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Our new stock is beautiful—call in and see it. Adams Furniture Go. HMfaKatan, jMHtmmtmwn. M. O. Ill fltylM ufl gifts fe? Iftvy MM of Pari. The MM The Gtitvtae *n tow thH Truto-Mftrk. ftarnrt of Imitation!. ridsj^ 6ARLAND is pre-eminent in every point of material, workmanship, strength, beauty, service, con venience and economy of fuel. But one quality, and that is the lest. The Art Garland Heater has no equal. Call and Examine Th«m and ask for a pack of beauti ful whist Garland playing cards free. R. L. Scott & Co. Jamomtown, Mm Dm Business Cards TOWXKN.AU* ARTHUR L. ftx. KNAUF & KNAUF. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office, Rooms 3 and 4 James River Xatun ti Bank Building. Jamestown, N. O. J. A. Coffey Attorney at Law Courtenay, N. Dak. Lands, 1oani •ad Collections Pearson Collects Wages Offlco: Doollttlc Block, Jamestow n, North Dakota. DR. L. C. LIOORI, Qualified Veterinarian, ECHOES FROM THE WAR A Russian View of the Enemy's Fighting Tactics. REGOVEBY OF WOUNDED JAPANESE Remarkable DUplay of IVcrre br lh« SoMtera When trader Treat meat. Am lacMeat of the Battle of Llao raa«—Horror* of the Conflict—Rm« •Ian Volaateera, Yes, we were greatly mistaken when we called tbem "Uttlc Japs." We have •ever before had to deal with such •klllful opponents,- enya the Russkoye Blovo. They hare Included In their tactics all modern methods, strictly adapting them to their own national peculiarities. For instance, knowing the weakness of their cavalry, they never allow it to go out unsupported. There is always Infantry behind it, and our cavalry often runs against it, not expecting its presence. The Japanese reconnoissance is ef fected thus: A compact force of rifle men marches, sustained by screens, and patrols move about five versts ahead. At a distance of three versts the scouts are preceded by a number of Chinese. These last come to the Russian lines, examine the camp and make signals to the Japanese concerning the where abouts of the cavalry patrols. As tbe country Is mountainous, they advance at the rate of seven versts a day, in trenching and fortifying every 6tep they take. Their path is an uninter rupted row of fortifications. Knowing the excitable, Impressionable temper of their soldiers, they never pursue tbe enemy before settling down in good order upon the position occupied, be cause during a pursuit troops often become disarranged. Judging by their operations, one could imagine they are the most phlegmatic and methodical people in the world—so strong in their military education and their knowledge of the art of war. They very reason ably avoid the bayonet. Their leading ranks run away to the right and left, opening the front for the fire of the succeeding lines. Running round these to the rear, they again form their ranks, thus taking the place of re serves. If the troops uncovered are unable to stop our attack by fire they repeat tbe maneuver. What self control, what discipline, are required in order to do this, and what a consciousness of strength! When they are on the march It Is all but impossible for them to meet with any surprises. In addition to tbe men detached for guard, they surround their columns by chains of scouts, who advance along the crests of tbe elevations. Movement under such conditions mny be slow, but it 19 sure. One of the most interesting points brought out in the present war is tbe way the Japanese wounded heal, says Will Levington Comfort, the corre spondent of the Chicago News in Ja pan. A dispatch from Tokyo states that there are 45,000 wounded now un der care in the various Japanese hos pitals and that the results of treat ment are most gratifying. This can readily be believed. The writer re turned from Manchuria to Moji, a port of southern Japan, last May as tbe wounded were being brought in from the battle of the Yalu and passed somo time in the Japanese hospitals. The way tho soldiers bore up under wounds and recovered was astounding. Pa tients with fresh bullet holes through their breasts tumbled out of their cots to be examined standing. There were no screams of pain. One could not avoid the conclusion that a wound ca pable of racking white flesh with tbe extremist torture merely itched the Japanese. Operations and blood poison case9 are hardly known. I saw a soldier who has been shot through the left eye, the bullet emerging from tbe base of the brain, stand before the surgeon and relate in a low, monotonous voice how it all came about. Meanwhile tbe sur geon was removing the tightly adher ing lint from the wound with tbe care lessness of one who is tearing plaster from a statue. There was no softening with hot water, but the patient didn't mind. Great rents In the brown flesh from lance and saber thrusts drew to gether and knitted by first intention, almost under the eye. Watch a severed earthworm unconcernedly working out Its unity, and you have a parallel of healing. John F. Bass, writing to the Chicago News from Yokohama, relates the fol lowing incident of the battle of Liao yang: "A correspondent saw a wide circle of Japanese soldiers on the morning )f Sept. 4 intent on some object. Push forward, he tried to enter tbe ring. A soldier seized him violently by the arm and threw him back with a stern exclamation. Just then a shot came as If from tbe ground. A soldier who •poke English explained: 'There are Russian soldiers in a cave, and they will not surrender. Whenever any one attempts to approach the entrance of their retreat a shot comes out' "After a time the Japanese got some matting and, throwing it over tbe mouth of the cave, attempted to smoth er tbe occupants into