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JAPANESE CARRYING THE. RUSSIAN POSITION AT. s , KIN-CHAD, WHICH HAD BEEN DEEMED IMPREGNABLE V .'.?-!; :: Z. A fP'l -aT--W- i VIL V - aT slaw a -Vic a ' V 1 4 - ? if mm A SPLENDID FEAT OF ARMS. One- of the most splendid feats of arms in the present war in the East was the battle of Kin-Ghau, in which Ae Japanese charged and captured the heights held by the Russians, thereby establishing their place among the foremost miltary people of the world. The heights were strongly fortified and were deemed practically impregna ble. Nevertheless the Japanese, after silencing artillery fire, carried them by the bayonet, driving the Russians from the trenches and sending them In quick retreat toward Port Arthur. Our illustration Is from the Illustrated London News. SAILING. Wind and wave and gold-washed weath er, ft Wind fling loose and wave set free; Bhe and I alone together Sailing on a sapphire sea. Clans and clamor of the crowded City street is heard no more; Only billows, foam enshrouded Freighting music to the shore! Bail full blown and sloop prow flinging Floods of song on either side; White gulls in the wide blue winging Gipsies of the roving tide I Peaks afar that know the splendor Of the sunset's waste of wine; EVillght sky grown strangely tender Like the eyes that look in mine. Leslie's Monthly. A New Cinderella ?)iji)ji)t(iititiirTT,j: ACK BElUGodON caught sight of (A) her aa he was going to the office after lunch. He frequency caught Bight of her, but this was the extent of their acquaintance. He had groan ed more than once to think convention ality forbade a more extended one. Bhe was not the kind of a girl with iwhom one might scrape up a bowing recognition, to be later elaborated into an interchange of commonplaces that (night culminate in permission to call. Indeed, if she had been. It is safe to conclude Berensen would not have troubled hla head about her, for he bad a social position to maintain, a good deal of personal pride and more than the average sense of exclusive- Df8S. "Hallo!" he said, suddenly, and stop ped short. The girl ahead bad paused. She was evidently In some predicament, for she stooped as though to extricate herself nr to pick up an article dropped. Al most at the same instant however, a tremendous dray, piled with boxes, bore down upon her, and at the about of the driver, who was striving to rein in his huge Percherons, ' she sprang toward safety and reached the sidewalk. Berenson let the dray pass. Looking down directly on the spot where the girl had. hesitated, he saw that which bad arrested her, and bending quickly, be pulled out of the thick, black, sticky mud an absurdly small rubber, with Its wrinkles holding the arch of a high little instep. "Well!" he ejaculated, "here's luck!" He felt ridiculously elated. So pleased did he look, in fact, that a friend jostling him as he reached the opposite sidewalk remarked his satis faction. ''Wheat gone up. Berenson?" No rubber!" laughed Berenson. And his friend walked off, wondering what there was In fishing footwear out of the mire to make a fellow look so Idiotically pleased. "It was mighty muddy, too!" he commented disgustedly. This accusation could not be made against It an hoar later, clean ed and polished to the highest possible degree by the man who kept the shoestand in the office building where Berenson had suite. He took his prise upstairs, and deposited it, wrapped In tissue pa per, on the top of his desk. Then he sauntered to the window to took over at the skyscraper across the way, where at a certain window. In a certain tier, he had often seen a certain head. It was a shapely head, ringleted aa close as a baby's with unny brown curls. Indeed, so fre quently of late bad be gone to bis own casement to discover If that particu lar bonnle ' bead and rose-leaf face were within range of hla vision that bis business began to suffer from such erratic absences. Not that Jack Berenson was bother ing himself about business. During those minutes he stood, absorbed in day dreams, staring apparently at the Uninteresting wall of aa uninteresting building, be was thinking for the most part how strange it was that he, who had come gaily up the road of life, heart whole and fancy free, until he had reached his thirtieth milestone, should all at once be beset by the most chimerical hopes, the most fu tile desires, the most glorious of cha otic imaginings. It was lunacy, he told himself stark, staring lunacy that he should go on his way with a bounding heart and a feeling of the most senseless exhilaration. Just because he had pass ed a girlish figure on the sidewalk, met the