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TIIR OMAHA' DAILY PEE: Till USD AT, MARCTT 10, 1001. n UlETRlCirS BILL FOR LAND Conspromls Between Cattleman and Man Who Want Homestead. APPLIES ONLY TO STATE OF NEBRASKA If the Ijut Hair Its to Opcrntrs Well Term May lie , Apply Else- hr re. In Till Made (From a Staff Conespondent.) WASHINGTON, March (.ip.cl.il Tele gram.) Senator Dietrich has introduced a land leasing bill which ts ucat:ned to at. tract widespread attention. It is a recon Struct! and enlarged edition of the bill '-Which ha Introduced In thu w.'n lto during the lat regular nc.-?ioii. The new fea tures etnlxidiid ill the 14. 1 are expected to make It a popular coniproml.-e meas ure, both with the homesteaders and the extensive allle nnnvirs. licsidex authorizing the leasing of public land., the bill co.iteinpl.ites Incieas.ng thu homestead right from 1W ucrea to AJ arr tho Ishuu of tile. pat lit, however, to be contingent upou five years' actual rtsidenee upon the premlKT. Am the purpose of the hill U to provide, fur th economic uso of public lands which are adapted only to grazing purposes, tho terms are made to apply only to Nebraska, the senator and all others who have given the land leas ing problem any thought believing that this la the easiest way to determine Whether such a system of leading may be Justly and advantageously Inaugurated and maintained, rather than by the pa.sv age of a general law which would apply to all grazing land owned by the government. It will be r'-nvmbircd tli.it the bill pro- pented by Senator Dietrich last session was quite strenuously opposed by the home steaders, who Insisted that It was do. Signed altogether for the benefit of the large cattle growers. Str gular as It may seem, the cattlo growers opposed the bill for the reason, they nsrtad, that It dls- crlmlnatod In favor of the homesteader. According to the bill Just Introduced pernor! can enter MO acre. This Is one of tho salient feature of tho measure. No Brnnter Improvement will bo required upon the enlarged tract than ore now required liuun a. homnKtnad of 1ft) acre. Provisions tor Leas I nil. The nmvlAlnna na to lenslnc itre similar to thom contained In the bill of last winter, In brief, they authorize the secretary of the Interior, In Ills discretion, to louse for live stock grazing purposes not exceeding twenty section In any slngl" leate and for a timo not exceeding ton years. Tho rate of rental, which must bo paid In advance. Is loft to the discretion of tho secretary. Mot more than one lease shall bo directly or Indirectly nuuln or held by the name person, and no loam shall be transfer able exoopt with ollleiol approval. A feature of the bill which has received the commendation of tho Interior depart ment and others who have striven to solve the leasing problem Is the provision that, so far as practicable, nrtual and bona fide owners and homestead settlers of lands shall have a preference In leaning the ad joining lands. Thus It will be seen that a man who homesteads 640 acres will have llrst choice In the leasing of adjoining lands, as will also tho present occupants of homesteads and owners of private lands. The disposition of rents from the leasing of land Is one of tho Interesting parts of the bill. It Is provided that nflor deduct ing; the expenses of administering tho act one-fourth of the total amount rocrlved shall be paid Into the county In which tho leased land Hes," one-fourth' to the 'state and the remaining one-half will be credited to the fund for the rerlamatlen of arid lands. Amount of I. anal Affected. According to the latest reports of the In terior department there are approximately 9.GAOU0 acres of unappropriated government land In Nebraska. Much of this land Is of value only when used for grazing purposes In connection with land which adjoins natural water. The increase of the home stead to MO acres gives the poor man a chance to secure a large tract of land with out cost and also to lease additional land at a nominal rate. The bill applies to grazing land only. Persona who have watched the growth of Nebraska sre aware that the dairy busi ness Is now one of the principal Industries. In all sections of the state are farmers who depend entirely for their livelihood upon their sales to dairies and creameries. Not as much land is required for a good-sized dairy farm as for the growing of leef stock, nor Is as large an Investment re quired. In tho grazing sections, however. It is often found that the homestead of 150 acres Is Insufficiently large to maintain enough stock for dairy purposes with profit to the settler. The proposed Increase In the homestead right Is raleulated to bene fit that particular clnss of settlers who wish to raise stock upon a small scale, or for dairy purposes. The leasing provision will also make It possible for the larger stock growers to acquire the necessary land to carry on their business. Senator Dietrich's bill Is Intended largely to encourage and develop the