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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1004.
JAPAN AND UNITED STATES
Oombinitioa to Coa ol in ia'i o' th J
A h io Co li:ii
Indus i kial rnu j ( vw run rriiurrMts i
Agricultural rro4net of the Colonies
to r Mnnsfactored In Japan
ami Sol J on ike
Continent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -(Spec al Corre
pendrnce of The Eee.) It was owl.g 10
the kindness of Mr. Ar.hur Kna,p, .nl
American ger.;itman and the editor of tha
Yokohama AdvertUer, that I hnd two er
lightening Interviews with r.aron Kemuri,
minister of foreign affairs of Japan, rue
prior to my departure from Japan whl.e
enroute to the Philippines In Juna list end
the other on Nnvimter 6. Jut h; fore my
return to the United States. Earon No
mura, being president of the Haivard i-se-clatlon
of Japan, hat a warm rpot In lili
heart for alt American, wh.Ie in my cajo
the friendllners of the intent :w oj In
creased by the fact that we had sat side
by aide at a Loyal Legion annual banqjet
In Washington while he wci m.nlster to
tha United States, Although theje Inter
views, which occurred at his officli.1 resi
dence In Toklo, were entirely unoff.cl ii, ths
last ona was none the less remarkable be
cause of the great demand upon hla time
caused by the strained relations existing
between hi country and Hu e a. Whl.e ol
oourae them relations were but lightly al
luded to, yet where they had tearing .iport
tha position which the United Stated was
In future to occupy In the Orient, he did
allude to them. The last Interview, coming
as It djd after a talk With Baron Kinelio,
which undoubtedly bad been dS-USed wltl
Baron Komura, dwelt upon tha subject of
tha future relations between the I'nltsi
States and Japan ns affecting the trale b
tween Japan, the Philippines and China,
Among the Incidental topics dlicumed wai
tha esoluslveness of the United States la
the shipping trade between the Philippines,
Hawaii and the United States, which he
aald ha regretted, and that Word "regret,"
wl.h tha significant smile that accompanied
It, meant more than pages of official pro
test coming through diplomatic channels.
Proorrom (or Philippines.
During my first Interview the baron had
asked me to look Into the possibilities of
the Philippines as a producer of raw ma
terials which Japan desired to manufactur?,
not only for home consumption, but also
for sale In the limitless market.! of China,
and so our conversation now turned upon
this subject and he asked me If the Philip
pine group could produce enough raw ma
terial to enable Japan to emtark upon a
policy of furnishing manufactures pri
marily Oriental In character which could
be consumed In .the Orient.
"Most assuredly the Philippines can," I
answered, and then I proceeded to give
him data Which convinced him that It wa
most desirable for his country to enter Into
negotiations with the United States with a
view to so building up our commercial re
lations so that the Philippine Inlands could
be the garden, Japan the factory, China
the market and the United States the
banker. In discussing these subjects he
gave me to understand that Japan was
fully equipped to increase Its manufactur
ing energies so as to enable It to do Its
part In such a plan, but be wanted to
know whether It would be Justified In view
of the condition of affairs as he under
stood them In the Philippines.
"You need Immigration as well as labor In
the Philippines," he said, "and that Immi
gration and labor will have to be Oriental as
Well as Occidental to meet the climatic and
.agricultural conditions of your tropical
possession ,. Tou need transportation and
capital ' to develop the vast . agricultural
resources of the Island."
I answered him by saying that the cap
ital of th United States waa-sufficient
not only to develop these agricultural re
sources of the Islands, but slso to build all
roads, railroads and Interlsland shipping
lines necessary for their complete develop
ment. In speaking of China as a market,
lie . complimented the United States very
Wghly on its recent Chinese trade treaty,
the policy of which. If adhered to, would,
In his opinion. Insure to the United States
the vast markets of that wonderful em
pire. , Ilnsata Menace.
