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# Unbeaten Tracks in Japan/LETTER XLII

HAKODATE, YEZO, September 14, 1878.
This is my last day in Yezo, and the sun, shining brightly over the grey and windy capital, is touching the pink peaks of Komono-taki with a deeper red, and is brightening my last impressions, which, like my first, are very pleasant. The bay is deep blue, flecked with violet shadows, and about sixty junks are floating upon it at anchor. There are vessels of foreign rig too, but the wan, pale junks lying motionless, or rolling into the harbour under their great white sails, fascinate me as when I first saw them in the Gulf of Yedo. They are antique-looking and picturesque, but are fitter to give interest to a picture than to battle with stormy seas.
Most of the junks in the bay are about 120 tons burthen, 100 feet long, with an extreme beam, far aft, of twenty-five feet. The bow is long, and curves into a lofty stem, like that of a Roman galley, finished with a beak head, to secure the forestay of the mast. This beak is furnished with two large, goggle eyes. The mast is a ponderous spar, fifty feet high, composed of pieces of pine, pegged, glued, and hooped together. A heavy yard is hung amidships. The sail is an oblong of widths of strong, white cotton artistically "PUCKERED," not sewn together, but laced vertically, leaving a decorative lacing six inches wide between each two widths. Instead of reefing in a strong wind, a width is unlaced, so as to reduce the canvas vertically, not horizontally. Two blue spheres commonly adorn the sail. The mast is placed well abaft, and to tack or veer it is only necessary to reverse the sheet. When on a wind the long bow and nose serve as a head-sail. The high, square, piled-up stern, with its antique carving, and the sides with their lattice-work, are wonderful, together with the extraordinary size and projection of the rudder, and the length of the tiller. The anchors are of grapnel shape, and the larger junks have from six to eight arranged on the fore-end, giving one an idea of bad holding-ground along the coast. They really are much like the shape of a Chinese "small-footed" woman's shoe, and look very unmanageable. They are of unpainted wood, and have a wintry, ghastly look about them. {22}
I have parted with Ito finally to-day, with great regret. He has served me faithfully, and on most common topics I can get much more information through him than from any foreigner. I miss him already, though he insisted on packing for me as usual, and put all my things in order. His cleverness is something surprising. He goes to a good, manly master, who will help him to be good and set him a virtuous example, and that is a satisfaction. Before he left he wrote a letter for me to the Governor of Mororan, thanking him on my behalf for the use of the kuruma and other courtesies.
I. L. B.
# Unbeaten Tracks in Japan/LETTER XLIII

H. B. M.'s LEGATION, YEDO, September 21.
A placid sea, which after much disturbance had sighed itself to rest, and a high, steady barometer promised a fifty hours' passage to Yokohama, and when Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn and I left Hakodate, by moonlight, on the night of the 14th, as the only passengers in the Hiogo Maru, Captain Moore, her genial, pleasant master, congratulated us on the rapid and delightful passage before us, and we separated at midnight with many projects for pleasant intercourse and occupation.
But a more miserable voyage I never made, and it was not until the afternoon of the 17th that we crawled forth from our cabins to speak to each other. On the second day out, great heat came on with suffocating closeness, the mercury rose to 85 degrees, and in lat. 38 degrees 0' N. and long. 141 degrees 30' E. we encountered a "typhoon," otherwise a "cyclone," otherwise a "revolving hurricane," which lasted for twenty-five hours, and "jettisoned" the cargo. Captain Moor has given me a very interesting diagram of it, showing the attempts which he made to avoid its vortex, through which our course would have taken us, and to keep as much outside it as possible. The typhoon was succeeded by a dense fog, so that our fifty-hour passage became seventy-two hours, and we landed at Yokohama near upon midnight of the 17th, to find traces of much disaster, the whole low-lying country flooded, the railway between Yokohama and the capital impassable, great anxiety about the rice crop, the air full of alarmist rumours, and paper money, which was about par when I arrived in May, at a discount of 13 per cent! In the early part of this year (1880) it has touched 42 per cent.
Late in the afternoon the railroad was re-opened, and I came here with Mr. Wilkinson, glad to settle down to a period of rest and ease under this hospitable roof. The afternoon was bright and sunny, and Tokiyo was looking its best. The long lines of yashikis looked handsome, the castle moat was so full of the gigantic leaves of the lotus, that the water was hardly visible, the grass embankments of the upper moat were a brilliant green, the pines on their summits stood out boldly against the clear sky, the hill on which the Legation stands looked dry and cheerful, and, better than all, I had a most kindly welcome from those who have made this house my home in a strange land.
Tokiyo is tranquil, that is, it is disturbed only by fears for the rice crop, and by the fall in satsu. The military mutineers have been tried, popular rumour says tortured, and fifty-two have been shot. The summer has been the worst for some years, and now dark heat, moist heat, and nearly ceasless rain prevail. People have been "rained up" in their summer quarters. "Surely it will change soon," people say, and they have said the same thing for three months.
I. L. B.
# Translations from the Chinese/A Pragmatist

