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vanced. l had remarked upon the fact
that If ever one saw in the streets a
person of almost European stature, he
was sure to be youth of from fifteen
to twenty-five.
AS to higher education, one thing may
be said with tolerable confidence, name
Iy, that the Japanese system makes for
terrible overpressure. When the boy of
twelve or thirteen has got over the diff
ficulty of mastering the 5000 idiographs
required for reading even a Japanese
newspaper, he must, if he is to gain ac-
cess to the literature or science Of the
wzst. face the still greater difficulty of
acquiring at least one European language
Evening star., 1912-11-03

mental breakdown. Lafcadio Hearn in
his Diary of n Teacher tells of some
pathetic cases within his own experience
Nature, he says. eNacts heavy
school fee and ris:dly collects her debt
in human life He lays some of the
blame upon underfeeding; but our vege-
tartan friends will probably deny any
necessary relation between beefsteaks
and mental stamina. Be this as it may,
there is no doubt that it is often the most
promising and generally the most ambi-
tious boys who are stricken down. They
do not always succumb directly to cere-
bral troubles: often they destroy them
selves after failing in an examination.
There is famous waterfall between Mix
ko and Chusenji which is favorite
place for the suicide of students / have
forgotten the exact number of those who
threw themselves over in the course of
one recent season. | think it was ff
teen-certainly not less.
With all its defects, however, there Is
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would not allow me to buy him off. and
at last he desisted from sheer exhaustion.
No such experience is possible in Japan.
What, then, is to become of the bare
legged, bue-gowned millions of young
Nippon? Do they constitute, either po-
litically or industrially, the yellow peril
of which We hear so much? 1t must be
admitted that at first sight they seem in
some measure to justify the apprehen-
sions with which they are regarded by
many people both in America and Aus
tralia.
For they are not only numerous they
are, promise IL be- well educated and
Intelligent. In every Japanese village
the schoolhouse is the largest and most
conspicuous building. On every Japanese
road the commonest of spectacles Ia q
column OF two or three hundred school
Evening star., 1912-11-03

is undoubted, but L have never heard it
explained.
One thing must be said for the Japanese
child-he seldom or never begs. In China
the children are almost as shameless
beggars as in southern Italy. Once when
was walking with a lady through the
labyrinthine al eys of a Chinese city
stark naked well-fed urchin of eight or
so beset us for half "a mile OCCASIONALLY
throwing himself in the mud at our feet
and literally bowling for aims. My COM
raricn Injured to the WAYS of the place,
Evening star., 1912-11-03
WILLIAM ARCHER, the

WILLIAM ARCHER, the
-" Critic and Essayist, Says
the Japanese Child Is Going
to Be Formidable When He
Grows Up, Not Only Because
of His Training, But Because
There Are So Many of Him
But He Gives Reasons for
Believing That American Chill
dren Have Nothing to Fear
From Their Yellow Cotem-
poraries When They Grow
Up-Archer Is Now Travel
ing in Baluchistan and Study
ing Conditions There.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

serious annoyance. "Red-headed barba-
rian is among the mildest of the ep.thets
they fling at the inoffensve tourist, and
their e'ders, be il noted are never known
TO check them.
The odd thing about this appearance
of ultra-fecundity is that statistics snow
II to be in great mea sure i.lusory. II fig
ures are to be trusted the population OF
Japan is not increasing any faster than
that of England. The somewhat higher
birth rate is countervaiIed by a higher
death rate Vet Il i, ct.~tain .hnt ..nn soac
Evening star., 1912-11-03