I asked him ' then as to the possibilities
A tlk IVirfan A W nj..t , . I
fc n- wiliu.i, a 1 1 ' i mo w i inn urLunilllg J
cvauniuori ior me traae or enma ana as to
the possibility of China ItFelf becoming a
manufacturing nation. Ho did not seem to
think that China would ever become a com
petitor of the United States because the
products of ths United States which are im
ported Into China are either agricultural
In their character or the products of agri
culture, such as Hour, oil, cotton stuffs
and woolens, and "are those products of
your farms which cannot be raised In the
Orient. Tour only competitor," he said,
'Is Russia, and the exclusive occupation
of ,any portion of Asia by Russia would
tnsan the exclusion of that much of the
trade of your country and consequent
loss to you. The products which Japan
alma to manufacture are those products
"Which can not be grown In the Occident
or which. If grown there, are grown and
wiiuik iuiw o.i Burn a coai as to preclude
their sale In the neocssarily cheap markets
. )f the far east."
In the conversation which followed, he
eenveyed to me the following thought,
which although not expressed tn these
words, left me with this vivid and lastlna
Impression.
Those products of the Orient which com
pete with the products of the Occident,
hould be rslaed In the Orient, manufac.
tured In the Orient and sold In the Orient,
and It is only In this manner that Inev
itable conflict between the two can be
averted. Where the Occident and the
Orient come Into conflict. Individually the
Occident may be supreme; collectively, the
Oriental forces everything to his own
level or standard.
This led me to ask htm where, as In the
case of the United States, on country
controls th destinies of both an Occidental
and an Oriental race, each; of whom raise
similar products, how they could be gov
erned without a conflict of Interests. He
expressed himself of the belief that to
harmoniously govern the Occident and the
Orient, under one flag, as the United States
7"
Is trying to do, laws should be enacted
so ns to prevent th labor and products
of the one from coming Into competition
with those of the ether, otherwise ths
laborers receiving th highest wsges must
work at the price and accept th wij-i
paid to those who can produce th ebesp
eM. This naturally brought us to a dis
cutfion of the articles capable of produc
tion In th Philippine snd especially those
desired by Jrcpan.
What Japan Wants.
"There are two prolurts of the Phil
ippines," he said, "which the Japanese
poop would gladly take and for many
years to com could tbsorb the total pro
duction tobacco and sugar."
Japan, It seems. Is establishing a govern
ment monopoly In tobacco, and It Is found
thit the loracco of the Philippines Is the
bert tobacco for the Orient, because It can
stand a moist climate better than tobacco
raided nnywhrre ee. This, coupled with
the exceedingly low cot of production,
might warrjr.t Japan In making arrange
ments with the United State, either by
treaty or otherwise, whereby Philippine to
bacco would have a practical monopoly In
Japan and through It would become the
lobaceo of Chin. This would develop the
Philippines with great rapidity, provided
an agricultural class of people could.be
Induced to rttle in those Islands for Its
cultivation. The only competitors of
Oriental tobacco would be the tropical
colonies of England, France and The
Netherlands. As to sugar, a slTillar condi
tion exists. From the president of the
large sugar refineries In Japan I had
learned tiat ths Japanese "Sugar trust"
was able and willing to so Increase the
refineries as to absorb all .the sugar which
could be raised In the Philippines, for the
reason that Japan's 45.CJ0.00O gives it a
constantly Increasing home market; It
would always hove before It the market of
millions of people of China, white Its su
perior ability for cheap manufacturing
would enable It to compete with the cheap
beet sugar of Europe and Asiatic Russia,
nuarla, be it understood. Is already estab
lishing beet sugar factories in Siberia,
where the beets can be raised, with a view
to supplying China with beet sugar, pro
viding Russia's plan for the absorption of
China Is successful. But the baron gave
me to understand that Jspan, with the
cheap market for refined sugar In the
Orient, might not be able to meet the prices
which could be paid In the United States
In case of free trade on raw sugar between
tho Philippines and the United States. He
Intimated that while such a policy might
tn the beginning be beneficial to the Phil
ippines, yet ultimately he believed that It
would be detrimental, because the market
In the United States was limited as com
pared to that of the Orient, and, in addi
tion, free trade In raw sugar would bring
an Oriental agricultural produot, with Its
cheapness of production, Into competition
with the agriculture of the United States, to
the destruction of the American sugar In
dustry, and thus create the very friction
between the Orient and the Occident which
seemed to him It should be our policy to
avoid.
From other sources I learned that ,apan
had been approached with an idea of mak
ing reciprocal arrangements with the other
Oriental producers of these two products
with a view of cutting out the Importation
of the sugar and tobacco of the .Philip
pines Into Japan.
Japan and the Philippines.
There waa one more question which I
made bold to ask, although I felt a deli
cacy tn so doing. Did Japan still desire to
acquire the Philippines?
