Show K Some National Traits In the Land of the Rising Sun I 0 Hm It American en eni i senator on returning I r b troth from a n recent trip to tu tur r 1 Japan wn was naked asked what 1 hind had produced tho the II j greatest Impression on I his mind of 01 nil till tho the In of ot the time Is III Island Island land kingdom He lIo unhesitatingly re TO piled that It won was the limo public schools the tho public schools modeled so 0 closely after those of ot the tho United States Slate In which not 1101 only knowledge but bill patriot patriotism ism bun IH la taught Is 1 s It not possible that hit hithe he struck the tho keynote of the wonderful progress s mud and present military of 01 this thin modern marvel of at the tho east for tor forIn forIn In III nil till the world there thero tire no greater students than tho the latter day tiny Japanese Their young oung men nten are arc tonal found In III almost every Iery great root of ot and America Their fief own OIl colleges mire are built hullt I ulong the lie lines hues of or tho ho of ot learning In the thu west In little over n a I thieve there has been In Inthe Inthe the th country iv n 1 system of It education ex ox extending tending to nil 1111 classes of ot society rite Tho actuating spirit of tho Ile people hus has seemed cd to bo Ito an Insatiable appetite for lor knowledge With tho he eagerness of they thoy have Gave tho time craving ing In little more than inn thirty oars they have havo assimilated the tho wisdom wl doll of ot western civilisation thus hums gaining re Ie cults suta that It II hind had taken laborious cell ceil tunes for tor time the authors of oC those results to 10 achieve To o gain aln nn an of ot present conditions In III Japan It II Is to consider tho the feet fact that of ot tilt tho rulers of ot time empire and n great majority of ot even the tho professors In III the Iho colleges college mire 1110 front from tho the old fixating CUSH class of at tho limo II U Ill I They rhe constitute tho elapses classes the time the In the tho army and navy members of ur p teachers In III tho the public schools rind and make up tint the vast ens majority of II tho the men and leading lending C thinkers of ot Japan descendants descendant c o o f m I t tw I w I S i 1 i I In n f S t a i a 7 4 1 V 7 1 I il 7 if L I Iki ae l ill i 0 I SOLDIERLY APPEARANCE OF TIE THE JAPANESE INFANTRY I of ot men mell who for ter hundreds of or years know no other trade mile than thull huh lighting who were trained Inched In tho the stormiest discipline and who gulped gained nil lilt the tho strength amid virtue that dint como commie from Ivan are arc men mell of oC the Ito sumo fiber and nil of oC their ancestors The Tho lint command commandment ment of ot the tho win urns Titan Thou not nut Ilen under the tho th wane heaven nor tread rend Ile tho tae sane name earth ns as the enemy of ot thy th loid Ind In III ancient timid lent dos tho tits lord referred to 10 wan some como petty melly Jett feudal chief Today tho tae sane Kama spirit of or loyalty loyallY Is le given to the mikado It not only exists ex exists Isis among time tho th samurai bu hut bud ales nil all classes There lugs him grown up upa n a 1 very great feeling of ot unity In this people They hey are 1110 thoroughly nation nationalized They rhey believe In the tho mid and the tho destiny of ot Japan Their highest sentiment Is patriotism Ask ak any Iny schoolboy his hi a must most ambition and ho to will answer ansler To 10 die dlo tor for lie tho mi nd mikado kado kulla With such Buch a spirit who can cnn wonder that lint the tho make malo Ideal sol eol soldiers diers Tho The unity of ot national thought Is shown now hero In iii n IL more umro 11 do the greo than lhnn la In tho the growth glowth of ut tho the deter determination to light Russia the tho Port Arthur Incident the tho Chino Japanese wn war wOI U It tho the settled purpose of every subject of at the tho mikado to tl help whip tho lino grunt Ir nt hear bear Iel prior pr lam lamto to that Hint tine time of tho time statesmen like Ilko Ito to that thin a IL con the Ito two to powers wits was In Inevitable evitable but It II took look nn object lesson to 10 mule malo this thlu to 10 tho time people When that object leison lo le soum soll came there thero was Willi no longer mitt any hesitation As ono man the tho nation went to work preparing for tor the struggle Time Tho array army wn was In lt Increased creased and trained tamed Thin Tho navy was and the lie gunners drilled Iery slop shill that went trout to lo l h wa was required to tl bring back lInel a it 1 quantity of ot urns arms mind Flue Tho peasants In the tho Gelds fields tho time boys In Iho schools tho lie workmen In lit tho lie begun began to talk about tho the limo time that lint Julian Japan was to meet U Jl wits was only about eight or