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The better than &c cigar.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-25

Quite number of Echo peo.
pie went down to witness the
ball game at Hermiston Sunday.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-25

The cigar in the green box.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-25

It's luck TO smoke Puck.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-25

The work of moving the post
office building to Bonanza stree
has been completed, and Post
master Dorm now has things il
proper shape once more.
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man into "A machine which makes him
useless in times of emergency. where he
has to act, for himself? I have always
thought that of the German soldier"
The German is a very able soldier.
replied Marshal Yamagata, and the Ger
man army. though not good. perhaps.
as 1t would be had it had practice in ac-
tual warfare. is very we'll trained and
efficient one"
Since this talk with Prince Yamagata
have visited many of the schools to
see the material which Japan is now
working up into her soldiers of the fu-
ture. Every boy in the empire is now
undergoing military drill. The law pro-
vides that all the schools shall be
equipped with guns and knapsacks. and
the pupils are regularly trained by an
army officer Every school has it's drill
hall and exercising grounds: and rain or
shine the boys go through their march
ing. / see them in the streets. tramping
along with their guns on their Shout
ders and their knapsacks on their backs.
They are taken to see the army ma
neuvers, and officers are especially APP
pointed to explain what Is going on. The
children are taught that it is their duty
to fight and die for their country. and
they have school songs in honor of the
heroes Of Japan. Almost every school
teacher has been in the army at one time
or another and there is a siX-week
service which has been especially created
for the teachers of The primary schools.
During this time they are made to go
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that the greater body of the people may
be made ready for active war at any
time. The number of trained and par
TALLY trained men available at the be-
ginning OF the Russian wer was about
100000 This was added to as the struS-
gle went on: and when the war closed
notwithstanding the heavy losses. Japan
had more than 100000 men in the field
1 am told that 100000 men could now be
massed without trouble. and that within
a snort time an army of not less than
100000 could be called forth
In addition to the many soldiers here
there is now a garrison in Formosa. and
there are 10000 or 10000 men in Korea.
constituting permanent force of occu-
patton for that country.
4 4
From this it will be seen that the Jap
anese are a nation of fighters, and that
In war with them the whole people
must be taken into account Every man,
woman and Child is a patriot, and every
one esteems it glory to die for his coun-
Try during the war with Russia the
women worked almost day and night to
add to the army funds and they frequent
iy expressed their regret that they could
not go to the field. ] had talk the other
day with an American professor who has
6een teaching in the Japanese schools at
ShiZuoka, one Of the largest cities be-
tween Toxic and Osaka during which he
gave me an instance illustrating the war
spirit among the school girls. Said he:
1t was in one of our girls schools. The
American teacher was discussing the war
situation. Some bad news had arrived that
morning, and the teacher said she feared
Japan would finally be defeated Upon
this one little japanese girl burst out:
oh. no. Japan will never be defeated,
Tor When the men are all killed we girls
will take the guns and fight for the en-
peror'
AT the time Of the war Japan had a
serious problem to face" continued the
professor. She had her standing army
OF 100000 men. who were all sent to the
neld linen the reserves were called out.
numbering hundreds of thousands more
All OF these came from the ranks of in
dustry- They were taken from the farms
and factories. from the workshops and
gardens. The population here is COM
paratively small. and it was a question
now the war could go on and the factories
not stop and the fields not lie unculti-
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1t Is the beginning of the dark continent.
These are men Of riotous past history,
violent and lawless; men of culture hiding
among primitives; pure patriotic fires that
burn beside black smoldering passions
The noble young lieutenant under the
recruiting awning feels the strain from
dawn till night. while his heart swells
with altrustic pride at savage virtues
that hide from him also. He is often
puzzled. but the man before him Is a
mystery more touching and intriguing
than the average.
\ recruit for the Foreign Legion comes
in evening dress. high hat and patent
feathers that will not hide under the light
overcoat. whose collar is turned up. They
arc the clothes of clubdom. Maxim's and
the Opera. salons where rule gracious
ladies. They are dust-soiled. creased with
travel. and the man is haggard with a
thlrd-class trip by rail and sea--from
where? St Petersburg Berlin. Monte
carlo. Paris? He got out of the train at
Bel-Abbes In a bunch of fifteen other mys-
teries.
