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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22
EMBEZZLEMENT.
Is the Charge Against w. B. Gray
Treasurer of the Logan Soap Co.

In the early spring of this year
there came to Logan one w. b.
Gray, an elderly gentleman, who
was alledged to be soap maker,
and organized a soap company.
The machinery was bought and
the old Tritsch Wooden Mill build
ing rented, and the factory start
ed.
1t soon developed that the COM
pany was up against the PROPOSE
tion that Mr.. Gray was not turn
ing out the soap promised. With
all his efforts, it seemed that the
product expected did not materia-
lize. His statement of his failure,
we understand, was to the effect
that the chemical analysis of the
water here, proved large per
cent alkali, and that his chemical
formulas. for soap making would
not work with this city water.
The soap would make alright, but
would not harden sufficiently to
cake and cover.
So it was that disappointment
and disaster arose in the company,
and demand was made by ma
ority of the stock holders for a
reorganization of the company.
The thing come to a head, and
the books when presented by
Treasurer W. B. Gray, of the
company, showed something like
$l300,00 to the good, but Mr.
Gray failed to turn over the mon.
ey, and seems to be short that a.
mount.
The stock holders of the COM
pany had Mr.. Gray arrested on
Thursday of last week and reman.
ded to Jail for embezzlement OF
the company's funds. Trial was
had before Squire Lappen on Fri
day evening, resulting in Mr.
Gray being bound over to court ir
the sum of 100000 bond. At
torneys E. D. Ricketts,, H. E. Spar
non and Tom Dolscn represent the
defendent, while Wright & Whit
craft and Wright & Petit repres.
ent the company. Bond not being
furnished, the accused languishe'
in Jail to await action of grand
jury at the Jauary term of court;
The soap company has re-organ'
ICED and secured practical soap.
maker and will go on with the
business. We wish them success
in their line, and hope to see the
practical work accomplished.
We understand it is claimed by
the defense that the stock of the
Soap Company was irregular, and
that Mr.. Gray can account for
every cent spent. 1t is said by
Gray's friends that the company
was organized on common stock
and "prefered stock" certificates,
and that the persons holding the
preferred stock were those who
were operating the plant, and had
furnished no money but were de-
clared 3 per cent dividend.
Those holding common stock''
certificates furnished the money,
but receive no dividends. The
defense claim they will be able to
show up the company in no pleas
ant light, and that Mr.. Gray will
be exonerated in his receipt and
expense account.
The soap business will be aired
10 a nicely at the January term of
court, so say the attorneys for
Gray.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22

THE Car of Russia was very
kind to Siberian companies of
militia. They expressed a wish
to go to the front to fight and die
for their fatherland. The Gear
wrote them that he hoped their
wishes would be gratifed.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22

A BRIGHT new paper under the
caption of the "Bremen Record"
comes to our table, It's editors
are the Messrs Beery. We wish
them success.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22

TWENTY thousand iron and steel
workers go out on a strike at
Pittsburg last week. The unrest
Of labor means financial crisis u.s.
ually. In 1892 it was thus, as the
big Eugene V. Debs railroad
strike was on in Chicago.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22

Estate of william NJ. Montgomery de-
ceased. The undersigned has been appoint
esate es aed as 81 the
Hooking County, deceased Dated this 18th.
day OF September A. ID. 1901
O. r. MONTGOMERY.
Sept. 22nd 3w. Administrator.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22
Among Churchs.
NJ. Z. CHURCH.

Rev. j. T. Williams will preach
at the M ; e. Church Sabbath Morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Subject "The
Christian Religion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22
Waists

The new fall waists are here ready
for your inspection. The styles are ex-
elusive and you won't find their like
elsewhere. rrices from $5 down t, 5oc.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
DR.. H. j. Steward has returned
from the Presbytery and will
preach at both services next Sun
day.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22
Notice of Appointment.

Dated Sept. end, 1904.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-09-22

Ifyou want the best, most stylish
looking Petticoat you ever saw for
$1.oO you can get It here. A look will
convince you
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14
japan.

