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...master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...
...years later, a little man, almost buried in a great shock of hair and beard, came up from Colorado and began to deepen the Butte pits. William A. Clark learned his trade in a quartz mine and lost his savings in a gold mine. In Butte, he dug for copper. Gold miners, seeing his wagons start out on their 400-mile trek to the nearest railroad at Corinne, Utah, laughed aloud. "There go Clark's rocks," they jeered. And they were 98.37% right. Only 1.63% of the gray copper ore can be reduced to valuable metal...
Furthermore, continued good M. Painlevé, the word war ought to be expunged from written or spoken utterance, during peace times, so that in a crisis the very mention of "WAR!!" would shock and arouse public opinion to combat the scourge...
...came off, an inverted bowl of bakelite. Exposed was a crazy-quilt of skin patches, splotched with blue and red and white, and pulsating. Norman Douglas' skull, rotting from a 5.000 h. p. electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...
...Bedford sympathy stood the shock of Weisbord violence, still supports the orderly unions. Almost overshadowing the contest between owners and operatives is the war upon the radicals. And it is on the issue of this war that the immediate future of New Bedford depends...