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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1909)
i I 1 1 y k r i u Plans of Japanese Government to Gobble Up the Trade of the Orient , . - vp ;v M-:. . . ... . - . . - ' r j-r , .- ... ... - -- i v I.. .: ' -;, fc.'Vi i i i in -i' -- - ' " MF.M AT wnnK tN BHIP TARDS AT KOBB c::nt pek pat. (CnpyHKlH. 1!K, by Frank CI. ciirpenter.) , OBE, 1D09. (BprclKl Conpond- nre tt Th He.) Will Japan irobblii th trde of the orient? It Ib laring out Its plan to do o. and from now on trill trln Pvery nerv to that end. I hnvo jurt returned frtmj an Inventlgittlon ct One of tha llnna alonir which It la work In. I refer to ahlpbulldlnft. Blnce Its war with China Japan hn estahllahed rrfat -.M.uiinmK yarnn in airrwent parti or tne "niplre, and It has now tona of thoiiaands or mm maklna- atee4 veisaols for Ha foreign trade. Coming Into this harbor of Kobe tha moat trlkiiia- thln I raw were two hupro unfinished atenmers Junt launched from tha Kawos.-ikl deck yards. Each waa of 9,000 tona and Ij Intended to form a part of the Nippon Vusen Kalaha line, plying botwwn Jnpnn and Europe by the Buea canal. These vessel's will be completed within few months and they will bo among: the big gest stfmer going to Europe. In addition to them a half dotcn C,fl00-ton ships ar now being built for the same line hers and at NngAflnkl. nnd there are many other steamers under way.. The country has over 1,100 steamers of vnrlous kinds which It has built at home, and of these 173 are of steel. It has 4,000 home built sailing craft, and the total tonnage of Its steam merchant marine aggregates more than l.VdO.OCO tons. ; v In tha Kawasaki Shipyards. ttoma ft the best and biggest Of tha , home buiit steamers hav en mad ner at Kole. and the largest In tha Kawasaki ship yards. Which I Visited today. Thes yards r on the left of th harbor as you come In. They front the west shore and they cover mora than forty acre. Th water front Is a forest of scaffolding sur- K rounding the ships now under construction, banking, the encouragement of certain ex- n museums throughout th far east offending particles into the shells of the of th Japan-China war, and until our last The boycott was of such a nature that the slipped off and on. This Is popular ba and the berths Include two f.r l.oro-ton ves- ports and th tariff. There are. now about forty of these, in- oysters while they are still alive. The panic occurred Its exports and Imports wer Japanese could not go to war about It. cause one always takes ofr his shoes when sels, one for 8.C0O tons, another for 14,000 In addition to this, Jh government had eluding many In Japan. One Is located in bivalve coats the sand with layer after larger than ever. Today It Is doing more There was no way to retaliate without he enters a Japanese house, hotel, club or tons, and one for ,000. There ar also been Bending out special students and Korea, another In Bingapqr and a third layer to protect Itself and the result Is a business with the United States than with hurting themselves, and they could only tempi, or, Indeed, any of the finer build berths for ships cf from BOO to 11,000 tons other to look up foreign markets. These at Bombay. Similar museums have been pearl. As far as I know, this has been any other nation. We are Its biggest custo- grin and bear It. As It is now, they are lnS- The floors are covered with tha each and for ships of very kind, from " not only to th Orient, but also to Eu- started In Hankow, Chungking, Bhasl and dona . successfully only In Japan. Th in- mors, and It sells us In the neighborhood doing all they can to recover from the ef- "of ,PBt and cleanest of white mats, which torpedo boats up to great ocean liner. Out In the harbor a 150-ton steel crane is being erected. The Kawasaki company, has lately con structed ten gunboats for the Chinese navy. It built a yacht for the lata empress dowager and something like thirty of Its steamers are now plying on the Tangtse Klang and other-Chinese rivers. It has built one destroyer and three torpedo boats for the king , of Slam. These