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The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

turn in the gloomy ante-room, walled
about with reports of the proceedings
of Congress and other diverting and
popular volumes of a similar nature
Once ushered into the inner room
where James Russell Lowell and so
many other famous representatives of
the American people have sat, you con-
clude from his manner that his ex-
cellency doesn't resent the intrusion,
that he is glad to Sc eyou-and that he
would freeze you up and get rid of
you in about ten seconds if you pro-
ceeded to be a bore who didn't know
when to CO..
One of the great drawbacks to the
run OF beng ambassador was former
ly the dead-broke American who came
OF such good family and brought such
strong letters of introduction that
there was nothing to do except guar
antee his hotel bill, or provide money
to pay his passage to America. Half
of the time at the embassy was taken
up listening to hard-luck stories, but
Mr. Choate, with his usual good for
tune, has escaped most of that, thanks
to the organization of a relief depart
ment by the American Society in Lon
don.
Politicians wives who want to be
presented at court take up a lot of time,
too and in the summer season folk
who want tickets to Parliament, let
ters to officials, and all sorts of per-
sonal privileges, keep two embassy sec
retaries in rush. Various folk who
have called and asked to see Mr.
Choate have been found to have the in
tention of asking him to write out for
them a little list of cheap boarding
houses; others, 1t appeared, cherished
the idea that a personal heart to heart
talk with the ambassador could rea-
sonably be expected to result in the
loan of dollar until the next American
mail arrived.
Americans Kick on the Income Tax.
One of the most urgent of these per-
sonal matters laid before the embassy
is the income tax which Americans
living in London have to pay to the
British go yernment although most of
them get their incomes in America.
Each new victim usually heads
straight for the embassy and wants to
know what in something or other the
British government means by demand
ing percentage of his receipts from,
say, real estate on which he already
pays taxes in America. 1t does seem
like an outrage, but there is nothing
the embassy can do about it.
Unlike every other ambassador in
London, Mr.. Choate has no court cos
tune. The distinguished Americans
who go with him TO a levee to be pre-
scented to the King have to scurry
around for nee-breeches and buckled
shoes: but the official representative Of
Jenersonian simplicity goes i'm ordi-
nary swallow-tail and becomes con-
spieuous in the gorgeous throng.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Choate entertain
ed the King and Queen at dinner early
In June PieFPont Morgan was also
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
NoMEsTlc HEATING
WATER FoR HATH

Copyright 1902. by Douglas Sladen-)
They have some curious notions
about servants in Japan. Instead OF
its being considered a disgrace to go
into domestic service in that country
it is an honor Jinriksha boys and
grooms are not allowed the honor of
being servants at all, but are trades
men, which is the lowest down thing
of all in Japan short of being an eta,
or member of the class of outcasts.
Grooms are excluded as a betting
gambling. cheating lot Ghe japanese
think it impossible for a groom to
be honesD, and the riksha boys as
rough people without any manners.
A Japanese servant must have good
manners, for he has to have sufficient
knowledge of etiquette to entertain
his masters guests if his master is
out
After rubbing his knees together,
and kissing and kowtowing. he VIII
invite you to take a seat-on the floor =
that is on your heels with a fiat
cushion between your knees and the
floor to make the ordeal a little less
painful. 1t is nothing for the Jap
anese, who has no calves unless he
is riksha boy. He will then offer
you five cups of tea--it is the number
of cups that signifies, not the num-
Der of callers-and dropping on mis-
own heels with ease and grace, enter
into an affable conversation properly
humble but perfectly familiar, until
his master arrives to relieve him.
Even then he may stay in the room,
and Is quite likely to cut into the con-
versation. and dead certain to laugh
ct the smallest apology for a joke.
In old fashioned japanese house
holds, when the wooden shutters have
been put up and the rushlight in the
paper lantern lit, and the social life of
the family begins it is ordinary for
the maid servants to troop in and
squat in the corner and do their sew
ing, and no breach of etiquette for
them to enter into the family CONVEX
sation, for all the air of exaggerated
humility which exists between them
and their employers. But Japanese
servants have hardly any rights at
all, and are not expected to exercise
what they have.
All JapaneBe Women Are Servants.
There is no servant caste in Japan.
Half the population are born servants,
unless woman are less numerous in
Japan than elsewhere. All women are
the servants of their relatives, unless
they are servants of somebody else.
The mistress of the household is in
theory only the chief servant. and she
never allows any one to perform any
domestic service for her husband or
her children, except those which she
lacks theAtime or strength to perform
herself. There are certain mental du-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
STRANGE GRAVEYARD LIGHTS.
WIII-'o-the-Wisp Badly Frightens
Watchers in a Cemetery,
Lewiston Pa) Correspondence in
Philadelphia Ledger.

