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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
Return Of. the Dolphin.

The United States ship Dolphin. on which
Secretary Metcalf and party made their
recent cruise of inspection Of naval sta
tons In the West Indies, has arrived at the
Washington navy yard and will be put In
condition for the transportation of ofacials
and foreign visitors to and from the James,
town exposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
Gone to ANNAPOLIS.

Company H, 4th United States Infantry
in command of Capt. G. H. B. Smith, left
the Washington barracks at 6 o'clock this
morning for Annapolis, Md, to engage in
target practice 1t was stated at the bar
racks this afternoon that the company
will probably be engaged before the targets
for the next eighteen days. when the re-
turn to the barracks will be made. Com
pany G, 4th Infantry, under Lieut.. Bonif-
fon, will follow Company H, and will con-
tinue at practice for the same number Of
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
Fast Antwerp-Bruss Line.


ANTWERP, April S.-The abandonment
of the famous proposed electric railway be-
tween Antwerp and Brussels Is explained by
Gle announcement that the state railway
has nearly completed arrangements for
special mile a-minute service between the
two cities on new tracks. 1t is now realized
that the government feared the competition
of the electric project and consequently
built a new line. which will shortly be put
into operation. The hopes entertained by
foreign companies for concessions and sup
plies are accordingly dissipated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
THE LESLIE MURDER CASE.
Prosecuting Attorney Occupied Today
in Closing Argument.

CHICAGO. April s.-Attorney Zoos occu-
pied all of today in the trial of Howard
Nicholas and Leonard Leopold, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Margaret Leslie
the actress.
The states attorney will make his clos
ing argument tomorrow, and the indications
are that the case will so to the jury late on
Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08

), Secretary Garfield Of the Interior De-
artment has awarded to Darnell & Jones,
a local firm, the contract for remodeling
the plumbing of the Government Hospital
for the Insane. Their bid was S., O64 There
were four other bidders. The work will
commence after July 1, when the money
becomes available
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
Downtown Temperature.

The temperature recorded today by Feast
Co.'S standard thermometer was as fol-
lows: am, 43; II noon, 81: 2 PM, 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
TWO MILLION FIRE AT HARDIN.
The Mercantile Suburb Swept by the
Flames.

HARDIN, Manchuria. April S.-The mer-
camille suburb of this city, known Fud
cadam, in which many large warehouses
were situated, has been destroyed by fire.
The burned area covers almost square
mile The loss is estimated at $2,GOO,GO
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

out in front, but the saloons and the
markets made the finest show. Ny, but
our Butte markets were worth trip to
Montana just In themselves
I'm the first place they had masses of
green fresh from the canyons for back
ground. And against this background
were whole deer, sheep. bear and strings
OF game birds.
But It wasn't only the business firms
that Imported trees to town. People ussA
to buy them and set them UP in their
yards. especially for the Fourth of July.
THAT was the greatest treat you could
give the children. Buy 'em an evergreen
tree just of the mountains and you'd
make 'em happy for month.
why. I've seen two or three children
trying TO crawl in under little tree moi
more than three or four feet high that
made a patch of shade about as big as
my handkerchief. They had all their
truck with them and were pretending to
be having a picnic.
THAT was before the street railway
company ran out to a place where er
are some real trees alive and growing.
Since folks can get out to the trees there
they don't set up the cut ones the way
they used to.
but don't think I'll ever see q Christ
mas tree without 1t calling up the pic
ture OF those we used to have sticking up
all over town to celebrate the Fourth of
July"-Washington Post.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17
HOW THE JAPANESE WORK.
They Have Sort Of Perpetual No
ton, With No Sunday Rest.

