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BRYAN ON DEMOCRACY.
William J. Bryan Is talking pre®
nearly as often now as he did when he
was a candidate for president in 1896
and 1900.' There has always been a
noticeable characteristic about Mr.
Bryan—his ability to talk whether he
had a talking point or not. But thiB
time he has had plenty to talk about
and has rather run over. When in Chi
cago recently he gave a reporter an
Interview to the effect that he had
beejv wrongly reported in the south
and 'had been made to say that Presl
dent Roosevelt Is the best president
the United, States eyer had. Mr. Bryan
there expressed his hope in the suo
cess ofv the1 reorganized democracy
four years from now, giving as his rea
son that a great many republicans
will at that time, vote against Presl
dent Roosevelt's successor as the re
publican standard bearer if the repub- nevertTefe8s""the
lican party commends Roosevelt's
the same ideas
Mr. Bryan is looking to the fore with
i» wide open eyes and if he believes
what he says he is saying to the world
r|»'- that he can see a great deal farther
K-\ l" ahead than can most men. However,
his ability as a prophet has never been
a'/ held in very high esteem by the coun-
mo
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yiQscuit vYiiu a uuuHiuiuaiauuu UL _.
several ideas and Ideals it would be it*®"
hard to strike'an average and declare
a'policy, of .the party. On the other i? J? ,,
hand the republican party is organized ^!^°"btlea®
with his party.
The silver orator told his Inter
viewer that he would not yet say
whether he would. In 1908, be willing
fa the .omln.ti™ .or the pre..- ffi'tr'S.'K
Accept the nomination for the presl
dency. William Jennings has not, evi
dently, given up his ambition to be
:j coihe president in spite of his two de
feats at the hands of the country's
voters and his third defeat at the
•, hands of the men who, four and eight
years ago, followed him implicitly.
A BULWARK GONE.
One of the greatest bulwarks with
which the trusts
thein selves in the
from before their intrenched position
by the decision handed down a few
days ago by Justice Holmes of the
United States supreme court. It came
out, in the allegation that the charges
made by Attorney General Moody
against the beef trust were technically
insufficient, that no one act charged
against the trust was of itself suffi-,
cient to bring about the combination1
.• alleged in the bill. Justice Holmes
answers this allegation as follows, dis
posing of the point of which the trusts
have made much, once and for all:
"The scheme as a whole seems to
us io be within the reach of the law.
The constituent elements, as we have
stated them, are enough to give to the
scheme a body, and, for all'that we
can say, t6 accomplish it. Moreover,
whatever we may think of them sepa
rately, when we take them up as dis
tinct charges they are alleged suffi
ciently as elements of the scheme.
•ftt is suggested that the several acts
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charged are lawful and that Intent
can mak$ no difference. But they are
bound together as- the parts of a single
plan. The plan may make the parts
unlawful. Intent is almost essential
to such a convention and is essential
to such an attempt. Where acts are
not sufficient in themselves to produce
a result which the'law seeks to pre
vent—for instance, the monopoly—but
require further acts In addition to the
mere forces of nature to bring that re
sult to pass, an intent to bring it to
pass is necessary in order to produce
a dangerous probability that it will
happen. •X-Wt,
THROUGH GERMAN EYES.
The western spirit is now, as it has
ever been, a popular subject for com
ment by the people of the old Euro
pean nations. The American consul
general to Berlin recently stated that
it is impossible to pick up a newspaper
in Germany without seeing in itB col
umns a criticism of America and Amer
icans by some German who has just
returned from a trip in this country
and is retailing the impressions and
information gained here to the mem
bers of his vereln or to the local cham
ber of commerce in the town in which
he lives. While admitting without re
serve that America has many and
boundless possibilities for the ambi
tious young man of the west, our Ger
man critics object to the complacency
with which the average American
views conditions here, which same
conditions impress the slow going and
methodical easterner as too insecure
to last long. While the Germans
agree upon the energy, industry and
unsurpassed mechanical skill of the
people, the superioritey of our factory
system, the Bpeed and cheapness of
rail transportation, and the restless,
progressive spirit which is always
looking for a new and better machine
or method than the one already in use
nevertheless the German experts
Roosevelt iaiuj they have found defects in many
(clalni they have ft
course of action against the corpora- parts American system, which
tlons and, nominates a man who holds
a a a a
another of his unreliable, unlikely and
But the silver orator goes farther.