Lewiston (PaO Correspondence in
Philadelphia Ledger.
This community is wrought up to a
nigh pitch of excitement by strange
lights which fit nightly between the
Ola and New Episcopal Cemeteries.
ouperstlt1ous persons believe them to
De warnings of some impending ca
Iamity. There are residents who de-
clare that similar lights were seen just
prior to the flood of 1889 and the small
pox epidemic of 1894.
On Wednesday night Mrs. Shoemak-
err an aged resident, was returning
TO her home after spending the even
ing with neighbor, when, nearing
a vault in the Old Cemetery, she was
startled at seeing a brilliant red light
leave the vault, move slowly across
the street directly in front of her and
lose itself in the New Cemetery. Bad
~ frightened, she made rapid strides
Tor nome, but had taken only a few
steps when she again saw the same
nght some distance away on a hill
ms time it was waved up and down
III HuCh the same manner as tram
men give signals. Then it disappear
ca. Before she was half way home
Mrs. Shoemaker fell and rolled into
the gutter. When regaining her feet
and senses she saw the same light APP
pafently hanging in the middle Of the
street. only few feet from her. AL
most frantic, she ran, screaming. 10
the mousse of a neighbor, where she
recounted her experience. Thinking
she was the victim of mischevous
boys FRANKS her friends paid little
attention to the matter.
thursday morning the story OF the
hShts new like wildfire, and before
noon several hundred persons had VS.
lted the scene. That night three OF
TOUR prominent residents stationed
themselves near the cemeteries 10
watch for the lights, but were so
badly frightened by a repetition of the
scenes of the previous night that they
forgot what they had assembled for
The following night and last night the
same antics were witnessed by hun
dreds of persons, who had gathered
from all parts Of the town, but before
any attempt could be made at cap
ture the lights would vanish, and tneh
source remains a mystery.
Although no gases or phosphorlc
minerals are known to exist In TINS
locality eX-Sherin William Ryan ana
other prominent citizens say they havs
seen these lights al various times, ana
that all former efforts to gain a Gus
70 their origin had proved futii@
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

ties which the greatest duchess will
not hand over to a servant unless she
Is corrupted by European civilization.
AS there is enough red tape for a
war office in Japanese households, the
number of servants is proportionately
large, and the pay proportionately
small. They only get few dollars
a month, and have to board them
selves. This is because in Japan
servant does what he likes with his
bedroom, and houses his wife and his
children, and his parents, if he has
any, custom too firmly rooted to be
disputed. There are two classes of
servants-personal and kitchen. Kich-
en- servants need have no knowledge of
etiquette. They are sometimes rough
creatures from the country no better
than riksha boys; they are dull, con-
tented drudges; but Cook Sam-Mr.
Cooks held in very different estima-
ton. In small household he does
the catering, and keeps the accounts
as well as superintends the ridiculous
little birds nest of charcoal ash which
cook the meals in Japan.
The personal servants show a hui
millty to their employers which would
paraIyze an Englishman with any
sense of humor, and their masters as
sumo an etiquette air of command
But from every one else these SER
wants expect a considerable amount
of politeness. You call japanese ser
want Mr.. in addressing him If you
are not his master-Tara San, Mr.
Goldfish, or Tara San, Mr.. Eldest Son.
or whatever his honorable name is. A
Japanese servant may be quite a we'll
born son.
"samurap3 Sometimes Servants.
The fact of all women being in real
ity servants prevents domestic service
being confined to a particular class.
and raises the estimation in which il
is held. Sometimes servants, even in
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

