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Show QUEER SIDE OF JAPAN. Odd Faith Exhibited In the Mikado's Domains. In .Japan the lower orders of llfo not only niako war and supply meat, but evince other pecullartleB that render ren-der them Invaluable concomitants of ch libation. A fow days ago a number num-ber or people wero seen gazing Intently Intent-ly towaid the upper limbs or a largo pine tree. Stopping to lenrn the se-cict se-cict or this unusual Interest, a man wnH observed descending tho tree, while a crow wns furiously cawing and beating about his head; then It was seen thai the trespasser had possossed blniBCir or one or hor brood, sn unprepossessing unpre-possessing llttlo chick that no ono could be Imagined to fancy ror a pot. Asked what he Intended doing with the young ciovv, ho replied that It made oxcellent medicine ror tho blood. "Chi no mlchl no kusurl," to uso his exnet words To Insure tho otllcncy or the medicine, ho explained, the bird must be taken beroro It leaves Ihe nest, If possible, or, If It has left the nest, before It gutH to whoio It can drink water, foi, he asset ted. If It has of Itself taken water, It loses ull vlitue as a blood cure Tho process pro-cess of preparing tho remedy Is, first, to kill the ctow and without cleaning it, to encase the body In an alt-tight covering of cement or clay. Tho mould Is then baked for two or three days In a hot flro. When tho clay crust Is removed, naturally the crow will be found to bo black, a tump of pure charcoal This Is pulverized und converted Into pills of Hie "pink" order, or-der, which ure ver) popular here as a blood rcgulatoi Ho reminded his Interlocutors In-terlocutors that the medicine was very raio because of the difficulty of finding find-ing a crow that had not tnken water. The man wns perfectly sincere, and appeared extremely proud of his success suc-cess In having seemed tho bird. Ho was reluctant to leave the treo lest there should bo uuother one on the ground somewhere. Thoso who, since the brilliant achievements or tho Jnpuneso Itod Cross Society In tho lato war, are accustomed ac-customed to take for granted the ad-vanco ad-vanco of medical science in this country, coun-try, will, of course, bear In mind that the practitioner under consideration had not ut this time acquired membership member-ship In any legull) lecognlzed therapeutic thera-peutic fraternlt) ; but probably his nostrum was quite us effective as much or the medicine that Is sold to a largo constituency nt u higher prlco In other portions of the'gloho Hai-per's Hai-per's Wcekl) |