Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — Page 2

HOW CHINA SAVED ITSELF FROM ANNIHILATION

JOME seventeen hundred years ago when not one of the present powers of Europe was in existence, when the few who dared say they were Christians were being persecuted in Rome, when the Germans were still a crowd of tribes, when the Slavic race was still unknown and Mohammedanism was undreamed of, a great war was in progress in Asia, for the existence of a nation already centuries old. In those days people doubtless were urged to enlißt to save their country Just as they are urged to fight for their fatherland in Europe today. On one side were the Tartars, classed by their opponents as barbarians. On the other side were the Chinese. Little is known about the Tartars except that they were expert in war and that they later turned their forces westward into Europe. While the Chinese to this day contend that the Tartars were barbarians we, would judge* they the art of war. They had the most modern weapons and ‘they had the most perfect military machine. Emperor Che Hwang Te of China realised that unusual defensive measures were needed to save his nation. He organised an army of 3,000,000 men and decisively defeated the Tartars. He knew, however, that they would return to the battle. Emperor Che, or Chin, as he is sometimes called, had served as a youth in the Tartar army. When he learned their methods he returned to his own country and overthrew all the other chieftains and established the first united empire of China. He realised he was a Bismarck among the Chinese and feared his successor would not be able to fight well. So he planned for the defense of his people for all time by building a 'gigantic wall, now known as the Great Wall of China, the greatest wonder of the world, and the only work of man aelde from the pyramids of Egypt, which would be visible to the man in the moon. The building of the wall was at a propitious time. The credit of the country was paralyzed and the people were facing a financial panic. China had been engaged in civil wars for centuries when it was not engaged in wars with the Tartars. The Tartars were temporarily defeated. They retreated to their homes in the interior of Asia and rested for a generation. In their own country they could not be attacked even by the great Emperor Che. They were 5,000 miles from Che’s military center and as such were absolutely impervious to attack. Che not only was looking after the welfare of future Ching, he had to have something for his soldiers to do.

"I will have them biiild a, great fence,” he told his counsellors. And it is written in the book of history of the Chinese and is told in the legends of the wise men of that most ancient of all people that Che did that very thing. He took the arms from the soldiers and put- picks and spades in their hands. He called the greatest of his engineers together and started to build the Great Wall of China, the wonder of the world. The wall, which is 3,000 miles long, started at the sea and was built in a westerly direction north of Peking Into the heart of Asia. When the Tartars started on their next advance on China thirty years later they found the wall a barrier too great for them to cross. In despair they retreated from the half-built wall and in succeeding years when they returned to the attack they found the wall higher than ever. The Tartars never learned that the wall had aa end. They only knew that for a thousand miles or more they could tiot get across. So after 200 years qf defeat the Tartars with-

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drew into their old Asiatic home and finally set their faces westward. It is believed that the invasion of the Huns was the direct result of the building of the Chinese wall. The Huns are believed to be descendants ofthe same people, who fought so unsuccessfully with ChinA. The building of the Chinese wall gave the Chinese a sense of sectirity, which turned them Into an unwarlike nation. The "wall is so broad that in places six horsemen can ride abreast along it. It can accommodate a great body of fighting men. At intervals on the hilltops guards were placed and they remained there for hundreds of years. When a hostile army was seen approaching the signal would be given and the people would rush to the wall. There they would shoot such harmless explosives down on the invaders as firecrackers and stink pots. These pots resembled our bombs. They were made of brilliant clay. They burst on striking the ground. When they burst they would let loose vile smelling gas, much like hydrogen sulphide. Naturally they learned to fight without endangering their own lives. Even to this day that is the way the Chinaman fights. The Chinese war with Japan was an excursion trip for the Japs. The Boxer "uprising shows the inferiority of the Chinese as fighters. Although China has a population greater than all of Europe, any Euro- j pean country could beat her in a straight fight. The Boxers fought only when they had superior numbers. Even when the Chinese are well equipped they cannot fight foreign devils. While the wall saved the country from financial troubles 1,700 years ago. yet it made the Chinese a nonresistant people. By enabling the people to go their way, the wall has made of CJiina the most populous nation in the world. Probably one-third of the world's inhabitants live in China. Not less than one-fourth of the world’s people live there. Not until modern times did China go to war of any consej quence after the building of the wall. | That was when the Manchus, who lived north of the wall, swarmed over the barricade and captured Peking. | The Manchus became the ruling people and were reigning in China when the Europeans entered. The Manchus continued in power until the establishment of the Chinese republic, i The stupendous work of the Great Wall of China can be understood when one considers that at one point it crossed the peak of a mountain 10,000 feet high. The wall followed the 1 mountain ridges wherever there.were any. The stones were sometimes picked from the ground near the wall. When there were no stones there they were brought a great distance if need be to make the wall strong. When one looks at the wall he cannot help but be 'struck with the curves In the vast structure. These curves are due to the theory that devils cannot walk in anything but straight lines. * , _ In the Boxer uprising of 1900 the - 4 '•

