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on the war footing Of the struggle with
Russia.
Everything in Japan is taxed: There
are stamps on all bank checks. and when
stamp. Every business is taxed accord
ing to the amount of its volume, and
every peddler and jinrikisha man pays
a license. There is a tax on medicines.
on sake and liquors and on japanese
soy. the sauce which the people use with
their food. This was increased at the
time of the war.
All incomes pay taxes, and these grow
with the amount of ones property. There
are about 100000 families in japan.
percentage. if they make more than $lD
year These taxes were increased dur
ing the war and they still hold. There
are of course, taxes on lands. which now
run from 3 per cent upwards to Ia per
cent, according to the class of the land.
There are Inheritance taxes mining taxes.
taxes on stock exchanges and the issue
of bank notes.
thing imported, and there is a special
tax on travellers, whether they go by
81 steamboat, steam train or on electric
cars. This tax depends on the mileage.
running from ) sen to 80 SEN according
to distance. for the first class, from 8
to % sen for second class and ! to
sen for the third class. A sen is one
half cent. 1t will be seen that the tax
is very light on the third class, the fong-
est trip costing cents, and that 1t -
heaviest on the first class. where the same
distance is taxed - cents.
In addition to all this are the govern
ment monopolies including tobacco. salt
and camphor. There is place where
good cigars cost SO much and where the
homemade cigars are poorer. ANY kind
of tobacco costs three times as much here
as i'm the United States; an ordinary two
for is sold for dime. while nickel
cigar easily brings - sen. Cigarettes
are equally high. The tobacco monopoly
brings in about $l6,OOOt0O year to tie
government and the salt monopoly yields
over S7OOO.UOO On the whole. the nation
is taxed just about all it can stand.
FRANK CT. CARPENTER.
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The Amazing G. B. S.

SSTN the London theaters,' said Mrs.
Mary Anderson de Navarro in q
recent interview, the parquet-or the
stalls. as we say over there-are occupied
by people in evening dress only The
men wear their whitest waistcoats and
the women the most ravishing of their
decollete gowns. The effect Of all those
satin shoulders is very splendid.
She smiled and bit her lip.
They say that C. b. s. when he
commenced as critic. wouldn't wear even
ing clothes. So, at the vaudeville one
night. he was stopped at the entrance
to the stalls by an usher. who didn't
know him.
You can't come in like that the
usher said.
What do you object to-the velvet
coat?' said Mr. Shaw.
THE usher nodded sternly.
Very we'll; II shall come Off
And in jiffy the slender critic stood
before the official in shirt sleeves OF soft,
puN. hygienic flannel.
That won't do gasped the .usher.
Wont do?' said MIR. Shaw. Well.
you needn't think I'm going to take
off any more. l should like to see this
play very much. but / don't propose
to run the risk of being mistaken for q
society dowager.,
And laughing in his most mephis-
tophelian manner. he put on his coat
again and departed
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In a Bad Way. :

TAR. A NJ. DOUGAL. surgeon of the
l. Carthaginian. was describing the
splendid cures of seasickness that he
obtains by means OF hypnotism
The most violent cases yield to my
treatment" said DR.. Dougal. Yes, some
very violent cases indeed have vanished
under my hands
Il remember particularly bad case.
Dr. Dougal stroked his mouth to hide
smile.
1T was a Philadelphia squad dealer.
He sent for me the second day out. AS
hurried to his cabin / could hear him
groaning a corridor away.
DO you feel very bad? I asked tho
man. sympathetically.
"'Oh, dear, yes he groaned. oh, my!
! feel very. very bad. indeed
II looked at him. Serpentine undula-
tons passed over his frame. He was
racked and shaken as by an earthquake.
Can't you keep anything on your
stomach"I inquired.
only my hands, he sighed. Only
my hands.
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of which Mrs Gladstone furnished so il
lustriOus an example. The comrade and
counselor of her husband, the ideal wife.
mother and homekeeper. she has MAIN
tanned the privacy of her home and re-
fused to share the limelight in which
public services have enveloped her hus-
band. Her home in Massachusetts ave-
nue., modest as homes of great people go
in Washington. has always been the
rallying point of the representative men
and women Of the nation, of the most
interesting foreigners and of the literati
Few of these events have figured in
social records. but their fame long ago
of leadership. AS prominent member
of the committee on foreign relations. the
Importance of the Lodge home has been
enhanced. Nearly all the diplomats seek
to know the man who has SO many at
tractive viewpoints, his books, his public
achievements and his close friendship
with the man who is best known through
out the world, Theodore Roosevelt. From
the literary standpoint the residence of
Senator and Mrs. Lodge is a rallying
place, just as the home of John Hay was
for the decade before his death.
