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IN MAKING OVER JAPAN.
lnc~enBruittes, LIKE Derby Hats and Over
Head Cash gyVtems,

hcou Sb1u BlbSotH1s
TIT Japanese aSe terribly In earnest
about all Of their adaptations, and 70 them
there 10 nothing humorous in the applioa-
ton Of Q derby hat TO an otherwise purely
Japanese masculine costume az long az
the hat has ZONE utlitarian value.
The full skirts worn by the sohoolGirls,
the big American bonnete which destroy
the eject Of the gay garments Of the babies
and ell the ~inoongruities of dress % often
seen on the ~Streots. are one Of the crude
points Of the present transition. They
have found them useful. therefore they
cling to them. But their artistic sense
viii In time soften :hs h~SIshnssa of the CON.
trast and adjust them h~srnoniously.
1t 10 really tho superficial things In this
trans ition that jar on ones sense Of the At
ness Of things. and they are inevitable for
the present. l remember one day going
into a shop in Toxic. a a writer in the
anoe for the rapid transmission and change
Of money common In our department stores,
had just been installed. The s~hopkeepers
were beaming with pride and delight in
their acquisition.
A man evidently, the proprietor, APP
Pointing 10 the little brass reoeptaolee for
the money nytnS 70 Inc frc overhead, he
asked eagerly; What is the American
Neither my companion nor myself had
M Idea, In turn We asked two other
Ainer1cana passing by, who themselves
preston OF greater amusement or oop-
tempt than the propietor's az no beheld
four Americans la did not OYen know tn
name q this triumph Of inv0ntion.~
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| NON may be nuused here. ? = In another lstter
penned during his sojourn there no OBJ
serves; "A silent man can ask himself
enough questions In two hours to Keep him
thinking for q month and to make him
wiser for a lifetime" In the autumn q 10
sponsible and promising position in the
rolling mills at Trenton, N. j., was offered
him and he s~traightway Q there and
plunged into iron manufacture with zeal
and intelligence; but a sudden failure OF his
physical forces, OF which a symptom vas
serious hemorrhage from the lungs. com
PEELED him to leave his chosen path and
undergo two years Punishment in the
southern section of his own country and in
the south OF Europe.
Having gone abroad to regain his strength
he turned the force and originality OF his
mind TO that object, neither drifting nor
going by conventional ways. Few New
Englahders OF his day we're accomplished
riders, but fortunately for his future use
fulness as a cavalry officer, Lowell bought
horses and hardened himself to the saddle
on mountain roadsiin Spain, Italy, Germany
and Algiers, making d study OF the horse
and his needs and possibilities. 1t was also
we'll for him that. being frank, catholic
and genial in temperament, he was able
to make friends with Englishmen. French
men, Spaniards and Italians and to gain
considerable knowledge OF languages and
men. On his return to the United States
he accepted a place Of local treasurer on a
rising Western railroad. and while he
discharged its duties resisted the tempta-
ton OF a position Of trust i~nsuring a speedy
fortune IN the East Indies. When he LETT
the Western railroad, after three years OF
service, John M. Forbes, who was long one
of the pillars OF the Chicago. Burlington
and Quincy system. said that Lowell was
fit to be at the head Of any railroad In the
West. Iron was his first love, however,
and after three years of r~ailroading he
accepted the headship OF iron works in the
mountains OF Maryland.
Scarcely had he reached the Border State,
however, when the cry Of a country in danger
came TO him. Learning tha the soldiers
OF Massachusetts, had been fred upon in
Baltimore, Lowell instantly resigned his
place and went to Washington, arriving
on foot, because communication with the
North had been cut of. In a letter to
Senator Summer asking for his aid in getting
a commission in the regular artillery he
thus states his qualifications; Il speak
and write English, French and italian
and read German and Spanish; knew once
enough OF mathematics to put me at the
head Of my class in Harvard, though now
I may need a little rubbing up; am toler-
ably proficient with the small sword and
single stick, and can ride a horse as far
and bring him in as fresh as any other man.
l am 20 years Of age, and believe that 1
possess more or less Of that moral courage
about taking responsibility which seoms
at present to be found only in Southern
officers
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SOME E BOOKS.
Julius Cesar.

