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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
omWAKENlN
Bronze Lion at Peking, Gate
O NE of the most striking illus
trations, to the stranger, of
the awakening of China is
seen in the contrast between
the fine new butldlngB of.the
University of Nanking and the old ex
amination halls, in ruinB..
For many generations these. halls
represented to the Chinese-'their high
est culture. They are located' in the
old part of the city and cover;a -large
space. They were built in the four
teenth century, by the Ming ehfperor
Hong Wu, a great patron of learning.
He codified the laws, and established
schools in all the chief Cities and
towns, write Dr. Vachel T. and Cath
erine F. Lindsay in the Illinois State
Register.
These halls, in general appearance
made us think of stalls for animals on
some county fair groundB, only there
were more of them. They were in
long brick sheds, the cells separated
by partitions, and about five feet
square, the slanting roofs being made
of tile. They were intended to accom
modate about thirty thousand students.
Each line of cells was open to the
south. A narrow board on the floor
of the cell, answered for a bed at
night, two boards across at proper
heights for seat and deBk, niches in
the wall for food basket and candle.
Each student was expected to pre
pare an essay on the bookB of Confu
cius, Mencius and their disciples and
commentators. No original ideas or
personal experiences were to be in
troduced.
There is a high tower near the cen
ter of this inclosure from which the
long lines of tile shed roofs are seen,
many of them in ruins, all overgrown
with high weeds, wild vines and moss.
In looking through "A Guide to Nan
king” we found one mention of these
honored halls in the descriptions of
“Most Noted Places,” formerly the
equivalent in China of all the univer-
Amcient Paooda -
sities in our Bast combined. On. the
name page of the catalogue there were
mentioned 48 modern schools for all
purposes one could well think of
military,.commercial* surveying, draw
ing, naval, police, polytechnic, prison
reform, law, normal, language,,;_silK-
worm and mulberry, theological, Bibli
cal, with many that indicated special
studies and industries for girls.
Most of these are established .in
good modern buildings -in parklike in-
closures, with lawn grass, trees and
flowers, and rooms equipped and set
apart for their especial work. The
Chinese are given to vocational train
ing. They have an elaborate system
of division of labor. They do not be
lieve in a "man of all work.”
Confucianism and Idols.
We hear a great deal about the
superstition and idolatry of the Chi
nese. We were astonished to find in
Nanking, and indeed everywhere we
went, the Buddhist temples either
grown up in weeds, the idols in- many
places covered with dust and broken,
or the IdolB thrown away and the
buildings transformed into modem
New Discovery! Takes Place of Dangerous Calomel—It Puts Your
Liver To Work Without Making You Sick—Eat Anything—
It Can Not Salivate—Don’t Lose a Day’s Work!
1 discovered a vegetable compound that does the
work of dangerouB, sickening calomel and I want every
reader of this paper to try a bottle and If it doesn't
straighten you up better and quicker than salivating
calomel just go back to the store and get your money.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson’s Liver. Tone
will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your
thirty feet of bowels of the sour bile and constipation
poison which Is clogging your system and making you
feel miserable.
I guarantee Hint one spoonful of this harmless liquid
liver medicine will relieve the headache, biliousness,
coated tongue, ague, malaria, sour stomach or any
other distress caused by a torpid liver as quickly as a
dose of vile, nauseating calomel, besides It will not
make you sick or keep you from a day’s work. I want
to see a bottle of thlB wonderful liver medicine In every
home In the South.
Calomel Is potBon-j-lt’s mercury—It attaoks the
boneB often causing rheumatism. Calomel 1b dangerous.
It sickens—while my DodBon’s Liver Tone 1b safe,
pleasant and harmless. Eat anything afterwards, be
cause it can not salivate. Give It to the children be
cause H doesn't upset the stomach or shock the liver.
Take a spoonful tonight and wake up feeling fine and
ready for a full day’s work.
Get a bottle! Try itl If It doesn't do exactly what
1 say, tell your dealer to hand your money back.
Every druggist and store keeper In the South ltnowB
me and knows of my wonderful discovery of a medicine
that takeB the place of dangerous calomel.
