Show POVERTY IN JAPAN president ident Roosevel ts appeal for tho star ong rice growers of northern jagau will prove to be for many the first information that hat japan is not all sun sunshine thine find and happiness there are many misconceptions in this his country of at japan there are those who havo have looked upon that country I 1 as free from poverty but a traveler who has hag made a study of the large cities of japan says that americans can havo have no idea of at the squalid misery in tho the slums he states that in many parts of tokio thin boards having a frontage of about sine mine feet and roofed with somo isomo cracked tiles constitute tho houses of tho the poor the limber Is old and rotten the floors sc crace raised above tho the ground and the posts barely substantial enough to keep tho the houses from falling down it Is in kolcio out or oc sight of course in t the he r slums that the dirt and squalor simply defy de scrip tion the alleys are a ekamp of foul water dead rats lie festering in the sun the public latrines to give them a name better than they deserve aro aft to eloes heaps 1 0 av flold I 1 clogs spelled itce r ep and decay ing fish make the air pestiferous tho the houses bouses are ruinous hovels with tattered straw mats supplying the place of broken tiles and to sum it all up tip the place looks like a village that had been riddled with shot and shell strange as it may seem such houses havo have landlords and those who live sleep eat work and bring up families in thern them have to pay rent liko like other people rents are arc collected dally daily in advance for otherwise the landlord would never get his bis due as of course those who inhabit such hovels live simply from hand to mouth these places are ruinous hovels resembling more tie the caves and hiding biding places of wild beasts than the dwellings of human beings nevertheless horrible and wretched as is the ac accommodation one hovel bovel will sometimes shelter two or three families what occupation it will be asked do the people follow who are driven to such extremities as this they are arc mostly rag men decayed jinrikisha men ir cooties co oties s who drag heavy loads bom from distant villages for four cents a journey many of acra blind together with men ard and women belonging to ta the lowest grade 0 of the iho I 1 criminal classes though these are arc few in number compared to those whose only crime is poverty tho the furniture of the houses is ia of a character with the rickety buildings the thick stra straw mats laid on the rough boards 0 of japanese floors aro are broken and torn and the straw pr protrudes ot ruder in frayed tufts but ori on them a family of 0 four or five persons will sit eat cat and work and what do people reduced to such st a level eat cat it is impossible for them to buy clean rice in quantity sufficient to satisfy hunger and to bo remnants of food ahr thrown own away by houses of the better class are systematically collected from door to door by men who scrape a subsistence sub si stence out of the business and the damaged or soiled rice is dried and sold at very low prices under the name mame of bosh hoshii ii thus tile the leavings of the rice at the military fill tary college are collected and sold to tho the poor at six or seven tin a pound ton ten rin equal halt half a cent in the same way remnants of f fish and pickled p ickler or boiled vegetables are arc collected and sold rold by measure the ent entrails rallS of largo dah can be purchased cheap chea and there are arc shops chops where ismall portions of shark and tunny fish ran can bo be procured ft at prices that will suit the I 1 means of the poor wretches who live each day ajom from iland band to mouth I 1 ji 11 the other day when the washing ton democrats were senator abor at temon for jumping their caucus track tho blustering tillman Till roan I 1 I 1 asted that he ha had d eaten more democratic socratic c crow than any other man living theres a stomach for you vou I 1 y it if there is ill za one minor matter m atter that commends itself tp to v pe the anderl american y 1 can pub lie more than another itis ILIs president resident 17 Roosevel ts orders as commander in chief of tho the army and navy of 0 the united stites st ites to 0 o punish and suppress hazing among west point and Annao Anna oplis cabets cadets IC it Is likely to spread to all the colleges of tile the land and and rid the country of 0 a moan mean and base practice among its young toung roen men I 1 |