VOL. XXVII.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1909.
No. 45
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
When in doubt, read The Cau
casian. It has Utun intimated that some of
jajKj,s reform officials need re
forming. We are glad to hear from our Gov
ernor that the North and the South
are again united.
Solicitor Ward, of Washington, N.
C, denies that he will resign. The
d iiial was hardly necessary.
The North now claims that it has
the hookworm, too. Wonder if Mr.
feller will take the hint.
A South Carolina mule is suffering
from Pellagra. Don't you know the
Democratic party is getting uneasy.
Chicago gave a baby show, New
York a horKe show why can't the
Democratic party get up a mule
show ?
A (Jreensboro Alderman has re
signed his job. Don't be surprised,
as the position had no salary at
tached. If the State authorities are look
ing for a cold business proposition,
they should tackle the ice trust in
this State.
If Mr. Rockefeller's oil will kill
the hookworm, why not take his
proffered million and the oil too,
without further ado.
Sir Thomas Lipton says it is good
to be born poor. He probably thinks
that it is good to have been born at
all.
The Durham aldermen have re
fused to grant license to the drug
stores in that city. They probably
think Durham ''wet" enough as mat
ters stand.
One of Charlotte's officials has
been asked to resign on the charge
of immoral conduet. And this under
Democratic good government in
North Carolina.
Judge Gaynor swears that he did
not spend one cent to be elected
mayor of New York. But Tammany
spent piles of it In his behalf which
was even worse.
If the "ground-itch" is the begin
ning of the hookworm in the system,
would't it be well to bathe the feet in
Rockefeller's oil?
"The Spiritual Hookworm" was
the text of a colored minister In Ra
leigh last Sunday. Those who have
the hookworm in soul and body must
be in a deplorable condition.
If the Farmers Congress succeed
in having the mileage paid Congress
men cut in half, the Congressmen
may retailiate by only sending the
farmers half the usual amount of
free seed.
An article in the Greensboro News
says that the town wants better Edu
cational facilities and more lights.
If the town could get better educa
tional facilitites wouldn't she have
more light?
A writer to the Union Republican
wants a receipt for whitewash. He
should apply to the "White-wash
Committee" of the last legislature,
as they have a state right on the lat
est formulas.
A medical expert says that
"ground-itch" is often the first stage
of the hookworm disease. Then most
everyone will admit they have had
at least symptoms of the disease.
Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying that
he hopes he will never again be a
candidate for public office. There are
probably many Democrats that hope
Mr. Bryan will stay in his present
frame of mind.
Because Tillman was asked to con
tribute $10 toward the President's
entertainment at Columbia, he char
acterized the occasion Indecent. He
would probably have thought it a
swell affair if he had received a free
ticket to the banquet and no ques-
i,us asKed.
If Mr. Glenn were Governor of
Korth Carolina to-day would he put
a Pistol In the hands of every good
citizen to enforce the State anti
trust law. He didn't do It when he
was Governor didn't even throw
"spit-ball" at the trust during his
long four years ofjoffice.
PRESIDENT TAFT8 PROGRAM.
Measures Advocated on Long Jour
ney Will Keep Congress Busy.
From the New York World.
In the course of his 13,000-mile
swing around the circle Mr. Taft
made an average of five speeches a
day. Among the many measures he
advocated are the following:
Increased powers for the Interstate
Commerce Commission, . so that it
shall have authority to regulate the
issue of railroad securities on a sound
basis,to determine the proper classi
fication of freight, to institute of its
own accord complaints of discrimina
tion in rates, to compel connecting
carriers to form through routes, and
to fix and apportion rates among car
riers. The prohibition of railroads from
holding stock in competing roads,
the authority for railroads to make
rate agreements with the approval of
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, and the creation of a new court
to pass on appeals from the decisions
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion in fixing rates.
The compulsory adoption by the
railroads of additional safety de
vices. The creation of a central bank of
issue, controlling the Treasury re
serve and prepared to guard against
currency stringency.
