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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

pertinent OF agriculture. II Is associated
with the ministry of m and It
deals with almost everything that comes
out of the soil. 1t has branches devoted
to insect diseases, to fertilizers and to
stock raising. The nation is doing all it
can to make two blades Of grass grow
where one has grown before, and II is try
ing to open up new areas to cultivation.
Japan has been farmed for more than 1000
years, and 1t is difficult to find much good
unoccupied land. Every available foot
seems to be used, but by changing the hills,
and more particularly by consolidating the
holdings of owners who have small tracts
In the same district, much has been done.
AS II is now, the fields are of ell shapes.
Here one is square and further on is a
triangular patch. The country is made up
OF patches of all shapes and sizes, but
none contains more than an acre or so.
The government has persuaded the farmers
of certain localities by means of the ex-
emption of taxation on their lands for GER
tain time to unite or exchange their hold
ings so that they may make rectangular
fields and thus do away with many of the
boundaries and paths. This has not only
increased the area, but has brought about
better farming and bigger crops. Some
land has been redeemed in the Hokkaido,
or as VIZ call II, Yezo; and there is some
Lands are being opened up In Formosa,
and an attempt is being made to FIJI up
the waste lands OF Korea.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

At present the farming country is over
stocked with people, and most of the
farmers have some sort Of house industry
which they carry on while not engaged
in cultivating the soil. In this way the
winters are not wasted as in our country,
and the nation materially adds to its manu-
featured products.
This phase of agriculture is encouraged
by the government.
Here are some of the occupations that
the farmers follow during the idle seasons.
They mike starch, macaroni. jam and dried
fruits. They manufacture straw braid,
mat facings and the mats used for rearing
silk worms. They make baskets of all
kinds, bags for charcoal. straw ropes, straw
rain coats and straw hats. In many of
their houses weaving goes on and in some
they manufacture silk and paper. Some OF
them burn charcoal, others make lime and
others refine camphor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Japanese Horses.


Japanese Horses.
The japanese are doing all they can to
improve their horses. The emperor has a
number of studs and horse farms, and his
men are importing animals for their i'm
provement every year. He has Arabs,
%trutters, thoroughbreds and hackneys, al
together numbering about 500 stations and
mares. There is now a horse administra-
ton bureau, which is under the control of
the cabinet, with an ex-minister OF state as
It's chief. The business Of this Is to i'm
prove the japanese stock, with the especial
object Of furnishing better animals for
the army. / understand that 1900 stations
OF foreign breed are to be purchased and
distributed to the chief breeding c%enters,
where they are to be paired with native
mares. The Improvement program is to
extend thirty years.
At present most of the horses here are
stocky ponies OF Monaghan breed. They
have been somewhat crossed with Per-
cherons, and as a result they are very
strong and hardy. / see some Of them
hauling enormous loads on carts through
the streets Of the cities. They are always
hitched up singiy, and the driver invariably
walks, leading the horse.
As to imported horses, a number were
brought here from America in 1872, and
after the war with China systematic in
PRODUCTION of foreign stations began. At
present there are 1,s74 such animals in the
various government depots and studs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Personal Aspects of John Paul Breen

PAUL BREEN, the repub-
lican candidate for mayor of
Omaha, is in the prime Of life,
right in the neighborhood of
81 years of age. He is six
feet tall. weighs 100 pounds and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

HERE is enough humor, pathos.
tragedy. excitement and funny
situations in the experience
Of a Boston couple that
came to Chicago TO be mar
ried to furnish material for
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

the United States. The country is kept
hke a garden, and it Is as fat as the valley
OF the Nile. a great part of it. however,
Is covered with forests, much of 1t is noun
famous and. all told, the cultivated parts
are half as big as the state OF Ohio. Never
theiess, this small area is now feeding
more than 50,OOo,OoO people, or more than
one-half as many as We have In the United
States. II produces every year 100, 900, 900
bushels of rye, barley and wheat, $50. 100000
bushels OF rice and nearly 1OO,O 900 pounds
OF tobacco. II grows 56,00O,OOO pounds OF
tea, 100000 bushels Of silk cocoons, as
well as b~uckwheat, millet. beans, indigo,
cotton n hemp. The rice crop alone is
worth 500, oOo, 900 per annum.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

