Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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THE SENTINEL. GARBER. OKLAHOMA.
OKOMV, w PRESIDED
[ HIS is the year of triumph
for Japan. It is especially
the year of triumph for Pre-
mier Shigenobu Okuma,
leader of the party of the
people, and for his war cry,
"Asia for the Asiatics."
There has been a little
discontent at the "compro-
mise" with China. This
was bound to be so in the most war-
like nation on earth. But Japanese
who are better informed know there
has been no compromise. Group V
may have been left "for later discus-
sion," but the Japanese leaders will
exact every demand embodied in It
from time to time.
Thus Okuma, the one-legged grand
old man of Japan, sees his great idea
coming to fruition. He knows the
Japanese people will willingly spend
*heir blood like water. All Japan has
needed for conquest is money. Japa-
nese strategy is not of the year or the
decade, but of the century and the
millennium. Money, but not enough,
lias come out of Korea and South
Manchuria. Money—money for bat-
tleships and siege guns, for sub-
marines and aeroplanes—will now
flow from China into Japan.
Centuries ago untutored Japan
uade conquests on the mainland and
adopted Chinese culture. Sixty years
igo she threw off the culture of Japan
for the efficiency of the West. Now
she will go a step farther and with
Iron fist Impose western efficiency on
China.
Modern wars are fought with fac-
tories. With 400,000,000 Chinese la-
boring to supply munitions of war in
ner rear, sixty millions of Japanese
will present the front of their warrior
nation to the white race and tell it
to get out of the western Pacific—
and some day will tell the French to
get out of Cochin China and the Brit-
ish to get out of India.
These are the aims of Okuma. They
are not hazy national aspirations, hut
active policies that Japan is working
every minute of her time to carry out.
Okuma proclaimed them openly and
loudly when he was of the party of the
opposition. On this platform of mili-
tarism he won his campaign in the
spring of 1914 and ousted the Yama-
moto party. For a year he has been
In control and his hold is stronger
than ever.
Being at the head of the nation his
words soften. He exudes honey to
Great Britain and sends messages
breathing the spirit of peace to the
United States. Japan is not deceived.
They have long seen these two ir-
reconcilable currents of expression
flow from Okuma's mouth—and they
know which one to believe. They be-
lieve only the one which accords with
the spirit of the samurai, the "two
sword man."
In Japan both the nobles and the
commoners are militaristic. Okuma
is a noble, but he has chosen to lead
the commoners. Perhaps this Is be-
cause he came from neither of the two
leading clans which for many years
controlled Japan, but of a weaker
clan, the Hizen. Throughout his life
he has fought against the clan sys-
tem and in favor of the constitutional
monarchy, now for years strongly es-
tablished.
At seventy-seven, Okuma is still
fiery and energetic. He was a boy of
twenty, living in a small Japanese
town, when the visit of Commodore
Perry and the granting of treaty
rights to foreigners by the shogun set
all Japan to talking about the "red-
haired" barbarians. Okuma had
great curiosity to learn about the
world outside Japan. He heard of an
American missionary, Doctor Veer-
beck, and went to him secretly—not to
embrace Christianity, but to learn.
First of all he learned to read the
Bible. Then came the one political
document the devoted missionary pos-
sessed, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
His soul was set on fire. When
seventy years old, he said: "The read-
ing of the Declaration of Independence
when I was a boy made such an im-
pression upon my soul that the doc
trines proclaimed by it have ever
been my guiding rule in life." Thomas
Jefferson became his model and he
studied everything he could find about
the American statesman
in his youth came the great Jap-
anese civil wars between the mikado's
party and the old feudalists. Okuma
loft Bchool and plunged into the thick
of the fray. The mikado's party, hav
ing adopted western military tacticB,
won Its battle, and the mikado was es
tablished as supreme In Tokyo. Oku-
ma was put in a position in the office
of foreign affairs.
The intricacies of Japanese politics
In the laBt half of the nineteenth cen
tury are difficult for an American to
understand without long study. Suffl
dent to Bay that Okuma was in the
FAMOUS IN ENGLISH HISTORY
Canterbury Cathedral a Point of In-
terest That Has Few Equale In
the World.
