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VOL. mil- NO 37
NORMAN E. MACK ON
WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
Nebraskan His Party’s Leader,
Says Buffalo Editor.
CLAIMS REAL ISSUES ABE HEEDED
teeninn Soy* the DemocratU
Mnwt Stand For Somethtn*
if It Hope* to WU-1« t
Opinion-Radical Campal*m Afire****
Special Privilege** Coaid Hmm*.
Ko Room For Twa Trant Paatiea,
Norman K. Mack, * the editor and
owner of the Buffalo Times, who Is the
Democratic national committeeman of
New York state and a member of the
executive committee, spoke as follows
about William J. Bryan when be was
recently Interviewed by James Creel
yoau for the New York World:
"i recognize William J. Bry fa as the
national leader of the Democijfetic par-
Bryan has polled votes
other living DemoJ/at He
polled a million more votes than
Mr. flleveland or Mr, Parker. Until
soifle Other Democrat receives » larger
number of votes Mr. Bryan will con
tinue to be the national leader fit bis
part/*
Mr. Mack was not anxious to talk
about polities, but when the divided
condition of the Democratic party was
mentioned be spoke with frankneea,’
“The Democratic party at this time
reminds me of the boy baby in the ad
vertisement reaching for a sake of
soap and labeled *He won't be happy
till he gets it’ The people who make
np the rank and file of the Democracy
will never be satisfied till the man who
have been engaged in securing and
snaking mondy put of special govern
mental privileges have been sent to the
rear of the party. The party just now
seems to be made up of two elements.
Ninety-eight per cent of It copslatg pf
men who seem to be in favor of pro
gressive Democracy, which says what
It means and Is honestly opposed to ths
use of the party or the government for
advantage. Those who rnaki
tup the remaining 2 per cent seem to be
are ibe real Demo
fl-ntn as well be honest,
< .'.-Am
pilled COJIHci
• have opposed the
time /dr the past ten years* are <efl*j||
at the head of big corporations locnnng
for special privllegtH or are attorneys
hired by such corporations to secure
special privileges for largo money con
siderations.
“The Democrats of the country might
as well understand clearly that they
can never win by the use of boodie. |
Intend to speak frankly. Take my own
county, Erie, for Instance. In MOO w*
had a fund of about f 4,700 In that
county. We lost It by about 4,800
votes. Last year we had a fund of
more than $50,C00. We lost the eoynty
by more than 13,000 votes.
“Now. in 1890 It is a well known fact
that there was not a county In the
Union In which we bad bmnmt enougt
-<0 uthjgssary postage stamps.
within 001.854 votes
Last year we
' .MjffWhoney- I don’t believe
to misled, and I
will speak plainly, TMt year we bad
all the money we could use In thio
(New York) or any other state. Yet we
lost the election by t,542,002. a defeat,
in spite of our abundance of money,
more than four times as groat as tu
1800, when we wore so hard up for
funds. If It had not been for the
strength furnished by local issues and
local candidates 1* states like New
York. Michigan, Massachusetts and
Minnesota we would have come out of
the campaign stripped bare.
“The truth to that the Democratic
party must stand for something defi
nite If It hopes to wfn at the potto. Ton
don't need any better evidence than
that last fall Chicago wont 110,000 Ito
publican, while this year. Indeed wtth
tn the pact few dgye, when the muni
cipal fight was made qu straight out
and out issues. Chicago went 25.000
Democratic. These things ought to be
. a toascn all Democratic leaders.
to given out constantly that the
of the *9 railed progressive
Democrat to opposed to big
’’’Wsineea Interests. That to not true, It
ta not opposed to legitimate private mp
terprise on however large a scale. |
have never heard of any Democrat be
ing opposed to Mr. Wsnamaker's es
tablishments or to any other of the
great dry goods stores or similar busi
nesses. The things that progressive
and radical Democrats object to are
the policies of men advocating special
legislation and engaged in bribery and
so consolidating and watering corpora
tions as to menace the business of the
country. The legitimate merchant has
to buy land, to bOIW on It and to pay
taxes. He gets no special privilege
from the government-**
"Whom do you recognise as the na
tional leader of the Democratic party
todayr
-The man who received a million
more votes than any other living Dem
ocrat and will remain leader until some
other Democrat can show a larger
|£ote. M
St*'You mean Mr. Bryanr
fgH mean Mr. Bryan. He polled a mil
tjfqp more votes than either Mr. Cteve-
Sand or Mr. Parker. I look upon him as
the national leader of the party"
“But. Mr. Mack, would not New
Turk reject Mr. Bryan againF
“That may be true, but It to also true
|bat the other states rejected the candl-
(???)
