Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 78

SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, b . NOVEMBER 22 il PART War Correspondent in China Visits Camps of Three Rival Armies Writer Tells Story of His Experi- ence Dodging Rack and Forth Between Pnrposes of Both News publfshing and Lending a Help— ing Hand—One War Ended and An- other Arranged For—Falling Heir to a Commanclcrs fOt‘ Peking Editorship. This is the second of n series of four articles by Josef Washington Hall npon his unusual and en tertaining adventures in_ China. Last week he told how he gain ed.the novel pen name. “Uipton Close.” He had secvatly sent from Shantung to a Shanghai weekl paper reports of his ohservations there Aurinz the Japanese occupa tion. and under the stories had put the words “Up €lase.” to indicate where he was. Tha editor ran them as the anthor's name under the title and they envalved into “Upton Close Last week he also told how @ressed in Chinese clothinz. he had made his way about Shantung to the Salt Conmiry where. as a for ‘eicner, he found himself an out ®ast. The “Salt Rebsllion” started At that time, and. beinz on the ground. he was able o met a fArst report of it o the outside world. RY UPTON CLOSE. ACH day tha correspondents of Pek mads the rounds of lezation #nd governnment off cos, swapping news 1 was residing in a com pound just opposite ths imposing affices of the minisiry of foreign affairs on *Great Stone Man Hunting <inge renamed Foreign Office Street The lessee of this place had gone fo Japan to oin his family just before the outhreak of the war, leaving me to take care of his Sino-American News Agener. In additien, 1 was carrving on the correspondence of AN American newspapor. the Japan Advertiser of Tokvo. and the North China s 1 was destined to he lnaded with two further tasks hefors the end of this heetic seasor he stage was quickly <ot for a le scene. There was, however true to the motif of farce. considerable uncertainty as to who was o fight whom. As Gen. Wu Peifu. now rein forced by Daddy Tsao Kun's divisions ateadily advanced on Pekinz from the sonth. alarming reporis came in that Chanz Tso-lin of Manchuria was mov Ing <with large hodies of his “Red heards” from the north infa ihe maire Premier Twan assumed the war die tatorship of Peking and the honorary command of a punitive” exjedition His nephew. Twan Chi-kwei, was placed in command of the sonthwest front against Wi, The vounger had 50000 fresh troaps. equinped with new uniforme. leather honts. and madern arms. and hacked hy all the vesources of Peking The enzagcement of the war eagerly awaited, took place hetwesn A commander of the vounzer Twan's Chu Tung-fenz. and Wu. S certain was Twan Chikwei of victory over Tu's seantily supplied army that he hardiws cxpecied o he needed st the front. Sending on his lieutenant. Chu he remained in Peking to participate in an anticipatory celehration of vie- tory. Twan and his fellows neglected to ‘take into account the fact that = army. whatever its needs. pos a general. and. thanks ta the ingpiration of the siudents, something tn! fizht for: two notable advantages which the Peking cohorts lacked. Wu drew Chu's army to the Lin-li am, where he caught it in a eross. from machine zuns hidden in burial erypts. and demoralized it hy an eruption nnder foot of the improvised mines which he made with American evaporated milk tins immediately dispatched urzent to Young Twan for reinfor While the war rested. walting for Twan's arrival on the Liuli, 1 unwit tingly found myself filling a role in the Pekinz drama Nathaniel Peffer of the New York Tribune. and T had joined forces. to cover the city, and went in 2 motor car from one office to another and one 2ate to another, scarcely sleeping at all. One day we went down to the Pakinz-Hankow Railway station tn see a train bearing Anfu wounded who had heen picked up among the riushes on the bhanks of the Liu-li—men with all sorts of terrible wounds Many lay nnder the blazinz <un on the ste | toms of coal-cars. the thin laver of straw which formed their onlyv, mat tress indescribably mingled with filth and eclotted hload Plies crawled over the faces of the sufferers Those still able 1o complain received first attention from rhe atiendants of the military hospital sent to receive them: those who were past the stage of expression by word or zasture were lat lie as so much flesh