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Show Lives and Characteristics of People of the Rival Empires Respective Admirals Have Both Seen Service and Are Skillful Seamen. Biggest Fighting Force in the World Is at the Command of either the army or navy, unless ho be floor generally in fact, one might a person of transcendent ability. No say it is all one floor. Between ths father would think of entering his son grooves in the floor and the grooves for either service unless he could give in the crossbeams are run shutters him a suitable Income with which to with paper panels to divide the house into whatever number of rooms the ntatutaln his rank. owner may choose, which depends oa the number of bedrooms he may require. There are no doors or passJAPAN S WAR CRY in a There are few, if any, parts of the world into which tho Salvation Army has not penetrated, and even among the subjects of the emperor of Japan JAPANESE SHOOTING FISII are thousands of loyal followers of Gen. Booth. An interesting account of Salvation Tho beaked chaetodon is a very army work in Japan is given by Mr. sportive fish, most popular In Japan, Charles Duce, the "chief secretary of and passes his time shooting files. the Japanese contingent of the army. His muzzle Is the gnu, so to speak, work eight years ago on a Starting and a drop of water serves him as a small Beale, they have now thirty-eigh- t bullet. When ho feels that his dinnerand corps outpoHts, and ninety time is approaching lie moves slowly officers and cadets, nearly all of whom through tho water till he reaches a are Japanese. Ten thousand copies hank overhung by foliage. Here he a fortnight of the Japanese "War Cry" stops, with his muzzle Just sticking are circulated, a phenomenal sale for out of the water. Fatlontly he waits a religious periodical In Japan, where until some unsuspecting fly or other even some of the great "dailies" have dainty insect settles on the foliage. a circulation which barely equals that Then he takes aim, hard and sure, of an ordinary provincial paper here. and the drop of water spurts from his novel gun, hits the Insect, and knocks It Into the water, where it is gobbled SALTO VS. TYRTOFF up to form the repast of our skilful clmetodon. While Russia, even if crippled at The Jupaneso use the fish as a household pet, and amuse themselves soa, could prolong the conflict on land by seeing him shoot unwary flies, lie by pouring her troops Into Manchuria is generally at home" In the Indian and Korea, the same does uot apply or Polynesian seas, and likes to be to Japan. To fight Russia in Korea, near the mouths of rivers, where he Japan must dominate the sea, and can get most flies. His marking is hence the mabtery of that element the Czar. THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN. ages typical Japanese house, hs It every room acts as a passage Into the room beyond, and for the door you simply slide hack tho panel that happens to be nearest to you. For til sliding there are little bronze handlee sunk In the wooden frames of the panels. RVSSIA AND TIBET The present British mission to Tibet is in accordance with the convention. Great Britain secured the right to send a mission across the Indian frontier to Tibet By artiele IV of the convention of July, ISBd, however, she, yielding to Chinese entreaties, waived this right By tho convention relating to Sikkim and Tibet, signed in 1830, the frontier waa to be delimited, trade between India and Tibet waa to be facilitated, aod Che-Fo- o Ya Tung was opened In May, 1894. Great Britain baa made various efforts to deal with Tibet through China, respecting tho latters suzerainty, which Is stated to be now of tho most shadowy charnc.tcr, and the news that Great Britain was to send a mission, to Tibet exasperated the Russians. It haa been stated that Russia's inCt-enin Tibet haa been growing steadily In tho last few years. Tlxo czars government Is at a great advantage in negotiating with the lamas, as a certain section of them are Russian subjects, and they aro allowed to visit Lhassa freely. Russia has employed them whenever she wants to reach the ce authorities at tho mysterious Tibetan capital. JAPS AT PLAY r Tbo pet pastime for boys and men THE GREAT VIRGINIAN depend on his own exeitions, he learns to survey land and accepts daily wages a thing not fancied by the Virginia gentleman of tiiat day. Wo see him at the camp fires of the trader and the Indian, and in the stillness of the Ohio forests, plotting surveys and measuring trees. At nineteen he is sent as envoy to the aggressive French on the frontier; next, as a militia major, he strikes the first blow in the Seven Years War, little thinking what it was to brirg forth, and what to he teach. At the age of twenty-threcomes out of the defeat with Craddock, one of the few who won praise and honor. The long border struggle which followed is a record of exasperating struggles