Show I Japanese St d s I 1 Nov York I tr ff should take a Japanese na shaye oft off his let his hair gro grow And braid a flee qu ie fie into 1 It and then en dress hl hits a In a UI how m many you Suppose suppo e ten tell hidi Prim from the or original J al Simon Im n Pure ure John Chinaman n 1 fibre pertinent to the matter In hand how many Rue Ru do O could nod find him himont ont ortt The lit m once Ole or twice but hund hundreds d and thou of times time and the re result is 18 known to a white man cant de dett detect tt the counterfeit That Is 18 one of the most t facts ht the crisis that lr Jr the nil Mr f Fast It mak make It J for the Jap aU all teat t at the Hur lan ans are doIng In fn J OW man inan troop are th there r that at theIr condition tat Ie ltv I n 11 the they a are equipped and provisioned I where whre they are now and what are their f for r rapid conc concentration X ever ver probably lids one country on the verge vere or of Wet been more l informed d as to the circumstances and mcl 1 or of its tt potential f enemy than IH hI Japan with r urd to Russia Her In Int t department Is superb and inthis in inthis this case caMe it le working under a liar Isar advantage due to the be tw Ue the racial or of her J leople OIle the the ants are aN quartered The of oC this spying System has hae bp been n proved ron d When the war between China and Japan which came on ill ht 1894 was as Imminent It was worked suc against the them themselves selves who ho ot of course are very much more capable than the Russians of de tUng a Japanese wolf In Chinese sheep clothing At that tIme there was wap a pra hl fig profession slon in Shanghai who as has since been dis disclosed dosed closed was the head he d ot of Japans secret In the Flowery Flower Kingdom To him came dail daily reportS by underground railroad grapevine telegraph and all hurts fort of wa ways e that were as dark and that were ere as vain as those of the he Chinee himself elf tie lie had under his direction an organ orlan organization that to every ery source of If and political Information i Merchants professional proCessional men laborers household servants Jape made to look like were his agents That w a 8 good school for or Japanese e spies Th They y learned their lesson Jesson well welland welland and now theY are bettering In ht the in The matter mattel of dl disguise gul e pre presents no Even the false queue that It requires does docs not jeopardize Its sue suc for false are as aR common among as fa false hair Is among their lr paleface r If a hair JI is hinner or shorter than he con considers siders ider d desirable he supplements It with witha n a witch which 4 s sometimes made of hall hair and sometimes of silk The r rest Js s ea easy for a Jap Chinese become him as If he were to the manner manne born H He must speak Chi of oC course and If he speaks peak It with L cp p accent n nobody Jody is III going to kno know it but his Chinese neigh neighbors bone and they m th the pr en n state of f their feelings p toward the he invading Russians are not ging to say anything about It iti i ao 80 It happens that Japan Japanese e eyes eee set see od ad Japanese ears hear heal all that Rus Ru Russia sia Fia conceals conceal from the rest of the world I The Russian ln Q given n ms r per h then JaP pegs as he has dodo danG beC before renow now but butaU buta a aU Ins his repression and its his hip will not keep hIs every nov ove froth from be lug reported In Tokie as prom as hews n travel A statement t ement cabled to 10 the th L n or a week or two ago by It corre correspondent In Peking was rood read with amazement b by man It so said Id that all u trig RUssian e east ot of Lake Lal Baikal w re fewer than l J inu tu tuber ber r If this be file coming from a source that Is common commonly ly y regarded as cannot be dismissed lIgh tl confidence th that t pervades the Jar nese commanders Is understandable t The figures which the Klan gave out a Ce few days after t In I formation was ed iv rg r very verJ I dUT different rent They d the to having haing men on the ground and within a months journey of the fit field ld of war men could be tra eq over the Siberian railroad i lan lanI I extensions In a month nobody who has seen the line elleo It u railroad T patient f would reMI at It It Is made of In Instead stead tead of the kind whIch all railroadS now use The locomotives are light and therefore not pow powerful and they are no Kept in good order Twenty miles an hour is the topnotch speed and a train will stand tand still sUll for repairs or other causes fit at lea least t half the time or of its journey journo Altogether the railroad Is a good deal of a lame duck There le a shrewd suspicion too that the store of oC provisions and munitions of war at Port Arthur Is not all that It Is supposed to be LonS