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A MODERN THE CIIAUM OP THH JAPAKESK ' : ISLANDS. , Pleasing Characteristics of the Die A liUittl of Many Holi- d:i3's Master a:i,l Ser vant Japanese. Art. times hundreds of miles, on what may appropriately : be called these relhriou picnics, iney avenues, talking. walk along the and latj'jh nir shaded The distinction which Japan Enjoys is, that '. while other countries haveove!y spot i she is everywhere enchanting. The whole length of the island chain, 1,-00 mile in extent, hardly presents a" spot that wculd not be a subject for aland scape painter. The great central moun tain range, with the overtowering'cone shaped Fujiama, rise3 almost out ox the ocean below to be lost in view in the clo.:ds above. Long transverse smirs of hil s run out into the sea. Deep, warm, rich valleys h-ive been .every wheie cut , through the mountains and hi 11$, and bordering the' ocean ; fertile plainsj have been formed from the weatherings and washings of the great mountain masses. Covering these plains alley3, hillsides and mountains is a verdure ,that riots in luxuriance. Clear streamy from! their elevated sources dash through gorges smng. They re t when weary i f rom wa : k i ng 1 i u the shade cf the great tnei by some clear stream, or some j bubbling soring. All the e great highways are lined with tea booths, where, tea, ric?, eggs or cake can be had for ah incomparably low pric?. " . . ; :; The spring and " summer bring the Sower fe-rti vals, when ' city and village streets for miles nre filled with the moat beautiful floral exhibitions, and crowds f odmiring people, i ; There is no more beautiful siirht than one of the Ions: pie are brave and daring, a all those r FACTS FOR THE CURIOES wno were reared among mountains nave beep; in all ages. They have proved theirj title to bravery on many a bloody field In spite of tioae con umed in "pi grhr.agcs and in worshiping nature, they arc industrious workers. They Lave built up m mufacttir.?; e tibiished trade and commerce, an ! develo ed a.system of agriculture that isrnre thorough and bring3 better results thnn'thnt of many of their neighbors. San Francisco Chron icle. . X ; . lighted at night and filled The love of, the beautiful I! narrow pour in "leaminir cataractSraown precipitous mountain sid -s and ' whirl n crystal eddies at the feet of; over branching forest trees, i It is-a cljtmit'c zone where the flora-of the cold Jnorth iind that of the heated sonth mc;et and intermingle. The pine and palm, the maple and magnolia, the beech and bam boo, and the oak and the orange i.inier Tace their branches in the same grove. Ground all the land are the waters of the gre it ocean, fro n which softivinds tcmijcr the heat of -tin almost tropin sun. Living in such scenes of enchantment the-e people ara as light of heart and .sunny in disposition as cnudren. anu so polite and "pleasure loving as to jexcite the admiration of even their French and Italian visitors. There is no dwellm so humble b it it has a spot for trees and iiowers. The rich have gardens in jwhic are laitntul renrociuctions in minia ure -."of their varied landscapes, hidden in trees and flowering shrubbery. I.fc very farmer's plot of land ?s beautiful and adorned. The gold of the ripened rice and wheat is contrasted against a! back ground of green foliage. Vhatever name may be gi ven to the l eliionof that peo ple, tfnd whatever creeds" and do'ptrines may have been engrafted upon their be liefs, the main feature of their worship is an intense love, amounting almost to an adoration, of nature. Tnis appears in their whole life. They have: built their temples on the sides of the great mountains,- embowered them in! over hanging groves, and surrounded -them with everything of flowering shrub. The fcites of these command beautiful views of the surrounding country, and usually are near fountains and waterfalls The village shrines are lo rated in' thp most charming snots of the neighborhood. wide streets with flowers. ha3 led the Japanese to forego the grosser pleasure of e ting the fruit of the cherry tree in order that they may enjoy the beauty and fragrance of the cherry blos soms. Thera are large groves of the double-flowered cherry tree i in all parts cf the co :ntry, wmch grow to enormous size. The flower is as large as a rose. arid when in full bloom these groves are i marvel of beautv, arid are visited by thousands of people, ! who spend the whole day in these flowery avenues. The chrysanthemum gardens, to be found in allj tow-ns and villages, . are points of great attraction; In these are to be seen every variety of that flower, every shade of, color, and almost every size of blos sorn. ' . ' ;'!'