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MEDICAL HISTORY
OF JAPANESE WAR

The real triumph of Japan in the re-
cent terrific conflict with Russia was
the conquest of the silent foe, to wit,
the victory over disease that was won
by the doctors of the Mikado's wonder
full little empire. The recognition of
that fact makes us realize at once the
correctness and aptness of the title of a
new book called The Real Triumph Of
Japan" with the subtitle of The Con-
quest of the Silent Foe" 1t is writ
ten by Louis Livingston Seaman, NJ
D., LID, late surgeon major, u. s. v.
E., author of From Toxic Through
Manchuria With the Japanese Ma
tive Troops for Our Colonial Posses
sions" and several other works.
The book is written for serious pur-
pose: that of impressing on this coun-
try the necessity of its learning the
lessons of sanitary science which can
be ascertained from the wonderful rec
ord made by the Japanese medical
corps in the big war in the East. 1t has
interest, too. just as a description of
the skill with which the Japs handled
their wounded and managed their hos
pitals. 1t will be of prime interest to
medical men and to army officers, but
to people interested In political econ
omy, in patriotism. in the humanities,
the work will also be of notable i'm
portance Just a few cuttings of the
dllUOSI tlS ui CD Va OdPoACoC
superiority in the conduct of the medi-
cal department of warfare will show
the Importance of this call to the ma
ton to prepare for thorough methods
of preventing sickness in the case Of
another war.
Prominent among these figures is the
ratio of men killed by bullets to those
destroyed by disease In our late war
with Spain. To every soldier killed by
- fourteen died
from disease. Contrast with this the
ratio in the Japanese war with Russia,
where only one man died of disease to
four who were killed by the soldiers
of the Czar. Our war with Spain was
exceptional in the extraordinarily large
proportion of men lost from disease; i;
but the Japanese record compares IA
yorably with the whole history of war
fare. The general average is $4,000
men lost from disease in a campaign
to 10000 who are lost by bullets Japan
reversed these figures. 1t was not done
by accident or by extraordinarily favor-
able circumstances. Indeed Japan had
not only the diseases of her own camps
to contend with. but those Of the re-
treating Russians. The feat was ac-
complished by skilled application Of
scientific sanitation and dietetics. Ma
ior Seaman was appointed by our Gov
ernment to go to the field with the
Japanese armies and study their sani-
tary work and hospitals This volume
is the result, and the lessons of it must
surely be given attention by the au-
thorities and by all patriots of the ma
ton. If we fail. and there should come
suddenly upon us another war. then for
every 10000 killed in battle we will
probably lose $4,000 to 100000 from dis
ease who might have been saved by a
proper sanitary system in our armies.
In a chapter called Lest We Forget and
in his conclusion Major Seaman en-
nhatically urges reform and points out
the methods.
ID. Appleton & Co, New York;
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James d. Phelan. 1t is one Of Mr..
Tilden's best works. Every Califor-
nian will rejoice that the heroic padre,
who did so much for the State and for
the Christian religion. is to be so nobly
honored
The American Builders Review has
three articles on the subject OF Sierra.
One of these has the good subtitle.
Sermons in Sun-Dried Brick. From the
Old Missions" and treats Of his archi-
lecture. Another is notes on his life
work; and the third is brief mention
of the monument. 1t is interesting to
get an Interpretation of this truly great
man from an architects point OF view.
1t emphasizes one of the several ways
in which his work will continue to be
effective for the ennobling of Califor-
MIA. His Jealous preaching of the word
of God was not by any means all of his
unforgettable deeds. From this build
er's point of view it will be the PADRES
secular rather than his religious work
that will be chiefly remembered by the
future ages. But the writer of the ar
ticle admits the difficulty of separating
the secular from the religious perform
ance of the Franciscan priest. The idea
is a good one, though, that by means
of the architectural style Junipero
Sierra gave to California he will COM
tinue to speak to and largely influence
the spirit Of our people for ages. Says
the Review: Some of the missions are
in ruins. it is true. but the spirit of
beauty and tranquility that dwelt in
their great white walls and ample
cloisters will outlive mere sun-baked
brick and Taking plaster. Some day
doubtless Rome will see to it that the
faithful missionary will be duly can
onized. Meanwhile we submit the
world will be the better for the Sierra
who has made a style, rather than for
the Sierra who will be made a saint
This architectural view of the mans
life work will be useful as giving en-
phasis to the fact of Sierra founding a
style which is to be perpetuated as a
characteristic of California. which style
has a peculiar nobleness that breaches
sermons from walls; but those who
magnify the padre because of his being
so jealous and eloquent an exponent OF
Christian religion can easily give him
credit for the combination of inSti1ling
nobleness by the spoken word and by
the simplicity and impressiveness of
the walls he builded- The Review
speaks Of ''the dignity of these compo-
sitions, the majestic simplicity and the
breadth of simple wall surface" and
says tat they should be a source of
inspiration to the designers of monu-
mental structures. No doubt also the
so expressive of peace and rest and
an inspiration for that right living
which is religion. So both as the Chris
tian zealot and as the creator OF a no
Bile architectural style we can honor
him and be glad that this monument is
so successfully designed
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feared for my enfolding arms,
That held her close.
And so. on one forbiddng night
That knew no moons caressing light
All Withered lay her blossomed charms
In envfous deaths relentless arms
That held her close.
But oft again in memory's night
That moon rehoods the scene with light
And loyeiier still. her wakened charms
Rejoice my fond, enfolding arms
That hold her close
Searching for the bits short enough
for extract and that would at once hest
please my readers and do truest fus.
tice to the author of this already re-
selected collection, 1 found, far over
toward the end, this sonnet, which I
think is one of the best poems in ths
book It is from a bunch called s.In n
dio"-"sonnets suggested by pio-
lures painted by William Keith" Now
when you get California poet tnto
close communion with the premier paintsr
of the Pacific Coast you can naturaIlv
expect something exquisiteIy artistic
TO be born of that lovingly close and
inspiring contact of artistic soul ana
artistic soul; and 10, here it is-and
again the essence of the poesv in the
lines lies in their mystic meaning:
AN UNFINISHED PORTRAIT.
cannot strike the color for his eye.
Nor bend the arch above 1T; ah, today
My brushs cunning, do the best I may
In heartless mockery seems to pass me by.
Thus spalze the master as he stood anigh
His easel, where young mans portrait Law
So near TO perfectness it seemed to saw
Give me not up ere once again You try
Then with fury such as genius knows
He spread his pigments all that portrait DER
Until a landscape shone divinely there;
And in the glories of the great repose
Imagination feels. as neer before.
Some hidden spirit breathe through all its air
Although this is mystically fanciful.
surely it cannot be said to be an idea
untrue to artistic possibility Ii it be
true that an artist can-and IL he is
a fine one must-put something of his
individual spirit into his Landscape
painting, why might not an especial
genius in that way give a sort of soul
portrait of some friend that would re-
veal something of his friends invisible
spirit which no portrait of his face and
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ANOTHER VOLUME
OF LARGE HISTORY

