The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-09
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CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE JAPANESE
StrikingIy Illustrated in Way
They Use American Tools
AT THE WORLDS FAIR
WONDERS or TIE "fsADls.
PHONE" WHICH SENDS
MESSAGE ALONG A
BEAM or LIGHT.

J Special to The Bulletin.
St Louis, Nov 5,--The other da,
while we were walking through tn
Japanese section of the forestr,
, building we saw Jap carpentc
J wrestling with an American saw
was one OF the funniest sights of th'
exposition. He was trying to saw (
, board in two and instead Of doing il
1.-THE way they do in Japan he was
trying bis best to initiate an Ameri
can carpenter It is this initiative
faculty of the Japs. indeed. that
makes them by far the most interest
ing people at the fair.
The efforts of the Igcrrotes and
the Moros to talk English are funny
enough, but not half so funny as the
performances of the Japs when they
get hold OF American tools. The Jap
| could pull the saw toward him easy
enough-they pull everything toward
them in Japan but when ii came to
pushing it the saw doubled up, the
| Jap struggled and grew red in the
face and looked rs though he wanted
TO swear, and as there are no swear
words" in the Japanese language, he
naturally would have to swear in
English.
Patience Rewarded.
But he finally cut the board in two
after much laborious putting and
struggling, and he surveyed the re.
suits with much satisfaction. While
he was doing this one of the beavers
in the pool near by could have built
one OF his dome-shaped houses, d.
yided into compartments. and he
would lave done 1t quietly, smoothly
and without am cuss.words. And vel
we seem to; regard the bipeds as be
longing to higher order of intelli.
gence than the quadrupeds. am
told that the Jap carpenter pulls or
draws the plane saw. and every other
tool toward him The idea of push
ing or showing tool along has never
occurred to him. And yet no race Is
acquiring the idea OF American
push" 50 rapidly as the Japanese.
The Japs are pushing hard to make
up for lost time and even now are
engaged in desperate struggle to
push Russia off the map.
The Nest interesting Sights.
John AMI Jane and are having
some difficulty IN deciding which are
The mott Interesting sights we have
seen thus far at the fair. We took a
vote on it. last night. or course John
voted Ia favor OF the airships az once,
3rt when we confined him TO the OK
aibit palaces he was inclined to re
gard the big revolving and running
locomotive in the center Of the trans
pressiye sight although he was very
much interested in the making OF
electric incandescent lamps the
whole process of which Is shown in
the electricity building. II was the
first tire I over knew that the ar
was all pumped out of the glass glob
ules before they are sealed up ready
for use No wonder they go off"
with loud explosion when they are
hit with something. They |
work Of making these wonderful lit
le lamps embraces about fifteen pro
cesse5 all done by the skillful ami |
def fingers of women and all nre
sented in such way as to be plainly |
seen by Worlds fair visitors.
Matching OF Fish.
Jane thinks the most interesting |
thing she has seen is the demonstra
ton by the government of the hatch |
Ing Of salmon FISH from the tiny pea
shaped pink eggs 20 the minnows that |
go swimming about by the thousands |
For myself doubt If could pick our
any one thing and say it was the |
most Interesting thing / have seen |
at the fair. Among the most wonder |
ful things TO me are the wireless tel |
egraph mechsnisms by which mes
sages are sent through the air with |
out wires, the 'pelautograph. by /
which message Is sent and repro /
dueed at the other end OF the wire in
your own hand writing. exactly the |
same as you wrote l.; and the "radi.
ophone." sort of wireless telephone
which actually sends messages along
q beam Of light. This radiophone"
delight hundreds Of visitors every
day ! on enter a little booth and /
speak IN nirrcr which throws en- In
tense beam CT light to a distant mir
ror and through some mysterious
property Of the metal selevium the
sounds Of your voice are actually con
reyed TO telephone receiver near