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CHINESE IMPERIAL TROOPS.
The “Boxers" of [hina.
A Secret Society Who** Object I* to
KxteriuluaCe Foreigner*.
Chinese T HE as resent ness they “Boxers,” and the have Peace periodical been or Fist “Righteous- called, Society,” revolt rep- of
conservatism against the in
flux of foreign influence nnd foreign
methods. They originated with the
people of tho West ru provinces, large
ly in Shantung, who looked aghast as
they saw foreigners coming in and
taking by force what they considered
their own patrimony Murmurings
grow on every hand. This came to the
knowledge of tlie Afnnchu leaders, al
ready wondering how they were to
hold their own against the twenty mil
lions of young Chinese who, during
tbe brief reform administartion, had
acquired a taste of Western life with
Its opportunities and ambitious. It
was not sufficient to gain control of
the Government, replace the aggres
sive Emperor by the reactionary Em
press Dowager, secure the dismissal
and flight of tbe reform leaders and
bold tlie machinery in their bands.
The poison of reform lmd spread all
over the country, and was constantly
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CHINESE GUN CREW WITH FIELD PIECE.
being instilled into the people in num
berless ways. The only effective
method was to expel the foreign ele
ment, eradicate it altogether. Hence
they looked with favor upon the new
movement; encouraged it secretly,
guarded It from Interference, without,
however, patronizing it openly. When
the movement became so strong that
the German authorities threatened to
interfere, it was transferred west and
north, ami appeared In I’e-chln-li, the
province of Pekin.
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ers among the Insurgents. They took
special palus, for the most part, to
avoid open collision with European
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INTERIOR OF UNITED STATES LEGATION AT PEKIN.
is the of Minfster bouse In the Chinese capital.)
Governments. The foreigners them
selves, while aimed at, were reached
by the peculiarly Chinese method of
^udirection. Their persons, with one
exception, were not touched. It was
their followers that felt tlic blow.
Missionaries were left In safety, but
native Christians were butchered. The
movement grew, nnd the crowd became
more open in its manifestations. The
men drilled in the very square of re
kin, and not a word was spoken from
the Palace to hinder. In the provincesa
quasi effort was made to suppress
them, but with tbe order for suppres
sion went a private order to the Gov
ernor to he patient with the people,
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whose intention was not evil, even if
of their actions could not he ap
At first tlie foreign embassies
themselves with protests.
these there came the usual form of
Oriental assent, aud the usual attend
ant Oriental delay. As Pekin, how
ever, was threatened, and the possi
bility appeared of danger to the em
bassies, the demands became more ur
gent. Ships of war gathered at Tien
tsin, and marines were landed and, de
spite the protests of the Tsungli Yn
men, transported to the capital.
Tlie "Boxers” profess to be an or
ganization for the cultivation of gym
nastics, but, like the Turn Verein,
which so perturbed the retrograde gov
ernments of Germany in the days of
the Holy Alliance, they conduct a se
cret itolitical movement and uphold
the ultra-conservative and anti-foreign
tenets of that energetic, indomitable
old lady nml thorough going reaction
ary, the Empress Dowager. It is an
oivou secret that the Mnnchus, the rul
iug race in China, encouraged and sup
ported the “Boxers,” anil probably tlit it
to their patronage that society
owes its remarkably rapid spread
Shan-Tung, where is was
throughout the whole province of
chiu-li. The rise of a strong
movement’ against Christian*, foreign :
ers and native reformers was undoubt
edly a consolation to the ManChu man
darins and the iimpress. Iqdeed, last
Junanry they were referred to In tones
of high approbation by the latter au
gust personage, and, in consequence,
U is impossible to withhold some meas
ure of sympathy for the “Boxers” in
the position in which they find them
selves. They believed Tiey were bask
ing in the light of Imperial favor, and
the Dowager Empress’s edict certainly
lent color to that supposition. That
edict, which It was understood at the
time had special reference to the “Box
ers,” drew at cnce a wide distinction
between “those reckless fellows who
band together and create riots,” in
other words, seditious societies, and
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“the submissive and loyal subjects”
wlio “learn gymnastic drill for the pro
tection of their families o unite the
villages in their districts for mutual
protectiou, in other words, the “Box
ers.”
