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The sun., 1905-08-19

MONDAY is tne Gay ABOVE dll Otuers vi
the week that the shops are crowded. or
course the Sunday papers with advertise
ments of bargains and marked down sales
are lots of women spending the summer
in the country who select Monday. as the
day to run in and do their shopping. because
they have on that morning the company
of the returning weekend masculine visitor
Other women who work in town and are
invited to the country over Sunday return
with fervent desire to celebrate and natt-
rally turn to the shops to spend their money
Friday, preceding as it does the weekly
holiday, Is pretty good day for the shops,
but Monday is the time for the crowd
II have learned the answer to the Bible
question, Who hath wounds without
causef" said Bellevue ambulance sur
geon. Il should answer. Almost every
one whose wounds have to be dressed by
an ambulance surgeon
1--WE been riding bus for month now.
tenths Of the sufferers say they don't know
how they We're hurt. In many cases they
really don't know what hit them, but usually
they prefer to settle the score without
assistance from the police. to whom we
have to report
II wonder why that man was 40 anxious
to get ten dollar bill for his roll of ones?'
said the cigar dealer. "He said he had to
pay it out right away. anyhow
THAT was the reason he wanted the ten,
said bystander. 1T will make a better
impression on his creditor to settle with
one ten than with ten ones. Tradesmen
are suspicious Of customers who make
practise Of paying their debts with chicken
feed It looks as IL they have had to hustle
around pretty lively TO scrap, 1t together
and makes him dubious about conducting
future business on any other than cash
basis.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

The i2fth annual report OF Alex
nndfia. Va. says the city council
turned down the offer Of ayndi-
cate that desired to bup the gas
plant. and that the profitable opera
tiou Of the latter has Justified It's
retention. City officials declare that
the net earnings have been nearly
per cent on the cost Of the plant
The machinery IL In bad condition.
but. for all that. the people favor
municipal ownership. The price Of
Eae Is ti.20 a thousand feet.
" liant that little highg" a bust
mess man WAS asked.
Not compared with our water
hIlln." he said. "A private company
owns the Waterworks For the house
1 live In here / pay SIS q year water
rent For n larger house IA Wash
ington I pay $3.50 Now. II a prl.
Nate water company gives az a
treble water rate. what do you sup
pose a private gas company would
doT"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

Wheeling. W. Va. IL usually re-
fefred 20 as having obtained poor
reaults from it's municipal Eas plant.
FRIENDS OF the plant. however. de-
clare triumphhntly that IL has given
the people 75-cont gaa since 1883. a
rosola not equaled In any other
4aie5plant IL very nearly IN the
Junk class The earnings. however.
vffhlHHbs ample 90 carry n bond is
sue C 81. 600. the amount necessary
20 fiare the plant in good eondi-
tion II is impossible. though, be
cause the receipts Of the gas com
pany are used TO paw the expenses
- the municipal electric lighting
plant. which produces 600 arc lamps
FOR street lighting SO the gas con
sufnerA light the city.
II Il absolutely necessary that the
Eat works be rebuilt and this may
be done bY relieving Il Of the ex-
pense Of running the electric plant
A syndicate OF prominent citizens
sought some time ago 10 take over
the plant. but they received no en-
conrakcment.
The plant vas purchased by the
city from a private company In
1871 It's profits have repaid the
COS, price Natural gas 10 furnished
60 citizens by a private company AZ
Is cents per thousand feet. but the
city prohibits the use Of thia Eas for
Illuminating purposes People de-
string 20 Use this is-cent Eaa for ~
Eliminating purposes have sued to
ct that privilege The lower courts
have decided In their favor II the
appeal courts sustain this decision
the city will have 60 endure hard
composition forced by the natural
gas company.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28
STORIES OF GOOD
AND BAD EXAMPLES
WHAT WAS SHOWN ~ VISITS DULUTH, HAMILTON. O.,
RICHMOND, VA ALEXANDRIA, VA, AND WHEELING W. VA
BAD MANAGEMENT AND ALMOST EXHAUSTED PLANTS IN
FITTED