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A PRAGMATIST
THE American poet Lindsay
(A mercurial fellow)
Began his career
By codifying the ways in which a poet
Can get a free meal.
Here was a seer!
Here was a man with strong grasp of essentials!
# Translations from the Chinese/Adjustment

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ADJUSTMENT
IN your Great City
I see, in jewellers' windows,
Clocks that tell the guaranteed Correct Time;
And in front of those clocks people always halted
Adjusting their watches.
But suppose there were displayed, beside the street,
Some great poem,
Telling perfect Truth or Beauty,
How many passengers
Would pause to adjust their minds?
# Translations from the Chinese/A Letter to His Friend Ho Kum

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A LETTER TO HIS FRIEND HO KUM
I WAS interested in New York
By the theatre advertisements,
And the skill with which
The critics notices are utilized.
There was a play called Nancy Knocks Her Knees.
The Lens wrote: "This play is extraordinary pestilent rot,
Only by the tragically inappropriate talent of Mr. Soandso
Is there an occasional flash of humor."
I thought to myself:
That show is done for, and a good job, too."
The next day I read the advertisements.
They said:
"Extraordinary . . . humor."—Lens.
# Translations from the Chinese/A National Frailty

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A NATIONAL FRAILTY
THE American people
Were put into the world
To assist foreign lecturers.
When I visited them
They filled crowded halls
To hear me tell them Great Truths
Which they might as well have read
In their own prophet Thoreau.
They paid me, for this,
Three hundred dollars a night,
And ten of their mandarins
Invited me to visit at Newport.
My agent told me
If I would wear Chinese costume on the platform
It would be five hundred.
# Translations from the Chinese/A Letter to His Friend Mu Kow

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A LETTER TO HIS FRIEND MU KOW
THE Americans are wrongly supposed to be
Deficient in delicate sentiment.
For when I was in New York
I went to the Polo Grounds
To see what they call the World's Series.
One has to watch baseball every instant,
Or you miss something.
For while I was foolishly admiring
The gold frontier of sunlight receding on the turf
There was a loud cry,
A whirl of dust and limbs,
And I feared some tragic accident.
But when I asked what was amiss
The man next me, with tears in his eyes,
Said that one of the players
Had stolen home.
And I thought to myself
How charmingly touching:
Here, amid all the uproar and excitement,
This fine fellow could not resist the call of his loved ones
And sacrificed his enjoyment just to greet his wife and bairns.
There can be no question about it,
For the next morning I read an account of the game
Written by Irvin Cobb, one of their Great Mandarins,
And he wrote:
"McNally, afflicted with acute nostalgia,
Stole home."
# Translations from the Chinese/A Moment of Meditation

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A MOMENT OF MEDITATION
I WAS told that America was a free country,
But I found many of its substantial citizens
Terrorized by the advertisements
Into believing it was immoral
To wear a straw hat
Later than September 15th.
Wise men know
There is no such thing as a free country— There never will be.
# Translations from the Chinese/A Pattern in the Mud

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A PATTERN IN THE MUD
SOMETIMES, in the slime of a city street,
You will see a clear and lovely pattern
Of little loops and triangles
Imprinted by the tire
Of a motor truck.
Such was the life of No Sho,
The young and tender poet.
The city crushed him,
But he left his runes
In the grime.
# Translations from the Chinese/A Proverb

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A PROVERB
WE have a saying in China
That a man will wash his hands cleaner for visitors
Than he will for the family.
Even so,
He who is full of sententious wisdom in public
May be dark and doubtful within.
# Translations from the Chinese/A Time of Crisis

