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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-01
JAP. CRUISERS VISIT
AT SAN PEDRO LAST SUNDAY
FOR SHORT TIME.
Their Admiral Says They Are on a
Peaceful Cruise to Principal Pacific
Coast Points-Both Ships Are Prizes
of Late War-Great Reception by
Japanese Was the Feature Sunday.

Los Angeles, Cal, April 25.-Warships
of Japan entered Pacific coast port of
the United States Sunday, the cruisers
Saya aud Aso, comprising the japanese
training squadron commanded by Rear
Admiral II. Iiichi, steamed into San
Pedro, the harbor of Los Angeles, at
noon. Not since the training ships en-
tered the bay of San Francisco a half
score years ago, have vessels flying the
flag of the rising sun been sighted on
the western shores of this country. The
cruisers are on a peaceful visit of some
weeks duration, which will take them
to all of the principal ports of the Pa
cific coast.
Both ships are prizes of the Russo.
japanese war. The Aso is the former
Russian cruiser Bayan, found in the
harbor of Port Arthur after General
Stoessel surrendered that fortress into
the hands of the victorious Japanese.
The Saya was formerly the cruiser Va.
RAG, which was attacked in the harbor
Of Chemulpo, Korea, just before the
breaking out of the war and sunk by
the Japanese feet.
These craft are now comparatively
modern warships, carrying heavy bat.
teries and equipped with high-speed en-
gines. Each has a single forward and
after turret eight-inch gun, broadside
battery of eight six-inch guns and IL
of three-inch ealiber. They carry crews
of 900 men each, including 81 officers
and 1856 cadets of the Japanese navy.
The Also is the flagship of Admiral
Ijichi. He is veteran of the war with
Russia and commanded the battleship
Mikasa, the flagship of Admiral Togo,
which participated in all the principal
battles of that war and on which Ad-
miral. Roiestvensky was taken as pris-
oner of war after his defeat in the sea
of Japan. Admiral Ijichi is now a griz-
zled veteran of so years. He has made
one other visit to the United States
when, in 1880, he saw San Francisco
as a cadet on japanese corvette
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-01
OTHER MARKETS.

Dispatches concerning market quota
tions, conditions and phases are as fol.
lows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26

system by means Of the naked feet, it is
virtually impossible to persuade any per-
centage of the people to wear shoes In
the face Of the plainest evidence that
footgear Is a safeguard against death.
Throughout the southern states people
are suffering from what is known as the
hookworm disease distinctly a disease Of
insanitation and personal uncleanliness.
The nature Of the ailment may be plainly
explained to the sufferer and yet he will
continue to ignore the easily followed
laws of hygiene. and to invite reinfection
and ultimate death. The fight against the
hookworm disease in this country for the
sake of the two million people who are
believed to be at this time sufferers from
1t is virtually fight against personal UNI
cleanliness and stubborn ignorance.
The application Of Prof. Emerich's dis
covery on large scale in the lands where
cholera is periodically epidemic would be
a task of the greatest magnitude. No
more gigantic undertaking can be con-
ceived than the effort to regulate the diet
of a great multitude OF people, even when
they are persuaded that unless they
change their foods death will probably re-
suit. Nor is this difficulty confined to
the ignorant. Some supposedly intelli-
gent dwellers in the most enlightened
parts of the world are among the most
obstinate in their resistance of plain laws
of sanitary safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Foods and Epidemics.

Prof Emerich of Munich has announced
the confirmation Of his theory that the
fatal agent in Asiatic cholera is free nj
trous acid, which is formed by the action
Of bacilli in Transforming the nitrates Of
food into nitrites. This discovery, he says.
renders possible a certain prevention Of
cholera. even when the individual is in
fected with the bacillus of the disease by
the avoidance Of heterogeneous vegetables.
cured meats containing saltpeter and
heterogeneous waters. To the intelligent
person this Is likely to be of service when
ever cholera appears or whenever the in
dividual goes into a cholera-infected ter
ritory. But 1t is doubtful whether the
discovery will be of much value to the
ignorant hordes of the cholera countries
who furnish the bulk Of the victims Of
that scOurge-
In the combating of epidemic diseases
ignorance is the most obstinate factor.
Sanitarians find 1t almost impossible to
persuade the jewellers in fever-ridden lands
of the fatal danger Of certain habits Of
personal hygiene and certain foods. The
deadly qualities of the water supply may
be plainly demonstrated. and yet the peo-
pie will continue to use 1t. The advan-
tage Of screening against mosquitoes and
flies may be shown beyond the possibility
nored and when supplied will be thrown
away. In countries where flesh-infesting
bacteria swarm, gaining access to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
AN UNNOTICEO HERO.
(The Sledge Dog.)

