Show kJ 1 qz 1enwo b abt FOR A RELIGION The observer of neliglous conditions t4 Is well awno that In numberless 1 roctlona there arc people who profess ccloJM to ilncl inadequate and Unsatlsfyifliy all I the present religions claiming to be al l L vine rovclnllphsf and who are looking for a nejv light but it Is not ofttfn that my one secies to determine lltemo mentoua question of a new religion us I one cats his dTuner at a lalhvny Ftnllon vllhln tbe ijmlts < orv n ten I3 minutes wait Vet this was ibe case not many years ago as shown in an malY Incident related by the late Prof Max Miiller of Oxfoid We give Prof Mul hrs own words as reproduced In a late syndicate article In this country Many years ago I ought to say my servant brought me a card while I WItS at luncheon with the name of Arinorl Mon I did not recollect such a name I and I appointed I latir hour to see my visitor But he as I heard from a 1 conversation outside my door between r him and my servant would brook no lb delay and sent In word that If he 1 could not see meat once he could not 4 see me at all because he coul5 his Way from Washington to Tokyo In he came making his excuses to Mrs Max Muller for Interrupting our family I meal and rushing at once In medlas l ivs Nearly out of breath he toll mt I J that ho came from Washington where lie had bren Jupuncsc Minister for several J sev-eral years that he was to take a place In the ministry at home as Minister for Education and that he must catch the next train from Oxford to London I In order not to miss his steamer for S Japan I I jl JHpa11But has your Excellency seen Oxford iifikecl Ox-ford and its beautiful buildings 1 I I iifikeclI I have no time for any of them he replied I Avantto seoyou nnd to J nsk you u question Excuse me but I have only ten minutes to spare He spoke English fluently nnd his animated face gave me the Impression I that he was a person of considerable I 1 intelligence and of a very active mind j lie was sitting close by me never quiet for a moment while I was finishing c my luncheon though I felt a little like hc a man who had n loaded pistol put to tt his head At last ho broke out in very rapid RngllHh You e sir he said we want a new religion in Japan I do not ppeak for myself do not want a religion re-ligion I road Confucius and that ac sulllces for me But the people at large the people whom we have to LI1 govern the uneducated people in fact 1 have lost their religion They do not believe In their Buddhist teachers they Lai Inugh at our Shinto priests They have in fact no religion at all l G Now you sir know all the religions i re-ligions of the world What religion t2 shall we adopt Then ns If to stop me he said In avery LL a-very kindly way Do not say Christianity Chris-tianity Christianity not do for Japan You know what troubles we liad wilh the Christians In Japan They Joined our political parties Intrigued and did no enl of mischief At last ns you know they had to be expelled 1 or exterminated No no the teaching of att your Christ may bo very good as a religion re-ligion buL Christianity will never do iJ forJapan Those Christian missionaries mission-aries are firebrands or whatever name TatU you call them here petroleuscs anarchists nzip anar-chists chistsI ul I know I remarked when hc had J vented his anger against the former Christian setters In Japan that some if hundred years ago you found the i Christian missionaries very troublcj some guejts But I thought that Japan had changed all that that you opened 4 your ports and your towns to the Imports Im-ports of all nations and that you would never again have those horrible I massacres which our missionaries and li our missionary societies have not for 101 b ± gotton But you ace I added T cannot < can-not to you any of the anr tlA cltnt religions of the world You arc very modern now or If I may say BO so goahead You have been doing excellent L ex-cellent work as sHudcntS of physical rxLt science of philosophy of engineering Uju You Jnow how to build steamcnglnoH without our help youllght your towns with electricity Shall I recommend to you the religion of the Oreworshipers t who consider It wrong to blow out a tar candle CL Therefore you seC w6 may strikeout u strike-out Itolfcc the Vedic religion the Brahmanlc rollglon the religion of Zo f4 roaster and I may add the religion of the Old Testament also They are all of them too oldfashioned for so now ci uRhl net a race a your people 1 < You might try Mohammedanism I 2O or Islam which iH no doubt L most excellent ex-cellent religion But what your countrymen coun-trymen have sicn of It In China would 4 probably fall to make any favorable impression on them or dispose them to CUT listen to the great claims which that profession of faith undoubtedly pos csses in its original form Besides if you Jcnvo out some of the anomalies and excrescences Of that religion you z would probably find that all that Is t good in it comes from Jewish nay from Christian