by irrigation. The fields are made at diff
ferent levels, and the water from the hills
is run by canals from one to the other.
The ground is prepared during the winter.
It is covered with manure and made as
level as the floor. Along about the LIST of
April it is broken up with a hoe or spade
and then flooded.
In the meantime the rice plants have been
grown from the seeds in nurseries. They
are taken up and scattered over the water
as needed. Then the men, women and
children of the family tie up their clothes
and wade out in the mud. They set the
plants out in rows of punches of four to
six plants each. They are SO close together
that it takes from 1900 to 5000 punches per
acre. The water Is left on and the rice
rapidly grows.
The planting is done about June. The
rice soon appears above the water and
within a few weeks the whole of the coun-
try is a beautiful green. Almost every
plant is watched. One sees big hated
farmers dressed in blue gowns trotting
along through the fields. II they see a
plant out of shape or not deep enough In
the water, they will reach down and fix
1t and in this way ever rice stalk yields its
best product. As to the amount of labor
required for such cultivation, II you will
imagine one Of our farmers sprouting his
wheat I'm a seed bed, and then setting out
each plant with a dibble and wedding and
eultivating it, you will get some idea OF 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Flowing with Mattocks.

The work Of preparing the land is quite
as hard as the planting and harvesting,
The most of the country is dug over again
and again every year. 1t is chopped with
mattocks, which have blades four or five
inches wide and as long as your arm.
These are so made that the man or woman
who uses them must bend double while
digging. / have seen women with babies
tied to their backs thus working in the rice
fields. Their kimonos are tied up over
their knees, and they wade through the
mud as they set out the plants. 1 know
of no crop which takes so much work as
rice, and this is the money crop of Japan.
II ranks here as wheat does with us, and
japan is rich or poor according as the rice
crop does well or i'll. In times past the
royal taxes were paid in rice, and today
the financiers watch the growth of this
crop as our people do corn, cotton and wheat.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
New Agricultural Societies.

I am surprised at the interest that the
farmers are taking in improved agricul-
ture. They have something like 1900 diff
ferent societies, and new methods are be-
ing discussed In every town, village and
farming district. They are alive to the
use Of artificial fertilizers, and of late
have been importing a vast quantity OF
sulphate of amonia. They understand the
use of manure better than we do, and by
applying them directly to the plants are
able to get better results. Every bit of
stable manure is saved, and notwithstand-
ing the comparatively small number of ami
mails that now used in a year is valued
at almost Sz5, 900, 900. Another fertilizer
which is largely purchased is fish guano.
This is made by boiling down herring for
their oil, the refuse being sold to the farm
ers. Such manure brings in millions of
dollars a year, and just now a great deal
is oming from Saghalien, the lower part
of which island Japan got from Russia.
The herring fisheries there are valuable,
yielding an oil cake which Is shipped to
Japan.
One of the most important fertilizers of
the Japanese farmer is night soil, which
is used to the amount of SIS 100000 an
nuaIly. This is saved In city. village and
country, and 1t has a regular market value.
You can smell the wagons carrying this
stuff at certain hours every night in any
Japanese city, and at these hours 1t is best
to remain In ones hotel. Such manure is
fermented In wells covered with straw
awnings to keep out the rain. 1t is dipped
out in buckets and sprinkled directly upon
the plants. For this reason the average
foreigner who understands anything about
Japanese gardening will not eat salads nor
any new vegetables unless cooked.
How State Helps m
This country has a live up-to-date de-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

,AKA, Japan.-CSpeclal Corre-
spondence of The Bee.)-During
the last two months l have
been travelling through the farm
ing districts of Japan. They
shnnld hn an nhiect lnsann To
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SE VENDE

En- poblado dc Hucares Jurisdiction de Naguapo' un
pedo de apoposto para soares mide
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kspaha frenle del cua recibe saludabes
brisas
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r adecuadas para vvien
da otra para necant la para peonae
con u agibe de mamposera.
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dirigrse
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ReViISta Dc nOdaS

las modaS - reproduccn durante Il
curso De los Siglos como las eetaei0nes
vuelven Il repctirse unas on pos de otras
todns los amos
We'd 81 no, Ia que hoy ocurre cn las
flores EStas 81 han visto prscrlt,S "a
II totaImcnte, Y durante ulgunas tenn
poradas, del pucsto que le corresponds
por su bellcza en- cl adorno femcnino
la los sombreros solo Sc yeian pIumas
pajaros, cntas Y enyolvcntos de ter
ciopclo 4 CASA: muy rara vez algnm
ilor; en- Ia actual primayera } rn cl pro
Ximo yerano no succdcra asi.
Las flores recobraran su range de
principal accesorio On nuestr1 Fombrr-
ros. y i Ia liga para la defensa dc las
ayes. que naci6 baio el patronato de la
reina Alexandra dc Inglaterra, obten-
dra alg1n dcScanso. al cesar en- sns cam
panas para que sean desterradas dc
nucstroS adonoS las plumas y los pa
jaros.
La profusidn de flores sn inmenSa
variedad, son uua De las maragilias Que
actualrncnte nos ofrecc Ia mOda No
SOLO SO unitan dc una manera delicIosa
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tos Corporxciones y empieads1
|oa ramos, sine tambisa para
rcia1tes, indugtrisles y parse
eqocios ~ conocimiento de las
r. puarto Rico sprrhadaa por
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45o 90 1907.
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IoieTfg MareankSa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23
WIPE OUT THE
: R. R. COMMISSION

