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The Washington times., 1908-03-18
JAPAN MADE HELPLESS
BY TREATIES OF POWERS
Recent Friction With China Shows Position of Nippon
Among Nations-Unity Of England and
America Is Manifested

How completely Japan has been sur
rounded by the suspicion-bred alliances
Of Western nations, has been illustrated
IN the development Of the fact that
Greet Britain Is bound by some sort
OF diplomatic understanding to guaran-
tee China against the unfair aggrcs-
EIons OF any other power. The fact
has been made public IN rather vague
form as an incident TO the recent
troubles between Tokyo and PelSin
over the Tatsu Maru incident.
Jho NOiId's diplomacy talks less
about the yellow peril" than Il did a
few years ago; for one reason. and
the chief one. because the phrase is
disagTeeable to a powerful and quick
tempered nation; but diplomats point
out with some satisfaction that one
reason why there Is Tess OF the yellow
peril" Is that Western nations have
organized themselves against it's men
ace.
Japans alliance with Britain was
supposed, at the time it was renewed
two years ago, to assure the place Of
Japan as rather more than an indie
pendent member Of the group OF first
pDWNkss bAA JdASAil > dlAADAlACAAS5 II S4Ap
has them, for e career Of expansion are
none the less Circumscribed BY various
conditions.
When there was reason TO fear that
relations between the United States and
Japan might be strained to the break
ing point, It developed very promptly
that Germany was prepared TO lend
her sympathy 10 this nation In case OF
trouble. The Kaiser has long been the
most seriously concerned Of ali West
ern rulers about the menace Of Oriental
competition for world-dominiOn.
England for America.
Then when Japan turned toward her
ally. England, she fould the tie OF re-
latiOnship so strong between the two
branches Of the Anglo-SaxOn race that
Il menaced even her alliance. The
American feet was ordered to the
Pacific, IN disregard Of Japanese sus-
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
Thirteen HduntS
Pennsylvania Man
In Long Illness

wILKEsBARRE. Pa, March Is
Thirteen figured with a frequency to
arouse superstition in the death OF
James NJ. Kline. hOtelkeeper, Of Blooms
burg.
He became III thirteen months ago,
and during his illness consulted and was
treated by thirteen physicians.
Two operations were performed upon
him. and at each the doctors. nurses
and attendants present numbered thir-
teen. In the name Of the place where
the operation took place. Ratd Hos
pitaI. there are just thirteen letters.
On the day Kline died thirteen physi-
clans. members of the Columbia County
Medical Society. took dinner at ms motel
When the hotel closed that day thirteen
dollars and thirteen nickels were IN the
cash register.
He was buried on Friday. the 18th.
and there were thirteen floral emblems
on his coffin.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

capabilities, though with the assurances
that the visit was one OF friendship;
and being in the Pacific, it has been
ordered home by way Of the Far East
but with Japan left out OF the line or
progress.
II is nothing less than a snub 20
Japan, SO dainty that It can't be re-
sented; and it Is still more; Il Is the
1otification that between the United
States and the British Empire relations
are so good that the visit Of friendship
Is to be made TO a PARKWAY colony OF
Britain, r. preference TO Japan.
Now comes the development Of an
undertaking by which Britain IS bound
20 take sides with China in case tho
latter Is the object Of aggression. This
situation apparently fOrecloses posi-
bilty Of serious aggression by Japan
in China field which, without much
doubt. as diplomats view IL, Japan has
IN mind 10 exploit fully. But there VIII
be no clash Of arms over the Tatsu in-
cident. and English influence 3 well
understood 70 have prevented IL.
Japan Being Isolated.
In short. Japan is being isolated IN a
fashion which seems to cut of her op-
portunity 10 reap much OF the benefit
Of the advances she has recently made.
Even Russia has entered into a con-
vention With England which seems GER
tain to remove the possibilities Of Sc
rious friction in Tibet. Afghanistan,
and Persia.
The arrangement indeed. has been
subjected TO serious criticism in Eng
land but on the whole IS regarded Dy
diplomats as a guarantee Of long
term of comfortable relations Tbs
peace pacts OF the East appear direct
ed 10 the business Of isOlating Japan,
Just as those Of Europe In recent years,
undur the sEillful diplomacy OF Ed
wari have been aimed at the disarm-
ing OF Germany.
Japan and Germany are regarded as
Che two prime menaces to world peace
and in each case Britain IS credited
with managing the diplomatic situation
10 prevent either Of them breaking the
peace Looking on these things. diplo-
macy incIines to the belief that ths
outlook for settled and safe interna-
tiOnal relations is better than tOT q
long period in the past.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
REFORM IS PLANNED
FOR PERSIAN ARMY

