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But the Coffee
Arrived Safe

Two weeks later we were in Port-au-
Prince. having sailed on the Montreal,
an old steamer belonging to the Com
pagnie Generate Transatlantique, which
the Huns sank as she was returning
from France to the Caribbean Thank
God, she landed her cargo, many tons
of coffee. which were hoisted aboard
as we stopped at Petit Goave, Mira
goane and other little ports of the
Haytian Republic, before the subma-
rine got her. The poilus needed it,.
But in Port even though
lodged in villa once the residence
of President Simon, we wondered why
the French should prefer the coffee Of
Hayti to that of Brazil, and sighed
for the aroma of the Cuban berry. We
knew that the French, a race of cpl
cures, cheerfully paid twice as much
Ter the product of their former colony.
NJ. Louis Borno, Secretairc dEtat
pour les Atfaires Etrangeres, considered
this fact conclusive. He confessed to
Me with the frankness of the Alcalde Of
Ell Cobre that Haytian coffee was
the finest on earth, that it's flavor was
unrvalled, that it flourished without
cultivation, and was the chief source of
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Her Paintings and
Decorative Arts

Japan had little trouble in spealH
to her neighbors through her pictofs..
Cryptic and other decorative arts. u
did not take much painful educasn'
for our Dutch friends to appretSa
our gold lacquer. Brocades, car'!nss
Satsuma wares, spoke in lansssee,,
which laughed at dictionaries wv,
widely. to all the peoples of the ea5',
In fact, that peculiar expression =
emotional life which is and mas p q.
Nippon's very own, and which is csin
the Japanese art, has been the ~ !.
contribution Nippon has ever made
the worlds stock of real wealth.
At that. it was Utamaro. Hirosnss
Hokusai and the rest of the dlsrsp.l
table brethren of the Ukiyoe sew nv,
whom the Occident understood pew w.
all and above all the Japanese PAN.
ers. And they were not mere g..
mon, untutored people of the OcelO..
who appreciated them. Undispu',,i
masters of craft and famous men :
art did Whistler and La falt
They ranked Hokusai with RemoIsa.ss..
placed him among the immortals o. v,
art world. This is enough 10 CIV
IeNeIeHt Japanese petiidhe' ,..;u
flesh. All of which goes TO empaass ~
the fact how little Nippon is unu s;,
stood even where she is most can ..,
read. Ghosts OF Sesshu and Se'. ~
That there are actually people W
would put the frivolous sketches I.a;.u
the street scavengers of the oA.
school over the chaste beauty -
exquisite simplicity of Sesshus a.. -
les! But when one Gains down ~
thinks it over, it is quite a step .
appreciation of Whistler and dc I y,
court brothers of the halfpenny - :,
anese prints in understanding wha'
had to say 81
And now that the beginning 80,
been made, now that even IN the IA Il,
~ and particularly stony field o. Il. i,
anese music pioneers are ness s Il
over the horizon, let US hope w I'm,
best. The young musician from . no
may be the John the Baptist Tor s shs,
coming We all have wished iol ~.
| many weary years.
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highly paid Albanian guard and large
force of sentries and catered to by a
whole village of industries.
He had his private theatre, where
Coquelin played his slender repertory,
and Bernhard, Rejane and Jane Had
ing gave special performances for him.
Despite the Moslem rule that no rep
reservations of anything either in the
heavens above, the earth below or the
waters under the earth shall be made,
he had fine picture gallery of m odern
paintings. He lived in great luxury,
but was said to be abstemious as TO
food and consistently Mahometan as
to drink. He offered wine to Christian
guests, but never touched it himself.
Every one came to him. Even the
Kaiser, when he visited Constantinople,
waited upon the Sultan in his palace.
Had the Kaiser realized that to the
Turk the man who pays the visit is the
inferior and that to the Moslcm it
would seem to be proclaiming the su-
perior sovereignty of the Sultan, it
might have dashed his pleasure IN the
political pilgrimages" he made 10 the
Ottoman Empire.
He Had Amnities
f or the Kaiser
But one feels that the Sultan and
the Kaiser were elective affinities and
met on many common grounds. No
cruelty was too great for either OF
them when the dynasty or territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT was in question, as :he
! Armenian massacres of 1896 and 19le
have plainly shown. Abdul Hamid was
a clever diplomat, playing off one
power against another. He was q
master Of secret diplomacy of .hc
worst sort, of delay and the broken
promise and the tearing up Of scraps
of paper" He was clever enough tc
hold back the revolution in Turkey fcr
thirty years and fool everybody who
trusted him-but. the end came.
A new day has arrived" said /
man servant TO me soemnly upon ny
return to Constantinoplc in September
! 1908. Indeed it seemed so. The vas
depression that had settled over th'
land was lifted. The army haC forcct
constitution on the Sultan, and h'
was no longer the autocrat, but
shrinking old man. At first he accept
~ the change with so much adron
ness that the people cried: "Our Padi
shah has given us this constitution.
But underneath his smiling acceptance
/ he plotted, plotted. The wonderful
honeymoon of Turkish history SLOW
4 ly wore off. 1T was the greatest eX
perience | ever lived through those
months Of ecstatjc freedom when every
Ottoman stretched his arms in the JOY
of broken chains. ] know how the freed
people of Russia felt last spring. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

