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NATIONS IN BATTLE ARRAY
Military and Financial Bisources of Russia
and Japan.
COREA AS THE THEATER OF WAR
Facta Bearing (he Oriental Contro
versy Adranrlng Toward Set
tlement by Force ol
Amu.
Cores, the theater of war between Japan
and Russia, Is a peninsular, WO miles long
from north to south, and with an average
width of 135 miles. The population is about
.1,000,000, although the estimates run from
6.000,000 to 16,000,000.
The capital, Seoul, bus 100.000 Inhabitants,
and Is In the same latitude of New York
City. The best description of the Coreans
Is the brief name they call their land, "The
I,and of the Morning Calm;" that expresses
the characteristics of the race. They are
robust, amiable. Industrious and love pleas
ure more than war. They lave not yet
evolved from that condition known to the
outside world as "The Hermit Kingdom."
Their chief pursuits are agricultural. .
The government la a Joke of the worst
description. In 1897 the king changed hla
title to that of emperor, becauso he con
sidered himself on the same plane as the
csar, emperor of Japan, and emperor of
China. There Is no system of government,
only the will of the ruler, end that Is often
cruel. Torture Is permitted In legal pro
ceedings and Justice Is unknown.
The army Is the hugeat Joke of all. It
nominally Is composed of 17,000 men, but
they srs merely a mob, and have to pillage
to ft any pay. Naturally Japan expects
to gala many recruits In Cores, but It la
doubtful If they will be worth the rifles
placed In their hands. They may do to .fill
In on garrison duty.
' Corea hss been the theater of action
Incs before history began. Earlier than
authentic history records Corea wss In-
' vsded by the Empress Jingo and captured.
Jfourten hundred years later Japan did the
same thing, and again In 1S94 Japan re
peated the preformance, but Corean Inde
pendence was allowed. Corea has always
; been the object of unwelcome Intentions
on the part of others. It has taken no
f part In the great dramas, and again Is sim
ply to furnish the stage and the settings.
Today Corea is about where It was 500
years ago. The people copied the customs
of the Ming dynasty of China and from
inertia have retained them. Stagnant as
the world regards China to be, It Is a land
tf progress compared to Corea.
Comparison of Resources.
( Japan has a population of 47,000,000. It is
, Dot rich country as the world regards the
' term. Last year the receipts of the govern
; ment were about J136.315.O0O and the ex
pendlturea $136,212,000. of which $30,000,000
was for the airay and navy. The total debt
Is about $269,000,000. While the people are
. ery thrifty, they fare not rich, and tho
taxes are not onerous. It Is said that the
government could easily raise $100,000,000
wore each year for this war. While no
' definite statement has been made, it Is
probable that the Japanese treasury has
or can get easily, without further taxation
er borrowing money from outside, the sum
pf 10.000.000. On this, then. It will have to
depend to carry on a war. On Its success
; will depend the matter of raising foreign
loans.
' Now let us look st the financial condl
. Hon of Russia.
) Russia has sn estimated population of
' 141.000.000. with a density of sixteen per
Square mile. These figures cover Finland,
Poland and Siberia, Including the convicts.
The national debt reaches the rnormoui
- sum of $3,600,000,000. with a yearly interest
f $160,000,000. The estimated government
receipts for laat year were a bit more than
1,000.000.000 and the expenditures more than
170,000.000.
. There Is In the treasury a gold reserve
fund of something more than $100,000,000 and
. It Is estimated that the government could
, call In loans from Its own people of about
: t3D0.000.00a By taxation. If the people stooj
It, fully $16O.OU0,0O0 a year could be i alee J
, for a war. The poor of the empire are al
ready taxed almost to the revolting point,
while the rich escape many of these bur-
dens.
1 It will be sren that the financial re
sources of either country are not In strictly
a gilt-edge state; In fact, neither, appar-
. eotly, can stand a prolonged and expensive
i war without outslds help. Russia has been
trying to raise outside money for months,
i but has not succeeded. The money powers
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of TCuropn connlder Russia a bad customer.
Tho Rothschilds will have nothing to do
with It. and that means that an outside
loan, unless a popular one in France, fof
Rusj-iii Is hardly poesible.
On tho other hand, Japanese cred't Is
fairly good In Europe.
