Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 28

CHINY'S AGED STATESHAY! Oscar King Davis Draws a Pen Piotare of | 404y ail around agatn and helped him out Li Hung Obang, DETA'L OF A SHANGHAI INTERVIEW Sorprising Frankness of the Diplomat —=Hoxers Petted by the Empress— Refor Chinn Must Come from Within. , 199, by Oscar King Davis) te from the consul sa he next morning at 10 o'clock ter was not ssary, ners of the viceroy there were al well versed in Eog end his own man who were o consul would h pre rl Li Hung Chang was at the of a fric fown the Bubbling Well road It hap | that there the hotel at the tim been in the diplomatic yoars and who had just come to § from a term of se Canton, where Li had been vic time . t professed such an ac qualntan: that we we sery gha rvice as acting consul in his advice. “You can't apread it on too thick,” this wise man of experience Gattery will please him Bim on any kind of a pls smile. Ring the greatest man in will A ate and he will win him right at the start We accepted the advice out (o find how it would succeed. At the sriond’s house,” a fine brick structure, th nee of which showed no trace of Chinese architecture, we sent I our cards and four or five Chinese in long wis of blue me to the doorway and ) Presently we were taken into & pleasant room on the side of a court where there came to us & smooth in a long coat of gorgeous blu o Engllsh with almost flawless and talked with u doings of the newspaper world as if he wore the high priest of the craft veloped later that he was a nephew of that Marquis Tseng world that the viceroy ment on most important m then he entertained us with the | don gossip quis 1s 4 clever young m vary nice gold-rimmed help to lend dignity to his short stature. external wh est Lon How Earl Li Receives Visitors, We were led through a long dark hall | little to a sparsely furnished room at one side of which W the viceroy walting for us Ho seemed very old supported him as he stood, one at each | without ceremony or shoulder. each with one arm across his [ kind. He understood that we had come to | back. Tho old man advanced slowly to | talk about the crisis in Chinese affairs and | greet us and the stout attendants ported him. He a few Inches toward each one of us, and as wao took it he wiggled it a few times feebly His hands were soft and flabby and cold Ho smiled ever so little and bowed slightly. The interpreter sald his excellency very glad indeed Lo see us all marble-topped table Four chairs r of the room. about it and LI moved toward i two men of in the were plac one of them to sit down muscle caught him by Then tne interview began, and & n an pogne instead of t w as ended poured out cha drinking of which by the viceroy the signal that the interview w True to his old ecustom Li Ald most of the questioning. He wanted to know all about the actions and conduci of the troops of the allies at Tien Trin and d in Pekin. He was par on the way to ticularly concerned about looting and the atrocities of the Russians and French. 1 was almost impossible to get or a question unl main strength to some wholly irrevelan answer to one of his questions, The po litlcal man from Washington wise and experienced man in the matic service—be & chance to use any of the carcfully hon eyed words. At last there was an oppor tunity and he jumped at it. He told the in terpretor to assure his excellency of (h diplo great esteem and high regard which the people of the United States had for him. 1g translated quickly and the 1 straight: te a scitlemen * asked the vice commissioner to of the present difculty negot oy The political man from Washington wa but the man from as the t the ob only that of the rabble who always shou Toudest and count least Not warned by this the watched his chance again and when it cam, experimented with a few gaudy expression. of his own opinion of the remarkable at tainments of the viceroy unutterable weariness “Yos, his excellency has some small repu tation Perfecti ervice. He id not take the trouble to translat the remarks of the Washingtonian, wh thereupon withdrew into his shell an closed the door Balt a dozen or more servants hung in th doorway or d in the hall and occasion ally pecked into the room. Not the slight est motion ¢ gn of their master escaped | His Mamma—Willle, 1 don't ke that them. Thelr movements in attending to his | cough of yours at all Stnte were absolutely molseless, A little| Willle—I ain't stuck on 1%, either, wave of the hand brought them to him. | MAmMMA He scencd never to speak to them. They - divined his will, got what he desired and Ma, I bought you some candy down withdrew 1o the doorway again ally he smoked a clgarette, but his favorit was 4 long Chinese pipe. One of his me would fill it and stand with lighted taper Rolding the end of the long stem to th wiceroy's lips, walting for him to take th Pufl or two that would exhaust the contents of the little bowl. When, after nearly twi DeWITT’S Witch Hazel SALVE A well known cure for Piles Thissalve cannot be equalled wherever Second Boy—Oh, well, that won't amount asoothingand healing antisepticappli catlo cut A Yor piles, eczema aod 31‘.