late and leadership presented by New
York last year. New York must take
its chances with the other states. If
1 the Democratic party is to have any
chance to win It must have a Demo
cratic leadership and a Democratic
* platform.
“Last fall’s campaign was not a fair
test of the Democratic party's position.
In our national attacked
. the trusts and appeared CT*be vigorous
end In earnest about It. But what did
we do afterward? The first thing was
i to eliminate the national committee
r from the conduct of the campaign from
( Maine to California, apparently for the
purpose of raising 'money from trusts,
syndicates and corporations. We put
* what might be termed managers and
corporation lawyers at the head of the
j campaign. I thought then and I think
now that that made the Democratic
’ party look ridiculous. J have no desire
’ to make a personal erittotaw of My
» man.
i “If the Democratic party does not
stand against centralisation of power
and against organisations of capital de-
’ voted to grafting and bribery in the
state and nation I consider that it has
, no mission and ought to be defeated.
. There to not room enough even in this
i big country for two trust parties or
, two Republican parties.**
i “Assuming Mr. Bryan to be the na
j tlonal leader, will he b« nominated for
r president again in 1908Y’
“It to bard to say. My notion to that
i |f Mr- hooseveit saeoeeds in controlling
the next Republican national conven
( tion by his m ggpeptance of a renom
j ination or bj.tfoe pomipajlou of any
, man be may favor and secures $s
adoption of a platform such aa I knag
. |pe be will he has hi* wa/ It
|s difficult at thlr time to deny that It
f will be a bard job tor the Democratic
. party to defeat him, Mo one can dto
( puts the tact that Mr. Roosevelt baa
. impressed the country with the Idea
, that he to boneet and that be is earnest
I In opposing vicious (rusts. However,
tn spite of. that
e doubt his teal sincerity of purpose.
r “On ffc other band, should the pluto
cratic element dominate the next Re-
I publican national convention the duty
* of the Democratic party will be very
’ plain. It should nominate some man
who has honestly pnd fearlessly stood
f for the principles which Mr Bryan has
£ represented for the past ten years. If
e ft makes such a nomination, with ft
progressive and radical platform, I be
lleve that It. will be sure of carrying
’’ the country by as big a majority as Mr.
Roosevelt got In
r “That 1 - 4 Rjaalt W - ft rd
but I do not an-
I neipate It, If we bad a national con
’ vention now I do not see anything In
‘ sight except the nomination of Mr,
Bryan unless we want to try again the
experience we have just had In at
tempting to beat the Republicans at
■ their own game.”
“IJow about a fusion with the Popu-
1 lists T'
1 “No fusion—no, slit All the Demo
cratic party has to do Is to be demo
cratic. It should turn away from trust
* magnates and trust lawyers. If It
stands on democratic ground the Pop
uliate will vote (ba Democratic ticket
There to not the giigbteat gbance of gn
ether fusion with the Populist ergan
laatloe,
“My own Men to that la ototor to b*v»
the Democrats party win again »w
--cessfui men who do not profit by spe
cial privilege—men. like Douglas, in
Massaebuaocta, and Folk, in Missouri—
must come to the front. We need lead
ers who are hot MtUng ftvore from
common councils, state legislatures or
th* national government, fiueb men as
these are beginning to open their eyes.
Processes of revelation are at work.
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, for in
stance. baa done more to arouse and
hold the attention of honest business
men to existing evils than any other
man wbo has touched th* subject since
the civil war. I believe that honest
business men wfU ooms to tbs front In
Democratic politics and that the blrsd
men of the trusts witt go to the rear.