Comparison of Anns.
In this struggle It Is impossible to del
exactly with the armed strength of either
combatant on lund. RusHia always has
JealntiHly guarded its army and navy se
crets snrl lens real information is known
to the outside world of its armed strength
than any other power. The favorite estl
mnte of military experts Is this:
Peace strength of the army, 1,100,000 men
and 42.0fiO officers; war strength, 4,5uO,OiO
men, 75,000 officers and 662.010 hornes.
Since 1S74 military service In Russia has
fi compulsory on all men (except clergy
me"ii, doctors and teachers) reaching the
age of 21. Out of about 870,000 men thriv
ing at the ago each year, 220,000 are taken
Into the active army and fleet. The re
mainder go In the reserve. The period of
service Is for European Russia fiv years
In the active army, thirteen years In the
Zupas (or first reserve, for those who have
been in the active service) and five years
In the Opolchenle, or real reserve, up to
the age of 43.
The Russian army Is not what Americans
would call efficient. The men are Ignorant,
brutal and not over-patriotic from impulse.
The Cossacks, who are mostly In the cav
alry, are the best soldiers, and it would be
hard to And better cavalrymen In the world,
outside our own. The Russian field
artillery Is said to' bo highly efficient, both
as to quality of guns and to marksman
ship, the men In this line being the most
Intelligent 1 In the entire army. The In
fantry and heavy artillery are declared by
good critics to be quite inefficient and not
versed In modern ways of fighting. The.
regiments move as a body and there . Is
none of the Individual thinking and fight
ing as in our own army and as the Boers
showed the English as the acme of military
strength. '
Says F. V. Greene, In "Army I.tfe in
Russia:" "A Russian soldier is most
strong in all staying qualities and weak
In vivacious 'ones. He goes Into each battle-enthusiastically,
and with lively energy,
but not quite vivaciously; there Is more of
grim solemnity in Ills manner as he
marches forward singing lustily the na
tional hymn, thoughtless of his fs!te. He
Is at first dull and slow In Initiative and
self-reliance, and It Is only after he has
passed through several battles that he
learns by terrible experience the knack of
looking out for himself, of taking advan
tage of every shelter, of quickly protecting
himself by entrenching, snd all the other
little tricks of battle that may save a
man's life without Impairing his efficiency
or detracting from his courage. He In
stinctively looks for orders and obeys them
with a blind Instinct without stopping to
question their merit; left to his own re
sources, he is almost helpless and will
give one."
Vnder clever leadership such stolidity as
this might have Its good side. The Rus
sian soldier's patience, his capacity for fight
ing on an empty stomsch, his steadiness
under defeat and adversity are certainly
superb fighting qualities. Says Greene:
"Deprived of officers, a body of Russian
soldiery may degenerate Into a helpless,
Inert mass and be slaughtered by means
of their very cohesireness, but they wlH
never tako a panic."
The war footing of Japan is esMmnted st
601,0(0 men, Including about 12,000 officers.
This was made some years ago, and does
not provide for the great activity shown
by the Japs In military training in the last
five years. This figure is the strength
given by the report for 1900, but It Is
charged thst the Japanese war minister
did not cover the whole ground. While
outside of this number on the rolls no
military training was compulsory, every
hamlet has Its military company, snd
countless numbers of these are ready for
the word. They are srmcd and officered,
snd are In all respects a part of the pa
triotic army. All the universities and
higher schools have military training In
the curriculum. There probably are close
to $.000,000 men between the ages of 17 and
40 the proscribed ages within which every
sbls bodied man is expected to serve In the
army that can be thrown Into the field
or remain at home for defense.
It will be seen from this that Japan Is
not a weak power by any means, even
when compared with Russia.
The rr.ilitary system of Japan Is divided
Into the standing army and navy (200.000
men), landwehr, dtpot and landatrum. The
standing army la composed of the sctlve
snd reserve forces. The active army Is
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serve throe years In the army and four
years In the navy. Then they go Into the
reserves for four years, and from that Into
the landwehr for five years for nominal
service. The depot stage Is divided into
two parts. The first depot Is levied from
those that have not enlisted In the active
army and the service Is seven years; the
second dopot Is made up of those not en
listed in the first, with a term of service
of one year and four months. The land
strum Is divided into two parts, and Is
tho last official connection the veterans
have with the nrmy. In case of war
levies can be made all down the line. The
figures given of the war footing Include all
these classes except the last named, of
which there are 200,000 men, making a grand
total or 850,000.
