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?jr"-r ns? ' J - ' ;KS' ' ' ' " ' "*. v* !* WILL HE i ; . - ' r / ? vy; : r*v. V/ . l> V. "" / t ?Cartoon by ! Navy Department C to 5encl Onl> War > Fifty Fighting Vessel Will Be in Sight c by Janua WORLD'S GREATt Washington, D. C.?Two important decisions have been reached by the Navy Department concerning the announced program for the dispatch of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific?first, only the newest and most modern ships will be sent", and, secondly, the average of captains of the ships will ^ J?.??J 4-/\ fiva vooro ub reuuucu nuui iuicc iu xi?c .itoia, In addition it is planned to send along a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers. It is figured here that, -without the ships now 09 the Asiatic station, there.will be thirty-two warships in sight of San Francisco by January 1. This number will include the torpedo boat destroyers. It also is proposed to bring over the Asiatic forces. Those which are considered real fighting craft are the four armored cruisers, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Colorado, and the monitors Monterey and Monadnock. These, added, will give a total of thirty-eight. It also is probable that when the plans for the greatest of all navy reviews are perfected even the smaller cruisers and the gunboats will come over from Asia, and the total force will amount to fifty fighting vessels, great and small. Announcement was made at the Navy Department that the proposed voyage of the battleship fleet to the Pacific would in noway interfere with the plan already arranged for the summer maneuvres of the Atlantic fleet. The decision has been made that Rear-Admiral Evans, commanding the fleet, shall assemble his vessels for midsummer operations at some point on the New England coast on August 25. The place has not yet 1 been determined, as there is no great J haste in the matter. In the meantime the ships which may need repairs will be docked and put in condition. Repairs are being rushed oh the Connecticut, which is Admiral Evans' flagship, but this is being done so that other ships may be sent to the Brooklyn yard for spe cial work upon them as may De neces-1 sary and for the further reason that1 the ship has not completed her for-; mal trials. , The plan of docking the vessels for I repairs was mapped out months ago and is now being carried out without regard to the intended movement of the fleet to the Pacific. These repairs * would have been made had there been no decision reached for the movement to the Pacific. The New England maneuvres will be completed some time in October. THE CRIME C New Tork City.?The population of i Japan is less than 48,000,000. The. population of the United States is nearly 85,000,000. , The debt of Japan ? taking the Statesman's Year - Book figures throughout to insure uniformity of comparison?is about $935,000,000. The net debt of the.United States is $964,435,657. Japan is paying from i four to sir per cent, interest on its .< foreign loans and from five to seven per cent, on its internal loans. One fourth of the debt of the United j < States is at four per cent, ana tne rest at two and three per cent. Japan's revenue is less than $250,000,000, while the revenue of the United States is $762,000,000. Japan's total imports and exports for the year 1905-1906 were only $420,000,000 while those of the United States were nearly $3,000,000,000. Against twenty first - class mod- I Chicago Bank Wrecker Discharged. The jury 'Tying two members of the Steel Ball Company for complicity in wrecking the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, of Chicago, disagreed and was discharged. > Minimum of Failures. In failures the number is down to the lowest minimum of the past twenty-five years, but the liabilities aro < the largest, with one exception, for ten years past. _ 1 * Si. , ' . GET BY? JjP^ i?s? ^ ts % a?