What Japan is Doing in the Way of Handling Its New Formosa Colony
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OKIO, 190. (8MKlal Corrpupond-
I nc of Th Bee.) I want to
I I tell you what the Japanese are
la much Interested In that
laland, and Secretary Taft re
cently aent a commission of the War de
partment to go through It and report to him
with a view to Improvements In our policy
In managing the Philippines. Japan got
Formosa at the close of Ita war with
China, Just about five years before the
Philippines came to us. The Island was
then In the throes of rebellion, and It was
looked upon as about the poorest piece of
property In the far east. It had practically
been offered to France and Great Britain
and refused. Its Inhabitants were thought
to be only pirates and savage head hunters.
ixei with the lowest grade oplum-smok-
Chlnese, and It was turbulent to an
extreme. It was, If anything, In a worse
condition than tho Philippines when we
took hold of them. After the Island was
ceded to the Japanese they had to fight
their way from one end of It to the other
to conquer It. and they kept a military es
tablishment there for five or six years.
Pormomln 1 OOt.
At the same time they began to make
Improvements and to reorganise the coun
try. The Island was put under a civil ad
ministration within less than two years
after Its acquirement, and now, at the end
of thirteen years, it Is k fixed part of
the Japanese empire, paying Its own finan
cial expenses and rapidly improving along
the lines of modern civilisation. In these
letters of mine on the awakening of Asia
It Is thus fitting that at least one should
be written on the awakening of Formosa..
In order to tell you how this nation
a Of savage and semi-barbarians has been
- quickened Into modern life, I called this
morning on Baron Shlmpee Ooto at his
, , offlolaa residence near the Bhlnbaahl rail
road station her In Tokio. Baron Goto
Is now on of the cabinet of the emperor.
He la the minister of communications; and
aa suoh has charge of the railways,' tele
graphs, shipping and other transportation
problems of Japan. It Is now over ten
years sine he was made the civil gov
ernor of Formosa, and It was largely due
to him that that Island has been so rapidly
and efficiently reorganised and rejuve
nated. Ha was for almost ten years In
charge of Ita development, and no one can
speak better as to Its present situation and
Us future.
Provlac of Taiwan.
During our conversation Baron Goto
brought out a relief map of the Island and
Progress
Eloetrl Power Plants.
HE director of the census has Is
T
sued a preliminary report on the
electric light and power stations
of the United State. The sta
tistics relate to the year ending
December 81, 1907. The totals do
not Include Isolated plants or plants that
are Idle or In course of construction.
The total number of establishments In
10? was 4,714. an Increase of 80.1 per cent
over 1808. These plant gave employment
to 84,etf wage earner and developed 5,858,
m,S9 kilowatt hour. These central sta
tion supply current for IUMI arc lamp
and . 41,807,844 Incandescent lamp. The
total horsepower capacity of the stationary
motor served waa 1.M9.024. ,Tne increase
In lighting during the five year ha been
Quaint
Bahy Boy lares a Girl.
5HNNIE HOGAN. I years old. and
Mildred Farrlngton, who Is 8,
youngsters of Newark, N. J.,
have been sweethearts all the
time they can remember, so na
turally Johnnie cannot under
stand the fus that was made about him
after b had saved Mildred life. The lit
tle girl fell from a dock Into the mud of
Nor walk harbor, and would have sunk
and been suffocated in the slime If Johnnie
had not Jumped In after her and held her
head up until help came. But, aa Johnnie
aid, when Mildred' mother kissed hitn,
how could any man well, any boy have
done less for the girl he was going to
miry.
The ttde was out when Mildred fell from
the dock, and the little girl landed In mud
so soft that vhe sank almost out of sight
In It, and ao thick that It held her In the
grip of a quicksand. Johnnie landed beside
her a moment later with a glorious splash,
but he spread himself so artistlrally In his
fall that he kept his own head aHove the
lime, and was able to raise Mildred face
ao that h was able to breathe. Hut the
mud wa too yielding to allow the children
to make their way to shore, and It was not
until William A. Benedict and Edward
Webh, attracted by their cries, ran out a
double line of planks that It waa possible
to pull the children to safety.
,
Wife Invaded the Ledge.