boys and schoolgirls marching two and
two on some Misunderstanding excursion
or on pilgrimage to some patriotic shrine.
Both boys and girls Wear a simple uni
FORM For the boys it consists of peak
ed cap and a voluminous divided skirt
of gray y-andwhite striped cotton; for the
girls it consists simply of undivided
skirt. generally of a deep plum color.
These winding centpedes of children,
marshaled by their little teachers, often
scarcely taller than the tallest pupils,
are at once touching and an impressive
sight If the kaiser could see them he
less telling form to his vision of the
yellow peril in new allegorical pic
ture.
What are the merits of the education
they receive? On this point it is difficult
for one who knows no Japanese to form
an opinion. Though the schoolmasters
are badly underpaid. the elementary
teaching is probably quite good. In spite
of the appalling difficulty of learning to
read and write Japanese, with its Chinese
autographs. helped out by two subsidiary
"syllabaries'' of some fifty characters
apiece, 1t would seem that practically
the whole younger generation may fairly
be called iterate. Certainly there is no
country where the written and printed
word Is more prominent than in Japan.
Inscriptions and placards on stone
wood and paper, meet the eye at every
turn.
Popular newspapers abound and the
book stores of the cities are piled with
cheap magazines and other indications
of wide reading public. b. H. Cham
berlain, himself master of Japanese.
goes the length of saying that the rapid
ity with which Japanese schoolboys earn
TO read and write proves that the most
complicated system of notation
little difficulty to a child if only he be
caught young enough Japanese authori-
ties do not quite agree to this. l have
heard a Japanese scholar describe the
national method of writing as ..diaboli-
cal" There can be little doubt, 1 think
that 1t places serious handicap on
education. There was at one time
a strong movement for adopting the
Roman alphabet. but the difficulties seem
to be very great, and the movement has
declined with the general decline in en-
thnsiasm for things European.
The fact remains that up to the level
Of the three RS" the Japanese child
is probably well educated. He can read,
he can write. and, as for arithmetic, he
can rattle the beads of his abacus with
astonishing deftness. He is grounded in
the official (and Very mendacious) his
tory of his country, and he absorbs Of
fic.al morality from an ethical text
book.
The japanese primary school, from the
lowest standards upward, is furnished
with desks and benches on the European
model. Simple as it seems. the adoption
of this western fashion is likely to have
far-reachfng consequences. In process
of time it will probably modify the ma
tiona habit of squatting upon the mat
ted floor, and already doctors aver that
the practice Of sitting at school is pro-
noting the growth of the rising genera
ton. Before l heard this theory ad
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tn sprite iv dimmycratic headquarthers,
sladdens tn heart iv his followers with
this inspirin ballad: 'Th nation has
spoken. All that now remains to be
done is tn useless formality fv addin' up
tn figures. TIL country has nobly re-
sponded to tn appeals iv that jovyal
prince iv good fellows an divvle-may-
care wag, Woodrow Wilson. I ask me
fellow-citizens not to wait f'r tn returns
to come in, but to gather around tn
festive boord this very night, fill their
dhrink tn health iv tn next Prisidint iv
tn United States
x x
over at tn republican headquarters
Cheerful Charlie Hilles-an he's tn boy
I'd like to have wake me-sets chuckln'
to himsilf Says he: Pay no attintion to
what people say that tell ye how they're
goin' to vote. It's tn people who ar-re
afraid to say who they're fr that will
detarmine this iliction. Me long ex
peeryence in pollyticks has taught me
that. 1t goes without sayin that tn
fewer tn number iv people ye hear
Taft tn larger his majority will be. Whin
Evening star., 1912-11-03

Riggs.; that tn opposition iv the money
powers will bring him thousan's iv labor
votes an tn opposition iv tn labor lead
. ers makes tn stock exchange solid f'r
him, an that tn final thing that was
needed to cinch his victhry was tn pub
bezzed tn funds iv foundlings' home.
.'Afther this treatment tn candidate
goes home an begins to check his
thrunks fr Washington an consult with
his wife about repaperin' tn East room.
On tn day afther iliction tn campaign
manager doesn't avcn wait to be thanked
f'r his sarvices, but like a careful good
fairy, slips away an niver is heerd iv
again. Whn tn candydate has examined
tn figures carefully he borrows TIL loan
iv a brick firm a frind an goes down
to headquarthers to expriss in suitable
terms his appreciation IL his rainbow
All that he finds is public statement
firm Gleeful Gus sayin' that he is grati-
fled he tn magnificent shown made be
tn organization. 1t was more thin he
had amy raison to eXpict with a candy
date whose face was enough to turn
sorghum mill into a pickle facthry.
''Ye feel down-hearted tonight. Hin
missy. Ye don't know whether tn vine
Evening star., 1912-11-03
BY WILLIAM ARCHER.
TOXIC. October .. 1sl.