NJ us who lived in Constantinople
Abdul Hamid was a mystery, n
fear ard constant sinister in
Euencc. We never spoke his name in
the street; we never pointed at his
palace; we Ncvcr noticed his outragcs.
It was best to keep q close mouth and
eyes straight ahead in the years l was
in his city.
I saw him several times; once on his
Friday attendance at the mosque
gorgeous affair of prancing chargers,
flying banners, strange uniforms and
a bowed old man. Another time saw
Abdul Hamid cn the occasion of his
annua! reception 20 his officials at
Dolma Bagtche Palace. l was net far
from him that morning. looking down
from the diplomats gallery. The great
throne room with its superb chandelier,
its gilded galleries, from behind which
yelled ladies pecred; its long lines of
pink Persian carpet, over which the
brilliantly uniformed officials advanced
and retreated after kissing the tassel
OF his majesty's throne and the deeply
impressive Moslcm priests in green,
white and mauve robes and tur
bans. all formed a splendid setting
for the lonely figure i'll frocE coat and
gray trousers who leaned on his shin
ing scimitar as he rose to greet the
Sheikh- ul-Islam. His hooked nose and
swarthy skin suggested the Armenian
mother he is said to have had. His
black eyes we're piercing under the
shaggy brows: his pointed black beard
dyed, Ii rumor be correct), his slight,
bent figure, which yet gave the spec
tator an impression OF lonely majesty,
made him a very remarkable parsonage.
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fear of the Germ of liberalism entering

fear Of tho germ Of liberalism entering
from Europe.
He kept out of Turkey all books that
mentioned Turkey or Islam. He cen
sored all mail, and all parties and
gatherings of people. No clubs or
meetings were allowed. The news
papers were a nullity, all real news
being forbidden, and discussions on
the weather and reports of people
forbidden because they transmitted
messages so rapidly that treason might
be Matched over them. Typewritcrs
wcro prohibited because they might
write reasonable words. All the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
There Were Many
Who Admired Him

Abdul Hamld had charm. Every one
who met him felt it. Many European
and American visitor to the Porte,
after dining at his table, came away
with glowing reports of the Sultan's
sraciousness and interesting convcrsa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
1t Was Black,
Strong and Hot

And, of course, hadn't. We we're
the guests of the Alcalde, having jour
neyed over from Santiago de Cuba
vi der the escort of one of the Cover
nor's aids to pay our respects at the
shrine of Nuestra Sonora de la Carload
y de los Remedies, whose true image
is honored by many pilgrims, and to
see the great copper mine, the NEST
ancient in America to be worked by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
By Adachi kinnosuke

