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SAGE TO THE UNITED
ATES FROM MARQUIS KAT
RIA, THE PREMIER OF

en- A Tr0

For Japan and the United States mutual
friendship and mutual harmony.
tSigned and sealed) KATSURA."
gagged In manufacture and trade. The
daimyos and their retainers went about
Of such individuals Of the common class
as dispeased them. When the time of the
restoration came it was this military class
that did the fighting, that reorganized
the government. and that practically made
the Japan of today. II was the educated
class; and. necessarily, 1t WAS given the
chief of the official positions. Theoretically.
all men were equal. and the merchant o,
mechanic had an equal chance with the
others. but in reality 1t was not so. on
account OF his antecedents. training and
education. This has been the case until
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matter we have been thirty years behind
the times.
What is thirty years in comparison with
earth cycles? The nebular earth passed,
by way of ncandescence. to a pasty mol
ten matter covered with thick clouds. The
planet Jupiter is rather Ike that now.
Under centrifugal force developed by ro-
tation the earth began fla tening itself at
the equator but the intense cold of space
soon formed crust over all that thick
ened, century by century.
AT first the crust was a smooth and
compact whole. But as the interior paste
contracted, cooling, the crust was left too
large.
Hence, cracks and folds the first in
equalities of surface. Also. the first shift
ings we call earthquakes. Once it was
imagined that the mountains were thrown
up by hazard Lowthian Green has shown
that the great lines of fracture We're
produced by the most beautiful rule.
Every sphere submitted to lateral COM
preston tends to form a four-sided pyra-
mid. Our earth did not escape it.
Examine a terrestrial globe Are not
the oceans laid out regularly on three
sides? There is Cd the deep plane of the
Pacific: (2), that Of the Atlantic; 90. that
of the Indian ocean. These enormous fiat
depressions. some Of which attain five
fracture which frame or border them.
Which? Where? Why, the mountain
chains!
These are the Rocky mountain con-
tinued In the Andes, ETC.: the high
plateaux Of Greenland, Iceland. the Alps
from north to south Europe. and the
mountains of Abyssinia and Madagascar.
Thirdly. the high submits of Thibet, the
Malay archipelago and the Australian
continent. ETC.. etc.
Such are the three mountain-chain
edges of the earthly pyramid. The fourth
great plane is found at the north pole.
Since Nansen. no doubt is permitted: a
its corresponding summit is the south
pole. where on a well defined continent
explorers up to Charcot discover higher
and excessively higher mountains.
See how it all fits together. The west
of the two Americas is bordered by a
pronounced volcanic and earthquake line.
The second fracture gives up the active
volcanoes of Iceland. the extinct ones
Of Auvergne. the volcanic district. earth
Quake-shaken. of Italy. Sicily and Abys-
sinia. And the third. of course, gives the
earthquake-volcanic lines of Japan and
Java, continued in the Asiatic plateauX
tobserve the new volcanoes of Man.
the Aleutian Islands, to the fracture
lines of the Rockies again.
Even the Antarctic region submits to
the law. Witness the volcanoes Of
Erebus and Terror. always in eruption.
Moreover. Lowthian Green-pursued and
amplified particularly by Able MoreuX.
famous chief of the Bourges Observatory
nomical causes. the earth has undergone
a twisting. resulting In what biologists
call the Mediterranean depression.
In America this twisting is very marked
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in the subsidences around Panama and
1.-The ditch of the Antilles Further on.
il Is continued by the Sahara, the Mediter-
ranean the Gulf of Bengal and the Malay
Archipelago. All these regions are dou-
bly, volcanic and quaking
You should read Moreuxs Solar
Problem Briefly. sun spots, protuber-
ances: changing forms of solar crown,
etc, all hold together as causes and ef-
fects. The sun is a gaseous globe. far
from being condensed; although the gases
at its surface ought to be as thick as
chilled molasses. Gases much more
liberated, mixed with meteoric matter.
surround the suns surface. as envelopes
of changing density.
Now listen: Layers of greater density
shoot out from the suns surface every
eleven years. and must. by the mechanical
theory of heat. accomplish an outrageous
f1aring up in the envelopes which, only,
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BLOWN-UP SURFACE OF
THE MOON.

