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THE ONLY FIRST CLASS POWER.
(St. Louis Republic.)
When Senator SnaU'Oth said that
utter the war the United States would
be the only first class power in tlie
world, lie may have been thinking par
ticularly of the world of commerce
and finance in which this country, by
Hie admission of European experts, is
already in the lead, fsew York at tins
moment is the financial capital of tiie
world, but there is reason for taking
me senator s statement In a broadei
sense. The weight oi debt which the
was is piling upon tile people oi liu
iopv cannot be continued over a very
< xieudeU peiiod w ithout bringing them
within sight of exhaustion.
Japan fought a winning war with
Russia. Tne contest was not of ex
tiaoruiuury duration, but last year,
out ol ordinary revenues amounting to
•4j;:,Ul)t),lHJ0 yen. Japan paid RnS.inil).
votl in iuteiest and other charges aris
ing from its debt. This is about U
pel cent, ot the ordinary revenues
nil going largely to pay lor a war that
was won ten years ago. The nations
of Europe are more wealthy than Ja
pan, but for that very reason they
..re fighting a war that is enormously
more costly. Theiy, Jtoo, will have
their hands full when the war is done,
paying the military expense oi a dead
past. The United estates, on the other
hand, pays only about J pel’ cent of its
ordinary revenues in interest, and that
proportion is not likely to Increase.
TANGO FOR GRANDMA.
(Seattle P.-l.,
The joke about grandmother attend
ing the tango tea, it appears, it not
so much of a joke after ail, in (lie
opinion of competent health special
ists, who declare that the grandpar
ent should by no means retire from ac
ute participation in tlie business anu
pleasures ol life, once tlie children
huve reached an age to care for them
selves.
In truth, grandma lias been proiit
ing herself along these lines without
waiting for expert advice. Tlie old
mea lliut age must sit by the fireplace
and rust out is going the way of otliei
antiquated Ideas. The fact is that
mature men and women are no older
tiian their hearts and their arteries,
a.id both are revivified and rejuven
ated by a reasonable amount of phy
sical exercise and an alert Interest In
tiie affairs of the world.
An important feature is tlie helpful
influence of an active and interested
mind upon the processes of the phy
sical body. Once the mind detaches
its interest from the affairs of life, the
deterioration of the body is quickened
The evidence of science is to the ef
fect that age is best circumstanced
when it retains an adequate interest
and participation in tho affairs of the
busy, constructive, yout lfnl world
about us.
So grandma, and Indeed grandpa, if
lie so minds, aro fully justified in se
curing such measure of physical ex
ercise as may be properly undertaken
for the wholesome effect on both body
and mind, and it is certain that tho
weight of tho years will bo lessened
and the passing days sweetened by
such diversion. And if such exercise
takes the form of the tango, certainly
no Just criticism may lie if grandma
will be reasonable about it.
BU8INESES CHANCES IN SIBERIA.
(VV. E. Aughinbaugh in Leslie's)
The United States is nearer to east
ern Siberia than Russia herself. Na
ture has favored us in thi3 respect,
owing to the water routes to Siberia
we are In a position to land our goods
in that country cheaper than they
can he landed from any European
country- Tho markets are open to us
if we go after the business, hut neith
er the Russian nor the Siberian will
force the trade into our h nds. Japan
will be our principal competitor and
should not bo considered seriously, as
ihe things she will supply will be typi
cal national products and will not in
terfere in the least with our trade.
The natural resources of Siberia in
timber, gold, coal, minerals of all kinds,
petroleum, as Weil as its agricultural
and cattle raising possibilities, are
pidcLicaliy inexhaustible Both tiie
people ot Siberia and the Russians
like us us individuals and as a nation,
i liey regard ali ot us as mechanical
geniuses. 1 iie photonograph, the sew
ing machines, tiie typewriter, tiie mov
ing picture, tin t lephuue and the uu
tontobile indu y n tills country have
been res puns) • lor lids idea. Their
gieaiesl reuui n its are tools, maim- j
tucturmg ma. .uery, manufactured
articies, cotton, woolens, shoes, hard
ware and tobacco, il is llie desire ofj
Uiese 1 oiks ultimately to be aL,,u to;
plod me sucli goods tliemselv es, and
viiey will accomplish tileil pu. poses,
troui peasant t'u plutocrat, from
merchant tu millionaire, the Russian j
and Siberian welcome tins opportunity i
m escaiie from tiie commercial bond
age in which Germany lias virtually I
nt-ld them fur so many years.
il we go after this trade at once
uo can get it and secure a foulholu
in these lands before either England!
a' !■ ranee possibly can, owing to the
win wiiicli is engaging tlielr attention
LONDON JITNEYS.
(New York Evening Post.)
Loudon omnibuses carried nearly
, 34,6UU,U06 passengers in ihe y ear 1613.
l his is nearly tw ice as many as were
carried m i61u, and is 61) per cent as
many as were carried in the street
ars. It is also nearly tiu per cent
uoie than were liauled by llie local
sliiilu railroads. The exact Iigures fol'|
i6iu and 1613, as given in llie report
il the London traffic branch of the!
poaid ol trade for 1614, recently is
sued, are:
.street cars ...,763,767,856 811,367,317
Omnibuses . 3 7 7,367,uo5 733,631,3611
oleum roads . . 435,371,861 463,616,53,
Of Hie 3,644 omnibuses licensed in
.613 only 143 were horse drawn.
t* ruin these Iigures it will be seen j
uial motor busses have bad a tra
.nenduus effect in relieving tiie traffic
-,digestion Hint would liav e made tue
stiects impassable if horse drawn
oiisses had been depended upon tu tak,
.are ot llie Increased number of pas
sengers. Many bus routes ure now1
.rum fifteen to twenty miles in length.
Although more than 50,666,000 passen
gers were carried by cabs in 1913. the
number of tiiese vehicles was reduced
from 11,060 horse cabs in 1903 to 10,
„30 cabs In 1913, of which 8,387 were
motor driven.
CURSED FARM PESTS AWAY.
iBreeder’s Gazette.)
Babylonian tablets Just unearthed
and declared to be the oldest writings |
at existence relate how farmers oi i
6,000 years ago fought locusts anu
caterpillars in their fields. Tho trans
.ater avers that they called In a necro
mancer, who thus brought his artll
,ery into play:
He broke a Jar, cut open a sacrifice,
a word of cursing lie repeated, and the
locusts and carerpillars fled.
It must have been a powerful ’’word
or cursing” lie repeated. Pity it is
that it lias been lost. These plagues
have been "cussed out” good and plen
ty in all modern tougues, but they
have calmly continued their work of
crop devastation. Possibly through tiie
centuries they gradually became hard
ened to such verbal warfare and de
clined to abdicate until the man came
with tho insecticide spray. Then is
the time for disappearing, certainly.
On the whole we cannot commend
tiie methods of the ancient Babylon
ians as worth trying nowadays. It
would be strength and breadth wasted.
But when prone to sniff derisively at
tho weaknesses of those who regard
signs and portents, Just remember how
they were accustomed in ancient time
to swear the locusts out of the fields.
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