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E:di8o'rial l?ase - of -to JohfhqD PORTLAND, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27. 1904 THE OREGON DAILY AN C & JACKSON Published every evening (except Sunday) at The Journal Building. Fifth OFFICIAL, PAPER OF. THB CITY OF ? ' STRENUOUS TIMES AHEAD FOR ." . ' ROOSEVELT. ' NOTWITHSTANDING the cheering reports which "are being sent forth regarding the mutually satis factory relation existing between the president 'nd 6enat6r Hanna, they still find their closest parallel In " the, diplomatic correspondence" carried on between Russia end Japan while at the same time both nations are doing their- level best In pushing preparations for war. The fool friends of the president have played into the hands of the enemies of the president , Among them they have succeeded In working up a feeling of Irritation that he will not And easy to allay. Beside they have succeeded In convincing the publio that there Is real and powerful op position to Roosevelt in the ranks of his own party, that this opposition-tan only be placated by his defeat and that,' In the event of his nomination, the whole strength of this opposition will be thrown to the Democratic nominee provided he represents the conservative element In ths party. .' i , . The political cards have been so poorly played that In stead of havlpg a walkover for the nomination, Roosevelt has now before him the fight of his life. ; It will require not alone shrewd and careful politicaj work and the em ployment of every agency placed In his hands as president, both In the way of officeholders and offlceseekers, but It will require a degree of dexterity and tact which hitherto have been lacking In the management of the president's boom. The . crucial test wlH come over the question of Instructed delegates, particularly from those states whose votes are deemed decisive of the, election result. ; It is right there the enemies of Roosevelt will get In their fine work. Some of those in whom he has hitherto placed his trust cannot be relied upon in such an emergency as this will present. They will be more certain to obey the be hests, as they have frequently done before, of -the poeple now Jn opposition to the president than they will to fur ther Roosevelt's private ambition. If they were to come out in open opposition the situation would be much easier, hut they wll not. ; They .will play both sides of the street, with their real sympathies against Roosevelt, but keeping the face of the record straight in the event that he should he -nominated - and elected in splteof them TheyTare, therefore, all the more dangerous to his cause for the reason, that they' are openly his friends and therefore to a degree in the confidence of those who are managing his campaign. . V .;;:" '' r-'y r: We republished a few days ago an article from the New Tork Herald which clearly indicated the movement. on foot Hanna stands forward in an attitude which will not com promise him. He will not announce himself as in oppo sition to the president's nomination, but neither, on the other hand, will he announce himself in his favor. . HIS friends, unchecked, . are In the meantime booming him. It is known that he is opposed to Instructed delegations from Ohio, as -well as from Indiana, Illinois, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.; The 'fight in Ohio Is likely to grow In bitterness. There never was any love lost between Foraker and Hanna and the himself forward as the personal representative of th president, la striving to secure a.n from Ohio with himself at the head. to face with Hanna, for all other things aside, the out come may largely involve the political leadership in that state which Foraker anxiously seeks. The battle there fore, no matter hew Ahrewdly played, must widen the breach between the president and Hanna, for every step which Foraker, takes, however much it may be in favor of the president's campaign, must to a degree be directly in opposition to Hanna. This will Introduce all the bitter elements of a contest within ; the . party j Itself, . from the bad effects of which the president must suffer. ' ' j- It may be taken for granted that the enemies and luke warm friends of the president will see to it that the most plausible reasons are advanced why it Is the best of party policy to send uninistructed delegations to Chicago. Thus a; good lively fight is at once Inaugurated which will grow warmer with the passing days and which would make the Democratic outlOoEexceedingly bright were i" thr'pafty thoroughly united and In a position to take advantage of the weakness of the opposition. iThe present outlook Is that the enemies-of the president are rapidly getting hire In the position in which they want him and from this time forward a contest ; win be waged which is destined to give him the scare of his life, if it actually does not mean his defeat at Chicago next June. : The public sincerely hopes the roseate reports of the returning Lewis and Clark commissioners will find their justification In the size of the appropriation which con gress will make before the end of the present session. LETTERS ROM THE PEOPLE A Ship Captain on Sunday Closing. 