TEHERAN, March 1s.-At We sterday's
sitting of the national assembly the
minister of war informed the house that
ne intended to reorganize the Persian
army. The whole force. he said. would
be divided into five sections, with head
quarters at Teheran. The other cen
tiers would be Herman, Azerbajdjan,
Khorassan, and Ears. From each regi-
ment one-third of the men will serve
two years consecutively with the colors
and then would go into the reserve, an
other third taking their places IN the
service. The first army corps viii be
enrolled at Teheran.
A commission was appointed to
study the project OF the minister Of war.
Trouble has again broken out at Shiraz.
and the governor has no military force
with which TO restore order. though he
several times has asked for reinforce
mentg
The expedition sent against the insur-
gents in the Feramin district has so far
COST the government $3.50 tomans.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
A School for Meters.

Newton, Mass, is a town well
known TO US. On the edge of Bos-
ton, it has Boston's rare culture
rarified. It's people are not only
erudite, but rich. And they are the
very embodiment of Yankee pa
triotism and courage.
No wonder, then, that they have
taken a step which Washington has
not even considered. What is that
step? 1t is the introduction into
the curriculum of its public schools
of a course in the reading of gas
meters. Only this, and nothing
more. AS the Boston Journal OBJ
serves:
To the normal householder the meter
is mysterious, 0racular. practical. YET
none the less magical, and therefore
best set up in some dark corner in the
cellar; in short, an object of strange.
tneXpiCable suspicion,
For. of course. there is no logical rea-
son to suspect If OF triCkerV or witch
craft. Do not directions how to read il
go with it2 And is not the Official
reader willing to initiate the skeptiCal
and inquisltlve into the mysteries of it?
And doesn't II always seem simple and
convincing brief talk on the sub
ject?
Yes. and yes again; and vet there re-
mains the baseiess fear or Ignorance
which the Newton school authorities
have determined TO eradicate. Presum-
ably, the Newton people have had bad
attacks Of meteritis.
What of this course? There
seems to be none more popular with
the pupils" Indeed" says the
journal, there is a feeling in New
ton that this pioneer course in me
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Answers 20 the above question are
growing in numbers, and II Is possible,
possess some degree OF originality the
following have been selected
when the butterfly marries the bee,
And the owl the pOrcupine;
When churches are built in the sea
And seven times three are nine"
657 F street northeast.
when the Judgment Day comes,
OF course. they re- all shirks;
But well then raise the pay
OF the Government clerks"
T. B. Young.
When Bryan IS elected"
Ni.-nell Hargan Wood.
81 c street northeast.
Just listen TO what I say.
That at present you'll get no more
with the old age Ill to fight,
And prohibition iI sight,
We have no tine TO consider your
pay" Lewis b. Cooke.
% Washington street. Anacostia.
when doctors take what they prescribe
And lawyers halve their fees,
That happy day Of increased pay
Has come. and come TO stay"
83l2 Q street northwest.
When Bryan is in the White House,
the Panama Canal completed, Ben TIL
man ceases 10 scrap. and District citi-
Mae c. 8IcAuchael.
EOS D street northwest.
When, on st. Patricks Day.
No Irish green is seen,
Wen raise the poor clerks pay
But not before, 1 ween.
d. b. Reagan.
500 Fourth street northwest.
when Taft is President"
John q. Schwarzmann.
513 Eleventh street southeast.
when the eagle hollers let me goP'
% H street northwest.
Says Mr. Tawney. who looks SO
I'm going Ter u schooner.
You'll get higher pay on judgment day,
AnC not d-n bit sooner
Charles y. Freeman.
1873 Emerson street northeast.
Some future day
They'll raise your Fay,
II it's only raised a dollar,
And tleu Wen see
If you viii be
Making another holler;" !
Celia Bernhard
1872 Kramer street northeast.
when the Atlantic ocean has a quilt
upon its bed,
And hair commences growing on Fell
lowrockeT's head"
Miss x Z. NageIe.
r.Far u
'svvhen pebbles turn TO diamonds,
And nights turns to days;
When paper turns TO dollars.
The clerks will get their raise"
G. Vaughn Seibold.
27O8 Eleventh street northwest.
when Roosevelt gets his third term"
Edna G. Poole
Station F. Piney Branch road, Bright
wood.
when the washington Gas Company
-'"'-' ' Fred Williams.
60 Franklin street. Anacostia.
when the nightingale stops singing
And the hooking birds wear vests,
And the sun sets in the Faster. skies.
And rises in the West"
$50 Massachusetts avenue northwest.
when Washington becomes a pro-
hibition town" George Y. Seitz
1923 ontario avenue northwest.
when the railroad to the moon IS
built,
And the Panama Canal is dug:
And Improvements made in the Bright
wood line,
That Will be time enough"
Charles H Flynn.
COS Park road northwest.
.aXNhen ritizan hrNs q r,olicernan
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
VIII You Speak for the PoorP

