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GREAT MANY CHANGES
Japanese Words 1 hat Have C rept in
the Chinese Lnnguaje litis Not Improved?Nor
litis Other Japanese
IiiJlueneis Helped the Country. j
11 i s Excellency Liang Tun Yen,
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Chinese government, who brought |
his lani.ly over here a month ago
to show them the land where he was |
educated and to see some of his old
frienus, s?.ys '1 ho New York Sun, I
came to New York from Washington
w" to attend the annuui dinner last
v alght of tlie class of '82 of Yale, of
which lie is a member. He has revisited
Hartford, where he left his
youn er son at the same preparatory
school where Mr. Liang was fitted
for Yale, paid a visit to New Haven
and spent some time in Washington. (
He Is now considering whether lie
will leave his elder son here to complete
his education. I
While lie was waiting in his sitting
room at tlve Manhattan for the deputation
of his classmates to escort
him to the University Club where the
J dinner took place. Mr. Liang chatted
about things In China and here. |
"I have been asked several times
whether 1 am on an oflicia! mission," j
he said. ^The fact in, I < a;ne over t
here principally to enjoy a holiday. ;
It has been a long time since i saw.
this (onntry. Just before I loft home :
the government told me that if I saw
any chance to talk to anybody who
could possibly help to bring about j
the adoption of the eighth article of i
i* the Mackay treaty, to do so. The arV
tide relates to the abolition of the
) Ilk In tax an 1 its adoption would
mean a great deal to China. The
United States and Japan are the only
two nations that approved of it. We
are in need of money and our tariff
Is only u per cent ad valorem, which
does 11 o(. produce very much revenue. I
"In China the feeling toward 1
Americans is most frienrly. It has 1
always been so. You Americans in
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a great many ways have treated us
differently from the other powers.
Your navy did not join in the attack
upon the Taku forts at the. time of
the Boxer rebellion, and while at the |
treaty port? most of the other pow- <
ers, even including Belgium, got con- j
cessions of land, this government de- t
tnanded none. And, of course, you
retnrnel your share of the Boxer indemnity.
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"The new movement in China \
<fated from the Japanese war. After
that war moat of our people recognized
that China must change. Alter
1894 we began to aend a lot of
students to Japan. At the time wo
had about 30.000 of them 111 that
country. The Rusao-Japanese war opened
tho eyes of our people still
inoTe. Our students went to Japan
and came back with new ideas. They
went there because It was so much
cheaper than to go to any other for
elgn country. But I am very sorry
they did. l wish they had come to
America and Europe instead.
"The number of Chinese students
In America is. now about 400. There
are not many graduates of American
schools In China. I wish the number
were larger.
"The new movement in China now
la more for a constitution than anything
else, 1 don't know whether we
are ?olng too fast or not. The trouble
with a movement of the kind la
that It is difficult to regulate. It is
'Ike a great flywheel when It is in :
motion. Still the movement must be
productive of good in some sort of
way, because it is progressive."
"Have you any great poets or
prose writers in China today?" Mr.
Lang was asked.
No, I regret to say?at least few
that count. One trouble Is that the ,
Chinese language has been corrupted I
by the Introduction of Japanese
words. The language is undergoing
a change. All the older Chinese and
even the foreigners who have lived
in China for any length of time notice
a great difference. There are a
lot of new terms, many of which are
not necessary, for we had the good
old Chinese way of expressing
t hem."
"You have had a tremendous
growth in newspapers in the past
few years," was suggested.
"Ah, yes, hut the newspapers of
China are not very good. They are
sensational.
"in Peking life is changing very
much," continued VI r. Liang. "Peking
lt?r?ir j? changing, too Wp a r*?
building better roads and the streets
are being macadamized.
I "I am not able to give you the exact
strength of the Chinese army, but'
the plan is eventually to increase it
3 00,000 meil. The oillcers who are
training it are mostly Japanese,
though there are a few Germans.
What we need in China is more foreign
capital. Under present conditions
capital does not care to come,
but I hope conditions will change.
We ne-ed manufacturing industries of
all sorts. We Import from the United
States or from Rurope vast quantities
of machinery every year. With
the cheap labor we have there could
be a great field for this branch of
. industry at home.
