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Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

daughter, whom he gave in marriage, in
the usual japanese manner, TO a young
nobleman who was an only son and heir
to a large estate. The mother of the
young man was very old and belonged TO
a period long before Meiji, and it was an
unhappy fate for the young daughter of
the house of Oyama to have her for a
mother-in-law. According to the customs
Of the country, she had to become some
thing but a little more exalted than an
upper servant in her husbands household,
and she had to give way in all things to
her mother-in-law and hourly propiuate
the disagreeable old woman. In the course
of a few months she contracted tuberculo-
sis, a disease so common in Japan, and
during her husbands absence from home
her mother-in-law divorced her. The ex-
cuse was given, of course, that there was
danger of the young wife communicating
the disease to her husband, who was the
last of the noble name; so she was sent
back home to die in her own fathers house,
and her husband was not told until after
it was too late, in accordance with the
japanese code of honor, for him to do
anything. This is a true story, and its
dramatization is called "Nami-ko."
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Capital of Cuba Under the New Government

from our several ports. They were
crowded all last winter and they are
making preparations for a great increase
of travel during the coming season. 1
came to Cuba from Mobile on the steam
ship Saratoga, which is operated by the
Munson company. That service was put
on for the first time last season and the
vessel has not been able to carry all the
passengers. 1t has been so crowded and
has paid so well that Mr.. Munson expects
to have additional steamers next year
The trip from Mobile to Cuba is only
forty hours. Leaving Tuesday evening you
are landed in Havana Thursday morning
after a sail more delightful than that from
Baltimore to Boston. The ship is good,
the rates are low and the accommodations
comfortable.
The Southern Pacific Railway company
has a steamer sailing every Saturday from
New Orleans which arrives at Havana on
Monday. This voyage is from forty to
forty-eight hours, about twelve hours be-
ing consumed in going down the Mississippi
river. The Peninsula and Occidental Steam
ship company has steamers from Tampa,
Fla, and also from Miami. which take
you in little more than a day from the
United States to Havana. The Tampa
boats leave Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday
nights. and the Miami boats on wednes-
days and Saturdays.
All of these lines are overorowded, and
the same is true with the boats from New
York The latter belong to the Ward line,
which plies between New York and Mexico
via Havana and also has large steamers
sailing TO Havana direct. The fastest of
these ships make the trip in three days.
I understand that the Wards will put on
a new line of steamers next year which will
go from New York to Nipe bay. the new
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Grief IL Genuine.

The Meiji theater, like all others, Is
made like huge egg box, In partitioned
squares about three feet each way, and into
one of these little places a whole family
crowds itself along with a tobacco bon and
a tea pot. They all sit fiat upon the floor,
which slopes up very slightly. and when
theater is fun the orchestra" presents a
more or less entangled appearance. it being
difficult sometimes to discover where one
person leaves off and another begins. 1t
is not 'seething mass of humanity" how
ever, for these people sit still, sit quietly
upon their feet, with somebody touching
them on all four sides for seven and
eight hours at a stretch Well this mass
of humanity was blowing its nose and
smiling audibly when Takeo said goodby
to Nami-ko, and saw several women, and
men as well, completely overcome and
sobbing quite frankly into their handker-
chiefs. 1 thought to myself, II there is
such a complete absence OF marital love
in Japan. and II sex expression is con-
sidered essentially impure. beneath the
dignity of true man." how is it that the
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self-Deceptton General.

, The field marshal is played by a very tall
man with dignity enough for two or three
field marshals, and the audience was i'm
mensely pleased with him. This vividly IL
lustrates a very peculiar Japanese charac-
terstic. AS a people. they lie to them
selves constantly and believe implicitly in
their own falsehoods, and in nothing is
this so noticeable as in their conception of
their own size. They don't think they are
a small people at all, and I think they
would rather resent a pictured or imper-
sonated Oyama under feet in height In
the wonderful prints of lurid war scenes
one finds in the windows Of book shops and
in all the bazars, the overestimation Of
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Havana Then and Now.