"There waa a time," said Baron Komura,
"when Japan felt that it must acquire the
Philippine Islands, not only to prevent their
falling Into the handu of its enemies, but
also to supply a place where the raw ma
terial for manufacturing in Japan could be
raised and a place . whre the surplus
Japanese population could go. But that
view has passed. With the Phillppln
Islands under control of the United States,
Japan has a friend at Its doors, and Its
factories can be supplied with all the com
mercial K products necessary to It without
the expense of governing the islands or de
fending them In time of war. tThe United
States end Japan could never be com
petitors in the Orient, so Japan would
rather have the United State govern the
Philippine islands than do so Itself." i
In parting I asked Baron Komura If, un
officially, he thought It possible for an ar
rangement to be entered into between the
United States and Japan whereby the prod
ucts of the Philippines could find a profita
ble market In Japan, and he answered that
It was his opinion that If such a proposi
tion be brought officially to the attention
of Japan, through the proper diplomatlo
channels, Japan would willingly enter Into
negotiations with that object In view.
"Certainly," he said, "some such an ar
rangement would cement the bonds of
friendship between the United States and
Japan, which now are very strong."
ALONZO H. STEWART.
REI.IOIOll.
In memory of relatives who perished In
the Iroquois tire a parlshoner oj Christ
church, Winnetka, 111., has offered to
build a new 6o,oou church.
Among strange legacies may be classed
that of a Vermont man who left JoOO to hla
church, the Income to be ued In sweeping
the snow off the church pavement.
President Butler of Columbia university
lately said he knew no more pathetic spec
tacle than that of Incompetent Sunday
school teachers trying to Instruct their pu
pils. The religious census of Germany reports
almost two-thirds of the people Protes
tants, a llttl ovr one-third are Roman
Catholics, with less than i,ttuO registered as
nun-C'hrtstlan.
Tha Rev. E. Henry Bvrons. Coiinrresa-
tinnal minister of New Smyrna. Fl.i.. Is
making an effort to arrange for a Joint re
union cf confederate and federal veterans
some time this summer.
Dr. Arthur H. Smith says that what
Gibbon said of Rome Is true of China,
namely: "To the common people all re
ligions are equally true; to the philosopher
all are equully false, and to the magis
trates all are equally useful."
The Christian population of Cores Is es
timated at 2UU.U00, about i per cent of 'the
population of the empire. Presbyterians,
Methodists, Anglicans snd Roman Catholics
maintain mlsnlons In Cores, with a Urge
force of American, .nglish and native
workers.
The bishop of 1-ondon 1 6 years 'old.
Although eitll young for an occupant of
the KpUropal bench Dr. Ingntm'a conse
cration dates back to 1597. when he suc
ceeded Dr. Browne, now bishop of Bristol,
ss suffragan bishop of Btepney. He I the
only blHhuD to share, with two arclihl.hons
the distinction of being a "right honoruble"
us wru us a Tigni reverend.
SHORT CUT TO BANKRUPTCY
Arctricai T-adr'i Opinion o Bciinsii in
Oolombii in fierdntioi Times.
AMUSING STORY OF EXPERIENCES THERE
Barrels of Dollars Poo red Ont to Get
a Dig Batch of Permits and Pass
ports from Everybody In
Authority,
If you want to find a short cut to bsnk
ruptcy go down to Colombia and try to do
business there In revolution time.
In July, 1902, I was living at Call, in the ;
department of the Cauea, Republic of Co
lombia. Hearing that the pe?ple In th
next department, Tollrna, were badly In
need cf cloth goods and other merchandise,
supplies having become ahort owing to the
revolution, I bought twelve mules, load-d
them with valuable cargoes, hired peon
and prepared to set out on the difficult and
dangerous Journey to Tollrna.
No sooner had I got ready than the gov
ernor of the department Issued a dec o
to the effect that no mul-s were to be
taken out of the Cauea Into another de
partment unlcje $2,000 per mule was de
posited with the government as a guaranty
that they would be brought back. The de
partment, it was contended, was running
short of mules and every available beast
was needed for the prooecutlon of the flcht
against the revolutionists. So I had to put
up a bond of 1240) Colombian paper
money, worth 1800 gojd, that I would biln
back my own mules. If I was Inconsiderate
enough to sell them or ollow them to dla
or let the government selxe them I would
have to forfeit my money.