The only king burled In Canterbury
cathodral is Henry IV, and hit tomb
Is on one Bide of the place of the
shrine. On the other 1b the tomb of
Edward the Black Prince. Above him
hangs the armor which he wore. TM
ancient stone coffin of Hubert Walter,
middle of everything, fighting first for
the mikado and later for a represen-
tative parliament to which the minis-
ters should be responsible. The gov-
ernment In 1881 promised to summon
a national diet, grant a constitution
and limit the imperial prerogative in
1890. Okuma then formed the Pro-
gressive party, forerunner of the pres-
ent National party, and wa8 for many
years its president.
Aside from his constant political ac-
tivities, he founded WaBeda univer-
sity in Tokyo in 1882 and was for
many years its president. He saw it
grow to house 5,400 students, with a
first-class baseball team.
It was not until Japan had settled
her domestic troubles and put her
house in order that the foreign policy
developed. In this line progress has
been perhaps faster than in importing
western ways of manufacture and liv-
ing.
And it was after the great victory
over Russia, following the easy hum-
bling of China, that Okuma's really
truculent utterances began to appear
In 1908, when Japan was troubled
by the United States sending the
American fleet into the Pacific, he said
to an American newspaper man:
'Nothing can be more dreaded than
crazy people, and the Japanese are a
crazy nation. In fighting they will go
on like mad, as was well illustrated in
the late war. The Japanese are al-
ways ready to throw away their lives
for the glory of the state; they regard
PIRATES IN CHINESE WATERS
Freebooters Extend Their Operations
to Land Expeditions, and Fre-
quently Loot Villages.
their lives as light
as the weather. On
the other hand,
Americans and Eu-
ropeans attach too
much importance to
money; those who
love money love
their lives. Sup-
pose the Americans
and J a p a n e s e—
whose ideas of death
are fundamentally different—should
come to fighting. The final result will
be easily foretold."
Although not so truculent just at
present Count Okuma for several
years in the caucuses of his party, In
his newspaper organs, and in the fa-
miliar conversations which he was
wont to hold with the former pupils of
his great school, had a habit of speak-
ing of the United States very much
as he spoke of Russia in the years
before the war, as a great power
which will have to be humbled to se-
cure the salvation of Japan.
Even before the Russian war the
count said: "A Japanese must be re-
spected wherever he goes. We yield
to no one, not even to the Romans, in
pride in citizens and citizenship."
The British probably have not for-
gotten Okuma's famous outburst in
which he said:
"Being oppressed by the Europeans,
the three hundred million people of
India are looking for Japanese protec-
tion. The Japanese ought to go to
India, the South ocean and the other
parts of the world."
Nor will anyone who knows Japan's
history doubt that she intends to hold
Kiauchau, the Carolines. Marianne and
Marshall Islands in the South Pacific.
She took these from Germany and al-
ready some capital Is being invested
and experts have been sent from the
ministries of agriculture and com-
merce to study the question of the ex-
ploitation of these islands.
WHERE MEN LIVE AND FIGHT
Visitor to the German Tronches De-
scribes Their Construction and
Arrangements.
RULES OF UP-TO-DATE ZOO
Compiled for the Benefit of Visitors
Who Without Proper Guidance
Might Get Into Trouble.
All persons are prohibited from
playing with the animals. If you are
a monkey, don't recognize your friends
at the zoo. Fraternizing with ani-
mals is considered a serious ofTense,
no matter if the animal shows more
intelligence than the one trying to
torment him.
It shall be unlawful to stroke the
whiskers of Caesar, the male lion, or
to pull the tails of any of the lions at
any time. Visitors must not Interfere
with the food that Is given the lions
or put their hands Into the mouths of
the beasts.
Making eyes at the baboons and
shaking hands with the monkeys are
not permitted at any time. Visitors
must not pull the horns of the buffalo
or strike the ears of the ostrich.
Children art warned not to ride on
the backs of the deer.
Violations of these park regulations
will be punished by solitary confine-
ment in the dog pound for six months.
—Springfield News.
JOHN'S DEDUCTION AT FAULT
Result of Bright Youth's Reasoning
Brought Consternation to His
Employer.
John was the new boy at the board-
ing house. His mistress was scolding
him because he never surmounted an
obstacle.
"John," she said, "when 1 sent you
for a two-pound loaf of cake and they
had none, why in the world did you
not bring two one-pound cakes? That
would be exactly the same thing."
