The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-23
BRAVERY Of JAPANESE
Varied Character Of Some Of
It's Exhibitions.
NO DREAD OF DEATH DISPLAYED

soldiers Leave Taking Of Wife
and Chudren-Admiral Togo's Tx
ampIe-Hirose's Desire For Death.
Omeer's BIood written Letter-De-
veIopment of Fortitude In Chill
dren.
One Of the men making plates for
stereoptcons Is III despair because he
cannot get a touching picture Of part
ing between soldiers and wives says
the Tokyo correspondent Of the New
York Post All popular sentiment
about war he says, begins with this
scene. What viii his employers, the
maker of views think Of him If be
misses this hallowed episodes
Let them forgive him. In Japan,
there are no embraces, no kisses, no
demonstrations Of affection. There IS
no weeping at parting, or visible agita-
tion-no sign of th,N sweet emotion
which displays Itself in the eyes, no
sudden pressing Of handkerehiefs to
faces wrought up with misery Of heart
There is only, when the soldier leaves
his wife, a profound obeisanee from
her at the threshold; a bow that
brings her TO her knees and touches
her forehead to the floor
Marching to the station the soldier
is merely one participant in the general
salutation which the mikado has rec
commended the people to give lighted
| lanterns and cries of "banzai9' if at
night and II By day banners and lift
ing Of hands and the same benediction
Ten thousand years"
IN the course Of d long historical play
at the leading theater there is a repre-
sentauon Of the family farewell, II
| occurs at the end Of the seventh hour
after the high points Of the Shotgun era
and the main conflicts Of the China war
have been touched upon. The scene Is
a room In a japanese officers home
sliding screens OF exquisite neutral col
oring. two women sitting By the in
eyitabIe charcoal burner which lights
cigarettes and pipes and receives the
ashes. Enters a man rubbing bis eyes;
he has had dream and he sits by the
| hibachi and relates IT. Negotiations
/ would be broken of because Russia Is
| din enemy Of peace, etc; and at the
/ moment an orderly struts down the
aisle through the audience TO the outer
door Of the house on the stage. He
raps. one woman, the servant. goes 70
The door, touches her forehead 70 the
floor and receives a note. which she de-
liyers to the dreamer.
There is no effort to keep action 60
ing or to bold the audience By reading
the note aloud. The officer reads it 81
iently. reads it twice. reflects mo
ment, then tells his wife:
WAR has come must join my
ship, / 20 at once into peril"
He brings from another room his
samurai sword. his ancestral arm, and
lays it upon his wife's knees, who
gazes al It and says nothing His little
boy comes in and looks at the sword.
The officer retires, leaves off his XII
mono. appears III an English looking
. naval uniform. delivers his samurai
sword to the waiting orderly. who smil-
] ingly bears Il away TO the ship. Then
to his wife the officer says that this Is
: no doubt a final sayonara; she will
never See him again. She bows low.
: The little boy approaches and presents
photograph OF himself. The father
pins it to his lapel and goes to the
J threshold. The wife follows and kneels
J while he fastens on his shoes. He starts
: to go. saying no more, when he feels the
! child's hand restraining. Long silence
/ ssYou must let me 60. commands the
/ father stif1y. drawing away and turn
ing the photograph underneath his
/ coat The mother bends, touches her
{ brow submissively to the carpet and
does not rise
. NOW. how" the stereoptiean man Ia.
/ meuted, "can I hope to stir Keith and
Proctor audiences with a domestic part
{ ing ike that? Even a kaleidoscope
/ couldn't give it life
/ In the succeeding scene the officer Is
I on his bridge, going into action, and
! he tears his boys picture 70 pieces and
: throws it upon the water This and
/ the other business are not mere play
! acting. They show the truth When
Admiral Togo went aboard the battle
/ ship Mlkasa his friend Arimura came
/. In d sampan to ask if ne had last
/. I message to send to his wife and chill.
1 dren
! sTen them not to distract me by
{ sending letters. he answered.
!. All the news his family gets Of him
Is that which the navy office gets.
: The silent, studious Hirose, who was
|. poet-one fragment Of whose body
5 was buried with high honor in Tokyo
Z by his friends and one fragment Will
high honor in Port Arthur by his enc
mics Hirose before starting on his
first attempt to sink vessel IN the
II Port Arthur channel wrote verses
4, which were exhibited at the jiu jitsu
b gymnasium the other day. They said
p May I be granted seven more lives. re-
II incarnations. each Of which | may use &
serve the emperor and my country dyina
as ! am about to die now.
He did not die. He and seventy
le seven marines took the stone ship Ho
.n koku Maru 10 the channel notwith
Il standing searchIights and fire from th'
i forts. Everything was ready for tht
IS explosion which would sink her there