But this was only the beginning of my
troubles. I had to go before the governor
and the sec re tan" of the hacienda and the
procurator-fiscal and the reglstrarlo and
half a dozen other officials to swear that
I wis a good Catholic, an honest merchant
and a well wisher to the government, that
I had never had smallpox or been tn Jail
and that all my family and trlends were
equally Innocent and harmless people.
Good Money for Kotepnper.
This done, I was allowed to buy sheets of
official note paper, at $4 per sheet, on which
to write petitions for the necessary pass
ports a,nd permits for the Journey. There
was bound to be some mlstske In the word
ing of the first six or seven petitions, and
they had to be written over again on other
$4 sheets. This Is one of the delightful little
ways adopted by the Colombian government
to raise the taxes. Nobody may correspond
With the government except on these sheets.
Of course, the petitions had to be stamped
with numerous and expensive stamps, and
when, after a week's hustling, the pass
ports were obtained, they had to be
stamped also.
At length my strenuous encounter with
the officials were over, and the little ex
pedition waa at liberty to depart, armed
with many weighty document giving it th
right to live and move. My men and I rode
on for five hours to a place called Jamondl,
near which we pitched camp.
As we "were getting dinner ready two Co
lombian soldiers rode up on horseback and
announced that they had order to arrest
the "gringo" and take him to Jail. I pro
tested, but they held the trumps. They
simply levelled their rifles at my head and
told me that if I didn't come at once they
wou'd shoot me.
They took me to Jamondl and flung me
onto the atone floor of a dirty cell, which
waa bare of furniture, but very much In
habited by cockroaches, scorpions, ant and
a ' variety of other insects. I naturally
wanted to know what offense I was charged
with, but blow with the butts of rifle
were my only answer. My Imposing docu
ments from the Call officials were treated
with scorn, which was hardly surprising,
seeing that nobody could read them.
Foreigners Disliked.
Like most Colombians, my captor hated
foreigner, apd they were delighted to
have on at their mercy. They refused to
give me any food or even to let my men
give me any. I wa famished, for I had
eaten nothing since morning, and they had
stopped my dinner.
But that was not the worst of It. The
Insect swarmed all over me. When I
stood up they ran up my legs; when I sat
down they ran up my bapk so there was
nothing for it but to walk around and
around the celt all night. The soldiers on
guard kept beating on the door with their
rifle and telling me that I was going to
be shot In the morning. It was not a
cheerful night.
Next morning the commandant of the
garrison, entered the cell full of apologies
and told me that I was free. There had
been a mistake In a telegram, and he
trusted the Illustrious senor had suffered
no inconvenience from the brief hospitality
he had been constrained to afford him.
I did not want any more mistakes of that
klndf so I rode back to Call and saw th
governor. That polite gentleman over
whelmed me with regress and apologies
and begged me to pardon the soldier ex
cess of seal. He wound up by giving me a
beautiful letter, which charged all and
sundry officials to place the resources of
the government at my disposition and not
to Interfere In any way with my men, my
goods or my mules.
It might be supposed that auch a letter
would smooth the weary traveler's path.
As a matter of fact, It rendered It more
difficult. Every 2-cent alcalde In the vil
lages through which I passed regarded
the missive with the greatest suspicion.
These alcaldes could not read, but they
knew the appearance of a passport, even If
they did have a habit of holding It upside
down when they inspetced It. This docu
ment wasn't a passport, and they thought
seriously of throwing it owner into JUL J
However, judicious bribes removed their
scruples, and eventually I reached the
towns In th Tollma department, sold my
good at a decent profit, and bought rubber
with the proceeds.
A Kew Imposition.
But when I started to return home I was
faced with a new imposition.
"You need a passport to leave the de
partment with your mules and rubber,"
said the Tollma officials, "and you will
have to pay u for It."
"But I have a passport and a letter from
the governor of th Cauea," I protested.
"See what he say."
"That Is no good her," they replied.
"We don't even know who the governor of
the Cauea Is. You cant leave without our
passport."
"What will It cost?"
They figured It out, and told me It would
be 18.20. paper money, charging $100 per
mule, $309 per load of rubber, and sundry
other Items. Of course, there wss nothing
to do but to pay, and the sum Just about
swallowed up all the profit ef the trip.