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A TIME OF CRISIS
ON a thin blue morning
Of the Month of Officials
Came Noh Kale, the income tax collector.
I laid down my roll of Confucius
And said, "Friend,
My treasure is at your disposal;
Let us audit it together—
Thirteen unfinished poems,
A letter from an editor
Saying that a check will be here shortly;
My ivory chopsticks,
And this view, from my tea house,
Of the girls bathing on the other side of the river."
But still the obstinate agent
Persisted peevishly
And with the reiteration of a primitive mind cried loudly:
"Quarterly instalment still due,
1700 taels."
# Translations from the Chinese/Advantage of a Bookish Upbringing

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ADVANTAGE OF A BOOKISH UPBRINGING
WHEN the wine has done its rosy deed
(As the reputable English poet said)
I enjoy to study in tranquillity
The lovable absurdities of men.
And then my familiarity with literatures
Besteads me well,
Affording me always a scholarly explanation
For conduct seemingly eccentric.
Once, I remember,
After an evening in which Chancellor Mu Kow and myself
Had repeatedly toasted the loveliness of the moon,
Condoling her solitude
In the wide pale sky,
I lay in a perfection of comfortable thought
In a gently revolving cabbage field.
But my wife s parents
Heading the search party
Discovered me there, and cried lamentation and oxytones.
Be of good cheer, I said:
It is with me as with the great Flaubert
Who pernoctated in a cabbage patch
Noting down, for purpose of literature,
The tincture of moonshine
On the leaves of the vegetables.
Even so, I sacrifice myself for realism.
Tenderly they carried me in.
# United States Code/Title 3/Chapter 4
### § 301. General authorization to delegate functions; publication of delegations

The President of the United States is authorized to designate and empower the head of any department or agency in the executive branch, or any official thereof who is required to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to perform without approval, ratification, or other action by the President
    (1) any function which is vested in the President by law, or
    (2) any function which such officer is required or authorized by law to perform only with or subject to the approval, ratification, or other action of the President: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall relieve the President of his responsibility in office for the acts of any such head or other official designated by him to perform such functions. Such designation and authorization shall be in writing, shall be published in the Federal Register, shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and limitations as the President may deem advisable, and shall be revocable at any time by the President in whole or in part.

### § 302. Scope of delegation of functions

The authority conferred by this chapter shall apply to any function vested in the President by law if such law does not affirmatively prohibit delegation of the performance of such function as herein provided for, or specifically designate the officer or officers to whom it may be delegated. This chapter shall not be deemed to limit or derogate from any existing or inherent right of the President to delegate the performance of functions vested in him by law, and nothing herein shall be deemed to require express authorization in any case in which such an official would be presumed in law to have acted by authority or direction of the President.

### § 303. Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term “function” embraces any duty, power, responsibility, authority, or discretion vested in the President or other officer concerned, and the terms “perform” and “performance” may be construed to mean “exercise”.
# United States Code/Title 3/Chapter 5

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* Subchapter 1—GENERAL PROVISIONS
* Subchapter 2—EXTENSION OF RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS
* Subchapter 3—ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEDURES
* Subchapter 4—EFFECTIVE DATE
# United States Code/Title 3/Chapter 5/Subchapter 1

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### § 401. Definitions

(a) In General.— Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, as used in this chapter:
    (1) Board.— The term “Board” means the Merit Systems Protection Board under chapter 12 of title 5.
    (2) Covered employee.— The term “covered employee” means any employee of an employing office.
    (3) Employee.— The term “employee” includes an applicant for employment and a former employee.
    (4) Employing office.— The term “employing office” means—
       (A) each office, agency, or other component of the Executive Office of the President;
       (B) the Executive Residence at the White House; and
       (C) the official residence (temporary or otherwise) of the Vice President.
(b) Definitions Relating to Certain Matters.— For purposes of applying this chapter with respect to any practice or other matter—
    (1) to which section 411 relates, the terms “employing office” and “covered employee” shall each be considered to have the meaning given to the term by such section;
    (2) to which section 412 relates, the term “covered employee” means a covered employee described in section 412 (a)(2)(B);
    (3) to which section 413 relates, the term “covered employee” excludes interns and volunteers, as described in section 413 (a)(2); and
    (4) to which section 416 relates, the term “covered employee” means a covered employee described in section 416 (a)(2).

