THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMsBURG, PA. COL. BRYAN'S JAPANESE PbPIL. CHESS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Ill $22,(m.ojO Alr.-aJy Tak.-n From .Mount Acran. NO SI.V.ILAR FORMATION A Msuntvn in Oueens'anJ Cempe?d Enti-e'y of Oo'd Cre. Sod ly a Poor Herder for $5 an A:re. Fortune M.cle Ey It for Subse quent Owners. V Ixmdon ntwi paprr announced the ;, r Jay tliat tho u.ual monthly i v t'Js 'if tll'.i'.'i had rx-cn paid on si.ck of t'.ie Mour.t Mining Com Thus far th lucky s-harchold-In H.Ik company have received .'r.; than I22.000.'.J in dividend). The richest k11 dejosits were louad at the top of t! mountain, and until the top had bo-i quarried away the dividends amounted to more than 000. 0O0 a month. The sensational returns ceated several years ago, and since then the company hag been pay ing regularly $145,000 a month, and seems llkWy to continue to do ko for many years, for the entire mountain, as far as can be a.ren allied, consist i of gold bearing ore of ua.f.jrm rich ness. Mount Mor-rin in the southeastern part of Qu ei. -land. A'i:-'rl;a. is i rob ably the rnot marvellous gold mine ever opened. There Is pathetic as well as ron. antic Interest in its his tory. Years aeo the mountain was owicd by a poor harder named Gordon, who el:ed out a ircciriotii existence by keej.in? a f.-w score of cattle. Me had fenced in the mountain and a strip of the plain around it. etablishd his resilience there and fulfilled ail the conditions necessary to make l!.e property his homestead. Ti e f-w i eople who came to his little cottage wondered that he had chosen fo uninviting a spot, for the pasteuring was poor and little of the soil was adapted to cultivation. He said, however, that he had plenty of water, and that consideration had In duced him to settle there. One day two brothers named Mor gan came to Gordon's cottape at night fall and sought his hospitality. It was the custom in the bush country to make all travellers as comfortable as possible, and Gordon welcomed the strangers and set out his best store for their entertainment. They were experienced prospectors and were looking for rroid indications. As they were chiefly Interested In 'ning. Gordon told them about his :"intaln. He said that he hail ob rved curious green and blue j-talni ! over it, and he would not be but i :ed if it contained copper. He excited the curiosity of the Mor ln brothers, who next morning exam ined the mountain. A shower fluring the night had wetted the rocks, and one of the brothers observed indica tions of (.'old that fairly startled him. They said nothing, but pocketed a few specimens of the rock aid went on their way. Tli"y had cli 'cover ed the richest known spot on the globe. A few weeks Inter the Morgan broth ers again appeared find offered to buy the land from Gordon at $." an acre. He thought it was a good offer pnd decided to sell. At that time the Mor gans had no idea of the enormous value of the mountain, though they were confident that It would pay handsomely to work It. Gordon drove his cattle away to an other freehold, and a few years ego It was reported that he had died in poverty. He lived long enough to know the value of the prize that had slipped through his handi. A battery was needed to treat the rock, but the Morgans did not have money enough to buy the necessary plant They therefore offered a half Interest In the property to a resident of Rockhampton for $10,000, the money to be Invested In machinery. He said It was too great a risk for one man to take, but he found three ether men to go In with him, each Investing $2,500. There were thus lx men in the enterprise, the Morgan brothers owning half of the property. Five yean later each of the six men was a millionaire. The stock Is now more widely distributed, though it is In comparatively few hp.nd.s. The mine has made a fortune for every one concerned In it. It was found that the methods nec essary for mining and reducing the ore were unique, as no similar forma tion or quality of ore had been discov ered elsewhere. Original methods were therefore devl.'Pd for working the mine. At tho foot of the mountain there Is now a thriving town, and the whole district has been transformed by the great expenditures of the company. The place where poor Gordon's cattle found scanty subsistence is row marked by the luxurious homes of a few very rich men and the cottages of an army of workmen usually Tim bering 1,200. Geologist i believe that they have discovered how this mountain of gold ore