Because his wife bearded the sentinels
and Invaded the lodge room of the Order of
Foroatsr, where be wag presiding as chief
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FORMOSA VALLEY, BHOWINO WINDINGS OF TEMPORARY TRACK.
laid It on the table before us. This was of
papier mache. It was, I Judge, about four
Inches high, ten Inches wide and two feet
long. It accurately represented all the
chief features of the country. Including its
cities, railway and roads. Baron Goto
pointed to the places as he talked so that
It was really like taking a trip through
Formosa. Said he:
"We call the island Taiwan. You see it
Is not far from the Philippines, and we are
a close neighbor of yours. The island Is
about 300 miles long and It has an area a
tittle larger than Denmark. This half, fac
ing the east, la very mountainous. Many
of the ranges are steep and some of the
mountains are higher than any In Japan.
Mount Nlltskayama, which you see here.
Is higher than Fugl. It Is about equal to
Pike's Peak, and there are other peaks
of 12,000 feet and more.
"These mountainous regions are tho
homes vt tho savage aborigines. - It is
here that tha people known as the head
hunters live. The western part of the is
land, comprising a little more than one
third of It, consists, of low alluvial plains.
Those are Inhabited by the descendants of
people who came over from China. They
constitute the civilised parts of the Island
and conLaln the groat bulk of the popula
tion. It Is among them that the moat of
our work is being done. Wo have to pro
tect these people from the savages and
we have a line of polios guarding tha
mountain slopes from one end, of the Is
land to the other. They are aided by win
fenoes beyond which the savages are not
allowed to go. There are guardhouses
every half mile or so, and several thousand
guards are always on duty. They have
rifles. And they patrol the line between the
guardhouses, challenging all savages who
come anywhere near. If they do hot atop
they are ahot."
Bts Electric Ita II way Schema.
Polling to the model, Baron Goto spoke
of a big electric proposition which may bu
carried out in the future. Said he:
"You will see that we have built a rail
road clear through the western part of
the Island running north and south from
one end of R to the other. That waa com-,
pluted last year. With Its branches It has
about 280 miles of track, and It goes right
through the most thickly populated part
of the country. It Is now run by steam;
but the water supply Is such that I be
lieve, we shall be able at some time to move
all the cars by electricity. I made a study
of that problem while I was civil governor
of Formosa and I find that we can put
dams here and there In the mountains and
make reservoirs which will give us a con
Reported
considerable, but the greatest Increase waa
In the numbers of motor supplied with
current, a total increase of 176.1 per cent.
Balldlnflt a RnllroTwMh Electricity.
One of the greatest undertakings In the
history of railroading is the Pacific ex
tension of the St. Paul road. More than
$100,000,000. will be expended on this new
line, which will reach from Chicago to
St.' Paul and across Montana to Seattle.
Over the 800 mile of mountain stretches
electricity is to be used a the motive
power; 200-ton electric locomotives will
haul the trains. Down the aides of tha
Bitter Root mountaina. are pouring a suf
ficient number of streams to furnish abun
idant power for all the electric motor
which the 8t Paul will need to handle ita
Features of Everyday Life
ranger at the trial of a member, broke up
the meeting and forced him to go home
and addressed him as "Imp" and "Indian,"
George P. Gillette, of Spokane, wa granted
a divorce from Anna Gillette.
They were married In St. Lawrence
county. New York, January 11, 18&, and,
Gillette declared In hi petition, immedi
ately afterward hi wife began abusing
him, continuing until life became unbear
able. He was finally forced to leave their
home In New York, following the lodge
room episode, to escape the ridicule of
neighbors and members of the order.
By taking him home, the complaint adds,
she broke up the trial and he was forced
to resign his office, as it was likely his wife
would come for him at any time during
lodge meetings.
BlaCs Ont Fire Bandits.
In the Ban Bols mountains, single-handed
and In the dark. James Beck, a farmer
living near Stlgler. Okl., captured five
bandits who had robbed him of $!,0T4, re
covered part of the money and made a
gallant but ineffectual attempt to land his
game In Jail. Two were wounded, but all
escaped.
Sunday morning the men broke Into
Becks' house and stole his money. Armed
only with a revolver, the farmer started
In prusult and trailed the robber day
and right until at dusk Thursday he saw
them enter the Ban Bols mountain, sev
enty miles southwest of Muskogee. He
lay In wait until dark, and when the quin
tet fell asleep Beck approached yelling
"Hand up I Cover thein, boys!" leading
OMAHA.
