The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 5, 1905, Page 9

er Fg VOL. XXVII. MAGAZINE SECTION. The Butler Weekly Times. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 65, 1905. “THE FRUITS OF PEACE. JAPAN TO TURN HER ATTENTION TO ARTS AND INDUSTRIES, Wonderful Performances Following Our Civi! War When a Million Men Returned to Work to be Repeated by Japan. The great armies of Japan are about to be’ sent back to the farm, the work- shop and the marts of trade. The pa- gan nation that has Tefused to bow its knee in worship at the foot of the cross is about to exemplify that prophésy of Isaiah perhaps more fully than has any nation claiming to be guided by the Christian faith. “They shall beat their swords into .Ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Such were the words of the prophet, spoken during the very period of which tradition echoes the greatness of the Japanese nation, “Militant~ Japan passes,” now de- dares Baron Kaneko, the Mikado's representative in the United States, “and industrial Japan takes its place with the coming of peace.” Within a short time, probably in Oc- tober when the foliage of the rare Japanese gardens is tinged with yellow at the coming of the frost, the scrolls that perpetuate Japanese history will bear a narrative of the grand disband- ment*of that army of Japanese soldiers’ that has overcome a power supposed by the world at large to be its superior. As soon as the Japanese Government can make the necessary arrangements, that great army of three-quarters of a million of men will pass in review through the streets of Tokyo and will invoke the same magie spell that made for peace in the review of the Grand Army of the Republic in our own capi- tal at the close of the Civil War, Promise of a Great Military-Peace Beview. The Japanese, ever ready to adopt ~ the best that exists in foreign lands, and with sufficient initiative and power for improvement to surpass the people they imitate, may be depended upon to provide one of the most magnificent -spectacles representing a transi- tion from war to peace that has ever been witnessed, That army that has carried everything before it, and which has been the wonder of the mili- tary powers of the world, will soon be marching through the streets of Tokyo amid the plaudits of the populace that has made sacrifices at home as have the warriors on fields of battle where their Russian antagonists have met de- feat and humiliation, This plan has been adopted in a ten- tative way by the Japanese Govern- ment, and is likely to be carried out, unless the riotous acts of the people who have been disappointed by what they regard as inadequate compensa- tion for Japan as stipulated in the terms of peace, cause the Government, for prudential reasons, to avoid such a demonstration when the great army is within the capital. But whether this display of a mili- tary nation, chided as being devoted to war for the love of military glory alone, takes place on the magnificent scale that many wise statesmen of Japan hope for, the army that has raised Japan to the rank of a first-rate military power is to be disbanded and the soldiers ure to go to their homes. Return to the Factory and the Farm. The little men who never turned aside in making assaults upon the en- emy are to return to the factory, to form with deft fingers those wonderful art treasures that are the pride of cul- tured Homes the world over, to devote their genius te the combination of col- ors with effects that cause Western ar- tists to admire, but which they cannot equal. The little patient men will go to their farms and, by toilsome effort, will make the soil fruitful to a degree that excites wonder in those accus- tomed to the broad acres of America. The tactful merchants, ever polite, but capable of sharp practice withal, are to dispense the wares that come from the loom and the workshops of Japan to all the nations of Me earth. The Japanese have from the first clajmed that their war with Russia has beenfor the maintenance of their na- tional integrity. Baron Kancko him- self disclaimed the charge a year and a half ago that the Japanese have been bent upon military glory and that their victories would fire their ambition and urge them forward té greater conquests over Western nations from whom they learned the modern arts of war. He now scouts the idea that the Japanese will become the military allies of China for the conquest of the Western world, Although they can fight, the Japanese, like the Chinese, are peace loving, and the whole trend of the nation is toward internal development. Now they are to prove to the world that their declarations have not been mere pretence. They are to “beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.” They are to take their place among the Christian nations that have recourse to war only for a just cause, They are to send their envoys to The Hague to woo the Goddess of Peace, Last War Loan Unexpended. The readiness with which the Japan- ese nation is about to turn to the arts of industry is especially notable be- cause of the last loan of $150,000,000 made by the Mikado not a dollar has been expended. The nation, when it agreed to end the war, was fully able to continue fighting. The masses of the people, worked up to a condition of patriotic fervor, was ready for the conquest of Russia's plains, no matter what the cost; but those wise states- men who have guided the fortunes of the wonderful Island nation