have Just been delivered and three more hava been ordered. A ,OoO-ton ship for tha Paolflo trade will be completed this month and there a re other vessels under way. Alto gether since Its organisation the Kawasaki company has built more than SOD vessels of different kinds. Its works have had In Its employ during tbe last year on the average between 9,000 and 10,000 men. This force has been somewhat reduced on ac count of the hard times, but th prospects for Improvement are good, and the man agers tell m that they will b soon run ning full sgaln. The company has a cap- Ital of $5,000,000 and K, pays dividends of It per cent. How Japan Handle Machinery. In going through the works I was Inter ested In the up to-date machines and In the matterly way la which these almond-eyed laborers handle them. Tha 10,000 employes ar paid from UVfc cents to $1.25 a day. th averago wage being about 40 cents, or not more than one-sixth that of our man. For these wages th Japanese mechanics ar doing all th work that you will see don In such ship yards as Cramps or in our big naval gun factory In Washington. Th managers of these worxs ara th three sons of the famous financier. Count Mataukata. th .president being Kojlru Matsukata, on of Japan's best known business men. These men hav all been educated In th United Stated and Europe. Mr, vGoro Matsukata, who showed me through th establishment Is a graduate of Tale: one of his .brothers was graduated at Harvard, and another has spent eleven year In Belgium and Germany. I men tion this to show . the kind of training possessed by th men who ar doing th btg things of Japan. Made hy Government SnhalalM. I am told that th Kawasaki company could not hav grown to its present pro portions hat U net been for th govern ment subsidies. This Is o with th other ship-building companies; and th horae bullt ship of today ar all du to gov ernment support. A it la now, there Is k bounty of $t ton an sll vessels of from .'oo to 1,0)0 tons, and on of $10 per to for 'vessels of more than that There l also t bounty of $2 60 per horsepower on th engine used. Sums Ilk the run tnt big figure when tha ship ar large. At $10 a ton, th two $.000 ton ships In th harbor will ach rcelv $90,000, with a large. rake-off for their horsepower. Thes boun- ties hav been given sine 1896. and, as a result. Japan I now abl to buna aDOUi as good vessels as any other nation. Other V - w - bounties ar awarded to all ship ln th . HI. carrying trade; ana japans mww.- mariAA .nuu.nti tn mora than L000.O0O 'ton, th greater part of which baa been oreated within th past fw yar. Th aauon has now a half dose-W, steamship companies which cover all parts of tn Paolfia and Indian ocean. Most of 1W IS 40 big liners are run by Japanese captains and there Is a nautical college at Toklo whose graduates furnish the principal offi cers. Japan's Oraa Liners. The largest steamship company here la the Nippon Yusen Kalaha. It has ninety three steamers with a tannage of more than ax,000, and Ha vessels trade regularly with America, Bombay, Australia and Eu rope. The company also does business on the Aalatlo rlvera, and It Siberia, Pormoaa and 81am. has ships to The length of lta services la altoa-ether about 45.000 milea. This company ha a capital of $11,000.00 and It pays dividends of 13 per cent, Another big corporation la the Osaka) Shosen Kalaha, ths Osaka Merchant corn- P.ny, which has a capital of over $7,ono,0(iC, and a third la the Toyo Klsen Kalaha, whose capital Is a little over $1,500,000. The latter company has a regular service to db-u rTancisco, ana it will eventually ply io oouin America as wen. in addition there are the Mitsui Bussen Kalaha, which " J rB numoer oi coaming snips, ana me japan-cnina steamship company, whlch running steamers on the Chinese ., , . cumpnn.es are paying dlvloAnda and all jir hMvllv itM I w-i j. j.... A . ' . . iiiurira. i in ht t v t'l ii nipni nr .innnn i n a cldedly patriarchal. It Is nursing Indus- tries of all kinds and Is doing all It can to stimulate trade. Thr Is a higher council r i.,uif,..i i,.... rm,i- i. ... ' " ..1UW7. - ,v,yvBCU