OLYMPIA, Feb. 23.-Unless
the state supreme court renders
an expected decision within the
next few days the legislature is
likely to make large appropria-
tions for commission which may
later be found to have no legal
existence.
For many months case has
been pending in the supreme court
in which the railroads attack the
validity of the laws creating the
state railway commission.
1t is an open secret that MEM
bers of the commission themselves
are doubtful if the original COM
mission law will stand the test of
the courts.
It had been hoped and expected
that the court would hand down
its decision in the case early in
this legislative session, so If the
decision is against the commission
there will be time to cure the
faults of the old law by new
The decision has not yet been
handed down, and the time is
growing short during which new
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23
|SBAS@NABtt SPORTS
CANADIAN WINS
MARATHON
RACE


(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Feb. 23.-In the
first Marathon race ever run in
the Northwest, William Chandler
Of Vancouver, B. c., won yester-
day against field of SO starters
IN 8 hours, 20 minutes, covering
the last two miles of the 26 miles,
$50 yards In walk.
Cecil, the crack state college
runner, held Chandler even for
over "a miles, but collapsed and
was carried from the track.
Wolfe of Portland took second
place. He started on slow dog
trot at the beginning, and never
changed his pace in the entire
distance. Men swept past him
and collapsed. but Wolfe piodded
on tortoise-like and won second
honors. Arthur e. Edfast of Ia
coma, ran a few miles and then
fell out. After a rest he started
again, but soon had to give 1t up.
The third man In was Spang-
Ter OF the Seattle Athletic club.
More than half of the SO that
started dropped out after few
miles. The track was bad and
the weather miserable.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23
WANT LOWER
STREET CAR
FARE

Six tickets for a quarter and
street railway conductors to furn-
ish passengers with tickets on the
cars-that looks good to Taco
mans who ride on the street cars
and all that is necessary now is
to get the T. r. e p. to adopt
the idea.
OF course there may be some
trouble in this, but the North End
Improvement club demands 1t all
the same. Resolutions were
adopted at the meeting last night
calling on the company to adopt
such a policy.
Now the company does not sell
tickets on the cars at all but they
are kept in some drug stores.
They charge so cents for II
tickets, but three-fourths of the
passengers pay straight five
cents cash fare.
In most cities of 100000 peo-
pie the fare is at least as low as
six tickets for a quarter and this
price prevails even where cleo
tricity has to be generated by ex-
pensive steam plants.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23
Capitol Heights wilt
Be Ready In 30 Days

Probably one of the most inn
portant. real estate movements
made for long time. in this city
will be the opening of Capitol
Heights, which opens to the in
vesting public in thirty days. Sit
uated right in the heart of the
city and also recognized as Taco
mas highest point. the lots will
doubtless find a ready sale,
The tract lies between South
Fifteenth and Nineteenth sts.,
and between Prospect and Pine.
| street is three blocks from the
T. r. & P. company's 18th st. car
line and the Pacific Traction cars
run through portion of the
tract.
The great selling power of
these lots will be their low price
as compared with other land Gin
the heart of the city," and a big
rush is looked for on the opening
days.
(. A trip out to Capitol Heights
repays one many fold for the loss
of time. as the improvements now
going in full blast and rapidly
nearing completion are interesting
to those who are not aware of
how cities are built from the orig
inal rough forest and wild
grandeur.
One hundred thousand dollars
will be spent on turning this tract
into modern lots, bounded by
graded streets, cement sidewalks
and everything that goes with
this twentieth century residential
district up to date. $50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23

