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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 2, 1913. PORTUGAL'S FUTURE MATTER OF WORRY FUTURE OF PORTUGAL AND HER EXILED RULERS NOW ANOTHER EUROPEAN POLITICAL PROB LEM YET UNSOLVED. LONDON'S SMART SET CURING PETS LONDON'S HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED AND SICK BIRDS AND BEASTS IS POPULAR. ALIEN LAND ACT DOES NOT WORRY 20E 33 i, European Politicians Anxious About Country With Ruin Foreseen. Humane Work Carried On at Animals' Hospital Now Sunday Rendezvous. Delegation Impressed With Re pression of Japanese in California. v . - .... i ARMED FORCES ARE DANGER NEW YORK MAY GET HOME MEETINGS HEAR REPORT i 4 Soiaiers Insist on Electing Own Of ficers With Power to Depose Them, and Resent Interference. Warships Seldom Leave Port. ,-,nf GUT BERNARD. LISBON. Nov. 1. (Special.) Griev ous Indeed are the conditions under which Kins Manuel's supporters exist today In the Republic of Portugal. In the first place, there are but few tt them left. Many are in exile; many are in jail. Then again, those still at liberty In their native land have suf fered from depredations at the hands of the Republican Government, or the secret society which dominates tho present rulers of Portugal. Tho landmarks of Portugal's path from bad to worse during- the last five years are matters of history almost ancient history. The present state of the country is deplorable. Ruin .Now Threatens. The revolution of 1910 promised a "New Heaven and a New Earth," the former to be attained by disendowing the church, the latter by confiscating the goods of those who held by the old regime. Bombs in public places, riots in the streets, strikes more sen seless and wanton than those which are ruining Great Britain, marked the advent of personal and political liberty In Portugal. And ruin is certainly threatening Portugal. Social ruin, for the govern ment Is subject to an irresponsible se cret society and the feeble voices of honest Republicans are drowned by the clamor of those who use power for plunder and private vengeance. Neither the army nor the navy form reliable Instruments In the hands of the government. Republican Ideals ol equality have killed discipline and made the armed forces of the land a public danger. Soldiers insist on electing their officers, with power to depose them. They resent any interference with their liberty. Only the other day a regiment was ordered out to exer cise by a new Colonel. The men pleaded a previous engagement, a picnic had been arranged for that day. The Col onel was annoyed, and showed it. The men complained to the Ministry of War and were given right. Risk of Uvea Halted. The ships of the Portugese navy sel dom go out of port aa they seem liable to run on rocks and thus risk valuable lives. This consideration induced a number of mariners to call on their minister with the request that they might become land-soldiers. They had tired of a life on the waves of the River Tangus. As they prudently brought their rifles to the interview at the ministry, their request was crranted. As for the poor peasants, the love able country folic, their distress Is great, though seldom voiced for fear of some lurking carbonarlo. Yet many a peas ant declares that he will welcome any ruler who gives him back his church. Such was the state of Portugal when Manuel's wedding bells rang out over the Danube at Sigmaringen. What of the future? For Portugal as an Inde pendent state there Is no future. Builnen Combine Ursred. An Ideal method of solving the Port ugese question would be administra tion by a business combine. Portugal and her many resources should be made Into a company. Let an International board of directors take charge of the finances of the country, while the peo ple, under whatever form of govern ment they prefer, play at ruling or being ruled to their hearts' content, on condition that they do not interfere with business. If it amused them, they might keep up an army, a navy and' as many officials as the company could afford, but the board of directors must be in a position to refuse supplies if and when disorders arise. International rivalry and the Jeal ousies of Europe make such a scheme Impossible, and there have been many Indications that Portugal's future will be that of a pawn in the dark game of continental politics. There was at one time some talk of Spanish intervention, but at the bare suggestion all Portugal would unite in arms against the Spaniard. Great Britain to Take Rand. Then it was proposed that Great Britain should take Portugal in hand. This suggestion was to be heard in the streets of Lisbon, in the stores and cafes a year ago, and it was