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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-03-11
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
smlle rhat won,t Come off.

"The happy title of an equally happy coon song, The Smile That Won't Come off, has now become a familiar byword in everyday life" said a gentleman yes- terday at the Hillman. You see 1t on signboards, billboards and other public places at every turn, and sometimes the application is very amusing.
 The smile that won't come off ex- presses a state of perpetual good humor and consentment that appeals to everyone. Although some people may not know that it is the refrain of what Is called topi- cal song, they remark it's aptness without stopping to consider where or how 1t origi- mated.
 ''The5e pIeasing and facetious phrases do much to make life merrier. Few peo- pie ar so sour that they do not experi- ence an inward smile when told that such and such commodity will make them forever afterward wear the smile that won't come off. Oftentimes the express sion's optimism causes people to buy who would otherwise pass by without being attracted and thus the smile that won't come off Is not only capital song hit but has It's commercial uses also.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
Japanese Plan of Campaign.

The well-known Paris journal, Le Matin, says it has trustworthy informa- tion to support the statement that the Japanese plan of campaign involves the investment of Port Arthur and the occupation of Korea only. At either place they will await the Russians, and they will in no event that can be fore seen follow the Russians into Man churia.
 This is very probable and sensible view of the Japanese campaign. It keeps them close to their base, and also close to their all-conquering ships It renders the campaign of the Rus sians exceedingly difficult, for they must seek the alert Japanese in Korea, which is now the enemy's country. The Koreans as well as the Japanese arc fighting the Russians.
 General Kuropatkin gravely an nounces that every arrangement has been made that no Japanese, after having landed, shall return to his coun- try" General KuropatlSin may have to deal with fortified Japanese island that lies not far away. The Russian commander will be several years older before he drives the Japanese out of Korea. He may be able to hold Port Arthur and the vulnerable line of rail- road thence to New-Chang, fifty miles long, but he will not be able to drive the Japanese out of Korea into the sea, at least not this week. He should take good liberal allowance of time for the accomplishment of his boasted mis- sion. Whether he proposes to capture the Japanese or drive them into the sea, does not appear, but the Russians as a rule appear to think the best way consists in driving them into the sea leaving them to drown like rats. But the Japanese say they are good swim mers, and they will swim home if need be- It is safe to say. however, they have no intention of going home in that way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
HAS LARGE WARDROBE.
King Edward Changes His Clothing
 Three Times Daily.

Cable to the Cincinnati Enquirer and
 New York Herald.
 story emanating from Germany that King Edward never wears the same suit of clothes twice has been causing no lit- tie amusement in Mayfair.
 "Of all the absurd stories," said per- son who is a position to speak authori- tatively on the Kings wardrobe, this is the most foolish The King certainly has a very large stock of clothes, and it is seldom that the King when on the continent Is seen wearing the same suit. which may have given rise to the absurd report, but his clothes are never discard ed after being once worn unless, as some times happens. he does not like them.
 '',rhe King never assumes fewer than three suits of clothes every day. When he rises he puts on an easy fitting lounge suit of black, navy blue or dark mixture. Later. if he is going to shoot, he dons brown tweed sporting costume, with his favorite Tyrolean hat and feather. If His Majesty has been subjected to any great exertion during an outing he un- dergoes on his return a systens of mas sage and then dresses for dinner.
 "If His Majesty made 1t a rule never to wear the same suit twice simple calcula- ton shows that he would require no fewer than 1895 suits in the course of a year, which would bring up his tailor's bill to nearly $10,000 a year.
 AS a matter of fact, the King still wears once or twice week the frock coat which he had made at the time of his coronation.
 .'The King undoubtedly has the largest wardrobe of any monarch in the world. At Windsor, Buckingham Palace and Sandrngham the King has total of about 200 suits of all kinds, besides nearly a hundred hats and caps. He has. more over, a splendid collection of fur-lined overcoats
 It may be added that for morning in the week the King at present favors trous- CTS of pattern with a thin vertical stripe and white vest. The slip which he lately made fashionable has been dis carded He also likes velvet collars on overcoats
 ITO sum up, the King orders about 90 suits in the course of the year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01

not find any one in authority in the Pro- testant faith who would encourage mar riage of that kind and Roman Catholics are stronegr on that point, that Is to say. marriages between Protestants and Ro- man Catholics and vice versa.
 The reason is clear. Religion and love of country are the deepest sentiments when fully developed. and a mixed mar rlage of any kind simply introduces into the household very probable root of diseord, if not in the early years later. There are many case where 1t Is not so. but taken in the mass they are the ex- There are many cases where it Is not so, be attributed rather to the personal quail ities of the parties. to forbearance and re- straint, and, It is fair to say to a love enduring. Apart from any religious ques- tion. the primary essential for a happy united life is a certain identity of thought. interests and aspirations; and the dlscord- ant clement need not come solely from different views on religion, although that is likely to recur In the family in an acute form, whereas other questions may by common consent be placed in the back ground.
 Unless couple are likely to agree on the main questions of life only a miracle can save them from everlasting regret and self-reproach by entering together on that journey which Is to last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
Increased Cotton Acreage.

