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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-13

1.-The Forty Hours Devotion" COM
menced in St. Marys church Sunday,
and all the services have been crowded
with eager listeners and devout wor-
shippers. Confessional services were
held since Friday. Father Shannon had
these visiting priests as his assistants:
Rev. Fathers Sullivan of Shoreham,
Campeau of Vergennes, Long of Proc
tor, and Brown of Pittsford.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-13
LOCAL NOTICES.

Notices under this head ten cents per line
nrst insertion; five cents per line succeeding
Insertions. Count seven short words to line
or SIX long ones.)
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-13
Watches, Clocks,
SilVerWare, Etc.

We have good stock of Watches, Clocks,
Chains, Rings, Cuff Bottoms, Brooches, and
Silverware. Will be glad to have you see our
goods, compare prices, then purchase where you
can do the best
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-13
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Not let c. H. Ward, the new jeweler at
Marshall's, do your repairing? Your work will
be neatly and promptly done. Don't take our
word for it, but give us an order and be
convinced.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09
1.-THE NEW WEST" OF The FAR EAST

slip. Last fall when Viceroy Yuan
visited Major General Wogack (who
was stated in February to be in COM
mand of the Russian land forces in
Manchuria), the latter assured the
Chinaman that Russia could not be ex-
pected to evacuate Manchuria after
having spent so much money upon the
territory. Yuan limited that another
Power might have something to say
about that. Wogack, as reported from
China, replied, You mean Japan, of
course. A poor little country like ia
pan does not count for anything in
Russia's eyes My country would
crush it at one onset Later he is said
to have remarked to another that ia
pans assailing Russia would be a case
of the mantis attacking the war char
lot" Wogack knew better. but in this
statement he was merely following his
governments habits of veracity-or vo-
racity, as a freshman classmate of
mine put it once in debate. Even Cap
tain Brinkley's paper has asserted
more than once that "as to turning
Russia out of Manchuria, no one, we
imagine, is going to attempt any such
task" Now in making an estimate to-
day, we may leave out of all account
the question of sea power. Viceroy
AleXief was gifted with RAJ e provision
last November when, according to re-
port, he pointed out that if the Russian
squadron could not crush Japan's at
the first encounter, it would be Grip
pied because of lack of docking facili-
ties. The admiral knew his business.
Russia's navy in the Far East is now
OF course negligible quantity.
The conflict on land is a question Of
hnance Of fighting force, of supply
base of the nature of the country, Of
the man behind the gun and the people
behind the man, of assistance from al
hes and finally of moral support.
THE MONEY SIDE OF THE
PROBLEM.
Mr.. KEENAN, has shown that Russia
Is financially in desperate straits. She
has very largely exhausted her re-
sources. How long she can continue
war of such an enormously expensive
nature is a question which no one out
side of her council of state can answer.
but that compared with Japan she is at
4 serious monetary disadvantage seems
indisputable. Japan today is many fold
better able to maintain a war than
when she encountered China. Profess
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09
THE REV ARCHDEACON PERRY c. WEBER,
WHO IS COMING TO HONOLULU TO CON-
DUCT AN EPISCOPAL MISSION.

for noise and excitement Its purpose
is by directsand plain preaching to bring
God and His Truth home to the hearts
and minds OF men.
Parochial Missions as we have them
now originated in France. In England
in the past forty years they have been
held all over the country. In 1874 three
hundred parishes in London held Mis-
sions at one time In New York III
1882 and again in 1892 some forty par
ishes held Missions during the season of
advent.
THE MISSIONER.
Archdeacon Percy Clinton Weber is
a native of Boston, Mass, and is a
graduate of the Boston University and
of the Cambridge Divinity School. He
served as Archdeacon in two Western
Dioceses, but has for some years given
himself wholly to the work of Mis-
sioner. There are many people in Ho-
nolulu who have attended Missions con-
Quoted by him in California and else
where. Some years ago Archdeacon
Weber held mission in St. Pauls
Church, San Diego, Cal, of which
Bishop Restarick was then Rector, re-
sulting in much good, and the Bishop
hopes that the Mission here will be
blessing to the whole community.
The services which will be announced
later will be held daily The only prep
arations being made are the practice
of suitable hymns and the appointment
of ushers and the offering of prayer
for Gods blessing. When asked about
expenses Bishop Restarick stated that
no Missioner ever made any charge,
that IT was customary to take up an
offering at the closing service for the
expenses of the Mission The Arch
deacon has had to decline many pressing
calls in order to fulfill his promise to
Bishop Restarick made at the time of
the latter's conservation that when he
was wanted ne would come to hold
Mission
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09

