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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1921.
SILVER SEEKER IN PERU, About this time a certain silver mine in Peru was represent- ad to him by Mr. Harren, a German advantürer, la de exosed- ingly promising. This was, ba thought, a
ha was dissuaded from his mur- in which he remained until 1890, darius purpose by the astonished when be, was put on the retired American" and his travail con-list. This brings us to a curious tinued until he was rescued by episode in Takah zahi'a variegated Mr. Tomia Tetaunosuke, the career. Cosmal-General there, and brought to Japan after some two years' stay in America, during which ba seams to have supported the whole round of manial hard ship. He now boasts that he can eloan plates and kaires and forks, and wash and iron country and also far him shirts and curtaion as well as and, collecting capital from professional. But this was not his friends and acquaint- the only fruit of his early experances, he proceeded to Peru, only iences in America. He had mas- to find that the mine was an tered English to such an extent that exhausted one. Nothing came
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he managed to pass the Custom-out of it but earth. All his housa in Yokohama unchallanged capital was lost and the capital by singing ditties in English as he of his friends, while he had given walked, and thus pretanding to up his official post. It was a be an American youth. If he steep fall from an influential| had show his passport it might director of a bureau to a di-grac- have gone hard with him, for he ed adventurer. He was so ex- was of the Sendaielan, which was asperated at bis failure that be thea looked upon s an enemy of was resolved that he would never the Imperial Court just reinstated appear in public any more.
But in power.
his friend, would not allow him TEACHER OF ENGLISH. to bury himself in obscurity Takahashi came home at a
baron Kawads Koichita, the then time very lucky for him, for the | Vice-Governor of the Bank of English language was then sa Japan, offered to recommend him much in fashion that a man who to the post of a prefectural gover- could read Parley's Caivarsalpor, but Takahashi was resolved History could earn 200 yen a never to stand in a public posi- month. Takahashi still in histion again after his failure in teens, and yet he was engaged Peru. The more Takahashi de- As teacher of English at the clinet to asumə a prition of Kaisei Gakko, the predecessor of responsibility, the more anxious the present Tokyo Imperial Kawada was to make one of his University, where he taught ability. The upshot was that it English to men alder than bim.was decided that Takahashi First be became Takahashi self. Being in receipt of nearly should join the Bank of Japan. | Wakichi as a result of adoption. Y50 a month.-handsome pay in but he should go through all the Theu was called Mashi those days he was in a position training from the bottom. Hewakichiro when be was teacher to taste the pleasures of the city. was afterwards transferred to the at the Kaiser Gakko in order to As he was an amiable man with Specie Bank, of which be became disguise his identity as a vassel plenty of cash, he was so favour the Vice-President in 1897. In for the Sendai Clan, which was ably received by a geisha of the 1899, the bigh officials of the regarded, an already mentioned, name of Adzuma in Shimbashi Bank of Japan taking offence at an enemy of the Imperisi that he neglected his duties at the promotion of their colleague House. When he was a teacher the school and was dismissed. Mr. (now Baron) Yamamoto, the in Kyustu, he was known by the He was now an inmate of bis present Minister of Agriculture name of Adzoma Tare. He w favourite's house and acted as
and Commerce, to the Govern. bora A commoner, became a The Meiji Restoration proluced asendant to the young lady, ship of the Bank, and for other samurai in consequence of adop- many remarkable and woadertul carrying the ssmisen abou: for and better reasons resigned in tion and has raised himself to the
But the career of Vis-herin ber professional visit to
1 body. Takahashi then re-peerage by his merits. Though count Takahashi, who was formal-various houses of pleasure. I entered the Bank of Japan Viscount and worth some mil- MISHIMA"
y appointed Premier on the 13th. was during this period of his life from the Specie Baot and aslions of yen, the new Premier is having arrived from the aburesant, is as remarkable and as that he was pursued with a drawn sisted Governor Yamamoto in said to be more of a commoner in ports. Consignees of Cargo are wonderful as Bay of them. His sword by a follower of a famous settling the trouble. Yama- his temperament than the Great hereby informed that their Goods history, as told by the Japanese swordsman who was his rival in mosa is thus senior to Takahashi. Commoner, the late Mr. Hars. are being landed and placed at papers in great detail, may be the affections of the fascinating It was for this resson that it was it is sometimes declared that their risk in the Hongkong and
recounted as follows:-Viscount geisha. However, it was not feared be would cot remain in while Hara posed for effect, Kowloon Wharf and Godown Takibashi is officially registered written that he should long re-office under Premier Takahashi, Takashi is unaffected and us Company's Godowns at Kowloon, as the eldest son of Mr. Takaba-main in this cozy but somewhat though as a matter of fact he pretending, though his self-con- where each consignment will be shi Koretada, a sumari of the aadigaified position. He was showed himself so devoid of false tidence in financial matters is for sorted out mark by mark and Sendai clan. being born in the engaged as teacher by a school pride that he not merely agreed at Tekst was) - great ́ indeed. delivery can be obtained as 3000 seventh month of the first year of of "English just established at remain in office under Though the President of the big- as the Goods are landed.
