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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1900)
-sh m-re.-...w,. ..., ,,, - -ajiirr inn '.Trmsii. m . . . -.. - - nn. l. i) ) i i CI1 I l.C ;i . L ; 4Z J V ill. Chlnn la nn nbsolute monnrchy, but thu emperor spends his life Inside the soalod walls of the Forbtddon City, nnd not. one Cfalnnman in a hundred thou Hiind ever looks upon tho Imperial fnco. Again, In splto of tho absolute chnr Hcler of tho monnrchy, there Is, ac cording to tho Chlnose law, a body culled tho Tu-ch-n-yuon, or board of public censors, which Is Independent of tho supromo government and, theo retically at least, higher In authority. Theoretically, again, tho supremo di rection of tho affairs of tho empire Is vested in tho Chun Chi Ch'u, othor wIho known as tho privy or grand council. The practical administra tion of tho laws Is under the charge of tho Nel-ko, or cabinet, a body which couslnta of four members, two China men and two Tartars, with tho assist ance of two members of the Great Col lege of Confucius, whose duty It Is to Hen that nothing Is done by tho cab inet which Is not In strict accordance with tho sacred books. Under thu cahlnet, again, are seven boards of administrators, each of which Is pre sided over by n Chinaman and a Tartar Jointly. These boards have tho work of government divided nmong them ns follows: 1. Tho board of civil ap pointments, which hue charge of all tho civil otricerB In tho empire. 2. The board of revenues, which has charge of all financial matters. 3. The board of rites and ceremonies, which has charge of enforcing tho laws nnd customs of tho omplre, 4. The military board. 6. Tho board of public works. 0. The hoard of criminal Jurisdiction. 7. The admiralty board, which makes Its head quarters at Tien Tsln. Equal In au thority with theso Is tho board of for eign affairs, or Tsung-ll-Yamen, which Ihih as members all tho members of tho grand or privy council. As for tho mysterious emperor, ho sponds his llfo In tho Forbidden City, Into tho central portion of which no man may enter. There ho lives, sur rounded by tho members of his horem and by the enormous number of from 8.000 to 10,000 sloves. Massive walls and the oven more formidable barriers of Oriental otlquetto shut him off on tlroly from tho rest of tho world. When on rare occasions ho goes out to wor ship at ono of tho tomples or to visit one of tho. palaces In the vicinity tho wtreets nlong which ho nnd his retlnuo will pass are cloarcd and freshly paved, whllo tho houses and other buildings along tho lino aro borrlcaded and tho fronts covered with hugo mats, so that no vulgar eye may look upon tho great lord of the sun as he Is carrlod along I WKtl' v MKJX""V"'f J V Wwty ,ir& i. tJi t ! i "nij iii& vtsw or TBt en t or taku. I '- - '! -f MjaagaaaaaaMBMtAM INTERIOR OF THE FORIHDDEN CITY. In a magnificent sedan chair. Only once in n number of yen is, when the emporor goes out Into tho country, where It Is practically Impossible to barricade all tho roads, does tho aver ago Chlnamnn have an opportunity to get oven a gllniruo of his Imperial master. There Is no law of hereditary suc cession to the Chinese throne, It being loft to each emperor to appoint his own successor from nmong tho younger generation of the imperial family, As tho emporor commonly has a number of wives and children tho practice opens pportunlty for an endless amount of intrigue and chicanery. Tho mannor in which the preaent emperor, Tflnlt'len, came to tho throno Is an ex ample In point. The wholo Chinese cmplro Is divided Into eighteen provinces, each ruled by n governor-general, who la jesponslble directly to the ompcror for tho entire administration, nominal, Judicial, mili tary, nud financial. Each governor souoral Is asalstod "by n council and by u. uumber of minor ofudnlB, such as the 3X IV JraLr YSffttMEfc F y : . - . , . .. F J W BV. V Mri isr-r Hk I V Bv .IB M ' . , 21' . .,-rH .r . 1 -, ,-1 i - treasurer, the subcommlssloner, nnd the literary chancellor. Bach province U divided Into departments, ruled by profeotB, and each department Into dis tricts, with a district ruler over each. Each town and vlllngo has aluo its separate government, with a complete pet of officials, so that the offlcelioldlng class In China Is largo and extremely influential, Tho gradations of rank among Chinese ofllclula are clearly deflnod, and each man Is directly responsible only to his Immediate Hiipcrtor. Thus tho village governor reports to the dis trict ruler, and ho In turn to the gov ernor of tho department. The de partmental governor reports to tho governor general of the province, who may remove him at will or even cut of his head. Tho whole