SHOE TOKEN OF SUBJECTION
schoolhouBes. Idolatry in China is
largely a growth through centuries
that haB gradually developed from
Buddhism, Just as we see all manner
of fungi attached to a dying tree.
Confucianism is not idol worship.
In its principles it 1b purely a code of
ethical laws. Its fundamental laws
are strikingly similar to the lawB of
Moses. Consequently a person may
bo a Confucianist in a general sense,
and at the same time a Christian. It
Is/qulte worth while just here to call
attention to the fact that Confucius
lived about five hundred years before
Christ, more than a century after the
Israelites of the tpn northern tribes
were carried as Blaves to Assyria. We
saw Assyrian art of that same period
in the "Forbidden City,” the part of
Peking reserved for the rulers, in
closed by a strong wall, and into which
ordinary people are not allowed to en
ter. We had a special permit and
guides from the American embassy.
These art treasures must have been
brought by caravans, necessarily con
veyed by slaves under overseers.
These slaves must have been Israel
ites.
The Confuoian temples in Nanking
are preserved, often repaired. They
contain no idols. There is a large up
right tablet, inscribed with the “Lawe
of Confucius,” standing on the back
of a turtle, symbolizing calmness,
strength and longevity. On certain
days, set apart for this purpose, in
cense is burned on a table in front of
this tablet, in somewhat the same
spirit, among intelligent Chinese, as
we on. anniversary days place floral
offerings on the tomb of Lincoln, or
the graves of our honored dead.
Tomb of Tai Dzu.
To most visitors in Nanking, the
place of greatest historical interest in
the tomb of the Ming emperor 1 , Tai
Dzw, a greatly honored ruler on ac
count of his forceful character and the
many reforms he inaugurated for the
benefit of the masses of the common
people. Nanking was his capital.
This great Ming tomb is situated at
the foot of Purple mountain. It is out
side the city wall, perhapB a mile. It
is surrounded by red-painted walls
which inclose an area of about five
hundred square feet.
The visitor passes through three
gates of peculiar Chinese architecture
before coming to the tomb. After
passing through the second gate he
comes to a templelike building, high
ly ornamental, in which is a large tab
let inscribed with a record of Tai Dzu
and his achievements, an inscription
comparing him with his most distin
guished predecessors. This tablet was
erected by one of his greatest of Chi
nese rulerB, Kang Hsi,’ when he vis
ited Nanking, some time hear the close
of the seventeenth century. He caused
the entire surroundings to be made
magnificent.
Up to the time of the Tai-Ping re
bellion these handsome buildings and
beautiful parks remained, but the Tai-
Ping vandals destroyed almost the en
tire tomb. Recently the viceroy of
Nanking made some repairs, yet only
a few traces remain of thp former
grandeur.
After the visitor has passed through
the third gate he sees a large struc
ture with one opening id the middle.
This leads to the edge of the tomh,
which is now covered by a bill of deep
soil on which is. a thick growth of
trees. The ascent is steep. From the
summit is a fine view of the city and
surrounding country.
Among the accessories to thiB tomh
the most interesting Btill remaining are
five pairs of stone statues of animals,
standing on either side of the great
road leading from tho entrance gate
of the park, perhaps twenty feet in
height*, pairs of elephants, camels,
Hons, soldiers and priests, as the last
pair of guards. Near the gate is
temple or tower with four openings,
.situated on a low hill. Within is a
stone tablet, erected upright, on the
back of a turtle. It iB covered with
inscriptions of tho groat deeds of this
emperor, Tai Dzu. It is said in Chi
nese hiBtory, "This tablet was erected
there as a sign of reverence to one of
the greatest emperore that China ever
produced.”
Ancient Significance of Custom Which
Is Not Looked Upon as
Merely a Joke.
As specially applied to weddings,
there is a suspicion that the throwing
of old shoes—or new slippers, for all
that—had at first a significance which
would surely be most objectionable to
twentieth-century brides. It seems to
have been a token of the complete
subjection of the bride to her lord
and master. In the East a shoe or a
slipper was publicly borne at the head
of the bridal procession in indication
of the bride’s subjection, and at some
Jewish weddings the bridegroom used
to strike the bride a blow with his
shoe as a sign that she was thereafter
to be submissive to his will. Among
the Nestorians it was the custom for
the bridegroom to kick the bride, and
for her to remove from his foot the-
shoe with which he had kicked her.