growth of tho dairy Industry, which has added so much wealth to the state. In regard to the leas ing feature of the bill the Interior depart ment has already expressed its favor In a report Written upon the measure presented last year. Commissioner Richards of the general land office reported to the senate committee as follows: niu viuiiy Ml Crust Scalled Head and Eczema Oil i ill I think tho bill makes a wise disposition of the net proceeds accruing from the leases. The people of the public land states have long considered It to be a hardship mat no revenue snouia u uirectiy ueiivea from the large area of public lands lying within their boundaries, for the control and protection of which It Is necessary for them to furnish an tlie machinery or govern ment. 1'nder this bill one-fourth of the net receipts will go to the county and one- fourth to the state, while the remaining one-half goes Into tho fund for the lecla mat Ion of arid hind which promises so much for thi development of the arid und semi-arid regions. . . I . V. ...II.... i, I. , V, i t.l . I,.- I,,, It Is a fact that considerable areas of land in several of the Public In ml states and ter ritories have been Inclosed with fences and are used for grazing purposes bv rrl vato parlies, associations of individuals. and In some Instances by community s In some Instances the summary removal of those fences would work a hardship disproHr11onate to the henMl's Which Itie nubile would derive from such removal. Various unsuccessful efforts to obtain leg islation usin this matter have been made and others are now contemplated. but owlne to the near nppronch of tho end the session of congress it Is probable tliHt unless this bill liecomes b law there will be no legislation of this character durin this session. In which vent this ofllee wi have no discretion In enforcing the act of February a, lWio. May Kxtcnd Application. It will bo observed that this act npplles only to the state or rMeorasna, In wnicti state there Is a largo area of public land which is only valuable for gracing pur poses, where It is thought th'it an experi ment of this character run bo tried wllh perhaps loss danger of Injury to the pub lic Interest than In any other of the public land suites or territories, ir uns exiien ment proves successful It will furnish a bsj-is for tho enactment of laws of a more se.-ieral application for tho final settle ment of the vexed question of the proor disposition is to be made or the public grazing lands. , A provision of tho bill which should not bo overlooked is that which makes all land under lease subject to entry nt all times. In other words. It In declared that notwith standing the lease tho land shall continue to be subject to settlement, entry and ac quisition by qualiflod persons who In good faith will go upon It for the purpose of, making actual settlement and maintaining actual resldenco thereon. It Is hoped by friends of tho mensitra that Its enactment will solve the leasing problem, and put a stop to tho disturbances which have been so prevalent upon the western plains. Thero has been actual bloodshed over the Illegal use and fencing of government land, and by such violation of the law many homesteaders have been practically forced out of business. Under tho present law the leasing of land Is Im possible. The only way for the large cat tle growers to acquire sufficient tracts to carry on their business has been by means of the fence. JAPAN'S STRUGGLE FOR LIFE Significance of the War Pointed Oat by ths Field Marshal of the Empire. 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Friday, fair and warmer In west portion. For Iowa oi'd M Issourl Rain and colder Thursday. Friday, fair. For Wyoming Fair and warmer Thurs day. Friday, fulr. For Kansas Fair and decidedly colder Thursday. Friday, fair. For South Dakota Fair and much colder Thursday, preceded by rain or snow In early morning. Friday, fair. For North Dakota Fair Thursday, pre ceded by snow In south portion. Friday, fair and warmer. For Montana Fair and warmer Thurs day. Friday, fair except rain In west por tion. For Colorado Fair Thursday and colder In southeast portion. Friday, fair and warmer. Loral Record. OFFICE OF THE WRATIIER PURE AIT. OMAHA, Msrch !. OtDclal record of tem pemture and precipitation compared with the corresponding day of the pnt three years: I'M. jo.. jyii Maximum temperature.... 