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SOMETHING REMAINS.
fFriend, there be some who say the gods are
dead.
And all the grace of the world's earlier day
And lingering light of heaven passed away.
And the fine bloom of life forever shed.
They say the dryads and the nymphs are fled,
No fauns or satyrs in tfcc clearings play,
Ceres and F -echos with iiieir bright array
Wine press and thrashing floor no longer
thread.
But never Hesiod tasted sweeter thing,
Horace nor Master Walter Yogel'.'.vid,
Than I, who sit upon a carpet fair
Of newborn verdure in this joyous spring,
God in my heart, my dear ones at my side,
Glad just to breathe the universal air.
—William Herbert Carruth in Independent.
J OUKX ALISM L\ J
THE FIRST NEWSPAPER FOUNDED BY
A FOREIGNER.
Difficulties Under Which Editors Eabor.
Compositors Who Have to Keep Track
of I'.vo Thousand Ideographs—Growth
of the Publishing Industry.
Iu one of my conversations with the
prime minister he observed to me: "It is
unfortunate fer us that we have no pa
per like yonr leading morning journals,
and what is even more unfortunate is
that we have no public opinion in con
trolling our press as you have. But if
wish to writo upon the journalism of
Japan you should go and see my friend
Car tain Erinkiry, the editor of The
Japan Daily Mail. No one can give you
better information on the subject than
he can. "
To Captain Erinkley, therefore, I
went. As ho is entering upon his thir
tieth year of residence in Japan, in
which country ho began as a teacher of
strategy and mathematics in the Naval
college, which he quit, after ten years
of hard work, to become the editor of
the important semiofficial English paper
which he conducts with great ability
and on original lines, and as he is inti
mately connected in many ways with
the land of his adoption, he, better than
any one else, was qualified to give me
the information I sought.
"The increase in Japanese journal
ism," he said, "is marvelous, but I
fear the improvement is rather iu quan
tity than in quality. When I first came
hero, 30 years age, there were not more
than 20 papers iu the whole country
and they of the most wretched descrip
tion. Now we have 802 newspapers and
magazines, with a total yearly circula
tion of 278,157,421 copies. Here in To
kyo alone we have 23 dailies, With an
annual circulation of 134,804.729, and
50 magazines, issuing 4,865,999 copies
yearly. The chief dailies are the Nichi
Nichi Shimbun—i. e., The Daily News
—which ought to interest you special
ly, " he added with a smile, and the Jiji
Shimpo, which is edited by Fuknzawa,
one of the finest men in Japan today.
He also keeps a large school, in which
have been educated many of our lead
ing statesmen. These two papers have a
daily circulation of 40,000 each and are
I very infinential.
"The history of modern Japanese
journalism is as follows: An English
man of the name of Black first started
journalism in Japan iu 1867, and his
paper, printed in Japanese in Yokohama,
was called The Japan Daily News. At
that period, when feudalism was still
powerful, anything like cur journalistic
criticism was very shocking to the Jap
anese, and, indeed, it was actually dan
gerous to indulge in it. His paper, there
fore, came as a revelation to the sub
missive natives. But when they became
awakened by it to what a power a paper
might attain, they saw how unwise it
would be to allow a foreigner to have
such control of the vernacular press as
Black possessed. Then a very singular
thing happened. They had no power to
interfere, owing to the extraterritorial
jurisdiction under which Englishmen
existed in those days; so they went to
our then minister, Sir Harry Parkes, a
most resolute upholder of British rights
in Japan. But he was a just man, and
he saw how unfair a power of interfer
ing in the domestic affairs of Japan
Black possessed, and so he in turn em
ployed a curious power, which our min
isters can employ in time cf emergency,
and ho issued an ordinance having the
effect of law, in which he forbade any
foreigner to publish a paper jn Japanese.
There was a tremendous foreign outcry
against this, and Black became a martyr
for a brief time.