nitro nine years yearn ago ngo that the tho Muscovite stole the fruits of ot the I he victory Never Neer was wall lIm better bolter spent silent that than these thelle Intervening yearn years In ht the tho preparation of ot the Inland Island empire to lu right light the tho wrong Spies SpieR dressed n ns its coolies were sent lent In largo numbers to 10 Manchuria timid and Sibe Siberia ria to study the lay of oC the tho country and the tha characteristics characteristic of or their prospective foes Young men went to St it Peters Petersburg burg and anI other Russian cities to 10 size up tho tits Slavic power Jower and amid to hr devise o how haw best hest to meet It II Ih livery move the na min minima nation lion tion ludo was aR directed to 10 time the one end Last Inns year the tho professors In the Japa Japanese Japanese nese lIese universities memorialized tho the cab cabinet cabinet inet Inel in favor of ot war lIr and nil all their lick ar nr arguments were directed to tho the one point of oC declaring Will war nt III once They did dill not I seem s cm to regard It necessary to II argue about the tho question of or ultimate CUll con Tint That loss a palter matter of at course courso They The only wanted to show Khow the time cabinet tint that tho the opportune time had come cOllie Herein Is revealed another characteristic that of ot subordinating everything to the tho end In III view The Tho closest students of ot this pals adaptive people agree that tho the Jill Jap did not lake up western wayn because Jio ho l particularly liked thom theta Ho lie mw saw that lint only by hy tak taking taking ing them up could ho he hope hOlle to make runko his hit country n great nation and ami ho Ito was 1011 de do determined to bo bou b IL a world time the lend lead leader lendor er or of ot the tho Thus ho up tip cun loins onis ho he loved for tor tho those o hu ho loathed This not a 0 batter of but of ot cold call blooded calculation for lor un um underneath nit all his apparent thud mid lightness the tho Jap hUH hue n a scientific Ho lie In is more of ot a n utilitarian than u a 1 Hen sen Ho nano that hint Intellect humid had become the tho dominant factor In progress proK ress amid an as he lie desired progress ho en entered lerell the time Intellectual Hold To ro keep piton with wills western civilization ho Ito must roust adopt western Ideas ldean mud wear 11 western clothel So Ho ho sent his boys to 10 time the schools over 01 limn tha ocean and ho he put on Oil that IH Is III In public AH As A Soon noon noonan an as III he ho returned to 10 his homo the breech cs es were cro thrown aside und tumid In III a n ho lie squatted ut tit en clI ease so e on ant the floor float W sus k Wi hi I ancestors hird ir 1 dune done for tor centuries Japan Is III till I In the transition it slum 1141 tit the t he old and amid the new tot but w tI rapidly Is st ao ate o moving that In another generation fie rho he will Till M N t complete Tho Time Land Inand o of 01 the Rising Sun li k t tit poetic name that lint the natives give U tr J their helm Island empire enil Ire Jn lu a 1 sense genet it n I tho Ile key ke to their customs of ot life Then In Is n LL brilliancy n freshness about It all peculiarly suggestive of ot the tho m ml Md IDs tbt Then too loo It hits has the beauty hour tm tIt exhilaration of tho time thaw dawn mm In all 1111 the he appellations that hm MM given tho do little people such 11 at i tit Yankees s of ot tho time east cast ea t timid the vi Ird of ot the tho east It H I M Mono one altos ono one has ocr ever hit upon the that really Teall them The TheY art Aft artho They The pure hm hi IDs tho tho ho of ot tho Ito east cast artistic quality In to a all I this wort same mimo lovely country count y than there theio lw Iu no more Sun SunHO 1101 Is the Land of oC the Rising filming Ef HO so so much duo to 10 is its to J beau has hoe MM been the limo scenery t al wi of ot ugliness is tilled No spot l ter ll remain In II building build In a II r odd lannot be M Mover that hut over Is neatly natty bricks I I up th AbOrt e daintiness ore are overs where moral every elN other com deW except the love nile tile front ran ranIs t he thc her In iii initiation to put s IM Is tho time esthetic aesthetic True the thc Greek OrIck th thILl tint thai turo Ins lino not lIot como Club o y yI cl for tat t other I ILl iii plenty of ot time tine hello lift Ure n II nIte The Tho IH Ite present however tIlt much the tho Slime same Tin rIll lit religion I Is similar Bolin tire arc It t IDt W Noll 1 0 and both mountainous Ufa J h by Is III made rondo complete y its parallel 1 tat tIIt whipping Russia nil fie the tho f W hO D t lEt the t overcame hal ha the tho little l p title IBM VIM of M c cI u ed et full tull right 10 Io 0 the Hie proud I Greeks of or tho time orient A PART lA 01 If I |