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Rusi.ja.

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Nesenai praskamb6jo laik-
rasciuose zinia, kad ketinama
permainyti istatymai apie at
Stow rinkimus V. Dumon.
Nauja istatymq sumanyma esq
isdirbe desinieji taip, kad rem.
kant V. Dumon atstovus pa
gal tq istatymq, butq isrinkti
tik storakiseniai, kuriq tarpe
yra daugiausiai desiniqjq pa
ziurq zmon6s. Tokiuo, mat,
budu manoma uzkirsti kelias
V. Duma demokratams.
Kad niekas negaletq uzpul.
dineti, jog vyriausybe netei
sotu keliu tuos naujuosius
lstatymus gyveniman vykina,
esq sumanyta pravesti ia ista-
tyma per dabartine V. Duma.
Tuo tikslu desinieji, su Puris.
kevicium priesakyje, ir krei.
pests j spalininkus, prasydami
juos padeti pravesti V.Dumo.
jest lstatymq sumanyma. Spa
lininkai teciaus atsisake nuo
to. Taigi desinieji dabar susi-
tare su tautininkais ir isvien
stengissi ia .jstatymq summary
ma V. Dumoje pravesti. Su.
prantamas dalykas, kad vieni
desinieji, kad ir susid6je su
tautininkais, nieko V. Dunno.
je nepes, nes jei tik spalinin-
kai bus tam priesingi, balsuo-
jant Sis istatymq sumanymas
visos opozicijos ir spalininkq
balsais bus atmestas.
Jei istikrqjq toksai sstaty.
mq sumanymas bus inestas V.
Dumon, tai jo likimas dau.
giausiai prideres nuo spali.
ninkq. Pakryps jie desine-
istatym4 sumanymas bus pri-
imtas, pakryps ! kaire - bus
atmestas.
Kaip jau minejome, spali.
ninkai dabartiniu laiku pasi.
priesino tokiam desiniqjq dar.
bui. Bet kas gall zinoti, ka
jie pasakys vellau. Ia spali.
ninkq juk visko galima tike.
ties.
Artinasi rinkimai i ketvir.
taja V. Duma. Spalininkai
gall pabugti, kad nepralaime.
jus rinkimuose. Juk gera
zmouiq upo i kaire krypimo
pavyzdi parode jiems atstovo
nuo Maskvos rinkimas Pleva-
kai mirus. Tat ir gall, more.
dami skaitlingai patekti ke.
tvirtojon Dumon, sutikti pra-
vesti toki istatymq sumanyma,
kad jiems tik patterns negra
sytq pavojus butt pasalintais
nuo dalyvavimo Dumos dar.
buose. Suprantamas dalykas,
jie gales sta desiniqjq isdirb-
tame sumanyme pataisyti (ta.
me klausime desinieji su spa.
lininkais susider6s, kaip jau
ne syki daugelyje kitq klausi.
mq susiderejo, is abiejq pusiq
po truputi nusileidus), kick j
savo nauuai pagerinti.. ir pri-
init.
Nenor6tumem tam tiketi,
bet... viskas gall butt. Spali-
ninkq darbai bent trecioje V.
Dumoje parode aiskiai, kad
is jq visko tiketies galima.
Koks.gi ten bus lstatymq
sumanymas apie atstovg rim.
Katalikas., 1910-09-01
Metal XII

Genevoj numir6 tarptautis-
kos organizacijos Raudonojo
Kryziaus prezidentas, Gusta-
vas Moynier. Jis buves prezi-
dentu nuo 1868 m. nuo tos or.
ganizacijos uzd6jimo pradzios.
Turejes "a metus.
Vokietijos sosto inpedinis
rengiasi keliauti i 1ndijas.
Pirmiau buvo apskelbta, kad
jis pakeliui aplankysias If
Jungt. Amer. Valstybes, bet
dabar tasai uzmanymas atsau-
kama. Tuo dar geriau.