‘;.,-“ it ulcnnmln-n-d infallible. Beware of Counterfells Unscrapulous persons way offer you worthless imitations, Take only theors Pa fginal DEWITT's Witen HAZEL SALVE Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & €O, Chicage that his wey would be glad to see us at bis An | case she as among | ary ceremonies hovse | oy for some viceroy and hls ways ashamed of our !gnorance and Inexperience and listened eagerly to sald ‘The baldest Hand it out to es on his being world and you meakly and set | or white, or laven- youns ent as familiarly about the It de- who 18 reckoned among the greateat diplomatists. He told us was engaged at the mo- ters, and » nephew of the great mar- ad e wears |y ™ g spectacles, WhICh | yjeor of Sheng that my colleague and my- | Two sturdy servants sup- put a trembling hand out | about the Boxers and the court was ‘me at the shoulders and lowered him gently to his attendant came and the be Hung Chang v n word s it wns attached by friend of the to despair of ge‘ting object to me as a Oregon t Tseng might have fon was most certainly The viceroy smiled and seemed to be satisfied that it was so. political man ¥ | Young Mr. Teeng turned his gold rimmed spectacles toward the Washingtonian and said in a tone of All this time a crowd of Occasion- is needed. It quickly cures sores, burns and scalds without leaving all skin | the house. hours of talk, the viceroy lifted his glass of champagne to his lips the two husky | nd deftly and gently raised him | upported him while he shook each side, to his fe of the rcom. It service | Persistently throughout the long inter- view Li Hung Chang talked of the looting | and of the outrages committed by the | trocps. When we did finally succeed in | gotting 1n A few questions he answered sometimes with amazing frankness. Thus he accounted for the contradiction in the edicts lssued from Pekin during the siege of the legations by saying: “While our government is nominally an | abeolute monarchy it is the fact that the monarch s surrounded by advisers whose | suggestions usually are accepted. In this | was badly advised. At first she was told that the Boxers were invulnerable | and would be able to make it rather hot | tor the foreigners, so she supported them. | But afterward she found out that she had | been misinformed and then she rhunxml} | was the pertection of | her opinion and her attitud The calmness with which he thus ac cused the empress dowager of complicity | in the Boxer movement was astonishing It may be worth while to note that LI Hung Chang did not ask us how old we j | were, or when we were married or what were the names of our sons. He is a very different person in China from the Li who jollled” his interviewers when in America The nearest he came to a personality was when he inquired, with a grin, after he | had been talking about the looting of Tien | Tsin and Pekin, “whether, by chance, any of the correspondents got any godsends.” From the political point of view the most | important thing the chiet peace commis- | | sloner said was his frank admission that | China could not go on in the course it has | pursued for so many years, Reform of the government is ersential to itg life, he sald | | The great object of himeelf and the other Chinese of influence and position was to gecure that reform from within and at the hands of Chinese, without the interposition of foreigners. What they feared most was | partition One of the closest friends of Li Hung 1| Chang in Shanghai and one of the most in- fluential Chinese is Sheng, the Chinese Cassandra who sent the most reliable in- formation of the real situation in Pekin to this country during the siege, but wha r N > was believed if thero was any D pretext for doubting him. He is much * | younger and more vigorous than the old statesman, but, like the viceroy, he has discarded the custom of the Chinese in meeting foreigners. Some motion of his position in Shanghal and In Chinese affars may be had from the fact that he is dlrector general of railways and le- graphs, of the China Merchants' n Navigation company, of the Imperial bank, | of the Nan Yang college and of the cotton was through the American ad- interview with the busy We were shown into a which fs always | self had an Chinese statesman om off the court center of a Chinese gence, and ug came to us. He shook hands at at the business of tie meeting formality of any o | the | there and its cause, and that we wanted information He is a | much smaller man than Li, round and well | fed. He has “gimlet eyes' like Inspector | Javert. They are small, round and black. | When he talks he looks straight at you in a fashion that sometimes makes you imagine you can feel