placed In operation IN 1890 the price
Of gas was reduced 60 8 In 1896
the price was cut 90 so cents and
that rate atill prevails OFFICIALS
CLAIM THAT EVEN II THE
Plant SHOULD SHUT DOWN
THE PEOPLE WOULD STILL BE
AHEAD BECAUSE or THE IN
FIuENCE IT HAS ENEHr.D IN
THE REDUCTION or PRICES.
Advice OF value TO all cities that
undertake municipal enterprises
VIA given by jos } Pnter. a prom
inont citizen OF Hamilton. who Is
thoroughly familiar with the eity'a
experience
THE GREAT. ALMOST UNI
NERSAL MISTAKE" HE SAID.
rs THAT CITIES DO NOT BUILD
LARGE ENOUGH PLANTS. THEY
/ OUGHT TO LOOK 80 YEARS
AHEAD The people Will vote any
amount Of money to build a plant.
bat they will not grant funds for
extensions The lesson IL that the
beginning should be plaued on a
liberal scale with that done there
IL no reason why such enterprises
should fail"
Richmond. Va. has had a muniei-
pal gas works for more than 80
years They do not think OF the
ownership notion there - a reform,
or socialism. or surpation Of pri-
waite business With few exceptions
the people Of Richmond have been
accustomed all their lives 20 city
ownership and they accept u as a
matter 81 curse.
The works now are aged aud In
adequate. They have been pFofita-
BILE, but ths surplus. Instead Of be-
ing held 20 the credit OF the plant,
has been diverted 10 other muniei-
pal purposes The council having
refused 20 appropriate money 10
provide adequate storage capacity
the service last winter Vas the
cause OF much complaint.
II was necessary To send much ~
the gas into the mains before il had
been purified. The pressure was r..
regular. Persons who had turned
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28
ORDERED into COURT


B. Alexander, Receiver for the Big Monarch Shoe &
Clothing Co. at I3I7I3t9 First Avenue has been cited
TO appear before Referee Montgomery and tell why the
creditors have not received settlement for their various
claims against the concern. The time limit is passed
and It IS said that unless the Receiver is empowered TO
make still further reductions IN prices the creditors will
be slow in getting their cash The hearing is being held
today and It probable that the Referee will order some
disposition made Of the stock to hasten closing
up Of the companys affairs.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28
To BUILD
new BOAT

A. u. Calder. general agent OF the
Canadian Pacific IN this city. re-
cclved word from headquarters
wednesday morning to the effect
that the Canadian Pacific is about
20 begin the construction OF an
other steamship. AZ a cost Of $780,
GOO. for service on the northern
coast. also 20 remodel the Princess
May.
The speed Of the latter Is 70 be
increased from is 20 la knots per
hour This will give her a point
81 speed second only TO the flyer
Princess Victoria on this coast
II Is about a year since the rail-
way made an appropriation Of funds
for the building OF another coast
steamer for Southeastern Alaska
waters. and u IL understood that
the contract for this new boat has
been let aud that she VIII be able
to go on her run BY next summer.
II Il rumored that the Princess
May will handle all the business be-
tween British Columbia and
Alaska. and that the new boat win
be run from Seattle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28
KILLED 81 GAS

PORTLAND. June - Mrs Mary
p Meyes and Mrs VIII Jones. %
jefferson. oregon. were found as
phYNiaisd by Eas In a roomine house
this morning There were two rns
jets which failed 20 turn off com
pistsly, The women were visiting
the exposition.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

The Brooks" $500 Hats have the
style and quality you ant--Rive
that prosperous appearance. T. ".
Brooks q Co. 1881 "a Ave. ..'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28
The Vss,iess shirt.