In Japan Sunday Is not regarded and
the mills do not stop for the day. The
majority Of the mills have two holidays
the lst and the 18th. In many mills
the engine starts at 6 o'clock the morning
of the second and runs continuously
until 6 o'clock the morning of the 18th:
the 18th and runs continuously until 6
as near perpetual motion as men AM
nlacn.nes can stand. No stop is made
for dinner, the hands taking 80 minutes
for dinner in rotation. and spare hands
taking the place Of each batch. Each
operative works from 6 o'clock to 8
and the night shift comes on at o'clock.
Thirteen to sixteen twelve-hours days
on a stretch necessariiv makes the hands
slower am less efficient. Though they
do not observe the Lords rest day. a
good number OF the mills have. by ex-
perience, come to see the material good
that comes from having one dav in sev
en- for rest. and one of the largest groups
or m lis observes the 4th. II. 18th and
18th Of each month. but do not. as GUS
the previous day for rest also. These
iour rest days are utilized bv the man
agement to overhaul and clean macnin-
cry. check up results. instruct green
hands in regard to their duties. etc. The
national hoiisays. of which there are
that even in the mills making practice
of stopping only two days for rest the
olidays effect a stop OF one or two or
more days per month.
The hours of WORK and the number OF
rest days vary with the locality and the
mill. Each mill has its own system.
and though they work together in some
RESPECTS through the Japanese Cotton
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17
JAPAN,s RICHEST MAN.
Toraaosuke Furukawa. 8 Student at
Columbia, Owner of Great Mines.

Among the gifted students in Columbia
university is Toranosuke Furukawa- a
young Japanese Of engaging manners.
win millicBs of dollars az his command.
AYbea se reaches his majority in 8 few
days he VIII become sole possessOr, man
agcr. and director OF the largest mining
interests In the Oriental world. Already
his friends are calling him the Rocketel-
Ter OF Japan.
The young man IS finishing a course n
mining and metailurgy. Save for the
color Of his skin and the raven blackness
OF hts hair. he could hardly be distinst
guished from an American student. he
has the unmistakable Yankee college air.
with q confidence and personality that
belong particularly 20 the New York
type OF university man. His clothes are
cut Just right, and any one can see
af q glance that he is q man OF fashion.
with well bred self-possession, and is
The name Furukawa in Japan has long
been associated with the enterprise and
wealth Of vast mining industries. 1chibel
Furukawa, the elder, founded the hou. e
but hls mind SCARED beyond the mere
routine Of daily business. he thought OF
the vast treasures known 70 be IN the
earth IN Kippin. ana waE convinced that
they should be mined BY up-to-oate meth
30 he resigneo his position az the bank
and went I'D into the mountains 70 the
mineral deposits near the historic town
OF Nfkko. He soon mastered the crude
mining methods followed Tor ages ac-
cording 20 traditional methods. ano was
sure that 8 fortune could be made by
introducing up-to-date methods. That
was tilirty-one years ago.
He Immediately founded the FurukaWa
Mining company. and presently became
the head OF JsDan's greatest commercial
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17
CHRISTMAS TREES IN JULY.
Butte Used to Set Them Up for tn,
Glorious Fourth.

Glorious Fourth.
The man from Butte, Mont, stopped to
look at the Christmas trees stacked up
outside the grocery store.
Well well" he said, those make me
think of Fourth OF July at home.''
You mean Christmas. don't your
Il mean just what said. They make
me think of Fourth of July.
Butte q great old town. you know,
but 1t ain't the kind that blossoms as the
rose. No, sir. 1t amt. Fact is. there 8
their darndest for more than twenty
years 70 raise even a tree.
!, They didn't insist on any lofty, spread
ing giant, either. Just any little mean.
err cry thing with leaves on 1t would have
half uckled 'em TO death.
Butte folks. ain't the kind that give up
easy. so We nave got few trees out
there now, though you might not think
nucn OF them at nrst signt- But UP 10
few years age tree was as good 10
Butte eyes as water is TO thirsty man
And SO II happened that II we wanted
TO spread ourselves the first .>sing we
from lie canyons. fifteen or twenty miles
away. Every holiday that came al z.
Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July.
Miners Union oay-every sort OF special
ooca asion--the wagonloads of trees came
rolling into town. and for once our streets
were lined with them.
You folks down East here decorate
with bunting and Tags and lights. But
decorative thing in Butte was a tree. So
trees were what we We're set on having
I'VE didn't throw them away as soon
as the immediate festivity was over,
either. They were planted firmly in
place. and just as long as there was a
suspicion Of greenness about them they
we're kept there.
'.Ali the business houses set the trees
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17
Fig T-Dumpins Cart with box lowered