Londone TRIUMPH laiku atsi-
busianti DIR. Crippeno byla uz
jo zmonos nuzudyma. Visi
tam tikslui dokumental jau
priruosta. Galutinai dr.. Grip.
pen bus ginamas, kad 10 EMO
ma mirusi nuo operacijos.
Nekuriose Norvegijos apy-
-gardose siaucia neapsakoma
sausuma. Kaikur isdziuve su.
liniai ir vanduo reikia gaben-
ii is toll. Bet siemet tenai uz-
der6jimai esq neprasciausi,
nors mazai lietaus buta.
Ioiedos afcivyskupas ITS
panijos primas, kardinolas A. J
quirre, atvirai stojes priesakyjN
dvasiskijos, kuri dabar ka-
riauja su Ispanijos valdzia.
Kardinolas suteikes savo pa
laiminima visiems items, ku-
rie kariausia su dabartine val.
dzia.
Rusijos valdzia uzsakius
vienoj Francijos dirbtuv6j ka-
nuoles ir amunicija uz pusan.
tro milijono doleriq. Nekurie
Rusijos Dumos atstovai uz tai
ant valdzios labai inirte, ka.
dangi Duma nutarius ia uzsa-
kyma atlikti Rusijos dirbtu-
v6se.
Kadangi Austrijoj labai
pabrangus mesa, tat valdzia
panaikinus muita nuo atgabe.
namos mesos is Argentinos,
Rumunijos ir Serbijos. 1r
viespatystes gelzkeliai per tris
menesius- mesa gabes pigiau
nei paprastai. Tuo budu nori.
ma liaudi priserti ir paskui
vel marinti.
Japonijoj andai pasmerkta
Katalikas., 1910-09-01
Revoliucijonieriai laim6.

jO.
Respublikoj Nicaragua kru-
vina revoliucija pasibaige,
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Politiskos Zinios.

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Katalikas., 1910-09-01

Francijoj arklienos naudo-
jimas nuolatos auga. Viename
Paryziuje randasi j 900 arkliq
m6sinyciq ir tai tose miesto
.dalyse, kuriose gyvena vlenl
darbininkai. Jie taigi arklle'
ma ir valgo. Visoj Franc']o]
metals suvalgoma 100000 ar
kliq. Sakoma, arkliena yra
pigi mesa ir skani. Prize klto'
kios m6sos darbininkams ne.
negalima prieiti, perbrangi.
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civil, t. partal1e o. drink o. milk on me-.
Barkeep,' summoning me. this yere hon.
brey will have glass O. milk fr his'n
Yo' kin fetch me glass o Ticker fr
mine
well, it wasn't exactly the kind Of do
ings 1 liked IN my car, but sort OF
thought the youngster with the green
Kelly had earned some kind OF rebate
like that for the demandy way he had
about him. and SO I fetched glass or
milk and hooter Of the red-eye on
tray.
with his left hand the small man with
the store clothes handed the glass of milk
to the sulky youth. while he kept the gun
damned up to his nose with the right.
Lap 1t up, son., said the sawed-off.
an here's 1ookin' at yo' all. It'll sho' do
you good. bAin' what yo' all needs right
bad
with q weak grin the young man took
a couple Of sips Of the milk, and then the
small man took his gun down and slowed
it away, at the Same time tossing OF his
glass of LIQUOR with jerk. Then. with a
few words Of admonition and reproof
about the proper way to ask folks to
drink. and a suggestion or two about how
not to treat folks that don't care to drink,
the small man strolled out OF the car
THE heavy-wadded youngster made the
remainder OF the journey in one seat Of
the buffet car. pouring the fussy,fiuid into
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for paper-collared Zeb, what right have
you got to
which is as far az he got with what
ever inquiry he was going to make about
what right the sawed-off had to do any
thing, for In about one-ninth of a second
after he'd begun he was incontinently
chucked into the leather seat right be-
hind him. and the small man in the store
clothing had a gun about as long as your
longest arm. with dark blue steel bar
rel, damned right under the bank-waddy
youngsters left lamp.