The Sledge Dog.)
bold. adventurous spirit. daring the arctic
Has made the finding of the pole glory all his
And myriads Of admirers join in one exultant
To sound his name around the world and spread
But who. of all the thousands Of glad, admir-
Thinks of the humble beastie where half the
praise belongsI
What voice e1to,s the poor sledse dog. whose
First made the venture possible. then crowned
1t with success?
The hero did not purchase. to aid him in his
need,
The neet Arabian courser. with beauty. grace
With arehins neck; proud nostrils and feet that
Nor yet the wise. strong elephant that bears
Nor even the far-fsmed camel. from the desert
Nor the sure. servceable OK. that plows New
But as his trust in biting cold. through ice and
He turned from all these noble" beasts and
sought the humble dog!
dog EN-. The Ss,. name has ever been' even since
A term Of shame and of reproach. contempt and
The most degraded mortal. the lowest and
Could scarce deserve a stigma Of sorrier dis.
And yet, Of all the victories long sought at fear
OF toll and pain and sunerng-of lives and treas.
ure lost.
The greatest conquest Of the age" on fame's
bright catalogue
Was only rendered possible and perfect blythe
dog!
No hope Of future glory nerved him to do and
dare.
No strong ambition lightened the loads he had
He craved no worldwide plaudits, no crown Of
His Sole reward a fragment of frozen walrus
And while the brave explorer reaps his plentiful
OF fame and gold and honor. yielded with one
accord.
What thank has he. the gaunt sledge dog, whose
every step was pain,
Whose poor feet, cut and bleeding, craved rest
and help in vain
Who, worn by toll and SCARED by blows. hungry
and tired and lame.
Dragged his victorious master up the slippery
heights OF fame?
What thank has he for all his race has suffered
and endured
So some ambitious man renown might he there
by securedf
Poor sledge DOG, driven with cruel thongs, with
and angry shout,
Or killed and eaten when his masters
stores give out.
Even now he cringes In the blast that sweeps
the polar zvue.
And thin and footsore, pines and whines above
a frozen bone!
New York Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26

son and Dixon's line would have shown
itself at the polls.
Since then a good deal of water has
passed under the bridge. A statue of
Robert E. Lee, accompanying one Of
George Washington, stands in the old
hall of the House awaiting acceptance by
the nation from the state of Virginia, and
certain of acceptance The ceremonies on
the occasion will probably be of profound
interest. and the addresses full Of matter.
Such an orator as Mr.. Daniel. himself an
ex-Confederate, should find the subject
worthy of his highest powers. There have
been but few protests in the north. and
none from any man Of national reputa-
ton.
And now comes Secretary Dickinson,
and says that on the walls of his home
in Chicago hang portraits of Mr.. Davis
and Gems. Lee and Jackson, and with
them the; flag of the Confederacy. More
over, President Taft has seen them. His
devotion to the memory Of the Lost Cause
and this manifestation of it did not pre-
vent Mr.. Dickinson from receiving cab
met appointment at the hands of re.
publican President, and now that the
country is advised Of the matter there
will be no demand for Mr.. Dickinson's
retirement. He will be as acceptable
as before in the office of Secretary of
War. and will perform his duties as we'll
as though his walls in Chicago were
bare.
Both Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Dickinson in
herit their pride in their sections civil
war history Neither was old enough to
serve the Confederacy, Mr.. Bailey be-
ing an infant in arms when the war
was at it's hottest. And the sentiments
they entertain they are bequeathing to
their children. So that in America we
shall always have. by father handing
down to son. a lively reminder of the
men who wore the gray in the great
clash between the north and the south
over the differences of that day.
But at the same time we shall have
our indestructible Union of indestructi-
BILE states. supported by the two sec
tions once estranged. and the stronger
for that estrangement and it's result. 1t
is inconceivable that the passions should
ever rise as high over any other ques-
ton as they did over the question of
1861
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
THE MELANCHOLY DAYS