)AiE. one has called
Japan the para
dis" OF children.
ara. pa radise or
no. the country ii
children Il may
well be called. The
first thing that
strikes the newly
arrived traveller is
the amazing CULVER
fulness OF the coun-
try. In city, n VII
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gar cruet iv yeer choice is goin to win
or not No more do l. I'm world about
me own candydate. He's got enough
sthraw votes to stuff all tn carpets in
Indyanny, but this close to iliction I'm
not sure that there is sufficient intiln-
gince, honesty and courage in this here
wretched country to boost him into tn
office. It's needless to say who l mean,
so l won't. But if ye're sad an want
to be braced up with a shot iv delirious
hope go down to headquarters. Ye'll
know where they ar-re be tn bursts iv
songs that comes through tn windows.
Inside yen find a man standin' on his
head an warblin' tn most confident pre-
dictions while he accompanies himsilf on
a mandolin that he plays with his feet.
That is tn campaign manager an in all
merryest night fr him.
''At tn progressive headquarthers me
an impedymind in his speech an tell ye
that afther combin over tn figures he
is LAWN headquarters f'r good, as he is
afraid that he will hurt himself laughin,
but amy letters addressed care iv T.
Rosenfelt. Washington. d. c.. will reach
him in time. Young Misther MacComb,
Evening star., 1912-11-03

wud ye have thin stop dispersin til uni
they're band iv hope an l injye thin.
What wud a candydate do without thin? :?
Think iv bein' a prohyhition candydate.
with no campaign manager an nawthin
a all to cheer ye. bet ye at this minyit.
while I'm talkin'. tn campaign manager
iv tn prohibition party has got tn pro-
hybition candydate in u back room an is
tellin him that tn Milwaukee brewers
union is secretly f'r him because iv TIL
horror they feel f'r. tn suds they make.
He's ordhered a jorum iv ice wather an
a plate iv cookies an is whisperin' to tn
candy date: 'Alonzo. II coorse. don't
want to make amy foolish predictions.
but if l can judge be tn sthraw vote we
took iv people comm out iv tn alcoholic
ward at tn hospital yisterdah, ye ought
to romp in
tite tn mornin' afther iliction. but only
wan iv tn candydates liver grabs fr a
sicond helpin' at that meal. annyhow. Th'
best thing ye can do FIR amy man is to
fill him full iv hope an postpone tn dis
appointment as long as We can. Continue
to jab him till tn last minyit. but be
sure yere out iv his way whn he comes
to.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

nawthin'
Id like 70 be so
much as z cam
paign manager,
said Mr. Dooley.
Its tn most
jovyal emplyemint
in III wurrtlld.
Nawthin 40 do but
laugh an lie an
count tn money.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

I'll ivry other pro-vssyon that | know
about. aven me own, there ar-re times
Nhin a man will get low III his mind
out tn campaign manager is always
-heery. There ar-rc niver no clouds in
Ms sky, but IN hurrds ar-re warhlin in
IN threes night an day an II sings at
lis wurruk figurin' ont ff'm a sthraw
vote " three hundhcrI al eighty-five
visitors 10 Grants Tomb that the city ~
Oskyloosa. Ioway will give a hundherd
an fort. thousan' majority e. his candy
date
Nawthin' disturcs him. an annythin
short " a lick over tn head with brake
handle fills him full IL hope. Ivrybody
else in tn party gets discouraged firm
time to time. Aven til candydate whin
lie sees himself in tn glass in tn mornin'
hefure Shawn must sometimes wondher
If anybody at all will be foolish enough
TO hurry through breakfast to vote fr
tn likes iv him. lie goes down to head
quarthers with a kind iv an idee in his
head that he may get off tn ticket an
give his place TO a more showy candy
date. As he enter tn dure he hears a
wild burst iv cheerin' firm tn back room.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