' 'Then was published the first paper
tinder Japanese control, which is now
the leading paper in Japan, the Nichi
Nichi Shimbun. It was extraordinary
to note the rapidity with which the
Japanese took to newspaper reading.
They were just emerging from their in- !
tellectual prison,in which theTokngawa j
regents, or tycoons, had striven to stitle
all enterprise, a tyranny during which !
for 800 years they had been forbidden to j
build ships or to read certain books, and ;
in which much liberty of thought and
action had been denied them. But after
the restoration in 1867 came the gn at
reaction, and as soon as this paper had
succeeded numbers of other- appeared.
Athirst they were colorless, b eg sim
ply a reflection of the old literary in
stincts of the country, which had been
borrowed from China. They were ridic
ulously didactic and stilt'd. Then.' was
great use of metaphor, discussion of ab
ateaet questions, They weija classical
' and utterly oat of touch with the feel
I ings of the people. Then, in 1873, poli
tics suddenly came on the sceuo and gal
| vauized the papers into life at once. "
"Are their printing arrangements
i good," I asked, "and do they go in ex
j tensively for advertisement?"
"Oh, yes. They have many of the mod
ern improvements, but you must remem
berthat the production of a Japanese pa
; per is a far greater undertaking than it is
for us. For instance, we have only 26
letters to distinguish. They have 5,000
| ideographs. Now, it is impossible for
them to provide each compositor with
; 5,C00 pigeonholes, so they have made a
careful calculation as to the ideographs j
; most in use, and each compositor has ■
two or three quick witted, quick footed
little fellows who run about collecting
ideographs from ease to case. They uso
miserable paper, and occasionally have
j illustration-, that ought to be good, for
! they have a wonderful power in line
j drawing and many cheap and faithful
I woodcutters, but as a rule their illastra
j tions are very poor. The people adver
[ tiSb freely, although they are heavily
' charged for each line, and they have re
i course to pictures in many cases. Pic
j torial posters, too, are quite a feature,
! and there are already not a few Japanese
who collect them as works of art. ' '—
Loudon News.
CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS.
They Suggest the Ceaseless Activity of tho
Youthful -Mintis.
Many of his questions cannot be con
nected with his reading, but appear to
result from reasoning or a recognized
analogy. "How do plants make them
selves bigger when they grow?" he ask
ed when we were talking about plant
ing his garden. I heard him saying to
himself, "Wildless, wildless." I asked
him what he was talking about, and he
replied: "About plants that are not
wild. What are they called?" "Garden
or cultivated plants," I answered.
"What made yon say wildless?"
"Why," said he, "I knew that harm
less means something that wouldn't do
any harm, and so wildless means plants
that are not wild." He mentioned the
fall, and I asked him what he meant by
fall. He replied: "The winter at first;
the first of it. Do they call it fall be
cause everything is falling?"
There was some talk about dressing
him or putting on his dress, and, rea
soning from analogy, he asked, "When
God puts the skin on people, is that
skinning them?" I once read of the
people in the moon being like grasshop
pers and told him about it. When I had
finished the story, he said: "When we
look up iu the sky, we see the moon
rolling on above us, and when the peo
ple iu tho moon look up in the sky they
see the earth rolling along above them.
What is the strange puzzle about that:"
I told him that his specimen of mica
was silicate of potash, and he asked:
"Why is mica silicate of potash—be
cause they put ashes in a pot?"
These questions have been recorded
to represent an innumerable number un
recorded and to show the wide range of
t! Gught and the variety of reasonings
that a child under 6 years of age may
have. They show his natural method of
acquiring knowledge, but they can on
ly suggest the ceaseless activity of his
mind during all his waking hours.—
Henry L. Clapp in Popular Science
Monthly.
MISLEADING TELEGRAMS.
Efforts at Brevity Often Result In Ridic
ulous Misunderstandings,
A very ludicrous incident occurred at
Vienna some time ago, when Max Hal
be, the successful playwright, who had
come to close a contract with the man
agers of a Vienna playhouse for the per
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tormance of one of his dramas, found
thllf hlu C n AOC It J H .. _
that his shoes had been stolen dnring
the night just preceding his return
home.
