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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
ALL EAGER TO LEARN,

There is No Illiteraey Among the
 Younger Generation of Japanese. < Everybody in Japan below the age of 30 can read and Write The older generation, which grew up before the days of common schools, is not so &C., complished, and occasionally some =yokel comes out of the woods of the irl- ferior in obedience to eonscription law who can scarcely write his own name. .Censcripts who cannot read and write are looked down upon by their com rades as men of very low degree and of 11o credit to their country I am told, however, that illiterates of the cons script age are exceedingly rare, No young man or woman in Japan has any excuse for illiteracy. Schools are numerous and within reach of all, al- though in the coutry boys and girls of 10 and 12 years of age often walk as many miles day between their homes md the schoolhouses. -.... ...,
 The attendance upon the public schools in Japan is remrkable' In 1902 the average attendace was 5,625, 900 out of a population of about 44,O0O,0O0. This is an increase from S,29O,313 in 1894. Since the latter date the number of public schools in Japan has increased from 25,404 to 29,325, and the number of teachers from 67,6SS to .110,1O4. It is quite remarkable, too, that 90 per cent. of the teachers are men and more than 70 percent. of the pupils are boys, The number Of girls in attendance in the public schools is increasing, how ever, and within year or two their full proportion of the population will be represented on the rolls. The number of girls in attendance has increased from 97S,746 to 1600,3SS since 1894.
 The increase in facilities for lligherI education is also remarkable. There are fifty-four normal schools, 297 tech nical schools and sixty-nir1e high class schools or seminaries for girls, and the number of pupils in the latter h asin- creased from 3,79SS to t7,215 since 1sS9s. The number of young women in the normal schools hasincreased from 1928 to Si657 during the same time, which shows the growth of the popularity of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10

time, and Withal is not larger than the state of Delaware. Both emperors re- side. in the same city, each has his own resplendent court, enormous revenues, armies, imperial chancellors, govern ment officers and courts of justice.
 Only one Of these emperors is known to the outside world, and he only to a, slight extent. The name and titles of the leading one would easily fill a eol- uni; his subjects a million In number call him the Susuhunan. and he mod estly signs himself akoe Bowono K Mail of the Universe, the Tenth" In him his people Yenerate not only their soverign ruler, but also their religious pontiff, placed so high above them that none dares approach him upright or cover him with glance; his state min listers, and even his own brothers, crouch before him with folded hands as if in prayer and with downeast eyes. Yet he is a powerless puppet in the hands of a small European nation, and may not even receive or dispteh a let ter without previously submitting it to the Javan representatives of the Dutch.
 He actually rules his empire, every square inch of it. which he calls his personal property; yet he may not walk or ride outside the palace gates without the formers permission. He keeps thousands of troops at his own expense. men with modern swords and riffies. Amazons with ancient Iances, bows and arrows; yet he is virtually a prisoner in his own palace, the grounds of which cover nearly square mile, where there are hundreds of buildings, the most sumptuous halls, luxurious chambers and store-rooms and stables, with many thousands of attendants. Still he has no kitchen and no cook, his own meals being sent to him daily from outside. He is abolute master over all his people, who depend for their livelihood entirely upon him; yet he may not trust any of the men, and surrounds himself entirely with women. Thousands of the latter are at his beck and call; hundreds he calls his more or less legitimate wives, who have borne him many sons; yet he has no direct heir to the throne, which is one of the oldest and most eminent in Asia.
 This curious parsonage is his majesty the Emperor of Surakarta.
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they give, but they do expect payment for the feed of the animals. The conversation one has to carry on
 with. the host and the other villagers
 who drop i'll to see and pay their re- spects to the stranger is entertaining and even amusing as long as one is novice in the country, because it is un- sophisticated prattle, such as one must
 have heard in Europe in the Middle Ages. One unfailing tonic is the TO- tundity of the world, the negative side of the question being always defended; they cannot believe that the sun re-
 mains stationary, why should they disregard the evidence of their own eyes, which show them that it does move across the vault Of heaven? They
 ask you how much tribute your coun- try1nen pay to the Padishah (whom we wrongly call Sultanl, whose foot is up on the neck of all nations, as they firmly believe; they inquire minutely into your business at home and your
 reasons for travel in-their country, etc. They handle with childlike joy and amazement your. rifle and revolver,
 your knife, pen, pencils, your helmet and clothing, and the women can never have enough of feeling and fondltng your socks, which are more evenly and closely knit than their backwoods,
 home e-1nade article. A One must submit to an examination of this kind wherever one stops, often
 several times day. Finally it pals
 on the traveller, unless he be gifted
 with the patience of Job, and from that moment he tries to avoid village hospitality. A further reason for such avoidance is the fact that the accept ance makes it impossible for the travel Ter to put into form his road-noes of the day while matters are still fresh in his mind. For the scientific traveller or the archeologist this is of the utmost moment. Now. among Turks writing in the house of your entertainer would simply be impilite and a boorish re- turn for the hospitality, but the Arabs regard the man who writes or draws as spy, and will not permit it at all.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
SKIPPER |. MCGOWAN.
She's Fifteen Years Old and Navfgates
 a Schooner.