Life I'm the Lodge home at Washington
radiates from the great southwest wing,
the library. instead of the drawing room,
which is d small and unimportant adjunct
of the household. 1t was to be expected
that the scholar in politics." as Henry
Cabot Lodge was dubbed first in irony but
now in sincere praise of his work. would
have a fine library but only those who
have enjoyed the pleasure of close in
spection realize what vast treasures il
contains. Some one has said that i'm this
room not only much history has been
written, but much has been talked. There
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eminently. 1t was a tremendous aid that
his wife was so thoroughly in accord with
his ideas. Mrs. Lodge inherited from her
father, Admiral Charles Henry Davis
love of historical research, and she is
proud of her husbands reputation as the
foremost man on that subject which New
England boasts today. There are some
who push forward the claims of John
Fiske to this distinction, but the Lodge
following is tremendous and so we'll
ia blished to warrant Mrs Lodges
pride.
Another attractive side of Mrs. Lodge
is her love of the navy. She can talk
with an engineer and talk to the point.
She can discuss staff and line contro-
versies and shed light on the subject and
she can call off the names and capacities
of the great ships and give their best
points with the lucidty Of the expert
After Harvard and love of history the
home Her father. Charles Henry Davis
belonged to the old navy, and his era in
cluded some of the dashing heroes of the
days before the mast as his colleagues.
Stewart and Isaac Hull were his superior
officers and close friends, and it was
Hull who Influenced him to forsake Mi
nerva for Neptune. Mrs. Lodges grand
father. Daniel Davis. was the leader of
the MdSSdCnuSettS OAR. ana was Tor thirty
years the solicitor general of his state
He had educated his son at Harvard I'm
firm confidence that he would pursue the
legal profession. The Boston founder of
the Davis family. Judge Daniel Davis,
built that substantial house on Somerset
street, which is now the home of the
Massachusetts Historic Genealogical So
ciety. But the sailor son of the great
jurst never resided in this house after
his marriage in 1872 He built his own
nest in the Cambridge house, which was
later absorbed by the growing college.
Mrs. Lodges devotion to her early home
is we'll known. She loves to trace the de-
veiopments of Harvard from her early
memories and TO trace the growth of the
city. In her young days meadows
stretched in unbroken undulations to East
Cambridge and the marshes. and there
were no houses between the home of her
father. the college boundaries and East
Cambridge. The river. picturesque at
WatertoWn, was bordered at Cambridge
by tide Marshes and dotted in season
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received from such wise and careful So
cial leaders.
Senator and Mrs. Lodge have three
children. all more or less identified with
Washington life. The eldest was called
Constance Davis Lodge and she was the
first child born to a member Of the Ifar-
ward class of 1871 and received the class
cradle, an honored relic in her home
This daughter married Augustus Pea
body Gardner. who represents the sixth
district of Massachusetts in the lower
House. Mrs. Gardner takes share In
social affairs and is her mothers as
sistant at the larger functions of the
season. The elder son. George Cabot
Lodge. married Miss Elizabeth Davis.
daughter of the late Judge John Davis
of the United States and his wife, VINO
was Sarah II. Frelinghuysen. daughter
of Theodore Frelinghuysen. The third
member is John Ellerton Lodge Mrs.
Lodge is devoted to her small grandchil-
dren and has a reputation for telling
stories which would lead to literary
fame if she would place her talents with
publishers George Cabot Ledge is de-
voting himself to writing. and while ne
does not show the virility of bis father.
his efforts have met with a fair measure
of success This is particularly true Of
his poems and critical studies.
The Lodges maintain fine summer
home at Nahant and here they lead the
leisurely life dear to scholars. The house
Is a rambling affair." almost all porches.
and perched on the very height OF a rude
promontOry which juts out into the sea.