1 "I suppose motor cars will be one
of the next things we shall he wanting,"
said Mr. Liang with a whimsical
smile. "Wo have had them in
| Poking already, but so far as I know
j there are only two or three there,
j and they are not much used. The
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our horses and mules do not get
used to them.
"Cotton manufacturing? Well, our,
cotton is too short in fiber to make j
the best kind of cloth, and we have |
to import what, we need. Ten years
ago we tried replanting American
cotton, which has a long fiber, but J
it soon deteriorated and It lias not
been tried since."
THOUGHT 111! KILLK1) JACKSOW
John Thompson Believed That He
Fired Fatal Shot.
The South Carolina newspapers
several days ago published accounts
of the sudden death of .John Thomp-j
son, which occurred at Oheraw as he i
was boarding a train. The accounts
did not mention the fact that Mr.
Thompson believed until his dying
day that it was a shot from his gun
that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
Mr. Thompson was a gallant old j
Confederate soldier, and there was1
no braver one in the ranks.. He said
some time ago that the fact that It j
was prooaoiy mis nana mat nan Killed
Stonewall Jackson caused him to pass
many restless nights. Mr. Thompson's
eyes would fill with tears when
he would talk of the possibility and
probability. He fired his gun many
times that night, ho has often said, 1
and ho was firmly of tho opinion i'
that one of his shots cut down the 1
great Confederate leader.
Mr. Thompson was wounded many 1
times. In fact, he received several
wounds the day following Jackson s ;
death. One of these was a bul'e: j(
wound in his forehead, and to his j1
dying day a largo hole in liis bare (
forehead existed plainly in view lo | *
tell of the terrible wound. Soon a?- j
ter he was shot down and when he , 3
regained consciousness he discovered *
the wools around him on fire. He *
1
managed to drag himself, bit by bit,
to safety, but several times the fire r
was too quick for him. M?r. Thonip- 1
son was also severely wounded in *
some of the Virginia battles. This 1
bravo old warrior now sleeps in a 1
cemetery In Chesterfield county. ^
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A Long Tunnel. t
A tunnel of sufficient dimensions
to carrv telenhone and telearranh i a
(vires for the transmission of pack- a
ISO freight is to be constructed be- a
:ween Chicago and New York. n
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David Gilliam, a prominent far- c
iter of Abbeville county lost hit en-. h
:ire crop of corn yesterday by firs, b
RECORD BEATEN
The Value of Farm Products Skew Great
Str.dts Dorirg Ibe Vtar
OVER ALL OTHIR YEARS
State Department of Agriculture in
Annual Report Place* Value of
Farm Products in South Carolina
a.* Rlin iMO n/lit or Mora TIihii
Kight Million Above 10O9.
A (statement fasued Wednesda>
night by E. J. Watson, commissioner
of agriculture, commerce and Industriea,
shows that the year 1910 haa
been one of progress in agriculture
in South Carolina. The value of the
products grown upon the lands of
this State has reached the enormous
auni of $1 15,4 89,503, which is three
times the 1 900 figures and more than
$8,000,000 above the 1 909 value of
products of the Held.
In Col. Watson's summary of conditions
wero given out tabulations
showing increased acreage of corn,
wheat and other products of the field.
Tobacco and rice ?hcw decreases,
the rice acreage tor 1910 is 17,3uu
against 18.000 for last year. The
production figures place cotton at'
1,176,081 bales and corn at 44,733.0
0 0. Col. Watson's corn figures
stirred up the Government statisticians
recently.
Summary.
Col. Watson's statement is as follower
"Agriculture In South Carolina in
the year 1910, though as yet the re??
development has but just begun, has
brought this State again to the fore
n m An /r 1* nnr?*i/illltif??ril i * i?r\_
1 1 Will) (llIIUIl^ L II C llhl ituillll (U jJ I \Jducing
States of the Union, and as a
business proposition agriculture is
again assuming the lead 'he value
of the principal agricultural products
this year being greater than
twice the value of the manufactured
output of all the textiles and the
cotton seed oil mills combined. It
is not improbable that the total value
of the leading agricultural products
will practically equal the value of
all manufactured products in the
State, including fertilizers and lumber.
