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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03

In the case OF Russia. for foreign serv'
Ice. and a militia. Service is compul-
sorry between the ages Of seventeen and
forty. but the ordinary age of enlist
ment is twenty years. the conscrlpt be
Ing liable for two years service In the
infantry and three years in other arms
In the active army with the colors.
Seven and one-third additional years
are required to complete the period in
the first reserve.
The strength OF the Japanese army at
Its last showing was 1871 officers and
those ranking as officers, 1886 ranking
officers and ensigns
and 212,521 petty officers and men.
The army is divided into thirty-nine
brtgades of infantry formed of eighty
regiments OF 24S battalions and four
brigades of cavalry of twenty-seven
regiments with eighty-nine squadrons-
There are three brigades of twenty-five
regiments. fifty three battery battal-
Ions OF field artillery. two batteries Of
horse artillery and three battalions or
eleven batteries OF mountain artillery.
The heavy artillery includes two bri-
gades with six regiments and twenty
four battalions Of sixty-four batteries.
There Is one brigade OF engineers form
I'd OF twenty-four battalions OF seven
ty-five companies and nineteen battal-
ions OF train In 1917 the recruiting
officers examined 450.O0n young men.
and of these 2l6.s64 were considered
good for service. iO3.7s4 were called to
the colors aud l53.uSO were Included In
the recruiting reserve.
Nineteen divisions form the active
army and the guard. New guns have
been introduced for the horse and
mountain artillery. The emperor IL
supreme head Of the japanese army.
but responsible to him are the general
/ stan and war ministry. Independent
Of both IL the inspectorate of military
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03

training. Then there Is the war coun.
ell, consisting Of the minister Of war.
the naval minister, the chiefs Of the
general staff and the naval staff.
Some tales OF the past and present
illustrative of the devotion to their
chiefs and country may give an indi'
cation OF the spirit pervading the arm
les OF japan at the present day. The
tale of the devotion to the memory of
their lord even unto death OF the forty
seven Ronins Is well known.
In feudal times castle was besieged
and In desperate straits Its lord sent
q samurai TO inform the garrison that
relief was coming He was captured
by the besiegers. who were themselves
then In a condition that would force
them TO soon raise the siege. They Of
fered 10 save his life II he would In
form the besieged that there was no
hope of their being succored. He ap-
parently consented and was taken TO
the verge of the castle moat His wife
and children were In the castle and on
the parapet- He called out TO the be-
sieged not to surrender, that succor was
at hand. He was instantly slain. but
he had executed the wishes of his lord
A young Japanese naval officer COM
manded torpedo boat in the Chinese
Japanese war. The condition Of his
service was such as to have rendered
it impossible for him to have accom-
plished anything notable for his coun
try. He had done. and done well. all
that he had been ordered to do. He
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03

use a catcher who was over the age
limit against Bannister at Ithaca last
Thursday. The secretary of the league
threw out the game so that the
championship was decided between
Breckenridge and Bannister.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03

w. A. Sonley, who lives five miles
north of st. Louis, dropped dead of
heart disease Saturday morning. He
was highly respected farmer in that
vicinity.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03
Y. NJ. c. A. BASEBALL.

The championship in the Y. NJ. c. A.
baseball league was lost to the Alma
boys when necessity forced them to
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03
JAPANESE ARMY
CROWS STEADILY
Service Compulsory Between
Seventeen and Forty Years.
RANK AND FILE FEARLESS.

With Peace Strength of About 100000
Army of 100000 Is Ready For War
CalI-Nineteen Divisions Form Active
Army-History RepIete With Incl
dents of Heroism of Japanese Soldier.
Considered an Honor to Die For
Country - conscripts Subjected to
Thorough Physical Training.
"HE peace strength Of the Japa-
nese army is about 100000. and
the war strength Is estimated
at 100000. The military or
ganization OF the country includes an
active army available for foreign serv-
Ice, national army for home defense
primarily. but available, as was shown
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03

design shows nvit
with mahogany doors and furniture
with bultn
This the and sensible lighting
inverted
light the entire with
$4,000
Upon will furnish Sax
Of Dwellings" contains $40 designs
book OF interiors; $3.50
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-03