I fled from this nest of brigands and Jour
neyed homeward without much adventure
until I got to a village called L Plata.
Them I wa advised to halt, a th gov
ernment troops were annexing ail the
mulee they could catch In the Parlmo pass,
through which I had to Journey, and would
certainly seise mine. But having the letter
of the governor of the Cauea forbidding
anybody to Interfere with me, I thought It
waa safe to go on.
A Res-wins' Holdng..
At th village of Inaa I was held up by a
band of UO government soldiers. They
had been murdering and pillaging th In
diana for mile around and needed mule
to carry their loot. The officers had boxes
full of silver coin. Ingots, nuggets and
other valuables which they had forced the
Indian, by torture, to disgorge.
"I need your mules," said a lieutenant.
"You can't have them.' I want them."
I replied.
"I need your mules."
"I am an American cltlxen. If you in
terfere with me"
"I need your mules."
"Here Is a passport"
"I need your mules."
"And here Is a letter from the governor
ot the Cauea forbidding you or anybody
elsj "
"I need your mules."
He took them. While the argument was
proceeding the mules had gone on down
hill, so the officer sent four soldiers after
them to dump the cargoes and bring the
mutes back. These soldiers never returned,
whereon hsngs a story.
I sat down in the village store and cursed
the government roundly. I had lost all
my profits by the taxes of the sharks In
Tollma, and now I hnd lost my mules and
rubber and would have to pay up the bond
of $24,000 when I returned to Call for felling
to bring the mules back.
As I gloomily reviewed the situation a
dirty, ragged Indian, who was lounging in
the store, came up to me and whispered:
"Do iiOt despond, Senor Americano. The
liberals qre coming Intonlght. Say noth
ing, keep quiet, and tomorrow you shall
have your mules back. I promise It."
In the Thick of Row.
I slept that night on the floor of an adobe
) hut. At 4 In he morning I wa awakened
by a pandemonium ef shrieks, yells and
rifle shots. A strong bend of Indians, In
the service of the liberal revolutionists, had
burst Into the town and taken the govern
ment troops by surprise.
The bullets whistled through the thin
walls of the hut, which semed to be right
In the line of fire. I lay fiat on my stom
ach on the floor and covered my bead with
a pillow, 'expecting every second that a
bullet would search out some vital part.
Presently the firing ceased. 1 argued
that if the Indians burst Into the hut and
found me there they would think I was
hiding from them and would speedily hack
me to pieces with their machetes. So I
put a bold face on the matter, wound a
icd handkerchief the liberal emblem,
around my head and walked out into their
midst. , ,
They hailed me as a comrade. "All for
eigner are nur friends," they declared.
They had won an easy victory over ths
government soldiers, most of whom had
been killed, while the rest had fled to the
woods. My Indian friend of the night be
fore seemed to be In command, and he
kept his word. He had a lot of mules led
up and paraded before me, told me to pick
out mine and advised me to get away be
fore the government troops came back In
orce.
I felt it was "up to me to make him
some return for his kindness, so I opened
the village store the owner wa a gov
ernment man and had fled and Invited the
Indians to help themselves. "All you want
ts yours," I said. "Help yourselves." Of
course,' they would have taken It anyway,
but they seemed to think it very generous
on my part.
Hard Road to Travel.
After helping to doctor the wounded and
bury the dead I proceeded on my journey,
having recovered all my mule, rubber and
peons. But when i got to the next river I
found the bridge over It had been burned.
The four soldier who had been sent after
the mule the night before had not re
turned to the village. Being tired, they had
tethered the mules and slept beside them.
They had heard the firing,' fled to the
nearest government post and set fire to
the bridge after they bad crossed It.
'This meant that w had to cut our way
for two days through ths Jungl which grew
along the river bank until we found a
place shallow enough to ford. . It rained In
torrent all the time and there was hardly
anything for either the mules or the men
to eat. This la one of the common de
lights of travel In Colombia.
Then we had to cross the terrible Parlmo
pass. In good weather and with the roaa
In good condition this usually takes two
hour. But the weather was vile and the
road a quagmire, so It took us two day.
It was an awful journey. The pas Is
17,000 feet above sea level and Intensely cold.
The road Is strewn with corpses of mules
and men, who perished there long ago.
These corpses do not putrlfy In that eold
and rarlfied atmosphere. They simply swell
up and remain tn that condition for any
number of years, I suppose.