In Vienna hotels it is the custom tc
place one's shoes in front of the bed
room door before retiring. The hotel
porter calls for them, cleans them and
replaces them. On that particular day
some sneak thief had entered the hotel
and walked away with half a dozen
pairs of shoes, among them Halbe's.
In Munich, Halbe's wife was anxious
ly awaiting his return, and, to quiet her
fears, since he could not arrive on time,
Halbe sent her the following dispatch:
"Could not leave hotel; stole shoes.,
Max. " An hour and a half later tele
grams began pouring into Vienna to
Halbe's friends, to the manager of the •
theater where he had just concluded!
arrangements to have his play pro-1
duced and to the chief of police; with
the request to help Mr. Halbe at once i
and to get him a good lawyer. ;
The wife of Mr. Halbo had misnnder-1
stood her husband's telegram and be- :
lieved that he could not leave Vienna j
for having stolen shoes. Although she
could not possibly understand why he
should steal shoes, the poor woman be-,
lieved that he had had a fit of klepto
mania aiid had been caught in the act.
After another exchange of telegrams the 1
misunderstanding was explained away.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Sure Preventive.
"Professor," said the fair leader cf
the reform delegation to the reticent
neighborhood philosopher who was sup
posed to know everything, "we're try
ing to make this world better and have
taken the liberty of seeking your ad
vice. What is the surest, way to pre
vent divorces in this country?"'
"Don't get married. "
And the delegation filed out —De
troit Free Press.
MEXICO'S RURALES.
A Sort of Police Force Somewhat Similar
to the Texas Rangers.
We heard wailing and sobbing from
women as the train left Taponna the
other day, and, poking oar heads out of
the window, we saw half a dozen peons
weeping as if their hearts were broken.
The conductor told us that they were the
wives and daughters of a desperate ban
dit who had been captured and placed
on tho train iu charge*of ruralcs, to bo
taken to the adjoining state of Chihua
hua and impressed into the army, wiitro
his excessive interest in other folks' af
fairs could be usefully applied to Indian
lighting. Just ns like as not, ho said,
the prisoner would never reach Chihua
hua. The ruraies who had him in char. >
would give him a chance to escape and
thru shoot him as he ran. Such inci
dent:! were cc-utiunally occurring, al
though they were less frequent cf lato
than formerly because cf the energy of
Alberto Veleuzuela, chief cf the ruralet
in the state of Durango, who became
our follow passenger at tho next station j
and proved a very entertaining one, for,
like other famous men, Captain Velen- ■
zuela has his social nature well devel
oped.
The rnrales of Mexico are a sort of
military police, like the famous Texas
rangers, who work entirely in tho coun
try and were originally organized to
protect ranchmen, miners, stage com
panies and the traveling public general
ly against tho highwaymen, cattle
thieves and guerrillas that terrified -
Mexico for many years. They are rough
riders, these ruraies, and do their work
thoroughly, and their captain, like
Judge Lynch, tries, condemns and exe
cutes his prisoners and saves the regular
courts a great deal of trouble and ex
pense. In the mountains of Mexico,
where prisons and courts are few, the
captain of the rnrales is prosecntnbg at
torney, judge and jury all in one, and
he tries every case as soon as it reaches
him according to a code of his own.
These extraordinary people have done
extraordinary work, and today Mexico
is much the more safe and peaceful for
their interference. .
