Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1895, Page 17

RACES IN PARIS The Gambling Instinct as Displayed at the Longchamps Course. A COMMISSION PAID 10 THE CIY The Main Interest is in the Betting Booths: THE DELUSIVE TIPS Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, May 16, 1805, N PARIS PEOPLE le to the races and bet on them. The government has paid attention to the moral side of this question, which ts of the highest import- ance; and the result appears to be the conviction that half @ loaf (of morality) is better than no bread (for the assist- ed poor.) In a word, the city has taken into its hands the regu- lation of the mutual pools, from which a good ccmmission is extracted on each race. ‘This money forms a part of the revenue of the assistance publique. Further regula- tion (carried on with severity) attempts to prohibit betting except on the race courses themselves. No one may open a public shop in the city for the acceptance of bets. The temptation in this direction is great, because the fever of this sort of gambling has seized on all classes astoundingly, to an extent that passes all imagination; and as a result the daily papers dally note new seizures of money in the hands of wine merchants (who are the chief offenders), money left with them to lay out on the track. In Paris if you wish to bet you must go to the races. Ard they go to the races. Everyone goes to the races. Little telegraph messengers and their aged mothers, clerks, male and Types of Bettors. female; tourists, dancers of the opera, singers of the cafes-concerts, butchers from the halles, with their families; cabmen on the sprée, school teachers, the president and his wife and daughter, senators, depu- ties, doctors, artists, farmers, business men, the legion of the demi-monde, ser- vant girls, high-school boys, milliners’ ap- prentices, army officers, common soldiers, policemen with a day.off, notaries, lawyers and judges, burglars and beggars, artists, clubmen and cafe waiters—the whole so- cial fabric. They go in mail coaches, stylish car- riages and private cabs, in public cabs and livery-stable teams, by the belt railway and the river boats, in special four and six-horse omnibuses from all parts of Paris, they go on bicycles (both male and female) and they go a-foot. Scenday morning in the spring time and all Paris rises riotous and wicked. What do they want, these naughty people? They desire to have some fun. Instead of eat- ing salad and boiled beef at home they ’ wish to taste the dainties of the restaur- ants and catch exhilaration from the at- mosphere of others feasting. The Longchamps course is far out in the Paris park—the Bois—and in a charming natural depression. All around the horizon the hijls and verdure rise. Within the spa- cious circle of the track, and all along one side of its exterior, lie the two great divisions, the “‘pelouse”’ and the esage.”” ‘To be chic, to be with the bookmakers, the jockeys, trainers, owners, the high demi- monde, the senators and clubmen and their wives and friends costs twenty francs ($4). To see quite as well and bet to better pur- pose in the Paris mutuels (because there are more of them and the public is more flighty) only costs a franc, cr twenty cents. Here your eyes will show you what you never could have realized from worcs—the black abyss of betting into which the Paris lower-middle class have fallen. And, withal, they are so joyful when they win, so phil- esophical on losing. “I made my husband change a note this morning, and we have laid out our campaign for the whole eight races!” Around the four sides of a high tower in the center of the pelouse are four squares, like billboards, striking full upon the public view, and may be seen from any distance. ‘They are racks for holding, one below an- other, boards on which are painted horses’ numbers and the names of those who ride them. Every bettor has his race list, but when the gong sounds he must revise ‘it, for the way in which the French scratch horses is astonishing. A race may have some fifteen printed entries, yet when the bell rings and ,everybody turns to the square tower it may appear there in plain black and white that eleven of those fifteen will not run. The result is, with the smaller fry of speculators, an immense anxiety, an upheaval of ideas, a bewilder- ment and finally a clutching at blind chance. Those who have followed the won- derful comparisons of the multitude of little sporting papers are in the pangs of a new anguish, The horses’ numbers are up, and the Dames of the jockeys appear beside them. Three-quarters of these Jockeys’ names are English, though not half are Englishmen. It is the custom simply for French jockeys to take English names. According to the popular idea, an English jockey must be primed with gin before he is put on his Irrespective of Age. horse. Tho word “gin” has the same strange horror for the French that “ab- sinthe” has for Anglo-Saxons. Now the betting booths are crowded. The cashiers have paid off the last race. The ticket sellers have laid out their change. Long rows of mixed humanity, wherein the fair sex forms more than a third, at- tend the opening of the wickets. There are about two hundred betting booths in the pelouse alone, the average sales of each of which surpass two hundred and fifty bets on every race. Your turn has come before the booth, the ticket puncher waits; quick! make your wants known, or you will be pushed aside! “Winning, one of nine! Placed, one of thre The fool and his merey are parted. In place of cash there is a ticket In your pocket. The sun ts blistering the field, and every smell known to the human nose reeks from the wedged-in crowd that pushes to the grassy track. The gong has sounded for the horses. Every inch of Ik ercund the track becomes a vortex, open struggle, but for decent squirming, where the pretty girls melt paths before them with their smiles and glances, «while the plain ones must endure an unimpas- THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1895—TWENTY PAGES. 