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Show Japanese Keep Secrets holt (b tu naval and Jeej of the greatest ijj ...legist of the world M eit " ttl! PI, to victory Cwhelmlng nee. are have 'eiy interested In aolvlng the of the phenomenal auccesaeg the Far Eastern conflict. In the Tsushima, annihilating one modern times, finest fleets of Portk He 'a r It, explanation. It la easy to Rojestvensky simply placed of Togo, and the in the hands Mt if p kept 1 hei. 1 y om re, have been other than however, does not This, ' Russian ad- brilliant the thy Hed into the trap with apparmatter of fact, ent eyes- As a trap or know ,ht're waa Lined. r was led to believe, fleet was miles the Japanese its actual position. This hut adds to the mystery, now is not as to the of the Japan-hu- t lor lighting ability how the Imperial government tble successfully to accomplish irecedented fact of keeping Its r could noi - hatiii, JUti t; 7 feet. I fell ,lh T Ht Is no hl l.y or of h n i S nner ' n 811 J' -r- utwles; a'hlevement. qu,,"Uon of advlsa- na "0' 8,1,1 KooJ a'," v,blr S proved a most emclentfacto n concealing plans from the eSemy hut from the whole world. Influenced by Shintoism. A second Influence under which this ,rom Chlna ha been" amI "'Ployed Is term The adherent of this UlRt ',"8 h,lma" Plrlt "LVt'r b:"' ,m!"r 'he Influence of Is In constant circulation on half of men. Every Japanese is opt n to the Influence of these ances-traspirits, because, being a son of Heaven, he Is no less holy than his neighbors. Esoteric Shintoism teaches that the ancestral spirits can bo made to circulate for particular ends, and In this way the Emperor can make the Infinite myriads of the immeasurable Past permeate the Unit human forces of It Is difficult for us to realize or even appreciate the apparently superhuman courage with which a man Is Inspired who believes that the Infinite life of the past Is pouring Itself out through hire for the defense of his ancestral shores. Depend upon It, this accounts in no small measure for the unexampled' bravery and patriotism of the Japanese soldier. Let any who doubt this read the imperial message to Admiral Togo, where in his Majesty takes occasion to say. We are glad that by the loyalty of our officers and men, we have been able to respond to the spirit of our ancestors, to which the Admiral duly replies, That we have gained a success beyond our expectation Is due to the brilliant virtue of your Majesty and to the protection of the spirits of your Imperial ancestors, and not to the action of any human being. rd eso-fait- h f to-da- to Temple. the rest of the world Gateway people ..nd t sore than two m months In absolute of the plans and where-cut- s of the combined naval forces ice As one somewhat fa-j- r the enigmatical featurea of jiese character, I believe that in tinting for this marvelous a large place must (Iren to the persistent esotericlsm i forms so marked a character-r- f the whole nation, i Japan esotericlsm Is a line art s ia the West the word reminds us r of Buddhistic cults or the occult rles of the late Madam Blatvat-- i ut In Japan the word stands for e self. A not Inconsiderable among the natives of Dal a leads me to the conviction that 1 always have secrets to keep, and at none knows better how to keep a. The humblest citizen of Toklo absolutely silent on any question (terns none of the foreigner's there Is everywhere among people a persistent and inscrutable licence on all matters of which it Is Mght the foreigner may disapprove, in obtains more so on questions un-- t the ban of the censor. So offense In the category of crime deemed worthy of more condlga ulihment than the giving away of wets, or even Intermeddling with ca. One of the Ministers greatest i State, Viscount Mori, who had aced the office of Plenipotentiary at Court of St. James and also aa 'Miter at Washington, was stabbed death by a government clerk for irlng to push aside with his cane a Jfta!n that guarded the secret chamwhere only, a priest might gaze the repose of the Imperial anccs-or- in Japan the secrets of the d are as inviolable as those of the it empire. with strate-trbleveme- Family la the Unit. In another and no less effective way, also, does this faith tend to perfecting the Japanese soldier. In that country the family, not the Individual, la the unit of the nation. He Is taught from childhood to sink his Individuality In his family, and that of hia family In the nation. If you ask mm how old be is, do not be surprised If he answers four or five hundred years, meaning bis family; as for himself, he has no Individual existence or age. Japan is a nation of families, and the whole nation Is one family. In the language o. ex-wc- busl-stan- Mft National League News. Plttsburgs left Pitcher montal with 200 signatures exonerating him from responsibility for the ut home. late slump of the Joplin team and Fred Tenney is scouring the minor charging the disaster to the club cullies for another catcher. owners. Catcher Baerwald succeeds Tommy Leach Is demonstrating his Fillman as manager. rersatiuty as a ball pluyer dally. Red Davis has quit the Sedalla Second Baseman He has