The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
JAPANESE LEADER
 4 PARIS FAVORITE Attended Scientific Lectures
 and Led Gay Life HAD TEMPEST IN TEA POI Was Mlffed at oepning of the Paris Exposition and Left France
 Never to Return--An In-
 teresting Character.
HAD TEMPEST IN TEA POT
BY PIERRE RosIER.

BY PIERRE ROSIER.
 Paris. November 19.-Names familiar to us crop up in the reports of the battles round thouse Manchurian cities. We now hear of an old favorite of Parislan society as leading on the Mil<ado's cavalry there I mean Prince Kanin Kotchito, cousin Of the Emperor he so well serves. Kanin came here a youth to study military science in it's different branches. He par ticularly devoted himself to cavalry, and spent some years at Saumur studying horses, horsey people, and cavalry tac- tics. A vet. who was attached to the cavalry school during the period of Prince. Kaninis initiation tells me that he used to play the closest attention to the dis eases of horses, and had special instruc- ton in them both at saumur and the AL fort and Lyons schools. In his vacations he went to Tarbes with officers who had remount business to transact, and to the remount centres of Germany and Hun gary Says the vet Prince Kanin had the name of being careful of his mcAey and yet more parsimonious of his time. But he could let out in his expedlture when dignity had to be kept up, and he did not think 1t waste of time to go to stag hunts or on visits to the great cha teaux near Saumur' At the time he studied cavalry tactics the Royalists seemed to gain strength in politics, and he might have been urged by other mo- tives than fondness for their society in keeping company with them. He was too intelligent to have cared for champion ship with the young fellows at the school. French cavalry officers differ from infan- try and artillery in being generally tall, Of noble birth, and numszulls.
 Came to Paris.
 When Prince Kanin had learned all that Saumur could give him. he came to reside In Paris, went to scientific lectures, and plunged into the amusements of brilliant society. He drove the neatest phaeton and pair In the Bois, and visited the boxes most fashionable at the opera and the Francais on subscription nights. He at one time thought of making q military tour of Madagascar but gave 1t up for the sake of a romantic attachment. The lady though him feather in her cap, and felt fiattered whenever she heard of his name being coupled with hers. A hero of Disraeli could not have led an apparently more brilliant or trivial life. Behind the scenes 1t would have been a life that satisfied ambition, patriotism and self-re-
 
 Japanese. Kanins oblique eyes and obli- quer eyebrows declared his far eastern blood. The rest of the fact was massive an Imperial Japanese characteristic, but without harshness. 1t seemed a strange cross between the Mlkado's and that of the great bronze image of Budha In the Cernuschi museum.
 He Returns to Japan.
 Not wishing to drink the cup of Pari- sian entertainments to the dregs, Kanin suddenly returned to Japan and married a lady connected with the Imperial fam fly. We heard no more of him until the MilSado sent him as his representative to the opening of the 1900 exhibition. When he arrived the bewitchment of the Rus sian alliance had not subsided, and the official word saw Japan through Russian eyes. This led to curious incident at the opening of that ver-to-be-forgotten show The Russian government had hint ed to the French that 1t hoped Kanin would not be assimilated to a Grand Duke at any official ceremony At the time such a hint was thought natural The Director of the Protocol, on being consulted proposed to save the dignity of the Japanese Prince in this strange way: He was to be placed in the tribune of the official ladies, instead of in that of the President of France; the country of cniv- airy could not honour Kanin more than in seating him between Mines. Fallieres and Waldeck-R Rousseau. The former, as wife of the president of the senate, ranked with Mme Loubet What could be more civil than to set the Mllxaao's cousin be- tween her and the wife of the prime min ister? Yes, if the ceremony had taken place at the Elysee or the Petit Luxem- boug. At 1t happened, those ladies. known as official, have no protocolar rank out of- doors. Kanin knew this. As the 'Marseilaise" hailed NJ Loubet, the Prince from Japan rose and departed He left for London by the next Calais ex- press to his own country without revisit ing Paris This "tempte dans un verre d eau' may have facilitated the Anglo .f .TItA