administra tion, thoreforc. hinges on tho eighteen provincial governor generals, or vice roys, nnd thoRe positions are In tho greatest demand. A vlllngo official who wishes to keep his place finds It a good plan to mnke lurgo gifts to tho district ruler, and therefore levies largo taxes on tho people. The district rul er finds It good policy to hand over most of what he gets In this way to tho departmental chief, and the latter puss es It on to the governor general of the province. To bo appointed governor gcnoral of a Chinese province Is there fore equivalent to a gift of a lurgo fortuno, the amount depending only on tho avarlco of tho viceroy In power. A wtso Chinaman greatly prefers to serve his country as a provincial governor general or viceroy than as member of tho grand or privy council, the "per quisites" of which positions nro small. This form of administration makes It clear why tho body of Chinese officials KIOSK ON Is tho most corrupt nnd unscrupulous In tho world. The Spellbinder. "Fellow citizens," he said, "I don't Intend to keep you long. Cheers. I havo only a few words to add to those that havo already been said. Cries of "Hurrah!" I know you do not care to listen to uny further spcechmaklng ufter tho eloqueneo that you have heard here this evening. Tremendous applause. You are tired. Cheers and cries of "Good!" "Good!" It Is unnecessary for me to go back over the glorious history of our purty. Enthusiastic outburst luRtlug eleven minutes, I will uot weary you with a repetition of the arguments that you have heard before. Hats tossed in tho nlr; handkerchiefs fluttered and wild yells from all parts of the hall. Rut, my fellow cltliens, tho principles for which wo are fighting today aro thoso for which our fathers fought be fore them. Who nmong us can calmly analyze this matter without arising i I. J ' I 3B (.- -A v - j r r l with tho conviction that we nro right, and that those who oppono us art wrong? When Washington steppofl forth at Yorktown to receive " Hut no matter. The hall was emptj when he wiped his brow and sat dowa two hours and twenty mlnuos later. Prince Chin$. Prlnco Chtng, leader of the countot revolution In North China, and poll tlcal rival of the monstrous Prlne Tu an, Is now looked upon as the hope of the foreigners in Poking, or of such o; them na have survived the atrocities c4 tho Boxers. Ho is a great and pow- PRINCE CHINO. erful prince, and seems to bo a frlent of the whites. He Is now In Peking M tho head of tho Manchu garrison li that city. These forces number about 10,000, and numerous Chinese are flock ing to the standard of the new leader Chlng Is the uncle of the late em peror, Tsal-Tlen, who was the poisoned the other day by the order of Tuan. Ho Is tho greatunele of the heir ap parent, who was chosen last winter by the empress dowager. He was presi dent of the tsung-11-yamen before the government wan sundered by the revolt of Tuan and his followers. A Trtut Solution. The manufacture of binding twin by the Inmates of the Kansas peni tentiary, It Is said, has been a success. In Kansas, as In other states, th trades unions wore opposed to the em ployment of tho convtcta in labor that would como Into competition with thai outside of tho prison walls. Yet it IMPERIAL LAKE, PEKING. was renllzed that the life of idlenesa led by tho unemployed prisoners was of advantage neither to tho state nor to tho men themselves, and In fact work ed serious harm to both. The ldoa was hit upon of employing them In tho manufacture of binding twine, that In dustry being In the grasp of a trust that charged the farmers of Kansas ex orbitant prices for the nocessury arti cle. At tho beginning the twine was put on tho market at three cents a pound below the trust price, and then both sides cut their prices until tho Kansas farmers saved flvo cents a pound. Wliilom In VIi. David Starr Jordan does not think that a college training unfits a woman for tho severer discipline and humbler duties of matrimony, and ho says tha thn half-educated woman la exposod to moro dangers and Is mow suscoptlblo to tho "higher foolishness" than Is her better balanced and more brainy sister. m 1 l. .. HP ri TJfTT XuJ' Tint rownort coMcauiotf w TnwtiiNv I His Dear Relation. "It was really a most comical altua tlon, my dear." said Iudy Sara to her friend, Lady Qlenlyndon. "They were announced together Just like husband and wife. She, came In looking ready to burst with rage and nffcctlng not to notice the general grin. Ho came In, either not hnvlng heard the announce ment nnd quite unconscious of tho presence of his dear relation, or else one of tho finest actors I havo ever seen. I think she would hnve liked to have ordorod him to