Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-02

i a.. rfE'a TJ,T8
number, shows q determination to
keep the readers of the paper in close
touch with events in the Far East.
This issue is called the Camera Mum
Der, and it contains features disclosing
how Instructive, delightful, and health
full is the pursuit of amateur photo
graphy.~ ~ a2.s5a5..5.ii
In presenting it's two leading arti-
cles for May the Metropolitan Maya
zine is doubly fortunate. Fortunate
in meeting a nearly universal interest
in the present struggle in the Far
East, fortunate in securing contribu-
tions from percisely the two men best
fitted to describe and to discuss the
conditions that now obtain in Japan
and in Russian Asia. Mr.. Stephen
Bonsal, lately American Secretary of
Legation at Toxic, contributes an arti-
Gle of extraordinary interest on the
character and personality of the Mika-
do, entitled '"rhe War-Lord Of the
East" A striking accompaniment of
this paper is the reproduction Of some
unique drawings made by Japanese
war-artists, done as Japs alone can do
them. In Americas Debt to Russia"
Major G.. Creighton Webb, formerly
Secretary of the American Legation
at st. Petersburg, presents a discon-
certing array of acts not hitherto con-
sidered, that go to show why the
sympathies of Amerisans would be de-
cidedly pro-Russian if Americans were
conscious of these facts. Major
Webb's vivid word-pictures are rein
forced with numerous reproductions
of drawings and photographs that he
collected during his residence in st.
Petersburg. The thorough equipment
of these two writer's, their straight
forward citations of truth, and their
unprecedented criticisms, enable the
reader to make trustworthy compari-
son between the two peoples that have
submitted their unhappy differences to
the arbitrament of war. .s.,,.,,,.s.-:, y.
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A happy characteristic of Every
uouy's Magazine is the versatility e1
hibitsd in its contents-table. The edi-
tors are not riveted to single set Of
ideas, but manage in each issue to
strike some new note or touch some
novel phase of life or endeavor. There
are two salient features in the May
issue, which, though serious in tone
and treatment, are of so much i'm
portance to the world just now as to
have an almost sensational interest.
One is On the Great White Plague,
Consumption; the second, the subject
! which the Methodist church Confer
ence is debating with so much ardor-
the relation of Christianity to amuse.
ment: may the Christian dance, play
cards, and attend the play? The
ablest of American churchmen-such
men as Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop
Greer of New York, DR.. Parkhurst, DR.
MacArthur-have contributed to q
symposium of opinions which, stating
the attitude of the great denominations
on the subject are of the greatest
4 value to all readers.
It may not be generally known that
one-third of all the people who die be.
tween the ages of twenty and thirty
die Of consumption, and that in the
United States 100000 every year die
of this terrible disease. The maya
zine offers a7direct, strong, common
sense article on: the great white
plague, by Eugene Wood, in which hi
tells in plain terms how to know con
sumption if you have 1t, how to cur,
it, and how TO avoid giving 1t to you
fellows. -