Postal savings banks.
An amendment to the Sherman
anti-trust law making it apply only
to trade monopolies and not to rail
road combinations.
The adoption of the income-tax
amendment to the United States Con
stitution, such tax to be resorted to
only in national emergencies.
Temporary suspension of the agi
tation for further revision of the
tariff.
Ship subsidies for the development
of the merchant marine.
Federal legislation against the
boycott as well as governing the is
suance of Injunctions.
Further conservation of national
resources.
Forest preservation.
Internal waterway . improvements,
but strictly according to the merits
of each project considered In its na
tional bearing.
Legislation Imposing restrictions
upon the transfer of water-power
sites .to private control and provid-
ng for the fixing of rentals and the
regulation of rates to be charged.
Reforms in the mineral land laws
so that the surface of the land and
the coal and other mineral deposits
shall be treated separately, with
leases on the royalty system or sales
to miners.
A Congressional Commission to In
vestigate the law's delays in the Fed
eral Courts and to devise a system
for securing quick and cheap justice
in the Federal Courts that shall serve
as a model for the States.
Here is a program sufficient to
keep Congress busy for the rest of
Mr. Taft's administration.
AX ALIBI FOR CORN.
Memphis Doctor Declares Maize is
Not Responsible for Pellagra.
From the Baltimore American.
"After having made a close study
of the pellagra in all stages of that
dreaded disease, I can say . positively
that the eating of Indian corn or
maize in no way causes it," said Dr.
John H. Gray, of Memphis, Tenn., at
the Stafford.
"I will not go so far as to dispute
the connection between the consump
tion of corn in some foreign lands,
notably Italy, where pellagra is wide
spread, but so far as the United
States is concerned I would unhesi
tatingly bring in a verdict of not
guilty for one of our most whole
some and nourishing foods. Abroad
it is claimed that pellagra victims
are addicted to eating spoiled and
unripe grain, something unheard of
in this country.
"I know of a charitable institu
tion in a Southern State that has of
late taken care of about twenty per
sons who were afflicted with this mal
ady. A little child, the first of those
so affected, gave the pellagra to sev
eral other inmates, who up to that
time had been entirely free of the
taint, a clear proof of the contagious
qualities of this new scourge. The
institution is one that provides the
best quality of food, and there was
not one chance in a million for pel
lagra to have originated inside its
walla."
BLACK HAND GANG ARRESTED.
A Covey of Eight Captured Near
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Had Threatened
the Life of Several Parties.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 15. Being
charged with the attempted murder
of Constable Raphael De Angelo in
New Tork City recently and with
numerous other crimes, eight Ital
ians, said to be members of the most
during Blackhand gang in this part
of the State, were captured in Hazel
ton and vicinity, and were brought
to this city.
They are to be charged with at
tempted murder, several murderous
attacks, dynamiting of houses and
sending for threatening letters de
manding tribute under pain of death
De Angelo, whose life had been fre
quently threatened, went to New
Tork last week on business. He was
followed and attacked and barely es
caped. He recognized, he says, some
of the accused among his assailants.
WILL URGE REFORMS
President Taft Will Carry
Forward te Roosevelt
Policies.
THE POSTAL SAYINGS BANK
It is Understood That the President
Will Also Recommend Strength
ening the Federal Anti-Trust Law
State Anti-Trust Law Has Not
Been Enforced A Contrast The
Caucasian's Position Endorsed
Progressive and Patriotic Leader
ship is Necessary in Order to Win
in This State.
(Special to the Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 16.
Quite a sprinkling of Congressmen
and Senators have been in the city
during the last week, and some of
them are settling down to remain in
the city during the last week, and
some of them are settling down to
remain for the opening of Congress.
There If keen interest among all
as to the specific recommendations
which it is expected that President
Taft will urge upon the next Con
gress for a reform legislation to
carry forward the Roosevelt policies.
