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Show RallroadlnT fn Japan. In Japan a railroad train is sent from one end of the country to the other in charge of a twenty-five-year-old engineer engi-neer and a twenty-year-o'.d conductor, while every guard, inspector and train attendant is a go' .d-natured youth. Boys of fourteen handle the mail bags of the steamboats with the gravity of the ciders. The soldiers are all between be-tween twenty and thirty years of age, and the of.icers arc for the mot part under forty, though occasionally one sees a gray-haired fellow, covered with medals, a hero perhaps of the Satsnms revolution of lb'iS. They have admirals in the navy thirty-five years of age. The important business of the country . is directed by young men who are still students. |