Havana Then and Now.
At that time Havana contained 100000
less people than it does now, and the city
was fifty years behind it's present condi-
tion. 1t was dirty to an extreme. Stark
naked children could be seen in the poorer
quarters and the draying and other heavy
traffic was done by great carts pulled by
OK teams with yokes strapped to their
horns. There were no street cars and no
modern improvements of any kind.
Today Havana has a good electric car
line, with more than fifty miles of track
and something like 200 motor cars. The
street car company took in last year
gross receipts of more than S1OOO,OO0 and
1t promises to be a very profitable, cor
poration. The car lines are now being
built out to the suburbs, and they will
probably extend the system to the sur
rounding country. l have never seen
cleaner cars nor cleaner car conductors
than those of Havana The men dress in
light gray linen suits They are polite,
and they handle the traffic in a gentle
manly way.
Havana will compare favorably with any
town in Holland or Switzerland. It is
better than Zurich, where the policemen
arrest you for throwing paper on the
street Washington, Boston and New
York are dirty beside 1t. The streets look
as though they were washed and swept
every hour. There is no dirt in the cobbles
and the asphalt shines like the floor of
a Dutch kitchen. don't know what they
do with the garbage, but so far 1 have
yet to detect vile smell.
During my first visit found the natives
ragged and many Of the poor were halt
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Identity But Lightly veiIed.

In the play the husband is made a young
naval officer, and 1t is while he is away
lighting in the Japan-China war that his
wife is divorced, but most of the other
characters are hardly disguised at all, and
it is interesting to hear the people frankly
calling them by their real names In the
first act Nami-ko and Takeo are just mar
ried, and are on their wedding journey TO
Isao. the beautiful hot springs up in the
Nikko mountains. Here is glarlng mod
>ernity number one, for wedding journeys
are the very newest thing in Japan's newly
acquired customs, and are looked upon by
most people with scornful suspicion and
disapproval Nami-ko is followed to Ikao
by Chijiwa, a former lover and her hus-
bands cousin. He is easily recognizable
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Onr New Winter Resort.

Cuba in fact is fast becoming winter
resort for Americans, and II the present
health conditions prevail, which seem prob
able, this island will be the Riviera of our
continent. There were three times as many
American tourists here last year as ever
before. and were 1t not for the lack of
hotel accommodations the travel would be
enormously increased. In talking with one
of the leading railroad managers of Cuba
I was told that the several American tour
ist associations were anxious to send par
ties TO Cuba, but that this was dlscour-
aged because there was no place to take
care of the crowd. There are only about
dozen hotels in Havana, and these are
generally of small capacity. There is no
such thing as an American hotel on the
island If one excepts that at Camaguey.
which was opened last January by the
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Husband and wife in Japan,

Husband and Wife in Japan.
In his masterful book on the social and
psychic Evolution of the Japanese" Mr.
Sydney L. GuHck says: "In no regard
perhaps, is the contrast between the east
and the west more striking than in the
respective ideas concerning women and
marriage. The one counts woman the
equal If not the superior Of man; the other
looks down upon her as mans inferior
in every respect: the one considers pro-
found love as the only true condition OF
marriage, the other thinks of love as es-
sentially impure, beneath the dignity OF
a true man, and not to be taken into con-
sideration when marriage is contemplated Z"
Then the editor of the Japan Mail, an
Englishman who is himself the husband
of a Japanese wife, says THE woman
of Japan is a charming parsonage in many
ways-gracious, refined, womanly before
everything, sweet tempered, unselfish, vir-
tuous, a splendid mother, and an ideal
wife from the point of view of the master.
But she is virtually excluded from the
whole intellectual life of the nation. Poll
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Copyright.