71 U y, Minimum temperature 40 17 4'i M Mean temperature !W 4 W SI Precipitation 00 . T HI .1.1 Record of temperature hm 1 i.reeli Hatlou at omnha for this day since March 1, 1'j04: Normal temperature KX'-cf for the day Total excels since March 1 Normal precipitation Detbiencv for the d iv Total rainfstl since March 1 Deficiency since March I Deficiency for cor. perl si. Inul... Derliiency for cor. period, VC. Report of stations at T P. M. CONDITION OF TUB WRATH ICR. Omaha, cloudy Valentine, rattling North Matte, raining Cheyenne, cloudy . Fait I-ake City, partly cloudy.. Rapid City, cloudy Huron, cloudy Williaton. snowing '. Chicago, cloudy St. fx:uls, partly cloudy St. l'aul. cloudy Davenport, cloudy n.ana City, cloudy Havre, cloudy Helena, eliar Itlrmirrk. ioi:Jy Galveston, rlv&r T Indicates traca of premutation. i,w vi i. Fi,ii.ni. U A, VaXU. faecal lr. (Co Aright, l&rl, by Collier's Weekly.) Mr. Frederick Palmer, special war corre spondent of Collier's Weekly In Japan. writing from Toklo, under date of Feb ruary i, gives the following account of an Interview had on the eve of war with Field Marshal Marquis Yamagata: This morning, after Toklo Bad slept one good night on the fact of actual war. It was my good fortune to have an hour's talk with Flelfl Marshal Marquis Yama gata, the man behind the cabinet, who, more than any other, Is responsible for the step Japan has taken. The appointment with him h id first been mude for a week ago. When the day set arrived the genro were hastily summoned to one of their ur gent sittings, and, in the language of his secretary, his excellency was "very busy." From the moment when negotiations were broken off and war preparations were openly carried on throughout the land the elder statesmen had a breathing space. Their 'field work was finished; that of the army was about to begin. One of them with true Famurat courtesy signified his leisure by not forgetting the request of a for eigner. The drive to the marquis' house took me to the furthest suburbs of the city. We passed many small, two-wheeled army carts drawn by ponies and the still smaller ones drawn by coolies. Splashes of red of ths stripes of Infantrymen's new caps or trou sers showed through crates that were piled high In contrast to the compact little boxes that contained ammunition. The reservists from mitlylng districts were on their way to town. With each one were his nearest friends. The road became a procession of groups. If your servant Is absent In Japan, the death, the sickness or tho marriage of a "friend" calls him. It Is a land of groups of friends. All the cronies of his age see the recruit Into the army and see the recruit, become reservist, back into It sgaln. The parting with his wife or his mother or his sweetheart Is usually at the doorstes. Development of a Soldier. If you look away from the soldiers and the policemen on the beat, at the shops with their sliding screens pushed back, ranking windows and doors and ahow-wln-dows and show-room into one; at the ideo graphic signs and the garb of the dally workers, either nearby or In the fields, the vista still had everything In common with the Japan of forty years ago, which knew no world but her own. It was strange that on this morning of all mornings I was go ing to see the man I was. lie had grown to manhood under a regime as different from ours as that of the Chinese from the ancient Greeks. As a youth. If ho had out off his queue, he would ha-e been debased from his rank as a gontlomon. If he had attempted1 to leavo his native country ho would have suffered death, whloh the Sho gun thought a fit punishment for a crime against the isolation which was the gospel of the land. His first experience of war was as a feudal swordsman clad In armor, who fought according to the Japaneso counter part of the etiquette of the Knights of the Round Table. Clan warfare, the only kind known, was then the privilege of the few, like private yachts. A gentleman born (a samurai) alone had the right to bear arms. (Often In these letters I shall refer to that torm samurai. Until you know It, and the chivalry, courage, pride and stoicism that It stood for, you can In no wise understand how It Is that this suddenly transformed Oriental people today cross the seas to fight on Its own ground the Russian empire.) A farm laborer In those days was as far from the right to bear arms as a longshoreman Is from a bishopric. Yet this Yamagata has 11 veil to leiul one army, whose soldiers wero composed of all, classes and armed with modern rifles, In a victorious foreign war; and he may yet take the field In an other and Infinitely greater one, when the firty waiting transports (Improvised from Bteamers) shall carry an army of 800,000 or 400.0UU men to Corea and Manchuria. Chancres of a Lifetime. If I had gone to see him forty years ago when I could not have gone unless I hod been a Japanese and worn a queue and two swords wo should have sat on mats with our legs crossed. In houses without windows, doors or chairs. Profound would have been our bows, delicately worded our compliments. Today I drove Into a treo studded yard that was entirely Japanese, surrounding a stone and stucco building which was distinctly Occldontal. (The Jap anese have found our houses more com fortable, If less artistic than their own. Their sylvan effects they most wisely retain.) I was ushered into a reception room that might be that of a well-to-do person with distinction of taste at home. Yamagata has In this age the versatility and the classic simplicity of being soldier and statesman In one that we associate with another