sources 1 Thon what remains If you yule out a Christianity as politically Impossible In Japan Nothing but Buddhism iii iI whlQh is your own religion or at all fl events thC religion of lhi vast ma J jority of the people of Japan and your A nearest neighbors In China Korea I Mongolia and Tibet I can understand t lhat Buddhism as It now exists in IjTJ Japan and China and the adjacent y P countries has no attraction for an FitKt4 educated and thoughtful man like bfjb yi yourself You call yourself a follower 4 of Confucius and you are evidently at perfnrt liberty toany so In your own country and lo your own Buddhist friends or tvon Buddhist teachers The teaching of Confucius Is excellent and p If you follow his moral and political teachings you would be an excellent member of society and t most useful cUIun Only Confucius gives you hardly any dogma and very little of i cult and the people at large would require e 4 re-quire bothwould in fact If their wants In that respect were not satis i lied loon produce n culL of their own and dogmas of their own 4 But my dear Professor Arlnori Mori exclaimed you have not told me 4j what religion wo ought to adopt but r only wnat rellglomuvu ought to avoid Besides my ton minutes arc nearly w over I must run to catch the train for Southampton Your Excellency I replldd your I question as you see cannot well be Ii answered In ten minutes perhaps not In ten hours in ten days in ton years g 01 In 0 thosuand years The Japanese d have a religion namely Buddhism I grant you It Is a very corrupt form oC jd Buddhism But InflUad of Introducing > j II a brandnew religion could not 01 nnd your friends sot about to reform I tho HuddhlBtlc religion mean study TEI Its hlBtory read Its canon 1al bw > ksj examine the claims which Its sot forth fS for Its oxlntcnco There arc beautiful I J things in Buddhism hlddep under rub r blab accumulated during centuries You may call forth the light of a neW religion reli-gion from tho ember of old forma of oi faith But If all that falls to satisfy you and your friends Jn Japan try to m eft stand on your own legs believe what 4 r you can honestly believe without I with-out any doubts and difficulties s p or socalled efforts of bellev t ingi und do what Is right In your own eyes You Will not be far from tho m e true Teliglon then and a divine guidance or J guid-ance 1 be yours to tho end of your 3 4 life 1 I Thanks thanks Professor held he-ld But I must be off my ten mln i > xilQs are over my carriage Is waiting Alas the next thing I heard of him was that Arinorl Mon Minister of b Public Education in Japan hid been 44f assassinated by n fanatic In the street or the capital A NEiWUE J NX 2 Experiments are being made In Rus I nlt Uhf new fucWpclrollzeU peat Ordinary peat is impregnated by special spe-cial l methods with crude SPI with petroleum residue The product is Bald to be Impermeable to moisture and I docs 1 not ibsorb J even after being left In uater It does nol dry to a powder I like common peat and Its heatgiving I value is almost equal to that of coal I Tills process says LEcho dex Mines I Paris which reports ll I may gye new i value lo i French peal deposits litrllii has gone back to peal I for fuel and J nowadays we must neplect iipllnK Tho trouble Is it goes on to say that nllhough we have such great quantities I of heat In our country we have not a I I Russia has an abundance of petroleum I is to be feared that In France petro hi zed heat wll be n luxury Here Is a suggestion for our own country where there is both peat and petroleum Translation made for the Literary D Digest AMERICA IN THE PACIFIC From the beginning the United Stales i were set toward the Pacific As soon I as Jts waters were reached In I the path I 1 of Republican progress an effort was I made to bridge them on the north by I the way of Alaska and the Aleutian islands Commercial development and I political Influence however did not thrive along that frozen route or find a favorable approach to the vast markets mar-kets and millions of Asia A southern pathway J was marked across tho seas I which In the surveys Included Hawaii I There i was some difllculty at first about C Ihc illle but the war with Spain conveniently con-veniently and peremptorily settled that is sue Guam was made a lag station The Philippines were occupied as a le I gllimale moral result of war and now we are discussing the feaslbllily and cost of erecting there as 1 were per j I j munent terminal facilities Here wend I I fi we-nd another dispute about title but a decision should be rendered soon 11 the next Presidential election Russia Germany France and England are well provided with rendezvous and possessions posses-sions along Asias Pacific shores We are now to determine whether we shall have our own or forever depend on other nations We own the ground In right and theory If not In practice and we hope soon to be able to build thereon he fabric of good government which will bring with it