limited choice. Where divorce is so
easy, there is no reason why he should
uot marry her, but he seldom takes the
trouble, except in stories.
The japanese regard the position of
the women as perfectly respectable.
The only difference it makes in her
marrying a Japanese of her own class
afterwards is that she has saved her
wages for a dowry, unless, as is often
est the case, she has taken the position
to help her parents. The affair is ar
ranged through her father, and the
foreigners agent generally his room
boy
In native hotels and restaurants the
servants are apt to be mOusemees, i. e.,
young girls, who are generally pretty
and wear gay scarlet underskirts and
obs (sashes) They are on the whole
more formidable as room attendants
1t is worse for gentleman to have
girl come into his bath room when
he is having a bath, than it is for a
lady to have a hoy" come to her
bedroom when she is in bed A Jap
anese woman servant is embarrassing
ly artless.
HumOr of Japanese Hotel Life.
To go to a japanese hotel for the
first time is like going to a farce. It
is impossible to keep serious In the
dining-room you are surrounded by
pantomime imps dressed in indigo-cot-
ton doublets and hose, who run about
shoeless, and are called boys" and
look like boys till the day they die.
Half of them know no English except
the numbers. Each has a number
to himself, and each dish on the menu
has number, even down to potatoes.
Number five" you say if YOU are
new to 1t. I'm have some 2, and I'll
take some Z and with it, please"
He catches some numbers and brings
them, but you would have a far bet
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
his EXCELLENCY THE
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR. "
Joseph H. ChOae and His Life as Uncle Sans Represent
alive at the Court of ST. James.

Copyright 1902. by Marshall Lord.)
London. Aug 1.-When some enter
prising American university starts a
special course in diplomacy for youths
who want 10 become amba ssadors.
the chief item win have to be instruc-
ton in the fine art of dining. Inter-
national law and history and all that
sort of thing doubtless would be ad-
Vantageous enough. too, but you
might as well omit anatomy from the
study of medicine as TO teach Euro
pean diplomacy without dining.
His excellency the American Am
bassador to the Court of st. James
would be the ideal professor in this
branch of instruction when the time
comes for him to leave London end
get back home. He would testify that
his work at the broad flat-topped
desk in the dingy office of the en-
bassy in Victoria street was of COM
paratlvely little account, that his of
fetal communications with the Mar
quis of Salisbury, Lord Lansdown and
the other Downing street folk Lad
been mostly formal after all, and that
his occasional audiences with the King
had little political significance. But
when it came to the hour of coffee and
cigars-that was when the real bust
ness of the nation was done, some
times in neat, artful speeches, re-
ported in full in the papers, and read
by everybody; sometimes in comfort
able, unofficial. informal talk with
the men who govern England, IN fact,
while the King governs in name.
Those are the private talks in which
the prejudices, ambitions and friend
ships Of the nations are weighed and
measured-in which ii is determined
what Is the least that one will ac-
cept and the most that the other will
give-in which are shaped the inter-
national policies that are afterward
the subject Of formal, dignified nego-
tiations 10 a predetermined end.
Fancy an Insignificant looking. shy,
nervous. awkward man representing
great mutton al one OF these he-
hind the-sccues spreads. He might
know all there was 10 know about
international law and such matters.
but ia these intimate confabs the
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
OR ESSlhC TNE HAlR

into what we call service, to distinguish
it from the Services.
A Cultivated Servant
We had one for a bedroom boy in
the hotel at Kloto. He wore mask
of impenetrable stupidity. He might
have been a servant in a ,pantomime.
But one day 1t lighted up. 1 had seen
a charming little book about the size
of a birthday book, with delicate
handpaintings on some of the leaves
and good many blank leaves, which
l thought would do for Kodaks.
was following my usual rule in curio-
hunting-buying a thing at the wrong
shop, which is the only way to get
good bargains. The man had asked
fifty sen (centimes), and l had given
him twenty. l had it on my bedroom
table, and was preparing to gum Ko-
oaks into it, when the mask sprang
forward to stay my hand. There
were almost tears in his eyes, as he
begged me not to commit such a sac
rilege 1t was a genuine Chioto, he
said. 1 left him in possession, and
went out to ask the proprietor, Yaami
San, what on earth he was driving at
Yaami said:
why, he's a samurai. He can
read"
Cant you?" 1 asked, knowing that
he could r>ad English fairly we'll
Yaami shook his head
Not books" he said.
The JeA classics it should be
explained employ the whole seventy or
eighty thousand ideographs which do
duty instead of an alphabet for China
and Japan. They are not content with
the poor ten thousand, which are used
for everyday affairs like newspapers
But to get back to Japanese SER
wants. The custom of a servant hous-
ing all his family has extended even
to the sacred precincts of the Brit
ish Embassy. Mrs. Hugh Fraser says
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

