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TFTE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
Celebrating Their Victories Are Japs an Expressionless People?
THE VERT REAL KNTHVSIABT8 IN JAPAN-SCHOOL. CHILDREN UNDER A
CLOUD OP JAPANESE FLAGS.
nb 10 cunni&nuy nearing now
1 J I adays about Japanese stolidity
slonlcs In tha face of eventa
that would turn any other nation
upside down with Joy, and I spend much
time In wondering- whether this Is a deep
rooted national characteristic or merely a
"pose" for the benefit of a world that
fully expected Japan to lose its head In
case It was victorious over mighty Russia. "
I know if the United 8tates army had
done what those little brown men up In
Manchuria have put to their credit, and
tha credit of their country, there would
be a "Dewey arch" over every street cor
ner from Maine to California, and we would
all be g-olns; about shaking hands, waving
flaiks and congratulating: ourselves upon
tha fortune that made us God's own and
only people. But I cannot Imagine any
such demonstration of enthusiasm taking
place In Japan, and If It did I suppose we
Should all begin to cry about the "yellow
peril" and to accuse this little people of
too much self-appreciation and ambition.
But this little people goes on winning
great victories and celebrating them with
tha utmost modesty and decorum until this
little people has won for Itself a reputa
tion for stolidity which I hardly believe it
merits.
Last year I was In Kyoto when the
Japanese army crossed the Yalu. and, tak
ing my Interpreters I went one night for
a riksha ride out into the city Just to
"get away from myself," to see If I could
not And escape. In the Interesting strange
ness of the little narrow streets, from the
ennui and homesickness which possessed
me, I remember I was on the point of
taking the next steamer back to America,
because I waa finding Japan so deadly
dull. Well, In my vote book I find Joyful
writing about that night, and I think It
waa the turning point in my Japanese ex
perience, the point at which I began to
really appreciate as human beings the little
people who had before seemed to me in
comprehensible creatures of another sphere.
The Lantern Parade.
We hadn't gone far that night, Taklga
San and I. before we come upon a mar
vellous lantern parade led by a brass band
that was playing "Marching Through
Georgia" in all the keys at once. It was
the most Joyoua thing I ever saw and my
heart leapt into Instant sympathetic
vibration with . the Jubilant note which
rang In every voice aa they shouted
"Banzai!' Dal Nippon Banzai! A thousand
Uvea! To great Japan a thousand lives?"
It waa the first time I had ever heard any
thing like it and It brought me to my feet
with a response that made me Instantly
one of them, Joying in their Joy and bless
ing all the gods at once for the deathless
glory of Japan. Oh, it waa a wonderful
thing, and nobody who felt its vibrant
power could ever again think of the Ja
panese people aa stolid. They were patriots
gone mad that night, and as I rode along
under the thousands of red and white paper
lanterns made In the pattern of the victor
ious sun-flag I wondered what the end
would be and how this dancing crowd
would take the'defeat which I and all the
world thought waa ultimately inevitable
for them. The army had only Just then
crossed the Yalu and down at Port Arthur,
the great siege had little more than Just
begun, which waa to cos the nation sixty
thousand men or more, and such suffering
at home and in the field as can never be
written down for the eye of man to see.
Llao Yang was many weeks away and the
moat sanguine of us could not hope that
the Japanese success would continue with
out a single interruption or defeat. But
It has been so, and curiously enough, the
public rejoicing haa seemed to diminish
with every victory the nation hss won
until now the attitude amounts to some
thing which looks like the vast responsi
bilities of the situation Into which the
country haa so valiantly fought Its way.
Wkfi TLiao Yang Fell.
When Llao Yang fell I was In Yokohama.