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stant fall all tha year round sufficient to
generate electricity for the road and at the
same time not affect the Irrigation of the
country below."
"Tell me something about the railroads,
your excellency."
"When we took possession of the Island
we found a little road sixty-two miles long
running from Kelung to Shlnchlku. It waa
In bad condition and the route selected was
so Inconvenient that we planned out this
line running from one end of the Island to
the other. We began work at both ends
and pushed forward night and day In order
to complete It at the earliest possible time.
In places we employed light railways tem
porarily, using Chinese coolies to push the
csrs. Bom parts of the road were very
difficult to construct. We had to carry
the track across valley on bridge and
to make some very long tunnels, but we
kept at It and the road Is now complete.
It was our original Intention to take ten
years to build the road, but It has been
done In much less than that."
"What did the road cost?"
"In the neighborhood of $14,000,000 or $15,
000,000. W shall build branch roads here
and there and shall open up the whole of
the settled part of the Island through
railways."
Bis Chances la Formosa.
"What other Improvements have you
made?"
"A great many. We are practically mak
ing a new laland of Taiwan," said Dr.
Goto. "And what la more we are now
making the Island pay Its own expanses,
and It will In time pay for all Its Im
provement. W are putting roads every
where. We have Introduced postoffices
into all tho towns. In 1899 there were only
forty-five pi noes where postage stamps
i'u!d be l)oufeht. There are now 600 or
700. About tine" i.OOO letters and post cards
tin.l about D.wO.OOO other postal packagea
go tliCoueh the malls every year. We
hevn money order offices and postal sav-Ing-A
hunks with tens of thousands of de
posit urn. V have something like 2,000
nillON of t h-Kraph wire and about 600.000
nirHK.'tceB are sent over them every year.
Our tt-V-Kiaph receipts are more than 1,000,
000 yen per annum and they yield a profit
to tht; government. We have a good tele
phone system established. There are sev
eral hundred miles of lines and the tele
phone calls run up Into the millions a
year. We are using wireless telegraphy
in some districts Into which the ordinary
lines have not been extended."
"How about your connection with Japan
and China T"
"They are very good. The Osaka 8hosen
in the Broadening" Field of Electrical Experiment
train over the mountain division. These
stream are to be harnessed at a cost of
millions. The boldness of conception and
the unobtrusive way In which the work
is being executed challenge admiration.
Through the fastnesses of the Bitter Root
range a tunnel 8,760 feet long Is being
constructed by electrical power and
through It will be operated trains hauled
by motors. One end of this tunnel will
open In the state of Montana and the other
will land the traveler In Idaho, and It
grade will not exceed 1 per cent.
In general the work on the west end of
the road between Butte and Seattle is
nearly finished on some of the divisions,
but the long tunnels and the heavy fills
will take some time to complete. Rail are
now laid In five different sections, but the
the robber to believe they were sur
rounded. Beck forced them to return
H.ajO all of his money they had left and
then attempted to bring them to Musko
gee to Jail. y
Learning that their' capture had been
Effected by one man, the men made a
dash and escaped, but not until Beck had
wounded two of them. A sheriff's posse
today Is searching the mountains for the
robbers.
House Full of accrete.
Queer old act-ret tunnels, built sixty or
soventy years ago. and leading from one
cf Cleveland oldest residences to artificial-
cave In the hillside above the Cuya
hoga river, have been discovered In the
demolition of the old W. J. Gordon home
stead, on West Ninth street, opp:s'te Lake
side avenue. W. J. Gordon, who gave
Cleveland's largest park to the city, was
the grandfather of Daisy Gordon Hanni
Tatton of New York, divorced wife of Dan
R. Hanna.
Berret stairways and hidden closets
abounded throughout ihe building, and
were lorsted on every flcor. secret ch
Inets being found even In the garret near
chimneva Just w'ot rurpio the tunnels
and strange compartments served nobody
seems to fcoow.
Gordon always considered eccentric,
but his odd '.lies In the conitructlin of his
home and grounds were never brought to
light. He waa for years one of the largest
wholesale 'liquor doaler la the central
west.