1.-THE French Revolution and the Rise
OF Napoleon is the subject of Volume
XVI of "A History of All Nations
the big twenty-four volume work OF many
historians, under the editorship Of John
Henry Wright of Harvard University.
The new volume. just issued, is, like all
the preceding ones, amply illustrated with
plates and cuts and facsimiles of old
documents. This XVI volume is written
by Theodor F1athe. late emeritus pro-
fessor at st. Afra, Meissen. The pictures
arc taken from sources contemporary
with the events related. There are a
number of portraits of the notables OF
the Revolution and the Consulate. One
of these gives an impression of Charlotte
Corday so full of terrible determination
that one seeing her face does not wonder
that she had the courage to kill Marat-
One of the most interesting plates gives
facsimile of a letter written by Queen
Marie Antoinette to Count de Rougeville
from her prison. She was not allowed a
pen and she made the letters Of her note
by sticking a needle into piece Of paper
so that the punctures would form words.
The original is preserved in the National
Archives. Paris.
Professor FIathe gives a pathetic ac-
count of the sufferings of the unfortunate
Marie Antoinette. He says: "a kind of
devilish pleasure was afforded these men
(the revolutionists) by ill-treatment of the
queen. On July 3. in the middle Of the
night. policemen forced their way into
her prison in order to separate her son
from her avowedly on account of some
royalist attempts to effect her liberation
For more than an hour the mother in
desperation offered opposition; she pro-
tected the boy with her body until the in
human creatures threatened to slay her
children before her eyes; then at length
che u,1ffered the child to be torn from her
On October IA The Widow Capet'
appeared before the Revolutionary Tribu-
nal The dignity and majesty of the queen
in her ragged clothes profoundly moved
all the spectators, but not the hardened
hearts Of her prosecutors and judges"
Gea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and
New York;
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figure could so well express? The poet
conceives of a master OF landscape
painting having done so after he had
failed to make the portrait show forth
some characteristic of colossal calm he
felt was the possession of the young
man nc could not paint TO his complete
artistic satisfaction. The poems theme
is In strict accord with the idea or
subjectivity in art, as has been ex-
pressed by an anonymous writer, thus:
Back OF the canvas that throbs the painter is
hinted and hidden
Into the statue that breathes the soul OF the
sculptor is hidden.
The first poem. into the Light,
would be a good one to attach bodily
to ones copy of Omar Khayyam's
Rubaiyat. 1t calls attention to the
same mystery and transformers of
life, but it leads up at last to much
higher conclusion of the whole matter
than does old Omar with his ideal OF
cat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow
we die. DIR. Taylor's verse In this poem
that sums UP his philosophy of life has
also much OF the form and music OF
the famous Rubaiyat. AS soon as
you begin to read 1t you are reminded
of Omar. Take this from FitzGeraio s
translation of Omar:
And fear not lest Existence. closing your
Account and mine. should know the Ike no
more;
The eternal Saki from that bowl has poured
Millions OF Bubbles like us, and will pour.
And compare it with stanzas and 4S
from Into the Light" If Taylor's is
less peculiarly odd in it's genius Of
expression, it is more important in the
goal to which it goes than is the skep-
tical Omar original of this pious Omar
esque. DR.. Taylor says:
VI.
The bubbles dancing on convivial wine,
The restful dewdrops Cn the procreant vine,
But symbolize each being life has known:
All vanish at breath and leave no sign
XLVIII.
1t is enough to feel that thou and
Are on this earth. to work. and serve and die,
As have the millions that have gone before,
And as will other millions by and by.
XIII.
Enjoy the day, Horace says Is well;
To lounge and drink with Omar we tell
Our loves to every moment or the day,
Is with enchantment for the time to dwell.
XLIII.
But these are condiments and not the bread
Wherewith life's feast is nourshingly spread,
And deem thou not with diet such as theirs
A starving soul in bounty can be fed
Some of the other literary works Of
DIR. TAYLOR are Moods and Other Verse,
now out of print; Visions and Other
Verse; "Sonnets of Heredia Rendered
Into English and a small volume,
privately printed, called Memories and
other Verse" DIR. Taylor is now about
Il 6S, and has been Californian
since he was quite a young man. He
was born in Illinois, but we can con-
scientiously and rejoicefully call this
inspiring poet a Californian.
(Stanley-Taylor Company, San Fran
cisco: $1.25 net; postage and packing 10
cents)
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Laurence Hope.
VOLUMES RECEIVED
FROM PUBLISHERS