Japan is naturally very poor country,
made fairly rich by the skill and industry
Of her people Only IA per cent of her
total area is under cultivation. When it is
remembered that Japan is about as large
as California. but has 30 times as many
people. it will be seen that they must be
congested on a very small area. The popu-
lation of California is not quite 100000,
while that of Japan is A 100000. Bel
GUM, which is the only country in Europe
as thickly populated, has 81 per cent. of
her soil under cultivation, while France
has 80 and Germany 43 per cent. So that
each of them has from two to three times
as large ratio under cultivation. A farm
of II acres is regarded as very large in
Japan, while the average one is but a trif1e
over two acres. All the work on it is done
by hand. principally with a spade and hoe.
They have no cattle or any livestock, and
subsist OH rice, millet. fish and vegetables
Laborers can be. hired in any number at
II cents per day, while women get but
nine and a half cents. A very large por-
ton of the men and women are engaged in
fishing. which they carry on with great
ingenuity. One way is by the use of tame
when they geffa fish are prevented from
swallowing it by an iron ring around the
throat.
While everybody in Japan has something
to. live on. there are few rich men. But
two men in the sEmpire pay tax on an
income of S125:OGO a year, and only Ii pay
on $4,000 a year, 81 on $4,000, 90 on
$500. and l40l on $500. Only seven
men in every 1000 in the Empire have in
comes as high ASST $50 year. The total
wealth of Japan il only valued at $5.54O.-
100000, or about One-twentieth that of the
United States. Russia has $3.50 square
miles, or 30 times the area Of Japan.
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THE WASHINGTON O. THURSDAY APRIL H. 1904

family. The Cossacks have a very evil
reputation in the East, and also in those
parts of Europe where they have pene-
trated, and where they are regarded as
nothing but savages and robbers, yet some
travellers have given a very favorable re-
port of them as being more intelligent
clean and refined than the average Rus
sian. They can live on little when in the
field, and their horses pick up enough from
the plains to support themselves. Both
men and horses are very patient in endur-
ing hunger, heat, cold and other hardshps.
When Russia has settled them in a
country occupied by another nomad race
they form a strong garrison and are at all
times quick to respond to any call to as
sert their predominance and Russia's au-
thority over their wild, turbulent neigh
bors. 1t is not believed, however, that they
have very high military value when op-
posed to regularly organized troops, such
as those in the west of Europe. Their
lack of discipline, and their predatory hab-
its, make it impossible to strike blow
with them against any organized army,
while they devour and destroy enormously,
and are much given to panics when they
meet strong opposition. Still, they are at
times very valuable in cutting off an enc
my's supplies, in surprising outlying posts
and attachments, and are frightful to a
ating army.
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Happiness.
What is your opinion of happiness?

What is your opinion of happiness?
What are the essentials upon which you
think it depends? Money, love, health
nine out of ten persons would say. Re-
verse the order of the three and you'll have
them as they should be. You can not be
happy if your health is bad. Neither can
those around you. Ever notice how
grOuchy a man or woman is who has
dyspepsia or any form of stomach trou-
BILE! They can not help it. It's the re-
suit of weakened nerves. Don't Judge him
too harshly. You can not expect to find
sunny disposition where pain is gnaw-
ing away the body, mind and nerves.
Some OF them try to get cured-try
hard. but finally give up in despair YER
nal Palmettona formerly known as Vernal
Saw Palmetto Berry Wine) has restored
more of these people to health and happi-
ness than any other remedy on earth.
1t is a purely vegetable remedy which
roots out the cause of the trouble at the
very start. 1t is a positive and perma-
nent cure for ailments of stomach, liver
bowels, kidneys, heart and blood. 1t
doesn't act like harsh purgatiyes and
cathartics. 1t does it's work gently. thor.
oughly and with no shock to the nervous
system. We want you to try this grand
remedy at our expense. Write for free
paid. Learn for yourself what it will do,
before you buy. We know what it has
done, what 1t will do. You do not. We
take this way of showing our confidence
in 1t. Address, yernal Remedy Co., $50
Seneca Building, Buffalo, N. Y.
On sale ct leading drug STOKES.
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poor and wretched. The girl of these
families may, if she makes her choice. be
reared to enter a brothel. The girl child
is a burden and burden bearer, and has
the care of the younger children. The
baby is strapped upon her back and she
Tugs it with her wherever she goes.
Japanese" and morals" are not syn.
onymous. Politeness is the chief end of
men and women in Japan, and If you are
polite, all sins are excused. To be inn
polite is to be brute. To be polite is to
be the quintessence of morality. Girls
spend five years in school, three of these
in learning the arts and graces of manner
and of speech.
The japanese girl has always a good
complexion, albeit she may be dark. Her
skin is generally satin-smOoth. She gets
it on a cup of tea, two Or three little
green plums picked in vinegar and rolled
in sugar. for her breakfast. For lunch and
dinner she eats stuffed prawns, seaweed
with queer sauce. hashed sparrows, and
salt sweetmeats. With this she eats rice,
usually boiled and served with fish sauce.
1t does not sound appetizing, but the
women of Japan do not grow fat and
obese, and they retain their beautiful skin
and complexion to very old age.
The history of Japan is enriched by
many traditions of how women have in
fiuenced the destinies of that Nation
married women. The unmarried woman
at the present time has no place in the
economy of japanese policies or public
life Of any kind. The married woman,
though she may never take part in public
affairs, is yet the adviser and counsellor
of her husband far beyond anything of
the kind known in the United States.
When Moses was getting lost with the
.children of Israel in the Wilderness, the
first japanese women that is mentioned
i'm history was born Goddess of the Sun.
Since that day the Expresses of Japan
have been a power to reckon with.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14
Russia's Plans.