most strongly urged by the large and in fluential German business colony. Look ing deeper into this proposal, it be comes obvious that Germany would stand to gain by such an arrangement, not only where local commercial Inter ests are concerned but also by colonial expansion at the cost of Portugal. Ger many would adopt her new and effec tive method of claiming 'compensa tion," which startled Europe in the Fall of 1911. However. Great Britain at present Is keeping out of the Portugese Imbroglio, albeit business is suffering badly in consequence of the disordered state of affairs. To make another Egypt of Portugal at a time when strikes and a threat of civil war are afoot would tie Great Britain's hands for many years, withdraw her forces, already re duced below the margin of safety, from other places of Interest and thus give rival powers a free hand in both the Near and the Far East. The signs of the times point rather to a grouping of European powers over the Portugese question. King Alfonso, of Spain, seems inclined to go with the "entente" in this matter, and hU English matrimonial alliance has helped to draw him closer to Great Britain. Thus on one side are ranged Portugal's ancient ally in cordial "entente" with Republican France, and in complete understanding with Spain. On the other side, the wedding bells at Sigmaringen have marshaled the wealth of the Co burgs, the might .of the Hohenzollerns, the prestige of the Bourbons In the aid of Don Manuel. It is these rival groups which will decide the future of Portugal. Spain's Queen Troubled. LONDON. Nov. I. (Special.) A woman well acquainted with the Court of Spain brings the sad news that it is. feared that tho second daughter of the Queen of Spain will be. like the second son, both deaf and dumb. It is feared that the little girl is totally deaf, which must entail dumb ness unless she can be cured. The Queen is almost heartbroken. She goes with her children to the convents in 01 near Madrid to ask for prayers of Intercession on their behalf, and par tloularly of late on behalf of this un- lurky little Princess tfiriPun farm Uiborers receive an average of 7 cents a day- fk" ' '' - 4 -s - ', j-l - 4 . ' 9 1 1 ' 1- f W 7 ' ' -e- - ' ; " t - " " ' ;j mum nin in unniir v'fvv - " iv .3 UHUlULiriU IU UUUL J ri From Prince to Cook Mania Sweeps Across Poland. WARSAW LUSTS FOR COIN Gambling On in Streets to Enormous Extent and on Sundays and Saint Days When People Come From Church One Sees Gamesters. BY B. C. BASKERVIL.LBL WARSAW, Nov. 1. (Special.) Just now a gambling mania is sweeriinar across Poland. Today everybody in the country gambles, from the Prince at his club to the cooks and scullery-maids In the kitchens; from the woman of fashion tn her boudoir to the ballet girls at the theater, who spend their time between the acts in trying their luck with cards. In nine private houses out of 10 the Inmates sit up, night after night, till four or five in the morning and often begin again after lunch. Backing horses does not appeal to them. They like the money, the presence of the actual coins. When they cannot have these, they gamble with wooden cocks, pebbles and dominoes. They will walk- a mile to rub shoulders with a hunchback, or luck, and sit for hours waiting to slip into the seat of a lucky player. Street Gambling Great. Gambling goes on in the streets to an enormous extent. The police are supposed to punish offenders, but it makes little difference. On Sundays and saintdays, when the people come out of church, you can see, within a stone's throw of the entrance. a table on which Is an artificial cock, with a pointed tail and beak. This turns on a plrot, and round the table are numbers, as in roulette. The play ers lay on their money, the owner of the cock gives it a spin and you have Monte Carlo on a small scale, out in the open-air. The cocks are used be cause the original roulette sets, with a needle, were forbidden by the police. as no law has been made against the cocks, they are used instead. When they are tabooed, the gambler's Ingen uity win invent something else. Some women In the city tried to open a club where poker could be played from morning to night. The commit tee was over-run with applications for membership within 24 hours of Us formation. Unlickily for them, the po lice stepped in and put a stop to it. Every Town Has Gambling Hell. Every little town In Poland is cursed with gambling hells. When they can not get the license they open as con cert-rooms, motion-picture shows and so forth. A man will take a room in a provincial hotel and, like flies drawn to a honeypot, the men for miles around come in to play. One of these improvised clubs was the cause of a