s KENELMS DESIRE-By Hughes Cor
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COWARDICE COURT By George
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IN SHORTHAND-Isaac Pitman & Sons.
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THE STORY OF THE coNsTITU-
TION OF THE UNITED STATES-By
Rossiter Johnson William Ritchis.
New York.
THE KENTUCKIAN-By James Ball
pany, Boston. Mass.
IN THE SHOE STRING COUNTRY
BY Frederick Chamberlin- c. NJ Clark
Publishing Company. Boston.
THE PHILIPPINE EXPERIENCES
OF AN AMERICAN TEACHER II BY
William B. Freer. Charles Scribner's
Sons. New York: $3.50
HAWAIIAN YESTERDAYSBy Hen
ry NJ. Lyman A c. MeClurg & CO.,
Chicago.
THE JOY OF LIFE-By Lille Hamil-
ton French. Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany. New York.
CHILDHOOD-By Mrs. Theodore W.
Birney. founder OF the National Congress
of Mothers Frederick a. Stokes Com
pany. New York
IDEALS FOR GIRLS (talks on char
acter, life and culturel-By Mrs Frank
Larned priscilla Wakeheld). Frederick
A Stokes Company. New York.
THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
CHRIST with twenty illustrations from
paintings by great masters-By Henry
Van Dyke. Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany. New York
THE SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE
BY Hugh r. Mill Frederick A. Stokes
Company, New York
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He has a valuable private library, and
In 1t are rare treasures In the way of
editions and bindings. He has all of the
best of the Kelmscott books, including
Chaucer, and every English translation
of the Iliad and Odyssey that has ever
been made. Charter maker also is this
versatile genius-the city and county
charter under which we are at present
living Is partly of his handicraft. Not
to be forgotten on the list are proficiency
in all branches in the printing art, and
that, as a minor matter. he has been an
editor To crown all he has added to his
many mental attainments the power Of
writing graceful verse. The other things
are businesss but poetry is his luxury
and delight, and his way to the supernal
world-along which he wings strong.
brave flight and calls to US all eloquently
to follow him, via hard work and eager
aspiration, to the highest and happiest
living.
Know thou the gods are good to him who bears
Unvanquished stoutly on; who in despair's
Entangling web weayes many thread Of
While ali the stars light him that boldly dares.
That stirring stanza 1 Gull from the
chief poem of the volume. 1t Is called
Into the Light" 1t was written IN
1901, and is now heightened and i'm
proved 1t is a sort Of summing up
of DR.. Taylors philosophy of life. 1t
is good to be able to bear witness on
q blessed Easter morning that this
philosophy is both a pious and poetic
one-optimistic. gloriously so, and
mystic. delightfully."-, dreamily so. Is
If not right TO say that there is no beau
tiful poetry, nor religion either, un-
less they are largely mingled with ele-
ments of mysticism-intuitive faiths
In the truths that never can be
proved?
THE MYSTIC.
In symboled beauty all appears
To him In nature as in art.
The while In ecstacy he hears
Bright angels singing In his heart
Oh would we had some sight or his
To see life's glory as 1t is.
IT will please you surely If / give
you another one of his mystic bits of
verse:
THE KISS OF PEACE.
An angel met me in the wood,
Where / unreconciled had ned
To scaoe the face of my dear dead
She led me where her sister stood
With radiant face and lifted head:
whereat they kissed me on the cheek.
But not a word did either speak.
They vanished but l knew that they
Had brought flower OF peace that day.
And once again, let me give you this
an Easter gift. It illustrates to us 80
beautifully how the mystic can be
granted a grace of saving consolation
under conditions where the practical
and unimaginative man would see only
sordid gloom:
IN MEMORY
Full oft Ii was s balmy night
Wove many web of dreamy light
The moon SO touched her budding charms.
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ARCHITECTS TRIBUTE
TO JUNIPERO SIERRA

