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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH FRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. A POLITICAL REMINISCENCE. IIow a woman can uiixup a political situation is told by Joseph M. Rogers in his story of presidential conventions. In 1892 with President Harrison a candidate for renomina-tio- n and with James G. Blaine in his cabinet, Mrs. Blaine conceived a violent antagonism for the president because he refused to nominCol. Coppinger as brigadier-ate her general. Her influence over her husband was sufficient to cause his resignation from the cabinet during the session of the Minneapolis convention at which his friends advanced him as a candidate for the presidential nomination. MinL, The rest is history. Blaine failed at neapolis and later died a disappointed and almost broken-hearte- d man; Harrison who received the nomination was defeated largely by the inortia of Blaine's friends. Mrs. Blaine did not get what she wanted but she was able to prevent two great men from getting what they wanted. son-in-la- w. JAPAN IN A NUTSHELL. Get out a map of the United States and look at the space occupied by the state of CalNow imagine that a few more than half the population of the United States, including Alaska and the insular possessions, are living in the state of California and that California is entirely surrounded by water. Then you begin to have an idea of the situation in Japan. But, to make the conception true, you will have to imagine California divided into four good sized islands and something more than 4,000 small ones. The total area of California is 158,300 The Japanese islands cover square miles. not quite the same amount of space. The population of California is not quite 1,500,-00- 0. Japan numbers 44,000,000 people. In other words, thirty times as many people are living in the same space in Japan as in ifornia. California. If the whole United States was as thickly populated as is Japan, the population of this country would be 1,000,600,000 human beings, or 100,000,000 more than the present estimated population of the earth. Nor does that tell the whole story. In order to gain a true idea of the situation of the Japanese people you must take into consideration the fact that only a small percentage of the small area of the empire is under cultivation. In Belgium, which is even more thickly populated than is Japan, the proportion of cultivated land to the area of the country is 54 per cent. In France it is 50 per cent, and in Germany it is 43 per cent. But in tiny Japan, with its swarming millions, which, without additions from immigration, increases at the rate of half a million a year, only 14 per cent of the total area of the empire is under cultivation. Japan has always claimed that the small percentage of her area under cultivation is not due to any lack of industry, but to the fact so large a part of the empire is made up of volcanic mountains and rocky slopes, which cannot be made arable. In spite of this fact, however, Japan is still chiefly an agricultural country. In fact, until the ports of the island empire were thrown open to commerce its great population lived almost exclusively on what was raised on the little patches of farming land, amounting in the whole empire to a total of less than one-thithe area of the state of Illinois, add ed to the product of the fisheries. A Japanese farm would make one of our Western farmers laugh in derision. As one traveler says: "There are no farms in Japan; there areonly gardens. A farmof twelve acres would be considered extremely large in Japan. The average holding for the whole of agri cultural Japan is only a fraction over two acres. Naturally the farmers of Japan have no hired men. They and their families cultivate the tiny patch of ground. They have practically no cattle or other livestock. Their chief instrument of cultivation is the spade, and working entirely by hand, they bring their little farms to a high state of cultivation. A Japanese farmer needs little to sustain life. If he is rich enough to control a big farm of twelve acres he may get an income of rd . from $50 to $60 a year. In addition, he and his family may addd to their income by devotof silk, ing their spare time to the production in the busy If he should, indigo and cotton. some outside of season, need the assistance helpers in gathering his harvest, he can hire all the male peasant laborers he wants at wages of 15 cents a day, while female helpers will be satisfied with 9 2 cents a day. Small as these Japanese farms are, it is a fact that the taxes paid by their owners furnish about half the total income of the Mikados government. At present the tax rate is 3 1per cent of the assessed valuation of the cultivated island. Large as this may, seem to American farmers, it is as nothing to taxes paid by Japanese farmers in the old days of the feudal system, whicn went to pieces in 1867. For a time the government took two-fiftof the total crop as its share of the taxes. Later the government share was raised and at the same time