I'm goin' TO get up in tn mornin
sthroll down to tn pollin' place. have /.
few wurruds with tn polismen, get ..
ballot firm tn clerk, stay in tn boot.
till tn JUICES wondher If I've swooned.
make wan assault on tn head iv a sar-
tain colyum with tn stub iv a lead penci.
supplied by a gn'rous governmint, fold
up tn blanket carefully. hand it to tin
judge. an watch to see he don't slip i.
into his boot. an go out an argye an
fight tn livelong day ontil tn returns
come in. l will thin say to wan an all:
It's just as ! said II wud be three
months ago. X ye reminder and climl
into tn tickin'. An in tn mornin' III
buy me new hat an begin life over
agin. But I'm not goin' to feel bad. no
matther what happens. If tn country
is goin' to tn divvle I've got to go alone.
too. can't stop 1t an 1 can't get Of.
I'm billed through with it a I've med
up me mind to get what pleasure | can
out iv tn worst that can happen"
''D'ye think tn result fv tn iliction will
have amy effect on tn cost iv liyin'?'
asked Mr.. Hennessy
Sure, it WILL" said, Mr., Dooley, "fr
tn succissful candydate."
tcopyriehe. isl: BY Finley Peter Dunnea
Evening star., 1912-11-03

.age. IN hamlet wherever you 80, chill
.treu seem 10 swarm out of The earth or
744terfaIiz.- from thin air The foreigner
gmeS 10 feel like Pied Piper of Ham"-
s.u - rretcrnaturaI is his attraction Tor
me l!ltic folk. He cannot stop to make
:, purchase and much less TO take pho
,ogTsph without being surrounded by a
ssOwd OF from twenty to fifty children
nullet-Aeaded. cIose-cropped boys in the
cotton kimonoS, pretty little girls in
uright-col0red. often gar.sh. gowns, with
sin brighter or more gar:sh sashes tobil.
Almost all the girls moreover. and
some Cf the boys arc certain to he car
ing smaller children strapped to their
n0cHs ! have seen a little girl OF ten
p.oGdlug along with the heads OF two
sturdy infants dangling at her shoulders.
y hen the stranger moves on, the children
cry likely come clattering after him on
fI"!r wooden "geta'-a sort of pattens-
Sometime on a country road. a knot of
sGrOoiDoys will follow in ones tracks for
mics, silent for the most part, but some
TINES relying on ones ignorance of their
language 10 make remarks which are
anything but f!atterins.
:; :.
" rule. OF course, the victims sus-
ccptibilities are safely incased IN incom-
I'rehension. but to those who happen 10
Know Japanese. the rudeness OF the chil-
a-sS Is IL some parts o. the country
Evening star., 1912-11-03

iV campaign managers. They ought to
have a good time durin' tn campaign,
f'r they niver have aftherward. If they
don't ilict their candydate he's sure to
blame thin, an if they do ilict him he
wondhers how NANNY more votes he
wud've got if they hadn't been in his
ager, flushed with triumph, has caught
cold waitin' in tn front hall iv tn White
House FIR tn Prisidint to come out an
say he's sorry but tn job was promised
durin' tn campaign.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

anyhow it's ony few days befur,
We'll know which wan iv these joyou=
souls made tn worst guess. But who
idee iv tn iliction. They were out stealth
bar'ls rr their bone-fre today. Tn,
won't care who's ilicted Prisidint 50 Ion,
tn same way mesilf. I'm not wan i
tn kind that looks on ilicition day as =.
day iv fast an abstinence. No. sir: tits ?
holiday. An iliction f'r Prisidint Is wa9
iv tn yr-reat festivals iv tn poor an Z
don't cost annythn'. I'm goin' to gtvo
mesilf over to injiyin it,
Evening star., 1912-11-03