A summer luxury. We will fur
nish you with the newest styles at
t1.00 and $3.50 each. E. n. Brooks
a Co, 1891 "a Ave, 80
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

PETS HAVE GRAND FEAST

4 PETS HAVE GRAND FEAST =
PORTLAND. ore. June a. =
. Anlaaiic rats played havoc q
q with the cargo brought from q
the far east BY the steamship .
q Arabia. nos diaeharglnE al the q
. Alaska dock All she rice q
chest were gua through By q
. the ravsnouH rodents which =
q sampled every article IN the .
. the line 81 food aboard the =
a ship. A. a result there IL
q shortage % freight and the q
q deck H. covered with rice .
. that fell from the openings In .
q the chests and bags AZ they .
4 we're removed The dark re- 4
q ceasea Of the hold are being =
filled with sulphur fumes while .
4 an army OF eats and dogs II a
. on duty.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

LONDON, June 2s.--In the first
round of the womans championship
In tennis at Wimbledon today Miss
May sutton, OF California. beat Miss
n. Meyer GO
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

PARIS. June est Is believed the
Moroccan crisis Is passed. Premier
Rouvler and Ambassador Radolin of
Germany. while talking guardedly
today, intlmated that. while the
minor questions Of differences re-
mained. the conflict Is no longer a
general political one. An entente
is considered near at hand.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

gas jets down low found that the
lights had been extlngulahod ~
falling pressure aud that rooms
were filled with Eaa. A committee Of
eOuncilmen and aldermen has been
engaged for several months investl-
eating the gas plants Of several
cities with view Of suggesting i'm
proYements in Richmond
Frlcnda Of the plant aver that It's
present condition ~ NO reflection ON
municipal ownership They de-
clare that the people would not con
slider FOR a moment a proposition "a
turn the business over TO private
company.
Aa 10 benefits that have been de
rived by the city, It la stated that II
the profits. above all expense Of OPP
Grafton and interest on the cost OF
the works. had been set aside TIE
PLANT WOULD NOW HAVE A
FUND or OVER 81 zoo. 600 TO ITS
CREDIT The plant paid for itself
LONG ago. The city hsu used the
profits for many years Ia making
general municipal improvements.
Meantime the consumers have had
the advantage Of rates that are low
compared with prices charged By
private companies In other cities.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

Fine exhibition prices. In rockets.
candles, mines. etc. at Piper a
Taft, 1924 Second Ave. s's
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-06-28

Hamilton. o.. has long been re-
Earded by all hands as the terrible
example Of municipal ownership
Hamilton has made Just about all
possible mistakes The gas plant
and the electric plant. too. have
been under political control
when the city engaged Ia the gas
business u started a rival plant in
stead Of buying out the existing prl-
vate company. Radicals had insist
ed that the latter be run ont -
business" II was groggy for a time
bat Is now lusty. The city has not
kept its gas works up 10 date
There Is not complete set % rec
ords showing exactly what the plant
has earned and ita cost, because lts
financial history has been written
into the general accounts OF the
city. House connections are made
and stoves set up free Of cost. Some
years this costs the city ii5 600
Pipes are extended in response TO
petitions and not limited 10 profit
paying territory as IL practically
the universal rule in both public
and private plants.
City councils have refused 10 pro-
vide the money necessary 20 keep
the gas plant IN good condition
The plant has reached the limit Of
its producing capacity and IS about
worn out
with all it's drawbacks friends OF
Hamllton's gas enterprise speak up
In rs defense. when the plant was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

blossoms. At the entrance is an immense bronze
tori, the emblem of Shintoism consisting of huge
cylindrical pillars six feet in diameter and sixty
feet high, sur1nounted and connected by two cross
cylinders of the same size above the other.
At every turn in the gardens there delightful
little grottoes and hidden nooks tucked away amid
Enthusiastically reared and shaped pine-trees. Arbors
and bridges and miniature lakes abound, well
Towering plum and cherry trees, winding paths
and moss grown walls and steps, and, to complete
the picture, tiny fairies in party-colored kimonos
with rosy cheeks and et-black hair built high above
their heads in marvellous shapes, trot about every
where stilted Shoes six inches above the ground
There is great Museum of Arms adjoining this
temple and in the same grounds, which undoubtedly
adds largely to its popularity in the eyes of the
heroloving and hero-worshping Japanese. All day
long, when the excitement is on, and conscripts
being drawn to Toxic from all the surrounding
country districts, this museum is filled with
newly uniformed soldiers accompanied by all their
country relatives, who divide their time between
wide-eyed admiration of their solder-boys in their
foreign coats and trousers and open-mouthed aston
ishment at the wonderful collection of cannon
arms, swords and armor which Japan has gained
trophies in her previous So many the
visitors, it has been arranged that the public shall
enter the large building by one side door, pass
meanderingly through in direction, and emerge
at the extreme other end through similar side door,
The main entrance is blocked by the recently cap
tured Russian flag from the sunken cruiser Variag
and f1anked by the three four steel ventilating
tunnels riddled with shell and smal-arm fire,
which were taken from the destroyed Chinese fleet.
While the large building has an immense quantity
OF implements OF war, captured late the
march to Picking in 1000 and early as the inva-
of the collections have been presented and loaned
to the museum by titled personages of
Japan, and represent the martial heir
n looms of centuries, brought down NH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