The melancholy days have come,
The saddest Of the year.
When no mosquitoes merry hum
Impinges on the ear.
Nor does IL sing to you and sting
And make you fret like anything
But though NO more YOU feel ITS bite
You cannot sit out late at night.
Where are the flies the happy dies
That lately sprang and stood
Upon our salads and our pies
And ali our other foodf
Alas! they all have heard the call
That comes to them In early fall;
And caper nImbiy when you swat.
The iceman with his chilling load
Goes mournfully about.
And he rumbles down the road
No more he lifts his shout.
But black with CRIME and right ON time
The goldman makes his prices climb:
While you look at your empty bin.
And now when comes the calm, mild day
There echoes on the breeze
Which DER the golden-rod VIII play
The sharp hay fever sneeze.
With wild ah-cnoo! they thus renew
Acquaintance with the autumn view
And sneexe both morn and afternoon
Because they have come home too soon.
And now we think of one who went
From out our kitchen door.
Who vowed, with her vacation spent.
She would come hack once more.
But, though we wait by dawn and lates
No latch clicks on the garden gate,
And once more we have to look
All DER the town to end z cook.
Chicago Evening Post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
The Mystery Of Mars.

1t is Prof. Campbell Of Lick observatory
who has the last word to say in oppost-
ton to the theory that Mars is inhabited.
The canals. he declares, are not the work
of man. There is little or no watery
vapor there. There may be ice caps,
but while there are seasonal changes they
For, says Prof. Campbell. it does not fol-
low that because Mars passes through
phases of change from time to time the
planet is necessarily inhab ited
This dictum will probably start afresh
the ancient discussion Of whether or not
Mars is occupied by sentient beings Of an
equal or higher or lower order of in
telligence than that of the inhabitants OF
the earth. In this debate the people who
are intent upon solving the problem OF
living on this sphere are not keenly con-
cerned. They know that the earth fs
occupied by so many people that 1t is
sometimes difficult for all of them to live
at all. They know that there is water
vapor here, often In embarrassing guam
titles. They know that there are canals
here, in being and in course Of making.
That is as much. as most Of them care
to know.
Just how the differences between the
students of Mars are to be reconciled and
settled is mystery. 1t will be easier to
determine who first stood at the north
pole than to ascertain whether there IL
water on Mars. or just what kind Of be-
ings inhabit it, II any. The scheme for
signaling the red planet seems to have
been abandoned. for perfectly good rea-
Chnr NJ 10 oh In h.
cosmic order. this point of Marian habi.
tation will probably remain unsettled for
ever. and there will be little distress In
consequence save perhaps in the ultra
scientific circles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
TAFT TALKS In THE WEST.

From the Nashville Banner.
The President talked politics in Massa-
chusetts and Minnesota. For the rest of
his long journey he will probably indulge
the more congenial habit Of jollying the
multitude.
From the indianapolis News
The Presidents declaration that the
corporation tax is a tax on success and
not on failure. Is encouraging. anyhow.
There are plenty Of taxes on failure al
ready.
From the Memphis CommercialAppeal.
Mr.. Taft has tackled pretty nearly
everything except the polar controversy.
Why. this invidious discrimination?
From the Providence Evening Bulletin.
Last nights speech in Denver rounds
up the list Of Taft policies" intended
for immediate publication. We should
hear from Africa soon.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
President Tafts speech at Des Moines
proves he hasn't forgotten where the big
stick is hanging.
From the Dayton News
The westerners are the most courteous
people on earth. They listen to President
Taft's explanation of the tariff bill with
the best of good humor.
From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Each day our Industrious President
grinds out large installments Of food-for-
thought for the high-browed editors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
The VANITY OF RICHES.

