Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 50, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 December 1907 — Page 2
LAST DAYS OF
THE STANCH OLD SHIP SARATOGA
FiagsHlpof Commodore Perry Opened up Japan to the Com m ere e of the World, and Now a Boston Firm WillStrlpHePOti tho dunk Heap,
l.roo.noo 8ui. had frightened
TV
n Just at this time, when the leet ever aaaembled under one
flag has started on its record breaking voyaee it U interesting to record the
txaim' Ii I t nil li iur v
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We had no idea we the empire so badly.
as the capital was 40 or 50 uiiles away from our anchorage As we proceeded up the barUr. boats fled away from us as though in mortal fear. By the time we were well anchored and shipshape the city officials tok heart. Swarms of picturesque man darins came off to challenge the strange arrivals and to draw around the fleet the customary cordon of guard boats They even tried to make fast their boats to our ships This began to look like being in IMatniT The American ambassador had not come to Japan to be put under sentries. He notified the mandartns that his reaacfa were not pirates and need not be watched They pleaded Japanese law. He replied with Ameri can law They still insisted. He noti-ft-d them that if the boats were not an'lv withdrawn he mould open
e ur ti e squadron und-v command his batwrus and sink them That was ' .- ..dore Ferrv when be sailed entirely convincing The guard boats tfeijananese barbo-- o' Yedo in 1 stood rot on the order of their going. ft The fire vessels of the western bar ' - . ft ,1 1 at.., kntf
banans are coming m wmm m country." said priest and soldier to one another. Japs Gazed m Wonder. The boatman at his sculls and the junk sa-lor at the tiller gazed in wonder at the i ainted ships of the west ern world. The farmer standing knee deep in the ooze of the rice fields, paused to marveL Had the barbarians harneaaed vol canoes With wind hp I II in their teeth and sails furled, the monsters curled the white foam at their front, .hii.. thir black throats vomited
- a ns -:..l smoke T th" gaxC at a .;..ince. as they looked from their village on the billtopa. the whole scene seemed a mirage created by the breath of clams. Such, their child hoods beliefs taught them, must be the case. Boats dashed here an I there about the harbor, like a flock of frightened gulls They fled. Then paused, to see how far behind the strange visions were now Surely they were doomed
"Some three miles ft our anchortce a s i'l bewail, a little semicircular harbor i .ik r.i on it--em side of the bay At the head of it sto.nl the village or hamlet of Kurlhama. That was the spot selected for the meeting of the western envoy and Hi.' imperial commissioners. And . re the Japanese erected a temporar hall of audience
r was a memorable scene The fntat.-r. steamed slowly down and anchored off the harbor How big. Mark and sullen they looked to the natives' Our little flotilla of 15 boats .(...( nn.t.T rover of their guns
. w. re not quite 300 all told, but . very one was in full uniform and need to the teeth The commodore had given orders to make as magnifi cent an appearance as we could, for the purpose of impressing a people who lay much stress on show. Yet our little IkkIv of men were few lu
- ets ,he Wssl
leuiolished
"Queen of the i western barbarians called No she
Bxtl ÜM Saratoga' It Is still a name to conjure with in far Japan. And In American history (he stanch old sea fighter will be inseparably linked with Commodore Matthew Calhraith Perry s epoch making trip to what was then a land of mystery and of dreams For that trip and the commercial treaty signed there opened up the Japanese empire to the commerce of the world Battered and tull of years, the grand war hulk has been lying dismantled at league Island navy ya:d. Now .-he belongs to Thomas Butler & Co. of Roston She will be taken to Philadelphia, where will be performed the last ad rites of this former pride of the American na Only Seven Survvors. Thre art those who will nuurn her with a personal losa. Seven men yet live who made that memorable trip with Perry in the flfüe All Lut two
The U. S. S. Saratoga. hee seven survivors haev risen I for there closer and closer plowed the
mit n- hold creat shlis. ana. no sah ctuuL iui-
high in the naval service and nownoia fart rank of rear admiral The seven re Rar Admiral Edward C. Robie.
