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' Some Thoughts fron Lecture of * N-g 'g on ChJew. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * . When the Chautauqua program was placed in my hands the little lad who likes to ask questions said "If you - could go only one time Mamma, which one on that program would you hear?" Carefully the list of attractions was looked over and the answer was "I'd bear Ng Poon Chew, the Chinaman, lecture." Turning a handspring down the walk he laughingly asked, "What ,you want to hear a Chince for?" So when Monday afternoon came I called the lad, told him to catch out and hitch up and he might go with me to hear lDr, Chew. Just before we reached Laurens a bright idea struck him and he said, "I tell you what-give me 10 cents and I'll go in the moving picture show for 5 cents and get me a nickel's worth of candy." ' "No, my b'oy,"' was the reply, "You will go in no picture show this afternoon. If you hear that lecture you'll learn a whole lot more and something that you will never for get." He insisted otherwise, but I'll add here that no one in that large au dience enjoyed that lecture more, nor will remember it better, than that same farmer lad. It was on Monday afternoon and we arrived early for the children to hear Miss Dunning, the child entertainer. I might state here that in this respect I was like the chautauqua, I carried a new crew'ev ery day! - Wpen the hour came for the lecture there was a splendid audience to greet the man from the Far East. He was introduced by Dr. garbee as "a states man, a diplomat, the owner of the first 'Chinese newspaper published in Amer ica and a high-toned Christian gentle man." As he stepped out into view he was greeted witl applause. Many of my readers may be like a dear old aunt with whom I tried to share what I saw and heard at the chautauqua. And her first question about Dr. Chew was "Honey, how did he look and how was he dressed?' ' He was a low stocky built man with all the physical appearance of the people of the Orient, small hands and feet, and of apparently 50 odd years of age. !lair close cut like Americans and of course. was dressed like an American. lie was smart, he was wit ty (I think it is said of him that he is a Chinese Mark Twain), and lie knew how to (latter, for he began his speech thus: "It always gives me great pleas ure to address an audience of Ameri caps. I have in the last 13 years ad dressed assemilies of various naUon alities. I have addressed assemblies of Koreans, I have spoken to audienc es of Japanese, to Chinese, to English and to Americans and of all these give me the American audience. You are so bright, you are so responsive-so Symlfathe ic andt'-here the sitepped his little self back and waved his lit tle hands in an engaging gesture and while bowing ho gave us the last ad jective sugar coated "and you are so handsome!" (Loud hand clapping, led by .\aj. Watts with tihe little boy a close second). lie bogged that we would be lenient in 01ur language, lie realized that he cold not sipeak English like a native, lie toldl of in~cidents of Is learnIng our langulage anld for oneC year' lie sp~oke only in words of one syllabie. After tis intrioduiction he0 began thle body of is speech. "I Come from a race that wvas old1 in civilization when Abrlaam starltedl aIcross thle plains of Chaldea at the behlest of is God. A race that had a civilizatloll befor'e the foundation wais . laid on tile Seven l111ls foi' tile Eternal City. A r'ace thlat was old before the first brick was Iaidl on tile Pyramids one of the world's seven wondoers." W~as it not Napoleon who said to his soldiers as thecy stood in thle shadow of the Pyramids "Centuries look down upon you! So therefore whlen Chinese refer to historic things it is not some thing thlat happened in the last half hiour' suchl as tile discovpry of America or tile landing of the Pilgi'ims. He gave us su~ch a neat little thrnust right along this line of thought And I laugh every time I think of it. "I wish you all," he said "would remember tIs we did not always wear the queul." (thlat long plait on the toil of a Chince head we remeomber' so well in 'Correll's Geography) "but by an edict in 1647 the queu was forced upon01 us as a badge of slaver'y to the Manchu throne. The queu then dates from 1647. In oth er iyprds wp wove boginning to let our hair grow whlen you were cuttIng youirs off I" Wasn't that a polite way to tell us 'Ah ha! you had better not go back too far else you will meet your ancestor the cave man, with is long hlair and dress of skins! lie con Qidered the Revolution inl China when the form of government was changed from a monarchlal to a Republican forml of government as one of tile most important events in the history -of tile world. Thlis change was ac comished with loss of blood less than that spilled at the battle of Gettysburg.' He said he knew tpe peo pIe' of the U. S. were disannointed in * LISBON NEWS. * * * . " . " " " . ,.". . " " " Lisbon, May .12.--We are very dry down this side and the farm work has come to a standstill, some cotton up in places, add what little that is up, is dying. We hope that we will soon get rain that we may soon got a stand of cotton. Corn looks very sorry and some of it is dying for th need of rain. Wheat and oats are most a failure In places. Messrs W. R. Richey, Jr., C. H. Babb, and Ford Franks of Laurens visited their friend, J. T. A. Ballow today. Mrs. Mollie Teague and Miss Corrie Langsto4 of Madden spent today with Mrs. Ballow. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Martin, of .near Laurens spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Martin. Mr. J. P. Cannon spent last Tuesday in Laurens and met with the Masonic order, and reports a grand time. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Landford's lit tle child has been very sick but we are glad to say the little fellow is some better. Mr. J. H. Bartles, the treas urer of Union county, passed through our community last Sunday on his way back. home. Mrs. H. B. Humbert and children of Laurens, spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. A. J. Smith. Mr. Holmes, Miss Sara and James Ho: nes attended the chautauqua last week and this is what they had to say: "Never saw anything to eqaul it-and we are glad to know that we are to have the pleasure of seeing it again next year." Miss McLure's school closed today. She has been elected to teach in the high school at Mountville and we hear that Miss Alma Gossett will teach the Lisbon school. Miss Gossett has been our teacher two years before and we are on~ly too glad to know that she is to be our teacher again. We were glad to see that L. C. Whar ton was elected mayor of Union over his two opponetns 202 votes. Lucius Wharton's father died when he was a small boy, and his grandfather, Wil 11am N. Wharton, ralsed him, and we want to say right here, that, there was never a better boy than Lucius. We were in Union on Saturday and Sun day before the election on Tuesday and you could hear the boys say who would be their next mayor. As we have no fruit this year. we will have 4o depend upon blackberries and watermelons. We hope to see rain before we see this in print, if it don't fall in the waste basket. The candidates, still they come. We want every lady in the county to come to our store Thursday. May 18th, -1 t6 6 P. M. and let us show you the adyantage of the "Quick Meal" Oil Stove. S. :X. & E. T. W: Co. slow progress made. le asked us that we be lenienttwith the Republican party in China. All reforms go slow. lie explained the difference of con struictjve 'work--that was our itask when ou r Rlepublic was founded, build wisely and well on new foundations and new conditions and yet it was 60u years before we were on a stable basis willn only new materials to work with. I low much 'more ditlicult reconst rue lion! We or the South could appnre cdate that point. it is far easier to construct than to reconstruct, with the old Ideas swept away. The one great purpose of China now is "preparedness"-to have an army that will pla1ce China in the rank of great nations. Four hundred and one Ijalf million population ! Is it any dream to say that if China (lid have an etlicient army she would dlominate the Far IEast, whereas this fact is now true. She has been the foot-ball of the European nations. "Might is right" is the lesson that has been learned at such bitter cost by heathen China . from Christian nations. The irony of it! "The trouble with China," he laughingly said, "was they had al ways had too many lBryans and too few Toddies", China had never had a standing army. She has had a tlms a running one! The Chinese gave the wor'ld the greatest of all war' inmpleinmns, 'gun powder and yet the only use 'Chinese ever put it to was to manufacture of giant firechackers to make a big noise to scare the devil, away. Forty five centuries old and never- had an army. As I sat there and listened to that speaker I thought of all-the em-' piros that have risen to incredible power by the force of arins-Where is thme glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome? Ihave the Chinese not fulfilled the scriptural in junction "If thine enemy smite thee on one cheek turn the other"? And if they too, do not get oni a ramrlage and be gin to talk about hurling "one hun dred million men in the field" if they will go orl the even tenor of their way, perhaps in the end "the meek shall inherit the earth" will be the Chinesel / "Why am I Happy?" Ask Miss Keep Kool Coats and lent Because KEEP-KOOL'S the one featherweight wash suit you can be sure of! No worry as to whether you are smartly dressed ---whether your hot togs will hold their shape and stand the tub rubs of a season's washings. It Stands That't the whole secret of KEEP KOOL---relieves -hUsrad]s you of anxiety. C LARY & WISN The Keep Kool Kings Ml , I~o d I AI I Me ingsII I'IA Can you tell them apart? A . geun peraArmtain er It is very difficult for any one but an expert to tell the difference lbetween a 50c imitation je'arl an ll a getnuine pearl. of the Salie siz worth $5oo-----thCrefore one might .1 genuine pearl An imitation pearl buy the 5oc imitation because Value $500 Value 50 cen~tsloktharie it looks like the genuine article and this is all pny pearl has to do. But--when you can get a genuine Victrola with its reper toire of more than 5ooo Victor Records for the same price that you would pay for some other instrument that only looks like a Victrola, there can remain no question of Victor supremacy. The proof is in the hearing. Cuee in any time and we will gladly play any Genuine Victrola Any imitation of a Victrola music you wish to hear. We'll explain $15 to $300. (At practically the same price our system of easy terms too, if desired. as a genuine Victrola) POWE DRUG CO.