She's Fifteen Years Old and Navigates
 a. Schooner.
 It is given to the 6OO-ton schooner Marengo, hailing from Detroit, to have the only woman sailing master" now roaming over the Great Lakes. The master has not yet grown to the age of won1anhood, however, for she is only a 15-years-old girl with dresses still above her ankles For four years she has sailed the lakes from Duluth to Buffalo and back times innumer- able. She has been through many squalls and has been in all the ports of importance along the shores Of the lake. VI
 The youthful mariner is Miss Lillian McGowan, Slaughter of Captain Thomas McGowan, owner of the Marengo. Captain McGowan is aboard the vessel on all It's trips, but he has
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not . hard matter to navigate oua

not hard matter to navigate ou@ beat"
 Cap. McGowan came forward an& heard the last remark. T tell you, hSs said with emphasis. that little girl K the best sailor on the lakes. woIl@ rather trust the Mareaso to her than would to half the masters holding gove |ernment licenses haven't time to atF tend to the navigation of the boat, sS I have just turned that part of it ove& to Lilly. And you can bet she has nev< Ter got us into trouble, either. "C Clevea Hand Plain Dealer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
IN AN ORIENTAL VILLAGE.

The villagers who entertain the stran- ger in their houses naturally enough expect him to talk to them, for thus only can he give them the return they anticipate for their hospitality; as a general rule, they will accept no re- muneration for the food and shelter
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10

THE HMPERoRs OF sURAKARTA.
 There is an empire on this planet which for strange originality might as we'll be situated in Mars. 1t is gov erned by two emperors at the same
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10

JUST TO MAKE YOU HUNGRY Some Good Things About A Good Thing to Eat Sayings and Doings That Helped to Make a Great
 Food Popular.
 Whether you live to eat, or eat to live HUneeda Biscuit. Ny naeSe hGying sOos.ld bc q Sclrce 10 rsdkc me kunger more.
 --ShakepeurA Moo6eth. ts., 5. When you order crackers sent with youI { other groceriesand don'twant them scented by your other groceries, tell the grocer Uneeda Biscuit.
 When yourgrocer something else And you feel afraid to risk it, Send it back with a little note,
 And say Uneeda Biscuit. v
 When your appetite says Uneed, Biscuit, you can't deny 1t. sa .f An old colored woman went in one O OUT stores last week and asked the clerk !! Els you got any soda crackersY' Whereupon the clerk replied: "Noi Uneeda Biscuit" E5 The old woman became highly indig rant at the insinuation, and informed him that she didn't "need no biscuits,n and had a whole spider full at home, ''thank you" .. 1 For munch or lunch--Uneeda Bis. cult. -,.+ T If all the air tight packages used by the National Biscuit Company in one veal were laid end to end they would make string long enough to reach around the world eighty-seven times.
 For the man who works from sun to sun Uneeda Biscuit. t't For the woman whose work is never done --Uneeda Biscuit. @ When San Francisco folks are eating Uneeda Biscuit for breakfast, New Workers are having them for lunch, and the people in between are getting hungry formo The rain comes down obedieut to
 The law of gravitation;
 The common cracker soaks it up,
 And causes aggravation.
 How Johnnie recited the alphabets -
 ABCD EFGHI@
 JK MOTOR
 s T Uneeda Biscuit
 To encourage the appetite-Uneeda Biscuit -., The more we make the better they take, Growing better with every bake.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
THE BREATH OF LILACS,

