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the white race is manlfestly evident. Ii
We should take the admirers or Japan on
their word. If we should ask them TO
enter into marriage with the Japanese.
I am afraid they would make WY face.
and these noble Lords of England who
have entered so checrfully into an ALL
ance With the subjects Of the Mikado
would be filed with horror at the thought
of their daughters falling in love with
the ridiculous insignificant yellow dwarfs,
Is then this contempt for the yellow
race which every white man feels. no
matter what he says, justitiahle HIS
tory will answer this question and Will
show you how all progress has cmanated
from the white race.
Homer, Phidias Aristotle. Tactus KEEP
ler Kant, Liebnitz, Shakespeare. New
ton, yoltaire. Labouchere, Pascal, VIC
tor Hugo, Beethoven or Goethe we're
neither Mnlays, Chinese. nor Japanese
Not one drop OF yellow blood flowed IN
their veins.
Tho world has progressed under tho
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SELF CONTROL.

n you arc possessed with an inordinate
love of wealth. your very labor may be
n dissipation and call for the use OF
sclf-control.
Next to the sin Of idlchess comes the
sin OF intemperance in work TO work
day and night TO tho Injury of your
health and TO the neglect Of your family
means the destruction Of the temple Of
your soil and the foundation OF happl-
ness on eartl--the home.
III sou are mad for great wealth. II will
be an easy matter for you to make a
necessity OF desire and to commit do
nestle and hygienic suicide BY lack Of
sclf-control.
An hour or two day, an extra even
ing or two In the week. might be given
to recreation and home life. were you to
realize how small an object in the gem
leral result of happiness wealth nroces
when placed beside the things you are
sacrificing to obtain 1t.
Perhaps you are literary man, or
Clergyman, or en- artist. engaged in crea-
tive work. Upon the success OF your
work depends the comfort OF your family
and your reputation as man of talent.
Therefore you feel Justified In being
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make Il, inevitable that history should be
almost silent concerning them. They are
discovered as 1t we're by accident; fit
fully they fit across the Swallowed splcn-
dor OF some great mans study We hear
incidentally that this great scholars
mother was a woman Of learning. or that
man Of science found an intellectual
companion in his wife or daughter Al
ways history prints Casaubon in big let
ters, willie Dorothea is shadow
IN all the glare of modern publicity Of
wornen's doings, 1t may be wondered II
this student spirit exists at all. and
where. Learning is widely diffused. but
are there still the chosen vessels?' a
visit to the British Museum might dis
close some interesting facts regarding
this question. but more exclusive ana
there fore nearer our subject would be a
visit TO the great 4suplic Record Office In
London. the home of England's archives.
n beautiful large building in Chancery
lane. Here, in the shadow OF the writ
ten evidence of great nations history.
are TO be found select number Of wom-
en- who do good, patient. intellectual
work of a rare kind.
+ 1t would be difficult even 70 sumnar
izc the titles of the various records kept
in this vast building. Here is treasured
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Tho differences in form of government.
Of language, OF religion are only super
.nclal. as are the boundary lines between
,ho countries, Educate one young
Frenchman at Rome from his early child
hood and another at Edinburgh and the
one Will he hard to distinguish trom the
Italians, the other from the scotchmen,
But when II comes to speaking of men
of dlrerent race, whether yellow or
black, 1t is entirely different.
Whether a newborn Japanese baby Is
brought up in Rome, London. Madrid or
Rorlin Ia will always remain Japanese.
different from all men of the white race.
The yellow and the white races Will
never assimlate, There arc deep ethni-
cal differences which can never be over
looked or wiped out.
A Japanese Uranium is easily recognize
ed as Japanese but defy any scientist
from the Uranium OF white man 10
tell whether he was born IN Athens,
Copenhagen or New York.
And this is not all. The superiority OF
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ships. We have shown them the advan-
tages or parlamentarlsm and they have
provided themselves with parliament.
They have even adopted an ambulance
service, the most efficient Japanese Red
Cross, which In the evening repairs al
the damage done to the laps In the bat
ties created In newspaper offices,
They even have nationalistic press,
which, just as tho nationnlistic press IN
Paris and London does nothing but
spread hatred of foreigners They are
.lmLtators. but nothing more than imtn-
tors but the world will never BIS gov
erned by imtators and tho fifty centur-
les during which their nation has9exlstcd
shows their capability Of lnventing,
Not alone history. but also science.
proves the inferiority OF the yellow race.
The very construction OF their cranlums,
the development Of their brain, their
protrudng cheek homes, the structure of
several of their muscles, show that they
are one step nearer the apes and lower
animals.
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WHY MONOTONY is lNFAVORABLE TO LIFE BY BAILEY WILLARD

