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WHEN CHIN
The Rev. Dr. Sherma
ern Cor
AD interesting review of recent tie -
velopmcnte in the Chinese Kiupire
was given at Grace Church yesterday
morning by the Kev. Dr. A. M. Sher
man, of Haukow, China.
Dr. Sherman based Iiis remarks on
the ninth verse of the sixteenth chap
ter of t*'-c Sr?t epistle ?>f 1'au! to the
Corinthians: "For a great door and
effectual is opened unto nie, and there
are many adversaries," aud during
thc course of his sermon drew a con
trast between conditions existing in
the celestial Empire before the war
between China and Japan and the
present time.
"It is well for ua that the apostle
did not stay in Jerusalem, that he
did not think it necessary to remain
io that city until the close of his life.
What would be the condition of tho
world today had the religion of the
Christ never been preached. What
would your condition be? With the
the darkness and gloom, with no ray
of hope, unilluminated by any light
whatever, what would your condition
he today? I
"If you can form any adequate idea
of your condition had Christ never
come into the world, you can imagine
tbe condition of thousands of Chi
nese today.
'.It is hard to get any idea of the
size or population of China. Tho fig
ures are so large that they stagger us.
One-third of tho bunnan race lives in
China; every third ohild that ia horn
looks into the face of a Chinese moth
er; every third troth that is plighted
xs done with a draught of Chinese
wine; every third marriage is a Chi
nese marriage. The mineral wealth
ofthat country is" very great; on ac
count of the veneration which the na
tives have for hills and mountains,
the beds of coal have been practically
untouched; the soil itself is fertile
and it is because of the ancient meth
ods of cultivation that make it hard
for the agricultural class to subsist.
"When the great Empire awakes,
and ehe is awakening gradually, when
ehe learns how to man her navy and
how to drill her soldiery, wben ?ho
comea into realisation of her power,
the world will be shaken to its foun
dations. Yearly, hundreds of Chi
nese are going to the Japanese schools,
t and are being instructed in tbe West
ern civilisation, which waa held io
anon abhorrence in years gone by.
These etudenta would come to Ameri
ca, if they were treated with any con
sideration; the Chinese, in the war
with Japan, saw that they were be
hind the reit of the world, and tba
doora that had bean olosod were opec
cd and after the Boxer uprising, tba
-?doors were opened wider. The exclu
?iveoeso which bad long characterized
the Empire waa broken down and
Western ideas were welcomed. When
China awakes and. oom os to know her
power, ahe will take her place aa a
--That's what a prominent
druggist said of Scott's
v Emulsion a short time
ago. As a rule we don't
lise or refer to testimonials
in. j addressing the public,
hut the above remark and
.-s imijar expressions are
made so often in connec
tion with Scott's Emulsion
that they are worthy of
occasional not o ? From
infancy to old age Scott's
Emulsion offers a reliable
* rneans of remedying im
proper and weak develop
ment, restoring lost flesh,
and vitality," aud repairing
waste. The a c t i ? ti of
Scott's Emulsion is no
more of a "secret titan the
compositiou of the* Emul
sion itselt What it does
!f|||^?oes, : through nourish-4
&ent-~the kind of nourish
: > m?nt that fca^not be ob-?
^pH^p prdiuary food.
^^^Jp^^^M^j weak oir
delicate to retain Scott-8
A AWAKES !
n5 of Hankow, onEast
iclitions.
J world power. Whether thia vast Em
; pire id to be a menace to the world or
? u blessing, is largely in the hands of
I tho churches of this country. By
j elevating the ideals cud hy preach
ing the Gospel of tho Christ, China
can Lc made a blessing to the world.
"The Chinese aro clamoring for
education. The Boone school Htandu
high in the estimation of thc Cbineae,
and hundreds have to be turned away
from its doors. WP I re endeavoring
to raise $18,000 for thc purpose of
equipping the Ingle school which was
established by Bishop Ingle, and
which is now unable to accommodate
many of tho students who apply for
adoisflion." |
Dr. Sherman for many year? was as
sociated with Bishop Ingle. He is ;
now in this cotsntry working for mis
sions. The Episcopal missionaries
to China are givea a leave of absence
of six months every six years, and Dr.