mastication, as the dripping logs slip up
its Shiny runway and disappear from
sight in the hungry NAV of it's wide
front door.
IL was this mill that started all the
trouble.
Wherever there is saw mill there is
mill wood for sale; where there is such
a chance as this to save on winter S
fuel there Is work for the small boy.
and many an afternoon that might better
be spent at play, according TO the boys
fancy. must be spent at the drugery
OF piling dripping wood full of splinters
into even rows along the fence or up and
down the back yard. Put TO dry, 1t
makes excellent fuel for the kitchen
stove, though an awful chore for the boy
who must needs keep the woodbox fun
on wash-day.
The Randolphs had ordered six loads
OF this stuff as Harry called il, and
he and his brothers, Penryn and Man
tell, better known in Boydom as Duck
and Cherry, were due to pile Il up. Har-
~ was the oldest OF the three. and held
the dignity Of his house in the nickname
Ran"
L don't care" he said to the mixed
crowd OF boys that had come home
from school with him on the way TO
some fun after he should put his books
away. ITS goin' 10 spoil everything, and
I've got to stay home and work on this
old wood and can't go long" He was
plainly angry. and wished that the old
mill would fall into the river "or any
thing SOS it wouldn't send him any more
OF that dirty old stun TO pile"
Barnes Bluff was what Is known as a
"Swede" town; most of fits inhabitants
were not more than a generation from
Christiania or Stockholm or some other
town OF far of Scandinavia. and two
boys at least of this gang were of this
extraction. Swan Heistrom was the next
speaker. and his idea showed that he had
even in the short time he'd been over
learned some Yankee tricks.
AYE tai you" he said in a sing-song
voice. his round blue eyes gazing widely
out from under a shock Of yellow hair
straight as a string. Aye tai you vot
We kan du. We slxal max house outa dees
wood. Aye tai you ] saw fallar max beeg
house outa dees wood all roun an nice
an We all vent int an twas fine"
This statement was hailed with delight
by the rest Of the boys, who all remen-
bered having seen houses built In this
style.
Just the thing. That's nne. Say we
make one" shouted the boys, and lay
ing books aside, forgetting the other
sport tfey had Intended to 90 about, they
started 70 work az Rams direction.
First they made circle OF wider pieces
the wood was aIl inch stuff
or eighteen feet In diameter apd
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

Barnes Bluff isn't much OF & city.
though & Is quite town. and growing,
100. A Few years ago you couio have
counted its factories on your nngers'
ends. but now the river front is lined
with them, and all busy.
There's the machine shop with its I'll
OF interest and wonder TO the small boy,
though a man might spoil some OF the
glamor the younger generation weaVes
about by saying the machinery was un-
ooubtecly used in the manufacture OF
the ark, and he might even show signs
Of the food itself on some OF the more
vacant parts Of the machine. supposed TO
be polished. This shop repairs thrashing
outfits and does such odd jobs OF repair
ing as the nerve Of TIE foreman viii al
low him TO attempt with the means al
hand. Once q week q little blast furnace
IN q rear shed feebly blows out smoke
and allows the appellation Foundry to
appear over the shed entrance. Once in
a while il viii melt iron. and, on rare
occasions, il is supposed. a casting.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

real iron casting is made. This is, az
you NAV imagine. one Of the Oldest es-
Establishments in The town, having is
origin, suppose. in the old DAYS when
steamboats, were less Of an event on the
upper Mississip and repairs more fire.
quent
Filling the few hundred feet nearest 10
this shop. or either side. are two large
Touring mills. the one upstream, and 70
cur right. as we face the town from the
river. old; the one down stream new and
modern.
Beyond these are few warehouses
leading up stream and filling the space
OF several blocks and then steamer
landing
The railway tracks, skirting the blUn
st the left, from which the town derives
its name and running between It enc
t:le river, runs along I'm front OF the
buildings just described. and at the
steamer landing, or just beyond, loses
Itself behind a new set OF factories and
manufacturing plants which have sprung
up OF late along the river front. at the
instiGa;ion and encouragement OF far
seeing and widely advertising CONNER
cisl club.
The factories continue for half a mile
OF more, interspersed with lumber mills
and boat houses and landings till you
come into what the well Informed ones
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