Fear i
dral John H. Pushur. Rear acar F Stanton. Rear Adrge Balch. Rear Admiral Kdm r John S. Sewall and
Speiden, who went ot mirser's cWk. and ha;
New Y
' n stums
connected with
bouse for years Dr Sewall is the Rev. John S. I all. D D. Of Bangor. Me. He Is an emeritus professor of Bangor's theological seminary, and is enjoying a rest from his tabors after 36 years of faithful artte When I finished my college course at Bowdoin I was in debt." said Ir wall, in remint" n vein 1 saw a chance to satisfy my desire for the sea and i.y off my debt at the same time, so I shipped for a cruise on the She was then fitting out to go to the fa- eaat to relieve the ship
St Man's which had
statum several years W were out there two years bef , .. Ci,r, : modore Perry arrived. Wi) liam S. Walker of Boaton was the captain of the Saratoga Rear Ad miral Stanton waa then only a mid shim an on board, in the same mess with me during a part of the voyage. Arrival of MM Fleet. The f).t arrived off the coast of
wind to propel them. In Yeddo there was terror worse than death. Her 1 .250.000 s .uls knew th fear of supernatural things. With alarmed facea the people thronged to the shrines to pray. They haatily
to packed their valuables to aend off? to
the houses of distant rrtena, or io bury- In the southern suburb, thousands of homes were emptied of their contents and of the sick and aged AH who could left to go to dwell with their relatives in the Interior.
rmirier on horseback had first
brought details of the calamity" by-
land Junks and acull noats irom 1'raga arrived hourly at Shinagawa. and foot-runners bearing dispatches panted in the government offl.ee. Commodore Perry had t, re pared carefully for this visit. Ha had read much about Japan; he knew what its resources were, so far as they were i known at all. by foreigners, he knew
heen on that their quaint customs ana tne vaiue ' they set upon ceremony. Therefore
he was determined to out -Chesterfield the Japanese themselves. Refused to Be Seen. When the representative of the Shogun came, with all ceremony, to treat with him. he was received by Ideut rjaaassl as the com modo re's r prsen
tative. The commodore himself could
not be seen. In spite of all the wily
the American am
number to confront 5.000 native tro opt drawn up on the beach to receive us. Outshone the Japanese. "Crowds of curious spectators lined
the houselois and grouped Bi the hills
in the rear to witness our landing Radiant uniforms, trappings and ei signs were every where but we com pared favorably. Commode re Perry had In fact, outshone the Japanese.
The Japanese regiments seemed to have hen cut out of rainbows and
sunsets. But if they were lively, their ,ffi...n wrf not. For they sat lu
silent dignity on camp stools in front
of the lines Not until our force bad diaem
barked and formed on the beach did
modore show himself No
Ja-, an.-s- had seen him up to tha: time He had remained to them I mysterious presence, who would onl: appear when the duly qualified ambas
sadors of the emperor came to treat
with him and they must be prince of the blood. our lines form-d. the rominc
iotw Itapajli into his arge Instantly the fleet was enveloped in great crowds of smoke. The guns were thundering .-ut a salute that echoed among the hilU back of the village In all the
negotiations he had played the Japanese people's own game and had n veloped himself in mysteryThis was not child's play. It was not an assumption of pomp lnconsist nt with republican simplicity. Com modore Perry was dealing with an ori -ntal potenta" according to oriental ideas, and results proved his sagacity At this time Commodore Perry waa 59
years old. a man of splendid physique
and commanding presence. He was the right kind of man for America to
send on such an errand to such a peo
pie. Within the hall sat the Japanew commissioners on chairs. The imieri
al commissioners were Princes ldzu
and lwaml. and they were surrounds hv their kneeling suite. The vacant
seats opposite were taken by the com
modore and his staff. He entered the pavilion escorted by two gorgeously
coniparisoned blacks, preceded by two richly uniformed pages bearing the precious caskets containing the official
papers to the emperor. Ceremony Not Long
The ceremony began. It was very
brief. At a signal the two boys In blu
brought forward In slow and impres
aive fashion the rosewood caskets con
. . . I . .,... Kls.k
talnlng tne mysterious -l,,v " were to be conveyed to the court
Thev were to be thus conveyed in a
r'fcly lacquered chest of scarlet provided for the purpose. The two
corgeoua negroes, who had followed the boys, opened the boxes In silence, and in silence drew out the papers.
done In red and gold most magnifi c.-ntl. .. They laid them on the scar let coffer. The Imperial commissioners were m.mh imnraoseri Th-v had never
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Wi-lticll snoill'l P" oiuiirih .. Sat. ... tl.n
Commodore Perry luiorii.cvi imu. ...-v
if auch a clause were put In ne wo.ii be afraid to return to America Thereaft et all was good humor, the clause
was strliken out and the tr.aty oi
commerce was signed, throwing open
the poits ot Shimoda and Hakodate.