hotels, are "samurai," gentlemen en-
titled to wear two swords, if it were
not against the law to wear swords
al all. When l was a boy, Japan was
full of feudal princes called "daimio,"
whose income was reckoned in bushels
OF rice, and who kept armies Of these
tWo-sWorded gentlemen, as many as
they could afford. 1t was mira dig for
a gentleman to do anything except
hight and write poetry. But domestic
service from samurai to noble was
an honor, and still in Japan it Is an
honor to be the domestic servant of
a great noble.
When the feudal armies were abol-
ished there were 1000, 900 samurai out
of a job. and there were very few Jobs
that they were fit for except printers
and policemen, and domestic servants.
Ihls is not paradox, but a fact, They
made good printers because they were
literary. This would not follow in
England, but in Japan, where they
have no letters but 10 200 words in or
binary use, each with a separate pic
ture or telegraph to represent 1t, it
was something for the printer to know
his alphabet.
They make admirable policemen, be-
cause the populace have such whole
some recollection of the times when
a samurai could cut your head off
you looked at him; and because they
are acquainted with "Juditsu," the
noble art of self-defence as practiced
in Japan, and by prize fighters every
where. The policeman is as insignifi-
cant in statue as he is aristocratic in
birth, but when he knows "Judtsu,"
he knows all the springs in the human
body, and can send giant flying over
his head If he can catch his wrist or
foot. AS Japan does not yet require
100000 printers or policemen or high
government officials, and as the neces-
sity for servants we always have with
us,it is natural that some samurai drift
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
kiplinG's Alphabet.

FROM the Baltimore American.
INT. Rudyard Kipling declares that
rifle shooting should be taught in the
English school, the same as A, B. c.
He says the whole population is grow
ing up in ignorance of shooting. and
lntlmates that the youth of England
should drink in instructions in war
along with mathematics and other sci
ences.1
A stands for Aim.
B stands for Bang;
Z stands for Cannonade-now, do Won
get the hang?
d for Defeat.
E for Excuse:
F stands for Firing-line, where trou-
ble's running loose.
G stands for Gun,
H stands for Halt;
1 stands for Idiot, who can't correct a
fault
] stands for damned,
K stands for Krupp:
l. stands for Lyddite bomb, that Jam
med the bugger up.
NJ stands for Mule,
N stands for Nurse:
o stands for Oficer-you ought to hear
him curse.
p stands for Puff.
Q stands for Queer:
r means Reporter-m who gives the
puffs so dear.
S stands for Smoke.
T stands for Train:
U stands for Uniform, that makes its
wearer vain.
stands for Veldt,
w for Whipped:
X stands for Xylonite the crafty
burghers niDped
Y stands for Yell,
4 for Zulu.
&-so-forth. for poetry / Jingle out for
you.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

that she allowed wives and moth ars
and children, but drew the line at
grandmothers.
"On account of overcrowding," she
adds, "and also because it is impossible
to impress these very elderly people
with the necessity and propriety of
wearing clothes in warm weather
They scott at modern ideas, and doubt
less talk of the good old times when
they were young, and all these absurd
decency fads had not popped up. Who
wants clothes except for warmth or to
look smart in on proper occasions?
Why be bothered with them in the
house in August? And so it happened
that when Cook Sans grandmother
was met in the kitchen one warm af-
ternoon without a shred of raiment on
her old brown body, then found that
there really was not room enough for
more than three generations in our
very inadequate servants quarters and
a lodging was found for the old lady
elsewhere"
Japanese Hotel Servants.
Hotel servants are male and female
Hotels for Europeans generally have
men-housemaids as we'll as men wait
ers, and call them all boys. AS moral
ity in the European sense does not
exist in Japan, there are obvious diff
culties in the way of employing women
servants in a country where most of
the elobe-trotters are young men.
The japanese room-boy takes you
under his complete protection. If you
are man he will commence by ask
ing you if you want wife-a, Japan
csc wife. 1t is the simplest and cheap
est form of living in Japan. The wife
is also house keeper, cook, and house.
maid, and is gentle and refined, and a
pretty as the mans taste can choose
her. He only has to tell his room
boy at his hotel that he wants ia
panese wife, and he can have an un-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17