Sherman is now on his leave of ab
sence.-News and Courier.
Too Much for the Man-Eater.
A well known theatrical manager,
according to the Saturday Evening
Post, repeats an instance of what the
lato W. C. Coup of cirous fame once
told him was ono of the most amus
ing features of the show businoss
the faking ?3 thy "side show."
Coup was the owner of a small
circus that boasted among .its prin
cipal attractions a man-eating ape,
alleged to be the largest in captivity.
This ferocious beast was exhibited
chained to the dead trunk of a tree in
tho side show. Early in the day of
tho first performance of Coup's enter
prise at a certaion Ohio towc.. a coun
tryman handed tho man-oating ?Jp., a
piece of tobacco, in tho chewing of
whioh the beast evidenoei the great
est satisfaction. The word was soon
passed around that the apo would
chew tobacco; and the result was that
several plugs were thrown at him. Un
happily, however, one of those had
been lilied with cayenne paper. Tho
man-eating ape bit it; then, howling
with indignation, snapped the chain
that bound him to the tree and made
straight for the practical joker who
hid so cruelly deceived him.
"Lave me at im!" yelled the ape
"Laverne at'im, the dirty villain!
TU have the rube's loife, or me name
? ain't Magilliouddyl"
Fortunately for the countryman and
for Magilliouddy, too, the man-eating
.pe wat restrained by the * bystander!
ip tims to prevent a killing.
V Bather Near.
"I knew an old fellow down in
North Carolina, who was a hard'fist
ed oieiseo," said N. B. Turner, of
Wilmington. '
"Be was a well-to-do fermer, but
his meanness was proverbial. One of
his customs was to have, breakfast be
fore it was daylight in order to get
his hands out to tho fields by dawn of
day. When the breakfast was put
on the table a solitary candle gave
the only illumination, and even this
was but for a second. *Y?u all see
where the, victuals ts' remarked the
head of the family, and putt, out went
tho flickering candle light. It was
an extravsgsnoe in his eyes to waste
even the fraction of a candle when
people could easily feel how to help
themeeivco."-Washington Post.
I i -: . * ?? " :
Ills Forgetfulness Remembered.
A traveler entered the dining room
of a leading hotel in Colorado Springs
ono Saturday, and after, he was, Ser
ved with soup he drew a 92 bill from
his pocket and showed it to tho Wait
er, saying:
"Jim, I shall be here > until next
Wednesday night and then this will
he yours." ?<. v>\ ':. :
"All right, sir, I'll Us* the* Wt
care of you j sure,1* replied tho wait
er. .- ''' } .
And he did serve the traveler ex
cellently. It happened; that oil Wed
nesday morning the traveler was has
tily sun,.noncd to Denver and it was
six weeks before ho roturned to the
Colorado Springs hotel. ; Presently
his former waiter,; whom he had, for
gotten along with the incident, cime
Up to-him and said:. *.--.
"Say, ; boas, pleaeo play that $2
trick on your new waitor, for ho's do
moanes* 'man what's in d? whole
houBe."---Ey4Ji7b^dy's Mags
?:. Washing dishes is hard on wod
din/i rings.
'^V A?. hero is one who is afraid cf
b >ing. afraid. ? \$? \ ;.J$$ti
? ;^.Byery-;;,iaan '.shcttld, fuUiV?ti'
v^e?gh-prejudiM
; jH?. who increases tb? endesr
?ents of liif?' increases at? the'';samt
TUE INDIAN TKA' KEK.
He is a Ilea! Wizard In Ills Ability to
Follow a Trail.
_ I
. .i
xnu vt'?Jat "mer j.uncu ms norse into
a walk aad ?it a cigar, dropping the
match carefully on to a wet place in
thc trail, for fear of prairie fires.
"Yes," ho said, "there are a lot of j
people, not only in tho old country, ?
but right here in thc colonies, who j
think that becauso a man has spent a
ouple of years on a ranch and wears a
cowboy hat aud long spurs ho's a sort
of combination of Lcatherstookiog
and Sherlock Homes. Now, a man
may bo a good enough scout to avoid
walking iolo a trap and to find his
way about in a strange country and to
take cover, but when it comes to
tracking, lie's a sucking babe compar
ed with some of tho Indians and half
breeds. A scout may be made, but a
tracker must be born so. Latino toll
you tho kind of thing I moan.