Your name?' asked the compassionate
lieutenant.
''viviani. thirty years. Italian
Profession?
Day laborer!
Good
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waited. This question was solved by the
people jumping in and sacrificing them
selves without pay. The men i'm the mills
worked overtime to make up the loss OF
the force which had been called off 10
war In many cases their overtime wages
were given to the families of the soldiers.
The farmers. clerks and mechanics COM
bined together to till the lands left va
cant. often they worked at night and
sometimes together In gangs The chill
dren worked after school hours to help
the families of soldiers and In some
places farms were let out free to soldiers
families and capital was subscribed for
them. In one village the families of the
men absent at the war were given the
monopoly of selling matches and SOAP
and in others they had like privileges
Many landlords RENTED rent to such
people, and the doctors treated their sick
without charge. A relief association with
a capital of million dollars was then
formed to support the widows and orphans
of soldiers. The Red Cross Society, which
was efficient in the hospitals and on
the field, was supported by all the people
That society has a million members. and
one In every forty-fiye of the japanese
population belongs to 1t and has pledged
himself to pay $3.50 for ten years toward
its maintenance The Japanese Red Cross
Society was organized with the idea Of
paying the country's debt by helping its
soldiers and it has done an enormous
good"
The money raised for the war. while
some of it came from abroad. was
largely supplied at home. The action OF
the people in this regard shows that the
emperor can call on his subjects for the
last sen I'm their pockets at the time OF
any national struggle. Every one sub
scribed to the bonds and they were made
of such small denominations. with the
payments so graduated. that the poorest
man could invest. One could take bond
on the payment of 81 "a of our money.
When they were offered the people rushed
by the thousands to buy them. Jinrillisha
men and factory hands carried their say
ings to the bank and men who were work
ing for 80 cents day put all their little
boards into government securities, ana
that largely from patriotism and their
reverence and love for the emperor.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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through the regular raining of the ordi-
nary soldiers, and are then disbanded.
AS an instance of the patriotism of the
school children. during the war with
Russia subscriptions were gotten up by
them to purchase warship for the en-
peror Every little one gave his pennies.
denying himself candy and toys. and the
whole amounted to many thousand yen.
AS it is now. every Japanese is a SOL
der. Service in the army is universal
and compulsory. Every boy is expected
to enter the army at seventeen. although
he is not required to perform active
service until he is twenty. He then
serves off and on until he is forty At
the emperor's call the whole nation
might be put into the field, although
there are some exemptions. The only
son of an INDECENT parent over sixty
years of age may stay at home. and
there are certain exceptions as to Japa-
nese living in foreign countries. There
are few young men of the higher cir
cleS who have to serve only one year in
the ranks. after which they may be en-
! oiled as n-commissiOned officers. Such
men. however. must possess an educa-
ton equal to that of the graduates of
the middle schools.
The service expected of every man is
at regular intervals from the ages of
twenty to forty, and this service is such
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and It's existence as nation and its pres
ervatlon as such depends upon the great
powers of the word. who are interested
in keeping II independent
But can China be westernized? 1t Is
said TO be now introducing our modern
civilization"
do not know. 1t will probably change
In time. IL 1t should have q s. rons en-
peror. who would take the reins of gov
eminent into his own hands. It would be
as easy to change it as it was to change
Japan The system of laws Is similar
throughout the country. The emperor is
supreme. and theoretically lie controls
everything in his empire The military
system might be centralized and the taxes
feofganlzed so as to give the country a
revenue. If properly trained the Chinese
might become excellent soldiers, and with
almost Infinite resources of men and
treasury strong emperor could create d
most powerful army. In such case
emma itself might become what Won call
!eioW peril. AT present however there
is no danger. Of such a poss4uIIlty. al
thouSh CHINA in the past mas had two
rulers of the present dynas.y who have
governed the people with a firm and
capable hand
Inc conversation here turned TO the
organization of the Japanese army. which
was largely performed by Prince Yama-
gaia, and | asked him to tell me some
thing as to how it was done He replied.