have de- creed that Japan shall give to the world an object lesson by having the so-called warrior nation, in the moment of its military greatness, turn away from flelds of carnage to promote com- mercial greatness and the higher civili- zation. : ————_ Eleetrie Railroads in Ireland. The introduction of light railways into Ireland has, it is asserted, been productive of great benefit to -thou- sands of farming cottiers, enabling them to get better prices for their Barat eggs and pigs, while being put ‘0 less cost for transport to market. Possibly, motor-wagons, calling from farmhouse to farmhouse daily, may be destined to supersede light lines as feeders” of trunk lines; as there would be no outlay for permanent way. working expepses would neces- sarily be much less. RAILROAD LEGISLATION. SENATOR ELKINS BELIEVES IT WILL COME NEXT SUMMER, Is Willing to Co-operate With Pres- ident Kooseveilt in Passing Satis- factory Measures to Control the Railroads.—He Outlines His Views, Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, in announcing the other day the call for a meeting in Washington on Nevmber 15, of the Senae Commit- tee om Interstate Commerce, said that he was convinced that action on road rate legislation at the coming sion of Cognress was inevitable, and that he would co-operate in passing a bill satisfactory to the President. “I thing I am justified,” said Senator Elkins, “in stating that all the Re- publican, or majority members of the committee, have concluded that there must be railroad legislation this win- ter. The President, I understand, is as emphatic as ever in his judgment that the railroad rate and private car line problem must be dealt with de- cisively. I think there is no doubt that some sort of bill will be passed. Quick Work by Committee. { “The committee will not be long in framing a Dill, as I believe the indi- vidual members have formed definite opinions on what they desire, and all that will remain to be done is to agree on some one plan, This, I think, will not require more than two weeks, so that when the Senate convenes in De- cember a bill will have been framed for presentation to the Senate, “My idea is a measure for the ref- erence of all mite disputes, passenger and freight, to a court of Interstate commerce, to be composed of nine judges—one for each judicial circuit of the United States—or for such disputes | to be referred to the Circuit court judges wthout the creation of a new court, Congress at all times is op- posed to the'creation of new courts or commissions, aud for that reason the new court plan would no doubt meet with serious opposition. “I do not believe that the Inter- state Commerce commission should be allowed to deal with the question. | I would keep that body intact to dis- charge its duties as at present and would not give it the additional work | of regulating rates. My idea for the reference for disputed rate matters to the Circuit judges meets with general approval in Washington, and I hope to convert the President to my view. SENATOR STEPHEN B, ELKINS. “I would have each Circuit judge try eases which were brought to his atten- tion as having originated in his cir- eut, and would have an appeal court consisting of the other eight Circuit judges, who could convene at certain periods of the year to dispose of ap- peals, their appeal decree to be re- viewed only by the Supreme Court of the United States. That idea has ap- pealed to Senators and Represents- tives conversant with practical I~ road affairs as a most sensible, feasible and comprehensive plan.” This announcement that Senator El- kins has called a meeting for Novem- ber 15 to frame a bill providing for railread supervision and regulation by the government, that he is convinced that action by the coming Congress is inevitable and that he will assist in passing a bill satisfactory to the Pres- ident is important and interesting. Taken in its fullest significance, it means that Mr. Elkin’s committee will no longer stand in the way of enact- ment of a law that will enforce upon the railroads the application of uni- form rates to all classes of shippers and the discontiuuance of secret re- bates. It is not doubtful that the rail‘ Way authorities will welcome an enactment that will enable them to say to all applicants for special favors that the law is binding upon them. It will be easier for them to conduct business on an even basis when they can point to the statute as forbidding them from clandestine arrangements. Their atti- tude in regard to the private car lines, they disclaiming any responsibility for the extortionte charges made by these nes, is a wholesome sign. . Committee Has Been Hostile. Rightly or wrongly, the Senate Committee on Interetate Commerce has been credited with being the chief obstacle to the enactment of legislation to restrict and correct the abuses of Tailway management. After the House of Representatives had passed ‘the Exch-Townsend bill at the late session It was carried into that com- mittee and there held up until the adjournment of Congress. A vast amount of tesimony was takn on the merits of the contention between the — and the trapsportation coms- WORLD'S GREATEST PRINT SHOP. Tens of Millions of Documents Turn- ed Out by Uncle Sam, The Government Printing Office at Washington, which has been brought prominently to notice lately through an | investigation of the award of contracts | for typesetting machines, is the largest | establishment of its kind in