We lost one man and three mules in
crossing the pass. The mule fell over the
precipice and were lost, with their cargoes
of rubber. I had to pay up my bond on
those mules when I returned to Call, as
well as on a horse which some government
soldiers stole afterward. I took back sev
eral other mule which I had bought In
Tollma, but the authorities would not ao
cept those as a fair exchange.
The man died because he Insisted on
drinking "aguadlente," the fiery native
brandy. If you drink water and eat "pa
nela" (coarse, brown sugar in cakes), you
are all right This man would not do so.
Presently he staggered and sat down, and
when I went to him I found that he was
dead.
Comedy of Errors.
As we left the pass w met a strong fore
of government . troop marching ,towsrd
Inta. Thy had come from Silvia, the town
to which the four escaped soldiers had fled
and told their story. General Peres, the
commandants there, was hot to avenge the
defeat; but he became the victim of an
amusing little comedy of errors.
He marched on to Insa, but the victorious
Indians had followed In our wake, and they
dodged him on the way without letting him
know they were In the neighborhood. Then
they quietly descended on Silvia, annihi
lated the small force he had left there, and
captured the town. The unsuspecting Pere
got to Inxa, planned a great surprise ana
attacked the place at night But the gov
ernment soldiers who fled when the Indians
captured the village had reoccupled It after
they left, and the two government band
fought and killed on another In the dark
nea for half an hour before they discovered
their mistake.
We got safely back to Call, after nearly
perishing in a bush Are. After paying up
my bond for tha stolen horse and the tost
mules I found that I had lost over M.two on
the trip, beside my living expense and
those of my men.
That was my reward for all those month
of hardship and peril, and when I think
what might hav happened what nearly
did happen I comfort myself with the re
flection that I came out of the business
pretty well. But I cannot advise anybody
to go down to Colombia and try to make
a living there a an Itinerant merchant.
Easy When Von Know How.
"My predictions." said the weather man.
"are absolutely all right. The only trouble
Is that you don't know how to Interpret
them."
"All right," exclaimed the critic. "Why,
you're wrong a good part of the time."
"Of course," admitted the weather man.
"Some days you ought to play them straight
and some days you ought to 'copper' them.
If you only knew which day to do th one
and which day to do the other there would
be no trouble at all."
"Do you know V demanded the critic.
"Well, I always know th day after," re
plied th weather man pleasantly. Brook
lyn Eagle.
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During this time he hnd tried about
everything that gave anv hope of a cure
or even relief, but had become almost
hopeless of securing either.
Uricsol was brought to his attention by
one who had suffered In like manner, and
he began Its use, determined to do his part
Talthfullv.
The third bottle proved his faith, for It
entirely relltved him, and his thankful
ness knew no bounds.
W heard from him a year later and he
hd not had any return of the trouble.
His case ts one of hundreds along almost
similar line.
The Remedy That Cares.
TTrlcsol promotes the general health by
Its direct action upon the Kidneys and
Liver, and its assistance In the elimination
of waste matter, and those who have used
It the most liberally have experienced its
tonic effect In an Improved appetite and
Increased buoyancy, both mentally and
physically to a marked degree.
This can be easily understood when we
realize that most diseases originate primar
ily or as a secondary consequence from the
retention of effete matter within the body.
Assisting Nature mildly but continuously
In this excretory process until It Is able to
regain Its normal tone, and accomplish this
duty without help, Is only one of the many
virtues of Uricsol.
Fcr s.i. by SHERMAN & LIcCONNELL
Cor. 16th and Dodge Sts.
Ask them for a Booklet and Information.
IAIT FEATURES CF LIFE.
That beater of wife beater, Alderman
Donohue of Wllksbarre, Pa., ha been re
elected for another term of five year. He
ha already served twenty-eight years.
There waa some talk of opposition, but the
women' quickly suppressed It by letting It
be known, a they have done before, that
they wanted every man to vote for Dono
hue or there would be trouble. Donohue's
fame first came when he thrashed a chronlo
wife beater and found It had such good
effect that he has thrashed many others.
He la noted for hi novel decisions and his
boaat that Justice and not law reign In
his office.
Laurent Delarue, a criminal who robbed
on so large a scale and with such method
and resource a to win for himself the
title of "King of the Burglars," was
brought up for trial in Pari recently.