John seemed to grasp the knowl-
edge. His mistress thought bo until
the next day.
She was going on a journey, and
being a large, stout woman, told John
lo engage her two seats In the Bus.
When John returned she asked:
"Did you have any difficulty?"
"No, madam," replied the hopeless
John, "but I could not get them both
together, so I got one on the inside
and one on the t- pi"
Rich Loot.
Brown was happily rambling
through the land of dreams one night
when he suddenly awakened to find
the long barrel of a pistol unpleasant-
ly close to his face.
"Utter one word," cried a strong
voice back of the formidable gun, "and
you are a dead man."
"I'm not saying one word," was the
meek rejoinder of the submissive
Brown.
"\.hat I want," continued the bur-
glar, without lowering the pistol, "is
every single valuable that you have in
the house, and I want them quickly."
"All right, old man," promptly re-
plied Brown, digging up a Blip of paper
and handing It to the burglar. "Here
is the combination to the refrigerator."
Unexpected Chicken.
A stranger, arriving in a small town,
hailed a passing resident and in-
quired:
"Can you direct me to a place
where thew take boarders?"
"Henimandhaws keeps 'em," the
man replied.
"Is that a pretty good place?"
"Fair to middlin'."
"Have chicken very often for din-
ner?"
"Reg'lar and unexpected."
"What do you mean by regular and
unexpected?"
"They have ekicken reg'lar every
Sunday—"
"I see—"
"And they Elso have It when an au-
tomobile unexpectedly kills one In the
road."—Judge.
WANTED TO SEE THE RESULT
Little Willie Evidently Had at Some
Time Beheld a Slot Machine
In Operation.
There are some very funny things
in a big store besides the things the
girls say about the floor walker or
the fancies the ribbon-counter boye
have about the personalities of buy-
ers and heads of departments.
For Instance: The other day a
small lad, with an unmistakable stamp
of the country, was trailing his moth-
er along through a big store. He was
hanging back and she was pulling.
The boy never had been In a big
store, and the place was full of many
wonders.
All of a sudden his pulling and lag-
ging became a stubborn and pr>
nounced utter stoppage.
"Come on, Willie," said the mother.
"Aw, maw, wait," begged the boy.
"No," protested his mother. "What'e
the matter with you?"
Ix>ok!" cried the boy. He wai
pointing to a young man leaving an
employees' time clock, which the
young man had just punched.
"Walt, maw," continued Willie, "I
want to see what he wins!"
All His Fault.
One witness in a recent police court
case was an old Irish woman.
Immediately the prisoner's lawyer
asked her a question she began talk-
ing. and talked and talked and talked.
"Stop! Stop!" ordered the magis-
trate, hammering on his desk.
But the old woman still talked on.
"Here, you In the witnesB box, do
be quiet!" thundered the magistrate
again. "Oh, do stop for a minute!"
And the old woman still went on.
Then the magistrate turned angrily
on the lawyer.
"Look here, Mr. M ," he shouted,
"you started her—now stop her!"
Wearisome Proposition.
"Well, Mirandy," said Mrs. Bosby-
shell to her cook, "I hear it rumored
that you are going to be married again,
this time to Joe."
"No'm, I ain't gwine git mahried
again, Miss Lucy," replied Mirandy.
"I'm very fond o' Joe, but I ain't gwine
mahry him."
"What's the trouble?" asked Mrs
Bosbyshell.
"Ain't no trouble, Miss Lucy," said
Mirandy, "but yo' Bee I done been
mahried three times already, an' tell
yo' de truff I'm gittin' mighty tlahed
payin' out good money to dem undah
takahs."
His Bid.
Between the blonde young woman
on the other side of the car and her
stout neighbor next to the left there
Intervened a space perhaps four
inches in width. Clinging to the
strap just in front of the blonde wom-
an was a cheerful individual whose
uncertain footing was, it Beemed, not
wholly due to the jolting and Jerking
of the common carrier. Presently he
fastened an ingratiating smile upon
the young woman.
"Madam," murmured he, "If you'd
lemme sit down in that place there
by you I'd—I'd vote for woman suf
frage."—New York Evening Post.
Shrapnel In Warfare.
