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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Jnpan,s big Postal Service.

At the time of my first visit to Japan
the new postal system had been inaugu-
rated 1t was introduced by an American
named Bryan, who was connected with
our Postoffice department at Washington.
ana all of the machinery and other ar
engagements were modelled after our own.
The system was then three years old and
II was carrying $1,000, 900 letters, 10000. COO
postal cards and Il ,OOO,O 900 newspapers n
year. Japan had then begun to make its
own postage stamps and / saw 100 Jana
nese girls at work in the bureau of en-
graVing and printing.
Today this country manages its postof-
ices quite as we'll as we do, and it has
many improvements which we have not.
Last year 1t carried more than 1900. OOO.O 0
pieces OF mail and of these almost 100000 D
were letters. Its postal cards numberaa
about 7Oo,0oo,0O and the books were half As
many as the whole population Japan has
now a postal-parcel system. which is car
rylng E,uo9WO packages every year. and A
has postal savings banks all over the en-
pire with millions OF dollars of deposits.
AS to telegraphs, they are also under the
government and their rates are far lower
than ours. | can wire anyone in this city
Tor 0 cents a message and can send flf-
teen words anywhere in Japan for 10 cents.
Ihe rates are low TO other countries and
especially to Corea and China. 1t costs "a
cents a word to Manila and $3.50 a word
to Washington, b.. {. The latter high
rates are caused by the foreign cable sys-
TENS.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Japan's smokeIess Coal.

Thu japanese nave often bsen called a
nation of imitators and c%opyists. They un-
derstand how to pick out the best thin gs
of our civilization. and they are taking the
cream Of them. l find that they are now
waking up along the lines of invention and
that this is especially so as to war matt RS.
Their troops are equipped with a special
rifle Invented by a Jepanese and they use
fled guns invented by one of their gem
erals named Arisaka. These guns are man
ufactured by Krupr, but the designs were
sent from here to Germany.
Among the surprises of the Russian war
was Japanese smokeless powder of great
explosive power, invented here. and they
are now making a smokeless coal, which
will enable their naval vessels to move
about without 3 sign of fire or smoke.
This coal was first proved during the
Chino-Japanese war and was again used
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

One Of the greatest advances which Japan
Is making Is along the lines of education.
All Toxic seems to be going TO school.
The streets swarm with boys and girls
In school dress, and this Is so in all the
towns in the country. The government re-
quires that all school children shall wear
uniforms. The boys have a sort of divided
skirt which falls to below their knees. and
above his may be a jacket or a kimono
and a cap. The girls wear plum-colored
skirts with heavy plaits and kimonos
tucked inside. They go bare headed.
Al certain hours of the day the streets
are thronged with such students, rang n
in age from 9 TO young men and woule.. o..
20. There are more than $1,000 students at
tending universities, academies ana special
schools In Toxic alone. and there are other
colleges in other parts of the empire. There
are night schools in the cities for the work
ing classes, and chronological night schools
as we'll. Altogether about 100000 students
are attending the elementary schools of the
empire, and there are also 5000 special and
technical schools. There are Kindergarten
with 800 teachers. There are Industrial
schools OF many kinds, schools for the
deaf, dumb and blind, and also a girls uni
versity and Industrial schools where girls
are taught.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Massey OF Fourth
street, New Castle. Pa, are in possession
OF a clock which Is looked upon with awe
and wonderment, as they feel there is
something uncanny about It. Several days
ago the clock struck at 12:S5 p. M, and
then stopped. something which had not oc-
CURED for a number OF months.
Some one in the room remarked. sixty
three" and Mrs. Massey said, There Is
something wrong; | feel that something
has happened TO Brother Lewis"
Within a few hours she received word
that her brother, aged 50 years. had died
suddenly at Allentown, Pa, just about the
time the clock struck. The clock was given
to Mrs. Massey by her brother forty years
ago.
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head could be felt on hers. She had no
appetite and was mentally unobservant.
This continued to October last. A ply
stefan then diagnosing the absence of the
thyroid secretion took charge of the case.
He administered twelve and a half grains
OF extract of the thyroid glands daily.
The patient has now grown two and a
half inches. Her skin is moist and warm,
her face is considerably developed and
she has cut several new teeth. She is
constantly hungry.
The most wonderful thing. however. is
In her mental condition. She has become
extraordinarily loquacious, using a vocab-
ulary she could not have acquired I'm two
months, which shows that she uncOn-
sciously listened 10 and stored up words
without the power of employing them.
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months and 2tk per cent on current accounts
and Notwithstanding that it's gross profits
for the last six months were over 1000. 900
yen. 1t pays dividends Of II per cent and
will add a half million dollars this year
to it's reserve fund.
Just below this advertisement is a
statement of the Mitsui bank. This is
owned by the members of the Mitsui
family. who advertise that they assume
an unlimited responsibility for all the
liabilities of the Val The Mitsui bank
has a capital of 100000 yen and a sur
plus OF 11.5O0,O00. Its deposits now APP
proximate 100000, or almost $4,000, 900.
That bank pays 8 per cent on deposits of
six months. and about 3 per cent o n the
daily lance of its depositors.
Another japanese bank, the Dai Ichi
Ginko, the president Of which is Baron
Shibusawa, has a capital of 100000 yen
and there are foreign banks with capitals
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