When the reporter in Chicago asked
him if he is a socialist he made the
following reply:
"The democratic party believes in
some measures the socialists believe
in. That does not make it socialistic,
ilt believes with the populists on some
points, hut it is not therefore
popu-|provident
listic. W'e are: said to be now in ao
cord with the republicans in a few
matters/ but we can't be accused of
being ^republicans.
"The principles of blmetallsm re-
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unless reforme
whlch he deals
altogether useless forecasts. technical education, the trifling annual
contingent of chemists, engineers, edu
cated dyers, weavers, and electricians,
as compared with the throng of law
yers, physicians, dentists and unspe
cialized graduates turned out by Amer
ican colleges and universities, seems
to the Germans a shortsighted and Im
system of education.
will continue to
weaken our country's grasp upon in
ternational trade.
The American feeling of self-satis
fied self-sufficiency, the critics assert,
Is already producing its natural re
sults. Americans do not study care
fully. The average American working
man has but scant scientific knowledge
^eagerness of
According to German standards,
there are not more than a half dozen
good technical schools in the United
States, and these are grossly lnade
quate to the needs of 80,000,000 people.
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In no
main true but owing to the immense tematic training given in
Incrfeabe in the production of gold the
need of it now is not as crvimr an it hanking, .and foreign trade. The educa
was
institution is any careful and Bys-
Uon of
llttJejJ speech the disorganized situation fcla!'
of democratic party as it exists at ff1"6 ^^led commercial col:
With a conglomeration of, Le5!LT£lch,a/•6
A*®1101"1 youth in these mat-
... ters is acquired by a three-month's
conde^ne4
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in accord with the President and ^.m?.rlcttn.Js.^11
the President is likewise
in accord
have surrounded their indomitable will and often proven
past is removed power that they depend for success
The American's education Is only be
gun in the college and the university.
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school system, and
h*s lta,
satisfied because he realizes that the
advantages more than balance against
the defects. The American mind and
spirit are not studious and patient.
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many of
American, though he may strike out
quickly, generally hits the mark ahead
of his slower German brother. Though
he puts in considerable time hunting
for a short cut over an obstacle he
generally arrives at the other side
ahead of the European who patiently
plods around. The German says
Americans rely on luck and destiny,
but Americans know that it is upon
The early wisdom is not gained at
the fountain of knowledge. The latter
comes from the school room but the
former is the result of years of mature
labor, study and application. The
American starts Into business young
because he knows he will learn as he
goes along. The result is that when
his German brother starts the Ameri
can has mastered many of the details
and is forever ahead. This one of the
secrets which account for the fact that
Americans are practical, inventive,
Ingenious, while the typical German
is slow, though soJd, and an imitator
rather than an inventor.
THE FARM VS. THE MINE.
Secretary Wilson's annual report
upon the value of the crops for 1904
gives some valuable and interesting
figures. Though the gold mine is re
garded generally as the best source of
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quick wealth the secretary of agricul
ture does not take the popular view.
The crops for ,1904 were valued at $4,
900,000,000. These figures are so great
that the human mind Is unable to real
ize Its very greatnesR, but Secretary
Wilson gives a good idea of its size ii
the following paragraph In his report:
"All of the gold mines of the entire
world have not produced since Colum
bus discovered America a greater
value of gold than the farmers of this
country have produced in wealth in
two years this year's product is over
six times the amount of the capital
stock of all national banks it comes
within three-fourths of, a billion dol
lars of equaling the value of the manu
factures of 1900, less the cost of mate
rials used it is twice the sum of our
exports and imports for a year it is
three times the gross earnings from
the operations of the railways it is
four .times the value of all minerals
produced In this country."