"I wa? managing the X ranoh some
years ago, about 120 miles from the
American border. Ooo night some
horse thieves dropped in suddenly
and carried off sixteen Clydesdales
'heavy horses', we oall thom here.
Next morning early I started in pur
suit with a oouple of mj oowboys.
The trail wasn't difficult at first, and
ne managed to pick it out all right at
a walk, but the men we were hunting
were riding at a gallop, and I saw we
should have our work out out to oatoh
them. We talked the matter over for
a bit, nod then I made up my mind
that I knew the locality they were
making for, about a hundred union
away, so I dropped the trail alto
gether, and we rodo to the point
as hard as we could go to out them
off.
"When wo got there we camped and
Btrung out a lot of sentries aad wait
ed. Well, we waited and waited, and
nothing turned up, so wo saddled up
again and went home, feeling a bit
siok. Then we did what wo should
have done at first. We went on to
the Indian reserve and asked for Col
onel M., the Indian agent. I got him
to sot as interpreter, and I put $200
into his hands asking him to explain
that this sum would be paid to any
Indian who should bring me in sight
of my loBt horses. That was all I
wanted them to do. I could attend
to tho rest cf tho business syself.
They held a bit of a powwow, and
?hen three of theni, WH??Q Wings and
two more, whom I called Jack and
Charlie-I couldn't tackle their In
dian names-a topped ont and volun
teered to accompany cs,
"It was about thc first week in Au
gust, and the prairiu grass was Jong,
dry and'yellow. Tiley, took up the
trail at a smart center and mode for
the border aot quite nt wight, but sp
that they struck it about 180 miles or
KO miles southwest from the ranon,
j The country was mostly prairie, some
fist, seme rolling. There wera some
deep valleys and eeulee and one or
two ranges of hills. We followed
j them, ' .at a fast trot, but sometimes
they were so far ahead Ibot we had to
j fire shots to attrsot their attention and
moko them stop. Wo had some. diflU
oulty in making them understand,
and they traveled at such a pace that
I couldn't believe they were on the
line at alt. We couldn't make ont
anything," not even a bruised blade of
grasa. .But! every now and then we
esme to a soft place, where the heof
marks were discernible and' some of
the stolen . horses played out here and
thsre, and we passed them, still fol
lowing the main body? Qoe maire
was. . a confirmed jibber. T ?eye*;
could do. anything with her myself*
and they turned her loose, so thai
when we atruok the border there
were poly nine horses left in the
bunch. . , j' . ' ,
"There were three horse thieves*,
and they had taken a long rope and
fastened it to tho saddle of the leader,
j At the ctW^O.d irpde a second man,
I trying; to keep'it as taut es p^s1ble<;
The stolen horses were haltered along
this rope, eight on each sido, and the
third mae rode alongside, with ,**
whip, to keep them moving. Now
and then; the leading ^ny5v;aui,"t?e;
trailing j pony would stop. and ohac ge
places. Whenever this hid happened
the Indians called our attention to it.
They always know the exact position
ot each of the men we Were huntings
Wa rode eighty miles the first day
! an^ reached ibo border pto the second?'
! and sf ter' that we struck a'-tiaU that
was aa much '. traveled as the main0
Street of a big city. ' ,: ?. V ? g:?*
"We followed that for thirty miles
or more, and WP' hardly ?', slackened1
speed either/ Ono of the: hooted
horses had ( a broken shPe.?ed the
^ndj?ns wou^
lar track ?wheh?yor: we wereie doubt
pf &ejrAt
, last we carno to a place whera the
had divided, sis horaoB going in one
direot?Pft and three in the ptner. We
followed th*
.. ^Well,,**^^^
we P?meon three |??5^?sa^ast1b the
^llbwstpne park tied<mv>and
H??O miles^i^to their p^r^
having average^ ^
dsy during thM
estod^itb ?a^siA v^^^^K? ^^_?D?3|r
the Jj?lK^itoai??iuft?M
and tal-eu to Fort Beaufort, while I
seat back to Canada for Sheriff Chap
?eau to come and extradite them.