j But out on our Western coast, where
nature has delighted in showing how IT.
regular she can be in FORM color and
habits, there is no reason why we should
suffer from monotony OF scene. And we
must remember that IL we go from
beautiful, though outwom place to an
ugly, yet fresh one, the change VIII Of
ten be good for us,
We should all do what We can To-
smash the machine OF monotony II we
should launch ourselves against the tlrs'
some routine of our daily existence With
decided initiative and valiant effort to-
ward rational variation, the results woula
soon show themselves In added streps'a
,and relish of life.
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have needed any treatment IL they had
not repeated over and over again. DAY
In and day out, the habit of sweeten'ng
many dishes and drinks in which sugar
only occasionally be used. And he calls
attention to tile monotonous repetition
of the eating OF meats, Of butter Sfor
which olive oil may he substituted 10
an extent undreamed of IN our dietet'e
philosophy, Of gravy, of wheaton bread
and many other foods. our stomachs
call very loudly for chahse, nllt we
heed them not. :,
Spencer being strong lnalYld,al'st
and not product of tha' lerrln's level
ing English educational machine, nat,lr-
ally set his face against the automaton
theory of life, just as Johnson did; and
worse than any have mentioned. For
there Is no one who so completely ex'
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presses in his own life an existence Of
unvaryins tone as the persistent and
nnhaggIng scholar, no study on and on
In an engaging. sedentary round is ever
here that one sees how the habits, which
should he the allies Of the nervous sys-
tenn, become Its worst enemies, In Spen-
Ger We find the. example OF Il man OF
high intellect who became, by continual
research and writing, a nervous wreck,
In the Biographies OF Kant and Spinoao
we sec how great mems lives may be
marred not so much by their ignorance,
but by their prlverseness In not needing
The plainly seen danger signals, George
Eliot and Charlotte Bronte We're exam
pies of gifted women who suffered In
THE same Way,
schopenhauer was . man OF excessive
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guidance of the white no one dares deny
this. When we are told without any
proof that the Chinese invented powder
and printing before we did It means
nothing. as they never developed further.
They have an diotc alphabet and their
literature Is ridiculous,
When Is comes to their mncl-praised
art, do not know that Venus OF Milo
or 1.-THE Dying Gaul'' were created by
artists OF Toxic any more than We're
"Dou Juan" and "Iohensrln" They
have given the world nothing ike
Faust" .Hamlet" or Les Mlscrables,'
Volta, Galvuni Ampere and Faraday
We're not japanese
Railroads. telegraph, photography arc
inventions given TO the world by the
white race,
Lot us therefore frankly admit that
we look down on them, Let us have tht
courage of our conviction,
The Japanese are clever imltators. W.
have shown them how to- build a mod
ern battleship and they have built war
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life of the average city man and see IN
what terms of dull uniformity 1t Is eS~
pressed; lie rises In the morning, goes
through the same old dressing and tub
bling. then sits down to the same ola
bacon, eggs, fried potatoes. toast and
COFFEE Then there is the same old hur-
.rying into the oyercoat, A.ssng the wife
and scramble for the street car; and
down at the Office there Is the same old
hard effort to he polite to the same old
yet Of people. Luncheon, dinner, the
theatre and tho little Sunday airing In
the park are always IN the same old
mode.
as had ais In town. There are the Same
old COWS to milk day after day, the
same horses TO feed and harness and
the same old round of duties,
And yet the housewife. with her rigid
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regularity of habit. lie lived by sehed-
ule. Rising al 1890 o'clock he bathed,
dressed. drank his coffee and wrote until
IL. Then he PLAYED the flute until r.
NJ, when he dined, after which no slept
until 9 read until 4, walked out OF doors
for precisely two hours, read from TO
$50, ate supper, smoked and read for an
hour and Went to bed az 9;3o o'clock.
Was not that terribly even life enough
to make a pessimist OF any MANI
The monotcny OF environment OF when
Mrs browning complains in singing of
English landscapes is another consldera-
ton.
Are tied up fast with hedges nosesay-
like.
The trees round, wooly. ready TO be
clipped.
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the typewriter. which. In Its noisy way,
has made 1t easy for the modern femi-
nine crowd to free themselves from the
domestic yoke: before the advent OF the
Bfontes or Of Jane Austen. far back in
the regal days OF Queen Elizabeth, We
find Scholarly women, one OF the most
notable and yet least known being the
lovely and sanity Mary Sidney.
Death, ERE thou has, slain another
Fair and wise and good as she,
Time shall throw dart at thee
And this scholar spirit in women, mora
especially In those of the sixteenth CEN
fury and earlier, was the purest OF It's
kind. For with them the acquisition of
knowledge was wholly unmixed with
worldly ambition. Tney were not like
men. lured by the thought of leaving a
name. or even great library. to poster
fly, It was pure love of learning. nat
ura capacity for mental delight Of IL
high order. that highest form OF culture.
tho desire of knowledge for its own
worth. This slngleness OF purpose, md
the great quiet of their work and life,
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BY THE IDLE REPORTER.
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49,