Career of the SaratogaThe Saratoga was built In Klttery,
Me Ti I - wliftl N r.immmi
at the height of its fame In the ship assildina world It wa named for the
thigship of Commodore Oliver Perry.
the fainou.-. brother of the J a pain se
hero This flagship won the bait!- "t
Lake Kite to the war oi ii-
She did some useful work aa one of
Commander Perry a flee wntcn w.-m
to punish the piratical black UrlMt JoaM "he African coast Village after
Hlttalw was hurned during these operations. aud once the commander hltn-.-lf only escae.i death at the hands of King Crack O. who was the , r of a seyt'-.e !:ke sword, by his own courage and agility and by the quickness of a sergeant of marlnea. who shot the king. The Saratoga was also present din ing the M-xican war. when CMMafr lore Perry, then Capt. Perry, saved the titMtlOa for the American for with his naval guns. After returning from her long service lu eastern waters, part of which was Commodore Per s mission, the Saratoga was
A SUMMER TRAGEDY BY JEAN KATE LUDLUM
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It seemed pitiful) unkind when I as old en.. ugh to feel the slurs of fortune, for my comrades and friendmy brothers more than anyone to nickname me "Sorrel" because of the color of my hair! Kor oats this was a sore Buhject to in. many a "crying spell" have I bad ..ving to that and the laughter of my thought less companions Kveryotie called me Sorrel. My own namKthel. was so seldom sMkeii 1 failed to answer It when heard! We went up to the country early tha? IT for It was unusually
warm and 1 was restless for the free life and exercise to which 1 owed my perfect health. 1 shall have Sidney Uutnttt up this summer." Tom declared as decidedly as 1. in the laying of plann. "He was awfully good to me, you know, wh.-n I was down In the dumps that time at college, and during our summering together last summer." The weather was divine; for the first two weeks we simply reveled In the freedom and open life Then Tom's
fri
(Copyright, by Joseph H Howies.)
piic with you that you should all her iliat After last summer- -I answer you frankly I do not see how yon could descend to coming here, How yon could dare to come! You knew perfectly well whom you would meet whom you must me day after .!.. and with the memory we three haw.
Whether 1 turned deaf or blled .., both, I scarcely knew. That 1 struck my horse cruelly with the whip, 1 rmember, and tho mad rush of wind past my face, whirling my hair, as he dashed infuriated out of the path, wheeled, poised for an instant on the -mtarikment. and then leaped! H was thoroughly trained for the field, or I think we would both have been instantly killed: but he only stumir.ed In gaining his footing, and threw me dashing off unharmed himself. 1 tell It as though I knew It, bu this Is as it was told me later. In reality. 1 was incapable of thought or feeling: only 'he sound of that scornful voice without the words It uttered b ad' iied all else. I fainted when i
end came, and I liked hire from the was thrown, striking a stump wltn my
sent again to the African coasL dur ing the civil war. Farragut and Shu brick commanded her at different times during these operations. At the close of the civil wax the slooo was not considered fit for active
service. Therefore, she was ordered OB Philadelphia, where she did duty . . . , - - - --- - .hi., I
as a training snip ami rf-i-mu for many years In 1 she wat turned ever to the state as a school ship, and, under Joint suiH-rvision of state and city, she made annual cruises The stout old warrior continued these voyages until last February
when, outside the harbor, she met a t. nSMt storm It strained the ancient timber until the water began to pour in at innumerable points, and she mm in dire danger of foundering It was shortly after that the navy d-;.artinent ordered an inspection The old fighter was condemned and ordered to lie sold as junk. Commodore Perry t Record. Many consider Commodore Matthew
Calhraith Parry B0 have been a great
J ur i thAtr I er naval man than his more famous
seen r ac meu uviuiv r. "
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the lmazina- been willing to sin n.aiiuy
t.ft ith anvone I nereioro uo .