The town, the whole nation Indeed, had
been holding lis breath for weeks expect
ing every hour to hear a decision from
that great battle-field. I remember every
time a "gogal boy" went Jingling his little
bunch of bells through the street every
body Jumped and ran to sea If It might be
the great newa A "gogal" is a Japanese
"extra." and la published on a wee shtet
about the sise of a bit of note paper, and
the boys who carry these around to the
people have a little bunch of bells of vail
ing sixes and tones fastened to their belts
which, as they run, make a most excited '
clamor. They say nothing, these boys, they
only run swiftly along scattering the im
portant little sheets and nobody can ever
mistake their Jangling small announcement
for any other noise vpecullar to Japanese
street life. Well, one day there were more
"gogal" boys than usual and the whole
town seemed filled with their Jangllngs and
Jingling; whistles blew in every direction
and temple bells boomed sonorously across
the. city, all out of their usual stately
measure. Excited people ran hither and
yon, and there was more chattering and
gesticulating on street corners and at the
entrances of shops than I had ever seen
before. By these signs we knew that
Llao Yang had fallen, and from these signs
we gathered that there ' waa to be
some great rejoicing.
A Postponed Celebration.
But days passed without any Indication
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of an Intention to celebrate. I waa an
noyeJ. It didn't seem healthy to me, and
I longed to see the whole population turn
out and hug each other in untrammeled
Joy. But that was not the Japanese way.
They met each other and bowed very low
several times with their bands hidden away
in their big kimono sleeves. They drew
their breath in sharply through their teeth
and murmured honorific and humilities, but
nobody shouted and nobody sang a Joy
song. Then one day we heard that they
were waiting for Port Arthur to fall, and
as soon as that happened, which must
be In a day or two, there was to be a
great "banzai," as a Japanese celebration
Is called.
But as . Port Arthur didn't fall, Japan
finally decided to celebrate Llao Yang. It
really wasn't many days, but It seemed an
age to us, who would have filled the entire
interval with one loud cheer If It had been
our army that bad done so great a thing.
At the time. In the midst of the excite
ment, I thought this "bansal" was a splen
did affair. And I remember Indulging In
much hyperbole, which the grammar says
is a Greek word signifying exaggeration,
as I wrote an account of It. It was fine,
really, but If I hadn't thought with every
body else that It was only a foretaste of
what would happen when Port Arthur
should capitulate, I should have considered
It quite mild and altogether inadequate,
under the circumstances.
Jubilation la Parade.
There were 45,000 people In a parade, and
each one of them carried a bobbing, danc
ing paper lantern on a long bamboo pole,
which created a decidedly brilliant effect.
Then the town was decorated with mil
lions of flaps and pennants, and banners,
and lanterns, and there was much shout
ing of "Dal Nippon, banzai;" and beating
upon big bas drums with an energy that
was far from Christian, but through It
all ran nn undercurrent of expectancy, an
Impalpable something which seemed a
promise of a real outburst of enthusiasm
when the great news should come that
was supposed to decide the fortunes of
this war. It was ss If the people were
afraid of doing an Injustice to the men
who were then fighting so bravely at Port
Arthur, aa if it were unseemly to rejoice
when so Important a victory hung aloof
from the struggling army, when the very
life of the nation seemed balanced upon
a bayonet's point in that fortified penin
sula in the Yellow sea. So our shouting
day or two and see what will happen."
We waited. The preparations for great
rejoicing went forward.' . Hotels advertised
special dinners and reserved tables weeks
ahead for what was supposed to be only
da s ahead. The whole country , waa cock
suro of success and the foreigners espec
ially did a great lot of anticipating events.
Indeed, come to think of It. the foreign
population was creating most of the dis
turbance, while the Japanese, with their
refinement of deliberative serenity which
we call by various names under various cir
cumstances, went on their way expression
less and planned their Jubilation, If they
planned at all, behind closed shojl. Weeks
passed after Llaoyang and still the great
conflict went on at Port Arthur. I was
called back to New York In late October,
and was sorry as anything because I should
be In mid-Pacific when the great event
should take plnce. I didn't doubt for a
moment that when we arrived in America
we should be greeted with this, so Import
ant, news. Well, of course we were not.
Homes of Workmen Employed on Panama Canal
(Copyright 1905, by Frank a. Carpenter.)
