The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-30

walton Of the exaetfflg art in which the
eye and the perceptive faculties, as
well as the muscular system, are
magnificently trained. v.
The. mastering of appetite is the
second stage of juvenile samural in
struction. The stomach has to attend
this severe school as well as the mus.
Gle. The child is still very young when
his father suddenly one day begins to
theorize to him on the probabilities of
a time Of war. Talking of the contin-
gsneies Of campaign, he explains that
some day, when he is grown soldier,
fighting for the defense OF his Emperor,
he may be besieged in a fortress with
out food or drink. And In order to ac-
quire adequate powers Of endurance
every true young patriot Of Nippon
should begin be-times to practice alb
stinence, as if actlfaly undergoing the
direct ordeal Of war. Now begins a
month Of seini-starvation. Nothing
but the smallest quantity Of rice that
can sustain life is allowed, the only
relish added being few pieces of
picked "daikon." popular kind Of
IdulSli. DuI Nllelb llllS pCllph vi
training extra-severe is that hard
exercise is imposed, part of the dis
cipline being that a siege is anything
but time of inaction. "My friends
father" says Adachi Kinnosuki, sin
the days of this made-toorder star
walton, had him climb o mountain,
chop wood, roll the logs and subjected
him to all manner OF physical exertion.
One day, when he was about Is years
Of age he. was sent out upon a long
journey. His servant accompanied him
and he was allowed to have two boyls
or rice, a piece of dried fish and two
cups of water day to sustain himself.
AT one time he was sent to Mount
Atago. He was told to spend Is days
on the mountain, and to sustain him.
self with what, ter he could find with
his own hands. a.
e. In facts like these we discover the
reason why the Japanese troops were
able to tramp such great distance day
after day on the rough mountainous
tracks Of Korea to deliver three frontal
attacks ON the semi-permanent fortifica-
tions of Liaoyang and to master the
complicated and tortuous Manchurian
geography on the ridiculously scant RAJ
lions of rice, dried fish and few stray
picked plums.
Thirdly comes the discipline of nerve
and soul. IT recall says Kinnosuki,
chow we used TO go to an old deserted
house which stood on the outskirts of
the castled town Of Kameyatna. There
was genial gathering Of boys, rang
ing from to 16 years Of age. An old
man, the most wonderful of story-tel-
lers over the gathering. His fund of
fearsome ghost stories was inexhausti-
BILE. Behind the dilapidated house
stretched bamboo grove in the direc-
tion of moss-covered graveyard of an
ancient temple. The old man counted
the number OF his boy guests and took
as many candies into the graveyard.
There he lit them, and hid them in all
sorts of corners among the tombstones.
Then he came back to tell the most
horrible ghost stories. When the mid
night hour came he drew lots, and the
boy who drew No. went through the
300-yard stretch of the thick bamboo
grove in the black darkness of mid
night to find one Of the candles and
bring it back. The nights selected
were always stormy. Many night do
I remember having waded through the
mud of the bamboo forest to pass inc
the graveyard. But in more remark
able and virile days than ours sires
went through still more trying train
ing, for when they were not quite 10
years old they had to visit, in the still
hours of dark nights, the decapitated
heads Of criminals exposed on the high
way for the ethical education of the
passersby, and they were told to leave
a mark upon the scaffold to show that
they were not in a hurry to escape
from the grim sight"
cat the beginning of the present war
Admiral Togo, in a conversation, said:
IT am not a learned scholar, but from
my youth up my masters compelled me
to examine and carefully follow the
teachings Of the School Of Yomai. It.
seems to me that soldier can derive a
great deal of benefit from the School
of Yomai." What is this famous School
things are told by others, as well as
Kinnosuki? It was simply the course
OF soul training in which multitudes Of
the soldiers and sailors now at war with
Russia graduated 1t, is the system of
the Chinese philosopher Youmai carried
out to final issues. The fourth step taken
by the disciple Of thefold Samural tradi-
tions is his introduction to this school of
philosophy. Yomai emphasized above
everything else what he styled the