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League at 3 Epworth League at 645 Prayer meeting Wed nesday night at 745 Bryant Howe Pastor Baptist Sunday school at ten oclock a m Preaching at 11 a m and 745 p m B Y P U 645 p m Prayer meeting and Bible study on Wednesday at 8 p m A most cordial invitation is e tided to all to worship with us Francis E Iams Pastor Evangelical Lutheran Congrega tional Sunday School at 930 a m Preaching at 1030 a m and 730 p m by pastor Junior C E at 130 p m Senior C E at 700 p m Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Satur day evenings at 730 All Germans 2ordially invited to these services Rev GustavHenkelmann 505 3rd street West Christian Science 219 Main Ave Que Services Sunday at 11 a m and Wednesday at 8 p m Reading Room open all the time Science literature on sale Evangelical Lutheran Regular German preaching services in church corner of E and 6th street east every Sunday morning at 1030 All Germans cordially invited RevWm Brueggeman 607 5th st East Not So Black The devil isnt as black as he Is painted A good bit of his blackness has been rubbed off on the people who have tried to investigate the truth of that comforting proverb New York Times Foleys Kidney Pills are antiseptic tonic and restorative and a prompt corrective of all urinary irregulari ties Refuse substitutes A- McMil len -T - 3v5 2Z3 yr r frfrWMWig Aiw ffTf Tfr TCt CHINAS HO PES ND AWAKENi lS Prince Tsai Tao Tells of Her Thirst For Knowledge WHOLE COUNTRY IS AFFEGTED Steady Stream of Students to Be Sent to America For Their Education He Declares at Dinner Given In His Honor at New York Seeks Closer Relations With United States For the first time during his recent visit to America his imperial high ness Prince Tsui Tao of China deliv ered a speech at the twelfth annual dinner of the American Asiatic asso ciation given in his honor at Delinon icos in New York the other night In the course of his speech Prince Tsai said that the thirst for foreign knowl edge Is general throughout the Chinese empire and at the present moment the old order of things Is fast giving place to the new The speech was in Chinese for the prince does not speak English but later Lord Li son of the late LI Hung Chang translated It into English for the benefit of the occi dental guests and it was cheered en thusiastically This Is what Prince Tsai said as translated by Lord LI I thank you for the honor you have done me this evening 1 am glad to have this opportunity to meet the mem bers of tfiis association for 1 know well that you are friends of China men who possess an intimate knowl edge of Chinese affairs taking a lively interest in Chinas welfare and prog ress and sympathizing with out hopes and aspirations China Passing Through Great Crisis The work of this American Asiatic association has rendered China better understood by Americans and America better understood by Chinese One of the chief objects of my present mis sion is to promote this good under standing Through the American Asi atic association many a public man from the east has been brought into contact with prominent men of the west There is no surer means of drawing east and west together into friendly and close relations It is an encouraging sign of the times that Americans are taking a much greater interest in what is going on in China than they did a little while ago The free interchange of views on questions of public interest cannot but be advantageous to both countries On the other hand we also wish to know more about other countries Our officials and merchants are begin ning to travel more and more to for eign lands in search of information and opportunities This thirst for for oicn ideas i havinjr its effect upon the whole country China is now passing through a great crisis in her history The old order of things is fast giving place to the new What we need most now is men men able to do the work that has to be done Beginning In Education Though we have established schools and colleges in all parts of the empire as fast as we can it will be some dec ades yet before we can hope to have such schools and colleges as you have in this country Still we have made a beginning In the meantime we intend to send a steady stream of students to your country Thanks to the generos ity of the American government in re mitting a portion of the Boxer indem nity China is able now to send 100 students to this country each year for the first four years and fifty thereaft er There will soon be 400 government students in this country These stu dents on their return to their own country cannot but give a good ac count of themselves It is my sincere hope that they will do their part in guiding the affairs of their country in the path of progress and reform and in binding China and the United States together with a strong tie of friendship and good feel ing Brigadier General Ha Han Han Chang one of Prince Tsais suit also made a speech in which he recited briefly the military history of China a history that