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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Awakening of tho Yellow Races.
ITIIEIITO Uio white nico from the remotest
historic times to the present hns been practical
ly alone in its position of dominance. So far
as concerns Uio evolution of civilized man, It
might almost ho said that there has been but
one raco In the- world.
H'lln tnruf nmmri ti f mi u rf 4ir 1 ntrn1nnnfl I e
of the present war Is that for Uio Urst time a white nation
iltuls Itself not only checked in Us onward march by a
nation of yellow men but beaten by that nation on land
and sen. It Is too early, to say that this situation may not
be reversed boforo tho Avar Is ended, 'but thero are not
ucking signs that tho races of which tho Japanese are
i ho foremost exemplars lmvo boon wakened already to a
sense of their latent power. China and India have been
stirred by die deeds of tho Japanese. Not only Uio peoples
of Uioso groat countries 'but many others of mixed Mongol,
Hindoo and Malay descent are wondering why they, too,
tuny not adopt tho arms and Implements of Occidental
civilization and deal with Uio white races on an equal
fooling.
Some of the ulUmnto possibilities of this vast stirring
of Uio yellow races may bo gathered from Uio faet that
of the 1.500,000,000 or 1,000,000.000 people in the world
Aski alono has SOU.SS-l.OOO, of whom inoro than 20,000,OUO
re In the Chinese empire, HD.OOO.OOO aro Japanese and
korcans, UOUOO.OOO are Hindoos, M0.000.OO0 Maylayslans
nd 18.000,000 Indo-Chinese. To group all the Astatic peo
ples by religious, there are about 775,000,000 Buddhists.
Confucians, Shlntolsts and Mohammedans, as against about
VJ.500,000 Christinas.
That these peoplo, aroused to a sense of Uieir raclahnnd
religious solidarity and equipped with tho tools of Western
HvlllznUon, may bring now problems into existence In Uu
world's economy Is clear. Will tho two raves live side
by side, vying with each oUieir In advancement toward
higher civilization or will one strivo to exploit Uio other? A
century or more may elapse boforo the result is known, bo
f.i.rroaelilng may bo the consequences of tho present great
struggle. Chicago News.
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His Lost Will.
i MAN, either through ambition, sense of dutv.
or in self-defense against boredom, works hard
.ind accumulates property. Should ho marry,
lie Is expected to provide liberally for his wife,
I f r It ft i It C r l.tniiHii !.. 4 ... 1... i
lq$5r9j ,'ivo his children every advantage of education
as It Is nov understood or misunderstood. lie
works' cheerfully, llnds little pleasure outside of his dally
rouUne, Is prematurely old. lie dies. Ho may bo a wid
ower; he may leave behind him a second wife; or he may
leavo his only wife, the moUicr of his children. Ills will
is opened and read. lie has made a reasonable provision
lor tho-c near him. But ho took tho liberty before his
dnnth of bequeathing certain sums of monoy, through a
feeling of sentiment or duty to others, sums that will lessen
in comparatively slight dogreo the money which would
oUierwlse he distributed among those already In pecuniary
comfort. The poor wrotcli thought he had this right. At
oneo there Is strife. Tho lawyers aro consulted and en
listed. There Is a tri.nl. The character of Uio (load man
Is dragged from his collln. Was he queor? Was ho not
insane? Foibles and harmless eccentricities aro paraded
for scorn and mockery. There was n time when the Initial
phrase, "In the Name of God. Amen," was of solemn and
abiding force. The dead man spoke. Who can use UK
phrase to-day with any assurance that it will bo regarded
After ho is cold and voiceless? Boston Herald.
Unf inished Educations.
IFTEEN years ago thero was hardly a town In
Western Kansas which did not show many
foundations on which no superstructures had
been erected. Tho foundations remained un-
overed because of tho collapse of the boom
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(Kiuiiiu ui till-in wuiu fiuiiiu aim Hiiaiiow. Uuiorf
were laid broad and deep. Tho elements n's.
sailed them all alike. Tho rain washed tho mortar from
between their bricks and stones. The frosts disintegrated
the bricks and stones themselves. Foundations which, If
built upon in tho ordinary way would have endured foi
generations, fell, in a few years. Into such utter ruin tha'
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when "good times" returned to Kansas it was in all cases
unsafe and In many impossible, to erect buildings upon
them. Only small portions of tho material they contained
could be uUllzcd in the construcUon of other foundations.