The Japanese army and navy is the most
efficient and best equipped force of any
In the world. In comaprlson with the time
taken since It was organized on modern
methods. The best experts cf the world
have been employed to give Instruction,
and the method of teaching la not un
like that of the United States, although
moFt of the foreign experts have been
Rrltish and German, with, a few French
and Americans.
Tho soldiers are born fighters and are
extremely patriotic. They have taken
readily to marksmanship, both on land and
sea, and probably the Japs, man for man,
can outfight the Russians. ,
Russia's Lines of Supply.
By far the most difficult problem for
Russia In a war with Japan will be to keep
its armies In bread, meat and ammunition.
A railroad 6,0U) miles long Is an extremely
poor reliance for the purpose. In time of
peace a railway of that length would be
subject to frequent Interruption. In time
of wa:- every bridge, trestle and culvert
must be guarded or be exposed to raids.
Russia's line of supply by sea will be sub
ject to Japanese naval and torpedo opera
tions. Every transport will have to be
strongly guarded. Japanese soldiers are
content with a ration of rice and dried
fish. Japanese coolies are trained to carry
100 pounds and keep up with a marching
column. As the ocean run from Japan to
Cores Is short, tho feeding of a Japanese
army will not be difficult. In this respect
Jspan will go Into a war with an Immense
advantage.
In his campaign from Chattanooga to At
lanta, 138 miles apart. General Sherman
was compelled to detach tens of thousands
of soldiers to keep the cracker line open.
Every bridge between Louisville snd At
lanta, a distance of 474 miles, was stock
aded and strongly guarded. Even then
breaks were frequent. The Russian rail
road to Manchuria is eight times as long.
For two months after the battle of Chlck
amauga the union army at Chattanooga
was almost starved because the confeder
ates had possession of a few miles of the
railroad west of the city. Not until this
grip was broken was the large army In
Chattanooga relieved from great straits,
though perfectly able to defend itself from
attack. The Russians in Manchuria are a
long way from home, snd though no one
doubts the formidable nature of the czar's
armies, the tug of war ahead for the Rus
sian commissaries and quartermasters Is
plainly of exceptional seriousness.
Cause of the War.
The first cause of the present trouble
started with the Chlno-J.ipanese war. It
will be remembered that little Japan
startled the whole world with the quickness
and strength of its blows against the
moribund Chinese empire. It swept all
before it and fully expected to reap lis
reward by annexing certain of the choice
territory of China. Its "reward" consisted
of holding a few second rate war vessels
and the island of Formosa, for Russia
stepped in and nullified the victory by com
pelling Japan to give up all its bard-earned
laurels.
Since that war Russia perpetrated one
of the most collosal grabs in history. In
189S Russia compelled sapan to give up
Port Arthur, which controls the gateway to
Peking, Manchuria snd Mongolia. In 189T
Russia seised Port Arthur for Its own.
Three years later the Great Bear got a
foothold in Manchuria, which covers 163,000
square miles, and has a population of
8,600,000. The Boxer uprising, which Jspan
declares was fomented by Russia for the
purpose of making this hold more 'certain,
followed in the next year. Of course, Rus
sia poured into the district "protective"
troops to the number of nearly 100,000.
This, the Great Bear said, was to protect
Its Siberian railway and Its Interests along
Its route.
At the end of that same year Russia ob
tained from China exclusive trading rights
In Manchuria, and In 19ul further rights
were ceded on the promise that Russia
would evacuate the province within
eighteen months. This Russia reductantly
agreed to do, but It Is there yet.
Last year Russia announced that It
would not evacuate Manchuria unless mora
exclusive rights were given practically
amounting to sovereignty. Although Russia
had gone on record that it would keep
Its promise, especially to Becretary Hay, It
still refused snd China was told that tke
Russian troops would continue to hold sll
the important points In Manchuria until the
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demands were acceded to. The United
States, Great Britain and Japan combined
to hold China firm In Its refusal, and suc
ceeded. Russia poured more troops in, until
Its railway was completely defended along
Its entire route.
