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their clothes And on the wall the
picture of the Emperor is hung. They
will not sleep pushing their feet toward
the picture. They think it would be
an inexcusable matter The dining
room is large enough for six hundred
students, the table being clean and
the carpet we'll swept The students
are not permitted to drink any wine
whatever, but the boys above twenty
have liberty to smoke. They enjoy a
sufficient freedom under the circum-
stances.
There is one small building which is
sacred temple to the students, and it
is nothing but the room for the relics
of the China-Japanese war. If you
enter the building, you will first en-
counter nine portraits of the officers
who were killed at the battle on the
Yellow Sea, the Commander, Hachiro
Sakamoto, being their head By the
Commanders picture there is hung a
map of the Yellow Sea. And the fol-
lowing words are written:
"The Commander Sakamoto stood
firm and commanded the sailors. He
was shot by the enemy, and his body
was scattered in the air, but the blood
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low, but firm and intelligent officer.
Admiral Masaji Togo, the present
president of the academy, is the idol
of the students. He regards the stu
dents as his own children. He and
his fellow professors take turns in
making weekly house party for the
students. 1t brings them into closer
relations. They want to influence
them from all sides And any student
will tell you that an invitation to the
party is one of the delights.
At the party tea and cakes usually
appear. There will be singing by the
wife and daughter of some professor.
They will finish up with the glorious
story of some officer who achieved
wonder by killing himself for his
country's sake. The student will re-
turn to his dormitory, promising
himself he will not be coward in
any crisis. His whole soul is for the
Japanese Empire and his august En-
peror, and for the sea.
If you peep into the dormitory
you will find the students beds in
regular order. four in one room. Six
blankets are given to each bed Under
the bed there is wooden box for
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01
Calcuffa's Tyo Police Forces

The police force of Calcutta is main
ly composed Of Sikhs, but one-third of
the force consists of white policemen.
The latter are supposed to keep or
der among the white residents and
visitors, especially the sailors and sol
dlers, while the Sillhs attend to the ma
tives. Except in critical cases, where
prompt action means life or death, the
Sikhs are forbidden to arrest, or even
touch, white men. The most they can
do is to follow the offender until they
meet white policeman, to whom they
can complain
On the other hand, a white police
man may not ordinarily arrest or
touch native; he can only order this
to be done by his native assistants.
But in case of riots between whites
and natives, the Sikh and British po-
licemen do not spend much time in
discriminating between colors.
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HIS picture, reproduced from
an ancient Japanese color
H. print, represents the manner
in which the samurai-the
two-sworded warriors of old Japan
secuted at night when they were on
the war path They carried a bell
shaped dark lantern, made Of tough
black paper, which showed no light
unless it was turned upwards.
This lantern was used for the pur-
pose Of signalling to distant comrades
by set code OF movements, and NAV,
therefore, be regarded as the prirni-
tive form Of the searchlight and the
Photograph The light was produced
by kind Of vegetable tow soaked in
wax and oil, which gave a steady light
for long period of time
The samurai shown using the Ian
tern was one Of the famous Forty
seven Ronins," who are accounted
among the greatest heroes of Japan
because Of their self-sacrihcing devo-
ton to their daimio, or feudal lord.
This daimio was insulted by another
lord and drew his sword upon him
within the precincts of the shogun's
pllace-an act punishable by death
tle was sentenced to commit ''hari
kari, and carried out the sentence in
accordance with Japanese custom.
His samurai, who had now become
lronins-that is, samurai without
determined to avenge his death
on the man who had insulted him.
This was their sacred duty, according
to the Japanese code Of ethics. After
lmany adventures and perils, they sue
ceeded in taking the palace of their
enemy by storm and capturing him.
In Difference to his noble birth. thew
offered to allow him to commit "hari
kari" but he refused, and they
slew him.
Although their act was a perfectly
righteous one from the japanese
standpoint, they were condemned bv
the shotgun to kill themselves. Those
who were left OF the forty-seven Went
to the grave OF their dead lord in a
body, placed the head Of his enemy
upon it, offered up prayers and sacri-
hces, and then disembowelled them
selves.
The samurai shown in the picture i
dressed in black, which was the color
usually adopted BY ronins AZ s;on
that they were without a lord ana onen
70 employment to soldiers OF fortune
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he spilled remains on this map. What
glorious blood he spilled! His death
is the glory of our Empire and of oul
academy, where he was once stu
dent"
At your right you see the half
ruined mast of 'Fuso"-what a dash
ing ship she was at the time of the
China-Japan war! At your left are
the broken pieces of the torpedoes
which struck the Chinese battleship al
Wal Hai-Wei. Is that not "Matsus-
hima's" searchlight? Yes, these are
the pieces from 'Naniwa" which was
shot at thirty-three centimeters.
When you see them-if you are Jap
anese-you cannot help your fighting
blood rising high Surely, you will
regard yourself as one of the protec-
tors Of the Island Empire. You will
dash into the sea, when any call falls
upon you. Every student is invited to
spend hours in this building to
sharpen his patriotic spirit. All the
students believe that their graves lie
under the seas.
Among the students you will find
several princes, Many prince was
educated here, the late Prince Taru-
hito Arisugawa, prince among
princes, being the first. Prince Ko-
matsu, Prince Yamashina, Prince Ka-
cho, were all educated here
The younger Prince Arisugawa en-
tered last year He is only seventeen.
He is not excepted from the school
rule. He must get up before six, and
must make his own bed. And he must
be careful not to mistake his towel.
The newspapers report that he is ad-
vancing nightly in study and enjoy
ing his school life. His favorite study
is said to be mathematics. All the in
structors are looking to his future
growth.
Yeda Island is typical place for a
naval school. No effeminate atmos-
phere would dare approach. The dis
solute song of geisha girl and the
degenerating odor of sake are far
away beyond reach, but the true air
of Japanese patriotism and the voice
of self-sacrihce are here. What the
students see day and night is the
water-nothing but water.
YONE NOGUCHI.
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The Honorable Record of the LeUiS Family