Our line of Fall and Winter Footwear
is now complete. Yoa are invited to call
aud inspect same. Economy Shoe store.x
Boys suits that wear, at Skaters, K
The Washington times., 1914-10-13

acid that the German chemists pro-
duce most cheaplv: because they do
/ it cheapest, they have been allowed
t. supply most of the worlds re-
ouirements. Mixed with water, and
passed through crushed gold-bearing
rock, it teaches out the gold and
carries it away in solution. The gold
is then precipitated by passing the
! solution through zinc shavings and
zinc dust, the zinc attracting the
gold.
This process makes it possible to
get the gold out of vast masses of
ore that could not be reduced by the
old amalgam process, of which
quicksilver was the basis. The cya-
nide process was invented by Mac
Arthur and Forrest, in Glasgow; or
rather, was made commercially rrac-
tical by them. It's extended utiliza-
ton put value into ore bodies that
had been worthless before and this
chiefly accounts for the immense in
! fation Of the gold output.
1t is to be observed that the pro-
cess was not of German invention,
hut British. Germany had neither
gold ores nor the inventors of the
process; but German scientific skill
and thoroughress found a place to
wedge in: she PROCEEDED largely to
monopolize the cyanide production,
and thus to make herself as much
partner in gold production as if she
had owned the riches of the Rand.
1t was recently said that American
mining interests were within
month of the end of their cyanide
supplies. One German firm in the
United States produces cyanide, and
is filling orders of all its old custom
ers. Further, several sets of the
highly specialized machinery for
producing it had been ordered by
other American interests before the
war; but .hese were to come from
Germany, which, again, had mo-
nopoly. Whether the apparatus got
out of Germany before the war is
not yet known.
All the world needs gold just now;
and the gold-producing countries
have done everything possible to
open channels through which Ger
many's cyanide can be brought out,
or substitute supplies can be made.
There &c prospect of arrangements
to this effect. Unless they arc per-
fected and put into operation, there
will presently be observed, in the
closing down Of mines and the cur
tailment of gold production, new
testimonial to the important place
that research, patience, and thor
oughness have won for the Germans.
The Washington times., 1914-10-13

safely neutral. The Germans natur-
ally would like to take the country
for they want the mouth of their
Rhine, and the outlook on the North
Sea. The Dutch have long been fear
full of this, and the descriptions of
Dutch sentiment agree that it is
strongly in favor of the allies. But
the commercial opportunity of the
war is not to be overlooked; Holland
has a chance to make money, and
lots of it, out of Germany's needs;
exactly as the United States has to
make it )ut of the requirements of
the allies.
A little country, right in the thick
of the trouble, Holland must sail its
diplomatic bark on rough and choppy
seas; if she shall keep even keel
and safe course throughout, she will
have accomplished e wonderful
thing. The Scheldt is just now the
immediate menace. Shall she per-
nit the Germans to use the lower
reaches of the river? If she does,
the British navy may be expected to
blockade the country; if she does
not, the Germans may take it by
force and thus drive Holland into
war. 1t is automatically more diff
ficult position than that in which
Belgium was placed in the begin
ming, because Belgium had war
forced on her; there was nothing to
do but fight. Holland may be able to
avoid war; but to do it will require
the most skillful Statecraft.
The Washington times., 1914-10-13

ture would be permanently to dou-
! BILE taxes in order to pay the fiddler
what would happen? 1t would ruin
the community. Business would be
driven away by the tax penalties;
property would be unable to main
tain itself, membranes would be
foreclosed, rents would be raised in
the desperate effort to make ends
meet for the landlord; then, after
the people had been driven out of the
place, they would collapse and the
city would De wrecked and ready to
begin anew on sane basis.
1t is just as plain as anything in
common sense and common expert
cree can be, that that WOULD happen
in another city. Why not here"
Washington cannot be maintained
as the nation wants it maintained,
as it should be maintained, from To-
cal taxation. There must he large
Federal contributions or else aban,
donment Of the city's future and the
property investments now Held here.
Between these two courses, it is very
certain what Congress will do. The
extreme efforts to break down the
Capital and withdraw Federal sup
port after huge and expensive
Federal plan has Eeen forced upon it,
will never succeed. There has never
teen real danger Of such thj.e.
1t has Glanced that few highly
vocal and persistent agitators have
teen in position, quite by accident
to get themselves taken more seri-
ously than they deserve. Real au-
thority has never gone wild on the
subject, and it will not. The asses
sor's excellent report marks the be-
ginning Of a return to common sense
treatment of these every day prob
lens of the National Capital. ''7
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
CYANIDE AND GOLD.