dates from the Chiro dy nasty of 3000 years ago He then took up the reorganization of the army that is now in progress China again feels the need of put ting her army on an efficient basis said General Ha and with this end in view the late Emperor Kwang Hsu ordered the reorganization of the war office to which are especially attached the general staff of the army and the bureau of military training At the same time it was decided to organize an army of thirty-six- divisions and this work was to be completed in 1912 Now the Chinese army consists of eighteen divisions each composed of two brigades of infantry a regiment of cavalry and a corps of artillery each corps with more than fifty guns a corps of engineers and a commissary department In order to increase the efficiency of the service the prince re gent thought best last year to detach the general staff from the war office and appoint Prince Tsai as controller general with me as chief officer I need hardly add that It is the settled purpose of his imperial highness to use the utmost endeavor to bring the Chinese army to the highest state of effldenay FICTITIOUS HEROINE APPEARSJ THE FLESH Novelist Kramer the Chautauqua Lec turer Tells of Receiving In teresting Letters What do you find to be the most universal idea with people who dis cuss your books with you was asked of Harold Morton Kramer author of The Chrysalis The Castle of Dawn Hearts and the Cross etc Of course the question does not mean as to the opinions they express regard ing your novels I think I understand you replied the novelist and I feel perfectly safe in saying at once that the most uni versal idea they express is that they have themes for great novels and they are willing to suggest them to me They generally express it about like this Well sir I can relate to you some incidents that undoubtedly would make a great book if they were put to gether just right Then I am given some little story probably of undoubt ed interest in Its way hut lacking much of being a theme for a novel They always conclude by saying Of course you could work in a love story with it and a few things like that but that would be easy and lots of people would remember and recog nize these incidents It ought to he a great book If you care to use it Ill give you all of the pointers some day But I have had some embarrassing questions put to me For instance only recently I was asked to make a statement for a prominent literary club of ladies as to whether I wrote for fame or money I mean as my pri mary object That question may look easy but censider how you would an swer it satisfactorily to a club An other friend asked me if I ever re ceived any especially interesting let ters I told her I did and she want ed to know from whom Well I think the most interesting letters come from my publishers I said Is that so And would you mind telling me some of the most interest ing things they say she asked The most interesting words they ever write me are these Enclosed find check in payment of royalty I replied and she turned up her nose and became chilly at once But really I think the most inter esting letter I ever received as a re sult of my literary work was after the publication of a short story in seys magazine It was a story of the west and concerned the heroism of a girl whose name chosen at random appeared in the story as Alice Gil bert I was absent from home and had asked Mrs Kramer to open my mall while I was gone in order that I might be communicated with immedi ately if necessary When I returned I found a letter awaiting me from a young lady who signed herself Alice Gilbert and who wrote as though she were a very close friend of mine In the letter she discussed the story in question and wrote as though the story had been woven from incidents in real life in which she and I had figured I had spent a few years in the west and Mrs Kramer was won dering why I should be thus idealiz ing one of my old flames It was a difficult matter to explain although I had never heard of the lady in ques tion and until I received her letter did not dream that an Alice Gilbert really existed Afterwards I learned by a little investigation that I could not resist making and in which Mrs Kramer joined me that the real Alice Gilbert was a most estimable young lady a school teacher in the Ohio city from which her letter had been written When my next book was ready for publication I mailed her one of the publishers announcements with the suggestion that as she had been so nterested in the short story she night be interested in the book This irought a letter in which she begged forgiveness for her impulsive prank that prompted the first letter and which was written in her surprise at finding the heroines name to be the same as hers Yes I think all things considered that that was the most in teresting letter I ever received as a result of my story writing Burton Thatcher who will deliver a lecture recital at Chautauqua is one of the rising baritone singers of the age His musical