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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-
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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
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bounties ar awarded to all ship ln th
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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upon the reported meeting between Mac
beth and two desperadoes, whole reputa
tions war M bad th air names appear la
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rope and tha United States. In tha eight
years ending 1801, 124 agents were seni
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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
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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
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,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-
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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
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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
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lon tha "ha n o,utred ft' walk and
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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;
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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
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n vniMlt1nf4 It rnnlolna oil Ulnria nr
roreiirn raw materials ana manuracturea
Droduots. shown alda bv side with those
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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
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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
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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,
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Paying th proper attention to th "spoon-
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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
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Amnlra hA Alan manv nnmmniYMnl arnnn R
ana it is estaonsning tecnnicai scnoois in
which all branches of Industry are taught.
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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
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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
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vvwiiiiijr wan ww auanm ..w -.
Chinese about Hongkong,
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Canton and other cities In th south In-
sutuiea a rjoycon against .apum gwua.
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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,"
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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
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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.
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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,
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