with Ignorant governors. Inefficient legislators, drunken militia and untrained officers. We come next to the fox hunting squire, the accomplished farmer, a master of slaves, still longing for war the profession of arms. Did he dream that he should see too much of It, and would some day write that he hoped for a great republic of mankind, where the growth of commerce would become the most certain peacemaker and all war would he was in he at an end? At forty-fou- r command at Cambridge. Last of all, ho Is twice President Then come two happy years at Mount Vernon, and on a December night the tired man finds in death that which earth denied the peace which Is past understanding. y is to speak to My purpose I find him in his as of Washington you written words, where most he seems to be alive. I want you to share with me what I got out of months of patient study of Mr. Fords collection of his letters. These are in fourteen volumes was eight thousand pages in all. He writAmerican of most productive the ers. There are three thousand docu ments, some two thousand entirely from his own hand. Mr. Ford tells mo that, In all, this untiring man has loft us about ten thousand letters. None sro mere notes, and the letter of that day was no trifle. The handwriting demands a word of comment. How clear It is! How steadily the same, with never a sign m haste! I have seen the letter he wrote to announce Arnolds treason It betrays no sign of tho emotion that awful hour must have caused sn hour which, Informed with the sad loneliness of the great, wrung front this tranquil soldier, "Who Is there now I can trust?" Like most great rulers. George Washington was a silent man. To be called upon for public speech embarrassed him. He was shy, reserved, undemonstrative, and, De Lausun says, diffident John Adams said, "Half his reputation was due to his talent for silence." Well had It been for bis critic had he had that virtue for both tongue and pen. This reserved gentleman confessed himself readily to paper. He who In talk and diaries said nothing personal of his views, or of what he seemed to himself to lie, us freely to know nlud, than In a correct apprehension, In his letters gives was, morally and be be thought of the process by which the crude Vir- what It Is n autobiography ginia boy grew Into the maturity of the mentally. official years of our first quite Innocently revealed. president. There rises before me, as I write, "Wllh all his love of ceremony and the figure of the half educated, his personal dignity a man with Is In bred lad. Forced to whom no one took liberties It The eighteenth century history of our country groups itself about one central figure. We never escape from the presence of the great Virginian, and yet it was a time rich in human product It is not easy to comprehend the causes which produced this amazing fruitage of ability. Among the men who caused and carried the Revolution were many who in brilliant Qualities far surpassed George Washington. Seen through the mist of years, they rise in our imagination and seem grouped about the grave Virgin-in- s sturdy figure, as in the church at of Innsbruck the bronze statues friends and allies surround the omb where the great Kaiser, Maximilian, kneels In prayer. Among these makers of an empire were great orators, and Washington was cone; grave Jurists, and he had little learning. There, too, wer statesmen of more original intellect than was ever his. Generals there were who had been better had he been free to choose. But, by the grace of God, and some strange skill of nature, this imperial man was the master of them all, and used them, an he used himself, with but one ambition how best to serve the land he loved. What was there In the man which still makes him stand for ub a larger human figure than Hamilton, or John Adams, or Jefferson, In some ways the difference seems clear. Ills unselfishness was without a flaw. Ills sense of duty was like a religion. He had in perfection both moral and physical courage; he who U without fear Is rarely without hope, and it may have been this which gave him such unfaltering hopefulness as seemed to have the force of inspiration, the power of prophetic Insight. No doubt other men also possessed these characteristics, but none had them In so high a degree. This does help us to comprehend him, but does not describe a great historic personage who has become for us no more than a splendid lay figure. And yet we know of him all that we teed to know; almost to much. Indeed, when the Inquisitive spirit of the reporter Intrusive in history gives us details which are common to many men and do not help us to understand the one man. Ills slow, sure mind, his heroic patience. his strong passions, his splendid physical manhood, nowhere, on any page, express themselves In terms of life. Is this because the lives of the grontcat always leave something of the causes of greatness unrevealed