Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-05 | Page 7 | In the Mikado's Empire

IN THE MIKADO 8 EMPIRE traveling Is not AIto oether an unmixed delight A lady traveling in japan gives th following sketch of an inn at which she stopped the landlord and his wife and the servants all come to halll to you and when you inform the corn pany that you are sleepy and want your bed laid everybody saye at once honorable bed augustly Is it but nobody does anything and when at last you have achieved your desire you have to force apart in defiance of police regular ons the wooden shutter which hermetically seal the house la order to avoid being smothered with the fames of charcoal and humans A soon as things are quiet enough rite chase over the rooms and generally over you as well and sometimes bite you one ock in the morning in the old japanese reckoning was called the hour of the rat doubtless tor thi reason and all ion the watchman sounds his rattle to show that he Is attending to h s duties hav to be up with the cock to get the elret go at the bath which lg only filled once and the wash band basin which Is only as carpe as a cike tin Is always kept in the veranda