Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-05

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Outside the hills again Is trench fif-
teen feet deep and thirty feet wide.
running from water to water. 1t Is ap-
parently an impregnable fortress, 80
far as any fortress can be impregnaole.
But" says Mr.. Kirby, that doesn't
mean that Port Arthur can not be TAX
en-. Nobody knows how many Japan
ese there are inside its walls right now.
Nobody knows how many have been
there ever since Russia took posses
sion. l was driving about with mis-
sionary who had been for years III
Manchuria. He pointed out coohe
to me. See that Chinaman? ne askeo'
I saw him; he was an unusually fine
looking Chink. See his pigtail! l
saw it. Bet it would come or II
you pulled It,, he said. He isn't a Chl-
naman; he Is Jap
"Then he told me of an experience
he had up in Manchuria- He was
watching some coolies at work on some
Russian improvements. One OF them
spoke up and said:
"'How are you doctor" He didn't
know the man, but the man spoke ex-
cellent English and spoke 1t collopuial-
ly. He found out after while that the
man was a lieutenant in the Japanese
army. A Chinaman's pigtail Is mostly
an artificial product anyway. 1t strats
out genuinely enough, and then horse
hair and cloth strips and things are
braided into it until 1t drops to MS
heels.
"The two races are so much alike
that it is a very easy matter for
Japanese who has let his hair grow ror
year or two to fake up a pigtail that
Is as good as the Chinese grown arti-
Gle. 1 haven't the slightest doubt tnat
Port Arthur is full of Japanese-and
what that will mean in case Of war no
body knows. 1t may mean that Port
Arthur will be blown sky high the day
war Is declared. We will have to wait
and see.
1.-THE campaign will be right there at
Port Arthur any way. The japanese
will undoubtedly go up the gulf and
strike across to cut the railroad. When
they have done that 1t will be case
Of a starve out seige. The Russians
are on the alert all the time. They
keep two ships lying outside OF the
mouth Of the harbor, and their men are
drilled constantly inside the fortifica-
tions.
1T will be a great scrap when II
comes off. The Japanese will fight ike
devils. They will have all the adVan-
tage of transport and Of well organ
lied commissary. The Japanese does
not eat much. The Russian is glut-
ton. 1t is going to be mighty problem
to get his food to him. The Russian
soldier Is a perfectly we'll disciplined
beast of burden. He will go where he
Is put and will stay there until he Is Or
dered away, but he has no initiative. If
you tell him to do something he has
done before, he will do it. ButJif ne
hasn't done it before he will have to be
shown how, and it will be painfully
difficult process.
Take a Russian up to twenty foot
wall and tell him to go over 1t and ne
will lean with his head against that
wall looking up at the top until ne
starves to death. The Jap will find
some way Of getting over It, For a
while the Japanese will carry every
thing before him. But in the end the
momentum, the inexhaustible numbers
of the Russian and the mass of them
are going to tell"
Mr.. Kirby compared the prospect to
that of a game between a light, active
football team and a heavy team OF
beefy slow players. The big team in
evitably gets knocked all to pieces In
the first half of the game. but In the
end. though battered and bruised and
lame, 1t bears down the light. active
team by sheer weight.
Mr.. Kirby found the Chinese pro-
foundly Indifferent to the game that Is
going OH dIOuiiu liicli' - wv
man has his Chow" says Mr.. Kirby,
and is not pestered beyond all endur-
ance he is perfectly satisfied. He hates
the foreigners, but he doesn't love his
own country. He doesn't care who
governs him. He has not the slight
est spark of patriotism or any sort OF
enthusiasm.
An intelligent Chinaman told Mr.
Kirby that he did not think that the
people resented the Russian influence
that Is already so clearly visible. He
did not think that the people would care
much If the Russian control became
open and above board instead Of being
exerted through the empress. as now.
But the Chinese people like the ia
panese. There is almost no hard feel
ing left as a result of the war between
the nations. They fraternize In the mil
itary camps about Peking and Tien
Tsin and get along very we'll together.
The Russians may be strong enough
in official circles to put their private
telegraph wire up along the right OF
way of the British railroad, but they
cannot get the people to rise and heip
them fight Japan.
HEART WOUNDS Not NECESSARILY
MoRTAL.-In wounds Of the heart IT