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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-12-17

placed an autograph inscription,
Very truly yours,
WIN, LOEB, JR
Secretary TO the President.
Hon, VIM, II. Pope. Associate Jus.
tice, Supreme Court of New Mexico.
Santa Fe, N. NJ.
Thus showing, as You have already
noticed, that instead tof complying
with my request to have indicated
what photographer would furnish the
best photograph. the president,
promptly, through his private secra.
tary. forwarded such photograph.
suitably endorsed with his signature.
To this letter, on July ist. made
the following response:
To Hon VIM. Loeb. Jr, Secretary to
the President. Washington, d. G.,
My Dear Sir
have this day received your let.
ter Of June 21st, accompanied by n
photograph OF the president, to be
presented to the county OF Roosevelt
upon the occasion of the dedication
Of Its new court house.
My sincere thanks, both personal
and on behalf OF the people ! repre-.
sent. are due the president for this
unry oauaro,a racnoppa IN tho ranuaat
| made. and VIII thank you very
much to convey these TO him for me-
The gift will be highly priced by
the community for which II was In
tended, and its presence In their court
room will. | am sure. prove an In
centiye both TO obedience to that law
fer whose enforcement the president
as an official stands, ana to that high.
er citizenship so conspicuously ex.
emplifed by him In his private life
! am.
Very respectfully yours.
WIN. H. POPE.
! have had the photograph In qncs
tion suitably framed, and II now gives
me great pleasure To deliver II 10 you.
Mr. Chairman. as the representative
Of the governing board Of the county
of Roosevelt
trust that his photograph, now
committed TO your care, Will aa It
hangs In your court room during the
years 10 come prove an Incentive to
the emulation Of those qualities
which irrespective af politics we
recognize and honor IN Theodore
Roosevelt. AS your county grows In
population and prosperity. may iis
patriotism keep pace with It's pros
ress. May The higher life" bo tho
goal toward which your citizenship
shall strive. May this building, this
day dedicated to the purposes of your
courts, ever be the scene where even.
handed justlce--nothing more and
nothing less--shall be administered.
And In future years. when your chill.
dren and your children's children
shall revisit this room, and lool back
upon all that has been here performed
may they be able 10 say that We who
preceded them have builded well, and
may they add, reverentially. that they
(ContInued on page 2.)
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-12-17

Upon June 2lst letter was written,
entitled as follows;
WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON.
June 81. 1904.
My Dear Sir In response to your
letter OF the lith instant have pleas
uro in sending you with the presi.
dents compliments, the accompany
ing photograph upon which he has
placed an autograph inscription,
Very truly yotirg
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-26
JApAN'S MODERN SAMURAI
Bassett staines in Washington Star.


-sYou wouldn't think it to look at
Them" said an American resident of
Tokyo, as he showed tourist friend
a battalion of the Mikado's troops at
drill, "but those little fellows are as
good soldiers as any in the world
Do you see that off1cer?" pointing to a
company commander barely five feet
tall HE comes of samurai blood.
His ancestors have been warriors for
1000 years, and he could no more help
fighting than a well-bred terrier could.
And his comrades are like him..
1t has often been said that the Jap
anese are at once intensely modern and
profoundly medieval. This is espe-
cialIy true of the Japanese officer who
has been trained in Germany, England,
France or the United States. He is
full of western learning and western
notions; he knows as much about his
profession as a German staff officer,
and he would not seem out of place in
the highest social circles of a Euro
pean capital. But he never imbibes
the cosmopolitan spirit, nor any of the
fashionable cynicis1ns of the occident.
He does not forget that he comes of
Japan with his head still crammed full
of the old faith taught him in his boy
hood by his samurai tutor.
He despises trade, and believes that
money-making is fit only for the low
born and minded. He thinks it
is unmanly to seek for the favor of
women by wearing fine clothes and dis
playing his skill and accomplishments.
He deems luxury vain and foolish, and
lives a simple, hardy, athletic life.
Finally, he believes with his whole soul
that honor and arms are inseparably
connected, and consequently he wor-
ships his single sword as fervently as
his samurai ancestors worshipped their
brace of weapons.
IN THE RANK AND FILE.
In the enlisted ranks of the japanese
army and navy there is also a fair
sprinkling of this samurai class. Even
today nearly all japanese of that he
role ancestry are either fighting men
or follow some professional or intel
lectua1 vocation. The old prejudice
against trade survives as keenly as
ever. But the rank and file of the
Mikado's forces is principally made w
of the coolie class, brought in by the
wide drag-net of CONSUMPTION Law
which renders all male japanese be-
tween the ages of seventeen and forty
liable for military service.
For over two thousand years the
samurai alone were allowed to bear
arms in Japan. They were skilled
in the arts of war. and to them only
were impaired the polite breeding ant
superior training of the gentleman
1t is astonishing. therefore, that the
cooIie Japanese whose ancestors ,,-a,e
never permitted to fight, should have
proved themselves just as good soldiers
as those descendants of the san1uraf
with whom they fought shoulder to
shoulder in Kol ga, in Manchuria and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-26

