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RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS
NAY RETURN HOME

PORT SAID, Egypt, Feb. 1O.-The Rus
sian transport Azov, accompanied by two
torpedo boats, is here taking on board sufh-
cent coal TO take them to their nearest
home port. The commanders swore that
amount required.
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Money Wanted by the Red Cross.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1O.-The executive
committee of the Red Cross Society to-day
issued the following: Red Cross executive
committee authorizes call for donations to
be sent to the treasurer of the American
National Red Cross, Washington, D. c., for
relief work in the Russo-Japanese war
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The Salvation Army.

Adjutant Roe. of a South Capitol avenue.
reports many cases OF distress requiring
help. In some instances food and fuel are
much needed, In addition TO clothing. Dona-
tions are solicited for this object
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on Feb. from Honolulu, where she took
fresh supply of coal. The vessel, with her
sister ships, the Nippon Maru and the Hong
Kong Maru, has been impressed by the Jap
anese government as auxiliary cruisers, and
arrangements are being made to secure
trade.
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Russian Charters Cancelled.

CARDIFF, Wales, Feb. 10-Orders have
been received here suspending all shipments
of coal for the Russian government and cam
ceiling the charterings in its behalf.
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Gable Dispatches from Scenes of Hoh japanese and Russian

were about forty Japanese, who purpose to
enlist in their cOuntry's army.
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Local observations on wednesda,

Bar. Their. R. H Wind. Weather. Pre-.
Ia. m. .30.52 II IS North. Cloudy. 0O0
2 D. M c.54 IS 81 North. Clear. 900
Maximum temperature. p; minimum tenn
perature. II.
Comparative statement of mean temporal
ture and total precipitation Feb. 10:
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Yesterday,s Temperature..

w. T. BLYTHE,
Section Director
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A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.

Itching. Blind. Bleeding Protruding Piles.
Your druggist will refund money IL PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure you In to IA days. soc.
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accord. The present events merely go to
show the utter uselessness of Port Arthur
from a strategic viewpoint"
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Virtues of Tar Water.

The Curies. according to an American resident
OF Paris. put small faith IN the curative proper
ties of drugs. To their little daughter, when she
Is III, medicine is rarely given.
Mr.. Curie." the American said, laughs at
the fads that seize upon physicians from time to
time. He told me once about the tar-water fad
"a thing that agitated France and England and
Germany in the eighteenth century. 1t seems
that tar water was suddenly declared to pos
sess almost miraculous virtues. Doctors used
1t for everything. It was as popular among
them as radium now. To one of the French
medical societies a surgeon, noted usually for
skepticism, wrote that tar water was good in
surgery.
"A sailor broke his leg and applied to me for
help the surgeons letter ran. L bound to-
gether the broken portions and washed them
with the celebrated tar water. Almost imme-
diately the sailor felt the beneficial effects of
this remedy, and it was not long before the leg
was completely healed
This letter was highly appIauded by the
society, and resolutions were passed advocating
tar water for fractures. But the organization
was pretty we'll Disguised at its next meeting
when the surgeon, in another letter, said:
" In my last communication 1 forgot to mem
ton that the broken leg to which 1 referred was
q wooden one New York Times.
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Beautifying a City.

whenever I see any of these propagandas
for Identifying a city," said Senator Perkins, OF
California, the other night, II always think
of the work done to beautify the State of Cali
fornia by a citizen of Altadena, which is hard
by Pasadena. The mans name is Andrew Nc
Nany, and when he came to California there
were few birds at Altadena, and those few were
hardly what we would call beautiful. McNalIy
made up his mind that the land needed birds,
so he built him an aviary and imported many
hundreds Of his feathered friends. Once a year
he would open the doors Of his aviary and let
the young birds fly whithersoever they would,
and in a short time the whole country was
populated with feathered creatures of every
variety. His example was followed by Joseph
Grinnell and Mrs. Grinnell, both of whom are
ardent ornithologists. so that now the country
around Pasadena is a garden spot for birds of
beautiful plumage. Many Of the birds that
were imported came from Japan and China.
So you see there are more ways than one of
identifying a city or a ~State."-New York
TrirDac
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Antiseptic Qualities of silver.