II
N ago, and the census gave II 1900
more in 1902. It's population is now over
100000 and there are those who. like Sir
William Van Horne believe that it will
in time approximate 100000. There are less
than a dozen cities in the United States
larger than Havana. 1t already outranks
Detroit Milwaukee, Minneapolis. Louis
Vile or Kansas City. 1t is twice as big
as Omaha or Memphis, and away ahead
of Newark, Indianapolis. Los Angeles Col
umbus or Toledo 1t is growing in wealth.
likewise, and is more and more every day
the commercial, business and social center
of Cuba.
My last visit to Havana was made more
than twenty years ago, in company with
Senator John Sherman, then president pro
tenn OF the senate and acting vice presi-
dent of the United States, Vice President
Hendricks having died. BY the then law
had President Cleveland died in Office Mr.
Sherman would have succeeded him. and
when we reached Havana the papers re-
ferred to him as the vice president of the
United States. To show the condition Of
the island at that time l need only instance
that plot was gotten up by some brigands
10 kidnap MIR. sherman and hold him for
ransom. The plan was to capture our
party during a trip We were to make to
a sugar plantation not far from the city,
and Il surely would have been carried out
had we not at the last moment changed
our route and visited another plantation.
The story of the plot was never given to
the newspapers, but Senator Sherman firmly
believed in the truth Of this statement,
and It has always been a great regret TO
me that I was not able to be the only
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Japan. wondertu1 System,

Janam'9 WOnueFIuA SyANcns
The news that the Baltic fleet, about
which we in Toxic had talked hourly these
months past, has been met and practically
DESTROYED is twenty -four hours old now, but
It has not vet become "official." so one is
supposed to know nothing. This is part
of the marvellous Japanese System" The
arsenal blew UP this morning, killing or
wounding a couple OF hundred workmen,
and this is the subject OF paramount inter-
est There are dark hints of Russian spies,
OF treachery, and the air is electric. The
great battle is still raging on the western
coast and Japan is achieving one of the
greatest Victories in all its history, 1 sup
pose, or in all the worlds history, for that
matter if the rumors have any foundation
at all, but It, doesn't seem to matter much
In Toxic There win be an official an
nouncement tonight probably but TOXIC
will merely say, "Oh. so, desuka?' Us that
so0 and go on its way. Nothing else could
possibly be expected. And one of these
days, when there is no battle raging. and
no electric expectancy in the air. 1 sup
pose we may so TO the Meiji theater and
see Il all acted in wearisone detail by those
marvellous actors of the newest school,
I should not be surprised. however, to
hnd that the name OF the Meiji theater had
beeue changed by the time THE Fau or
Mukden," ''rhe Siege of Port Arthur,
and ''The Destruction of the Baltic Fleet,
are ready for production. because already
there Is a noticeable resentment in Japan
against the use of the word ''enlighten-
ment" in connection with anything Japa-
nese. The era of enlightenment or meiji'
began thirty-eight years ago, when Japan
was In need Of enlightenment, and recog-
nised the fact; but in the meantime she
has learned that the world may sit at her
feet and gather wisdom. and in the mean
time two Port Arthurs, q Lao Yang, a
Mukden, and the easy destruction OF one
of the worlds greatest navies have all
been achieved by her. and are only high
peaks in whole mountains of achievement
One gets heartily tired OF singing Japan
praises, but what is one TO doG There is
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naked. Today every one is we'll dressed
and the poor are cleaner than Americans
of the same class. All are busy. Wages
are high and all have plenty to do. As
to health, the death rate is lower than that
Of our best cities, 1t is about Il per 1000
and, thanks to the American Intervention,
this city has become one of the healthiest
In the world.
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the size of the Japanese soldiers is the
funniest thing in the world. They are al
ways as large as their Russian foes. and
many times much larger, and the attitudes
they strike would make the fortune Of any
melodramatic actor. For instance, the other
day came across a picture, in brilliant
reds and yellows, of the meeting between
Generals stoessel and Nogi at Port Arthur.
Nogi lowered at least two inches above his
crestfallen foe and he clasped him by the
hand with an air which plainly said,
There, little chap. never mind. You did
all that could possibly have been expected
of ybu, considering who I am" So the
audience at Meiji was delighted with the
6-foot Oyama, and fully believed in him.
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Just Like Theodore Kremer.