an Sunshine. IN campaign manager.
dashes out. grabs him by tn hand an
hollers in his ear: It's all settled. I've
gust had letter firm tn Culture Club
ColoredD ~ Red Bank, Moo Jarsey.
sayin' that they'll 90 over in body 10
We if ye'll pay their hall rent fr month.
This makes it unanimous
Evening star., 1912-11-03


Sr-reat distributor iv harmless hi-larity.
But f'r him at Il > minyit ivry candydate
on tn ticket who made a ginooine study
iv mis- own qualifications wud he at home
with his jaw in his hands wondherin'
how overwhelmin TIL majority again
him VIII be or seekin' an escape firm tn
fury is tn popylace be jumpin' into tn
river Whin all seems lost an tn SKY
is darkest; whin his speeches ar-re ac-
companied be tn low murmur iy pleas
ant conversation an tn thramp iv feet
marchin out in disgust whin tn con-
luctor that punches his ticket on tn
thrain looks as though he wud like to
DO tn same fr his face. tn blithe spirit
at headquarthers will prove TO him in
i've minyits that tn resolutions passed
% tn First Prisbyteeryan Church iv
Passaic calm on volunteers to 'lvnch
him was merely a ruse iv his friends to
make tn Methodists enthusiastic: that
lis supporters ar-Te all pluggin' tn
'thraw votes SOS to get their money
lown at fav'rble odds that tn iditoryals
Igain him in tn pa-apers ar-re ra-ally
lcrostics an if ye look at thin right
cad: Hurrah fr honest OF Ephraim
Evening star., 1912-11-03

With all its defects. however. there is
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
oCALA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, May 3 1919.
BIG WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE
ROOM

The Collier brothers, owners of the
White Star line ian OcaIa organiza-
tion) are preparing to build a large
warehouse and storage room on the
lot they recently purchased immedi-
ately opposite the Christian church
They are moulding the artificial stone
themselves for the building of the
same. They are hustlers, and since
coming to Ocala have permitted no
grass to grow under their feet They
began operations with single horse
and now have three two-horse wag-
ons and perhaps more. They are
buying property and building houses,
which shows the measure of their
success. Their new warehouse will
be 50x90 feet and will be 26 reet in
the ceiling. It will be built of artif-
cial stone, and Will be ornamental as
we'll as useful.
We are glad to note the success of
these young gentlemen. They are en-
erset;c and have shown what dill
.gence properly directed will do.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
MEETING OF FLORIDA DAUGH
TIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
AT TAMPA

The seventeenth annual convention
of the Florida Daughters of the Con,
federacy is being held in Tampa this
week, Sister Esther Carlotta OF St.
Augustine presiding. There are about
three hundred delegates and out OF
town visitors present at the conyen-
ton, and the meetings are being held
in the auditorium Of the German
American club
Mayor Mackay extended the Daugh-
ters a beautiful and cordial welcome
at the meeting Tuesday night, and
Sister Carlotta responded to his ad-
dress most charmingly. There were
various other addresses of welcome
from the press, from the Veterans,
Sons of Veteran Children of the
Confederacy. and the Tampa chapter,
Daughters of the Confederaey
The United Daughters Of the Con-
federacy was organized in Nashville,
Tenn, September 10. 1894. 1t is COM
posed of the widows. wives, mothers
sisters, and lineaI female descendants
OF men who served honorably in the
army and navy of the. Confederate
states, the civil service of the Con-
federate states, or one of the south
ern states, or who gave personal ser
vice to the Confederate cause.
The objects OF the United Daugh-
ters OF the Confederacy, as stated in
the constitution are IL Social, liter
airy, historical. monumental, benevo-
lent and honorable in every degree,
without any political significance
whatever. (2) TO cultivate friend
ship among our women, whose faith
ers, brothers, sons, and, in number
less cases, mothers, shared common
dangers, sufferings and priyations !;
and to perpetuate honor, integrity,
yalor and other noble attributes of
true southern character. (3) To in
struct and instill into the descen l.
ants of the people of the south a
proper respect for and pride in the
glorious war history, with venera-
ton and love for the deeds OF their
forefathers, which have created such
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
LAND COMPANY INDICTED