out necessary quantities OF gas to ease
the contracting earth from time TO
time When the crust. by cooling, shall
become too thick to pulsate in its pres
ent saving manner. When the uniin-
aginable gases dissolved in the molten
mass Of the interior find themselves,
at the same time, under increased pres
sure and decreasing outlet, how must
they behave in the center of molten
mass whose exterior is cooling"
Frightful commissions will take
place.
The thickened. heaped-up one-time lines
of fracture will no longer suffice to give
issue to these gases themselves. thick
ened, heaped up under millions of at
mospheres of preston!
What happened on the smaller, more
rapidly evolving moon will happen on
the earth.
Observe the silent witness hanging in
the sky!
Her mountain chains hav almost dis
appeared from the moons tormentcd
surface. Everywhere are craters OF
volcanoes in comparison with which
our own are pimples on my true loves
brow. With the feeblest telescopes you
can perceive everywhere on the moons
surface craters whose dimensions eZ-
coed 40, 30. 60 miles in diameter.
No region of the moon was re-
spected.
Everywhere the moon was blown
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man of war. | am for peace. peace. al
ways peace. II is wrong to look upon the
Japanese as consumed with military am
bition and a lust for conquest. We are
a peaceful nation and we have only
fought because we have had TO do SO. We
did not want the war with Russia. and
We tried in every honorable way to keep
out of it,
Your excellency had much to do with
financing that war. You raised about
$50 million dollars during the struggle.
That seems to me wonderful feat
1T was not difficult" replied Marquis
Katsura. land largely so because the
world felt that Japan's cause was a just
one. The other nations realized that our
war was defensive. and that we were
forced into 1t. We had not expected it
and had made no more than our ordinary
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Only Fav0ritism Wanted.
Copyright. 1909. by EsteIle Klauder.l

'Cop!flght. 1903. by EsteIie Kfauder.l
= GORGE GOULD his fathers worthy
~ successor in finance, spoke of rail-
way difficulties al recent board meet
ing
A railway finds II impossible. by being
just. to please all hands. Mr.. Gould con-
Guided. There is truth in the story %
the commuter who entered railway
superintendent's office with black frown
We'll. what next the superintendent
said to the man impatiently. by our
new timetable don't three additional
trains stop a your station now
Yes. but growled the commute,
they stop at all the other little stations,
too p"
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istrationS. What we expect to do is to
take more time to making national i'm
provements and thus spread the cost over
IL greater number OF years. In the past
We have been regulating our revenues by
our expenditures. making up the deficits,
if any, by loans. We shall issue no more
loans for the present. but shall decide
what our revenues are to be and regulate
our expenditures by them. We expect,
also, to reduce the national debt at least
fifty millions a year.
viii your new policy curtafl the size
of the Japanese army or navy or Its
plans for the future?
NO: the present establishment will be
continued. but we shall economic
where possible. and as to the military
works which have been planned. includ-
ing the increase of our navy we snail
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we see and call the sun
And listen again: All physical phe-
nomena are but transformations of the
same mysterious energy. The incredible
electrical currents which overrun the
sun. especially violent at these periods OF
maximum, have their strong effects on
earth.
illustrative side issue! In periods of
solar activity, the electrical poten
tial" Of our atmosphere undergoes
great variations. its curve following
precisely that of the sun spotsD
So here we are: The earth's crust
tends to dilate as the outside electricity
increases. The gases imprisoned in the
interior of the earth Immediately profit
oh, SO slightly-by this lessened pressure
to quit the probably solid though molten.
say even liquid, bath in which they exist
confined.
No harm yet. But a period OF solar
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.or. furnished in red, with red carpet
and red walls. that 1 was received by the
premier. His excellency does not speak
English and Mr.. Sassano of the depart
nent of foreign affairs acted as our inter
prefer.
But let NE tell you how the premier
looks. He Is of medium Japanese height,
which is considerably under that of the
average American He is straight and
we'll formed, having big round head
firmly set On pair of broad shoulders
He has high forehead. short black hair
and a thin black mustache. His eyes are
very bright, but they grow serious now
and then as he talks.
During the conversation I referred to
him as a military hero. He replied:
Il do not care TO be considered a
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cess1ui conclusion. and greater than all to
De able to take hold of the government
Vhen the war is over and direct it along
the lines of prosperity in the arts of
peace.
All these things form part of the past
life and the present situation of MARQUIS
faro katsura, who is now the premier
and also the finance minister OF the
Japanese empire Born in 1S47 when
James II. Polk was President of the
l nited States. and only six years before
Commodore Perry made his first expedi
ton to Japan, he fought. as boy. fer
the emperor in the civil war which ma de
his majesty the real ruler of the Japanese
people. Shortly after that he was sent to
Germany to study military science. and
when he returned was made vice minister
of the war department.
When the Japan-China trouble b-ok,
out katsura was made the commander OF
Il division, and in 1900 he became war
minister. and held that position under
several premiers. As such. he has had
much to do with bringing the army to its
present efficiency; and when the war with
Russia broke out he in the meantime
having been elevated to the premiership,
was OF the greatest value to his country
in carving on that great struggle. lie
was still in Office when peace was d.
ciared. but there was such public discon-
tent over the terms of the peace that lie
retired recommending the Marquis sal
onji as his successor.
That was in 1906. Now only three years
later find the great warrior marquis
again al the head of the government. TIL
emperor and his leading advisers. includ-
ing the chief statesmen and financiers o.
japan have decided that the country Is
going too fast and that its business needs
reorganization. They find that they have
an enormous national debt growing out
of the war. and that the revenues and eN-
penditures of the government must be re
formed As their leader they have picked
out katsura. and he again holds the pre-
miership There is man In the empire
SO we'll stted for the position. He appfe-
ciates the military necessities of his coun-
try TO the full. and he has at the same
time a working knowledge of its financial
requirements He has already inaugurated
a policy of retrenchment. economy and
reform which has raised the value of the
Japanese bonds in all of the great mar
kets of the world. and which in time. If
carried out to a conclusion. will probably
make the Japanese one of the creditor ma
tons OF the world.
II was to talk with Marquis katsura
about the financial situation and its pros
poets that called upon him at his official
residence this morning. Each OF these
high Japanese officials has official resi-
That of Marquis katsura is back of the
state department and right next the Chi
nese legation 1t is large house. built
In foreign style. and IL was in big par
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HANDY CoRD-HoLDER.
to Body, and String Is AL
ways Within Reach.