Ansei (1854). But it would ap| Karatsu, Hisen Province, a; Y100 | Takahashi bat declared his gest political party and holder of Optional Goods will be carried pear that he really was the 100 of a month, under the assumed readiness to support the Premier the highest office in Japan, on unless instructions are given
A painter in the service of the name of Adzuma Taro (after ca the best of his ability.
Takahashi's mind is often away to the contrary before Noon Toedo Government of the name of
Adiuma, the geisha). Tuere be PROMOTING FORZIGS LOANS. on his farm in the Hokkaido. He day.
Kawamura, and was adopted by remained about two years, teach- Goods not cleared by the 20th.a Takahashi, anushigern (lowest ing mathematics and universal Takahashi in his new
The war with Russia fonad is in the world, but not entirely post of of it. He is a scholar as well as Dec., 1921, will be subject to vassal) of the Lord of Sandai. It bistory as well as English to Vice-Governor at the Hank of a politician. Rough and careless that any he had some schooling.promising young men, many of Japan. As such, he was sent to
in his appearance, be is a hard Damaged packages must be
in the course of which he so dis- | whom
DOW prominent England and France in order to worker and diligent reader. left in the Godowns for examin- tinguished himself that he was figures ia Various lines
of raise foreign loans for financing reading is go: hated to books on ation by the Consignees and the recommended as a boy to be sent activity. The school was closed she was in which be finance and economics, which be Co's representatives at an apto America for study at the ex-in 1872 and he pointed hour on Tuesday and Fri-pense of the clan. On bis arrival to Tokyo.
came back showed much tact and ability. has made his specialty. His bold He than for some He succeeded in floating loans advocacy of the abolition of day. All claims must be presented in America in 1868, however, be time translated articles from to the amount of 1,600,000,000. the Department of Education had the misfortune to have his the London Times and other According to the Fiji. Mr. Inoue, and the General Staff Office is money embezzled by an American | Foreign papers for
whom it bad been unwisely Tokyo Nichi-Cichi, bis colleague Bank, was surprised at the great
the the present Governor of the one of the results of his extensive reading. it the Reporters' entrusted for transmission, In- in this work being the late confidence which Takahashi in Club attached to the Finance cording to his own "plan, which Takahashi should have been stead of going to school, there Viscount Sugematsu, son-inspired in foreign countries. Office, he has the nickname as since successfully withstood placed at the bead of the |fore, he bad to make bis living as law to Prince Ito. About this Having proved himself to be Taiko Sams, because he has the weather and sea.