those farmto one-hal- f, ers who rented the land they tilled were of the remaining forced to turn over one-ha- lf half of the crop to their grasping landlords. Thousands of Japanese are employed in the fisheries, as is natural in an island population. The product of the fisheries furnishes a large proportion of the food of the people, and within recent years canneries have been established and modern methods of taking the fish largely adopted. There are no rich men in Japan, as judged by the standards of the United States. There are only two men in the empire who pay an inMore ascome tax on over $125,000 a year. tonishing still to American eyes are the statements that there are only 13 men in the empire who pay on $20,000 a year; 67 on $12,000 on $8,500, and 140 on $5,500. Out of every 1,000 in the empire, there are only seven who have incomes which equal $1,350 a year. Yet the 44,000,000 people of this comparatively poor little country buy from the outside world goods to the yearly average of $7 each. 1-- -3 hs Count Tolstoi believes in educating in children a religious way as well as in a secular, remarks the Sacramento Bee. But his idea of a religious education is queer, to say the least: "If you want me to point out more definitely just what books should be given to children for their religious education. I think it is necessary not to confine children to the religious writings of one creed ouly, but to use together with the Christian doctrinal literature that of the Buddhists, the Brabm-inist- s, the Confusianists, and the Hebrews. What is the matter with giving them also the Koran, the Revelations of Joseph Smith, and the works of Mrs. Eddy? By the time the pupil got through with all these, he would have considerable of an education in a peculiar line but mighty little religion. For the benefit of the grand stand, President Roosevelt says he doesn't want officeholders to go to the national Repulican convention as delegates. But these are only words. Wrheu it comes to deeds the exact opposite is found. Conventions controlled by officeholders are being held and delegates who are officeholders are being chosen to go to the national pow-wowearing collars in the shape of ironclad instructions to vote for Roosevelts nomination first, last and all the time. w, 1 Two distinguished Belgian astronomers have joined with the late lamented President of Limekiln club in declaring that the earth is stationary and that the sun "do move. Joshuas case should be reopened and set for a rehearing, for it now looks as if he had been convicted of story telling on the snap judgment of some astronomer who went d. off Stockton Record. half-cocke- 1 Personal Pointers C. A. removed from office the United States district attorney who dared to prosecute the charges against Senator Diet-ric- h of Nebraska. What form of executive punishment will be meted out the federal attorneys who have just succeeded in securing a conviction in the case of Senator Burton of Kansas ? Minister Allen, the American repre- sentative at Seoul, is entitled to the palm as the most prolific as well as unreliable of the Far Eastern war correspondents. - Gentle spring still keeps about seven teen laps behind the calendar, with no present indications of ever catching up. 1 case is all over but 1904 : GRAND OPERA HOUSE SPECIAL Johnson of Evanston is in the J0SEP At Cost Sale city. H. D. Jenson of Preston, Idaho, is in the city. Charles Xoftslnger of Logan Is in Ogden today. Miss K. Sutrain of Salt Lake City Is in town today. John P. Wilbur of Union, Oregon, is staying at the Reed. Mrs. T. S. Fitsgerald is visiting friends in Nevada. Lawyer Rickman of Salt Lake City was In town yesterday. Miss Laura Lewis of Salt Lake City was in Ogden yesterday. Lee Barker and Preston R. Stuart of Falrview are in the city. D. Van Dam la reported quite 111 at his home on Lincoln avenue. Judge W. L. Maglnnis went to Salt Lake this morning on business. O. M. Greene, formerly manager or the Pacific hotel, has gone to Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bright have returned from a visit to San Francisco. Fred C. Bate, advance agent of the company Is in Pumpkin Huskin' the city. Attorneys T. D. Johnson and Charles Stout are in Brigham City today on legal business. F. N. Haas, auditor of the Union Pacific hotel and dining-ca- r system, has arrived from Omaha. T. B. Shields of Butte. Mont., an officer of the International Typographical. Union, is in the city on business. Professor R. N. Ames will leave today for San Francisco, where he has secured a position In the government pension office. Whitmore of Sweetwater county, Wyoming, and Edward Fisher and James Westlake of Green River, Wyoming, are in Ogden and may possibly locate here. of George Romney, the Z. C. M. L, and John R. Barnes, a member of the board of diretcors of the same institution, came up from Salt Lake City today. Ex-Sher- iff vice-preside- nt A Mighty Mens and Boys from Utah to southern Alberta is about to take place. There is already a large colony In Alberta, where it has rendered remarkably productive a very large