Vt iQIUf iiieiiiLmiw, ivw of wj,om are government officials, and the othtr titt90a weU j,nown business men. Thla council Investigates all matters of foreign trade, and schemes as to how Japan may take advantage of them. Its discussions deal with the various markets, and also with such things as international Macbeth on FTER talcing an immunity bath that worked for almost 800 years, Macbeth, alleged mur derer, arch-conspirator and regi cide, is to be brought to book before an Iowa court To be A condemned, perchance to swing at tha end of a plec of Iowa hemp or to have his shady reputation whitewashed by a verdict of acquittal is the fata that is awaiting the old Scotch trouble maker. Fof Macbeth haa been indicted far the foul murder of his old friend and sus pected co-constplrator, Banquo, and a court In th law school of the State University of Iowa will pass upon the guilt of the de fendant and deal out tardy justice to him according to the law and the evidence. The indictment has been drawn with that nrofoiuift ree-aril fnr leva 1 tAohnlnalltlna whlch mark, crlmlnal ,awyer. It ha. been solemnly proclaimed In court that on Macbeth did enter Into a conspiracy with a certain peraon or persons to gtv th legendary progenitor of th house of Stuart an effective boost toward th bet ter land. Of course, the , prosecuting at torney doe not hope, as he will probably explain to the Jury, to prove that th noted defendant struck down the unfortunate Banquo with his own hand. He will de pend entirely on evidence tending to show that the prlsonur at the bar was the brains of the conspiracy that ended In th death of tha said Banquo. "And th court will Instruct you, gentle men of th Jury," he will undoubtedly continue, "that th man who was back of th conspiracy waa Just as guilty as the man who actually struck th fatal blow. Nay, rather more, gentlemen of the Jury, because It was In his cool and calculating mind, without the. Impulse of immediate fear of bla own life, thut this horrible con spiracy waa hatched oi.t that th bloody plot was conceived, that the hand that rut tha throat and battered th bead of th noble victim waa guided." Th honorable state's attorney will then launch Into th defense of circumstantial evidence, for th case against Macbeth must reat entirely on the circumstances surrounding th dreadful crime. And It ta almost an even bet that tha attorney for th defendant win b able to show to th satisfaction of twelve mod ern Juror that not only waa Mhcbeth Innocent of any crim. but that h waa strangely horrified when he heard of it of course there will be puttering around BDOUt tha corpus delectt, th resgeatae u4 tha other horrid shapes that stalk atxut court rooms and defeat Justice, and ,f ha u ahrewd n the art of Inuendo, who hnow, put th defendant's counsel may not flut(m the orime upon the head of tha unl0ctunat son of th vlettm, for as Un(X sagely remarks, "for Fleam .. what eould an up-to-dat reU " .. " WM.W W UVlVUftll , . kj.- . dAfna n. ... ' ' h th unwritten law la too far. . . ... .... . . , tata wU1 , , . "JJ-tS-- bitten m!c! upon the reported meeting between Mac beth and two desperadoes, whole reputa tions war M bad th air names appear la - THEIR AVERAOtO WAOB THE OMAHA -.r'! A-"sMi":' JAPANESE .-?.-.".r7; i MSaBiMMaa AMERICAN rope and tha United States. In tha eight years ending 1801, 124 agents were seni abroad MOP ..";- fv I-'' ! Jph? , . J w. 1 . tions, the largest are In the big cities of Japan now has sixty chambers of corn method to encourage trade Is Tokio and Osaka. I visited the Toklo merce and la now sending commercial com- Another by sendlsg young men to be trained in the factories and commercial establish- menU of othpr countries. These students ... nj. . .. m,i nr ik junnui ooni,1.ll.te. and thev send back reeular re- t concerning the establishments and .... l.wa KtloM vrlicrA thav l ttntlntif fl ThirA are nrooabiv ioo or more sucn sucn men ahrnad now. A lame number Of them are - ,n America and Europe; many ar In -nina, ana some in ma Biraitn osiueraenu, Jva and th Phllipplnea 1 Tha aovernment Is