ft ' "
and to
t..n r.i. th eirhth 1v of Jul v. oriental iu.uu u
.,. - .i th ma.thead echoed ! bassador remained aloof, and im
through the fleet the rousing call. , pressed the Japanese official mightily
Land .o' W.- rushed on deck. There aa a great man by this very exciuaive l rnimm ti la.it k .lark eloilit on the nesS
..r.hm horisoo still shrouded in I When seeking trade, the Dutc'u had
mystery, still Inspiri
w- ft.... in nnr .torfio at rhool ' were nigs, reasoned the Jap- nee
(..t cnnirirnn f ..no-rlvr ! two Rteani S;ir! the-e atstrn Jjalry
.rate and two sloops of war Fbr ana nni.-t oe me sumTsr
. mu.ti.rni nl nin and found otherwise, messengers
77 officers and m-n- quite a respect kept running at breakneck speert m able force- for those tin I tween the Shogun s city and the et Such a warlike apparition In the of tho mikado's government bay. small as it was. created a tre- At last the bunlo. who had been ahle to see only the "admiral s subor-
I . w. - n - -.,. rf Btlfn
,linTi. ttcailKe 11' - a - "ft - -
barbni i
When th y
were
stage plays, when actors used nurnt , cork Therefore, they estimated that Ufa admiral.' as thty knew him. must
be a man of supreme power. I'tinee lwaml handed to the interpreters a formal receipt for the documents "The commodore announced that he would return In the spring for his re
ply. After a runner onei i.iu...uu the conference closed, having lasted
not more than 20 minutes It had been
witnessed by not more than .0 or bu
persons of both the countries engaged Yet that short meeting was to lead to
the opening of Japan."
But the Japanese were aiarmeo at
the persistence or tne am uaswuiur.
too. The formal receipt closed with:
Because this place is not designed to
treat of anything from foreigners, so
neither can conference nor entertainment take place The letter being re reived, you will leave here." The actual landing took place on July 14. 1853. and Is commemorated by a single shaft of granite rising H feet into the air. placed on the spot where Perry landed from hia ships This monument waa erected in 1901. The treaty waa not concluded and signed until March of 1854. when Per ry returned with a greatly increased fleet to get his answer. At first the Japanese held out "that no American
brother. Commodore Oliver ferry id fact, the two are often confused. Be sides opening up Japan to American trade and to western civilization, he was the greatest naval educator of hi time. His life may be briefly sum I up aa follows: 1 hlk er a lad he was a nava officer in the war of 1812. 2 He chose the location of the first free black settlement in Liberia 3He was tho father of the steam navy. 4 He first demonstrated the effl cieney of the rain as a weapon of of
fence in naval warfare. 5 He founded the naval apprentice ship system 6 He was leader of the campaign to extirpate the foreign slave trade on the coast of Africa. 7 He commanded In 1847 the largest squadron which had ever aa sembled under the American flag This was in the gulf of Mexico 8 He opened Japan to the world The Perry family furnished more na val officers to the I'nltej States than any other American family, with one exception. The sturdy commander oi the Saratoga was survived by three daughter, one of whom became ttu wife of August Helm .nt. the multi millionaire of New York.
first t. ause he had been so good to Tom He was big and broad shouldered and stern at times, with his clear gray eyes searching one's soul, and no smiling of the mouth under the brown mm. tache.
Inez wr.s my special chum at school, j and wh ajj we parted the day aft-r graduation she promised nie a month
at Us end of summer, and she did net forg. t We corresponded, of course, ami I told her of Tom's friend fjlDgf with the rest of my brothers, and of our pleasant life In the old coun' y house, so that when she came she knew our routine pretty thoroughly. But In her letters not a hint did she give that she and Tom and Tom's friend were not st ran iters! She was a beautiful girl, tall and willow v, with large, soft black eyee
aud an abundance of black hair always becomingly arranged, and I did not wonder that Tom and Tom's friend started when they saw her, for I had simply told them of her as Inet, my chum at school, and I met her at the station and brought her home In my
dogcart while they were off on the hills, and coming in late to dinner, their eyes fell upon her. cool, qui- t. beautiful, sitting opposite me, and they started visibly, paling a trifle. Then Tom bit hia lip and Mr. Burnett frowned and the stern expression came around his mouth, each bowing with cold politeness In recognition of the Introduction, as she lifted her magnificent eyes straight to theirs for
one brief minute, smiling softly, murmuring in her exquisite voice how odd it was that they ahould meet again this summer in their summering! Neither smiled In answer, though 1 wondered how they could remain so stolidly cold to her. "Why didn't you tell mo you knew them?" I demanded half angrily, as we UMi In the shadows of the piazza vines. She laughed lightly, her laushter like music In the soft silence as she said, tapping my cheek with the deep rod rose In her hand: "It Isn't a tragedy. Sorrel; don't look so crosa at me! They helped make last summer paas pleasantly, that is all. Only, my dearest." and there was an Inscrutable tone In her voice, her black eyes burning Into
mine througn tne dusK. don t lose your heart to your brother's friend Qteal Mogul as he is, he Isn't worthy that!" and she laughed again. Tom's friend was unusually gay. treating my beautiful Inez as doubt-
head, and would have been killed, they
said, but for in heavy, loosened hair It was two weeks later that I regained my senses, and not until 1 was strenger did 1 learn how ill 1 had be. :,.
