The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-08-24

attended lcc'ufas AZ nversl kerePesn uni
vashIes, snd early In ihs eixtisss reiurne'
10 Jspsn sss bessn TO pay ca his Indebted
hts, 10 the psi.rnsl government which hsS
cent him shrosd.
lie "a. INN, distsly entered 10 the Asns
Try OF Jgsli.e and msby golden opportunt
ties presented. He vas Judge 10 thro'
mosths, and 10 those dsvs japanese Judge
~bo knew anything but shia,o rites sot
med avail fairy talss Was raie bird. ",
would have risen quickly, bal komurs DID
not like TO sIt on the beroh and hs resign
ed, mott unparalleled proceeding, which
vas thought to have ruined hin, snd II did
pot him b ,ck In the race for rank twenty
years,, quise Traction Of mans life.
He WAS almost, " not quite, without for
tune when this eccentric behavior left him
wiiht ut offi ,e AID without salary, and bis
friend. got him TRANSLATE ~ work TO do for
the Foreign Ofice, not with the idea thst
they we're opening 10 him another career,
but simply that II might help him paw his
expenses.
Long PREPARATION.
For fifteen years he Did this drudge work
~i,bou, complaint and withou, any hope Of
prefefmeut Then he became ohief trans.
later, not through Advancement or the rec.
oguition Of bs merit but simply from the
fact that one by one his seniors passed
away. Then suddenly his chance came like
bolt out Il the blue sky, and Dame For
tune, who hsd been so shrewlsb, smiled for
orce upon the unsuccessful man OF forty.
The war with China was coming. | am
speaking now Of the opening weeks OF 1884,
aud Minister 0tori, who represented japan
In both the Chlpeoe ard Cor,sn capitals,
was In feeble health. The negotiations
which were leading up to the cor h'ct we're
very oxsctIng, and the Secretary OF the
japanese legation then In Pekin was not
as very efficient. Suddenly cable
came to Toxic TsimAsho, or Foreign Office,
where rumor has 1t that at this moment
MARQUIS Ito aud Mr. Mustu we're close,ed
Il was plea Of Ill health from M'uister
o ori, In Pekin, and an appeal for al other
Of Legation. Time was pressing,
the steamer for Chips left a. ten next morn.
log and there was no one available, or at
least no one who was willing to 90 on such
short notice. Then some on', whO II WAS
Ia long since forgotten, ssid why not
Bomurs ?" and then fate paused for reply.
for japan ard for Komurs,
there was no adverse criticism, aud on the
dty the translator started to his
post, which did not promise much, certain
" but Ia the event gave the greatest diplo-
nat that japan ba' ever produced the OPP
tu "fild himself and to show
,is flieial suptriors what was in him
When he reached Pekin Komurs'a oppor-
uuity Frightened, aud great many yourg
neu who Lpng arouud the Toxic Foreign
Office and had scorn,d II tSo week, before
would liked the refusal Of his transfer
low, Nj Ministtr O.of was not III, but It suit
d japanese diplomacy at this moment t.
withdraw Its Minister from the Chinese
apitsl, and, preliminary to war, have cur.
elt sffairs 10 the hands Of man Of less
snk. When 1t became apparent that this
nan so unexp' csedly shot into some prom
lence was Komura, the translator, there
we're some mseivings manifested in Toxic,
at after all child could do all that was
Z yected Of him, and 1t would not be long =
he plan was that war should come In
,eek. All Komurs had to do then was to
eep his mouth shut, receive bis passports
hen they came and turn the archives OF
be legation over to Mr.. Denby the Ameri-
IN Minister. This was the plan when
.ori left China, but for once Japanese
lans were not carried out.