awaiting burial The stoicism of thess men was pa thetic hevond words. Those who live In Asia are not unacenstomed 1o sights of physical horror, hut we turned away from this scene with a feeling of heip- | less rage. “Damn their war!” exclaimed Peffer, | “lat's let the thing go without press-| ting today!” agenting ST N the tracks at Front Gate Station | stond a short train headed by a Jocomotive with steam up. decorated \with small British, French. Japanes and Itallan flags, but with a great | ‘American flag almosi covering the hoiler—the work of th> American ma- | riner. A mixed contingent frem all the legation guards was setting out in an endeavor to open the railroads | agency Inslish-lanzunge and I opened a publicity pace with ite over the them sever As we passed nsed as the offices of the Chan, aditm take my paper, will von —emergency 1 cant explain now £ was passing bevond shouting distance. Belgium——" Aisappeared which in turn af the Official nx from the twelfth century. zette had hean one of Yuan his plant was confiscated. Anfu trinmphant il 1o his chief. established the Leader Cecaint ‘haties of his timé songhirds and B Tientsin, hut Tientsin was aa ignerant who was 1o he the first ¢ decided to 2o out and see while othes ompound on Lump Coal Across the cariving medical head copy-reader, joe Sonth harvacks Leong’s brother-in-law ueenstomed The foreman of the plant Assistants Sto With whom he | o nded had drifed arrived ahont Changsindien A railway town the junction of the ern Tientsin-Peking Confidentially | iy 2 paking road temple. but his address.” he is residing in a nearhy with soldiers wearing blue arm hands re grimy and disheveled. They the foreign office and zot an appoint- | crowded shout the autemabile in fas and has alreads “What army ‘Premier Twan oughi run the town| “Ts your General Wu that inn thers.” Wa left the chauffeur in the ear and | railway to the inn. ish-looking soldiers lay of the yard The lit(le commander in the doorway taking the report of a scout immediately ‘Who are vou to bhe permitted 10 morning at appeared on the street with an extre reach hevond (@ political organization known as the were told to present copies 1o all whom judged #hle to read English, onf higgest “British style”) gentlemen, and what cards. is to|guessed 10 he the quarters of the and we 1 =aid. giving him ou the capital, one conld know I the stndent revolution taught wholesome fear wrath. Chinese politiciane had hecome partienlariy touchy much ahout ahout unfavorable | “nathing will happen o the eity in sympathy of the police the dssires of re out of the eity. chall disarm and send 1o their Wemes| Clark and 1 ducked through them the disorganized Tam policy was awakened and seized and was forced to complated his one of my soldiers own master. “You are exceeding vour authority, will enter ite wate “But you have averthrown the Anfu government Some ane must reorganize things task of the president. he replied. “the city But von know Twan ean't possibly Wu's forces Wu langhed. Tt will not he difficult him to change that mandate, suh- ing the names of the Anfu lead- I have no hard feelings azainst Old Hsu, but certainly I shall meritorions ers for mine. ) “A SCENE OF FRENZIED ACTION MET OUR EYES.” self under suspicion, come to my com- | | pound at once and T will hide vou.” . justice. “Well”" he sald, rather doubtfully. | enforce | the police There is one insist that the traitors be brought to “‘However,” he continued “there may “No. he factors in the readjustment who are ad so disinterested as 1. { that it 1s fllegal to give away publica- | informed that a third army has“en- | Q0700 SEORER T At least, you|camped helow [have my suspicions, but would like to what they intend to do. ke to visit them I will Ket!qeserted. to the edge of the military 1 would appreci- ve. Here an Anfi v - In letting me know | Tamoed e, e 1 am just | tions on the sireets. town yonder. 1' must stop that {know definitel I shajl he Indebted ' If you would that,” I said. He smiled. "ind he | through in your car. < | ate your courtes | what you discover. jumped at carried ont vour bargain™). 1ed me to the rooms where my ho; on their stacks of papers. With resources consisting of a news supplying the sixtv-odd ver. saddles with all-too-short stirrups and 1o warrant our heing placed hefore correspondenceships. | the nsual untrustwerthy helly girths drive on the zov several firing squads. The approaching night made it neces.