Indifferent glance of violet, black-lashed eyes, looking fortfh from beneath a white brow, or caught the faint, elusive perfume of her demure garments. And the worst of It was that be could not bring himself to be indignant with himself for being such a fool! "You like to be a fool!" he told him self angrily, "You're hugging your fol ly! And much good it will do you! You've not got enough sense, Jack Be renson, to last a crazy man till break fast time!" With which final shot he was apt to break away from his vigil, return sternly to his desk and plunge into work until until he began to wonder if she might have returned to her chair in the window, or by any chance be going out. Though'whether out or in, there had seemed slight chance of making her acquaintance before Fate, in the guise of a treacherous street crossing, had placed a belonging of hers in bis possession. But when he had sallied forth with his prize his courage almost failed him. And when the elevator man let him off at the eighth floor, as bidden, it was an insane desire to make his im mediate escape by way of the stair case that overwhelmed him. But he pulled himself together and went to ward the suite of doctor's offices. which he knew occupied that particu lar angle of the big building. Some of the physicians whose names were in scribed on the tablet in the corridor were friends of his. "Hope I don't run into Norton, or Schrlener, or Maclntyre," be said. "Hope I don't" But he did all three of them.. They and a few of their professional asso ciates had met in the reception room previous to attending a medical con vention In a body. , It seemed to poor Berenson, standing helplessly In the doorway with his package in his hand, that the place was packed with eyes curious, inquisitive, mocking eyes! But a few voices called out pleasant ly enough, " xxallo how d'ye do, Be renson?' And Maclntyre came for ward with a smile that made his ugly countenance quite charming. "Your1 the young lady " stammer ed Jack. He held out the package much as though it were a letter of in troduction. "She lost this, and " "Oh, I see!!' The doctor turned hast ily. "Miss Meredith !" he called. A girl the girl came from an ad joining room. She looked lovelier than ever without her bat and coat Her soft green gown fitted her as its sheath fits a flower. And the pretty, bewildered took in her eyes made them look more than ever like violet stars. Berenson knew then how a man felt who performs a deed of daring in the cannon's mouth. "I was behind you this noon," be be gan, "and when you lost this" "Ob, thank you!" she interrupted, comprehending at once, and taking the offered bundle. "You were very kind to bring it to me!" "Vera," Maclntire said, "let me in troduce to you Mr. Berenson. You have often heard Alice mention him. I am sure. Jack this Is Miss Meredith, my wife's sister!" And then as they bowed he went by way of explanation, "Vera has been looking after callers at the offices here during the last six months. She would work you know what girls are!" Jack didn't know, but be mentally decided to remain Ignorant no longer. He would remedy his deficiencies In this respect as soon as possible, at least as far as this one bewitching maiden was concerned. And he vowed that he had never before guessed what a thoroughly delightful chap Macln tyre was until he heard the latter say ing before he went off with his friends: "Oh, I say, Berenson I Come to din ner to-morrow night quite Informal, you know. Six o'clock. Alice will be mighty glad to see you!" Jack looked doubtfully into the vio let eyes. There was a smile in them, though the Hps were sweetly serious. "I'll come!" promised Jack fervently, He wrung his friend's hand vigorously in the ardor of hla friendship. "Lord, yes, I'll come!" And he said to himself as be strode back to the office, with his head in a whirl, that it might not be quite so romantic to find a rubber In Chicago mud as a slipper on a ballroom floor. but that it has its possibilities! . It would serve! San Francisco GalL WOMEN .MAKE PAPER MONEY. Even Guides at Bureau of Kn graving and Fruitions; are Girls. The government and the banks, and even the postoffices, would be in a hole for a time if all the women In the bureau of engraving and printing should , drop dead all at once. That shop would have to close up pretty quick. Why, you can't even go over there and look around without a wom an to show you. All the guides to the bureau for the benefit of tourists and other ignorant people which includes all Washington people, for Washing ton people are the most ignorant peo ple on earth about Washington institu tions ail the guides, and there are seven