The butcher. the baker and the candle
stick maker. not to speak of scores II
other tradespeople who have packages 10
tie up, will find a great convenience in
the cord-holder invented by an Ohio man.
1t will save them much time and annoy
ance and by its aid they will be able
to do UP a better bundle. This holder
consists of a curved wooden bar made
to fit around the waist, from which there
projects stand to hold a cone or bail
OF tv-ine. y strong curved wire rises
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HY are the so-called
extinct volcanoes
of Auvergne. in
France. aWaking?
by is the ground
at La Bourboule,
Royat and Mont
Dore. at the depth
of a well, three
times as hot as
any corresponding
Subsoil in France?
French scientists
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MARQUIS KATSURA, |

I low THE NATION WILL HANDLE ITS FINANCES
Its FOREIGN TRADE AND HOW ITS SHIP
SUBSIDIES PAY-JAPAN AND OUTSIDE CAPITAL
A BUSINESS PEOPLE WHOSE COMPANIES PAY BIG
DIVIDENDS-JAPANs FOREIGN POLICY PEACE
PEACE, ALWAYS PEACE'-KOREA AND MAN
CHURIA-AN AUTOGRAPH MESSAGE TO THE
UNITED STATES
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I is a great thing
TO be a mighty
general and lead
your soldiers to
victory in war. 1t
is greater still to
be at the head of
a nation during a
war and manage
its finances and
government in such
a way as to bring
that war to a sue
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beginning of the New Japan, we had
feudal system consisting of several dis
tinct classes. There was the upper class.
embracing the daimyos and their re-
tanners, who practically governed the
empire, and there were the common people,
consisting of the farmers and those en-
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above the Irvine ball with a circular loop
at the end for the string to pass through.
1t is also equipped with knite-like ar
rangement on which the cord can be cut
when il is time to tie the knot. The
supporting bar is affixed to a sort oe
light harness. which fits over the shoul-
ders and around the body and holds il
in place. Thus. any person who has
many packages TO tie up In the course
of the day can have his ball of Irvine
always at hand and will be able to do
the work much more easily and rapidly.
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Copyright 1909. by Frank G. Carpenter
Special Correspondence of The Star.
TOXIC
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EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES TILL 1912
L AND BE GLAD TO HAVE THEM-WHEN ITS
CRUST CEASES TO PULSATE-THE EARTH WILL
BURST LIKE ROTTEN EGG-THE FRENCH VOL
CANOES OF AUVERGNE ARE AWAKING-SUR-
PRISES ARE AT HAND.
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS. January II, 1909
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How about the Philippines? Has Japan
any ambition to possess them?''
mo" said the premier. Japan is glad
that the Philippines belong to the United
States, and We believe that 1t means
much to the peace of the orient and to
the peace OF the world that it is so. This
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30
SUPPLY CATALOGUE
FOR POSTOFFICES

