A Nation's Fate Was Sealed Fifty Yards from Where He Stood!

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HERE was a rattling of rickshaws, and I went below. On looking over the wall, I saw that the Japanese were going away. Hasegawa's carriage had already gone. Koreans in court dress were fluttering to and fro. It seemed impossible as I stood there in the moonlight behind the hedge, that the fate of a nation had been sealed within fifty yards of where I stood! The ministers had signed !" Yes, it was so. The Japanese had subjugated Korea, and a country of 12,000,000 people must bow to the inevitable. Are you reading WILLARD STRAIGHT'S Life Story by Louis Graves now running in

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A Republic-With an Emperor Held in Reserve!

This is the case in China today. An unbelievable situation-but true. The young heir to the throne is now fifteen years of age. The rumor was that he had been restored to power. They are thinking of marrying him to the President's daughter, and thus satisfy all factions. And many other astonishing plans are being considered. Read JOHN O. P. BLAND'S revelations in "The Last Imperial Manchu" in the December issue.

Bible Stories Through Chinese Eyes!

These pictures by a young Chinese artist would alone make any issue of a magazine worth while. This boy went to hear a missionary in his native country. Never had he heard the old Biblical stories. He was deeply impressed. He visualized the sacred tales enacted among his own Chinese people. Chinese lions, tigers and phenix march two by two into a Chinese ark, built by a Chinese Noah. And they kill the Chinese fatted calf (in the shape of a chicken) for the Chinese Prodigal Son, returning penitent from a Chinese gambling hell!

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KOREA SIGNS AWAY HER FREEDOM

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T last it has come to pass-a No-Accident Week in fact as well as in name. During the three years in which there has been any public safety work to speak of, one large city after another tried to go through a single week without an accidental death, and while some really remarkable reductions in accidents were brought about, the results always fell just a little short of the goal. St. Louis in 1918 came through its "No-Accident Week" with one fatality, as against ten for the preeeding week and twenty-five for the corresponding week of the previous year; Cleveland last year during its "No-Acci dent Week" reduced its score on this account from sixteen during the corresponding week of the previous year to six; the Lehigh Valley cities in a noteworthy "No-Accident Week" campaign in the spring of this year came through with only one fatality.

And then Milwaukee proved that it could be done. With a population of more than half a million, with thousands of visitors in her midst, with 46,000 automobiles and motor trucks operating on her streets, Milwaukee passed through the week of September 26 to October 2, inclusive-the week of the ninth annual Congress of the National Safety Council-without a single fatal accident. This in the face of an average of six accidental deaths for the entire previous year and an average of seven accidental deaths for the previous month.

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Each of the 46,000 automobile drivers of Milwaukee received at the outset of the campaign a letter urging the utmost care in driving and complete co-operation to prevent accidents. That these letters were effective is shown by the record of the week. With the letters were sent applications for membership in the Safe Drivers' Club, sponsored by the Milwaukee Safety Council. Within ten days 12,000 drivers had applied and been admitted to membership, each paying $1 membership dues.

safety messages on "jay walking," safe driving, blood poisoning, and other common hazards were distributed in bundles and packages of all sorts sent out by department stores and other business houses. Every bundle that went into a home during the week carried a safety message. A safety message was carried in every business letter from practically every concern in the city.

Safety sermons were preached by the ministers and priests of all creeds in practically every church of the city on the Sunday preceding the opening of the Congress.

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course you're reading Roosevelt' letters to his children. Everybody doing it. He was fond of all children. friend of mine in Washington obtained hi permission to present her two little boy to him when they were about six and eigh years old. As she was impressing or them what a great man they were to se and how good they must be, Six-YearsOld looked up, wide-eyed. "Will he show us his bear?"

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THE CHILDREN

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ong ago, and long ago, I mind my berries tasted

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ow I know life's journey through, naught of love lies wasted

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Isake of the child that once was I,

-eet brown biscuits and butter gold,

gs from the white hen's nest.

e robin in the apple tree sang

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