peace order and prosperity pros-perity There are great moral as well as material ma-terial problems toIle solved In our occupation of the PJiIlIppines Whether on the one band we believe that our Government Is meeting Its responsibilities I responsibili-ties and not shirking the mighty task before It in endeavoring to put down I the present warfare or on the other i hind h that we are violating the sacred principles of the Constitution and Ires I passing on the right of others we must all agree that the one desideratum of the present hour Is the conclusion of the conflict the establishment of quiet and the beginning of contentment and happiness among the people When once 1ghlng is al an end Congress supported sup-ported by public sentiment can determIne deter-mine what shall be the future of the Philippines 1 Is not the purpose oC Ibis article lo enter upon C discussion I of the principles involved In the occupation occu-pation of the Phlllppiney but In tracing the rise of American Influence In I the Pacific and the far East It Is necessary ne-cessary to touch upon the present sltu ailon which has such I direct bearing on our future standing as a power In Pacific lands and seas John Barrelt in i the December Forum BETHLEHEM 3h h Bethlehem starred Bethlehem ll llrjghl with the Coronation gem l Upon thy brow through history Whoso eyes hitvt seen the mystery Hal brow und eyes and diadem Hall Bethlehem 3h Bslhlchem Queen Bethlehem > Or hallowed lap and diadem Thy Kolilnoor It IH I a star Thy hundH arc Willie as lilies arc Jhy song Is sorrow S requiem Queen Bethlehem Ruth McRnory Stuart InHarpers Magazine Mag-azine for December AN UNPARALLELED CENTURY One hundred years agol What a remarkable re-markable story Ihc panorama of Ihe closing century reveals In JSOO our country was a plucky fledgeling l health vigorous 1 ardent In hope high i in resolve Our total population was less l than 5500000 Germany and Britain Brit-ain each had four limesour number Spain twice as many and even little Portugal had an big a family of sons and daughters as Uncle Sam West of the Mississippi all was wilderness We had thirteen little States alt few cities of prominence except Philadelphia New York Baltimore Boston and Charleston Charles-ton The entire revenue of the United States Government under our first Administration Ad-ministration wan only 1500000 while 11 now cosls annually OS10011333 16 defray the expenses of the government of Greater Ncv York Washington was tin a new settlement with only a few thousand population and had been only lately made the capital The total wealth of the country was roundly estl 1 jijapcd at 200000000 or a very little less than JIO Del capita William Brooke Sandlson In the Christmas Success NEW WAYS TO MAKE PAPER When we reflect that it lakes the wood from seventeen acres of land to furnish paper for one issue of one of the leading New York dailies and when wo consider that the price oj white paper pa-per is going up gradually the an nounccihent that other methods of papermaking arc being tiitscbvcreil will lie welcomed One of great interest to tho South IB the discovery chemicals that will extract the fibers from colon hulls useful now only for cattle feed The discoverer of this method Is a gon tloman who bus long conducted a pulp paper mill in Florida He sold out his plant when he found that his idea waJ a good one and he ban Invested his m money In machinery and is proceeding to make pulp out of the cotton hulls While cheap enough It Is claimed that thin paper Is of such a high grade as to be beet nulled for the higher grades of writing paper but as It costs only hat as much as newspaper pulp It may come Into general use ThIs will 1p of advantage to the cottonplanter as It must sUrely Increase the value of his product It means too that these pulp machines must come South at the base of supplies or he raw material By and by there will be nothing wasted I from the cotton patch but the song of the negro as he works In tbe field Another method making paper has boon discovered also In Florida I is a I process by which pulp > can be made frdm thCpalmotlo The Palmetto Slate can furnish palmettos enough to make paper for many a year to come What Is perhaps the greatest discovery discov-ery however IRan Improved process of cleansing paper that ban already been used of Ink and other Impurities and L reconverting I t Into un excellent pulp L pJlp Old books lllhographa colored prints paper sackii newspapers and all manner man-ner of waste paper can be processed nnd turned Into flrutclasa pulp Greatest I of all it will establish endless chain which will relieve the forests of Amer AreI leo from the awful strain and devasta tion which they have been undergoing Memphis CommercialAppeal THINGS DETER NOT SAD Southern papers are telling a good I hood story of an old colored Virginia nurso The woman whoso slave she had once been was dying The minister cam c pnlyod talked and went away again and au