ne DIVISION Of supplies OF the Post
oItice Department has Just completed
me compilation and issuance OF a GAIA
iogue Tor use in the $1,000 postoffices
throughout the country. The Issuance
OF ire catalogue calls attention to the
Zig plant maintained in Wasbingfor for
supplying the various branches OF the
postal service. An eight-storv ware
house at First and X streets no-tbeas
houses the greater part Of the stock
that is kept constantly on hand. Fire
floors OF this warehouse are packed fiji
with all forms Of materials used In the
transaction of the postal business. TIE
catalogue that has Just been issued <
the first attempt the department has
ever made TO put into compact and
convenient fora descriptive list OF AL
the articles furnished by the Govern
ment to the postoffices. The catalogue
also contains instructions to the post
masters as 10 the manner of ordering
supplies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30
BANDITS ELUDING
COLORADO POSSES
Men Who Robbed GlenWood
Springs Bank Armed, and
Trouble Is Feared.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS. Col. Sept ~.
No word has been received today from
the mounted posses who are on the
trail Of three bandits, who robbed the
Citizens National Bank, OF this city,
late yesterday afternoon and escaped
with $4,000 In cash The men were
heavily armed. apparently were eX-
perts. and trouble is feared should the
posses overtake them.
The bandits looted tho bank with great
GOODNESS They rode up to the rear Of
the building. dismounted in a leisurcly
manner. and tied their horses. Being
unmasked, they aroused no suspicion.
Then they went to the front entrance
and two entered and held up Assistant
Cashier Drach. VINO was behind the
cashiers window. one of the bandits
cooked his gun and told Drach to hurry
or be shot" Drach gave the men all
the money inside, which they put IN
sacks and then left.
Just as the three mounted their horses
Deputy Sheriff Devildess appeared and
suspecting somathing wrong from the
actions of the men, started toward them.
He ordered them to halt, but they paid
no attention. The officer fred several
shots. but they spurred their horses
and escaped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30
DEATH ROLL IN MINES
SHOWS FALLING OFF
Records Prove That 700 More Men Were Killed in
1907 Than in l908-Largely Due to
Government Work

was made and an experiment station es-
tablished at Pittsburg.
The Investigations of this station have
been Of great value. For one thing,
when its work started there was gen
eral scepticism among miners as 10
coal dust being a source Of explosions
II was conclusively shown that it was
most dangerous source OF accidents,
and this has led TO many precautions
in mining that were not given atten-
ton before
The falling orr in the number OF ae-
cidents IS not ascribed entirely to the
experiments the Government has been
conducting. however. There was some
decline IN coal production. which tend
ell to lessen the number of accidents
Mine managers also have been induced
10 take more precautions. There was
wanting. too. IN 1905. a list OF big dis
asters. like THAT OF MOnoEah. w. Va.
In 1907 where CSC men lost their lives
through coal dust explosion. But. on
the other hand. the number of killed
in mine accidents In the United States
has In pasC years, been increasing
steadil, at the rate OF about 200 year
Therefore, tie decrease Of about 700 IS
indicative OF an improved condition of
things. which the Geological Survey Of
icials hope is the forerunner of still
more marked Improvement.
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Popular Excursion, Sunday, October
Bird Baltimore & Ohio r. R.-S1 90 to
Frederick, keedysville. HaRerstown and
return. Special train leaves Washington
a. m. returning same day.-Advt
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FALSE ENTHUSIASM
NOW SWEEPS SPAIN
Government Reported TO Be
EXaggerating Victories
In Morocco.