Der of Assembly in 1874, and when
Patrick Henry's celebrated resolutions
were carried, he was one of the COM
mittee appointed to prepare plan Of
defense.
When Washington received his COM
mission as commander-in-chi of the
Revolutionary Army he expressed the
wish that the appointment had been
given to General Lewis, who had sig
nally distinguished himself in the In
dian wars.
Among the noble figures grouped at
the base of the equestrian statue of
Washington in Richmond, Va, one
bears the name Andrew Lewis. One
of Washington's life guards was
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The Silent Partner
of the CuriO Dealers

~ F ALL the collectors of curios
A in New York-and there are
~ a good many Of them-Mr.
A. Drake, the art director Of
a well-known magazine, is one Of the
best-known among the dealers. His
particular fad is the collection of art
objects relating to Russian handi-
work in painting and silver and brass
working.
MIR. Drake has been doing this sort
Of collecting for many years, and
among the dealers Of the Russian
quarter in the lower and upper East
Side of the city he is greatly revered,
because, as they express it, Che knows
a good thing when he sees it."
Drake is wonder" said one of his
friends the other day. HE is called
the silent partner Of the dealers. He
goes out among them and says, 4
would like this or that, and whatever
he says he wants the dealer lays aside
for him.
I was in one of the Norfolk street
shops the other day where | found
a piece of Warsaw silver that | want.
ed, | asked the price of it. Eight
dollars, said the dealer. 4 will take
it, said l.
Then | found where the silent part
nership came in. The dealer hesitated,
stroked his beard, pulled violently on
his cigarette, and said, No. Drake
SO found that nearly everything
worth while in the collections of
curios Of Russian handiwork in New
York has been discovered by Mr..
Drake, and that he has staked his
claims on all the things that are suited
to the collection of one who really
knows what Russian craftsmanship
means. Some day | hope he may write
book about it. If | can't buy the
things he has, then the next best thing
is to read about them as only he could
describe them.
Still, continued the would-be col
lector, i do object most seriously to
this matter of going into curio shop
and having man who can speak but
two, words Of English say to me, No.
Drake
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81 did not ask for Mrs, Lewis" was
the calm, statesmanlike reply.
"But | don't know when she will
be back" urged the maid.
Neither do l." philosophicalfy re.
piled Disraeh, but am going to wait
till she does come back, so please
make me cup of tea"
He did wait, he got his tea, and he
married the widow.
General Lewis Family Associations
have been formed, also a Lewis
League, and a publication is issued
called "Lewisiana"
When there is a reunion of the fam
lily many interesting anecdotes are re-
lated and much light thrown upon the
achievements of different members of
the family. One story, apropos OF
corporal punishment of children, NAV
be timely, considering the discussion
now going on relative to this subject.
A David Lewis, in Colonial times,
sometimes taught school gratuitously
for the benefit of the poor. He never
whipped his pupils, but if any had
violated the rules during the week, on
Friday he was sent home, with a bun
die of rods tied to his back"
Two distinguished members of the
Lewis family were Captain Winslow
Lewis, who built over two hundred
lighthouses for the Government. He
also invented the pinnacle illumination.
now in general use.
The senior commander of the
famous military expedition sent out in
1904 by the Government was Cap
tain Merriweather Lewis. The expe-
dition discovered the Columbia River.
and established our title to vast ter
ritory.
The Lewis arms are gules. a griffin
sergeant, or, crest, demi-grifin, or.
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The Macedonian's Last Resort.