Unluckily in those days there was ex
tradition for pretty Dearly every form
of crime exoept horse thieving and
the sheriff turned up, a much disgust
ed man, to say that he could do noth
ing in the matter. There was a band
of vigilantes thcro at the time, how
ever, and their chief-a French count,
by thc way-told thc Sheriff that if
he could arrange to wait over for a
day he should seo how they dealt
with horse thieves in tho States. Tho
culprits were lot out of jail that
night, and early next morning Chap
leau saw their three bodies hanging
from trees within 300 yards of tho
fort. \
"Now, that was tracking. I've
seen some very wonderful traokiog
ability exhibited by the Blackfeet
and Assinibiona and others. You
won't find it among white men. How
can they compete with hunters whose
forefathers for generations hive been
following the trail of soft mocoasins
over all kinds of ground till they oan
almost run by soont? Only be sure
to select the right men. I've kuown
too many Englishmen como out to
this country to shoot moose and get
into conversation with some loafer in
a hotel 'rotunda,' who invariably
'know all about it' and has just the
right man to recommend for the job.
Then the Englishman spends weeks
following stale mooso tracks in oharge
of some drunken half breed, who is
quite content to promenade through
the wood? ?o long as he is earning
$1.50 a day and bis gtub. But the
officers of the northwest mounted po
lioe and the. Indian agents and the
sportsmen who go out year after
year and bring back moose and
wapiti heads can find the real article
for you.
"Again, when he is found your In
dian brave requires to 'be properly
handled and humored a little if you
don't want him to turn sulky. How
ever, the police here can do it ail
right, and it is easy to enlist the ser
vices of an interpreter who knows his
men. An Indian when his hunting
instinots are aroused will follow, a
trail for a week on ond on water and
very Kttlo else, but at the end oMhat
time he will sit down and eat steadily
for twenty-four hours."-Canadian
Cor. Pall Mail Gazette.
What Boys Cost.
Seme one has figured out that the
average boy who is dependent upon
his parents for a livelihood until he
resohss tho age of 21 years, costs
them $4,000. Upon this bssis of eal* j
eolation a brood for Instanos, sis
boys, will represent an outlay of
t24,00f> by the fe? they; leave tho
home roost. Tho question naturally
I arises, does it pay to r ai DO boys, ac A
are there no other crops that weald
I be more profitable. If a boy turns
j oat.to bo a cigarette fiend with a hugh.
that would make the wild untutorted
donkey feel perfeotly as home ia his
society, and with an untrammeled end
unconquerable desire to avoid work it
is safe to ssy the parents might have
invested to better advantages. But
if the boy ; grows up with tee lessen
well learned that wealth aud sUo??ss
grow only on bushes by the Bweat of
the brow? the parents need notfbe
grn?ge whatever they^ ?ave Bp??? ?p^
him, for he will bo a source of increas
ing joy and pride to their hearts wheo
they grow old and their hands tremble,
and their legs wabble and their steps, |
are slow and faltering* They will*
then haye two strong arms to leen
.upon. . ': "\ : : '
... .. ??? ..">.
B??ned His Hat.
"Leavenworth,;'' ?aid Neit(XBrienV
of, tho Eookstader show, yesterday, j
llhas er used to ..have, scaxo cf the^
ton'gh?at - negroes ' ia the'; world. ?
few years ago j S I : was'With ' a minstrel
abov there and shall never forget an
insU^eethat'h^
were wild to get ii; ihe gallery first:
and get the f roaVseats, about 2QC of
then^werc erotsl?^
and qetrr?lingV , THos??e^i??^ere;
pushing. The door was io imminent
. danger; Of being broten | i?wh?n;;<|r
poHoemen arrived on the scene ai ....
began boating the negroes baok with
Slabs. One negro ;who^ had on ? new
Kat, was vstruot ovoif the fcs^id and .xe-.
;^??yed aloUgVg^ ,
;worksd::&?a"#?^
was standing weening the mw. As
ho o?me up; anOther negro ssw the ;
S^olp Wound- a?^
out, ?aid: vH'*- ' v ?"
" 'Ma goodness, Samt Look- at
your hold.'