The sum, $4,900,000,000 is exclusive
of the value of farm products for 1904.
A similar estimate made for 1903 gives
¥4,480,000,000, and the census total for
1899 is $3,742,000,000. It 1b not admit
ted, however, that these figures repre
sent fully the value of the wealth pro
duced on farms. Within the limits of
ascertainable values, the farms of 1904
produced an aggregate wealth with a
farm valuation that was 9.65 per cent
above the product of 1903, and 31.28
per cent above the figures for the cen
sus year 1899.
MAY 8TUMP THE VICTIM
There will be no endf of trouble for
the Iowa people who will soon be ques
tioned by the census enumerators. The
questions are worse than those asked
of an applicant for life insurance or a
civil service Job. They inolude the ac
tions of the victims for the whole year
of 1904 and the only ones who can an
swer them all accurately are those
who keep a carefully prepared diary
of each day's events. Here are a few
of the queries that will be put to the
farmers, for instance:
"Number and value of all live stock
on the farm on January 1?
"Number of pounds of milk sold and
value for the year?
"Number of bushels of apples and
plums raised during the year?
"Number of quarts of small fruits
raised in the preceding year?
"'Number of acres and yield of small
grain?
"Number of chickens and eggs pro
duced in 1904?
"Number of bushels of grain hauled
to market in 1904?
"Number of pounds of live stock
hauled to market?
"Number of loads 6f fuel and build
ing material hauled from market dur
ing year?"
The subject of the cremation of gar
bage is being widely discussed In Iowa
as spring approaches, and the coming
summer will, ho doubt, see some defi
nite action taken by more than one
Iowa city along these lines. Des
Moines, Davenport and Ottumwa have
had the subject up for discussion be
fore their respective city councils on
numerous ocoastonB and It is gener
ally agreed that It is- very practicable
but that it Is costly.- However, cities
generally, all over the country, are
awakening to the realization of the
Importance of the improvement of san
itary conditions. The coming year will
no doubt see the establishment of
some system in Ottumwa for doing
away with the garbage. The plan of
dumping it into the river is a danger
ous one for the health of the public,
and the crematory seems to be about
the best and most feasible plan known.
The plan about to be tried in Mus
catine for an association of charities
will no doubt prove a success and
charitably inclined people all over the
state will watoh the outcomp of the
experiment with Interest. The care of
the wfcrthy poor is a task which no
good citizen shirks, but which is a
hard one to discharge well, thor
oughly and without distributing bene
fits to the unworthy poor. The idea
in Muscatine is to get all the chari
table organizations and people to-
gether and to appoint competent and
honest officials, who will distribute
charity where it will do the most good.
The idea is a good one and if Muscatine
proves it to be practicable it would no
doubt be the same in Ottumwa.
Just at the time when there is talk
of doinff away with the grand jury,
and more talk among the lawyers of
the decrease in criminal work, some
Iowa cities are talking of establishing
superior courts. Among these is Wa
terloo, a town which, suddenly, Is re
garding itself as very much of a city.
If there Is any place in Iowa outside of
Des Moines and Sioux City where a su
perior court is needed, It is Ottumwa,
but this city has been able to worry
along without it and still transact con
siderable court business and send sev
eral undesirable citizens to the peni
tentiary. The average city has no
more need of more courts thaff of two
city halls.
IOWA PRE88 COMMENT.'
At the sight of the red flag in a
meeting a Kansas City anarchist ex
claimed: "That flag stands for our
warm, red blood." The Council Bluffs
Nonpareil, however, thinks that, as a
matter of fact, it generally means some
one else's warm, red blood.
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Ifr. Bryan says the President Is
"terribly in earnest." "This Is no new
discovery," says the Keokuk Gate City,
"Judge Parker found It out some time
ago and now the beef, paper and other
trusts are learning it to their sorrow."
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Machen, Lorenz and Groft of post
offlee scandal fame, will now have to
go to the penitentiary for two years,
says the Davenport Times adding,
"There they can have plenty of time
to reflect on the folly of trying to beat
the government with a fastener
scheme."
