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Show TOLSTOI ON THE BROWN MAN. Old Count Tolstoi warns the world to look out for Japan. He declares that the Japanese have picked up the art of war, all the machinery of war, they have perfected themselves in the use of these warlike implements, that they are masters of tactics and strategy and that they have less fear of death than any other race, and are liable to make the world a deal of trouble. That is all right. It is well enough to look out for Japan and for China. "We are afraid that sometime some-time some nation will have to try conclusions with Japan, because it is evident that just now that country coun-try has a tremendous attack of swelled head. The thing to do is to keep ready for what may come, to be just in all dealings so there will be no provocation for war, but if it comes to be ready for it, and if ready there is no great Caucasian power that need fear the result. The Japanese are a very healthy people, but there is a limit erven to Japanese endurance, and the fact that Japan whipped Hussia ought not to be altogether al-together discouraging, because Russia was fighting 5000 miles from her base of supplies ; she had an I army of peasants, officered by drunken and insubordinate insubor-dinate commanders, and the result could not have j been different from what it was. Our private opinion is that the United States is the very last country on earth that the Japanese . haye any desire to go to war with, , |