Lincoln County leader., September 15, 1911, Image 11

StiLiL ID
jzcryr of ryj- gajtat
THE Chinese wall, marvelous
barrier extending more than
1,700 miles over mountain
and valley, Is doomed. It Is
said that under the rule of the
new regent, Prince Chun, a progres-'
slveness will be carried to a point
where not only will the old order of
government see Its downfall, but all
that physically recalls the past will
also be destroyed.
Tradition Is the yoke that binds
China. It Is the obstacle that has kept
that country of marvelous resources
back. Prince Chun knows this, and
It Is said that In his desire to effect
reform he will not content himself
with merely establishing new methods
In his systems of government, but will
actually wipe out the physical relics
which keep the face of China turned
to the past rather than to the future.
Of all these survivals, the Chinese
wall Is the most famous and the most
wonderful. The countries of power In
the world today were unknown when
this structure was built to keep out
the Invader. In cataloguing the won
ders of the world, It has never been
possible to make a classification that
omitted the Chinese wall. It was 200
years old when Christ came to earth,
but even then it was not the work of
a young nation, for China has a his
tory that can be traced back for 6,000
rears.
The project for tearing down the
Chinese wall originated some years
ago, and it is said that the late em
press and her son, whose deaths com
ing to close together so suddenly
changed the whole aspect of the fu
ture for China, had consented to abol
ish the wall, and had even signed the
contracts for its removal when super
stitious fear seized them and the order
was revoked.
Descended as they both were from
the Tsin dynasty that built the great
barrier, and having that worship of
ancestry that Is deeply ingrained In
the beliefs of the Mongolian, they
feared at the last moment to commit
this sacrilege on the masterwork of
the dead.
But Prince Chun, who as regent for
the two-year-old baby emperor, is pos
sessed of full authority, has no such
scruples. He Is not the offspring of
emperors and there Is nothing to hold
bim in check. He is known to have
Etrongly advanced Ideas and to be es
pecially independent and scornful
where the old Ideas of the past are
concerned. Therefore, it" is probable
that he will carry the work of demoli
tion to a finish. '
The Interest in whether he does so
goes farther than the mere question
of the wall. It has to do Indirectly
with the future of the Immense hordes
Father of Antiseptic Surgery.
Lord Lister, who recently cele
brated his eighty-fourth birthday, is
the medical genius who discovered
and Introduced the antiseptic method
of surgery, thereby making possible
the almost Incredible operations per
formed by doctors today. Before his
discovery it is estimated that nearly
63 per cent of surgical operations
proved fatal, owing to septio poison
ing. Lord Lister, like many other
scientists, has a wide Interest In
things, and his powers of observation
are abnormal. Speaking of this on
one occasion, he remarked on the
great advantage of drawing as a train
ing for observation. "The man who
sketches," he said, "looks and looks
again at an object, and thus the all
Important habit of correct observation
Is acquired."
Barred Out.
New Reporter (bursting in) I got
the story. How many words?
City Editor I don't care how many,
so you omit these: "When the loco
motive struck him he hurtled through
tbe air as though shot from a cata-paulf
(DEann) A)
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who people the country. The wall Is
the symbol of the ancient that holds
the country In check. If he be brought
down the modernists will take It as a
sign that the new ruler will during
his stay as regent enforce the new
Ideals. If In spite of his Impulses he
Is wont to let the great wall stay,
China will settle back lazily and com
fortably and decide that nothing rad
ical will occur under the present
regime.
This is the situation that now gives
such an extraordinary Interest to the
old line of fortifications. Modern ar
tillery would speedily reduce the last
vestige of the ancient barrier, but It
was not built to withstand this kind
of attack, and in the days when It
reared its head over the landscape. It
was an Impassable stronghold.
Man's Great Piece of Work.
The visitor who gazes at this stu
pendous construction Is made to feel
very modest as to the skill of the mod
ern engineer. Experts of all nations
have named It as the most astounding
piece of work ever performed by man.
Even over the pyramids - and the
sphinx it is given the credit
In Imagination the spectator Is
moved back 20 centuries to the times
that Shl-Hoangtl, the greatest of Chi
nese heroes, reigned. China then led
the world In wealth and culture and
the nation bad a great literature.