the old woman returned to her post pf duty the sufferer Bald Aunty 4I Ijavc just mado a sad discovery I I am a great sinner and I never knexv Jt uhtH now ftho was nervous OCr OC-r Thlsf so that the nurpanswered In her mosl soothing manner There there II time Mlssle Laws I knowcd It all the r This reminds the Philadelphia I Press of another story told long long rt ngo about poor Face the Juvlen to Queen Elizabeth Thai post was nol I a pleasant one and Pace who was I like most court and other jesters Inclined I In-clined to be personal at last had to be forbidden the royal presence After he I had been for some lime absent a ew of his friends entreated the Quron to take him again Into her favor and t > n gaped that thereafter I hlu dlmourae J I I should be more guarded Hut the vets I I first lime the Queen av Pace matiurn were as had as ever Jh row Paee I salV Elizabeth ° glad i91 vonic wt J I jshall hear our faults No mndamt I replied the Jester guardedly I never I world talk of what Is discoursed by all the j I THANKSGIVING TURKEY I 1 Sometime s Iho hills arc white with SIIOWH I Sometimes tIne fields arc brown and 1M re And Hocks of soinbercoixtcil crown Fly through the soil und hazy air I But ho there wind or rain or Phln I I Or mist and mud or sleet and hall I Thanksgiving uirkevs always line 1 is never known the day to full i Though ofVr I birds Irnve sweeter noto And gayer Imp of fcptbrr I rcr The turkey aluy let my vote He come wlmler the WPiUher I Minon Hull Slovens aged 1 In December De-cember S1 Nicholas AHUGE GAME PRESERVE An act of great importance to ell those who ire interested In preserving1 from extermination the wild animals of the woild was recently I taken by rep rcRen taU Cl of the various European I powers thot control territory in Africa by which the larger portion of that contlnenl becomes to all Intents and purposes a vast game preserve Mr John 1 Torbert who writes on the subject In the Nallonal Geographical Magazine November notes that ll game both great and small Is In danger dan-ger of disappearing before the persistence persist-ence of sportsmen and of the gnlherers of hides and Ivory He goes on to say Africa Is still rich In animals birds and fishes and by placing certain restrictions re-strictions upon their destruction many species thai would otherwise be exterminated exter-minated may be fostered and perpetuated perpet-uated Both the professional hunter nnd the sportsman would then be able to gun or fish with reasonable succeus without endangering the future supply of game In London on May 19th of the present pres-ent year a convention was signed by the diplomatic rePlesentntes of Great Britain Germany Spain Belgium France Italy and Portugal for the protection of the wild animals birds and fishes of Africa which convention after being ratified by the powers is to remain In force for fifteen years By thus acting in concert the European Euro-pean nations who are most interested In frca through their extensive colonial co-lonial possessions have formed themselves them-selves into 0 powerful gameprotective association with Jurisdiction over the most extensive game preserve in the world 01fhc The area over which the provisions of the convention are to apply Includes all lhat portion of the Dark Continent extending from the twentieth parallel of north latitude to the southern line of the German possessions In southwestern south-western Africa and from the Atlantic ocean to the Indian ocepfi and the Tied the Sea Under the terms of the convention conven-tion the hunting and destruction oC vultures secretary birds owls giraffes gi-raffes gorillas chimpanzees mountain zebras wild asses whitetailed gnus elands and the little LiberIan hippopotamus hippo-potamus Is prohibited The young of certain animals including the elephant ele-phant rhinoceros hippopotamus zebra ze-bra antelope gazelle flex and che rotnln are protected and also the flame species when accompanied by their young Particular emphasis Is laid on the protection of young elephants ele-phants and all elephants tusks weighing weigh-ing Jess than twenty pounds are to be confiscated by the Government IT the animal l was killed after the convention went into effect Tho eggs of the os trlch among those of a large number of other birds are to be protecjedbut those of the crocodile and of poisonous snakes and pythons are to be destroyed de-stroyed A limited number of lions leopard hyenas oilers bahoons andt other harmful monkeys largp birds of prey crocodiles poisonous snakes UdI pythons may be killed I The method of taking or klllmg game Is regulated to the extent that i the use of nets and pitfalls Is forbidden forbid-den nnd dynamite and other explosives explo-sives must not be used for taking fish Only persons holding licenses Issued by the local Governments ore allowed to hunt wild animals within the protective pro-tective zone and these are revocable whore the provisions of the convention arc In any way violated