The April number of the American
Builders Review has for frontispiece
fine picture OF the new statue of Juni-
pero Sierra, taken from the original clay
model OF the sculptor. Douglas Tilden.
This statue is to be cast in bronze AMI
set up in Golden Gate Park The Pc
destal will be of granite. and is de-
signed by Architect Edgar A. Mathews.
The monument is the gift OF ex-Mayor
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NOTES ABOUT BOOKS
AND THE AUTHORS

The Festival of Optimism.
The message of Easter Is the entire
message of Christ's life. In Him oDtim-
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sOda lota tssua cents BoE Share
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WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES

FOREIGN TRADING-Foreign houses were not
factors in the local market. as the London ex-
change was closed. In London discount rates were
unchanged. while in the Continental capitals there
were movements OF Importance either in money
or stocks.
COPPER SlTUATION-A representative OF a
concern handling many millions Of pounds OF cop
per annually says that last week large sales OF
copper were made for delivery In August and Sep
temher for both foreign and domestic consumption.
This week. however. has been uRinteresting in the
metal trade. The annual consumption OF casting
copper in normal year is placed at about 200
tons In the period OF the artificial 1s-cent market
many millions OF pounds Of this grade were
brought into use. and by the time the market had
broke to II cents the world practically bare
of supplies AZ the present time the copper mar
ket is in a normal and healthy position. with a
bright outlook for the future.
BANK CL.EARINGS.-The total bank clearings of
the United States for the week ended August T.
day estimated. s27S3 S.5S6. against S. 25sI
74O 4i9 in the same time last year.
SUGAR PRICES ADyANCED.-B. H. Howell
Son & Co and the Federal Sugar Refining Com
pany have advanced their list prices for refined
sugar 10 points 10 $50 cents less per cent for
cash The American Sugar Refining Company and
Arbuckle Brothers stil doing business on the
old basis OF go cents net less per cent for cash
INTERNATIONAL SALT DIVIDEND UN-
CHANGHp.-Ihe regular quarterly dividend OF ]
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posted rates were as follows:

