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opment, but the ambition to be wealthy Is
merely postponed II favor of the determi-
nation to be powerful, and not by any
means abandoned.
1t is impossible not to admire the high
aims and courage of this people, as we'll as
their kindness, their ingenuity, their
manual dexterity and their artistic taste.
The dwarf in material things has expand
ed into the giant like the great pine at Ka-
rasaki a tree which started out to be a
dwarfed pine with sprawling horizontally
growing branches after the regular model
but which escaped from its would-be mini
mixers two thousand years ago, and is now
a magnified dwarf pine, enlarged five hun
dred tir,eS.
Can Japan, admirable in small things,
be equally admirable when the dwarf has
become the giant?
Has the Japanese character the adaptable
ity of the elephants trunk, with it's ca
pacity of picking up the smallest pin and
of performing the most delicate operations
and also its power of applying gigantic
force in breaking down walls and uprootinsy
trees?
The Japanese has nothing more to learn.
he thinks, in either the receptions or the
bluffs and ultimatums of diplomacy. lie
believes that he has discovered the secret
CT the occidental powers in the maxims
Might makes right" Providence is on the
SIDE with the heavier artillery" and he
arms and drills himself. buys guns and
warships, and discards his foreign instruc-
tors.
If the AZtecs in Mexico had handled the
SpanlardS on the Japanese principle of
dealing with threatening conquerors they
would have received the invaders with rev.
erential prostrations, and in a comparative
~ short time they would in humble imita-
tion of the visitors be wearing armor, rid
ING horses, studying Spanish and mastering
the secrets of the foreigners power: and
inaiiy. when all was learned that the Span
ISM had to teach, the Aztecs would have
opposed to them their own weapons and
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ment in small bodies, halted and saluted
at the word of command and to the sound
of trumpets, and passed on quickly to
make room for another detachment. After
several hours of infantry procession, the
cavalry passed and saluted in similar
fashion. Neither young nor old could fail
to be impressed by the spectacle of honor.
even worship, offered to those who had
died in the service of their country, and
to be inspired with the patriotic desire to
emulate their example.
The national military spirit is fostered
not only in school and in church. so to
speak, but in the very holidays and ami
versary days of the boys. AS I have al
ready noted the boys day on the 9TH of
May in permeated with jingoism, Shintoism,
patriotism.
Japans national ambition is thus gigantic.
VIII she be able to realize a fraction of her
dreams?
A Vision of Conquest.
Her cry is Asia for the Asiatics,' mean
ing by the Asiatics the Japanese. She is
spending the Chinese indemnity and much
tax money out of the scanty resources of
her own people in army ard navy develop
-ment to meet, resist and if possible, over
come Russia in Asia before the Siberian
railroad connects the two Russias, and
gives to the government at st. Petersburg
power of concentrating troops. which would
prove irresistible. She has a. well-disciplined
and admirably equipped army of considera-
bly, over 200, 600 men. more than double the
Russian force laboriously collected at Via
divostok. Her navy. already imposing, will
before long be among the strongest five in
the world, surprising the United States i'll
the race unless gait is faster than at
present Her people have surreptitously
aided the insurgents in the Philippine Is
lands, now the property of Spain, upon
which Japan has for some time cast covet-
Gus eyes. She planned peaceful conquest
by colonization of the Hawaiian Islands.
and nothing but annexation by the United
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occidental ideas of costumes and manners
have been permitted to creep in among
them, there still turks under the modern
yarniSh the old decayed conviction of the
inferiority and degradation of women that
is taught both in the Buddhism and the
ConfucianiSm which influence the national
thought.
The ineradicable oriental view of the diff
ferenCes between the sexes from the ten
derest age is reflected in the ancient Chi
rese ode supposed to have been selected by
Confucius himself which commentaries
the building of new palace for King
Swan, S25 b. C.
'And 1t shall be wherever sons are born
These shall be laid beds to sleep and rest;
In loose long ptes they also shall be dressed!