_5? jpj? ' X K.L.Russell, in the Washington Post. )ecides 1 Our Newest ships to the Pacific Is, Large aYid Small, )f San Francisco .ry First. ST NAVAL REVIEW Then, following the usual custom, the fleet would move southward toward Guantanamo for drill operations and target practice, but instead of doing so this fall they will go on the cruise to the Pacific. The proposition to send the fleet to the Pacific at an early date, that is, '.his summer, has not been considered and will not be considered unless there is danger of an immediate outbreak of hostilities on the part of Japan, which officers do not believe is at all likely. Much greater difficulty would be experienced in getting the big ships around to the Pacific now than five or six months later. The South Atlantic is now in midwinter, the weather is unfavorable and much danger 3 ?A ? !???J + mignt utf tuuuuutcicu. DCSIUCD iuai, it is argued, there is no pressing need for their presence there at this time. Whatever good effect may he had by sending the ships there, it is contended, will be produced by the announcement of the decision that they are to go later. Of course, if there should be an outbreak on the part of Japan the plan to delay the sending of the ships until next winter would be changed immediately. The impression, however, which officers seek to convey is that the fleet is not to be sent to" the PaciSc as a menace to Japan or because there is any danger of war, which is scouted, but rather to demonstrate our ability to make a dash around the Horn in the event of an emergency. Whether or not the ships will be brought back to the Atlantic is a matter for determination after further developments. Next December will be midsummer in the South Atlantic and conditions will then be favorable for the long cruise. In some naval quarters the opinion is held still that the battleship fleet will never go to the Pacific, and the impression is given that the proposition is largely bluff for the purpose of showing Japan what we would do in case'it became necessary to have a large fleet in Pacific waters. These same officers believe that it would be a dangerous thing to leave the Atlantic coast unprotected, as it would be in the event of the withdrawal of the entire battleship fleet. At the same time they point out that the transfer of the fleet to the Pacific and the abandonment-of the Atlantic coast would be an argument for a large increase in the navy and the building of a corresponding battleship fleet for the Atlantic, in order that the country might be adequately protected in both oceans. )F JINGOISM. ern American battleships Japan has only ten. Against our eight first;class and five second-class armored cruisers Japan has nine. Against our nineteen protected cruisers Japan has seventeen. In effective fighting force the A ?vt/\w?Ann onnariArifv ic VOCtlv nuicx ivau *v/i v ponderant. This fact is known to every Japanese statesman and to every intelligent Japanese citizen. Yet American jingoes are asking us to believe that Japan, in some fashion or another, is secretly menacing the peace of the United States. The plain and obvious truth is that Japan is exhausted financially, that her population is struggling under burdens imposed by the war with Russia, and that her resources are so far inferior to those of the United States that no responsible Japanese statesman would think of war except as a last resort. Chinese Appeal to Roosevelt. An appeal has been made to the President by the leader of the Chinese reform movement for modification of the law excluding Chinese from this country. Chattanooga Bonds "Go." At Chattanooga, Tenn., five banks took the entire issue of $1,000,000 city improvement bonds, each bank taking an equal portion and paying cash therefor. ______ ] i ' ," .J ; "Iim?;/ ' | How Japanese Show Emotion i By ALBERT S. ASHMEAD, Bf. D. Aljow me a word about the "Calm of the Japanese." The writer of the article in the Sun of Sunday is in error in thinking that the Japanese sailors expressed no surprise or astonishment while visiting New York in the "sightseeing" automobiles. He does not understand Japanese facial expression. What appeared to him as "calm" was quite the opposite. Darwin in 1S67 presented the anthropological world with a formula for physiognomical researches, using sixteen questions for "expression of the emotions in man and animals." Pro fessor Wernich, of the Tokio Surgical Academy, in 1874 put these questions to the Japanese and obtained a set of answers, some of which, in ac- ! I cordance with Japanese peculiarity, are tinged with Occidental colorings, as some of the Japanese questioned were already in contract with foreign ideals. Astonishment in the Japanese is expressed by widely opening the eyes, slight raising of the head, stretching it up and drawing up of the eyebrows. I watched those "rubberneck" sailors as they passed me on Cathedral Parkway and recognized this expression on many of the faces. While deeply meditating on the sights they saw or trying to understand some surprising fact bawled out to them through the megaphone by their Japanese guide many of them put