Our friend, Captain Velenznela, is
said to have been a bandit in his younger
days, and a very successful one, but be
coming tired of the business surrender
ed himself to the authorities, obtained a
pardon and enlisted in the rnrales of
Durango, where his nerve, energy and
shrewdness soon brought him to the
front and ultimately put him at the
head of the force. He isn't a handsome
man, this ex-highwayman, but he dres
es with a good deal of care, and, unlike !
most Mexicans, is neat about his person, j
His jacket was of the finest linen lawn, I
spotless from tho laundry, over a white j
satin vest, and a handsome watch chain J
dangled from his pocket. HewGre a big j
revolver and a belt of cartridges care- j
lessly, his trousers and his shoes were j
very tight, according to the fashion of j
well dressed men down here, and he i
posed patiently for his portrait, which
did not quite satisfy him and was pro
nounced "no bueuo," which means "nc
good. "
The prisoner was a picturesque per
son, with an abundance of bright col
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ored flags, and looked fer all tho world ;
as if ho bad just made up for a comic 1
opera. His nonchalance !
opera. was impressive.
Ho sat in tho third class car, opposite
rnrale, with a big rifle over his arm, I
and smoked cigarettes calmly as enri- i
ous people stood aronnd and stared at I
him. There was a padre on the train,
ceived them with indifference and didn't
seem concerned for the welfare of his
soul.
At other stations farther on more
prisoners were placed on the train, sc
vra-v-ao ttViO ^iabCU U1A IUU iriAILl, SC
that onr bandit had comnany, and thev
. ----
who drew up close to his side and wins
pered a few words in his ear, but bo rc
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were as desperate a lot of villains as one
would wish to meet in the mountains
with a fall pocket. Some of them had
robbed ranches, some had stolen cattle
and sheep and horses, while the rest
had committed similar crimes, and as a
! penalty they were banished to the Sierra
I Madre mountains to fight Indians foi
I four years, which is a good deal better
! than shooting the robbers.—Chicagc
| Record.
'
1
We Mast Sail.
I find the great thing in this world is
not so much where we stand as in what
direction we are moving. To reach the
direction we are moving. To reach the
p0 ^. 0 f u lK ' ave " we J njU8t sail sometimes
j win d an d sometimes against
• we , must n °t drift uoi
he at ^hor.-Oliver Wendell Holmes,
», , .. ,,
h A l u( J er th ® Great was designated
i L Conqueror a title
; ^ eSt ' ,We< ? by , h , P €0 P le oll Alf °>iso cf
T ; l emperor
: ^a. The same title has been given
j ^An of Tnr Jw wT" 1 1
of _ rarkL y> William the Gou
1
queror of England.
A Boston Preacher.
xhe Rev. Robert MacDonald is one of
Boston's clergymen who may be describ
ed as sympathetic preachers. He has an
easy presence in the pulpit and a face
whose character denotes sympathy
When in the midst of a warm passage i f
his sermon, his wards pour ont in a to:
rent and Ly the very impetuosity wit
which he himself seems carried awav h
holds his hearers and puts his thought
into the minds of those whom lie M
brought into sympathy with him.—Ba
ton Traveller.
The empress of Russia owns an er
mine mantle which is valued at
-ff i a a present from her subject
living in the province of Kherson.
I pic urrun i um ■ ■
And Then He Waved Old Glory to Hla
Heart's Content.
Two prominent Cleveland men went
abroad last summer, and one of them
took with him a miniature regulation
flag. It was the handiwork of a neigh
bor, a lady, and its dainty silken folds
were attached to a gilded staff.
ere zuuiiiieu iu 21 guuiu oiau,
were attached to a gilded
ere zuuiiiieu iu 21 guuiu oiau,
"Take good care cf it," said tho fair
flagmaker, "for it means protection,
you know, and when the opportunity
comes wave it for all it is worth."
Well, tho opportuhity didn't come for
several weeks, bat all that time the lit
tle flag was within easy reaching dis
tance. At last, when the tourists came
to Frankfort-ou-ihe-Maiu, they were in
vited to dinner by an American resi
dent, and around his hespitable table
they glowed over the - glories of Colum
bia's land until cur pilgrims felt fairly
homesick.
"I made up my mind right then,"
said the flag bearer, "that Old Glory
would have to wave on some pretest
that day, even if I had to stand out in
tho street and cheer for it alone."