“But the local authorities,” the edict
went on to say, “make no distinction,
aud, mistakenly listening to groundless
rumors, treat them all as seditious sub
jects aud ruthlessly put them to death.
The instructions to the local officers
should be precise, that in all cases of
this kind they should only inquire
w hether the men were rebels or not,
and should not consider whether they
lmlong to a society or a religious sect.”
Beading between the lines, the mean
ing of the edict is plain. Free liberty
of action was lo be given to any so
ciety which is loyal to the throne,
while stern suppression was to be
meted out to nil those who, directly or
Indirectly, belonged to disaffected as
sociations.
Edwin Hurd Conger, United States
Minister at Pekin, under whose direc-
tion American marines have been
landed for the protection of American
interests against the “Boxers,” was
born In Knox County, Illinois, March
7, 1843. Mr. Conger is a man of will
and nerve. He was educated in Lom
bard University, graduating in the
class of 1862. He turned from the
schoolroom to military service in the
Union Army. He began the study of
law at the close of the war, and grad
uated from the Albany Law School in
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EDWIN H. CONGER.
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1S0O. lie first practiced law at Gales
burg in 1868, and then removed to
Dexter, Iowa, where he became en
gaged in farming, stock raising and
banking. He was elected treasurer of.
Dallas County, Iowa., in 1877. and
again in 1S7H. In 1880 the Republi
cans chost? him for State Treasurer of
Iowa, and re-elected him in 1882. Af
ter this he served three terms in Con
gress, leaving his position there to
become Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentiary to Brazil. From
this liis advancement to the important
post at Pekin was rapid. He is ranked
as one of the ablest of American rep
resentatives in foreign countries.
Burial* In House;**
In certain parts of Africa it is
considered a mark of disrespect to
bury out of doors at all. Only slaves
are treated in such unceremonious
fashion. Tbe honored dead are bur
ied under the floor of the house.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Discourses Upon The Damage
Wrought By Incessant Rains.
TELLS ABOUT HIS WONDERFUL BEANS
Ami Revert* to the Story of “Jack an<l
tl.e Itcan Stalk’’—Dlgresscl to Other
Topics.
This is the first bright genial sunny
morning that we have had in three
weeks—for twenty-one days it has
rained every day save one. The crops
arc in a bad fix; the corn and cotton
are hidden by grass and weeds and
labor is scarce, for the negroes are
wanted in the mines. Most of the
wheat has been cut, but how much of
it will be saved cannot yet be told.
Within my recollection of fifty years
I do not recall so much rain in har
vest time. According to scripture, it
seems to be the same old story, for
Solomon says, “As rain in harvest so
is honor unseemly in a fool.” They
had too much rain and too „ mauy
fools then just as we do now. Maybe
Providence sends the r*in to try the
farmer—to make them diligent and
shifty.
I traveled on the East and West
railroad last week for 60 miles and I
noted some farms that were clean and
nice—the corn and cotton chopped out
and the wheat shocked in tho field; one
of these belonged to a widow, and she
and her three girls and one boy were
just finishing the cotton. Markham
dident write anything about the woman
with the hoe, nor the girls, but one of
these girls was merry enough to wave
her bonnet at somebody on the train
besides me. Some farmers sit down
and wait for tomorrow’s sun to dry off
the ground; but tomorrow’s sun dident
shine, and so they wait till next day.
Others slap in every chance and do
something; I know one who began to
cut his wheat Monday morning just as
soon as Sunday was gone—for Sunday
was the day it did not rain. He cut
half that night and all day Monday
and got through with his 30 acres, and
he says he will make 700 bushels.