The hills our childhood knew are ever
greenest; its valleys, broad wales of
peace, peopled with the salt of the
earth and fertile with kindly remem-
branches and pleasant memory. This
streams of youth We're all silver and
flow forever under skies eternally blue.
In the minds of those growing old the
picture of childhood is immutably fixed
warm with color and bright with the
high lights of happiness. The mem
cries OF childhood are the comforts of
old age.
few days ago a man whose grizzly
beard and face lined with wrinkles told
the story of approaching age, came
down the street active as boy. His
eyes twinkled and his smile multiplied
his crows feet I'm going back home, /"
he said, back to the little inland village
in Illinois where l was a boy to at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
CUT OUT IHe CARELESS DRIVER.

AS automobiles become common in
Iowa, the careless driver forces him.
self into prominence. Most owners
and drivers of Iowa automobiles are
inexperienced and too many of them
careless. A sixteen to thirty horse
power automobile capable of speed
of twenty-five to thirty-five miles an
hour III driven by a speed idiot, is as
dangerous to public safety as loaded
mine in the roadway. Careful mex
perience is bad enough, but the care
less fool who drives at high speed
along crowded streets is unbearable.
and needs prompt and vigorous sup
preston. Careiessness in handling an
engine swift as a passenger train and
powerful as locomotive is pure Grim
inality and should be treated as such.
The circumstance that owners of
autos are usually persons of prom.-
hence adds nothing to their right. A
millionaire has no more right to race
the danger of the people than dray-
man to run his horses thru crowded
thorous,hfare. All driving is not limit
ed so much by law as it is by common
sense. The law is not to guide wise
men bat to prevent crime and check
fools. When q man drives an auto
mobile thru city streets at high speed
he belongs in one class or the other,
and should pay the penalty.
The law scarcely goes far enough.
1t should provide for an automobile
license to be revoked upon proof of in
competency or carelessness. Perhaps
it should go farther, and provide for
confiscation of the machine. Such pro-
visions would work no hardship upon
that class of drivers, who are fit to
own or operate an auto and would
eliminate a class in whose hands a
racing machine is as dangerous as
dynamite.
The average automobilist is deeply
interested in all this. 1t is to his inter-
est to suppress the speed maniac that
the public may not imbibe an unreason-
ing hatred of his favorite vehicle. Au-
tomobilists who find pleasure in this
means of locomotion and who enjoy it
sensibly, have, in certain cities, found
it necessary. for self protection. to
form 81 league for the suppression of
dangerous driving and the prosecution
of those who thus indulge themselves.
The scorcher drew the public eye ask
ance upon all bicycists. The speed
maniac will cast discredit upon auto
driving. Suppress the speed idiot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
FROM PUBLISHER 70 UsEh
BOOKS
Norris Printing Co., Eldera. Iowa.
A FITTING TRIBUTE.
a Citizen of MarshalItown Pays 9
WeiI.Earned Tribute.


The following public statement of a
respected citizen adds one more en-
phatic endorsement of merit to the
scores that have appeared before:
MIe. w. "A. Price, Of 303 Summit
street, says: Experience taught me
that Doan's Kidney Pills. sold at Nc
Bride & Wills drug store. can be relied
on to cure pains in the back or other
evidences OF disturbed condition of
the Kidneys. This is of considerable
Importance because there are great
many preparations on the market
which are worthless and after the suf-
ferer makes repeated attempts . OBJ
tain relief and the results are not forth
coming ne naturally grows discouraged.
This too prevalent kidney complaint
seems to be one Of the Ills to which
nearly all our sex is heir, but the fact
that Doan's Kidney Pills are a sure
care will be the means of bringing
health and happiness to many who
have heretofore sought this boon with
out avail. I speak advisedly because
the remedy not only relieved me per-
sonaliy of pain, but am in a position
10 Judge from the experience of others
whose opinions can be relied upon"
For sale by all dealers; price so cents.
Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y. sole
agents for the United States.
Repenbersthe name. Doan's. and
take DO substitute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
Alaska,s Glaciers.