which is normally not much more than
nalf the size of the British.
The daily life and social etiquette of
me Japanese officer differ materially
from those of his American, British
and European brethren. No japanese
would dream of. slapping brother Off
GER on the back and calling him "old
man, nor would he invade his rooms
unceremoniously and shout for a
brandy and soda. "Hazing" would be
IN impossible breach of good manners
The social intercourse of Japanese Off
'ers is regulated by most ceremoni-
BUS code of etiquette. Even the ca
lets though they are as high spirit
I'd and lively as cadets anywhere else,
always address one another with for
nal politeness. The stranger who
dropped into regimental mess might
suppose that the officers had only just
been introduced to one another, SO
marked is their apparent absence of
cordially.
But this is only on the surface In
eality a keen spirit of camaraderie
pervades the force. 1t is regarded as
most dishonorabIe to seek for promo
ton at the expense of a brother officer
even by methods deemed legitimate in
other service as, for example,, by Guilt
waiting social relations with the men
who dispense honors and rewards.
COMMUNISTIC PRINCIPLE
1t is said. with much truth, that in a
British regimental mess everything is
common property, except money, and
you have only got to ask the next man
for that" The same communistic prin-
ciple prevails in the japanese army,
but it is carried to even greater
lengths. The officers, true TO their
samurai traditions, pride themselves
on despising money They Will beggar
themselves cheerfully to enable II
friend. or even a mere acquaintance, to
settle his debt or the debts of members
of his family
An officer of one OF the regiments of
the Imperial Guard, stationed at Toxic,
made up his mind some time ago to ride
through GIanchuria and spy out what
the Russians were doing. He obtained
leave, but had not sufficient money for
the enterprise. AS it was not an Off
cial mission, he could not draw upon
the public funds. He mentioned his
quandary to a brother officer. That
officer Immediately went TO his room
and drew check for every yen he pos
SeSSSO III the WOFiU, DeyODQ MS pay
Even that was not enough, for he was
poor man. He told his comrades,
and they instantly subscribed all the
money they had available. BY night
fall the adventurous officer had started
for Manchuria, and there was hardly a
yen left in the regiment. This story
was told by a japanese in Philadelphia,
not at all as an unusual occurrence,
but simply as an illustration of the
brotherly spirit which. ordinarily pre-
walls among japanese officers.
In other services, notably in the Brit
ish, a large part of an officers day is
taken up by purely social obligations,
such as garden parties and afternoon
calls. There is very little of that kind
of thing. in the life of a japanese OFF,
Ger. which is fully occupied by his
professional duties from morning until
night. Nor is the luxury of an officer
life in other parts of the world found
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-26

