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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
LAST WEEK A RECORD BREAKER.
IMMENSE TRADING VOLUME is
CAUSED BY DOLLAR WHEAT.
No Market For PIkers, Say Those
Who know-Houses Grow Rich
in Commissions.

Chicago, May 20.-The past week,
with its dollar wheat" has been his
toric one in the annals of the Chicago
board of trade.
While statistics on the quantity OF
wheat which changed hands are not
obtainable, the assertions of veteran
traders that the volume of business
was of unprecedented proportions
may be safely accepted.
There hava been wild sessions in the
wheat pit before, notably when cor
ners" we're being run, when prices
fluctuated more violently. when small
cliuues made or lost-mostly lost-im-
posing fortunes; but never before has
there been broader or better sustain
ed general market.
Never before have grain brokers
done larger business. Hardly house
in town has a sufficient force of clerks
in the pit to fill the orders which are
pouring in from Maine to California.
Nor are there enough wires to han
die the mass of daily business.
The inevitable, therefore, has hap
pened, and only the larger orders have
been considered. In the language OF
the pit, lit is no market for a piker.
Crop reports, private and public, the
solemn verdicts of exports" statistics,
officials and unofficial, crop estimates,
and the cnticing literature of the COM
mission houses who are growing rich
on commissions alone, very noticeably
in detail, but they ar e practically
united in the statement the world can
not grow this year all the wheat it
needs to consume.
Even Liverpool importers, who usu-
ally work for cheap wheat in America,
have bought directly in this market,
precautionary measure they were com
PEELED to take in the face of the GER
tainty that their action would bull
prices still further.
They bought early in the week at
what would now be called bargain
prices. The majority of traders pro-
claim loudly still higher prices, but
take profits on GOOD advances.
The week ending with the indicator
pointing to the success of the bulls,
with May wheat showing a net gain
of 4%c, July of 45sc, September Of
3%c and December of SIC.
Dollar wheat" became an actuality
last Monday, when September and De-
cember options both passed that mark.
Tuesday and Wednesday profit-taking
sales were enormous, but prices reced-
ed very stubbornly and kept well
above the level at which the market
had begun the week.
This week promises to furnish an
other speculative excitement for there
has been no material change in crop
conditions reported.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
BRIDE IN HARD LUCK.
ineonslderats Husband the Cause OF
All the Trouble.

Alexis AIladin, the leader OF the
Russian douma's labor party, was
marveling in New York at the
strength Of the labor unions OF Amer'
lea.
Now that l grasp the size and
power OF these unions" he said, smil-
ing, Il see the point of a story that
l failed to understand coming over
on the boat An American woman
told me this story. She said that
young bride was found one afternoon
crying bitterly in the smoking room
of her club. Why, my dear said an
elderly matron. what is the matter
with your Oh sobbed the bride,
am going to leave George! Dear me,
am going straight back home to
mother What exclaimed the ma
tron, has George already proved I'M
kind? Well, they're all alike, my
But the weeping bride interrupted
her. No she said, her shoulders
shaking with grief. George is a dear.
He's perfect. But that brute OF
Henry Simmons has refused to buy
Mrs. Simmons a new dinner gown
and district No 4 of the Amalgamated
Wives union has been ordered out
on strike'"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