T It nay be so. Or Is this stately figure "111 waiting for the revealing biographer who will give us such a lifelike presentment as Carlyle has left of Frederick and of Cromwell 7 It would seem to be easy, for what life reporta Itself more simply! What more rich in Interest and In Incident! What personality was ever more clearly built '1 by efforts which raise, stone on stone, the masonry of character! Us 'alus to the thoughtful lies leas In the attained serenity of the statuesque Washington, presetit to the common y to-da- over-seriou- country e to-da- at holiday times In Japan la kite fiy-in- The kites of America may Is scientific, but the bites of Japan are gorgeous, and they sing. Little contrivances fastened to the strange, whirring strings cause sounds, which remind one of tbe neollan harp, Somo of them are of aa enormous size, as big as two door, and require a group of men to raise to see, us we have alreuuy seen, how humbly and how slmpy he writes of his di fects. He says. "I He finds it have no genius for war. hard to learn this business warfare and at the same time to practice it. them. All of lie excuses Sullivans defeat. In ancient Japan, it is alleged, large us, he says, "want experience in movkites played tho part of tho modern ing men upon a large scale; our balloon in estimating tbe forces of tbe knowledge of military matters is limenemy during war time. ited." The kites aro In a variety of shapes As a critic of war he was the first birds with expanded pinions, ogrea, to insist again and again that the comflowers, butterflies. A favorite style mand of the sea was is a simple square shape with tbe What the British fleet will do puzzles face of a national hero. The lade him, hut not the plans of his adverglue bits of glass to their strings and saries on land. He predicts wage aerial wars, endeavoring to m disaster, and tells Greene that neuver their kites so that the pieces such defeats as his are victories. of glass seve ho strings of those atWe have been told that he was no tached to their rivals. great general. If, with half-fed- , They are experts In piloting their men, with constant lack of arms and can raise them as far as kites, i t V and powder, and at last with Inertia their cords will reach without shifteverywhere and a country In ruins; if, ing their position more than a yard with such means he ba filed a foe rich or two. in men, money and sea power; If with The lasses, reinforced by tbeir eldo little he accomplished all he et out ers, gather in bevies to play battle-ilorto do, there must at least be a label and shuttlecock. They are powfor this form of greatness. dered perfectly white, with a bit of vermilion on tbeir lips. Their hair Turning from his fiery courage and reckless exposure In war, there are Is wrought Into bows and butterfly In these letters many evidences of tenremained of bears the They wear brilliant beavy of Mutsuhlto shapes. government system Emperor Japan derness and humanity. They are the ancient title of mikado, meaning an absolute monarchy until 1889, upon girdles and gay robes. shown early in life, when he says that "the honorable gate," hut in all diplo- tho llth of February of which year,a ho would readily die In torture to matic documents he is addressed as constitution was promulgated. The save the frontier people from Indian Kotel. He was born at Kyoto, Nov. emperor now combines In himself the THE CZAR'S MENTOR cruelty. They appear In his extreme 3, 1852. and ascended the throne on right of sovereignty, and exercises unwillingness to make reprisals on the 13th of February, 1867, upon the powers, with tho advice aud assistinnocent men. He steadily refused, as death of his father, Komel Tenno. ance of cabinet ministers and a privy It Is certain M. Bcsobrazotf, who la ho says, "to avengo cruelty by cruel-ty.- " The mikado waa married Feb. 9. 1809, council, whom he appoints. During stated to have vast personal Interest He reproaches a general for such to Princess llaruko, and five children, the emperor's wise and beneficent In Manchuria and Korea, who la "pullconduct, and pleads mercy for the a son and four daughters, have reign Japan bas forged to the front ing the ear of the Czar of Russia, 1C Tories while Sir Henry Clinton is car blessed tbe union. In 1871 the feudal an one of the Important nations of ths all accounts can be believed, and he la rvlng on a savage warfare of murder system was abolished in Japan, but world of particularly active In promoting hla own Interests at the present stage. aud rapine. In what manner he managed to gabs This man had no children. He was several brownish bands en- will be the stake at the beginning of the Czars ear Is one of those mystho ancestor of a nation. Let no repe- curious, bis body, and his beauty Is the struggle. teries of Court intrigue u. i likely te tition of his praise lose for you the circling enhanced Tho two chief commanders In the be