Properly to dress a wound is not an easy
thing. and the process is complicated and may
be costly when the dressing has TO be renewed
every day. There are none of those objections.
however, in the method of DR.. Reboul. for
whether the dressing is to be applied to a recent
cut or to an liberated tumor, a sheet Of silver
or silver-leaf is all that is necessary. The silver
is simply placed on the wound or ulcer, and as
it sticks closely to the surface a little cotton
soaked in collodion is sufficient to keep it in
place.
The effects of this sheet of silver are very re-
markable. Where the wound is a recent one
and not contaminated with microbes. the wound
quickly heals under the influence of the silver,
without Inflammation or suppuration and with
out presenting the slightest bad symptoms.
Conditions are just as favorable in cases OF
ulcer, chronic ulcer of the leg, for example, in
which cases the suppuration decreases little by
little, while the liberated surface gradually
becomes covered with healthy skin, which soon
produces a good cicatrice in place OF the ulcer.
This perfect cicatrization has even been obtained
in many cases of liberated cancer of the skin.
What is this property that silver possesses?
II is due TO the great antiseptic power OF this
metal. which is proved by the following ex-
pertinent. Several years ago a physician Of
Lyons, DR.. Rollin, decided to cultivate microbes
in a bouillon which he had placed IN a silver
vessel. To his great surprise he found that in
place Of multiplying in the nutritive liquid the
microbes persisted, and at the end of a few
hours completely disappeared, which fact was
all the more remarkable as the same microbes
multiplied ad inhnitum when placed in another
vessel. Pursuing his Investigations, DR.. Rollin
analysed the bouillon which was contained in
the silver vessel, and found therein a very small
trace of silver, which Infinitely small quantity
had rendered antiseptic a liter of bouillon.-
Public Opinion.
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Science Breyities.

Cavities in bones are filed by Professor Mo-
setig, of Vienna, as satisfactorily as teeth are
filled by an ordinary dentist. He makes use Of
a mixture of iodoform, oil OF sesame and sper-
maceti melted together.
Metals get tired as well as living beings. Tele-
graph wires are better conductors on Monday
than on Saturday on account of their Sunday
rest, and a rest of three weeks adds 10 per cent.
TO the conductivity of a wire.
The hydrophobia microbe has been discovered
by DIR. A. Negri, of Paris. He states he has
examined more than one hundred dogs afflicted
with natural or laboratory hydrophobia, and has
in each case found the pacific miero-organism in
the nerve centers.
1t is reported that Curator Lucas, of the
National Museum, who went to Newfoundland
a few months ago to obtain a plaster cast of a
whale, has succeeded in getting a good cast
seventy-nine feet long. A replica will be made
for exhibition at st. Louis.
The best way to get oxygen into the blood
is to walk a mile uphill two or three times a
day. keeping the mouth closed and expanding
the nostriIs. This beats all other methods.
During such a walk every drop Of blood in the
body will make the circuit of the lungs. and
stream. red and pure, back to its appointed
work of cleansing and repairing WORKOUT It's
SueS
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to bring Mr.. Hanna out Of a sinking spell.
the family were summoned to the sick room
five different times to see him breathe his
last, and each time he was temporarily re-
vived by resort TO the powerful injections.
1t might almost be said for more than
twenty-four hours he was kept alive by the
most heroic artificial means without any
prospect Of restoring his natural strength.
1t is the province of medical science to save
life, but one may doubt the wisdom or the
humanity OF p~rolonging it by artificial
means only for a brief period when the end
is known to be near and inevitable. If. as
some of the doctors have admitted, there
was no time during two weeks before Sen
ator Hanna's death when he had a chance
to recover, it is a question whether it was
worth while to conduct hopeless expert
ments, thus merely %prolonging his death
struggle and raising false hopes in the
minds of the family. When it becomes
apparent that nature has issued an edict
from which there is no appeal science
should step aside and let nature. have its
way.
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THE RULE AS TO CONTRABAND OF
WAR.