The second volume OF the English trans
Ation Of the history OF The Greatness and
Dcclids of Rome, by GUoLIEIMo FERBERo
(Putnams), is entirely devoted to Julius
Cesar. The book conveys a very different
Impression Of the subject from that which
one gets from Mommsen. Ferrero ia more
discrininative, and one feels that he is
more true to life. On his canvas Julius
Cesar is not 30 great II man az Mommsen
represents him. He il a real man, and as
+~cat as real men ever are. He is not
gifted with superhuman foresight.
Nevertheless. il Is frankly conceded in
the book before us that julius Cesar. with
out knowing it, contributed more than all
his contemporaries TO the future of the
world. To the men OF his own day. how
ever, he had. as events shaped themselves.
no remedy to offer. Before the great re-
generation of her society could come
about Rome needed not feats of arms on
her distant frontiers but a great convul-
sion at home in which the forces of disso-
luton, which had been at work for a CEN
tlry. could at last run their course. After
twenty more Years of storm and tragedy,
when all the foremost figures OF the age
had been sent to their graves by violence
and their bones lay scattered through the
lands OF an empire they had done so much
TO extend, a we'll ordered and peaceful world
would reap the tardy fruits of their labors.
Then at last it would be plain that the con-
spirators Of the Ides of March had in part
been right; that not through absolutism,
however inspired, but by the free, patient
and often halting development of innu-
merable small social forces the stormy
morning of the Roman empire would
broaden into a clear and tranquil noon.
The conception of Julius Casar which
pervades and diferentiates the book before
lis is that all his life he was an o%pportunist.
An Incompatible opportunist Ferrero calls
him. Thrown into politics in an age of
unexampled confusion, he had learned by
thirty years experience to adapt himself to
the most widely divergent conditions. Al
ways entirely engrossed in the question of
the hour, he was at the homer Of his
assassination not bordering problems of
internal reorganization, but only consider
ing how he could use the Dictatorship that
ne had won in the civil war to conquer
pnrthia and become a second Alexander.
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tious. he was forever searching. even In the
sphere Of politics, for the power and beauty
which spring from harmony and Valor.'
He had begun life as the champion OF a
distinguished and moderate democratic
party, drawn from the most cultured circles
in Rome, with the hope Of becoming the
Pericles Of his country; and he served his
apprenticeship for the government of a
great empire by studying in the schools of
eloquence. fashion and art. The poverty
OF his family. however. and the growing
apathy OF the upper classes had shattered
this picturesque illusion He had been
forced to incur debts In order to make a
name. and then to sell himself to Crassus
just at the moment when democracy was
fast sinking into the slough Of mob rule.
Exposed to the ~irreconcilable resentment
and relentless persecution Of the nobility.
he had sought to shield himself by winning
popularity among the poor and by procur-
ing the money to pay for it. He had thus
come to employ the multifarious talents he'
had inherited from his patrician ancestors
as a low class demagogue. a persistent in
triguer and INSCRIPTIONS man Of business.
as daring in his designs as he was remorse-
less in their execution" Yet, although at
times in the heat Of the conflict his nervous
and excitable temperament had overborne
the moderation habitual to his character. he
had never allowed any momentary citation
TO tempt him to his ruin. and had always
recovered his bearings before committing
any ~irreparable blunder. The instinct of
prudence was too deeply implanted in his
nature to be uprooted by the excitement OF
many years OF storm and stress.
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4

Now once more when Cesar set out for
Gaul destiny was at his elbow, urging him.
the fourth Caius OF the Roman Democracy,
along the road which its first chief had opened
into the future, to complete the age long
task begun by Caius Flaminius and con-
tinued by Caius Gracious and Caius Marius.
II is, however, characteristic Of the book
before us that its author denies that Cesar
was aware that a fateful crisis in his life
had arrived. Ferrero is convinced that the
only object OF which he was conscious in
going to Gaul was to regain by a few strik-
ing victories the respect which he a lost
among the upper classes by the unfortunate
and inevitable development Of his career.
In Ferrero's judgment the intentions at
tributed to Caesar by Mommsen spring en-
tirely out Of the latter's fanatical admiration
for his hero.