“Unfortunately an Impression has
gooe abroad that the Democrats of
New York are not Mncers. In travel
tag around through other states I find
that a great many people believe that
New Yorkers are tied up to tbs trusts
and syndicates and other seekers after
special privilege- That to a mistake.
The great mass of the Democratic vet
era tn New York are just aa much op
posed to special privilege and tbs brib
ery and grafting that accompany It
and ar* Just as good Democrats as you
can find, say, in Missouri. What they
peed to sincere, stralghtout and fear
less Demoeratto leadership. That, I be
lleve, they will have,”
She'll Shew ledta How to Farm.
With a complete- outfit of plows,
rakes and other agricultural equip
, meats, Including a windmill water
pump, Mlsa Alice L. Yoder, a native of
I Bechtelsville, Ta., sailed a few days
i ago, returning to India to labor not
only as a missionary, but to introduce
’ American farm methods tn that far off
• land, says a Boyertown (Pa.) dispatch
!to the I'lilladelphla Record. She owns
■ several hundred acres of land there,
I where she Is training 200 children In
: the manner and custom of the western
: continent.
S**«wttr *f Herses,
There fU'ems to be a scarcity of good
horses, while the demand for ail kinds
j of horses Is unusually large, says the
| Philadelphia Public ledger. A few
•sasona ago shipments of western
bor»-H to the east were so large as to
•verstoek the market, but the raising
of the animals baa declined in the past
tew years. A dealer in New York said
that If be could only get horses there
would be no trouble In disposing of
them at good prices, but they are not ,
tabs fottad.
F => xj.l3li«lra.ecl iin t
RAILWAY REGULATION.!
American and British Views onl
Rate Making Powers.
818 CHARLES J. OWENS’ STATEMENT
London and South western's ManageS
Says British Experience ShowH
That, While Fixing of MaxlmuJ
Ratos by tho Government May Imß
Jnstigntee, Its Tendency la to Ari
root Xstaral Doollno In
sonablo Rnto Lewtelattoa Mot
An interesting and significant stata
meat of special timeliness, ta vtow <fl
President Roosevelt’s recent utterance
on the question of railroad rata
Ing and of Secretary Taft's dtacuaaltfl
of the same subject at the banquet fl
the recent international railway cofl
gress at Washington, was made in isl
Interview the other afternoon by fifl
Charles J. Owens, general manager fl
the London and Southwestern Raliwfl
company, wbo U one of the moat proifl
Jnent of the British delegates to tfl
cougraM, says the New York Postfl
Washington correspondent Sir Charlfl
has been active In railway
meat In England during the whole SjH
tatiou of ths matter of rate ragulatifl
there, and. hie experiencs of the
sects of government regulation tn Grefl
Britain to especially valuable In tfl
present dlacussluu in the United Statifl
Speaking from British experience, ■
says that the fixing of maxl«u;m rafl
may be justifiable, but he adds that isl
result of this in England has been fl
arrest the natural decline of rates afl
to maintain them st th* high tovglM
which they stood when regulation vfl
adopted,
“Where I quarrel with the l*gtslatfl
proposed by I’resllent Roosevelt,
understand It,” said Sir Charles,
that It in suggested that a tribunal sfl
have the right to fix an actual rate, fl
my opinion, a government sbouldH
perfectly satisfied with fix’ng rea-fl
able maxima, leaving the railroad efl
panies proper commercial libertyfl
act within the limits of those maxlfl
subject always to the
the law as it guards against dtoq m .
ination In all Jts forms.
i “I quite agree with the j
j made Than once
MnM m Usui suM MrateflMßMnMa*-. #
the comwWty WO call railed tr* R »
portatton. Its effect could only b* to
deprive the
commercial elasticity In arranging
their prices which Is a fundamental
necessity In the conduct of any busi
ness. Indeed, but for the fact that
there is a measure of monopoly In ev
ery railroad, although not to the same
extent in the United States as In Great
Britain, It would be hard to find any
logical reason why even maxima
should be Imjiosed upon a railway
pompany more than upon the producer
pf any qther necessity of life, for syph
we may surely call transportation.”
