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Photograph by U. S. Navy Department 



ON THE TARGET RANGE. NAVAI, TRAINING STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND 



"Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry," was Cromwell's famous 

 admonition. The American officer adds, "and learn to aim straight;" for, with the modern 

 high-power rifle, having an effective range of two and four-fifths miles, the sharpshooter is 

 a foe of enormous potentiality. 



and strategy could invent, is as thrilling 

 today as when it was first told. Pie had 

 gone to Japan with a friendly key to open 

 the door for the furtherance of trade, the 

 protection of life, and to obtain a treaty 

 with a power destined to occupy a large 

 place in the world. Hurrying nothing, 

 observing every ceremony that would ap- 

 peal to those he would win as friends, 

 Perry's success marked him as a diplomat 

 of the first water. 



When the negotiations had reached a 

 stage where the high contracting parties 

 had about agreed, Hayashi wished to in- 

 sert a clause that no American woman 

 should be brought to Japan. Tradition 

 Jiasjt that when this proposition was 



submitted the Commodore excitedly ex- 

 claimed, "Great Heavens! If I were to 

 permit any such stipulation as that in the 

 treaty, when I got home the women' 

 would pull all the hair out of my head." 

 And that was half a century and more 

 before those wonderful evangelists, Anna 

 Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt,' 

 taught us to believe in woman suffrage 

 as a new creed in geographical and politi- 

 cal expansion ! 



Overlooking the harbor of Nippon 

 stands a monument to Commodore Perry, 

 commemorating the sailor - diplomat 

 whose wisdom made Japan and America 

 know and esteem each other. The friend- 

 ship between these two nations has been 