of them, are women, young wom en and pretty women at that And how the people do visit there! Three thousand, a week, said a guide. That s 500 a day. And that's one a minute for every working hour of the day. Pretty constant stream of callers that Not so many years ago three decrepit old men were the guides. - Now the seven are women, which is significant and one that typifies the work done in the bureau, for here, of the 8,000 em ployes, more than half are of the fem inine persuasion. These ytfng and good-looking guides will explain how American money la printed on the back, then put In cold storage, where it goes through a dry ing process; then sorted and the Im perfect sheets thrown out; then print ed on the face, and then perforated and put up in packages to be sent to the treasury for the government seal. They generally tell how useless it would be for any one to try to rob the wagon containing this money. In the first place, because six guards al ways accompany it; and, in the sec ond place, because the money at this stage of its manufacture wouldn't be any good, anyway. "It Is seven days after a bill is print ed on its back before It is printed on the face," said this visitor's guide. "It takes thirty days to make a silver dol lar bill, and forty te make a gold one. The gold one Is printed three times, twice on one side, because it has to have the word 'gold' and a little splotch of gold on this side before the face can be printed." Then , she led the visitor to the framed dollar bills fastened to one of the walls In the hall, and showed these bills, calling special attention to the gold certificate, and then led the way back to the front door and said adieu. It was all over in ten minutes. Wash ington Post x Bullfrog as Sentriea. A PenBsylranla fisherman has dis covered that bullfrogs act as sentries to fish, and that It is useless to try to catch bass when a deep-voiced bellow ing frog is watching. Women live longer than men becao they have so one to talk them to death, tiff Tfc --pf- BT. Q. F. SUOJ TELLS HOW TO KEEP YOUNG." V Br Dr. Beorge F. Bmlt. . In olden times men lived to a great age; few died under the century mark unless killed in the battle or the chase. There is no physical reason, no edict of nature, why men should not live 100 years and upward now. And yet age of Itself is no virtue. Unless one can keep young in looks, feelings, actions and ambitions what pleasure can there be in merely piling up years? I believe that the art of ' keeping young - consists largely in the main tenance of a right. attitude of the mind on the subject The great apostle Paul laid down one of the most profound philosophical truths of the ages when he said: "As a man thinketh so Is he." If a woman constantly thinks gray hairs and wrinkles 6he will soon have both in abundance. On the other hand, if she boldly defies spectacles, powders, paints, stays, wigs, etc., and constantly asserts to her own heart and the whole world her right to remain young, nine times out of ten she will still be a girl at 40 instead of a broken-down old wom an ready for the grave. If a man will defy old Father Time by a constant men tal and physical declaration of his right to keep young and buoyant he can win in a walk. There is no use for a nervous collapse at 35 or 40. Most men chew too much tobacco, smoke too many cigarettes, drink too much liquor andlive too fast every way. Too many mistake reckless dash for strenuousness. Repose Is one of the greatest needs of the hour." Washington was a man of giant purpose and iron will, yet withal a man of magnificent repose. But for a little carelessness which precipitated pneumonia he might have lived to pass the century mark. Sandow advises exercise and cold baths. This Is all right as far as it goes. But a regimen which considers only the physical man is worth very little without a pure, strong mind, a clear, honorable life and a God-centered souL TREATING BUSINESS AS A SCIENCE. Br John A. lowland. There is a strong tendency at present to re gard business as a science, knowledge of which can be reduced to principles and general laws. This means that the painfully acquired experi ence of individuals is being sifted, formulated, made general in application, so that it can be handed on to benefit others. In no department of business practice has there been such enormous development in the last decade as in organization, the intellectual framework by means of which a business moves, and this organization of business is now being stud ied as never before. It has long been known that system was an Important element, but as competition grows fiercer and fiercer, the perfection of