LONDON. Sept. 3O.-A fictitious en-
thusiasm. much OF II actually paid for
by the hour by the Spanish govern
ment, is now sweeping Spain, accord
ing to reliable information from dis
interested sources.
The circulation Of exaggerated re
ports OF Spanish victories IN Morocco,
distribution OF free drinks. the com
polling OF merchants and citizens 70
decorate their houses and OF news
papers TO publish bogus victories OF
the Spanish. and the hiring Of leaders
20 stimulate enthusiasm In various
parts of the country are the means
used by the government to create sup
port for the army.
The Melilla correspondent OF The
Times says that General Marins's VIC
tories up to date have been merely
tactical and that he has really inhict-
ed but little loss upon the Riffs who
are now preparing for more aggres-
sive campaign than ever.
According to this correspondent the
end of the war is far from in sight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30
MRS. M'KEE TRIES
TO ESCAPE COUNT
Denver Beauty Now in Paris
Annoyed by Attention Of
Austrian.

PITTSBURG. Sept 30.-Mrs. Cornelia
Baxter Tevis Mckee. who is in Paris.
has appealed by cable to friends at
Ifttsburg to assist her IN getting rid Of
the attention Or Count, App0nyi. whom
she recently tried TO dismiss. but who
II would appear from the cables de-
Clines TO be dismissed. The count is the
son OF an Austro- Hungarian minister
and until recently was engaged to Mrs.
Mckee.
The cables convey the Impression that
the former Denver beauty who married
A. Hart Mckee. OF Pittsburg. and later
divorced him, IS now In serious trouble
over the attentions the count thrusts
upon her. Some Of her Pittsburg rela-
tives called Louisville, Ky. by telephone
10 find that Col. c. NJ Baxter, Of that
city. father Of Mrs. Mckee. was now
on his way TO his daughter. having been
called by cable
Pittsburg hears that the count. who
was peRniless recently tried TO make y
large loan from his fancee. whereupon
she dismissed him, or tried TO. Colonel
Baxter, who Is a SOutherneT. Is eN-
pected 10 make matters lively on reach
ing Paris.
II is now said by her Pittsburg friends
Tnirers In New York before she married
Mckee. Mrs. BaXter-Tevis-Mc l[ee's
trst husband, Hugh Tevis, was a West
ern mining king, who died AT Honolulu
on their wedding trip. leaving her all
his money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30
CATHOLIC MISSION
OPENS ON SUNDAY

SUNDAY will mark the opening or
tWo-week mission at the Shrine OF the
Sacred Heart. Fourteenth street and
Park road.
The wen-known Jesuit missionaries.
Fathers Ellis and Mulry. OF New York,
Will conduct the services.
For TIE first week the mission will
he for women. and the second week
will be for men.
Morning services VIII be held daily at
b.30 and 3 clock. and AZ 1870 o'clock in
the evening
The music, which will play an import
ant part In the weeks services will be
directed bv Prof. L. =. Cannon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-30

Fewer deaths IN the mines Of the
United States during the past year are
shown by the statistics on mine acct
dents which will soon be given out by
the Geological Survey. A material i'm
provement over 1907 is shown. The fig-
ures for 1908 are now practically com
pleted. They show that there were
2,450 persons killed. This is q falling off
OF more than zoo as compared with 1907.
About 900 were Injured in 1895 This Is
about the same number as In the year
preceding.
The heavy falling of I'm the number
Of killed is ascribed in part 10 the light
thrown on the subject Of mine accidents
by the experiments OF the rechnolOgic
branch Of the Geological Survey, Of
which DIR. J. A. Holmes is In charge. Il
will be recalled that In December Of
1907 there were four disastrous explo-
sions in which hundreds Of miners were
killed The result was that Congress
took the matter up and provided for an
investigation into the causes Of such ac-
cidents. An appropriation of $3.50. 900
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S55.I5, Denver and Return, Baltimore
and Ohio, September 90 TO October 3,
valid for return until October 81 Only
TWO nights out Consult agents.-Advt.