ago the was given that there should be constantly on hand at the Russian depots In Man ManchurIa Manchuria churIa supplies or of every kind sufficient to keep men In the Bold for two years Yet only the other day dey the state statement statement ment was made on what seemed like good authority that the accumulation n nIn In case of Immediate war would not last more than five months montha A good de deal of colon coor Is given glyen to tese reports b by a knowledge of Russian ofil cial methods The Russian officer civil military and naval I isi n a grafter HIs pa pay is 18 small and he be heel hel tate to piece it out So E It ma may very er well be that the o of and powder and shot In ht Manchuria falls far short of the quantity been paid for I Millions of rubles hoe have been spent pent In Inthe I th the last seven seyen years at Port Arthur Dalny Vladivostok and elsewhere In Inthe Inthe the fiSt east and there are those who should shoud know who say that there has been a for th the ra tors rs on eel every building and e rt that has been erected d i ever rail that has been laId on e eve l lof of provender that has h s severy en au ht en every pound of fuel that has burned The system is so simple anti and CamU ar that It might be transported to tb AmerIca and never slip a cog The fhe contractor fixes its hils own price prie for fora a job of an any kind t tills ns the officer in charge what It is 18 and then adds to his Estimate just as 2 per cent as a fair as the grafter chooses to poCket In due time the bill is Paid thee he contractor takes his share hare and the Russian calls for hk his and places It where It will do 10 the most good goodMen Men Ien who ha have e done over oer there ther wm will tell you rou that Admiral Al AI Alexiff alone of all the Russian cre crew is IN INh h nd h be is 15 eo paid that he can bp be beThere There was a pIece of Rus Russian an grafting at Yokohama several years yeah ago The Russian ll et had gone there thereto to coal and an American firm had the coal o 1 ready for Cor them as Per contract good Cardiff Cardin coal eoal the only kind bat tha ships will burn In those waters An came ame ashore kind fond called at atthe atthe the office of the American firm It o oa a house which wa nt used to dealing with Ru Russian gold braId and brass but buttons tons ton and to make matters moi moe e dUll cult the manager had gone awa away Or Ora a da day and lest left a 12 scrupulous lull ordinate to represent him himI I have come ome to arrange for Cor the de lIel jivery of the coal said the Russian Rus lan all smileS and palm oil olt Well sir Its here alJ ready for you You ma may begin taking it on onas as soon 8 as you please replied the Puritan s sAh Ah ys yes but the bill bUP We e must at attend tend first to the bill exclaimed the visitor Delighted at this apparent anticipation tion of his dear dearest St wIsh the me Yankee produced the account th No rio no my dear sir Interposed the Russian That will wUl not do You mu must t tadd add 2 5 per cent to that per cent for me You understand The man with the conscience under understood understood stood at last Then there was an fin passe The AmerIcan relent and the Russian reform They talked and talked argued and cajoled stormed and persuaded from 2 in the afternoon till 11 at night sand and still there ther was no mo modus us The AmerIcan raise the bill billbe he be let anybody juggle with the thes s scales ales He stood out for a fair count The next morning the manager of the firm came ame back and the deal proceeded along the usual Russian channels The fleet got Its coal and the admiral a Cg got t thIs hIs Xo Now these things are no secret cret t the Japanese go government It knows the preparedness of its foe It knows just how far the Rus nus Russian sian grafters have impaired the eM effi of their own fighting force It I knows the game and maybe has e espe especial pe cial reasons for fOl expecting to wIn wInI I If it has Information that the Rus are short of provisions It also has hasa a reasonable expectation of oe being able to destro destroy bridges that would put Ule he railroad out of bu business iness and cut off the source of supply It Is said that half the RussIan arm armin army I in Manchuria has been detailed to guard the railroad This of itself shows what the commanders over oyer there ex exI expect I pet But dynamite is it procurable and all the soldiers east of Lake Baikal might not be able to prevent the de destruction or of the line nt at some some vital point The pIgtailed Japanese are are there to do ao the trick they are Inen n or of Intelligence I resource and determination The They are ablaze with patriotic zeal notoriously b I Indifferent to death anyway and for them to give their lives lIes in such suh an en enterprise enterprise would be joy unspeakable |