In the feudal times the imperfal army
consisted of about 10000 families of
ShlzuOka. or the followers of the daimyos
who We're the feudal lords. Each daimyo
Kept as many retainerS as his finances
would permit and, allowing two or three
men 10 the family, the army of that dav
had possibly as many as one million men
This included not only the soldiers but the
surgeons treasurers and other officials. 1t
was in 1871 that the system of conscrjp-
ton was introduced and the reorganiza-
ton of the army began. 1t was first start
ed in few provinces, and thence ex-
tended throughout the empire. The i'm
perial scheme was to organize a stand
ing army of 100000 men, comprising six
army corps This was found impossible at
the start and small army of 10000 was
created. That was about 1873. At that
time French officers were brought i'm to
train the soldiers, and for several years
they were our chief instructors along the
lines OF modern warfare
Then, after a careful investigation of
the armies of Europe it was decided that
the German system was better suited to
our needs We then introduced German
officers, and our tactics of today ire based
upon those originated in Germany In 1889
the army was reconstructed and increased
TO 100000, and i'll 1896, after the Chino
Japanese war, 1t was again reorganized
and brought up to 100000. On a war foot
ing it is now considerably larger than
that
What does your hghness think of the
German system of military trainng?"
II consider 1T superior TO any other"
replied Prince 1amagata. 1T seems to me
perfect and l do not see how II could be
improved upon
But does not that system turn the
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satans and Lorrans. ..:,-o Germans
so French. 1.7SU Bel9ians. go Swiss.
49, Austrians, 80 Spaniards, 16 English,
terng Arabs. Malays, negroes and Japs,
to one American.
| saw the one American at Bel-Abbes,
on a hasty trip from Paris and back.
conducting the good wife of, an American
magazine proprietor to these ancient Ro-
man baths, revived for govt and rheu-
matism. AS to this American member
of the Foreign Legion have my strong
surmises. He is a man utterly superior.
But it would be an i'll act to trouble a
ellow-countryn1an who has found a new
place in the world humble today. perhap s
tomorrow brilliant. He is the friend of
hts immediate superiors. The colonel
takes an interest In his work. He Is in
venting something.
No one sticks his nose into the past OF
any legionary. There are unfrocked
priests, disgraced army officers, repu-
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ardor of young professors of a university
abroad on an archaeological jaunt
So in peace. In campaigns Ike Tonkin
South Oran and Morocco the Foreign
Lesion's reputation is secure for heroism.
reckless yet intelligent. to make officers
forgive hundred faults in dull routine
OF absinthe-perfuned GASES like Sidi Bel
Abbes, where | started writing the above
lines.
Common soldiers. banquetinS as equals
with their officers and lades-put that
beside escapades like capturing a railway
train without knowing why they did it:
The Foreign Legion has its origin away
back in the ''mercenaries" of old French
kings who could not trust their own no.
bles. Louis XI and Charles VII had their
Scotch archers and Scotch guards. Their
successors employed Flemish, Germans
uansquenets). Italians, Swedes. English,
Irish. Spanish-down to the heroic Swiss
guards who let themselves be cut down
for Louis XVI's silly sentimental lily
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A FULL DRESS RECRUIT.
copyright. 1909. 10y Sterling HeiliS.j

You must not shed French blood!'
Under Napoleon there were regiments OF
every European nationality Three were
maintained expressly to receive deserters
from all other regiments of the Grand
Armee and no questions asked The uni
~ersal genius of Napoleon knew how to
forgive the queer quirl4s of certain minds
and see the merit underneath the sur
face.
Finally a law of 1888 prescribed the
formation of foreign legion TO be en-
ployed only outside France the parlia-
ment OF that hour specified. mot having
complete confidence in the loyalty of n1er-
cenaries.' This Is history. It is also
history that since it's formation the For
eign Legion has been almost the only
French arm never to lend itself to a coup
d'etat, revolution or any species Of col
lectve disorder.
can give an idea of it's composition at
this moment from the nationalities of
some $4,000 Of Its members viz. 2.6S5 Al
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HE brilliant sun
light of North AZ
RIGA. palms, flow
ers, sky almost
purple. shadows
amethyst, hot puHs
from the Sahara,
cactus from Amer
lea. absinthe from
Paris tinkling ice
in glasses. There
are noisy birds:
but man is silent.