revealed la our days But that ha by a circular spot greatly true value of the man. He left to us with which Is stuck naval struggle will be Admiral Salto, has wormed himself Into the Czart the heirs of his renown, a record of edged In the white, of hla soft dorsal of the Japanese navy, and center plumb confidence Is a very open aecret ta unfailing courage, a story of heroic fin. of are Both the Russian, Tjrtoff diplomatic circles In every capital eC an conduct, example of lifelong duty and in whose trained capable officers, Europe. the unequalled life of an unequalled Judgment and courage their respective Admiral Alexoleff la equally conday. From an address by Dr, S, Weir governments have the utmost conficerned financially In closing Msncba-rl- a Mitchell. THE CZARS ARMY dence. Admiral Salto saw service In and Korea to foreign exploitation. the war against China, while TyrtofT Indeed, It was to M. Bceobrazoffs h The Character of Washington. Tho Russian empire possesses the ha had tho benefit of association with fluence that AdmlrnrAlexeteff owed his reserve, or biggest fighting machine In the world Admiral Notwithstanding Alexeleff, who directs all of his appointment and the wide and tho "shyness upon which bis biograIn the shape of its army and navy, Russia's affairs In the Far East, and dally extended powers granted to him phers descant, Washington knew men hut thero Is no other military force whoso naval knowledge is superior to as Russian Viceroy In the Far East and how to rulo them. He may have of which the world knows so little, so that of any other man In the Muscolacked elements of companionship, reticent are the soldiers of the czar vite service. In vessels and men hut he knew how to control the undis- concerning everything which has to available for this war Japan has a CLOCKS OF TOKIO ciplined patriotism of the country do in any way with their profession. numerical superiority over Russia, but and mold to his will the rather unEven the numerical strength of the her insular jHisition leaves her expromising material of which the patriis largely a matter of conjecarmy The Japanese divide tho twenty fout posed. and will make heavy demands ot army was composed. There were pet ture. As as can be reckoned, upon her navy for .her home Into twelvo periods, of which hours nearly ty Jealousies to allay In the army and tho force available for carrying on the to the night and six to the six belong a and In Congress, thousand discourof a war amounts to earlier stagea their day beginning at sunrise day, agements to surmount. Through It nearly 8,lu0.000. But In esse of naat sunset. Whether the and ending followed his he all calmly guiding star tional emergency this force could ha bo long or short, thsre or night day A JAPANESE IIOVSE of hope. Tho earlier eulogists defied swelled to about 7,500,000 fighting six periods In each. are always more and colder the him; philosophithe calling out of the terrimen To attain this, the characters or cal analysts who succeeded them torial by militia. and reserve tbe The house In on the scale on their timeconsists Japanese tbe numerals found human traits in him. Mr. Halo Russian army main of a post at each corner and a pieces are adjustable. Two of them In the many respecta man of hot passions, of says he was a and navy differ materially from the roof. Of course something I done to are act, one to agree with the sunrise, strong Impulses, of vigorous deterand some of the four posts and the roof before the other with sunset, and the four man who forecast the forces of other powers, are mination; "a difference tho of decidedly they become a house In walch births, characters between them divide tbs points future, kept It In sight, and meant to as already stated, marriages and deaths cat, take place; space Into equal portions. Thus, when have hi own way; and he waa a Interesting; but, adoiln-Istratlo- n but really remarkably Rttlo is neces- the period of daylight Is longer thaa man who had hla own way very re- reticence is the keynote of the of both service. The secrets sary. Crossbeams are naturally add- the night, the day hours will bs promarkably." of both army and navy are most care- ed to support the wel Jit of the roof, portionately longer than those at All this la very delightful to know grooves aro niado lift he crossbeam Another peculiarity In their night. into kinship fully concealed. It brings Washington In the platform, raised a foot or scale Is that enter and the service officers Russian Is a they use only six charThis with humanity. hero who never for a livelihood. two above tho gnund, which consti- acters, those from four to nine, and may he understood, In part, at least, for a career, with social ambitions In tutes tho floor. these read Inch wards Instead ot by Americans of tho most distant age. Any man A Japanese Russia must become an officer of all on ons f" ten-sun- Itur-goyn- d 7 w to-da- Vice-Admir- |