Son. the little man with the shiny
collar was saying to him in a quiet tone
that nevertheless rose above the click of
the wheels, EFF yo' all was growed up
yet-which yo' hain't-an' asst folks in a
kindly, decent, respectful sort o. way,
like sho'-nough men asst sech things, t
Kicker up with yo'. they hain't nobuddy
what'd be pleaseder to do that same than
this yere paper-collared Feb what you
mentions.
But II Jus happens son, thet yo sure
are one onnery pup. an yo all don't need
no ticker nohow. the same not bein' good
for young gophers with yore kind O. dis
position.
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than the. Bostonian. who, when asked
where II was. replied:
Burma. Burma: OF course l know
where 1t is. | have cousin out there,
but he calls it Bermuda"
The Burma from where l am writing is
away of here on the opposite side of the
world. 1t lies near the eastern shores
of the Bay of Bengal, several hundred
miles south of the Himalaya mountains.
and just across the way from the PENN
sula of Hindustan. On the north it runs
close to Tibet; and on the east 1T
skirts the Chinese province Of Yunnan
and French Indo-China, with the Siamese
states on the south The country Is as
long as from Canada to the Mexican gulf,
and wider than from New York to Cieve-
land 1t is bigger than France, Germany
or the Spanish peninsula, and it has a
population of ten millions, of whom eight
millions are the proudest, best dressed
and most lovable people of Asia.
j came into Burma up the Irawadi
river. The capital. Rangoon, from where
1 write, lies about twenty miles from
ing the delta. The Irawadi is one Of
the greatest of the worlds great rivers.
1t rises somewhere in Tibet and flows
a thousand miles through this country
before it reaches the sea. 1t carries
down so much silt that the blue waters
Of the Bay of Bengal are made yellow by
it. In coming here we Travelled for
hours through what looked like pea soup
before we caught sight OF land. and in
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covered with gorgeous silk turbans
They wear jackets Of silk or fine cot
terfiies here and there through the
crowd In addition there are tall-ha.-
ted. long-coated Parsees from Bombay.
worshipers Of fire. who are devoted
to banking and trading. and lean. skinny
black Chetties, money lenders from
Madras. who wear only sheet OF cot
ton wrapped around their bare persons.
are indian s9ys ID Of gold
Hindoo women with rings in their
noses. and Burmese girls clad in cot
ton or silk. with plugs in their ears.
The costumes are SO many 1 cannot
describe them.
The traffic about the wharves ana
strange animals, and In strange
vehicles The passenger cab is the
gharry, yellow or black box hauled
by an Indian pony and driven by
Hindoo or Burman. The heavy freight
is dragged over the roads in carts by
great loads of goods are pushed and
pulled along by half-naked men. The
men work as hard as the animals, and
the the white sweat stands out upon their
onward. There are also fine carriages.
owned by the Europeans. and even
automobiles. with Hindoo chaufeurs in
a cost of about 10 cents trip, and
my baggage was CARRIED from the
steamer to the hotel on cart drawn by
breech-ciouted Hindoos. On the way I
with nickel He had pulled his red
silk skirt high up his thighs, and I
observed that he had silver clasps on
each leg. just over the knee, to hold it.
He wore turban and jacket, and sat
straight as he rode.