-."' The summer sees streams of people, the poor as well as the rich going' to gaze at Fujiama, the pearl of mountains. N0 person is so poor and no distance so gnjat but several pilgrimages are made in a lifetime to th j venerated mountain. In the autumn, when the golden rice and wheat and the brown millet bane been gathered, the harvest festival is held iq every part of the country. There in the '-groves, . on soft green carpets spread b y nature, under the full harvest There arc twenty-seven peaks in V vala exceeding tea thousand feet i height. , A Boston fcma!e lecturer claim? that the rcvo't of' the thirteen colonies was inspired by Washington's mother. Professors Fischer and Pcnzoldt, of Erlangen, have est tblished the fact that the scr.s? of smell is by far the most delicate of the senses. -- they make me ry, night after with song and dance. At these moon, nisht, naryest lestivais aa c;as-e, irom pnnce to. peasant, rejoice together over the ample winter's store. It is not only in this intense worship of nature thit the beauty of their C3iintry has molded and influenced their natural character. It is seen in their domestic intercoursej In all the conventionalit'e ofipolite life they are far in advance of any people in the Occident This refintd politeness pervades every grade of so- ' ciety. ; It is just as noticeable amoncr the loiver a? in the higher ( lasses. To be iiiile in word or act is to become a social outcast. ' The poorest workers, when thry meet, greet eath other as politely, and pass the compliments of the day as freely and feelingly as do those of higher stations; ,Wh'ie the vocabulary, of com jiliments and blessings is a long one, , there are no words ! for a curse in their '. A Terrible Episode. . Hungarian papers announce the death of old Fer.encz Henyi, a hero of one of the most terrible episodes of the Hun garian war of independence in 184. lor thirty-six years I'envi has been a lunatic in a Buda-Pesth asylum, and the history of hh sufferings is recorded after his death by the Petit Par'men. Ferencz Keayi . was a young school-master of twenty-seven years at the, beginning t)f the war, proud, handsome and fuil of buoyant life. His pupils adored him, and he was always welcome jtmong the villages, whether he came with his violin to play to their dances or whether his voice was heard among the patriots chanting the praise of their country. He lived with his mother, and sister, and was engaged to a bright young, Hunga rian girl, when the government, after proclaiming the independence of. th. country, tailed all gooil patriots to arms. Ferencz left his school arid enlisted in the ranks. One day, after having fought valiantly at the head of a detachment of soldiers, he was taken a prisoner by the Austiians. Brought before General Hay nau, Henyi refused to indicate t'.c place whe e the rest of his regiment lay hid: den., On learning that his home wa? in a neignbonng village the (jreneral sent for the mother- and si ter, and brought them into the room where the prisoner was kept, ".now give me the informa tion I requ:re, if the lives oi these two women are dear tc voir,)' sa';d; General aiaynau to him. Henyi . trembLd, his" eyes filled with tears, but he remained silent. "Dc r.ot speak, my son," clied the old moth er, '-do your duty, antl think not of me, for at the best I have only a few days to live.'' df you betray your country,' added his sister, 'oiir - name wilt be covered with shame, 'and what is life 'without honor? Do not speak, Ferencz. Becalm; I shall know how to die.'1 Henyi remained silent and a few minutes later the two svomenwere dead. Another trial was to come. (General Kaynau sent for . Reriyi's future wife, who was weaker than his mother and sister. ; With wild cries the girl flung herself at her lover's feet, pleading: "Speak, speak. Ferencz. bee, I am young.; I love you; do not let me be killed! , You wiil save yourself and me if y qu speak o :t. Wh -n you are f ree i A Vienna writing master in written forty French word on a prain of wheat that nreaid to be easily legible forgooi eyes. It has been placed in a glas case an 1 presented to the French Academy of Sciences. A peculiar custom of the California Indians is the annual 'burning." The Ipdians surround the graves of the dead with clothing and then set tire