me presentable IN polite society. "Why.
sakes alive. man" she SAYS. "it son,e-
body didn't tako you down occasionally.
this house wouldn't hold you. We'd
have to run you Up tower OF Babel.
For my part. wish you'd get into ono
Of those fermentation fits every day.
And put this into you pipe and smoke IT.
YOU may wallow IN the very slough OF
humility. but you'll never get half so
tired Of yourself as sometimes getSo
you when you hang around the house
meddlng with my affairs .e8
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ness man, but your weakness lies where
the fair sex Is concerned.
SO long as you keep from scandal, and
so long as you blacken no woman's repu-
tation, you feel you are excusable for
an occasional lapse from what you term
the goody-gooly path Of rectitude.
II Yet there is nothing which SO weakens
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Were your child to nsk You what you
meant by The word. could you explain!
Are you exercising this admirable qnal-
fly In your daily life and. i 80, III what
direction?
Perhaps you have an Unborn taste for
strong drink. and you control II anu
touch rot taste not. handle not the
unclean thing.
That is well and good Yet arc you
bringing on disease and early death by
indulgins gross appetite Tor hcartj
foods?
Possibly you are indolent by inclination
and you compel yourrclf to work.
That too, is well and good.
The human drone who does no labor.
mental or physical. for the good Of the
human hive should be driven from among
his kind.
4. Yet he who would be worthy OF tho
rppellalion OF "a sclf.controiled man
must do more than to labor In sobriety.
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acter development is self-control.
Control your belittling nervousness and
your childish Irritablity If you want to
rank among the worthwhile souls Of
earth.
Again, you may be a good husband.
good father, generous provider for
your family, and an honest, earnest bust
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somewhat difficult in your home and
social relations
You arc nervous and irritable. and you
have no excuse to make Talent is eS-
rected to cover a multitude OF sucn
sins.
character and the first element in char
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iT|4E CONQl
SAW al angel with majestic mien