17 —=— sicned hustling, and be cheerful even when their bustles are pushed round their waist. ‘Winners cash their tickets. Losers stroll apart to make another study of their Precious “indications.” And what indica- ‘The Man Who Knows It All. tions! These “‘tips’’ are a phenomenon of Paris. They are sold by ‘‘stable boys” on the pesage, by mysterious ladies in black on the pelouse. They are advertised to be forwarded by mail or telegraph in_ the sporting papers. They are revealed by clairvoyants, discovered in coffee grounds by amateurs, worked out mathematically by clerks in office hours, “communicated” to theosophists, forced by the spells of Rosicrucians, told by fortune tellers with a hen and pack of cards, and men vat special dishes late at night to note what dreams may come, but chiefly they are furnished by the daily papers in a way to leave each journal boast legitimately of the winners it has picked in any week. In the Prix de Neuilly, run on Sunday, May 12, there were seven printed entries— Berancon, Mic-Mac, Muguet, Fedor, Danu- bienne, Ortrude and Oriflamme II. The Courrier du Soir, the Paris, the Echo de Paris, the Intransigeant and the Lanterne gave the tip ‘“‘Muguet. The Jour, the Soir and the Gaulois gave “Fedor.” The Figaro and the Eclair gave “Ortrude. Gil Blas, the Petit Journal and Auteuil-' Longchamps gave “‘Berancon.” The Jour- ral and the Matin gave “Oriflamme II.” The Voltaire gave ‘“Mic-Mac,” and the Paris-Sport, ‘“Danubienne.” Among them they had divided all the seven horses. One must surely win. It happened to be “Fedor.” Another triumph of prevision for the Soir, the Gaulois and the Jour! A dozen little sporting dailies live ‘by these tips and laboriously worked-out “in- dications.” Clang' clang! another race. Observe the ladies. The majority in the pelouse care nothing for the racing. They have come to win, and seem to win more frequently than men. The reason is that being habit- vated to bargaining in shops they are de- termined to receive large value for their money. The mutuels pools sell tickets at a dollar each. “If the favorite wins how much will I get for my dollar?” About $3. “If this other horse wins how much will he pay?” He ought to pay $9. “And this other?” Oh, he will pay you $50 if he wins. “Then I'll take him.” Better take the favorite. “But this horse will pay $0 and the favorite only $3; go, do you think I am crazy!" And the best is that she often comes off with the bank notes. The mutual betting is simple in execu- tion, but more complicated in result. First, however, “Paris mutuels” do not refer to Paris, the city. ‘Pari’ is French for “‘bet,” of which “paris” is the plural. Mutual bets. They are so mutual that they fluc- tuate with every agitation of the crowd and make not simple hazard, but a hazard superposed on hazard. The.man behind the counter in the booth sells various tick- ets for the various horses, all at the same price. When the race is won the holders of the winning horse's tickets take the money of all the others—who are losers— and divide it among themselves in the pro- portion of single tickets held. A_black- board man, who notes each ticket bougat, becomes a kind of indicator toward the last end of the betting of what amount each horse will pay, if winner. But his blackboard gives a more exact idea of the crowd's varying fancy. A man may run across from the pesage and quickly take ten tickets on a dark horse. The crowd observes, stampedes. He must have “in- formation.” All the odds that looked so generous to certain horses heretofore now change by magic. Oof! if you are careful you are sorry that you paid your money in. In these French races there are some- times four “places,” whereby all those who have bet on the first four, the winner and his followers, divide the money of the oth- ers, who have .bet for “place” and not to “win.” Alas! this greater surety goes often hand in hand with emptiness, and when the commission of the assistance publique has been deducted you may have won as little as 10 cents. STERLING HEILIG. Sead ee KING DAVID AS A GENERAL. A French Scientist Comments on the Tactics He Used. From the London Public Opinion. At the last meeting of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, M. Dieula- foy, the well-known explorer in Persia, read a very interesting account of his visit to the scene of the decisive encounter be- tween King David and the Philistines in the valley of Rephaim. M. Dieulafoy de- scribed how, after the capture of Jerusalem by David and the establishment of the Israelite monarchy, the Philistines resolved to crush the nascent kingdom, and how, after alternations of success and failure, they occupied the valley of Rephaim, situ- ated at the foot of the slopes which led from the west to Jerusalem. It was then, according to M. Dieulafoy, that David, constantly attacked by his enemies, ex- ecuted one of the finest military maneuvers recorded in history. M. Dieulafoy, while indicating the various advances made by military art, and having shown that before the wars of the Medes no nation had any acquaintance with the rules of higher tac- tics and strategy, dwelt upon the fact that David was the first of the Israelite leaders to form drilled and disciplined troops, and pointed out what good use the king made of this army in the Valley of Rephaim. The plan of the battle, very clearly de- scribed in the Bible, which ascribed the conception of it to Jehovah, comprised a flank march, a rapid change of front, the rapid encompassing of the left wing of the Philistines, and an attack from behind on this wing. This was a complicated and bold turning movement, very difficult to execute and something quite out of the common for the age in which it was carried out. M. Dieulafoy, who had discovered the theater of operations and had made use of the gen- eral topography of the region in order to reconstitute the principal phases of the battle, pointed out that this movement pre- sented a striking analogy with those ex ecuted by Frederick II at the battles of Mollwitz and Rossbach, and by Napoleon at Austerlitz. In the conduct of this opera- tion David gave evidence of the highest capacities, taking advantage of all the in- equalities of the ground, forming his troops afresh in the wood, and charging impetu- ously, and M. Dfeulafoy insisted very strongly upon the similarity of hig military genius to that of Napoleon. ns Everything Comes to the Waiter. From the Philadelphia Record. The great rise in the price of ofl has Sladdened the heart of at least one Phila- delphian who has been waiting since 1878, with about 3,000 barrels in storage, for a favorable turn in the market. This gentlemen was at one time largely inter- ested in the production of oil, and is today the owner of 5,000 acres of land in the West Virginia oil fields. He was one of the independent producers, whose well spouted forth a lubricating oil of the finest quality, and who refused to submit to the dictates of the Standard Oil Company. He stood the price of his lubricant had fal- 25 cents a gallon, when he determin- ed to lock up his oil until he could get his price. Having his own iron tanks and