Senator Lodge has always preserved the
balance between mental and physical ex-
ertion and his summers are passed al
most entirely in the open. He delights in
the ba thing and in this Mrs. Lodge is his
companion. No sea is too rough. no tenn
perature of the water too chilly, to dis
courage her. and she finds tonic and re-
newed youth in a buffet with the waters.
The summer home contains that we'll
known portrait of Senator Lodge done by
Sargent. which is one of the most sue
cessful works Of the renowned artist 1t
shows the scholar and statesman in a
characteristic attitude with half frown
and intent look on his face. yet the en-
tire painting is keyed so high and is so
ideal that almost the entire mental por-
trait of the man is set forth from the
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LODGE SENIOR SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS

have been conferences here which will
contribute many pages when the history
of the first decade of the twentieth CEN
fury is written.
=
President Roosevelt is a frequent visitor
to the Lodge home, and several times each
month he dimes there. and as often they
join him en- famille at the White House.
But the President is fond of joining his
friend unawares, as it WERE and they
Lodge is an omnivorous reader. and her
special nook in the library shows the
wide range of tastes and general culture
which Is her principal charm. Only the
intimates of Mrs. Lodge know the re-
sources which have proved helpful to
busy man as her husband. and whose
time has been devoted to such A number
of pursuits. The works of Senator Lodge
make quite a pretentious showing on any
library shelf, and in this long list one
must see some Of the most attractive
qualities of his wife. Mrs. Lodge has
read every one Of her husbands manu-
scripts and has looked up many OF his
quotations and verified his references.
She has read his proof sheets and so per-
feet is his confidence in her ability to ac-
complish this delicate task with consum
mate skill that the proofs go to the pub
Usher with her imprimatur instead of his.
x
The personal side of Mrs. Lodge is as
fascinating as her connection with so
many stirring events and so many names
famous in history. The romance which
has eliminated in one of the happiest
marriages recorded of the prominent pub
lie men of today is, like everything else
of Importance in Mrs. Lodges life. close
ly associated with Harvard. She was
barely twenty when she married Henry
Cabot Lodge-then but little more than
twenty-one-and the wedding occurred
few days after the senator's graduation
in June. 1871. The love story began when
both were scarcely more than children
and it has unfolded prettily any
ever penned by romancers. Mr.. Lodge
took his bride on a long European trip,
and after their return to Boston he took
up the study of law. She has always
been a woman of lofty aims. and she
would never have approved of her hus-
bands considering wealth. high birth and
education as the end of existence. She
wanted to see him A doer of deeds, and
though the senator Is of that trend pre-
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it is adding half million young men to
its available forces every year. Every
boy is being drilled go that he can form
an efficient cog in the fighting machine
of the future, and altogether it's human
military material is surpassed by none.
1t is the same with the navy, which now
ranks among the best. and to which it
is soon TO add more battleShips of the
DreadnouglN type.
All this is we'll But without money il
is naught. 1t takes gold to buy the food.
coal and ammunition to carry on a war.
y single naval engagement often costs
millions. and d big international struggle
may run into the billions. In a war with
a great power Japan can do nothing with
out big money chest or a sound national
credit. At present she has no spare gold
on hand. and her credit is such that she
cannot borrow more of any of her Euro
pean uncies. who with the three golden
balls hanging over their doors. lend only
when the collateral is in sight. Sine.
peace was declared the conditions here
have been carefully Investigated, and the
nation will have to make a better show
ing before it can float another great
foreign loan. Until then there need be
no tear of Japan going into a war with
any great power. much less with the
United States which is the richest Of all
the world
But this letter Is not to describe the war
situation. There is no talk of war here
now; and 1 have looked for it among all
classes of the people. The Japanese are
the friends of the United States and they
are not ashamed to say so. In the words
of Baron Goto, one of the emperor's cabi
net. who talked to me recently. You may
go from the top of the Hokkaido to the
bottom of Formosa, and ask atthe door
of every Japanese home. rich and poor,
and you will not hear one word against
the United States" This feeling was
amply shown in the welcome which was
given our feet last October.
one Thousand million dollars. II seems
a big pile for one people to owe 1t
means lot of money. but there are other
nations who owe more and prosper. The
debt of France is five times as great;
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canvas. Mrs. Lodges portrait by the
same master is a fine picture, but not
quite SO successful her husbands. Sine
also Is taken in full length and standing.