A NAM A Mav A ISnerljil Cor-
PI respondence of The Bee.) Uncle
I Sum will anon have 2OftO houses
ready for his canal employes.
Wlthfli the past few months
millions of feet of lumber have arrived
from the states. 8hipload after shipload
has come from the Gulf of Mexico and
Puget sound, and it is now piled up In the
lumber yards at Colon and La Boca and
scattered at different points over our ten
mile strip. A big saw and planing mill has
been formed out of the old French
machinery at Cc-lon, and well-equipped
tinning, blacksmlthlng and plumbing shops
are In operation at A neon. At the several
stations along the canal route gangs of
men are at work building new houses and
repairing the old ones left by the French.
Altogether there are - more than . 800
plumbers, painters, carpenters, . tinsmiths,
masons and other mechanics and laborers
engaged in such construction. Outside the
cost of the material, more than $100,000 haa
already been spent, and It is estimated
that more than $2,000,000 will be so ex
pended during the coming year. In the ad
ministration building at Panama a corps of
architects from the Treasury department
at Washington and from New York,
Boston and Chicago is working away night
and day making plana. and specifications,
the whole force being under the direction of
the supervising architect, Mr. M. O. John
son, who was formerly one of the architects
of the Illinois Central system, i and was
brought here by Chief Engineer Wallace.
Part of Uncle Sam's Bargain.
During my stay at Panama I have spent
much time with the supervising architect.
I have traveled with him over the Isthmus
Inspecting the buildings which came to us
aa a part of Uncle Sam's bargain, and in
looking over the plans of the new house
in course of construction. He tells me that
we received aa a part of our canal purchase
more than 2,400 different buildings in varl-
ous stages of dilapidation. We got 2.200
bouses, most of which were cottages in
tended as the homes of the workmen. A
few had been built in the United States
and sent knocked down to Panama, and the
remainder were made of Imported Ameri
can lumber, roofed with a fine quality of
galvanised Iron, which haa withstood this
tropical climate for twenty-five years.
These houses are to be seen at Ancoa
and Colon, at the two enda of the canal,
and they are scattered in villages all along
the route flora the Atlantic to the Pacific
They are of different sizes; some of one
story, costing from several hundred to a
thousand dollars or more each, and others
the magnificent residences built for Dj
Lesseps and bis son at Chtistobal and the
mansion of Monsieur Dingier on the slope
of An con, each of which cost from 150,004
to $75,000. In addition there are a score
or more of great warehouses and machine
shops scattered over the isthmus, railroad
stations, office buildings and wharves at
Panama and Colon, hospital buildings
which have altogether cost millions, situ
ated at tho two ends of the line, and two
big three-story structures In the heart of
Panama, one of which Is the Canal Office
building, covering a full block, and the
other the fine residence of the chief engi
neer, which was formerly the home of the
French canal director.
Ravaged by Time anA White Ants.
I asked the " supervising architect to
give me some idea of the condition of these
buildings at the time they were handed
over to us. Said ha:
"Nearly everything left by the French
was In a state of dilapidation. No repairs
had been done for years. The paint bad
been worn off by the weather and the
buildings had also suffered greatly from
the white ants. These Insects have eaten
at the porches, and they have made their
way Into some of the larger buildings and
chewed off the ends of the Joists, so that
one side of the floors Is almost entirely
unsupported. This was the case with the
residence of the chief engineer. The floors
were uneven throughout, and one felt very
unsafe while walking across them. The
supports of the front stairway were al
most entirely eaten away, and the ants
bad even fed on the furniture. One chair,
for Instance, looked perfectly sound, but
when sat upon It went down with a crash,
carrying Its occupant to the floor. The
ants had consumed the inside of the wood
work, leaving only the shell of the var
nish. These ants work in the dark and
one ' cannot tell the amount of their de
struction except by sounding the timbers.