SUNDAY MOUSING. MAKCH
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BARON SHIMPEI GOTO
Kalsha has three or four steamer a month
via Mojl. 1 The passage takes about four
days. There is a regular service of steam
ers around the coast of the Island and
regular connections with Fuchan, Amoy,
Swatow and Hong Kong. A a result of
the steamship communication and our im
provement In the island ithe commerce
with Japan Is steadily Increasing and a
large proportion of the foreign goods comes
from here. The imports of the Island now
amount to In the neighborhood of 80,000,000
yen and the exports are considerably more
than that. More than one-half of the im
ports come from Japan and more than half
of the exports go there."
SnBar, Rice and Tea.
"Is Formosa a rich lBland?"
"Yes," replied Baron Goto. "It has much
excellent soil and It produces large crops
of tea, rice, sugar and hemp. Almost any
thing that will grow In tho Philippine
Island will grow there. Sugar is proving
especially valuable. Some time ago the
government Imported seven American mills
to crush the cane and a number of new
manufacturing firms have been established.
Sugar has been raised there for hundreds
of years and it is attll the chief crop. The
yield Is now from 20,000 to 40,000 pounds per
acre.
"As to rice, we are trying to improve
the product in quantity and quality. The
people are now raising two crops a year
In most parts of the island. We expect to
better the tea also and give back to It the
high standing which it formerly held in
the American market. The chief variety
is known as Oolong. It was first sent to
America In 1SS7, when if waa worth more
than $1 a pound. The annual exports now
amount to about 11,000,000 pounds, of which
Oolong constitutes about one-third of the
whole. I understand tho tea la very popu
lar In America, and that Its sale there
might be still greatlly Increased."
Camphor Monopoly.
"How about the camphor monopoly? I
understand that Japan supplies the world
with that drug."
"That Is true and It Is also true that
most -of the supply comes from Formosa.
Within the lust year or so camphor for
ests have been discovered in China, and
there Is prospect of competition from that
country. At present we have a monopoly
of the world's trade and the government
has control of the manufacture and sale
In order to protect the Industry. When we
took possession of the island we found tho
camphor blslness in a precarious state. No
efforts were made to spare the trees and
the crudest methods were employed In the
track Is not continuous for more than 120
miles. On the Seat Ue-Td coma line the track
has been finished from Black River June-'
tlon to Summer, Wash. East of Seattle
the road la completed for a distance of
seventy-five miles, and work over the
Snoqualmle pass of the Cascades Is being
rapidly pushed. On one division there are
at least sixty fills to be made of an aver
age depth of seventy feet, and the road
between Black River and the tunnel will
cost probably $75,000 a mile.
Through the St. Paul pass. In the Bitter
Root mountains, work Is further along; the
grading Is completed and the bridges are
built. In Seattle the terminal work is
scarcely begun. In view of the fact, how
ever, that the greater part of the extension
haa been done during a time of financial
depression, the work In general Is a marvel
In the annals of railway construction.
Haraeuslas; the inn' Rays.
George S. Cove, a well known Boston in
ventor, has perfected an apparatus for
storing the sun's rays and utilizing the heat
energy thus developed to generate an elec
tric current sufficiently brilliant to light
Ms workshops. In two days pf sunshine
the device generates and store enough
electricity to last six day.
The apparatus consists of a fratnework
placed where Is receives the direct rays of
the sun. This framework of thin steel Is
divided into squarea, each of which contain
sixty-one plugs. These project from ce
ment, and come In contact with thick
glass througli which the sun strike. Filled
In around the plugs Is a body of heat ab
sorbing material. The. plugs are connected
In series by strips of metal. The differ
ence In temperature of the two ends of the
plugs generates the electric current.
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Electric Window and Shutter.
An Ingenious device for opening and shut
ting window at will has recently been
patented by William R. Strong of Wash
ington and Easthampton, Mans. By means
of Mr. Strong's Invention. It appears possi
ble not only for the Invalid In td to con
trol absolutely the windows of the sick
room, but also for the hundreds or even
thousands rf windows in modern sky
scrapers, and the shutters protecting them,
to be controlled from a ttegle piint by
a single operator which mlht cor.celvibly
be of great advantage In rasa of fire.