1t pays to run out every ball
Init, no matter how easy it may
seem.
"Barn storming" is sport and
every ball player who has had ex-
perience in this line manages to
get more fun out of a few games
than he does during the cham
pionship season.
When the All-Americap and
National league teams were work
ing their way to the coast few
years ago the clubs were scheduled
to play at Cedar Rapids, la.
This city is represented inathe
Three 1 league. The season had
closed a few weeks previously and
as the groundkeeper had not
touched the diamond 1t was natur-
ally rough.
|. To make matters worse, a cir
Gus had used the grounds a couple
of days before we got there, and
it was almost impossible for the
infielders to tell where ball
would bound.
Early in the game someone hit
a ground ball to Claude Ritchey.
who was covering the keystone
position for the National league
club.
Erich" can play a bad bound
as good as anyone, but this drive,
Just as it was about to reach
Claude, hit one of these ruts and
taking a false bound hit him just
above the eye.
Ritchey was blinded for mo-
ment, but resumed his position.
AS he went to the bench at the
end of the inning with beautiful
SINNER" someone jokingly re-
marked: well, 'Rich,' a fellow
needs three eyes to get them on
this ground"
II should say he does" replied
the clever second baseman.5r mo
wonder they call it the Three
league" evTn
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bills may be introduced this ses-'
sion.
Unless the decision is handed
down before the middle of next
week 1t will be too late for any
new laws this session, unless the
house and senate rules are sus-
pended.
Going ahead on the assumption
the law will be upheld the COM
mission is asking for the usual
large appropriations to continue
their work for the next two years.
OF course If the decision comes
against the commission after the
legislature adjourns, the body will
simply go out of existence until a
special session or the next regular
meeting of the legislature had
passed a remedial measure.
The situation is serious in view
of the apparent desire of the pres
ent legislature to give the COM
mission additional powers so it
will have charge of telephone and
telegraph regulations as well as
grain and hay inspection in addi-
ton to their present jurisdiction
over transportation lines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23

When doctors disagree they
usually call it heart failure. l
came near having heart failure
the other day when l saw Katie
walking down Pacific avenue with
a guy that works in a bowling al
ley. l hadn't seen the girl for
week. / guess I'll have to play
closer to first, hereafter. Love
is a strange thing after all.
asked our head clothing man his
definition of Glove" and he said
it was an itching around the
heart where you couldn't get at it
to scratch.
Well, sir, everything comes to
him that doesn't sit around to
wait. I am learning to wait on
people in the hat department, and
l notice it can't be done from a
revolving chair.
When some men buy a hat they
don't want much attention-they
simply come in, pick out their
size, take a quick look in the big
mirror, throw down the change
and walk out. That's the result
of having a good hat reputation.
They never ask whether X. & c..
hats are correct in style and
quality and all the other details;
not a word. Just me for a new
lid" They try on, then three
plunks. WILLIE.
With
KLOPFENSTEIN & CONRAD,
1882 Pacific Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23
HARRY BEMIS.

ASHLAND. Mass, Feb. pa
Coincident with the announce
ment of the sale of Denton "Cy''
Young by Boston to Cleveland,
comes the announcement that
Harry Bemis, the Maps star back
stop, is seriously i'll with pneu-
monia, at his home here.
The great catcher, whose won
derful backstopping last summer
did so much to keep the Ameri-
can league pennant race a tight
during the last few
weeks of the championship sea-
son, may never catch again. His
is grave and the leading
here declare that if he
RECEIVERS, only his splendid consti-
tuition will pull him through.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-02-23
YnuNeSTER RUNS FASTEST MILE
EVER CREDITED AN AMERICAN
BY L. de B. Handley.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-When
H. L. Trube of the New York
Athletic club won the mile race
for the Martinique cup Feb. 10, he
ran the fastest mile ever credited
to an American-born athlete. His
time, 4:19 4-5. was the first mile
ever recorded by an American un-
der 1920. and the ease with which
he turned the trick seems to place
the amateur mile record of
AIS SIS, made by Tom Connect in
1895, at his mercy.
Never since the days of the
great Tommy has such speed been
witnessed as that shown by the
modest Trube when he fractured
the worlds indoor record in Madi-l
son Square garden. AS he is al
better man out of doors than
when inside, critics predict that
next summer will witness the fall
OF Connects time-honored mark.
Trube Is q native Of Brooklyn,
and Is -. He took up runningI
while attending the Yonkers High
school In 1904, winning the in
terscholastic two-mile champion
ship In the record time of
1881 LIS.
Having entered Cornell. Trube
Joined the track team, but failed
to show sensational form until
1909. when he took the two-mile
intercollegiate. He was a mem
her Of the Olympic team, but did
not show his speed until Aug. q,
IN Paris, when he won the 1900
meter French championship.
Since his return Trube has
swept everything before him. He
took the Metropolitan mile
championship In APO 1-5, the Ma
fionaI IN 4:25, and the Canadian
IN 4:2S 2-5. Under the coaching
Of Bernie Wefers. Trube acquired
the knack of running on board
tracks, but even after defeating
the flower OF the eastern ath-
letes In the Boston games. there
was no inkling of his possibilities.
WefeIs ndrsed his charge for
the Martinique, and although he
showed wonderful speed in prac-
fice. the fact that he was running
inside record time did not become
known. Hence the surprise when
he broke the indoor record.