Th? othei? negro brought? hishaojd;
holding his hat, around ^
him, and replied:
. -P 'Haid hell! ?ook at that hat.*-V
. ~ Thelman/;wfcoy.eau;;-o*:;:trufe?
When no v one ievloot?ng. ^?U'dc ' -
that all will Wit lit.
;,; ? ^^eWii^
lu ' ahead bc freqaeutiy. aives:. hi?
_,?'?'??' ???>?.'"?
an
?
Indian Population of tdd Early
Days.
Tho most remarkable group of lu
d?an families ever disoovered in this
country rnlod the land from thc Platte
and Missouri rivers on tho west to
Lake Superior and Lake Michigan on
tho east; from the confluence pf the
Missouri and Mississippi rivera on
the south to the Lake of tho Woods
and what is now the Canadian border
on the north. Within thia area,
which amounted to nearly 480,00U
square miles, or one-ninth of tho toti'l
area of the United States, us it was in
1808, there were liviog, so far as
white men will ever know, about500,
000 Indians.
Confiuti-tdcv ."- were then unknown,
and the figures can be estimated only
from au oie nt memoranda and tradi
tions of the Indians themselves.
So swift are the mutations of Time,
though there are no*/ living in the
same area, backbone of a great repub
lic, 14,000,000 white men, women and
children. Of the 500,000 Indians,
lords of the land 250 years ago, but
48,000 aro to be found in this sec
tion.
We have been accustomed through
past historical errors to think of the
Iroquois of the East, tho Seminoles
of the Southeast, and the Pueblos of
the Southwest as the original domi
nant Indian tribes of the country,
but either from point of numbers o.
point of governing strength, they did
not compare, with the Aeeinibois,
Biloxis, Crows, Dakotas, Iowas, Men
dans Ogalslan, Omahas, Otoes, Pon
cae, Tetons, Winnebagoes.
' These were the great families of the
Sioux or Siouan race. . Second io im
portance to th?se were the Arapahoes.
Blackfeet, Cheyennes, Chippewas, II
linies, Kaskaskias, Kiokapoos, Otta
was, Piegans, Pottawsttomies, Sass
and Foxes. They were of the family
of the Algonquins.or Algonkian3. .
The third family of importance, and
the first to bo exterminated in the
many family wars, was compooed of
the Mohawks j Oneidas, Onondagas,
Cayuga?, S?necas, Tuscarora3. Thoy
were of the Iroquois family.
Many more tribes belonged to these
three great families, but most of those
not named never settled io the Missis
sippi River or'MiBsouri River valleys,
where the Indian rose to his greatest;
.power, where his fiercest battles were
waged with the white mau, abd where
he/net his final racial ruin.
E'er instance^ the AhttkkL'of ' Nova
Scotia, where Algonquins; so were the
Passamaquoddi, of Maine, and the
Powhatan tribe of Virgbia. *
The Catawba*,of North and South
Carolins, were of the Sioux family? as
were also the Tui?los of the Ro smoko
River of (Virginia. The Cayugse, the
Chfirck???^ the Eries, the Oneidas,
were all of the Iroquois, . but hod
oojy. a small part in the mektag of
Iroquois history sonia and West' pf
Lake Michigan, t
By, the last government, censu?, sur
viv?rs of ell these families numbered
as fallows: 'v'
Total number Indiana in .
original Northwest . ;... 48,000
Laud owned by'??fc?m,apr?s.47,309,115,;
Total 'tin'i^iVfi?* .
tiona......... 201-315
Non-tas paying Indiens ie
% tr. 8:i;,......8?;54i
Indiana in cubiio sohoola.500
Indians io con tract sob o o lo.. 1,600
By careful eBtiniatos of tho ethno
logists it is det?nqined that within
another century there .will not be
Within ; the confined of the . United
States oe thia continent a singl? pure;
blooded descendant: of baW:; of the
f smilies that originally ruled tho bet
ter pert of tt? isud.^BoysV Wo^
'^Al'-pj^ took : place ; in
Spar taub ?arg At on day af ternooo on the
Vrjf?a?^ ?? tke?eathero
Saw S?lls and Whiskey.