A dispatch from New York announces
the receipt through that city of a rush
order for 800 army ambulances for the
Japanese army, and says:
Although 1t was at first considered that
the shipping of supplies to either of the
combatants might be in violation of the
laws of neutrality which the United States
is observing in the present crisis, 1t was
learned that the shipping of hospital sup
plies or anything used for the succor of
the wounded is not included in the forbid
den acts set forth by President Roosevelt
in his proclamation
This is misleading in conveying the i'm
preston that the neutrality laws prohibit
all trade with either of the belligerents
except hospital supplies or something used
for the succor of the wounded. They do
not prohibit open trade in anything, and
hospital supplies do not stand on any diff
ferent footing from other goods. Ameri-
cans may even sell and ship arms and
munitions of var to either or both of the
combatants without violating the neutral
ity laws, subject, of course. to the risk of
their being captured and confscated by the
other party. This risk applies equally to
meat, flour or provisions of any kind
shipped directly to either of the combat-
ants and intended for use by its troops.
All such goods are contraband and liable
to capture.
Careful reading Of the Presidents recent
proclamation OF neutrality will show that
it begins by saying: Whereas, the laws
of the United States. without interfering
with the open manufacture or sale of arms
or munitions Of war, nevertheless impose
upon all persons" etc. This shows that
even arms and munitions of war may be
sold and shipped to either of the combat
ants without violating the neutrality laws,
subject always to the risk of being cap
tured. During the war in South Africa the
British government made large purchases
of horses in this country, which were
shipped directly to South Africa for the
use of the army, but as the purchases were
made. in open market and in the regular
line of trade it was held they did not vio-
late the neutrality laws. though horses
for military use were contraband of war
and liable TO seizure by the other side.
The rule of international law is that SUBJ
jects of neutral governments may carry
even cOntraband goods to either belligerent,
but must do so at their own risk. Neutral
merchants may trade in food supplies.
horses. arms, ammunition and stores in
time of war as in time of peace, but either
belligerent may capture such goods as are
of direct and immediate use in war. A
correct understanding of this rule is of
some Importance as. if the war should con-
tinue any length of time. both parties TO it
may place large orders for supplies in this
country. Such orders can be filed with
out violation of the neutrality laws at the
sellers risk of capture while in transit.
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Unpleasant Surprise.

John Weaver. the mayor OF philadelphia. had
occasion at a recent banquet in the Quaker City
to speak of unpleasant surprises.
These unpleasant surprises may bring US the
very things we desire" he said. Sometimes
they are all the worse for that. 1 was born in
England. and in my native English town they
still remember, 1 suppose, the unpleasant sur
prise. bringing him what he asked for. which
Rocheil got upon his death-bed.
Jonathan. feeling that the end was near,
gave a few words of parting advice to mis- young
wife. He had a bachelor friend named Howard.
a steady fellow. and the thought came To his
mind. when he was concluding his farewell
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authors. The native literature consists
largely Of descriptions OF scenery and FOLK
lore.
The people OF Korea may be described
generally as robust, amiable, industrious.
pleasure-loving and given rather To the arts
OF peace than the ardOrs of war. They
are agricultural rather than commercial.
They are kindly and generous. They have
no national religion and never have had.
Confucianism. SO far as regards the wor-
shin OF ancestors, the reverence for par
ents and the dignity OF family, has a
stronger hold tnan any other form Of re-
ligion. Buddhism has always had a Ian
gushing existence among them. There is
a widespread belief among the people in
witches, in spirits and in devils. There are
relics OF fetichism. TIL costumes OF the
men and the women do not differ widely
from those in use thousands OF years ago.
The universal costume is cotton cloth,
bleaehed and unbleached. In winter. this
is padded with short staple cotton. which
grows in Korea, and is carded into pads for
the purpose Of quilting the clothing OF the
people. Their headgear r. remarkably
varied in form. They have a different form
or a different kim OF hat for almost every
station IN life. All the unmarried men in
Korea are called boys. and wear their
hair I'm braids down their backs. Marriage
may take place at any age from twelve up
ward. When a boy il married he is a
man. The women OF Korea IA no legal
status. A man may have one wife. and
her children are his heirs but a Korean
may have as many concubines as ne may
have the ability or the disposition 10 sup
port.
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Magnetic Storms.

The occurrence on Oct. 81 of a great magnetic
storm, which interfered with Geographic lines
more or less all over the northern hemisphere,
coincidentaIly with the appearance OF vast
groups of spots upon the sun, has reawakened
discussion of the question Of the influence Of
sun-spots, or rather Of the forces that produce
sun-spots, upon the magnetism of the earth.
The prevailing opinion among astronomers and
physicists is that disturbances in the sun, re-
curing at intervals OF about eleven years, do
exercise, in some as yet underlined manner. an
electromagnetic influence upon the earth, and
that to this influence is due the appearance Of
brilliant displays OF the aurora borealis and
the occurrence of magnetic storms that AFFECT
Geographic instruments and magnetic needles.
But not every group of sun-spots is accom-
panied by these extraordinary
Youths COmDaniOn.
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THE KOREAN PEOPLE.
Formerly They Were Far in Adj
vance of Japanese NeighborS.