storehouses, he stored his oil, and there it has remained to this day. ——— e+ ____ Masic, Heavenly Maid. From the New York Weekly. Hostess—“Won’t you play something for us, Miss Keynote? Gifted Amateur—‘Certainly, if {t is your desire. What would you. prefer?” Hostess—“Oh, anything, only so it tsn’t loud enough to interfere with the conversa- tion.”” Why They Wink. From Life. Dr. Pulser—“The action of winking is not without its use; people wink to keep the eyeball moist.” Soda Water Clerk—‘Not much they don’t! The people who come in here wink to keep their throats moist.” FUTURE OF JAPAN Minister Kurino Talks of the Results ofthe Late War. . HE DISCUSSES ASIATIC «AFFAIRS Opportunities for American Capital in the East. CHRISTIANITY’S PROGRESS (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G, Carpenter.) HERE IS NO abler diplomat in Washington than his exgellency, Mr. Shin- ichiro Kurino, the minister from Japan. He came to the capi- tal at the beginning of the war between his country and Chi- ma, and he has han- dled Japanese affairs in a masterly man- ner, He is a man of _ broad culture, is full of ideas, and he is less backward in ex- pressirg his opinions than many of the others of the diplomatic corps. He is a man of social qualities, and his functions at the legation have been among the most noted given there. Straight, well formed and dignified, he has the features and com- plexion of a Japanese, but his personal ap- pearance is such as would command atten- tion in any company of prominent men, and he has shown himself to be a living exampie of the wonderful strength and Possibilities of the Japanese people. He is a man of wide experience. His father was one of the most prominent of the Sam- urai in the service of Prince Kuroda and when that prince in 1874 sent a number of Japanese youths to America to be edu- cated, Mr. Kurino was among them. He went to school in Boston and graduated there at the Cambridge law school about 1881. He then went back to Japan and entered the foreign office or department of state. He has been connected with this office in different posi- tions from that time until now, when he has come to the United States to represent his country at perhaps the most critical Minister Kurino, time in its history. He was for a time chief of the bureau of international tele- graphs, and as such was sent to Europe not long ago to an international confer- ence on tke subject. He has at different times been sent to Corea on diplomatic business and he was there in 1882, and in 1884 when the revolution occurred, and he was again in Corea just before the opening of the present war, having been sent there to report to the government as to the situation. Knowing as he does all xbout his own country and having had a long experience as to all matters connected with China, there is no man in the world who is better fitted to discuss the present situ- ation in the far east. I called upon him the other day at the legation and had a long talk regarding tfe settlement of the War end its effect upon Japan and the nations of the west. The talk was en- ttrely a personal one, and Minister Kurino was very particular to state that his views were those of an individual, that he spoke only for himself and not the Japanese government. What Japnn Got by the War, One of my first questions was as to what Japan got by the war, and as to what changes the war would make on the face : “It will make changes of a very important description in Asia. Japan will, of course, have the Island of Formosa, but ‘as regards the occupation of the main- land or any portion of it, the matter now being the subject of negotiation of the most delicate nature, it would hardly be proper for me to express an opinion on the subject. “There is one thing, however, that I would like to say, and that is as to the as- sertion which seems to have gained some credence that the Japanese nation are eager to agerandize themselves by the acquisi- tion of foreign territory. We are not land crazy, and we have never striven for celonial acquisition. Whatever concessions we may have gained from China in this direction are the legitimate results of the struggle we have waged with her, either in the extension of territory which our geographical position. renders natural or proper, or by its acquisition for purposes of necessary defense against future at- tacks.” The Island of Formosa. “How about Formosa,” your excellency, I asked. “Does Japan gain much by its acquisition?” “I think it does,” replied the minister. “Formosa is essentially a part of a long train of the Japanese islands. These run from Yez down to Nagasaki, then break out a little further below in the Loo Choo Islands. Formosa is a natural part of this chain. The island can hardly be called a Chinese province, except in name. Its Chinese population {fs not large, and a great many of the inhabitants are savages, who live by hunting, and who have long been @ menace to all strangers shipwrecked on their coasts. They have in the past killed Japanese, French, English and Americans, and it is said that they eat part of the bodies of their enemies. ‘hey are not cannibals in the ordinary e of the word, but they celebrate their victories by feasts of this kind. They tat- too their faces and skin, and they are divided up into tribes. These men are very fierce, and the Japanese, in taking the island, will control them. Under the Chinese rule they have been allowed to Co as they pleased. You remember in 1872 a Japanese crew which was shipwrecked on their coasts was slaughtered by them. We sent an embassy to Peking and demanded redress, and that the offenders be siven up to justice. The Tsung li yamen, or bu- reau of fore‘gn affairs, said they could not pstrain the savages. Our embassy then replied that if they would give the Japa- nese permission to do so, that they would control them. This was acceded to, end an expedition was sent from Japan to For- mosa. The savages ‘were conquered and subdued.” Our men began to make some improvements, and we instituted a govern- ment over the parts we had conquered. The Chinese at once became alarmed, and they demanded that the Japanese leave Formosa. They were so earnest about it that they paid the Japanese the sum of 500,000 taels in order to get them to go. In the presentation of the money, it was put on the ground that the Japanese had done work to the amount of the money given in road-building, etc.” ‘Is Formosa a rich country?” “Yes, it ic very rich,” was the reply. “It has been, at times, called the granary of China. It produces the finest tea, and the Fermcsa tea