#I SAM all angel With naJcS1lc m1cH
j And radiant brow, and smile dvirely sweet
Strong human passions writhed beneath his feet;
There, too, expired those coward faults which SCI
Themselves behind Inheritance, and lean
On dead men for their strength and think it meet.
All, all 1ayUprostratc, owning their defeat
Then to the spirit with the eyes serene
/ cried aloud in wonder and in awe
cob mighty one, who art thou, that thy glance
Can circumvent l,ercdity-cheat chance,
And conquer nature? What thine occult law:
Art thou incarnate Force-the over SOU: "
The angel answered-"I am Self Control"
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yellow and red men, but these fishts
against negroes. Chinese or Indians have
never deserved the name OF wars ana
lave been finished in very short time.
This time, however, the forces are about
even.
When two European nations are at war
It is really civil war, for they are all
children Of the same parents, The peo,
pie of the United States arc mixture OF
all the natonalities Of Europe, the peo-
pie of Italy and southern France resem-
BILE one another so closely that It Is I'M
possible toS distinguish them from ono
another and while there is still a French
nation, and English or an Italian nation,
there Is no French, English or Italian
race. For this reason all wars between
Europeans are as uniustnable as bloody
fights between brothers.
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there are many others of his published
dicta that are fully as deserving OF wide
acceptance. Here are a few strong
Spencerian aphorisms:
The first requisite to success IN life
is TO be a healthy ANNA"
ill-fed brains"
"Our lives arc universally shortened by
our own ignorance
And this, from the "Ethics' which 7
have never seen quoted, Is a most note
worthy saying:
.'Monotony, no matter Of what kind, is
unfavorable 10 life"
Now hero is simple idea, and yet 1t
10 one universally overlooked. Take the
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\ "Afiddlemnrch" George Eliot
expresses In Dorothea type
of intellectual woman that one
might say has always existed.
Long before the invention OF
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rcu is said Of sclf-control by
preachers and teachers tho
world over, but to how many
human beings can VIC point az
illustrating the beauty Of that
IN truth. what Is sclf-cOntrol.
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Hat famous phrase Of Herbert
spencor's, 1.-THE survival of the
flttest" has had the greatest
vogue of anything the great
scientist ever uttered, and yet
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DR. the first time In the history
OF tho world we arc Witness
ing a race war. TO be true.
there has often been lighting
of the white men against black.
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lington Dunn. H F. Robertson. H. K.
Field. F. a BreulIe. J. w Mcdonnell.
I. F. Morrison. c. R Howard, Alex
ander Edwards, T. T. Thornton. H. A.
George, Caleb Wilkinson. j. n. Carter.
Henry Scott. w. Z. Parker. s b Hard
wick. H. W. Eamich. J. r. Corbin, and
J. ]. Grim.
Petit jury-E Z. Downham, J. P.
Rowe. ". H Richardson, jr., w. H
l<IckS. D. NJ Lee, p NJ Johnson. J. D.
Wise, w. H Anderson f Amber NJ.
i. fettis, J. 3. RowleS. j. W. Baggett
II. y HUT. c. II. Sanford. W. ]. Gent
~, j H Taylor. J. l. Stevens, G. T
Hewitt. L. D. Conway. ]. c. Bruce, W.
H Nolan. T. B. White. w a Smith,
ard K. P. Bunting
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ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 30.-Local No.
1858, B. P. D. and P. of America. of this
city, has elected the following officers
for the ensuing year:
j. w. Bartlett, president; Elmoth I.
Steele. vice president; Wallace E EV-
ans, financial secretary and treasurer;
J. L. Proctor, recording secretary; J. w.
Sar ford, conductor; F. ". Deeton, war
den; w. T. browns. L. b Monroe, and
Z: T l. Hall. trustees
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DEATHS IND FUNERALS.

Mrs. SeptimUs Brown. a highly re-
sDected lady OF Alexandria county, died
1T her home in Arlington. last night.
Mrs Brown was seventy-eight years of
age He~ funeral Srill take place from
BallStGn next Sunday.
The remains of Mrs John Bremen
We're brought from Washington today,
where she died 1T her daughters home
las Wednesday night Her funeral took
place today and the remains were in
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FOR WEEK OF PRAYER.

Beginning next Monday night the
pastors of the Methodist Protestant. the
Methodist Episcopal. South, Trinity
Methodist, ana the BapJIst churches,
with the Rev. Mr. CARPENTER, of Grace
Protestant Episcopal Church, VIII unit
in a week Of prayer. Services viii be
held at each of the evangelical churches
during the week
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UNITED STATES COURT TERM.

The January term Of the United States
court VIII open a tire court house in
the postoffice building here next Friday.
The following grand and petit jurors
have been summoned:
Grand jury. r. Zimmerman, J. \
Marshall. ]. F. Peyton, w. e Balm, Ell
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EVANGELISTIC SERVICES.