'Portland. Jan. 26. To the Editor Of The Journal: In response to your request ' for letters on the opening or closing of the fair on Sunday, I sub mit the following: - A few days ago a man approached me In an office In town with a petition for the closing of the fufr on Sundays. I Informed him I was not a resident. To explain what fol lowed I will call this man "Petitioner and myself "Non-Resident" . Petitioner What Is your view on the subject? N. R. There are two sides to the question. First 'there is the puri tanical side. , , .,- i Petitioner What do you term the puritanical side? N. R. The views of traight-laced church men, who think the only way to "keep the Sabbath holy" is- to attend church twice a day and spend the remainder at home reading the Bible. I was raised in this way myself. It was considered -almost a siicrilege to laugh in my father's house on a Sunday. & . ' PetitionerWeil, did the result prove the system .was wrong? Ni. R. I have traveled the world, studied men and manners, and have formed my own con clusions. When 1 cm at home I go to church on the S,nbath morn with my fumily, and in the afternoon take my children for a run in the country, and gather the wild flowers that are in sea son. 1 ' ' ' " Petitioner -When do they find time to riwid the Bible? N. R. My children find sufficient time to read the Bible, so as to have committed a large portion of It to memory, ! Petitioner It Is evident you do not read it much yourself.- N. R. On the contrary, I am particularly well ac- uualnted with the Bible, from cover to cover. ' - Si ' , ,.' ;. . . petitioner Well, you have not profited by Its teachings, or your esrly training. Exit Petitioner. ; i . Thli man thinks he. is working In the cause of Christianity. ' He approaches perfect stranger, asks Mm his Views 't s subject nd because the stranger's views differ with his own.: grossly . ln suits Mm, whlfh 1s contrary to the very it lrlt of Christianity, Who acted like INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. i They have had a hard and uphill road to travel and were obliged to awaken most of the enthusiasm which is now back of the bill. , Very few influential men in congress would have proposed such a measure of their own accord. Nearly all of them are tired of making such appropria tions and. most of them fondly believed they were making the Very last when , they voted such liberal sums to St. Louis. To have overcome this sentiment, which was not without reason, we must admit, was no light task and If the, appropriation bill goes safely through, ' the congres sional delegation, as well as the representatives of the Lewis and Clark fair, who so ably assisted, will be en titled to hearty appreciation. 1 MANY thoughtful people are ' beginning1 to fear that precedent is supplanting principle as a rule and guide in the administration of our public affairs. In congress yesterday Mr. Hemenway of Indiana, chairman of the appropriation committee, in explaining an Item for $15,000 in his bill, said It represented mileage for senators and representatives, at the rate of ,40 cents a mile, in attending the regular and special sessions' of congress. ; In explanation of its -appearance there he said the committee , had simply followed .the precedent estab lished in the Fifty-third' and Fifty-fourth - congresses. This was all that was deemed necessary and the explana tion was accepted as entirely adequate. Not one member of congress who attended the special session was under one . cent of expense for traveling ex penses to attend the regular session; they were all there during the special clusion was actually though hot legally merged Into the regular session. , Therefore the amount Included In the bill to pay for mileage to the regular session represents just that amount literally filched from the pockets of the tax payers of the county. It cannot by legal, equitable or other decent principle be transferred from the treasury into the pockets of the members of congress. It cannot be defended upon any such grounds. , The only so-called Jus tification to be found for it is in the precedents established by two previous congresses. They having done a" clearly unwarranted and unjustifiable act Is accepted as perfect justification - for the - present congress following in their footsteps. The principle Involved is completely lost to view; It is utterly obscured by a bad precedent. The act Is in every way Indefensible and the double mileage to attend what was actually one and the same session should be cut in two, not only because that is the right and decent thing to do, but because it will establish, a new precedent which can be worthily followed In all coming congresses. CUT DOWN HH inspector this is commendable continued. -? At the same time, that conditions are former, having put Instructed, delegation This brings him face for a new fire boat and still more for a full paid fire de partment, there continues a surprising reticence In fire in surance circles themselves over the question of conces sions to those who carry Insurance and pay almost pro hibitive premiums. ' y::''-Z;:: Even as matters stood, the Insurance rates on residence property In this city were entirely too high. With these new safeguards applied they will be ridiculously high. They will, be entirely too high In the business sections. In these respects there Is much demanded but It seems Im possible to extract TVe notice by a the opinion that If he will have a big bride from. There the postofflce address of the would-be Benedict Christian? The