commands the highest prices in China. It ylelds great quantities of rice. It has valuable forests, and it is said to contdin fine sugar-growing terri- tory. It has coal, and its mineral re- sources are as yet undeveloped. A chain of mounteins runs through the island, but it has large alluvial plains, and it is well watered. It is indeed a very valuable ac- quisition” “What will the Japanese do with it?” “I do not know,” replied the minister. “But I presume that {f will be colonized and developed. The ernment will prob- ably offer extraor inducements to the people to emigrate it. Japanese cap- ital will be organ! to develop its re- sources, and it may.,be, that the Japanes2 of the Sandwich Islands will come to For- mosa and be induced;tg,go into sugar rais< ing there. They know all about the busi- ness, you know, from their employment in Hawaii, and they wilF'probably be glad to make the change. »The Japanese govern- ment has hitherto apaxored, to promote the colonization of the Island of Yezo with some degree of success; but private enter- prise, from lack of ‘capital, and, perhaps, partly from climatic reasons, has not dune so well there, Formosa: -will prove a more tempting field for immigration,. especially to the inhabitants of-southern Japan. ‘Will Japan Monmopolize Coreat “I suppose the Japatiese will monopolize all concessions which may be given out for the development of Corea,” said I. “No, I think not,”’ replied the minis- ter. “It is not the intention of Japan to ask for any special favors for herself or her people in Corea. The citizens of Eu- ropean nations and those of ‘the United States will have the same chance to get concessions there as will the Japanese. The probability is that the Japanese will not invest much in Corea,and that they will turn their attention more to Formosa. It contains, it is said, a population of nearly two hundred millions, and a vast trade ought to be developed from it. The Yangtse Kiang is opened up to Chun-king and for- eigners will be able to go farther into China than they ever have before.” “Tell me something about our new treaty with Japan. Does it give the Americans many more advantages than they now have?” “Yes, indeed,” replied the minister. “By dt citizens of the United States can go to any part of Japan and engage in business. They can establish manufactures and trade directly with the people. Heretofore they have been confined to the open ports, and the most of their business had to be done through the Japanese government. They can now lease property, and from now on qapen will be open to American manufac- ures."” American Capital in Japan. “Is Japan a good fleld gor the investment of American capital?” “In some respects, I think, yes. Facto- ries could be built by foreigners in Japan to use Japanese labor to make articles for export to Amcrica.. The Japanese buy @ great deal of machinery, and more Ameri- can machinery should be shipped to Japan. What the United States needs to do busi- ness with us is lower freight rates. As it is, we use millions of dollars’ worth of your cotton every year. Our cotton mills What Japan has done in this respect is to.| are rapidly increasing, and our consump- make such concessions possible. In the past the Chirese minister Yuan took care to prevent such concessions, I know that several big contracts were about to be let at different times to American capitalists when, from some mysterious cause, they were broken off at the last moment. I have been told that the Chinese minister was this cause.” , Corea’s Opportunity. “What has Japan done for Corea?’ I asked. “She has established her independence and given her a chance to do.everythitg for herself,” was Minister Kurino’s reply. “From now on it can have the right to send ministers to such foreign countries as it pleases, ard it will take its place through- out the world as an independent nation. As to its future, Japan expects Corea to work that vut for herself. She will be ready to advise and assist, if called upon, and she has given a list of reforms to the king which she thinks should be inaugu- tion of American cotton will increaee, as it is of a special kind, and we need it to mix with the cheaper cottons which we get from China and India. At present, how- ever, it comes to us via Liverpool. If the Pacific lines would make special rates it could be shipped by San Francisco. If the Nicaragua canal is opened the United States will probably ship direct through it. I am surprised that Americans do not study the Japanese market. The people here are so rich and they have such a vast trade among themselves that they havo not yet begun to consider the trade ovtside of their own boundaries. In order to do business with the Japanese your mer- chants and factories must study the Jap- anese people and their wants, and when they do that they will probably supply them with many other things than ma- chinery.” The Japanese as Machinists. “Can the Japanese use machinery equally well with the people of the United States?” “Yes,” was the reply. “The Japanese rated. The king has promised to do this,|@re a nation of mechanics. They take but politics are in such @ condition, and | naturally to machinery and use it gladly. the state of society is such, that his power 2 ef Js very limited. Already the nobles ¢f the | Ai ee eee eer ao an ee country are clogging his efforts in this di- | toms are creeping In. mone ze rection in many ways. The officials of | and woven by machinery. We make our Corea are degraded and corfupt. They | own railroad cars, and we have made some have been living off of the people, and they | locomotives. Nearly all the arms and mu- dislike to give up their power. The Au- gean stables of Corea cannot be cleaned in a day, but Japan has laid out the plan, and if the Coreans follow It, they will eventually become civilized.”” Japan’s Advice to Corea. “Give me some of th? reforms which Japan advises the Coreans to make.” “They are many,” replied Mr. Kurino. “They are being introduced into Corza at the instigation and under the super- vision of Count Inouye, and if the coun- try and the people will adopt them they will ledff to a thorough reorganization of the goverrment and to the pragperity of the people. Count Inouye proposed twen- ty-two measures of reform. In the first place he advised thatthe public adminis- tration should be directed by one sover- eign power, the king, This was to avoid the evils which ha¥e been so prevalent on account of the, different ministers and the queen, clatriing that they had an almost equal right with (10 king as to certain classes of’ public :ifairs. An- other provision modified this power of the king in that it made him bound to re- spect and obey the laws which were en- acted for the goverment of his country. Heretofore the king at the instigation cf his advisers has changed the laws with- out due notice, and his servants"and him- self have sometimes disregarded the laws altogether. Other provisions regulated the establishment of criminal laws ‘ni- form in their nature.’ They put the police authority under one, direction and fixed laws against bribery. and improper taxa- tiont They provided, for an organization of the focal officials so that their exact authority should be fixed and that they should work under the central overnment. “Count Inouye suggested the putting down of political intrigues, of reforming the army and of sending students abroad to study foreign civilization. One of his suggestions related to the royal household and provided that it should be entirely separated from the general administration of the government. He advised that all public business should be conducted by the ministers and no one in the royal household should have the right to inter- fere. All taxes are to be administered by the treasury department and no tax should #e imposed upon the people under any pre- text beyond the rate fixed by law. “This last,” said Minister Kurino, “was a very important suggestion. Heretofore the king, the queen, the crown prince and all the departments of the government have been in the habit of imposing tax=: They did this more in accordance with their necessity than with law or justic and the people did nqt know: what tax they would have to expect. Count Inouy suggested that the expenditures of the royal household should be fixed by law, and his scheme all told, if carried out, w give Corea a good modern government. What Japan Has Done. “What has Japan done as to carrying out these reforms?” “It has made it possible for the Coreans to carry them out if they will,” replied Minister Kurino. “They are having the ad- vice and assistance of one of the ablest men of the far east. No statesman stands higher in my country than Count Inonye. He ranks with Count Ito as one of the greatest of our statesmen. He has held the most important positions in our gov- ernment. He fs one of the chief advisers of the emperor and he sacrificed a great deal when he stepped down from his high posi- tion and took the office of minister to Co- rea in order that he might be able to help them in the work of civilization, Count Inouye signed the first treaty of peace which Japan made with Corea, about twen- ty years ago, and he was connected with the country in nearly every movement in which Japan has been connected with it since then, The most of the reforms which have been proposed to the Coreans have been suggested by Count Inouye. He has been the adviser of the king and the cabi- net in carrying out these new ideas since the Chinese were driven out of the country. He gives advice, but he believes that Corea should act for herself.” “Then it is nvt the intention of Japan to Corea in any respect tributary to “No, not in the least,” replied Mr. Kurino. “The administration is left entirely with the Coreans. The king, the queen and the Tai Wen Kun, or the king’s father, are all concerned in the new. administration. A new cabinet has been organized, and it contains ten members,now instead of six, as before. It has its ministers of finance, war, education and foreign affairs. It has its secretaries of justice, and its secretary of the interior and ather officials, just as the Japanese cabinet; has. The cabinet consult with Count Tpouye, and some of them undoubtedly wish to see Corea mod- ernized. Others do nét,.and the desire for personal aggrandizement and personal profit is a strong element in,every question.” What the World Gains. “What has Japan done for the world in this war?” me “I think it has done good deal,” replied the minister. “It has made a number of ex- periments inethe art$‘of war which will benefit the other nationg in their wars of the future. It has tested the value of modern boats and guns. It hiis given the world a number of rew avenues of trade in China. By the terms of peace, as I have seen them, the Chinese now agree to allow all kinds of machinery to be imported into their coun- try. They consent to allow foreigners to establish and to engage in manufacturing industries. Japan did not ask these things solely for herself. She demanded them for the world, and they are more to the ad- vantage of the United States and Europe than they will be to Japan. We do not, as yet, make machinery for export. It is doubtful whether we ever will. The Amer- icans make some of the best machinery of the world, and one of their chief articles of export is machinery, On the above lines such development as occurs In China will be largely through Europe and America. The other concessions demanded of China were also fully as valuable for the United States and Europe as for Japan. Take the dsepening of the river which leads to Shanghai. The ships of all the world will sail up that river, and the opening of the new ports will give the whole world access to vast cities and to millions of people, The new territory opened to trade by this treaty is one of the richest of the Chinese empire. It comprises a number of cities and towns. nitions of war which were used during the recent campaigns with China were made in Japan, and we are almost doubling our cotton machirery every year.” Asiatic Labor. “What do you think of the future of the Asiatic labor market in competition with ours? Can we successfully compete with you’ “On our own ground perhaps noi,” was the reply. ‘But I see nothing to alarm the American laborer in the possibilities of the future. You have been competing here for years with the cheapest labor of Europe. You have had the Belgians and the Ger- mans to fight, and you have conquered again and again. The Americans are peo- ple of wonderful inventive brains. No mat- ter how cheap the labor of the rest of the world in any line of work, the American gets up a machine which will do it cheaper, and you have such vast aggregations of capital that you can organize undertakings cn a scale which ts practically beyond com- petition. Take your great tron works. Take the Carnegie works, for instance. They buy in such vast quantities that they can cut all expenses outside those pf labor to the minimum. I believe the Americans will always-hold their own. They cannot work so cheaply nor live so cheaply as we do, but they can turn out a greater product. An- other thing is that