The n1agazne-ends of the guns are massive, with
deep trough into them from the top and into this
longitudinal slit is inserted what is really small
howitzer, carrying the charge and projectile. The
mouth of the howitzer fits closely against the open
bore of the long gum and may be wedged firmly
into place by brass wedges forming in this position
a complete cannon ready to be fired from a match
hole in the howitzer By the of several of these
portable howitzers in the ancient days of Oriental
warfare almost continuous fire could be kept up
from the big gum by replacing the empty breech-
pieces with loaded ones.
Among the hundreds of queer b1underbusses
and two-rnen shoulder guns is one of twenty-seven
barrels suggestive of the modern pot-hunter's bat
terry gun. 1t is said to have been invented by the
second Shotgun and it's mechanism was kept pro-
found secret for many generations.
To the antiquarian the museum is delight and
a source of envy for in it are kept the finest suits
of arrnor visored helmets and swords turned out
by the cleverest artisans of Japan; and many and
interesting are the legends connected with their
use by the ancestors of the titled who have
loaned them for exhibition. The best single ex-
ample of armor is suit belonging to Viscount
Takiwaki which has been the property of his family
for over five hundred years.
While it is said that less than fifty sixty years
ago, fought both on foot and IN the saddle
from the inside of these gruesome incarnatons of
demon warriors with their hideous bronze-mus-
tached head-masks and marvellous steel-linked,
wadded and plated garments it really seems in
conceivable that ordinary mortal could even
walk around under the weight, let alone make an
effective onslaught upon his enemy Many OF the
breastplates of these suits of show the 1nden
tatons of leaden bullets and the sicing cuts of the
two-handed swords of which actually has
pierced through, though they must have given the
Continued on page s)
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through the families of Shoguns and
Daimyos and their retainers.
Among the many old cannon
Chinese, Corean and Japanese-the
most striking is a brenze gun taken
from the sacred city al Picking No
common mortal dared gaze upon this
sacred gun, when it was wheeled
through the streets of Picking on royal
ceremonial occasions. The gun-barrel
itself is exquisitely carved with drag
ons, and is mounted directly above
the caisson box, which is also a marvel
of inlaid brass, scrollwork' and carved
designs. The whole gorgeous effect of
black and gold is completed by massive
wheels, with rectangular carved and
inlaid spokes, and deep fellies laid with
brass rosettes and bound with a sec
tiona1 tire of eight pieces. The large
trail of the gun, reaching rearward ten
feet from the axle, is out of all pro-
portion to the small caliber of the
cannon.
There are rows and rows of brass
howitzers of antiquated patterns, with
here and there piece manufactured
by some European factory. Some of
the ancient japanese and Chinese
brass cannon, several hundred years
of age, indicate the early stages in the
evolution of the breech-1oadinp o11n
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with reverence for the brave spirits
sacrificed on Japans fields of blood in B y
the past, every soldier of the Mkado's
Empire who believes in Shintoism and
who can make pilgrimage to the spot, IT.
stands with barred head and many E><r@
obeisances, at the foot of the beauti- fME#=
full and mystical shrine of Shokonsha UIlEIT>
in Toxic and offers UP his humble E
invocation. I&SMN
He prays to Izanagi the Creator of
Japan, to Ama-terasu the Goddess of nj
the Sun, and to all his hero-ancestors 1
who have died upon blood-reddened -
battle-felds defending the honor of the HSSS
Emperor and Japan and he begs that UlDl1 oR
they who hold the destinies of his 81 .l
country in their sacred hands will pre- = =
serve his cherished land from the 81 -
despoliation of the northern heather TIL -
and barbarian, and finally that these -
same transcendental powers will give
him strength and skill to kill in battle HMf ~
dozen-nay, score-of Russians ere
he Joins the honorable, respectable -sN@
spirits of his ancestors.
Thousands of alnond-eyed soldiers The
already have sped their solemn pleas for
success at arms through the opening at
the main entrance of this decorative edifce, with
its graytiled roof and it's overreaching caves anc
have taken ship toward the frozen land of Cho-ser
and the Manchus. All that the warriors can see O
the interior of this temple is empty vault. from
the ceiling of which many strings of paper hans
futteringy pendent
To skeptic they praying to the silence O
empty space; they feel themselves surrounded by
the invisible souls of revered ancestors, and over
Swallowed by the overnasterng influence of many
deities.
The soldiers come to this temple separately anc
in groups and at intervals in companie
and entire regiments. They do not tarry long il
their devotions simply removing their hats as they
approach the few stone steps leading up to the
exterior altar, and, standing before the low picket
fence which prevents further advance, they bow
repeatedly at the opening in the wall, make thei1
prayer silently but with moving lips, and ther
retire Often man will return several time:
through the large gateway to his petitions
and in that way indicate his profound respect fo
his gods and his ancestors.
The temple is not an old one, having been bull
in 1862 after the revolutionary of the previous
year; but it has become immensely popular with
the soldiers since the Satsuma instruction of 1877
and the wars with China in 1894 and 1900.
l told that ever prays that his life
may be spared, that he may return safely to hi
family and that the wives, mothers, daughters
sisters and little children of departing soldiers who
go with the agony of breaking hearts to the foo
of this powerful shrine, ask only that their loved
may die as heroes. One appreciates this atti
tude after gaining fuller knowledge of the quie
but intense patriotism of these people, and witness
ing the sacrifices they making willingly ever,
day for their
The grounds about the Shokonsha temple ar
beautiful in the season of the plum and cherry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