"That a revolution has been
wrought in the past decade may be
gathered from the fact that In 1900
South Carolina ranked tw^.ty-second
in agricultural products among the
States of the Union, with a total
value of agricultural products in that
year of $51,324,000. For 1908 the
State had risen In rank to eighteenth
and this year will rise still higher.
The total value of the principal agricultural
products this year, including
the cotton crop with the seed, corn,
hay, wheat, oats, tobacco, potatoes,
rye and rice, without taking into consideration
at all the truck industry,
which has probably netted four million
dollars, if not more, is $145,4
89,563, almost three times the tig
tiro <111 ote?I above for 1 000, ana
against $137,182,087 for the year
1 000 for the snnte crops, an increase
for the agricultural industry, regardless
of truck and live stock during
this year, of $8,307,4 70.
"The increase In the cotton crop,
using figures which are probably several
thousand bales less than the
actual crop, is $3,270,000, and this
has been accomplished notwithstanding
the immense impetus ?iven to
corn-growing, which resulted in the
one year in crop being increased b>
$6,002,000 in value.
"Had it not been for the decrease
of nearly one-fourth million dollars
In the rice crop and nearly threefourths
million dollars In the tobacco
crop, or if these crops had even kept
up to lart year's figures, the grand
total increase for this year would '
have reached out for ten million dollars.
It is to he doubted if hardly
a State in the Union will show a
handsomer increase In this wonderful
year in agricultural development. 1
State's Increase.
"It fs noteworthy that South Oaro- ,
Una's percentage of Increase in the ,
nine years, from 1 900 to 1 909, was ^
larger than any of the States of the (
Union, with the exception of sixteen,
with but one exception, were the new
States, where the percentage ,
would naturally he larger and with t
which it would he hnrdlv fair f n i .
compare. In 1 000 the State of Illi- t
lois was the leading State in a?ri- ^
Milture, having products valued at %
&?>P>7,0S5,000. With this magnificent f
Ipuro South Carolina's record this
rear compares favorably, being at a
mm which would place her on the
>asis of last year's result immediate- |
y following the twelfth State in
ank. It is particularly noteworthy,
lotwithstanding all that is said in
he above of corn, a magnificent crop
aised without detriment to the re?- R
liar cotton crop, to note the increase *
>f nearly a million bushels in wheat, v
iringing in nearly one-half million 0
lollars more to the producers than
he year before." *
All of these figures indicate that : *
t last the people of this State have j 1
wakened to the fact that they have ^
monopoly money crop, which is al-1
aost never failing in its average and b
hat they can, while raising that
rop, produce something to eat at u
ome and enjoy a surplus, which, P
eretofiore, they have absolutely neg
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I
lected to consider. In other words,
Instead of spending profits irom the
cotton crop away from home for
something to eat, we are now beginning
more and more to practice a
practical diversification that is keeping
these millions of dollars at home
and making the music of prosperity
that is abroad in the land.
Hog and Hominy.
"The most gratifying thing about
it all is. that the people are now
thoroughly aroused and awakened tt
the absolute necessity of proceeding
with tho fiiHanl dovolniimoni of fh*?
live stock industry, which will mean
more hog lo go with the hominy,
and In the end complete living at
home.
"It Is particularly gratifying to us
men who have been pushing the agricultural
industry in South Carolina
with all tho energy we possess to
know the increaBe In yield per acre,
which has been over 1 909, ae follows:
Cotton, 2 pounds; corn, 1 -8
10 bushels; wheat, 1-2 bushel ;oats,
2 bushels, (over 1 909 ); potatoes, o
bushels; rye, 2-19 bushels; bay, .02
of ton.
These figures are particularly
gratifying when we take cotton, for
Instance, where in South Carolina
the yield of lint cotton hits been
brought up to 2 1 2 pounds, while the
average for the United States is only
169.1 pounds. This is a higher yieid
per acre than all the States in the
cotton belt, save Virginia, North
Carolina, Missouri and California,
and only one of these, North C irolina,
is worth considering at all, as
the others are now considered among
tho large producing States.