with dark velvet gown enlivened By a
few bright flowers. Mrs. Lodge Is typ!-
cal of her class In appearance. She is Of
medium size. excellent figure and erect.
dignified bearing. Her face shows slight
~ the trace of time and her eyes are clear
and full Of animation. She is noted for
her quiet elegance of dress. never ultra
and never conspicuously disdainful of the
passing style Senator and Mrs. Lodge.
although allied to the Unitarian Church
by so many ties of blood and friendship.
are members OF the Episcopal Church OF
ST. Johns and have held pew I'm that
venerable edfice ever since they came to
Washington. In Boston they go fire.
quently to Trinity though they are menu
bers of the congregation at Nahant.
Copyright, 1909. 10y Margaret b. Downng.)
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zx JARAN BANkR0PI7z Diets zAssEIsS

sixteen billion gold dollars; Great Brit
aims at siXty-two: of France at forty
three and of Germany at forty-two bill
lions.
Considering the short life of the new
Japan and the great wars II has under
taken, its cash account is respectable to
say the least. 1t has almost S.OO0,oOO.oO
in houses, lands and other buildings, about
two billions in furniture and works of art
and over one billion in goods and other
merchandise. Its shipping is estimated at a
hundred millions. which is probably low
and its marine products at eight hundred
millions. which may be high. Japan has
over $500 600 600 worth of mines. She has
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with ricks of marsh hay propped up on
long piles The river was crossed at
Cambridge by Brighton bridge and at
Cambridgeport by the Brookline bridge
which led to Brooklne, Jamaica Pond
and West Roxbury
glance at the relatives Of Mrs. Lodge
is like peeping into some of the most in
teresting chapters of New England his
tory. Her ancestors. the first Davises.
came to New England in 1890 but her
direct ancestor was Freeman of Barn
stable, who has left records dating from
1873. Admiral Davis mother was Lois.
daughter of Constant Freeman. brother of
the Rev. James Freeman. rector Of
Kings chapel and the first Unitarian
minister in New England. The family is
allied to almost every name familiar in
the history Of the Plymouth colony. Mrs.
Lodges mother was Harriette Blake.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Hunt
Mills. Her maternal grandfather was for
many years senator from Massa chusetts
and was of the revered citizens of
Northampton
Mrs. Lodge has taken a cordial inter-
est in the newly established Congress-
ional club. She approved the idea from
its inception and showed her Endorsement
by consenting to take the position of
first of the five vice presidents. She has
attended the board meetings and as
many of the larger and smaller functions
as her numerous engagements would per-
nit This winter she is in mourning.
The concentration of the congressional
social interest is something which ap
peals to her. as useful. Mere calling does
nothing toward bringing people together
in a way by which they can know each
other. Usually drawing rooms are crowd
ed and only commonplace remarks are
possible. Dinners present somewhat
better chance, but as the official world
has enlarged the opportunities for the
members to get near each other in re-
stricted functions grow more remote.
Mrs. Lodge and Mrs. Eugene Hale have
both cordially Endorsed the idea en-
bodied in the formation of the congress
ional club; and of all the chatelaines of
officialdom these two had been consld-
cred the most unapproachable. and it
was freely predicted that neither would
join, still less be interested in the sue
cess. But the improbable happened and
nothing argues better for the future of
the club than the encouragement it has
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almost one thousand millions invested in
companies and banks and over $SOO,OOO.OO0
worth of railways telegraphs and tele-
phones
These islands are rapidly becoming
land of factories. Formerly. everything
was made by hand in the houses, and to-
day there are millions of men. women
and children who work at their homes.
There are also something like 1000 fac
tories moved by steam, gas. turbine water
wheels and electricity. and more than
100000 hands are employed in them. Over
1000 of these factories are devoted to
textiles and about 400 to machinery and
work in iron and steel. The government
alone has LOCO factories of it's own. in
which almost 100000 men are employed
1t has one connected with its shipbuild-
ing and naval esta bishment which en-
ploys over 10000 men.
Many of the private companies have
large capitals paid in. The total aggre-
gates over 500 .0OO.O 600. with a surplus OF
more than one-fourth of that amount
This includes agricultural companies and
industrials of various kinds. 1t com
prises many commercial combinations and
transportation companies. and also lnsllr-
ance companies, stock exchanges and a
multiplicity o. banks.