Russia, balked at last, made a promise to
the world that It would evacuate Man
churia on October 8 last if it got some
special privileges from China. These were
not so stringent as its former demands,
but were too much for China to grant,
backed as It was by throe great powers.
The incoming troops and the fortifications
going up caused China to protest against
this aggression, but more troops and more
fortifications was the answer.
The situation was then acute, but the
climax came when Russia moved over to
the Yalu river, dividing Manchuria and
Corea, and built fortifications and estab
lished armed camps. This clearly was a
move to gain Corea and shut Japan from
the continent. Japan always has consid
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In Corea are far greater than those of any
other country, and the Japs practically
run the commercial Interests there.
PUMP IS A , GHEAT SUCKER
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Furnishes Mlllloua of Gallons
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Water Dally for I'se In a.
Copper Mine.
The largest suction, pump, In the world Is
one located at the mines of the Calumet &
Heel a Copper Mining company on Lake Su
perior. Without being crowded to the
limit of its capacity this pump can deliver
2,500.000 gallons of water every hour In the
twenty-four. Moreover, it will do the work
without making as much noise as is made
by the operation of the old style sewing
machine. Outside the doors of the great
building which houses It no sound Is heard
from within, and, standing beside the
monster upon the brink of the pit connected
with the lake from which the water 1h
taken, almost the only sound Is the noise
of the suction, as with every stroke more
than 1.0U0 gallons are lifted.
It Is a triple expansion pumping engine,
with a capacity of 60,000,000 gallons, stand
ing nearly fifty feet In height and requir
ing 1,500 horse-power for Its operation. It
has been proved by actual test that the
nominal capacity can be easily maintained
for an indefinite time without Injury or
strain, and that pushed to its full capacity
the pump could handle approximately 75,
000,000 gallons In twenty-four consecutive
hours.
The duty of the pump Is to furnish water
for the great stamp mills of the Calumet &
Heel a company, which has twenty-two
steam pumps In continuous operation, dally
pulverizing 6,000 tone of conglomerate rock
Into sand so fine that it can be carried
away by a stream of swiftly running
water.
The pump is housed In a special building
near the shore of Torch lake and below
the mills, and It forces a steady stream of
water to the upper portions of the mill,
where Innumerable small Jets of wster
play upon the great slime tables and Jigs.
Hero the specific gravity of the fine par
ticles of copper contained in the rock
separate the mineral from the worthless
sand and the size and the force of the
streams of wster are so nicely regulated
as to wash away the Band and yet carry
with It the minimum of copper.
BIRTHPLACE 0F A PARTY
The Veteran Congressman, Galusha
A. Grow, Tells Abont the First
Meeting of Republicans.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania,
ex-speaker of the house of representatives,
has added his testimony to the claim of
the state of Michigan, somewhat feebly
disputed by Maioe and other states, that
the republican party was born "under the
oaks" at Jacksen, Mich. In a letter to
Representative William Alden Smith Mr.
Grow aays:
The law repealing the Missouri compro
mise passed on May , 1S54. On June 7
following a mass meeting was held in De
troit protesting against the outrage. One
of the speakers at that meeting wna Zach
Chand ler.
The meeting appointed a committee to call
a mass myelin irrespective of party, of
all citizens of the state to meet at Jackson
on July ti, 1S54. There being no hall Targe
enough for the meeting, the people assem
bled adjourned to the "oaks and there It
was resolved to oall the new party the re
publican party, (ireoley. In his Tribune,
had suirgeBted democratic-republican.
At this meeting Klngsluy Bingham was
nominated for governor with a full ticket
for state officers. Bingham waa elected and
afterward elected fnited Ktates senator.
This was the first state ticket nominated
under the name of the republican party
after the repeal of the Missouri compro
mise. The meeting at Pittsburg on February SJ.
1K53, was the first meeting of delegates
from the states forming a national party.
And they called a national convention o
meet at Philadelphia on June 17, 1064, to
nominate a candidate for president.