tract of country, and another in Manitoba. They are classed as good dtlsens, and the treatment with which they have been favored in Canada has been an inducement to the others, who will come overland from Utah as soon as spring opena Most of them will drive and will bring their live stock, farm implements and household effects. There will be between 400 and 500 families In the colony, exceeding 2,000 persona The district in which they will set' tie is known as Taber, a fertile tract about twenty miles square on the Crows Nest Pass branch of the Canadian Pacific railway. Taber is welt favored with respect to moisture and climatic conditions generally, and Irrigation will not have to be resorted to. as is the case In many parts of Alberta. are already under Preparations way by the immigration officers and the Mormons already in that territory to receive the newcomers. The van guard is expected about the middle of NO U3E FOR HER. A certain small village In the west, far removed from the noise and bustle of commerce, boasts a female preacher, and the ladys duties are many. One day she may visit the sick, another & Pringles ..HATS.. MINSTRELS You'll find that we have nearly everything In hats. We are also selling at actual coat TWENTY-EIGHT- H AXXUAL TOUR. Our Entire Line of 50 IMPERIAL SHOES Price Men's, Boys', Ladies', Misses, Children's and Bathes Shoes all go at cost prices. FUN MAKERS-S- O 25c. S5c. 50 and 75c. Seats on sale Wednesday. REESE HOWELL & SONS 2406 WASHINGTON AVE. BOB KENYON Song illustrator, presenting In Dear Old Fairyland. Superb Presents For Easter Giving MASON SISTERS Buck and Wing Dance Artist. MISS GERTIE STARK Contralto. Easter is almost hers and it la time to think of the little things that will add beauty to the new gowns and pleasure to DOWNEY A WILLARD In a comedy sketch entitled, A Dutch man's Troubles, Introducing singing and dancing. ones friends. VAL FERNANDO Vocalist. Our Wrist Bags and Purses BRUMMAGE A CLARK A Military BalL" THE KALETECHNOSCOPE pictures. Producing up-to-d- ADMIS8ION 10 CEN1 Irak? a Ross Book Store tEaatj ffimtey Lyceum Family LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE SAXE day applied for, without security or Indorsement. Your employer or friends know nothing of the transaction. I have offices In all the principal cities of the United States, and, your credit once established at any of my offices, you can get money on a moments notice. Call and talk It over. D. D. DRAKE, 410-4TeL 6W-Ecclea Bldg. Theater SAWYER A YOUNG, Proprietors Week of March 28th . AprlL Aiinst 11 GEORGIA are juat the thing to send friends have an excellent variety. A special to the Salt Lake Tribune from Vancouver, B. C, says: Another great exodus of Mormons f th 'K FAMOUS Easter Eggs, Chicks and ... Cards ... in April. Mingli, Richards In order to make goods move quicker we Intend during this sale to sell at actual cost our entire line of extremely beautiful and appropriate for presents, and Large Number of Utah Families Are to Leave for Alberta Early a.,.,. Marvel; Are WILL GO TO CANADA. ALL NEW PEOPLE. ADollar Show For a Dime 11 DIGNAISrS Invaluable for Rheumatism. I have been Buffering for the past few years with a severe attack of rheu- DANCING ACADEMY. matism and found that Ballards Snow Liniment was the only thing that gave REGULAR DANCE EVERY MONDAY me satisfaction and tended to alleviate EVENING. my pains. March 24th, 1902, John C. Degnan, Kinsman, Ills. 25c, 50c and $1. Sold by Geo. F. Cave. Journal Want ad bring you resold LADIES' AND MISSES Easter Suit Sale -- attend a funeral and the next bap tlxe a baby. One afternoon she was preparing the sermon for the following Sabbath when she heard a timid knock at the parsonage door. the summons, she found bashful young German standing on the step and twirling his straw hat in his hands. Good afternoon, the preacher remarked. What do you wish?" Dey say de minister lifed In dls house, heh?" Yes. sir. Yess? Vel I want me to kit mer-rlet , the whitewashing. 23, ng The president Senator Burtons MARCH MONDAY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, All right; ' ' 1 can marry you. ahe said. The lady's hair is beginning to silver and the German glanced at it Then he Jammed his hat on his head and hurried down the path, "Whats the matter she called after him. You gits no chance mit me," he I dont vant you; called back. haf got me a girl alretty." Spring If you want a nice Tailor Made Suit for Easter Sunday, you can get it at CLARKS for a very little money. We have already sold a great many suits and have made up our minds to not carry a the single suit over to the next season. We cut price early to make sure that they will sell quicklj. We make WHOLESALE prices as follows: Suits 125X0 8uit $2230 Suits $20.00 Suits $1730 8uits $30.00 (111.) News. 120-- " $15.00 $1230 Suit $1830 ....; 11,50 $1730 $15.00 $ 730 Suits 12-5- 0 lM , gjg ?I ipfl to Much to Your Interest us Ours Day One of These Stylish Salts PIT GUARANTEED I- - L. Clark & Sons Go 2356 WASHINGTON Journal Want ads bring you results. Suits It Will Be as r field $25.00 AVENUE |