dominant party in place of a man a servant. This was the origin of the time he seems also to have been a national treasure in way of been a great builder lize Taiko Viscount Takahashi is declared so intensely partisan as Mr. generally accepted report that be connected with the Department borrowing mones, plain Mr. Hideyosal of yore. The building to be pacifist and anti-militarist, as Hara. It may be hoped that he was sold as a slave in America of Education in some subordinate Takahashi became Barou Tak of the present Department of is shown by his recent big retrench will steer the bark of bis country - story which the date of his role. Later, he found more abashi in 1907. Since then, his ad- Agriculture and Commerce was ment of the naval estimates, and between the rocks of Militarism THE OLD STYLE OF
arrival there makes impossible. Incrative work at the Department vance in the official ladder has placed by him. The present bis well-known advocacy of the and Big Interests into a haven CEMENT BIFOCALS Anyhow, his lot was as hard as of Agriculture and Commerce in been both rapid and remarkable. edifice of the Baus of Japan was abolition of the General Staff. of pacific development by bin dip with their disfiguring and annoy.it he had really been a slave: be 1881. While working as a trans-He was first appointed Governor also built when fakahashi wasio He is famous for what is popularly lomatic and financial policies. ing dividing line bas been had to take his scanty and coarse lator there, he came across an of the Specie Bank and then of charge of the building departs called dassen (derailing) in his supplanted by a new lens with meals out-of-doors, and it was his encyclopædia coming from Hong the Bank of Japan, until he in that Bank. His other, and speeches in Parliament. But if two foci called Kryptok invisible duty to look after the dogs and kong or Shanghai, from which he assumed the post of Minister more
general rickname is
JAPANESE IN SHANGHAL be sometimes gets "off the raila." bifocal lens. The upper portion clean the window panes. Later translated the Patent Law. The of Finance in the Yamamoto "Dharma," suggested no less by he knows how to return to the since the temps was bekent hair of the glass for distance and the he transferred his services to the result was that the Patent Office Ministry in 1913. He was then bis temperament then or ce track. His financial policy was year, the Japanese population in
The Sinucanpan lower for reading, ground from household of a rich man in Auck- was organised in tha: Depsr virtually compelled to join the resemblance of his copatenance subject to severe criticisms for its Shanghai has increased from
so badly ment with Takahashi for its first Seiyukai, of which he has now to that of one single piece of glass. The land, where he wa
the Buddhist
looseness and extravagance, but 15,515 to 17,797, and observes that Hongkong Optical Co. Succes treated by of his fellow- Director. (At that time, the late become the President.
When sage, Like other self-made
be is now disarming his critics by this increase is strange, in view sors to Clark & Co. Refracting servants, a Chinese cook, that be Premier, Mr. Hare, was Secretary the Hara Ministry was formed. sad Accessful MOD, he is king the line advocated by of the fact that business has been and Manufacturing Opticians-made up his mind to kill his per-
to the Minister of Agriculturebe zain became Minister of said to have A contempt for
them. Such is his philosophic competent optical secutor with the dagger which be and chost
Commerce. and Mr. Finance.
so dull. exparte. The store embankment attitude and perhaps bis native ranufacturing establishment in always carried with him. But he Nakahashi, the present Minister
of his Diso villa had been washed honesty that even his enemies theColony-located in 53, Queen's was cool enough to think that he of Education, was Councillor to
away again and again despite its cannot be seriously angry with Road Central, manufacture this might as well take the opinion of the Department) He was after-
being planned by a well-known him. He simply laughs at his kind of invisible bifocal lens on bis American master first as towards transferred to the Director-
engineer, until Viscount Takahs own errors and quietly rectifies all prescriptions in either regular the likely consequences of his ship of the Official Organisation
shi took the master in hand and them. It is a caprice of fate that or Toric forms.
meditated action. Needless to say, Bureau in the same Department,
constructed the embankment so-so non-partisans man asViscount
rent.
within ten days of the steamer's arrival bere, after which date they cannot be recognized. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Agents. Hongkong, 13th Dec., 1921.
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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A MAN OF MANY NAMES. Τhe
statesman Was
born Kenamura Wakish; and is now called Takahashi Kerekiyo. But during the interval his name underwent Various changes.
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