The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
PANS HERO WORSHIP
70 the Memory of Men
,,bo Fell In Battle.
., ppoup OF HER GALLANT SONS

Eighth Century CaPA'"A
p' e by Heroes Who
FOR the MiIIado on " BOAT
'r ~ Russians-ReIics of Many
s In Nara's Temples
,or+ Of old Japan abides still
IT, the capital of the empire our,
/ NaI"' ighth century and a religious
ln NJ b eaS and since the reigns OF
'aI D Nara emperors, says Eliza
S '5,aorp the Chicago Tribune's
Sslu nndent in Japan. Like Kama
S'p !. 10 now but shadow OF 1tseir'
,,+ ~ o Of a half million inhabitants
CIV ~ . country town less than a
\ IN 81 that population, its one long
W rrnning down from the temple
10 tho railway track, a ribbon De-
On green fields.
" and there on the green plain
4 anonc the groves at the foot OF the
4 1 aro soaring temple roofs and slen-
.nired pagodas that were once sur
"a hT the dwellings and all the
4. u' Vfo Of a great city. The oldest
Enlist temples in Japan are at Nara
/ its vicinity, and to one of them an
Baror bequeathed all his personal
Ro.sions every article which MS
Communicative most unique treas
! borse in all the world.
l. life of the eighth century Is
4 complete, and the furniture and
os+fc utensils, the art treasures and
/ ments the books, the costumes, the
sS,caI instruments and every possible
In5ng have been stored there In
4 for 100 years in a wooden build
4 that has mercifully escaped de-
action by fire.
bra nv no means lives in the past
roIv and within a few weeks it has
70 the forefront in the eyes OF all
H. The Thirty seventh regiment of
Osaka division is the Nara regi-
IN and a company Of that Nara reg1-
H was on board the little coasting
homer Kinshiu Maru, which was tor
Hoed and sunk by the Vladivostok
Aadron off WOnsau, Korea.
nose were Nara men who quietly re-
sDed below until summoned to sur
sder. when they lined upon deck and
"a volleys at the big, black Russian
6Bser wei knowing that 1t would
answered by machine guns and tor
aOes, and then knelt down on the
II and met the honorable death of
.buku or harakiri. That was in
brdance with the best traditions of
Il japanese code Of honor, of the
Aurais cult Of Bushido, and to the
|banese is one of the greatest Incl
ats of the war.
~ Nara CLOVIS with pride at mention
the Kinshiu Maru, and they point
d the homes of the relatives of the
d who died a samurars death rath-
Than be led to a Russian prison.
II was magnificent, maybe, but II
q not modern war;" says the Euro
n.
II was magnificent" say the Nara
'ple and all Japan, land 1t is Nara's
atest glory that these men came
"a our midst, walked our streets
|Rked these fields and made their
rs at these temples before they went
Far."
#pneral services have been held al
Pie Nara temples, and in time there
3. be some fitting monument to these
8 of idolized memory, which will be
urine Of chlvalry second only tc
" one of the Forty seven Ronius.
pe hero lives eternal in Japan, and
hOmoyama the other day the cody
pped the jinrikisha and pointed II
Aer slender tori or skeleton gate
u by the roadside. "Hattori San
A'on San. Full Kanw he said and
~ me dismount and go In to the
'Rhe and family tomb Of the hero OF
3 great naval incident Of the Chinese
q Of 1900.
fattori San! Hattori SAM said s
0RaneSe in the train another day al
y ran by the little tori and stopped
plomoyama station. He rose anC
- MS head, as did the others IL
car in honor to Captain Hattori
leIl in the attack on the TAXI
and was such another son Of
kullAau, the god of war, as the latel
In commander Hirose.
RfS. the noble old pagoda of Yakush
'nree miles out on the Nara rice
Is the village Of Koriyama, IA
IN now because three of it's mer
On board the Kinshiu Maru anC
'ed the honorable death" by theh
nahdS. Three miles farther OF
mage Of HOriuji boasts that thre'
men We're in the Thirty-seventh'l
and on board the boat of fame
Committed harakiri and one Il
us' out the people will not believ,
he surrendered.
men the news was given out tn,
countryside flocked to the grea
Il, OF HOriuji, which is the oldes
Inst temple in Japan and lacks
snFee years of celebrating the thir
centenary of its founding
~ IL a hoary little octagonal tenn
VI mound haxzor5 49, +o,ooIo