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Mrs. Carl Shemidt, who is the
local head of the Treasure and
Trinket fund, announced today that
she and her colleagues had decided
to hold a dance on Saturday, March
8th, at the Union Hall, in aid of
the Treasure and Trinket fund..
This fund, instituted some time
ago with the approve’ of the war
office, is for the purpose of raising:
funds with which such comforts as:
are not usually provided by the
army, may be purchased for the
use of the boys of the army air'
service. The name is derived from
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At Union Hnll on Tuesday and
Friday nights, commencing at 9:30
and ending at Midnight.
Fox Trotting a Specialty. Rates
on application at Union Hall.
Mrs. Belle Campbell
the fact that contributions to the
fund, in the way of gold and silver
trinkets, nuggets, etc. may be made.
The ladies in charge of the dance
wish also to state that the dance
will be preceded by an entertain
ment and that, in all probability,
“Ruth St. Denis and her beautiful
troupe” will be seen in a new
dance. Several innovations are also
spoken of as part of the program
of the proposed entertainment, of
which due announcement will be
made later.
CHRISTIANSCIENCE
Sunday schoc^l will be held in
the old commissioner's office build
ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunday
at 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held
at the same place at two o’clock.
The subject will be “Christ Jesus.”
The Burgess auto left this morn
ing for Fairbanks with a little ex
press and Sam Bagtoff and Mike
Hyland as passengers.
Jim Trainor is in the Commisson
hospital for treatment. He will be
discharged in a few days.
Nenana and Fairbanks, the
Siamese Twins.
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FIELD IN CHINA
NEW YORK.—Fifteen thousand
miles from Broadway, in the wilds
of Western China where the foot
of a white man never before has
trod, according to the Rev. Dr.
Joseph Beech, a Methodist mission
ary, lives a polygot nation of mors
’ than 4,000,000 persons, “95 per
cent of whom do not know that
there has been a war.”
Dr. Beech, who is president of
the Western China Union University
at Chentu in the province of Sze
chuan, maintained by five evangeli
cal denominations of England, Can
ada and the United States, and who
recently arrived here to participate
in the Methodist Centenary, told of
a journey he took alone, with a
native guide, last summer far into
the depths of the habitat of the
’tu-ren or children of the soil’, the
strangest people in the Orient.
The doctor passed three weeks
among the twenty or more tribes in
the land, which is as inacessible as
Thibet, he said, and while there
found almost every type of man
kind, including pygmies, men and
women resembling negroes, Ameri
can Indians, East Indians, Gurkhas.
South Sea Islanders, Europeans and
other races apparently from all four
quarters of the globe. These
people, of course, he said, had
never been anywhere else than in
the country he found them, namely
in a region about the size of New
York state, bounded on the north
by the province of Kansu, the 1”
by Burmah. Yunan and Kweechow,
the east by Szechuan and the west
by Thibet.
"I found a land of beautiful
valleys, covered with fine farms
and homesteads,” said the explorer
missionary, “while towering: above
them were mountains from 0,000
to 18.000 feet high. The frontier
; of the country was protected by
queer looking stone fortified build
ings, manned by natives armed with
weapons resembling the old-fashion
ed blunderbuss. It is not impossible
that these people were the origin
ators of gunpowder, for the Chin
ese who for years have tried to rule
them admitted it is of better quality
than the powder they make them
selves.
“Although suspicious and warlike
and hostile to some kinds of Chin
ese, the ’tu-ren’ proved to be most
hospitable and fed and sheltered
us. Huge smokestacks in their
communities gave them the appear
ance of thriving industrial citiei.
When we arrived we found they
were employed solely for the pur
pose of drying and curing vege
tables, meat and fish, which were
suspended tier upon tier the entire
height of the chimney.
“The architecture of the country
was distinctly foreign to China, re
i sembling in many respects the
feudal castles of Normandy. In
other respects it was not unlike the
structures of Bablylon and Palestine.
! Grain, for instance, after being ha
■ vested was threshed upon the roofs
of the house, just as in the Holy
Land. The houses themselves are
nothing more than boxes, with per
■ haps one window from which the
odors and smoke of cooking es
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capes.
i “On top of practically all the
fortified ‘castles’ a flag was flown.
I was told these were ‘prayer flags'
jand had no special tribal or pat
: riotic significance. Every man in
the country, apparently is ‘a law
unto himself'. Each tribe has its
chieftan, but there is no national
head and China exercises only nom
inal sovereignty.
“Quarrels are settled on horse
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back by means of blunderbusses,?
; spears, bags of stone and broad- j
; swords. The enemies challenge one I
| another and at a given signal ride j
full tilt on small, wiry ponies at
; each other. It is seldom that both ;
j combatants escape alive but the i
survivor is required to feed and
i clothe the family of his dead ad
! versary as long as they live and
this makes ‘duels' rare. In many
respects these combats resemble the
tournament of the Middle Ages.”
Dr. Beech said that while he be
lieved he had penetrated farther
into this section of Western Chin31
than any other white man he re-'
gretted that he had not gone still
farther. “For my guide,” he said, ;
“said that four or five days’ jour
ney beyond there were tribesmen
near Sungpan who are just like you
are.' That is, natives who appeared
like Americans." Their dress, con
versation and mode of living, of
course, he said, was characteristic
of the country.
“How so many different types of
people located there is a problem
for the ethnologist,” resumed Dr.
Beech. “One theory is that they
represent all the warring tribal ele
ments that have come into the con
tinent of Asia and driven by the
Mongols and Tartars, made their
last stand in the natural refuge be
tween India. China and the northern
part of Asia.
“Each tribe is independent of
the other, all speak a patois of
Thibetan and Turkestan, and their
religion seems to be animistic or
that of the Liams. The most num
erous are the Lolos, which, again
are subdivided into smaller tribes
Others are the Miaos, who are poly
androus or polygamous. These
people, I believe, are responsive to
Christian influences and kind treat
ment and 150 missionaries would
bring to them the enlightenment.
they so much need. Nothing has
ever been done for them by civiliz-:
ation. |
“All of the natives are farmers or1
herdsmen. The latter raise huge j
numbers of goats, hundreds of j
thousands of which can be seen ;
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on the mountainsides. Recently, ori
since the Chinese have equipped
their army with modern rifles, the
Chinese have opened up trading with
the 'tu-ren' and now vast quantities
of raw woo! and hides are being
t exchanged. The Chinese, too, are
.utilizing some of the valleys to
; raise opium, but this is done with
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out the approval of the Pekin gov-!
ernment.
Speaking of the possibilities for
expanding trade in the Orient, Dr.
Beech declared China alone could
enable the great powers to recoup
their war losses. “They are hun
gry for American goods," he said,
“and the field is unlimited. The
Chinese people are highly cul
tured, even the poor coolies, and
they desire only the best things.
China is rich in untold undeveloped
resources. Make it possible to de
velop the resources of China and
the Chinese people will become the
greatest aggregation of purchasers
in the world.”
About two hundred employes of
the Beatson mine at Latouehe have
been let out on account of the cur
tailment of the output of copper,
due to the fact that the demand
for this metal has dropped off
since the war ended.
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