with The Unspeakable Irish"
Mr.. Booth Harrington is summering
at Lake Maxinkuckee. a resort in the
Northern part of Indiana, near which
are some of the scenes described in
The Gentleman From Indiana" AS
Mr.. Harrington was only recently mar
ried. 1t is not supposed that he is as
hard at work as is his custom. What
with laying political forces. drafting
bills for the next Legislature, and cor
recting proofs for his next book THE
Two Vanrevels," he should be kept
occupied for a part of his time, at
least.
Robert Barr. Josephine Dodge DasIA
am, Edith Wyatt. Ida NJ. Tarbell and
two or three other writer's are touring
switzerland together this month Mr..
Robert Bars presence IN the party re-
calls q story Of a former European trip
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
but what success he might have had
with The Unspeakable Irish"

Continued from Ninth Page.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-08

The hold that Holland has on It's
East Indian colonies is rather precan-
ops. The Archon war, stretched over
well-nigh thirty years, Is having
period Of reerudescence that will sad
ly try Dutch resources The Jambi
war has also kept the Hollanders busy.
Strange to say, in both districts the
Dutch troops are doing what the Dutch
condemn in South Africa burning
farms. They are even destroying
whole villages
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-08

The new Australian federal govern
ment is appointing a Commonwealth
Day on the lines OF the American IN
dependence Day. II is now engaged
in weighing the claims Of July 1. when
Queen Victoria assented 10 the con-
sLtution; September 30. the date OF
tEe proclamation; January 1. the IN
auguration OF the Commonwealth, aud
May 8, the date OF the Duke OF Corn
wallis opening OF the first federal par
lament The January date is the one
most favored.
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nenrlk Ibssn.. Earlr Llfs.

Henrik Ibsen ftty years ago was
serving behind the counter Of a
country drug store. The dispensing
OF medicines. however, did not suit
tastes OF the celebrated Norwegian,
and during his apprenticeship he was
hard at work reading for the profes-
sion OF a doctor. In order to exc out
a very small salary he took 10 writing,
with what result the whole world
knows
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LEADERsrrss
Local Happenings Of city and Terri.
tory Briefly Told.

The Cambridge club Win meei 10
morrow afternoon ate2 O'Clock with
Miss Helen Green. N8
A satisfactory agreement has been
reached in the case Of Barnes, Fesan
and other against l. y, Levy and Phil
Goodhart. to quiet title to the farm Of
Eliza Cummins, which is.slnased east
Of town and adjoining the Haiper ad-
dition. Under the present settlement
Of the suit the farm viii be plated
and sold, making another addition %
Guthrie on the east.
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Fortunate chnd.

In the town OF Manzanares, IN Spain,
the birth Of the first year OF this CEN
tury was curlously honored by the
municipality. Having recognized the
claims OF the expiring year by paying
the funeral expenses OF the last in
habiteRt Of the town 70 die In It, the
local authority undertook TO bear the
cost OF the .ucation Of the first child
born in the new year.
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Flying is not a twentieth century
idea. As far back as 1878 Friar Bacon
predicted that flying would shortly"
become a general practice and Bishop
wilkins in 1852 said: IL viii yet be
as usual TO hear a man call for his
wings when he is going on a journey
as II IS now to hear him call for his
boots"
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Houss Rnnt of nnt.on.

A house built of buttons is the lat
est thing in architecture, and certain
French musical celebrity is building
it. The walls. the ceilings. the. doors,
exterior and the interior are all. orna-
mented with buttons OF every desorip-
tion. Every country has heen ran
sacked and some very curious specl-
mems. are. reported to- -haYe.--been
brought to light