The Rev. A G. Miller. elder of the
Free Methodist Church. yesterday after
noon started quarterly NEE ting services
at the Free Methodist Church in this
city The services VIII continue until
Sunday.
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NATIONAL DIVIDEND.

The directors of the First Nationa!
Bank of this city met yesterday and &c
clared a semi-annuai dividend of 5 per
cent and also a special dividend OF Is per
cent. This is one OF Inc largest divi-
dends that has been declared by an
Alexandria bank for many years
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the Method.s:. Protestant

TERED il the Methods Protestant
Cemetery.
Mrs. ]. Jordon. who died in lower
Maryland q day or two ago. was ma
tive of this city. Her remains were
brought here today and interment made
in the Union Cemetery
The remains of Thomas Z. Perry, Eus-
nand of Grace Ferry (nee Darling, viii
be brought from Washington to this
city tomorrow for interment here
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WILL FORCE HOLT
TO STAND TRIAL
Charged With MutiIating
Paper in Library.
F0RFElTS $50 COLLATERAL
Alleged That Accused Clipped "Prize
Coupons" From Copies of the
Boston Post"

Fifty dollars collateral was forfeited
in the Police Court today by Arthur
Holt. who was charged with violating
section $40 of the District code.
The information filed in court today
by Assistant District Attorney Ralph
Given charged that Holt "unlawfully
stole, wrongfully defaced, and injured
a certain newspaper, the same being
the property of the United States
The young man was taken to the Fifth
precinct after his arrest, and friends
deposited $50 collateral for his appear
ance in court He failed to answer when
his name was called
The Congressional Library officials
are not satisfied with this ending of the
case, and Mr.. Given was asked to pro-
cure an attachment for Holt. He viii
be compelled to stand trial
Clerk in War Department
When arrested Holt said he lived at
62S c Street northeast, and that he was
employed as clerk in the War De
partment.
He is a native of Massachusetts,. For
several weeks the Library clerks have
found, almost daily. n1utilated copies of
the Boston Post. Close examina ton of
the cut papers showed that in almost
every instance the stolen clippings were
coupons of a proverb contest at present
running in the Boston Post
The Post was often called for. but
each time the readers card presented
in order to obtain the paper, bore diff
ferent name
Yesterday A B. Slauson. superinten-
dent of the reading room, received a call
for the Boston Post, and after watch
ing the man to whom the paper was is
sued, called Lieutenant of the Watch
Dietrich. Holt s arrest followed
This is the second case of its kind
which has come before the Police Court
A similar arrest was made about a year
ago, and the defendant after hearing
was fined $500. The penalty prescribed
by law for mutilating papers, books
or records of the Congressional Library
is not less than $50 nor more than 81 coo
fine, or not less than one month nor
moro than one year in 13il.
SI.a5 Baltimore and Return, B. & O. R.R.
Every Saturday and Sunday Tickets
good returning until Sunday night
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Joe Amidon. y. and Mary CARMEL, 2,
both of Countries, Va
David d. Link. a. and Annie NJ. Van
Lear, q, both of Staunton, Va
Rollo p Currie -, and Julia X Carey,
%.
F'reu Hayes. %. and Delete Parker, D.
Mack Barnes. %, and Cordelia Arnett,
20.
Willie Mcbride. q, and Pattie Adams,
y, both of Richmond, Va
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Baltimore AMI Return, SI.z5,

Via Pennsylvania Railroad every Sat
urday and Sunday. All trains except
Congressional Limited.
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Pinehurst-Camder-FIorida.

Two daily through trains with ParIor
Sleeping, and Dining Cars via Seaboard
Air Line Office, 1421 Pennsylvania Ave
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BROKE LOCK ON CAR.

The lock was broken off a freight car,
in which was Il load of cabbages, on
Union Street. last night. The cabbages
We're CONSIGNED To z. z. LAWYER q Co.
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MRS. PERMAR'S GUESTS.

Mr.. and Mrs. George H Barton. of
Philadelphia. ire visiting Mrs William
Pernar in north Payne Street.