The National tribune., 1907-10-10
WASHINGTON THURSDAY

not exceptionally strong I could break
his neck or his back OF his arm
The wrestler thinks that this is
great country-for Americans-but he
thinks it is not the place for Japanese.
Il am totally lost here. If were not
looked at by every one and were able
to speak your language and had the
same opportunities that Americans have
would live here. but as have not all
these things l prefer Japan. One thing
is certain, there is more money here
than there has ever been in Japan, and
the people spend it as if they did not
have to make it themselves.
Il d. not like to talk about wrestling,
but l will say that l am anxious to ap-
pear before your President, whom L
have always admired as a strong man.
/ have not seen him very closely yet,
but from his picture 1 would imagine
that he could wrestle well when he was
younger"
OF war with Japan he says:
Il do not believe that our country
will go to war with the United States.
They do not express themselves as
against the United States. but l will ad-
nit that they prefer England to your
country. l do not know enough about
your country to say whether you would
defeat US or not, but in view of the
comparative sizes of both countries you
might whip us in time, but it would be
long and bloody struggle. l think
that Japan can defeat any other coun-
try in the world, but I am not at all
certain that they can beat you. l did
think SO until l saw this country, but
now l think it is almost too big and too
rich"
John Sharpe Williams. after having
long fought Shy of engagements of that
kind, has decided t. go on the lecture
platform. His antipathy to such a line
of work was because he doubted that 1t
was compatible with a public mans
dignity. Now. however, he believes the
time has come when the South should
be given a chance to ponder over ques-
ti0ns that are of paramount interest to
that section of the country. The sub
ject of his lecture will be THE South
and Its Place in the Nation" Mr.. Will
liams has completed arrangements with
a lecture bureau that will keep him
busy all thru November. His talk will
include expostions of the immigration
problem as applied to the South, and
he will detail his experiences with edu-
Gated and uneducated negros, as OBJ
served on his Southern plantation, in
his talk on the race question in gen.
eral. He probably will also discuss
Federal encroachment on State legisla-
ton. and his friends declare that his
talk will be one that will do much to
needs.
Advertising in newspapers always
brings results, and the Navy Depart
ment has found this out at last. Until
the advent of Secretary Metcalf the
Department relied to q great extent
upon highly colored melodramatic cir
culars to obtain enlisted men. 1t has
at last learned the true value Of a dis
covery made long ago by commercial
houses that the way to attract public
attention is to advertise in the daily
press.
Secretary Metcalf decided to use the
papers more Now he is highly pleased
by the results, for during the last six
months, more particularly July and
August, there have been aim ost 100
per cent increase over the number of
enlistments for those two months last
year. In July there were 1.619 enlist
ments. whereas in July year ago there
were 900; the total number for August
this year was 1,702. and last year 1,157
Yuan -K'ai, Viceroy of Chihili
Province, for the Chinese Government,
Ids loI frldiiy DIcSScu HIS dppfctidtlc:i
to the American Government of the7cor-
dial reception extended to Col. Ii to the
naval and military display at the
jamestown Exposition last Spring
Appointees to the Consular Service
under the reorganiZed system. after
having successfully taken the prescribed
examination, must ''gO to school, The
latest innovation in this branch of the
]. Carr, Chief Clerk of the State De
partment and Superintendent of the
Consular Service is a consular school,
which has been established in the State
Department. In a miniature consular
Office in the rooms formerly occupied BY
the old Passport Bureau, the successful
candidates are studying foreign rela-
lations, commerce and languages, and
listening daily to lectures by Mr.. Carr
Herbert Hengstler, Chief of the Consul
lar Bureau; Gaillard Hunt, Chief of the
Citizenship Bureau. and other officials
and clerks of the Department.
The Office is modelled after the consul
lar offices of the United States in for
eign countries.
'The Filipinos are education mad"
declares Miss Bessie A. Dwyer, Assist
ant Librarian of the American Library
at Manila, and mighty bright woman,
in speaking of her four years expert
| ence in our island possessions in the
Pacific.
NO sacrifice is too big for parents to
make SO that their children may derive
the benefits of education, and no amuse-
ment is engrossing enough to distract
young people from their books"
Miss DwyeT, wh) is spending her
leave here, has made two tTlps to the
Islands, the first as law CLERK in the
Forestry Division at Manila and the
second to fill the position she now holds,
which was given her in recognition of
ability displayed during her connect IN
with the Library of Congress for more
than 10 years.
In her opinion the Islands have pro-
gressed wonderfully in every possible
way.
| Here's d story which they are telling
on Vice President Fairbanks and hfs
Western trip:
Tho Vice President Fairbanks is
usually well posted by his assistants he
made mistake at Reno and Incidental
| ly turned the laugh on himself. The
| usual crowd had gathered to meet him
when the train drew in, and. l;aving but
| a few minutes to spare, the lean Vice
| President lost no time in getting to his
speech.
Senator Nixon" he commenced, with