"What's the »matter with Iowa?"
asks the Des Moines Capital. "Well,
one thing is the. eternal endeavor to
treat her as a patient when her every(
indication points to the most robust
health."
"Fortunately for the little czare
vitch," says the Cedar Rapids Republi
can, "he is still too young to realize
what is going on In the country over
which he must rule some time In the
future, unless, in the meantime, they
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THE OTTUMWA COUR1EH
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PEOPLE OF IOWA
Praise the Treatment as given by Dr. J. Bonham.
Mr. Zeb Smith, of Ottumwa, says*
"I was cured of a very bad case of
Piles after suffering twenty years."
Mr. D. O. Ross, Albia, says: "I
had a suspicious cancerous growth
on my lip. Dr. Bonham removed
it by use of X-Ray."
Mr. Wm. Gibson, Albia. Iowa
says: "I was cured of a double
rupture and am well pleased."
Rupture cured without the knife.
No severe pain, no danger. Hun
dreds all over this country are
cured.
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Hairs, Pimples on the Pace cured.
We cure" all cases of pimples and
black heads. Make your face soft
and smooth.
can upset the autocratic and bureau
cratic concert that still passes by the
name of a government."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
Gen. Mlstchkenko is conducting his
retreat according to the strategy of
the birds in the nursery rhyme, when
"one flew east and one flew west and
one flew over the cuckoo's nest." ?.*.•:
Observing that the beef trust says
that the margin of profit is very small
in the packing business, the Boone
News sarcastically remarks that the
"time is not believed to be propitious,
however, for asking a subsidy from
congress for this business."
"The lobbyist at best is an enemy of
the people, being inevitably a disciple
of special legislation and a seeker af
ter favors, and he should be shut off
from wielding any undue influence
it
?nt®rrH^esays
lators," the Dubuque Telegraph.
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The Sioux City Tribune has dug up
another scandal with "Gas" Addicks
as the center and says: "Nobody
seemed to know 'Gas' Addlck'a name
until Lawson turned over the leaf. He
was either always spoken of as 'Gas'
Addicks or J. Edward Addicks. But
Lawson alludes to him as J. Edward
O'Sulllvan Addicks. Why was O'Sulli
van dropped?"
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"The primary system of making
nominations is a beautiful one in the
ory, but a rotten, degrading system in
practice," says the Alta Adviser. "In
this county it Is breeding a set of petty
bosses who never regard a man's
qualifications for office ,but look out
for the candidate who can pay them
best."
It is the Burlington Hawk-Eye's
view that Wisconsin simply unloaded
on the United States senate.
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The Cedar. Rapids Republican be
lieves that the United States senate
will come nearer sizing up Governor
LaFollette than the governorship of
Wisconsin.
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Atlanta, Ga., comes to the front with
the sad story of a woman whose mouth
was frozen wide open during the re
cent cold snap. The Sioux City Jour
nal says: "It goes without saying
that the woman was alone at the time
the unhappy affliction came upon her."
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"There is no question but motoring
has come to stay," says the Clinton
Herald. "It is an excellent sport, ex
hilarating and full of pleasure and will
be an lmporant factor In promoting
good roads. Nevertheless, It seems
that some regulation Is necessary to
check the reckless drivers. Motorists
themselves, for self-protection, should
take the initiative in this matter."
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"If Mr. Lawson will restore his ill
gotten millions and begin life over, live
the elemental life, as Tolstoi is doing
in Russia, and if then he will publish
the elemental life, as Tolstoi Is doing
—he will become truly a hero with the
American public." says the Cedar
Rapids Republican. "Until he does that
he is so much bosh and mush."
Mr. B. J. Harman, Bladensburg,
Iowa, says: "I was cured of a rup
ture which was large. After suffer-1
lng thirty years I was a bad case.'
A. JAAllen, Blakesburg, Iowa,
says: "I was cured of rupture over
a year ago and can recommend Dr.