The, way in which Cesar conducted his
campaigns in Gaul shows that he was al
ways impelled to action by some immediate
motive. The law Of life was the same then
as it has been in all ages. Thu great men
of that day were just as ignorant as their
fellows of the historic work of which they
were at once to be the instruments and the
victims. Like all other human beings,
tley were tIe pay tIlnBs Vi "bdt III lhnloiS
we can name Destiny, though 1t is nothing
more than the unforeseen coincidence Of
events, the emergenoe into action OF hid
den forces. which in a complex and disor-
dered society. such as that Of Rome oil of
our W day, no contemporary can be ex-
pected to discern The founders OF the
First Triumvirate-Pompey. Crassus, Cesar
had risen to their high position not through
any superhuman powers Of will or intellect
on their own part but through the singular
conditions of the day in which they lived
because birth and reputation. riches. am
bition and ability, and above all chance,
had placed in their hands a power that grew
resistlessly greater as through the growing
apathy Of the upper classes the old State
institutions orumbled steadily to decay.
"The time, however. was at hand when
their coveted greatness would become re-
vealed in a tragic and inextriosble embar-,
rassment: when it would compel them to
assume labors and responsibilities which
as far exceeded their strength as the honors
they we're now enjoying exceeded their
deserts Dark, indeed, was the issue which
Destiny was reserving for each n Of the
three
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Gen. Charles Russell Lowell.

A book that will be valued by the ulti-
mate historian Of the civil war because
it sets forth the first hand observations,
experiences and comments Of a distin-
guished oficer is the Life and Letters Of
Charles Russell Loveli. by EDWARD w.
EAEBsoN (Houghton, Mifin Il Coz. We
learn from a preface that it was the wish
OF Mrs. G. r. Lowell. who died less than
two years ago. that this sketch Of her hus-
band should be printed, and she also. after
some hesitation, authorized the author to
publish extracts from some Of her husbands
letters. Mr.. Emerson truly says that the
gifts, requirements and powers which
made Charles Russell Lowell a brilliantly
effective soldier would never have been
turned into wars destructive channels
had not the life and ideals Of his country
been imperilled. Lowell volunteered be-
cause in his opinion the civil war was OF
a character which left him no liberty OF
choice. Far removed from the spirit Of
mere adventure or glory seeking charac-
~teristio OF aggressive and political wars
was the motive Of the young men like
Lowell who sought to save from wreck the
American Union and the free institutions
it stood for. His personal friend Major
H.. L.. Higginson, in a note approving the
publication Of these letters, many of which
were written to him. bears witness that
Lowelfs power Of learning and OF alb
stract thought was wonderful beyond
words. and his ambition was OF the lo5tiest
and strongest kind-and he was a real loss
to the world as well as to all his friends
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II is interesting to record that from the
eminepce Of an academic rostrum at COM
menoement Lowell stepped next day into
the place Of boy in a commercial counting
room at Boston TO gain some knowledge
Of bookkeeping and business methods.
The next spring found him a common
workman in the Ames Company's iron mill
at Chioopes, cleaning old cnains or filing
iron, but Studying al that went on around
him-the Processes and details OF iron
wsrhng-with keen interest, Nor this
alone; but also the reaction Of the business
on the human being. workman, boss or
member Of the managing corporation.
"Chioopee,' he told his mother, 'is moi a
distant !9rposS. sky. bot b1us of AEaniem-
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purposes was the cause Of all the AubSe-
quent trouble.
Cesar was quick, however, to apply the
short lived enthusiasm to the ends for
which he had evoked it. During the two
years in Gaulsh had improved greutly IN
health, He had discovered that his deli
cate constitution had far greater reserve
of strength than he had ever imagined and
that the hardships OF campaigning agreed
with him far better than the luxury and
relaxation Of civilian life at Rome. Plu-
tarch in his life Of Cesar appears to say
that his epilepsy. which had grown worse
during his stay in Spain as Governor,
troubled him a good deal less during the
years spent in Gaul. The last named coun-
try. moreover, had revealed to him the pos
session Of another quality which is given to
very few. even among superior spirits--"the
intense and unflagging delight OF the mind
in the work upon which it is engaged. which
seems to make the powers of soul and body.
OF intellect and imagination, ever brighter
and more vigorous as fresh prospects OF
activity are opened out to their labors."