thelr penetration Sheng Talks of Reform. It was a very long talk. He gave us tho news of the court, which the cable imme- diately made public, and then he told us the story of the origin and growth of (hP‘ ment and how It came to have on the empress and the princes » rial clan. When we asked him how many Boxers there were he replied “When the empress {s a Boxer there ure just as many Boxers as there are Chinese, but when she really s to be one then | there will be no others left.” T In other words those who did not recant 1 when she did she would behead. Sheng said that after Yu Hsien, the founder of the Poxers, was degraded from the governors hip of Shan Tung he went to Pekin and th he told the story of the wonderful prowess and invulnerability of the Boxers to tsu Tung, one of the tutors of the young heir apparent, who Is the son of Prince Tuan Hsu Tung influenced Tuan, always & rabid foroigner hater, and the two succeeded in convincing the empress. So the thing grew. This was especially interesting, confirming as it did the statement of Li Hung Charg with respect to the empress and her re tions with the Boxers. Sheng went much further than Li In declaring that reform of the government by Chinese was imperativa. He admitted frankly that China could ot stand another upheaval such as that of 1900, 1f indeed It weathers that one. But if there i no reform that is genuine, he said, the Chinese themselves would revolt, and that would mean the end of the em- pire. This was a reference to the secret socioties that have since been stirring up troublo in the Canton district. While he was viceroy thero Ll Hung Chang kept them quiet, but he beheaded more than 3,000 in doing it Sheng talked like a man who has reached a settled conviction. He spoke of the fu- ture of China frankly and with a convic- tlon that was convincing, especially when one remembered that he was one of those who were principally responsible for the culet which prevailed in the Yangt {nces in spite of the positive and im demands of the empress that all her loya subjects there should rise and exterminate {he foreigners. It remains to bo seen how clear was his vision. G — o PRATTIE O o 4| “Tommy, Tommy, remember. comes only to good boys." | o | “"Yes, ma; but boys 'at you think iz awful | " | baa Santy thinks iz tollable good t t t 5 t 3 STERS. Santy town."" | “That was kind. Tommy; where is it?" S| “Well, ma, I was so long comin’ home on the cars that it aidn't last till 1 got here.” . “Now, children,” sald the pretty Sunday school teacher, “what do you suppose Lot said when his wife turned and looked back?" In a chorus came the answer of the class “‘Rubber!" 0 “Oh, you preclous little wollipop!" eried the emotional matron. Slowly the Boston child disengaged him- self from her embrace. “Is that word in the dictionary?' he asked First Boy—I've got to take a lickin' when 1 ket home tonight Second Boy—Father or mother?”’ First Boy—Mother. - | to much! — ma says you're the head of 18 that so? Pa—It is, It she says so. Wilje—And, pa, Uncle Harry says I'm a chip off the old block. What's “the old Willle—Pa, men stepped quickly to his chair, one at | § *escssssssssscsscccscsscssose I tions About Food and the tions of It : Practical Sug Prep essessssssssssssscssssssses Dally Menus. MONDAY K FAST. rait Cream Hashed Potatoes Coffee ad LUNCH Vegetable Roast Stewed Frujt DINNER Tomato Sauce. Wafers, Cream Meat P'le Soup, wed Corn, Htring Bouns. Lettuce Stewed Figs. ilipped Cream. Croam, Creamed Potatoes. 0ffee. Pepper Hash. {ngerbread. tato Soip. Fricassee of Chicken. Sweet Potatoes Bro Botled Rice Cole Pump Rice Croquettc Cream Sauce. Brown Bread Btewed Dates. Cerenl Coffee DINNEF b Mashed Potatoes, Fresh Tongue, Br Cold 8 Apple Charlotte Coffes, Hints for nts. If the inven played by the modern hostess iew and novel methods for the entertainment of her guests could be gi practical application fn the household economy it would, mno | doubt, be the means of overcoming many of the dificulties of housekecping. That women have t it of in evident when she bri her m o5 10 bear uzon the subject d heart and touching her womanly pride and ambi tlon. To be rated among the knowing ones as n charming hostess and successful enter- to have gained this distinction seems sufficient ¢ neatiof fed hostess who has worle s of willing and phys cal prostraion b siul season. “The tainer to b we well as a co verge of nervou the end of a most succe ond crown: self with the t functl were th her friends acts assistants, to the umphant fact that her soctal envy and despair of all ke a tonic in restoring her exhausted ener Just as long as the desire for more dly play, the ition to outdo others, does ot bec predominant motive to the exclusion of good taste and refinement, 1 attractiveness Wkings 1s to be this desire to add beaut to our hospitable u commended The housewifo in moderate circumstances often hesitate ttempt the discharge of any