petitioner, who in sulted the stranger, or the stranger, who resisted the temptation to knock him down? - . - ; ' . . This class of men will tell us to come into the liberty of the gospel, and when their idea of liberty is looked into it resolves into a system of bondage and slavery.' A bungler is a nuisance In every wslk of life, and in religious mat ters doubly so. ' , Owe Savior taught that "It is well to do good on the Sabbath day." (Matt 12:12.) His practice shows what his idea of doing good was, feeding the hungry, healing the Sick, and preaching the gospel to the poor; not the puri tanical gospel of bondage, but the gospel of liberty.. Hence I draw, anything that contributes to the physical, mental, or spiritual welfare Of the people is well and lawful on the Sabbath day. To those who are confined in the city all the week, it Is well for them to take atrip In the country on a Sunday. To chil dren who are cramped in a city school all the week it is well for their parents to give them a run in the country on a Sunday; and not only so, but the parent may worship God in them, as he sees the -elasticity of their muscles and the roses blooming on their cheeks, and the children are drawn into a closer love and union with their parents, Mhleh Js a step toward godliness. -. Furthermore. I would point out this city allows saloons, theatres, tobaccon ists, confectioners, etc., " to keep open on Sunday. These resorts cannot be said to contribute to the physical, moral, intellectual or spiritual welfare of the people, yet they ere crying out against an. open fair, which will be an intel lectual repast to the laboring men The whole thing reminds one of the proverb of "straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.,' The fair: like the gnat, will be a tran sient visitor, while the saloons, which represent the camel,, stay with you year In and year out Yours faithfully, , , M. L. SORTER, ; ' Ship Red Rock. ' Extend the Time. . '. From the St Joseph Gazette. Dowle promise to return to earth in a hundred years. Make it a hundred and fifty, 'Llge, We'll surely be dead by that time. 1 . JOURNAL, JNO. P. CARROLL and Yamhill streets, Portland, Oregon. PORTLAND THAT DOUBLE MILEAGE PRECEDENT. session and that session at its con THE INSURANCE RATES. for the underwriters Is hard at work and. judging from his report, Is doing his level best to render fire conditions safer here. All of and we hope the good work will be . h ' although we hear In every direction improving, that suggestions made by the Inspector have been carried. out or are in process of being carried out while the city is spending much money from the insurance adjuster anything to indicate that the Insurance men are disposed to meet the people half way. , ; It is time that somebody did a little talking and that straight to the point . Pennsylvania paper that an Oregon man has written to the mayor of Chester asking the aid of that official In procuring him a wife. The matter has attracted a good deal of attention in that quiet neighborhood and many- answers tothe mayor's published apical have been received, most of them asking for, a bill of particulars. Every correspondent expresses a perfect willingness to come to Oregon. -There is a mysterious charm about the yeryname that appeals to her and the local paper expresses the Oregon man makes out half a case assortment of willing girls to pick his is no mention made In the paper of BOCXZrZX.XJ'B AXTD ISOmOAV. Dayld Graham Phillips in Success. John D. Rockefeller is an industrial leader; J. Pierpont Morgan is a financial leader. The one is a business man; the other a banker. Both have achieved large results., but by widely different methods. From the very beginning of in is save n-y ears-or-w I zards-loose-u pon-the-earth, . Mr. Rockefeller has .been a pessimist . "That's not business; that's a mere banker's proposition " -he has been quoted as saying, whenever "one of those large - combinations has been brought to his attention for criticism. While he has -reluctantly approved ser era! of them and tolerated others, he has done so simply because he has seen no way of transforming the "banker's proposition" into one which his business instinct could approve. The "combine" has seemed to him absolutely necessary; but the various "Interests" to be pla cated would not be placated unless each got many times the actual value of its property. , : WJ ABJB AXA "TOW rOIXt." From Field and Stream. "My boy." said a certain well-to-do business man of the state of Texas to his son, .who was starting out for a career in an Eastern city; "my boy. let me tell you something which may be of help to you. Tou get up there, and you may see a heap of people who have got more money than you have, and more success. Some of them may even be better looking than you are. Don't worry about that and don't you ; be scared of anybody. Whenever you meet another man who allows he's your su perior, you Just look at him and say to yourself, "After all, you're Just folks!' Tou want to remember for yourself, too, that you're Just folks. My boy, after you- have lived as long ss I have, and have knocked around the wnrM you will come to see that that's all any one or us js xoiks." , JTow Is the Time to Have It From the New York Tribune. A London appendicitis assuranoe com pany now issues special policies guaran teeing to holders all , the