=i)lammEn MNE11111111 1111111111111111111 lama •iuulllliiliiliiill j „„,„„„„„„„ 11111111„„„1„,, i.„„„„„„„, IIIIIIIIffbIIII 1 1 11F-11- i The I YOUTH'S i I i INSTRUCTOR I i 4-0-4-4,—........-4-4,—.......—.,-.4-40-4— ;I G. Vol. LXI April 15, 1913 No. 15 40. • • • 4) • • cd• • • • • mi •••+••.441 mm+o.mw El • • • • ..=•44> • •t I •4 • • • •4) • • s•mwe • • • • • • 44i).am • • • • • • CHANGSHA'S NEW EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION BUILDING O i O 4 t. • • • •• • mimp•O. • •I • •> v•m.e.o.••C>t. 410 •=4•6m. •444 A1111111111111111 1111111111111111111 1111111111111111111 = .1111111111111111111 ' 11111111111111111111 1111111111111111111 e7,- 11111111111111111111 111111111111111111111 .4 '11111111111111111111 = ;1111111111111;1111 -111111111111;1111111 11=10t=1 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I THE date of this paper marks the date of the death of the Raleigh News and Observer, and was a leader of Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865. in President Wilson's campaign. " A YOUNG woman in Providence, Rhode Island, Franklin Knight Lane, Secretary of the Interior, was found on January 16 unconscious from gas as- has won his spurs on the Interstate Commerce Com- phyxiation. Two physicians worked over her for mission. hours, without result. Finally, a pulmotor — which The Secretary of Agriculture •is David Franklin pumps out the lungs and fills them with oxygen — was Houston, chancellor of Washington University of St. used, and in a short time the girl was out of danger." Louis, who was mentioned as a possible successor to President Eliot of Harvard University. William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, a The New Cabinet manufacturer of steel and iron forgings, has just fin- PRESIDENT WILSON'S Cabinet selections have met ished his first term in Congress from the Brooklyn with warm approval in Washington. The members district. are men of good judgment and wide experience. William Bauchop Wilson will head the new Depart- The Secretary of State is William Jennings Bryan, ment of Labor. In Congress he was chairman of the three times a candidate for the presidency, lawyer, House Committee on Labor, and has a firm grip of politician, lecturer, and eminent Christian. labor problems. He is the only foreign-born member William Gibbs McAdoo, who built and has ever since of the Cabinet, his birthplace being Blantyre, Scot- operated the Hudson River tubes in New York, is land, David Livingstone's town.— Christian Endeavor Secretary of the Treasury ; an expert on matters of World. transportation. Principal Contents Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War, is a doctor, CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES PAGE lawyer, and judge on the bench of New Jersey. He Itinerating Experiences in Central China 3 is regarded as a man of exceptional administrative What I Saw in the Garden 4 Dr. Rhee 4 ability. The Earth's Path Around the Sun and the Apparent James C. McReynolds, the Attorney-General, has Motion of the Stars 5 Uncle Charley's Hardtack — No. 8 been assistant in the Department of Justice since 1903. Another Year of Progress I0 His success in the government suit against the Amer- Canvassing in Mexico During the Revolution 13 ican Tobacco Company lifted him into fame. Trust (poetry) 14 A Sister's Prayer (poetry) 15 The Postmaster-General is Albert Sidney Burleson, SELECTED ARTICLES for seven terms a member of Congress, always elected Some Wealth in Oil 6 without opposition, who has been prominent in his Flora Macdonald, the Heroine of the " Forty-Five" 6 party in the House. The Supreme Court Bible 7 Twenty-One Questions and Answers 9 Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, was editor The Last Hour (poetry) 16 The Temperance " Instructor " ally who have had an oppor- Tsai --A - tunity to examine it. Letters will I HE for 1913 of commendation from all UP to April I, 190,000 copies of the classes have come to us. 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C., APRIL 15, 1913 No. 15 Itinerating Experiences in Central China R. F. COTTRELL T was a cold, rainy morning in October. Evan- before our arrival disbanded revolutionary soldiers gelist Hwang and I had planned to start for passing through this place had created a disturbance Liu-yang, a chair ride of fifty miles. While and forced the steamer to take them to their destina- we doubted whether the coolies could be in- tion. The boat had not been heard from since, and duced to travel in such weather, a messenger there were other disbanded soldiers in the town acting came saying that they were all ready and in a very lawless manner. waiting for us on the other side of the river. After a night in a native inn, we decided to hire a The roads were so muddy that we made slow prog- small sailboat to take us across the lake. This craft ress, and by five o'clock in the afternoon the carriers was about twenty-five feet in length, with a ragged were so tired that we were obliged to stop for the piece of canvas for a sail, and a covering consisting of night, having traveled only about fifteen miles. We two bamboo mats. There were eight in our party, secured a room in a country inn, and Mr. Hwang slept all Adventists except •one, who was a government on a native bed in one corner, while I set up a Mont- school-teacher on his way to take a position in the gomery Ward & Co.'s folding cot, used my own bed- city to which we were en route. ding, hung my mosquito-netting, and passed a very We were favored with a gentle breeze from the comfortable night. south, and by three o'clock on the following morning We were called at 5 A. M., and after a hasty break- were within five miles of the town on the other side of fast, resumed our journey. Everything went well until the afternoon, when we were crossing a range of moun- tains. The coolie who carried our things, doubtless supposing that the " foreigner " had much money and valuables in his luggage, turned thief, and disappeared. As night was coming on, we could not stop to in- stitute a search, but hastened on, arriving at our Liu- yang Street chapel at seven o'clock in the evening. Our chair bearers said that the baggage coolie was either tired out or taken sick by the way, and that he would certainly come along later, or early in the morn- ing. But he did not come, and although nearly three months have now passed, his whereabouts are still un- known. The articles lost were worth about $50. It was not so much a matter of value as of incon- venience. A week's experience away from what the Westerner terms civilization, without my own bedding CHANGSHA RIVER FRONT AND ISLAND. OUR MISSION and provision, was quite new. However, good Chinese HOMES ARE TO THE LEFT rice, eggs, and some vegetables, all eaten with chop- the lake where we had expected to land, when sud- sticks, formed a diet not the worst ; and nights and denly a fierce gale struck us from the northeast.