up Sunday morning collection
chdrens Sunday school invited suffering
little destitute
Society. Epworth League or Young
Peoples IS urged a
Your union should
fraternaI is naturally interested
you belong any organization helm
helpful the community TO "a.
lieve, befriend. and upbuid the needy
Address Joint Finance Committee for the Asso-
ciated Charities Citizens Relief Association Committee on Pre-
Of Consumption
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
Dancing to Death;
Actress Mother
Appeals to Court

NEW YORK. March 1S.-Miss Maude
Fulton. a dancer. vino FOR two seasons
has been deIighting audiences at the
Herald. Square and Casino Theaters,
viii be forced TO qui. the stage II a re-
markabls action brought by her mother
succeeds.
The young woman, unknown 70 the
audiences who have appIauded her, has
been in a serious physical condition as
the result of appendicitis and its at
tondant operation. All appeals to Miss
Fulton herself have been in vain, hence
her mother asks the court 20 restrain
her from appearing on the stage.
When Miss Fulton came TO New York
several seasons ago she was unknown.
After a long and hard struggle she
made a nit on the night The Orchid
opened at the Herald Square Theater
last spring. a few months prior 20 the
opening, while Miss Fulton was dane
ing in Mile. Champagne" on the New
York Theater roof, she was taken with
appendicitis. and DR.. c. J. Groeller,
OF z2t Fast 146th street, was called
to see her at Bellevue Hospital,
where she vas a charity patient.
Or. Grcller was lTlei4d OF MIS- = w
Brandon. mother OF the girl, and had
been asked 70 keep an eye on her health.
A few weeks ago he performed an oD-
Grafton.
Miss Fulton had not regained her
strength before she began rehearsins
for ''Funabashi," and after that play
failed she signed for vaudeville. Her
first appearance on the variety stage
vas made at the Colonial TheateT Mon
day night.
Dr. GrOeIIer says that another year Of
dancing would cause Miss Fulton s
death. Miss Fulton says she intends 10
go on dancing, ard doesn't believe the
courts can stop her, as she is Of age.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

when he needs him. you may get your
raise. Bessie q. Phelps.
enough to pass the bill"
HyattsviIIe, Nd.
When shllings and the audit sys-
tenn meet gain" r. L. Brown
sos Seventh street southwest.
When In God We Trust comes on
the coins again"
George 7. Bateman.
10l6 Georgia avenue southeast.
when ! get a job" l.. s. soper.
$40 Eleventh street southeast.
when the women begin to vote"
Miss Belle Stanton.
81 c street northwest
When lobbyists come to push your bill
With elOquence, like trusts, make
way;
The House and Senate on the hill
Win gladly raise your pay"
$50 New York avenue northwest.
when Congress lessons the pay of
its own members Joseph DarnaU.
1Gls Fifteenth street
when it SHOWS in August"
28 Twelfth street northeast. '''e'
when statesmen all grow big enough
10 manage that Do unto others prob
lem"
William a. I,arkin.
$50 New York avenue northwest.
when they ars consistent enough to
admit that the same conditions that
justified an increase in their own sala-
ries applies 10 the clerks"
William P. Doyle.
SIS Sixth street southwest
when Zen dimes with Booker at a bar
becue OF feast;
When the sun rises in the west and sets
in the east"
John Absolute.
1908 Park road northwest
when the Panama canal is com
pleted." w r. Richardson.
70T Twenty-SecOnd street northwest
day sun,
And night turns into day;
When rivers run up hills,
Then Congress will raise their pay"
J. SydEor Olirf
when the Congressional scion
Obeys the Golden Rule:
When the lamb lies down with the lion.
And Truths Temple the frequented
school,. Bradley IIeyI
3l2 indiana avenue northwest,
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
CLAM AND RAT FIGHT;
FORMER WINS VICTORY

VINELAND. n. J.. March 1S.-When
James Lesg opened his restaurant this
morning he found a large rat dancing
around the floor with a clam hanging
20 one foot. The rodent was crazy with
rage and pain and put up q lively fight
before IL was killed
The CLAIMS shell had to be broken
with A hammer before the rat could be
y.a11zead
The Washington times., 1908-03-18
WITHOUT DOUBT.