Press dispatches received here tell
of the arrest in Lincoln, H., Of E. c.
Chambers, head of the Chambers
Land Company, operating in the Ey-
erglades, who is well known in Jack
sonviIle, and two other agents OF t1e
company. Their arrest follows in
dictments against various Florida
land companies, returned by grand iu-
ries in Jacksonville and Tampa, at
the instigation Of twelve business and
professional men OF Lincoln, H., who
claim they purchased 240 acres of sub
merged land; claimed BY the company
to be high and dry.
Congressman Frank Clark, in an in
teryiew, stated that he expected other
indictments of fraudulent land com
panies in short time Jacksonville
Metropolis.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
MRS. PoTTER-PALMER RETURNS
TO FLORIDA FOR SUMMER

Wiring from Philadelphia, Mrs. Pot.
ter-Palmer has requested the manage
ment of the Tampa Bay Hotel to
make reservation of seven rooms for
herself and party, stating tnat she
will reach this city tonight. Mrs.
Potter-Palmer, it is understood, will
not spend the summer abroad, as has
been her custom, but will devote
much Of her time to her Florida inter
ests and will spend considerable time
at her Sarasota estate. Plans have
been laid and everything is in readi-
ness for the setting out of 1000 acres
OF grapefruit, the definite conclusion
OF the Florida Citrus Exchange af-
fairs being all that holds up the
work. As soon as it has been dem
onstrated that the exchange is 70
continue in existence the plants will
be set out.-Monday' Tampa Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
DELEGATES LEAVE FOR TAMPA

The following delegate from the
Dickson Chapter, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, left Ocala Tues
day afternoon over the Seaboard Air
Line for Tampa, to remain for the
balance of the week, attending the
annual convention of the Daughters,
viz: Mrs E. VI. Howard, president:
Mrs Frank Harris, delegate at large,
end Mrs Edward Badger, Mrs. Otis
Green, Mrs. j. r. Moorhead, Mrs. r.
r. Carroll and Miss Merris Carroll,
delegates. The latter is the delegate
from The Ocala Children of the Con
feaeraey Fanaie R. Gary Chapter
Master Otis Green accompanied his
mother to Tampa also.
Sister Esther Carlotta OF St. Au-
gvstine. president OF the state divis-
ion, the delegations from ST. Angus
time. ana Jacksonville and ether parts
of the state went to Tampa on the
same train.
During the twenty minutes stay OF
the train in Ocala, Sister Carlotta
was driven in an automobile to the
home Of Mrs. J. II. Livingston, with
whom she spent q few moments. Mrs.
Livingston is one of the vice presi-
dents Of the division, and is prevent
ed from attending the Tampa conyeh-
tion by the recent sudden death Of
her husband. Col J. H. Livingston
Sister CarIotta's courtesy to her vice
president was a most pleasing one.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-03
Iioleproof hosiery at FISHERS.

Mr. Joseph Shuford is building a
very. cozy and attractive little cottage
on the hard road between Ocala and
Silver. Spring and expects to have it
completed by the first of June. Tt has
four rooms, a wide hall and wide We
randa and a large front yard. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. shuford are very fond OF
flowers and their vegetable garden in
Ocala has won many encomiums, SO
we know that they will have fine
vegetables ana Hover gardens. We
shall expect their LITTLE suburban
home to be one OF the show places
along the famous and much Travelled
taoroughfare between Ocala and the
springs.