Germany is not a gold-producing
country, and yet one Of the strange
facts that have come to common
knowledge lately is that Germany
has possibly more direct control over
the production of gold throughout
the world than any other country.
The great gold-producing areas
are in South Africa, the United
States, and Australia. South Africa
is the first, North America second,
and Australia third. Yet it is quite
within reason to say that either one
Of these continents production Of
gold might be withdrawn without so
much Immediate effect on the worlds
gold output, as will flow from the
&C essation cf the supplies of cyanide
of potassium and sodium cyanide,
which are chiefly produced in Ger
many.
The worlds gold output has never
reached sc00.000,000 in / single year
until 1896, season cf our great ma
ton wide debate on the moncy-metal
question. In the few years since then
it has mounted to near $5O0,0O0,0 900
a year, and has steadily increased.
Cyanide is the explanation.
Cyanide is an intensely poisonous
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
> the Editor Of THE TINES;

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
What Is tho great element Of discord
between the two branches Of women
working supposedly for equal suffraEe7
What IL the source of concerted effort
to defeat suffrage for women? Which
religious. fraternal, or industrial bodies
have declared themselves to be against
suffrage? Would, 1t not be wiser and
more digntied for the women them
selves to work together in roofing out
the disturber and disorganizer in their
ranks? 1t is not likely that the trouble
originated within the body of suf-
ragists themselves, but much more
probable that the enemies of equal suf-
frage have been at work discouraging
the lukewarm and sowing discord where
it would tell most.
The American Federation of Labor In
its leaflet Of working objects declares
for woman suffrage co-equal with
mon suffrage" The Episcopal Church,
at recent convention, declared itself in
favor Of suffrage among women.
With two such large and influential
bodies not only in favor of, but work
ing for suffrage, would it not be worth
while to cease dissension and take up,
one by one, the organizations within
this country. both civil and religious.
and trace to it's source the organized
and persistent fight against constitu-
tional and obviously needed amendment
to the Federal Constitution.
MILDRED P. HENAUlT.
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
HE CLAYTON BILL.

HI Clayton bill in its final form Is
same and at the same tune 4
t]y different measure from that
cb provoked SO much criticism on
first appearance. The compla-
cv with which Its passage INTO
is viewed by business men lndl-
es how thoroughly its apparent
icalism has been eradicated and
b how little opposition there was
the part of business to the re-
fction of monopolistic abuses
len was the real aim Of the meas
The principle is admitted. The
trust and trepidation were over
methods to be employed. Con-
vative provision for the unlocking
interlocking directorates meets
| h no opposition. Yet radical and
ping prohibition by them would
ye attacked all business organlza-
rs Conservative definition of re-
|aint of trade meets with no oppo-
! on. Too radical a definition of it
|uld have interfered with many or
|ary ard legitimate practices Of
|de. Neither individual nor cor
ration can find much objection to
bhibition of methods that are al-
Idv obviously banned under the
|preme Courts decision in the
krdard Oil and Tobacco cases. One
ght ieel prompted to wonder
ether a new law on the subject is
nth while; but wonderment would
well-nigh the only emotion in
red.
The teeth have been taken out of
; labor clause, too. 1t is no con-
;sion 20 the labor organizations to
' that its members may do what
II they may lawfully 10. No un-
P rights or privileges have been
ended to any class. The worst
Il can be said of these sections is
1t they invite on the part Of th1se
n may not understand it acts
ich would test the scope of the
:. 1t is little better to urge be-
Nor which is assureIly within the
' than to suggest constant effort
find out how little the law forbiGs.
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
THE THIRD GAME.