Rich rewards of conquest constantly
Inspired the Mongols, wild tribes who
lived in the country now called Mon
golia, to make forays. They had In
vaded the country on the northern
part, and were encroaching further
toward Pekln and the provinces of
the south. It was In this crisis that
Shl-Hoangtl performed the feats of
valor that made his name forever
famous In Chinese song and poem. As
sembling a mighty army, he threw
himself on the Mongolian hordes,
fought them, defeated them, and sent
them flying back from Chinese terri
tory. But It was not enough to bave
downed the enemy. The Mongols al
ways came back. They bad a per
tinacity that made them the most dan
gerous of foes. Therefore, Ittbecame
necessary to construct a barrier that
would unfailingly perform Its duty.
Everything had to be done by hand,
for the great engineering devices that
today accomplish the work of 600
men had not then been Invented. But
fortunately labor was plenty in this
most thickly populated country in the
world, and swiftly the great wall
moved into Its place, grim and power
ful and able to withstand any assault
that Mongols might make.
Its battlemented walls are 60 feet
high, and at every few hundred feet
Financial Genius.
"Do you think there Is any such
thing as financial genius?"
"I am sure there Is. I. know a
young-man who has It In a marked de
gree. After he had persuaded , the
beautiful daughter of one of our most
prominent Jewelers to become bis
wife, be went around and Induced the
old man to let him bave an engage
ment ring at the cost price."
"I don't see any Indication of re
markable financial genius about that"
"Walt When he and the girl broke
their engagement he took the ring
back to her father and got bim to
pay eight per cent interest on the
money that had been Invested."
An Even Thing.
Mistress Bridget, how long would
you stay with me if I couldn't pay
you?"
Maid As long as you'd keep me If I
couldn't cook, mum." Harper's Bazar.
The surest way of governing, both
In private family and In tbe kingdom,
is for a husband and a prince some
times to drop their prerogatives
tney bristle with towers where In day
of yore Chinese warriors stood ever
ready to repel the Invader.
Of Mortared Brick and Stone.
The wall Is 25 feet wide and Is
bjullt for the greater part of Its way
of mortared brick and stone.
When tbe Ming dynasty bad come
Into power it duplicated for a consid
erable extent Sbl-Hoangtl's wall, and
thus for a large part of the distance
there is a double barrier.
The most powerful part of the wall
is that at Pa-ta-Ung, for this gate was
only 60 miles from Pekln. and here it
was that any charges directed against
the greatest and richest city of the na
tion would have to be repulsed. One
great battle was fought here, for at
tbe top of. the Nankou pass the gate
was the scene of the last stand against
the noted Mongolian warrior, Genghis
Khan, and when he overrode the de
fenders It was down the pass and
through the gate that the conqueror
led his forces. He took the Mongols
Into China and conquered a country
against which his people had been
fighting for 1,300 years.
Kubla Khan also entered by this
pass when he completed the conquest
of China and made his realm the
greatest the world had ever known.
Oenghls Khan and Kubla Khan
were differently dlsposltloned. Oenghls
burned all the literature of China, but
Kubla protected the literature and
helped along the people by wise meas
ures that gave prosperity In agricul
ture and commerce. Kubla fixed
places In tbe wall that had been rav
aged by the wars of the centuries and
undertook to restore tranquillity In
the country.
Some historians have said that the
great wall accounted for the sloth In
to which China fell. The huge bar
rier, which even today shows Itself
to be stoutly built, gave the people a
sense of security and made them feet
that no nation could overwhelm them.
Centuries passed In this foolish de
lusion, and when tbe war with Japan
came China discovered that she had
been sleeping for centuries.
Since the humiliation of that defeat
by the Mikado a determination has
grown up among the younger element
of the people to earn a place among
the great nations of the world.
The old dowager empress and the
weakling emperor stood In the way,
Now they are gone, and the country
looks with hope to the strong man
who is now at the helm. It Is prob
able that before long China will feel.
no matter how the remainder of the
world may regret the passing of a
famous relic, that a new era has
dawned.
MacDonald and His Manager,
Will R. MacDonald of Washington
rented a farm a few miles outside of
the city to escape the din and noise of
town; but soon ltred of the trouble of
looking after tbe place.