believe our nation has a very large re-
sponsibility in these premises. Its duty
seems to me three-fold.
First, the entire abandonment of its
present attitude towards Chinese labor
and Asiatie nations. The only possible
statesmanlike, not to say human, pro-
cedure is to enact general laws for i'm
migration like the Lodge bill framed
to apply to all races with exact equal-
ity. Under some such law ali danger
Gus competition in our labor market
and all harmful immigration can be
easily prevented. Our naturalization
laws should bear equally upon mem-
bers of every race. Those who know
Chinese and japanese need no testi-
mony to prove them fully as likely to
make useful citizens as the hundreds
of thousands coming to our shores
from Southern Europe. Such action or
our part would do more for the future
of commerce, of peace, of progress and
religion in the Pacific world than any.
thing else within the realm of posi-
bili.y It is good craftsmanship be-
cause it is right To do less is an in-s
ternational wrong. If we do not thug
act, we shall have ourselves to blame
in case Japan and China should elose
ranks and march to the tune of "Asis
Contra Mundum.''
Again, let the United States proceed
at once to fortify these islands and tbs
Philippines. Not q moment should be
lost. No war between our nation ane
Japan or a united Eastern Asia Is
within the realm of probability; bu
we want to hold out temptations to NJ
one. The good boxer never has to fight
That should be one of our notices.
And finally, the ties between our edu-
cationa1 system and those of Eastern
Asia should be strengthened in every
possible manner. 1t sends a thrill
through the veins of an American to bs
told that Admiral Uryu, winner of tht
first naval fight of this war at Che.
mulpo, is a graduate of Annapolis; his
Wife a Vassar alumna. The doors O
our colleges and universities have from
the first been thrown wide to japanese
students. Hence more than all else
the closeness of the bond between the
neighbor nations. Why not so witt
China, too? Our sense1ess restriction:
are turning Chinese young men by tn.
thousands elsewhere. There are lao
of them today in the higher institu
tons of Japan. We shall suffer fo.
this some time. In the case of Asiatit
every possible provision
should be made by Congress to ats
tract them to our shores. Only thu.
can the leaders of the Pacific nations
be brought into the magic circle Of col,
Iege friendship during boy days, whes
ideals rule, with the consequence
common intellectual aspirations, of in
innate sympathy throughout life, arlf
Of the irresistible drawing of thes'
great nations together in the bonds
human brotherhood.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09

