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Show K:i:irnaottn i: Japan. In .Taoan a raiiroti I train is son: i'ror.i one end of tiro eotroAry to tho other in ehar-e of a t-"e:i:y-.:ve-yo;:r-..i.l er.vi-j er.vi-j r.oer and a twenty-;. ar-Ad : .;:rt:..tor. wliiie evory gnard. ir.noot .n' and train Doys of fourteen bardie the maii ba:;'s of the steamboats with the 1- the elders. The soi.liors are all between be-tween twenty and thirty years of cjro. and the oriieers are for the mo t part under forty, thoneh oeoasi.'.nr.lly one sees a g-ray-haired ieiiow, covered '.vitli medals, a hero perhaps of tho Sat -tima revolution of ISt'.S. They have admirals 111 the navy thirty-five years of age. The important business of the country is directed by younjr men who are still students. |