Auother diligent farmer made 400
bushels last year on twenty acres, and
sowed it right away to cowpeas and
sold his peavine hay for more per acre
than he got for his wheat. That is
business—and Solomon says, “Seest
thou a man diligent in his business;
he shall stand before kings.” I am
no braggart, but let me say that if X
had waited for the rain to quit I would
be singing that old song, “A man of
words, but not of deeds, is like a gar
den full of weeds.” I worked between
showers, and sometimes when Mrs.
Arp called and called me to come in
out of the rain I pretended I didn’t
hear her, and struck a few more licks
for Mr. Markham. I wish yon could
see my bean arbor—not bntter beaus,
but the best and most prolific bean I
ever planted, I had them last year on
my corn patch, but they do better on
poles or over a cane arbor. Plant two
rows of beans five feet npart, aud
when they are well up stick them with
canes. Lap the small ends of the
caues together on the ground, and get
your wife or daughters to tie them in
three or four places—all of uniform
length—then arch them over tho
beans, and nature will do the rest.
I never saw half as mauy beans as
hang from my vines. Of course the
raius have stimulated the growth of
everything, and it’s lucky the vege
tables grow upward instead of outward.
I planted my potatoes in a trench that
was shoveled out and manured with
ashes—wood and coal mixed—then
covered with pine straw and some earth
on that They are the finest I ever
gre n '> nnd come out of the straw r al
most clean enough to cook without
washing. Pine straw' is very valuable
in a garden and is cheap, costing only
30 cents for a good load. It is good
muleh for strawberries, and I am ex
perimenting with it under a few to
mato plants; most of them I have
trained up to stakes, bat I saw a mar
ket garden near Memphis and all the
tomato vines had tumbled over on
wheat straw, and made more fruit,
though not so large and fine as when
staked.
A garden is a small experimental
farm, and is of as much consequence
and more pleasure, especially if yon
mix flowers with it. Don’t throw away
your coal ashes; mixed with wood
asheR, they are a fine fertilizer. Mr.
Berekmans says that ashes produce
fruit, while stable manure produces
vine aud foliage. Ashes will double
the quantity of strawberries. Be-9ts
generally come up too thick. Thin
them out and transplant; cut oft part
of the tops, and the transplants will
make the best beets. Just so with
celery. But I don’t propose to teach
old gardeners, for some of them can
teach me—my neighbor, Mrs. Fields,
is the best gardener I know of, and I
am satisfied if I can keep up with her.
I have some of my wonderful beans
planted to poles. The poles are from
eight to ten feet high, aud it interests
me to see the bean vines reaching np
to find something higher to cling to.
The tendrils are now tw'o or three feet
higher than the poles, and still reach
ing up and feeling around in the air.
I nm going to give them some fishing
poles fifteen feet long today—wish I
had some twenty feat long.
They remind me of Jack and his
bean vine—my children and grand
children never tire of that good old
story. How a poor widow had a little
boy named Jack who was good to his
mother, and one day Jack saw an old
giant coming, nis head was as big
as a small barrel, his eyes as big as
saucers, his nose as big as my arm, liis
mouth like the end of a big stove
pipe and his teeth like iron spoons.
Ho came np the road snorting like a
horse, and was singing,
"I smell the blood of an Englishman;
Alive or dead I must have some."
Jack ran in tlie house to his mother
aud she pulled up a plank in the floor
and dropped .Tack down in the cellar
and put the plank ^ac-k, and moved
her chair and table on it, nnd sat down
and went to knitting. Here came tin
old giant, pufliug and blowing like 1
steamboat. He dideut eat anythinf
but little boys, nnd he peeped in and v
the door and said, I’m hungry,
I’m hunting for a boy.” Jack’s mother
told him she dident have any boy for
him, and to go off, or she would set
her big dog on him. Then he walked
all round the house and looked down
the chimney, for he was as high as a
tree, but he couklent find Jack.