This afternoon I took street car trip
out into the country. The railway was
an overhead trolley. and the cars were
divided into two classes, the first OF
which costs double the price OF the
second. In order. to see the people, I
rode second class. sitting between q Ben
gal Hindoo in jacket and calico trousers.
and Burmese girl, dressed In q cotton
was thrown over her shoulders. She
had fat cigar in her hand. and asked
me to smoke. Behind me were two Hin
docs wearing skull caps embroidered
with gold, and Burmese gentleman.
well clad and wearing amber plugs In
his ears. In front was a Burmese WON
an, with a baby In her arms. The chlld's
head was shaved clean. excepting . petch
on the crown the size OF dollar And
then there were Mohemmedsn women'
dian soldiers in turbans. and Chinese
with queues hanging down their silk,
gowns at the back. AS we rode on Wa
passed the carriage OF the governor. a
horses with coachmen and footmen gor-
geous in livery and a troop Of outriders
in front. We went by rice mills and
lumber yards. in which elephants were
saw a new picture OF this Burmese bio
graph show. which Ii one of the strangess
OF the far east.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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the car then, and they all looked in
dulgent and agreeable over the young
mans demand that they engulf his pur-
chased lot of the amber booze-except one
sawed-off man of forty or SO, with a
plain black sack suit and rundown
celluloid collar, who was inserting a mod
est drink Of rye into his person, and who
regarded the proceedings Of the young
man with the emerald fuzzy lid with some
considerable asperity.
''He pushed away the quart bottle that
the youth offered him-pushed it away
with a hand that wasn't a leetle bit
gentle, too, at the same time making
some observations about village cut-ups
and township leases that ought to be
playing jacks somewhere on the front
steps with their little sisters. instead Of
annoying grown-up folks that were trying
to extract solace and quietude from their
liquor.
This naturally. got the boy with the
heavisome wad and the previously acduir-
ed package on the raw right away. He
stood of and gazed out OF one eye at the
little man In the suit of black store
clothes and the too-shinny turn-down col
lar.
!. why. said he. .doggone you anyhow
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81 SAW THEM WASHING THE BEASTS"

this way and that. The dredges are
is now contemplating building a series
of jetties like those we have at New
Orleans. These will confine the waters
to a narrower channel and the force of
the river will scour the course clean.
Coming up to Rangoon the stream Is
often several miles wide and the shores
at the mouth SO far apart that as we
Rugged the north bank we could hardly
see the land on the south. We passed
Syrian. where the Burma Oil Company
has its enormous refineries. and then
lumber yards rice mills and shipping.
looked more like one of the great ports
of Europe than Asia. Long before the
town came In sight we could see the tall
spire Of the Golden Pagoda, and as We
steamed closer another shaft of gold
came into view. 1t was that of the
Soule Pagoda. a Burmese monument
which rises high out of the business
blocks in the very heart of the city. Our
ship came right up to the wharves and
we stepped out into one of the queerest
crowds to be found in all Asia.
This city is more cosmopolitan than
Calcutta, Cairo or Constantinople. 1t
is East Indian rather than Burmese,
and 1t has people Of every nation and
Of almost every tribe of the Asiatic
continent. It has $4,000 Chinese, a
large number Of Malays. 5000
Europeans. and more than loo, 900 In
dams from all parts Of Hindustan The
people are Of all colors, black, white
yellow and brown. and they wear ali
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and booms. They wade or swim about.
according TO the depth Of the water.
towing the logs this way and that. When
the logs come to the ports they break
the booms by pushing out the key log.
They then take the timbers out of the
water and put them on the cars, which
carry them to the mills.
In some places the elephants work to-
gether. and l am told there are boss ele-
plants which keep the others up to their
work and pound them with their trunks
when they lag. In some yards each ele-
phant has its own job, one class being
used to carry hay for the stables and to
mix the bran. molasses. and other food
which form the daily rations OF the
beasts in that establishment.
