Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-06-20

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they never would be allowed to
leave it. Adams was taken into the
employ of the government, and he
taught Iyeyas mathematics and nav
igation, and how to build and launch
ships.
Adams wrote home each year to
his family by the annual Portuguese
ship, but failed to receive anv answer.
He repeatedly requested of the Ty-
coon permission to go to his family,
and was as often told that he must
be content here, as permission to de-
part could never be allowed. To in
duce him to stay, and interest him in
the work of ship-building, teaching
navigation and military tactics, he
was given a large tract of country,
with a great number of departments,
over which he had absolute authori-
ty. He was ranked among the no.
bility next to the princes of the EN-
pire. He was called Amin, the
japanese name of pilot, and part
of Yeddo was, and to this day is,
called Anjin-Che, or the district of
Amin.
In this way, twelve years had
elapsed since he had left England -,
and although he had written as often
as conveyance presented itself, no
word came of his friends or family.
And so hope died within him of ev-
er seeing the shores of his native
land again, or ever looking again in
the eyes of those he loved. He saw
nothing before him but a life in Ja-
pan. He went again to his work of
teaching and ship-building, for the
purpose of drowning thoughts of
home and loved ones. About this
time, an alliance with a noble family
was offered him. With all other
hopes dead, he accepted it. By this
marriage he had two children, boy
and a girl.
Not far from this time Spanish
ship, with an embassy from the king
of Spain, arrived in Japan. Although
they bore magnificent presents from
Phillip IL, to the tycoon, they were
refused audience, and permission to
trade was denied them. Shortly af-
terward a Dutch ship came to trade,
and although their cargo was small,
and they had no presents, through
Adams influence they were eonced-
ed the most liberal privileges, and
thus through this stranger was laid
the foundation of the Dutch trade,
which lasted through three centuries
of Japanese exclusiVeness and hate
of foreigners. In 1913 or IA, an
English ship arrived under command
of Captain Saris. Adams obtained
for them even more liberal terms of
trade than he had for the Dutch.
An English factory was built, the
goods landed and all the steps taken
to build up English interests. After
having been here a year or more
the ship was about to sail for Eng
land, and now was presented to
Adams a trial such as comes to few
mortals. Iyeyas, after fifteen years
of persistent refusals for him to go
home, and as persistently held honor
and promotion before him-after
having induced him to marry and
raise a family here-suddenly and
voluntarily sent him permission to go
home for some great service render
ed.
How he must have been torn by
his conflicting desires and interests
On the one hand this land of the Or
lent, which had been his home for
fifteen years, its picturesque beauty,
with its soft air, and its tropicsi veg
eaatidh, must have taken deep hold
of his heart. The people of Japan
had received him, a ship-wrecked
sailor. and made him a lord of the
land. He had been treated and low
ed by them, with depth and warmth
of feeling unknown in the cold eli
mate of his aative England. One OF
their dark-eyed daughters had given
him her heart, and all the best years
of her young life. Two children,
with hair as black as . ravens wing,
called him father, and climbed over
his knees. All the fortune ,accumu-
lated in long years was here, TO. be
left behind him, and with the best
years of his life and his youthful
vigor gone, he was to go out into the
world empty-handed. Moreover no
word of tidings had reached him of
his family for seventeen years. The
shadow of the dark-winged angel
might have covered them all within
that long, weary time, or, worse still,
he might find that his wife, weary
with waiting and watching for his
return, at last, when ne tidings came,
hope being dead within her, had given
his place in her heart to another
whispering in other ears the sweet
words which had so often been his
and that his children, his blue-eyeG
and fair-haired boy and girl, h9d
learned to call = stranger Dy the
fond name of father. Like Ienny-
sons Lotos Eater, he could say;
Deor is the memory ofwsdded life
And dear the last embraces ni my VIE
And her warm tears; but al hath suffered
For SnrJ snTeIg now my household hearth is
cold, ,..i- :, .,.,
IA I should come like ghosts 10 trouble
soy"
On the other hand, what if his En-
olfsh Mary still cherished the hope
5hat he would come again; and what
if she kept every word and look of
his enshrined in her heart; and if
with his children still knelt, morning
and evening, and lifted up their sup
plications to Him wRo holds the great
waves and fierce winds in the hollow
of his hand, to protect tseir wander
er and bring him home ~ them
again ? These conflicting emotions
must have wrung a proud and sensi-
tive spirit, such as that of A6aWs. |
He who had looked danger and deat6
in the eye in many a wild storm ana
wilder battle strife yithOut talterlns,
NAV well have broken down anu
wept like a child under tins trial,
But his bitter conflicts OF loVeS' eI
donbts of desires aud OF hopes, lie
SoGo'S' SI'";5 ,-;,b his ashes under this stone