And sceptrelets be given them for toys;
And when they cry what music in the nosei
Once these shall don the scarlet aprons grand
And be the kings and princes Of the land.
and 1t shall be when daughters are born
These shall be laid to sleep upon tine ground,
In swaddlinc bands their bodies shall be bound,
And pots shall be their playthings. Twill belong
To these to NEEDLE not with right or wrong;
And cause their parents solicitude."
The Qualification of the Boy is complete
when the poet goes into raptures over the
music of his cry. But these very raptures
show the fallacy of the notion entertained
and expressed by mary travellers that
Chinese and Japanese babies never cry. II
the boy in his comfortable robes on the bed
and in spite of having a sceptrelet as
plaything cries, even though he cries music
ally, surely the girl in tight swaddling band
tossed on the ground among the pots will
bawl most vigorously, careless that no
poet finds music in ner cry 1t appears
then that the brown babies were in S25 B.
C.. exercising this inalienable right of uni
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China went down before it at the first blow.
The spirit which made Japan formidable
against China was intensified by the result
of the struggle. And it is conspicuous
everywhere in Japan today and is carefully
fostered by the government
Japanese Patriotism.
Said Count Okuma in a speech before the
Oriental Association of Japan: "undoubt-
eddy Japan is a comparatively poor coun-
try, but the Astounding patriotism of her
subjects in spite of her poverty is unique.
Foreigners were therefore astonished at
and at the vast sums of money placed at
the disposition of the government, which
permitted the prosecution of the war to a
successful conclusion without having re-
course to foreign capital.
IF, however, those countries should in
jure Japan's prestige, rights or interests, l
need hardly affirm that the patriotism of
the 40ee0 600 Japanese-would. as L have
already said, burst gut like volcanic erup-
ton
Every influence tends to keep the pa
triotic spirit at white heat. Not only the
adults are drilling all oyer Japan, but the
children also. In the schools the pupils
emperor in entering and leaving the room,
and love of country Is taught both in their
secular and their religious education.
In the grounds connected with the temple
of Hirano Jinja in Kioto 1 noticed some
school children at their recess recreation.
They had divided Into two bands, armed
with wooden swords and guns, each army
the other, and the Surprised army retreated
until a little hill was reached. on top of
which a stand was made, and the purSuerS
beaten back. Young America could not
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power from before the DAYS Of Charle-
n'agne. After a thousand years existence
In one spot the corporation of the monks
had right to think themselves eternal.
They struck out TO be universal
They obtained from the king the rriv-
nege to hold here each year, in the carly
springtime. a fair at which traders from
every part of the world should have the
chance 10 sell their wares. Caravans Of
strange dealers came on from Russia ana
the east, and everything could he bought
at the monks fair from Angora cats TO
Arabian perfumes and Russian furs
here coffee was first made known TO the
people Of Paris by an enterprising Arma-
man. Aud now these same Parisians are
waiting for some other new thing for their
latest exposition of 1890. Coffee came from
the east; they would like something from
the Americans Of the west Rut IN ,n,,st
De new, and everything around Saint Sui
pice is so very old!
STERLING HELLO.
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as intense patriotism end abroad as ma
tional ''cockiness" and bumptious conceit.
The Japanese statesmen are already in
Imagination inhesitiHg the power now
welded by the efste nations of Europe.
whose speedy exhaustion they predict.
AS sample specimen listen to the words
of Count Okuma, recently the minister of
foreign affairs ana the strong man of the
late administration:
THE European powers are already show
Ing symptoms Of decay, and the next CEN
fury will see their constitutions shattered
and their empires in ruins. Even If this
should not quite happen, their resources
will have become exhausted in unsuccess-
full attempts at ttoloatzation. Therefore
who is fit to be their broper successors if
not ourselves? What nation, except Ger
many, France, Russia, IAustria and italy.