"I'm going to hire a manager to
look after this farm," be told bis fam
ily at breakfast one morning. "Then
I wont have any more trouble. He
can occupy a room on the top floor,
and we will all have a quiet, easy
time."
MacDonald leaned back and smiled
serenely In anticipation of the com
ing rest and peace.
That night, as the new manager
passed htrough the r u on his way
upstairs, MacDonald Tepped out and
asked him if he cared to have the
afternoon paper.
"No, thank you," replied the fount
of rest and quiet. "I have a flute on
which I always practice two hours
before going to bed." Twlce-a-Month
Popular.
A Wrong Choice.
There Is no act, nor option of act,
possible, but the wrong deed or option
has poison In It which will stay In
your veins thereafter forever. Never
more to all eternity can you be as you
might bave been bad you not done
that chosen that You bave "formed
your character," forsooth! No; if you
bave chosen ill, you have deformed It,
and that forever! Ruskln.
Handicapped.
"No, 1 am afraid you will never win
fame and fortune as a song writer,"
remarked the publisher, as he banded
back the manuscript composition.
"But I have made 'moon' rhyme with
'tomb,' nad 'kiss' rhyme with Vlsh'."
expostulated tbe youthful composer.
"What more do you want?"
"True," admitted the publisher, "but
.you know entirely too much about the
rules of grammar."
Then did the young man curse the
day wherein be had been given a
common school education. Puck.
The Beautiful Women of Today.
It Is a satisfying reflection that tbe
fame of the noted beauties of tbe day
will go down to posterity not as tbe ar
tificially bedecked and painted hero
ines of old, but conspicuous and cele
brated by reason of their splendid
manifestation of health, of youth, of
comeliness. Ladles' Field.
No Variety.
"Matilda, why are you letting the
baby cry that way?"
"Lor, John, the child don't know any
other way of crying."
JOINS
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COLONY
Educator's Wife Goe3 to Follow
Strange God.
Purdue University Head Divorced Aft
er Indian Philosophy Is 8aid to
Have Taken Wife to South
Sea Islands.
Lafayette, Ind. It Is the high priv
ilege of all to follow Individual taste
In the matter of religious belief, but
sometimes the result Is deplorable In
tbe extreme. Not all can think alike
as regards tbe here and tbe hereaft
er, on this all-Important matter of man
and his final destiny, but In spite of
this diversity of opinion all good men
and women will deeply sympathize
with a family where the wife and
mother has deliberately left her home
to follow after a strange god. Such a
regrettable Instance has Just been
brought to light through the granting
of a divorce to President Wlnthrop E.
Stone, of Purdue university, who Is
given the custody of a minor child.
Henry Stone, on tbe ground of aban
donment The course of this tragedy which
has brought deep sorrow to the Stone
family is told In a pathetlo story
dating back three years, when a class
In ."Yoga philosophy" was organized
in Lafayette. Many women and men
in college Joined the class, which be
came a fad in social circles. It was
taught that a complete fulfillment of
"Yoga philosophy" Involved the sep
aration from family, friends and kind'
red, Mrs. Stone became a devout fol
lower of this faith and left home
When last heard from In an authentic
way she was in Germany, but has been
reported since that she has left that
country for Kabakon, a South Sea Is
land, to Join a colony of followers of
the new belief. In the island where
Mrs. Stone is supposed to be Its mem
bers are called sun worshipers.
This colony Is one of the queerest
In tbe world. It was founded several
years ago by August Englehardt and
numbers fewer than 100 persons. They
live almost entirely on cocoanuts. Tbe
clothing they wear Is said to be of the
variety and quality affected by the
natives of the South Sea Islands who
have not come In contact with the
civilizing Influences of the mission
aries. Owing to the trouble with his wife
Mr. Stone recently sent his resigna
tion to tbe trustees of Purdue, but
tbey unanimously declined to accept
It He has been a capable bead of tbe
university since 1900.
It was' no emotional, Impulsive ac
tion that took Mrs. Stone from her
family. Her course was deliberate,
and she followed It after long reflec
tion and, apparently, after having
counted the full cost
Most singular Is the story of Mrs.