| in Japan. The budding Won Moltkes
of the island kingdom habitually sus-
| tain life on dried fish and rice, like
their men; and they would desire moth
ing more substantial on the hardest
campaign. It was good enough for
them when they marched forty miles
a day through the Manchuria SHOWS,
during the war with China.
HAS FINE MATERIAL.
The rank and file of the army is ad-
mitted by practically all foreign experts
who have visited Japan to be composed
of excellent material. 1t is organized
and trained mainly upon the Prussian
model, but hints have been taken from
other foreign armies as well. The men
are armed with ma gazine rifle invent
ed by a japanese officer, Gen. Arisaka.
which is said to be a better weapon
than the improved Mauser. 1t is re-
markedly accurate and has a greater
stopping quality'-to use the military
tern-than most up-to-date magazine
rifles. That is to say, it makes a far
worse wound. At Omdurman the Brit
ish troops found that the Dervishes
charged up to their ranks after they
had half a dozen bullets through their
bodies-so small and clean was the
WOunu HldQe ny the 16S-hSlIOId I1Il--
Experts say that Will not happen when
the Arisaka rifle stands the test of bat
tie. It Will drop man in his tracks.
LIKE CONSUMPTION.
CONSUMPTION based upon the Euro
pean model was introduced into Japan
by imperial edict in 1874 Excepting
the samurai, the population had never
been used to military service-indeed,
they had been forbidden by law TO be
soldiers, but they took to it as a duck
ling takes to water. There was never
any objection to CONSUMPTION. The en-
peror had ordered it, and that was
enough for anybody in any case, but it
! was actually popular movement, for
| the japanese of ali ages and classes
thoroughly enjoy the military life.
All male Japanese between the ages
: of seventeen and forty are liable to
military service. but the active army
: is actually levied from males of the age
of twenty. The term of service is three
years in the army and four years in
/ the navy: the latter is the more popu-
/ lar. This inequality is made good when
/ the man passes out into the reserve.
| If he is a soldier he has to be a re-
! servist for four years and four months;
! but if a sailor, only three years.
| The reserves are based upon the COM
/ mon European system. The territorial
army" is practically a 'landwehr," in
which the term of service is five years.
| 1t is composed of men who have passed
| out of the standing arnly''-the active
i army and the first reserve. There is
| also a class of reserves not common in
| Europe-the depots for the army and
navy, which are composed of men who
! have not been enlisted in the standing
| army. Japan has thus reserve of
men who are going to be soldiers, as
| well as of men who have been soldiers.
| Finally, the national army" like the
European ''landstrum,'' sweeps up the
! leavings of the other organizations by
| embodying all eligible men between
seventeen and forty who have not been
! enrolled or have completed their term
in other branches of the service.
Continued on page 81
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-26

on the road to Picking. But such is
the fact. Many of the bravest deeds
in the history of modern Japan were
performed by soldiers and sailors be-
lorging to the coolie class.
When Rudyard Kipling was scam
pering around the world as the special
CORES ondent of the Pioneer and other
Indian newspapers, he fell in love with
the military qualities of the japanese
infantry and expressed a wish that he
might live to see fight between them
and the Ghurkhas, those terrible little
warriors who have won so much re-
nown along the Indian frontier But
he spoke contemptuously of the Japan
csc officers, whom he saw only with
, the casual eye of the globe trotter.
Gen. Grant with the insight of the
trained soldier, saw deeper. Durins
his visit to Japan he declared that tho
officers turned out by the staff college,
-, the military academy and other educa-
tional institutions of the army We're
among the finest in the world.
! TRAINING YOUNG OFFICERS.
I There are usually from 1900 to 1900
students in training to be officers of
the Japanese army. Expense is not
considered in teaching them; they are
given the best of everything, from a
professional point of view. Besides
the staff college and the military acad-
envy. there are a cadet school, a model
school, an artillery and engineering
school, a cavalry school, gunnery
school for field artillery an entirely
distinct gunnery school for garrison
artillery and various other institutions.
Formerly a large proportion of Jap
anese officers were sent abroad. prin-
cipally to Germany, to receive their
training. These men built up the
present organization of the japanese
army and established the various
schools and colleges referred to- 1t is
no longer necessary for any soldier
of the Mikado to leave his island home
in order to learn his trade. The Jap
anese officers sent to foreign coun-
tries nowadays are experts, and their
mission is to discover whether the mill
tary authorities of that country pos
sess any ideas in organization. equip
ment, training or discipline which are
better than those of Japan. The mill
tary attache of the japanese embassy
in London frankly stated the other day
that there were only two or three small
things in the British army worth
copying by Japan. And we shall
soon have them, whether we are obliged
to go to war or not ne added
IN ORGANIZING.
Great attention is paid to organiza-
ton in the japanese army. The active
strength of that army is under 1T. 00C
in time OF peace; that of the British
army nearly 900. Yet the Japan
csc general and departmental staff
numbers. according to the latest fig
ures. 3.575 officers and men. while the
British numbers only 1,163. That is
=. to say, the japanese have more than
three times as many men as the British
to look after the working of an army
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Gin Tabrraooteb befraft.