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the obvious lie; the man can't even say
Good morning. in Italian. Next en-
nstment in the Foreign Legion. II Is a
Swede who gives himself as q Russian .
automobile mechanician. though his
hands are white and smooth; and so on
Eaghteen-y ear-old farm boys from Alsace-
Lorraine say that they are twenty-four
and stabemen from the Chantilly race
track.
1t is like Bret Harte mining camp
The past is wiped out. and the man is
treated on his present merits. Wild and
headstronS fellows who did not exactly
worship law in civil life break out In bad
sprees, impetuous revolt and are fetched
up by grim discipline But don't mistake
the Foreign Legion for the Bait DAFT
the battalion of Africa, or Disciplinary
military or civilian courts. electng. joy
fully enough. this expiation-thousb
harsh-in free air instead of prison. Tie
Foreign Legion is made of all volunteers
ignorant confoundine with the Bait
DAT For example. troopers of the
Bait DAT" could not have seized a train
under a Won Rhoden's influence: they are
too severely watched by night and day,
The fact that Won Rhoden's dupes had
opportunity to follow him almost to neu-
trail ground is eloquent OF the trust re-
posed In the Foreign Legion by French
officers
Regularly they are men who only break
out when chafed by inaction. Their SUI
periors. knowing this and counting on
their high intelligence. initiative curiosity
and even queer average or communi-
eating CLEAN of culture have. for years
past. profited by the North African situa-
ton to keep their minds interested
Listen. Everywhere I'm this ancient
land are buried Roman cities. Forty such
have been discovered. dug up and ex-
piored with all the ardor OF American
missions in Greece. Egypt or Asia Minor
BY whom" BY the common soldiers Of
the Foreign Legion,
When the men chafe in barracks officers
hunt up timgad or lambessa under the
hot sands OF the Sahara. Here IS inter
esting work. boys.' 1t is all they have
to say. Spreeing limbs OF Satan. men who
sit in evil melancholy. delve with the
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MEN WITH RIOTOUS PAST HISTORIES AND
Av4 THE WORK THEY DO-RECRUITS IN
EVENING DRESS NO UNUSUAL SIGHT
COMMON SOLDIERS BANOUETING AS
EQUALS WITH THEIR COMMAND
ING OFFICERS-MANY NATION
ALITIES REPRESENTED IN
THE LEGION, BUT
THERE is ONLY ONE
AMERICAN
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has been to Japan
In many respects he has been even more
He was practically the originator of the
Japanese army the man whose organic
ing military ability has made it one of the
most formidable fighting machines of the
world The story of his life has been
wrapped up in the new Japan, and he ana
Prince Ito and one two others are all
that now remain of the links which bind
the old feudal times to the up-to-date live
activities of our western civilization.
1t was at his homs in the suburbs over
looking Toxic that | met Gen. 1ama gaia
Ivy appointment this morning. My audi
ence had been arranged through letters
% introduction from Baron Takahira. the
Japanese ambassador at Washington. and
his hghneSS was ready to receive me.
His son-in-law, Mr. Shuichi Hagiwara.
acted as interpreter and for an hour the
famous general talked most interestingly
about army matters and of the position
which Japan now holds to the rest Of
the world.
But before | give you the interview let
me tell you something about how this
great japanese general looks. and a bit as
10 his history He is now seventy years
and his mind Is clear as it was when.
as captain of the Choshu Clan, he fought
against the Shotgun invasion more than
forty years ago. He is tall for Japa-
neSe, is slender and wiry. and SO gentle
and quiet in his manner and conversation
that one would never imagine that his life
had been that of a minister of war, an
organizer of armies and general in COM
mand.
Prince Yamagata was born at just
about the time Andrew Jackson left the
presidency of the United States. He was
sixteen years old when Commodore Perry
presented the letters he brought here
from President Fillmore, and made the
treaty which opened Japan to the world.
and he was man of thirty at the time
the emperor was brought out of his seclu-
sion to be the ruler of the new Japan.