i tom. The magnet used in this case was three and a half feet in width and weighed three thousand pounds. • The ease with which the cargo was brought to the surface gave rise to the suggestion that, given a sufficiently big magnet, sunken submarines might be similarly salved at short notice. About a. quarter of a century ago a French enthusiast published details of a truly ambitious electro-magnetic schema- By magnetism, he explained, the moon cocdn^-brought dfnfrn to

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Chinese wall was a protection to Christian missionaries, who hid In its recesses as the early Christians of R'ome hid in the catacombs from the pagan leaders. With these missionaries many native Christians took refuge. The story of their hardships shows that heroism is as strong in the human heart today as it was in the days of the Roman persecutions. Many were found by the Boxers. To the white missionaries death was the only end. To the Chinese there was a chance for life if they would renounce Christianity and accept any of the Chinese beliefs. Reports say many of the Chinese converts renounced the God of the foreign devils and accepted the gods of the Chinese, but there were many who refused to renounce their God and their heads were stricken off. First the white Christians were killed. Then the yellow Christiana were compelled under torture to drink the blood of their white leaders before they died. The Chinese wall Is a fitting emblem of the endurance of the CHinese nation. Built of the finest building stone in the world It has endured through 17 centuries as a mockery to the seven wonders of the world enumerated by the Greeks. The Chinese wall was unknown to the Greeks or it certainly would have been included in the list of wonders. It was more wonderful than them All. Furthermore, it was built for the service of man, whereas the pyramids, the hanging gardens of Babylon and other wonders were built for the vftnity of man. The Chinese wall h«e_done much to keep back the advance of civilization in China. Since its construction the nation has advanced little in the arts and sciences. Only in the last ten years have the young Chinese admitted western civilization. The Chinese are a scholarly people, but their education Is limited to the study of the classics. They are philosophers, but their philosophy runs in grooves. They invented gunpowder, but did not develop it. Tha Chinese would point to the wall of China and say that they should not go beyond .its bounds. They were bounded on the north by the Great Wall, on the east by the sea of the rising sun, on the south by the land of tropical diseases and on the West bv the ereat interior plateau. The first Chinese to leave their native land were not allowed to return. Until the last decade a Chinaman who cut off his braid of hair was ostracized. 1 . The Chinese are adepts at oruelty. They havq severe punishments, but they cannot be said to be bloody. Few Chinese go armed and murders are rare. They have had fewer wars than any other country on earth; until the Chines e-Japanese war they had been at peace since the invasion of the Manchus.

Her Lesson.

“The young idea;” mused the substitute teacher, “doesn’t have to be taught to Bheot paper wads.”

the earth, and allowed gently to rest on t)te Saharan desert. That done, It would be absurdly simple to avail ourselves of the immense mineral re* sources of our satellite.As It happened, however, the thing was never attempted—probably be* “cause it was disebyered that the mineral wealth of the moon would be a very poor substitute for the lunar tides of the ocean, the stoppage of which would tend to paralyse the wa-ter-borne commerce _of the ykok rwrt ayu-.-,. . ;r,.: cr.-iZi- -■“-4