tragedy not long ago. A man well on in middle age, had lost a large sum in a Warsaw club and. seeing no other way of paying it, de termined to go to the country and get his old aunt to help him. . He obtained the money, and, on his way back, stopped at the small 'town of Radom. f Here he met a friend who asked him to try his luck with a man he. knew who was playing with a large party in his room at the hotel. The man al lowed himself to be persuaded and lost every cent his old aunt had given him. He went back and asked her for more. Luck was against him and a revolver closed the tragedy. One characteristic of your born gam bler Is that, on winning, he cannot keep away with his booty; He must bring it back to the tables. Here he generally leaves It. Two years ago, a rich young Pole won nearly $1,000,000 at different continental tables. Not satisfied he re turned the following year, lost the en tire sum and his private fortune as well. He is now quite a poor man. and if not for friends, would be starving. But he still dreams of trying his luck, and racks his brains for a way to get some more money with which to gamble. London Firm Gives Mere Man Few "Donts." Cheap Advlee Donated to Clients on SubJeetH of Rata and Col lars. Etc. LONDON. Nov. 1 (Special.) A well known firm of hosiers in London is distributing by the million the fol lowing "don'ts" to their clients on the subject of hats and collars: Don't wear a double collar with evening dress a plain collar is correct. Don't wear a bowler at a garden party. Don't wear a howler with a frock coat. Don't, if corpulent, select a suit with a vivid check design. Don't choose liats too large for you and have-them pa-dded. Don't rush Into the no-hat crusade. Hatlessness cannot be attained safely by a bound. Festina lente. There is a gentle rebuke to the sub- I:: - -:A : Ivf ) urban "millionaire," whose ideas of what Is de rlgueur are fearful and wonderful. In the following two "don'ts": Don't use goggles when driving or autoing in town, nor consider "auto monstrosities" essential. Don't combine tan boots with a black suit. Their affinities are "flannels" and a Panama or a colored tweed and a straw. TINKER BESTS CR0KER Clever Rase Beats ex-Tammany Leader but He Won't Prosecute. DUBLIN, Nov. 1. (Special.) Every one regards Boss Croker as one of the most astute business propositions in Ireland, so it came as a novel experi ence to his friends when a day or two back he found himself victimized by an Irish tinker. The tinker. It may be ex plained, is the Irish .equivalent of the KiiKlish Gipsy, and, ' liKe his relation across the water, has a weakness for annexing property In a way that is not in accordance with the strictest forms of law and morality. Droker s famous Irish gardens or stables were not purloined, but his wardrobe is now less by one new suit of clothes. This is what the tinker did. He approached the ex-Tammany leader without a coat and minus boots, and, in tears, explaining how he parted with them for a dollar in order to back one of Croker's horses at the Tipperary races, which, in spite of being a strong favorite, ran nowhere. There was, of course, no truth whatever in the story, the ract being that the coat and boots had been pledged with a local pawn broker to enable their owner to pay a police court fine for being drunk and disorderly, but Croker believed him and handed over the goods. Croker agrees that it was the neatest trick that has ever been played on him. and although the police got on the tin ker s trail, the boss refuses to prose. cute. . RELICS FOR PARLIAMENT English Liberals Hack. Plan to Buy Objects of Interest. DUBLIN. Nov. 1. (Special.) A scheme is being supported by a number of influential English Liberals for the purchase, with a view to presentation to the new Irish Parliament, of a num ber of objects of historical interest. These objects figured In the old Par liament house in Dublin, and were dis posed of on the conversion of the build ing into the Bank of Ireland. A committee, which has been formed to further this project, numbers among ts members several prominent Liberal women. Funds are to be raised by means of subscriptions for the pur chase of the magnificent bookcase which stood in the old Irish Parliament house, upon which the committee has an option. AMERICANS CHANGE IDOLS Johnson and Goldsmith Give Way to Barrle in England. LONDON, Nov. 1. (Special.) It has been noted this season that there Is a distinct change of fashion on the part of American visitors to England In re gard to their literary taste. "Dr. Johnson and Goldsmith are slowly but surely falling from high estate in tne eyes of the Yankees." said a well-known tourists' guide yes