| ““Tha Chihli army.” I sald, “was in stopped at the edge of the village hy | an ourpost of big gruff fellows in gray o2 237 1 “I DROVFE, ACR( uniforms with red arm hands. After some palaver they lad nus to the head quarters of thelr commandsr. in A the village. *x s [HE brignde commander was a stout, nncouth person. who made A great show of receiving us heartily Who was he? A colonel of Chang Tro. lin's Manchurian army. who could show thess puny “inalde.che-pass”™ men how to Aght. (Outside-the-pass and in side-the-pass —at the Great Wall—have connotations equivalent to “‘on the frontier” and in ecivilization” with us) What was his Intention? Orders Weiaito anarch on DeKIEtoRIEht. % LTHOUGH practically every Shellme:nodutaoh oneking:tomEhtwin American is familiar with the Nan Yuan on the way. But what of Well known Thanksgiving pic- ing np the last Amfu contingent at Wi Pei-fu, whose van was already keep troope out of Peking? He had no instructions About W Ordsrs were orders It 1 desired 1o know more 1 would have to _consult the Rig Chief who was At Tientsin—or his field general and cousinbhy-marriage. Chang Dszo. hsiang. who. hy the way. was ex pecied at the (‘hangaindien raiiroad station with a train of reinforrements brought from Manchuria over the little cross-line connecting this town with Féngtai on the Peking-Mukden ANl right, we would azk Chang Dzo. an the ground | hslanz! Galloping back At Imminent Kite for pillows, resting.|peril of being pitched into the mud of the road. we turned our ponies|theme. and illustrates the spirtt of the of the guest-hall|over to our chauffenr. jumped into received | our car and drove like mad for the siation. Chang Dzo-hsiang’s traln had switched off several third-class freight cars full of troops And was just start ing back foward Fengtai with some sleepers and a parior car which we field staff. mo| We were determined not to lose the s0 wa came | culminating Interview of the day with the Fengtien (Mukden) general. | drove acroas tha irack and purposely stalled my engine squarely in front of the slowly moving locomotive. The train braked to a standstill. Guards swarmed down and surrounded us menacingly. and made for the genaral's coach. We g0l half-way intn the parior car be fore the guards atopped ux. By that time Chang Dzo-hsiang himself saw ns. and, his curiosity aroused. came forward. He was a handsome (ellow, blg-statured. dressed for comfort in trousers and tunic of the peculiar “hurnt gauze.’ dent put A price on vour| “Your carde.” he asked. We handed them over. “What! Newspaper men? You stop my train jusi fo ask news! His big face glowered down at ue. 1 hag vour pardon. Da Ren” (“great man”), 1 said. “for the manner in which we have approached vou. But e are risking our faces. and perhaps our safety. for somsthing infinitely more important than mere curlosity. We. foreigners'and Chinese alike, have haen imprisoned in the walls of the capital for two weeks in the greatest anxiety and with insufficient suppljes. while you outside here have heen hav. ing _your little fun. “Your commander hehind the village there has just informed me that his orders are to march directly upon Peking. If vou plan to fill Peking with vour rough fellows. or perhaps Atart anothe * bv marching over Wu's head. we and the people of Pe- king would like to know it and the Aiplomatic corps would be greatly in- terested—and perhaps concerned.” He glared at us. If we had been Chinese—or-Russians. whom the Man- churian troops had become accustomed to maltreat—we would undoubtedly have been sent to the wall. After pondering angrily a moment, Chang replied: ““We are to prepare the way for Gen. Chang Tso-lin, who, with Tuchun Tsao Kun, will enter Peking and as- sist the President 10 re.establish the government. As to Wu, here, we know nothing about his intentions.. It he stays where he is, there need he no trouble. and it will not be necessary for many of our soldiers to enter the city. You may tell your minister this."” He turned (o hix aides. “Start the train? * k% VW E bawed aurselves out and got off the already moving train. Our car, which had hean pushed off the track none too gently by the guards, had rolled down into a ditch. With the assistance of some nearby donkay men we got it out and drove back to Gen. Wu's headquarters. He was expecting us, and served tea and crackers, which were very wel- [come. for we were starved. “Well, what do vou make of it?” he asked. “‘Seems to me that Chang Tso-lin is all set to appropriate the fruits of vour victory,” I said, “unless you are ready to fight another war.” “Not now. But you can see how ! things are turning, ean't you? The ! Anfus are not the only schemers." Wil you go to Peking?” I asked. 