Speaking of the regulation of freight
rates by the British governmeat. Sir
Ckarto* Mid;
”D*aii|ig with the question btatortc
sliy, it should be remembered that
wbe» each individual railway aeaapa
ny obtained Its powers from parila
ment the powers were aocompaaied by
the Imposition of maximum rates. The
rates varied greatly In many districts
and were in every ease accompanied
by a classification setting out the
classes tn which various articles of
merchandise ware to be found, but the
desses were extremely vague and cov
ered but very few artictos and com
modities. From time to time amalga
mation of companies baa taken place,
so that our largest railroads la Great
Britain are, broadly speaking, made
up of tone or eves twenties of small
companies, rack originally having va
rious powers both as regards rates and
classifications. This mads It extreme
ly difficult for any trader to decide
whether tbo rates charged by a partic
ular railway company were within tbo
maximum powers of that comped?"
and would often involve referring to
anything between ton and tweaty dif
ferent acta of parliament. This ted to
a great many complaints on the part
of tbo public and to constant false ao
cusatlous agalDet tbo railway compa
nies that they were charging In ex
eons of their powers.
“Repeated committees of the bouses
of parliament were appointed to con
sider the question, and the ultimate
outcome was the passing of th* rail
way and canal traffic act in 1888. This
act provided that every railway com
' puny should submit to the board of
trade a revised schedule of class rates
and also a revised classification. The
railway eonqianles. of course, com- '
plied with this and after mutual con
sideration submitted classifications
which were to be common to all rail
way companies and schedules of rates
which but very slightly differed.
The board of trade then heard ob
jections on the part of traders to the
proposals of the railway companies,
and public bearings of the whole
case took place which lasted over
eighty days. As the result of these
hearings the board of trade, supporting
the railroad companies' propositions in
some cases and upholding various trad
ers in others, submitted schedules and
a classification to parliament for its
consideration. Here, again, the pro
ceedings extended over several weeks,
and the ultimate result was the pass
ing Into law of revised classifications
and a revised schedule of rates.
“The effect on the railway companies
was materially to reduce their charges
on certain articles of traffic, and their
attempt to retrieve their position bf
DOUGLAS
Mr
should depend upon existing conditiors
and needs, which ought to be carefuliy
nnd exactly ascertained and not as
sumed. These conditions and needs
a 1 Igent
t''wßflrtion of y
should be left ■
ui®B®Wflflflßßbll have M»n com- .
pleted.
“That the railways have considered ’
that the legislation thus far suggested '
is not duly protective of their interest
Is undoubtedly true. Those Interests
cannot be equitably protected if de
cision is to be made and become ef
fective upon the purely judicial ques
tion of the reasonableness and unrea
sonableness of a rate without strictly
judicial procedure; they cannot be
equally protected If one class of car
riers Is subjected to the provisions of
the law and other classes competing
for the same traffio shall be exempt.
Th* carriers' Interest cannot b* fairly
protected, and th* coaumerc* of th*
oouutry must b* injured by statutes
which provide that a ret* of transpor
tation once fixed by any authority
shall remain perpetually in force there
after until changed by commission or
by court
“There to no Mvtaten of oplnkm as
to the deeirebUtty of stopping all secret
or unjustly discriminatory devices and
practices of whatsoever character, but
there to a just and reasonable claim
upon the part of tbo carriers that if
•vtto ta transportation are to be sub
foot of further legislation those evils
should be distinctly defined, that there
should boa fair and exhaustive dto
ouosloa aa to how those sviis can beet
ba reached and remedied and that in
the interest of the commerce of the
eountry, which is so indissolubly linked
with transportation, as well as in Jus
tice to the carriers and their owners,
unnecessary legal restrictions and bur
dens should be avoided, which, while
certainly harmful to those great inter
seta, will not aid la correcting the
evils."
Swiss OaMtsnra.