be turned out of the room on the spot, hut ns she could not do that she turned up her nose and I am suro It turns up quite enough of Itself. Well, sho sat down by me, and he sat near and talked af fably, obviously trying to draw her In, She sat looking daggers at him, re fusing to bo drawn, and then at last snubbing him so thnt he gave her Just ono glance nnd left her to herself. She went soon, and, I hope, felt ashamed of herself, hut I doubt It." "Nothing Is less conducive to repent ance," said Lady Glenlyndon.laughlng, "than tho knowledge that ono Is thor oughly In tho wrong." "Exactly. Well, then, I said to him, 'How did you like tho lndy whohasjust left? Hosmlled good-humoredly what i pleasant smllo he has! nnd said, 'One thing Is quite certain, that I could not liko her less than she did me.' 'Don't you know who she was?' I said; and when he said 'No, I added, 'She Is your connection, Lady Witney.' "HIb face waa a She Came in Look-perfect study. ing Ready to"Good Lord!" ho Burst with Rage.sald. 'the dowager! Do you suppose she know me?' " 'Well, Bho could have hardly help ed doing so, as that stupid Watklns an nounced you together as Lord and Lady Witney.' "You should have seen how he star ed, and then he laughed. 'Watklns takea tho cake.' ho said. '.But I wish I hadn't been tho hero of it nnd least of all with tho dowager. It's odd, by-the-bye, how different she Is to what I pictured her!' '"What was that?" I naturally asked. " 'Oh, old and frumpy, the regulation dowager, with a high nose and plastered-down bands.' "In this unlucky fashion began the personal acquaintance, if it may bo bo called, between tho now Lord Witney and tho widow of his predecessor. The piquancy of the situation from the spectator's point of view lay In tho fact that tho two persons concerned wcro tho opposing leaders of a family feud. Tho old Lord Witney had al ways resented the fact that he had no son, nnd Lndy Witney wns even moro Indignant thnt her daughter could not Inherit to the exclusion of the distant cousin. Tho fact that tho principal seat and estate wcro entailed lent fuel to the fire. Lord Witney had pictured his "dear relation" ns a typical dowuger with tho external appearance of a frump and tho manners of a true virago. Lady Witney, ns It happened, was one of those fortunate women who preserve their fineness of figure, delicacy of skin, nnd piquancy of figure. Also she did not disdain to lend somo skill ful assistance to the work of nature. Sho had been married young, but she looked much younger than she was, nnd but for the well-known fnct that her daughter's "coming out" was ono of the events of the year, she might hayed posed successfully as the typical femmo a trente nns. "Witney ought to mnrry his cousin and reunite the title nnd the property," wob what the world said. Kind nnd busy-bodying people even hustled about nnd tried to help this on. An entirely unpremeditated effect, how ever, wus produced by some well meaning but Ignorant rich people. They put Lady Witney on his othor sldo nt dinner. Sho gavo him her shoulder ostentatiously through tho soup and fish. Then ha spoke to her. She did not reply or turn, but she did not contlnuo hor conversation with her partner. Witney spoko again a lead ing remark of a general kind. Sho turned on him with flashing eyes nnd replied In n mnnner that from ono strangor guest to nnotherwnsdecldedly fierce, not to say rude. Witney was LurRf-nt Armor I'latn Cant. Pittsburg Spe. Chicago Tribune: Whnt Is probably the largest single nrmor plate ever made at either Beth lehem or Homestead wns shipped on Saturday to San Francisco, to bo used in the construction of the battle ship Wisconsin, which is building there. The plate will become tho port plato of a turret on the vessel, nnd 1b made on a new principle, being cut nt an angle Instead of being tho nrc of a circle, the Idea being to better daflect a shot. Tho plato weighs 30 tons and costa over $12,000. It wns pressed at Bethlehem, ns tho armor press nt Homestead wns unequal to the Job, nnd returned to Homestead for finish ing. FlKlll of ItllRRf-ll l'tlC Peasants of Russia live mainly upon thin vegetable soup, sauerkraut, rye bread and oil. Tho Scotch highland er, whoso rourago nnd hardihood Is proverbial, seldom toucrs meat, liv ing mainly upon ontirt!, vegetables B&A- not t all abashed. He neemod rather amused and continued the conversa tion. "Don't you think," she Bald, abrupt ly, "that a fortune-huntex Is a despic able thing?" "Certainly," ho replied, readily. "And don't you think that a fortune hunter who pursues a girl simply for her money when he knows that ho will never bo allowed to marry her, and that the mere Idea Is hateful and not to