six young men have ordered violets
for that girl today" remarked the
florist
Great competition for her hand.
take it %
Sure And that kind of competition
IS certainly the life OF trade, ''-Ex-
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Government clerk met Representative Tawney
Appropriations day proper
pocketboo Uncle employees reasonably hope
higher salaries
Said Tawney as he Tanfo
Congress viii the pay of Government
Of atmosphere
his Of
What of the
your Editor Washington
twenty-five words All replies MUST
address
accepted saturday
submitting the best reply will be published Sunday
time
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

When Pan-American matters are at
the front, they just can't get along
without their old friend W. L Buchanan,
and so they just don't try to.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Honestly. that Haitian situation is
hardly less barbarous than II the tuf-
bulent little republic were section OF
the Iynching belt OF the United States
This great and powerful Government
ought to step right in and restore civ
iHzed conditions.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

BY the time Senator La Toilette had
rot loaded for action. he discovered that
the target wasn't there. But he went
right on shooting, anyhow.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Secretary Taft didn't need 10 explain
that he kissed the BlarnY stone un-
less possibly on the theory that he owed
IL to raat famous geological specimen
to clear away any suspicion that per-
haps the Barney stone obtained its viz
tues by kissing Secretary Taft
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Souadrons and fleets Of warships
which happen to be skating around the
high seas with ambitions for trouble
are notified not to get tangled up with
Admiral Sperry after he takes charge
of the American fleet He has dys-
pepsia. and is known in the service as
Vinegar Bill"
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Twenty-four breweries in St Louis
have shut down. but it isn't because OF
the activity of Congress in the direction
of preventing the shipment Of liquor
into dry districts.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

Grover Cleveland is seventy-one years
ola today. but in a recent article he
nroved that there's nothing 20 the Osler
theory by writing another sentence,
longer than any he had ever produced
before. and believed 10 be the largest
in q ptiYIty.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

If the Hon. Tim Woodruff gets
dropped off the twenty-third story Of
New York politics. we hope he'll leave
the address Of his scenic painter, so that
the next manager may be able at least
to occasionally illuminate and cheer
things even as Tim has been wont to do.
The Washington times., 1908-03-18

When a citizen an:.s q policeman
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-29

And now it is announced that the
Waldorf hotel in Fargo is to have a
fifth story added with thirty more
rooms-and this following the build
ing of that great hostelry, the Gard
ner, which will open the first of the
year. The straws indicate the rapid
growth of the state. Fargo has for
a long time lacked hotel facilities.
All the larger cities in the state have
failed to keep pace with the devel-
opment of the state in this regard.
Bismarck has doubled her hotel ca
pacity in the last two years. 1t must
be doubled again soon to accommo-
date the, travelling public. The peo-
pie demand comforts, even Injuries,
nowadays and only those cities will
receive and retain the crowds that
make provisions for the comfort of
their guests. .a..r
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-29

( At the forthcoming meeting ( of
railroad men in Grand Forks, Hon.
l.. B. Hanna and the Republican
candidate for governor, Hon. c. A.
johnson, will be the principal speak
;ers. Mr.. Hanna will address the as
ISOLATION on the progress of the great
railway systemss in the nation and
Mr.. Johnson Will cover more partic-
.ularly, then development u in North
Dakota. Truthful subjects, these
The independ enee, Of the people and
the railways is,,a theme that should
receive more attention from thinkers
and less attention from theorists and
selfish politicians. The true rela-
ton between the producer, the ship
per and the pubic carriers is one
that should be studied with reason,
not with prejudice. The time is COM
ing when the economic question and
transportation problems will be dis
cussed with fairness and explained
with honesty by the leaders in poll
tics-the ambitious for Office The
time will come when the corrupt use
of money, the appeal to the prejudic-
es, of the narrow-minded and the
pandering to the weaknesses of the
vicious and .lawless, elements of hui
mainly will be thing of the past
There are unmistakable signs of an
awakening of the public conscience
and the adoption of higher ideals.
Hasten the day. when there shall be
a more pronounced appeal to rea-
SON."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-29
aEMsERl OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAFT, THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE

TAFT, THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE.
The coming Of Secretary Taft to
the state is an incident in the cam
paign that North Dakotans will APP
preciate 4
The fact that this state is over
Whelmingly Republican and that
there exists not the slightest encour-
agementl for the friends Of Mr.. Bryan
makes the coming of the Republi-
can candidate for the highest Office
in the land especially pleasing.
While the presence Of Mr.. Taft is
Inspiring it is not his personality so
much as his good, sound sense. as
disclosed in his public utterances,
that makes him the ideal. candidate.
North Dakota is essentially an ag-
ricultural state, and although Mr..
Taft will not, in mis- brief trip from
Grand Forks TO Fargo, see very much
of it, like Mr.. Roosevelt, he is lib
eral absorber of information-a stud
en- of the present, as well as the
past conditions of the country.
Mr.. Taft is making a tour of the
middle west to more thoroughly &C
quaint himself with the conditions
OF the actual producers and through
their representatives learn of their
needs.
F.I r - Is
Broad minded, big in intellect as
well as physiquqe, Mr.. Taft combines
to an extraordinary degree those
qualifications that characterize the
statesman.
Taft is honest. ...." Il
Taft is sincere.
Taftis fair. ~ ts 80
It may be added that Taft is, with
al, human.
Taft is real, he is neither dream
er nor a theorist. He is a jurist,
whose record while on the bench
does not come UP to haunt him now.
AS a diplomat in the settlement of
some of the most intricate national
and international questions this ma
tion has ever been called upon to
solve, Mr.. Taft distinguished him
self. Certainly no man could, by ed
ucation, experience, tact, and re-
sourcefulness be better qualified fol-
president of the United States than
William H. Taft.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-29

dends of four or six per cent. The
mine OF which / write pays yearly
dividends equal to- fifty per cent on
the capital Of the Steel Trust; or q
half billion dollars yearly.
"Such mine is Americas wheat
hard and soft and semi-hard, red
fife and blue stem and Turkish red
and durum, and all the subdivisions
and crosses and recrosses Of these,
which have SO multiplied that thor
oughbred or pedigreed wheat today
must be named and catalogued by
numbers as pure blood stock is reg
istered.s .@,s, 2.y~ss.-,,. t.G.gs@r J.,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-29
THE REAL GOLD NINE.

In the October number of Outing,
appears an interesting article from
the pen of Agnes G. Liant, on liar
yesting Of Wheat" An excerpt will
be OF interest to North Dakota agri-
cuItrists: .ss.
. IT I should tell you OF new gold
mine which yielded more gold in
single year than Alaska has yielded
In all the years since gold was first
discovered there-=cans you imagine
the stampede of people from town
and country, from the big city and
the village hamlet? I once had the
luck. or the i'll luck, to be present
In such stampede to one of the
minor gold fields was on one of
the first trains to enter the new
camp. Men and boys climbed in the
engine, on the cow-catcher, on the
coal tender. Talk Of standing room.
The train was packed literally two
and three feet deep; for men, and
women too, crowded from the inter-
Tor of the cars, clamored to the
roofs and perched on the trainmen's
planking, ont-hooting the engine,
shouting themselves hoarse, as the
train whistle announced the begin
ming of the journey to the gold
mines. Yet that gold camp had not
produced ten millions Of gold in a
year and Its total gold production
since has not reached forty millions
s.If should tell you land prove up
my telling IF gold mine that pro
duced more gold In a single year
than California and Nevada and Ari.
ona and Alaska have produced In ali
time, what kind of a fool would you
think yourself for not knowing about
that mine? What kind of foo
would you think yourself for not in,
vesting In that mine, for not getting
\ in on the ground door and backing
up the engineers RHO exploited i
with salaries that would put ths
Steel Trust To the blush? The Stee
Truet has d capital Of a billion plus
and thinks it does well to<pay divi
n \
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-29
!. What MOTHER TRIED TO MAKE

CBy j. S. Knauss In fnneapos Tribune. .#ss4 s
Our political with stake
Has been dwelling the good which
&A NAL 4ss& i
While his stomachs always freak
think prevaricaHon uge weak .
he'd
: He'd oratory sions true, sad;
antique angel cake
make"
: We believe about it for the time $
in
prime +;%@|t
spoiled plum butter; dell"
the kettle
Sure mother persistent with mighty pluck
if favored simply luck
Yes We've recollection that panic couldn't
All conglomeraions which
There that Ajax heavy lance;
There hash that to fill glance
And the cheese ablebodied and the
Corbett the butter up strife
: These other things inclined awful sin =
getting thin
You talk Of foods ambrosa sentimental sake
only of what mother
resemble they eat
And we're neighbos diet
crabs
tell their methods in their
: failure begun
defeated couldn't
laid dumpings that
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