Photography baa recently been em
ployed in Bwlt*?rlaud to obtain exact
pictures of the glaciers as they now
are, says the London Telegraph. In fu
ture times the terminal moraines can
be compared with those of the present
day. Whatever may be the cause, the
fact seems to be that glaciers all over
the world are shrinking. They were
once certainly far larger in Switzer
land than they are now. The Ice caps
round the p >les are also growing less.
As to the north pole, this was pretty
well known some time ago, and now
the antarctic explorers report that the
Ice fields round the southern pole are
also far less than they were when Ross
made his antarctic voyage sixty years
ago. When the reasons for this de
crease of glaciation are known a clew
may be round for the occurrence of
tha glacial epoch, eighty or a hundred
thousand years ago.
Loafin’ In the BloMomt.
Loafin' in the blossoms, the breeze a-blow
ln' free.
Mockin’ bird a-atngin* tn the old mulberry
tree.
An* the branches green above me bowin'
"Howdy dot' to me.
Happy as the breese that swings the
Mosaoms!
Loafin’ in the blossoms where the river
sings away
An’ tells the water lilies what the flower
gardens say;
Dream in’ o' the June time on a violet
couch of May.
Happy as the breeze that swings the
blossoms! <
1 ADE’S TIDINGS OF JO
■ The Author Tells of Indiana
Literary Output.
I WHY PUBLISHERS NEED NOT WORE
B At Lakewood (M. J.) Dinner of P<
rlodical Pabliahers’ Association H
■ Said Hoosier State Writers Are In
■ cubatiuK Eaouerh Manuscripts t
H tatst Ten Years—Declares One Ca:
■ Hear Roasanees Grew.
■ George Ade, author and playwright
I was the first speaker at the second as
I nual dinner of the Periodical Publtah
■ era' association recently held at Lake
■ wood, N. J., where they eutertalnec
I more than 800 editors, authors, artist
■ and public men. says a Lakewood sp*
I <4kl dispatch to the New York Times.
Called upon to respaud to the toaai
I “Th* Business End a Periodical
I From the Author's Standpoint,” Mr
I Ade’s patriotism asserted lts*lf, and
I before he was fairly launched on hia
I remarks he waa singing th* prate** of
I Indiana as the fountain spring ot mod-
I *m literature.
“I think I am an author becauae I
[ am from Indiana,” he said. “Every
to an author by Instinct You
are in th* publishing buat
i"" &-*• an( i doubt you are bearing for
hot stuff, if ®o, do not worry tor an
other moment I bring you tidings of
great joy. There ar* now being Incu
bated In the stat* of Indiana tatough
manuscripts to keep Ml Qf you gotag for
to® »*kt top ye«N, Every summer ths
authors of Indiana m«et at Eagle Taka
assemble ta the open air because
there is no building in th* state larg*
mough to hold all of them.
“You know how many author* w*
have In Indiana? I do not apeak at
haphazard, I mak* no careless esti
mate. I give you th* figures compiled
by the Society of Authors, and we have
In Indiana 22,837 authors, classified as
follows;
“Historical novelists, 8.903; dialect
poets, 6,397; magazine poets, 1,625; real
poets, 430; dramatists, 1,216; syndicate
humorists, 674; short story writers
3,532.
“We can give you anything you want.
If you wish the scholarly essay, with
a dash of statesmanship and politics,
go down Into the Beveridge belt, where
the Saturday Evening Post Is a house
hold word, where John Hay started
and
■ ’• •’ - 'vi.-
vhile flfiWlfc’xs*tei
' with
' spect what Is known as the Tarkington
} outcrop in and around Marlon county.
Here you will find F. Meredith Nichol
son, Charles Major and hundreds of
others, each writing the book of the
year.
“Northwest of Marlon county you
will find the McCutcheon family, and
eight member* of the McCutcheon fam
ily are now writing and Illustrating for
Dodd, Mead & Co. They have day and
night shifts, each author working eight
hours.
“South of this tribe and east of In
dianapolis Is the romantic novel region
made famous by General Lew Wallace,
Maurice Thompson. Will Thompson,
David Graham Phillip*, Mary Hart
well Catherwood and countless others.