bo borne, and thnt he would never" daro If the girl had a father or a brother to protect her " "Most cowardly nnd objectionable person. I urn glad that the lady whom I nm In love with Is not nn heiress or " "Oh, you nre In love, nro you?" she then Bald. "Who is she?" "Well, really, you sec, as a strang er " "You know perfectly well who I am." "Certalnly.bnt as you appear to" Lady Witney's really fine eyes liter ally flnahod flro but ot that moment the ladles fortunntely rose. She reached home without hnvlng dollvercd herself, and, feeling thnt ho must do so or burst, sho wrote a scratching letter, telling him that his conduct was most ungentleman ly, nnd that she forbade him ever to speak to hor or como nenr her agnln. He replied cour teously acknowl edging her letter, and begging her out of her "grea They SdW thfl Palr experience" to tell Enter the g him whether under similar clrcum stanceb he should publicly refuse to sit by her or what? Sho wrote a cutting note In reply, mentioning Incidentally that though it wnB quite true thnt sho waa qulto an old woman (underlined twice), it was not usual In decent society to tell a lady bo. Lord Witney wrote to disclaim that ho had done this or had any Intention of doing bo. On the contrary, he knew thnt she had married na the merest girl, and ho ventured to add that It he had not known this her appearance would havo Inspired him with a belief that she was even younger. She found It absolutely necessary to answer this to the effect thnt she at tached no value to his opinion of her appearance, and he replied to her. How long this singular correspond ence would have gone on It Is difficult to aay, but happening to meet Lord Witney at a party, Lady Witney went up to him. "I know what you are aiming at," bIic said. "You want to get hold of my heiress daughter, and you think that If you persecute me you will drive me to consent to get rid of the annoy ance." "I utterly deny the persecution. I merely replied to your letters. That was common politeness. You might havo Ignored tho replies." "I could not. There was something bo Insinuating and I could not bear thnt you should think " She stop ped In some confusion. "Besides, I deny your accusation. I would not mnrry your daughter if sho nsked me. I love nnother womnn." There was a pnuse, and then Lady Witney said in nn nltered voice, "Does ahe love you?" "Not yet. But sho will." "You seem remnrkably confident. Is sho bo weak, then?" "No, she doesn't seem to mo weak," he roplled, eyeing her with a smllo. "Sho seemed to pie a very determined nnd rather fiery little lady." Thero was another pause and their glances met. "Do I know her?" "Yes." "Does she like mo?" "Yes." "I nm sure I don't like her." "On the contrary, you like her very much." "Who Is she?" Inquired Lady Wit noy, with abrupt engerness. "I will tell you thnt nt tho right time. In the meantime, shall wo go to supper?" Lady Witney was nbout to refuse, but looked Into his smiling, handsome face, hesitated, and wo know tho proverb. The lookers-on snld, when they saw the pair enter tho supper room: "Clever mnn, Witney! Ho has got round tho dowagor, and now he will mnrry tho heiress." But thoy were wrong. Six months Inter ho married Lady Witney. Ma dame. rfWV nnd buttermilk. Among tho most ac tive and vital people of the world nro tho Irish peasants, whose diet con slsts nlmost entirely of potatoen nnd buttermilk. Tho tanners of Corsica live all winter upon dried fruit, mnln ly dates nnd polenta (chestnut) monl During the middle nges the Moors' used to provision their fortified cities with chestnutB nnd olive oil. Chest nuts provide nlmost a perfect food nnd, in fnct, they constitute n staple nrtlclo of diet nmong tho pensantry of certain portions of Italy. Italnfttll In liiclln, Tho average annual rainfall or the Indlnn continent, calculated upon data extending over tho last thirty years Is forty-one Inches. In 189G tho de flcloncy was flvo Inches. In 1899 (when the monsoon broke that regulated tho harvests of 1900), the deficiency was oleven Inches, or 27 per cent. Such a doflclt 1b unparalleled In Indian roc orda ifc COLD Ain HEALTH. Wlntar About the Uct Httmnlnnt Ieopl Ciin Hare. Many persons regard tho winter Ben son as an unfortunate visitation. It Is considered both uncomfortablo to Uio body and harmful to health. This Is nn error. Cold Is a most potent agent' for the restoration nnd preservation of normal activity on tho part of the or gans of the human body. It Is a wlso plan of provldenco which gives us m change of seasons. Tho winter cold comes as a tonic to repair the Injuries done by the enervating heat of sum mer. Summer, It Is true, has ninny" wise uses In tho matter of health. It