medical, sur gical and nursing expenses, up to the amount Insured, incurred In an attack Of this malady. . , The Czar at the Mercy St Petersburg Letter in San Francisco CalL One of the permanent pussies of the present cur's reign has been the re markable : Inconsistency lta - ' which Nicholas II has conducted the govern ment of Jhls empire. When he ascended the throne he had the reputation of be ing a keen reformer, yet he retained the most reactionary of his father's minis ters in office. Since then- he" has al ternated between progressive and retro gressive tendencies. The truth is that the Czar Nicholas II is physically weak, with shattered nerves, and without - much will of his own. He is an amiable young man and well-meaning enough, but he is abso lutely unfitted to be the aulocratlo ruler Of a country like Russia, where an iron handed administrator is essential. Since the day he ascended 'the throne there has been a continuous contest between his wife and his mother for supremacy over the csar. .His mother. me aowager empress, mouga, orougn up at. the most demooratio ( court in Europe 'that of Denmark became after her marriage to Alexander III as Mus covite In thought and opinion as the most extreme Russian Conservatives. A Protestant by birth and education, she became a devout adherent of the ortho dox Greek faith. .. ''".' When her son, Nicholas IL then a young man of 28,' became Emperor, his mother formed a resolve that she would guide him "in the footsteps of his fathers and protect him from the mod ernising; influences of the age. The dowager empress has been the leading spirit of the reactionists to make her son a ruler after her ; own : Heart a statesman of the Muscovite school, a militarist end an upholder of the Rus sian bureaucracy, which is - the czar's most potent Instrument in ruling per sonally over so many millions of sub jects distributed over two continents. The czars wife, on the contrary, is the embodiment of open-minded liber alism. Her Anglo-German mind cannot grasp the medieval Ideal which appeal so strongly to the Slavs, .with their lower degree of culture, civilization and enlightenment Necessity compelled her to embrace the orthodox Greek faith when she married Nicholas, but her conversation was purely formal, and she remains at heart true to Lutheran Pres byterianism, the religion of her child hood. In politics, too, the Aslatlo ideas which prevail at the Russian court are abhorrent to her, and she regards the reactionary advisers of the csar. In cluding her own mother-in-law, as the worst enemies of Russia. All the Influence the : csarina pos sesses over her imperial husband la ex erted to make him a progressive west ern monarch Instead of an eastern po tentate glorying in Asiatic conditions of semi-barbarism. ' She has pleaded repeatedly for malcontent students who have got into trouble by demonstrating their political opinions too vigorously; she has espoused the cause of the strik ers; she has championed the rights of the Jews, who can be baited with im COSPOSATB BXCBXCT. lUvemeyer atot Only Tavors But Prao Woes It la the Sugar Trust From the Chicago Tribune. Henry Osborne Havemeyer, founder and president of ' the' American Sugar Refining company, is opposed to pub licity in the management Of corpora tions. Ths sugar king does not believe the general public can be trusted with such information. The affairs of a trust msy be "misunderstood." When Mr. Havemeyer speaks he gen erally says something to be remem bered. It was he who called the tariff "the foster mother of trusts," and, al though It was - understood he was anxious to make a tariff on raw sugar, the disreputable phrase was so pictur esque that it found Its way into the political literature of the country, and is today an economic classic It Is well known that Havemeyer Is an advocate of secrecy in the Internal management of corporations particu larly the mighty sugar trust J. Pier pont Morgan, on the other hand, is credited with favoring publicity. Mr. Haveyemer made a speech at the recent annual meeting of the stock holdersolthe--BugartrusfcrW Wch hasl 890.000,000 in stock that pays a divi dend of 7 per cent and after declaring that when 13,000 stockholders asked as a body for information the directors would give it, he went on to say this interesting thtngr - - "Up to the present time the stock holders have determined that special information shall not be given to indi vidual stockholders and the directors have conformed to this and will con tinue to do unless instructed differ ently by the stockholders." As a joint answer to many letters and editorials that have ' been poured in upon him about the declaration the fol lowing ; statement has been authorized by him: -.