training has been received at great cost and much at tention has been given to folk songs as well as the classics He is a musician by temperament and in stinct added to his mentality he has a wonderful voice and an admirable physique After referring most flatteringly to Burton Thatchers work in his recital of the evening before the Salt Lake Tribune adds His performance throughout was very creditable show ing conscientious work and his rendi tion of Song of Hybrias and King Duncans Daughters is deserving of special mention -- i w j Jk5saBaafeaeaahjflrt te NAVY MEN TALK OF THE MAINE Congressional Action to Raise Battleship Creates Interest FLIGHT OF THE SURVIVORS Experiences of Two Officers at Brook lyn Navy Yard Who Were Aboard the Vessel When She Blew Up and Sank In Havana Harbor New Ver sion of Bill Anthonys Report In the wurdrooms of the big gray battleships of the Atlantic fleet lying at the Brooklyn navy yard in Brook lyn while undergoing repairs prelim inary to summer cruises and target practice the principal topic of conver sation is the passage of the congres sional bill providing for the raising of the battleship Maine resting deep In the mud of Havana harbor As it happens there are several officers at the yard who were attached to Sigs bees ship at the time of the explo sion more than ten years ago They were middies then Now they are lieutenant commanders and executive officers with all the dignity attached to such exalted positions It is not easy to get survivors of that night of terror to tell of their expe riences The subject is taboo in the navy so far as the outside world is concerned and it requires something like the recent action of congress to bring it forward at mess To tell the truth the whole affair was thrashed out so continually and in such detail years ago that those who went through the first ordeal of story tell ing are loath to break the peace they have enjoyed for the last few years One of the officers who served on the old Maine was not aboard of her at the time the explosion occurred He had shore leave that night and was some distance away from the water front when the explosion took place jarring the country for miles around Like everybody else who was still up he started for the quay at a run but he arrived too late to witness anything except the last act of the awful trage dy By the time he arrived the ship had settled and most of the survivors had been brought ashore In small boats Two Who Were In Wardroom Another officer who now holds a re sponsible position in the Atlantic fleet was in the wardroom with Lieutenant Commander Dick Wainwrigbt execu tive officer of the doomed battleship now a rear admiral when the deck beneath their feet trembled and the roar of the blast thudded in their ears The two officers had been going through some of the ships papers but they dropped everything and leap ed up the companionway to the deck They had no idea what had happened their first instinct was to find out Bill Anthony the marine orderly had already given Captain Sigsbee the famous report that he didnt make What really happened was that Anthony bumped Into the captain in the darkness as the latter was making his way out of his cabin Anthony apologized and asked if he could do anything He never said Sir I have to report the ship is sinking or any thing like that He was cool and clear headed all the time keeping near the captain and obeying his orders promptly but he said nothing stagy Gray headed sergeants of the marine corps hold him up to recruits to this day as the ideal orderly Story of an Eyewitness The explosion was local as explo sions of great force usually are said the officer last mentioned The part of the ship 1 was in was not affected materially The decks and bulkhead shivered but there was no rending of plates and I was quite able to keep my feet Of course the lights had gone out and we could see little We knew that the ship was settling and our one object was to save those still alive In fact the most horrible part of the experience was the half hour immediately following the explosion during which we were getting out mangled wretches from the shattered decks forward I was never in any danger myself for 1 was standing on a higher deck above the water that came rolling in over the focsle Two of the officers in the wardroom were caught in their cabins by the inrush and drowned like rats It was all a case of getting on deck quick with us The explosion did not menace us All we did was to save those who were left It was all we could do New National Park Near Trenton NJ A commission was named the other day by Governor Fort of New Jersey to further the project to establish a national park on both sides of the Delaware river at a point above Tren ton N J made historic by the cross ing of Washington and his army In Revolutionary days Pennsylvania and congress will be asked to aid the move ment Special Bells For London Pageant A special peal of bells Is being cast 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