Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — Duty Before Everything. [ARTICLE]

Duty Before Everything.

How strong the sense o"f duty is in Japanese officials is shown by the following incident of the great earthquake wave: “The director of the Kamaishl telegraph office saw his family swept away before his eyes. In spite of his sad misfortune he at 1 once went lit search of the telegraphic instruments that had been washed away, and as soon as possible restored them to proper order. To his self-sacrificing zeal the public is indebted for the speedy re-establishing of communications.”