Sames Wie3ner, 0orarbeiter In Der
Snbianapolis gbair Gactorp. muroe
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itraft. Der &idtsr fano i'm idulois,
3uei Gabrrdoer 9effoblen gu baben.
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iaste aug, oaB Wie3nsr gu peri4ieoenen
Malen in isin @efddft fam unb ihm
biaiee Tabrrdbsr anbot, oab er fid jss
bod ffets meiserte, biefelben su f%aufen.
9as lsbts Mal, als Missnsr oas @e.
Iddft perlieB, fol9te er linn uno Bay
ter iaat, oaB Wiesner oas @ab Dor Dem
Staatsbauie fteben IieB. Serielbe be.
ftrsitet iemals Elm &ab geeisnet 3u
9aben uno fast aab garter IN Ssaug
auf bic Perion i'm Srrtbum let.
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S9ulratb.

Der Sdulratb beffdtiste in ieinei
geftrigen Sibung folgenoe bonn Super:
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Sdulen gemadtsn grnennungen:
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Better S9erer, gn9liI9e Spra1e; 8.
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Sronfon, Srunt & WtGer. s. 8.
Nesbitt, 3ei9nen; 6. s. Stotss, 8.
q. Miaer, 5anofertieteitsarbsitsh; 6.
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Saaar, 81 5apmortb, $ 8. Ssrob,
%. g. @rubbs, q. 8. 9ap,s uni
penelope Booth, glementarfd6er.
SIM @ansen beiuden SOP 3oslinet
Die Nbenoidulen; bisrbon finb l35
Garbi9e. SIN lebtea Sabre warei BIZ
Nbsnoidulsn bon nur 333 36sliasen
beiu9t.
2aura 6. Benedict tpurbe 3u tempo-
rdren prinaipalin Der Shule go. as
ernannt.
Gol9enoe &ef9nationen bon 2ebre=
rinnsn tuuroen aneenOmmen: Wdrit
Warb, 2incoln S9ule unD glifabetb
Osborne, Me2inlep Sdule.
Na9ftsbsnbsn 9ebrerinnen purben
1rlaub ertbeilt: Gillian 8rap Smith,
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big 80. Sanuar; 2ouiie 8rpsr. Srpins
S9ule, bonn 9. Sanuar biz 20. So.
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big 8. Sanuar.
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Ten.
Ser Morris Ctr. M. 6. 8emeinbe
tpuroe erlaubt, am Wontag ben 26.
DECEMBER bas AUDITORIUM Der gambler
ti9teitss 0odi6ule fur cine @eibnadtss
feier 5u benuBen. gs ioa cine @an=
tote aufsefhbrt tpsrben.
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Gin Drama i'm ,simterbaus.

@robes @ufieben in Nom srrest Der
Selbftmorb bss &ammerfteners
@dlpHer, bes eriten @efretGrs IN Der
Dfterrsi9t9 en 8ptf4ait beim Quirl>
nal, @rafen Spmifi9. Der &ammerz
biener befunp fi9 ieit flint Sabrsn I'M
OienIte bes 9rafen, pbne ii9 ie etrler
Sabel au5uSieben. @r mar jebo9 bis
iiber bic O6ren in tie 3ofe Der 9rd<
fin Namens Mntoinette Mi9eliti9
perliebt, pbne @esenliebe gu finben.
Oils bas Mdb9en ibrem 8eperber eis
nes Saaes runb beraus bon bieien ih>
rem Gmpfinbunsen Mittbellung gss
ma6t bate, fam Galofer uuf &a9s
unb brebte zines Sages ben 9asbabn
in lem 3immer feiner @eliebten auf,
nm ie su eritiden. 4ntOinette be-
merfte jebo9 ben Nni9las reht5eitis
unb f6loB ben perberbenbrpbenben
Sabn tpieber. @ls @9loFer 10 feinen
Mni6lae bereitelt ia6. brang er am
nG9ften Sage nit benz 9epebr ieinss
6errn in bic &drnmer M~rtpinette's Elm
unb brpbte, lie gu eri9ieben, tpenn lie
ni6t eintpifise, ibn gu beratben. @s
entIpann fi9 nun apii9en ben bsib:u
Elm &ingen auf 2eben unb Sob. bis
einige Saus6etpphner bas MGhden
aus ieiner perspeifelten Gage befrei>
ten. S9lpKer, Der fi9 auf biefe Dei>
Re entfedt lab, flob in isin 3immer
unb serfdmetterte ii9 bier nit einem
@GuB BEN S9dbel.
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Die Seretnisnns Der Gonntb=
@ommiKare bon Saoiana.