soclal her means will not allow her to incur the expense she deems necessary in carrying out the requirements good form demands. Let her console her- self with the knowledge that good taste, very refinement and a coupled with the able atmosphere of unassumed hospitality, that “entente cordiale,” will be far n » pl ng and in much better form than those perfunc- tory affairs that may have excited her envy or made her feel the utter useless- ness of allowing her mind to dwell upon hospitable thoughts intent The hostess who ean surprise her guests with some undreamed of novelty, whether in the waz of a “new creation,” in viands decorations or favors, may be sure of hold ing a pleasant remembrance in the minds of her guest 8o jaded does the mind of tho habitual diner become that they feel aggrieved, ind when the hostess does not arouse them from their ennul with something new under the sun, little expense, Celebrating family birthdays and wedding anniversaries are occasions for real soclal enjoyment s all formalit nd ceremony aro fore o0 the event. They should par- take more of the nature of family gather- ings, though very often fashionable folks make them quite a social “affair.” For a smali party this idea might be carried out and the effect is very beautiful All the table linen should be snow-white. It any embroidered are used they must not have colored designs, From the chandelier down to each corner of the table bring long ribbons of wood shavings, broad, white and sating; smother these in asparagus ferns an 1 here and there a b, fine,curly each corner have tendrils of shavings. At bow and ribbon ends of the shavings and a big, pink chrysanthemum. Falliug from the top and hanging down from the chandelier arrange the chrysanthemums and curls and rns. In the center of the table mall wooden tub filled with the mums” and ferns. At the end of luncheon theso can be passed around to the guests. At each cover, instead of a guest card, place a tiny wooden pie-board with a little rolling-pin and potato-masher tied to it with pink ribbons. Have the guest's name written on the rolling-pin and the host on the ple-board, with dates of her wed- ding and anniversary and also name of guest of honor. If possible to obtaln, use carved, wooden candlesticks, otherwise wroughtiron, but not china, silver or glass Arrange thes¢ near the centerpiece. Use pink candles At each cover A shades place a tiny wooden bowl with a tiny lave doily In it and filled with fine pink and white mints. On each bread and butter plate place o spreader. menu alad should llowing each guest tc it mukes a very pretty erved in the shell help themsclves, as dish when Shell, Pl Olas, e with She Isweotbread Pattles, Mushroom a Peas (0 Balls, (Served | Montros f Lettuca), thut Sauce, Recipes. Cho: fresh it o ten pou: tly with firm white lean of fine grain ham one round t and ¢ flesh crowd ruddy side deeply in halt v dozen place i in thin slices of g , skew up the scores and rub the ham well with a handful of salt, & teospoonful of sugar and half a teaspoonful of red and black pep- bloek ™" I suppose that's me. Willle—Well, then, pa, blockhead, ain't you? you're an old THE_OMATA DAIL TABLE AND KITCHEN, i To be able to console her- | Nutritive, Refreshing, Economical in use. cupful of this delicious Cocoa costs less than one cent. Bold at ail grocery stores—order it ncxt time. 273, .Y BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1900, Ti “ QACRIFICED to the American passion for hurry.” That was the verdict given by a writer in Leslie's Weekly on the many victims of the ferry accident at Mount Desert. There was plenty of room on the boat, plenty of time to reach it. But the hurrying crowd jostled and struggled and crushed till they broke down the landing stage and produced a horror of death and destruction which shocked the entire country. “Sacrificed to the American passion for hurry,” is the epitaph which might be legitimately carved on the tombstones of thousands who have passed away as victims of liver disease, heart disease, lung disease, or the disease of some other vital organ, but who were in reality victims of stomach discass, induced by the American habit of hurry at meals. Look into any favorite restaurant in any city at the lunch hour. Men are crowded about the tables and eating as if for a wager. Behind them and around them other men wait for their seats, wondering impatiently why people are such slow eaters. These are the people who sacrifice themselves to the passion for hurry. They eat heartily, rapidly, indifferent to everything but a speedy return to business, and the result is that the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition become diseased. Since the stomach is the vital center from which the whole body is nourished, it follows that no man can be stronger than his stomach. The “ weak” heart which is so fatal to this hurrying generation will be found often to be the