terday. "They're all for Barrle now adays. A young lady attached to a party to whom I was showing John son's house in Gough square, became quite contemptuous when, an attempt was made to compare even faintly Barrie's income with that of Dr. John son, and the party left Gough square Immediately." In tlia battle which Is constantly being n,-el by the natives of Africa and the fieni-:enK nf tie junsle 10 104 snakes anil 19.000 wild beasts were killed In one year, lino. . RIGHT YOUTH WINS Philadelphia Lad Makes Good Money in Europe. INTERVIEWS PAY HIM WELL George Kearney "Butts Into" Xews paper Game for Season With So Much Success That He Sur prises London Journalists. LONDON, Nov. 1. (Special.) News paper men in London have been much amused this month by the appearance of a bright youth from Philadelphia named George Kearney, who has "but ted" into the newspaper game for a season with so much success that he has made $200 above the expenses of his trip to Europe. "It's been an easy game, too," he told various Journalists. "I've had no end of fun. "Other vacations I've been a waiter at Atlantic City or I've run a boy's magazine, and once I edited a religious paper, all to make my school fees. "Oh, it's nothing unusual with us. Lots of chaps I know are doing the same thing to help their fathers out with school or college bills. One fer low, 20' years old, is lecturing on The Modern Woman' and 'When a Young Man Falls in Love.' "But I think I got ahead of the game when I decided to come over here and interview well-known people." American Shows Shrewdness. The young American paused to chuckle at his own shrewdness. "No, of course, I didn't know anyone here, and I didn't know where to stay, never having been here before, but that didn't feaze me, as we say In America. "I simply got some papers to agree to take the interviews (though I hadn't got the interviews) and I just came. "Everybody has been fine to me. I wrote people who I was, and what I was doing, and they let me come and see them. "I passed a couple of days with Hall Caine, and, say, he is the real thing, as kind as they make 'em. "Then I interviewed Sandow, the strong man who teaches physical cult ure, and Sylvia Fankhurst, the suffra gette, only she was too ill tontalk as I'd like to have heard her. and I had a great chat with your Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges. I think I am the only person who has interviewed him. Bernard Sliavr Missed. "I wanted to see Bernard Shaw, nat urally. No " interviewing trip Is com plete without him, but he was down in Devonshire. He wrote me a character istic .letter, though. I saw Brieux, the famous feminist. In Paris, and I hope to have a talk with John Galsworthy to night. "I didn't try to see Mr. Asqulth or Mr. Lloyd-George. It would have been great to have called on them, but I felt there wasn't any hope. "I've done some "extra specials,' too. Stayed out on the Embankment all one night and wrote about it, walked the streets another night, in a slummy part of the town, and sat and talked to a flower woman at Piccadilly circus for an hour. . "You see I bet my trip wouldn't cost me a dollar, and it was all done on velvet." Baby and His Bottle. Judge. Matron Baby is crying, Mary. I ex pect he wants his bottle. Mary I just give it to 'im, mum. Matron Did you? Then I expect he doesn't .want it. Last Year 10,17l Cases Were Treat ed, Horses, Donkeys, Dogs, Cats and- Birds Belonging to Poor of Metropolis Getting Aid. BY ANNIE S. B RAD SHAW. LONDON. Nov. 1. (Special.) The smart Bet in London have discovered quite a new sensation. They no longer throng the Zoo for the study of the antics of their favorite animals on Sunday afternoons as they have done for countless years past, but, spurred on by the numerous titled and humane animal lovers in their midst, they go now regularly to the Animals' Hos pital run by Our Dumb Friends' League. To pay a visit to this Animals' Hos pital Is to turn a. new page in the book of one's experiences. Centrally situated In London close to that mon ster Victoria Railroad depot, it occu pies a prominent position in a quiet backwater in which the prevailing ex citement is the arrival twice daily at the Institution of outpatients for treat ment by the honorary veterinary sur geons and -other officials attached to the permanent staff. This hospital for the pets and ani mal -helpers of the poor was officially opened by the Duchess of Teck In May, 1906, since when the number of patients has been steadily increasing, the record for the year 1912 amount ing to 19,172 cases. This comprised 1808 ln-patients and 15.779 out patients, while 1585 were consigned to the lethal chamber. Building Is Unique. The building