Shrapnel Is most effective against
prone skirmishers at ranges from
1,000 to 3,000 meters, when burst
twenty-eight to twenty-two metere
short of the target, and against stand-
ing skirmishers at the same ranges
when burst fifty-six to forty-five me-
ters short of the target. Black also
points out that a Bingle shrapnel from
a light field howitzer produces a
greater number of hits when the point
of burst is favorably situated than one
fired from a field gun.
Shrapnel is also playing a most Im-
portant part In aerial warfare, and of
these antiaircraft shrapnel, all of
which embody the same general es-
sentials, there Is perhaps none more
effective than that known as "Ehrhardt
antiaircraft Blirapnel."
Of Far More Importance.
Pat and a friend were reading an
account of a shipwreck, in which they
were greatly interested.
"Pat," said his friend, "in case of a
shipwreck, presence of mind is worth
everything else."
"Prisince of inoind," ye say," repiud
Pat earnestly. "Faith, and I don't
agree wid ye. In tolme of shipwreck,
absince of body Is of far more impor-
tance than prisince of moind."—Na-
tional Monthly.
A favorite form of freebooting in
Chinese waters takes the form of
river piracies. The pirates themselves
are, unlike their deep-water outlaw
brethren, more of the jackal type,
slinking, cowardly, but still murder-
ous and deadly whenever they fall in
with unarmed parties. They Infest the
shallow rivers, creeks and canals
which cut in from the China coast.
The big junkB, In use by the deep-
sea freebooters, are of no earthly good
in shallow waters, and so the river
robbers make use of light-draft craft
known locally as "fast crabs' and
"scrambling dragons." The West river
near Canton is a favorite ground for
these shallow-water freebooters, al-
though the great Yangtse-Kiang river
is also Infested with them.
In their little craft they navigate
without trouble over the shallows and
rapids Inland as far as Chungking,
which Is more than 1,000 miles from
the coast, and instead of preying upon
the merchant ships and steamers of
the deep, they loot villages, murder
travelers, massacre white concession-
aires, and cause untold trouble to the
missionaries, of whom there are many
hundreds in this part of inland China.
And it is against these river pirates
particularly that the activities of the
little Palos and Monocacy will be di-
reeted.
For several years England, Germany
and Japan maintained light-draft river
boats for use against the pirates and
now the United States follows their
example. China, too, will soon add sev-
eral vessels of a similar type to her
service.
During the last four years several
citizens of the United States have been
murdered by Chinese pirates.
created archbishop by Richard I on
the field of Acre, always interests
tourists, for as chancellor he raised
the ransom for his king.
In the warriors' chapel is the tomb
of Archbishop Stephen Langton, who
led the barons in their struggle
against King John, compelling him to
grant the Magna Charta.
When Henry VIII separated the
English church from Rome he emptied
the wealth of the cathedral Into the
king's treasury; otherwise the tourist
would be permitted to view a vast
Three hours later I was In the Ger-
man trench at La Bassee. When I had
accustomed myself to the steady
cracking of rifles in the firing pits,
which I could not see, but which I
knew must be close by; when I had
nervously counted the bursting of 20
shells, all in an appalling few min-
utes, yet had heard no plop of frag-
ments burying themselves into the
mud above, I began to be able to look
about me. I was standing in a pit
about seven feet deep and barely wide
enough for two passing men to
Bqueeze by. By turning my indispen-
sable electric torch this way and that
I could see In the rear wall of the
trench a series of caves dug in the
earth, their entrances bo low that a
man would have to enter them on
hands and knees. In some I saw the
faint yellowish gutter of candles and
others were pitch dark. But in the
front wall of the trench there were
cut, at Intervals so short that the place
seemed a catacomb, narrow passages
that led to the shooting pits, recesses
not more than five feet wide, re-en-
forced at the level of the ground with
sandbags and armor; and on either
side of these approach passages I saw
the holes In the earth In which men
slept, and lived, and ate when they
weren't in the pits, their guns toward
the enemy. At the lieutenant's sug-
gestion I went down into one of the
caves.
"Later," he said, "you won't want to
be moving around much. It'll get hot
ter then, and youH want to remain in
one place where you're sure the she!
ter is good."—The Christian Herald.
Time's Changes.
"You know when I was living here
some years ago," remarked tho man
who had just dropped in, "you had a
little boy about six years old whom
you thought the brightest boy in the
world."