came to be formed. They say that the occurrence of the gold Is due to a former thermal spring that brought up the precious metal with other mineral substances, chiefly s'lica and Iron, In solution and precipitated them at the surface. In this way the wonderful mountain was built up and the whole of It Is a solid mass of gold bearing ore. poet says: "Her face was past ing fair, but sorrow came and left its traces there." Where sorrow left the rdat of the harness the deponent say- not. Yamashita Ysschlro Going Home to Eecome the Gryan of Japan. Yama-l.l'a Yasf h.ro. the young Jap an' e who has bei n studying the sci ence of government under the curie bi-.'d ttlt-latre of William J. Rryan ard the StVe T'n!v..r.;ty, will ,-hortlr tl.er. after return to Japan, wh're he will enter politics. He Is ibnyint fared and rather sVri'Kr. and l.e mrprised Col. Rryan six years ago by descending upon him oti" afternoon while he was enjoying the restful shade of his iorch and announcing that he had come to make his home with the Nebraskan to learn the art of becoming a state man ar.u a leader of the people. Mr. Uryan de murred, at f.r.-t gently, but later strenuously; but nothing he could say or do coul l shake the firm determina tion of the young Japanese. Mr. Uryan told him that he should find some place to work and In this way obtain the means with which to go through school. Yamashlta replied that that was Just what he wanted to do, and as he had the right of choice he had fixed upon Col. liryan's hou-,e as his home during the time he was getting his education. The patient, gentle courtesy of the Japanese wou'd be satisfied with no unfavorable answer, anfi .Mr. afuj ;,jrSi Rryan capitulated gracefully. The young man said that he had read much of what Mr. Uryan had said and wrlt'en, and these words had inspired him to educate himself and bee ime the Rryan of Japan. The e were not the exact words of Yamah!ta. but that wan what he meant, and as ho could learn to be the Rryan of Japan only by fitting at the fe t of the original he was no lonuvr resisted. His gentle manners Foon made him a household favorite. He was at home in any department rf the domestic work and he faithfully, performed every task that was re quired of him. Ije.-pi.c his rather poor equipment for entrance into the university, he qualified within two years and has diligently applied himself to the course of study he marked out, which embraced political economy, sociology, ethics and American history. Col. Rryan has interested himself very much in the young man, and guided him In his selection of studies and reading. All the time Yamashita has made his home with the Rryans and has made himself a general favorite In the university and the city. To a reporter he said: "My course of study has boon shaped with the Intention of fitting , me for a career In poll.les In my na tive land. There are jreat opporlunl- , tlrs there for young men, and many of us have been favored with the op portunity to Imbibe the best there Is of American Ideal.? and institutions. j "We feel very grateful to you peo- : pie for the chances we have had, and Bhall try to repay you by trying to ma!;e our own country more than ever deserving of the title of the America of the Orient. Japan Is on the wave of a gre:t intellectual uplift and Is destined to take a more prominent position In world affairs hereafter. A knowledge of American politics and of political economy will fit our young men for the great opportunities that will arise. "I shall devote my life, regardless , of material Interests, to assisting man- kind and helping to make their condi tion better. I am not versatile enough to do all things, and I hope I am not so unwise as to think myself capable to do many things, but I expect to meet with success In politics in my i native land. "To me that appeals as a great field of usefulness. It may be as broad as a nation Is great or as wide as the world's brotherhood. 