With gun-salutes to Hon. Hobson.

Yours truly,

Hashimura Togo.

VIII
A THIRD TERM FOR OUR EMPEROR

San Francisco, February 23rd.

To postoffice of New York Newspaper to be found there by Editor.

Dear Sir: I will not vote for President this time, thank you, because your Emperor, Mr. Roosevelt, will not run to get it. Therefore I am neglectful about all other Candidates.

Little Annie Anazuma, eight-years-age, daughter of I. Anazuma, Japanese barber, come to me with childish inquisitive.

“Tell me one truth, Uncle Togo,” she deploy. “Is it possible to think that Japanese Boy will some day be President of this respectable kingdom?”