Glacier bay is the most accessible
region in which to see large tidewater
glaciers of Alaska. There are eight
glaciers which discharge bergs into its
waters. The largest Of these is Muir
glacier, which drains an area Of about
500 square miles. It Is moving with .
maximum velocity Of about seven feet
day and is continually dischargin8
large icebergs from its end. It's f1uctu-
atoms have been great within recent
times. One or two hundred years ago
it extended. in common with the other
glaciers Of the bay. twenty miles below
its present ending, and not long before
that the glaciers were so small that
valleys now barren and bleak were &C.
cupied by large forests.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
Acts Like Oxygen.

Liquozone is the result of a process
which, for more than 20 years, has
been the constant subject of scientific
and chemical research. Its virtues are
derived solely from gas, made in large
part from the best oxygen producers.
By a process requiring immense ap-
paratus and IA days time, these gases
are made part Of the liquid product.
The result is a product that does
what oxygen does. Oxygen gas, as
you know, is the very source OF vital
ity. Liquozone is yitalizer with
which no other known product can
compare. But germs are vegetables
and Liquozone-like an excess oil
oxygen-is deadly to vegetal matter
Yet this wonderful product which nc
germ can resist, is, to the human
body, the most essential element o.
lite.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
We Paid 100000

For the American rights to Liquo-
zone-the highest price ever paid for
similar rights on any scientific DIS
covery. We did this after testing the
product for two years, through physl-
clans and hospitals, in this country
and others.
That price was paid because Liquo..
zone does in germ troubles what all
the drugs, all the skill in the world,
cannot accomplish without it. It car
ries into the blood a powerful yet
harmless germicide, to destroy at once
and forever the cause of any germ dis
ease. And no man knows another way
to do it. Liquozone is so certain that
we publish on every bottle an offer OF
ST. 900 for a disease germ that it can
not kill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30

"A Home again, home again,
q From a foreign shore,
\ And. oh, Ii fills my soul with JOY
1 TO meet my friends once more.
8 Here dropped the parting tear
"a TO cross the oceans foam,
. Z But now I'm once again with those
4 Who kindly greet me home.
2 Home again. home again.
T From foreign shore.
d And, oh, it fills my soul with joy
VA TO meet my friends once more.
Is Happy hearts. happy hearts.
With mine have laughed in glee,
But. oh, the friends loved in youth
\ Seem happier to me!
I Ard If my guide should be the fate
: Which bids me longer roam.
But death alone can break the tie
!, That binds my heart to home.
\ Home again. home again,
From a foreign shore.
And, oh. 1t fills my soul with JOY
TO meet my friends once more.
. Music sweet, music soft,
fingers round the place.
And, oh. feel the childhood charm
! That time cannot efface.
Then give me but my homestead roof
Til ask no palace dome,
For can live a happy life
with those love at home.
Home again. home again.
From q foreign shore,
, And, oh, 1t fills my soul with Joy
8 no meet my friends once more.
Marshall 8. Pike.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
LAW POINTS.

If there is an express or implied no.
tice to the purchaser that an agent has
no authority to collect money. a pay
ment will not bind the principal QO7
Ill. App, 32)
Where contract recites the payment
of 81 as It's consideration, 1t is valid, al
though the sum was not actually paid.
as it creates an obligation which can
be enforced by the other party. IA S.
Il. Rep, 1861
When a debtor offers creditor a
certain sum in satisfaction Of all de-
mands and the creditor gives writ
ten acceptance of the same, there are
accord and satisfaction. though the
creditor states in accepting.it that he
cannot accept it in full settlement. (35
So. Rep, 1922
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
Spite Vented in Face of Shaw.

