Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1905 — General Oku on the Field. [ARTICLE]

General Oku on the Field.

I watched Oku keenly. Though I had Been him coming for twenty yards, I recalled suddenly that I saw nothing but his face until he got quite near. It was sad with something of Lincoln’s sadness. In profile it was kindly, especially when he smiled; full faced there were proofs that he could be iron and relentless. But his eyes! Big, black, glittering, fanatical, ever moving they were, and you caught them never but for a moment, but when you did they made you think of lightning and thunderstorms. He was dressed simply in olive green serge, with one star on his cap and three stars and three stripes on his sleeve. His boots were good. His sword hung in his left hand, undlnched. His other hand looked nerveless. Not once did he shift his weight from his right foot, only the sole of his left ever touching the stone flagging. He Is the most remarkable looking man I’ve ever seen thus far among the Japanese.—Scribner’s Magazine.