Huggins is play- team of his own accord. ing Rensatlonal ball for Cincinnati. gone back to railroading on the Katy. Voting Howard of the Pirates" has The big sorrel top Is one of the headibeen batting very consistently lately. est ball players in the business. He Hanlon still considers of Is an all round ball player, and of that the Giants, one of the McGinnlty pitch- kind he Is the best in the league, lie greatest ers. thinks that there ts more money In The story has been revived that Ed. railroading than in baseball. Phelps may be traded to St. for Jack Warner. Central League. Mike Donlin Is not The Canton club has signed Infield-e- r hitting the ball near as hard as he did the King of Mattoon, 111. early part of the season. George Carey, late of the Eastern Since Sammy Strang Joined the League. Is now playing first base for GInnts he has been the champion pinch Grand Rapids. hitter of the league. Willis, who Is proving himself to be Red" Ames is making a Rube a mainstay in the box for Canton, Is Waddell record this season. He has the fellow that Springfield turned fanned 123 men In nineteen loose. games. It Is probable that Manager Fred Chapman, who Is making good. with Clarke has unearthed the Hottentots, Is a young collegian. a high-clas- s He began his basebaU career while a Hllle-bransouthpaw twirler in Homer student at Detroit Agricultural school. Jack Warner Is playing In Vermont. Vincennes, of the Kitty League, Manager Burke of St. Louis is not wanted the Fort Wayne franchise. worrying and says that Warner will Evansville and Terre Haute were fareturn, as he won't be contented play- vorable as It would cut down their ing with a crowd of minor leaguers mileage. It Is not practical, however, and college boys. as Vincennes is protected territory. Catcher Peltz was, on July 21, fined The story going the rounds that 230 and suspended for three days by Isodore Mautner has bought Louie President Pulliam for uncouth talk to Smith's Interests In the Terre Haute the umpire at the Polo grounds In the franchise is- - denied by Mr. Mautner. game of July 15. Ilia punishment The only Interests he now bolds Is the came under the new system, that is, unpaid notes due him from John Gan-ze- l at a hearing before President Pulliam, for the Grand Rapids franchise at which the player had a chance to and they are not due until September. submit bis defense before action was Sporting Life. taken. Peltz was the first player to be suspended since the famous Boston Western League. decision. The salary list of the St. Joseph team has been reduced about $500 a American League Notes. month. John Ganzell last week refused to The Omaha Bee saya Shlpkea equal as a third baseman never wore an join the New Yorks. Clark Griffith decided not to add Omaha uniform. Catcher Slattery to his staff. Herman Long, the has a Old Man Orth continues to pitch great hitting aggregation at Des Moines. Six of his regulars are hitgood ball for the Highlanders. The Cleveland papers unite in prais- ting above .300. The greatest right fielder In the ing the work of Johnsons new umpire, Connor. league, claims an Omaha paper, Is Car.Coaiiskey says Washington Is on the ter, of Omaha. This worthy has been baseball map merely to give men hitting the ball and has been putting heart disease. up a sensational fielding game. Pitcher Bill H offer has signed to Lajolea fielding average up to the The d. r, Silvle Ferrettl, manager of Hugo Kelly, says in the second round of Kelly's fight with Burns at Los broke Angeles the local middle-weighls left hand. Atlantic City Is to have a two-mll-e automobile track if the plans of promoters do not fall. The prcpoRin le to spend $40,000 on the track, which Is to be finished early In 1900. George Saunders Is the fifteenth driver to win the M. & M.a and this Is the second time the purse has ever been won by an Ohio driver. John Pickett of Toledo won It w ith Nightingale In 1892. Jack Briggs, the trainer, of Minneapolis, Minn., Is in receipt of a letter from Bobby Dobbs, who la at present In England, offering to fight Joe Gans for the lightweight title. Drlggs Is Dobbs manager. The Leanders, the champion English rowing crew, have sent representatives to this country to arrange for a rowing match with an American crew to be selected from America's best rowing crews from colleges of this country. Arrangements are virtually completed for a second Wlsconsin-Mlnne-sotfootball game In the season of 1905. It will be between the freshman teams of the Badger and Gopher camps, and will be played at Minneapolis on the morning of Nov. 4. j In the final matches for the Dwight F. Davis International Lawn Tennis cup in England, H. L. Doherty defeated Lamed, 68, 64, 62. In the second matchS. Holcombe 11. Smith, Ward was to have played but W. J. Clothier was substituted. Smith won. 3 6. 64. 