encouraging the for- mntlnn of Industrial a-ullda and the trarl- - - - ou cla,e of merchants have their own combinations. There are 400 such guilds In Jap0' and al" 900 guilds devoted to com- mere. v In tha Commercial Maaeama. Japan is establishing Commercial bureaus Trial Charged With Conspiring- to Murder Banquos ' -u. v - -r ..'" "'' . . Verner E. Gahlelson, Harcourt. COUNSEL. FOR th cast as "Murderers," the author, usu ally careful about libel suit and Nash ville gun plays, not even deeming It neces sary to make It "alleged murderers." But on the other hand, asks th de fendant' lawyer, was the defendant, whose standing In the community has been here tofore unquestioned, heard to conspire with these two wicked men for the destruction of the victim? Not at all. It la true he cal'.ed attention to the woeful condition of the said dis Quaint Features of Everyday Life Out of Wonaaua tn Man's Clatha. KB of th macy Idlers gathered In by th polio of St. Louis, recently, waa a young woman of 22 year masquerading In men' clothes. Bhgav her nam as IJllie Winters; hfJi wuiu wen's clothes for nine years. Mlsa Winters Is of . medium height weigh 140 pounds, has black hair and deep, brown eyes. Her cheeks ar rosy. ehowing that she enjoy good health. In fact she say she haa never been sick a day since she became a "man." Th shoes she wore yesterday wer padded w,tt cotton to make her feet appear larga, but " na of concealing her hands, which, notwithstanding th hard ,orlt which ahe haa done, ar etill tho of a woman, and were largely responsible ,or ,h discovery of hr sex. M1" ,nrer ramec comely girl. but ,b hM Prad $"' "'r o 3 lon tha "ha n o,utred ft' walk and 1 1, . -M.- A A.rn.AM.sntl lll ' . " cully ln passing as oae. -i Know i .hall fall down and break, my neca Beo I put on long are, said -.era. "My dr.-e. n,y reach my sno tope wnan i tuacaraea mem, ana I don't knuw how I Vn going to get along; SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 1 ) ' " BUILT BOAT ON THB TAN O T8B KUNQ RIVETR. T 1 In :rrn i-e C i k 1 j&'lf TYPEWRITING MACHINES IN A JAPANESE OFFICE. elsewhere In China, and, one waa recently opened in ifangnoK. ui me tocai insinu- Museum the other day. It takes up the better part of a large three-story building and it has about 25,000 samples of foreign ni n.nu. -nA it i. mnma,ht Ilka the Commercial museum In Phlladol- phla. save that It is larger and more like . . ...... n vniMlt1nf4 It rnnlolna oil Ulnria nr roreiirn raw materials ana manuracturea Droduots. shown alda bv side with those . of Japan. There are large displays of macninery ana electric ai worxs oi noms manufacturers, and all sorts of metal articles from aluminum to Iron. There Is M Jananese laonnar mult in Oerman v alda by side with the beautiful native product. which Is worth tts weight In gold and which no European artist can copy. There are Japanese clocks and watches, and even Japanese pearls. The latter ar magnifl- cent and they are homemade. They ar got- ten by Introducing grains of sand or other Max Hemingway, Hampton DEFENSH IN CABE OF PEOPLE AGAINST MACBETH. reputables and worked upon thetr class prejudices, but if every on were to be hung who had been guilty of that of fense who would there be ta occupy the bench or the Jury boa? The state, cf course, will further show that shortly after .thls meeting the said Banquo was set upon and slain while in the company of his son Fleance on the way to a dinner at the Invitation of thla same defendant. Further than this, the prosecution will in skirts. But I suppose I will have to get uaed to them, and might as well begin now as any time. In the future I shall W4r dresses, and suppose I will have to find employment suitable for a woman." In all thes years, she says, her sex was never brought In quesMon, though her as sociate sometimes remarked that she had effeminate mannerisms at times. rollee Get th Book. Because th voters at the annual town meeting, a few weeks ago, refused to appropriate a sum sufficient for Its main- tenaace, th entire police department of tho town was discharged by th selectmen. When th annual town meeting was held last January, soma frugal taxpayers attacked waste of public money in con nection with th department, with th result that th appropriation was cut down to $l.