I have given In brief the Information you
request. The mass meeting at Inirolt was
seven days after the act passed. Any one
to be ahead of that must have been uo
early. The meeting under the "oaks" at
Jackson was thlrty-xlx days after the pas
sage of the act. which they met to de
nounce. There were local mass meeting
held In various states during this time, but
no state convention put in the field a ticket
of state officers to ) voted for at an elec
tion l.v the people of the state previous to
July , 114,
complaint is estate
original let ton and
their absolute gen-
Co., Lynn, Mas.
DRAWS NEW PAVING PLANS
Oity Engineer Eosewater Prepares Draft by
Order of Council,
LAST CHANCE FOR MAJORITY MEMBERS
Loberk Attacks Council by Declaring;
Instructions Too Yngue to Con
vey What Really Is
Wanted.
By direction of the council. City Engineer
Rosewater is preparing new sets of paving
specifications for various kinds of ma
terial. He will present them at a meeting
of the Board of Public Works to be hold
the latter part of this or tho first of next
week, as though the difficulties over the
specifications matter never had occurred.
He says he Is merely trying to do what
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submitted the revised documents he will I
have done all he can, In his official capa
city, to provide standard plans so that
public Improvements may go forward in
Omaha this summer.
"It will be the last chance the majority
members of the board will have to set
themselves right In this matter," says Mr.
Rosewater, "All that can be done later U
an educational campaign among the Im
provement clubs and citizens generally, so
that their eyes may be opened and they
may learn who is to blame for the blockade
of all kinds of paving."
Comptroller Lobeck says the Instructions
from the council are too vague and In
definite l enable the majority members
of the board to know what Is wanted.
SUPREME COURT SYLLABI.
13103. Hodges against Graham. Error
from Clay. Affirmed. Fawcett, C. Division
No. 2.
1. Where parties consent that the report
of a referee containing the evidence taken
by said referee and his findings of fact and
conclusions of law shall be submitted to the
court, together with tho objections and
exceptions thereto, for determination on the
merits by the court, they axe precluded by
such submission from assigning error by
tho court In setting aside the report and
findings of the referee and substituting
therefor tho findings of the court.
J. in such caoo this court will only con
sider the correctness of the findings and
Judgment of the district court.
8. Evidence examined and held to sustain
tho findings and Judgment of the district
court.
The following opinions will not be offi
cially reported:
13176. Rlbble against Ames. Error from
Saline. Judgment. Glauvllle, C. Division
No. 2. I. nreportea.
18177. Rlbble against Hopklnson. Error
from Saline. Judgment. Glanviiie, C, divi
sion No. 2. I'nreported.
13202. Heiutz against Klebha. Appeal
from Platte. Reversed. Glanviiie, C, divi
sion No. 2. I'nreported.
1. In an action to foreclose a real estate
mortgage by the Indorsee of the secured
negotiable notes plaintiff need not prove
the original consideration for the notes
passing between the maker and payee In
order to make a prima facie cae.
2 One who purchases real estate Incum
bered by a recorded mortgage securing
negotsfcblo notes and receives along with
his deed an unrecorded release, of the mort-
frsge, executed by the mortgagee after he
tad sold the notes and assigned the mort
gage, cannot resist a foreclosure by a
bona fide holder of the unpaid secured
nteB- . i .v.
2. A Judgment In personam against the
makers of secured notes rendered by the
district court In an action to foreclose a
mortgage, executed lu IWo, securing such
notes, will not defeat the plaintiff in an
appeal from a Judgment denying u d;creo
ol foreclosure.
13224. Omaha Gas Company against South
Omaha. Error from Douglas. Affirmed.
Klrkpatrlck. C, division No. 3. Unreported.
13J:'. Huhlman against Cole. Error from
Nemaha. Reversed Inst. Hustings, C,
division No. 1. Unreported.
1. Where Immaterial evidence containing
matters liable to mislead a jury Is admitted
on behalf of each party and both bring
error petitions into this court the Judgment
must bo reversed.
8. It is error to instruct a Jury in the
trial of an action for loss of support
through the sale of Intoxicants to the plain
tiffs' husband and father that in the ab
sence of evidence to the contrary liquors
drank by blm In defendant's saloon should
be presumed to be Intoxicating. Whether
or not. the mero fact of his drinking them
in defendant's saloon would warrant such
presumption as to the liquors was at meat
onlv a question, for the Jury.
