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Show I Power of J,Zp?nJ'aZf H a. TT Claim to that trl li.St j ?sition. The claim of Japan to be looked upon a the llrltaln ot the cast Is nut without with-out foundation, writes Isaac Taylor Headland In Munaiy'a Magazine. Her altuallon In relation to Eastern ", or, tor that matter, In relation to all Asia Is very similar to that ot Hngland In her relation to Europe. She la nn Island empire. Her territory la not large and m her population la rapidly Increasing she Is Impelled to utilize every foot of ground she posicme. She terrace the mountain sides, nnd cauws them to blossom a the rose. She Irrigate the wasto places and shangt tho desert Into grnen fields. She rescues the swamp lands nnd transform them Into rice fields. So that the rural population of Japan, Instead In-stead of being farmers, are gardeners, and the Island empire la n garden apot In fact aa well as In name. Japan resemble llrltaln at nea aa well aa en land, Many ot her people and a aeatarlng life. She la not only laaUned to become, but Is forced to aewrae, one of the great commrrclil aatlons ot the world. Her rblps wilt ply between all porta, and the flag of the rising sun will be seen flying on the Masts of msrchsnt vessels on all sea, eaat and wit. Just aa the Union Jack la at the present time. Aa n matter mat-ter of protection, ah will need a largo navy. The beginning ot thla aha already al-ready posnesses. Her navy Is rapidly Incrsaalng, and ehe la building or having hav-ing built ahlps ot the moat modern type, with guna ot the best make. Bho stands today among the six or seven great maritime powers aud In all the Pacific she Is the strongest of them all. One ot the proverbs that meet us when we arrive In the eaat la thla: "The Japanose waah their bodlea and their clothca; the Corsans wash their tlothri; the Chinamen do not wash rfther." The proverb Is almost llttr- Uly true. The bath la one of the flrat fapaneee Initiations the traveler en-iounters, en-iounters, In the home tho bath room nay be tho living room and the male ind ferualo members of the family per-1 per-1 !orm their ablutions In full sight ot mo another, while In tho public hath Iiothlng more than a netting and sometimes some-times not even that separate.! the male trom the female divisions ot the hath souse. . Japan! Imlnatrtal rrftrfft. In her Industrial progress Japan has taken rapid strides. lUslnesa men have tent their son or their most Intelligent Intelli-gent apprentice, to America and to European eountrle, where they have entered tho great factories a clerks or laborers, and by their Industry have "worked their way to the top. They fa-mltlarlzo fa-mltlarlzo themselves with all department depart-ment of bualncss and overy phase ot business life, and some bright morning tho stranger who began as an humble clerk appears beforo his employer as n Japanese) gentleman In every way his equal, take his polite lcavo ut tho firm with which he has been connected nnd returns to his native land to open up n tike business. Ilecnuso ot the cheapness cheap-ness of labor, Japaneso manufacturers can turn out similar gooda nt prlcea far below what they cost to mako In Europe or America. Everything from n blcyclo to a razor, and from n ililp to a toy engine, or a real engine, la mado In great factories, whose tall chimneys mar the beauty ot the mountain moun-tain sides as one passes along tha rout or through tho placid Inland sea, Hallways are In operation all ovcr'tho empire, and bath their equipment and their management I excellent. Tho traveler In Japan may take a flrat-class, flrat-class, second-class, or third-class car, nnd will find himself shut up with a number of little men nnd women who sit tnllor-fashlou on tho seats, or, kneeling, sit on their heels. Instead of THE EMl-KHOIl OP JAPAN, letting their heels rest on tho floor. It la their habit of alttlng on their feet that causca Japaneso of both sexes to turn tholr toes In, and that helps to mako thorn ao email In stature. Tho JspincRo from tho leg up Is a largo a the nverago European, but he lack leg development, which shortcoming has been caused, It Is supposed, trom his constant sitting on Ms legs. An alarm ha been raised by many obaervero who havo predicted that Japan, with Ita cheap labor, la destined to usurp tho Induatrlal supremacy of tho world; but the menace Is more Imaginary Im-aginary that real. It should bo remembered re-membered that tho Japanese aro not originators, but Imttn'ors. The Chinese Chin-ese can originate hut oinnf tiring to any degree of per 'cc Hon the ' pan-eso pan-eso cannot originate, hi" are e'vr at adapting nnd li iprovl" The porcelain porce-lain was borrow d fro Koroa, but has been so Improved '0 be unrecogniz able. Their classical books aro ot Chinese Chin-ese origin, a Is also their religion. Their navy la flrltlah, their army Herman, Her-man, their legal code Trench, tbelr educational ed-ucational syelem American, and their various Industries' nre taken from all over tho world. They aro not simply sim-ply copied, however. The borrowed Ideas are eaten and digested, as it were, and stamped with the Imprint ot the art and life of tho Japanese na to become, be-come, their own. atofUrn ruoralten In Japan. What happened In the Industrial life of Japan happened also In Its educational edu-cational life. Student went to foreign eountrle, nnd entered nil departments Of learning. Those who could not go abroad rushed to the governmental and mission schools until alt of theso were filled to overflowing; and the rapidity with which the pupils ac- Ff? ST J0 THE UMPIinai OT JAPAN. quired foreign knowlcdgo was evidence of their ability and of their deep Interest In-terest Tho number of school nnd pupil pu-pil Increased a rapidly ss financial conditions of the government would nllow, until nt tho prevent time there nro no fewer than 30,000 schools, having hav-ing 100,000 teachers, half a million graduates, and 5,000,000 pupils, white tho annual outlay for educational purposes pur-poses Is not less than $7,600,000. Th Japnni Ann, A Japan chwo tho greaest naval power In the world tor a model In planning plan-ning her fleet, so sho selects tho greatest great-est military organization, the German army, a a model for her land force Her army number a quarter ot a million men, with oms S.00O oOleorfc The Japanese Holdlers proved In thell wnr with China In 1831, nnd lately In tha expedition to Pckln, that they ore among tho moat wonderful lighting men tho world ho known. They arousc-1 universal amazement nnd unbounded un-bounded admiration among tho European Europ-ean nnd Americana who saw their work. In the battlefield. It nowhere else, tho "plucky llttlo Japa" havo gained tho world-wldo respect for which they havo struggled so long nnd 10 hard. Their discipline, enduranco and brnvory mado tho Occidental soldier sol-dier open their eye. When tho attack at-tack was mado on Tientsin, tha Chinese Chi-nese sharpshooters killed man after man beforo ore could get at the wall with guncotton. Tlnnlly, n Jnpaneso soldier succeeded In reaching tho gato with two cans of tho explosive. Three times ho lighted a long fuso nnd It was shot out. Then, to make sure of his work, tho soldlor calmly stodd over tho match. Of courso, ho knew he would be blown to ntoms, but tho gato was shattered, and Tientsin was taken. |