The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-02
JAP BELL BOY IS
BACHELOR OF LAW
Leaves Japan for Life of Toll
In Attempt to Gain Eng.
Ilsh Education.

The lndomitable energy and viii of
the Japanese nation to acquire all the
information and education necessary
to make Japan a world power are well
illustrated in the person of Tomesa-
buro Shimizu, now an employe OF the
Merchants hotel in this city.
Mr.. Shimizn is an honor graduate
of Waseda university, Tokyo, Japan,
and bachelor of law. Had he grad
uated from an American college and
borne the patronyrnic John Smith, it is
fair wager that his single would
now be floating on the spring zephyrs,
and his name mentioned for village re
corder of Podunk.
Such honors, though cloying to many,
offered no attractions to Mr. Shimizu;
he wanted experience, worldly knowl-
edge and an English education. To
this end he bade adieu to his alma mater
and took passage for America, to Mrest
the kernal of worldly wisdom from the
bitter huSk of experience. In Seattle
he found employment, and frugality
for twelve months enabled him to take
an eight months course in the uni
Versity of the state Of Washington.
When his money gave out he came
to st. Paul and at once found en-
ployment as captain of the Japanese
squad of bell boys at the Merchants.
He finds time to read his home papers
and to improve his English law knowl-
edge and is saving up for the crown
ing period Of his American experience
the entrance of the law school of CO.
lumbia university. After he graduates
from Columbia he will go to England
and take special courses in interna-
tional law and political economy, and
from there visit the various European
governments, working one year and
studying the next.
Will Go Home in Ten Years.
In about ten years Mr.. Shimizu fig
ures that he will be ripe for home, and
it is his ambition to secure employ
ment in the foreign Office of the Japa-
neSe government. 1t would be difficult
to imagine an American or English
youth deliberately leaving a good home
to work his way around the world for
the purpose of acquiring such an edu-
cation as would make him useful to
his country and assist her in breaking
away from her clogging &C nditions of
former barbarism, but nevertheless
there are thousands of Japanese youths
doing 1T today and solely from pa
triotic motives.
Mr.. Shimizu is firmly of the opinion
that if the powers will keep their hands
Off for two years Japan will rid Man
churia Of its Russian invaders He
fears, however, IL China takes any ac-
tive part in the struggle that Germany
will intervene and thus precipitate
some action by France and other ma
lions. He called attention to the fact
that while Russia in the Associated
Press reports denied a Japanese vic
tory on the Yalu river, it admitted
general retreat Of the Russian army
and claimed that its losses were fewer
than the Japanese general has since
claimed
Mr.. ShimiZu says that the force now
across the Yalu and confronting the
Russian troops are the flower Of the
japanese army and that when q con-
elusive engagement occurs the casual
ty list on the Russian side will look
like a United States census report.
When one tries strange hotel and
little japanese takes ones satchel
and umbrella 1T viii be well to gaze
at him with respect and treat him with
courtesy; some day he may wise ones
passport in the Land of the Lotus
Anyhow it is comfortable to feel that
ones personal baggage is safe in the
custody of a bachelor of law.