First. the waeon frame Is of inch
stuff. and. like Fig. III. The side pieces
are six or eight feet long. more or less.
according to the size of dump box you We
gotten from the grocer's. and three or
four inches wide: the width depends on
the width of this same box B. for frame
and box Shouts be the same width.
'At the front end Of the frame are two
pieces S: the one above for the seat as
the boy here said. and the one below for
the front wheel tripod to fasten to-
Seeing a question in several faces. Jack
paused to draw for moment. then held
up Fig. Nv.
Here you are he said 'the parts YOU
take OF your old express wagon. The
piece L at the top is the one that fasten-
ed the rear axle to the old wagon box.
and below is the tripod that fastened
the front wheels: (t) turns in the bolt In
the middle to steer.
.T know" spoke up Ran; that's the
way they are on my wagon"
''Al right. and since that's understood
we'il go on"
"The pieces A are connected at the
back end by a cross-piece ], and now we
bore the holes and put in the back
broomstick at td) few inches from the
rear end. Now look at Fig. I. again.
set your DOx Wnefe you want 10 on
A. and mark where the holes for the
upper broomsticks (al viii come. c
should reach from the broomstick (d)
we already have, into almost the middle
OF the box. Where d goes Is not 50
important, so it's longer than c and not
in position to get in the way of the
other pieces to keep the box from lying
fat.
BE sure you bore the holes for all OF
these exactly opposite. and then cut the
supports c and d OF inch stun two and
a half or three inches wide.
'"Then make the two push pieces e to
reach from Cs top broomstick to a little
beyond the end OF the box. and OF the
same length. Bore the holes for the
broomsticks a little large and put the
stick + in It's position with small nails
to keep the pieces e In place from slip
ping in and out. Fig. v shows how the
crank Is made and how to fasten the
rope r, which Is now put in place and
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

dynasty. Today the company produces
one-thfrd Of ell the copper mined in Ja-
pan. and q large proportion of the silver.
coal and coke.
Ichibei Furukawa died in 1903 and two
years later his SON. the student now at
Columbia university. was promoted 20
the presidency of the company. which is
capitalized al s2.500.000. Instead Of begin
ming a season of riotous living. the young
man simply paid a visit to Japan and
visited hts great properties. inspecting
the equipment. ge-ting acquainted with
his employees and business representa-
fives, conferring with his advisers on
financial matters. and taking measures
for expanding operations all along the
ifne.
Young Furukawa is doing just what
many other rising japanese are doing
getting his education in the United
States and saturaring himself with prac-
teal IDEAS 10 be used in further de-
velcping llss great mining property. He
the ground Up ana all the science involved
Ia it.-New York Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17
STOUT

the rest were friends Immediately.
And so our friend Jack. holding the
drawing he had finished started to talk
Here's a sketch of wood truck
made first" he began. "and 1 used ii for
a while till / got up something better.
1t was only the frame you see. with the
roller in the middle for q wheel The
roller was Just log of wood with a
broomstick axle at the ends. I'd pile
the wood crosswise between the uprights
you know.
Jack now held up his next drawing as
ehown in the heading of this page.
Here he said. was my next at
tempt which I'll explain later to you
who can't understand 1t from the draw
Ing" and the boys watched with clos
est interest while Jack. as the boys all
felt free to call him. spread out a fresh
sheet of paper on fiat board in his lap
and sketched in silence for some time.
At last he finished and put the draw
ings. properly lettered, in conspicuous
place. There" he said. now to talk
again.
First look at Fig. II. This shows my
dump wagon completed and working or
course, you dubs who he emit any wood
10 haul can find plenty OF other things
TO use 1t for.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