Cotton has of late been planted on about 27,000,000 acres, and if the aver age be increased ten per cent as some say it will be, about three million additional acres will have to be de- voted to the plant. This is no light task. and no one believes it will be possible to put more than 90,0O0O00 acres in cotton.
 If the present crop be estimated at 10 ,000, ,000 bales, an increase of ten per cent in acreage would mean, as sea- sons go but one million additional bales. or 11,O00,000 bales all told. At the outside 1t would not mean more than Il ,500,0O bales unless the season should be exceptionally favorable and the boil worm somewhat quiescent.
 The war will not be apt to last be- yond the present year, and the demand from the Far East will be strong, and a large crop can be marketed at good prices. There are no grounds for ex- pecting a crop much exceeding eleven million bales, and a crop of that size can be marketed above ten cents.
 The Age-Herald is not advocating a disregard of food crops, but after corn and the like crops are pitched, then every possible acre in this state should be handed over to cotton. There need be no lear of an abnormal crop of an excess of cotton that cannot be marketed at profitable figures. Every bale will be needed at comfortable prices. The world is cotton-hungry, and 1t is our duty and our interest to meet the demand. Plant food crops, and then plant all the cotton you can, be it ten or twenty per cent more than you planted last year. Every one-mule farm should become two-mule farm this year, and so on in nearly like pro portion.
 The weather will regulate the size of the crop anyway-the weather and the boil worm. The great state of Texas will not be able to flood the world with cotton, because the grip of the boil worm cannot be shaken off. and it therefore becomes important to grow in the states not affected by the insect all the cotton consistent with the production of food crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
Glass Distinctions in America.

A Cleveland dispatch of recent date Is full of food for thought It reads as follows:
 cieveiand.-Eimer Dover, private secre- tary to the late Senator Hanna, said today to the many queries as to why the Presl- dent did not come to Cleveland to attend Senator Hannas funeral, that 1t was the wish of the President personally to do so, but after a conference with the members Of the cabinet he realized that to do so would establish a precedent that he could not always comply with in the instance of the death of others of equal rank.
 We have acquired not only militar ism and imperialism and a big-navy- ism, but 1t also appears that we have also acquired caste, or fixed classes, and this, too, at the fountain head of the government "Of equal rank"-it has queer sound to republican ears to ears accustomed to old-fashioned Tom Jefferson democracy. Equality before the law, and especially in the governmental service, was the rule in the good old days, but it now appears that the rule of those days has been relegated to the academic department or abolished-aatogether.
 The administration should explain what the words, "of equal rank" mean what the ranks" in Washington are anyway-who is in them and why If we have caste either in caste or in full bloom, let the truth be known Caste naturally goes with imperialism and militarism, and that Is the point at which the republic stands at present under republican auspices. This is what the trusts and Dingleyism and monopoly and privilege mean. They mean taffy for the few at the expense of the many
 The country has never before had party that stood for privilege-for the robbery of the many for the benefit of the few, and if 1t proposes to keep that party in power it must accept what logically goes with it. It must accept caste, for that is the very flower of privilege, and the republican party breathes and has its being from priv ilege. It is based on it, conducted by 1t, and cannot live without it. Privil- ege and caste are two cherries on one stem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
JAPAN IS THE NEWCOMER
 AMONG MODERN NATIONS