Bonham's treatment."
Mr. Lambert Funk, Agency, says:
"Several years ago Dr. Bonham
treated me for catarrh. I was cured
and have had no trouble since.'
We are constantly curing people of Chronic Diseases, Rheuma
tism, Kidney and Bladder Diseases, Catarrh of the Nose, Throat and
Lung Troubles, Diseases of Women, Variocele, Hydrocele, Nervous
Diseases, Sexual Diseases, Blood and Skin Diseases.
CATARRH. Is your, breath bad?
Is your voice husky? Do you spit
up slime? Does your nose dis
charge and do you hawk and clear
your throat. Do you have a cough
each winter? If so, you have ca
tarrh and need treatment. 'J
LUNG AND BRONCHIAL CA
TARRH—This form is simply an
extension of Catarrh of nose and
throat. You have to cough a little
harder to raise. It becomes a lit
tle more yellow. You may lose
flesh and get feverish at times. Do
not neglect such symptoms. They
need attention.
RUPTURE AND PILES—Absolute
ly cured. Piles cured in 10 days'
time. No severe pain. You are
cured forever. I guarantee to cure
you in 10 days.
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disease from your system. Massage
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moves the pain.
VARICOCELE—This most annoy
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"ment of the veins in the sack on left
side, causing pain In the back,weak
ness of organs, pain and despond-'
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not properly treated. I cure every
case on a guarantee. Have cured
over 100 cases Without a failure.
NERVOUS DEBILITY—Decline of
manhood, wasting diseases, sedi
ment in urine, weakness caused
from excesses.
BLOOD AND 8Klff DISEA8EI~i
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would cost you.
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AFTER THE 8TORM.
New York Evening Post.—Every on®
must have been struck by the way In
which labor agitation and political dis
turbance have been blended in the
news from Russia. The explanation Is
simple Except for the universities,
the great industrial centers furnish
almost the only nidus for the germs of
political reform. Revolutionaries like
Prince Kuropotkin long ago gave up the
idea of doing much with stolid and
scattered peasantry. But as great
manufactures brought worklngmen to
gether In increasing swarms, the ma
terial was more and more provided for
a propaganda. This has necessarily
taken on a twofold form. Trades
union notions have been imported and
the need of an organization of the
workers preached at the same time
that political changes have been cried
up as necessary. This mingling was
obvious in the petition which the strlk
®rs wished to lay- before the czar on
Sunday. They put their own griev
ances as laborers in first place, but
they also added their voices to the ap
peal for' some kind of national repre
sentation. As the strike Is broken (it
is to be presumed it will be), the poll
tical upheaval may appear to subside
but a lire has been kindled which can
not be wholly extinguished.
New York Tribune.—It Is to be noted
that popular sympathy in other Eu
ropean countries Is strongly on the
side of the Insurgents. That is be
cause it is realized that their original
demands were temperate and reason
able and should have been granted.
They did not ask as much as Germans
and Austrians and Italians, not to
mention Frenchmen and Englishmen,
have long enjoyed as a matter of
course. The people of these other
countries realize perhaps more keenly
than we can in America the need of
reforms In Russia and the hardness of
the lot of those to whom the common
rights of other civilized lands are de
nied. There will, of course, be no in
tervention. Russia wlll .be permitted
to settle her own affairs in her' own
way but the sentiments of other lands
will not be without their effect.
Chicago Tribune.—Certain classes of
Russians professors, lawyers, stu
dents, editors, zemstvolsts have
learned the use of their tongues, and
they never again can be made dumb.
Not long ago they hardly would have
dared to petition. Now they have cour
age to remonstrate. They have spoken
with a freedom which would have been
impossible a year ago, because it would
have meant imprisonment or exile. No
man speaking for the editors would
have dared to say to a minister of the
Interior "the whole Russian people are
behind the liberal movement" and "the
army, which has Its roots In the peo
ple, will make common cause with
them."