Attention is frequently called to the
fact that the President devoted only
one or two of his first speeches, in
his great swing around the circle, to
the tariff question, and that aftel
that, in almost every speech, he de
clared unequivocally his endorse
ment of the Roosevelt policies and
in favor of clear and defined meas
ures for amending the present laws,
and for indeed, new laws to carry
forward in a positive and compre
hensive way the Rosevelt policies.
Some Reform Legislation.
It is understood that the President
will again strongly urge the estab
lishment of postal savings banks and
the strengthening of the anti-trust
laws, as well as laws to preserve and
conserve the great natural resources
of the country, including Important
water-power sites, about which so
much has been heard recently.
It is thought that the President is
thoroughly in harmony with the
views recently expressed by Dr. El
liott, so long the head of Harvard
College, about thedanger of a few
great combinations of capital secur
ing all of the important water sites
of the country and the need at once
of legislation to prevent such a dis
aster and to preserve such most im
portant natural resources for the
public good.
Cannon and the Progressives.
The recent severe attack on the
part of Speaker Cannon against the
progressive Republicans who voted
against the tariff bill, and the force
ful and dignified response thereto.
made by Senator Cummins and oth
ers, has been a frequent topic of com
ment not only by Congressmen and
Senators who have been here, but by
nearly every one else. The general
sentiment is that the Speaker went
too far in his attack in attempting
to read these Republicans out of the
party, and, on the other hand, that
Senator Cummins and the other pro
gressives have taken a very sensible
and proper position in response
thereto.
Senator Cummins, in a' recent
speech in Chicago, outlined the posi
tion of the progressives to be that
they were standing for the platform
of the party as Interpreted by Presi
dent Taft, and that neither Speaker
Cannon nor any one else could read
them out of the party; that they
would continue to fight for tariff re
form inside the party, and press for
the establishment of a,tariffcfcmmis-
sion to reform thevrlifitet detail;
that is, to take up at once any one
schedule that needed . reforming, as
soon as sufficient, information and
facts were gathered, and thus con
tinue year after year such : reform,
without waiting for or ever having
another general tariff revision at one
time.
These progressives point to the
fact -that while President Taf t did
sign the tariff bill, that he was very
much dissatisfied with it, and that he
has said in his recent speeches that
no one would claim that the tariff
bill fully met the promises made by
the party "to the people., .
The general impression is that the
progressives have taken 'a very
strong position, and that . their
strength is liable to grow as they
themselves confidently believe and
predict. --: . , - . .....
Enemies of Taft and 'Roosevelt.
There have . been recently what
seems to be quite a concerted effort
on the part of certain persons, who
claim to be friends of Taft as against
Roosevelt, to create the impression
upon President Taft that there is an
organized movement going on among
certain ardent supporters of Roose
velt, to discredit his administration
and bring about the nomination of
Roosevelt four years hence. -
It is very gratifying to the friends
of both Roosevelt and Taft that this
effort to try to array President Taft
against President Roosevelt and his
policies failed. Indeed, 'President
Taft has had the rare good sense and
foresight to see that those who were
behind this movement were not only
the enemies of the Roosevelt policies
but also at heart as much the ene
mies of Taft's administration as
Roosevelt's.
It is thought that the sugar trust,
whose outrageous frauds and thefts
from the Government at. the New
Tork Customs House, which has
been so vigorously exposed by Col
lector Loeb, was one of the influ
ences backing this conspiracy. It is
noticeable that the President, as a
reply to such efforts, has let it be
known that he thoroughly endorses
the action which Mr. Loeb has taken,
and that no efforts will be spared to
put not only the smaller criminals
but the high-up officials of the sugar
trust who are guilty Jn the peniten
tiary. The State A JtUTrust Law.
A prominent North Carolinian said
here on yesterday that it would be
interesting to see what steps Gov
ernor Kitchln would take to enforce
the State anti-trust law which his
predecessor totally failed to enforce
or attempt to enforce. He said it
would be a peculiar spectacle to see
a Democratic State administration.
whose only stock in trade (after the
negro domination cry) was to charge
that the Republican party was owned
by the trust, do nothing to enforce
the State anti-trust law, while the
National administration was making
such vigorous and successful prog
ress in that direction.