They are especially fond of white pine,
but less so of yellow pine, Oregon fir,
redwood and cypress, and for that reason
we are using those woods. The French
builders coated their girders with tar, but
this causes dry rot when the wood is not
exposed to the air.
Extravagant Builders.
"Speaking of the French as builders,"
continued Mr. Johnson, "their chief Idea
seems to have been to make the buildings
as expensive as possible. This is espe
cially the case with the foundations, which
have often-cost more than the structures
Quaint Features of Current Life
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Jast Like rinding It,
K. VANDERBILT was "autolng"
up a Long Island road recently.
Ahead of him walked a man and
I -1 a dog. The dog waa nosing around
. among the bushes and fence
posts. Suddenly, as Mr. Vanderbllfs auto
passed the man. the dog started across the
road. The auto hit him "kerplunk" amld
hlpa. ' A few spasmodic kicks and he gave
up the ghost. Mr. Vanderbllt immediately
stopped his machine and getting out ap
proached the man with his wallet In hie
hand, saying: "I'm awfully sorry, my man.
Will fix It right?" "Oh. yea, tu will do."
Then, as Mr. Vanderbllt waa disappearing
In a cloud of dust up the road, the man
turned, and looking at the dog said: "I
wonder whose beast It was?"
Dreaa ef Fire Came Tree.
Mrs. Maud Hopler of Wllllamsport, Pa.,
whoa apartments are on the third floor of
a frame building over a grocery store,
awoke one morning at 4 o'clock to find the
building filled wtth smoke. She had Just
been dreaming that a lamp upset by the
grocer yman In an incubator in his show
window had set fire to the building.
Drawing on a pair of slippers Mra Hop
ler tnsde her wsy to the street, and. true
to her dream, she. found the window ablaze
from the Incubator lamp. There were a
dosen people asleep In the building, and she
tried to get back, but found that the night
latch had snapped, and she was locked out.
Though attired only In her nightgown
Mra Hopler ran two squares to a firebous
and gave the alarm, when a chemical tank
In the bauds of a fireman soon extinguished
the flamea. x
EsMrsintst ter Babies. ,
George W. Davenport of Greenfield,
Maaa. baehelor and admirer of Infanta
Bas Instituted aa anti-race-suicide move
ment along unique lines. Every child bora!
in Greenfield hereafter will receive from
Mr. Davenport a savings bank account of
SO cents. Mr. Davenport's main hope of
Inspiring Interest in a plentiful crop of
Infants Is an annual baby show to be held
In May. The proceeds of the show he pro
poses to devote to boys' club work, thus
encouraging children of tender years,
though too old for baby show honors.
President Roosevelt haa approved Mr.
Davenport's baby ahow plan and has sig
nified his appreciation of the compliment
of having bis likeness on souvenir badges
which will be distributed among Franklin
county babies. The trump card of Mr.
Davenport will be an attempt to obtain
the presence of President Roosevelt at the
show.
Jarring the Sargepa.
The London Chronicle tells this story t
"She waa a dreadful wreck when they
brought her In to 8t Bartholomew's hos
pital last evening. The youthful surgeon
worked away upon her fare with sponges
and plaster, and cotton wooL wondering
aloud how she could have got into such
a state. , Clearly the w:man had some
thing to say but sl could not say It.
When the surgeon had made a Job of It he
gently lifted the woman over an arm and
.asked, 'How lid it happen? She raised a
fist to shake over his shoulder, and cried
furiously: "E done It! ' done It! 'Im,'
Turning his head the surgeon could see the
man. who had been standing Just under the
flaring gas Jet. sad watching the pro
ceedings v.lth the Interest of a landed pro
prietor ct a building operation. The brute!
muttered the surgeon, as be shifted the
woman to her feet. 8he turned on him.
'Brut! she shrieked through her ban
dage. "You rail 'lm brute? And after he
brought tue all th way 'ere ui hia arms.
Gawd bless 'im!'
above them. In the laborers' camp at Cule
bra the cottages stand upon piers of solid
masonry three times as large as are needed
to carry their loads, and at La Boca there
Is a two-story house built upon piers forty
feet long, set close together, and of the
finest construction. The house framework
Is no- more than twenty-five feet high.