John Clark Rldpath of Greencastle to
one of the pioneers at what has now
bocotD* a permanent Industry. Hs
wrote school histories and sold them
to college students for 69 cents a eopy,
and afterward it was discovered that
by putting In Christy pictures and dis
torting minor incidents tbo books could
be sold for |I.BO on all trains and
news stands.
> “Th* present activity ta the region
between Vermilion and Posey is some
thing unprecedented, and every young
man in this region says. 'Well, if Tark
ington and the McCutcheon boys can
get away with it there's a chance for
IDS.'
“Ge through any village In the corn
belt on a peaceful summer evening and
you wIM bear from out of the vague
somewhere a low, buzzing sound. At
first you will think It is the dynamo of
an electric lighting station. Not so.
It to some elxteen-yeer-old maiden
thinking out a romance. Next year
she will have her picture ta the Book
man unless she is careful. Go south
and west of indtanapolls and you are
In the home of J. Whitcomb Riley, Tod
Sloane and Kid McCoy. I wtil not
burden you further. Suffice it to say
that whatever you want you can get
It In Indiana.”
Mr. Ade was frequently interrupted
by laughter and was warmly applaud
ed when be concluded.
AetomoMle Artillery.
The Portuguese have adopted auto
mobile tractlou for a new battery of
four quick firing howitzers of the
Bctmeider-Canet system of 150 milli
meters, says the London Globe. They
were made at the Creusot works, in
France, and the motor is designed to
draw all the four, one behind the other
—a load, that is to say,of about fourteen
tons—at a speed of at least five and a
half kilometers an hour for all slopes.
The automobile, besides, carries five
tons of munitions, etc., and the artil
lerymen, except four wbo will sit on
the guns. The motor will also draw
the guns by cable up bills of a gradient
of 12 per cent.
Aserlrsa Woaea’i Jewel*.
To the averag Englishwoman her
jewelry is merely an adjunct, having
no particular connection with the rest
of ber toilet, but added at random,
says the London Motorist and Traveler.
Not so with the transatlantic smart
woman. She dresses to ber jewels and
bas her gowns made to match them.
afsaf
jy MYSTERIOUS NICKEL.
Hme Coin Comes Dock to Minneap.
oils Printer Thirteen Times.
a’s Perry, a printer In Minneapolis, la
living under the Influence of a mys
terious nickel, says a Minneapolis
(Minn.-) dispatch. Over a year ago this
iY uncanny nickel first entered his life
and trousers. At first it was accorded
no more attention than is usually allot
ted to small change and passed up
with all the abandon that marks the
awaking of a meddlesome friend.
i» But after it had returned two or
three times its battered face at first
recalled indistinctly and afterward
K, clearly the former visits. Last fall
0- Perry's curiosity as to the real identity
h- of the piece became thoroughly arous
e- ed, and it was given a distinctive ear
d mark. Since then U has returned ten I
to times.
*- Th* fourth return suggested that the
coin was presided over by some uncan-
»t ny influence which endowed it with the I
J power of overcoming all restraint and I
r. returning at will to th* old haunt A
d morbid fear that the visitations boded
■ evil seized the marked man, and part-1
f ly to try the strength of the spell which
r drew the coin back and partly to get
beyond the sphere of Its influence be I
I began giving the coin to American I
r volunteer and foreign mfoston contrt-1
i buttons, to paying it over to Chlnoae I
- laundries and wandering Syrian*.
But it always returned within a few I
; weeks at the furthest until It camo the I
tenth time after It had been branded I
*bd the thirteenth time since the first I
appearance. Then it stopped coming.
Four months rolled bv. but fh*v I
——W MJ, VUI 100?
were not filled with happy, m<s
meats. Instead inexplicable mtsfor
tuJMo followed fast and followed fa*t
*• Forme pied, the ink refused to
work, unpaid bills accumulated on the
books, and the office eat died. But the
other day the coin appeared once more,
and many times the amount blazoned
on Ito face then vanished In fragrant
smoke over the heads of Perry and hte
friends In token of the return. But
Perry has vowed that the humble
nickel shall be gilded and worn ever
more as a neck amulet.