to itt thinking that in this way it goes to the depa -ted spirits. - The Mediterranean Sea wa? the heart of the Old World; the imjortant Inndi of the early history of civili atkn were grouped about its richly-indented . thores, generally.decnea-iugin respect of culture as they receded frona it. Lighting the Parsees' sacred fire is an expensive and elaborate process on the institution of a new temple. Sixt.en different kinds of wood in 1,001 pieces of fuel are re quired to obtain the sacred flame, which is afterward fed with sandal-wood, and the cost of the proce:i averages $l:,500. There are still three large aDd thirty-three small fire tcmpiei at Bombay. A lager beer brewerof Louisville, Ky,, has a Strasburg clock of more than or dinary excellence. The clock is like ordinary clocks, until just before the hour, whea a -littlo man jumps up from . behind, with a lager be?r glass in his hand. This he elevate to his head, ar.d then says, in a wonderfully distinct and human way, "Lager beer," as many times as thec.ock should, str.ke to uesig nate the hoirr. Solomon's Temple was destroyed at the command of the Babylonian Kiug Ne buchadnezzar in 587 IS". C. The attempt to rebuild it was not entirely successful until Cyrus ended the Babylonian exile, and t:ot only permitted the building to proceed, but even returned the sacred utensils which had been carried oil as booty, and kept iu the Tempic of Bel. This reconstruction, named after the ruler, Zerrubatel, was not completed until after forty-six years, when, un lcr Darius, all. the difficulties in the way of its prosecution were overcome. and no labor is spared to adorn and beau tify them. The highways are bordered by rows of trees, planted centuries ago, whose branches form an evergreen, arch over the head of the traveler. The road to Nikko, where the temples and tombs of the Tycoons are situated, has a grand avenue -of giant, flrs. For sixty; miles one may ride in the shade of these jwide- ' branching trees. From Yokohamajsouth to Kioto, the old capital, 400 miles, the road is one continuously shaded avenue, winding along the ocean shore, afound narrow bays and inlets and ovefi high hills and mountain sides. j Unlike their , neighbors, the Chinese, the Japanese take time from their toil to enjoy all this. Their government may have been despotic and '.rbitrary,j but it never overworked its laboring "popula tion. It gave them more holidays than any people under the sun ever enjoyed. They had what were known as the; 44Ichi-roku" d;iys, that is. all the days in the lunar mouths that were designated by one or six! Thus the 1st, 0th; 1 ith, loth, lst and 2oth days of each month were legal holidays. In addition to these, the birthdays of the ruling Em peror and Empress, and also of several of the greatest of their predeces sors of the ruling dynasty, which r -aches back through J, 000 years, are holidays. iEvery village h is festivals in honor'of its patron saint, aud the saints of the famoiis tem ples and shrines have festaLdayjs. ('n all thee the people, in their holidav dressvs, gather at the temples and thrines s I for thanksgiving .and to admire ths whole languacre. There mav be' hate. jealousy and envy, but they find no yer- we will go far away and be happy. Speak, bal expression. It is a constant delight ; rny r erencz, and save our future wife.' to hear only pleasant words and good She took his hands, clinging to him as a wishes. ; ' ; drowning man el'ngs to hTs last support The relations of masters and servants The yoxmg Hungarian (was choked with are as admirable as; possible. Thev are tears- but suddenly he pu hed the girl mutual and confidential. While the ser vant studies the interest of the master, ; the latter makes the welfare of the ser- ; vant and his family his duty. The. ser vant is made to feel that he is a factor of some importance injhis employer's busi ness by being consulted upon nrany mat- j ters of importance. The master i3 polite ; and kind and the setjvant deferential and respectful on all occasions. The relation of parents and children shows the same refining influences. There is no a sump tionof the author. tv of the drillmaster.no exaction of bund obedience, no ruling by fear on the part of the parent. Obed ience is induced by patient teaching day after day. The child is lovingly taught why he should do contain things, and why he sould not do certain other things. The bond between parerits and children is oVe'of reason and regard, and the result is that the child makes his