Sources of Loss.
"This has been done not withstand
I ti or o nf o 1 Inoe a f 'in ti voi'tl fro nf TO
pounds of lint cotton to the acre divided
as follows from the causes
named:
"Deficient moisture, 1(1.0 pounds;
excessive moisture, 23.7 pounds;
floods, 2.1 pounds; hot winds, 1.1
pounds; storms, 2 pounds; other climatic,
4.7 pounds. Total climatic,
47.1 pounds; boll worm, 5 pounds;
total insect, 1.7 pounds, plant disease,
11.4 pounds; other causes unknown,
9.S pounds.
"The plant disease item Is iarge.v
duo to anthracnose and to cotton
wilt. For the former a rigid inspection
has been instituted to insure
seed free from it and for th? 1 \tter
a wilt-resistent variety of cotton to
being suppli Vi to the growers
"In wheat we lack only five huRhels
of being up to the average in the
United States and potatoes onlv three
bushels, and we are reaching out for
the average of the nation In
"Another significant feature of the
situation as it is changing witn this
development in agriculture Is .h tc
while South C' ollna had 214 y>er
cent of all her land in crops in 1900,
a considerably larger percentage is
now devoted ,o agriculture.
Land Now Under Cultivation.
"For instance, between 1880 and
1 900, only 7.4 per cent of our land
area was devoted to corn, while now
corn has grown on 9.8 per cent.
Wheat has Increased from 1 per cent
to 1.5 per cent, and at the oresent
time 12.3 per cent of the total land
area of the State is devoted to cotton.
"The maintenance of the full average
crop of cotton in the face ot
the corn agitation of 1910 Is remarkable
and is shown by the fact
that up to December 13, 1,10 8,907
running bales, including linters and
sea island cotton, have been ginned.
"This would indicate in the light
of all past experience, both as to climatic
and general conditions, a running
bale crop this year of 1,1 84.793
oiiies, uiougn in me ngures we nave
compiled the running hale crop has
been placed purposely at l,17ti,081
balos.
"The figures apply this year to
square bales of 4 02 pounds each. As
early as October the State department
of agriculture Issued an estimate
of this year's total crop at 1 ,100,000
500-pound bales, and the
ginners' figures for this State Indicate
that this estimate may be oniy
a few hundred bales out of the way.
Cieneral Congratulations.
"It has been particularly gratifying
to the State department of agriculture
to realize that all forces and
agencies making for agricultural devn1r>j?mnnt
*n thio hap lw>on
working In perfect harmony for the
magnificent result that has been obtained,
and that all of these forces
feel now that they have hut barely
entered upon the best of their work,
rho State department wishes in
making this announcement to congratulate
all of those men representng
these various forces on their
ichievements, and to congratulate
ho people of the State that they
lave each forces helping the peopio
o help flmw?AlvoB "
will soo\ m<: hi?:uk
^nrtners Should Start Roll Weevil
Campaign Now.
That the farmers of South OJeorgla
horhi prepare a campaign of resistance
against the approach of the boll
veevil, which is certain to attack the
otton interests of the state at any
ime within the next five years, was
he note of warning sounded by State
hitomologist E. Lee Worsham at
he agricultural conference in Macon
laturday morning.
Ho stated, incidentally, that the
est plan of fight was to plant earl?r
varieties of cotton and to make i
so of certain chemicals after the
est had arrived and whilo It was a
ihernating state.
WANTS A CHANGE
!
Prof. Ckamberlaio Proposes to Rtfurm
aid Saplifjr Calendar.
HIS PLAN GIVEN BELOW
Want* the Year Divided Into Twelve
MonthH of Twenty-Right Duyn Kueh
and the Kxtra Four Weeks and
I
Odd Day Attached to Koch Three
Months (aroup.
Dr. Thomas Shrowder Chamberlin,
professor of geology in the University
of Chicago, would reform and
simplify the current calendar. Being
one of the most famous geologists,
Dr. Chamberlin is familiar with time
through countless ages. Ho writes
to Science:
"I venture to suggest a calendar
that embodies many of the e.ieellent
suggestions already made, but instead
of Introducing a thirteenth month, '
make use of only twelve months of
four weeks (twenty-ei;ht days) each,
bunchin? these into four groups and
placing the remaining four weeks between
these groups, so as to set out
I the four seasonable quarters of the
year distinctly."