DAINTY BOUDOIR WEAR

NEGLIGEE* ARE ALMOST BEWITCH INOLY BEAUTIFUL. Illustration Shows One of the Prettiest of the Modes—Great Variety of Colors May Be Selected for Its Creation. •“Good enough to eat,” has long qualified as a verbal seal of approval on those things that particularly call forth one’s admiration, and in connection with the new negligees the terpi certainly seems suitable. Just the mere term “negligee” does not seem half expressive enough for the delicious clouds of lace and billows of chiffon that make up new and bewitching room gowns! For instance, the dainty one here shown. We can almost offer a guaranty that anyone can look pretty in it and the quaintly pretty boudoir cap. v A white crepe de chine petticoat slip is the foundation, writes Lillian E. YtfHhg Tn the WSshingtoiTStaf: It may: have an embroidered border or be finished with flounce of lace or selfmaterial. The top is plain with the petticoat gathered to K at an empire waist line. A simple kimono-Bleeved bodice makes the top of the coat to which the full skirt is gathered with a wide beading and a high-waisted encircling line of roses. The front edges slope downward and away from the waist, and are cut in large scallops bound with taffeta. The neck of the bodice and the sleeves are edged with white fur. Use azure blue, shell pink, maize yellow, orchid or white chiffon for this model, with little pink roses at the waist and white rabbit or marabou about the neck and sleeves. Keep the under slip white. The cap is a new one. It consists of two ruffles of net or chiffon caught

The Eye Is Pleased by the New Negligees.

through the center to the head size with a band of ribbon and trimmed at either side with tiny roses. These ruffles, of course, encircle a plain, close-fitting cap crown. Such a design should make a special appeal to you happy ones who wear a solitaire on the fourth finger of your left hand.

TO PLEASE THE SMALL GIRL

Designers Have Created for Her Some of the Most Adorable Hats and Bonnets. The small girl’s hat of this present year might have been painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds or Greuze. Velvets and furs, plumes and flowers —all lay their tribute at the shrine of this young person of from four to eight. Plumes are particularly in evidence this year, and there are most adorable bonnets of silk and velvet and fur, with a scoop brim that is underneath all soft shirred silk of either white or some delicate color and' is on top: one or two long plumes brought softly about to streamers of ribbon in the back. Here, for the heroine of four, is one with a crown of brocaded velvet —a rather large, puffy crown—and a softly bent brim, followed picturesquely by two light-blue ostrich feathers with unchrled flanges. To paint the lily, there is a rosebud or two tucked in between the feathers. Peacock velvet makes two of the very prettiest hats noted for her "going on six." Both of these are the dear, little mushroom shapes which we know, and both are combined-with other materials in a way to make every mother’s heart melt- In the first one there is a band of moleskin brought about the crown and punctuated with rosebuds that fall carelessly and at irregular intervals over the -brim. - Angler sets twixt a frill, gold net on the upper side knd black cm the lower, a garland of silken fruit.. A' change from the mushroom la offered by this little imported, whose rtmiltht brim.and.,»o»pred CtPWh

KEEP SMALL ARTICLES HANDY

With This in towing Room, the Cotton and Thimble Need Never - Be Misplaced. Onr sketch shows a handy little article will prove very useful and that can be made in a few moments. The base is composed of a small square piece of wood, and the sketch clearly indicates the shape and 1 size of it in proportion to the reel of cotton. This piece of wood is smoothly covered with thin silk, the material being turned over at the edges and fastened on underneath with a strong adhesive. Diagram A illustrates the shape in which The silk should be cut out and the space B enclosed In the dotted

lines shoul<L.csrrdspond in size with the surface of the wood. The reel of cotton is fastened in its place in the center, with a long thin brass-headed nail, and on this nail the reel will revolve freely while the cotton is being drawn off. Diagram D illustrates the holder In this stage, and upon the top of the nail a thimble can be placed in the manner shown in the larger sketch and a needle may be pun through the silk covering the surface of the wood. This is aIBO indicated in the illustration. A little holder of this nature, when not required for home use, would make a salable novelty to prepare for a bazaar.

TURBANS REMAIN IN FAVOR

Innumerable Smart Models to Select From, and Almost Equal Variety of Materials. Turbans continue, if anything, more popular than ever. Russian effects, Scotch effects, various notched and cornered styles and very long, severe, boat-shaped models are smart. Large sailors are worn for knockabout, and huge, flaring Gainsboroughs are among the dressy models. Fur-cloth is much used in the making of smart turbans, combined with dull, soft tinsel, panne velvet and satin, also frequently combined* with felt. Tinsel ornaments ahd tinsel braids are used to bind brims and edge novel fancies. Bandings of various widths, edgings, cockades, bows huge loops, tassels and rabbits’ ears of fur are all used as trimmings. Frequently a single flower is used in combination with fur. Metal roses are favored for this purpose. Some of the newest flowers have fur petals or fur centers. All sorts of tall trim fancies of peacock, ostrich, coque and burnt novelties are used for trimming small turbans/ Beaded and spangled birds and ornaments continue to be popular.