"Queer the intimate relation be
tween a mountain saw milt and moon
shine whiskey," said a veteran sawyer
yesterday. To tho reporter's puzzled
look, he answered: "Wby, don't you
know that within a day after you
open up a new saw-place in the moun
tains, booze'll be flowing among the
the hands like water? 8ure. And
here'r. why. Up in the billa, espec
ially 'round through the coves of
Transylvania^ Hay wood and Buncombe
Counties. North Coolina, and in less
degree through Ooonee and PiokpaE
Counties and your own Bark Corner
io South Carolina, pretty much every
body has corn and knows somoth?og
about distilling, whereas ready cash
is scarce. A saw mill attracts a lot of
hands, usually rough fellows- abd a
good many loafers disposed to drink
when they eau. That furnishe. the
moonshiner his opportunity. Almost
invariably tho first lumber sawed out
ata new mill is a bill for making
spout*, troughs and fermenters for a
distillery, and in a few boors the
booze is dripping from the business
end of the worm.' Some of the stills
are very crude. One I saw was com*
posed of a common black wash-pot,
witb a rough board oap and some baud
bonfc small gaa pipe for a worm. Since
the material the worm is composed pf
has muoh to do with the quality of thc
whiskey, you may imagino that thc
contraband that seeped through thai
piece of gas-pipe was head-splitting
and. fierce. Even the revenue offiaerj
havo learned that by a little pres
pee ti og they ban nearly always locat?
s moonshine outfit near a new sa?
mill. ?'-"Greeaville News.
-- A generously endowed home foi
old men will Boon be erected in Chi
oago. It will be tho James C. Kio<
Home for Old MV?, and it will b<
made possible by c bequest estimate?
nt considerably over $2,000,000 in til?
will of Mr King, who died last Wed nes
day. Any dependent old mau will bc
welcomed in the homo.
. ~ Tho beauty pf a woman's dres
i. .pends on how muoh sleeveahd neel
it has. ./y, . ?
- Better pass up the offering thai
waste your genius trying to make
nickel look like a dollar.
- One oever area anything sn tho
way of horse flesh prettier than a five
year-old Shetland stallion that Sir.
D. H. Coleman baa at bia home. It
is the smallest we evey ?ftW,_wejghio?
less than 2?0 pounds and measuriog
ody thirty-fear inches high. It han
j to be seen te appreciate how small it
i is and also how stylish and pretty.
! Mr. Coleman ia making an experiment
I of raising Shetland ponies. He aaa
fifteen brood mares and now lias four
! colts. It ia certainly a unique sight
for (.his section to seo thflm all to
j gether graaiog in tho pasture.-Winns
boro News and Herald.
I - Gov. Folk, of Missouri, has been
caught in the aot of accepting a bribe
in exchange for a pardon. Tho pris?
1 oner waa sent to jail for six years for
false registration, but does not seem
I to have understood what he was do
i ing. His wife, with her three ebil
1 dren; came to. see the, Goyomc-s* but
j he was still in doubt. The prisoner's
5-year-old daughter approached bim
timidly and said : "If you let my papa
go I'll give you a kiss." The Gover
nor replied a trifle huskily : "AU
right, little giri, you shall take him
homo with you,?'
^ i r- A shipment of electrical goods
waa maSe from New Orleans to Havana
during thc fever epidemic in the form
er/city*- It. now transpires that the
package contained a few aiegmoyia
mbfiquitoea. The fever is now in
Havana, but happily the winter season
is at. baud, ' sad ' with unfavorable
weather coupled with the cxperieucc
furnished in the light in New Orieanp,
there "ia no actual danger of an epi
demic is the Cuban metropelit'..
f '? - Miss Pauline Christean has bea
sworn in as a full-fledged " policeman'
in Pueblo, Colorado, and is believei
to be the first woman in the "West t
wear a star. Miss Cbriaman is i
newspaper worker and has made vigor
ons" war against expectoration io put
lie plaoes. : Th?' police autboritie
thought sho oould do more efifectiv
.work if enrolled on tho force, so el
:?as given a star.
Cheerfulness is not a?way? spoi
.jtaneous; it ?B greatly a matter ?
habit, and bears cultivation. v
V ~ The. desire of knowledge, li
? the thirst or riches* Inereasep av
with the acquisition of
rn. ?
ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1905.
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