but 1t is not a cooperation in which
the missionary plays almoner In fact,
since the Japanese churches have
their own mission boards they feel
or, at least, an outspoken wing of
them feel-that the latter should have
the entire administration of mission
methods and money, with, of course,
the full counsel of the missionaries.
The Congregationalists have gone
practically thus far. The "Kumiai"
are practically independent. The
American board makes to them an
annual grant of money for a specific
term of years, at the end of which
time, it is presumed, the churches will
have become self-supporting. The en-
tire independency movement faces to.
ward the day when the Japanese
churches will be "self-governing, self
supporting and self-propagating." The
missionaries of the American Board
very generally yield themselves to the
counsel of their Japanese associates.
One man told me the other day that,
in council with the native pastors,
they had assigned him his work for
the coming year. He says that he
finds this relation perfectly satisfac-
tory and that the. attitude of the Jan
anese is in no wise dictaturial, but
that all are together seeking the one
end of the works welfare.
The Japanese Type of Christianity.
All this is no mere racial jealousy
1t goes deep. Are the Japanese quail
fed for ecclesiastical self-government,
as they have proved their fitness for
political self-government? Akin to
this is the consideration whether a
mission land, nurtured by outside
agencies. The native church in Japan
covers the entire empire. 1t has many
self-supporting congregations, and
powerful leaders not few. 1t is said
that in remote government schools
where there was not a single Chris
tian, the students are nevertheless
divided into Uemura and Ebana camps
these latter being the names of the
preachers who are the leaders of two
parties in the churches, whose vigor-
GUS newspaper controversies are fa-
miliar to a wide constituency. The
Japanese church has an established
foreign mission work of its own in
Formosa and Korea.
l have been at pains to inquire as TO
the character of Japanese Christians.
On all sides hear that the intelligent
devotion of Japanese Christians to
the central truths of Christianity is
unquestioned. Whatever the outcome
of the present controversy, the native
church will remain loyal to the teach
ings which it has had from the mis-
sionaries. personally have seen con-
gregations of Christians here, of sew
eral denominational names, whose de-
votion and sincerity was apparent to
any observer. A ripper or more sanity
character 1t would be ha ID to find
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

Copyright. 1906, by Joseph b. Bowles)
Toxic, Japan-That many or most
Japanese Christians say no more for
eign missionaries are wanted in Japan,
and that numbers of the strongest
missionary leaders agree with them,
at least to the extent of saying that
no new forces should be sent out for
the present, is the rather sensational
conclusion to which l have been
forced after six weeks study Of the
missionary situation here.
A grave crisis confronts the mis-
sions in Japan. How serious 1t is
the church people in America have
no conception. That an open rupture
between the missions and the Jap
anese churches has been narrowly
averted, and is still a dangerous pos
sibility, is freely admitted on all sides.
The gravity of the situation is recog-
nized by everybody concerned 1t
affects present religious conditions in
the empire, but, more important still,
it has a bearing upon the future of
Christian missions in almost every
country in the world. The questions
that are up for settlement here and
now will constitute a precedent for
all other mission lands. The very
magnitude of the crisis has sobered
all parties concerned, so that the bit
terness and hostilities which marked
the earlier stages of the controversy
are passing away and on every side
the extreme views are being modified
Japanese Churches Assert Themselves.
The present tense situation has its
tap root in the spirit of Japanese ma
tionalism. This people is exceedingly
sensitive and proud. 1t resents with
bitterness and sarcasm being called
a heather" nation and thus being
classed with the natives of Africa and
the South Sea Islands. Equally is it
averse to remaining under foreign
control and tutelage in its religious
life. The sentiment which caused the
abolition of eXtra-territOrial political
rights to foreigners, and which to this
day leads the Japanese prints to
speak of the foreign communities as
former settlements" is kcenly alive
to what is felt to be an attitude of
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
The Money Devil.

TITS my candid opinion" he said,
that money is infested with seven
devils, and l shouldn't wonder II 70
wouldn't be mure correct. There is
trouble and a world of worry in the
very name of it! When l haven't got
it, I'm worrying as to where III get
1t. and when l get 1t l worry about
what to do with it; If put it in the
bank worry because it don't grow
fast enough, and if l spend it worry
because l got rid of it so soon; so
you see, it's world full O. trouble
anyway you take it! The poor bless
and curse it, the rich don't know
what to do with it; there isn't hand
full of happiness in a ton of it. Here
comes a bill collector now, to get
what little l haven't got Stay here
and entertain him while climb to the
roof!"-Atlanta Constitution.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
THREE COLLEGE STUDENTS,
Two Men and Girl, Drowned in Lake
Washington.