The Ancon hospital buildings stand upon
concrete blocks six feet square, where
blocks two feet square would have served,
and, Indeed, this is so everywhere.
"The work was let out by the French to
contractors at so much per cubic yard, so
that the more concrete put In the greater
the price. One of the most, extravagant of
their houses Is the Folly Dingier, so called
because M. Dingier, the chief of the canal,
who built It, had his family carried away
by the yellow fever before he could live
In It. That building, we are now using for
a hospital. It is a two-story cottage, which
cost about 175,000, and it would be consid
ered fine at Newport. The house has an
enormous amount of concrete about It, and
it has chicken houses and cow sheds built
to correspond with Its architecture. The
cow shed haa a solid concrete floor, the
cattle ate their food out of concrete
troughs and tlia horses drank out of a
concrete basin of ornamental design which
must have cost at least $5,000."
$
What Is Belug Done.
I asked Mr. Johnson to give ' me some
Idea of the work now going on In his de
partment. Said he:
"We have already repaired several hun
dred houses. We have thoroughly reno
vated the canal administration building and
that occupied by Chief Engineer Wallace,
and have put the hospitals here at Colon in
sanitary condition. We are building a large
sanitarium on the Island of Taboga, to be
used aa a convalescent hospital, and we
will soon be constructing large additions to
the hospital at Ancon. The Taboga build
ings are about completed. They contain
chamber dining rooms, amusement rooms,
kitchens and bathhouses. They stand on a
high bluff, surrounded by a grove of cocoa
nut palms and overlooking the sea. The
island has pure water, it affords excellent
surf bathing and It will be valuable for our,
people who are getting well or who have
to He off for a rest.
"We have repaired most of the bouses at
Chrlstobal, Uncle Sam's beautiful annex to
the city of Colon, and a large force of work
men are now living there. I should say we
have repaired JuO at that place alone.
"At Culebra, where the moat of the canal
work Is now going on, we are putting up a
bachelor quarters more than 200 feet long,
which will accommodate eighty-five men.
Each man will have a room to himself, and
there will also be large dining rooms, read
ing rooms and a social hall. This building
will be three stories In height, with ver
andas running around It There will be
double lattice doors Instead of windows
opening upon the porches, and on the first
story the inside walls will be rolling par
titions, which will enable the whole to be
thrown into one room for lectures and
social purposes.
Homes for Colebra.
"We are also building quarters for mar
ried men at Culebra. We ' have designed
twenty and are completing four every week.
We have twenty-five portable bouses there,
each consisting of a room and a porch.
They will do for bachelors. We are also re
pairing a number of the old French houses,
and a little farther on at Rio Grande Su
perior are renovating forty such houses for
the worklngmen. The latter buildings are
dormitories, with a special house, contain
ing dining rooms and kitchens, to be used
as a canteen to feed the men.
"In addition to this." the supervising
architect continued, "we are repairing
other buildings all along the line. We are
putting up a big wharf at La Boca, and
we shall add greatly to the horpltals at
Ancon, erecting Ice plants and cold storage,
plants there. We are also making roads
and are rapidly getting the quarters for
the employes into comfortable shape."
American Homes at Panama.
While in the architect's office I looked
over the plans of the different kinds of
buildings which are now being made for
the American employes. The houses vary
according to the rank and salary of the
man and as to his family.' In the bachelor
quarters at Culebra, above referred to, the
ceilings are thirteen feet high. Each bed
room is 12x14, with French windows to the
floor. The doors open out upon' porches
and the ventilation Is perfect. In ' that
building there will be sixty-two rooms,
each of which will be occupied by a bach
elor workman.