duty to the parent the foremost object of his life, state of your health, and I roused such and his own intere&ts : arc made entirely a commotion by the re i nest that I som aside and turned away. Once more she cried to him, but he did not heed her. "Be cursed she shrieked; "be cursed, you who let me die; ybu who will kill me; who arc my assasdn." Renyi re mained silent. The girl was shot, and the prisoner was taken back into his cell, but his leason had fled, and he was dismissed. Some friends found him and gave him a shelter; till after Hungarj Was orice more suppressed and peace es tablished, they obtained a place for him in the asylum in which he has recentlj died. Where Baths Are Unknown. yadara Galletti, in b.er book of ''Life in I'aly, as Seen Through an English Woman's Eyes," tells of the extreme fdthbf the inhabitants bf Ancona, on the Adriatic. "To a-k for a bath," .'he says, "is tp create the grca" est alirm as to the An Elephant in a Parade (Jround. ; A menagerie was recently mo zing slowly along the road near Portsmouth, England, when the largest elephant of the caravan, who is known as Madam Jumbo, escaped from her keep r. and charged upon a military barrack that stood by the road. She seized with her trUMk the sentinel who stood at the gate, and threw him at full lenjth on the ground, without hurting him in the least, and then triumphantly entered the parade-ground within the barracks at a grand trot. The :i00 soldiers who were drilling in the enclosure were so much astonished and alarmed at the appear ance of so strange an enemy, that they broke ranks and took flight in every di rection. The elephant proicc led to at tack a tank filled with water, part of which she drank, -and unct the rest. Then she charged upon a bin filled with potatoes for the soldiers, and ate up the potatoes Having eatisfi d I.?r hunger and thirst, and put a batalion of soldiers to route, Madam Jumbo allowed herself to be captured, and contentedly resumed her place in the caravan, to the great re lief of the soldiers. secondary .- A foreigner migut live in that country for years and see less arental tyranny and Violence than he would, see in most families in some other countries in a month, and he can see more filial devotion there in a mouth than is observable elsewhere in years. Japnnese, ideal art is only a repro duction of the beauties of nature. The i artist puts mountains, valleys, waterfalls, lakes, trees, flowers and birds on porce lain, pa: er, silk, satin and lac pier, but beyond this field of decoratiou he has no f ancv. These are some of the character- beauties of earth and sky. Whcld heigh- isticl of the Island Era aire and its peo- oornood turn out their i population, I pie, but it must not b inferred that leaving only enough people at home to I these finer trait of character mean -care for the households, and goj. some- effeminacy, for they do not. These peo- During bourtreois foun to .t the enormiiy of it. a visit to a household of the rank, she saw old mm who worked about th-' premises who, being aked if h'i had ever been washed,' reflect d sr ine time, and then said he thought some one had wadie 1 him when he was a small child. "The only clean inhabitant of our village," says Madam Galhtti, "is a returned convict who, on coming back to the bo-om of his family after twenty yea s at the Pagne. immediately tet his w:fe to scrub and a out! the premises; re; marking that he wa austomed to clean dwellings, an i could on n acc-ount put up with dirt and untidine-s?, so fastidi ous had he become during his residence at the ex-pense of the Government," The Staked Plains. Just across the Canadian River, at An telope Hills, we caught our first glimpsi of the Llano Estacado or Staked I Iain's, whi h 13 simply a b lliard table of gras? bounded on all zidei by the sky. It stretches the entire width of the Pan Handle and southward to Bed Hivcr and the tributaries of the Brazos, and I da not believe it holds in that vjist sweep a do en elevations twenty feet high. On e it wa3 th domain of million of buffalo, whose traces are there still th; grai grown "wallow, and here" and there a whitend and crumbled bone. There ere a few of the wariest of the once num berless droves remaining, but soon the roving Comanche or cowboy will bare laid the last low, and this monarch of the vast American Plains will have passed into history, X$t York Timet. i . - t I: : - ----- : . ' - -v ', ": '' - -..-. . ' V ... ."'
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