Seattle, Wash, May 90. - Three
young college students, two men and a
girl. were drowned in an accident on
Lake WashingtC%, The two men uCTe
]. P. Gosshorn. a junior CT Stanford
university, and Glen Jacqueth, son Of
a Kilispell (Mont.) engineer, and a
sophomore student at the same insti-
tuition. The girl is Edith Vogt n
junior of the university of Wash
ington.
These three, with Eugene White, an
other Washington university student,
were out in the lake in a small canoe.
when a sudden squall came up and
struck them The canoe filled with
water and sank, leaving the occupants
struggling in the choppy waves. White
almost succeeded in getting the girl
to the canoe, when both the other men
threw their arms around him and the
four sank, White alone coming up.
Three students in a small sailboat
made a sensational rescue. picking him
up while the boat vas going at high
sDeed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

churches.
Where the Conflict Comes.
The paradoxical statement is true,
broadly speaking, that while the rela-
tions between the individual mission
airy and the individual Japanese Chris
tian have been cordial, the relations
between the missions and the native
churches have been strained.
The crux of the question has been
the control of the forces and the
funds. The missionary and his per-
sonal helpers have worked in and for
the local congregations, but the latter
have had no control over them. The
missionary is entirely outside the Ju-
risdiction of the native church. He
works when and where and how he
pleases, or as his mission directs. So,
too, the evangelists employed by the
missionary are governed In the matter
of salary and labor entirely by the
missionary. When it has chanced that
one of these evangelists has received
a larger salary than the regular pas
tor OF the church itself, there has nat
urally been feeling.
1t must be remembered that the
missionary in Japan is not a pastor.
He has no congregational duties and
responsibilities, such as ordinarily are
borne by preacher in America. Ev-
cry congregation has its own native
pastor and officers These may con-
suit with the missionary, but he can
not boss" them. The preaching mis-
sionary's work is evangelistic; he
pioneers Christianity into new places.
In this he is assisted by evangelists,
who work under his personal super.
vision.
Tie money, however, is in the mis-
sionary's control. Not all the churches,
by any means, are self supporting
They must look to America and Eng
land for help. With the control of the
money has gone, to a greater or less
degree, voice in the direction of the
work. Right here comes the rub. The
Japanese want to control the money,
and in some cases the missionary,
too. The talk is all of cooperation"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
lnt,uenee Of the PohtIeIan,s WIfe..

influence of the Pol'tlclan's Wife,.
1t has often been asked how much
influence the wife OF a public man
bears on his political career. This is
hard to estimate; but this much is
certain: The man who comes to Wash
ington, either as a member of Con-
gress or of some other branch of the
government where his position is one
OF prominence, is very unfortunate if
his wife is not one whom he can trust
TO making her way socially. Not nee
essarily being a great social success,
but capable of mingling with the aver
age woman at the national capital
For, in spite Of the fact that small
percentage of society looks leniently
upon the married couple who are sell
dom seen in public together, the aver
age sound American believes in the
comradeship of man and wife. But
when we sum up this question of the
influence of women in statecraft we
pass the judgment that, on the whole,
the influence of woman in statecraft
is for good, says a writer in Home
Magazine. Being impulsive, she is apt
10 make mistakes now and then which
cause the more logical males to laugh
at her. but as a rule she is pretty sure
of her footing before she attempts to
make the jump across the political
stream that divides womankind from
mankind
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
ITCHING RASH 1s YEARS.
Girls Rash Spread and Grew Worse
Under Specialists Care-Perfect
Cure by cuticura Remedies.

When my daughter was baby she
had a breaking out behind the ears.
The doctor said that she would out
grow it, and it did get somewhat bet
ter until she was about fifteen years
old, and after that she could get moth
ing that would drive it away. She was
always applying something in the way
of salves. 1t troubled her behind the
knees, opposite the elbows, back Of
the neck and ears, under the chin, and
then it got on the face. That was
about three years ago. She took treat,
ment with specialist and seemed to
get worse all the time. We were then
advised to try the Cuticura Remedies.
and now l don't see any breaking out.
M. Curley. 11-19 Sixteenth ST, Bay
City, Mich, May 20, 1906"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
Married to 1s.Year.old Girl.

Amite City, Ia, May 20.-Mamie Jor-
dan, a pretty 13-year-old girl, was mar
ried in jail to her lover, who ran off
with her and landed in the parish pris-
on here on a charge of abduction. The
girls mother, had the pair arrested
and the young man, Edward Wolver,
was locked up to await the action of
the grand jury. Finally a marriage
was arranged, and, as the jailer would
not release Wolver, or even let him
leave his cell, the couple joined hands
through the bars and the preacher pro.
nounCea the service.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
Love Ye One Another.

