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WEDNESDAY, NOV. l6, I904.
Ruropatkin (to Judge Parker)
-—Brace up, old man: just think
what a run of luck I've had.
Gen. Stoessel (ducking his nut
behind a bowlder)— I always said
them infernal Japs didn’t have a
bit of sense.
Democrats having tried every
thing else to attain -uccess, next
time suppose they try to deserve it
and let the result take care of itself.
Judge Parker can do like the
little boy who boasted to his com
panions of getting licked by the
foremost man in the whole county.
“The proof of the pudding is in
the eating thereof.” The election
of Mr. Roosevelt by so pronounced
a majority leaves no room for doubt
that he is the genuine choice of the
American people; and ( r that rea
son, if for no other, opposing polit
ical partisans are bound to honor
and respect him accordingly.
It is said that New York's for
eign commerce exceed* that of every
loreigti country in the world except
Great Britain, Germany, France and
the Netherlands It is 50 per cent,
larger than Russia's, three times as
great as Canada's, four times as
great as Spain's, and more than
four times larger than Japan’s. In
respect to aggregate weatth, only a
lew ol the larger European coun
tries outrank Njw York. Great
Britain. France, Germany. Russia
and Austria-Hungary are perhaps
the truly countries in Koropc which
can claim that honor These com
parisons not only serve to illustrate
•he great t*>wer possessed hv New
York over the commerce of the
United States, hut a too show the
sourc* of her dominant influence
< vjr uarioual pulitK s.
STUDYING THE JAPANESE.
With the progress of the war be
tween Japan and Russia, the pleas
ant theory that, however it may be
in manners and morals, in war any
white race is superior to any race
j of another color—whether black,
! red, or yellow, has been suffering
from a severe attrition, and now
eveu the military experts are ad
mitting frankly, but with no par
ticular manifestation of joy, that at
least one yellow race can meet at
least one white race and equal it in
strategic ability as well as personal
courage.
As a result the life methods of
the Japanese—what they eat and
drink, thi frequency of their baths,
their devices for developing bodily
strength, and the like—are receiv
ing cartful study, not, as formerly,
from academic interest in the queer
ways of an alien people, but in
humble admission that the West
may have possibly a thing or two
of this sort to learn from the East
for its own use. That the Japanese
live largely on rice, and oftener
add fish than meat thereto, when
they add anything, is carefully con
sidered, the vegetarians drawing
one conclusion, the sane people an
other.
The Edinburg Medical Journal
seerus disposed to credit much ot
the Japanese clearness of mind and
strength of body to the fact that
they not only bathe more than any
other nation, but they habitually
drink amounts of water that other
nations would regard as enormous.
Occidentals drink water only when
they are thirsty, and even then they j
are very apt to drink something
else. The daily custom of the Jap
anese, on the contrary, is to use
water in about the quantities con
sumed bv a while health seeker
while taking a course at a medicinal,
or supposedly medicinal, spring,
and it is more than possible that
they get much the same results
from ordinary water that we do
from water containing minute quan
tities of mineral substances for the
most part inert.
As for the Japanese diet, perhaps
its composition is of less conse
quence than the fact that from in
clination or necessity there is little
or no overeating. A marker! mod
eration of emotional expenditure
also marks the nation, for its cour
tesy consists in large part of repres
sion of its feelings, which, when
displaced, waste both tissue ami
energy. New York Tines.
<>t all the multitudinous reasons
advanced lor the su|<ertnritv ol the
Japs in war. no white critic has
ventured to suggest superiority iu
moral principles as one. There is
so marked a drsuin tion i f this kind
between the jape ami the whites
that it is at least entitled to a pass
ing thought. The Japanese soldier
places all personal consideration in
a secondary position to the good of
his cause: he rushes to the charge,
not to gain personal fame, but that
his country may be victorious:
death and eternal oblivion are but
matters of course when his people
may profit thereby. No family ties,
no loves nor hates, no hope of
heaven or fear of hell, keeps him
back or urges him on- his moral
philosophy, such as it is, places
his country’s welfare first, and first
it remains.
Fanaticism? Perhaps. But it
may be as effective, when well di
rected, as a system which promises
full recompense for every service—
future feasts for present hunger,
honors for the living, glories for1
the dead, and heavenly bliss for all.
The impt 11 ng force that drives
one to battle is a desire to aid his
fellow coun'r/men; the other, to
secure present and future benefits
to himself.
Akter all, nothing more than a j
little encouragement for the future |
can reasonably be expected in the
way of political recognition of
Alaska for the time being. A del
egate to congress, elected by and
responsible to the people of the
territory, might be of immense
practical value in smoothing the
way lor enterprise and hastening
the development of the country's
resources, upon which its political
destiny depends; but that is all. A
delegate would carry with him no
guarantee of local self-government
when in numbers and wealth the
people shall be advanced enough to i
look after their own affairs. That
may with safety lie left to the fu
ture. All indications point to a
rapid settlement by Americans of
the vast territory lying between
Alaska and the United States
proper; and it is not conceivable ;
that allegiance to any flag, or op
position by their brothers at the
other end of the continent, can keep
their kindred of the great north
from entering into the full enjoy
ment of their inherited rights and
privileges.
Dawson's gold output averages
about a million dollars a month
The export tax of .’b per cent, on
the output would therefore amount
to about f jno.owta year. The free
miners' license tax might he rough
ly estimated at $75,1x10. The spe
cial import duty levied on liquors,
the stnmpage on tirnlier and the
tonnage on native hay, the long
list of recorder’s and other official
tees and license taxes ran not he
computed with aav degree <>t arm
racy in the ihsence of authentic
statistics, hut may le relied on to
bring the grand total up to a figure
GKORGK A. SALIHBCRY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
LOUIS K. PRATT,
Attorney at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska
J. LINDLEY GKEEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner anil Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Heeter’s Pack Train
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
tlie Creelcs.
Good Teams. Good Service
which will easily place Yukon ter
ritory among the most liberal tax
payers, according to wealth and
population, in the world. Residents
on the American side, when they
point to what the Canadian govern
ment has done for Yukon miners,
are requested to consider what the
miners have done lor the govern
ment. _
Prospector (soliloquizing, after
bedrocking a shaft)- Well, I have
accomplished in a peaceable manner
a similar result to what Rojestven
ski did by his hostile methods in
the North Sea: I have demon
strated that what I am looking for
is not here.
Fifty seven thousand Americans
emigrated to Canada last year The
number following this year can not
t>e stated: but it is large.
jinks l.iao Yang is a town of
50,000 inhabitants and Mukden of
at least j00.000.
Httnks Ye*, but a good m invot
them are dead
It probably never occurs let a
hoy that he will grow <»p some d»v
and know as tittle as bis hither