### § 402. Application of laws

The following laws shall apply, as prescribed by this chapter, to all employing offices (including employing offices within the meaning of section 411, to the extent prescribed therein):
    (1) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
    (2) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    (3) The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
    (4) The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
    (5) The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
    (6) The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
    (7) Chapter 71 (relating to Federal service labor-management relations) of title 5.
    (8) The Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988.
    (9) The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
    (10) The Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
    (11) Chapter 43 (relating to veterans’ employment and reemployment) of title 38.
# United States Code/Title 3/Chapter 5/Subchapter 2

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* Part A—Employment Discrimination, Family and Medical Leave, Fair Labor Standards, Employee Polygraph Protection, Worker Adjustment and Retraining, Employment and Reemployment of Veterans, and Intimidation
* Part B—Public Access Provisions Under the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990
* Part C—Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
* Part D—Labor-Management Relations
* Part E—General
# United Nations Security Council Resolution 143

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Adopted by the Security Council at its 873rd meeting, by 8 votes to none, with 3 abstentions (China, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), on 14 July 1960
The Security Council,
Considering the report of the Secretary General [1] on a request for United Nations action in relation to the Republic of the Congo,
Considering the request for military assistance addressed to the Secretary-General by the President and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo [2],
1. Calls upon the Government of Belgium to withdraw its troops from the territory of the Republic of the Congo;
2. Decides to authorize the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps, in consultation with the Government of the Republic of the Congo, to provide the Government with such military assistance as may be necessary until, through the efforts of the Congolese Government with the technical assistance of the United Nations, the national security forces may be able, in the opinion of the Government, to meet fully their tasks;
3. Requests the secretary general to report to the Security Council as appropriate.
[1]Official Records of the Security Council, Fifteenth Year, 873rd meeting, paras. 18-29.
[2] Ibid., Fifteenth Year, Supplement for July, August, and September 1960, document S/4382.
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# United States Reports/Volume 230

* 230 U.S. 1 (1913) Jackson v. United States
* 230 U.S. 24 (1913) Hughes v. United States
* 230 U.S. 35 (1913) Ex parte American Steel Barrel Company
* 230 U.S. 46 (1913) Arizona Copper Company v. Gillespie
* 230 U.S. 58 (1913) City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company
* 230 U.S. 84 (1913) Boise Artesian Hot & Cold Water Company v. Boise City
* 230 U.S. 98 (1913) Boise Artesian Hot & Cold Water Company v. Boise City
* 230 U.S. 100 (1913) Old Colony Trust Company v. City of Omaha
* 230 U.S. 123 (1913) Omaha Electric Light & Power Company v. City of Omaha
* 230 U.S. 126 (1913) Butts v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Company
* 230 U.S. 139 (1913) Ochoa v. Hernandez Y Morales
* 230 U.S. 165 (1913) Nalle v. Oyster
* 230 U.S. 184 (1913) Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. International Coal Mining Company
* 230 U.S. 247 (1913) Mitchell Coal Coke Company v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
* 230 U.S. 304 (1913) Morrisdale Coal Company v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
* 230 U.S. 316 (1913) Fourche River Lumber Company v. Bryant Lumber Company
* 230 U.S. 324 (1913) Omaha Council Bluffs Street Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
* 230 U.S. 340 (1913) Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. Tucker
* 230 U.S. 352 (1913) Simpson v. David C Shepard
* 230 U.S. 474 (1913) Knott v. Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Company
* 230 U.S. 509 (1913) Knott v. St. Louis & Southwestern Railway Company
* 230 U.S. 512 (1912) Knott v. St. Louis, Kansas City, & Colorado Railroad Company
* 230 U.S. 513 (1913) Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company v. Conley
* 230 U.S. 525 (1913) Oregon Railroad Navigation Company v. Campbell
* 230 U.S. 537 (1913) Southern Pacific Company v. Campbell
* 230 U.S. 553 (1913) Allen v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain, & Southern Railway Company
# United Nations Security Council Resolution 19

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Adopted by the Security Council at its 114th meeting, by 8 votes to none, with 3 abstentions (Poland, Syria, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), on 27 February 1947
As a preliminary step in the consideration of the incidents in the Corfu Channel which are the subject of a dispute between the United Kingdom and Albania,
The Security Council,
Resolves to appoint a sub-committee of three members to examine all the available evidence concerning the above-mentioned incidents and to make a report to the Security Council, not later than 10 March 1947, on the facts of the case as disclosed by such evidence.
The sub-committee is empowered to request further information as it deems necessary from the parties to the dispute, and the representatives of the United Kingdom and Albania are requested to give every assistance to the sub-committee in its work.
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