method, of system, appears to be the very key to success. The latest development of this tendency to discard the methods of our fathers is shown in the rise of the "business doctor," who is an expert who may be called in to examine and prescribe for any business that shows symptoms of failing health. . He Is a graduate from the school of experi ence. He takes charge of everything and bosses everybody concerned. The first think he does is to examine the work ing system, and he invariably finds this to be closely con nected with the seat of the disease. Striving at every point to eliminate waste, he often finds it necessary to reorganize it from top to bottom. Detecting leakage here waste of time there, he endeavors by Introducing time- and labor saving devices to reduce the running expenses. He teaches managers how to advertise most effectively for the least money, how to have the windows dressed, how to economize floor space, how to make two men do the work of three. Besides examining into wastes that result from lack of system,, the business doctor looks out for possible dishonesty on the part of employes. He uses all sorts of clever devices for detecting such practices. He mercilessly prods every body to see how much work he can get out of him. He pries Into every nook and corner and into every slightest transaction till he knows just what is going on everywhere every minute.' He shakes up and be shakes down the whole business, tightening a screw here, fastening a loose board there, applying to one man a tonic, to another a dressing; down, always with his finger on the pulse of his patient,' till finally it steadies down to a normal, healthy action. It is not such a long stretch of years since the Dutch trader used his foot as 'the standard of weight in buying furs from the Indians of America, There was method in that! But we have elaborated business knowledge and methods In America since then. To-day experts and spe cialists in business principles are known as "doctors," and we may without undue exaggeration dignify the sifted, classified, and duly arranged substance of their special knowledge as science. SENATOR DEPEW. AMERICA AND THE PRESENT TIME. By Senator Chauncer M. Depew. I have only contempt for watery pat riotism. I. know men who invest abroad because they see the shadow of an an archy and communism which is to touch their possessions. I know men who live abroad to get out from under the American avalanche. I hope they will never return. We neither want them nor do we want the offspring of such stock. What are our perils? . In comparison with what we have gone through and overcome they are noth ing. Our dyspeptic friends talk about the glory of the old time and how we have fallen away in manners and In mor als. Early records speak of the exceeding drunkenness among the clergy of Virginia, but no such record attaches to any church in- any denomination in any State, In any township, of the United States to-day. The eighteenth century had for its inventions by Amer icans two things, the lightning rod and shingle nails but. the nineteenth century contributed more to the happiness of man and the glory of God than all the centuries which preceded it General Washington's administration and his republic were rocked to the cen ter by .a whisky rebellion in a county of Pennsylvania, but in our time thirteen States and a million of men, American at that in arms against the republic for its overthrow only placed it on firmer founds- tlons with purer liberty. Rah for your good old times! The best time is to-day, except to-morrow. PEOPLE OF TODAY ALL IMITATORS. By Geo. B. Vincent. W are all terribly alike, and every man and woman is but an imitation of some other man or woman. In literature, art, religion, we are all under the influence of some domineering power. Even in sports we are not free from imitation. Thousands of people who did not want to ride bicycles did so because they wanted to Imitate the wealthy class at Newport And of what use was their rejoicing? Now they must needs motor. ana piay goir, oecause it is fashionable to do so and the people they want to seem like enjoy these things. We will never get rid of the fads, and we may never get rid of the Imitations, but the only chance for the latter In tn cultivate individuality. The way to do that Is to stimulate yourselves for greater efforts by never letting a day pass without spending fifteen minutes at least with some one you feel is superior to you or by reading, for that length of time in a good book. MEN CHEAPER THAN HORSES. Famine in Horses and Rush of Work Make Them Hard to Hire. If anyone Is deceiving himself that the automobile has