The Russians have given out quite an
elaborate plan, which, as they have given
it out, they probably have no intention of
executing. 1t is to try to equalize or
dominate the japanese feet in the Pacific,
by bringing the Russian fleet from the Bal
tic. The Russians say that they will
either crush the japanese fleet, or else so
disable it that, with the vessels now i'm
prisOned in the harbor at Port Arthur,
they will be able to have a superior force
in the Pacific. This implies a much longer
journey for the Russian fleet than the ia
nous trip Of the Oregon. 1t is a question
whether it would be allowed to come
through the Suez Canal, and if it were,
there would be- such a warning ahead for
the japanese that they would have plenty
of time to meet it as it issued from the
Red Sea and crush it. Therefore, we must
assume that to carry out such a plan, the
Baltic feet would have to make long
journey around the Cape of Good Hope,
some 10000 miles or more. At this rate
there could be little hope that the Rus
slams would arrive at the scene of conflict
in very good shape for the blow which the
japanese would stand ready to deliver ut
once. The plan seems too chimerical for
serious consideration.
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The Best Order Ever Issued.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / notice
in your last issue that the Pension Office
seems to be afraid of Sec. 4,69S1a inter
fering with its intended course of putting
in operation the best order ever made by
the office in regard to the age order
should say the order made the age 81, Co.
tS and 40 permanent and specific disabili-
ties; or, in other words, the law makes the
age a permanent specific disability. 9th
erwise the order would be illegal. Again.
the law never requires an absurd act, and
what more absurd than a medical exami-
nation to determine Il mans age. This is
certainly true if the Section applies at all
to the 1890 act.-V. G. HOLIDAY,
Boulder, Colo.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14
The Japanese Soldier,

The japanese soldier is now on trial,
and it is of deepest interest to the world
as to how he will conduct himself in a
prolonged war with soldiers of European
civilization. There are two distinct types
of men in Japan, the aristocracy being
sharply differentiated from the lower class.
The lower class men, who form the bulk
of the Japanese army, are very short in
stature, with long trunks and short legs.
The face is almost hairless, with the eX
ception of a narrow and short mustache.
The countenance is pudding faced fiat
nosed, and good-humored in expression. The
hair is coal-black and strong in texture.
The frame is ill-shaped but lean and wiry,
and the men are said to be capable of en-
during great fatigue and hardship on very
little food. While they are deficient in
many things which in the West are
esteemed morals, they are devoted to their
officers and their Emperor, and capable of
the highest discipline. The officers are all
drawn from what would be in England the
gentry"-that is, the Samurai, who in the
old system of society were the Sword
bearers" and are very brave, have high
sense of personal honor, and are ready to
die on the instant for any point affecting
their honor. They are intelligent, as well
as brave, and it is believed that they make
very efficient, enterprising leaders of men.
The higher officers belong to what was
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-04-14
Work of the Pension once.