the world, | and nowhere can be found sueh an ex- | tensive department in any printing! olfice as that devoted to what is known as job work. The amount of printing coming under the head of job work| turned out by this office is one of the principal items at the establishment. Among the larger items of work per- formed by the job room may be found blanks, circulars, cards, letter and note heads and envelopes, 15,000,000 of the latter being required each month for the various Government departments. The “blank” department of the job room embraces an infinite variety of forms, some being but a few square inches in size to others containing sev- eral square feet. For this branch over $350,000 is expended each month for the purchase of raw material, Card- board is necessarily a large and im- portant item, the average month's run being 3,000,000 sheets, Congress, of course, has great need for the job room, for there the solons of Capitol Hill tind ample facilities for the printing of the innumerable mailing franks for seeds and documents and| WW 2 Se Wg: My Old Structure nav used for Stor Documents. | other routine work. Where the requisi- tions from “the hill,” as the Capitol is called by the employees, are of a gen- eral or routine order, the matter is electrotyped, so that a duplicate order may be “struck off” at short notice. These “electros” are indexed, numbered and filed in elaborate file cases, where ; they may be readily found when addi- | tional orders are received. Cuts and electrotypes which are not used in the period of four years are thrown out of the cases and relegated to the melting pot. Over 110,000 plates are estimated to be resting in the job vault. Since the Government Printer moved into the new establishment but recently erected, the job room has taken on a businesslike air, improved fonts, with a capacity for tons of the various kinds of type used, immense galley rack stands for the reception of matter in type, slug, lead and furniture racks, improved cabinets for large type, small euts and “iron” lines, all aid those in charge of the work in the operation of the largest and best equipped job rdom in the country. Labor Saving Electricity The Government Printing Office, all in all, is the model printing establish- ment. Captain John 8. S. Sewell, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, was placed in charge of the work of installation in the new build- ing. While but a young officer of the army, he is a student of the part elec- tricity is destined to play in the his- tory of labor in the years to come, and so ably devised a full electrical equip- ment of this building. Each press, cut- ting machine, stitcher, and every other proper mechanical equipment of a printing office has its individual elec- tric power supply. The furnaces for the melting pots, too, have their heat generated by the subtle fluid. The size of the Government Printing Office may be realized when it is stated that the official guides employed in the office, in making the rounds with visitors, oc- cupy nearly three hours in the trip. Measure, even such as might be elalb- orated from President Roosevelt's de- terminaton to compel the railroads to obey the existing law and that if the statutes now written on the books are not sufficient, they must be reinforced to the desired potency: Senator Elkin’s statement Is a fore- runner of the settlement of the whole question in Congress next winter. Such an adjustment will be for the’ benefit of all parties concerned—the railroads and the shipping interests. Immense harm has been done to worthy enterprises by railroad dis- crimination against them. It ‘seems now that the great transportation con- cerns will not hereafter be permitted | _ to devote themselves to the creation of monopolies and the repression competition. ' ——_—— Good Bathing. Washington has a public bathing beach on the banks of the Potomac and when the committee sus-| where during the heated weather thou- = Sd rg it was the 1 “that it was firmly in gny remedial sands of dusty urchins, schoolboys, and other citizens disport themselves in the cool of the evening. PART TWO. NO. @ FIERCE WAR IN DIXIE, A Washington Paper Regaies Its Readers with Accounts of Recent Herculean Struggles of Southern Politicians. From’ the Washington Post. Mid-August finds the pleasant land of Dixie in the happy and normal condition of political war. The treach erous thermometer, which in the North has palpably craged a large pro portion of the population, bas benign ly registered a genial and glowing warmth in the South, conducive to in- tellectual agility, incisiveness of tem- per, and healthful acidity of speech. From the Potomac to the Rio Grande come reverberations of field and siege artillery, “Sunburned sicklemen, of August weary,” drop their sickles and flock to town where peerless orators drown and burn in perspiration and peroration. All Dixle is alive with local issues of overwhelming national importance. The very dome of the Capitol flings back the echoes of Virginian strife. There the florid Montague and the matter-of-fact Martin are locked in a death struggle that extends over every county of the Old Dominion. Figures of speech and figases of com- merce writhe and grapple. ‘The Rap- pahannock boils, the Rapidan bubbles, and the James runs in a panic to Hampton Roads. The Mother of TA es eezZESEV/ MLE Presidents adjusts her spectacles and clasps her hands in convulsive appre- hension as she stares at her