1 have outfitted my troops hy {capturing Anfu supplies.” If T am granted enough money to pay them, I rill them against a further exigenc: We started hack painfully and with many narrow escapes. We made our way past Yuan's country seat. now “What did you sae"' he askéd, when opportunity. | we explained our presence. Scraggly ponies were given us and we | We gave away enough military in- sary for us to run the ponies, although | Changsindien, and the Fengtien army the' guit was most painful. We were | was jnst heyond.” What! the Fengtien Redbeards? “The same.” )SS THE TRACK AND PURPOSELY “What did they say." “That they are going to march through here on Peking tonight. They the |long. low farm.house at the rear of [are probahly on thair way now.’ The sentry paid no further Atten STALLED MY ENGINE SOUARELY IN FRONT OF THE GENERAL'S SLOW.MOVING LOCOMOTIVE. tion 16 us. He picked up a fisld tel phone and hegan ringing excitedly And in & few minutes when we drew up hefore the barracks, & scene of frenzied action met our eyes. Soldiers were hitehfng up scores of carts and loading them with everythingz portahle in the encampment. The furniture of the officers: old rickety chairs tables, henches, sleeping hoards, ward robes, #nd chests, went on the same earts in a hopeless jumble with rifles, machine guns, ammunition and bun dlex of spare uniforms. Wounded men were loaded on top of all The highway to Peking was filled with carts and soldiers, moving in the zlare of paper lanterns and bulrush torches, and the night alr resounded with the cursex of mule-drivers and tramp of marching feet. Perforce, we throttled down to their pace and moved along in the strange procession to the city walls, leaving the last Anfu position dark and” deserted. Slipping into the city with one of | the detachments, we drove furiously | thiough the deserted streets to the Leader office. At half past two in the morning, while Clark wag putting the #ISt of our observation onto the front page, 1 got Tientsin on the telephone and Qictated a dispatch to the out side world “This war is ended.” began the dis | pateh, “and the next one is already arranged fe Although it did re | quire two vears to come to a head. Chang Tso-lin and Teao Kun entersd the capital under an fmmense trium phal arch, erected in front of the sta tion, and were received in honor by the President Wu withdrew with his loyal 3rd Division to the loess hills of western | Honan. There he hided his time. * k% % Y position on the Pekinz Leader was hecoming more and more AiMcult. Editing a newspa in Pe king combines all the disadvantazes of routine, However, I would not, as the Chinese phrase it. “play little dog™ to the divectors. and ihey were un comfortable. 1 was kept constantly on guard The management wanted to dismiss me with & handsome present for has ing tided them through the crisis and het on the winning side. Rut 1 sa Iote of fun still Ahead, =0 [ refused their offtr. The Chinese sense of moral etiquette forbade their taking direct meagures 1o get rid of one wha had saved them. Chinese are at developinz situations in which a man cannot l-\n-”‘ng uncertainty and monotonous | | BY GEORGE PORTER. ture commoniy miscalied <Pl a 1ine from the | hefore Nan. Yuan And who Geaired fo grims Going 1o Church,” it is doubiful if a very large pereentage know anything of the history of the pieture itzelf or of the English-Amer jean artist who painted it Every one has seen reproductions of the picture hundreds of times. Copies of it are frequently to he found in schoolhooks, Aart stores, poster dis piaye, periodicals and newspapers, aspecially aronnd Thanksgiving time an old friend. yet probably not one in A hundred knows the name of the artist who painted it or the present location of the original Thix picture. which portrays an American scene. has an American typial American festival of Thanks RiVing o effectively that to many it is An Integral part of their memories of that holiday: nevertheless it was ere. ated in England and first shown at an English