w nth visions of the japanese
wv dead and of those who will
fall on Corean battle-felds,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-09-11

DR.. William Osler recently reci,ed a
quaint old cure for govt: First, pick
a handkerchief from the pocket of a
spinster who never wished to wed; sec
ond, wash the handkerchief in an hon
est mi-ler's pond; third, dry it on the
hedge of q person who never was Gov
etous; fourth, send it to the shop of a
physician who never killed a patient;
fifth, mark it with lawyers ink who
never cheated client, and, sixth, ap-
ply it, hot, to the gout-tormented part.
A speedy cure must follow. New
York Tribune
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-09-11
Socialism in Vermont.

It is important to the voters of Yer
mont to know that in last falls cleo
ton for the choice of presidential
electors the socialist ticket ran ahead
Of the old line prohibition ticket. 1t
is important that this significant fact
should be recalled to mind occasion
ally because it is fraught with ire
mendous meaning for the business
and property interests of this state.
Men may smile today as they scan
the election figures and observe the
socialist party's returns down among
the "also rams" but the movement is
growing steadily, day by day, and
promises to be the next great po1iti-
cal problem to vex Vermonters.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-09-11
The Need of BattIeships.

New York World. At last the Sc
cret of the insistent demand for more
battle ships is out. 1t is not that the
country is menaced by war or that
another nation is fourishing "big
stick" in your Uncle SamuePs face.
Hearts, not lives, are the stake.
Battle ships are needed for bathrooms.
The decks are to drip with ices-not
to be drenched in blood. If Capt
William Sheffield Cowles, brother-in-
law of President Roosevelt, can give
a dance on board the battle ship Mis-
souri, at Newport for society debu-
tante, why should not other debu-
tantes and other summer resorts de-
mand battle ship dances?" The less
fashionable resorts might be satisfied
with dances on gunbOats, but it is
clear that the navy ought to be in
creased if the social prestige of the
nation is to be maintained.