(no. Sine that tlnis. $400 of this sura ha been spent and th selectmen seeing noth . .. . .... . a ing but financial breakers ahead of the $1,100 balance, today served formal noUc, up0n the head and members of th department that "the hook", had been used, . -T-" rfmM ... Paying th proper attention to th "spoon- 21. 1909. 1 - ., rr"Tn"i ventor of this product has become rich inrougn me saie oi nis pearis. missions abroad. During tha past year it has been inviting American merchants to vlBit this country and there have been Urx isiinni tmm h Paairin coast. Which have been taken through the factories and entertained generally. The .... Amnlra hA Alan manv nnmmniYMnl arnnn R ana it is estaonsning tecnnicai scnoois in which all branches of Industry are taught. .... - In Toklo I found one Industrial school for young women wnn more uwn ,ww biuiuuus who were learning embroidery, sewing and the making if silk flowers and other artl- cles for eXDOrt. Blar Foreign Commerce, As a result of such efforts, Japan's for- elgn commerce Is rapidly Increasing. It Is now mora than double what It was in 1900, and it has greatly Increased since th Russian war. It made a lumn at the close Charles Herrlck, Extra, disclose, unless this evidence comes under the ban as Incompetent, Immaterial and hearsay that before the energetic newsboy had begun to cry his "wuxtrles, all about the horrible murder," the defendant waa troubled by a vision which caused him In voluntarily to cry out, "Thou canst not say I did It; never shake thy gory locks at me." This will culminate th state's ease and the big flKht of the trial will probably aria over an effort of the defense to keep out Ing'' proclivities of th average cook, a householder of Caibondale, Pa., who has had a Urge and trying experience, has Inserted this advertisement In a Carbon dale paper: WANTED Girl or woman to wash. Iron, bake, rook, serve meals and do general housework for two persons) eight room and a bathroom to keep clean; wages, $4 very Maturd&y night to one that can give satisfaction; work must be dun accord ing to specifications; not a hard place: don't apply unless you are a competent cook. One afternoon a week off, besid-a . every Sunday afternoon and evening, but must return and get supper every other Sunday. "Guntleman friend may b en tertained, but not fed, seven nights a week from 7.30 to 11, m oflener or later. This gives one whole dy. 24 hours a week for "spooning." which ought to suffice until after matrimony, then you'll be lucky to get one day a munth. If these restrictions seem unreasonable do nut consider it ' Girl's iHvmarh a Jenksaon. Th ostrich and th goat ar mer ama- teurs In the art of Ung lodigestlbl ar- im. lea cunpanKi w m jrvwus wuulao. win waa ecrlbd at a meeting of th Chicago Homaopathla Medical society. Dr. C. B. Kahlk decired that at the laat surgical oongr In Berlin a oas was rcordd ol a girl of 1$ from whose stomach r :,7..- - VM W - jf ''"V-"'.- " ' a :- r' -s?' .?,"' : .-Vr.'.-.' v PV h' VV ;tfK mv. BIX THOUSAND-TON STEAMER NOW of $66,000,000 worth of goods every yeir. Next cornea China which It sells (43,000, 000, and then Franca, which buya $30,000,000 r mora. As to Imports. Japan gets more from the English than from any one else, and we leans, nd they will employ it in any inter com next. We are now shipping somothlitg national contest that comes up. I under like $40,000,000 worth of stuff here annually stand that they ara now talking of boycot and there Is no reason why our trade should ting the Germans, on account of dispute not be Increased. Tha people like American which hava arisen over certain eonces goods and If the War scare does not spring slons in the coal mlnea of Shantung. Tha up from time to time they will buy more people of that province ara refusing to buy and more. That scar has affected our German goods j they ay they will not trsde. The merchants say that they bought travel