there is bound to be a great demand from Asia for American raw materials, Cotton is one of these and lum- ber is another. As to machinery, I doubt whether we will ever be a great machine- making nation, We have plenty of coal, and we ship vast quantities of it to China and India, We have not yet, however, dis- covered large enough deposits of iron’ to make us hope that we will manufacture much machinery. The iron we have is of a very fine quality, but so far it has not been discovered in large quantifies. It may be that we will find mines in Yezo.” The Japanese as Inventors. “Speaking of invention, Mr. Kurino, it is often said that the Japanese are mere copyists, that they never invent nor im- prove anything, but merely copy. Is this so?” “No, it is not. The Japanese are to a certain extent creative. The gun which is used by their soldiers today was the in- vention of a Japanese. It is true that they can copy and imitate anything, but they are by no means slavish imitators. They toke the best of modern inventions and combine them, and they form new prod- ucts. You must remember that they knew nothing of this civilization which they have now adopted a generation ago. What you have been building up for centuries is all new to tRem. After they thoroughly un- derstand it and your wants, you may then lock out for such inventions as will supply them, The Japanese are a people of ideas, and they are always ready to adapt to their own wants what they find good in others."” “What about the future civilization of Jepan? Will it be purely occidental?” “No, I think not. It will be a combina- tion of the best of the occident and orient adapted to fit the Japanese character and needs. We find this so in many lines. There is a strong tendency in Japan to stick to the old things wherever they are best, and in some directions I have no doubt but that the old is the better.” Religion in Japan. “How about religion in Japan? What are the missionaries doing, and is there any prospect of Christianity ever becoming the religion of the Japanese people?” “Who can tell?’ replied the minister. “The Japanese are fanatically wedded to Ptheir old bellefs. Many of the better class- es, and notably those who have traveled much in Christian countries, are practically agnostics as far as either Buddhism or Christianity is concerned. They might be called free thinkers. “The misstonarics have done a great work in Japan. They have made many converts, and it is & curious thing that the Japanese Christians prefer to have thelr own churches, and to be independent of the foreigners. They like to map out their own religious lines, and to pray and think for themselves. You remember the discussion cf the Briggs question, which tore the Pres- byterian churches of the United States al- most asunder some time ago. This ques- tion found its way out to Japan, and the rative Christian pastors got together and discussed it. They shook the dust out of the Thirty-nine Articles, and they were by far more rigid than the opponents of Dr. Briggs in their ideas of liberality. I think there is a possibility that the Christian religion may at some time so grow as to be one of the great religions of Japan. Already some of the Christian churches have been dis- cussing the sending of native Jananese Christian missionarfes to Corea and China.” The Sandwich Islands. “By the way, your excellency, returning to the war question, how about the Sand- wich Islands? Is {t true that the Japanese are seeking to acquire them?” “No; emphatically no,” replied Minister” Kurino. “The Japanese never had any such idea, nor have they a desire to own Hawaii. The Japanese who emigrated there did so on the special solicitation of the government and the people of the Sand- wich Islands. ‘They were accorded special privileges, were told they would have the rights of citizenship, and were assured that they would not be tried in the courts without an interpreter who understood their own language was there to speak for them. Japan wants nothing of the Sand- wich Islands, except that they be protected in accordance with the treaty which was made at that time.” “How about the possibilty of a union of the Asiatic nations as against the occi- dental ones?” “There may be, but it depends entirely upon. circumstances, the force of which cxrnot at present be accurately estimated, etd concerning which, therefore, it cannot at present be safe to make any prediction.” é FRANK G. CARPENTER. —————— The Stylish Taillor. From Life. Mann Uptree—“Robble, old man, don’t you find that fashionable tailor deuced ex- pensive? So many men beat him that he has to get the price of four suits out of every three customers to keep even.” jpraper—"That’s all right, Upple; mine's fa SAVED HIS LIFE. “What Munyon’s Remedies Did for a Prominent Ohioan. He Could Eat but Little and Was in Constant Pain—Cured With One Bottle. T. Loffer, a well-known resident of Kent fare, ut | Munyon's, Drspepela Cure, un: ed his life. In relating his experience ‘or a long time I have been afflicted ‘spepsia. I could eat scarcely anything and Was in constant pain. The gas on my stomach Gistended it greatly and my heart became affec I was troubled with shor: breathing, fluttering irregulur beating of the heart, and ‘often the Ww. Onto, Was so great I thought I was going to die. ‘My friends wauted me to try Munyou's Dy ia Cure, but I had tried so ffere without many ent being benefited that_I fought this would be only one more fruitless, x ly I hoy 5 See rful. After aoa first = without discomfor thoroughly cured.’” # ae ee Munyon's Stomach and Dyspepsia Cure cures all forms ‘of indigestion and staan troubles, such as constipation, rising of food, distress after eating, bloating of the stomach, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath and all affections of the heart caused by indigest . It soothes, heals and in- vigorates stomachs that have been weakened by overeating, or where the Mning of the stomach has been Impaired by physic and injurious mediciucs. Price, cents, Munyon’s Homoeopathic Home Remedy Company of Philadelphia put up specifics for nearly every Giseuse, which are sold by all druggists, mostly tor ‘Those who are in doubt as to the nature of their disease should address Professor Munyon, 1505 Arch street, Pniladelpbia, giving full symptoms of their disease. Professor Munyon wil! carefully diagnose the case and give ce the benefit of his advice absolutely free of all charge. The Remedies will be sent to any address on reccipt of retail price. AN INVENTIVE EDITOR. How Mr. Cowles Employed Some of Mis Spare Time. Edwin Cowles, who for