Avoiding the details of a too technical -or
Involved description, the invention consists
in revolving drums placed beneath the sill
of each window. These drums having
passed around them pulley cords by means
of whlo:i their counter-weights, ordinary
window sashes, are held balanced In the
desired position when raised or lowered
14 1909.
ONE OF THE NEW
manufacture. Now factories have been
established In Formosa and Japan, and the
most of the product goes abroad, either
direct or through Japanese port. It used
to go by way of Hong Kong."
"How much camphor doe the world use
In a year?"
"About 8,000,000 pounds. Our revenue from
It amount in the neighborhood of $3,600,000
a year. We restrict the production ac
cording to the demand and are thus en
abled to kwp up the prices. The camphor
trees of Formosa are said to cover an
area of many square miles and we prob
ably have enough to supply all that the
world will need for a century to come."
Formosa and the Oplnm Evil.
Tie conversation here turned to the
opium question. The Japanese do not allow
opium to be used anywhere except In
Formosa. None Is smoked In Jepan proper
end the authorities believe that they have
adopted a policy which will ' eventually
wipe out the practice In Formosa. This
policy was largely originated by Baron
Goto, who Is noted ns a physician tind as
a sanitary scientist, aa well as a states
man. Said he:
"I had had much to do with opium pa
tients rrlor to my going to Formosa, and I
knew that It was a physical Impossibility
to successfully prohibit the opium smoking
among these who had been addicted to
the habit for years. Indee'd, it Is almost
Impossible to stop the use of the drug even
when the man himself Is anxious to do
so. The only way to handle the situation.
It seemed to me, was to have a registered
list of those addicted to the practice and
to have a certain amount of opium sold
through the government to them by
licensed officials. It Is a crime to sell
opium' to those who are not so registered,
and against the law for any one to Import
or manufacture It. All this business Is a
government monopoly and Infringement
of the law subject one to a fine not ex
ceeding 6,000 yen, or to Imprisonment with
hard labor up to five years. The govern
ment grants special licenses to habitual
smokers, and any one who smokes without
a license Is liable to be Imprisoned tor a
long aa three years or fined up to 8,000
yen. As It Is now, the government im
ports and manufactures all the opium
used. The list of smoker is gradually de
creasing by deaths, and In time we hope
to entirely abolish tha evil."
"Do you think that China can abolish
Its opium evil by its recent prohibitory
laws?"
"No. It Is an Impossibility. You can
by hand. By mean rf electric motor and
storage batteries these drums would be
made to revolve by the mere pressing of a
button or turning of a switch, and,
aa they revolved, the cords would be wound
or unwound, and each sash separately
raised or lowered as described. This would
not Interfere, however, wiih Che manual
operation of the window. In addition, Mr.
Strong would provide a locking bolt held
normally in engagement with each sash
by suitable means, such a spring, and re
tracted by means of a magnet in circuit
with the batteries and controlled by the
push button or swltoh. By this arrange
ment the locking bolt would be automat
ically withdrawn by closing the circuit to
the motor. The whole Idea la certainly In
genious; sum practical difficulties as might
perhaps offer would -appear to He In the
Gossip and
When Grant Went A.Coartln'.
N A recent Issue of the Circle
Magazine Mrs. Emily Dent
I Casey tells of Grant's wedding
as she remembers it:
"During the ceremony I sat
as quietly as I eould on a pier
table with Miss Amanda Bhurlds, who aft
erward became my brother John's wife.
We tried to be seen and not heard, but I
fear we succeeded In being heard more than
anybody else. At any rate. I have sine
learned It from the lips of Cadmus Wilcox
(afterward General Wilcox) that I waa the
most pestiferous little nuisance during the
whole wedding; that I was under his feet
all the time when I was not under some
body else's feet, snd that he had most
heartily wished me In bed. No doubt we
were both as ubiquitous and chltterlng as
most small girls are apt to be on such
occasions. But. at least, I sat still long
enough to admire my big sister' extreme
prettlness ss she stood in her bridal dress
beside her quiet, self-possessed soldier.
Captain Grant was as cool under the fire
of the clergyman's questions as he had
been under the fires of the Mexican ar
tillery. He did not l-wik as if he were
ashamed cr afraid to be there, as I have
een some other bridegroom look."