j. Sloat Fassett, in Review of Reviews.
The people of Korea are not Japanese.
and they are not Chinese. They are Mon
golians, and have a polysyllabic language
with a phonetic alphabet. They have a
recorded history of disputed authenticity
which claims for them a continuous ex-
istence as a Korean people Of about 5000
years, the earlier part Of which, of course,
is shrouded in the mists of tradition and
fable. AS early as three centuries ago the
Koreans had made great progress in the
arts. They built ships 300 feet long and
covered them with plates OF iron. the iron
being M into small plates and
fastened by small spikes driven into the
wood. They made woven fabrics and were
very skillful in metal work. I'm the fashion
ing of jewels and in the manufacture OF
pottery. They were far in advance Of their
Japanese neighbOr, TO whom they have
taught the arts of metal working, pottery
making and silk weaving. Three centuries
ago Japan overran the country and dew
astated IL, transferred whole colonies OF
artisans to Japan. and broke down forever
the military power OF Korea. Korea has
produced but little literature. Korean stu
dents have been largely devoted TO Chinese
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AMERICAN SYMPATHY o JAPAN.

N 3RA ~"
The recent proclamation of the President
declaring the strict neutrality of the United
States in the war now going on in the far
East was universally approved by the
country. but that does not prevent an ex-
preston of popular sympathy. 1t is re-
~markable to observe how strongly that
sympathy is with Japan. If there Is a
newspaper in the United States that does
not sympathize with the little island en-
pire the Journal does not know of it. Dur
was almost evenly divided. some believing
that Great Britain had a good cause and
that her victory would inure to the progress
OF civilization, while others thought the
Beers We're entitled to independence. In
the present case there is practically no
difference of opinion; all are for Japan.
This is the more remarkable because
Americans have heard so much of Russia's
traditional friendship for the United
States that they have come to regard it as
a fact. whereas it is nothing but hatred of
Great Britain. If Russia's policy Of terri
torial aggression should bring her into con-
fiict with American interests the "tradi-
tional friendship for the United States
would not stand in the way for a moment.
American sympathy for Japan is somewhat
remarkable also because as an Occidental
and a Christian people there would seem
to be slight ground for sympathy with an
Oriental and pagan people. An attempt has
been made to create prejudice against Japan
by harping on the yellow Peril and de-
claring that if Japan should win in this war
she would not stop till she had absorbed
China and wiped out American commercial
interests in the East. This has not scared
our people a particle.
American sympathy for Japan is owing
to their sense of justice and right, and is
therefore very creditable to them. In spite
of the alleged traditional friendship Of Rus
STA, in spite of the fact that the japanese
are pagans, and in spite of the yellow
Peril" bugaboo. Americans still sympathize
with the nation they believe is fighting for
its existence and from motives of pure pa
triotism against the aggressions of an un-
ScIupulouS anu oppressive SONeTHIleulS
whose only motive is territorial expansion
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
In the declaration of war recently issued
by the Car he dwelt upon his love of peace
and the earnest efforts Russia a made to
avoid war in the East. No doubt Russia
would rather acquire territory peacefully,
by finesse and duplicity. as she did Man
churia, than by war. To that extent her
policy is one of peace. But the acquisition
of territory is a stronger motive with her
than love of peace. Had she not robbed
China of Manchuria and shown a deter
mination to acquire Korea and menace
Japan, the present war would not have oc-
CURED. Because Japan did not go to war
until she was forced to, and because she is
fighting for self-preservation. she has the
sympathy of nearly the whole civilized
world. American sympathies are with
Japan because she is battling on the side of
enlightenment aud civilization against Rus
sian duplicity and anti-progress.
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The Obnoxious Ross.

Every street-railway worker in New York has
a good word for II. II. Vreeland. the street.
railway magnate. for Mr.. vreeland treats all
the men under him well.
Il abominate the oficious, overbearing boss
Mr.. Nreeland said one day to a reporter. This
boss is derided and disliked always. He never
succeeds. for his men won't work for him
heartily.
You know the type of boss 1 mean. We find
him everywhere. He treats his interiors as
though they were machines. They get no credit
from him for intelligence. and he tries to make
them think he is himself infallible-a kind of
god.
This sort of boss, If he has to go away for
an hour or two. is apt to turn TO his men and
say, as he starts off:
Look after this. now, and look after that.
and remember the other thing; and. if it rains
while I'm gone-well. don't try to stop it. Let
it rain New York Telegram.