Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
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". hraZhevsky, who took the name OF
Percy Palmer" ana gave himself out
| to be an American tourist He has now
begun to publish his experiences in
the Moscow newspaper Russkoye
Slovo.
Japan is the Land of Smiles" Ii
is not to be supposed. however, that
Japan is free from tribulation, but
! there is a japanese proverb, Mourn,
ing and torn gown must be left al
nome" So when he goes out into the
street the japanese tegins to smile
Are there scenes and tears when
the men go forth TO fight? You will
see nothing of the kind. The japanese
can suffer like other people, but they
suffer their griefs al home, and, al
though manytears are shed behind the
walls OF the little paper houses, yet
nocody must see them shed. In olden
days it was Japanese custom to re-
gard a man leaving his home for the
fight as already dead, and he went
through sort of funeral ceremony.
There is no mention of such cere
monies nowadays. Leave of ones
family must be taken within the walls
Of the house. Only the males are all
lowed to take leave of the soldier pub
llcly in the street or at the railway
station;no female must approach the
men who are setting out; they stand
apart with their children, swallow
their tears and try to smile Take
this picture from the railway station
at Yokohoma Nine officers are set.
ting forth in a first-ciass car. 1t is
plain they belong to the best society,"
as also do the Japaese standing at the
car windows; the latter Japanese are
dressed in European costume, and they
look comical in tall silk hats. There
are some English and American ladies,
VINO take such fervent leave of the
officer that one might think they were
the later's mothers and sisters, all the
while the real mother and wives with
little children holding their hands
stand aside at some distance: they are
wearing their everyday clothes. ana
might be taken to be casual onloolxers.
me officers are merry: they chat with
the foreign ladies, with the little crowd
OF Englishmen and Americans, but they
throw never glance toward the
women who, standing apart, are shedd-
Ing tears that cannot be seen.
The engine whistle is sounded for
the train to start; then the officers
look at their wives, who curtsey and use
all their strength to smile: the men
just wave their hands in farewell. but
no word of farewell leaves their lips.
Everybody is agreeable to the officers.
Dtc tnere is certain reserve, for "to
oe an Engllshmen" is good form in
Japan. The officers are clean shaven.
like the English, and the general pub.
TIC thinks 1t its duty to be reserved in
the English fashion. The slow journey
TO TOXIC takes fifty minutes. | left The
train with the officers at the station
Shimbashl, in Toxic. So long as re,
manned in Toxic | used to go severa,
umes day to watch the trains going
through with soldiers, for Toxic is on
the route between Yokohama ami
OSAKA, whence the soldiers go by ship
to the front. Thus Toxic is an OK.
tremeiy busy centre for military trains,
which arrive from Yokohama, Emo.
shlma, kamakura and Nikno. The
trains follow one another at an ex.
tremeiy slow rate of speed. and thus
the traffic is maintained in a marvel.
GUS way, for there is never a DELAY of
a in -
patch of train.
from ten to twelve military trains
pass from Toxic daily. These train.
are small, as. they consist of only six
or seven cars, which are also small,
Tor they hold only twenty men each
. saw no goods wagons heated for the
use OF the troops like the Russian cars.
But Japan has very few goods wagons
Tor the climate allows of goods to be
carried on open trucks, with cover
lhS,of brass mating. The men ar.
conveyed in disused third-class carr,
ages, with doors on either side and
phey are cooped up like birds in 3
cage. The soldiers wear their linen
garments; which are discarded ot
osaka. At every station there arr.
sWarms Of boys who sell food sweat.
meats and refreshing drinks. Tho
soldiers buy kirin-bir." which is a
Ozark beer, rice with plums.. sweets
fruit and especially newspapers. These
milltary trains halt for twenty minutes
! at Toxic. They are boarded at once Inv
! crowds of boys staggering under
heaps OF newspapers, when are so,n
an In minute, for every man travel.
ing in these trains must have the
news. The japanese love the railway
lney have to pay Jensen, or 21bd. for
the right to walk up and down th,.
platform, and there are ALWAYS shea 10
OF people TO welcome the soldiers
trains
But there is no wild shouting M
Loisy greetings; the people Just crowd
round the windows of the train and
chat quietly; to do otherwise would he
Lad form" When M. Krazbevi,,
asked if there were never any die.
/ OFT eTS when tho ,,,ilf.o,...