The rooms will be furnished by the gov
ernment. Every man. will have his own
furniture, consisting of two tables, a bed,'
a mattress, a hat rack, two chairs and
toilet conveniences. Wardrobes and book
shelving will be built into the houses, and
It is expected that they will be lighted by.
electricity. Such quarters are for our me
chanics, namely, carpenters, . plumbers,
painters and others. Men of a higher rank,
such as chiefs of departments, chief clerks,
etc., will have better accommodations and
more furniture.
How MarrledTMen Will Lire.
The married mechanics and their families
will have good accommodations. Many of
tho . French cottuges are now occupied by
them. and. those which have been repaired
are comfortable. Each cottage, has sev
eral large rooms, with wide windows and
doors. The walls, as is the case with
nearly all the buildings here, are of wooo
painted in bright colors, no plaster or paper
being used. A common type of building is
a one-story cottage, containing two rooms
and a kituhen, with verandas at the front
and back and a ehower bath in the rear.
The rooms are 12x14; the partitions do not
extend clear to the roof, in order to pro
vide plenty of air, lattice work reaching
from the top of' the wall to the celling. All
such buildings, including the old French
cottages, rest high up from the ground on
concrete posts, giving free air circulation
under the floors.
The next grade of houses is intended for
the siarried . foremen and clerks. These
are also' of one story and cost about $1,600
apiece to build. Each is forty-five feet long
and sixteen feet wide with a six-foot
varanda running around three sides. Each
contains a living room, a bed room, bath
room, servant's room, pantry and kitchen.
The rooms are large and the houses com
fortable. A still better class have an extra
bed room. Such houses will be occupied by
clerks with large families. .
In addition to these some two-story cot
tages are now being built which have liv
ing and dining rooms on the first floor and
bed rooms above. Such houses will have
porches, top and bottom, and the upper
portion will be so screened that the family
can sit out of doors during the evening.
The quarters for the officers are even bet
ter than those already mentioned, some of
them having six rooms with furniture to
correspond to the houses. All the bouses
will have shower batha and all will be sup
plied with cold water.
Cooking and Eating.
As to the cooking and eating arrange
ments, the bachelor quarters will have
kitchens and dining rooms, which will be
.run on the contract steni, each man pay
ing bis own proportion of the actual cost.
Contracts for supplying the board for such
quarters will be let out to the lowest re
sponsible bidders and each man will pay
his share of the contract price. If he
chooses, however, he need not eat In the
quarters. There will be canteens outside
and a man can go where he pleases. The
canteens will be of different grades. At
some meals will cost much more than at
others, and one can accommodate his stom
ach to his pocket. There will also be cof
fee houses where a man may buy what he
pleases and pay for what he orders. Tha
present rate for board at Culebra is, I am
told. Just about $3 per week.
As to those who wish to keep house and
board themselves, the commission will soon
have a commissary department like that
found at our army posts. This will be in
charge of Paymaster E. C. Tobey, the
chief of materials and supplies, and It will
result in the men and their families get
ting their food and clothing as low. If not
lower, than the same things could be .
bought In the United States. This depart
ment wlU Import all sorts of American pro
visions and the other necessities of life
and will furnish them to the men at a little
over their actual cost. Including that of
managing the department. It Is probable
that fresh meat will be sent down from
America and kept in oold storage here, and
that the commtsslarit may also furnish Ice
and Vegetables.
Cost of Provisions at Panama.
At present nearly every good thing eaten
at Panama comes from abroad. The Isth
mian soli is good and the climate such that
almost anything can be raised; but we get
our sweet potatoes from Peru, Irish pota
toes and cabbages from New York, and
other vegetables from New Orleans. Every
thing is high. Chickens, for instance, cost
75 cents each, and eggs about 50 cents a
dozen. Eggs are sold In the markets In
couples, two being wrapped up in a corn
husk with strings about the middle and at
the ends to keep them from breaking. Fish
are to be had In great variety and com
paratively cheap. Fresh meat Is dear and
poor in comparison with that of the United
States.
Tropical fruits are delicious and cheap.