Bishop Restarick expects Archdeacon
Percy c. Weber to arrive on the Ala
media on March 18th The Bishop and
clergy are happy in having secured Arch
all over the United States as Mis-
sioner OF great earnesness and spiritual
power. Last October Bishop Restarick
saw the Archdeacon in Washington, D. c.,
and asked him to come to Honolulu and
contiuct a mission The latter said that
he would be glad to come, if, in the
judgment of the Bishop, he could be the
means of doing good.
WHAT IS A MISSION?
Bishop Restarick being seen on the
matter has supplied the Advertiser with
some account of the purpose of Mis-
sion and of the Missioner who is conf
ing.
4 Parochiai Mission is a special eff
fort made in a parish, the object of
which is to deepen the spiritual life of
the people, reaching, if possible, those
who have been baptized or confirmed,
but who are Negligent OF their rell-
gious duties and privileges, and indif-
ferent to the claims of Jesus Christ and
His Kingdom upon their hearts and
minds.
1t is also intended as far as possible
to reach others, the careless and those
who sin without thought of repentance,
and to arouse them to a sense of the
blessings of life lived in the knowl-
edge and love o. God.
A Parochial Mission is a time of re-
freshing and reviving, time when men
are called to repent and forsake their
sins, and no time could be more ap-
propriate for this than the last weeks
of Lent including Holy Week.
A Parochial Mission is not a time
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09
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CONTINUED from page Sd
of labor. But she is bearing glorious
chiIdren-Korea and China and
naughty little Russia are their names.
A new Korea, new China, a new Rus
STA will spring into life, each permeated
with the spirit of modern civilization.
Our country is to bless the world with
the gift of free, governing peoples.
1t is a wonderful mission. Let
US Christians see that the
work is done under the lead
of our Master, Jesus Christ I
have no hesitation in believing that
this, minus the religious factor in my
friends words, is the real spirit of ia
pan in this war. First of all, it is a
fight for life. If Russia wins, then ia
pan is practically wiped from the map
of the world. If the Sunrise Kingdom
prevails, light will dawn upon the
Asian mainland. Constitutional liberty
will cross the yellow Sea with the Mi
kado's ships. China and Japan viii
clasp hands and mount together, the
little one leading, as Isaiah Of old
promised. The world has no need to
fear this issue. It will mean a COM
merce dwarfing anything dreamed of
the emergence of a new race, in many
respects more formidable than any that
has yet filed the eye of the historic
muse. But Asia will not menace the
development of anything healthy
among mankind. The virtues of the
yellow race are as essential to the An
glo-Saxon as our own are to the Asiat-
ic. The coming world man must have
both if the ''far off divine event" is
ever to materialize.
CAN JAPAN WIN?
But can Japan win? That is the alb
sorbing question. Last December lead
ing military and naval authorities in
Europe declared that if there was one
thing certain it was that Japan would
not attempt to destroy the Russian
fleet in the neiehborhood of Port Ar
thur. while Russia would at once strike
and capture Nagasaki. thus securing
an abundant coal supply. recent
writer in Harper's hazarded the fol-
loving: "All Japan's As million chill
drer. her cities and resources are open
N sll sides to attack by the Russian
fl ct Ne one who had visited Japan
ard seen her splendidIy fortified har-
bors could have been guilty of this
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09

today is as cool. and it's life as placid a:
though a war to the death We're every
day business. 1t is simply impossible
to beat such people until you kill then
all Off Ind that they are used to
More than once in Japan's story the
defeated have done what it was falsely
said Napoleon's bodyguard boosted il
would do-die to man, but never sur
render That is the sort of nation that
backs the men behind the Mikado'
guns.
THE WORLDS CONSCIENCE WIFE
JAPAN.
The moral sense of the world also re-
inforces the indomitable heart of ia
pan. There is something more power
full than Yamato Damashii, and that is
the conscience of mankind Let con-
f1ict ever come between these two, and
the former would ignominiously show
the white flag, for Japan is a member
of the human family today Russia s
guns are powerless against this mighty
invisible battalion. It is the vision
which Elisha showed the young man
whose eyes his prayers opened to see
the air filled with the horses and char
lots of God. These are fighting against
nation from this time on can win in a
battle with a great power where the
conscience Of the world takes the other
side
Mankind as whole has learned to
see Gods way Japan, I believe, viii
win for the reason that she is battling
along the line of the evolution of the
race. If that be not Gods side, science
~ toll NH &c
OUR COUNTRY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
Closing refections: Granted-and I
admit it may prove a large assumption
that this war may be fought to fin
ish without involving the intervention
of Germany and France on the one
hand and Anglo-Saxondom on the 9TH
er. Still the results. of the conflict are
bound to be worldwide Many things
are possible. Already japanese press
utterances suggest a relapse into the
chronic disease of big headed hatred of
western nations. to which our neigh
bors are 50 susceptible. n careful estf-
mate of the national character, how
ever, begets the conviction that the
wider responsibilities of victory will
lead to the development of a corre-
spending power to administer them for
the good of the world But there is q
real danger that Japan may for time
show the spirit which college boys de-
nominate Goodness She may en-
deavor to promote the growth of an
As'atic consciousness which might
prove a menace to welI-ordered human
development. I do not say fear this.
but it is possibility worthy of con-
sideration, and it may be added that
the treatment of the Chinese by the
United States and Australia certainly
would justify such contingency. Il
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-09
HONOLULU IRON WORKS
COMPANY.
STEAM ENGINES.