In act third we meet famous capitalist
who is supposed to have made much money
fraudulently and at the expense of the
august government during the Japan China
war. He is very rich, but nobody in Japan
envies him his wealth. He, It was, who
cashed the forged note for Chijiwa. and in
this act the villain has It thrown in his
face by the righteous hero after II has
been quietly paid to save the honor OF the
family. I suppose in the old days this
would have led to a revenge" as all muir
ders of this character were called, and to
an honorable hara-kiri, or self-execution.
But this is the era of Meji, so the villain
clinched his hands, tore the bit of paper
in pieces and stamped upon them, then
shook his fist menacingly at the retreating
figure OF Takeo. 1t couldn't have been done
better at the Fourteenth Street theater in
New York. In the fourth act we have
Takeo and Nami-ko together at Zushi,
down on the seacoast, where they have
little summer place. Nami-ko looks to be
In just about the last stages of consump-
ton, while Takeo is al chat could be de-
sired in vigorous young health. Now, 1t is
said there is no such thing as marital love
in Japan, but il seems to me the effect
upon the audience of this scene between
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correspondent to chronicle the real kid
naping for ransom of a vice president Of
the United States.
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F~0OKIO, June 1.-(Special Correspond
ence of The Bee. IL have lived in
Japan on different occasions for
many months, but not until yes
49, terday had 1 ever been able to
''sit through a japanese play. Yesterday
I did. l went at $3.50 in the afternoon, was
in time to see the first curtain rise and re-
mained to see the last one fall at the con-
clusion of the eleventh act, nearly seven
hours later. and it was modern drama in
a modern theater, acted by modern actors
of the newest school While we sat there
gathering much food for reflection on the
evident standardization OF this most
oriental nation, the feet of Admiral Togo
was engaging the Baltic squadron up in
Tsushima strait in naval battle such as
has never been fought before in the world S
history, but we knew nothing about 1t. II
we had dare say we could hardly have
awaited so calmly the end of the much less
interesting drama we were witnessing. We
should have been out eagerly listening for
the excited jangling Of the bells, of Inc
gogai boys, who always follow SO tardily
upon the heel of interesting rumor from
the seat of war.
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American Steamships for Cuba.
There are five American steamship COM
panies which now have connection with
Havana running regular steamers here
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t, 1905. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
July 1S.-(Special Corre-
spondence Of The Bee.)-Havana
is growing like a bamboo sprout.
1t had 2S5.OOO people five years
ago, and the census gave 1t 1900
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Domestic Drama Built on Facts.

But 1 am allowing the battle of Togo's
fleet and the Baltic squadron TO keep me
away from the Meijl theater, which is
easily accounted for by the fact that
am almost within sound of the guns and
entirely enveloped in the electric atmos-
phere," but in the Meiji theater there was
much of interest, you may be sure since
we were held there through seven long
hours. The play was ''Nami-ko," a mod
ern love story in which some of the char
acters are easily recognizable as person.
ages of vast Importance in Toxic. 1t
seems that few years ago the Marquis
oyama, the great field marshal, had
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'Yamato damashii." the spirit Of Japan
invincible, which might command the
world; and one wonders II the world will
not have to unite against it's aggressions
In the not very far-of future. 1t remains
to be seen whether its aggressiveness ex-
tends beyond the point Of most vigorous
and masterful self-defense, and If it does.
It is safe to say that the climax Of Japan's
greatness has not been reached. even in
the complete defeat and humiliation of the
strongest military power on earth"
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old ana Quaint.