One zemstvo, undeterred by. the re
bukes administered to others which
have made similar requests, asks that
representatives of the nation be sum
moned to take part in legislation and
financial and administrative control
Another says that "Russia is on the
road to complete ruin" and nothing
can save her but "freely elected repre
sentatives." This is the language of
a new Russia. These are not the ar
guments of social democrats secretly
printed and circulated by stealth, but
of large property owners In city and
country whom the government does
rot now dare to punish.
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It is the custom of manufacturers of
certain lines of goods to warrant their
goods to stand a reasonable amount of
strain, friction, weight and wear.
These points are Important to dis
tinguish the goods made by these man
ufacturers and sold through local
dealers, from goods made by other
manufacturers and sold by other deal
ers.
Among these articles, there are sev
eral lines of boys' clothing that are
warranted to be mighty good in gen
eral and there is one manufacturer
who makes a line of boys'^pants which
are particularly slow to snow the ef
fects of wear. He assures everyone
that these trousers will stand most any
kind of an ordinary strain this side of
a bolt of lightning and that when wear
ing them a boy is safe in trying any
kind of a stunt, from going through
a barb-wire fence with a watermelon
on his arm, to hanging on a splinter
of a scantling from a third story win
dow.
However, one of our local dealers is
now considerably worried regarding
the extent to which this guarantee can
be construed and the different kinds of
warrants it can be made to Cover.
A few days ago, a small lad came
into his store with his mother and the
clothing merchant sold him a pair of
pants, which he was glad to guaran
tee In several languages and with
great confidence. He assured the boy's
mother that these pants would not rip,
wear, tear, ravel, or get whiskers on
the bottom. The purchase was made
and the mother escorted her young
hopeful out and the Instance was for
gotten. About four days after that, the
mother brought the boy back into the
store. He was wearing another pair
of pants and carried in his arms the
pSir he had recently purchased.
The lady proceeded to call to mind
with very minute and marked detail
the high words of praise that the mer
chant had sioken about the wearing
qualities of the trousers, and she par
ticularly dwelt upon the merchant's
There was hardly enough of these
pants left to recognize the piece of
goods it originally had been intended
for. They were worn and torn and rip
ped and looked as If they had been
caught by the dogs or come through a
threshing machine with a reverse mo
tion. The merchant took one glance at
the trousers, then at the mother and
then he asked the boy if he hart tjeen
caught in an automobile wreck or
blowp up in a roc., quarry.
The kid looked him straight in the
eye and told him that he hadn't been
anywhere except straight from home
to school and back again and that at
school the big boys imposed upon him
so that he didn't get out of doors even
at recess, that hie just stayed in the
school house all the time and studied
that he was the particular pet of the
teacher and that she just doted on him
—he was such a good quiet little boy.
"That little brute," said the mer
chant, "wore an expression as meek a*,
a lamb and of course had to square
the deal on the pants.
"Later in the day, I called on ft
friend who lived up on the hill, and at
we sat in his housej we were attracted
by some boys who were playing on a
vacant lot across the street. Th«
street was about twenty feet higher
than the vacant lot that fronted on It
and these boys were sliding from the
street down the bank into the lot. The
articles they used in the descent were
many and consisted of barrel staves,
barrel heads and a piece of scoop
shovel, and all parts of their anatomy,
including the seats of their pants.
"We were much amused as we
watched them and we both enjoyed It
fully as much as the boys themselves
—my friend is still enjoying it—there
has, however, been a slight change in
my feelings in this matter. There was
one kid In the bunch that slid down
there about three times to once for
any of the others. He was the liveli
est Indian in the gang. One time he
would start the descent on a' stave
and go all right for a few feet an$
then the piece of wood would catch oo
something and he would slide the bat
ance of the way on the seat of' his
pants and Anally roll over two or three
times at the bottom.
"Then he would crawl and climb up
the embankment again and start the
next slide on the barrel head, or the
scoop shovel—honestly he was the
busiest boy I ever saw.
"During the conversation, I told
about the little mild eyed
good boy who had brought the pants
back and noticed that my friend
seemed to enjoy it exceedingly, and
when I left, he suggested that I go over
and see if I knew any of the boys. He
said they were all playing hookey
from school.