Another provision Is that ihe con tracllng panties shall en courage the domesllcatlon of zebras elephants and ostriches A CHOICE OP TERMS Heres another man who got sway withsome money hat didnt belong to lelolrto him said the young woman who was reading the paper How muchimruir3d llS3 Cayenne J doesnt state Thats too bad T wanted to determine deter-mine whether he Is u plain thief a mIsguided embezzler or a bold financier finan-cier Washlnglon Star DOUBTLESS WITH REASON Some women wish that Ihiy were men But there aro moro 3 must aver Nscr harbor such a thoughtbin then They often wish theIr husbands w < rc George Elrdseyo In December Kmart act THANKSGIVING iu MANILA I Every regiment f 01 every battalion that Us la stationed in the city will have I forenoon programme of athletic events boxing wrestling running and the like in the late afternoon there win be a hand conlst aferoon I JLuneta Canteens will bo strictly closed the saloons too wjll Jie legally shut up but there are Iways men who will risk conflict with the law for the sake I ot pandering to holiday thlust By early evening the soldiers wJU be In their quarters again at wll various cuartels or else will run the risk of trouble with the guard So far nothing has been said about lie dinner which In ibis tl country Is the absorbing event of the day Uncle Sams lighting men In the Philippines will have a chance to buy PhlppJnes eY8 coldstorage birds killed months be fore In the States There will be tinned cranberries on sale at wi om mlssary depots wilh nil the ordinary I vegetixbles also in tins Uncle Sam supple neither turkeys snor oranber vies as rations L W ratons but he furnishes his soldiers no liberally with the plain ar I I tleles of food that they are able to dis pose of the surplus and thus establish I company funds It is out of ihesu funds that the coldstorage turkeys and I tinned cranberries will be bought Vis I iting soldiers from up tho line will I have to pay their chow In some fa I vored mess or olse have to depend on I dCIlcnt a comrades Invitation As the even ing cool follows dark the t men will sit out In the cuartel courts or on thc pa rades and talk about well the things that soldiers generally talk about For days and days before the end of November transports lately arrived I from the United States will unload Into cancoes tons and tonsof Thanks giving supplies and the cascoes wilt unload boxes barrels and bales on wi 1 Paslg river water front before tho quartermasters depot unfn that spot uni will look like a huge mart Through ThlOUlh the crowd of moving coollea and Im I mobile boxes soldiers will roam keenly Ion I-on time innkrtnt fOr expected remem I brances from home 1 is a fact not generally known that he who has a frond or relative serving as asoldier In the Philippines may have a reason ablesized box forwarded to the soldier by merely properly directing the box and prepaying express charges for delivery de-livery to the chief iiuartcrmtatcrs of lice San Francisco i For those garrisoned in the cities or r I i who are able on account of good con I I duel lo get hilo 1 town of considerable I size the day will puss pleasantly i enough With the men actually engaged en-gaged In HIP field against an ngllf1 foe I Thanksgiving will be a very cllfferent affair The days menu for them will 1 be Breakfast coffee bacon and hardtack hard-tack dinner i1few gulps of water supper they will be lucky who do not Km Mauser bullets for that mcalH J II in Leslies Weekly J THE VERDICT t I I The most popular man In n Western town once got Into n difficulty with a disreputable tough who war n terror i lo the place and did him up In I manner I man-ner entirely satisfactory to the whole I r community Ituvits necessary however howev-er to vindicate the majesty of the II I law and the offender was brought up for trial on a charge of assault with intent to kill The jury took the case and were out about two minutes when they returned W 01 said l the Judge in n familiar offhanded way what i have the Jury to say 1 May It please the court responded the foreman we the Jury find that the prisoner Is not guilty of hlttln1 wILl Intent to kill but simply to para lyse and ho done it The verdict was received with applause ap-plause and the prisoner given an ovation ova-tion The Green Bag I Bng I THE CHILD When Mary sans to him I wonder If wnlr Ills bnbv hand stol softly to her lips And smiling down sho needs must stop her sonpr I To kiss and kiss again his llngcrtlps I wonder Ie his eyelids being1 shut And Mary bending mutely over him She felt her eyes as mothers Oo today For very depth of lovo grow wet and dim Then did a emlilen presage como to her Ofbitter looks old words and thorn strewn streclV = And did she catch her orcalli and hide her taco And feet shower mothered kisses on his Bertha Gcrncaux Woods In the Christmas Christ-mas Scrlbners TH NEW APPORTIONMENT I Is too much to expect of course that Congress would favor such 3 simple sim-ple