can put 100000 men into the field inside of
a month? AS to, intellectual power, the
Japanese mlno is,,n. every way equal to
csc are small of stature, but the superior-
ity of the body depends more on its con-
stitution than on its size. If treaty reyis-
ION were completed, and Japan completely
victorious over China, we should become
one of the chief powers of the world and
no power could engage in any movement
without first consulting us. Japan could
then enter into competition with Eurone as
the representative of the oriental races
The japanese statesmen, headed by Mar
quis Ito, who, after a period of retirement
from power, is again prime minister, play
ed upon this patriotic sentiment in precipi-
tating war with China. 1t is a common de-
vice of rulers to pick a quarrel with the
foreigner in order to solidfy the home peo-
PIE. But there was never a more success
full resort to it than in the case of Japan.
Her government was beset by domestic dis
stnsionS and in sore straits. Three sue
cessive hostile majorities had appeared
against it in the diet. From the moment
that war was declared every opponent and
every critic disappeared. Ali Japan ad-
vanced, and struck as one man, and the
loose -jointed, disorganized, anaemic giant
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ing bottle. Since the baby carriage is
used by men, the dolls carriage falls to
the infants, and in the few cases where
the Egyptian and Mexican method Of
transporting the baby fastened to the
mothers older sisters back is not en-
ployed. vehicle is utilized which might
have been made from Cinderella's pump
kin without enlargement by the fairy god
mother. l saw one of these tiny baby
carriages in Osaka, and it was among the
most curious of the many curiosities Of
street scenes in Japan. Leaving Yoko-
hama to go to Toxic, the great modern
capital, or Kioto, the ancient and venera-
ted city, the foreigner enters a dwarf car
on narrow-gauge track and is pulled by
a miniature engine over liliputan bridges
and through lilliputian tunnels Wher-
ever he visits he finds narrow streets,
small frail houses, with tiny rooms and
furnishings AS the streets are alleys,
the horses are ponies. Going into the
country he finds that the farms are gar
dens of minute proportions, in which rice
and tea and grain are cultivated with the
microscopic attention bestowed by the
European gardener upon his choicest
plants The little Jap with his dimnu-
tive farm and his toy house, eats from
table which is lacquer tray, from a
bowl which is cup, and from cup
which is as a thimble, and smokes pipe
which allows him but three whiffs before
1t needs refilling. In gardening his proud
est achievement is to dwarf maple or
pine tree, so that, though a century old,
it is only foot high, and to confine the
veteran of the forest in a flower pot The
same tendency is noticeable in the arts,
in minute ivory and wood carvings in
microscopic cloisonne work, and in deyo-
ton to the small and delicate in painting
upon a great variety of materials.
Mother Goose in Japan.
In short, there can be no doubt that
Mother Goose, in the course Of her world
wide wanderings on her broom. had paid
flying visit to Japan, and had that minia-
ture country and people in mind when she
wrote:
There was little man and he had little wife,
WHO cut their little loaf with sharp but tiny
knife,
She had a little cat which chased little mouse,
And they all lived together in very little house,.
The quaint smallness of things Japanese
Is most keenly appreciated through con-
trast by an American, fresh from the. mag
nificent distances and vast expenses Of the
land Of SO many greatest things on
EARTH" from grand canons and mammoth
caves to monuments and waterfalls, gey-
sers and machinery.
But, as have already indicated, II Japan
is the vest-pocket edition of a nation in
material things, in spirit and ambition 1t Is
a giant unabridged. The Japanese peopls,
from the coolie, with his loin cloth and
straw sandals, to the statesman, are full
Of that devotion to the national idea, that
pride of country, that unbounded faith in
the national future, Of which the combi-
nation is the world over described at home
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greater spirit
shintoism. the original faith and the
present state religion of Japan, is practi-
cally patriotism and not much else. Its
Ioundation is the worship of ancestors,
thence or the emperor as the heaven-born
1ather or his people. Devotion to the ruler
easily becomes love Of the fatherland which
IS ruled. Patriotic loyalty to the emperor
Is religion, and in this kind of religion
there are many fanatics
Inc worship of ones own ancestors, de-
rived from China, has been broadened in
Japan into the worship Of the hero ances-
tors or other men, who deified after DEATH
constitute the Shinto pantheon with its
membership OF millions. The famous SOL
dlers and other heroes are honored and
worshiped in shrines erected to their mem
DRY. Religion lights the torch of patriot
ism.