This same North Carolina Repub
lican said that he believed that an
overwhelming majority of the voters
of the rank and file "of the Repuli-
can party of the State would most
heartily endorse the position taken
by The Caucasian in its issue of last
week, that it was necessary to put
the party in North Carolina under
such progressive and patriotic lead
ership, in order that the charge that
the party was being run by a patron
age machine and that all of the can
didates nominated by the party were
simply candidates for federal jobs
and did not want to win, could not
successfully be made in North Caro
lina as it seems to have been made
in Virginia.
Supreme Court Imprisons for Con
tempt. There was an Impressive scene in
the Supreme Court of the United
States here on yesterday. It was
when the Chief Justice announced
the decision of the court sentencing
Sheriff Shipp and Jailor Gibson, of
Tennessee and four other parties for
contempt of court.
This is the first time that the Su
preme Court of the United States has
ever sentenced any one to jail for
contempt of that court. There Is
only one other case of contempt be
fore that court, and that was in
1875. John Childs, a business man
of Texas, was adjudged to be in con
tempt of court and fined two hun
dred and fifty dollars for disobeying
the mandate of the court prohibiting
the dealing In certain Texas indem
nity bonds.
This case arose as follows: A ne
gro named Johnson had been tried
and convicted for assault upon a
white woman in Tennessee, and the
Supreme Court of the United States,
on appeal, decided to consider the
appeal of Johnson from the verdict
of the Tennessee courts. As soon as
the news that the appeal to the Su
preme Court was granted was receiv
ed, a mob was formed and that night
they took JohnBon from the jail and
lynched him. The evidence before
the Supreme Court shows that the
sheriff and jailor made no attempt
to prevent the mob from lynching
the negro, and the four other parties
sent to jail for contempt of court
were persons who took an active
part in the lynching.
The evening papers here this even
ing announce that Postmaster Gener
al Hitchcock has selected E. C. Dun
can, of North Carolina, as one of his
assistants in the Postofflce Depart
ment. Only Six Wet Counties Left in South
Carolina.
Columbia, S. C, Nov. 16. The fif
teen counties which last August vot
ed out their dispensaries under the
act of the legislature sadly closed for
keeps at the end of business at sun
down last evening. Several of the
fifteen having disposed of their stock
before the end of the final limit had
already closed.but in some of the
counties large stocks remain over,
which will have to be disposed of at
wholesale ' under the new law.
Orangeburg, which, according to Dis
pensary Auditor West's recent check
ing up, has unpaid claims on hand
amounting to $53,000, has been con
ducting bargain sales for the-past
several days in order to get a big
stock reduced in time.
The total amount of claims for
supplies outstanding against the fif
teen counties amount to about $250,-
000; but Mr. West thinks there will
be money on hand enough in each
county to pay all claimB. If there is
not the question of liability will be
an interesting one, as neither the
State nor the county under the law
can go back of dispensary money to
meet such claims.
Only six counties remain wet after
today Charleston, Aiken, Richland,
Georgetown, Florence and Beaufort.
What will be done in these counties
by the coming legislature is the burn
ing issue over which much heated
oratory and filibustering is expected
this winter. ; -
KILLED BY CAVE IN
Six Workmen Are Smothered
Under Tons of
Earth.
ACCIDENT NEAR WINSTON, 11 C
The Victims Were Members of the
Construction Force on the South
Bound Railroad The Men Were
Building an Abutment of a Trestle
When the Supports Gave Way
All the Bodies Were Rescued In
a Short Time.
Winston-Salem, N. a, Nov. 16.