exhibit The artist who portraved this uni versally appealing incident in early “PILGRIMS GOING TO CHURC American history was George Henry Boughton. Mr. Boughton was so emi- nently successful in his profession and 50 thoroughly admirable as a man that both England and America were proud to claim him as their own. Each country had some justice for its claims. Though he was born in Fng- land and spent most of his productive vears there, it was in America that Mr. Boughton lived during his hoy- hood and vouth and began hix career as an artist. He had a great fondness for the United States: an emotional attach- ment which not only included the America of his own time but Also ex- tended back to the first romantic ad venturous days of the Nation's exi lance. Those days were very real to {him. Fortunatelv he had a recon- | structive imagination and an art that expressed it, so that. through his pic- | tures, he has made the life of the New | England pioneers seem very real to Mr. Boughton's picture, which ir | seen ‘so often at Thanksgiving, was {therafore on a favorite theme of his. Tt was suggested by a passage in { Bartlett's “Pilgrim Fathers": “The few villages.were almost ixo- |lated. being connected only by long miles of blind pathway through the wood. . . . The cavalcade pro- ceeding through the forest to the {church, the marriage procession (f | marriage procession could be thought | of in those frightful days) wae oftenq | Interrupted by the death shot of some invisible enemy." | He set to work in 1866 to put on | canvas his interpretation of that pas- | saxe. The effort was characterized by the simplicity, tenderness and sub- dued but not weak coloring which made all of his works popular and se- {cured for them a ready aale. The re- | sulting pleture became another nota- i ble proof in the long chain of evidence | | America. he was planning to sketch | |and realistic than werds, Certainly it | |that drawings are more Impressive may be said that Mr, Bartlett's thoughts through Mr. Roughton's painting reached out and influenced thousands whom they would other- Nearly evervhody ‘‘recognizes’” it as| The full title given the picture was, Puri New England Gaing to Worship Armed to Protect hemselves From Indians and Wild Reaste.’ was first shown in Lor Royal Academy’s ex hih Mr. Roughten's only contribution to the exhibit that vear. The one painiing proved to bhe of considerahle importance to the art ist, for it put him in the class of those whose reputation is established. One critic commented: ““The pathes and Aramatic strength of the compo. sition and the vigor of the technical treatment made this work markediy suceessful. and pui Mr. Boughton fAinally among the most prominent of the vounger artists with original ideas and skill much above the average But we need not depend upon critics. It requires no education to understand the “hold” the painting has from the first had upon the pub- lic, The pictare of that brave com- pany of - pioneers. whose religious fervor was gret that it brought them reverehtly "through the snow- drifts each Sabbath morning, every man carrying a Bibfe and a gun, some. how appeals irresistibly to us at Thanksgiving time. Tt forcefully portrays the spirit of indomitable faith and determination of the first settlers of New England to which we, as a cpuntry, owe so much of our prosperity and progress. It makes us feel our kinship with them more vividly: makes us grateful that we had such forefathers and glad that going to church is no longer s hazardous an undertaking. We gaze upon Mr. Boughton's pic- ture of the firm manner in which the Puritans faced their everyday perils with some degree of thankfuiness to those there represented for having the wisdom to establish a day upon which we should recall our dependence upon God, even before we had the glory of establishing a day upon which we hould celebrate our independence of other nations. Mr. Boughton elf wrote an en- lightening paragraph concerning the painting: ““The first few small pictures which 1 had painted under the instruction of Edouard Frere in rural France. and afterwards in London under the same pleasant but. clinging influence, had always been praised. when noticed, by the kindly critics for just their Frere qualities.” This was agreeable enough but not quite satisfying. I got rather tired of the ‘dividends’ that I did not feel quite entitled to: so I left