age. A field marshal by right of his victories In the field; one of the field elder statesmen; the mikado's coun selor In civil as well as In military affairs, and the head of the political coalition responsible for the present cabinet, he stands for the policy and thi administra tion that brought on the war. He Is not of the school of radicalism, but of the old school of Japan; a tory rather than a whig. The manners of other days In Japan are reflected in him as the manners' of other days in America are In an old time southerner. It was Yamag'ta the country gentleman, the statesman, not Yamagata the soldier, whom I saw; this slight, elderly man In a frock coat, with his bronxed face, his high cheekboni, his good humored eyes, and hair turning gray. In his person bring ing one nearer the old Japan, and In his military power to the modern Japan, than any other man. His secretory. Mr. Naka- "1 J yama. who Interpreted for us, Is a Harvard 7 graduate. Hut he Is young and born to !'t 'rich lhls r'r.ime; he has about him the air ..Trie of the Occident The marrpils belongs at S' Im h once to this regime and to the one be .fct Inch I , , . . . . , SS IllCh ' "' r-i.--, i.lii i ririiiuiuiu IW, he talked of the war which was only six teen hours old; the war on which he had stuked his reputation; the war which nn-ant to his people more than their politi cal future their future as Individuals. He spoke of it simply and as calmly as If Wiir were an everyday afTalr. Nothing fn the shrewd face showed that he had been under continuous strain for weeks. A I nltril Arm)-, I spoke to him of the two things which made me marvel most. The first wraa the organisation into a united, thoroughly dis ciplined army of classes which formerly had never associated; of clans that had al ways been at the sword's point; of ths "groups" of friends ever ready to become factions. One might as well have expected to make a Scot a god Englishman within forty years after the border wars, as to make a unit out of the Japanese in lSuO. Tha army, absorbing all clan rights, seems today one man and on mind, keeping Its secrets aa oua How was this brought about? I wanted to hear tha explanation iroca Um (MA Cu ratal rho ba4 Sean Lot I S: 71: .00 -! 70! .a 44 741 .Oil 32 44 . I? SS' .0' is 44 .00 ! tr .) 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But the use of Wine of Cardui a couple of months before confinement removes all danger, banishes all trace of leucorrhoea and relieves the distressing weakness and intense nervous irritation. Wine of Cardui also strengthens the female organs and makes childbirth very much easier. A perfectly healthy mother means a perfectly healthy child. You can only really appreciate what Mrs. Jensen says about Wine of Cardui restoring the strength by trying Wine of Cardui yourself. Wine of Cardui cures women of all ages, of all the ailments which afflict the sex.' Your Druggist will sell you a $1.00 Bottle of Wine of Cardui and you can begin the treatment today in your own home. 1 -ft' r : ' yl Ili a tm ii n if ri army rino from tho first companies that threw away their bows and arrows for rl files. Therrt w:is thu Oriental deprecation of self In his auswer, whiuh left me know ing Uttlo more than before. lie seemed a little surprised that ths success had been so manifest to foreigners. It had been very difficult and It was still very diffi cult, according to a field marshal's high Ideas of disc ipline to make Japanese officers and men renllz... the Hplrit of military unity as they should. "The snlrlt of rorps that keeps military secrets scorns perfect," I suggested. "Not entirely," he said gently. "Some will talk when they ouKht not to. Our newspapers, too. are far from belnp aa careful aa they should be. Rather than know everything In duo time, they want to publish something before any one else They ere not yet enough advanred to be discreet." This morning the greatest of newspap?r momlngs. nil that appeared was the offi cial st.itement of the nrgotlatloiiM. with Japan's reasons for breaking them off. Thwe wns nothing alinut the mobilization, or what troops were here or being moved there, lierause the grvrn-nf r.t had given rtr.ng hlnt cf what It would end would not permit to lie published. The grent re i son for the rise of a united armv lies in th Inherent renptct of the Japanese f r Itw, for the mlk-rti. f(.r the nnhliitv, nnl for the mikado's counselors. Knllalitenlnir u Foreigner, To my second question, the answer was more enlightening to the foreigner w(k comes to Japan as the Japanese go abroad, bristling with question marks. "If you will look at the Keographiual position of Corea you will we that It Is Ilka a poniard pointing at the heart of Japan," said the marquis. "If Corea Is occupied by a foreign power, tha Japan sea ceases to be Japanese, und the Corea n Straits are no longer In our control. Our public men are of many partie. not of two only, as are yours In America. Our cabinets sre the products of conditions, which, for