These elephants at Rangoon are par
ticular as to their working hours. They
seem TO almost watch the clock, for they
get restless as the noon hour approaches,
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A. 49,. - =, hr;nps i'm seven or eight mil
uon dollars wear. The trees are girdied
IN the forests and after cutting are hoa'-
ed down the streams and rivers 10 ran
eocn Both I'm the forests and at Tue
ports the handling of the timber Is Done
ny elephants. They drag the logs TO tiie
streams and arrange the booHs' 'nes
stack the planks, and they carry All
sorts of lumber at the direction OF their
masters Every sawmill here has hs ere
phants. and there are some companies
which employ several hundred The aV-
erase institution, however, can anord out
few. for the animals are costly, green
one bringing $500 and prize worker
often as much as $1,000
The elephants come from the forests
Of Tpper Burma. The wild ones are all
owned by the government. which has an
elephant department to catch and care
for them. The elephant commissioner
keeps track of the wild herds and annu
sIly sends out men to hunt them and
catch the young bulls. The COW ele-
INFANTS and a certain number of bulls are
furped back into the forests The bull
calves are kept and trained and are
finally disposed Of to the lumbermen,
few being retained for the government
use.
In hunting the elephants, they are
eonets-nes captured in pits and sometimes
led = corrals by means Of tame ele
pi,a. trained for the purpose The
tarii 1sts mix with the wild ones and
lead n, into the pens. whereupon the
elephant hunters sort out from the wild
ones those they wish to keep and turn
the others back into the forests. Most
Of the elephants at Rangoon have come
from the government herds.
wish I could show you some Of the
huge beasts at work in the yards They
lift great logs on their tusks and
stack them in piles. They carry tim
hers to the saws and lay the planks in
order for shipment. Their every action
show reason and they seem to calculate
cause and effect. At one sawmilI /
saw two beasts. each as big as Jumbo.
piling lumber. working together. Each
had a Burman. clad in turban and gown.
seated upon his head. and he was di-
rected by him. The man used both hand
and heel as well as word Of mouth to
,.ll the elephant what to do. and in ad-
dition a sharp brass hook which he jab-
bed into him If he did not obey. The
logs handled were OF great weight.
meas ,red some which were twenty feet
long, as thick as cider barrel and as
tal as two-story house. Either OF
these two elephants could lift one
such log, on his tusks. and carry II
across the yard. He would kneel down
before the middle Of a log. crowd his
tusks under il and then. throwing his
great trunk over the top. would raise il
bodily and carry it to the truck upon
which IL was to be pushed to the buzz
saw II the log proved very heavy he
would rest one end on the ground and
dras in.
In another part of the yard / watched
an elephant piling lumber. He would lif1
the tiInbers up and lay them down or
the others as evenly though he had
measured each piece. Sometimes he rested
a log on the pile and pushed it into place
with his trunk. At other times he kicked
~ up with his right hind foot. In some
case- where II was necessary to carr,
two logs at q time the men tied rop,
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An Artistic Truth.
1ISS MARY GAR

kH1SS NARY GARDEN, at a tea In
AVA Philadelphia. congratulated a Phila-
delphian on the excellent opera that is
produced in the Quaker city
Really" she said. you get better
opera here than they have In Paris at
the Connique or even at the Opera itself.
The reason? Money. of course. Sal
aries. We singers. you know. with all
our love for art, are in complete agree
ment with the colored divine who said:
Rreddern an sistern, All can't preach
heah an. boa'd in helm"
What is their main reason for want
ing a divorce?
because they are marrisd."-Izous-
ton Post.
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and stop now and then to wait for the
bell. When the whistle sounds and the
bell rings at II o'clock they will drop
whatever they have on their tusks and
bolt for the feeding sheds. 1t is the same
at night.
/ am told they have to be carefully fed
and that each must have his bath twice a
day. At one of the yards / saw them
washing the beasts. The elephants sat
down while buckets of water were
thrown over them. After that their
masters scrubbed them with rough
brushes and curried them, as 1T were, all
over. AS the water was dashed upon
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Elephants With Bas-ow the Hge Beasts Burma Work for Their Living

around them and the elephant would
pick up the end Of the rope with his trunk
and place it over his tusk and then, rails
ing his head, walk off with it.