Not unlike Uio fate which theso abandoned foundations
suffered is that which overtakes the cducaUons which
many men acquire in Uio schools. Schools and colleges
lay but the foundation of education. They may lay ir
broad and deep, but if no superstructure Is later erected
over It tho foundation will quickly fall to pieces. Asso
ciation, Uio mortar Uiat binds Uio bricks and stones of Uie
mind together, will bo washed away In time. Ideas, which
aro tho mind's bricks and stones, will crumble and fall
apart. A foundation without a superstructure Is worth
less. It has no adaptation to its environment Nature will
not let it long exist. There aro Uiousands of men and
women who have a smaller sum total of knowledge and
reasoning power at 30 or -10 than they had when they throw
aside their school text books. They have erected for them
selves no intellectual superstructure, and their intellectual
foundation, being unprotected, has fallen into decay. Chi
cago Tribune.
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China as a Great Power.
E have witnessed wlUi amazement and ad
miration tho fid rout of Japan among the
world's great powers. Is it possible that at no
distant day China may enter the list? It Is
significant that Uio one European who knows
the Chinese better than any other, and has
long sustained official relations avIUi thorn, has
full faith in Uils possibility. Sir Robert Hart, to whom we
refer, has lately presented to Uio Dowager Empress a
scheme for army and naval organization which has not only
engaged the attention of tho court, but commands Uio warn,
approval of so much of public sentiment as finds expres
slon in tho native nowipapors.
Briefly, Sir Robert Hart estimates that a reorganiza
tion of Uio land taxes may bo made to yield a revenue of
100,000,000 taels (about $:27n,000,000) without pressing se
verely upon the people. Out of this revenue he proposc
financing a reconstruction of tho land forces on the bash
of four army corps of 50,000 regular troops each; the con
struction of three Hoots, each composed of ten large am'
ton smaller warships, ten llrst-class torpedo boats and tei
smaller ones; Uie building of arsenals, the maintenance o'
naval acadomlcs, Uie establishment of modern schools, am
the creation of an adequate salary list for the civil admin
istratlon, and figures upon a sufllclcnt balance to provide i
sinking fund.
This seems ambitious, and it may bo Impossible. Bir
Sir Bpbort Hart is no dreamer, and he knows Uie Chinese
as we have said, bettor than any other European. If th
Chinese have it In Uiem to rise to tho opportunity which he
points out 'to them, the future dismemberment of Uio Chi
nose empire will not bo tho easy task that some diplomatist
have imagined. Boston Journal.
Relative to Slang.
URISTS seldom will excuse slang, and alwny
will Insist that a better phrase or word rnlgh
have been substituted for its use, until Ui
slang word or expression becomes grafted upo,
lllo in tlfllil " li'vnn fllflll lllm.n ..!!! 1,,.
fc.Iilnot tolei'ant oC llH ns0 at urst. bt opposltloi
iji;l-uiui:m just aim r'ss in oviupiicp as time accus
tonus the ear to receive gratefully that which once secmei
harsh, crude and Inelegant.
It Is true, too, that much of the slang of one ago fall;
Into disuse Uio next, so that the language suffers but little
if any, from its temporary acceptance, while such words a
may have Incorporated themselves permanently into th
general structure lit so well that no one is tearfully so
Heltons to have them removed.
A Western minister recently said: .
"Slang is largely the result of indolence and lack o
self-respect. While In the origin of somo terms commonl.
used as slang thero may bo wit and a measure of original:
ty, yet no person can Indulge In tho use of these barbarism
jvlUiout serious loss
"I have heard men nso slang In most earnest prayc
If a maii does not wish to use slang on his death bed or i
Mie pulpit or the schoolroom, ollioe or social circle, It won!
lie well not to use It anywhere." New York T'MoirniMi.
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I A DF.LIGIiTrUL CATASTROPHE.
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After the terrlblo stoamshlp and
railway accidents which made the
past season memorable, It is pleasant
to read of an affair ho delightful for
its victims us the recent sinking of the
Mississippi River steamer Chalmette
proved to be. Tho Chalmette was tho
last of the old-time cotton packets on
tho Mississippi. There aro many big
Htorn-wheol cotton-carriers, and sever
al sidewheel passenger boats, but the
Chnlmetto was a relic of the old St.