Stone's fall under tbe spell of the mys
terious Yoga cult For years she bad
WOMEN TO CARE FOR TREES
Aldermen of Mlddletown, N. Y, Let
Contract to 8oclety Leaders
Big Victory for Former
Mlddletown, N. Y. The women of
Mlddletown won. a great victory the
other day when the board of alder
men turned over to them the care of
tbe shade trees of the city and tbe
bids of other contractors were thrown
aside. Last year the Federation of
Women's ClubB took up the matter of
laving the shade trees of tbe city and
succeeded In getting the taxpayers to
vote $1,200 for that purpose. Tbe al
dermen let tbe contract and at tbe
and of the season the women claimed
the work had not been done properly.
This year tbe women asked the alder
men to award them the contract
Bee on Nose Wrecks Auto.
Hartford, Conn. George Seele of
Brookllne, Mass., has a bad gash in
:he thigh and numerous other cuts and
icrtches because be Incautiously
:rled to swat a bee on bis nose, while
le was driving his automobile at a
mm
Dee i reading ineosopny and kindred
subjects, and was mildly Interested la
them. It was along about this time
that Dr. George Moulton organized la
Lafayette a class In tbe Yoga philoso
phy. Many women and some men, la
West Lafayette, thj college town,
joined tbe class, and It became a great
fad with certain highly educated peo
ple, Moulton taught that tbe Yoga phil
osophy was the religion of tbe Indian
Yogi, or Soothsayers.
One of the leading features of this,
doctrine was that of tbe "withdrawal,"
or separation from kindred and
friends. It was this feature that at
last fastened Itself upon Mrs. Stone as
subsequent events showed. Meetings
of Dr. Moulton's class were held la
several homes. Books on tbe subject
were put In the hands of Mrs. Stone
and other members of tbe class.
Radical and revolutionary as were
the books of the cult. Dr. Moulton
seemed to go still beyond them, and
evolve a Yoga philosophy of bis own.
But the members of tbe class were
warned not to make public any of the
private and secret Instructions of bow
to send telepathic messages, bow to
hypnotize, bow to use the key of Kar
ma Yoga, and how to beal tbe sick.
One of the injunctions In this respect
was "Do not become a laughing stock
for your friends by telling them what
you can do or bow you do It"
HARRIET BEECHER ST0WE
Famous Woman Who Wrote "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" Was Born One
Hundred Years Ago.
Litchfield, Conn. Tbe one hun
dredth anniversary of tbe birth of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, one of tbe fa
mous children of Dr. Lyman Beecher
and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
was celebrated at her birthplace here.
While the author of many books,
Harriet Beecher Stowe is remember
ed chiefly by her great work, "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." She was forty years
of age when the story began to run
as a serlel In the National Era, an
Abolition paper published In Wash
ington. It was translated Into every
language of Europe, had a sale of over
500,000 copies In the first two years
after Its publication, a fourth of which
were In England, and It Is still called
for In many of the public libraries of
tbe country. As a "best seller" It far
surpassed all the work of recent days
and has been exceeded In circulation
by the Bible only. At one time more
than a dozen theatrical companies
were traveling through the country
presenting this drama.
A Good One.
"Is that corporation you are Inter
ested In a good trust?"
Bhould say It Is." answered Mr.
Dustln Stax. "It's good for several
millions In dividends every year."
rapid gait along 8aybrook road. He
took his hands from the steering wheel
Involuntarily when the bee alighted
on him and In a twinkling found him
self underneath the car. The car was
only slightly damaged.
Kill Many Files.
Snn Antonio, Tex. One and a quar
ter million dead files In one heap, be
ing a pile three feet high and five
feet wide, represents the slaughter
wrought by small boys as the result
of a fly-killing contest which closed
bore today.
Robert Basse carried off first prize
of $10 with an official record of 484,.
320 dead flies.
Autobus Is New Child Fad.
New York. Tbe autobus has dis
placed the merry-go-round as the pop.
ular entertainer of children on the
New York East Side. The autobus
gives a ride around the block for 2
cents, or three rides for 6 cents. It
Is tremendously popular, tbe children
fighting to pay their pennies for a ride
In, a real automobile