Well, after the dinner they went cut
to hear the band play, and then a wild
idea occurred to the man with the flag.
Ho stationed himself to one side, whero
he could catch the conductors eye, and
there lie waited. Fri tty seen the band
master looked squarely at him, and then
out came the stars and stripes with an
eloquent flourish. Tho leader was a se
vere looking man, with a stiff gray
mustache and a very tight uniform, but
he actually smiled and nodded. Then
lie stiffened up and rapped sharply on
his music stand. The musicians stiffen
ed up, too, there was a rapid fire of gut
tural directions, and then—
And then tho great baud broke out
all at once in that splendid chorus,
" 'Tis tho star spangled banner, oh,
long may it wave, " and you may rest
assured the Cleveland man waved it
long and wildly and tried to sing, too,
and choked up over it, and the other
Americans gathered about him and sang
the test they knew how and waved their
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hats arid handkerchiefs, like windmills,
wit': t':c it":-' ?crr:r." citizens looking
on i„ big :y; : ..m.-.zureut,
"I say, co you know," said the flag
waver, "that when I heard the glorious
old tunc it was just like getting in sight
of Cleveland s'meke again."
Weli, the leader played the "Star
Spangled Banner" through three times;
then he whipped over to "Home, Sweet
Home," ana wound np with "Yankee
Dooeflc. "
"Oh, we didn't do a thing to that
bane!master," said the Cleveland man.
"V\e just took him cut and shook hands
with him all around and gave him a
fine jolly, which he couldn't under
stand, and then bought him a barrel of
beer, which he cculd understand."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Has Coucer Its Special Microbe?
A highly interesting discovery, which !
will perhaps afford a clew to the cause
of cancer, has been made in Professor
von Leyden's university hospital here/
A young woman of 22 and a man of 63,
both suffering from dropsy and cancer
the stomucb, were brought to tho
hospital last spring. In order to remove
tho accumulated fluid, tapping was re
sorted to iu both cases. The fluid was
examined under the microscope, and
hitheito unknown living organisms, be
longing probably to the protozoa, were
discovered.
Professor Wnldeyer, to whom the
wniaeyer, to whom the
preparations were submitted advi«ed
that they should be sent to Dr Schln
(iHtii, assistant at the Zoological iusti
tute of the Berlin university, who has
been investigating the protozoa for years
past. He began his examination on July
19, and ascertained that in both cases
the fluid contained a rhizopod, which
be named Leydenia gemmipara schau
dinn. He interred that it is a pathogenic
organism, but both he and Professor
von Leyden still abstain from deciding
as to the connection between it and can
cer, though they admit the possibility
of such a ccnnecticn. They have made
a preliminary communication on the
subject to ti.c Berlin Academy of Sci
ences.— Benin Letter in London Stand
ard.
How Incle Sam Got His Name.
The nickname Uncle Sam, as ap
plied to tho United Statds government,
is said to have originated as follows:
Samuel W llson, commonly called Un
ele Sam, was a government inspector
of beef and pork at Troy, N. Y. f about
1812 A contractor, Elbert Anderson,
purchased a quantity of provisions, and
the barrels were marked "E. A " An
derson's initials, and "U. for
United States. The latter initials were
not familiar to Wilson '3 workmen, who
inquired what they meant A facetious
fellow answered, "I don't know, unless
tney mean 'Uncle Sam.'" A vast
arncunt of property afterward passed
through V, llson s hands marked in the
same manner, and he was often joked
upon toe extent of his possessions. The
joke spread through all the departments
of the government, and before long the
Lniteu States was popularly referred to
as Lucie Sam.—Ladies' Home Journal.
I -'llowston*- Geysers Hying Oat.
W. W. Wylie of Helena, Mon., who
has spent more years in the Yellowstone
National perk than any other man, says:
ihe geysers are gradually lessening in
activity. A d compared with 16 yea t
ago f should say there is not mote than
one-half the activity in the upper basin.
I believe th 're will be few, if any. gey
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