IiOulB-Now Orleans trade. She was tho
Olty of Vicksburg of the Anchor line,
but "mis rebuilt somo years ago to
carry cotton to the port of Chalinotte,
below New Orleans. She could stow
five thousand llvo hundred bales on
her spacious deck, and with her guards
awash and Uio cotton stacked high
above her cabin deck, was n spectacle
onco common, henceforth to bo un
known, on tho river. When tho Louisi
ana Turehaso Exposition opened sho
was put on as a through boat from
New Orleans to tho fair, and thuB
opened a trado which had been dead
for some years.
On a Saturday in July she started
North with about forty passengers
and a lot of freight. Lato Tuesday
afternoon sho wan within thlrty-llvo
uillea of Natchez when, in bncklng out
from a landing, she struck a snag and
Jniockod a nolo in tho atom. Sho
wang round with both oada roaUug
on the bank In a little eddy, but with
sevonty feet of water under her amid
ships, and began to 1111.
The passengers wcro quickly noti
fied, the gang-plank was run ashoro,
and everybody walked out and found
a- seat on tho gently Bloplng, grnssy
levee, to watch tho spectacular death
of the last of the packets. The crew
hastily brought the passengers bag
gage ashore, then brought the fur
naces from tho galley and all the pro
visions from the pantry, and the ta
bles from tho saloon.
In half an hour the steamer broke in
two and sank. Then as darkness set
tled over the river the passengers on
tho levee began a picnic supper, pre
pared by Uio darky cooks over the res
cued furnaces. There was no lack of
supplies; tho evening was gloriously
cool and still. A more beautiful loca
tion for a picnic could hardly have
been selected. A skiff had been Bent
up to Natchez for help, and until an
other steamer came to get them tho
girls of the party, grouped on tho
lovce, sang tho old songs, and listened
in turn to tho roustabouts and tho
cook-room darkles Blnglng -not the old
plantation melodies, for few of tho
rlvor hands know them, but the mod
orn "rag-timo" ecnga which come
South to them from the Tauderille
stage. "Under tho Bamboo-Tree" and
all tho rest of them made the night
melodious, and at Inst, when the pic
nic waa beginning to pall, the rescuing
steamer came and took all on board for
Natchea, whence they went on their
way by rail to their destination.
Cy'n Choice.
Cyrus l'ettlnglll made brooms for a
living and Ezra llosklns kept a store
hi tho New Hampshire town where
both of them lived. One day, says the
Columbia Record, Cy camo in with a
load of brooms, and then dickering be
gan. "Ezra, I want to sell you theso
brooms."
"All right, Oy, I'll take them."
"I don't want any store pay," con
tinued Oy. "I want cash for them."
After a thoughtful pause Ezra said,
"I tell you what I'll do, Oy. I'll give
you half cash and half trado."
Cy pulled a straw out of one of the
brooms and looked at it, as if for
Inspiration.
"I guess that'll be all right," ho said,
at last.
After Ezra had put the broorae in
their place In the store, he said:
"Ilere'a your money, Cy. Now,
what do you want In trade?"
Oy's shrewd glance swept otot tho
miscellaneous stock of the store.
"Well, Ezra," said he, "if it's all tho
same to you, I'll -take brooms."
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Grntltudo.
Mr. Skinalong I hope, dear,
you will be happy now that ncl
left nn a fortune.
, Mrs. Skinalong Yes, but don't you
suppose we can break the will? He
has left $1,000 to charity. Detroit
Free Press.
OLD-FAVORITES
Tubnl Cain.
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when Earth was young;
By tho flcrco red light of his furnace
bright
The strokes of his hammer rung;
And he lifted high his brawny hand
On the iron glowing clear,
Till the sparks rushed out in ecarlet
showers,
As ho fashioned the sword and spear,
And he sang: "Hurrah for my handi
work! Hurrah for the spear and the sword I
llurrah for the hand that shall wield
them well!
For he shall be king and lord."
