The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-30

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OF Greek or trigonometry
| Or any "ology'' that goes
10 swell the font whence wisdom flows,
Would scarcely I'LL library.
IN fact, little Ounce is she:
| AMI yet she suits me to a =, .
TOE AFTER all, no other knows
What Nora Knows.
She knows Il love her ardently,
9llE .EnoWs what her reply VIII be
shall all r get eouF rag .t to Dropose 7
Ia give lot to know. you see.
What Nora Knows.
/ Catholic Standard and Times.
what Japanese Loans Are Based On.
The loans that have been issued are
based upon two things: the resources
OF the country, upon which is founded
the ability of the government 20 pay,
and the security offered for regular pay
ment of the interest. The two foreign
loans already placed have their interest
secured by the customs receipts and
the tobacco monopoly, both assets La
BILE to fiuctuation But on their face
| bankers in London and New York have
apparently thought them sufficient
guarantee for the amount of interest in
| volved, the security for the principal
| being the national credit. Would they
have been accepted as a guarantee, how
| ever, for ten times the amount? Most
| certainly not. Therefore had ten times
the amount been offered, instead of it all
| taken at all. Again, it must be remem-
bered that bankers have not been the
real takers of these loans. The bulk of
| the money has come from individual
Englishmen and Americans, who in view
of reputable banking firms underwriting
! the loans, accepted them as a good in
vestment at the market price, which
nets about eight per cent. 1t is amusing
to see the turn which the pro-Japanese
propaganda, both east and west, has
given the acceptance of these two loans
in England and America. 1t is every
where in Japan hailed by the propagan--
da as evidence that the British and
American governments are backing the
Japanese government in the war, and
that these two wealthy countries stand
ready to continue to provide the funds.
1t is hardly necessary to point out the
error of this belief. People in America
and England invest in the Japanese
loans just as they do in Galveston
municipal bonds, on purely business
principles. AS long as they think the
security is good they will continue to
invest, but the moment they begin to
suspect the security offered they will
not have them at all except at a dis
count which compensates them for the
risk taken. The Japanese statesmen
who are financing the war undoubtedly
know this, but the masses of the people
are encouraged to entertain some very
elusive hopes and expectations.-From
| 1.-THE Financial Prospects of Japan"
by Thomas F. Willard, in the Septem-
Der Scribner's.
Losing Ones Character In England.
In England, no servant can get a
really good situation-that is, stu
alton with a reputable, first-class
family-without furnishing a "char-
Facter'' from her former employer.
This character does not consist in a
letter written by a reputed mistress,
but a personal interview between the
lar 11rln
and the one who desires to be.
shall never forget the way in
which the tragic aspect of the per
sonal character" question was first
brought to my notice. 1 had been
asked by a friend, who was suddenly
called out, to see the applicants she
expected that afternoon in answer to
her advertisement for parlor maid.
A very fine looking young woman,
of possibly %, seemed to me to be in
every respect what my friend needed,
and 50 I kept her waiting and in con-
versation. After I told her that I
felt sure she would suit, she said in
an embarrassed, hating sort of way:
"But, madam, I must tell you that
there is very serious thing to be
taken into consideration about me.
have lost my character"
"You see, madam" went on the
young woman, Lady - gave me
an excellent character when left her.
She did not like to part with me.
The lady to whom she recommended
me lived quite alone and I became a
maid to her. This lady died three
months ago. Lady - is now in
some part of Australia, where l can
not reach her, or I would write and
ask her for a second character, which
am sure she would give me, al
though this is not customary, OF
; course. Yet, even that would be q
written one. I have been trying to
get a situation for three months now
I !
her character
The girls eyes filed with tears. But
it all ended happily. My friend en-
gagged the girl mainly mainly because bee use j.
L lieu of the character" she ought tc
} have had, and she still serves the mis-
: tress whom she adores--Elizabett
Banks, in The World Today, for Sep
TENDER.
; Result of Automobiles.
/ There are $4,000 motor vehicles il
= the United States. American cars
s have crossed the Rockies and the
Andes. An American car has beer
driven into the ocean from the ex-
tremity of the southern island of New
Zealand. The automobile has made
: its way into China and Africa 1t vii
vet be known in the Solomon islands
: and the last remaining cannibals will
: fly from it in terror. It has passed
y the Arctic circle. 1t will yet be skat-
v ing around the ultimate pole. Every
v body goes touring. Inns and restau-
E rants spring up along the path of the
e horn.
/ Many results, good. bad and indif-
: ferent, have been attributed to the
g automobile Certainly one of the
s most curious of them is their effect
upon the great family hotels" oil
apartment houses in New York, or al
least upon several or many of them
: The builder of the first great family
t hotel'' in New York explains that the
: class of hotels in question was built
D | for wealthy men. OF course, the rent
4 was even higher than the building
= T2uf now comes the "devi1 wagon, as
a its detractors call it, the bubble" as
n no