A JAPANESE DESTROYER.
One of the Fastest of Admiral Toro’s
Fleet In Far Eastern Waters.
One of the latest and fastest of Ad
miral Togo’s torpedo boat destroyers is
the Shlrakumo, which was turned over
? the imperial Japanese authorities
■BOveeks before the outbreak of the
SMp- York Trikune. The!
On her trials, which were made In
boisterous weather, the meau speed, 3
the Shlrakumo amounted to 31.031tn0t8
on a three hour run, and star six runs
on the measured mile a mean speed of
30.819 knots was registered, while the
engines Indicated an average of 7,648
horsepower. The engines are of the
triple expansion four cylinder type.
The boilers maintained steam with
ease throughout the runs, In the course
of which the steam pressure averaged
231 pounds to the square inch. The
engines ran at a speed of more than
400 revolutions a minute and worked
with smoothness throughout the trials.
The Japanese stand high on the list
of world power* tn th* matter of tor
pedo boats and dnstmyora, and It 1*
upon this type of craft that Admiral
Togo will depend for the destruction of
many of hia enemy's large but slow
moving battleships and cruisers, for an
eighteen Inch Whitebead torpedo
launched from the Shlrakumo'* above
or below water tube* and driven ac
curately by compressed air against the
armored hull of a Russian battleship
would tear her bottom out and send
her to the bottom of the sea with all
her officers and men. as was the case
In th* utaetnKtten of the Petropavlovsk
of the Russian navy last year.
PLAY BEBT WAY TO LEARN.
CMtoMS* ■*■«■<»» Bare M So S*roo«
s«<— o* Dovoloaio* Studooto.
Play a* a means of developing nat
urally the mental, physical and dramat
is instincts of young people was advo
cated by Dean W. D. MacCUntock of
th* department of English in th* Uni
versity of Chicago recently, says th*
Chicago Tribune.
M tf I were planning the curriculum
of a college,** said Dean MacCHntock.
*T should not make the feature of work
conspicuous. Instead I would empha
sise play, nature’s best method of edu
cation. Play Is natural, and to be nat
ural Is to be precious.’*
There were three classes of play, said
Dean MacCHntock—physical, mental
and dramatic—all of which are In dif
ferent ways beneficial to the boy or girl
who indulges in them. The physical
kind of play teaches us to be leaders,
the mental kind of play develops the
qualities of sharpness and cleverness
and the dramatic kind of play aids us
to understand the minds of others. The
last named, he said, was especially Im
portant.
“Most of us need to learn to act,” de
clared the shaker. “One of the great
est things we can do is to pretend to be
some one else. If we can Imagine our
selves to be Hamlet we shall gain a
much better understanding of that
character than we otherwise could.”
The only drawback to athletic sports
In America, declared the professor, was
that they develop the tendency to gam
ble.
Miniature Kinins Machine.
The London Daily News states that
s new mivAature rifling machine has
been perfected which will be carried
on board warships. It is driven elec
trically and will clear the rifling of
guns from metal adhesions, clogging
and necessitating the removal or r*-
tubtog of guns.
One Dollar a Year
DRESSED IN BESTTO DIE
How Japanese Soldiers Pupated
For a Desperate Enterprise.
INOIDENT OF PORT ARTHUR SIEGE
I Details of the Capture a>< Ocenpo
tion of Worth Cockscomb Hill Fort
Through the D«rl nv Work of Jap-
I anese Engineer*—Some Sacrificed
Their Live*—Crawling on Stomachs
and Feivnina Death to Fool Enemy.
The London Times publishes tM®M-/
I lowing account written by a
engineer officer of the breaching
defenses of North Keekwanshan (Cw® *
comb HUI fort) at Port Arthur.