on German railroads, nor go to f France and England while the American schools which employ German teachers, papers were full of a possible war with nor hav anything to do with tha Germans Japan. A bright young Japanese who sells until the trouble be settled their way. our typewriters, linotypes and offloe furnl- Referring again to the boycott agalnat ture In Toklo tells me that the war scare the Japanese, I talked With a leading bus has materially affected his business, and ness man from Shanghai. Hs told ma that the drummers from other countries that the Chinese marohanta had decided ta have used It to Influence the native mer- make Japan los $150,000,000 on account of chants, asking them why they do not buy 1 action In that matter, and that they of their friends la other countries Instead would not let up until they had created of from the United States, who are anxlouB damagua to that amount, to fight them. Oor XpJTrl7h Japan. The Chinese and the Boycott, The fuss which Japan has had with China about tha selalngf of a. lot vt guns wtilcn are being smuggled into me latter v. - aw- t..MnMA n -..A vvwiiiiijr wan ww auanm ..w -. Chinese about Hongkong, "". Canton and other cities In th south In- sutuiea a rjoycon against .apum gwua. - - freight In Japanese vessels, would not pat- ronlse Japifiesa merchants, nor buy any- hl- lT.r.n IT . n.rllwl inm. of th biggest Japanese steamers left Hong- kong practically empty of Chinese goods, and today th boycott Is still felt. Japan has. In some years, sold as much as $50,000,000 worth of goods to China, and tha loss of so much of that trade has addod to the commercial distress of the past year. this damaging evidence. Was It part of the res gestae 7 the learned lawyer will ask. Was it an exclamation pressed Involun tarily from th Up of him who planned the murder, was It a confession of guilt or waa It, after all, only a creation of the brain of a sick man? io overoom tne prejudice tail vldence might arouse In the Jury, the defense will hav to make a master stroke. "Why," the learned attorney will ask, "did not the defendant show his grief at the death of his old friend? Was not his Tieart rent In twain by the awful news? Did he not show his anger by meeting summary Justice upon the two guards who ought to hav been watching and were not, being stupefied by drink? Was not his every act that of an Innocent man torn by grief and sorrow at a deed so horrible. Does this not show him to be an Innocent man and entitled to a vindication after centuries of calumny?" Taken as a whole, th state's attorney has not by any means a one-sldad Job to prove the guilt of this ambitious old con spirator, bad as his reputation Is. Mac beth haa had his defenders, though they hav been few. He haa teen called ' a weak, pliable tool In th hands of his mora ambitious wife, and h has been Justified by a desire to free his country from tyrany. The disputants will b under lasting ob ligations to the law students at Iowa City if they finally decide once and for all whether he was really guilty of any crime under th statutes In such cases mad and provided or not. the Ordinary tha following miscellaneous collection was removed: On thousand ona hun,lrH ni eighty-four nails, lit!! small hooks, 128 bent pins, twenty-seven straight pins, seventy- ln ail the lare cltle. and our sewing ma ll I ne bits of wire, six nail heads and four chines, graphophonna and phonographs ar pieces of glass. to be had everywhere, ln my trip through The operation waa entirely successful and th girl Is now alive aiftl well. Hernia ot a Divorce. Mrs. Glsella Swarck ts th "heroine" of Chicago's first "divorce dinner." It was Tn to her by the Jury which heard ht r caa and which recommended that Judge Honor enter a decree of absolute divorce. Th words of Mr. 8wrck which touched th Juror so deeply were: "My husband was the meanest man In the world, berause "For nine year hs never kissed ma. "He never took me out for entertainment. "H never bought me a flower In hi life. "He made me sleep In a dog kennel. "If there la anything meaner than these miugs ue cuuiii