Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-08-10

inspected the stores, declared the in
spection satisfactory and gave every
man three days leave as token or his
pleasure. Other guards and sappers
were summoned, a rampant was dug
around the magazine and before night
! it was certain that any danger that had
existed had been averted. Nothing
! happened, but the next morning the
powder magazine in Toulon was blown
up.
japanese doctors and druggists are
said TO have reached u higher standard
than the world has given them credit
for.
japanese druggists are of two class
es, the one certified and qualified to
compound medicines, the other dealing
in drugs and sundries. The native
doctors, as usual thing, dispense
their own medicines. though a few
write prescriptions only, these latter
for the most part having studied IN
Germany and holding university de-
gree. The metric system is used for
both weights and measures. There is
a considerable popular demand Tor
household remedies and many OF these
correspond exactly with those which
have here long since fallen into dis
use. Thus snakes. lizards, frogs, crabs
and other animals are kept in a dried
condition in the native drug stores and
enjoy more or less repute as medical
Iagents.
Face paints and powders and various
dentifrices are much in vogue and
..IN nd
neuralgia are largely employed.
Massage is used in rheumatism and in
nervous affections and is to large ex-
tent in the hands of the blind. The
Manufacture of mineral waters is care
fully supervised by the authorities and
| fines are inflicted in any case where
the official standard of purity is de-
parted from.
A writer who knows Russia thus hits
| off Russian peasantry. They have,
he says, the heavy plodding walk and
the patience of oxen, and a sad fatal
| ism that might render them inert were
| it not for the Cossacks ready to prod
them on with their lanceS." Unlike
the Jap, who can do with four hours
sleep in the twenty-four, the moujik
would like to hibernate for five or six
months, sleeping on his cottage stove"
! ANY story of the cZar is credible un-
| til a likelier one invalidateS it" says
Harper's Weekly. The car lives be-
hind closed shutters. and there is no
Trustworthy Jacob Riis to give the
public a reliable peep through them.
To be sure he is often seen in public;
to be sure, he makes discOurseS from
time to time that the public may hear
or read; but it is a man in uniform
| that people see, and the words of a
man in uniform that they hear. The
real man lives secluded, advised by
counselors whom his people rarely
know and still more rarely trust. In
the Quarterly Review writer, said to
be high Russian official. draws a pic
ture of the ear which has made some
stir in England. 1t is sufficiently de-
p1 essing. He represents him as pos
sessed of the dangerous notion that he
/ is Gods lieutenant on earth and acting
under divine guidance. He takes
seriously, 1t seems. the legal fiction
THAT the king can do no wrong, and.
resting on that belief and relying on
advisors who encourage it, he NEEDLES
with everything, to the prodigious
detriment of the business of state.
Plehve possessed his confidence. De
Witte lost it by steadfastly counseling
his master to keep his word, evacuate
Manchuria and avoid war. Says the
Quarterly writer: He is ever struggling
with phantoms, fighting windmils.
Iconversing with saints, consulting
Ispirits of the dead. Books he long ago
ceased to read; sound advice he is in
capable of listening to.
| A japanese youth. who obtained n
situation with an English firm on trial.
was asked a few days after his APP
pointment by the cashier to write to
| a customer who had owed some money
| to the house for q long time. and who
seemed to have no intention of paying.
Write briefly and politely" said the
| cashier but let him understand dis
| tinctly that we expect the money with
out further delay" The letter was
written and on the following day came
a check for the amount due. The sur
prised cashier asked the new clerk to
F, show him a copy Of the letter which
had been so effectual. 1t ran thus:
Dear Sir--If you do not send us at
once the money you owe us, we shall
be obliged to take steps which will
| cause you the utmost astonishmenr.
| Respectfully yours"
Father John of Kronstadt. who has
prOphesied that the war against Japan
will cOntinue for TWENTY-FIVE wears is
really the Rev. John Sergieff one of
| the priests of st. Andrews cathedral In
! the famous fortress city," relates