IAPAN is trying at last to speak
language that will be understood
by the Western world. She has
been dumb neither blind nor deaf, Oh,
far from it-but dumb. That is, IN
ternationally speaking. She is about
a two-year- old internationally speak
ing just beginning to clothc the pro-
fundity of her thoughts and emotions
in lisping monosyllableS.
She had not the slightest trouble to
make herself intelligiblc to herself
TO her own people any more, | fancy,
than two year old baby has. But, to
tell her twcnty-tivc-centu ry-old emo
tons TO her foreign friends, She has
been under decided disadvantage.
Many things have made this matter
tangled. The first means through which
she tried to talk internationally vas
war-thc Chinese and the Russian
wars. That was exceedingly unhappy
both for her and for her ncghbors.
When she remained utterly sllcn, IN
other fields OF cndeavor, tho outside
world took her for sullcn, autocratic
warrior Aud that is precisely the i'n.
urcssion about her which is moro uni
vcrsal even at this time than any other.
The actual fact is about as far from
that conception as the East is IRON
the West.
Tales, fairy and otherwise, about the
y no
deal to do with the wide spread of
this notion. The entire Empire OF
Japan Gncluding Taiwan, Chosen and
Karafuto as Formosa, Corea and jap
anese Saghalen) has population Of
q little more than T3,00o,000. Out of
that number there arc not more than
100000 Of the descendants Of the old
Samurai class--less than 3 II per cent.
And the vast majority of the postcrity
OF the old-timc warrior class arc quite
as peace loving nowadays al their pres
cnt professions in which they engage
bank clerks, stock brokers, public
school teachers and painters of paper
umbrellas. To conjure UP modern
Japan out of the heroic and swash
buckling deeds OF tho old aamurai days
is about as logical as to coniure up
the Fifth Avenue rug merchant from
Greece in terms of Sappho's lyrics OF
of Perlclcan orations. But that is pre-
csely what a large portion Of the en-
lightened peoples of Europe and of the
United States have been insisting on
doing with japan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
The Trouble With
Telling the Truth

The trouble was in this simple fact:
That comparatively few people had the
time and taste to read it through. but
the Americans, read What few people
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festivals, gods and various and million
other things which she has called into
existence for the only and exclusive
reason Of making this rheumy-j ointed
donkey engine called life transform
itself into 4 merricr merry round
for her little men and women?
The Ancient Dream
OF the Bright Sword
why, the Japanese games for New
Years alone would fill good sized
volumcif one were to compile differ
ent games from different sections of
the empire. Among them, there may
be few war games. And even they
arc very apt to be new ones, invented
since Nippon had joined the civilized
nations of the world since tho Rus
sian war--not n native heritage from
Elder Nippon. We might as we'll con
Tess also that quite a respectable num-
Der of the future hopes Of masculine
Japan dream of shining as soldiers
nowadays. But that usually happens
after heavy dose Of gift candy or
sound session with the parental rod
OF Elder Nippon (of which so many of
our foreign friends and critics think
in terms of blood and from the only
children unnatural enough to dream
such a dream were tho children Of tho
samurai class; that is TO say. the chill
drcn Of the professional soldier class
And they were a ptfully small portion
OF large number of people. This much
is true beyond d cavil
The shadow OF mlitarism rarely
darkcncd cradle or robbed the lustrc
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income to the people and to the gov
crnment. III attribute its Wonderful
superiority to tho SOIL he said. "Wha.
the element is that gives so remarkable
Il blend of strength and bouquet | do
not know. But while our tobacco is cX-
Ccllent, I'm told it does not equal that
of the Vuelta Aba o, and, in the same
way, Cuban soil cannot produce good
coffee. The Central and South Ameri-
can cotfces, Of course, are not to be
mentioned on the same day with ours"
1t CHANGED that being up to view the
sunrise ono morning, Il most delectablc
fragrance stole up from the neither
regions of the villa, and ! promptly fol-
lowed it to its source. The cook had
Just made coffee and was serving it to
the domestic staff Thereafter in Hayti
, was an carly riser, for the coffee was
made only once day, and it seemed to
me that NJ. Borno might be veracious
gentleman, notwith outstanding his expert
ence i'll diplomacy.
The Favorite
Fruit Of Pigs
In Santo Domingo City, where !
gorged myself on papayas, much to the
amusement of the citizens, who said it
was the favorite fruit of pigs, the coffee
was excellent Senior Don Francisco J.
Peynado did not hesitate to say that it
was the best in the world. He had
been Minister to Washington and was
Secretario de Hacienda under the last
Presidency and had travelled much in
Europe. | thought he ought to know,
but | asked him if he liked the coffee
in Paris.
He said it was fairly good, and then
| told him what the French thought
about coffee and their preference for
Haytian imports. How can anything
in Hayti be as good as we have here ?"
he asked. And he seemed to have a
hazy recollection that when his father
vas minister Of the Republica Do
minicana in Hayti he always had his
coffee sent from home. He added that
several important New York hotels
were importing coffee from Santo Do
mingO.
Not more than a dozen Porto Ricans
Dragged to me about their coffee in
San Juan, but they seemed to have an
impression that its flavor was too
delicate for n palate accustomed to the
gross creations of Santos and Rio.
There would be millions in it, they
thought, If people only had sufficient
refinement and good taste. This
seemed reasonable" l thought, as
slipped my cafe solo in little restau-
rant in Gale Allen, two blocks below
the Governors palace. at IS good
coffee" Returning to New York some
weeks later, Senior Eusebio S. Azuiazu.
Secretario Particular to the President
CT Cuba, asked ME to dinner. And I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
He Knew All
About the Subject