When he went away nnd was out of
sight, Jack’s mother took up the plank,
and reaching her hand down, she pull
ed Jack out of the cellar. Soon after
this a poor old woman came along and
begged for something to eat, and Jack
and his mother fixed her up a good
dinner aud some coffee, and the poor
woman was so thankful that she gave
Jack a bean and told him to plant it
aud it would grow as bushels high ns the sky
and have bnshels and of beans,
and the vine would grow as high as a
tree in one night. So Jack planted it
right away, and next morning he went
out to see it, aud the top of it was
away up yonder and he could see
growing higher and higher. So he
thought it would be fun to climb it,
and the stems of the leaves were strong
enough to hold him up like a ladder,
and he kept on climbing and the bean
vine kept on growing so fast that Jack
couldent catch up with it, and by and
by he got so high he couldent see the
ground and before long ho got np to the
clouds aud stepped off on the blue
floor of the sky, and looking around at
the beautiful country he saw a great
flue house that was built of stone. So
he walked over to it aud didn’t see
anybody—not a soul—nor a dog, nor
a cat, nor a horse, nor cow, bat he
heard a great snoring inside and saw
bones all around the yard. Then he
peeped in and saw that same old giant
asleep on the floor of the wide hall.
His tongue was hanging out of his
month and his face was greasy and
bloody, for he down had been to sleep, eatiug and some- hie
body aud laid
snoring shook the house. Jack was
awfully scared, and started to run,
but he saw an ax near the door, and he
wondered if he couldn’t kill that old
giant while he was asleep. So he
slipped in on tiptoe and raising up the
ax as high as he could, he brought it
down on the old giant’s neck, and
with one blow cut his head off. The
blood spouted all over the room and
Jack ran away as hard as he could.
By and by he slipped back to see, and
su#% enough the old giant was dead
and had stopped kicking aud the blood
had stopped running.
Jack caught his big head by its long !
aud dragged it away off to the
bean vine and took it down to his
and the folks came to see it
all over the country, and were so
of little Jack that they gave him
clothes and pocket knives and marbles
balls, and ever afterwards called
him Jack the Giant Killer. And there
never been another giant in the
since, for he was the last one.
a time have I got the children to
ou that story, for of course I
vary it and embellish it and tell many
to point a moral and adorn the
tale.
I have not forgotten how eagerly I
listened to the little stories my mother
i^sed to tell me when I went to bed,
nor how I devoured the Arabian
Nights when I grew older. Stories
reward the good and bring grief
the bad children are great helps to
them; they are kindergartens
the ear aud a comfort to their little
I had rather please them with
little story like this than to fret my
abusing Mark Hanna and bis
for little children are nearer
than Mark is, according to my
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con
PREDICTS FEARFUL STRUGGLE,
German Officer Just From China Talks
Of the Situation There.
General Stahl, of the Imperial Ger
man army, who has been investigating
conditions in the Orient under a spe
cial commission from the German gov
ernment, arrived at Vauconver, B. C.,
Thursday on his way home. When
asked if he thought the Boxers would
be quickly suppressed, he said that in
his opinion the powers had started in
upon a long, bloody conflict. disbanded, In tbe
end, the Boxers would be
but the destruction of life would bo
appalling for the movement was
spreading like wild fire, throughout
China’s vast territory.
LOVE-SICK MAID SUICIDES.
tier hero is at Present In Jail Charged
With Harder.
The remains of Etta Wilbanks, the
girl who committed suicide at
Ga,, by shooting herself
with a 38-caliber pistol, were iuterred
in Alta Yista cemetery Thursday.
It is thought Miss Wilbanks took
her life because a young mau she loved
was in jail at Atlanta. Will Evans,
the young man is charged with the
nu- der of Ed Merck, some weeks ago.
No additional clew as to why she com
mitted suicide is brought out.
Kempff Was In Error.
Admiral Kempff has acknowledged
the error he had made reporting the
presence of the foreign ministers with
Admiral Seymour’s column eight miles
out from Pekin. His cablegram Fri
day morning admits that there is no
knowledge of their whereabouts.