the time being, seem to his majesty and the legisd itlve power best to serve ths Interests of the country. For eign policy Is a thing entirely apart la the consideration of Corea and Manchu ria, all snB f all parties beetled only patriotism to realize the singleness of our Interests. Whatever cabinet was tn power continued the policy of Its predecessor, and the polley of all on a question which put the very life of our nation at stake. So our unchanging attitude from the out set of thu disagreement with Russia has been natural and inevitable. In Its nego tiations the government has patiently kept the hope ol peaee In view. No agitation prejudicial to calm deliberation has been permitted. A society organlznd against Russia was suppressed. Our demands were clear and unfaltering. We bad to deal with an enemy whose methods were those of evasion and hypocrisy, to whom delay meant udvanlage." ) What the War Hepreseuts. This war completes the chain of Japan's calculations. It presents the third period In tho forwarding of her high ambitions. First, when foreign fleets opened her ports by force, she set out to make thosa In ternal reforms and to organize an army on modern principles which should guar antee her safety. As a monument of ths initial step, the old forts built after lvrry's coming still stand In Toklo bay. The diplomacy of such men as Yamagata, with the eoncXructlve homo policy of lto, went hand In hand with military organ ization, lu which the fear of India's fate was the "battle cry of clans to sink their differences." Hut still the foreigners In the treaty ports lived under their own laws. The second step was the Chlno Japanese war, when the world expeoted to see the giant crush the midget under his thumb, and Instead euw the mite raise the flag of victory over the giant's belly. It was then by the weapons with which place Is won that Japan forced herself Into a losltlon of power among the family of nations. Kxtraterrltorlality ceased; foreigners are now under Japanese law. The Japanese people, thanks to tha com bination of Russia, Germany and France, had to see the territory which they had won by their blood fall to tha lot of Rus sia's "glacial approach." The third period Is at hand. Its task Is commensurate with tha reward It offers. Jty her arms Japan must win a place for her congeMteil population arroes tha seas. with the prospect of becoming one of tha greatest of wmid power It shows now Ion human life way ba la Ui changes and the deeds It may compass, that tho samurai before me had lived through the two periods to help precipitate the third. Yet the explanation is not so difllcult. A highly civilized race was simply trans formed from fighting with swords to fight ing with small-bore rifles and battleships; from heralds to newspapers; from hand to machine looms. DEATH RECORD. Carl Fuller. EDGAR, Neb., March 9. (Special.) Carl Fuller, a former resident of this city, but who removed with his parents to Colorado several years ago, died while undergoing an operation for ubdnmlnal abscess In Ien- ver last Sunday afternoon. Ills wife, who bad Just undergone a surgical operation for appendicitis, Is not expected to live. The remains were brought here and Interred In the IXlgar cemetery Tuesday. Tho father of the deceased, W. R. Fuller, accompanied the remains. Miss Kstlirrloe C.aaser. CRETE, Neb., March . (Special.) Miss Katherlne Gosser, a well known and pop ular young woman of this city, died yes terday morning. Hho had suffered for some time from a complication of ailments until ten days ago the doctors gave up all hops of her recovery. Tha funeral services 'will be held at tha home tomorrow afternoon. Hra. Joksansh Ilanke. BEATRICE. Nob., March 9. Special.) Mrs. Juhannah Hanke, for the past four teen years a resident of this city, died yoHterday morning, aged 70 yeara I ooascd was a native of Germany and leaves a family of eight children, five sons and threw daughters. Her death was caused from asthma and dropsy. Wuinan and Child Drown. ST. LOUIS, March 8 Mrs. Joseph With lngton, wife of a Missouri Pacific conduc tor, and her eldest daughter, Nannie, were crowned today in attempting to rord Mera taec river in a buggy went of HI. IaiuIs. Another daughter saved herself by holding to an overhanging tree for two hours, until rescued. The buggy was overturned In nild-strearii. Dewey (Harder Trial Postponed. NORTON, Kan., March 9. The trial of Chauncey Dewey, William McHrtde and Clyde W lUwm for the minder of Hurt-hard lterry was today again postponed, this time until Friday, because of the continued Ill ness of one. of the Jurors, who was taken sick on Friday last. Senate I'asses Army Hill. WASHINGTON. March 9. The army bill was passed and tlie Philippine shipping bill taken u. CONSTIPATION is the starting point of disease. It can be easily removed by taking, on arising, half a glass of the Natural Laxative Water, For yossr awn protection ask fot U ky th (aQ Bams, HUNYADI jAnOS, SUBSTITUTES ARE VORTHLESS AND HARMFUL.