submission. Tbe trick succeeded, for after a time a rifle with a bayonet was shoved up Into the air. A soldier got a piece of wire, reached cautiously over, booked It on to the Russian rifle and drew it to him. In a moment the wild, savage head of a Russian protruded. He stepped out of tbe hole and stood glar about him with folded arms. A !ng t. S-Tl-'ipW second rifle was banded out in tbe same way and then a third and fourth until six Russian soldiers, maddened and grim with battle, stood defiantly •lde by side glaring first at the Japa nese and then at the white man stand ing in the midst of them. The corre ipondent snapped his camera. It was the best plcturc of the war." A story comes from Moscow which •hows pretty clearly tbe different views that the government and the common people take of the war, says the St. James' Gazette. Two men were I out walking when they saw a crowd Jostling and shoving, while from with in the crowd came loud sobs, cries of pain, oaths and blows. "What on earth Is the matter?" said the first man. "Oh," said bis companion indifferently, "It Is only a government officer forc ing a peasant to turn volunteer." In a letter from a Russian officer read by Rabbi Charles Fleischer of Boston before bis audience at the Bap tist temple in Philadelphia the other night an account was given of the atrocities practiced by both Japanese and Russians, and it stated that the men, throwing aside their weapons in many cases, choked their Japanese op ponents to death. TINY ENGINE FOR JAPAN. Built to Itoplace Cooliea on Xarroi* Gauge Hoada. A locomotive of diminutive propor tions which was recently completed at Philadelphia has been shipped to Ja pan. It will be used as a substitute for coolie labor on narrow gauge roads along the coast, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The locomotives will be used on the Atami light railway, a pleasure resort road about sixteen miles long running from a point near Yokohama up into the mountains. Cars carrying four pas sengers have been in use for years, and three coolies are required to push each tar up the grade. This work requires great physical exertion, causing the men to become overheated. They are accustom%l to ride down In the cars, and by cooling off too rapidly many have contracted consumption and died. As there are a large number of such roads in operation along the coast of Japan, the deaths of tbe coolies be came alarming, and the matter was brought to the attention of the emper or. He ordered the railroad owners to get other means of power. The con struction of a diminutive locomotive was suggested, and plans for one were offered by a company in Philadelphia. They were accepted. Tbe locomotive weighs 5,500 pouuds. It has a tank of fifty gallons capacity and burns soft coal. Tbe diameter of the drivers is twenty inches, anil the cylinder has a diameter of four and one-half Inches, with a ten inch stroke. The track upon which it will run is two feet wide, and the rails used weigh from eight to ten pounds to the yard. One man 1s required to operate the lit tle locomotive, and from his seat in the rear he can reach every part of the starting and stopping gear without getting up. A canopy, open at the sides, covers the cab and engine, and the side plates almost hide the little drivers. The locomotive is intended to draw from four to six cars containing four passengers each. LIGHT ON LAMA MYSTERY. Aaatrallan Jonrnallat Believe* Tt bet'a Hl*h Prteata Are Polaoned. Here is a description from an Austra lian journalist's pen of that mysterious personage, the talal lama of Tibet, says a special cable dispatch from London to the New York American and Journal: "It Is significant," he says, "that the being who holds this peculiar priestly position always dies Just as he is about to attain his majority, which means eighteen years. The fairy tale (old to tbe people is that the grand luma. who has spent nine-tenths of his life in holy meditation, has become so thor oughly disgusted with the sinful state of this world that he has decided to fly to the realms of lotus lived bliss. Personally I believe he retires on ac count of 'something in the soup,' for if the lama lived to be eighteen years old he would hold supreme power, which the Instant he dies goes back to tbe 'boss' lamas, or monks, called gyalpos, or regents. "The grand lama having 'gone aloft' to see his previous brother, the lamas scoot around and note how many baby boys were born In Tibet the day tbe talal lama died. These are watched until they are four years of age, and then they are shown a Job lot of old clothes, trinkets, etc., and the boy who picks out an article that once belonged to the dead grand lama Is adjudged to be his successor and removed to the most holy monastery of Potala, where he spends the rest of his life. He has an easy but dreadfully dull life for a boy." I That deadly implement, the batpiu of modern times, is a descendant of an equally formidable toilet article used by Roman women. The Aspaslas and Julias and Claudias who decked them selves a couple of thousand years or more ago, to the undoing of the par ticular Balbus or Marcus they desired to fascinate, wore bone hairpins of prodigious length. Vet. like the wo men of this present time, they seem to have experienced the .same difficulty In keeping them in place. This fact came to light during excavations at Silches ter, near Reading. England, a hundred or so of these bone hairpins being found iu the Itoman bath, collected maybe by the bath attendant, to prove all these centuries later that there is nothing new under the sun and that in all ages the same little foibles have been possessed by women. SEEING THE FAIR IN DETAIL Reserve Stock of Crowns For tho Monarch* of Europe—They Are All Displayed In a Big Glass Case—The Grand Prize For Vernis-Martin Fur niture Comes to the United States at Last—A Work Table That Would Turn Work to Play—Grandfather'* Wonderful Clock—Too Much Mahog any—Kentucky Has a Big String of Medals For Her Exhibit of Woods. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY MARK BENNITT.) The burning desire to wear a crown lias cost many a man his head in the dismal past, and to look at ktngly headgear has been for ages the de light of a truckling populace. In this democratic country the exhibit of the crowns of European monarchies ex cites interesting comment. This regal bric-a-lirac Is displayed in a large case in tbe jewelry section of the Palace of Varied Industries, not far from the south middle entrance. They are very rich and beautiful jewels, notwith standing the barbaric nonsense which they suggest. Nero, the worst of the lot, if history does him justice, had 9 simple wreath of metallic leaves. Even Napoleon had the bacillus crownus, but made no innovations as to style. Tbe Empress Josephine wore a dainty affair with plenty of jewels and not much gold. Two of the crowns appear without title. Siain shows the most radical style, the crown having a lofty central spire that would be much in tbe way for everyday wear. The orb of Japan is a blazing gold sun with a big central jewel. The Russian crown bas an uncomfortable look Just now. Of course these crowns are not the originals, but might serve the purpose of a reserve stock in case of an emer gency. American furniture makes no apolo gies to any other country. It has Just won the grand prize away from France with its Vernis-Martin furniture. This Is a distinguishing honor. The jury comprised six Americans, two French men, two Italians and two Germans. The Vernis-Martin is the pictorial fur niture in French patterns, usually with gold groundwork and bulging panels bearing festal scenes. Keribboued boys and girls dance down the panels most joyously, l.iuVies in rich evening gowns sit upon rural landscapes, while gentle men with powdered hair And bright costumes lean over them and play gently the mandolin. Princes stroll in palace gardens, cherubs carry on the grape harvest, and a lady sits grace fully in a shell and catches a lapful of roses thrown to her by winged babies In the bush—all these in the prize tak ing French tables and cabinets. Lady ltlcssington's mahogany work table has eight compartments under tbe octagonal lid, ami I'm sure work must he a luxury and a delight, as all work should be, at such a table as this. But I.ady lilossingtou is not over worked. for this suggests only the dainty toll of embroidering a tidy or darning a few family stockings during spare moments. It is one of the rich things iu the American furniture exhibit in the Palace of Varied Indus tries. Here, too, is a grandfather's clock that must have belonged to a very rich grandfather. A little boy stood before it and exclaimed: "Ob, mamma, see that clock! It must be worth a million dollars!" Above tbe face of the clock is the face of the man in the moon looking from behind two blue hemispheres that represent the earth and its movements with ref erence to the moon. The price is no doubt in strict harmony with its band some, truthful face and shapely hands. If 1 were to criticise the Ameri can exhibit I would say that it runs too much to mahogany. We want something besides pie for dinner and something besides roses in our garden. Mahogany is a luxury, therefore let's keep it in the luxury class, even for exposition purposes. To be sure, it is here in endless forms, from taborets to expansion bookcases, plain, carved, inlaid and gilded, but mahogany all the while. A few things of oak relieve the situation somewhat, and the ma chine that makes bed springs in reighboring alcove also produces a jiachine made noise that lulls to si lence the restive tongue. The sur roundings are all that save the exhibit from monotony. Kentucky has done the trick of cap turing twenty-two medals in her for estry exhibit. This fact implies no small degree of cleverness 011 the part of "Old Kalntuck." Tho first of the live gold medals was for the exhibit as whole, and the rest of the yellow I hiedallious were given for such com monplaces as hickory handles, of which 4,000 kinds are produced boxes, buck ets, spokes», neck yokes, singletrees and split wood pulieys. The silver medals were for a log wagon loaded with oak logs, shipping crates, boat oars, car riage woodwork, hubs, specimens of lumber, a post hole auger and a fishing reel. Manufactured articles of wood from Kentucky tlnd a market in every part of the world where civilization has a foothold, making up an impor tant part of our magniticent export trade. Such facts as these give new meaning to trade figures that other wise would seem dry and uninterest ing. Tho exhibits are but specimen 'products of great industries that give 'employment to many thousands of people and contribute largely to the prosperity and material progress of the atatc. In this light all exhibits deserve to be considered. NOBODYor Suit meets the (WMHTID 1304 BY CROUSt 3 BRmtGlt unCAMWYM Wi who is anybody would think of doing without a sack suit two. It is presentable at almost every informal occasion* A correctly designed and properly tailored Sack absolute requirements men for business wear. We have such suits at $10.00, better ones at $20X0, And still better Sack Suits at $30.00, ready made, but still cor rectly made. O. Flint Furniture and Undertaking. 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