hundred public libraries. The Imperial IL
brary at Toxic has nOw almost 10000 vol
umes and is visited daily by 100 people.
There is a big library in Kioto and two in
Osaka. One Of the largest book stores in
the world is situated in this city. 1t claims
to be able to supply any book of Importance
now published, and it is far superior in its
equipment to any book store in Washing
ton. Its chief customers are Japanese and
its books are largely in French, German
and English.
In the line of newspapers there are six
teen dailies published in Toxic alone and
about 500 in all Japan. Some of the chief
daily journals are these of Osaka. several
there having as much as 100000 circulation
each.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

''schoolmarm" of 20 years refused to sur
render and promise 10 furnish candy for
the fifty pupils in her care.
The Wade school is thirteen miles from
Columbia, In what has been known as a
quiet neighborhood until this outburst of
rebellion broke loose last week. The pu-
pills kept Miss Fox out of the school two
days, when she went to her home.
TIL district is now divided into two fac
lions, those for and those against the
teacher. Two or three fights between the
men of the district nave resulted.
The custom of treating the pupils at
this season of the year still prevails in the
rural schools of central Missouri.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Dog Party Ends in Fight.

Nearsightedness on the part OF a dach-
shund, which mistook a stuffed dog for
the genuine article and attacked it, resulted
in the breaking up Of a Pittsburg, Pa. ca
nine party in a free-for-all fight in which
the gayly adorned tree was wrecked and
about $40 worth OF furniture destroyed.
Two men. named Grlese and Beymer, pro-
p~rietors Of a hotel OF Federal street, have
a dog named Our Teddy. II was decided
some days ago that Teddy should have a
party with a real tree. Invitations had
been sent out TO the owners OF dogs OF
hign and low degree 70 CONF to the affair,
and as a result about 200 dogs and mon
grels lined up.
There was a tsxidermy dog in the middle
of a table. which looked like the real thing
and Herr Heinrich, a dachshund, which
had come to the party on the chain held
by Jimmy Flaherty, got through his collar
and made a low tackle OF the dummy AMI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

The experiment of treating with thy
roid extract a girl physically and mem
tally undeveloped has had remarkable
success in London. The patient. Mildred
Hart. although 20 years old. had the de-
velopment of a child OF only 5 years. and
was thirty-three inches tall. Her teeth
were the same as a child's. her skin cold
and harsh and her features were unde-
yeloped.
The soft spot on the top OF a babys
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

beach at Annandale and swan around IN
the icy water for more than twenty min
utes. When admirlng friends asked II she
was not extremely cold she stopped and
talked with them.
IT'S all right when you're used to it,
said the girl. Her teeth did not even chat
ter as she stood on the beach.
A few days ago friends dared Miss VIII
cox to go into the water in the winter. She
promptly bet she would be the first Staten
Island woman to go in the water In the
new year. In summer bathing garb she
left her home at 4 p. m. and went TO the
beach. There she waited a few minutes
for two girl friends who had said they
would so in the water with her. As they
did not appear she ran into the icy cold
bay. She swan thirty yards from the
beach and was in the water almost half an
hour.
Miss Wilcox went into the water in last
February, when snow was on the ground.
and was not ineonvenienced
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Japan,s Future.