their heads slightly asideand shook them at intervals, and while conversing with those beside them drew the air between their teeth (a la Malay) with an "F" sound; they wrinkled their foreheads and held their mouths open. These j signs showed that they were struck with astonishment and were not 3o calm as American observers sup- j posed they were. Complete (obstinate) silence would imply not calmness but contempt in a Japanese. To explain further how different the Japanese expressions are from ours, I may add that turning the face to one side with a single bitter laugh like "ha!" means in Japanese supreme disdain. So. does a single smile, such as Mr. Sato used to employ when interviewed sometimes during the Portsmouth Peace Conference. **"* 1 TY\ nf (ATI Jflining (JUL Lilt; lips auu asauuiifuuu of a falsetto tone of voice, with widely opened eyes, means scolding or reproval among the Japanese. The sputtering forth of words while speaking to mistress or master means bad humor when a Japanese servant in New York so speaks. He need not use any facial expression at all; his face is blank. Japanese are too shy to show expressions of guilt. Only by the deep sinking of the head can you tell whether the Japanese child is guilty or not. Adults do not sink the head at all and maintain a blank expression. Jealousy in a woman is shown only by the eyes being widely opened, the mouth being tightly shut. Not a muscle flickers; yet she is wild enough to sta? you. Japanese never nod the head vertically, as we do, to express the affirmative. A slight bow expresses it. The negative is expressed by a single sidewise turn of the head, so that the right ear comes to stand a little more forward; or it is expresed with the hand held downward, while the wrist is moved Feiv tlmoc tnwnrrl him who is ! iVUX V1 OlA VXIMVW WW t, ? making the sign. If a person to be called is at some distance the arm is lifted forward at the breast level, the better to be seen. Lateral motion of the hand, at breast level, with palm turned outward and fingers extended, means forbidding. The Japanese never puts his thumb to his nose with fingers extended, as our American boys do j in derision. The Japanese identical sign is holding the wrist to the nose with index finger extended and the other fingers tightly closed to the palm. One hand held like this in front of the other is doubly scornful. The Japanese never wring their hands in agony, or do they ever make use of the muscles of the neck. They never throw up the head or throw up the eyes to heaven. Handshaking is unknown in Japan. Equals bow to . each other at a separated distance and only to the same level. For one to bow lower than the other party would imply acknowledgement of inferiority. Friends stroke each other's backs with tne naiias. Deep sinking of the head and flood of tears mean great sorrow. They grasp the hands together but never wring them as we do. They never "turn to heaven their faces bathed in tears." The Japanese wjiile crying sinks his head and does not lift his eyes but holds the body shrunk together. He cries "Itai! Itai!" (It hurts! It hurts!) just as often as we do, when in pain. In fact, he cannot stand pain as well as we can. All the talk of his stoicism in this regard is stuff and nonsense. When condemned to death the Japanese criminal cries out in fear, just as any other human being would; he turns pale and his lips tremble. He ic no hravpr than anv other mortal. In victory he is extremely "cocky," but in failure or defeat he' is abject. All Japanese education is bent toward abolishing stiffness of backbone and teaching much bowing and self-depreciation; but toward an enemy a Japanese is extremely "chesty" until the* enemy proves his superiority, when the Japanese is meek enough. A pigeon post has been organize, between the West Indian Islands c. Antigua and Montserrat, to supplement the deficiencies of the existing post and telegraph service. - $ v < -_-vV-- .... 