Sporting opinion declined to con-
cede the Rraves anything like assur-
snce of the worlds pennant on the
strength "f their first victory over
the Athletics. 1t was too one-sided a
game; not a game of fiukes, but what
good many considered a fiuke
game. Such things "just happen
sometimes to the best clubs.
The second game turned the tide
overwhelmingly to the Boston team;
it was a real fight, all the way, and
the Braves won by dint of work and
class. Two victories to the good,
with only four needed to close the
contest, of course turned the mathe-
n,atical scale most decidedly toward
,, the National League team.
But yet it needed the wonderful
fight of yesterday 70 win the last
doubter. A worlds series, 1t has
teen said million times, doesn't
give a sure indication of the COM
parative quality of two teams. The
abreaks" may and many times do de-
eide which team shall win the short
series, whereas the long test of a
seasons campaign shakes teams
down to the point of pretty salts
factory verdict OH their merits.
The experts may analyze and
weigh and classify and list the stars
and their past performances, and de-
eide however they like; but the pub
lie guesses that a team that can put
up such magnificent stern chase as
the Braves did yesterday, keep heart
and confidence and overhaul victory
at the end, is at the moment, any
Row. the great team. In three months
the Braves fought their way from
the bottom of the weaker league 20
the tou, and then to three successive
victories and a substantial certainty
of the worlds championship. There
were many contests, in that period,
just as g-ueling and heartbreaking
as that cf yesterday. The wonderful
performance of the first game On
Fenway Field was no fiuke, no acci-
Gent, no break of luck. 1t was the
very kind of thing that has given
character for a whole season to the
fight Of this record-breaking team Of
Stallings'. Accomplished by some
other teams-good teams, at that
this coup Of yesterday could have
been set down to the credit Of good
guessing and good luck. But when
the career of a team is made I'D of a
consistent series of such operations,
it must be conceded a spirit and an
inspiration that are all its own, and
that make it different from other
teams. That is why hats are off to
The Boston Braves of 1914 the great
history-maKing ball team of modern
years. When has been played the
ball game that will be so long re-
membered, so many times played
over in the eager memories Of the
fans, as that of yesterday?
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
|NTERPRETS
COTTON STATISTICS
Shows How Cutting Off Trade
to Germany Will Affect Ex-
ports of Staple.

There's shark on statistics up at the
Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic Com.
merce who refuses to permit his name
to be made public. but who, neverthe.
less, Is a master Of the magic of num-
bers.
A page full Of figures in q weishty
census report, to his discerning eye, Is
romance Of color and real interest
Figures are not figures to him-they are
vivid facts. and fortunate Is the person
who may have his Interpretation.
This Is the up-to-the-minute story that
the figures now on hand tell about
cotton: /
OF an export trade consisting Of
8.5OO 900 bales Of cotton last year, a large
portion went to Germany, 100000 TO
France. 47S,0o0 to Italy. 100000 to Spain,
and 5000 to England.
These countries would like to have
the same amount Of cotton this year,
declares this wizard of statistics. but
to all probability they will not get it.
There Is no chance to land colt N IN
Germany at present. Italy will take
her 100000. Spain her small amount,
and France her quota. The exports for
September for this year are 123, 97O bales.
while last September there were 729, ,S59
Daies. The mills may have enough on
hand. however. to run them for a couple
of months. and this makes them slow in
buying this years crop.
Cotton is like water. and it will go
wherever there Is scarcity of it, pro
vided the channel Is undisputed France.
Italy. Spain, and other minor countries.
which have heretofore purchased cot
ton. Will continue to buy it,
England q purchaser OF cotton to-
day." said the wizard of statistics
THAT is hard to say right now. Much
will depend upon the progress Of the
war In the next few months"
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
A NEW NIETZSCHE?'