To this day there is a common cus
tom in Russia for the bridegroom on
his wedding night to require the bride
to pull off his boots. In one of them
is a whip, and in the other a gift. If
she pulls off first the one containing
the whip, she gets a stroke from the
lash, and is to expect floggings there
after, hut if the, gift is first disclosed
her married life will be happy. It is
related of Martin Luther that once,
after performing the wedding cere
mony for a couple, .be took off the
bridegroom’s shoe and placed It upon
the bride’s pillow, as a sign that she
should ,in all things and at all times
be subservient to her hqsband.
Aviators' Safety Parachutes.
The energies of practically all the
Inventors of parachutes for airmen
have been directed towards the devel
opment of a device for the airman
alone, the aeroplane Itself being al
lowed to drop to earth unhindered.
Parachutes for the whole aeroplane
have just been designed-by a French
Inventor. Two folded parachutes, con
tained In cone-shaped receptacles, are
attaohed to the wings as near the ends
as possible. By meanB of a simple
mechanism, operated by the movement
of n small hand lever, these para
chutes are pushed out of the contain
ers, after which they are claimed to
open freely, no matter in what man
ner the aeroplane may be falling. All
the airman has to do 1b to hang on to
tho aeroplane.
Earmarks.
Alexander Powell, war correspon
dent and lecturer, said at a tea in
New York:
“The English volunteer troops are
splendid. You .can'tell by certain ear
marks where they come from. You
can tell the miners of the Midlands,
the mill hands of Manchester, the
bookkeepers of London, the—”
“How do you tell them?” a young
lady asked.
"Well,” Bald Mr. Powell, “It’s easy
enough to tell, for example, the book
keepers. Every time the bookkeepers
are commanded to stand at ease they
try to put their rifles behind their
ears.”
HANDS LIKE VELVET
Kept So by Dally Use of 'Cutlcura
Soap and Ointment Trial Free.
On retiring soak hands In hot Cutl
cura soapsuds, dry and rub the Oint
ment into the hands some minutes.
Wear bandage or old gloves during
night This is a “one night treat
ment for red, rough, chapped and
sore hands.” It workB wonders.
Sample each free "by mail with 32-p.
Skin Book. Address Cutlcura, Dept
XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Too Sour.
Professor Copeland of Harvard, as
the Btory goes, reproved his students
for coming late to class.
This is a class in English composi
tion,” he remarked with sarcasm, “not
an afternoon tea.”
At the next meeting one girl was
twenty minutes late. Professor Cope
land waited until she had taken her
seat. Then he remarked bltingly:
“How will you'have your tea, Miss
Brown?”
Without the lemon, please,” Miss
Brown answered quite gently.—Chris
tian Register.
To Drive Out Malaria 1
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
wbat you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents. Adv.
Steep the Sassafras.
A St. Louis clergyman gloomily in
forms us:
"The Images of the poet and the
painter have ceased to charm ub. We
want the realities. Hence the passing
of poetry.”
Sassafras tea in liberal doses, about
this time of year, waB formerly be
lieved to be a sound remedy for the
physical conditions which generate
that state of mind.
Marriage rings and prize rings often
lead to the stage.
-If'you never begin a’task .you’ll
never finish it.
Cures Ivy Poisoning.
For ivy poisoning apply Hanford's
BalBam. It is antiseptic and may be
used to kill the poison. Prohipt relief
Bhouid follow the first application.
Adv.
Explained.
Hubby came home from a club with
•his white waistcoat badly spotted.
"How careless you are,” said his
wife.
'Not at all,” he replied. ’’You see,
they didn't have any menu cards, and
I knew you’d want to know what we
had to eat.”
For sprains make a thorough appll
cation of Hanford’s Balsam, well rub
bed in. Adv.
A Diversion.
”1 had a delightful experience this
morning,” said Gasserby.
“Tell me about it,” said Dorfling.