About the Subject
felt quite upset. In order to be
able to tell my friends as much
travelled man should what the best
coffee is and where it is grown, |
called up friendly chef at one of
the big hotels, and asked him what lie
knew about coffee. He intimated that
he was a complete master of this i'm
portant subject asked him about the
coffees of the delectablc islands l had
visited, and he said they were all good.
| asked him about the blend of Mocha
and Java my mother has been buying
for the last forty years, and he told me
that none had been imported for ten
years, and that she had been drinking
Santos and Rio. We were both nearing
the end of our patience, but put 4
final question: "Where does the best
coffee come FROM" From NADIA
gascar."
weren't you saying something
about tea?" asked my wife, returning
from the kitchen, and interruptine my
meditations, as usual. Nov that
have three and half pounds of sugar
I think I'll make a lemon meringue
pie for your dinner"
"0o Saying, lcpllcuy Ln3t II
the English are going to have another
row over tea it won't necessarily in
terest you. Everybody knows that your
people were in Salem-not Boston
and that they were Tories, anyhow
But, speaking of tea, if we are lucky
enough to get to France in time to
be of some use, you'd better get out
of that habit. The French colonials
drink it with mint, not knowing how
to make julep, but otherwise it isn't
popular, although you may hear IS
o'clock the mentioned in connection
with high lif.' You'll get coffee, and
it will be Haytan coffee, roasted until
every berry is as black as a Haytian
peasant"
But wouldn't you really like cur
of tea now? | have some more of that
orange pekoe and English breakfast
blend that you like SO much" Really
you know, tea famine would have a
perfectly frightful effect on the polite
literature of Great Britain. To an
English novelist a tea table is indis.
rensable, and no open air setting is
complete without hamper and a spirit
lamp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
The New Language
OF Electrical Science

And now Japan is trying to talk an
other language to the Western world
It's own language of science and art.
In October last year the Department
OF Communication of Japan announced
a discovery of international impor-
lance. Two electrical experts of the
department, Drs. 'rorigata and Tone
gawa, perfected the means Of con-
Aectlng wireless system with an
ordinary telephone.
:. AS to the complete success OF the
discovery there ia no question. Repre-
sentatives of Toxic newspapers. who
reported the achievement, had oppor-
tunitles to test the practical workings
of the thing with their own cars. They
heard through the receivers at their
cars-and very distinctly" AS the
Jill" reporter adds-the wireless mes
sagcs sent from a ship at sea.
From now on, there fore, it is quite
possible for any wandercr over almost
any portion of the wide sea to call IN
his mother in Toxic and talk to her
by simply going to the wireless oper-
ator aboard.
Something along the line Of this dis
covcry was experimental upon by Mr..
John J. Carly, of the American Iele-
phone g. Telegraph Company. two or
three years ago, with the cooperation
Of the American navy. Whether it has
proved success or not has never been
publshed-it has been kept a state Sc
cret if it were found practical.
Here, then, is the very first Japanese
achievement in the wide realm of cleo
trical science which the people of the
United States can understand and ap-
preciate quite az well US the Japanese.
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have little treat for you" said he
with the pleased air Cuban always
wears when he is doing something nice
for you; you shall have some real
coffee | brought with me from Havana.
You know how good it is" 1t was
good. "Where did you get it?'' asked.
'From Porto Rico"
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Damned-Last of the Turkish Despots

revolution has accomplished much !,
.nvugh not AL tnat was ne homes :. -
Abdul Hamid did his best to ntiI;;;r ~ q
His plotting finally caused the mr,;l y
Of 1909 and the effort to restors as y
Sheriat, or Sacred Law, and his nos sus
of Caliph Of Islam. s0"e'
Those were dark days for u, ~
the newly arisen Turkey seemed sh .nel
again. But the Young Turks sath ..sl ],
themselves together, and this t; m.' !,
was Abdul Hamid who fell. Wbs""s y
saw that he could not save himsslae z
resolved that Turkey should crash "a, e
him and ordered massacres aIi ~
the land. Some we're executaa 'yes
other cases the governors ref,. =
Scutari. where our college ,.as loe ssec
was to have been attacked and ~. y
eral massacre of foreigners and Gee
tans was set for Friday at o's, .s'
in the morning. The terrifying ', ~.
pense of those hours can never b. ~
gotten. At 5 o'clock the armv ~ i IN
Grafton entered the city and We VIC Nc
saved by two hours. "sss
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He Kept His
World in ear