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m Sound of Voices Came to My Ear. how near to death's uoor. and how It was only my hair that saved me in the fall. Inez had gone, they told me evasively, when I asked for her. and Tom's friend would have gone to one of the houses in the village had they listened to any such nonsense. But when I was strong enough to be car ried down to the parlor and set among a pile of cushions in my favorite lounging chair In-side the chery wood fire on the hearth for the days were chilly Tom's friend came to nv Everyone had unaccountably left (I room, and I was alone when he en tared, I ImM out my hand gravely without a word, and although he took It aa gravely, he also stooped and t.iuehed my hair with his lip. Aim! then, like a silly child. I was sobbing on his shoulder and he was telling me the story I had waited so long to hear. Then I told him how my accident had occurred, and be In turn told me something of my school friend I had
less he would have treated any casual never dreamed. acquaintance in the house of a friend. Inez my beautiful Inez had lured while Dick and Ned tried their wita i my brother on during their summer
ing a year before, and had then laughed at him In her soft, low, mu Hlcal voice when he made known his heart, and It had goae hard with him
upon her, appearing to adore her mutually from the first; and I was too hopelessly healthy to degenerate at once into & lovelorn maiden." and
with spirits happy and heart strong . at first; but she treated a
mutual
friend of theirs in the same way. nnlv he had not Toms orfde and a
ald of our arrival "The popular com
tnot i.e. Ir. Yeddo was beyond description The wht le city was lo an uproar In all directions were en mothers flying with children in their
arms and men with mother oa their back "We were quit- unconscious of all fils confusion in a UXv of are thau
dent importance to gaze upon tne august features of the ambaaaado.-. announced tha two dalmios had been appointed to receive the myaterlous paper so carefully guarded In casket, which the king of the power that had whipped Mexico" desired to aend to the "Lord of Creation."
fScL? af4mmmfm Ifa HCW
Lait Clause of tha First Japanese Treaty.
1 set my wits again.-t hers, astonishing even myself with my brilliance.
For with ilo heart of a healthy K.rl I , pistol bullet was easiest, he said, an 1
believed I loved Inez truly, and if Tom's friend but there 1 always ended. I never allowed more minute reasoning. The month was nearly over when suddenly the web of mystery tangled for me and then as suddenly broke. W e were out on a canter throiiKh the hills, the boys, Tom'e friend, my friend and I. and my fiery chestnut. Katahdin s blood being up. we dashed on and away from the others recklessly, thoughtlessly, delightfully, my hair becoming undone, tumbling down over my shoulders in all its heavy weight of color. Then, with a merry thought of my inbospltality of winning the race so t.w ahead, I wheeled Katahdin and rode back more sedately. Tho turf was soft and thick and my horse made no noise save the dead rush of the grass as we passed ao slowly back, when presently beside a wood Banking a deep embankment, the pound of voleoä came to my ear, and I drew rein to call if It were any of our party But at that Inatant the vole of Tom's friend stirred the quiet
nlr and my voice was hushed, not In idle curiosity, but it tinned by sudden
knowledge
-M.iiest over, and that had turned my Tom's Infatuation to hatred of the beautiful girl-woman, who also trie 1 her arts on this brave friend of his without success. "Tom waa too noble for her!" his friend finished frankly, "and I had not m.'t you then. Sorrel, but her treach ery kept me safe! I had not met you. my sweet little girl, without whom the house Is dark and silent." "And without my hair!" I added presently, with an attempt at saudness. hut there were tears In my eyes as well. "A poor little 'strawberry blonde' to match with her exquisit beauty! ' Don't!" he said Imperatively. "You aro not to speak so of yourself. Sor re it isn't respectful to me; and If It hadn't been for your hair " If It hadn t been for my hair" I added, taking up the pause. But we never finished the sentnce. So I waa engaged ere I "came out though I would not listen to a wedding under two years, nor would mother and the rest. As for Inez. I have never seen her from that day, for ahe returned to her borne In Spain. And I
am certain that Tom has no pain m
"You say It Is nothing to me If you ; the memory of their tatSMr, on,- m com, her m vt.it vuur recollection of the sad little tragi7
choose to come hero to visit your
friend! Your friend!" Waa It scorn of her or of mo In hla voice? I felt myself turning to stone, yet could only lu co. "Is there aught of her to cona-
of the ending of a life under her falsity, for Tom never loved her la spite of her exquisite beauty m Id not love such a woman!