Since pa became a millionaire ma hasn't beer
at home at all;
Last winter she was in the south-she's goiu,
to Japan this fall:
She went to Europe in the spring and spent the
summer there:
She says next year she's gotn back-shes hap
Ply anywhere.
/ have to stay at home. because need TO o
to school, you know:
It's often lonesome, and I wish ma wouldn't
to trave! SO;
She says next year, she's Goin' down to Ports
Rico and Brazil,
And when that trip is done s'pose she'll want
to keep on goin' still.
Pa doesn't seem to mind q bit: he's got q gin
stenographer
That's young aud beautiful, and when go b
see him ! her,
She sits beside him at his desk. and, somehow
when ma starts away
He doesn't seem to kick at all or care how lopt
she wants to stay.
I wish that things were different and we'd set
poor again somehow:
I used to so to public school, but gee they
I'd rather have the little nat that we weir
happy In before,
With ma to cook the meals herself and pa h
eat at home once more.
IS. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Record'HeraiS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
new YORK'S HYPnENATED fETE.

From the Newark Journal Courier.
The formal opening of the Hudson
Fulton celebration was celebrated last
evening From now on New York will
continue for days to develop the head
ache which will be a headache In TACT
as we'll as in name.
From the Syracuse Herald.
We didn't suppose cynical old New
York had the capacity for becoming so
excited over anything as she seems to
be over this Hudson-Fulton celebration.
From the Newark Star.
New Jerseys proud share in the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration occurred yester-
day. It saw the battleship procession
90 by.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
New York is going to build 100000
tomb for the late Robert Fulton. Tam
many will now take joyous part in the
Fulton centennial.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
There Is to be q seeing New York;
airship at the celebration. This will he
the only way to keep above the high
prices.
From the New York Evening Mail
New York extends the heartiest OF well
come to the strangers within her gate
receipts.
From the Toledo BLADE.
Hendrick Hudson's right to be called the
discoverer of Hudson river Is disputed.
Let's settle 1t with straw vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
A BALLAD TO ORDER.

rhyme for you, o lady mine?
Why all my rhymes are done that wayS
For you / gather flowers. and Irvine
The blooms Of June, the buds of May.
Each verse scubble. day by day,
Is written with your tastes In view
Each is, or be 1t grave gay.
rhyme for you.
A rhyme for you? Why, every line
Is yours already-roundelsy.
Or sonnet sad. or fancy fine,
Or testing jnges joyous play.
OF course l do these Things for pay,
But are they less yours Ii ] dot
/ sell to others what must stay
A rhyme for you.
A rhyme for your Well. maid divine.
Since you insist, 1 must obey.
Lo, here 1 kneel before your Shrine.
And bask In beautys brilliant ray!
Your eyes Of biue-whats that you sayf
Your eyes are gray, and never blue7
That's so. but how can one make gray"
rhyme for you.
rhyme for you? All rhymes convey
The selfsame meaning, always true:
-Four words explain each one. And they
Are 'I'm for you!''
Cleveland Leader
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
THE POLAR DISPUTE.

From the Salt Lake Tribune.
An optimist. in the latest sense is one
who believes that there will some day
be an amicable settlement OF, the Cook
Peary contention.
From the Birmingham News.
In other words, Mr.. Peary must have
been reminded by somebody to stop
claiming that he had lead-pipe cinch
on the pole.
From the Wilkesbarre Times-Leader.
, Peary says the pole is in reality only
a theoretical point. Seems to be more
OF hypothetical question
From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Explorer Cook has accepted an offer
! of $4,000 for lecture In st. Louis.
which indicates that st. Louis Is willing
to take a chance.
From the Rochester Post.Express
It will be seven months before Citi-
zen Roosevelt returns to civilization.
That's q long time to wait until the
final adjudication of the north pole con-
troversy.
From the Birmingham Age Herald.
The critics who question Cooks dis
covery of the pole grow fewer and fewer
as the days pass by.
From the Chicago Journal.
Wonder if Commander Peary begins to
wish he had been just a trife more con-
sentative in declaring himself the only
real. dyed-in-thewool north pole discov-
erer?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Discoveries and DISCOVERIES.