1 'the real basis of universal politics Is to know man. I have been much Interested in mathematics, literature and philosophy, but Immeasurably more In finding out In what way I could beter the condition of my fellow men." Quail Abundant In Oklahoma, With favorable weather conditions during the nesting season next spring j there should be more quail In Okla- hoina In the fall than at any time I since the country was opened. The j game law enacted by the last leglsla- j turo was so prohibitive that during ' the past open season for quail, which 1 clo.;ed February 1st, the killing of j birds was reduced to a minimum. Not only was It again t the law for any ' person to ship quail to points outside of Oklahoma, but an Oklahoma sports- ' man could not ship quail on common carriers from one point to another In i Oklahoma. Railroad and express com panies dared not accept prohibitive game for shipment. Tho Oklohoman who ate quail this year either killed j tnem himself or caused some person to violate the law In buying them. The game law has been strictly en forced this season, and many heavy fines, sometimes as high as $300, were Imposed upon violators. There has been an abundance of quail, and In several western counties, especially Day, prairie chickens were plentiful. Kansas City Journal. You Needn't Take a Cussing In Kansas. Squire Smith of Harrison township, In Ktowa County, has handed down some new law. A man was brought before him the other day charged with assault. The defendant admitted the crime, but said that he was Justified in coalmining it because the com plaining witness had called him a lot of rile names. The squire discharged the prisoner, snylng that a man who would cuss another deserved to be licked. Kansas City Journal, II War Grows AWe Expensive But Fewer Are Slaughtered HAS BECOA.E A SCIENCE Battle of Waterloo Was One of the Bloodiest Contests of the Century One English King Prevented from Waging War Because He Was Over $2,000,000 In Debt. It costs far more to kill a man In modern than it did In ancient warfare. According to the best authorities of Kussia and Japan, the conflict recently ended involved a total cost of $1,500, 0O0.0UO. Of this the Russians suffered a loss approximately $l,0w.0o0.0"0 and the Japanese $5'.'0,uu0.000. The Russia casualties amounted to 400,000 and the Japanese to 200,000 men, says the New York Tribune. It may be estimated, therefore, that every man woo fell on either side In the recent struggle for supremacy in the far east represented an expenditure of 12, Sw. It cost $1,220 to vanquish out Russian, and Russia had to spend $5, 000 to overwhelm one Japanese. Although more money Is spent today in war than In olden times, yet fewer are killed. The great guns of modern Invention, costing thousands of dollars to construct and hundic-ds of dollars to fire, and the battleships, representing expenditures of from $3,000,u0'j to $3, OOo.ooo each, are less destructive to hu man life than the spears and arrows of the ancients. At the same time that men have devised more powerful en gines of warfare, they Lave gone still fuither in inventing more nearly in vulnerable methods of dij.'i .nse. Some of the great Lattlts and wars of the last century xcemed bloodier than they actually were in comparison. The battle of Waterloo was one of the bloodiest of the contests of the century. Of those who fo'jglit under WeMngt'-f and Napoleon in this battle. 33.8 pet cent gave up taeir lives or were wound ed. The battle of Ltlpslc ranked next, with 20 per cent of casualties. On tho field of Gettysburg the percentage waJ 20. C. Judging, by percentages, the bat tle of Moukden in the recent war was bloodier than any of these. Its per centage of casualties wa.s 30.3. Taklnf) some of the rectal wars as a whole, tho percentages have been: American civil war, 6.4; Franco-I'rusiian war, 10.7; Rotr war, 19. A comparison of the cost of providing a gun and firing It, as it has grown within the lxst century, gives a good Impression as to the ir.i rease In tho cost of warfare. It Is said that In tho time of the war. fur the overthrow of Napoleon bonapart, when solid shot were used, a l;2-r"und br.ll cost only five shillings, or $1.23. At the time oi the Crimean war, in the OO's, these had been replaced by 22-pound shells. Tho Fhells cost, ready filled for firing, $5. The charge of powder and wadding cost $3 more. A rS-pound shell, powder, etc., cost $9.5'V The cannons weighed from three to five tons, and cost from $;J2") to $473 each. A 12-inch gun, an Inches, larger than the gie?.t howitzers used by the Japanese at 1'ort Arthur, costs the I'nlteri States government $11,000. It weighs from 34 to CO tons, and each time it Is fired tho treasury is mub ted of $110, or the cost of a can r.on less than 30 years ago. That war relatively cost less In the middle ages than today is indicated by the fact that one English king was pre vented from going to war because he was a debtor for $2,30u,000 and could borrow no more. Two or three centuries ago it was discovered that money for warfare could be secured more easily and in larger quantities by bonding