The daily sentinel., 1907-10-21

go skimming along like a swallow.
My first specimen was about six
inches il length, and of very light .
blue tint. II kept above the water for
something like a hundred feet. the .
fns acting as sort of aeroplane
Land Is Sighted
Fifteen days out from Seattle the /
low lying clouds told us that we were /
approaching land. The first land Is |
lnuboe Light, ten hours from Yoko- /
hamo. From this point on the sea |
is dotted with fishing schooners. The /
first impression of Japan is a noun /
tain waste of green. For the first
few hours no villages are seen AMI |
the country is very rough and sterile. |
Not until we reached in Inland Sea
did we see steep mountain sides ter
raced into little fields.
The lll-fatcd Dakota
Four hours from Yokohoma we
passed the wreck of the iI-fated
Dakota, In America there seems to
be some mystery surrounding the
loss of that magnificiet ship. The
passengers who were on board her
that trip had pretty well defined
opinion how it happened.
There Is a Mystery
Briefly here are the conditions:
On calm and clear day at pm. at
a point about five-eighths of a mile
from shore, with head toward the
reaf beyond the light house. the
Dakota struck a ledge. 1t is said
that at four o'clock when the chief
officer went on the bridge for his
watch, the captain said, You need
not take your turn now, l will stay.
Go and make preparation for landing
at Yokohoma." The chief officer re-
tired. If few minutes the course
of the ship was changed and shortly
after, she went aground. The ship
was abandoned to Japanese looters
and the mail and baggage that might
have been saved were lost. Whether
| there is any connection between the
fact that the Dakota was losing
proposition and carried a good in
surance and her wreckiug ON
calm day is not known. The captain
was one of three things: Crazy or
a fool, or criminal. This much
is sure: 1t was crime against
American shipping.
Stars and Stripes Missing
The hardest fact for an American
to face whenever he goes on the
Pacific; or in fact anywhere, is the
absence of American shipping. You
scarcely see the Stars and Stripes.
The Japan Sunburst Is there, the
Union Jack; the German ensign and
the Tri-color, but the flag that ought
to be there is conspicuous by its
absence.
Puts Americans out
The Japanese lines are aided by
government subsidy. They make a
freight rate that simply puts the
American ships out of business.
Subsidy Necessity
l have always looked upon sub
sidy as form of graft. l have be-
come convinced that it is necessity.
1t may be a surprise to some to know
that there are scarcely dozen ships
on the Pacific that could be utilized
as transports in the event of war.
Uncle sam Should Stay
Take concrete example: The
United States is in the Philippines,
believe | caL show that it is her
duty to stay there for a long time
to come. We may differ as to that
but there is an absolute unity of
opinion ON the question of yielding
them to Japan as the spoils of war.
a Serious Problem
AS II 49, ousVVV Jdpdltse lIOopA
thrown into these islands would
present a very serious problem to
your Uncle Samuel. God keep us from
war and especially with the i'm
proverished people who have re-
ceived so much good at our hands,
but if it comes there must be but one
result.
As the preachers say 1 have wand
cred from my text.
On the Threshold of the Orient
About sunset we rounded Cape
King, passed to the right of Sagami
and Kanosah light houses and came
to anchor at the light ship outside
the breakwater of Yokohoma harbor.
1t was difficult to go to sleep that
night.
We were on the threshold of the
Orient and on the morrow our own
eyes would see the life and the peo-
pie of whom we had read so much.
CTo be continued tomorrow