"Just as I got to the middle of the
street, the busy little boy' was starting
at the top, and all he was sitting on
was a piece of the old shovel which
statement that they were all good was about Blx inches square. He sat
goods and hard to wear out, that they down on it and two of the others gave
would last a long time and finally she him a start. He went about six feet
wound up by unwrapping the pants and then the shovel stuck in the
and showed him how they looked after ground. The ltid turned over head
four days' wear by this little boy who
seldom went away from the house.
first a couple or times, slid ten feet
on his stomach and finally rolled into
a pile of bricks.
"As he got up and started up to
ward me, I recognized my meek faced
acquaintance who had told me with
such childless simplicity about how
good he was.
"I looked at him and said:
•m
"Hello, bud, you're that good little
boy, arn't you?'
"G'wan, what ye givin us," was his
only answer.
"I understood how the pants fcere
worn out."
"Now I'm waiting for that woman
to come back to the store again. I
never did think much of the boys at
school who used to tell the teacher on
the ones that played hookey, but ll
I don't tell that woniati about her good
little boy and his little, shovel game it
will be because I drop dead or have'
paralysis of the tongue before I get
to see her."
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CHRISTIANITY IN JAP ARMY.
Philadelphia Press.—The hospitably
mindpd Japanese have adopted another
recent American notion, even though
their action seems to carry a greater
sanction of Christianity than would or
dinarily be expected of a nation which
has but recently emerged from what
the missionaries' comprehensively term
"heathendom." The recent reports
from the Japanese army in Manchuria
show that the Toung Men's Christian
Associations of Japan, profiting by the
example of the American associations
in the recent war with spain, have
equipped a number of army headquar
ters with Y. M. C. A outfits, for "the
entertainment and convenience of the
men.
The method Is simple. At every
military base a tent or building is op
ened as a free rendezvous for the sol
diers. Here they find books, newspa
pers, games, stationery and facilities
for writing, together with freqUent
phonograph entertainments, exhibi
tions by volunteer talent and other di
versions. Tea is served without cost,
and the innumerable conveniences
which a soldier's outfit lacks, and
which are valued far beyond their in
trinsic worth, such as buttons, needles,
thread, hair clippers and bathtubs, are
freely supplied. The Japanese them
selves apply the term "mothering" to
this association work, and the army
officers, from the highest to the lowest,
have been warm in commendation of
the plan. Every courtesy and conveni
ence have been extended to the work
ers and official, prestige has not been
lacking, the commissioned officers
themselves freely patronizing the
tents.
As to the men themselves, their ap
preciation of the association rooms is
shown by such reports as that of one
secretary, who says: "During the
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And all Points South and Southeast via
Liberal return limits and stop-over privileges,.granted on all tour
ist tickets reading over this route.
For rates, folders, information about through sleeping car lines*
apply to your local agent or address,
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C. C. McCARTY
Div. Pass. Agt.
St. Louis, Mo.
preceding week there were .1,500 visits
to our rooms. In one day we served
ten buckets of tea to the men. About
four hundred letters and postals a day
were written in our rooms. We have
used in six weeks 20.000 sheets of pa
per, 15,000 postal cards and 12,000 en
velopes."
This Is practical religion. No won
der that the hard headed Japanese
have given to It a.favor which repre
sentatives of their ancient faith, Bud
dhism, have not received. The Y. M.
C. A. idea has always been character*
ized by eminent sanity, but it has never
done any service which commends true
religion more than this ministry to the
soldiers. The far-reaching Influence of
this army work upon the nation of Ja
pan cannot be estimated It is pre
paring the way In the homes of the
people for a hearty welcome to every
one ytho may later come In the name
of Christianity.
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bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup
of Tar if it falls to cure your cough of
cold. We also guarantee a 25 cent
bottle to prove satisfactory or money
refunded.
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Portland and other points In the west
and northwest. Kates cut $15. Througn'
Tourist cars to California without
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