itself presents an im posing appearance, the courtyard be ing spanned by a wide arch over two great entrance doors which bears the inscription "Our Dumb Friends' League Animals' Hospital." There are a couple of isolation wards where any suspected patient Is immediately placed under observation, as it would be obviously impossible to admit infectious cases. The pungent odor of chloroform is frequently ap parent as one passes through the building and tells forcibly of tlfe sad tragedies of the lethal chamber, the pathos of which, however, depends en tirely upon the point of view from which it is considered. So shocking are the injuries of some animals taken to this institution, either as the result of accident, or from the mutilations by wilful torture, that a speedy dis patch is certainly often the kindest and most merciful treatment. Many pathetic stories come from the donkeys' ward, for there are hundred of people in London for whom the humble donkey is the principal bread winner. It is not at all uncommon for these patient creatures to be crip pled with rheumatism or to become victims of pneumonia. A recent pa tient gave a striking illustration of the place he occupied in his owner's esteem. Donkey Case Cited. "Jimmy" was a. donkey that was ad mitted as an in-patient, having re ceived an injury to his foot. His docility and tractability from the time of admission were marked sufficiently to attract comment, until about 4 o'clock one afternoon he suddenly commenped to bray in so distressing a fashion that not only the foreman but the staff rushed to his stall, thinking he must be in great pain. All endeavors to soothe him proved fu tile, and only after a. certain period would he take refuge in sulky silence. Unfortunately, at precisely the same hour on the following day there oc curred an exact repetition of his out break, various cats and dogs dis turbed by the unusual procedure join ing the disturbance. A message was therefore dispatched to his owner, who, upon hearing the circumstances, at once supplied an explanation. "'Appened about 4 o'clock both dayB?" he queried. "Now, did you 'appen to be gettln tea ready clat tering the cups like?". "Yes, I was preparing tea," the ma tron replied, wondering what was to follow. "Just what I thought," Jimmy's owner exclaimed. "Old Jim's a cute cove He was arskin' for his tea, that's all. Every afternoon when the missus gets tea ready for the kids comin' from school, as soon as he hears the rattle of a spoon Jimmy walks him self Into the kitchen and has his tea along of 'em." Jimmy Appreciates Thought. Jimmy rubbed his head against his master's sleeve, and thrust his nose into his hand, as if he appreciated the explanation. Needless to say, he par took of afternoon tea each day during the remainder of his stay in hospital. Numerous Instances are, however, on record at this place of donkey pa tients that deliberately wended their way to its doors again after being dis charged, in spite of their owner's at tempts to lead them in an opposite direction. Dogs of every description, from the collie and retriever to the tiny toy terrter, look up in the hospital from cosy beds, with pathetic eyes and lan guid wagging of tails, while others drag their poor, crippled limbs toward the visitors to be caressed. As one enters the cats' ward there is a gen eral mewing of plaintive pleasure, and velvety heads are .thrust Into one's hand to be stroked and petted. With one exception, in India, this animals' hospital is the only one in the world conducted on an absolutely charitable principle. No experiment is allowed on any animal received in it, nor will an operation be performed without a fair prospect that the ani mal will be directly benefited by It. Already its fame has reached across to the United States. A visit was paid to it recently by a well-known New York lover of animals who wished to study its working and the plan on which It is fashioned, with a view to a similar establishment being founded at an early date in New York. In Dublin also, where "Our Dumb Friends' League" have a branch of their work, a site has been purchased recently for the erection of an Irish home of rest for animals. FORTUNES LOST TO TREE Aclor-Slanager Tells of Turning Down "Peter Pan" and Others. LONDON, Nov. 1. Sir Herbert Tree, the actor-manager, has been telling the public of some of the plays out of which he might have made fortunes, which, however, weut to other man agers after he had reused them. Speaking at a farewell luncheon to a brother actor, Sir Herbert said that had he produced Ave plays which had been offered to him, but which he re- I 4 4 & v . Vov - ? H kr - rj i - a T '3 x d ,; I its I v- 'I? I $ j ' aji,.!.!, .r.i ' t 1 Top Victim of an Auto on Operating Table. Below Even Winged Creat ures Are III Sometimes. fused, he would be a rich man. These plays, "Peter Pan." "Kismet," "Diplo macy," "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "If I Were King," all equally success ful. The truth was. Sir Herbert said, no one was infallible. The greater one's experience the more one knew that the merit of the play as a commercial fac tor could only be gauged in front of the public. WELSH TONGUE LAUDED HOME SECRETARY M'KEXXA IN RANKS OF AUTHORS. Britisher Advances Suggestion Tliat 'Shakespeare Might Have , Been Welshman. LONDON, Nov. 1. (Special.) The British Home Secretary, Reginald McKenna, has startled his friends and suffragettes by coming forward as an author. The subject he has chosen for his maiden effort in letters is "Welsh Nationality" and incidentally he makes an interesting reference to the nation ality of Shakespeare. "Every nation," he says, "depends for its individuality in the present on its history in the past. Wales by rea son of the peculiar characteristics of her story, has acquired a title to a spe cial identity beyond that which most nations could claim. We have seen her long incessant struggle for inde pendence adorned by great and inspir ing names from Boadicea to Owen Glendower. The struggle failed, and all hope of territorial independence vanished. Its place was taken by a more Intense devotion to the spiritual side of national life and to the devel opment of the natural artistic powers of the race. "Alone among Celtic nationalities in the United Kingdom, Wales has retained her language as the com mon tongue of hillside and home; and more than this, there has never been a moment In the history of Wales when the springs of Welsh literature have run dry. In the Middle Age the Ar thurian legends inspired the whole lit erature of cultured Europe. I am not now going to profer a claim that Shakespeare was a Welshman, though there is authority for saying that his mother was descended from one of the Princes of South Wales. There are great names enough to establish the in disputable succession of Welsh genius, and at this very moment the literature written in the Welsh language 's of the greatest beauty and merit." MANCHESTERS WOULD SELL Visit of Duke of Coimaugrht to Ire land Is Explained. DUBLIN, Nov. 1. (Special.) Al though there has been the wildest speculation as to the exact purpose which brought the Duke of Connaught to Ireland recently, no one up to the present has grasped the truth. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, how ever, could, if they wished, throw con siderable light on the purposes of the visit, around which so much unneces sary mystery hangs. The truth of the mutter is the Duke went to Ireland to have a look over Tanderagu castle, the North of Ireland home of the Manchesters, with a view to its purchase for a royal residence for the Prince of Wines, A little over 12 months ago its purchase for a sim ilar purpose was discussed, but at the time it was reported that silver and coal were discovered on the estate. which, of course, would considerably enhance the value of the property, and so the Duchess of Manchester, who ap pears to be the person chiefly inter ested, slapped on an impossible price. The silver and coal did not, however. materialize, and so there is now a dis position to sell the castle at a reason able price. The disturbed condition of the North, in anticipation of home rule, has a tendency to depreciate property of this kind, so the Manches ters are anxious to complete a deal as quickly as possible. Orientals Should Look Forward to Naturalization, Is View Expressed by Mr. Ebara, Who Is Criticised by Paper. BY EDWARD YOUNG. TOKIO, Nov. 1. (Special.) The re port of the Japanese delegates dis patched to the United States in con nection with the California alien land act will doubtless prove of great in terest to all Americans, and indeed to all English-speaking people solicitous of amicable relations with Japan. It will be remembered that in the midst of the wild agitation and clamor that overtook Tokio in regard to the legis lation proposed in California, It was decided to send special delegates of ap proved ability and standing to the United States to ascertain the real con ditions obtaining among the Japanese there. The Tokio Press described these conditions as intolerable, the proposed legislation as an insult to the whole Japanese race: and the government was being vigorbusly attacked for its sup posed ineptitude in negotiations with Washington. Out of the rancors and tumult it the land bill would actually af- I tiers and the dignity of the nation it self. Dr. Soyeda