The report Of certificates issued for the week ended
April shows:
Army Invaids Original 3: increase s47: reissue 20;
restoration 2 renewal 10: supplemental g. duplicate,
10: accrued. 163. Total. $40.
Army Nurses: Original. ].
Army Widows. etc: Original IS: increase, 4: reissue
IA restoration /; renewal 81; supplemental l. dupli-
cate Z: accrued, ]. Total. 139
Navy Invalids: Increase. .: reissue 2. Total.4.
Navy Widows, etc: Reissue. 1: duplicate /. Total 9
Old Wars Invads: Accrued l.
Army 1nvalds war with SPAIN: Original 20: in
crued. !. Total. 90.
Army Widows. etc. (war with SPAIN: Original, 90
Increase. ]; reissue. /. Total 81.
Navy Invalids (war with SPAIN: Original 8.
Navy Widows, etc. war with SPAIN: Original. ].
Army Invalids-Regular establishments Original, :;
Army Widows, etc.-Reguar. Establishment: Orig
inal, 6: increase. 2: accrued, l. Total, 8.
Navy 1nvalids-Reguar Establishment: Original, 2;
reissue, I. Toal,3
Navy Widows, etc.-Regular Establishments Orig
inal, !.
Army Invalids TACT of June 81 1905 Original 2ss in
crease 9 additional. PA: reissue, IL; restoration
renewal "a: supplemental I; duplicate. 81; accrued.
2S2. Total 1.763.
Army Widows, etc TACT of June o. 1890: Original,
1885, Increase 10 reissue, B; renewal. ]; supplemental
2; duplicate. "a: accrued, 4. Total 39l.
Navy Invalds (act Of June q. 1905 Original II: In
crease, IL additional :; restoration, .; renewal
plicatP. 2: accrued. II. Total. 63.
Navy Widows etc. TACT of June a. $780, Original, L.
War OF 1872 Widows: Increase, /.
Mexican War Survivors: Original, I: increase 6; re-
Issue o. supplemental l. duplicate, 1; accrued, g. To
Mexican War Widows Original, Z; increase, /; dupli
Indian Wars 1882 4e> Survivors: Original 90; in
Crease, l; accrued. a. Total. 35.
Indian Wars 1882 42) Widows Original 49, dupli
cate. !. Total, 20.
Totals-Origina 937: increase s5s; additional eIs
reissue. 10; restoration s: renewal S0 supplemental
II; duplicate lOs accrued. 49, Grand total 3.al2.
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An-ju.

The dispatches of April s say that
Japan has made -An-ju a frontal base.
An-chiu, and otherwise, is little place
at the western side of the great chain of
mountains which cut off Korea from the
mainland, and is probably only temper
airy base, with Notifications to hold the
pass through the mountains and prevent
the Russians re-entering Korea For this
purpose it is highly important to the Jap
anese. as it is a gateway from the main
land into the Korean peninsula. The Jap
anese will be able to hold it with small
force, as it cannot be thanked. The Rus
slams could not. however, hold it, because
the curve of the gulf gave the japanese
opportunity to flank. it by coming up in
the rear from the sea and cutting the road
at various places where it crosses arms OF
the gulf
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but ones temper with such headrest
The bed goes upon the mattlng-coyered
floor and there are thick silk, down-stutted
"comfortables'' as our grandmothers used
to call them, to lie upon to throw over one
But the pillow! Imagine an American
girl submitting to that neck-breaklng ma
chine.
The Japanese woman has pretty good
time Not as an American girl counts a
good time, of course, for they are reared
in different schools. The japanese girl is
born to a subsection which no American
girls could ever endure, but being born to
it and knowing nothing different, the Jap
anese woman is a moderately happy crea-
ture.
She sees nothing of men until her
parents have picked out one for her TO
marry, and she marries him sight I'M
SEEM but never having gotten her affec-
tions tangled up with any other man. she
is usually quite happy. Her girlhood
days, if she is the daughter of wealth, are
largely spent in doing embroidery and
fancy work of various kinds, and learning
from books how to become q good wife.
mother and housekeeper. To be these
three things is the chief end of the Japan
csc woman. So much is this condition de-
sired that one of the great books of Japan
is "Woman's Great Study very large
book which contains minute directions and
details of woman'S duty and the culture
necessary for her to make herself pleas
ing to her future lord and master. 1t de-
fines the three great duties of women as
obedience to -her-parents. when child;
obedience to her husband, when wife,;
obedience to her eldest son, when a
widow"
- Naturally, the Japanese women marry
early. They then turn their attention, not
to winning the affections of the husband
selected for them, but to gaining the love
and esteem of the mother-in-law. Japan
Is certainly the paradise of the mother-in-
law. The bride goes home to live with
her, and she is bessed by the senior
woman until son comes, and then the
young wife is happy indeed. To be the
mother of a son is to be blessed-in Japan.
If Madam Junior does not please Madame
Senior, the young wife will some fine day
get herself packed back TO her own pa
rents. 1t happens not infrequentfy that
q young, husband goes away from home
for time and comes back to find that he
has been divorced from his wife in his alb
sence. His mother can do this if the wife
which she has selected for him does not
suit her. The son and husband takes his
medicine, no matter how dear his wife
may have become to him. for Japan is the
land of reverence to elders, alteration of
ancestors and having been taught TO bow
to his mothers WILL he does it without
complaint.
The japanese women are intensely pa
triotic, and devotion to the Emperor and
to the institutions of the Government are
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THE COSSACKS.
The Warlike Nomads Who Form the Bulk O
Rnsstas Cavalry.