One can buy a pineapple for 7 cents and a
cocoanut for 5 cents, while bananas cost 1
cent each. One of the best fruits here is
the papaya. It looks like a cross between
a tnnskmelon and a gigantic cucumber, and
when cut open shows a rich yellow flesh.
The papaya Is eaten with a spoon; It is
much liked for breakfast or dessert. It
grows at the top of a little tree, being at
tached by a stem directly to the trunk.
As to. servants, they are comparatively
cheap here, but by no means so good as our
servants at home. I know one woman who
has a girl come In tor half of each day. It
Is her duty to cook the dinner and clean up
the house, and her wages are $3 per month.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
and many more weeks went by until really
the world ceasvd to hold its breath and as
sumed at attitude of expectancy expecting
nothing. .'j'
t? 1 1 m loaf h ,r.R tlnmU t rm inn tA
and on Broadway in. New York th bul
letin was posted and the "gogal" waa
printed which made me long to gat back'
with th Jy-mad rrowd In ToWo. -I pic
tured the people forgetting the restraint
which nature herself seems to have put
upon them, and for once really congratu
lating themselves upon their triumph. Not
so. I am told that the great Tens hi, tha
tery within the Inner Moat, had caused an
intimation to go forth that he had not ap
proved of such extravagant decoration, nor
too much expression or exuberatlon. Firstly,
because the decoration cost a great sum of
money which could and should be more
Judiciously expended; and. secondly, be
cause Japanese rejoicing must of necessity
be at the expense of a noble enemy grimly
bearing reverses in every engagement, to
gether with the awful loss of nearly SCO. 000
men. So this nation, trained to obedience
of the Imperial wish as no family of children
was ever trained to obedience of the pa
ternal command, ceased forthwith to apend
Its money upon flags and bunting and ban
ners and lanters by the tens of thousands)
and settled itself to await the end with as
little demonstration of Jubilant feeling as
possible.
The other day Mukden fell Into the kanda
of the Japanese and was followed very
shortly by Tlehllng. These were the first
great events since Port Arthur,, and one
naturally expected to see some evidence of
Intelligent appreciation in Toklo. I left tha
hotel In fact a number of times and went
down through the Glnza, the Broadway of
Japan, Just to see If I couldn't find some
Indication that this country Is at war and
winning such a succession of victories as
would keep any other country In the hands
of decorators week In and week out. Noth
ing happened. Nobody said a word, and
this time It looked Indeed like stolidity or
stupidity, but it was not. It waa delibera
tion. Early Saturday morning I looked out
of my window, which commands a line view
of Hlblya park and the moats surrounding
the palace grounds, and I saw a thousand
banners and pennants floating In the air. (
Deeornm in Place of Esthnstasia.
"Glory be!" said I. "We're going to nave
a banzai!" I hastened to get out Into the
crowded streets. But it was more or less,
nothing at all, and after taking a few
photographs of the decorations that were
confined to the little square of Hlblya park
I came back to the hotel wondering. It wan
a most deliberate affair. All the flags and
things were put up at a certain hour in the
morning, a few speeches were made in a
stand erected for the purpose at a certain
hour in the afternoon, and by 4 or B o'clock
there was not a single banner nor bit of
bunting left tn the air, and the crowd had
quietly dispersed. It waa merely an . ar
ranged meeting to offer publlo thanks to
the army and navy for the splendid work
they are doing for the nation, and It was
carried out with as much dignity and de
corum as If It had been some hero's funeral
instead of a celebration. '
Perhaps this Is as it should be. Perhaps
this is the correct pose for a victorious na
tion to assume, but I hope I shall be here
at the end and see some such demonstra
tion as we inauigea in. in new ion aner
Admiral Dewey destroyed Spain papier
macho navy In Manila bay. There was en
thusiasm that was worth living for, even if
it was a bit overdone, and an infusion of
some of that spirit Into the Japanese people
would relieve It of that characteristic which
la most exasperating to whole-souled
Anglo-Saxons, a characteristic which a big
hearty American friend of mine in Toklo
rays makes him feel constantly like break
ing something or "picking a row with
somebody." ELEANOR FRANKLIN.