13230. Hayes against First Btate Bank.
Bertrand. Affirmed. Glanviiie, C, division
No. 2. Unreported.
1. A properly tiled chattel mortgage upon
"growing hay." stipulating that It shall
be cut and stacked and that the mortgage
shall cover the uir,a In stacks creates a
lieu upon the hay In stacks upon the prem
ises where cut superior to the Hen of a
levy under execution Issued upon a judg
ment against tho mortgagor made i.t a
time when It waa apparent the hay in the
stacks was of the annual crop described
in the mortgage.
2. The mortgage involved In this action
properly filed. Held, to be sufficient notice
of the lien thereof under the facts disclosed,
notwithstanding a mistake in the descrip
tion of the premises where the property Is
situated.
130. Michigan Mutual Insurance Com
pany against Klatt. Appeal from Douglas
Affirmed. Hastings, C. Division No. 1.
I'nreported.
1. An administrator, who filed no appeal
bond, Is not entitled to a supersedeas on
account of a mere Intention to appeal
without filing the same, except during the
time reasonably necessary to get his appeal
filed In the sppellate court.
2. The iendency in this court of a second
motion for rehearing Is no ground for the
district court's disregarding a regular man
dste to enforce a decree.
1. The rule requiring a bidder upon real
estate to put up $50 as a guaranty of goo!
faith before the sheriff accepted bis bid
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health. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is free You
are very foolish if you do not accept her kind invitation.
on the property nnd makes return of the
sale, Is reasonable.
4. A sheriff's return of publication of nn
tico of sale ill "The Workers Gazette"
and publishers' affidavit of publication In
"The Tri-Lity Workers' Gazette." it not
appearing that there are two pnpers of
such nanus In Iouglas county, sufficient
to show publication in "The Tri-City
Workers' Gazette."
6. Such newspaper having the requisite
publication and circulation In Douglas
county required by law, the fact that It
Is an exponent of socialistic doctrines does
not avoid or render unlawful a publica
tion of notice In It.
S3G1. Holt County against Golden. Appeal
from Holt. Reversed and dismissed. Faw
c?tt, C. Division No. 2. Unreported.
1. As the law now stands, no action for
the foreclosure of a tax lien can be main
tained unless based upon a tax deed or
tax sale certificate, l.ngan County against I
Carnahan. 92 N. V . Rep., SIS4 followed and
reaffirmed.
2. A county, unless It becomes the holder
of a tax deed or tax sale certificate, lias
no trust title to the taxes due to the state
or Its corporate subdivisions and cannot
sue therefor.
COAL SMOKE A NUISANCE
RlMhta of Trraons Against Damage
anil Annoyance by Smoke
Denned.
A "smoke nuisance" decision was msde
the other day by the Kansas City court
of appeals. It decided that:
"The right of one to be secure against
the poisoning of the olr by noxious and
poisonous smoke is as complete as Ms
right to be protected ngnlnst open personal
assaults or tho more demonstrative, but
not more destructive, trespass of animals."
This decision was made In the case of A.
J. Powell against the Bronkflcld Pressed
Brick and Tile Manufacturing company of
Brookfleld, Mo. Powell had ten acres of
corn near the brick kilns of the company.
He sued the company for damages becauso
the smoke from the kilns killed his crop.
He won his suit in the court of Linn
county. The company appealed and the
Kansas City court of appeals affirmed that
Judgment.
In his petition for damages Powell set
out that the company burned soft coal
which emitted a smoke poisonous to vege
tation. He alleged that the company was
at fault because It did not have high
chimneys.
The court of appeals in deciding the
cane says:
"It cannot be doubted that the smoke was
a nuisance to Powell. The smoke Indis
putably destroyed his crop. And It is no
answer for the nuisance that the Injury
resulted from a reasonable use of the brick
manufacturing plant, or that the kilns were
built after most approved patterns, or
that It employed skilled persons In burning
brick, for the fact remains undisputed that
the Bmoke, gases and vapors escaping from
the kilns destroyed the crop and thus
greatly Injured Mr. Powell In the enjoy
ment of his property. Though the de
fendant was an Incorporated company, an
artificial entity, we can discover nothing
In l's charter that conferred upon It, In
respect to the operation of its plant, any
greater privilege or right than that of a
natural person. There Is nothing there
that expressly, or by implication, gave it
the right to so operate its plant as to
render It a nuisance Kansas City Times.