“Two old gentlemen of my acquain
tance forgot the war long enough to
have an argument about a disputed
point In Shakespeare.”
Russia Becomes Temperate.
The prohibition of selling brandy
in the government monopoly shops
was introduced throughout the Rus
sian empire from tho beginning of
the war, on the day of mobilization,
and haB now been in force for more
than eight months. One of the Rus
sian papers has made Inquiries con
cerning the results of this measure,
and has published some of the statis
tical data that-were collected. The fol
lowing list shows the consump
tion of vodka In tho city or Moscow
In 1914 compared with the preceding
year: July, 612,686 gallons In 1913
and 359,124 gallons In 1914; August,
667,926 gallons In 1913 and 23,373 gal
lons In 1914; October, 707,688 gallons
in 1913 and 2,913 gallons In 1914. Dur
ing the first' three months vodka could
be obtained at the first-class restau
rants for consumption In the same,
the selling of vodka in bottles being
prohibited under a heavy fine.
FREE FROM THOSE WORRIES
Troubles of Commuter Got Little Sym
pathy From Fellow, ftyssengcr
' on Train,
Some of my bulbB have rotted’ In
tho ground. Evor have that happon
to you?’’ asked the •domrfiu’tcr of tho
map who sat bosld.e him ill the train.
"No, I can't sny I have," ropllcd
the othor,
"And the bugs Mq„ m^, rosebushes
are a post. Do you have any trouble
of Hint kind?"
."Not p bug on a single hush."
"That's strange. Now, with my lawn,
1 find that ohly' about l’l'nir tho grans
looks hcnllhy. . Tho rest- won’t grow
no matter bow much Ipwajer It, But
I suppose you know from exporlonco
what that is?” ’ '
Never had any ' .grass trouble,
ottlior.”
•'Groat Bcott, inh'n!" exclaimed tho
commuter. "How da-you manage to es
cape all these annoyances?"
"Vory easily, sir. !'l live In a ho-
tel.” ,c • ’ ’’*
t.wV-r.l’
The Height of ftroqljy.
"I see the Gormans are trnlng gas
Instead of shot and shell,’-' said Hark-
away. "Could anyth(ng bo njpre atro
cious?” , , .
"Oh, yos," liaid Dlnglehorry. "It
would be more-atrocious-If-after us
ing the gas they qbould. Oro 0 vol,c y
of gas bills at their "victims labolod
'Please remit.’ ” ' • v * *’" '
WOMAN COULD
DOES
YOUR SKIN
ITCH AND BURN?
If your skin itches and burns with
eczema or any such tormenting, ’un
sightly skin disease, simply wash the
sore places with reslnol soap and hot
water, dry, .and apply a little reslnol
ointment. The.itchlng stops INSTANT
LY, you no longer have to dlg_ and
scratch, sleep becomes possible, - and
healing begins at once. That Is be
cause the soothing, antlsoptlo reslnol
medication strikes-right Into the sur
face, arrests the action of the disease,
and almost always restores the tor
tured, Inflamed skin to perfect health
—quickly, easily and at little cost.
Proscribed by doctors Tor twenty
yoars, and sold by all druggists.—Adv.
Liberal Juries.
- Based on verdicts by Mississippi ju
ries Law Notes recommends that state
as a place whore money Is easy. The
case of Illinois Central railroad vs,
Dacus resulted In a vOrdtct for $509
to a prospective passenger because a
ticket agent said ”d n” to him;
while in Alabama,, etc., Railroad com
pany vb. -Morris, It appeared that a
liberal jury gave $15,000 to a white
woman who was compelled to ride a
short distance' with three negroes, al
though the ptlngy court cut the ver
dict to $2,000.
Because of Terrible ’ Back*
ache. Relieved by Lydia *
E. Pinkham’s Vegeta*
ble Compound* t
Philadelphia, Po.—“I suffered from
displacement and inflammation, and had
such pains in my
sides, and terrible
backache so that I
could hardly stand.'