Isn't it the open secret? Little chill.
dren, love ye one another!' 1t is the
universal law 1t is the law of heaven; |;
it is the only law that will make the
earth like Paradise. Little children,
love ye one another!" Neither king
nor peasant, neither high nor low,
neither rich nor poor-only one great
human family, with one great human
Heart yearning warmly over the be
ing IT created, with the one great law
pulsing through it's arteries: Little
children, Oh, my little children, love
We one another!" - Grace Keon.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

AlOnzo H. Evans, Boston's oldest
bank president, at ST, is robust and
hearty, and shows by his own example
the result of living the kind of life
that he prescrbes for the youth of
to-day. Mr.. Evans has the greatest
confidence in the generation of the
present and thinks if they follow his
advice they will succeed. He says:
Apply yourself, young man. if you
would succeed. Work hard, be hon.
est, be truthful be loyal to your EN-.
ployer, save something oHt of each
weeks pay, even if it is little, but,
above all, apply yourself"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
An overslshS

When Chappie got up the Other
morning he wandered around his
apartment in his pretty pink pajamas
the very picture of woe.
Whats the matter, sir?" inquired
his valet.
81 don't know, Alphonse." he groan.
ed; 81 passed a most unhappy night"
klphonse looked him over carefully.
"Oh, SIR" he exclaimed, Il know
what was the matter. The trousers OF
your pajamas were not creased. You
must be more careful, sir. Those
had prepared for you were hanging
across the foot of the bed."-The BO
hemian.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
MRS.NELLlE MAKHAM

A nervous irritable woman, often on
the verge of Mysteries, is a source of
misery to everyone who comes under
her influence, and unhappy and mis-
erable herself.
Such women not only drive hus-
bands from home but are wholly unfit
to govern children.
The ills of women act like fire
brand upon the nerves, consequently
seven-tenths of the nervous prostra.
ton, nervous despondency. tn
"blues". sleeplessness, and nervous
irritability Of women arise from some
organic arrangement.
Do you experience fits ofdepression
with restlessness alternating with ex-
treme irritability ? Do YOU suffer
from pains ip the abdominal region,
backache, bearing down pains,nervous
dyspepsia, sleeplessuess. and almost
continually cross and snappy9 If so.
your nerves are in shattered con-
dition and you are threatened with
nervous proStration.
Proof is monumental that nothing
in the world is better for nervous
troubles of women than Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
made from native roots and herbs.
Thousands and thousands of women
can testify tothis fact.
Mrs. Nellie Markham, of 15l Morgan
st., Buffalo. N. Y, writes
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:--
"I was a wreck from nervous prostration.
LYDIA e. Pinkham's Vegetable Co
herbs, contains no narcotics or harmfu
the largest number of actual cures {
world has ever known, and thousal
file in the laboratory at Lynn, Mass.
Iydia =. pinkham's Vegetable ComDoss
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

During the last year there were ex
ported from Cuba the enormous mum.
Der of 256,738,029 Havana" cigars.
Only about so per cent came to the
United States, the total American pur-
chases amounting to 79,4S3. l25 cigars.
while England took 92,459,6S7. Ger,
many buys from 25,000,000 to 10000
900 and France 100000 to 12.00O.-
600.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

New York, May 2G-oSine hundred
steerage passengers on the Cunard line
steamship Umbria, which arrived here
from Liverpool, were throw2 into a
panic Friday afternoon when an alarm
of fire was sounded on the ship and
smoke poured from the steerage sleep
ing compartment on the starboard side.
Prompt action of Capt. Mills and the
members of his crew prevented a STAN.
pede of the terror-stricken men and
women,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
Shoemaker's Last.