The elephants gather up the scraps Of
lumber and lay them so that the work
men can rope them into bundles. They
also work at piling the boards and loading
them for the steamers.
The managers tell me many of these
beasts are employed in the forests and
at the lumber camps up country. They
are used for all sorts of heavy transpor-
tation. They not only carry the logs to
the streams, but aid in forming the RATS
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them they wagged- their tails and. flap
ped their ears and grunted in JOY
l asked one of the men If the beasts
were hard to handle. He replied: No,
but we must be always on guard, and
if they grow angry they make no bones
of killing US.
The elephant is touchy. and if anything
creeps under the blanket on his back he
grows restless and cannot work we'll
He will tremble like woman at the
sight OF mouse, for fear, perhaps, that
the animal may run up his trunk. AS
l left one of the sawnniils I threw q
piece of silver to the man on the biggest
elephant. He rubbed the beasts head
with his heel and thereupon the elephant
threw his great trunk high into the air
and gave me a royal salute.
Burma ranks with Siam as the land Of
the white elephant. The people here are
Buddhists, and they believe that the
souls OF human beings. when they pass
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sorts Of costumes The East Indian
coolies are naked, except for a cloth
around the waist and a red or white
turban. Their black skins shine like
jet under the tropical sun. Many OF
the Chinese are rich, and they are clad
in silks or fine cot0ns, while the
Burmese strut about in silk skirts of
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York. II picked him up in Chicago lie
was real wicked boy. with one of those
f,rrv green Kellys and three or four mil
,,on n,eces-of-eight that he was going to
invest Immediately with me in Tiffany
suds for everybody on both sides OF the
h,,ffet aisle and at all Of the tables In
the car.
He sure was there with the securities,
for he tossed package OF ber-banded
~ papers on the top table that almost
took the polish 6fr OF it, when he de-
manded me to fetch forth just about
enough of the winksie wealthy fluid to
float three or four battleships. so that he
could begin TO count the bubbles right
anyway.
Then he leaned hard against the door
lamb and made spooch, in which he not
only invited but he demanded, everybody
then in the car to pick up quart under
his arm and retreat back to his lair and
lick it up, SOS he, the Kelly-hatted one
could see 'em all enjoy 'emselves.
There were only about eight men In
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THEY Haul Logs in the
1 Lumber mps and
Stack Timber in the Mills
They Believe in Fixed Hours
and Watch the Clock-Cost
of An Elephant-The Royal
Animals of Siam and Why
Worshiped = Rangoon. the
Southern Gateway to Asia
And Something About Its
Queer Population.
Copyright. 1910 by Frank 6. Carpenter
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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the river itself the water was as brown
as oatmeal Cruel and almost as thick.
1t left rich sediment in the bath tub
yellowish tint under the tropical sun.
The deposit is SO great that the shore
creeps on into the sea several inches
year. Immense sand bars are created
and pilots have to direct the steamers
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himself In meek and quiet manner
Before the trip was over we found out
that the small man who had taught him
that lesson OF meekness was q United
States marshal from Arizona with a man
handling record that made the late Luke
Short look like page of the proceedings
OF the Home Missionary Society"
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and barges which have brought rice In
from the country, and there are great
fleets at the mills loading and unloading
their cargoes. Rice Is the money crop of
the country. and it makes the Burmese
comparatively rich.
But before I go farther, let me give
you a bird s-eye view OF this country
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RANGOON, 1910.
HAVE spent the
day visiting the
sawmillS and lum-
Der yards of Ran
COON, where the
elephants aid In
preparing t e a k
wood for sl1pment
abroad. Teak is
one of the chief
exports of Burma.
IL is SO Vaiua bic
that il is sold by
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What yo' all need, son. is some milk.
an ! hereby invites yo. Fespeckful an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-17

HAD a rummy what was on my
car the other day." said the
steward of the buffet car OF
one of the famous trains run
ming between Chicago and New