What is to be the future OF Japan? Is
IL to go on fighting with other nations, or
will 1t now devote itself to the arts OF
peace?'
A to that" replied the vice minister,
II would say that we are a nation OF peace
rather than Of war, and we hope that our
career will be along the lines OF peace and
commercial prosperity. We have plenty 10
do at home without engaging in trouble
with any other nation. Our first business
will be to reduce our war debt, and while
doing that We want, II possible. TO make
for ourselves an important place in tho
commerce Of the world. We are situated
between two Of the worlds greatest mar
kots, On the east we have the United
States, the richest Of all the consuming ma
lions. and on the west the vast population
Of China. whose trade promises TO Increase
enormously with the introduction OF west
ern civilization. We have one Of the best
locations OF the commercial world, and we
shall do all we can to take our Fiehtfui
place In its trade"
FRANK q. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
First swim of the Year.

RAVING the cold. Helen Wilcox,
a teacher in the Great Kills
public school. Staten Island, New
Years afternoon, on a wager
she would be the first TO enter
the water in 1909. went to the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

mai. which had annoyed him by its unso-
ciabls stare.
Lord Snarleyow, a British bull, got into
the game, and there was a mix-up, which
was not Strengthened out until the place
had been swept by a storm of carnage and
Teddy, the host driven to shelter on top
OF a chiffonier.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Girls whip School Tencher.

Because she fatty refused to promise 20
give them the customary holiday treat OF
candy, the larger girls in the Wade school.
Galloway county, Missouri. dragged their
teacher. Miss Mary Fox. In the road. Her
clothes were soiled by the mud and her
dress was torn. Still the plucky little
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Land Of Booka and New.pap.r..

At the same time a great publishing IN
dustry has grown up. About all the books
used IN the schools are made In Japan, and
an enormou quantity OF all kinds Is i'm
ported. Last year something Ike 500
books were published and the periodicals
numbered L&@. Japan has more than a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
CatamOunt Fights Farmer.

Edward Gillette, a farmer. of Bakers
vile, Conn, was savagely attacked by a
large wildcat or tamount Thursday,
and but for the fact that he carried an
AK would probably have been killed. A
quarter of a mile from his home. where
he had set traps around a spring for
foxes. he found the in one of
the steel traps, caught by one paw.
With a chain attached to the trap he
started TO drag the animal TO his barn
TO imprison Il alive, but before he had
gone half way the Infatuated cat got loose
and attacked Gillette, jumping at his
head. Gillette lodged, and when the ami
NAL sprang at him a second time a we'll
directed blow Of his ak killed the beast.
The animal weighed thirty pounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

ASHINGTON, Jan. Elm its eff
fort to stop the appalling loss
Of life in the coal mines Of the
country the United States gov
eminent is meeting with much
For several months an
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Copyright. 1909. by Frank C. carpenter.)

Japan-(Speclal CorreSpon-
dence of the Bee,)-Come fly
with me across the Pacific and
tako a bird's-eye view of the
little Yellow Giant Of the other
side of the globe, We shall look
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Japan Friendly to Uncle san..

japan fFhehuAS ~ CAcAG sum-
"what is the feeling here as to the
United States?"
1T is of the friendliest nature. This talk
about war and i'll feeling is only found in
the yellow journals Of the two countries,
and especially in those Of America. Our
friendship with you began with the open
ing of Japan in the days of Commodore
Perry, and it has grown steadily. l be-
lieve that the best of feeling exists between
the better classes of both countries and
that such a feeling will continue
"What do you think Of the Chinese boy
colt of japanese goods?"
ut was somewhat of a surprise to US,
as 1t was to the United States when the
Chinese boycotted American goods. 1t
seems to me that this is one of the ele-
ments we shall have to reckon with in our
Asiatic trade of the future. The Chinese
have learned the power of such comblns-
tons, and 1 believe that they will use them
more or less against other nations with
whom they are trading. Indeed, I see no
remedy for such a situation except that Of
arbitration. One can not fight an indi-
yidual because he refuses to buy his
goods"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