- . ; .v. v.,-. ;: Mr. Havemeyer' s statement was to the effect that information which was desired by the stockholders as a body should be given them, and not that it should be withheld from them, but that no information would be given to indi vidual stockholders without similar in formation being given to all. "The outcome of his statement was that by unanimous vote of the stock holders present they declined to have made public any other information than such as the directors saw fit to furnish. The argument in favor of publicity is that information about Internal af fairs of corporations shall be furnished to the community at large, ' Any one having any knowledge upon the sub ject must recognize that all such state meats are liable to be misunderstood or convey erroneous impressions or infor mation and thus lead to results which are desired to be avoided. ' "No better illustration of that can be furnished than by the history of the last few weeks and months. The public has invested t largely In stocks of re cently organised corporations tinder the belief that they were possessed of prop erty corresponding to the amount of their capitalization, end has awakened to realize that , the Items, maklngueh capitalisation are in essential respects so overvalued as to constitute a bait and a trap to the unwary.. "This means, of course, that the pub lio and those Interested reach the con clusion or Judgment about the value of their interests, in the corporate prop erty, thinking that the reports are in fallible, when on Investigation they are found to be of things the most fallible. "When stockholders themselves by a unanimous , vote ask that ; information about the internal affairs of a corpora tion which might be used by competitors to, their detriment shall be withheld is Is a little difficult for Mr. Havemeyer to see, and Is not clear to an ordinary mind to understand, why the wishes of the stockholders should be disregarded. "ForT that matter, speaking seriously, the directors are the trustees or repre sentatives of , the corporation, and it would be directly against their duty which they owe to stockholders if.'' in respect to this or any other matter, they went against the wishes of the' stock holders, particularly when those wishes are expressed on) so Important an occa sion as that of an annual meeting." : ; of Scheming Women. punity throughout Russia; she has rep resented to her husband the injustice of suppressing Polish nationalism by blood-and-lron methods, and she has warmly advocated a more- merciful treatment of the liberty-loving, patrlotid Finns. "Needless to say, during the nine years of the czar's reign, the csarina and her mother-in-law have come into sharp collision over political affairs on numer ous occasions,- The czar wavers ; continuously be tween allegiance to his wife and to his mouier. Her loves his wife, but he fears his mother, and it is a constant strug gle between love and fear. Sometimes the one gets the upper hand, sometimes the other, . hence the clgzag course of the czar's policy visible to the world. V It Is a matter of common gossip In Russian court circles that the two im perial ladies, from time to time have, lively - passages at arms over their di vergent political views. Shortly after the recent Klshenev ' riots, when so many ; Jews were massacred, there was quite a scene between the dowager empress and her daughter-in-law in the czar's study one morning. The csarina urged that the Klshenev massacres - dis graced Russia in the eyes' of the civi lised world and cast a blot on her hus band's honor, while the dowager empress maintained that no one whose opinion was worthy , of - consideration cared whether there were a few Jews more or less in the world and that the protests made in western countries were engi neered by an insignificant minority of uninfluentlal and sentimental or Inter ested nobodies, - The Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, the , wife of the czar's uncle and heir presumptive," Grand Duke Vladimir, is the most formidable and most dangerous of the women who exercise political-influence om. the Russian emperor. This ambitious woman covets the throne of Russia for her husband and for her son and her whole career has been devoted to the task of undermining the present czar's position. Whenever she can con tribute to the accomplishment of some thing likely to weaken the czar's position she exerts her whole strength to bring It about Bhe has sought to make the csar ridiculous In the eyes of the nobility and to represent him in an unfavorable light to the masses .of the Russian peo ple. Her influence Is exercised mostly indirectly through her husband, whose position as next In line to the throne af ter the czar's rather sickly younger brother makes him a personage of great power and importance. ; - : The grand duchess also operates through members of a court clique, which is Ill-disposed toward Nicholas II, and through newspapers which are in receipt of subventions from her. She is by far the cleverest of the women around the czar and had her Influence been ex erted to strengthen his position and to contribute to the success of his reign instead of the reverse Nicholas II might go down to history with a reputation very different from the one whloh posterity seems likely to accord to him. - --XXXQ COTTOM - Phenomenal BeeorA of Exports la 1903 Out Torelgn Customers. Walter X. Ballard In Mew York Sun. Cotton is easily king of the export side of our vast national business,v$lS, 000,000 more than (1,000,000 -a day for 1903, Sundays and holidays included, and 12.000,000 a day for the last three months, and J2, 800,000 a day for ths final month. Such is the monumental record. In the history of our cotton ex portation we never before reached so high. a figure as the 172,000,000 achieved in December, 1903. Quoting each fifth year since 1882, the record of our cotton exportation is: 1883 , . ... , in,,,,., ,. in . tfftnn.nnn 1888 t. r- -u ...... 