We are hearing great deal, as we al
ways do in Russian wars, of the COssacks,
who play a very snowy and noisy part
and frequently one of great effectiveness.
For centuries they have done this, but
they came most conspicuously into notice
at the time of Napoleon's disastrous re-
treat from Moscow in 1912. Then savage
hOrdes of them hung around the TANKS
and rear of the Inflated French army, cut
ting off detachments and massacring
everybody that they could reach.
The origin of these people is a mystery
proper, and have little of the blood Of the
bulk Of the Russian people. Briefly the
opinion is that they are mixture of races
made UP from fugitiyes from Poland, Rus
STA and other countries, and mingled with
Tartars and Circassians. They are ia
natical Greek Catholics, and their first
collision was with the Roman Catholics of
Poland, who inflicted great cruelties OIL
them and drove them from the country.
Then Russia adopted toward them the
policy which she has so successfully used
in her dealings with the other nomads of
Asia. She assigned them territory in
which TO live. mingled those coming from
| one part with those from another so as to
break up their local attachments, and
finally gave them a distinct military status
as irregular cavalry Of the Russian army.
They pay no taxes, but hold their lands
on the tenure of military service, when
ever they shall be called upon to render it.
In this way the Russians have scattered
them over a large part of Siberia, locating
them on grants of land.
There are two main branches. the little
Russians, or Ukraine, and the Cossacks of
| the Don. Their numbers are variously
estimated at from 2.0OO,OO0 TO 100000
They despise agriculture, but follow fish
| ing. cattle and horse breeding. When they
are called out they furnish their own arms
| and mounts. They carry lance from 10
| to IL feet long, and n carbine, pistols and
| saber. and wear n peculiar costume which
serves as uniform. It's main features
are round caps and wide trousers. Their
/ horses are small, but very swift and wiry,
and serve them admirably in their raids
against the other nomads of Asia, i'm which
service Russia principally employs them.
Every man is bound to respond to Il call
from his 18th year to his JOth. They are
divided into polks (regiments) and sub
divided into hundreds, ffties, and tens
| The organizations are very democratic,
and all the officers are elected by the men
up to that Of their head, who is. called At
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THE RUSSO=JAPANESE WAR.
The Country People, and ResourcesThe Operations Prospects
and Leading Incidents

mother of her husbands children. the
mistress of his pretty little home, and she
is the confidant of her husband in all that
he does. 1t is a pretty sight in the even
ing to see the Japanese woman and her
husband at play" Until the children
are all in bed, the Japanese mother does
not leave the house, but when the babies
are asleep, she and her husband make
lis, visit the pleasure booths and have a
jolly time generally. She, woman-like,
puts ON her prettiest clothes at such a
time.
The little women of Japan. for they are
all small. swart, and blackeyed, have
small hands and feet, and they are often
very pretty. They love soft, bright silks,
and all things beautiful in art. They
dress quantity and comfortably, though
European clothing is now taking the place
of their more sensible kimOnas and short
skirts.
The poor people of Japan are, more
than those of any other country, abjectly