63. F. Nlcholls' Temeratre bas been chosen as the challenger for the Canada cup, now held by the Rochester Yacht club. The races for possession of the cup will begin Aug. 1$ off Ontario beach, near Rochester. Teme-ralr-e was designed by Fyffe, the Scotch expert. George Dixon, for many years the greatest little fighter for hls Inches In the world, ts soon to return to America. the scene of hls former ring triumphs. The colored boy will come back to the United States when Congressman Timothy D. Sullivan returns from abroad. Edward Heaton and Annette failed in an attempt to swim the English channel. Heaton became 111 after six hours' swimming. Miss Kellerman was overcome by seasickness after five hours, but had outdls a 64, 36, 61. Kel-lerma- n fastest miles of the season at the Glenvllle track, Cleveland, Ohio, July Each was mado In 2:06. Her previous best mile was 2:06V&, made on July 15. Major Delmar, after trotin 1:08, finting a slow first half-milished the mile in 2:08, which Is considered In some respects the most remarkable mile Over trotted by the Major. New York retained the McAlpIn trophy by the excellent shooting of Its state team at Creedmore. The New York riflemen scored 908 out of a possible 1,200. The match called for ten shots per man at each distance, The United 200, 600 and 1.000 yards. States marine corps team from ths Washington, D. C., barracks, was seo ond with 917 and the New Jersey team third, with 914. Ralph Rose has about decided to enter college again. Yale Is the new alma mater likely to bo selected by Tbs the giant hurlcr of weights. sudden decision of the famous athlcts may be attributed In part to the presence of two Yate men on the team. All the way from Chicago the eastern rollege boys paid particular attention to Rose. The big fellow probably will be found In eastern athletics next year. Horsemen now quartered at the Fort Erie track are very much elated over a telegram sent by Tom Williams, head of the California Jorkey club, to the effect Ihut the const or ganlzatlon will no longer respect the outlaw rule of the Western Jockey club, and that accordingly those who have been racing on the northern circuit tracks will not therefore be barred from participating In the California winter meetings. Being officially timed by 8am Butler, secretary of the Automobile Club of America, Walter Christie, In hls 120 horsepower automobile reduced the American kilometer record by making the time In 25 seconds flat at Cape May, N. J., July 30. He made several attempts, but could not reduce hls own time further that day, hla best aecondB. He later time being 25 will try again for the worlds kilometer and mile records on Aug. 19. Jim Corbett tells of rather a doubtful compliment paid him right after hls fight with Bob Fitzsimmons. Cor bett had returned to New York In time to attend one of Chuck Connor's Bowery dances. On making hls appearance. Connors spied the defeated heavy-weighand rushing up to the leader of the orchestra furnishing the music for the dance, ordered him to play Hie May Have Seen Better 28. t, WINNER OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STAKE. d 0 - ring Hwto Two. Tbla influences. tendency of the Japa- which has played so and Important a part In their cIbI and political history and In ihelr recent victories over Russia, Is do to two influences that for centu-kav- e been running as a united trtam through 'the minds of the peo-bearing them on Its way. " " undoubtedly, first of all, a c luherlted from China, where the remote past, by the Instltu- of guilds and other secret bands, Inner life of the people becomes esoteric mind, char-'eristi- Image of Buddha at Kamakura. the people distinctions of person and number are generally Ignored, and true personal pronouns are entirely If one memlacking. In ancient times the conunder came the family ber of members the all demnation of the law. wife and had to suffer with him. even of primary Importchildren. The duty to perance to the head of a house Is State the and keep tne family petuate defenders. with supplied and arisHigher than duty to family the to Fmperor ing out of It Is duty duties of which supersedes all the In the wave tidal recent man. In a turned father a northern part of Japan his drowning of cries the to a deaf ear them to wife and children, permitting save the Emperhe might that perish, for or's picture, and he was applauded such of patriotism A act. spirit the seems, leaving as this, heartless as It chance charity wife and children to the dead In war, when and Mi l the influence rg of Us ancestral myriads of teeming of ooc.teri K'tUlanco the ghosts under not unimportant farter Is a hi'pn'ducInK the Invincible oldlJ 'j1 driving Rua- Is in Thi JIngram Bryan East. 