Not a Practical Proportion.
“My deal-." said Mm. Blanks to her
husband, “don't you think it would be
a good Toon to pet‘your life insured?'
“No, I don't.” he gruffly replied, “it
I were to do that it would just.be my
fool look to live forever.”
“Oh. well,” meekly answered M rs
B., “then I wouldn’t think of doing it.”
A Feminine Butter,
“And now. children,” said the teach
er, who had boon talking about Will
tary fortifications, “can any of you tell
me what is a buttress'/”
“Please, ma’am,” cried little Willie,
snapping bis fingers, “it’s a nanny
goat.”—Philadelphia Press.
Wliat Will Become ol’China!
None can foresee theoutcomeof the quar
rel between foreign powers over the division
of China. It is interesting to watch the R0 .
lug to pieces of this ancient “but unprogres
-ive race. Many people in America are algo
going to blood, pieces because liver and of stomach dyspepsia, oonsti
I'Ution, but diseases.
We are living too fast, Strength, vigor
and good health can bo retained if we keep
oil' and cure th - above diseases with Hostet
ler’s Stomach Hitters.
Will Bent Their Directories.
The Chicago Directory Company will not sell
the hook published this year, out will, instead ,’
let out copies at >87.50 for one year’s use. or ur
til recalled by the company after one year.
Tho , nr pose of this Is to put an end to the use
of old directories and keep the field clear at the
end of each year for the new directory.
Are You Using Allen’s Foot-Ease?
It is the only cure for Swollen, Smartiug,
Tired, Ach ng, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns
nnd Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease,
a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures
while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address
Allen S. Olmsted, Lelioy, N. Y.
Proud.
“How proud you must be, Gladys, of having a
papa who Is an author.”
“Oh. mamma's very care'ul about our read
fag. I don’t kuow papa's books at ail.”—New
York World.
The Best Prescription for Chilli
and Fever Is a bottlo of GhOve’s Tasteless
Chill Toxic. It is simply iron ami quinine in
h tasteless form. No cure—uopay. Price 53o.
Dreyfus’ Health Restored.
Captain Dreyfus, whole living at th" Villa
Hauterlve, Just outside Geneva, is d ocrlbed as
looking in very good health, ills face is full
and ruddy, but his hair has turned quite white.
Airs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gntns, reduces inflamma
tion, ultays pain, cures wind colic, -ic. a bottle.
Plso’s Cure for Consumption is an infalli
ble medicine for coughs and colds.— N. W
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. J", 1900.
A philosomer says that every failure is a
ftep toward success. This explains why soma
men become richer every time they faii.
E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: “Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fllteen
years ago and she has had no return of it. It’s
a sure cure.” Sold by druggists, 75c.
The eyeba 1 Is white because tho blood ves
sels that feed its substance are so small that
they do not admit the red corpuscles.
A Colonel in the British South African
army says that Adams’ Tutti Frutti was a
blessing to his men while marching.
Shutting Out the Horse.
If the craze for automobiles continue*, they
will, before loug, entirely supersede the use of
lhe horse at the nation's capital, for not only
have they become a tad with society people, the
but, the shops, the express companies and them.
transit companies are rap,idly adopting
One
Woman's
Letter
SAYS
g ‘l doctored wtth two of
the host doctors In the city
for two years snd had no
relief until / used tho
Plnkham remedies »
“My trouble was ulcer*
ation of theuterusm B suf
fered terribly, could not
sleep nights and thought death
sometimes that
would be suoh a relief -
“ To-day I am a well wo
man, able to do my own
work, and have not a palm
“Iused four bottles of
Lydia f. Plnkham*s Vege
table Compound and three
packages of Sanative
Wash and cannot enough.”— praise
the medicines THOMAS,
MRS. ELIZA
634 Pine St., Easton, Pa.
Mrs. Plnkham advises
suffering women without
charge. Mass.
Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn,
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