To Tubal Cain came many a ona,
As ho wrought by his roaring lire,
And each one prayed for a strong steel
blado
As the crown of his desire;
And he made thorn woaiMms sharp and
strong,
Till thoy shouted loud for glee,
And gave him gifts of pearl and gold,
And spoils of tho forest free.
And thoy sang: "Hurrah for Tubal Cain,
Who hath given us strength anew!
Hurrah for the smith, -hurrah for the
lire,
And hurrah for tho metal true!"
But a sudden change came o'er his heart
Ere the setting of the nun,
And Tubal Cain was filled with pain
For the evil he had done;
He saw that men, with rage and hate,
Made war upon their kind;
That the land was rod with the blood
they shed,
In their lust for carnage blind.
And he said: "Alas! that ever I made,
Or that skill of iniue should plan,
The spear and the sword for men whoso
joy
Is to slay thoir follow man!"
And for many a day old Tubal Cain
Sat brooding o'er his woe;
And his hand forbore to smite the ore,
And his furnace smoldered low.
But ho rose at hut with a cheerful face,
And a bright, courageous eye,
And bared his strong right arm for work,
While the quick ikitnes mounted high.
And he sang: "llurrah for my handi
work!" And the red sparks lit the air:
"Not alone for the blade was Uie bright
stool in ado"
And he fashioned tho first plowshare.
And men, taught wisdom from tho past,
In friendship joined thoir hands,
nung tho sword in tho hall, tho spear on
the wall,
And plowed the willing lands;
And sang: "Hurrah for Tubal Cain!
Our stanch good friend is he;
And for tho plowshare and the plow
To him oar praise shall bo.
But while oppression lifts its head,
Or a tyrant would bo lord,
Though we may thank him for Uio plow,
We'll not forget the sword!"
Charles Mackay.
QUICK LUfC-t RECORDS.
It'i funny to watch them, and note
th different way men bate f tip
ping their kaU t women.
Queer CombhuilloiiH Piclcccl Out by
Koine of tho Haters.
The manager of the quick lunch
palace shuddered, although tho day
was hot, and bestowed a gaze of min
gled wonder and reproach upon the
broad back of the man who had Just
picked up a number of dishes of food
from the counter and was weaving
Ids way through the crowd with them
skillfully balanced in two hands like
a vaudeville juggler picking his way
across a stage tilled with tossed-up
paraphernalia, according to Uie Wash
ington Star.
"Say," hoarsely inquired the mana
ger, "d'Je see what that man took
with him to ait?"
The man to whom the quo3Uon was
addressed had not noticed.
"A bowl of milk, a dish of sliced cu
cumbers, two deviled crabs and a
piece of rhubarb pic," groaned the
manager, feeling tentatively of tho
fourth button of his waistcoat.
"Just try and figure that out," ho
went on. "now would you like to try
n combination like that milk, cucum
bers, crabs and pie? When that man
first came In here It was during tho
Urst bad hot spell of the summer and
selected Uiut assortment of dainties, I
pased him tny Montmorency smile.
" Bot?' said I.
"Ho looked me over without a
blink.
" 'Hey?' said he.
' "You bet Uie man, I suppose,' said
I, 'Unit you could beat him over the
link's by two and thrco to play and
you didn't make good?'
IIo rested his crabs and cucumbers
and his bowl of milk nil his plo on
the counter and looked mo over.
" 'Say, what's Uio matter?' he Anal
ly askod mo, with a mystified look.
"Then I told him how weird that
combination of his looked. .
"'Oh, that's it, is it?' said he, smil
ing. 'Don't you let n HtUe Uilng like
that bother you. Y'ought to'vo seen
my grandfather, ne used to smoke a
clay pipe and eat buttered gingerbread
and green apples at tho sarao time
and whistle "Old Zip Coon" witiiout
missing n note,' and he walked ovor
to his scat and began his dftiaty
luncheon.
"I kept an eyo on him, neverthe
less, and looked up the telephone num
ber of the nenrest ambulance hospital.
But he Just went right ahead ao he's
doing now.
"While I was still studying him I
could not keep my eyes off of him
ho walked up to the counter and se
lected a piece of cold mince plo and
u tall glass of iced tea to top off with.