Induces outdoor llfo, rids tho system1 of poisons through copious perapira-1 tlon and through the scorching rays of aun destroys germ llfo. Winter Is the. grent brnccr of the system. It Btlm-1 ulntcs nctlvlty in every orgnn. When cold attacks tho surface of tho body! tho blood Is net Into more freo clrcula-! tlon as a menns of bodily warmth. It Is through the circulation of the blood thnt tho humnn anntomy is kept In a state of repair. When tho food has been digested and' converted Into liquid form, it Is taken up by tho blood and carried tho rounds of tho system for the purposo of repairing tho waato places. When tho cold" causes Increased circulation, It alsn brings about moro porfect nutrition Man's face and hands lllustrato hovt weather-proof tho body becomes when exposed to nlr. Continued nctlvlty In, circulation on the surface, caused by tho air coming In contact with the skin, tends to nourish and thicken the skin. Thus mnn's skin grows thicker In winter Just as nnlmnls nre supplied with a double coat of fur. Tho sav ages who dwell hnreheided In the open nlr, nre seldom, If ever, known to bo nflllcted with bnld hends, while, with the civilian who shields his scalp from air, baldness Is prevalent. Tho In dians, who, If not now, In former day3 roamed our western borders, practical ly without clothing to shelter their bodies, became, through long ex posure, bo Inured to the cold that It gave them but little discomfort. St. M Louis Globe-Democrat. DININQ OUT. Hostcii 8omtlinc Depend on llnlr. Trigger Intellect!. If the hostess can catch no comet, she must be contented with meteoric wits, -who make up for real brilliancy by saying what they do say quickly and spontaneously with the punsters, In short, and such hair-trigger Intel lects. Falling these, says the presum ably humorous Golett Burgess In Har per's Bazar, tho Inst clnss abovo tho bores posltlvo are those well meaning; diners out who load themselves with stories for a dinner us a soldier goes into an engagement with a bolt full of cartridges. They may not get a chancej for a shot very often, but, given an opening, their Are is accurate and deadly till the last round Is gone, when they aro nt the mercy of a moro In ventive wit. Yet even theao Svelter welghts havo their plnco nt tho table for we must havo bread, as well na wine. It was ono of Lewis Carroll' pet fancies to have a dinner table In tho shape of a ring, and half tho guests seuted inside upon a platform which revolved slowly around the clr-. clo till each ono had passed opposlt every guest seated on tho outside of the! table. But this would break up man) of tho little secret schemes for whlcM tho modern dinner is planned, anUJ many a young man would Buddenljl find himself flirting with tho wrong lady across the board. And this last hint carries me from the exoteric to tho esoteric charms of the dinner. Here however, you must guess your own way. I dare not tell you precisely whnt It means when Celestlno shifts hor glass from left to right of her plate, nor what I answer when I raise my serviette by one corner, for Celestlno may dine with you somo day, nnd you mny remember. You would better not Invite me, anyway, for, though I am not n comet, yet I ndmlt I would bo mad enough to upset the claret pur posely rather than havo nothing ex citing happen. l'ennyluiila to lluy Vnllujr Forge.. Historic Vulley Forgo is to become a state park. It Is the purposo to takii Immedlato steps toward tho purclinsrj of this historic ground by tho stato ofj Pennsylvania. A commltteo has beoni appointed to correspond with ull pa triotic societies tlroughout Pennsylva nia, and all Americans who hnvo the, good name of WaBhlngton at heart aro' appealed to for the purposo of helping1 nlong tho crtisadt. Tho proprietary rights of the Valley Forgo association' aro not to be Infringed upon, for tho extensive territory contains many; landmarks that nre now falling Into decay. It Is these historic momentoa, of tho revolution which will bo takerl aro of when once tho stato of Penn sylvania Is the overseer of Valley Force. Court Howie Didn't Make Town. "My homo town of Grange vllle, Idni ho, Is an exnnipl of the rnpl.d growth, of communities," says Mr. J. F. Alnslloj "A few yenrs aga the county-Bent wnsJ established at tha town of Mount Ida-j ho. A court hoiiso was constructed and the nucleus of a town begun. It was not long af'erward that Grange vllle sprang Into oxlstenco. Today Mount Idaho, wlti Its court houso, hail iboiit twelve families, and Grnngovllle' only a fow miles distant, has n popu atlon of 1,200 people." Washington I'Obt. PJctiicvf kt hanging In tho parlor A 'ook diitifuTAhti' they can't bo classed; - uenntlve. Atchison Globe.