DOMESTIC EXCHANGE. - New Orleans-Com-
mercial, 25c discount: bank, 81 premium. Boston
1Oc discount Chicago-15c discount. Charleston
Buying par; selling. &c premium. Cincinnati-Par
Savannah-Buying, 45c discount: selling 75c dis
count Minneapolis-SOc premium. ST. Louis-9Dc
discount bid, zoe discount asked. San Francisco
Sight, PIC; telegraph. &c premium.
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET-Cau money, IN
London. 2AQSs per cent. Open market discount
rate for short bills, 1-l6 per cent? long bills.
Sl-1G9S1s per cent. Berlin discount rate per
cent Berlin exchange on London. 20 marks 4s
pfennigs. Paris discount rate, "a per cent Paris
exchange on London, 25 francs Is centimes. Bar
gold in London 7Os 95sd
FOREIGN SBCURITIES.-British consol. FOR
money, s75s: for the account S713-16 7rsncb
rentes. 81 francs 4715 centrnes
SILVER MARKEr.-Bar silver, 649sc Mexican
silver dollars. 5O14c. Bar silver in London CLOSED
at 297sd. '70N
GOLD PREMIUM.-In Madrid. Ills; Lisbon. 30
MEXICAN EXCHANCF-NTex excbarg,a -.
New York is quoted at 1884.
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per cent win be paid on the stock Of the Inter
national Salt Company on September
COTTON MOVEMENT.-AccOrd 90 "T1s
Financial Chronicle" the total receipts Of eo.'i
for the week ended August 5. 1sas. were SAol7 BAH.
as against SO5SS bales in the preceding week u
total receipts since September 1 are 712s.s asl,a
9.s49,S51 for the period last year. daeTsais
Of 212S44S. Rain has been general during the Vs'A
and in portions OF Texas ard in other sections ts
precipitation has been heavy. Dry veaIhaf .
claimed to be needed IN some districts shsadl'
and bOu weeviIs are complained Of in Texas
FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONDITIONS sal-'
maeher & Co say: The market for foresn sE'
change throughout the week was very naTFl1
Prime bankers demand which week before "a:
closed at near 4S4as. shows a recovery Of ahoui =
cent per pound. selling Friday as high as -
This recovery is not especially significant allnlus
IL might be the forerunner OF slightly higher Ir
In the near future and establish level from y :
the market can more readily decline 20 the sod n
port point as soon as the cotton season o7a7%
While in some parts OF the South the crop scans 2
be little late. yet the opinion among the ezlo.s
OF that staple is that. from the present Gun
within a month active business will SET N F'a
them. The situation in Russia has not imlro''-
Indeed. II seems 20 be about as serious as ever i
while matters in that country remain as unsa.-
as they ars discounts in the principal naaA
centres abroad are more apt 70 advance tnan . = y
cline, and our exchange market, OF eouEss "
have a tendency 20 recover.
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Financial Meetings.
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CURB MARKET TRADING.

The market for outside securities showed Iit.1.
OF Fridays strength and activity. From the OMEN
ing listlessness prevailed. with prices tendiDe,
toward lower levels Even in the mining eroun
Httle interest was manifested. Reactions from a
small traction 10 a point were the rule Greene
Consolidated Copper off ss Butte Coalition |
point and United a. British Columbia was an
exception, ruling frm at the previous high level
Ia the industrials American Can shares were frac-
uohally lower Havana Tobacco was up and
the Mackay -hares were down \ in the hid r-hS
caso Subway was of z. In bonds Allis- Chalmers
IS down 4.
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sEx dividend

the week.. So 55s sos
sales in preceding week 4e97s01
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6oMDS
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4IeseFVe Sl66S2475 $14 122 675 Dec 81 7eo so0
creased $47O5650 o'i'eu states de-
me Following are the changes for the CORE
spending week for the three preceding years: 1908
Loans increased $1.S16,SOO cash decreased 60
1S''1OO' deposits decreased s261s,6OO and surplus
reserve decreased sS.142.45O 19O4-Loans decreases
S1.s612OO. cash increased s131. 200 denosJts -
creased S752.2O0 and surplus reserve increases
SSl9'2SO lsO3-Loans increased ss,sS2. 500, cash
decreased $Ls6s8OO. deposits increased 81 A14 soo
and surplus reserve decreased s2,47SOOO.
the respective dates: On
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