ranging up to s2O,OoO.OOO and with enor-
NOUS reserve funds. Among these is the
international Banking company of New
York, which has a capital and surplus of
$6,50O,O00.
AS to japanese banks, they are to be
found all over the country. There are
more than 1900 of them, and their capital,
all told, amounts to more. than a half
billion yen. Nearly all the leading banks
Of Toxic are paying dividends and some
very large ones. The One Hundredth bank
in 1906 paid 80 per cent. An odd thing
about these banks is that each has its
seal at the head of its advertisement. The
seal of a man or a business firm is more
important than the signature and ray
ments are chiefly made by seal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

such as are used in the schools, instead
Of on the floor as formerly. From data
given by an army surgeon, showing the
examination of the several hundred thou
sand men who have been drafted into the
army in each of the years from 1892 to
1902, 1t is proved that the average height
of the people is steadily increasing. This
is furthered by special exercises which all
school children must undergo.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Jnpan,s NeTy RniIronds.

The country then had only 400 miles of
railway and 400 miles more were under con-
struction. The chief road ran from Toxic
to Kioto, and 1 had to make most of my
Journeys through the country by jinrikisha.
Every part of the empire can now be
reached by rail. There are more than 600
miles OF tracks as good as those Of the
United States, and the government wants
1000 miles more.
In a talk which / had today with Mr..
Shuichi Hagiwara, the head Of the COM
mercial bureau of the empire, he told me
that Japan is anxious to get capital TO
build these new roads and that it will well
come Investments of that kind from Amer
lea. He believes that the government would
build the roads now IL it had the money,
and that 1t would accept loans and issue
bonds which would net about 7 per cent on
the investment. Japan is now constructing
W In Formosa and Corea, and the
day will soon come when all of it's islands
from saghalien TO Formosa will be grid
ironed with tracks.
AS to the service on these roads, It Is
excellent. One can so by sleeping car TO
all the chief cities and there are now more
than thirty trains each way every day be-
tween yokohama and Toxic. The distance
is eighteen miles and l traversed it yes-
terday in twenty-seven minutes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
Japan and Our Panic.

I called this morning on the vice minis
ter of foreign affairs. Mr.. Ishli, and had
a short chat with him over the financial
situation as It exists here today. He says
that the hard times will not be of long
continuance and that the new arrange
ments which have been made by the gov
eminent will lead to q rapid Improvement.
Said he: One of the chief causes Of our
iack of prosperity is the depressed condi-
ton which has prevailed in the United
States during the past year. Your country
is our best customer. Our trade with you
amounts to more than 500, 100000 and In
ordinary years we sell you more than
500, OOO,0 worth of Japanese goods. In
1906 our exports to the United States
amounted to more than S125, 100000. Your
panic of last year has materially decreased
the demand for our goods and this is
one cause cf our financial distress. In
deed, our relations with you are so close
that we feel any change Of the business
situation in your country.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10
.
Japan in ManchuFla.

The conversation here turned to Man.
churia and I asked Mr.. Ishii whether It
was so that the japanese were capturing
all the trade of that country?
ut is not So was the reply. Indeed,
our trade In Manchuria is so small that
we are ashamed OF 1t. We are doing all
we can to get a hold there, but are not
succeeding as we should. Our exports
are less than S1,OOO,OOO in value, which Is
but a small part of the foreign trade"
Have the Japanses any advantages over
other nations as to that trader"
mo, l think not"
But, Your Excellency," said I, II have
understood that your steamships are car
rying japanese goods at especially low
freight rates and that bounties are given
on such of your manufactures as are ex-
ported to Manchuria."
THAT is a mistake" said Mr., Ishii, I'VE
have no such bounties. Our goods Nhave
to stand on their own footing. 1t is true
that we are subsidizing our steamships;
for we believe that 1t pays us to increase
our merchant marine in that way"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