Delarue was graduated In hi profession
by a systematic course of education, work
ing for some year a a safemaker and
afterward as a locksmith. Having thus
acquired much valuable technical knowl
edge, he took up hi quarters at Sartrou
vllle, a village ten miles from Paris, and
raided houses in every direction. Some
BOO or 600 robberies are put down to him.
Magistrate Luke J. Connorton of Brook
lyn has Just promulgated the opinion from
the bench that "Widows should not be ad
mitted to dance to the exclusion of maid
en and they .should not try to make a
matrimonial agency of a dance hall." The
edict waa promulgated because the mu
nicipal hall In which the St. Patrick' day
ball I to be held la too small to accommo
date all who have applied for admission.
The vote among the managers of the ball
on the question of the admission of widow
was a tie, and the final decision was left
to Magistrate Connorton, whose decree
stands as the final decision, from which
there 1 no appeal.
Kojlro Suzuki, representing T. Tamagu-
chi, superintendent of the Japanese tea
house at the World' fair, stated that three
day after he left Japan twanty Japanese
oarpenters set sail for America on the
steamer Vancouver. They are expected to
reach Ban Francisco In a few days. The
carpenters have with them all the part
of the "King KakuJI," or Japanese tea
house, which, says Mr. Suxukl, have been
o well cut and fitted that the house will
be erected on the fair grounds when ths
oarpenters arrive, like Solomon's temple.
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DEPOSITS OF URATES REMOVED.
The Wife of the Ex-City Tresssrer (
Los Aaa-eles Wrltest
Uricsol Chemloal Co., Los Angeles, Cal
Dear Sirs: 1 desire to express my sin
cere appreciation of your remedy for
Rheumatism, vis.: Uricsol.
After seventeen years of constant afflic
tion, oftentimes helpless, with swollen
hands and feet, I used six bottles of the
medicine and now, after two yearn' release,
gratefully acknowledge its permanent ben
efit. Yours truly,
' MRS. MARY E. HARWELL.
835 West Seventeenth Street.
No dearer er more definite evidence ef
the remarkable virtue of Uricsol can be
cited.
For seventeen years she had suffered.
Tho finger joints on both hands were so
enlarged and stiffened by the deposits of
urates that her hands were practically
useless.
The use of six bottles caused the en
largements and the deposits to disappear,
the Joints to resume their normal functions
and the hands again became useful mem
ber. The removal of the deposits about the
joints usually requires three or four times
the amount of Uricsol required In the In
stance cited, and In this sense It Is not
strictly a typical case. It, however, proves
the possibilities in every such case, and
fives to chronic sufferers evidence that
hey are not beyond cure If they will do
their part faithfully.
without the sound of a hammer. The
"King Kakuji" ia to be three stories high
and built in the style of the oldest Japa
nese templei. The furnishings, too, will
all be Japanese.
The negro cooks of Hartford, Conn., de
cided some three month ago to give a
gran a Dan ana tneir president, a. w. uid
on, conceived the Idea of making the occa
sion a brilliant one. He accordingly sent
letters of Invitation to Pope Plur X, King
Edward of England, President Roosevelt
and other dignitaries. In due course of
time replies were received from these no
table regretting their inability to be pres
ent and wishing those present a pleasant
evening. At the dance the replies, with
the envelopes In which they came, were on
exhibition In a large glass-covered frame.
They are written on official paper and bear
every evidence of being genuine.
The St Louis exposition management ha
experienced a plethora of three-legged
chicken offered within the past few days.
Mis Esther Berry of Doddvllle, Va., offers
a Plymouth Rock rooster, weight 6 or 7
pounds, which possesses a superfluous leg.
She gives the exposition a ten days' option
on the trt-ped. Will Jenkins of Garden,
Okla., Is the proud owner of a Buff Corhln
rooster which also has one more leg than
he needs. This rooster goes Miss Berry's
one better, however, as he holds up the
third leg as if it were a hand. R. L. Cels
hat of Tipton, Mo., offers relics of George
Washington in the shape of a. facsimile of
his family roord, dating back to 1S33, a
watch charm, seal and other emblems.