the nation for It and taxing the people to pay the Interest. Wars began to cost more. In less than 300 years, Great Britain has spent on warfare $ij,7ba,000,000. Tho revolution of 1CS8 cost $135,000,000; the War of the Spanish Succession, $220, 0"0,000; the Spanish war, $325,000,000; the Seven Years' War, $335,000,000; the American War of Revolution, $725,000, OuO; the war of the French revolution, $2, "10,000,00; the war against Napoleon, $2,ri30,ooo.00j. The I$oer war cost Great brltaln in cash more than $800,000,000. It Is estimated that the wars of the nineteenth century cost the world $17, !22.0l.,,'OO. The debts of the chief nations of the earth aggregate more than $34,000,000, 000. It is believed that three-fourths of this sum wa.s swallowed up In war fare and preparations for it. Nearly all the sum icpnscntcd by the debts of Great brltaln, France and Germany was spent for warfare. These countries are spending annually In Interest on their debts nearly $290,000,000. The Hotel on Wheels. Old sleeping cars and parlors cars bring good money In rental before they are sent to the Junk shop. They are chiefly wanted by showmen and travel ing photographers, who run all over the country with them during the summer. You find them sidetracked at all the small towns. Some are used by medi cine men and agents of all kinds, who travel in large groups. Scores of these cars are in the hands of strolling enter tainers who don't want to remain idle between seasons. The rental of these movable hotels has developed Into a recognized Indus try. A bond is required for the return of the car to the point where it was hired. From ten to twenty persons can live comfortably on an ordinary show Clay modelling in schools Is con demned by doctors as being worse than slates for transmitting infectious dis eases. Tea grows wild In many parts of 81am. . . Woman Champion Explains Its Effi ciency. Fads and frills In the school cuurse are outdone! Miss Rosa bradfoid Jtf 1. rson, the latest adoi a'.e of an a ldl t cn to the curriculum, would have t.eiy child taught to play chess as part il the education given it by the state. but Miss Jeff ci son is no faddist. The fc'j.-p 1 she j teaches Is oue Impressed l jcars of practice and result, lor she ii herstlf a "cbe&s cliiid." and It Is I rum the height of her position as the champion woman chess player of the world that she is urging upon educa tors a list of reasons why chess should Le an essential of a practical public school training. All my family were chess players, lad I suppose a bent in that direction came to me naturally. When I was six I already understood the game, and by the time I was eight I had defeated uome of the leading experts of Missis sippi. "Except for the first few moves. I rely on no set method. Everyth.ng depends on my antagonist. 1 here Is r.o such thing as chance in chess. It is all a matter of calculation. It is to the mind what physical culture Is to the body, what manual training Is to the hands. It is a splendid mathematical disci pline. It develops a reasoning mind. It Inculcates accuracy, and sharpens ob servation to a point that makes it pho tographic. Memory becomes a series if pictures. The Germans are Introduc ing It Into their schools. Why should not we do likewise? "My knowledge of chess has made everything easier for me. It helped me In music to understand the principles cf harmony. It is a help In arithmetic. It Is a help In spelling. Just consider the intricacies of chess," continued the enthusiast. "The first move on either side can be made In twenty different ways, and the possible combinations after that are practically beyond com putation. Success depends not upon luck, but upon brain. The attack, the defense and the capture are made be fore the eye of the enemy." New York World. Strange Foods. A Chinaman conducts In New York what Is probably the queerest shop In the world. The sign on the door says: "Strange Foods Exotics." And here are sold eatables from all parts of the world. Chow-chow is one of the dealers' commodities. This Is not the chow chow that everybody eats, a cheap pickle; it is the real Chinese chow chow, a compound of bruised vegeta bles, very odd and bitter In tasie, and very costly $1.50 a pint. Ant-cakes are small biscuit of a gray ish color that cost $2.3o apiece. They are made of the dried and compressed bodies of African white ant.s. Men who live a while in Africa grow fond of ant cakes, a; they who live a while in Ja pan grow fond of Japanese raw fish. The dealer sells, he