Mrs. Casey also makes an Important con
tribution to thu controversy about Grant's
early habits:
"Perhaps I ought to have said before
though it will apply equaly as well here
that during all the time I knew Orant. be
tween his rluu from California in uu to
m
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FORMOSA RAILWAY BRIDGES, PUT UP
have no Idea of the extent to which opium
I used In some parts of China. When
we took possession of Formosa there were
eighty-nine native and foreign firms en
gaged In importing the drug. There were
sixty or seventy different medicine con
taining opium which the people bought
when the drug ran short and opium was
used by all classes. At first the officials
favored the policy of prohibition, but 1 ob
jected to that on the ground that It would
be Injurious to the people to suddenly top
the smoking and that such a prohibition
could not be enforced. The result was our
present policy."
Chinese of Formosa.
"Give me some Idea of the Chinese of
Formosa. What kind of people are they,
and how big a proportion of the popula
tion?" "They form the most of the Inhabitants.
There are something like 8,000,000 of them
and only a few thousand savages. The
Chinese own all the cultivated lands. They '
populate both town and country and they
are the real working part of the Islands.
They are mostly farmers, over 2.00,000 of
them being engaged In agriculture. There
arc about 200,000 merchants and 9,fl00 fish
ermen. The laborers number something
like 80P.000, and those engaged In manufac
ture about 90,000."
"Have you many Japanese?"
"We have 50,000 or so."
"What are you doing to educate the
people?"
"We are establishing schools and trying
to make the use of the Japanese language
prevalent throughout the island. We have
a central language school at Taipeh In or
der to teach Japanese to the natives and
the native language to the Japanese. This
school ha a normal branch which Is train
ing Japanese teachers for the native pri
mary schools. It has a language branch
where student ere trained for the civil
service. We have railway and telegraph
sections. We have also some school for
Japanese children and some for native
girl. We have established primary school
for native children all over the Island and
they are largely attended."
What Formosa Cost Japaa.
"Is Japan spending much money on
Formosa?"
"Not now," replied Baron Goto. "The
Island Is self-supporting. It is not only
paying all of Its running expenses, but It
has a surplus every year which we can
devote to public Improvement. We intend
to develop the island as much as we can
and to spend in Formosa the taxes col
lected there. In addition to what I have
cost of Individual motors,
window.
etc., for each
Another Edison Prophecy.
'Thomas A. Edison declare that he I
about to revolutionise surface car traffic
by mean of his perfected storage battery.
It 1 the opinion of the Inventor that teats
which he contemplate making on the Third
avenue line in New York In the spring will
prove that future traction Investments will
consist solely In the purchase of cars, the
battery equipment and the erection of com
paratively cheap charging stations, In ad
dition to the laying of rails.
"I have been working on the storage bat
tery for a number of month, with the Idea
In mind of avoiding the heavy Investment
which goes with each venture of the kind
nowadays," said Mr. Edison. "A generating
Stories About Noted People
the fall of Vlcksburg, I never saw him in
toxicated. I never saw him under the In
fluence of liquor. If he ever wss, it was
not known to the members of his immediate
family. Charges that he waa a heavy
drinker were made In those days, and have
been made since. General Grant never gave
them any notice. Mrs. Grant also Ignored
them, though she felt deeply cut by the
injustice of them, and, perhaps. It Is not
my place at this late date to eresent the
recent statements made by a prominent
man in public life, under the very shadow
of Grant' tomb. Therefore, I will content
myself with saying again that If General
Grant was ever a victim of the liquor habit
It was a condition which he happily con
cealed from those nearest his heart, closest
in their association with him, and who
loved him best."
A liftr King's Story.
"The late Claus Bprerkles." said a San
Franciscan, "had one weakneaa of which
he was a little ashamed. He could not
resist the appeal of a beggar. Yet be
knew that the charity societies are right,
and that most beg gats are Imposters.
" 'Have the moral courage of your con
viction,' I said on day, a I saw him
give a beggar a quarter. 'Send these fel
lows to the charity specialists for Investi
gation.' " 'Moral couiage!' Mr. Bprerkles mur
mured. 'That 1 what w call on when we
contemplate mean action.