22S.000.000 1803 204,000,000 1898 232.000,000 1902 178,000,000 The total of these exports for the years 1S88 to 1803 is over 85,000,000,000, all of which has enriched the bank ac counts of the southern cotton plantera Compare this glgantia result with the cotton exports of the decade years re corded prior to 1883: , ; 1880 .. i i - - , n . ., f 29,000,000 1 40A-AS!Wli63,000,OOQ 1850 I860 71,000,000 ..... 191,000,000 1870 v.-. 227,000.000 1889 ......... 211,000,000 - The 1903 total Of 8378,000,000 ex-' eeeds - the - prior - record-breaking - year, 1900, by 884.000,000, and it also exceeds 1898, the first fiscal year of the present Republican series, by $148,000,000, or $4,000,000 more than double our entire cotton exports in 1850. Fifty-three years of cotton exporting has brought us up from $71,000,000 in 1850 to 3878, 000,000 in 1903, an Increase of $307, 000,000. The bureau of statistics Is Justly proud of the opportunity to an nounce this impressive result Another striking feature of the 190) record Is the fact that we get $378, 000,000 for 8,620,000,000 pounds of cot ton against $232,000,000 in 1898 for 4,178,000,000 pounds. In other words, we got $146,000,000 more money for 658,000,000 pounds less cotton. -... - The chief buyers of our 1909, cotton exports were: , ' : - Great .Britain .$147.000.000 Germany 111,000,009 France 47.000,000 Italy 21.000,000 9,000,000 8,000,000 6.000,000 4,500,000 Russia Belgium hi 1 1 in u nvrm America. Japan ....... Mexico ....... ..... .... .... rt.i.v T , i 2,000,000 Over 1900 we gained $33,000,000 in eotton exports to Germany, against $5,000,000 to Great Britain. All this God-given wealth is ours. In addition to the large and increasing consumption of cotton by our own mills. Prior to 3898 this consumption never went ss high as 8,000,000 bales, but sines that year it has ranged from 3,500,000 bales to over 4,000,000 bales in 1903 and 1903. Yet, as the bureau aptly says, "In those very years the exports of raw cotton averaged hlKher in quantity and value than ever before." The .1908 export formed about 28 per cent of our total exports Of agricultural products. Think of what all this means to the nation, particularly the South, but also think of the further large profits : we should have made had the 4,178,000,000 pounds of cotton been carried to Its destination in American-built American-owned and American-manned ships I - Did a Oood Job. From the New York Tribune. A blind man at Homestead, Pa., was struck by a trolley car recently, and when he recovered i consciousness he found that the Jar he had received had restored his eyesight The 8pringfleld Republican suggests that the road will probably sue him to recover a sum for a surgical operation. ; . t Oood Beeord. ' , From ! the Knoxvllle Journal. The scholastla population of the four largest counties in Tennessee ' is about one third of the entire population and does not Indicate any tendency .to race suicide here, Baron Komara, Japan's Man of the Hour. ; From . the New York Sun. ; Many persons In this country are f-watchlng the negotiations at Toklo with something akin to personal interest be cause of their friendship for the man to whom the fortunes of Japan are chiefly Intrusted. Baron Kohmura Jutaro, the mikado's minister of foreign affairs, is well remembered here as a student at Harvard and later as the en voy of his -country at-Washlngton-Li- Komura came to young manhood at a fortunate time. The rapid change from the old order to the new had been ac complished In Japan, and there were careers to be made on every hand by those who could see the opportunities and grasp them. ' - Y ' Ha had already been graduated from the Kalsel-Gakko and the Imperial uni versity in Toklo when, in the Seventies he came t the United States and en tered the Harvard law school as a stu dent His degree of L. L, B., given in 1877. was the first. that Harvard had conferred upon a Japanese. ,:;,; :-;.'; :?;.'f They say in Toklo that Komura began to be an official diplomat in some ca pacity before he reached his majority, However that may be, he took a low sta tion In the consular service after he had - reoeived his Harvard degree, and set to work, with energy and intelli gence to cliipb quickly. .And be "got there, -'; . v,.- ;-v When the cloud that broke into the war between China and Japan in 1884 drifted across the eastern sky Komura was secretary of legation and charge d'affaires for Japan at Peking, and nego tiations of the highest importance thus came into his hands. His next conspicuous post of duty was in Manchuria, v- He was "made governor of the captured province of Antung. Presently the great bear came hulking into camp and stole away the Jap's spoil of war,, and Komura' s occupation as pro-consul was gone. , Then Komura got a distinct promotion be was appointed minister to Korea, the field of Japan's ambition and the theatre of future conflict Next they called him home, to be vice-minister of foreign affairs. :i.W .y. ,v.A:..u,-i;i,. All these events came close upon One another's heels, for about the beginning of 1899 Komura arrived in Washington, as minister accredited to the United States. Less than five years had passed since as charge at Peking he had begun to play a great part in the eastern drama. -: " Komura's stay In "Washington was brief. It seemed as if his government waa giving him a short course in every important school of its diplomacy, with the purpose all the time