av io m r- aian ao men) because h was not original enough to think of them. Th Juror gav her a big bunch of A mer- lean Beauty roses and, as they expressed it, "a swell fead," 3 BUILDING AT THE KAWASAKI TARP8. fecta and their agents aia everywhere In China, drumming up trad. In tha meantime, the Chinese, bava learned the power of tha boycott. Thef Used It with great force against the Amer I find our American goods popular In JaDan. Thev ar to be seen In nearly every ,hop 0B the cnlef BUHinei streets of tha b eltle, nA 0ft8n m the llttl. ,torM 0f the japane,e villages. These people ar .. ... . nuyinr mora ana more roreifi-n BTOOas. TM war with Russia taught the soldiers th use of shoes and th advantages of foreign clothing. They learned to eat canned stuffs, and as a result the masses ar be ginning to buy such things. There should be a big opening her for American shoes. Th army now wears footgear of foreign style, although It Is made In Japan. In some of th higher schools shoes are required to be worn by tha students, and many of the girls ar adopting like footwear. I notice tha fa vorite shoe for men Is the congress gaiter with elastlo sides, which can be easily would be ruined by the nails of an Amer ican shoe. Japan Is now taking a great deal off leather from the United States. It buy our calfskins and cowskins and also sole eather. It takes considerable wheat and flour, canned goods of all kinds and tha greater part of Its kerosene oil. Nation Wants Drawers. There Is a big opening for our cotton un derwear. Jn the past the ordinary Jap nes has never worn anything underbills kimono, and a strip of wadded cotton wag all that shielded his bare legs from th blasts of winter. He Is now hetlnnln tn buy knit stuffs, and th whole nation want drawers. The men her often wear these without kimonos, so that a union suit forms full dress. This demand la bound to grow and our exporters should study It Tho prices of all things are now high. Cotton elastics which retail at home for from S to 5 cents a yard are selling in Toklo for 30 cents, and all forolgn goods and high prloed. Biscuits, or crackers, as we call them, which bring C cents a pound at home, sell here for 90 cents. They ar imported from England and are sent out , tln, tlghty' .Bale, to k out th, mo.. ture. T 1 . . - . fruit and Columbia river salmon In the stores, and also Imitations of them. Japan Is now canning saJnlnn Itself, and It Is ex perimenting In making canned sardine out of the herring from the shores of Hs new possession of Baghallen. Many trade mark are Imitated, ane one has to watch care fully to protect his goods. This is also tha case with merchandise Intended for Man churia and Core.. It should all be marked with Chinese characters, as well as with the American trade murks. Onr Machinery in Demand. I find there is a great deal of American machinery coming Into Japan. Most Of our big exporting firms hav agent her and ny machine and machine tools ar sold. earn turbines are txlng Introduced, and llll the electric possibilities of th coun- try the, ' tund to be a big demand for electrical goods In the future. Th various inA American typewriters are for sal 1,18 Kawasaki deck yards I saw many American machine In operation, and la tn planing n llls and carpenter shops found th men working on Oregon lumber. On of tbe big openings of th future and a big market of today Is In window glass. In the past all th window of this country were of paper, and tha Inner walls of very house were composed of hundred of paper panes. In the town these' ar now being replaced with glass; and as a f',ult J"Pa U on us mor glass thaa any other country of the far east The new schoul buildings which ar now being erected are almost walled with glass, and every large structure Is a blase of light Indeed, the conditions are ohsnging so rap- Idly In this part t th world that If our mniiuunurfii ana exporters woula take adventag of them tbsy should keep men on th ground to study th markets and to push tbmr goods in accordance with th demand of th time. FRANK d. CAHmtfTSSSL, i : r ( f i i. ii i i . jsxe Am