"He's been back every week-day
since, and that's about his regular
noonday ration. Ho'e got to be one of
my show pieces. He's figure A In the
exhibition. "But there are others. See that
little man over yonder with Uie white
sldors and the pink cheeks Uie oner
off there in the corner? What do you
suppose his regular winter and sum
mer high noon refectory is, and una
been for years past? A plate of bread
and butter, two large dill ploldca and
a cup of cocoa. Every wook-d.iy oC
tho year that old boy with the whlt
things at the sides of his countenance
commits that kind of an assault anA
battery on his diaphragm, mid, sny,
just look at him cheeks pink and
healthy, eyes as clear as filtered woU
water, and more lintr on- the top of
his head than I've got, alUiough he'
GO, if he's u day.
"He told mo tho other day that he
hadn't had a sick minute in sixteen
years. That, by the way, Is how it la1
wlUi most of the cormorants. The
tougher the kind of conglomerations
they habitually get away with tli-
healthier they look. But Uiey're prob
ably liorn that. way. And as a matter,
of fact, the ma'orlty of the men Avho
come in here for lunch seem to juat
try to loop-tlie loop with their di
gestive apparatus."
SURPRISE FOR I3IG GRIZZLY.
Took n P.liotoisrnph of Himself Wliilo
KxuiiiitiitiK a Camera.
Bert Glbh.s Is tho amateur photog
rapfter bear hunter of all Round valley.
But he doesn't hunt that class of sub
jects since a big Mendocino grizzly
took his camera away from him. IIo-,
had shot everything in his neighbor
hood, and to his prized collection of
snaps of living birds, squirrels and
doer lie longed to add the photograph
of a llvo bear one with a fierce, whis-i
kered phiz, with tongue lolling out and
eyes gleaming in all the savage fire of
lowest brutedom.
He was brave, was Bert, and filled
with the enthusiasm of the true "fiend"
took his solitary way into tho far
woods armed with his loaded picture
box. While cautiously beating up a'
huckleberry patch, trying to Hush liisj
bear, he fell over a bank and oauiyi
sprained an ankle. After lying all
night disabled where he had fallen ho
concluded that he was doomed to re
main there till lie starved to death. Ho,
photographed in Ills mind ills emaciat
ed body found days hence, and the
sad Idea came to him to take a last
"shot" at himself. IIo had heard that
people In the last ditch always reserv
ed last shots for their personal uses.
He would do this, and tho faithful
camera would give up a farewell view
of him taken while dying.
Then he fastened a string to the
shutter of the machine, placed it on a
log and was beginning to ioo. nat
ural" boforo it when a huge grizzly
lumbered out of Uio brush lanchc.
Glbbs heaved himself in one mighty
spring. His ankle was disabled, but
he found no dlrtlculty in getting up a
near-by tree. Tho bear paid no atten
tion to him, but, squatting on his
haunches, proceeded to Instruct him
self in camera craft, lie picked it up
with his foropaws and was making a
minute examination with eyes and
nose when the shutter snapped. Tho-.
sharp sound frightened him, and, drop
ping the box, he galloped off Into tho
woods.
Glbbs came down from tho tree?
cured of the sprain, picked up his cam
era and Avent homo. Then he devel
oped the photograph which tho grizzly
had taken of itself with the last shot
ho hud reserved for himself. San
Francisco Call.
Irrigation from 1jo.
In Montana Uio experiment has been
tried of freezing water to bo used for
irrigation. As soon as Uio weather be-i
comes such as to molt the ice it is lit
for the operations requiring the water.1
The plan, which so far is In the na
ture of an experiment, consists in mak
ing a series of shallow basins on tho
slope of a hill in such looaUons that,'
when water Is plentiful, they may bo
filled, each of those below the highest
receiving successively Uio overllow;
from the one above It.
Once frozen, Uie ice In these shallow
reservoirs Is thero until the thaw sots
In, when It melta so slowly ns to keepi
up a supply of moisture sufficient fori
the germination and growUi of tho!
early crops. This unlquo method hns
been tried so far only In Uio vicinity of
Dillon, but It appears to bo successful
and Is to be given a trial in several
oUicr favorable localities.
iiultl Pact.
The Barber Try some hair restor
er? The Philosopher Oh, no; I hnv
long ceased to regard hair as one of
tho neceBsarlcs of life. Brooklyn Llfoi