sembly and of fhe press and religious liberty. Japan is already far in advance of Russia, and in many respects abreast of Germany"
 In local government Japan rather re- sembles France. Each district or large town has its local legislature and governor appointed by the emperor. The scope of the local legislature is rather less than that of our state legislatures, but the governor. according to MT. Clement. usually interferes little with its actions.
 The pay of working men in Japan is very small, and there Is neither great wealth nor extreme povity in the em- pire. The Mitsui bank, more than 20C years old, Is putting up in TolSio the first steel frame building in Japan, GOV ering two and ol half acres. The total trade of Japan has grown from s13.00- 600 in 1S6S-the year after the revolution to s254OO0O0o in 1901.
 There are about 1000 newspapers and periodicals in Japan, all of recent found ing. Books are plentiful. The new growth in China of the scientific spirit is fed from Japan. In printing books of science, language. law, and literature for Chinese use, the reformers translate not from European tongues but from the Japanese the Japanese have already made selections and adaptations useful in the east. This fact, according to MT Clement, illustrates the leadership of Japan in the Pacific. That leadership is also shown by Its commanding importance in trade with the mainland as far south as Siam. Russia in trade Is simply not fin it' compared with Japan.
 The Japanese are not pure Mongols, nor do they closely resemble the Chi nese. Dr. Nitobe, Japanese scientist, agrees with a French observer who es- timated that the Japanese were six tenths Malay, three-tents Mongol, and one-tenth of mixed races The emperor himself seems of a Malay type. Others estimate the Mongolian element more generously.
 The Japanese have in one generation greatly improved in health by adopting a more varid diet from the Europeans. They like European cookery, have intro duced European cards, which they call "torumpo" or "trumps," and European dogs, which at first they called "kami," mistaking the frequent call to dogs of "come here for the name of the animal. In the army and navy they have adopted European uniforms. Their schools and universities are modelled upon those of Europe and America. Their moral code even has been changed by association with the silver men," particularly by raising the status of women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01

now a member of the Mississippi river commission, place he has held since 1879. MT. hecker was director of army transportation during the Spanish American war. He was formerly a partner of Senator Alger Some of the war transportation contracts have been questioned, and there is still a good deal of talk concerning them.
 Five members of the commission ara above suspicion, and only the Detroit appointment is connected with politics. Mir Hecker was supported for the place by the late Mr Hanna, and it is believed the appointment relates to Michigan politics. The appointment of MT. Harrod may be questioned in the senate, and the appointment of MT. Hecker should be well considered before it is too late to recall it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
Panama Canal Commission.

The Panama canal commission con. sists almost wholly of experts. Ad- miral Walker, who served on the Mic aragua canal commission and later on the commission of 1899, Is to the head of the new commission. He has studied the subject many years, and he Is moreover a man who can work with other men.
 General Davis. once military gov ernor of Porto Rico, and an engineer who restored the Washington monu- ment to the perpendicular when it had been about one-half constructed, is also a member of the commission. Like Admiral Walker, he is on the retired list.
 Prof. William H. Burr of Columbia university, and William Barclay Par sons, the engineer of the rapid transit commission, are also booked for places on the commission. Both live in New York. MT. Burr was member of the isthmian canal commission of 1899
 The fifth member of the commission is c. Ewald Grunsl1y of San Francisco whose speciality is hydraulic engineer ing, and he no doubt will be expected to solve the questions connected with the foundations of the Bohio dam. which is to hold at the eighty-foot summit level the penned-up waters of the Chagres river.
 The sixth member is Benjamin M. Harrod, and the seventh member is Frank J. Hecker of Detroit. Both are, however, confronted by charges. Har- rod had charge of sewer construction in New Orleans, and it is alleged that he substituted for high-grade Portland cement of foreign make domestic article that could be procured at lower prices This led to scandal, and MT Herrod left the sewer work. He is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
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RUSSIAN SOLDIER cHoIRs.

From the New York World.
 A French writer describing the Rus sian soldiers, says that 1t is a pleasure to see detachment of improvised mu- sicians marching at the head of cavalry singing with the full strength of their lungs to the accompaniment of fiageolets and clarinets.
 Music plays an important part in the life of the Russian soldier, from the regiments of the guard and the famous Preobraschensh regiment with their bands over 100 strong, to the regiments on service in remotest Asia and the dreary Pamirs, with their improvised choirs.
 In addition to these improvised bands each regiment has at least one funny man.. who with his caperings and jests beguiles the tedium of the march.
 It is said the Russian infantryman prefers to do without his instrumental music rather than his singing men. That is not surprising, considering that, with the exception of the guards and a few favored regiments, the music of the drum is the sole Instrumental music he Is privileged to hear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
Clocks In Cars.

q have often wondered why some en- terprising traction company did not put clocks up near the fare register in their cars" said citizen yesterday T am not very familiar with the various cir cumstances and conditions under which timepieces perform their duty, but I don't see why a good clock would not keep very fair time on the average trolley car.
 "Of course this is merely suggestion. I am sure 1t would be great convenience to all people who ride on trolley cars. or on trains. So many people watch the register run up the fares without deriv- ing any profit therefrom. that 1t would be something of a diversion to count the notches. If 1t wer possible to have clocks in trolley cars better schedules would not only result. on account of the fact that people would keep up with the flight of time but watchless passengers would be saved much annoyance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
Honor for an Indian Woman.