Havana is one of the quaintest cities on
the American hemisphere. It is more so
than any South American capital. There
is not a town in Europe north of the Alps
which is more picturesque or more interest
ing. 1t is a combination OF the Spanish and
Moorish, with slices OF North and South
America mixed in. AS you look at 1t from
the sea 1t forms mass of bright color its
buildings rising almost straight up from
the water, interspersed with green trees
On one side is the Malecon, with a sea wall
in front of IT. against which the spray
dashes high into the air. On the other side
OF the harbor entrance stands MORO CASTLE
more picturesque thsn any castle of the
Rhine, and on the hills beyond 1t are bar
racks and fortilcations. Coming into tho
harbor the entrance is not more than 1000
feet wide, The sea. which is of a deep blue
outside, turns to light green near the shore,
and you now see that the houses are
painted all colors OF the rainbow which
seem brighter than usual under the dazzling
light.
The Havana harbor has altogether an
area OF about twenty quarter section farms.
1t is three miles long and two miles wide
and 1t winds in and out among the hills. It
has considerable shipping, boats from all
parts of the world being anchored here and
there, with the rusty wreck OF the Maine
in the center.
Cuba has a commerce of about Sl50,OOO, coo
year. and three-fourths Of It passes
through Havana. 1t is very expensively
handled, as one may see by the great light
ers which are used for4Oading and unload
ing the ships. The lighterage companies
are opposed to the building OF wharves, and
for this reason no such concessions have
yet been granted The cost OF the lighter
age is about 100000 per annum, or, II
round numbers, at least per cent on al
the goods taken in and out Of Havana.
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Nrnine wnI BE Rnised.


In going to and from the steamers dur
ing the past few weeks have had occa-
sion to pass by the Maine. Only small
portion OF the vessel Is still above water
and this is red from the accumulated rust.
About a year ago contract was made
with the government by an American
named De Wyckon to remove the wreck
from the harbor. The work was to be
done at the expense Of the contractor. who
was 10 pay 5000 to Cuba, and in exchange
TO be given title to the property recovered.
company with a capital of $4,000 was
Incorporated at Washington, ID. c.. last
fall TO do this work and connected with
IL was Dr. Z. L. Corthell, the we'll known
engineer. and others. So far nothing has
been done. but l understand that the con-
tractors expect 20 build a water-tight
cofferdam about the vessel and TO raise
II 10 the surface. According 10 their ar
rangement with the government. the Maine
is to be entirely removed by next Decem-
Der.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-02-03
PLENTY OF WATER
IN BIG RESERVOIRS
Nearly Sixty thousand Acre
Feet Stored for Use of
Farmers Under The hmity
Canal.

We haven't heard much about
the Enow i'll tho mountlins this
winter, whether it is light or heavy,
but in either case the farmers un-
der the Amity canal will get along
all right so far rs mois ure is con
cerned. An examination Of the
water reports at the headquarters
Of the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet
e. Irrigated Land company made
by a representative Ct the Chief
tain one day this wdek revealed
the fact that the Queen reservoir
shows a gauge of 1866 feet or 3D.
4iG acre feet of available water.
while the Nee No She gauge shows
l5.35 feet or 33,O22 acre feet. This
makes total availsble supply OF
5s,4GS acre feet, OF enough water
to cover JS,46s acres foot deep.
F, With this immense amount OF
wafer to draw from. in case there
is a scarcity in the rivrr, il will he
seen that the prospects for an a
bnndant supply of moisture for
the coming season could not be
better.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-02-03
Murder and Robbery i'll Lamar.

Special to the Denver Post
Lamar, Colo Jan. 81. 1905 r.
For the first time in lis history
of nearly nineteen years the fair
name of Lamar has been stained
by murder this morning.
\ little blind Mexican girl.
Guanquahta jara. who tends the
counter in the chill parlor On Oh
i've street was killed about 4 o.
clock this morning, having her
head split open with an axe while
she lay IN bed. A gag bad been
placed in her mouth and ii is pos
sib!e the tiend may have attempted
TO quiet her that way before using
the axe.
a trunk WIS then broken open
with the bloody axe ard about
three hundred dollars in money
and two watches stolen.
The girl slept in the back room
of the chile pallor and the re st of
the family live in tent back of
the building and knew nothing of
the crime until they went in to
open up for the day.
A Mexican. who has been work
ing here and who was in the habit
of going TO the place for lunch
each morning at 4 O'Clock has dis
appeared and is suspected strongly
of being the guilty party. Tho
little girl prepared his lunch each
evening before closing up and got
up at 4 o'clock to let him in, going
back 10 bed herself. AS there was
no evidence of the front door be-
ing broken open and he being the
only one who was let in during the
early morning hours the suspicion
all points to his being the guilty
party.
The Inquest will be held this af-
te,noon by Coroner Fred Lee.