The following is taken from hand.
bill issued by a provincial bootmaker:
The shoemaker is a man of great
learning. He is a doctor as well as
surgeon, for he not only heels but
performs many cutting operations. He
is a fishmonger. for he sells soles and
heels. He is a schoolmaster, for he
gives good understanding. He is
good speaker for he always works
the thread of his argument, wakes
warm to his subject, and holds all to
the last"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

superiority on the part Of the mission
aries.
Underlying the problem, also, is the
ingrained and ineradicable Anglo-SaX-
on sense of superiority to other races.
| myself have seen enough to warrant
the belief that there is ground for the
Japanese sensitiveness on this sub
ject Not all missionaries conduct
themselves toward the Japanese
preachers and Christians as toward
man, brother and an equal. Such
men are few, but they should be
called home. Their usefulness here is
ended, if it ever existed. To this at
titude on the part of certain foreign
ers may be traced the ecclesiastical
inconsiderateness, not to say hostil-
ity, of the Japanese Missionaries not
a few know as we'll as the native
ministry what it is to have their feel
ings hurt.
Church Union Ahead of Homeland.
The upshOt of the matter has been
the growth Of self-governing Japan
csc denominations. The largest of
these is The Church Of Jesus Christ
in Japan which includes all the Pres
byterian and Reformed bodies; there
are here none of the Presbyterian sub
divisions that exist in America. Next
in size comes the "Kumiai," or Con-
gregational churches, with whom will
shortly be included the United Breth-
ren and Methodist Protestants. The
Japanese Methodist bodies-North.
South and Canadian-have been seek
ing consolidation. At first the mis-
sion boards across the water which
are interposed obstacles to this union.
objected, but the Japanese Metho-
dists spoke out so promptly and
loudly that all barriers to the
creation of one Methodist church
in Japan have been removed. The
Protestant Episcopal church and the
Church Of England have likewise
Joined forces here. There is little
doubt that this union movement will
continue, the Congregationalfsts and
the Presbyterians coalescing at an
early date. Many predict a speedy
union of all native churches into one
Japanese Christian church. Certainly
it is the consensus of opinion that the
minute denominational and sectarian
divisions of American Christendom
cannot be perpetuated here.
The present enrolled membership
of the Protestant churches of Japan,
by the way, is about $4,000, the past
year showing an apparent decrease
through an error, 1t is claimed, in the
statistics. Long before the churches
of American got together in New
York in the Interchurch Confer
ence on Federation, there existed
soundly established federal organiza-
tion here. the Standing Committee OF
Cooperating Missions" which has ef-
fected several practical results, In
cluding the production Of common
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
Free Medical Advice

A we'll known London physician at
dinner party one evening was much
worried by one who was seeking gra.
tultous advice. DO you know, doc.
tor said his questioner, Il know a
man who suffers SO terribly with in
digestion that at times he can do
nothing but howl with pain. What
would you do in that case?"
We'll. | suppose" responded the
medical man, Il should howl with
pain, too"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

Twenty years ago the population of
Oklahoma could be enumerated in In.
dians and a few thousand squaw men.
cowboys and cattle kings. III 1890, one
year after the first opening Of Okla,
homa territory, there were more than
10000 people living on 100000 acres
Of land. To-day the white population
may cOnseryatiyely be estimated at
over 100000.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

Fresh salmon are scarce, but the
canned article we have always with us,
and in salad it can hardly be distin-
guished from real simon pure arrivals
from Maine. Mayonnaise is wonder
ful magician in making things appear
what they are not, especially when pig
masquerades as chicken.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23
His 5a.Year.oId Goat.

John P. Ledyard of Clinton town.
slip, Wayne county, Pennsylvania. is
wearing an overcoat the wool of
which was pulled from the pelts OF
the sheep, carded and spun, and the
cloth was cut and the garment made
SO years ago by his mother.
The coat is without rent or break
and as perfect as when made, with
the exception of showing a slight fad
ing with age
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-23

At Krupp's, in Essen, an army of
10000, fed with coal and iron from
vast private mines, turn out engines of
destruction by the thousand. There
are another 1900 men at Lord Arm
strongs works in the north of Eng
land, besides an aggregate Of 10000
more in the titanic government forges
Of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria Italy, Japan and Russia, and
these thousands are quite apart from
armor plate makers and builders OF
battleships.