A terrible catastrophe occurred here
this morning about ten o'clock when
4,000 cubic feet of earth caved in
on the viaduct being erected on the
line of the new South-bound Rail
way, two miles south of this city,
killing six and wounding one. The
dead are:? Lesse Freasland, of Ire
dell County, and Carnal Bulling, of
Stokes County, N. C; Carl Dortch
schmidt, Carl Ebner, Lelbman,
and Alfred Llppner, of Germany. Os
car Mise, of Norfolk, Va., slightly in
jured. The men were working on a
building foundation for an abutment
of the trestle and a pile of earth
thirty feet high, in front, said not to
have been sufficiently braced, caved
in. While others were attempting to
rescue them, there was a second
cave in and the laborers were caught
in the trap.
A force started rescuing the bodies
immediately and the first was got
ten in thirty minutes and the last
after 12 o'clock. None are mutilated
and death was caused by suffocation.
The bodies were taken to an un
dertaking establishment and prepar
ed for burial and practically every
doctor in town went to aid in the
rescue work.
CHURCH AND STATE.
Forceful Address of President at the
Anniversary of a Catholic Church
in Washington Sunday.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 15 Pres
ident Taft (Unitarian) last afternoon
stood on the steps of St. Aloysiua
church with Cardinal Gibbons and
Archbishop Falconio, the papal dele
gate, reviewing the men's Catholic
Societies of Washington, an Incident
of the golden Jubilee of the parish.
Preceding the review, the Presi
dent delivered" a brief address, hav
ing been introduced by Father
Eugene de L. McDonnell, the rector,
who referred to the fact that fifty
years ago President Buchanan had
assisted in the dedication services of
the church.
President Taft in his'speech said:
"I am glad to be present on this
occasion, the golden jubilee of the
foundation of this church. In our
country, in this government, and un
der our constitution, there 9s ao
union of church and state, but rather
a declared separation of them. This
has been sometimes misunderstood
by those who did not know our in
stitutions, as an indication that there
was something hostile on the part of
our government toward, or some lack
of sympathy with, the church of God.
This is as far as possible from the
truth; and I have alwayB sought, in
assisting every such church on in
teresting occasions like this, to testi
fy by my presence and by words of
congratulation, that there is nothing
which the people of the country of
the United States so depend upon for
progress and advancement of their
ideals as the Influence and power of
all the churches in the community.
They tend to exalt the nation.
"I am here today therefore to con
gratulate Father McDonnell and his
congregation and the distinguished
dignitaries of the Catholic Church on
the growth in this community of this
church of St. Aloyslus, and on the
good that is has done, and to testi
fy as a representative of the govern
ment to the sympathy we have with
this instrument and all others that
make for righteousness."
31 oonshining in Mecklenburg.
Charlotte Observer, 16 th.
The blow has fell!
An illicit- still, a complet outfit for
the manufactrue of moonshine booze,
has been unearthed in Mecklenburg
County.
Think of it! Moonshining In Meck
lenburg! .
It is sad to reflect upon the awful
fate of the poor man, James Spratt
by name, who was caught with the
goods in his possession. Had he been
guilty of arson, burglary, and even
red-handed murder, there would be
some hope. But not now. To make
the matter the more distressing, the
poor fellow has a wife and five child
ren dependent upon him for sup
port. That matters little, however.
in the face of such an unpardonable
transgression. If Spratt is a philoso
pher and aware of his predicament,
he will give the gladiatorial saluta
tion "te morituri salutant" and await
the end, which is sure to come.
The still was captured in Paw
Creek township Sunday night about
10 o'clock "by Deputy Sheriff E. O.
Johnson, assisted by Chief of Police
T. M. Chrlstenbury and a posse of
officers. r .
BRIEF NKW8 ITEMS.
Mr. J. II. Brown, of Chad bourn,
has been elected president of lb
State Drainage Association.
The State Convention of the
Christian Church la North Carolina
is in session at Wilson this week.
W. II. Hamilton, a night watchman
at a saw mill at Clinton, committed
suicide Monday by shooting himself.
A son. aged 19 years, of Rafus
Brown, of High Point, was instantly
killed Monday by the explosion of
his own gun by accident.