Thus 1t was that after his hard campaign
among the Beige he crossed over into
Cisalpine Gaul not for repose but to I'm
dertake newer and more burdensome re-
sponsibilities. He ~traversed the province,
administering justice and presiding over
meetings OF notables, travelling by night
as we'll as by day in order to accomplish
the more in a given time; he received depun
~tations. inquired into grievances. deter
mined appeals, accepted invitations TO meet
the provincial nobility, read and answered
the reports OF his Generals in Gaul, gave
orders to Italian merchants for arms, horses
and equipment, found recruits for the gaps
in his ranks, attended daily to a huge corre-
spondence from the capital, perused all the
latest books and the accounts Of public and
private doings at Rome, meanwhile enter
tanning the many friends n friends of
friends who came from Rome to visit him.
The exaltation that is natural to every
mar who is conscious of his own greatness,
the glories he had won by his striking vic
tory over the Beige. the ostensible success
Of his pretended annexation Of Gaul, COM
bined with the mere physical pleasure of
being restored to good health, stirred him
up to the exercise Of all his powers In
the midst Of all these distractions Caesar
found time to attend to the main object of
his journey, namely, the reconstruction OF
the Triumvirate. which during the latter
months Of B. C.. 81 and the early months of
SO seemed to be slowly crumbling to pieces,
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Precisely what took place In the dis
cussions at Iucca between Cesar, Pompey
and Crassus we do'no know, but the author
Of this narrative deems il probable that,
CrAssus's assent W CssaF's programme wa
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Nv.

1t is worth noting that in action Col.
Lowell always wore the insignia OF his
rank. He never was willing TO wear n
linen coat or other protection from obser-
walton on the part Of the enemy's aharp-
shooters. Though far from being a dandy.
he dressed carefully and az became his
position. When asked why he wore while
scouting in a country full Of bushwhackers
the crimson sash Of the officer Of tboae
days, he answered; 1T lie good for the
men to see me wear It," In the movement
up the valley on August 10, 1874. three
days after Gen. Sheridan had taken com
mand, Col. Lowell led the advance. and
next day meeting the enemy six miles
north Of Winchester turned them about
after a sharp skirmish and drove them
pellmell through the town. sheridan'e
army followed slowly, and on the after
noo Of August IL had reached strasburS
where the enemy was In strong bositon,
During this movement, though LovelI
was untouched, his horses were shot under
him 30 constantly that IL was with diniculty
that he could keep mounted.
Lowell soon recognized the quality OF
his new commander, as an extract from
a letter written at this time shows, sBy
the way, like Sheridan immensely. Wbsther
he succeeds or fails. He IL the first General
] have seen who puts as much heart and
time and thought into his work as II be
were doing it'for his own exclusive profit,
He works like 8 mill owner or an non
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ILL.

While awaiting the result of his apphca-
ton Lowell did some scouting in Virginia.
and as agent for the State OF Massachusetts,
used his organizing and executive powers
In attending to the needs OF her promptly
arriving regiments. Secretary OF War
Cameron, when he saw and heard what he
had done, gave him a captaincy in the
Third United States Cavalry. afterward
numbered the Sixth. His Colonel was
William H. Emory. whose honorable record
as commander Of the Nineteenth Army
Corps is well remembered. For a time
Capt. Lowell was sent to recruit for the
regiment. but when II was assembled his
energy and ability had been 90 clearly
demonstrated that he was nut in charge
Of a squadron 1.-TWO ~companies). His regi-
ment did active fighting in McClellan'e
Peninsular campaign, and Capt. Charles
Lowell, "for distinguished services at
williamsburg and Slatersville,' was rec
commended for the brevet OF Major and
placed on Gen. McClellan's staff.
In the later battles Of South Mountain and
Antietam he rendered such important SER
vices that Gen. Mcclellan chose him for the
honor. equivalent to a recommendation for
promotion. Of carrying TO Washington and
presenting to President Lincoln the thirty
nine Confederate standards captured in
the two battles named. Soon thereafter
he became the Colonel OF the Second Mas
sachusetts Cavalry. and in May, 1858, with
two Of his three battalions-the first bat
TALON had gone in January to join the
Fourth Army Corps--he went into camp in
Maryland some eight miles northwest Of
Washington. soon after which he was Or
dered to guard the Potomac below Har-
per's Ferry. BY July, 1858, Col. Lowell
had been appointed to the command Of
a brigade consisting Of the Second Massa-
chusetts and the Thirteenth and Sixteenth
New York Cavalry. regiments. With these
during the rest Of the summer and autumn
Of that year and during the following win
ter he had to perform the task OF neu-
tralizing the activity OF Mosby and other
guerrilla leaders in four counties of Vir-
GINA near Washington.