At that time he had already made mill
tary reputation and soon thereafter he
was appointed major general and then
minister of war. He was acting as the
war minister at about the time that Cen
eral Grant ended his term as President of
the United States, and after that held
many civil as we'll as military positions.
lie aided in organizing the government.
aud has several times been at the head Of
ii as premier. He attended the coronation
of the car in 1896, and then brought back
the treaty with Russia. which goes by his
name He was for time commandment
chief of the army of Japan in Its war
with China, and was made chief of the
general staff during the war with Russia.
With record like this one would inn
agine that Gen. Yamagata would be an
advocate of military ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
that his voice would favor the pushing
of Japan to the front as military ma
ton | did not find him SO. When / asked
him whether there was any feeling here
in favor of war with the United States,
lie replied:
=; :;
mo. there is nothing of the kind. We
do not want war with any nation, and
most certainly not with our old friend.
the United States. On the other hand l
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LIE SAYS JAPAN is THE CHILD OF AMERICA
l AND FULL OF FILIAL LOVE-THE YELLOW
PERIL-THE FUTURE OF CHINA AND WHAT
STRONG EMPEROR MIGHT DO FOR HER
HOW JAPAN'S BIG ARMY WAS CREATED
THE WARFARE OF THE FUTURE-A MA
TON OF FIGHTERS AND ITS SCHOOL
BOY SOLDIERS-WHERE THE GIRLS
ARE READY TO DIE FOR THEIR
COUNTRY AND MECHANICS BUY
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
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| tried TO bring him back to the subject
AT Oran met many who had finished
their five wears. They were returning TO
Europe. sunburnt. husky. martial. gay.
with money and projects But they We're
all saying. If We fail. we can come back
to the legion Their tales OF adventure
ia scinated us
And Won like the scrvice?'' I asked
BY a series of coincidence | have bad
no campaigning to speak Of he answer
ed III is a charming land. vineyards,
fruits. game. and 7 may finish as a farm
err. I'm not an instructive fighter lik
two-thrds Of the DICTIONARIES primtives
all. a return to the ancestral type. with
antique instincts of pillase and carnage
described by lola in 'Fecondite. Civil
war lacking. modern scientific war calling
for no heroic audactty. the savage war of
colonies draws such men to the Foreign
Legion
tried to cut off his philosophy for
facts.
This recent deserving Of you Ger
mans?" | insinuated. Are you harshy
treated? The forty-eight who stole that
rain and almost got off 10 neutral terri
tory?''
They wanted adventure he replied.
who knows what Won Rhoden promised
them? Perhaps to set up little sovereign
ty all of their own? He was a smart
man, captain, I hear. at home, in Ger
many"
Then, suddenly. this German leGionary
began talking of Algerian wines. | look
ed up. A severe Frenchman. seemingly
civilian. took the conversation up. had
not noticed he was near.
That German captain almost got
France into new diplomatic complica-
ton. he said harshly. He enlisted as a
common soldier. Four months later. he
is found al the head of ruse. Had his
forty-eight German dupes. deserving from
the legion been recaptured as he wished
in neutral territory. think of our posi-
Bile false position, One man saved France
that danger a common soldier of the
legion-and Frenchman SO ashamed that
he had enlisted as an Italian. He has
nobly retrieved any fault that may have
led him into the service.
How ! asked.
When the last recruits came from
Europe, there was among them a gentle
man and a Partisan, monsieur, shamed in
the sunlight by his evening clothes. high
hat and patent feathers. l knew nothing.
Only he came to us quickly. let US say.
from the false lights and lying laughter
Of Monte Carlo on last noble impulse.
doubtless being ruined.
He came overnight to the one service
that asks no formalities?" I said.
Yes; before the recruiting lieutenant he
stood humble and ashamed hiding his
garb of night and pleasure from the
working day. He wished TO serve and
three months later he saved France
The stranger walked off with these
words.
But. wait. monsieur, explain said.
Monsieur. he turned and said, there
are no explanations in the Foreign
Aegion"' STERLING HELLO.