As to the banks. there are now over
100, al managed by Japanese with jap
anese capital. Their paid-up stock ag-
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IT was James Rus
sell Lowell who
said that there is
an education even
in rubbing up
against the walls
of an institution
like Harvard. No
woman in high Of
fetal life at Wash
ington is more
hig II Iy esteemed
for her splendid in
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steadily increasing for the past fifteen
years. They were considerably less than
SjO,OOOOOO in 1898. Last year they ap-
proximated $50 100000. and much of the
increase has been since the close of the
Russian war. The expenses of the ma
tion have more than quadrupled since the
Chinese war. and the foreign loans have
Jumped from almost nothing to more
than $500. GEO 900. They are now so large
that the government has called halt,
and It is cutting down its expenditures.
BY the new policy, just inaugurated, IT
has chopped off cool $10O,OOOOoO, and
this is to be saved during the next few
years. The bankers are demanding that
the expenses be further reduced, and the
whole nation IS calling out for retrench-
ment, economy and reform.
Every one in Japan. from the emperor
to the poorest coolie, now realizes that
the national future is based upon the
money issue The country must estab-
lish q sound credit, If 1t is to hold its
place among the nations. AS 1t is now,
II has one Of the best armies of the world.
1t has moro than 100000 soldiers. with
almost 10000 officers. 1t has more than
100000 trained men who could be draft
ed into the ranks at weeks notice. and
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WIFE OF THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM MAS
w SACHUSETTS HAS RESIDED IN WASHING
TON SINCE 1885-SHE is OF THE INTELLECTUAL
TYPE, AND THOUGH A POWER IN THE SOCIAL
AND POLITICAL REALM SHE is A RESERVED
WOMAN LITTLE KNOWN EXCEPT TO HER
FRIENDS.
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Workingman Senator in France.

From the LONDON STANDARD.
The first w"rkingnan in France to he
elected to the senate took his seat this
week His nane is Victor Reymonency.
and he is employed in the arsenal at Tou-
lon There are number Of workingmen
in the chamber of deputies. including two
miners a wineshop keeper, two hatters,
an engine driver a shoemaker. a lace
maker, locksmith and a bus conductor.
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S Japan bankrupt?
The G o u II [ + Y
owes. altogether,
more than $1,000, :
600, 900. and its eX-
penses last year
w ere aim . S [
100000 a day.
The taxes, on the
average. are now
between S1J and
$40 per family, and
they have been
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)KIO BANK-THERE HUNDRED PRIVA
SAVINGS BANKS JAPAN
Japan is WORTH TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS
1T OWES MILLIONS AND SPENDS
A MILLION DAY-ALL ABOUT THE WEALTH
OF THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE-BANKS
AND STOCK COMPANIES WHICH PAY DIVI-
DENDS-EIGHT MILLION POSTAL SAVINGS DE-
POSITORS-THE NEW ELECTRIC ROADS AND
THE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS WHOSE RATES
ARE ONE CENT A MILE-SHIP SUBSIDIES
WHICH PAY-HARD TIMES AND THE TAXES
GOVERNMENT MONOPOLIES, ETC
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Copyright. 1909, by Frank G. Carpcnter.p
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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teIleCtual attainInentS ana Versatile az
Complshments than the wife of the senior
senator from Massachusetts. Mrs Henry
Cabot Lodge. Those Who like to draw
deductions say it is ~ direct result OF
environment added To exceptional mental
gifts When one has played in the very
grounds of Harvard as a child and been
intimately connected with Harvard schoi-
ars. professors and students from infancy
the influence is bound to tell. Mrs. Lodge
is counted one of the brilliant converse
fionalists in Washington. and il was the
late Thomas B. Reed who said that II
the American government were adaptable
to the conception OF a political salon she
would make the ideal leader.
From the standpoint from which nearly
ALI the women in official circles are judg-
ed the public knows but little of the wife
OF the scholarly senator from Massachu-
sets She has resided a the capital
since 1ss.J and the nigh social connections
Of her family and her husbands his lofty
position in the world OF letters and official
councils gave her prominence from the be
ginning. But size is type Of woman