STEAM ENGINES.
BOILERS. SUGAR MILLS, COOL
ERS, BRASS AND LEAD CASTINGS
and machinery of every description
made to order. Particular attention
paid to ships blacksmithing. Job work
e-ecuted on shortest notice.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-19
WHY NOT SHAKE HANDS?

Here's hoping that Uncle Sam may
choke to death on the next bite he takes of
Canada" is the pious toast of Canadian
paper. Now this seems to US little hard
Uncle Sam means fairly well, and is friendly
to his northern neighbor. Choking to death
would be an unpleasant end, and a severer
punishment than the old gentleman deserves
Canada and the United States have reason
to be friends They are near together, they
speak the same tongue and have similar orr
gins, and they have no vital conflicting in
terests. We seem to like Canada better
than Canada likes US. Certainly we have
no evil desi gnS upon her. Whether she re-
mains part of the British empire, or sets up
in business for herself. or decides to 90 into
partnership with Us, we shall continue to
regard her as friend. If Mr.. Chamberlain
has his way. her remaining part of the
British empire may possible mean less dol
lars for US, but we shall have no cause for
complaint. There is good deal of patriot
ism in Canada, more feeling for the en-
pire, we imagine, than exists in any other
British colony, and we should be sorry to
see any diminution. In the recent argu-
ment we only maintained what we honestly
believed to be the truth, and we ought not to
be scolded for the decision of a judicial tri-
bunal. Let US be genial and each drink to
the others continued prosperity. 1t would
be a sorry sight to see your Uncle Samuel
choke to death, and we cannot believe our
neighbor really desires that spectacle.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-19
A PLEA EOR ALASKA.

If the senatorial committee which visited
Alaska last summer could not see the neces-
sity of Alaska having territorial form of
government or even delegate in congress.
not so J. S. McLain the able editor of the
Minneapolis Journal. who was of the sena-
torial party.
In a series of well. written articles pub
lished in his paper Mr.. McLain writes intel
ligently of Alaska, its great resources, the
needs and requirements. He wonders not
that Alaskans do not clamor for self gov
eminent, but that they do not urge it with
greater insistence. Alaska. he says. has
the population, the wealth and the intelli
gence. 1t should have territorial govern
ment, the only argument that can be used
against it being its vast extent. He sug-
gests the formation of two territories. each
with a delegate in congress, one territory
being comprised of the southeastern por-
ton, with the capital at Juneau. the other
embracing the northwestern region, with
Nome as its capital The Yukon region he
would leave in its present condition, with
lngton. Mr.. McLain cites figures to show
that Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota the
Dakotas and Oregon, which included what
are now the states of Washington. Idaho
and part of Montana, when created terri
tories had much smaller populations than
has Alaska, and the distances were lust as
magnificent and travel more dangerous and
difficult
Mr.. McLain is right in his statements.
but we share his opinion when he says
there is small hope that Alaska will be
raised to the dignity of a territory for some
years to come, although, as he Justly points
out, the far less intelligent and non progress
sive peoples of Hawaii and Porto Rico, but
yesterday annexed to the United States, en-
JOY privileges denied fifty thousand white
American citizens in Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-19
IS BATHING INJURIOUS?

A Chicago surgical professor, John Dill
Robertson by name, is a man of great at
tanments He is philosopher of no mean
merit; he is likewise a reformer, inasmuch
as he inveighs stoutly against the habit
that many people have of taking bath
now and then whether they need it or not.
To battle is to invite disease and court
death, according to the Chicago professor.
At meeting Of the Chicago Eclectic and
Surgical Society short time ago Professor
Robertson declared that when people leave
off bathing there will be little or nothing
for the doctors to do. Pneumonia, colds
and hundred other ills result, says the
learned professor, from the foolish habit of
bathing. To battle is to be dirty, for you
thereby make sewer of the skin. Blood
attracted by the skin gives up products that
should be left to seek a natural outlet and
soils the skin.
Such declarations as the above have
naturally aroused interest even in blase
Chicago. Professor Robertson asserts that
the theory that the closing of the pores of
the skin would result in death is false. He
says that all physiologies which make such
an assertion are wrong He also denounces
the habit of taking ''dry' baths. The rub
bling of rough towel over the skin removes
the natural scales of the skin, or the "false
skin" This, he says, conduces to the
growth of bacteria upon the cuticle. And
the Chicago man clinches his anti bathing
argument by telling about poor Eskimo
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-19
AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED.