the pleasant track, and bethought me of the Puritans and the sad but pictur- esque episodes in which they played parts. To insure a ‘pilgrimage’ with chose a larger canvas, and planned a figures. . The picture was painted in the depths of an English Winter and | & suficiently snowy one.” That 1as{ sentence would seem to indicate that Mr. Boughton was an Artist who believed heartily in “atmos- ‘phere,” and recalls a story that is told of him when, as a heginner in some snow scenes. In order t& acclimate himsell to the rigors of the New England Winter, he did his drawing for a time in a fire. less studln. One day. while this con- diton obtained, an elderly man visited vetain his “face” and his office at the same time. 1 wae trapped in a field quite outside of the political Towards press time a telephone call er announced the wedding that after noon af a prominent coupie in the younger Chiness social set Half an hour later a good story in hea longhand (Chinese alwavs write Fng lish bedutifully), describing the gowns and feast in detail and giving a list of prominent guesis, arrived by ecoy rler. I put the story at the top of the soctal column. The next day friends of the “hride” were swift to inform me that no such ceremony had occurred or would oceur I had to retract the wedding' I resigned the post, and placed my time at the dispomal of the famine relief commitice. | was led on in many adventures and was emplaved unknowingly, to help precipitate 1he aext war-scene ahout the eapital (Consright. 1825 ) Watch Embryo Growth. OR the first time In history, the de velopment of the emhrro of a warm-hloodad animal has heen earrind on under such conditions that it e be waiched continueusiy, savs Sciance Magazine. This feat has heen aeceom plished by two sciantsis at the T'ni versity of Levden, Drs. J. P. M. Voge ianr and J. B van den Roogert, who have placed common hens’ eggs, with the shells removed. in small glass dishes in an incubator, and have su ceeded in keeping the embryo alive and growing for five davs Hitherto the oniv way in which such embryos could he studied has been by placing larze numbers of ezzs in the Incubator snd removing and opening them one hy ane &t Intervals. By this older method has baen possible to siudy clnsely spac stages of devalopment. hn not 10 ohserve the grawth as s can Hnious process, now mada posal by 1he new way Get the Hammer. Lady—How much are exgzs Grocer—Cracked eggs are 30 cont fresh eggs are A0 cents lLadv—Crack me a dnzen him at his work and hecame so con cerned over the seeminglv pitifn pight of the younz artist. unable 10 afford coal for his siove, that he re poried the matter man of his Acauaintance wha b « and disposition to h The latter prompily called upoen the apparently struggiing student of painting and discreatly ardered an ex pensive picture to he made for her leaving behind a comfortably sized check 1o bind the bargain. The sut Ject was to he a Summer landscape something as far remoted from snow and ice and barren firepiaces as possi le. A week later the good-hearted wom an returned 1o the studio hoping 1o have the satisfaction of viewing the resulix of her henevolence. Natucs!l: s<he was horrified to find the room as devoid of warmth as ever. This led to pointed inquiries and she was vast ly amused upon learning how mis taken was her impression of the facts She becama thenceforth a staunch friend and later an enthusiastic client of Mr. Boughton The incident reveals the thorough composition with a greater number of | and devoted way in which Mr. Bough ton approached his work. His per- sonal history is the narrative of an artist whose talent was not to be denied. Shortly after his birth in Norfolk England, on December 4, 1833, hi: family moved to America and settled in New York State. It was intended that the youth should enter a mercan tlle caree but he early displaved a talent for drawing while taking little interest in matters of business, His activities as a painter began as A result of an accidental happening. Young Boughton had gone to A very “‘general” store to bhuy fish-hooks when his eve was attracted and delighted by An imposing array of tubes of oil colors. They were “such an attrac tion” ‘to the lad that he thereupon abandoned his intention of fishing for the more alluring prospect of painting. After spending his money for some of the tubes, he secured a canvas from A myaterious