Have we utterly misunderstood the
philosophy Of Nietzsche, apostle of
force divine, preacher of the right Of
might? Has he been absolutely mis-
represented to us through the dis
connected snatches from his writ
ings that have been given publicity
since the war pointed him out as the
great teacher and leader of German
thought? Was he in fact hater
of that which he regarded as German
provincialism and narrowness
These queries are inspired by a
reading from the London Times,
wherein sympathetic and apparent
ly informed reader of Nietzsche pre-
sents the other side. He does not
deny the accuracy of the various
chauvinistic, bombastic, and Ger
mano-imperialistic quotations that
have been adduced to sustain the
charge against the philosopher; but
he presents curious theory that
Nietzsche indulged Intentionally
provocative aphorisms;;" that, prop
erly unde, stood, his philosophy 'be-
gins to look more like discipline than
violence, disinterestedness than ego
tism, culture than anarchy. His
superman is not to be attracted by
happiness or deferred by pain; and
this is not the foundation of the
character of a BRUTE"
Not very convincing refutation
Of the charge against Nietzsche; bat
how about this Nietzschean attack on
the whole claim of German "kultur::"
Not only have the Germans entirely
lost the breadth of vision which en-
ables one 10 grasp the course Of culture
and the values Of culture; not only are
they one and all political Tor church,
puppets; but they have also actually put
a ban upon this very breadth of vision.
A man must first and foremost be Ger
man." he must belong to the race"
then only can he pass judgment upon all
values and lack of values in history
then only can he establish them. To be
German Ia itself an argument. 'Deutsch-
ldIu. uDer dlIeb Is d pTiH-
ciple; the Germans stand for the moral
order of the universe in history.
There is such a thing as the writing
Of history according to the lights Of I'M
perial Germany; there is, l fear. anti
Semitic history-there is also history
written with an eye to the Court, and
Herr Won TreitsChke is not ashamed OF
himself When | listen to such
things / lose all patience, and L feel IN
clined, | even feel it my duty, to tell
the Germans, for once in a way, all that
they have on their conscience. Every
great crime against culture for the last
four centuries lies on their conscience.
c'ECce Homo translated by A. NJ.
Ludovici, p. l22.)
No British critic of the things we
have been told Nietzsche taught, has
given a bittercr answe" to those
things than this, quoted from Metz
sche himself. Seemingly the real
explanation is that Niet3sche pos
sessed double intellectual person
ality, and that he was able to give,
end gave, the very best statement of
both sides of his case. Short of that
there is no explanation.
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
THE KAISER'S FUTURE.

!. was inevitable, once the great
br had begun. that from here and
|ere should come comments as to
e future Of the German Emperor.
hese did not come from Germany.
bit from ether countries, principally
ose engaged against Germany,
ere have been strange suggestions
lsed on the hypothesis Of an un-
alified victory of the allies.
One cf these recommendations was
a. the Kaiser's sword be
foken over his back in the presence
the assembled armies IF Europe
bd that he then be banished to St.
elena. st. Helena has usually fig
Fea in these pictures of what might
kppen after the war. 1t seems to
|lNe sprung to the mind of Arnold
|ennett, who has turned his indus
|ious genius to writing about the
az, but cnly to be rejected Ly that
bpular novelist.
"I see nothing practical" he
rites, ''in the project for dethron-
l. the Kaiser and sending him and
j. eldest son to settle their differ
bees in St. Helena. AIRY dethroring
fat may enliven the gray monotony
the Dost-bellum era at Potsdam
nouId and will be done BY ihe Ger
a. soldiers themselves"
v nat Is the source Of :his idea,
bed by presumably intelligent
} ers? Among all the rumors that
+ @ come to America there has been
r Whisper Of a German revolt, eth
n the army or among the peo-
On the contrary. there has been
trance that the Kaiser's people
9 e behind him as a unit. Germany
E uttered 1lUrmurs against mill
'rism, but that was before the war.
! .re are Prumblings in all armies,
y they are from the Individual, not
IN the regiment.
here does not seem to BE- single
"ok cf fact upon which to hang
sc hints of an uprising against
] Kaiser in the event of his ulti
tie defeat. The Germans are like
st other great peoples, accepting
o. theory Of MY country, right or
D. Dng," as a part of the gospel of
rictism.
The Washington times., 1914-10-13
Suffragists Open School
For Fair Young Orators

Washington has sufrra gette ora
torical school. A school where young
women aspiring to become sufrragette
speakers may enter and be put
through a regular course in stump
speaking, soap-boX speaking, and
other approved modes of speaking now
in vogue among the most progressive
vote-seekers. The school is to be in
charge of a corps of experienced suf-
fragist speakers Of the Congressional
Union. and it will hold classes once a
week.
The first lesson was given last night
at tho headquarters of the union.
1890 F street by Mrs. Ida Mae Wat
ers, Of New York. who for the past
two weeks has been doing the greater
part of the speaking at the suffrage
open-air meetings. and who suggested
the opening of the school. \ dozen
or more would-be orators were pres
ent last night and listened with the
deepest interest to the words OF the
veteran stump-Speaker.
Mrs. Waters has done service Tor
suffrage In New York State by con-
Quoting open-air campaigns and was
the leader of the first suffrage cam
paiSn in Atlantic City.