The need of a Chamber of Commerce. a
Board of Trade or some such representative
business association has been frequently re-
ferred to in these columns. There appears
to be no sufficient reason why such a body
should not be organized. The only appar-
ent reason is found in the Indifference and
apathy Of the business men themselves
Nome is the metropolis of this section of
Alaska and is without doubt. destined to
remain such for many years TO come. The
town is already of considerable commercial
importance. And it will continue TO grow
1t is, itself, the centre of one of the richest
mineral sections of the peninsula. 1t is the
principal supply point for all the rest.
Yet, as we have stated, it is without a
business organization of any kind. This
should not be the case. In "a score of ways
a properly organized and directed business
organization could be of great benefit, not
only to Nome, but to this entire northwest
ern section. 1t could be "a power for good
in assisting in the development of the re-
sources Of this Northland. These resources
could be kept before the people of the States,
and capital would be attracted-the capital
SO much needed for the development of the
vast mineral deposits which the country
contains.
The necessity for this has been grasped
by few of the business men of Nome, who
are preparing monograph to be transmit
ted by wire to the outside. The mineral de-
velopment of this winter will be touched
upon and an interesting resume of condi-
tons will be given. This is well, but the
work should not be allowed to stop there
The gentlemen who have thus interested
themselves for the welfare of all the people,
should not rest until they have gone a step
farther and lent their efforts toward secur-
ing the organization of a permanent bust
ness association of some kind
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-19

deal of unwarranted expense. 1t costs no
small amount of money to make a winter
trip in this section of hundred and fifty
miles, or So
The Alaska civil code, we believe, does
not provide for tax on roadhouses, but it
does state that restaurants shall pay to the
government an annual license tax of fifteen
dollars. The tax per sc is an infamous one.
To place tax on the keeper of a roadhouse
on a bleak Alaskan trail is one of the most
contemplate features of the obnoxious
special taxing system authorized by the
Alaska code.
The roadhouses on the trails of these
northern wilds are rather houses of refuge
than wayside hotels or roadhouses, as they
are commonly called. The man who keeps
open one of these places during the long,
dark winter, should be given a bonus rather
than be compelled to pay the little, misera
BILE pittance of fifteen dollars into the over
flowing treasury of the United States The
''rOadhOuses scattered along this coast
have been the means of saving many lives
during the past few years: not one of them
has been the means of making money for
its owner. Shelter and food have been
given freely without asking or often ex-
pecting- pecuniary reward therefor. They
are too lighthouses, which serve as beacons
to guide the weary storm tossed musher on
his way.
And yet, petty government officials, with
zeal worthy of better cause, instigate
the arrest of poor men, and bring them to
Nome to answer to charges that cannot be
substantiated If the activities of these of
icials were directed along other and fairer
lines they would better discharge the duties
they owe to their employer-the United
States government.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-19
CASES OF PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY.

The pernicious activity displayed by gov
eminent officials in haling alleged keepers
of roadhouses into court on the pretext that
they had not paid their licenses to the fed
eral government, has received a we'll de-
served setback. Recently TishOu river
man was arrested and brought all the way
to Nome to answer to the charge of conduct
ing a wayside hostelry without depositing
fifteen dollars to the credit of the United
States. A jury acquitted him. This was
followed by the arrest of another alleged
roadhouse keeper on a remote creek in the
Cripple river country. He was just as
promptly acquitted by jury, it being shown
in this case, as well as in the preceding one,
that the defendant did not conduct road
house. While it is true that the costs of
these prosecutions were taxed to the United
States, the men arrested were put to great