'rM7 rtxmy play with Des Moines. Hoffer was dissatisfied with bis salary and at the first of the present season quit the game, but has returned to the field. Arthur Hoelskoetter, who was shipped back to Denver by Cincinnati In the spring after It seemed certain he yarswon the extra Infielders job from The St. Louis club has recalled the had A1 Brldwell, Is hitting the ball hard Charles Starr, clever young shortstop, Grizzlies. His fielding, which from the Ohio Works team of Youngs- for the been one of hls good points has always Ohio. town, class. continues the for high Is looking Clarke Griffith hoodoo. Injuries to Chase and DoughAmerican Association. hairs on erty have added more gray Lee has made the most home Wyatt Fox's Old pale. the runs In the American Association this v season, nine in all. estem Association. baseman of third St. Wheeler, Paul, first Crum has caught on at made five hits five times at bat eff homa City and Is playing the Indianapolis pitchers on July $3. and Pickering were the Brashcar Mta. July 14. Pitcher 100 safe hits. to make first Leavenworth p'liln ledger. They shut . reached the 100 mark on the same wo safe hits. Following Carnegie's ahoma Club has sold third day. Milwaukee reports have It that ManJimmy Frick to Seattle, Barrow Is after McKay, but that ager St. of Brockwell, signed Cantlllon will send him to Des of late outfielder Crum, Moines. I Elmer Pierce has been doing all e Sedalla team has changed rrrr' J'SvIl.ip'i home and the build s the Recent-yoncatching for the Senators during once and management memorial for the ilneBs of Sam Brown and the abthe franchise the to bought Ing h' "u phe town agreed The latter has sence of Jack Ryan. r ry Lelst. Pitcher Camnltz, who Jumped Tothe club, chased to go to Vermont, has been taken ledo maintenance. sold has Manager club tin brary's release to Kansas back, but Grlllo says that Mlnncbatl lans History of Kustenjl. July 13 Fillman played hls will not be reinstated. Cy Morgan, the St. Loula American KuH.onJI. 'he with Joplin and wound up the '''n,,n.Pf8.0fHh,he of glory, hitting .500 and pitcher, who has been turned over to Ice. He was presented by Indianapolis, Is no stranger to the A. Un,ki;,t,r.tpH'tlOv,.dwa.ban; efore the grand stand with- A. He was with Watkins at Minneapi-AS,U8 rr JbVd a gold ring and a testl- olis for part of last year. died. he where time he was taken III was .991. Is It any wonder that Cleveland 'misses him? In Washington's victory over Chiwon cago on July 17 long Tom Hughes In two Sox the from his first game - Tilth jjj - Eaple'k i Jlnriklsha. l4f mHtcry to the foreigner, and no Mng hut a white devil-- . 11 no 'nd as a wall that PiirloHity nan yet been Me i International honesty WH dv 5,tn ,ne 1,r,'lierhood may aome ,,0n. hut so far dlplo naev BKany failed to enter the Meres A ? In, China so In he oracular words, hidden, it.-T?- W traillt Ion ; hljutsu, secret "'JJSk.m VSi Walter Pitcher of the Boston National League Club. Di rect, 2:C5. It came right straight from Hays. the bottom of Chucks heart, too. The blue ribbon meeting at Detroit. Mich., began auspiciously July 24 when Walter Direct, whose sire, Direct Hal, won the same event two ears ago, took down first honors In the Chamber of Commerce purse ol But Wallet $5,000 for 2:24 pacers. Direct showed even greater than hit sire. The miles of tbe winner wert , not only ro 2:05, 2:0614. 2:0714. duclng the record of the race for one, two and three heats, but also putting on the books the fastest three heats ever stepped by a pacer that had only once before scored for tbs word. More than this, there was nn time when Walter Direct was brought ners. rounds of hard to a drive, nor could It be said b After twenty-fivIn any part of the raca fighting at the Colon a club, San Fran- was straight chamFrankie Neal, Angle, daughter of Axtell, won the cisco, July 28, M. & M. race at Detroit, comof United the $10,000 weight bantam pion ing home first In two of the three States, was given the decision over Eddie Tenney. The boys fought be- heats trotted and losing the other before a largo crowd and Nell seemed cause of a break soon after tbe word to, have the shade In the majority of was given. Incidentally she disproved the rounds. Tenney was able to ntall the oft repeated assertion that she Is an unreliable mare, and she also lowoff hls opponents rushes and Invariaered the previous estimate of her ehlel bly blocked Nell's hard punches. Owing to tbe prevalence of yellow rival, Clarita W., as a race mare. Ths fever In Louisiana. President Hava-naug- time of the race was not fast, ths of the Southern League, after miles being 2:1214, 2:1014. and 2:11. a conference with the managers Inter- Thla could not be laid to the track, as ested. announced that It would be Im- the 2:08 trotters stepped a first heat practicable for either the Shreveport In 2:07. A light shower Just before or the New Orleans teams to return the first heat of the M. and M. comhome, and an amended schedule was pelled a postponement of nearly an given out. The schedule transfers the hour while the harrows and scrapers games at New Orleans and Shreveport were being used, but when th ten to the other cities of the league. starters finally scored for the word Lou Dillon (1:5814) trotted her two the course was In fair shtpe. tanced Heaton. The swimmers Intended to lard at Calais. At Pittsburg, July 28, the cricket tournament for the Spalding trophy came to a close with a match between The rethe two Pittsburg teams. 98, 103; Zlngarl, sult was, Pittsburg, for an Inning each. In the follow-oZlngarl made 70 runs, with the loss of 3 wickets, when stumps were down. Jimmy" Colville, for more than thirty years one of the best sporting men In the country, died at Boston of ptomaine poisoning. He was 58 years old, but up to a week ago was making a book In New York. He was best known as a prize ring follower, and had won fortunes by picking wine |