Constantnoplc was a place of fear
when ! lived there, from 1900 to 1909.
We were afraid Of Abdul IIamid aud
his spies; he was in constant dread of
losing his power and his life. lie real
lied that progress for Turkey meant
his downfall, and he was in perpetual
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pelf and tho saving Of his skin. One
night. being suddenly awakened by a
favoritc daughter, in his terror he
killed her with the pistol he kept al
NnvS with him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
He Died as He
Lived, a Mystery

Then, indeed, Abdul Hands -.
bad struck. Some of his soldiers wa wa
loyal and fought for hina, but wers 8
feated. Others deserted. He COW,
alone in his palace of Yldiz. abandsssss,
even by most of his women. Will.
the Bosporus below men-of-war NJ. "a
aced him. He made no sign. HON. 4.
superstitious, fcar-ridden souI ~ ~
dured those days of suspense do VA ~.
know. All Constantinople held its brsa Nv
Then, one day, the spell W..
broken, the cannon began to boom H.
rushed to our roof. where we could wy "s
the Bosporus below, and the city h.
ycnd, with the palace of Yildiz ~ ~.
right. More than twenty-one sb s.s
were fired. and We knew then that 40
Sultan had been deposed. We held a ~.
flag rope in readiness and when ~.
first ship in the harbor dressed nm ae.
our flag. By this time the roof Of -. n.
college was filled with teachers a .nS
students. All classes were DISMISSED
for the day and all were ready ~
shout, "Hurrah. Abdul Hamid ba !"
fallen"
The old fox. who had never appesr.a
without a procession and banners mo.
ushered out of the city ignominiousJr
with no one to speed him on his way
accompanied only by a few women and
attendants and even mourning the loss
of his favorite cigarettes, which had
been forgotten.
Abdul Hamid is still mystery. H.
possessed cleverness without greatness
skill without success. He was intel
lectual, yet childish and superstitious.
and until his death recently the fear
of his plottings had never quite left,
Turkey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
By Hester Donaldson Jenkins, Phi. D.

Professor Of History Constantine College from
period preceding aud includimg the Young
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-27
KNOT HOLE GANG
TO Be ON JOB
Cardinals Owner Has De-
teTInined on Continuing
Youthful Booster Squad
CBy Associated Prsss)


st, Louis, March 27.-The Knot Hole
gang will do business as usual this
season. Despite the war and the tax
ers OF the ST. Louis Nationals viii be
at their posts boosting for their ia
vorites even if baseball club owners
are forced to dig deep into their
pockets to have them there. This as
surance ia given by Branch Hickey
president OF the club.
The Knot Hole gang is an orEanIEs-
ton OF St Louis youngsters less than
l6 years OF age, every one OF whom Is
recruited from various Sunday school
societies In the city, and last year
we're given free tickets TO the Cardi-
nal neld; They occupied slea cher
cheer leaders yelled their devotion to
their major league favoritea.
OF course, the management exer-
clsed subtle psychology In a1ording
this free entertainment as they hg-
ured that the young rooter OF today Is
the paid admission OF tomorrow and
hoped thereby to build strongly for
the future.
War Nearly smOtherH Club.
But the war almost caused the deei-
nation Of the organisation. A federal
law imposed a tax upon amusementRs
on each OF the free tickets issued 70
the Knot Holers. The manaEement
did some figuring. and concluded that
on the basis Of tickets issued last
year IL would cost them between &Ss-
900 and $4,000 for war taxes alone on
the youthful fans. Thn question was:
should the club owners bear this
financial burden. or should the Knot
Holers be asked to pay the tax as In
dividuR1sI1
President Riokey placed the matter
before Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue Roper, and asked whether .
tax need be collected. No matter what
the decision, he says. the Knot Hole
gang viii not disband, and some
means VIII be devised to make the
members regular attendants at all
Cardinal games