Thomas Mitchell, colored, was ar
rested at Loulsburg and placed la
jail, in default of bond, on the charge
of retailing whiskey.
Mrs. J. D. Bardin. of Wilson, died
Friday night She had a complica
tion of diseases, but pellagra was
the immediate cause of her death.
The East Carolina Teachers' Train
ing School at Greenville, was formal
ly opened and President R. H.
Wright installed Into office last Fri
day.
The Cade Manufacturing Company
of Shelby, has been organised for
the purpose of developing the new
type-setting machine recently invent
ed by Rev. Baylus Cade.
Walter Frady. a young white man,
aged 20 years, attempted to commit
suicide in Asheville this week, by
shooting himself five times. He is in
the hospital and may die.
Ilimi
On Monday, 16th inst. property to
the value of over one million dollars
and a half hundred human lives were
lost in a Jamaican storm. The bana
na crop was seriously damaged.
John Sellers was instantly killed
in a saw mill explosion near Nash
ville, Nash County, Tuesday after
noon. The mill was the property of
the boy's father, Mr. William Sellers.
"
Dock Atkin, a young white man of
Asheville, 23 years old, is at the Mis
sion Hospital seriously hurt as a re
sult of an attack made on him Satur
day night a little after 11 o'clock by
two negro boys.
A dispatch from Tlmmonsville, S.
C, says that Thomas J. Crews, of
Durham, aged 70 years, walked out
of a second-story window there while
asleep, and was killed. His funeral
took place at Durham.
The Drainage Association, which
met at New Bern last week, elected
former State Senator Joseph A.
Brown, of Columbus, president for
the ensuing year, and decided to hold
next year's meeting at Wilmington.
At Greensboro two additional ar
rests have been made in the case of
the killing of Simpson Cable, whose
own father and a brother-in-law are
charged with murdering. The homi
cide occurred in a brawl at a whiskey
distillery.
Mr. Hugh Moore, yardmaster for
the Norfolk & Southern Railway, at
Klnston, had his right foot and ankle
crushed Saturday morning. He was
using his foot to adjust a coupling
when the cars bumped together,
catching his foot
More than 200 bodies of miners
were entombed In a coal mine by an
explosion in the St Paul mine near
Cherry, Illinois, and the work of res
cuing them for Christian burial will
be only partly successful. Some lie
covered by thousands of tons of
earth which caved In on them.
President Taft will make a short!
excursion from Washington on Fri
day to speak at the convention of the
Atlantic Deep Waterways Associa
tion in Norfolk, Va. On the follow
ing day he has promised to address
the negro and Indian students of the
Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va.
The engagement of Miss Rose
Few, of Henderson County, to Mr.
C. F. Tomlinson, of High Point, was
announced some days ago, the mar
riage to occur December 8 th. After
the announcement Miss Few changed
her mind and was married Monday
night at Hendersonville to Mr. Mich
ael Schenk, a former mayor of that
town.
' A dispatch sent out from Boston,
Mass., Tuesday night, says that the
Bell Telephone Company has pur
chased a controlling interest In the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
which gives the Bell Company con
trol of practically all the wires In
the United States, except the Postal
Telegraph Company.
The Greensboro News of Saturday,
gives the following account of a
shooting affair In that town: "Fol
lowing a quarrel between Sam Mur
phy, a notorious negro, and a small
brother , of Worth Smith, a "negro
about 18 years old, at a corn shock
ing on Bennett street about 11
o'clock last night, Murray went to
his home, secured a double-barrelled
shot gun, proceeded to the home of
Smith, about 300 yards distant, call
ed him to the door and emptied the
contents of a double barrel shot gun
Into his side and hip."
B!LtuK;'';n japan
The Major Likes the Ladies
Hsir and TcHs How
They Dress It
A NATION OF TEA D21KERS
A Description of Japanese
Mow They Write -Ttlr Food
Curious Tree Growla'-fcUll Do
Some Foolish Thing Moet of
Their Customs Exactly Opposite to
Ours When They AU Drank Tee
for Tea Days- Friendly to Ameri
cansThe "Geistw GirU" Ttm
Home of Volcanoes and Earth
quakes. Correspondence of The Caucasian-
Enterprise.