The Macedonian insurgent soldier
is equipped very much as are other
soldiers, with one exception. The dis
tinction lies in his knapsack, a canvas
bag slung over his shoulder.
In the bottom of this is a pocket
and in this pocket is dynamite bomb
This is the Macedonians 'last re-
sort" If he is surrounded by Turks
he ignites the fuse to his bomb anc
blows up, with as many of his enemie:
as he can. for no Macedonian ever
wants to be taken prisoner. He mus
choose between death and torture, anc
he ALWAYS takes death.
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business woman she may be,
- said a theatrical manager the
other day in speaking of his
long experiences with actresses and
writers of operas and plays, II never
knew woman yet who didn't display
some time the trace of the eternal
feminine in scm1 of her business
transactions. 1t is bound to come to
the surface sooner or later, and more
often than not it shows in the most
unexpected places.
There is Carolyn Wells, for in
stance, who, | suppose, is one of the
cleyerest business women among all
the writer's Of her sex, as we'll as a
clever maker of verse and fiction. But
even she shows occasionally the atti-
tude of the eternal feminine inconsist-
ency-which, by the way, is the real
Jewel after all She had written a
book for an opera which had been
submitted to me for consideration. AS
whole | could not use it, but there
was one lyric that | wanted to inter-
polate in another opera which | had
running. | telegraphed her, asking if
| could have The Kitten Song Her
reply was, You can have the kitten.
You can have the kitten
The next time | saw her l asked
why she had told me that could have
the kitten twice WE'LL she replied,
| could send ten words for the same
price as FIVE, and | thought | might
just as we'll get all that the telegraph
company would stand for l always
did love bargains.
On one occasion Miss Wells was
driving with the friend who worked
with her in the writing of 'The Cor
don Elopement." Over a doorway she
discovered the sign:
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The Tamest Bear in the World.

There is an animal which every
Zoo in the world would be glad to OBJ
tain a specimen Of said the director
of one of the leading geological parks
in the United States. eft is the Koala,
or Australian bear-the only bear in
Australia
Though occasionally taken to Eu-
rope, it has never lived long away
from Australia. Yet it takes kindly
to captivity, and makes a charming
pet when captured young. 1t is the
tamest bear in the world. Even the
wild adult animals will allow them
selves to be handled without making
the least resistance"
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Unpublished Record Of
an NuthOr'S Struggles