JnYhis row over the north pole don let
US forget that disputes about discoveries
and discoveries are old, and often nave
heen animated Some of the current COLI
ment about Cook and Peary would lead
one to believe that the controversy Is out
another evidence of demoralized times ana
men grown mad through sheer strenuous
ness.
New York and the country at large are
ringing with anniversary pride about the
achievements of Henry Hudson and ROD
ert Fulton. And yet there bob up
old controversies about those two celep-
rites. Hudson, 1t is reasserted, was
eighty-odd years behind Florentlne
sailor in visiting the river which came
to bear the formers name, while fuiton
merely applied the ideas of others.
ONLY readers Of wide curiosity and gooo
memories knew that there had ever been
a rival claim in the matter of the dis
coVery of the river called the Hudson.
F,1t II all comes out now, and the ad-
mirers of the Florentine sailor are honor
ing his memory by laying the foundation
I'm New York in sight of the river for a
monument to him. Still there IS great
glory left for Hudson, the river Will con-
tinue to bear his name. and the. celepra-
ton Just opening in New York Will De
a pronounced success.
The Fulton story, only hundred years
old. was familiar. Those who had worked
before him, and those who had WORKED
cotemporaneously, in his line were well
known by name and their aims and
dreams and experiments and failures
easiIy recalled. Still after distributing
credit to them for what they did. great
glory remains for Fulton. He was on
the lob at what may be called the psy-
Geological moment, put his and every
body else's discoveries together. launched
his little craft, and set her going. Hence
the present celebration. 1t is clearly and
fairly Fulton's day.
Fulton's fame owes something to his
experience in France, although that was
failure. Everything and everybody con-
nected even remotely with Napoleon Is
kept alive by that circumstance. Fulton
had this good fortune. He offered his
services to the great man at the time
the latter was contemplating an invasion
OF England. But nothing came OF the
offer, and it might have come to moth
ing had 1t been accepted. More time
than Napoleon could command was
necessary to bring steam navigation to
the stage necessary for handling an
army on the toughest strip of water In
the world Still. through his offer. Full
ton draws light from the most luminous
figure since Julius Caesar.
Time works in its own way with all
these matters What it will do with the
Cook-Peary matter no man. may safely
say. Many Of us may be in the Eaysian
Fields before the verdict Is rendered. and
dependent then for the news upon late
arrivals from the old home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
Mr.. Gompers at Naples.

At Naples Samuel Gompers inspected
the quarters Of emigrants on the eve of
sailing for America, and, later, addressed
the chamber of labor on the condition OF
foreign-born workmen in this country.
This was time excellently employed, and
it is to be hoped that Mr.. Gompers at
other points on his European travels per-
formed a similar service.
For years. steamship agents, drumming
for traffic, have been the sources of the
information about labor and labor con-
ditions In America received by the labor
ing classes In Europe. With traffic as
their only object, these agents have
painted an alluring picture. and by 1T
secured many fare. Money grew on
trees. and honey ran in the cutters. The
young and the excitable jumped at the
temptation, and, along with many de-
sirable many undesirable persons have
poured In on us. Some of our troubles
have grown out of the disappointment of
immigrants who had experienced rude
awakening. Great as 1t is for many.
America is not the place for others. The
man who does not fit In here had better
stay at home.
Mr.. Gompers knows his subject. He
may, it rs true, go little far in the OPP
posite direction. but he will correct much
of the misinformation spread about by
those who neither know the subject, nor
care for 1t. He can tell the laborers in
Europe what this country is, and what it
offers to those who work with their
hands The money-bearing trees and the
honey-running cutters will disappear from
the landscape as he paints it, He can
tell his hearers that. much as may be
had here-inf1nitely more than they have
ever obtained at home-everything must
be worked for. Even In America man Is
subject to the primal curse. He eats his
bread in the sweat OF his face.
II Mr.. Gompers has given much time
to this materials explained American
conditions as they really exist to those
who may be thinking of emigrating-he
has probably performed his best service
while abroad. Labor unionism in Europe
is not for America. Where it is not social
istic or anarchistic. 1t is proceeding under
conditions which do not exist in this
country, and probably never will. Union
labor with us has the countenance and
sympathy Of the strong men Of all parties
in all Of its legitimate efforts to improve
labor interests. And it is Furnishing. It's
numbers are large, and the great major
ity of its leaders are men of influence
outside of labor circles.
Mr.. Gompers returns next month, and
his friends in Washington and surround
ing places are preparing a big demonstra-
ton in his honor. His address will prob
ably be one of importance. though in 1t
he cannot be expected to pack a 1.-THE OF
what he has gathered on his journey OF
interest to labor and labor's friends.