warring} sons. It is a fierce and bloody fight, but out of it will come peace and a Senator, if there is a survivor at all. The Strife in Georgia. In good old Georgia the shears of embattled editors flash in the August moen. Georgia was disposed to be-| come frantic at first, but when it was | certain that an editor would become governor in any event, the grand old) State sighed and became resigned. She no longer fears the worst, for it has happened. She hears the roar of the linotypes as they belch forth defiance and smoke, and the sharp rattle of sanguinary typewriters fills her capital with dread. Editorial ex- plosions are of hourly occurrence, and column after column sweeps forward | with double leads and _ bold-faced| heads. It is.a carnage of minion and, bourgeois. Even the neutral diction- ary has been pillaged, and war poems are at a ruinous premium. Carmackian Tennessee, Over in Tennessee the aureate plumes of the Hon. Edward W. Carmack are incandescent, while the} Hen. Bob Taylor's violin “shrieks like rm at the Court of Maximilian in Mexico, where cent years, “A remarkable first book, of epic breadth, study.”—N. Y. Globe. 133-137 East 16th St., New York. Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. Missourian The romantic adventures of John Dinwiddie Driscoll (nicknamed “The Storm Centre with that of the beautiful Jacqueline. The best romantic American novel of re- “Has what so few of its class possess, the elements of reality; wrought by infinite pains of detail, verisimilitude, suggestion.” swervingly. A brilliant story.”—N. Y. Times Saturday Review. “There is no more dramatic period in history, and the story bears every evidence of careful and Painstaking DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. a god in pain.” Having providently arranged that restruiming baads shall hold them back, these brilliant sons of Tennessee are struggling to grip each other's throat, while the people of the Commonwealth look , on aghast. The golden-domed Senator would defend his seat by joint debate, but his friends fear the cun ter of the catgut muse. And aylor’s friends tle his hands, for they know the fiddle would “stand no show” against the viol that sings in epigram, A’ Second Alamo. Krom Texas comes the voice of the Hon, Joseph W. Batley, who in a speech from which politics was rigorously excluded, thus referred with Senatorial courtesy to certain of his colleagues: “Who ix the successor of Stephen A, as? A nice old woman, who com: swith Doug pares with the Ohiy? Mr. Dick success at comes from Ponnsyly of corporations and Rare old Kentucky, meanwhile, lis- tens to old Joe Blackburn, mak- Ing the fight of his life. So it goes throughout Dixie, that fair and happy land. 8 a8 the glow-worm com- Who le » Who d running a represents , BEGGARS IN INDIA,' They Are Fast Disappearing.—Only About 5,000,000 Left. The beggar nuisance is a very com- mon one in India, and the endeavors of the police in the hirge cities to put it down have met with only a limited Measure of success, This is no doubt due to the fact that Indian opinion ts remarkably tolerant toward sturd if gars, especially if they wear the guise of religion, But there is reason to believe that a) wholesome change is coming over the public sentiment in this as in SO many other matters, There were about five millions of beg: Fy in the country at the time of the last census, and ne: “fifth of the number were classed as fous men dicants, The number, as it ia, represented a decrease of about 7 per cent. from that at the previous census, and the decline has been attributed in part te the comparatively heavy tality among them during th ye But, says the report part tributable to the spr education and the consequent weaker hold which the so-called asceties have on the imagination of the people,” i being much less easy than it was form erly for the members of the various begging communities to unloose the purse strings of the people. There ts happily, reason to believe that the change among the educated classes is filtering down to the lower level This evil is net contined to one par community or re- ligion. It rampant among the Mahome mong the Hindoos, The an ably conducted » published fu upper c India, with questions of dealing” social reform among Mahometans, bas been forcibly calling the’ attention of its co-religionists to the nec ty of a reform in their notions of charity. Our contemporary shows by a reference to the Police Gazette that the number of Mahometan beggars under surveillance has been rising every week. [ cite in stinces from the records of criminat courts to prove that some of the men who pass for religious teachers have been convieted on charges of fraud and immorality committed on the property and persons of men and women who had been misled by their religious ap- pearance. aE | To Cure Smoky Wicks. When lamp wicks smoke or ref: burn properly they should be ked in vinegar and then dried thoroughly. The difference in the light given will be very noticeable. Another homely sugg on is the use of salt to remove the ugly stain made by eggs on silver. It should be applied dry and rubbed on with a soft cloth. — Prehistoric Egyptian remains have been found among the prehistoric re- mains of ancient Gaul. e to Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Published August 1st 13TH = THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores, $1.50 his secret mission comes into conflict —8t. Louis Republic. carried through un-