TT WAS in bungalow on his place
near Glenroy, California, that the
Il late Frank Norris finished his
story of "The Pit" 1t had been
one of his life ambitions to own a
ranch in the country of his first love.
He had difficulties enough to begin
with, and his struggles in many lands
before he made folks believe that he
could write the things they wanted
to read were of sort that-had they
occurred two hundred years ago
would have made romances like those
of the writers whose books are now
sold in vellum editions with portraits
extra.
But Frank Norris was not quite
Of that sort after all, says one who
knew him. When the Jameson raid
was uppermost in the minds of the
people, Norris was at the front of it
all. He said little about it at the
time, but he has made little diary
which tells his emotions and his feel
ings and his observations better than
anything | have ever seen-and have
read good many books which were
published and which were not pub
lished. Norris's diary begins with
his steamer trip, and he tells of. his
impressions. Even in the shape Of
the letters themselves, as he wrote
them in his book, one may see the
swing of the steamer, and, you choose
to be careful, the tinge of seasick-
ness which is over it all.
L don't suppose the book will ever
be published, but if it should be, there
would be seen the most intimate i'm
pressions of man who knew how to
look at things with a proper sense Of
perspective, as anyone can observe
who takes the time to read The Pit
and speaking of Norris and his
ambition to have ranch in California,
the place he finally decided upon was
that next to the one owned by Mrs.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The boun-
dairy lines have heretofore been
marked in the usual manner-with
fences. Put since Mr.. Norris's death
Mrs. Stevenson has placed a great
stone bench on the boundary line, and
this in memory of the boy who knew
his California--and the world at large
and had to go away before he told
all that he knew"
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o. F. BOAS.

She stopped the carriage and asked
her friend to go in and do an GRAND
What can | do?" he asked.
] want to know if that mans name
is Ostrich Feather Boas," she replied.
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in the hands of our navy.
Z. And our navy is our glory.
1t sufficiently proved its
strength and capacity of heroic sac
rifce for its country's sake in the
China Japan war some nine years
ago And the world is wondering
over its daring act at Port Arthur to-
day. Its fighting spirit and undaunt-
ed belief in the growing Empire are
given il by eight hundred and eight
gods who guard Japan, as we say in
Japan. 1t may be not without inter
est to tell where Our Naval Academy
is situated, and how the officers are
made
Japan's scenic beauty is especially
thickened in the inland sea. If you
leave Osaka and sail among the hun
bred isles like pebbles, which are ten
DERBY closed in by the fantastically
shaped pine trees, you feel yourself
to be in some garden pond in a far
happier realm. And how blue is the
Japanese sky!
By and bye, you will find the sea
growing narrower by Onomichi and
Itozaki. You shall slowly go into the
strait of Ondo-what a lovely name
is this, Master of Music" and pres
entity see Kure, our naval station.
And there, calmly facing the station,
lies the Yeda Island, where our Naval
Academy is situated
The water of the bay of Yeda Shima
is nothing but silver, the bay being a
looking-glass. You may see the white
walls of some fifty buildings and their
high roofs amid the pine and cedar
trees, if you raise your eyes from the
bay
Undoubtedly, you will find some
students in the school yards when you
approach Their chief amusements
are playing tennis, learning iujitsu, or
fencing, and rowing a boat And if
the season were spring dear sir,
Yeda Shima is eternally spring with
a fine breeze-they will climb the
hills in the neighborhood
1t would be interesting to chat with
one of the students sitting on the
velvety moss of the yard. He will
tell you, first of all, of the orderliness
of the school If any bugle blows, he
will jump up, leaving his talk abrupt
ly He will be punished if he be late
He drills as strictly as any soldier.
He proudly begs you not to compare
his with the drill OF any other higher
academies, and he will not hesitate to
declare that it is simply a child's play
compared to his own.
Ten students make one division,
which is superintendent by one Off
GER By the way, all the students are
counted FIVE hundred and sixty-eight
at present. Each student must make
his own bed at seven o'clock strictly.
And he must be careful not to mistake
his own towel. A small thing is re-
garded important here.
If you ask the system of education
of the academy, our student will take
out a few sheets of paper from his
pocket, on which the school rules are
written. You will be informed by
them that the academy regards spir-
itual education as higher than any
scientific study. To say spiritual edu-
cation means the making of a true
oficer-a real samurai on the sea. The
aim is to make not simply a clever fell
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A Good Pointer.