years was widely and favorably famed as the proprietor and publisher of the Cleveland Leader,. was not only an editor of heroic methods, but he was also an inventor of no mean suc- cess. Like all inventors who invent a great deal, Cowles now and then chron- icled a failure. Just after the great New- hall Hotel fire at Milwaukee Cowles was so stimulated by the loss of iife that he invented a fire escape. There was a re- porter on the Leader whose yielding and obliging nature suggested him very naturally to Cowles as the man to test the new fire escape. It should be given a trial at the Ledtier building; the reporter should deftly escape by it, and then write a few columns ac- count of the triumph, They took the con- trivance, which consisted in its main fea- ture of a half-inch manilla ropeand a one- sheave pulley, to the fifth floor overlooking Long street. It took some thirty minutes to get the new avenue of escape from fires properly fixed in its place in a win- dow. This, however, did not strike Cowles 6s @ drawback, although several of the spec- tators considered among themselves wheth- er the victim wouldn't be burned to a cin- der before he got the ingenious contrivance of the editor ready to work. At last all was in order and the daring reporter launched himself into the air. He escaped very well for about ten feet, and then the thing stuck, Neither up nor down would it work, The reporter was too far do to permit his recovery from the window ‘rom which RAILROADS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. @icdmont Air Line.) : Schedule in effect May 19, 1895. “% All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania Passenger Station. Strasburg. dally. socent Soadng, and 4 7 t a at Lynchburg with the’ Norfolk and Western: dally, and with C. & 0. daily for Natural Bridge and 11:15 A.M.—Dally—The UNITED STATES FAST MAU, cartics Pullman Buffet Sieepers New York ‘ashington to Jacksonville, uniting at bh Pullman for Augusta leper New York to Montgon ery, with com- Orleans; councets a. Atlanta with N pubeee Sleeper for Birmingham, Memphis and St. 4:01 P.M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sun- 4:45, P.M.—Dally—Local_for Charlottesville. 10:48. PAT. bath WASHINGTON AND Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers and Dining Cass, Pulte Chai bury, Asheville and Knoxville. New York to Mem- wan Sleepers Washi ‘and Jacksonville. Coach Washington to Jacksonville. jumbla to Augusta. Dining Car from A Montgone1 TRAINS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND HULL leave Washiagton 9:01 A.M. daily, 1:00 P.M. ‘and 4:39 PM. dally, ex “M. Sundays oniy, for except Sunday for Leesburg; 2M. and 700 Sf ae re aa cept Sunday from Jiound Hill, 834 AM Hon. W. H. GREE: N,, General Superintendent. J.-M. CULP, "Traffic Mang; i W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent my20" “"L. S. DROWN, Gen, Age Pass, Dept. PENNSYLVANIA RAILKOAD. STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS In effect May 20, 1895. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.—Pollman Peoving, “Dining, Smoking and Udservation Cars Harrisbarg to -hicago, "Gincinn St. Louis, Cleveland and ‘Toledo. Cur to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAST LINE—Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to See Parlor and Diving Cars, Hare ” x 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS, Pullman Uuflet Varlor Car to Harrisburg. Sloep- 2 ining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cicinuati, Lodisvitie’ and. Chicago. 1:10 P.M. "WESTERN EX. —Pullman Si itig Car ‘to’ Chicago, and Harrisburg to Cleveland Dining Car to Chieago. 7:10 PM. SOUTHW IN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleeping and Dining Cars to St. Louis, and Sleep ing Car Harrisburg to Cincinnati, 10:40 P.M. PACIFICO EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleep: ing Car to Pittsburg. 7:50 A.M. for Kane, Rochester and Niagara Falls daily, except Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elmira vo, daily, except Sunday. For Williamsport dally, 3:40 PBI. TAO PAL. for Williamsport, Hochester, Bartalo and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Sk og, er, Wasbington 10 Suspension Bridge. vie 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, But falo and Niagara Fails daily, Sleeping Car Wash< jopee. to Elznira. FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE "all Pare from Baltimore, for = week-day 92 i), ALM. BM. = Fae one othe tits and itso] 9:05, 10:30, 1121 5. 8:40 (4200-Limited), 13, 10:00, 10:40 and’ 11: M 2 For Pope’s Creek Line, 7:20 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. daily, except Sunday. he started; and he was too high up to Abnuj 00 A,M., 12:15 and 4:20 Feach him from the next window below. "aaah except Sunday. Sibdaye, 0100 Ae ere he swung between heaven and eartn and 4:20 P.M. the latter being some sixty long fect below. | Atluatic Coast Line. Express for Rickjwond, Jacke , To make matters worse, the reporte retail gre aaa g ig a> nerve guve way, and he was unable to| fnonl only, 10:57 AAL week help himself» The fact that he was seated | Accommodation for Quantico, 7:49 A.M. daily, and in @ running noose was all that kept him | _ 4:25 P.M. week-ays. from falling to his death on the cobbles : below. As it was, he hung and swung in a very ticklish position. To cut it short the “fire Jaddies” had to be called to get the reporter, whose rescue they finally ac- complished.. It was the last heard, how- ever, of the Cowles fire escape. On another historic occasion Editor Cowles invented a tricycle with power of its own. The power was furnished by a giant clock spring, which was wound up clock fashion, only the winder used a big crank. One could wind sixty miles of run into this tricycle, so the inventor said. When all was ready Cowles got his ex- periment reporter and repaired to the ar- mory, where the wide grill floor offered a splendid field of operations, He explained the tricycle to the reporter; how this button set it going, and that but- ton stopped it, and after cautioning him to give the machine exactly the correct “gee” turn necessary to make it glide about the big hall in a circle, Cowles loaded the re- porter into the saddle and stood back to witness results. They came soon enough. The reporter touched the button to start the invention, but he overiooked the “gee” twist. The harvest of the whole thing was that the machine fled straight across the hall at the rate of something like a mile a minute, and crashed into the opposite wall of stone, It smashed the tricycle to smithereens