Osaka, which as Japan's great manufac-
turing city is the center of the Industrial
war which the empire is to wage against
Europe and America, is also an import
ant military center and in that city this
spring attended Shinto service which
showed clearly the manner in which all the
influences OF state and church unite to fos-
ter loyalty to the emperor and love of
country. V1gf
Worship for Dead Soldiers.
Close to the one large hotel for foreign
ers in Osaka Is a monument to certain
soldiers who fell in battle. A Shinto
shrine is connected with the monument,
and on the 9th day ofc May the annual
military service was held there in honor
OF the heroes, attended by all the soldiers
in the district. officers and men. infantry
and cavalry, and bSs q multitude Of curl
Gus visitors from civil life. On one side Of
the Enclosure, in front of the shrine, stood
the officers IN uniform. from seventy-five
10 hundred in member. At their feet,
sitting on mats, were a hundred or more
OF Sons OF the ofhuers,win semi-military
oress. On the oppasitedside Of the in
closure We're a brass band and a small
group OF SPECTATORS Outside, in the adj
Jacent Tea house, and in fntersecting
streets. the people were packed and jam
med constantly harassed, showed and
pushed and scolded by the important little
Japanese soldiers. Back of the monument
gnmpses could be had of the arms or uni
forms OF the thousands of soldiers, stand
ing ready for the order to march. First
the procession Of priests in white robes,
with curious black headdress and black
wooden SHOES, entered the Enclosure, head
ed by wooden palanquins containing the
onerings. Then the long and rather tedi-
GUS Sninto service proceeded. The offer-
lngs OF many different articles, including
fruits and vegetables, were passed from
nand TO hand, ana presented before the
shrine. At last the officers came before
the monument in succession and presented
branches handed to them by priest.
Then the officers gradually withdrew, and
i2,OO0 soldiers marched before the rnonu-
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versal babylon, and doubt whether they
nave since surrendered this right.
Japanese Babies Do Cry.
Unquestionably the Japanese babies are
wonderfully patient well regulated and well
behaved. But heard baby crying lusti-
ly on my first day in Japan. saw a jap
anese infant despoticaIly ruling his accom-
panying family of worshipers, from grand
mother down. in first-class railway car
riage between Toxic and Kioto. and the
boo-hoo was one of the most effective
weapons Of his tyranny. If the Japanese
babies were ever non-crying they have now
adopted modern notions and customs on the
subject in humble imitation of their par
ents and have changed all that. The non.
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Beauty of Saxon Words.

From the Chattanooga News.
How beautiful does Ruskin, who did SO
much to popularize art and harmony
among the lower cls sses in England in
Sesame and the Lilies" express his idea
OF the true sphere of woman. He says:
What do you think the beautiful word
wife comes from? 1t is the great word in
which thu English and Latin languages
conquer the French and Greek. hope the
French will some day get word for 1t in
stead Of their femme. But what do You
think 1t comes from? The great value of
the Saxon words is that they mean some.
thing. Wife means weaver. You must be
either housewives or housemoths, remem-
Der that. In the deep sense you must
either weave mems fortunes and embroider
them, or feed upon them and bring them
to decay. Wherever a true wife comes
home Is always around her. The stars
may be over her head, the glow worm in
the nights cold grass may be the fire at
her feet; but home is where she is, and for
a noble woman it stretches far around her,
batter than houses ceiled with cedar or
painted with vermillion. shedding its quiet
light for those who are homeless. This,
believe, Is the woman's true place and
power"
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and surmounts waterfalls. Thus it's paper
counterpart symboliZes the hopes of the
Japanese that their boys may Ike the carp
stem all adverse currents, leap over the
most formidable obstacles and live long
and prosper.