they began making the circle smaller
and smaller as the lengths of the sticks
would permit The top gradually came
together until there was nothing but a
sn all hole.
Some Of the other boys In the mean
while had made an opening In the wall
on one side and made a sort OF an en-
trance. runnig out like a tunnel or the
entrance to an Esquimaux 'igloo."
BY the time this was done the roof
was finished and the small hole In the
center Of the top covered with a fat
board.
The boys were delighted. The house
was ali of fifteen feet in height and
large enough inside to seat the whole
crowd of boys. while the Randolph boys
gazed at it with special satisfaction in
that three loads or nearly three loads
were stacked UP in the house and in the
best possible shape for drying.
This consumed all the rest of the af-
ternoon and the boys were mucn en-
Unused over their work. so much SO that
they met by common accord the next
day to continue the fun. In the house
they all gathered and were having a big
time telling stories and finally conducting
mock trial. when they were inter-
rupted.
A young man who had been passing
through the alley. attracted by the noise
and laughter, stuck his head in the door
Hello boys" he said. as a cherry greet
ing. Got room for another kid in here.''
Yes where is he?" asked Cherry. And
the stranger Joined so heartily in the
laugh that followed that the boys felt
Immediately that he was one of them
Guess I'm It," he said. Got room
for me?"
'Of course. Of course" they all an
wered, moved by curiosity as much as
anything else and made room for him to
sit down on one OF the rude board
seats fixed up inside
i suppose I'm cutting in on the gang
but ] haven't had talk with a good
crowd Of boys for so long that I'm
homesick"
Back home I've got a club OF boys
that l talk to every week and tell them
how TO make things and when / heard
you fellows In here and saw the house
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17

Spipners' association. in publishing re-
ports, etc, they are very jealous OF each
other and keep the details of their busi-
ness methods of operation. etc. q secret
from other mills. This instructive secrecy
as shown in other industrial lines. sucn
as machine shops, shipbuildlng. etc. has
made the offlce or consulting engineer in
Japan very lucrative one. as new pro-
jects cannot copy from old but have to
call IN expert advice to select the ma
cbinery.. etc. A slight Illustration OF this
occurred In my visit, on successive days
TO two mills not over fldy miles apart
The superintendent of one said a GOOD
many erroneous articles were printed
about hours ru nby Japanese mills. thai
the great majority stopped thirty MIN
utes for dinner and always had at least
four rest days month. / was In the
other mill from 11:S0 until / o'clock. and
saw the method OF using spare hands
and making no stop for dinner. and the
superintendent said this was done IN a
good many mills. and that this min, like
most othe' s. only stopped on the first
and 18th OF the month.-NcW York Even
ing Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-17
zee rwo MoRAL srANpARps.
Interesting Extracts From Manu-
scripts Left Unpublished at 1bsen's
noafh

scripts Left Unpublished at rbsen's
Death.
It appears that Ibsen originally intend
ern Tragedy. In a note hitherto IN
puDiisned prefixed to the skeleton of this
play the dranlatist says:
There are two kinds OF moral law,
one existing In men and quite . different
one in women. Neither can understand
the other but in real life woman il
judged according to mans law, just as IL
sne were really man. In this play the
ton between right and wrong the con-
nict between her natural impulses on
the one hand and her belief In authority
on the other brings her into utter con-
fusion.
In our modern society. which Is ex-
clustvelv a male society, woman can
not be true to herself in a society where
laws are formulated BY men and where
fudge and advocate criricise feminine ac-
tions from the mans point OF view Nora
has committed forgery, and she is proud
OF IL. for she did Il out OF love for her
husband, and to save his lfe- But her
the ordinary man to the letrer os th.e
law, and looks at the action viii q
mans eyes.
..she struggies with herself Naadened
by the inexistence Of her belief in au-
thority she loses faith in ner moral
right and in her capacity for bringing uD
her childrer. Wormwood! mother IN
our modern society-there are certain IN
sects which die as soon as they nave
done tleir duty in the propagation of the
husband. children and relations. Once
or twice, womanlil.e- she shakes herself
Tree of the trouble. Sudden return or
the fear and the horror She must bear
1t all alone. The catastrophe approaches
inexorabie. inevitable. Despair. a struR~
gle the end'-Neue Rupdsc.lau.