was dispatched as the representative of the Japanese-American Society. Mr. Ebara as a represen tative of the constitutionalist party and Mr. Yamaguchi as the delegate of the Tokio American Friends Association. Speelul Inquiry Made. These gentlemen toured the United States to gather what they could about the prevailing sentiment in regard to Japan, and they made special investi gations in California. Their return to Japan to report upon the results of their mission has been awaited wit:t the utmost interest. It was the signal for numerous meetings to hear what they had to say. That they were on the whole much more favorably impressed than they anticipated must be regarded as highly hopeful for a satisfactory so lution of the difficulty. They went to California expecting to find the Japanose communities seething with excitement, their countrymen every where taking steps to resist intoler able oppression; and they found the land peaceful and the Japanese unmo lested, and for the most part contented ly pursuing their wonted avocations. In fact, most of the Japanese settlers appeared to resent the undue solicitude of the delegates: they did not appre ciate a measure of sympathy that seemed to them uncalled. There Is one Important lesson to be learned from the reports of these Jap anese delegates to the Unltd States. Henceforth the people of Japan must be prepared to take with a large measure of reserve all rumors as to anti-Japanese conditions in the United States. Had they done so In the present case they would have been saved a great deal of needless agitation and the gov ernment a storm of unjustified attack, which must in some measure have re tarded the progress and prospects of its negotiations. Air May Be Cleared. Moreover, the report of those who have seen the actual conditions will tend greatly to clear the air and soothe the disaffection In Japan, and leave the Foreign Office free to pursue the course calculated to make for the interests of the two nations. The one discordant note in connec tion with the reports of the delegates is signifcant as to the future of the question at issue. The delegates ap peared to favor naturalization as one way out of the difficulty. This senti ment met with vigorous opposition on the part of one of the Tokio vernacular Journals. Mr. Ebara advised the Japan ese in California to look forward to naturalization and the privilege of be coming good American citizens. True Japanese will never renounce their nationality, says the Yorodzu, and It hopes that the Japanese will protest against any effort to make them forego their nationality. Should the Japanese to any extent support this narrow minded view, the Japanese question In California would be complicated still further and its solution indefinitely postponed. BOSS CROKER JOINS LORDS Former Tammany Leader Not Coins to Desert Irish Track. DUBLIN, Nov. 1 (Special.) Al though Richard Croker has made tip his mind to race more enterprisingly in England than he has for the last year or two, he has no intention of desert ing the Irish track. On the contrary he has put aside a considerable sum of money for the extension and more elaborate equipment of his stables at Glencalrn near Dublin. Croker is Interesting himself finan cially in promoting new racetracks throughout the country. Thus next year there will be one of the best equipped tracks In the British Isles at Limerick Junction, a district that opens up wide possibilities for the en couragement of horse racing. In this new f-nterprlse the ex-Tammsny leader will be associated with Lord Dunraven, the Earl of Clonmel and Lord Decles ar.d .some dozen or so of Irish sports men who go racing not for sordid con siderations, but for the pleasure they get out of it personally. CLEVER RUSESELLS BOOK Hunker in Lunnon Town Wins Throtigii Mention of Dickeni. LONDON. Nov. 1. (Special.) Dur ing the last few days an itinerant book hawker has been parading the central streets of London with a larse bundle of paper-covered volumes on his back. From time to time he stops and vaunts his wares. "Ladies and gentlemen." he patters, "buy the success of the century, of which millions of copies have been sold, the book of which the great Charles Dickens said that a copy of it should he in every home. Going at 2 cents el even for nothing to poor persons ami those who havo left their purse at home. Who'll buy?" As the gentleman's books look fat and closely printed, and the name of Charles Dickens always carries some weight, a good many people are reck less enough to risk their cash. And who shall say that they don't get their money's worth -when they receive a fully annotated copy of the "Gospel According to St. John?"