00 Believes in Smooth Highways. The roads and resorts of the great White Mountain region of the Granite State are what make it unsurpassed for the enjoyment of outdoor life in the summer season. The lofty peaks of this New England district, the extense forests of spruce and balI sam which clothe their sides, the many streams pouring irom mountain springs and lakes, combine to form a rare attractiveness. In addition to these natural advantages there are many miles of the best of roads for riding, driving and automobiiing, for since 1792 the j work of building roads in this region ! has been in progress, until now a network of good highways extends to j every town; and in most c^ses there are not only one but several routes by which the same town may be reached. At Bretton Woods, for instance, nowhere in New England, aside from the State highways, is more attention bestowed upon the thoroughfares, while the many bridle trails, paths and mountain walks receive the same care. Lovers of riding and automobiiing are equally well provided for, and Bretton Woods is the imh from which radiates many charming drives. Governor C. M. Floyd, of the Granite State, is a good roads advocate, and is also an enthusiastic motorist; he proposes to have the highways of his State a welcome rather than a rebuff to autoists from other parts of the Union. He is also much interested in the construction of the State highway that is to lead from the Massachusets line up through the most densely populated part of New Hampshire toward and finally to the mountain section. Thirty miles of this highway are now under construction, and the work will be pushed. Aside from this there will be no great amount of road building in the mountains this summer, but the roads that are already built will be improved and put in first-class order before; the touring season is fairly started. There is one particular piece of work that Governor Floyd is interested in, and which automobilists who have toured the mountains through the Crawford Notch will be glad to s ~e accomplished. This is the dynamiting of Tug-of-War Hill, near the gate of the Notch, one of the hardest and most dangerous grades of the mountain roads. It is the intention to ease the present severe grade, obyiating the danger of accidents at this point on the mountain pass. The ascent of this hill was the hardest feat in the Crawford Notch hill climb last summer, and several machines came to grief in attempting it. Governor Floyd not only oversees this work of improvement, but can himself, in case of necessity, take an axe and made the chips fly, as was shown on a recent tour of inspection of the State highways. At one place a large birch tree had been blown across the road, making an effectual ! barrier. Fortunately, there was a sharp ax in the wagon, and the Gov- l ernor, to make himself useful, asked | the privilege of wielding it himself, j The butt of the tree still lies beside j the Bretton Woods road, and shows j as clean a cut as could have been J made by an expert from a logging J camp. From affairs o: State to wood j chopping is a good example of the j versatility of New Hampshire's Chief j Executive.?New York Tribune. I To Save Roads. With the increasing adver.t of au- j tomobilists of all nations attracted j by the splendid roadways of France, I the dust question has become a press- ! ing one. Automobiles with their j large flat wheels fitted with non- ! slipping devices and their low bodies ' churn up about ten times as much j dust as horse drawn vehicles and j wear out the road surface twice as ! fast. The nuisance is particularly j pronounced along the Riveira be-1 cause of the exceptionally dry cli- J mate,- and committees are at work ; in all the cities along that coast i with the object of finding the best i means of combating this evil. The ; Minister of Public Works "n-Ssap-i pointed a committee of road engi- i neers to examine the methods tried, j with a view to the general adoption j of the one they shall deem bes;. Nothing has been found so far bet- ! ter than giving the road surface a j coating of coal tar. The only objec- j tion against it, that of additional j cost at the outset, has been found j to be amply compensated for by the j saving on the upkeep, which amounts j to about twenty-five per cent., and j the increased durability of the road- } way. The latest apparatus will cover j over a mile of roadway witn me i necessary coating of tar in an hour, at a cost of less than tLree cents a square yard. The only other method which approached in practicability the tar treatment was the system of sprinkling with petroleum, as practiced in California, but this is out of the question in France, since petroleum, which costs $4 to $6 a ton in the United States costs $40 here. The Bridges and Highways BoanJj ! which has charge of the national ! highways of France, is convinced of ! the practical utility of the tar sys- ! tem, and unless something better i? j found it will probably be gradually introduced on all the main thorough* fares. C > ' ' v ' A-_ , . -'V .. -> f | HEAT WHELMED MANY. i 1 ! Over Two Thousand People Stricken ! in Great Elks Parade at Philadelphia. | Only Or.e Death Resulted. The parade of the Benevolent and ; Pro:ective Order of Elks in Philadelj phia Thursday W2s marked during its j progress by the prostration from heat j of an army of persons estimated by the j police and hospital authorities at 2,500. ! Never has there been such a wholesale prostration reported in the Quaker City. For six hours the police ambulance surgeons and the Red Cross j nurses were kept on the run looking | after persons who collapsed under the scorching rays of the sun, and largely because of their excellent service but j one case resulted totally. James Rowley, aged 44 years, a citi; zen, died in a hospital after being j stricken in the street. The other stricken persons are said to be in good condition with no prospect of fatal rei suits. The parade ground was on Broad street for a distance of three miles i i north, and the same distance south of j the city hall. The paraders counterj marched the last three miles back to ! the city hall, so that they traversed | upwards of nine miles. Those who succumbed were among the spectators, jammed all along the i street in a solid mass from one end j j of the line to the other, it being estimated that five hundred thousand people witnessed the march. The temper- 1 ature hovered around ninety degrees, ! and the humidity was excessive, and j as a consequence people sweltered. \ WAR ON COLORED ELKS. . i i ; Grand Lodge of Order Objects to Negroes Using Their Emblem. j During the sessions in Philadelphia i of the grand lodge o" Elks, it wa9 i trt oet-licit a flncr rlav fnr I UCVIUOU w ^v. -?o J i Elks oil June 14th. A resolution was ! adopted calling for the appointment of I a commission to devise ways and means to prosecute outsiders who use the Elks emblems. A subsequent resj olution calls for the appointment of a j commission to confer with congress to j find means to prevent the use of the j I emblem. | The Memphis ledge was authorized j j to prosecute the negro Elks in that i [ city. In this connection a resolution j i was .passed reprianding the Newark, j i N. J., for electing a man said to be I | a negro. A further measure instructs I | passed reprimanding the Newark, N. J., \ \ lodge for electing a man said to be ; I cedents and if it is found that he is ! . | of negro extraction to expunge hi3 I name from the rolls. j j GOVERNOR LEFT THE HALL, i _____ I j Alabama Press Association Members ; j Offended Comer. After being invited to address the ! ! Alabama Press Association at Mont-1 gomery, Thursday night, Governor Co- j mer became offended at resolutions of- j fered of a nature not complimentary ! to him, and after expressing his regret { at the treatment accorded him, left the hall. The resolution recited that while the governor had done much for the state, he had also done a great deal he should not have attempted. The association refused to adopt the resolutions, and there was a lively session. DEPOSITORS WILL BE PAID. j i Receivers of Macon Exchange Bank i Make Encouraging Report. The temporary receivers of the Ex- j change Bank at Macon, Ga., which wa3 i put in their hands July 7, made a pre- ? liminary report Thursday to Judge . Whipple, presiding in Bibb superior j i court. The receivers say that they are J i encouraged to believe that by prudent j j management the assets should realize a i 1 sufficient sum to pay depositors and j credittrs in full, and leave a dividend ' ; for stockholders. 1 TELEGRAPHERS ARE OBDURATE. Those Out on Strike Refuse Conces- j sions Offered by Companies. The striking commercial telegraphers, at a regular union meeting in Oak- 1 land, California, Thursday, refused to 4accept concessions as framed by their j ^ national executive committee. The Western Union and Postal Tel-; 1 egrah companies' concessions were de-1 1 - * - rr*n - nA?* nonf in- I ! Cimea. liiey u>icieu ?.0 jJti vcuw ?i crease of pay, and would take back 1 all but three of the strikers. The 1 Postal would reinstate 80 per cent .j - o it. ~ -WVnrK UL IUC buuvuio. STATE RESTS ITS CASE. I ! The Haywcod Trial Nearing Close at Boise, Idaho. A special of Wednesday from Boise ! j says: The state of Idaho rtsts content i i c with the evidence it has introduced J . to prove that William D. Haywood, the j secretary-treasurer cf the Western Fed- ' eration of Miners, consp:r d :o kill and therefore murdered Frank Steunen. . a berg, a former governor oi the state. 