solution of the reapportionment problem as the adoption of a round 200COO n the ratio upon which to base the Congressional representatIon for the next ten years Under the new Federal census that would make an Increase In-crease of only eighteen in the membership mem-bership of the House which Is plenty large enough without any Increase The principal objection to this ratio however would arise from the fact that It would reduce the representation representa-tion of Maine Virginia Kansas and Nebraska The opposition of these States would avail nothing if the House I desired to establish the ratio at one Representative for every 200000 population I popu-lation but there has always been I strong opposition to reapportlonmenls I which would entail a loss upon any State that thero is little probability that this Congress will do what Is generally 1 gen-erally conceded some future Congress must docut down tho representation I of some of thC States r J precedents are followed therefore I I Is likely that Congress will adopt the I largest ratio possible without reducing the representation of any State which lr i 101314 This would add twenty eight members making the total membership mem-bership of the House 385 I was plainly plain-ly l obvious as BOO as the census returns re-turns from Illinois were announced I that no reapporllonmenl could be made without addIng to Illlnolss representation representa-tion In the Ilouse The proposed ratio of 191311 would give this State twen of che tylive Representatives being ft gain ot three Only one other State In the Union New York would secure so large 0 gain which would give bar thirtyseven Representatives Minncso l tn New Jersey Pennsylvania and I Texafi would gain two each while Arkansas Ar-kansas California Colorado Connect Connec-t Ql Florida Iqwaj Louisiana Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Mississippi Missouri North Carolina North Dakota Washington and West Vcrglnla would gain one each The noteworthy feature of the census cen-sus figures as revealed In connection with the proposed plan of reappor tlonment Is the disclosure that the West has not gained upon the I5ast to the extent that has been shown In previous pre-vious censuses While thlu Is true 11 does not follow that the West has ceased to control the situation in poll lies and in national legislation The Stales o New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey will have a Congressional strength under the proposed ratio of seventynine votes Against these however the Slates of Illinois Ohio Indiana Michigan Iowa Wisconsin and lUinncaota can show a combined strength of 102 votes In the House to say nothing of Ihe far Western Stales J is an Interesting circumstance that under the proposed ratio the Eastern Slates show the same gain as tho Western Stales which is nine voles No mailer what readjustment Is made Illinois is certain to have increased in-creased power In Congress and in the Klecloral aid college Chicago TlmcflIIer JUST VAT IS AT STAKE Tho United States army now contains con-tains 97000 ofllccrs and enlisted men It has eleven r lm ntH of cavalry seven roglmenls of artillery and forty nine regiments of Infantry or the First cavalry four troops or I companies are In Montana Wyoming I and the Dalcotaa and eight troops arc i I In tho Philippines The Second cavalry IB In Cuba The Third and Fourth are i In the Philippines The FIfih caValry I IB lathe United States The SIxth car airy Is In China and the Philippines p the Seventh In Cuba the Eighth in Cuba I Cu-ba and the United States Four troops I of the Ninth are in Utah and Arizona and eight troops are in the Philippines Six troops of the Tenth are In Cuba and four are In ihe UnU d States The Eleventh urc volunteer cavalry I Js In the Philippines One battery oC the First nrllllcry eight I butturfeu of the Third one of the I i Fourth eleven of the SUth and two of lie Seventh are In the Philippines AH I the other artillery companies are In the United States 1 Cuba Porto Illco I and HawaiI Of the regular Infantry I regiments the Third Fourth Sixth I I Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fir tcenlh Sixteenth Seventeenth Nine l cnth Twentieth Twentyfirst Twen tysecond Twentythird Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth with battalions battal-ions from oilier regiments are In the Philippines The Ninth Infantry la Jn China the Tenth 13 1 In Cuba and at stations In Nebraska nnd Wyoming The Ele nth has boon In Porto Rico I and at stations In our own Eastern States The twentyfour regiments ot volunteers arc all In the Philippines The full slicnglh of the twentyfour regiments of volunteer Infantry Is 31 taG The 1 full strength of thc regiment of volunteer cavalry the Eleventh la I 12SI I men There arc In the ten rcgl ments of regular cavalry lJ022 ofllcera I and men In the aeven regiments of ar llllery 10191 and in the twentyfive regular regiments of Infantry 3lOS3 The aggregate of artillery cavalry