and opened a hospital to the reporter for the next two weeks. Editor Cowles then turn- ed his attention to other affairs. —_—_. A RASH PROPOSAL, He Made His Escape, but Doubtless It Was a Narrow One. From sn Exchange. She was no longer a rosebud. Indeed, she was in full bloom, and had been so through several seasons. But she had money, and he loved her. How often men do that way. Oh, money, thou art a honey! So, as time wore on and she grew no younger, his heart throbbed more and more, until he stilled its throbbing by proposing to her. He was so sure cf her, at her time of life, that anything but a ‘prompt acceptance never occurred to him, What was his intense, nay painful, sur- prise, then, to hear her say she was very much obliged to him for his kindness, but, really, she must deojine. “Oh, why, why?” he pleaded in heart- broken tones. “Because I do not love you,” swered. . “But you can learn to love me,” he said, coaxingly. A “I think not,” she persisted. “Oh, yes, you can,” he exclaimed, grab- bing at her lily white hand. “One is never too old to learn, you know.’ ++ HARD LUCK IN EARNEST, she an- A Tale of Poverty, a Tramp and Two Philanthropists Misplaced. Frem, the New York World. A secdy-looking man with a whine in his voice and a threat in his eye stopped a portly, prosperous-looking man at the cor- ner of Broadway and 30th street the other night. “Mister,” said he, “gimme a dime to get a bed. I ain’t seen either in a month.” “Run away,” sald the stout man; “if you'd been horiest and told me you wanted a drink I'd have given you the money. Run quick.” “Fool that I am,” muttered the seedy man, as he approached a jovia!-appearing younger man, and asked for 10 cents for rink. jee here,” snapped the man addressed, if you'd told me you wanted money to get a bed I'd have given it to you. I don’t be-. lieve in drink.” The seedy man groaned, for hard luck really seemed to be coming his way. ++ A Hotel Hoodoo. From the Kansas City Star. “Don’t shut that book. If you do you'll heedoo this house,” said a clerk in one of the largest hotels last night to a visitor, who, in leaving, had carelessly closed the hetel register. The clerk insisted and the visitor returned to open the book and ask an explanation. “Why, don’t you know,” the clerk sald, “that if you shut a hotel régister and don’t reopen it yourself you hoodoo the book? The next person registering on that bock is sure to be a dead beat. At least that is the universal superstition among hotel men, and my observation has been that there is something in it. _J wouldn't open that book tonight. I have often gone half way across the office to put my finger between the leaves and prevent some care- less person like yourself from shutting the register. Almost every one has a su- perstition, and that Is one of the most important in a hotel clerk's creed.” at nn ee A ictal iting tenn ines neath ceed ascot titer ecient aa eit iin aang ipa iipaielias ihe aac cn heasmastnanieinintaatiaeiati) 3 Sgt E gear 5 om! eps ap epeomues Z 8 F : e s Ha BESe: ae f Fae 5 3.83, 3 id = EF ts) soene seP SEES bess 5:30, 6:13, 7:00, ¥ Leave Alexandria for Washington, 6 8: 10, 10:15, 10:28 AM. Pe Pennsy eets, Where orders cap be left for the checki br hugsase to destination from hotels and J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agents BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule In effect May 12, 1895. d Leare Washington trom station corner of ., New Jersoy avenue and C st. x and Nortnwost, Vestibuled Limited ote Ses . mma ‘is and Loulsville, Vi express 12 For Cincinnati, St. buted Limited 3.45. p. 2.01 night. For Pitsburg aed Cleveland, eapress daily, 11.30 a.m. and 9.10 p.m. . For Lexington and Staunton,-11.30 a.m, : For Winchester and way, stations, 25.30. p.m, For Luray, Nat if Roaioke, Kuorritieg Chattanooga, “Memphis a Orleans, 11. re, New through. a. 35.10, 6.30, 'x8.00, 29.00, "11.15 For Apnupolis, 7.10 aud 8.30 a. pn. Sundays, 8 Vashington Junction and way points, b0. ae oes — = pega 1 tations oni, 24.30, 05.30 p. HHOWAL BLUE, LINE ‘For Sew YORK 42ND All troins Muminated with Pintech light ra juminated wi For Philadelphia, New York, Bostou und the Bast, week days (4.55 Dining Car), (7-0, Dining Cary 8.00. (20.00 a.m. Dining Car), 11.30 (12. Dining Ca?) 6.05 Dining Car), 4.00 pan. 12.01" night, Si Car, open at 16.00 o'clock). Sui 4.35 Dining Can), (1-00 Dining Car), (9-09 a.m. Dining Car), 12.30 "Dining Car), 3.00, 2 open for passengers, 10.00 P. Puffet Parlor Cars on all day trains. ‘or Atlantic Ci 55, 10.00 and 11.30 a.m, press trains. called for and checked from hotels and residences Union Transfer Co. on orders. left u: Rt ticket offices, 619 Pennaylvania avenue 2.Weg New York avenus and 15th street and at depot, BR. B. CAMPBELL, CHAS. 0. SC * Gen, Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. my13 CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWaY. Schedule in effect March 4. 1895. ‘Trains leave daily from Uulon S*ation (B. and Pokusougi the grabdest scenery in America, with ci ‘the grandes! erica, the hardsomest Sun most compete solid trala Berv= ve Washington. ; pp DAIL ‘Cincinnati and St. Louis Dining Car), $09 (GZ01, night). Sleeping Car 1230 pm. Sundays, aExcept Sunday. xEx; Beggage sleeping cars Wasuington to Ci lis ane Louis without ‘chai from Washi Indianapolis St i. 5 pm. J1:i0 PIM. DAILY.—The famous “F. F. V, Lim- ited.” Av solld vestibuled trai, with dini and Pullman Sleepers for Clnciusati, Le: ville, without change. Tullman Si Virginia Jfot Springs, without cha ‘Ubservation car from Hinton. Arrive 00 oe kone eM. DAIL for Gordonsville, tesviile, Waynesboro’, Staunton and princi: pal Virginia points, daily; for Michwoud, daily, cept Sunday. Bouin toc fices, 513 and mht ex- atlows and tickets at company's of- 1421 Pennsylvania avenue, i. W. FULLER, it. Gene A Passerge: —————— SSE STEAM CARPET CLEANING. TRoMUT fo ctedn them thorusit ly, and PROMPT deliver them. Lromptness and thoroagh- hess are our Watchwords. "Phone We're Promp aaeiatean en ee TLL. Thorp, S823 12,2 Rice Steam Carpet CL. Co., 435 Me. ave. my31-84. saiti both CARPET Specialties CLEANING and MATTRESS REMAKING. Ask us for catimate—given for the _asking. W. B. Soses & Sous, F aud fith. my2o-te AMMONTAT STEAM CARPET CLEAN Works—Carpets cleaned in the beet “waumee Mattresses made to order. ce, 1720 Pa. ave. Works, 1708 and 1710 5 tw. Telephone 84. mb: be of _ ours: — der. E a M. NEWM UNDERTAKERS W.R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 940 F Street Northwest, Everything strictly first-class and on the most seasunuble terms, Telephone call, 340, jal-te