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twenty-five dynasties. The massacres, 

 men engaged and killed, area of disturb- 

 ance, and vexations of settlement and 

 indemnity are, after all, limited when 

 we balance against them the events of 

 centuries that are gone. 



Third. The end of China is not yet. 

 If she is divided, it will in history be 

 only a temporary division, but one sug- 

 gestive of revenge and consequent dan- 

 ger to the white and Christian races. 



If she is not divided, a new and 

 grander period of progress and civiliza- 

 tion will surel)- follow the troubles and 

 haze of the past sixty years, just as has 

 been the almost invariable experience of 

 the great past. Men and means will 

 be forthcoming to build up this newer 

 China. Whether this era is inspired 

 from within or without, whether it comes 

 with a new dynasty, a new emperor, or 

 with the present emperor supported b}^ 

 foreign hands, the world will yet see 

 greater things in China than it has ever 



viewed in America or Europe. As 

 China's 400,000,000 people must by law 

 of nature increase to countless more 

 millions, and as her 4,000,000 square 

 miles, with their vast unsurpassed re- 

 sources, must inevitably respond to ma- 

 terial development, so her 4,000 years 

 of history as a nation and people, with 

 their rich experience, their reserve en- 

 ergy, their conservatism, their recupera- 

 tive capacity, their homogeneity, teach 

 us to believe that China will survive suc- 

 cessfully the present crisis. 



Is not, therefore, the policy of our 

 Government — that of mingled firmness 

 and charity — a wise one ? 



If we protect our treaty rights, de- 

 mand just punishment without revenge, 

 respect China's inalienable prerogatives, 

 and show dignified generosity in the 

 evolution of the new status, we shall 

 have China's 400,000,000 people as our 

 lasting friends rather than our everlast- 

 ing enemies. 



THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF BAUM 



THERE is an exhibit in the Eth- 

 nology Building at the Pan- 

 American Exposition in Buffalo 

 that will be of special interest to archae- 

 ologists, as it represents a discovery so 

 recent that no previous exposition has 

 had the opportunity of exhibiting it to 

 the world. It is the remains of the In- 

 dian village of Baum. 



Prof. William C. Mills, of Columbus, 

 Ohio, curator of the Ohio Archaeolog- 

 ical and Historical Society, who was in- 

 strumental in the finding of Baum, came 

 to Buffalo to install this exhibit. Most 

 of it is placed in glass cases, but the 

 central feature is a little graveyard on 

 the floor-space directly under the great 

 dome. It is bounded by an iron railing, 

 within which black loamy soil has been 

 neatly packed as a bed for the prehis- 



toric skeletons it has been Professor 

 Mills' ghoulish task to arrange. Bone 

 by bone he unpacked them and fitted 

 them together into the ghastly sem- 

 blance of men, women, and little chil- 

 dren. There they lie in the same rela- 

 tive positions in which they were found 

 in buried Baum. 



So new and yet so old is Baum that 

 only a few of the best informed even 

 know its name. It was discovered last 

 year, in Ross County, Ohio, and was 

 named for the man who owned the prop- 

 erty. Archaeologists in the Indian field 

 consider it one of the greatest finds of 

 the century. The village encircled one 

 of those great mounds that have so long 

 been the wonder and curiosity of latter- 

 day races. Mound and village have thus 

 helped to interpret each other. Wise 