From the Boston Herald.
 The Louisiana Purchase exposition intends in many ways to emphasize the work that women have done and are doing. One of the most noticeable and interesting projects is to do honor to the Indian woman, Sacajawea (Bird Woman), who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their memorable expedition across the continent to the Pacific coast She was a member of the Sho- shone or Snake tribe, who, when a child, was captured by the Blackfeet Indians, by whom she was held as slave. When she was grown up she was given as wife to French voy- akeur named Charbonneau, who had drifted into savagery.
 When Lewis and Clark were strug- gling along on the upper Missouri river they found Sacajawea and her husband and took them along with their party, the woman being then 16 years of age, with babe at her back. She acted as guide and interpreter; she rescued the party when threatened with hostile In- dians; she procured food and horses when they were destitute of both: she rescued from the river at the hazard of Ter life the journals of Lewis and Clark, which were among the most prized records of our frontier history. Returning with the party, she resumed her place with her people. There is no record of her death and her grave is unmarked But for her energy and decision, her courage and knowledge. the expedition must have failed. It is entirely reasonable, therefore, that the exposition in memory of the Louisiana purchase should be made an occasion for doing special honor to her heroism and fidelity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Politics in East Alabama.

Politics In East Alabama is warmer now than for some time past" remarked well known democrat from that sec tion last night. Chambers county seems to be alive with campaigners. It has two candidates for the supreme court bench. one for chancellor of the north eastern chancery division, and over thir- ty have already announced their eandi- daey for the county offices. Four well known lawyers of the fifth judicial dis triet are aspiring to the solicitorship of the district
 One of the most interesting contests however, is that for the judgship of the district, between the Hon. Thomas L.. Bulger and the Hon. W. NJ. Lackey. Both of these aspirants are from Tallapoosa county and have been neighbors for long time. Each has a number of warm friends who are exerting every effort in his behalf"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
FROM THE MAGAZINES
Fruit and Nut Elends.

There is just one little, tiny, infinites- nal error in the assumption that our primordal ancertors lived entirely upon uncooked fruits and nuts" says Eugene Wood in Everybodys Magazine for March, "a trifling miscalculation which vitiates the conclusion that what met our wants when we dangled head downward from tree-limb will meet our wants now that we have been turned t'other end up. The error is this: They didn't. No anil nal lives exclusively on vegetable or anil nal food What's a chicken, carnivorous or graminivorous? Graminivorous, of course It lives upon corn and oats and wheat. the seeds of plants, grass-blades. the lettuce that you expected to eat, and all such. Yes, we'll You keep them on that diet and see how many eggs you get. And then you give them beef scraps with their grain and notice the difference"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-01
From the Washington Times.

N MERICA has had much to do with W71 the development of Japan. An
 American seaman. Perry, "open- ed the country to the trade of the world. The American Minister Harris made the first treaty with Japan. The first election under the Japanese constitution was held on July f. 1890. The United States govern ment gave Japan her first foreign order for a ship-a small gunboat wanted in a hurry for the Philippines. The United States first moved at the beginning of the present war to preserve the integrity of China, which is all that Japan as cham pion of freedom wants
 The dates of Japan's new birth are conveniently remembered. The Perry ex- petition landed in 1853. Previously for eigners could not enter Japan: Japanese could not leave it. The civil war and the reconstruction period in Japan roughly dates from 1867. All the great material changes have been made since that year. The new constitution went into effect and the parliament assembled in 1890.
 Japan's govrnment Is neithr a despot- ism lik Russia's, nor practically republi- can, like that of Great Britain. There are but 100000 voters qualified for general elections out of total population of 4s.- 100000. The emperor is assisted by a council and by ten ministers. comparable to our cabinet officers. except that they have more power. For instance the Jap anese minister of the interior has general charge of police and matters, and most of the railways and the telegraph and telephone lines are government monopo- Hes.
 Japan has 4OO0 miles of railways; her the worlds peace navies, her banks are rapidly increasing in deposits. Japan is successful In colonizing the island of For mosa, taken from China in the recent war.
 Missionaries sympathize with Japan, though she is technically ''heathen. !" Really Japan Is rapidly becoming Chris tianized. There are 10000 Christians peo- pie of more than average Influence. Be- sides, Japanese rule means freedom; Rus sian means despotism. On this point Clem- ent says in his newly issued Handbook of Modern Japan: Her (Japan's) aims in the far east coincide with our and with the dictates of civilization. The suprem- acy of Japan in eastern Asia means far more for America and American institu- lions than does the domination of Russia. Japan enjoys rights unknown in Russia social freedom, political privileges, repre- inc
 ment, intellectual liberty, freedom of as-