and i i I Infantry in the Philippines Is 1 05725 1 This leaves about SJCOO men for duty In the United States Cuba Porto Rico Hawaii Alaska and Guam Of the regular army 500 ofllccrs and 5702 enlstel men arc In the quartermasters quarter-masters subsistence medical engi seem signal and other departments Probably ECOO are m the arllllery and in forts on the frontier or guarding tho I coasts and 1570 are Indian scouts With a regular army of 05000 men we would j have outside of departments and coast I j I defenses not more than 54000 officers I i and men for campaign work With n regular army of 27 000 wo would havo not more than COOOO for active campaigning cam-paigning Under the present law nil of the twen tyfour volunteer Infantry regiments I and the regiment of cavalry are to be mustered out qf the service by the 1st of next July This will lake 21574 officers offi-cers and men from the nrmy of 97000 Under the law the regular army of 05 000 is to be reduced to 27000 the main t i reduction coming In cavalry nnd infantry infan-try The United States will then have for work on Its own frontier and In Cuba Porto Rico Hawaii and the PhilIppines Phil-ippines twentyfive rcgimcnts of infantry in-fantry with companies reduced lo the minimum and terrreglmenta of cavalry The Inadequacy of thIs force L apparent ap-parent to every one The danger of I such depiction of our fighting strength need not be enlarged upon For the I I last year the Filipino rebels have kept straggling forces In the Held by holding out the hope of a change of policy in the United States That hope has been destroyed Now the leaders will try to Jceep their men in the Held by holding out the inducement of outlawry and r plunder when the United States is compelled com-pelled to withdraw more than half the troops now In the Philippines Tho necessities of the situation demand de-mand action on army reorganization by the Fiftysixth Confess The Nation cannot wait for an extra session of the Fiftyseventh Congress Even IC in the coming campaign In Luzon under the personal direction of Gen MacArthur I the guerrilla bands of Filipinos are suppressed sup-pressed there stIll must be a strong force In the Island To prevent disaster outlawrv and massacre in the Philippines r Philip-pines the rebels must have notice through Congress lhat the regular army oC the United States is to be made large enough at once to meet any emergency And the sooner they get lhat notice the bet r it will be for all concerned I Chicago Inter t Ocean HARD TO CLASSIFY The Ccnous ofllce In Washington Is often puzzled to know how to classify the relurns of occupation in cases where the enumerators have given a too literal description of t persons employment There are two census terms to cover such cases Occupations Occupa-tions not Included In the regular Hat may be entered ixs O T meaning other things or UN 0 which stands I for not gainful To choose between V conipllcitlons tho two sometimes suggests amusing r An enumerator in Indiana reported drunkard as the occupation of one of his men The Census office entered him as N G since the next column asserted serted this to be his occupation for twelve months In the year and steady drlnldnJ is to say the least not gainful gain-ful There Is another sense in which 0 drunkard may be said to be N G A New York enumerator who seems to have the Inclinations of a detective reported several men In his district as raporteJ crooks pickpockets and gamblers gam-blers They were entered as N G although al-though their occupations may havo been more gainful to them than to their victims A Georgia man whoso occupation was reported as odd Jobs goes on the records under O Pother thIngs While some of the occupations which the enumerators give are unusual th yare y-are probably correct A tramp was described loafer not gainful unemployed un-employed twelve months An extra thrifty person was in one instance reported re-ported as occupation miser and another an-other lives on savings A Connect cut woman whose husband was described de-scribed as an Idler gave her own oc cupallon as washing and wishing Sad but true it I Is that wishing for something bet eJl forms a largo part of the mcnU1 occupation of most people And time Intensity of this wish doubt less produces marvelous and beneficial results I Youths Companion J WAGEEARNERS SAVINGS In the last report of the Savings Banks commissioners of Massachusetts Massachu-setts the Boston Transcript finds wonderful won-derful ovidonra of the thrift of communities commu-nities the majority of whose toilers are Ilgecarner in mills and shops Following Fol-lowing arc tho figures of deposits Octo ber 31st In Massachusetts cllles and towns long regarded as hives of industry < Indus-try Fall River JlCS73C22Sil FItchburg SGlOSVJT Holyoke Huvrrhlll G10156M 7STJXwSS Lawrence 0 10CC9CWSO m rGS Lowell 2R21GOff Lynn 8SS75W20 1rf 2 Now Bedford i 202736527f Springfield Z3GZil I t1 Tnunton r 7133j7 G5 I Worcester 2S7il07 |