0 KOREAN RULER QUITSi Forced to Abdicate Throne After Reign of Forty Years?Son Takes the Hapless Job. . j Advices from Seoul state that the emperor of Korea has turned over the reins of government to his son, the heir apparent. Briefly, the emperer in the imperial ' % rescript of abdication, expresses his regret that during the forty-four yeara 41 of his reign national calamities have followed in rapid succession, and the I people's distress has become so aggra- . || vated that he deemed it now time to transfer the crown to the heir appar- ' ent in conformity with ancestral usages. The throne, tottering with forty-four . $ years of misrule, toppled Friday. Upon .'>! hi3 arival, Viscoun; Hayashi, the foreign minister of Japan, was grieeted by 15,000 Japanese, who were expect- : ing the anexation of Korea. A London special says: The emper or of Korea is without a friend among . '2 the governments of Europe sufficient- ^ iy interested in the status of the ancient Korean empire to interpose a 3 word in his behalf. His majesty had J always been friendy with Russia, and the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war was a great blow to him. He even look- vaj ed to the United States for support. % When Edwin V. Morgan, who was American minister to Korea from July -Jj 26 until November 29; 1905, when the legation was abolished, refused the request of the emperor that he take ref- . jj uge at the legation at the time the v|| Japanese were pressing the emperor to sign a treaty giving Japan control of the foreign affairs of Korea, the emperor of Korea was greatly disap- ^ pointed, and the final removal of the M American legation was a great blow and disappointment to him. Almost all foreigners who know the emperor con- ||j sidered him as a well meaning but IS weak man, and his son, the present crown prince, is not regarded as an | improvement on his father. A special from Tokio, Japan, says: Speculation is rife among the foreign- ;|1 ers in the city as to the origin of the idea of pressing the abdication of the retired governor of Korea. It is definitely known, however, that -M Marquis Ito, was only a silent spectator of the event, and that the idea <|| originated with the premier, Marquis Saienji, strongly supported by the ministers of agriculture and justice, botb sJ of whom are strongly in favor of & ' ^| life of exile in Japan for the retired emperor. Some thought that blood must be. shed before the abdication of the throne could be effected, but fortun- ^ ately that expectation was not fulfilled on/i +Viq aftermath is iilsn likelv t/V -M auu IXtVs UiWVl*MM?u ? y prove les sserlous than present, occur- rences at Seoul might Indicate. It is believed that the wisdom and A resourcefulness of Marquis Ito will pre- . vent the spread of any agitation designed to menace the general peace of 'pj Korea. RULING AGAINST DEFENSE. Testimony Anent Conspiracy Against Jl Mine Owners Eliminated. The field for argument, both for tto.'VjH prosecution and defense of William D. Haywood, has been limited by Judge Wood, who, in a decision, handed down in court at Boise, Friday, removed from f consideration by the jury all evidence *ja bearing on the alleged conspiracy by $ mine owners and others against the Western Federation of Miners. Judge /-I Wood decided that the defense had made no legal connection of the Mine A ccAm'nHnn flio PIH70TIc# At* - V/VTUCiO viviuvu^ mm ? VX! liance of' Colorado and the Pinkerton detective agency as laying a founda- -..=S tion for the evidence introduced by M the defense to show that the charge J against Haywood and his co-defendants is the outcome of a conspiracy to ex- jM terminate the federation. Immediately following the anouncement of this decision argument cornfenced. BRYAN STATES HIS POSITION. Relegates to the Rear Government Ownership of Railroads. William Jennings Bryan does not favor government ownership as a paramount issue in the next campaign. He vsj relieves first in rigid regulation and irges the states to stand fast for their isms ill uui uiug, ui uic uuijjviauuua - < md to leave regulation solely in the 4. lands of the federal government. This, le says, is the current issue of his >aper, The Commoner. OUTRAGE BY NIGHT-RIDERS. rarmer's Threshing Machine Dynamited Because of His Independence. A threshing machine owned by John 1 'ields, a non-associalion farmer, was lestroyed Thursday morning on the | arm of Dr. Word at Oak Grove, Ky., >y dynamite that was concealed in the vheat. Two laborers were badly injur :d. Fields had been warned to join the .ssociatlon before attempting to thresh 3