I took six bottles of
Lydia E. Pinkham’u
Vogptab.lo Com
pound, and now I can
do any amount of
work, sleep good, eat
good, anddon’thave
a b{t.of "trouble. I
recommend LydiaE.,
Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound to
every suffering womam,”—Mrs.HARRY,
Fisher,1626 Dquntqn St, Nicetown, Pa.
Another Woman’s Cose. •
Providence, R.I.— “I cannot speak’
too highly of your Yegetable.Compound
as it has done wooden, for me and I
would not be without it. I hnd a dis-
'placemcnt,bcaring down, and backache,!
until I could hBrdfy stand and was thor
oughly run down whcirl took Lydia EJ
Pinkham’s Vegetable ..Compound, It
helped me and' I am in' the best of health
at present. I work in’ a factory all day
long besides doing my housework so you
can see. what it hasfaon
Wounds on man or beast should be
healed by Hanford's Balsam. Adv.
Just the Man.
"There is an eastern potentate who
would be even better than a Panama
expert to conduct this fly-killing cam
paign."
•’Who Is that?”
"The Akhoond of SWat.”
For galls ubo Hanford’s Balsam.
Adv.
Flow of Language.
"What a wonderful flow of language
our friend has.”
“Yes,” .replied Farmer Corntossel.
“But he doesn’t use it for much except
drownin’ Ideas.”
Sold upon merit—Hanford's Balsam.
Adv.
. The Villain Outvlllalned.
“I wouldn’t trust him,” she argued.
"Neither would I,” assented the
other glrl; ,"ho’B as treacherous as
a fountain pen.”
.What It Does.
“There’s nothing like adversity to
bring a man out.”
'Yes. out at the elbows,
YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WIM, TEI.U YOU
Marine Bye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery
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Try Marine Bye Remedy for Re<
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Varying Estimates.
“I put my reliance In the wisdom of
the plain people,” satd Senator Sor
ghum.
“But suppose the plain people do
not happen to agree with you?"
“Then I refuse to be influenced by
the thoughtless crowd.”
A Cinch.
"My big brother is a printer,” said
the boy-who worked in a downtown
office.
"That’s nuthln’ to brag about,” re
torted his bosom friend.
Maybe It ain’t, but It’s mighty
handy' just the same. When I want
to go to a ball game, I get him to put
a death notice In the paper, so the
boss has got to bolievo I’m goln’ to
a funeral.”
Why
Caught.
"What a pretty hat Mrs. Pinkey
wore this evening.”
"Did you like it, dear?”
"Yes, it was very becoming,
don’t you get hats like that?"
’"You mustn’t blamo me if I laugh,
John. The hat you- like is my hat.
Mrs. Pinkey borrowed It this eve
ning. It’s the $30 hat you called a
fright.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. .
Awkward.
-Noah' behold the flood.
"And not a blessed place'to intern,’.’
he cried.
ui yuui y^cwiuid wuipuuuu
many of my friends. "—Mrs. Abel Law
son, 126 Lippitt St., Providence, R.I.
Danger Signals to Women
are yvhat one physician called backache^
headache, nervousness, and tho blues.
In many cases they-are symptoms of
some female derangement or an inflam
matory, ulcerative condition, which may;
be overcome by taking. Lydia E. Pink-
ham’sVegetable Compound. Thousands
of American women willingly testify to
its virtue.
FOR OLD AND YOUNG
Tutt'a Liver Pills ■ct««*klndly onthe child,
the delicate female or Infirm old age, as upon
s Pills
bowda, kldneya and bladder..
DR. SALTER’S EYE LOTION
CURES
SORE EYES
- "Be tv are qf Imitations -
Our “JITNEY” Offer-;Thl$ and
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III, writing your name and address
clearly. You will receive in return a
intalnlng Foley’s Honey
und, for cohgjis, colds
... . _.ey Kidney PiUs., for pain
In sides and back, rheumatism, back*
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5
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CD placed anywhere, a*-
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AGENTS—Sell Palm Bench Suita—Mado to
■Measure. Prices low. . Bfsi .profits. Writ*
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W. N.\U„ ATLANTA,-NO. 24-1915.
Because of tnoso ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. USo
‘LA CREOLE” HAIR DRE88ING. PRICE, $1.'
', retail..