Logan Republican | 1904-04-16 | Page 12 | In the Hills of Japan

i i IN THE HILLS OF JAPAN. Penorama One of the Most Beautiful In the World. On every side of us, from our feet to tho golden distance far away, tho world-strotcbed mountains, peak upon peak, as thick as Junks in a Chinese harbor, and rango boyond range In-exhaustlblo; In-exhaustlblo; no sounds of mortal life camo up inside tho rock, whllo the river, gentian blue, wound silent in transparent pools below. Tho panorama pano-rama In Japan on a splendid summer day Is Impossible to descrlbo to an English reader who has not been in tho East, for such a ono will read between be-tween the lines the locnl color in which ho was bred. Instead of tho wholly dlffcront atmosphere that holghtons th charm of the plcturo there tho brilliant, luminous nlr which Invest our oyo with telescopic power and brings the whole landscapo to our feet; while a soft suspicion of silky hazo seems to float a halo round each foliage-hidden bill. Swt7erlnnd, too, Is a mountain world, but small compared with this; the entire content con-tent from Innsbruck to Geneva only one-fourth tho length of this slnglo Island of Japan a thousand miles of continuous romance. And the quality of tho sunshlno .Is what separates, by a very w'do gulf, a Biimnior'H day in those Intltudes irom ono in more northerly Europe. Cornhlll Magazine.