in mind of bringing him home for still more Im portant service... s. , -u , But though he remained in the capital only a litUe more than a year, he left his mark. He made various publio ad dresses, and walked off with a Harvard L. L. D. When, In February, 1900. his superior told him to get ready to move on to St Petersburg folk knew that there was a man named Komura and classed him with the school of keen witted, genial gentlemen whom the Orientals had got into the way of send ing to represent them In America. Newspaper men particularly have a kindly recollection of him. He knew bow to tell them Just enough for their purposes and not too much for his own, and there was never occasion for sub sequent reproach or regret on either side, which, unfortunately Is not al ways the case at other Aslatlo legations. The assignment to St Petersburg was, of course, as important ( as any that could be given to a Japanese diplomat It was patent to all observers that the Issue between Russia and Japan must be tried eventually. Both parties were preparing for it and neither would have relished any loss of preliminary advant age such as unwary diplomacy might easily have produced. , c The boxer troubles came on while Komura was at the czar's court so his people called him home. A little later they sent him to Peking again, this time es minister, and while the troops of Europe were swarming over China it was his difficult task to mediate between those who had lately been his allies and those who had been his enemies. All this was the finest teaming in the world. When the. Kataura cabinet was formed, in September, 1901, the prime minister turned naturally to Komura to take the foreign portfolio. - Where waa there another man with the same quali fications? ' ' The Russian question waa the great question in Japanese politics. In order to meet it the nation had been making tremendous sacrifices; The cost or building up a navy and equipping an army "fit to back up the de- 'Advice to the Lovelorn BT SXATBIGS T AIM AX. . ' Dear Miss Fairfax I am engaged to my cousin, and he objects to my going to a ball with my mother. . Do you think it proper for him to do so? Now, my mother belongs to a lodge, and to please Some members she likes to go, and. hav ing no one else to go with her. wants me to go. We only stay four hours. My friend has to work, and don't care to go even if he could. Do you think he has a right to object as long as I am going with my mother? C N. Your cousin is both foolish and selfish. I decidedly think you owe some respect to your mother's wishes. - He should tie very glad to have you go with her, . . '' ' ' ;"; 1 Dear Miss -Fairfax Do you think it wise - for a young, man to marry the daughter of an habitual drunkard? The daughter and her mother . are ' devout Christians. . Do you think a poor man should marry a woman who Is wealthy? Do you think It Is right for a young lady to constantly harass her' suitor to take her to places of amusement? Don't you think U she loves him she would be satisfied with less amusement? .A PERPLEXED MAN. I can see .no reason why you should not marry the girl if she is all right her self. She should not be made to suffer for her father's sins. The next question is one for the woman to decide, . .' I don't think it nice of the young girl to ask her young man to take her out but you must remember some girls like that sort of attention. "".,'.. - ' - Dear Miss Fairfax I am a young man of 20 and have been in love with a young lady of 18 for the last four years. For two years we have been going together secretly and after this she invited me to come up to her house. Her' parents Object to my calling. What am I to do, as we are, in love with each other? J. M. GRBKN. You are certainly in a trying position. Why don't you go to the parents and tell tbem the circumstances? Perhaps It is Just a prejudice' they will get over, , : ; :- .. Dear Miss Falrfax-t-I am a young girl about 18 years of age, and would like to have your advice on a difficult question. I am acquainted with two gentlemen whom I like very much. No. 1 calls at my house very often, but does not show that he thinks anything of me, but I know that he is a gentleman. No. 2 is away a good deal, but writes me very nice letters and sends me presents, but mands Japan "was-to make upon Russia ; had been a heavy tax upon the people, and it had been borne with patriotic Cheerfulness, and with corresponding eagerness that Japan should not eventu ally find all he.r hope and her prepara- tion in vain. '' . - This hope centered in the man who held the office of . foreign minister, nearly all the information that has come from Toklo has agreed in the indication . that Komura's task has been one of in creasing difficulty as the situation has grown more acute, but there is no less -' certainty that his course has been as firm as it has been difficult v ? He has kept the peace, so f sr. where : a weaker or more impulsive man would have plunged his people into war. The Japanese statesman has a much harder nut to crack than the Russian. -He has to deal with people whose 'national pas- : slon is white hot A declaration of war would have rejoiced the souls of the Mikado's subjects at any time for sv ' eral months. . , Their: attitude waa faithfully re- fleeted in the censure which the pari la- -ment passed upon the ministry in de- mending a more aggressive course to''' ward. -Russia.. ;.;:. '-v '-.V:.;,...