Missouri nnd Illinois Collide.
WASHINGTON, March 8 Rear Admiral
Barker cables the Navy department from
Guantannmo, under yesterday's date as
follows:
"On making passage from Guimtanamo
to Pensacola, Fla., tha Missouri's steam
steering gesr became disabled and It
collided with the Illinois, dnmaglng the port
propeller of the latter, but with slight
Injury to itself. The Illinois has been
f n EoTa
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ordered to the navy yard at New York to
have Its propeller replaced. "
HE TOLD THEPLAIN TRUTH""
It Sounded Mmniti-r Thnu Fiction and
forced the I'.ditor to Scoot
for Timber.
There hits leen of latei an Increasing de
mand In Okolona, Miss., for a newspaper
that will "ten tlio truth for once," and the
editor of tho Messenger of that place has
felt the pressure to such an extent that he
has boon compelled to do something to re
lieve it.
However, before taking a stop which he
might perhaps live to regret, or, perhaps,
not live long enough to regret sufficiently,
he has hit upon another plan for the pur
pose of demonstrating to tho discontented
Okoloniaus) that the truth may not bo ex
actly what they want their newspapers to
tell.
Therefore ho reprints extracts which he
credits to a Missouri paper, exact location
not given, called tho News, and which may
ba said to represent the very highest Ideals
of a thoroughly truthful, fearless and inde
pendent Journal. Here are a few of them:
John Iionlii, the laziest merchant In town,
mado a trip to Bellvlew yesterday.
John Doyle, our grocer man, is doing a
poor business. Ills store is dusty, dirty,
noxiously odoriferous. How can he expect
to do much?
The Rev. Styx preached Sunday night on
"Charity." The Bermon was nunk. If the
reverend gentleman would live up a little
closer to what he preaciic-s he'd have bigger
oongrcgaiimis.
Dave Hnokey died last Saturday at his
homo In this plaov The doctor gave It out
as henrt failure. The fact Is. he waa drunk
and whisky Is what killed him. His home
was a rented shack on Rotidy street.
Married Miss Bylvia Rhodes and Jnmes
Cauhan last Baturday evening, In the Bap
tist parsonnge. The brldo In a very ordi
nary town gtrl, who doesn't know any mora
than a rabbit about cooking and who never
helped her mother three days In her life.
She Is not a beauty by any means and has
a gait like a fat duck. The groom is well
known hure as an up-to-date loafer. Ha
has been living off the old folks all his life
and don't amount to shucks. They will
have a hard life while they live together,
and the News has no congratulations to
offer, for we don't believe any good can
como from such a union.
These are Intended, of course, as gentle
hints to the discontented readers of th
Messenger, but It Is constraind to remark
that the issue of the Missouri paper which
contained these items was the lost that ever
camo from the press. Chicago Inter Ocean.
On the Dividing; Line. -St.
I.ouls 1s the only large city In the
United Btates which Is not a part of a
county. The municlunllty la self-governing;
the county of Ht. I.ouls has no Jurisdiction
In the city. William J. Courtney, a clerk
In the office of the clerk of the federal
courts, recently attained his majority and
owing to the peculiar location of the house
In which he lives he has been puzzled over
the question of whether he should register
to vote In the city or In St. I.ouls county.
From the latest maps Mr., Courtney finds
thut the Imaginary line) dividing the city
from the county passes diagonally through
the house In which he lives. The house Is
on the north side of Gambleton avenue, and
therefore, If the Information be correct, lies
half In the city and half In the county. Mr.
Courtney says that under the best advlco
he has got on the question a man should
vote in the precinct In which he sleps. Ho
therefore decides to sleep In the St. I.ouls
iltit of the house and vote In the city.
Paulseu-Crume.
Mr. Murlnus Taulsen of Omaha and
Miss Rose M. Crume of Florence, Neb.,
were married Wednesday evening at the
residence of the bride's parents st Flor
ence. A large company of guests attended
and a wedding supper was served. Rev. C.
W. Savldge officiated.
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