"A school teacher once told her class that
the courage which make u do what w
D
BY THE JAPANESE
mentioned we have already estfhllfhe-1 a
system of light houses about the ronsls;
we have Improved the principal l.nrb rs.
have di-g sewers and canals In the cl.ief
cities and have established eleven hoi ;il
tals and schools for training native ph si
clans. Tho dredging of the Kelung liiubor
alone cost $1,000,POO, and we have ot'ier
workg under way and In contemplation
wblch require large expenditures. Alto
gethir the Island Is materially l.nrrovlng
under our management."
Controlling- the Head Una tors.
As I close this Interview I see a state
ment In the Talyo, a Japanese newspaper,
made by Mr. Imal, one of the chief For
moaan officials, concerning the ht ad hunt
ers. He says that the aborigines have
about half the land and that they number
100,000. There are nine tribes of the n, di
vided up into thousands of clans or fam
ilies, each of which Is Independent. The
most vicious of the trlb"S is the Atayai.
This tribe still practices head hunting. Its
members sally forth upon the people of
the lowlands whenever they can break
through the lines and brln lnek s li-ad
or so.
Mr. Imal eays that they use the human
head a a sacrifice orierlpg at the I'm' of
owing millet, and that In - marvlai:s the
would-be bride seeks the man who lias
taken the most heads. Indeed, the tos
sesslnn of human heads means Inf'uc e.
wealth and authority fcr the ow.ier. This
man Bays that the savages do not li ;e the
Chinese, and that the head-hunting custom
originated largely because the Chinese have
overrun the Island and taken the best
land. The savage were glad to see the
Japanese come In, and some of the tribes
are quite docile. School have been estab
lished among them and men from certain
tribes have visited Japan. ,
Fighting- the Natives.
Altogether, It Is doubtful whether Japan
has lost more men In handling her savages
than we have lest with ours at the Philip
pines. Since 1S3G there have b?en fourteen
big fights and several thousand sktrrtlehea.
In these 282 Japanese and about S.OOO
friendly Formosaps have bee.n killed, while
about $2,000,000 has been sjMnt In defending
the boundary line. This line runs along
the third mountain ran ire, and there are
five or six men In each guardhouse. The
houses were formerly roofed with thatch,
but the savages set them on fire with burn
ing arrows, and thery are now covered with
sod. The aborigines heve firearms and are
excellnnt shots. They are becoming more
and more quiet, and It Is believed that they
will eventually be civilised.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
station which must remain practlca'ly idle
most of the night Is naturally a drain on
the resource of any company, and after I
have demonstrated the commercial prac
ticability of the storage battery I have no
doubt that future investments will confine
themselve to the battery ystem.
"I have made no changes In the battery
which I perfected years ago. The elements
are the same nickel, with an alkali reac
tionbut I have made those improvements
that are bound to follow steady experi
mentation, till now I am convinced that I
have the battery that Is needed. I am sat
isfied I could put a car Into service today
that would run a whole day without re
charging, but there will be practical tests
for a couple or months, when we will p-ut
a car on the Third avenue line In New
York."
think right regardless of the sneer
of
ouiei, was moral courage, the brat kind.
" 'Then, if a boy has a box of candy,
like me yesterday," aald a lad. 'and If he
eata It all himself, without giving uny ta
people that have no right to It. no matter
how much they call him mean and stlngy-
mere s moral courage, ain't
teacher?"
Oat of the Months nf Banc.
It,
Jt certainly was a remarkable thing
mat. none or the wise people at the national
capital awoke to the fact that Senator
vnox wa ineligible for a cublnet
Until hi selection ha been made.
place
" said
quoted
ex-judge Chrlstlancy of New York
by the Baltimore American
'It reminded me of an Incident tnat hap.
Pened In Albany a number of years ago
when I waa a member of the legislature
One day for some reason a member wanted
to verify a certain passage from the ten
commandments, but when the Bib e wss
handed hlra he did not know where to
look. Neither did any of hi. colleagues
"0WJ, f,er'y '"ry as aware that
the divine law. were somewhere hidden
awsy In th old testament, but this a, the
end of the combined knowledge f the
..mbly. At thi. Juncture a meek-faced
little page, a roungster of some 11 sum
mers plpd up that If tho gentleman would
look In the twentieth chapter of Exodus
he would find the commandments. It was
a retW disconcerting thing that a cham
ber of grown men had to acknowledge the
superior Information of a child."