Die bier am Montag organifrte Ier'
einiauns Der @ountp : @ommihdre BON
Snbiana belt sefern wieosr cine gsr-
fammlune ab.
Sn berielben tpurbe cine &eiolutiOn
anaenommen, bur9 welhe Der @e=
brau4 bon Stimm=W aidinsn i'm 9an.
sen Staate empfoblen miro.
Die 2ea;slatur fol- erfu8t perben
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oiren, baB bic @ountp. @ommiHdre In
3ufunft cine liberalere Compensation
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Jerner iollen S9ritte getbar, tuerben,
bab bic COUNTY, @ommiFdre bas &edt
baben foaen, bis gum @ertb'
bon $500 (anfatt tuie 9egenwdrtie
$10O) ginfdufe su MAIDEN, obne erf
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gu Wit9lieoern oes Ss9islatur'
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,,Giir irttmer."

en- China f6einen bic @orte fir
tmrner" elm redt %bebnbarer 8egrtff gu
fetn. gu Nnfang porigen Sabres puroe
cine foiferli9e @erfiigung erlahen, Die
es fir ale 3utunft unterfagte, na9
einem beitimmten, in ben leBten 9erbit
fanenben Datum mod ben Wanbarie
nenrang gu b~ertaufen. Sarob geriet1
Der @eneraleouperneur Sfen in Der
propina 9uangii in bic srDbte @erlee
genbeit, pie er bas nOtbise @elb gu Der
enblihen Niebsrperfung Der nod inn
mer niat be5tpunsenen @mpOrung Be-
f9affen foue. Sn feiner Rotb bat er
bic Hegierung in pefing bringenb, fpes
nigftens in bieier einen Propina ben
@erfauf pieber erlanben gu pouen,
neil es bas einaise Mittel fei, bes &ufe
rubrs 6err gu perben. Sein Seinf
parb beipinist, unb bon petins aus
tpurben eebrudte 6ormulare bon bers
f9iebener @r0be, ie na4 Der 5Dbe bee
Ranges, na9 8uangit gei4tdt. Sori
fann IL, alfo pieber jeber, benz fein
Gelbbeutel es erlaubt, einen Der begebrs
ten bunten 8nDpfe fir feline &opfbsbsds
ung ertperben.
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Nene Smeorporationen.

Die s.. @. unb M. Oil Co." bon
Mlsranoria, Maoiion @ountp; @api.
tai $40, 600; Sireetoren: .. M. 2orb.
s. W. Samilton, s. 8. Gilbert, 9.
6. Marwsa uno 6. Or. Gaporite alt
bon Chicago.
Die yObiO Snbefment Co." bor
Gina o.; @apital $50, 600; SirsetO.
rem: 9. q. Soper uno 6. u. Sopel
bon 9ima unb Warion Sofe Dor
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Rortb 90 q d Is. Sea.
Sad Swanf, Elm l9=idbriser STUDENT
Der Sodf1ule, fdob auf bic 15-idbrise
Bonnie Mlber, in tpel9e er berIiebt
mar, Teinen &epolber ab, bieielbe erbeb=
lid psruunbeno. 6ierauf iaste er f6
cine 3usel in ben 2opf; iein 3ufano
it Elm iol4' fritiider, baB er f6perlid
nit benz 2eben oapontommen miro.
90 Mlber, Der Water beg Wdb&ens,
bate benz Suant ben tueiteren umeanQ
nit ieiner Sp9ter perboten.
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Sas 2esislatur-g Semitic.

9as aus benz Senator 6remont
Goobwine uno ben &epraientanten SID
@antral bon Sartforo @itp uno Som
0omer bon Sepmour beitsbenos 2egis.
latur- @omite inipicirte 9effern bic
plainfielo &sfOrmi9ule. 6eute per-
ben fe bic Stats uniperfitdt beiuden.
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9oli,sltaes.

Sn 8e9Ieitung eines
grobsn Stides @urf, ueldes er auf
benz Marft fid an~seeianet baben ioa,
wuroe geftern @prus 8. 9odett perbaf.
tet uno miro fib nun beate unter Nns
Hagen bss 2lsinoiebfabls uno Der
Sruufenbeit por &idter Wbalon Der.
a%nttporten.