source, and in a short while produced a picture. From then on, in an unsystematic way, he continued to paint. Realizing the need of technical training, Mr. Boughton succeeded in selling sorge of his works in 1853, and with the sums thus obtained, sailed for London. In the. British capital he spent several months in study before returning to his boyhood home in Albany, N. ¥. Always at work he succeeded short- 1y in building up more than a local reputation, and in a few years decided [to remove to that mecca of artists, | another range of subjects entirely, T | New York City. There his reputation |and renown continued to grow and he was kept incessantly busy, one of hix enterprises being the illustrating of Washington Irving's “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” 1In 1858 he displayed his first picture at the National Acad- | #my of Design, the organization which held fits centennial exhibit at the | Corcoran Gallery here this Fall. Mr. iflollxhlon subsequentiy sent frequent contributions to that society and was | made an academician in 1871. |- At the Centennial Exhihit in Phila delphia in 1876 three of Mr. Rough on's canvases were shown in the fine |arte department. Some years previous, the artist had Noted American Thanksgiving Painting Was Produced While Artist Was in England eft New York for study in Parle and travel an the continent. He sattied ir London 1n 1561 and there did most of his work until his death in 1905 Several of Mr. Ronghjon's picture have hecome parts of publie coller tions, One of hie Duteh subjecte Weeds of the Pavement.” fs in the Natlonal Galiery of Rritish When the Dead Leaves Fall." an A tnmn allegory. wat purchased hy the King of Italy for the Municipal Art Gallery in Rome. The Corcoran Gallery of this cit has two of Mr. Boughton's pietures One is a small affair on the Lo Fauntleroy order and the ather is historieal painting entitled ““The Fdic of William the Test. The “Early Puritans Going to Wa ship™ picture hecame the property o Mre. K. L. Stuart of New York an in the Stuart and Lenox art callec tions, which form a part of the New York public library. The painting it self is one of Mr. Boughton's hest as delineator of Puritan life in New Eng land. a field in which he was an knowledged leader, and which includes The Scarlet Letter.” “Iteturn of the Mayflower,” and “The Exiles.” H." A PAINTING BY GEORGE HENRY BOUGHTON. Indians Increasing. (CONTRARY to widely circulated ports that the “American Indian is Aving off At an alarming rate in the great Southwest,” the Pueblos and other Indian populations are holding their own and increasing at a rate nearly as high as that shown hy cen sus figures for the white population. Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, director of the School for American Research of the Archaeological Institute of America at Santa Fe, N. Mex.. has transmitted 1o the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science a report of censug just made that &hows that i1 the last decade the population of Puel lo villages has incresed 223 pe cant, and now totals 10.585. Onuw . Puehio village showed a decreass, and that was due to an influenza epideni a few years ago. During the same period the entir population of the United States in creased 39 per cent, part of which wa due to immigration. These figures Dr. Hewett considers adequate refn tation of the general idea that thers has been a “startling decrease in ou: primitive population.” “On the question of the Indian cere monies, also, much emotion has been wasted,” Dr. Hewett said. “They are vital in the 1ife of the Indlans. They are highly esthetic In character, and are not attended by as immoral conse quences as are the social dances of the whites. Nor are the ceremonies dving out. nor are they likely to, On the contrary, ceremonies that had disap peared are heing revived every vear and the Indians are preserving their own self-respect by cherishing thefr native culture which has in it elements of nobility worthy of any race. There no religious persecution of the Pueh no effort is being made to sup thelr dances unless pernicious crop out. and in such cases the Indians are more amenabls to ad- vice tnan are the youth of our ews race.” to Tientein, which had been blockaded | nacular papers of v.}:e capital, the|zet out. They had on cramped wooden formation to rival camps that night wise never have touched. ) . v