any chance of driv ing horses out of the market let him ask the teamster or bus driver, says the Chicago Chronicle. The contractor will tell the same story, giving figures to prove that the horse market was never in better shape than it is this fall and that horses were never in greater vanced from $3 to $4 to $5 to fo per day. Even at this price horses are not to be found and. general teaming com panies are unable to fill their orders because of their shortage in horses. Drivers and wagons are plenty enough. but it is Impossible to get the horse to complete the outfit It so happens that while a man is earning $1.50 a day his team is earning $3. The superintendent of barns for a ble cab company figures the cost of a HORSES GET BIGGER PAY THAN THEIR DRIVER. demand. Indeed, it Is much as the su perintendent of one of the city bus lines said the other day: "It is a pity the automobile does not take hold of the rough work the horse now has to do. We don't need automobiles to haul the fashionable about town. We need them for delivery wagons and for dirt- hauling and for coal wagons and the like. The horse can do the best of the work himself. What he needs Is some thing to help him with the bard work. There are not on the market to-day enough heavy horses to do the bard work of city teaming. According to re ports the price of an' average team horse has doubled within the last nine months and the scarcity of teams for general hauling is alarming. Contrac tors are having the greatest difficulty la getting enough teams to do their work and the price of hire for a team. aragon and driver has recently adr horse's keep at $12 a month. The sum is divided something as follows: ' Feed $6 00 Barn rent ... $3 00 Groom 4 00 Shoes 2 00 He considers this a big estimate, allowing for the high rental of barn room downtown. "And even at that rate we think It is costing more to keep a horse than a man," he explains, "be side that we have our investment to look out for, we have put money in the horseand the man didn't coat us a cent And then again the man can take care of himself, but a beast of a man will abuse a poor beast of a horse. A horse will work all day long and all night If the driver forces it but a man won't there's the difference. We have to look out for the horse and the man can look out for himself. If yon were to figure It out deducting for the extra expense of keeping a horse and for the odda and ends la the line of expenses you will find that a single horse does not hire for quite as much per day as a man does. But we never hire a sin gle horse we get them in an outfit horse, wagon, harness and driver for so much. Naturally the outfit will cost more than any one part of it" Many of the large contractors, un able to get horses to use in the work of excavating cellars, have put in large forces of men, who, with pick and shovel, are able to do the work of teams. In the meantime If there Is an auto mobile which will haul dirt or scrape roads or do any of the drudgery of the horses' work the equine family will no doubt welcome It There will be plenty of work left for the horses. Getting Hair Cut in Japan. On returning to the hotel I indulged In a Japanese hair cut for the first time. Here you don't go to the barber shop. The barber shop comes to you. A very serious-looking young Jap with sober-hued kimono waiting upon me at my room at the hotel, and undoing bis barberous instruments, deftly and skillfully executed a very good modern hair cut in a very short time. He did not tenderly rub his hand over that little bald place on the back of the head (most all old boys have it) and enlarge on the virtues of hla inimitable hair restorer, and tell you how much brighter life would seem to you if you would only invest In a bot tle of It nor did he enlarge on various themes to display his conversational powers, but confined himself strictly to his professional work. In some re spects Japanese barbers are preferable to those of our country. Possibly this superiority may arise from the fact that as they do not know our language they could not indulge in the customary "airy persiflage" if they wanted to. Brooklyn Eagle. Hard to Make Them Do It. First Boarding-house Mistress I've seen it figured out that people can live on 12 cents a day. Second Boarding-house Mistress Ah! But you can't get them to do it Brooklyn Life. Two Truths. One of the most Important things in life, my son," said the father, "Is to know when to grasp an opportunity." "And another, said the wise son. "is to know when to let go of it, X suppose." Philadelphia Ledger. When a woman steps off a street car, every man waJshing her expect toseeneriau. NJ