Odd Combinations.

Green golfine, chiffon and monkey fur are combined in this way: There is a foundation skirt of soft green silk golfine. There is a long, gathered tunic of green chiffon that leaves exposed about fifteen Inches of the foundation skirt. The tunic is edged with a fringe of monkey fur. The lohg chiffon sleeveß are edged with monkey and the bodice is composed of golfine and chiffon.

of white silk with a Poiret-like floral pattern of red and green. A rethrn to the mushroom is, however, very grate-ful-when we behold the next hat of brocaded velvet in that soft shade of blue that Watteau loved so well. Tbig is encircled about the crown with a curling ostrich plume of white, ac-. centuated by the little black tails of the ermine which are artfully placed against this snowy background.

Sashes and Belts.

Sashes and belts vary enormously, and are decidedly quaint. Some of the waistless gowns are rendered all the more waistless by extra drapery* which seems added on purpose to enlarge the figure. One of these shows a pretty draped wide sash of black faille introduced into the side seam of a stone-colored velvet suit braided with black, the sash tying in the center of the front Another shown in, the form of a gathered waistcoat between tiie fronts of a long coat emerges -at the side and immediately hangs down loose, not attempting to tie, at aIL

The Cartwheel Hat

Do not be astounded if you notice a smartly gownqd woman crowned with a hat of huge proportions, for shß is hut following fashion’s latest edict The new large hats are broad brimmed and have low crowns, which 'are not discernible when the hat if worn, bench they resemble cartwheels tilted at a becoming angle. The frames are covered with velvet, faille, taffeta or satin, and thd trimming consists of a wreath of bund ostrich, placed fiat against the brim; a Jaff pv of fur. - -

SYRUP OF HGS FOR I CHILD’S BOWELS It is cruel to force nauseating, harsh physic into a : sick child. Look back at your childhood days. Remember the “dose*’ mother insisted on castor oil. calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how ydu fought against taking them. • , • With our children it’s different. Mothers who cling to the old form of * physic simply don’t realize what they do. The children’s revolt is well-found-ed. Their tender little “insides” Are injured by them. If your child’s stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only delicious "California Syrup of Figs.” Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless “fruit laxative” handy; they know children love to take it; that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach, and that a teaapoonful given today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Adv. Wasted Dress. Clarence —Did you wead that the deuced dyes they use to color clothing will no longer be obtainable because of the horrid wah? Reggie—Dear, dear! What’s a fellow to do? Dwess in black? Clarence—ls we are to dwess in black I shall feel almost sorry mothah didn’t insist upon making me a clergyman, don’t you know? —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

CLEAR YOUR SKIN By Dally Use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. You may rely on these fragrant supercreamy emollients to care for your skin, scalp, hair and hands. Nothing better to clear the skin of pimples, blotches, redness and roughness, the scalp of dandruff and itching and the hands of chapping and soreness. . Sample each free by mail with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, DeptY, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv, No Failure la Final. One of Napoleon’s marshals is said to have approached him on the battlefield and exclaimed: "General, 1 fear that the battle is lost." Napoleon coolly looked at his watch, and replied; “Time for another battle. Summon the army to a fresh charge.”

TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH KIDNEYSJF BACK HURTS Bayc Too Much Meat Forms Uric Acid Which Clogs thi Kidneys and Irritates the Bladder. Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, get sluggish and clogged and need a flushing occasionally, rise we have backache and dull misery In the kidney region, severe headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorders. You simply must keep your kidneys active and clean, and the moment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablespoonful In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and. stimulate them to normal activity. It also neutralizes the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithlar water drink which everybody Bhould take now and then to keep their kidneys clean, thus avoiding serious complications. A well-known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it is only trouble. —Adv. Not Ready. "Put on your beimet an’ your red shirt, Silas, there’s a big fire down the road a piece.” "Shucks! I can’t go. My shirt's in the washtub an’ the old woman’s out In the garden fillin’ my helmet with a mess of beans.”—Birmingham AgeHerald. ’ T

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