The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1882-11-29
Al MODEL MONARCH.

~ Nlo1LL AlILt hAlAtA.
No monarch, and very few private
persons. can have led Il life of higher,
more intense, and more absorbing in
tsrest than the young man, who III
1868, when but sixteen, found him
self Mikado Of Japan, with thc an
cient but long dormant rights Of sole
and supreme ruler restored to that
,tfiee. By,fortunate chance the pur-
iple fell, in his case, on one well fitted
i, wear il, and the work done in ia,
pan in which he has taken in active
and intelligent sharein fourteen years
mas been enormous. Between 1859
and 1871 the daimios, the great fendal
princes, were, with the exception oi
the clan Satsuma--not radically sub
,iucd until 1877 whose chief wasthe
mighty Saigo, denuded Of their pow
=, they and their military retainers
receiving o pecnnia.y compensation.
In 1873 all classes Of able bodiedm
were rendered liable to conscription
III the imperial army. This army,
organized by Frenchmen, has now for
nearly ten years been in u high state
of efficiency. Its West Point, con.
,tueted chiefly on the pattern Of that
establishment, is royama, near Toxic.
fae total military force is 10000.
The Japanese navy is on the model Of
the British. 1t includes twenty war
vessels, nineteen being steamships.
National education, on the new
model dates from 1871. by 1873 the
government schools had 100000 pu-
pills. To-day they have over $780,
900. Toxic University has nearly
1000. One well acquainted with
Japanese pupils SAYS that intellect
ually they are on the average equal
to those of Europe and America,
while in the gentler virtues Of re-
spect, docility, industry, politencss,
and self.control, they are unquestion-
ably superior
A prevailing feature among this
people, and one which strikes even
the least observant, il their almost ex.
asperatingly sweet temper. II swell
nigh impossible to MAZE them angry.
and .ady, long resident in Japan,
says that il i really true that Jap.
anese children are scarcely heard to
cry. This celestial condition in the
nursery il not produced BY the sooth-
ing syrups Of japanese Winslow,
but Is the result oftne child.aan,ilcrs
-olteniimes odd men.
The japanese Post Office i anoth.
er Of the nations triumphs. A MOLE
hill has IN ten years grown into i
mountain. The railroads, though not
numerous, are cheap and pay we'll.
They are now chiefly superntended
and worked By natives. Accidents
are almost unknown. FROM half d
mllei in September, 1860, the telegraph
linnn1nroa0 - "A ,eep miiax.
worked by ! 800 employees, Of whom
ten only are foreigners.
Ii would be well for this country
If its iaiIs were but III half as satis-
factory plight a. are those Of Japan,
and in this matter Japan has bor-
rowel but little from the foreigner.
The most minute precautions are
taken 10 prevent aiiuse Of authority
by prison officials. The governor
If jail may inilict 10 pnnishmcnt
more severe than the dark cell Or
,hackles. and this but fir \ liniitpl
period, without tie sanction Of Il dis
lrict court. This system il carried
out with IL muci, strictness IL the
nlnst remote provinces a. IN the cap
ital.
Tie vast system ihusin little murc
than ten Years created is directed and
controlled by Cabinet of thirteen,
oyeg.. which the Alikalo yigiiantly
presilcs, assisted by council Of the
ablest and bert informed men, who
give advice and attend to the details
Of enactments made By the Cabinet.
Provincial assemblies have existed
since 1878, and national parliament
ary government Is soon to be the order
If the day.-Ac,r York Times.