens give some of the choicest fruits and vege tables found on the markets of the Pa cific Coast cities. Oregon onions And favor everywhere, at home and abroad, and the demand is much greater than the supply. The Introduction of onion culture has resulted In Increasing the value of some farming lands from 40 an acre to more than $1000 an acre 20 to BO fold. The Oregon dairy farm Is an estab lished money producer. It has no black marks In its credit ratings and no seros in its class standing. The logged off fields are green with grasses every month In the year. The dairy cow has no extreme heat or cold seasons ta contend with and is enabled to Teturn the best profits at all times, because of uniform temperature pure water, appetizing foods and exhilarating at mosphere The dairy settles Its bills once every 30 days, and the dairyman can tell the exact amount of credit rating to which he Is entitled, on the right side of the bank ledger, 12 times In the year. Poaltry Offers Opportunities. The poultry Industry brought Into the United States an estimated value of K50.000.000 for the year of 1911. That is one of the natural assistants to builders of small, intensive farms, in the new lands of Western Oregon. No section offers better opportunities for growing ehlckens. ducks and geese than that lying In the realms of the now logged-off lands, and that which will soon be reckoned as cut-over tim ber tracts of the Pacific Coast region. The rainfall Is Just enough to Insure excellent crop yields for feeding pur poses, and to carry away refuse that otherwise might be considered Inim ical to health In a less favored dis trict of more arid atmosphere. Intensive soil cultivation, with dl-j versified nroflucts of all that may be adapted to climatic conditions. Insures the best results from commercialized land holding. Big farmers may make money in some sections of the world, but not In Western Oregon. This Is essentially the country for the man who la satisfied with a little land well tilled and that brings financial re sults, even more satisfactory than the old time quarter section of farms of the middle western states. Land Is worth nothing until cleared of the stumps and logs and made, ready for the plow. Then Its value goes up to (100, 600 and $1000 an acre, prices varying according to location and the Get 1 All makes and $1 r f Victor IS Edison LO Columbia and a complete records : Victor Edison Columbia Red Seal 65 c Blue are constantly carried "by EILERS MUSIC HOUSE. The Nation's Largest crops produced. It Is worth the values recorded because It produces crops that pay dividends on such valuations. Panama Meaaa Much. There Is a future to tbe logged-off farming Industry of Western Washing ton that presents some pictures of more than ordinary wealth. When the Panama Canal shall have been com pleted, the event duly celebrated and ships are making tbe passage In safety, the nations of the Old World will be seeking outlets for their In dustrious tenants on leased lands of aristocracy. Men and women, with ambitions for home ownership, will Join the procession, on shipboard, for the Pacific Coast, and particularly the Northwest Coast, to get tracts of land on which to erect homes and secure financial Independence. These emi grants will seek out the lands of the Pacific Northwest because of their pe culiar climatic condition and excep tional market locations. The logged-off lands must be cleared of stumps and logs and placed under cultivation to give homes to the thou sands of people now looking for little farms. Those families should be taken from the class of non-producing con sumers and placed In that of the pro ducing consumers. In such e Class they will add to the wealth of individ uals, increase the taxable areas of the county and state, assist In building roads and expanding schools and bring about a period of general financial in dependence that can be felt In the city as well as the country, when money kings of the old capitalist centers are wondering where to store their dollars to be certain of retaining them over the times of panic Farm Bfortgaaies Safe. A more liberal system of financing agricultural propositions Is necessary In order to Induce men and women to leave the payrolls of the city to build homes on logged-off lands. The cost of clearing away the stumps and logs and getting the lands under cultivation is a stumbling block In tbe way of progressive farming. Men cannot af ford to do that work after the manner of their forefathers, and to adopt mod ern methods requires the investment of money. If the expense of clearing, plowing and planting a five-acre tract of logged-off land, and building a small house, for starting a family, is placed at 11000, which is reasonable, then the farmer must either have the money on hand or be able to obtain it at the bank or other depository. There Is no security offering safer paper than the cultivated farm, under present systems of intensive handling of the soil. The Investor Is able to sleep in peace, with the mental assur ance that his money Is In good hands and is producing sufficient to pay the interest regularly and return the prin cipal whenever the contract expires. A plan, adopted for the reclamation of arid lands, gives the settlers a period of ten years. In which to pay for the water rights,- without which the land would be worthless. So, In the logged off regions, a similar agreement with the state, corporation, bank or Individ ual furnishing the money, on ten years' time, would insure the redemption of every acre suited to cultivation and enhance the value of the surrounding country many fold. Charity Not Needed. What, then, is in the way of exten sive developments of the logged-off lands of Western Oregon? The lands can be purchased at low prices, the cost of clearing may be reduced to a minimum by using stump pullers, home burners or charring methods of de struction, and In a few years the .own ers of small tracts might have all their e a Talking Machine IFof Chris Our Christmas Surprise The Table that sings and talks. Price $100. Terms. This is one of the most beautiful creations of the cabinet-makers 'art. The talking machine is perfect. This is our standard talking fine homes that everyone knows the in strument. Therefore, we need only to say here that it is the highest possible development of the art of talking- ma chine making. Price $200. designs of Talkers. $200 line of all the $7 Seal lands under cultivation. The farmers now on the lands, and those to come, do not need charity. They call strongly for credit, the use of money on long time, the same as other developing commercial investments. They cannot work without proper food and suitable clothing and to get them and educate their children necessitates some cash on hand, or easily obtainable, while preparing the land and bring ing It to a stage of profit production. When the financial end of the logged off land situation has been settled there will open a new field for profits from the Investment of labor and capi tal which will continue forever, and produce more wonderful cash results every year In the coming history of time. Indiana CInb Meets. 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