"Yes, I remember," was the reply;
"but he's been through college since
then."
"itie Way of It.
"Are Bell and Barbara blood rela-
tions?"
"Oh, no. It is purely platonic grouch
they have for each other!"—Puck.
Perfect Example.
"The paper speaks of a certain argu-
ment as being tactfully yet forcefully
phrased," said the young student.
"What would be a good example of
that?"
"My son," returned the father, "can
It be that you have never lent ear to
your mother's able representations on
the periodical occasions when I return
home on pay day?"
One Advantage.
"Traded your motorboat for an aero-
plane, eh? What's the Idea?"
"Well, there's this about an aero-
plane—even if the engine does break
down, you're bound to land some
where."
Development in Morocco has been
generally stopped because of the war
in Europe.
Out of Long Experience.
Barristers should always be respect-
ful to the court and accept decisions
with good humor, says Dr. Blake Olg-
erB, who illustrates the proper atti-
tude of the profession.
A young barrister who held differ
ent views from the court, remarked
on one ocasion that he was surprised
to bear the judge make a certain state-
ment, whereupon the leading counsel
apologized for his Junior on the
ground of his youth.
"When he is as old as I am, my
lord," he said deferentially, "he will
never be surprised at anything your
lordship says o- does."—Yorkshire
Post.
Hint Did Its Work.
When the young British officer, or-
dered to the front, called on his tailor
to get a fresh outfit, the tailor could
not forget that there was an unset-
tled account.
But he felt nervous about broaching
the subject.
"I see the enemy," said the young
officer, "has had a check."
"Lucky enemy!" said the tailor,
wistfully.
The young officer looked puzzled for
a moment and then took the sentle
hint. Next day the bill was settled.
Talented.
"Wasn't your wife something of an
elocutionist before she married you?"
asked the man who had just returned
from an extended stay abroad.
"She is yet," answered the other,
sadly, thinking of her oratorical efforts
on the occasions when he had come
home late from the club.
Vocal Carpenters.
Hazel—What 1b that scraping noise
out front?
Dawn—Must be the chorus girls fiV
Ing off the stage.
Holds The Lead
For over seventeen years Grape-Nuts, the pioneer health cereal, has had no
equal, either in flavour or nutrition.
Thousands of families use it regularly because
STRONG WORDS
From a Doctor With 40 Years Experi-
ence.
Yorkshire has 12,000 looms weaving
khaki.
amount of priceless gifts left at the
shrine.
Cromwell once Btabled the horses ol
his army in the church, and the marks
of the hoofs are plainly discernible In
the nave.
When visiting England make a pil-
grimage to Canterbury, for this old
cathedral, begun In 1070, Is rich with
historical interest, and In Its archi-
tectural features can be traced the
building of the English empire. Her
archbishops wielded a mighty Influ-
ence to Urae ot the R toma.tlo*
Grape-Nuts
Has qualities which make
it the ideal food—
Delicious Flavour,
Rich Nourishment,
Quick Preparation,
and withal, easily digested.
Grape-Nuts and cream, in place of heavy,
indigestible food, helps to make one cooler and
more comfortable on hot days; and builds body
and brain in a way that gives zest and energy.
"In my 40 years' experience as a
tescher and practitioner along hy-
gienic lines," says a Calif. phyBlcian, "1
have never found a food to compare
with Grape-Nuts for the benefit of the
genoral health of all classes of people.
"I have recomr-.tnded Grape-Nuts
for a number of years to patients with
the greatest success and every year's
experience makes me more enthusias-
tic regarding Its use
"I make it a rul* <o always recom-
mend Grape-Nuts when giving my pa-
tients Instructions as to diet, for I
know (Jrape-Nuts can bo digested by
anyone.
"As for myself, when engaged in
much mental work my diet twice a
day oonsists of Grape-Nuts and rich
cream. 1 find it Just the thing to build
up and keep the brain in good working
order.
"In addition, Grape-Nuts always
keeps the digestive organs In a per-
fect, healthy tone." Name given bf
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Strong endorsements like the above
from physicians all over the country
have stamped Grape-Nuts the uioel
scientific food In lha world.
"There's a Reason" for Grape-Nut*
Sold by Grocer* everywhere.
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