says, about a hun dred of these cakes every month. Edible snails he sells in great quan ties to French families. Filled with the green butter that gives them succu lence escaigot butter they cost ten cents apiece. The man sells betel nut, which In tho cast is chewed like tobacco. A box of ground betel weighing a half iound , costs a dollar. Half a teaspoonful of I the powdered nut is wrapped In a leaf and chewed with a pinch of lime. Though it darkens the enamel, it la said to preserve the teeth. Genuine Russian caviar is one of the dealer's most costly commodities. A I tablespoonful of It costs $2. Twice as much ordinary caviar can be bought elsewhere for a quarter, but those who have once tasted the real thing never again return to the substitute stur geon roe; for Russian caviar Is as dif ferent from sturgeon roe as liver Is from crow. j Teaches History with Dolls. A novel idea has been realized in Paris by M. Leo Claretle, who, besides j being an eminent educationist, Is an 1 ardent advocate of rendering education I attractive. His system of the history ' of France in dressed dolls Is to be 1 placed on public exhibition, as an ob j ject lesson in its capabilities. Even the I prehistoric periods, whose life can only be known on the testimony of the rocks, are represented. Within the pale of history every age is represented by Its leading figures, as Gaul, pre-Roman, Roman and Frank- ish. Then come the Crusades, the Eng 1 lish wars, the middle ages, the early : modern period, and so on to the third republic. Hay and Lincoln. As with Lincoln, so with Hay, the rough edges of untoward events and Impertinent individualists were made smooth by a sense of humor and a par rying and ameliorating wit. The gifts were different but analogous. Like wise, while It may be said that Nlcolay bad something of Lincoln's gravity of mind and expllcitness of statement, Hay had something of Lincoln's senti ment, brevity, balance of Btyle and im aginative grasp, while both shared the mighty President's love of country and devotion to its service. Century Maga zine. There are neither distilleries, brew eries nor saloons In Persia, and the only beverage of an intoxicating sort Is a wine which, to the stranger, tastes too much like medicine to be indulged In In quantity. An English judge recently altered a sentence from eighteen months of hard labor to five years' penal servitude be cause the prisoner threw a bottle at him. There Is a village In Wales whioa bears the name of Nowhere, j0liUEIi9i 'i for Infants and Children. CASTOR 3 AYr ectable PrepaMlionforAs- ;imil,itin(5 ilicFoodandRcula- ling the Stomachs andDowels of rromolcs Dicslion.Cbrcrrur ness and Rest-Contains neitlur Oinum.Morphiiie nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. lmrium Smi" JUtnmxt - Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa fion.Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions Jevcrish ncss and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK, GRANGE NEWS. Cy J, T. Ailman. Press Correspondent ar.tf Secretary Penn'a Slate Grange. Ti:e last session oflheXatiou.il Orange was held on the Pacific Coast in far off Oregon. The com ing; session will be held on the Atlanf'c coast in Atlantic City, X. J. The Grange is truly a national organization. Other interests and other classes recognize it as such and the farmer who believes in organization and who is moved by a desire to help hiins.lf and his class cannot afford to stay outsiJe of the gates. qvf.stions. The political boss is powerless without money and it is possible to get money on y from those who have it. Hence the real Lctor in manipulating politics is the special interest that has something to gain by influencing legislation. The boss is only the agent of these spec ial interests. So long as these in terests exist so long will he have a field in which to operate. Many then are ready to say we will have hnn with us always for in these days of steam and electricity many brarches of business can be rim only on a large scale. It is true that this is an age of large things with the promise ot Mid larger ones in the future. We are face to face with the question whether it will be best for the body politic that these interests shall continue to be private interests or whether they shall be operated by all of the peo ple for all of the people. The prin ciple objection to running public utilities by the public is the strength of the political pull it would give to the unscrupulous politician. Those who argue thus forget that the ele ment