Most folks are not only known by
the company they keep, but by the
things they should have done, and
didn't
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Pioneer John Lewis" as he is
styled, came to America in 1920, set
Ting in Virginia. Patents are still ex-
tant by which the King granted him
a large portion OF West Virginia. A
part of the fort he built-Fort Lewis
still stands
John Lewis claim to distinction
should be that he furnished FIVE sons
to fight the battles of the Revolution
of whom the most famous was Gen
eral Andrew Lewis. He was mem.
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Most Difficult Thing in the World.
The most difficult thing in the
world to quarrel with is silent wo-
man, and nothing makes a man want
to quarrel SO much as when his wife
refuses to reply to his unanswerabe
arguments
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BY ELEANOR LEXINGTON.
THE tradition is that the name
Lewis, or Lewes, which is
very ancient, originated in
France, where it was spelled
Louis. 1t means strong or brave, or
a bold warrior.
Upon the revocation of the Edict
of Nantes, members of the family
who were Huguenots fed to Wales
and Ireland.
1t is said that when Adam got tired
of giving names to his descendants, he
said, LET all the rest be called
Smith" A member of the house of
Lewis says, 81 think it probable that
for hundred years or so previous to
this he had been giving them the
name of Lewis, and only changed to
Smith when he had grown tired of
that, for you find Lewises everywhere,
of all ages, sizes, kinds and occupa-
tions"
Among Pilgrim Fathers were Rob
ert Lewis, who came over in the
Plain Joan, and settled in Virginia,
and Daniel Lewis, who was one of the
founders of Westerly, R. l. Francis
Lewis, a signer of the Declaration OF
independence, came from Wales.
Two brothers, John and George
Lewis, came to Plymouth about ten
years after the landing of the May
flower. They were born in East
Greenwich, England, where Henry
VIII. and Queen Elizabeth also first
saw the light.
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The Lewises were allied BY mar
rage to the families of two other
Presidents of the United States-Gov-
ernor Andrew Lewis son married
Lucy Madison, relative of President
James Madison, and the widow OF
John Lewis married James Taylor, a
relative of President Zachary Taylor
Apropos of this subject occurs the
story OF Disraeli's courtship. He was
in love with Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, a
widow. One day, when he went te
call, the lady, sitting by the window
saw him approaching, and ordered the
servant to say that she was not al
home. When the maid reached the
hall, the gentleman was hanging UT
his overcoat.
Mrs. Lewis, sir. is not at home
said the Hurried maid.
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Chauncey Lewis, and the Robert
Lewis who was his private secretary
was also his nephew, the son of his
only sister, Betty, who was the second
wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis. Rob-
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ert's brother Lawrence married Mrs.
Washington's granddaughter, Eleanor
GUSTS.
The mother of Washington was
buried on the estate of her son-in-law,
at Fredericksburg. Over her grave
is the monument erected to her mem
DRY by the women of the different
patriotic societies. The estate is now
owned by the Society for the Pres
ervation of Virginia. Antiquities"
Colonel Lewis was man of taste and
discernment in his matrimonial affairs
nothing less than the best would
suit him. His first wife was also a
Observation-Disclosures Washington,
cousin of Betty's. For Madame
Betty her husband built a beautiful
home, which was near her mothers,
and the venerable, but active, old lady,
Mary Washington, used often to walk
over in the morning to spend the day
with her daughter, followed by her
maid, Patty, who carried an extra wrap
for her mistress and the little basket
of knitting. Stephen, the pompous
old coachman, came over with the
chaise for madame in the evening.
One of the most interesting and
precious of the Washington relics is
the Bible which belonged to Mary
Washington, and is now in the pos
session of one of the Lewises. The
venerable volume is covered with a
homespun plaid of now faded blue and
buf-the Continental colors.
Another relic, treasured by a de-
scendant of Pioneer John Lewis" is
the powder horn used by Washing
ton.
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Je0rchEght

VHIS picture, reproduced from
an ancient japanese color
u print, represents the manner
in which the samurai-the
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HbOut Carolyn UeILS

TT DOESN'T matter how great
business woman she may be,
H. said theatrical manager the