AT MN as he stands on his empire, off the
coas. Of East Asia, and see his work
along the lines of our civilization, which
Is stirring up this whole continent. We may
even hear the stamping of his feet which
IL causing our own country to wake up
and take notice, and the whistle of his
steamboats, and the din OF his factories
which are now competing with us for the
trade Of the world.
1t Is now twenty years since I wrote
my first newspaper letter describing the
new Japan. That was in 1883, two decades
after the Shotgun or commander-in-chief
OF the feudal regime had been overthrown,
and the emporo made the real head of
the government. Japan had then adopted
a constitution, organized a parliment and
started to build railroads, telegraphs and
schools. / was given a guide by the govern
ment, and had a good chance to see the
army, the courts and such other institu-
tons as were then in their beginning.
Today l am able to look at the same things
and to mark their wonderful progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-10

FRANK q.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-09
BLEAcHED FLOUR is ILLEGAL
Decision Signed by Secretary of Agri-
culture VIII Prohibit Such
AduIteratiOn.

Bleached flour. which has been the sub
ject of so much controversy and condem-
nation during the last two years. has re-
ceived a Knockout blow in a decision which
has just been rendered by James Wilson
OF the United states Department of Agri-
culture, on the recommendation OF the
Board Of Food and Drug Inspection. says
What to Eat. The decision, signed by Sec
rotary Wilson himself. states:
Flour bleachedN with nitrogen peroxid,
as affected by the food and drug act OF
June 30. 1905, has been made the subject OF
a careful Investigation extending over sew
eTal months.
4 public hearing on this subject was held
by the secretary OF agriculture and the
Board OF Food and Drug Inspection. begin
ming November IS. 1905, and continuing five
days. At this hearing those who favored
the bleaching process and those who op-
posed 1t were given equal opportunities 10
be heard.
II IL my opinion. based upo2 all the tes-
timony given at the hearing. upon the re-
ports OF those who have investigated the
subject, upon the literature and upon the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-09
CONCERNING TABLE LINEN
Points worth Considering In Its Sc
lection, HemminE, Launder-
ing and Care.

In selecting table cloths, It is more sat
isfactory to get the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
width. which gives a generous fall OF
sixteen inches OF so at the sides; which
dresses a table better than the narrower
widths. Two and one-half yards is a
very good measure for general use, a very
convenient size for a small company re-
curing an extra leaf. Three and one
half yards are required for an extended
table. to draps over the ends and cor
respcnd with the sides.
In hemming table cloths, a double hem
stitch above an inch and a half wide hem
makes a very fine finish. The ends must
be cut by the thread TO make the hem
true. With napkins to correspond, and
flushed in the same way. this makes a
very fine table set, II the linen is fins
and heavy, with a pretty pattern. II the
hsmstiteh lie thought TO be too elaborate
the so-called French hem at the ends does
very nicely; turning a half-inch hem
realty and folding back, sew a fine over
and over stitch.
The care OF table linen is OF great I'm,
p~ortAnos. II one would have the table ar
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-09

unanimous opinion OF the Board Of Food
and Drug Inspection, that flour bleached by
nitrogen peroxid is an adulterated product
under the food and drugs act Of June 30,
1906; that the character OF the adulteration
is such that no statement upon the label
will bring bleached flour within the law,
and that such flour cannot legally be made
or sold in the District OF Columbia or in
the territories. or be transported or sold
in the interstate commerce., or be trans
ported or sold in foreign except
under that portion of section 2 Of the
law. which reads:
. Provided. That no article shall be
deemed misbranded or adulterated within
the provisions OF this act when intended
for export 10 any foreign country and pre-
pared or packed according TO the specifi-
cations or directions of the foreign pur-
chaser, when nc substance is used in the
preparation or packing thereof in conflict
with the laws OF the foreign country TO
which said article is intended to be
shipped. .
In view Of the extent Of the bleaching
process and OF the Immense quantity OF
bleached flour now or hand or in process
Of manufacture. no prosecutions will be
recommended by this department for man.
ufacture and sale thereof in the District OF
Columbia or the territories OF for trans
portation or sale in interstate or foreign
commerce for a period OF six months from
the date hereof