Toklo, Japan, Nor. 4. UOt.
The Japanese ladles devote much
attention to the care ov their hair.
Probably no people on earth equal
them in that particular. Profession
al hair dressers air employed to visit
them once, an'. In some cases, twice
a week. Ov course a man cannot
explain slch things. But they do
much combin', brushln', an' ollln. A
favorite dressln' fer the hair in this
country is sed ter be made from the
ordinary beetle. The ladles sleep
with a very hard, round cushion
under the neck in order that the hair
may not become much disarranged
durln' the night Hit seems that
some ov the women will do foolish
things, no matter whar you find
them in America, In Africa, or in
Japan.
Most ov the Japanese houses air
built ov wood, an' air seldom more
than one story high. The roof is
either thatched or made ov tiling. In
a few cases a very small shingle is
used. Ordinary dwelllns air seldom
painted. The partition walls sir gen
erally slldln' screens. The rooms awl
open into a small hall in the center
ov the house, there beln' no hallway
extendin' through the house, at is
often the case in America. The
homes, like the farms, air generally
small. Ax they use no beds the bed
room need only be as wide as a per
son is long, and as the Japanese air
not over five feet In length, the bed
rooms air not suitable fer six-footers.
such ax we often see in the United
States. The rooms contain mats,
usually made to fit the room, or,
rather, the rooms sir made to fit the
mats, which air six by three feet.
This matting is heavy, about two
Inches thick, an' hit makes a fairly
comfortable bed. . Pictures, if the
house contains any, air painted on
the partition walls, and some ov
them air pretty. But other pictures,
painted on paper, may be kept rolled
up and air shown to company. Awl
Japanese homes her a room called
the "company room," or would be if
they spoke English. This room is
generally at one end ov the house,
and lz on a platform, or floor about
a foot higher than the balance ov
the flooring, or matting, and hit Is
generally the best room in the house.
Each home ov the better class con
tains a small wrltln' desk with brush
and ink, for the Japanese write with
a small brushlnstead or pen or pen
cil, the brush beln' dipped into the
ink an' then the wrltln' is done in a
scrawling manner. However, owln'
to the peculiar shape or the Japan
ese characters or letters, the brush
Is just as good, or better, for makin'
them. The wrltln' material, brush,
ink, paper, etc, is kept In beautiful
boxes and decor a tin' them furnishes
employment to quite a number or
people in Japan.
While rice and fish air the bread
and meat or the masses in Japan,
they add other things. Sweet pota
toes, radishes, mushrooms, sea weed.
barley and fruit give some variety
to the diet The radishes air white
In color and grow large, sometimes
two feet long and two or three inches
in diameter. Chickens air plentiful
throughout Japan, the small varie
ties be in' the most common. Ducks
air raised, too.
Dwarf trees air common in Japan.
Maple, pine and other trees which
sir fifty years old and only twelve
Inches in height may be seen. They
her plenty ov flowers, but these
dwarf trees, the growth beln' stop
ped by some process, air a favorite
ornament about and in Japanese
homes. The homes air heated by
charcoal fires in open urns or b ra
sters. They air better than no heat,
bnt the average American would
soon freeze here In the winter.
The Japanese sir smart, an' they
air growin more so fast But they
still do some foolish things and some
ov their customs air exactly opposite
to ours. In writin' ws start at the
left side or the paper and go toward
the right until we reach the bottom
ov the sheet The Japanese begin at
the right side or the sheet and goes
to the left The Japanese book be
gins where oursjend and close where
ours begin, ; The Japanese carpen
ter pulls the plane toward him, while
our carpenters push the plane from
them. The ' Japanese mounts his
horse from the right side, while. we
foolish Americans and other people
throughout the world mount a horse
from the left tide, ax a rule except
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