Curious and Romantic Capers of Cupid
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COTTAOW AT (rT!f-r!n.B 8AM OOT ABOUT 2,900 BtCTI HOMES FROM TITS
JfKtNClf. 1'Uoto by Mr. Carpenter.
wtrli Widow Weds Yonnar Coachman.
tS. N. C. GRIFFIN, an old gray
haired woman of V), the widow of
a Philadelphia carpet merchant,
hJTa who left an estate valued at one
s million dollars leaning on the arm
of her coachman, John Wood, appeared at
the Episcopal rectory In Whitehall, N..Y.,
and told Rev. Mr. Elliott that they wanted
to get married. The forty-two years' dif
ference In their ages was so apparent that
the clergyman used every effort to dissuade
them from their matrimonial venture. It
was ell to no avail, however, and the only
answer the woman would make was: "I
don't care If Johnnie Is only ID, T am 60,
and I guess I am old enough to know
whether I love him or not."
The minister performed the ceremony.
The bride, beaming all over with content
ment, as she boarded the train, suid she
felt SO years younger, and she looked It,
too.
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Yessf Wives, Old Hnsbands.
"Strange statistics," ssld an-. Insurance
scent quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer,
"are collected tn my business.
"I have found that the more times a
man marries the younger In comparison
with himself he wants his wife to be
For Instance, his first wife on the average
Is four years younger than he. His sec
ond is ten. His third Is twenty or thirty.
"What do these statistics prove? Do they
prove that as a man gains in years and
experience he finds that it Is best for many
reasons to be almost ss old as his wife's
father, or do they only prove that a men
approach old age they are more foolish than
they weer In youth?
"Old X., aged 70, with a third wife of
n . o- this hid the o'hor ley:
" 'You can't ' marry a girl too young.
The younger she is the longer she'll keep
her health and strength and beauty.' Fur
thermore, the older you are the more re
ct she'll have for you. She'll reverence
you and obey you aa she would her own
father or grandfather.'
"Young wive rejuvenate old husbands,"
the Insurance agent ended. "They make
these old fellows dress younger, talk
younger, set younger and feel younger.
Youth Is contagious, like the croup. .
"A young wife Is believed to prolong' at
old husband's life. If a man of 70 Insured
In my company should marry a girl of !
I'd consider him a better risk by t per
cent than he had been before."
Record-Breaking Ceremony.
Alma J. Kenyon. daughter of the late
John 8. Kenyon of Syracuse, N. Y., and
Harold MacGrath, the author, also a na
tive of Syracuse, were married in Bridge
port, Conn., by Justice of the Peace Sid
ney N. Lock wood, after a fruitless seatas
for a clergyman. The ceremony was per
formed tn the temporary quarters of th
town clerk, snd was witnessed by Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Sharp, Jr., of Indianapolis;
Blanche Bates, the actress: George B. Van
Cleve of New York and C. W. Bobba of
Bobbs-Merrill company.
It la said that Mrs. Kenyon. mother of
the bride, was opposed to the match, which
was in the nature of an elopement.
Fate seemed to have thrown many ob
stacles In the path of the couple. The
wedding waa to have taken place at 11
o'clock In the morning In Orange, N. J.
Dr. Charles Townsend, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, had been selected te
tie the knot, but MacGrath learned that
unless one of the partlee was a resident
of the state a license would be required.
Plans were msda to go to Bridgeport
The party arrived there at 4 and visited
the homes of four clergymen, none of whom
was tn. Vnable to get a minister, they
were directed to the office of Justice Lock
wood, who made a . record of performing
the ceremony In fifty-nine seconds. Mis
Kenyon gave her residence aa Sioux Falls,
8. D., age as Z. and stated that it was her
second marriage.
MacGrath said he was 13 years old, resi
dent of New York City, and an author.
He wrote "The Puppet Crown." "Arm nd
th Woman." "Th Gray; Cloak-and Th
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