Lout A. Brown of Adah, Pa., wants a quo
tation on the price the exposition is willing
to pay for a 200-year old chronometer which
is still keeping good time. Dennle Curran
of Gogebic, Mich., volunteer to exhibit
htmeelf in all the glory of buckskin cloth
ing and trappings after he has made a suc
cessful trip In his birch bark canoe from
his native heath to the fair by way of the
Preaque Isle river, Wisconsin lakes, Man!
bowish. Flambo, Chlpewa, Wisconsin and
Mississippi rivers.
Prof. Sugarman of Little Falls, N. Y.,
take dally winter bath tn th Mohawk
river. He has not missed a day this winter,
although the temperature of the past week
hovered at from 18 to 30 degrees below lero.
He says he has been greatly benefited by
his Icy baths. Since he begun taking these
arctlo plunges he Is no longer troubled, ha
says, with cold In the head or with
catarrh. At present be la obliged to cut
'tented)
THE . LAUNDRY BLUB
t'rlrsol Cored This Policeman.
For five years Corporal John Parrot t of
the San Francisco Police Station suffered
from severe Rheumatism. Today he la a
well man the result of taking I bottles of
Uricsol feels better than he ever dtd and
says tn no doubting words what he thinks
of this remarkable Rheumatic specific.
Read his own story.
San Francisco, California, Oct. 17. 190J.
Uricsol Chemical Co., Los Angeies, Cal.
Gentlemen: For the last five years I
have been a constant sufferer from Inflam
matory Rheumatism. These Ave years have
been full of torture and excruciating psln.
Rheumatism had settled In my right leg
(kneo and foot) which waa constantly
swollen up out of all proportion, and I
waa always tn great pain. The Rheumatism
has affected my hands so that It was Im
possible for me to grip with my former
strength.
I have tried every known remedy In ex
istence. The doctor prescribed fur m
until I became discouraged in trying t
obtain a cure. Up to this day I have used
three bottles of Uricsol. I noticed a marked
Improvement in my condition after the
first bottle. The swelling in ray leg ha
become considerably reduced, and th
strength has returned to my hands. It has
also stimulated the action of the kidney
and liver to a considerable extent, and h&a
had a very satisfactory action on my en
tire system.
DRUG CO.,
Omaha.
the Ice to get ir.to the water. He wear
summer clothing, disdaining mu filer and
overcoats, and seems to thrive on exposure
to cold that would kill the average man.
Though not so very aged (he Is only 77),
Edward Atkinson, the noted anti-imperialist,
anti-expansionist, economist and in
ventor, Is so feeble that he can no longer
write with a pen, but uses a rubber stamp
in signing his name. This Is dons even on
checks of small or large amount A such
a signature Is not legal, Mr. Atkinson ren
ders it so by attesting it according to the
Bertlllon system. He Inks the ball of his
thumb on a pad and leaves the Imprint on
the check, as much as to say: "Edward
Atkinson, his thumb." Bank cashiers In
Boston and elsewhere have Become familiar
with the hair lines of the Atkinson thumb
and a piece of paper bearing It Is as good
as legal tender.
A strange thing happened at the oentral
high school building in, Webster City, Ia.
Every clock in the building stopped at
exactly 8 o'clock In the morning. It was
the day of the fatal eruption on the island
of Java and tho time the clocks stopped
was within a few seconds of the time that
the eruption occurred. The phenomenon Is
unexplained except that It was probably
due to some sympathetic electrical dis
turbance In the sone tn which the high
school stood. In the kindergarten building.
Just south of the high school building, all
the clocks were going as usual, nothing
having Interfered with their movement.
"The food of the Chinese consists princi
pally of rice and fish." That statement
has appeared in nearly every school geog
raphy or history that has been published
since the flood. "If all folderol and flap
doodle," says a concessionaire from tho
Interior of the great empire. "The streams
were fished out ages ago and you seldom,
And fish In the interior. On the coast yes.
Much flsh is eaten. But the main food of
the Chinese Ik pork, and chickens. Mutton
and beef are rare. Less rice Is eaten than
you would Imagine, but there Is an abund
ance of palatable vegetables, and you
would find no difficulty In making out a
good dinner."
Religions of Japan.
While there Is absolute toleration In mat
ers of religion tn Japan today, and the
state gives no support to Shlntolsm or
Huddhlsm, the two religions which were
formerly stmclHlly reciiKnlzod there are
still, according , to the last census taken,
80,000 Shinto priests and 111,000 Buddhist
ecclesiastics In that country.
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