of power in the hands of the politician is money and that the money comes from the corpora tions. Thus the real political boss is the head of a great corporation. For instance, is not the president of a railroad, as railroads are now run, a far more potent factor politically than the same man would be if he weie a government employee, espec ially if he were elected instead of being appointed to his position ? Big questions confront the people of this age and they must be de cided by the common people. They require careful thought and much discussion. The organized farmers are talking them over in the grange. It is to be feared that the un organized farmers think of them little if at all. DESPOILING NATURE'S GIFTS. A German whose education had been thorough and whose observa tion had been extensive, in con trasting Germany with the United States admitted that the location, area, and resiurces of Germany bear no comparison with those of America, but Germany, he said, husbands and improves her re sources while Ainer ca destroys hers. That there is much truth in this charge was deeply impressed on the writer during a recent ride on the Philadelnhia & l.'.ri- roil. i road. After leaving Lock Haven I EXACT COPY Of WRAPPER. U The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years TMl OCimuK OMMMT. M 0 the road rnrs among the mountains for a hundred miles nr more Only a generation ao these mountains were covered with magnificent for ests of valuable timber. Xow scarcely a tree is seen that is fit to cut for a saw log. The German for ests have furnished fuel and lum ber for a thousand years and are now as valuable as ever. On emert ing from the mountains the oil fields are entered. Here the same evidence of destruction is ap parent. The thoughtful observer "an not help asking whose hand planted the forest and placed the oil in the heart of the earth and for .vhose benefit was it done. If it vas done by the Author of Xature lor the benefit cf humanity, then why were a lumber king and an oil magnate allowed to reap the har dest, and why are private interests fill allowed to devour the things that God has, made ? It is a hope ful sign that these questions are re ceiving consideration by many who until recently gave them but little thought. OKC.AXIZKI) KAKMKRS. Pennsylvania has nearly 300,000 farms. Of course there are 300.000 farmers and uearly every fatmer is a voter. Xor is this all On many farms there are two a::d sometimes three or more voters. A conserva tive estimate gives the agricultural class at least 500,000 votes in the State. This represents a pjwer possessed by no other class a power which, if united and direct ed aright could not be successfully resisted. And j et for want of union we take what others give us and bear what they place upon us The tax collectcy has again post ed up his notices and again we will call upon him and pay four times as much tax as our neighbor who has the same amount of money in vested in some other fcrtn of pro perty. We, however, deserve no sympathy. Rather should we as a class hang our heads in shame for thus suffering wrong when we have the power to secure the right. The time is coming when we will assert ourselves. The organized farmers lave in the past won substantial victories through the grange aud .hey will win even greater in the future. All that is nov needed is numbers. The Grange is fully equipped to do the work. The un organized farmers have no influence svhere law makers meet. The mother who would he horrified at the thought of letting her daughter wander away to a strange country without guide or counsel, yet permits her to enter that un known land of womanhood Withuut counsel or caution. Then, in utter ignorance, the maiden must meet physical problems whnte solution will affect her whole future hie. Dr. Tierce's Kavonte Prescription has Ixeu well named a "God-send to women." It corrects irregularties and imparts such vigorous vita lity to the delicate womanly organs, ns fit thrm fcr their impuiunt functions. Many a nervou. hysterical, peevish girl ha been changed to a happy joung woman after the use of Favorite I'recrii.iion ' ha esiab lished the sound health of ihe uicans icu hany feminine. Every woman should own a copy of the I'eopVs Common Sense Medicil Adviser, scut free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. The same look of 1008 pages in substantial cloth for 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. ; fierce. Uuffalo, N. V. AW I
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