-.-,,,:.. .x ' The statesmen at St Petersburg, on ths other hand, need take no note of public opinion. Recent cable dispatches say that the Russian people are manU. testing very little lntereet in the East ern matter, and that whatever leaning they have is for peace rather than war. " The result is that the game is in the ' hands of the politicians. , Whlohever party prevails at court may safely pur sue Its desire, Not so at Toklo. ; The men who dis missed the complaining parliament and resisted 'the Jingoes took, not only their political, but their physical, lives Into their hands. Every one of them Is in danger of . assassination, and . Komura : more than all the rest . Murder is an ordinary political weapon ' in Japan. When publio feeling runs high, then look out for the knife. More ' than one home-coming American dweller , in the Orient has spoken of this factor as an imminent peril of the crisis at Tokio. "It would seem." says Dr. David Mur ray, In "The Story of Japan," "that no great , advance can be secured in Japan without the saoriflce of a valuable life." He was speaking of the time in 1890 when the Mikado granted to '(he nation a constitution and a parliament and he proceeded: - ', - ; "As 11 Kamon-no-KamI was murdered In 1860, and as Okubo fell by the assas- . sin's hand at the close of the Satsuma rebelttonrwnowroirthe -very day when -the emperor was, to promulgate this lib eral constitution, Viscount Mori Aronorl fell a victim to the fanatical hatred of one who looked with distrust upon the progress which his country was making. Dr. Murray might have Instanced an- other and not less deplorable fanatical murder if he bad waited a few months longer to publish his book, HoshI Toru,'one of the greatest of the Japanese radicals, an ex-minister to the United States, ex-president of the house ' and at that time minister of oommunlca tlons was struck down on June 21, 1901. He had just attended a meeting of the .Municipal association of Toklo to dls-. euss questions of popular education, and was standing with a group of the leading men of the city, when Ibasotaro, one of the two-sworded men. or petty knights of the old feudal days, stabbed him five times In the back, and he fell, to the floor dead, . V ,.-.-:V--v:v.:---. The assassin was a man of consider able wealth and of high standing, the bearer of an ancient and honorable name. He had been president of the Toklo Agri cultural school, the Yedogawa paper mill, the Nippon Savings bank and the Yotsuya bank. In other words, he had taken a fling at the modern life, and made up his mind that ft Was all Wrong. , J So he put off his Western ! garments, clothed himself in the silks he used to wear, stuck his two swords into his belt and want out to murder the foremost representative of the new regime. When the bloody thing was done he handed, the policeman who arrested him a paper, in which he set forth his rea sons for the murder. This was one of his grievances against Hoshl Torn: "He spreads the poison of evil in all classes and undermines-the- moral s-of -the young with European propensities. Such a crime might well occur any day In the present tension at Toklo., The men- who do their work in the face of this menace must display a physical and moral courage that !' not required Ot the Western statesman. I do not know anything about hint I would like to know whloh I should stick tov v , CARRHD P, It is not a very serious question If you don't know which one you like best without having to be helped to decide the matter. But I should think the one you know the most about is the better one for you to keep friends with. Dear Miss Fairfax Is it proper for a young lady receiving letters from a young man to show same to all her friends? Also, is it proper for a young lady while visiting friends to refuse candy offered her because It was brought to the houee by one with whom she is not on the best of terms? Don't you think this Is an Insult to the. hostess? , L, B. It is not kind to show letters written for your eyes slone to any -one else, and an honorable person would not think of doing such a thing. It would have been more polite for the young lady to receive the candy if it made the situation un comfortable for her hostess. 4 BBPOBB XT XS TOO XUTB. . From the New York World. ' If you have a gray-haired mother In the old home far awsy, , Sit down and write the letter You put off day by day. Don't wait until her tired steps Reach heaven's pearly gate. But show her that you think of her Before it is too late. . If you've' a tender message, . Or a loving word to say. Don't wait till you forget it But whisper it today. Who ! knows what bitter memories May haunt you if you wait? So make your loved one happy Before it is too lata - '.';' We live" but in the present I . i The future , Is unknown) Tomorrow is a mystery, " ' Today is all our own. ; The chance that: fortune leads to us May vanish while we' wait 8o spend your life's rich pleasure Before it is too late. The tender word unspoken, 1 The letters never sent ' The long-forgotten messages, The wealth of love unspent, v For these some hearts are breaking, - For these some loved ones wait; So show them that you care for them Before it is too late. . Why Bs Hever Takes it. If a man would use the experience of others, he would never acquire any of his own, (