Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-09
OTHER LANDS THAN ours.

The fghtlng men Of Nippon build little
toy gardens in the fashion OF their ma
| tive land They grow plants and flowers
| with loving skill and amuse themselves
with handicraft OF various kinds. wrest-
| ling matches entertain them. But they do
not make themselves the prey Of appetite
or passion. Perhaps greater marvel is the
| japanese army's abstention from drinking
water condemned by the remarkable med
ical stan. which has done much to make
the death rate from disease almost incred-
IDLY low. The Japanese are great water
drinkers They are said by some authori-
ties to average a gallon day apiece. But
they have fought through hot summer
days. from early morning til night, close
TO inviting streams and wells, and let the
water remain untasted because it had been
declared unfit for drinking. All this is
wonderful beyond the belief OF western
soldiers. Americans and Europeans, in the
heat Of combat or made reckless by the
inertia of camp life show scant respect
/ for orders which conflict with their thirst
or their hunger. An army careful to
live, yet willing to die; so obedient and
so bold sound in health, so strict in
discipline, so rich i'm Individual initiative
and so respectful TO officers, has no paral-
lei. 1t deserves the trumphs it has won.
The navel section of the Imperial Rus
sian Technical society has just completed
an investigation as to the possibilities OF
constructing a new Russian fleet in Rus
| sian shipbuildng yards and has arrived at
the conclusion that this can be done. In
five years time. II is stated the Baltic
works can build eight flrst-class cruisers
and the Galerny Island and New Admiralty
yards twelve first-class battleships. Kron-
stadt with its Peter dock Is in a position
to construct armored cruisers Of the Inn
proved Bayan type and sea-going gunboats
or torpedo transports Torpedo cruisers and
submersibles may be ordered Of the Neva
works and Of Lange's works in Riga. Sea-
going torpedo boats Oncuding destroyers)
and coast defense torpedo boats can be sue
cessfully built in the small shpbuilding
yards of Finland, Riga, Reval and Libau,
which may also take in hand the construc-
ton OF part Of the torpedo transports or
storeships required. The Putiley works
can complete in the same period four
cruisers Of the Bayan type and a number
of torpedo boats and gunboats. As 70 the
works In the south of Russia, II Is esti-
mated that Nlkoialeff and sevastopol can
complete four battleshps. four cruisers OF
the Bayan type and some torpedo boats.
| Inc BOlu output Ol lnt lTdHSNddl III
July was the largest on record, amounting
! to SS673,OOO, or at the rate of over 500, ,OO0,
900 a year Apparently the maximum has
not yet been reached. and It is expected
! that the remaining months OF this year
! will show still further gains. II is prob
able that the monthly production Nay ex-
! ceed 50 100000 by December, but local auth
critics doubt whether It will go beyond
! that point. at least until some of the newer
deep-level mines begin to add TO the re-
| turns. BY that time. however, II is likely
! that several Of the older outcrop mines will
| drop out of the producing list It Is well
known that some of them are nearly ap-
! preaching exhaustion. There are now over
! 10000 Chinese in the mines OF the Wit
waterstrand, and they are still coming
They seem to be generally we'll organized
and fairly steady though there have been
several outbreaks among them, which in
dicate that the Chinese is not quite as
/ peaceable as he has credit for being The
! management Of 10000 laborers ut will soon
| be $4,000 or 6O,OO0) of q race wholly alien to,
and not easily understood by, the white
managers is not an easy task.
|
England smiles at two Mohammedans
from Afghanistan who have come to con-
vert Englishmen to Islam. The two mis-
sionaries have no end of zeal. however,
for their cause. They walked every mile
of the distance from Kabul to London, ex-
cept where II was necessary to take ship
and the immensity of their task now that
they are face to face with Christian Eng
land, can scarcely daunt such simple
ardent, unterrhed souls In much the
same way the first Christian missionaries
went to the orient. When the Jesuits first
| appeared in China, several centuries ago
the Chinese regarded them exactly as the
English now regard these two followers Of
the prophet. The Afghans would in time
get converts enough, II only they carried
with them a material civilization superior
to that OF the west Suppose they were
possessed of a medical knowledge far su-
perior to that Of the English physicians
and besides had in their support gunboats
with which the British navy could not
possibly contend, the extent OF their
spiritual conquests in London, Manchester
and York might be appalling AS things
stand, they may gain some adherents. 1t
is something OF a surprise TO learn that
a man in London named Quilliam, by auth
ority OF Abdul Hamid, is the sheik-ul-
Islam of the British isles. and that he has
already opened mosques in London and
Liverpool.
The Paris correspondent OF one of the
London newspapers points out that in
case the emperor OF Morocco should prove
obstinate II would not be absolutely nee
essary forsFrance to make a naval demon
stration. They have more convenient
means OF bringing pressure to bear On
him In a quarter where his prestige would
, be practically destroyed by demonstra-
, tion that would cost the republic little
trouble. Ujda. where the Sheereehan
, troops recently secured a victory over the
pretenders forces. is but q short distances
, from the French frontier posts. and could
, easily be occupied by the troops on thS
spot within couple OF days after the
receipt OF orders. salda, which the sultar
: has recently shown disposition to conver
into a harbor. is also within easy reacl
OF the French frontier, and like Ujda
could be promptly occupied. For thu
. French authorities a movement Of troop
in this region would involve no more diff
: hculty than ordinary maneuvers. Will,
|, for the sultan II would involve the ruiz
OF his newly acquired prestige among tn
tribes throughout eastern Morocco.
on the eve OF var Japans was the small
3 ast of tba seyan leading naVfes Of tn