Hardin County Citizen: The repub-
lican state convention was as radical
as this paper predicted, but we didn't
expect that Young and some of the
lesser Examinations would vent their
personal spite in the face of the pro-
testations of Shaw. Dolliver, Allison
and the administration. Possibly I'M
der the circumstances the majority in
the convention would not have refus-
ed to adopt declarations so evidently
in harmony with the desires of the
national leaders at Washington. The
majority, however, became possessed
of the idea that victory without some
sort Of fruit or other would be an in
consequential victory; therefore the
majority adopted the plank it did =
it represents the fruits of victory" III
a measure at least.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30

tend Memorial day celebration. The
gathering is to be held on the banks OF
the old swimmin' hole, where we bath
ed and fished for bull heads fifty years
| anticipation of revisiting old places and
meeting old friends, leaving his audi
tors wishing they might ''go back
home" and find as much left as he ex-
pected to find of old times and well re-
membered faces.
Strange how little things call familiar
scenes and unforgotten faces out of the
grave yards of old days. Just word.
a strain of music, any of a hundred
his way home the other evening the
sensuous scent of lilacs, heavy like the
G. note of violin. came with the breeze
across the path of weary man and
he remembered the big clump of lilacs
that stood just outside a window OF the
old home. An apple tree stood near it,
ana In the early mornings OIL Jnat Ola
time a thrush sang in it's branches a
matin as sweet as the scent that rose
from the lilacs with the dew upon them.
He remembered that when he stood
looking down upon the dead face of
his mother the perfume of the lilacs
outside the window sifted thru the
screens and filed the room as her life
had filled the home; and after, when
in that same room. his young wife,
with eyes star bright and deep as
pansy blooms uncovered the face of his
first born to his sight, the scent of the
lilacs drifted thru the open window like
benediction, and the thrush was
singing his heart away among the APP
pie branches. Such close companions
are death and life, and tears and hope
in memory.
1t is good to remember. Not to live
in the past, but with it. Today the
winds are all from the sunrise laden
with the lilac breath of early memoir
les but the true Memorial day belongs
to the heart and not othe almanac.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
NINE. TUssAUD.
The Famous Waxen Model Artist ~
Paris and London.

Nine. Tussaud was already famous
in Paris before she went to England.
1t was with two Of her waxen repro
auctions, seized by the people for q
parade through the streets Of Paris,
that the French revolution was started.
The soldiers attacked the figures. Two
days later followed the memorable
storming OF the Bastille. Modelling
wax had been the fashionable craze Of
the court and the rich. It was caught
from physician Of Berne named Cur
thus, who turned to fine art his re-
markable skill in modelling anatomical
specimens and was invited to Paris by
the Prince de Cont. Nine. Tussaud,
nee Marie Gresholtz, the child Of a SOL
der, was his niece and adopted daugh-
ter, first his pupil and finally his mas
ter. There were few personages whose
names are famous now in connection
with the revolution who did not sit
to the young artist in wax. The heads
Of some she had to model after the
guillotine had been employed upon
them. She gave lessons in the art to
the kings sister, Nine. Elizabeth,
among other illustrious persons. and
was imprisoned with Josephine de
Beauharnais. afterward empress. Even
in those early days NJ. Curtius had Q
chamber OF horrors"
But after the revolution Mime. Tus-
saud left France forever. Nor did she
at first find times in England much
more propitious. After trying the
Strand she moved to Blackheath, then
q popular resort, but at last had to 60
on tour from town to town. It was
not till 1885 that she was able to settle
permanently in ndon.-Chicago Trib-
line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30

Medicine must fail in germ trouble,
because medicine never kills inside
germs. Any germ-killing drug is a
poison to you, and it cannot be taken
internally.
Liquozone is the only way known to
kill germs in the body without kill
ing the tissues, too. 1t does in germ
trouble what no drugs, no skill in the
world, can accomplish without it. To
prove this-if you need tive will
gladly pay for a bottle and give it to
you to try.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
Beautie. Of Translatan..

In New Britain missionary In
translating was seeking some native
idiom to convey the idea of q binding
oath when a chief suggested that the
desired phrase was, II would rather
speak to my wife's mother than do
such and such thing"
In British Columbia missionary
wanted his catechist to translate a
crown OF glory that fadeth not away
This was done to the satisfaction Of all
concerned, but ultimately the mission
airy found to his horror that It had
been rendered, "a hat that never wears
out!'