When at last the time OF wearisome
~inaction passed Lowell took the field at
the opening OF Grants Wilderness CAM
paign, and was sent on an important recon-
noissance. He led his command sixty
miles the first and fifty the second day.
In July. 1884. when Early pushed his raid
close TO the very d~efenoes OF Washington,
Lowell, with his little force. seriously
harasSed his retreat. ! July q he was
ordered to the Shenandoah Valley and put
in charge Of a provisional brigade. made
up OF his own regiment and small de-
tachments from others. His " regiment
was good. and he trained the other cav
alrymen 30 that the brigade fought we'll at
Winchester and elsewhere in the valley az
part Of Gen. Sheridan's command.
Nv.
1t is worth noting that in action Col.
Lowell always wore the insignia Of his
rank. He never was willing to wear a
linen coat or other protection from obser-
walton on the part Of the enemy's aharp-
shooters. Though far from being a dandy.
he dressed carefully and as became his
position. When asked why he wore while
snoufin o in n country full ~ hu.k-k.---
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Charles Russell Lowell. who in his short
life OF twenty-n min years vas successfully
scholar, mechanic, railroad treasurer. IRON
master and cavalry commander, was born
in Boston in 1885. He was the son of the
brother OF James Russell Lowell. On
both sides he came of distinguished Puri-
tan lineage, from which he inherited tradi-
tons Of hardihood. of high thought and
of self help. The circumstances and sur
roundings OF his family were such that he
had the good fortune to take from poverty
and from riches their best gifts. He was
prepared for Harvard College at both the
Latin and the English high schools in Bos-
ton. He was but 10 when he graduated
from the university, but he was the vale
dictorian of his class by right of scholar
ship and the speech which he delivered
justified his extraordinary selection Of a
theme. Pacing the grave dignitaries of
the university and the Commonwealth,
he informed them that his topic WIS The
Reverence Due from Old Men to Young
He surprised them with the information
that it is not old age but youth which is
most precious TO a nation. II is for their
ideals-ideals that old men have lost
that young men are indispensable. THE
old men, the men OF the last genera
ton" declared this youth Of 10, cannot
teach us Of the present generation what
should be, for we know as we'll as they or
better; they should not tell us what can be,
for the world always advances by impos-
sibilities achieved, and. il life has taught
them what Scnnn he, such knowledge
in the worlds march Is only impedimenta."
Lowell added that nature, in making
young men the builders of castles in the
air, meant them also to be the architects
and master builders in the great edifce
which the world Ia slowly rearing: out Of
the thousand fra gile chateaux in Spain,
rises the one Gibraltar" In his perora-
ton young Lowell recalled that Apollo
MUS OF Tyana tells us In his travels that he
Jaw "a youth. one OF the blacklist OF the
Indians, who had between his eyebrows
a shining moon" Apollonius goes on to
say that sanother youth. named Mem
non, a pupil OF Herodes, the Sophist, had
this moon when he was young; but, as
he approached TO mans estate. Its life grew
fainter and fainter, and finally vanished
Lowell submitted that. the world should
rec with reverence on zach youths brow,
as a shining moon, his fresh ideals. TT
should remember that he Is already in the
hands Of O sophist more dangerous than
Herodes. for that sophist is himself. 1t
should watch lest. from too early or too
exclusive action. the moon on his brow
growing fainter and fainter, should finally
vanish, and, saddest OF all, should loa We
in vanishing no sense Of loss,
-
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Instruction. Mountain Home, Ell
more County, Idaho.
George SnOwden is Dead.

At the Lone Star lodging house
this morning at nine O'Clock, Geo.
Snowden, the patient who has been
i'll with spotted fever for some
weeks, passed to the beyond.
Snowden apparently had been
recovering from his sickness, but
his escapade OF Tuesday morning,
when with but scanty clothing and
IN delirious condition he wandered
around in the chill morning air
brought on complications that re-
suited in his death.
Snowden was said to own a ranch
on the South Boise river, and Il
have been engaged as miner ir
the upper country.