Tiie integers of his proposed cal- !
J ent!ar are:
i^uaiiers: <joiresponuing measurably
to the four seasons.
Months: Twelve of twenty-eight
lays (four weeks) each, assembled J
in groups of three terminate d b> a
single closing week with a special
designation. All months to begin on
Monday, as suggested by Patterson. I
Weeks: Fifty-two of seven days
each, all beginning with Monday. For- I
ty-eight of the weeks, in groups of'
four each, constitute the twelve
months. The remaining four weeks ;
of the fifty-two, viz., the thirteenth,!
the twenty-sixth, the thiry-ninth and
the fifty-second, to be attached severally
at the end of the four threemonth
groups to make up four symmetrical
quarters of thirteen weeks
I
each. These terminal weeks niigtit
be designated as closing or quarter- I
end weeks; but each is to have its I
own special name, the thirteenth to
be Easter week, the twenty-sixth
Julian week, the thirty-ninth Gregorian
week and the fifty-second
Christmas veek. In large measure
these might concentrate into themselves
the holidays, short vacations,
book-closing periods, etc.; und so
come to have other special designations
stilted to the various vocations.
Odd Days?the odd day of the
usual year, the 3 65th day, to be New
Year's Day, and to be dies non so
far as the week and the month are
concerned, as proposed by Patterson,
but to be grouped with the preeed-'
ing quarter as the end-day of the old !
year and as the start-day of the new |
year. The adjustment for the odd J
one-quarter day to follow the Julian
method and to be made by a Leap i
Day following New Year's Day every ^
fourth year, and to be a dies non j
also so far as week and month are
concerned, but to be grouped with
the preceding quarter.
Further details of the scheme,
particularly the places and names of
the transition or quarter-end or closing
week, appear in this table:
First Quarter.
(Winter Season?Northern Hemisphere.
)
(Summer Season?Southern Heinlphero.)
January?4 weeks, 2 8 days.
February ? 4 weeks, 2 8 days.
March?4 weeks, 2 8 days.
Close week?Easter week.
Second Quarter.
(Spring Season?Northern Hemisphere.
>
(Fall Season?-Southern Hemisphere.
)
April?4 weeks, 28 days.
May?4 weeks, 28 days.
June ? 4 weeks, 2 8 days.
Close week?Julian week.
Third Quarter.
(Summer Season?Northern Hem- 1
isphero.) j
(Winter Season?Southern Ilemi- i
sphere.) <
July?4 weeks, 28 days.
August?4 weeks, 2 8 days.
September?4 weeks, 28 days. i
Close Week?Gregorian week.
Fourth Quarter. ]
(Fall Season?Northern Heml- i
sphere.) |<
(Spring Season?Southern Ilemi-1 <
sphere.) i<
October?4 weeks, 2 8 days.
November?1 weeks, 2 8 days.
December?4 weeks, 2S days.
Close week?Christmas week and
odd days.
Prof. Chamberlin's scheme should
be popular, for by it the Christmas
holidays ar? mnd? lnniu>p ii?
writes:
"In the matter of holidays, tliojt
scheme seems to lend itself fairly c
well to current practice and is per- j '
haps well suited to mould future i
practice as well. The i!8th day of I N
December would always fall on Sun- J t
day and be the immediate forerun- S
nor of Christmas. Christmas itself 1
would always fall on the Monday of i c
Christmas week. Our groatest holi- d
day would thus have a distinctive h
place of its own at the head of its 1
special week, instead of falling in the f
midst of a month and on a constant- f
ly shifting day of the week. The c
winter holiday season would be s
closed usually by New Year'? Day,
but on every fourth year by Leap
Day, following New Year's Day. Tb#
Christmas holidays would thus b#
lengthened to nine days or to tea
days.
"Easter week would always begJa.
on Monday, the 85th day of the year,
and the days of the week might have
the special designations, Easter Tuesday,
Easter Wednesday, and so on,
ending with Easter Sunday, which
would appropriately be followed by
the spring season.