result of the weak stomach. The “disordered liver” will be set in order when the diseased stomach is cured. It is the same with other organs. They are all fed from the stomach. When the stomach breaks down they starve, and starvation means at first weakness and ultimately death. This being true, it follows that the cure of diseases remote from the stomach would often follow the cure of diseases of the stomach and the allied organs of digestion and nutrition. And that has been the experience of thousands who have taken Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, only hoping for relief from “stomach trouble,” but who have found to their astonishment the liver regulated, “ heart trouble” cured, “ weak lungs” strengthened and | nervous diseases entirely overcome. * Golden Medical Discovery ” cures diseases of the stomach and the allied organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures through the stomach diseases remote from the stomach, which have their origin in a diseased condition of that vital organ. If a man cannot eat he cannot live. ll"he can eat, but cannot properly digest and assimilate his food he does not live but only exists, until some starved organ becomes a prey to disease. By curing diseases of the stomach and digestive and nutritive systems “Golden Medical Discovery” removes the obstacles to the perfect nutrition of the body and all its organs. By increasing the nutrition it increases the supply of blood which is made from food, when properly digested and assimilated, and this blood is the vital principle which nourishes the body and all its parts. The natural result which follows the use of “Golden Medical [;ismvery” is a gain of flesh. This is especially marked in what are termed wasting diseases, where the emaciation is pronounced. This gain of flesh is a real gain—not a surface gain of flabby fat which is a burden to carry around, but a gain of firm flesh which counts for health and happiness. There is no alcohol in the “ Discovery,” and it contains no opium, cocaine or other narcotic. | 1 ) ““] RAPIDLY RECOVERED.” “For seven years I had been troubled DOCTORS GAVE NO RELIEF. h “I was a sufferer from torpid liver for over what the doctors called bronchitis,”’ writes | a vear,” writes Mrs. Nora Willis, of Wheat- Mr. Arthur Maule (general merchant), of | field, Jasper Co., Ind., "and could not sleep, leesurwm.I )ldidldiisex C(i,, Omzl"no. i A year | nor eat but very little, and then it would cause ago, after I had been taken sick with a severe me great distre I tried several doctors but | Medical Discovery. a appy attack, I began taking ‘ Golden Medical Dis- | got no relief, ~Was advised by a friend to | getting to feel fi::ye Illl’"::llhiwl‘gv:*ol:’;);: :1‘:: covery I rapidly recovered from the attack, | write to Dr. Pierce, which I did, and in a few | bottles of the ‘Discovery’ and four or five and felt no more of it t[ml fall, ’}‘lus. season days I received a letter advising me to take | vials of the little ‘ Pellets,” and they have done 1 began taking the ‘Discovery’ in August, | his ‘ Golden Medical Discovery’ and also his | me worlds of good. 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Mix all well through the four hours Take up, skin, turn batter, then at the very lust add a gill of take out the trivet, empty the bot- Whisky or brandy, well colored with burnt the meat to it, then Sugar. Line your pans with three thick pour in a pint of good claret and set bhac nesses of greased paper, fill a little more in the oven for ten minutes. Draw out than half way, let rise an hour in &low sprinkle the top thickly with sugar, grated heat then ba and let cool in the pan, | nutmex and black pepper. \Bake hait it should be light enough to be In danger ;hm' longer uncovered. Take up in a desp |0f breaking if taken out hot dish ger, mace and lemon peel, half a teaspc ful of powdered black pepper and J oven neatly tom pan and retur Your Stomach is not your slave. It's your friend. ) Don't abuse your friend. 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Frost the other half plain, but re the frosting hardens strew blanched almonds lightly over it Christmas Spice o—Cream a pound of | butter, with half a pound of yellow sugar |and add gradually a pound of browned flour. Next beat in, one at a time, the yolks of 3tir a scant tea- spoonful of baking soda in three gills ot good dark molasses, and add to the cake | batter while still foaming. Then add two | grated nutmegs, one tablespoonful each of powdered clunamen, alspice, gin- In the other thie , and is_perfect] delicious. IT BUILDS BRAWN‘: Every package of genuine Gra- nola“bears & picture of the Battle Creck Sanitarium, Ask your grocer for it, Beware of im- tations, Drink Caramel Cercal and sleep well—it leaves the nerves strong. Send e for Granola sample to Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Co. 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