No GIorificatiOn for the Girl.
The girls also have n holiday, the Sd of
March, when the feast of dolls is cele-
brated The boys day glorifes the birth
of man into the world. The girl enjoys
nc such glorification The girls emblem
Is like the Japanese woman herself. a doll,
a toy. plaything. The boys is the SYM
tol of all that Is powerful and masterful
and enterprising.
In spite of the fact that the Japanese
do not hide their women in jealous orien-
tai seclUsion, and in spite of the fact that
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The rainy weather discouraged to some ex-
tent the exposure to the elements of paper
fish. but the custom so far as the carp are
concerned seems to be dying out in the
large cities where modern and occidental
ideas Prevail.
But the swaying fish Of many bright
colors MADE line display in Nikko. hang
ing sometimes in punches of half a dozen
over prolific households. one carp for each
boy in the family. whether born during the
year or earlier.
Our idea Of the carp is of a sluggish fish,
freQuenter by choice of still and muddy
water, or as in China the contented inhabi-
tant Of a tub. fed on food-leavings like the
family pig Of other lands. But in Japan
the hsh 10 typical of intense vitality, and
Is famous for the power and perseverance
With which 1t swims against the current
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and celebrates the fact. The date of this
celebration is the 9Th day of the 9Th
month The old calendar which is still
used in the rural districts of Japan, is
almost month later than the new caien-
dai, which regulates the time in the Jap
aneSe cities.
We had thus the privilege OF noting a
double celebration of the day, in May in
kfoto and Osaka, and in Nikko in June
But the May observance was compare tive
~ spIritless affair. There were few of
the flying carp in either Kioto or Osaka
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o o X At 7 ii f
architecture of it,"
said a tired male
voice to a group of
tired American wo-
men at i o'clock in
the morning.
1t was Christmas
morning and the par
ty had taken in the
midnight mass. stand
ing for more than an
hour on their feet on
a stone floor, packed
in with some fifteen
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their own military methods, and would
have cast them out like oranges sucked
dry.
Japan means to cut a figure in history
VIII new lingo give birth for her benefit
to modern god of war and another Ieyasu
arise to lead 10 victory? Or will the jap
anese vision of glory collapse, bubble-like,
at the first hostile contact with European
power? THEODORE w. MOVES,
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From many a house or garden tall bam-
boo poles rise in the air from which float
immense paper carp. SO arranged with
strings fastened inside the head that their
open mouths catch the air and they ex-
pand and move in very life-like fashion.
In some instances lighter piece of bam-
boo terminating in 4 broom shape is at
tached to the end of the main pole. Or
at its top is ball or fez-shaped object
Banners often hang from bamboo arms
of the same pole sometimes so large that
they dwarf the carp, displaying ferocious
figures of fighting men, generally in black
and white, sometimes in colors. Occasion
ally the pole blossoms out in ten or
dozen dropping twigs, long slender sticks
issuing on every side at the same height,
and terminating in small balls, apparently
CT metal.
These are the emblems of boys day in
Japan, when every family in which a boy
has been born during the year proclaims
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States is certain to battle her well-con-
ceived design. In trade, as well as in arms,
she aspires not only to lead in Asia, but to
be among the great powers Of the world.
Her vast military expenditures have inter-
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Boys Holiday Teaches Soldiers
Love of Country.
lilliputians in Material Things,
Giants in National Spirit.
THE SIGN OF THE CARP
A FOREIGN VISITOR
~ to Nikko in the first
IN week of June, wander

ans NtOh "a inc NAiloSS .
single street, lined
on both sides with
little shops where
the local specialties
of carved wood and
furs and various Gu
rios are sold, notes
the evidences of one
of the most widely
celebrated and most
popular of Japanese
anniversaries.
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Famous Church and Seminary in the
Latin Quarter.
'HE MOTHER HOUSE OF The ORDER
Many Well-known PreIates Have
Studied There.
THE FIRST WORLDS FAIR

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
PARIS February 1898