"Th#? Inifan w??ok would omhrar#
onr national holiday, which would
always be Julian Thursday. The
Julian week might well come to embrace
the observances that mark the
end of the educational year.
"The Gregorian week would fall
at a time well suited to the harvest
festivals, the fairs, etc.
"The authors of the rectifications
that gave us our present calendar
are recognized In the naming of the
.lulinn ?nd Ornfi'?>HHn wopks "
THE WAGES OF SHAME.
White Slave Victim Has Kept He*
Master Eight Years*
An investigation being concti.'ted
by Government agents and the Pittsburg
polico into conditions existing
in the underworld of Pittsburg resulted
in two more arrests this week,
arrests which promise to be very Unimportant.
This latest development
In the crusade to break up the system
in this city promises to be of
exceptional interest when the facts of
the case are made known.
At the subsequent hearing before
Magistrate Kirby, Annie Wells, a ne?
cress, testified that within the past
eight year? she had given $ 1 T>.000
to Arthur Hemp, aged M5, a whito
man, with whom she was arrested.
Hemp was held in $2,r>00 hail for
court on a charge of violating the
Ed lis act.
In her story told before Magistrate)
Kirby, Annie Wells declared she had
been practically supporting Hemp for
the past eight years. Sometimes she
gave him $30 and at others 5, of
whatever amount she had in her possession.
When she refused him
money he beat her, she declared.
Hemp admitted the woman had given
him money, but denied that she supported
him. He said be did not work
as be bad a sister, the wife of a millionaire
in Germany, who sent him
large sums of money at regular internals.
FLOOD AX I) FAMINE.
Causes Great Distress in a PisWttte?
of China.
News was brought by the steame*
America of floods that have caused
tr i Iacd r\ f li f /\ o r*/I of* o oai/am*
chii iwo kj i iii*7 ami ui a oxj w
famine in the Anhul province of
China, affecting two and a half million
per?ons. Rev. E. C. LoLensteine,
a returning missionary from North
Anhul, sail:
"iro desperate were the people that
thousands banded together, robbing
any who had food supplies, and for
weeks scarcoly a night passed without
many murders.
"The flood3 caused great loss o*.
life. The rapid rise of water swept'*,
away scores of villages, thousands 1
of persons being drowned. A railroad
engineer reported that one of
the bridges near there had been
chokcn up with bodies and he hadt
been imprisoned two days in tlie up
per part of a temple before being
rescued by a boatman.
"The situation during the winter
will be terrible.-?far worse thau th-o-'
famine three years a?o. The .starving
can be reckoned by hundreds of
thousands and relief should be forthcoming
at mice."
K()hl> Til 101It VOTR
Fifty Ohio Voters I Mead Guilty to
Doing So.
There seems to have been some
vote buying tn the last election in
Ohio. A dispatch from Manchester
says fifty Republicans and Democrats
of Adams county pleaded
guilty to indictments charging the
sale of their votes at the November
election and were disfranchised fot
from tivo to seven years and ttued
$25 and costs. These pleas came
simultaneously with the return of
7 0 indictments by the grand jury
for vote selling. The 7!) makes a
total of 211 persons indicted on this
jhar?o. Predictions wore made re?ently
that before the grand jury
completes its investigations nearly
I O tWl noroAno t?-i 1 1 1 w\ J , U n * ^ d
M VV V j ? V lOVHO I I I UU IllUiV. tCUl
WHOLE KAHTH IKHE/JLNG.
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Hio Process Takes Million Years, Ho
Don't Worry.
Men will freeze to death on the
equator millions of years hence, ao:ordin?
to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who
orsook the subject of germs in food
n ad.lressiug the secular league at
Washington Sunday and discussed
he question, "Is Man to Ultimately
>tarve or Freeze?" Dr. Wiley said
io believed the earth was slowly
ooling and that the people of the
listant future must freeze, though
le declared for "a million years at
east," humanity would not suffer
rom lack of food or fuel. In the
ri?id days that are yet to come, aeording
to Dr. Wiley, the winds will
erve as fuel.