“It was thus that the capture was an
nounced by the Official Gazette of the
north fort of Cockscomb hill, which
was the beginning of the series of de
structions and captures of Important
strongholds of the Russians at Port Ar
thur: *On the 27th of October, In the
thirty-seventh year of Meljl, part of
the walls of North Cockscomb Hill fort
wat blown up by our working party,
ans the infantry assaulted successfully
and v‘copied the fort securely by the
28th.*
“On that day at about 12:80 p. m. the
working party in the right wing of the
mine gallery came across an opening
measuring about ten centimeters by
ten centimeters, from which issued a
strong smell of coal tar. The discovery
ras made thirty-two meters from the
< wvvs, 11VW
■ entrance of the gallery leading In from £
the sixth parallel. After examination *
we concluded that we hadMglien in
1 with the enemy's
‘ nel. We found it necess?te
and, If possible, remove tsSSSStZySr
material set for-**'..
work was intrusted to a patty of six" ’
men, volunteers from the Imperial en- ‘
glneer battalion on die spot—Sergeant
Katougl Mltanl, Corporal Tamejlro Ta
kahashi, FlratoClass Privates Tomolchl
Horl, Klnzo Furusawa, Toshiro Kawa
bata and Second Class Private Asataro
Matsushita. They understood the des
perate nature of the enterprise full
well, and, wishing to die decently, as
the gentlemen soldiers of Japan should,
they dressed in their best and went—to
their certain death.
“At 1:30 exactly the sound of a vio
lent explosion rent the
comrades anxiously
mouth of the gallery were
pebbles, shingles and d ebr
,*-»»» v*
which were tied to their ankles
purpose, all severely wounded, :
the rest sacrificed their lives at the
tar of patriotism and duty. Wil
“The quantity of the dynamite usedwH
was unnecessarily large and the force ' w
of the explosion so great that it utter
ly demolished our mine gallery. But
at the same time It split the ground to
such an extent that the outer surface
of the Wall became detached from the
natural soil, enabling us to determine
the nature of It. The wall appeared
to be about three meters thick, of con
crete tarred over on the outside and
covered with tarpaulin sheets. This
method of construction Is proof
against almost any caliber of mobile
siege guns.
“We at once organised a party for
the purpose of blowing up the exposed
wall. Sergeant lida, with two first
class privates of engineers, crawled
up over the edge of th* crater into the
ditch for the purposes of reconnols
sance, returning safely with a satis
factory report Then Sergeant Okura
was sent with gun cotton in sand bags
along with Corporals Horikawa, Fu
kunaga and Private Musuki. They
daringly advanced right up to the foot
of the wall, crawling on their stom
achs very slowly and lying down at
every few paces, feigning death. They
placed and fired the gun cotton. The
explosion tore the wall off the ground,
leaving a gap of four centimeters be
tween. The Russians took not the /
slightest notice of it Perhaps they W
imagined that to be an Impact of a
Japahese shell. We again Inserted a
large quantity of gun cotton under the
wall and exploded it. This made a
hole, but not sufficiently large for our
assaulting party to enter.
"80 th* persistent engineers deter
mined upon the third attempt They
shot down several of the Russians who
looked wonderlngiy out of the rent
The third attempt was entirely success
ful. This time the explosion of
gun cotton tore a hole In the
masonry of concrete about one ml||
in height and one and a half meiM
wide. Through this aperture
grenades were thrown In, and under
the cover of the smoke and confusion
a party of Infantry numbering not
more than half a company filed In and
occupied the part of the underground i
chamber; the other part still remained '
in the possession of the enemy. The
Japanese and Russian combatants '*
were separated only by the thin khaki
colored wall of sand bags between.
“We slowly and steadily advanced,
Inch by inch, each soldier pushing In
front of him a bag of sand or a paraffin
tin filled with shingle. The sound of
bullets striking these paraffin tins was
weird in the extreme. The Russians
sought protection under the cover of
steel plate partitions, striving stub
bornly and yet In vain to stem the
tide of the Japanese advance. The
steel plates we exploded; the sand
bags we simply pushed aside. Thus
within twenty-four hours after th*
breach, the whole of North Cockscomb
Hill fort was firmly and effectively oc
cupied by the Japanese.” |
Th* Proof.
“Was it a very select hotel?"
“Yes. It failed,’’—Cleveland Plata
Dealer.