Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-05-13

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barriers, and without further delay
5han the customary genuhexions neces-
state, the Empress enters her carriage,
! sheaf of rockets is let of, and thd
Empress has left the capital The sun
ought to have gone with her descend
ant, but contrary to all rule, shines
Oat brighter than ever as the crowd
turns to its business, its cherry
blossom or its tea. Clitter-clatter go
she tongues. keeping chorus to the
clitter-clatser of the clogs, when sud-
denly there is shout, and the crowd
is broken by one of those pariah dogs
that attended so well to the regulations
ears well back, tongue out, and doing
al that starved dog can do to escape
from a crowd of famished coolies who,
with bare legs muscled with whipcord,
Wild hair and eager faces, throw them
selves on their prey. This is the fruit
of civilization in Japan-a corner IN
rice by native capitalists, the unedu-
Gated japanese refuses to eat foreign
ChineseJ rice, and prefers, haggard
and hungry, to starve or banquet OH
dog.
Peach and Pearl make their way
slowly TO Msruyama, turning IN trsi
to SOC how Higashi Hongwanji Is get
ting on. This was an offshoot from
the great temple of NIshi Hong
wanii, but become long since as pow
erfnI as the original foundation,
and great was the tri ulstion when
n 1864, IN the confusion OF the re-
| beliion It was burnt 10 the ground;
great effort WAS made for Its rebuilding,
| but $40, 600 yen is a good deal to col
lect, and the people are tickle, and
| Higashi Hongwanji is still unfinished.
The shell is complete-magnlfcent and
deserted, and in one corner piles of
rope are collected, thick black coils to
the height of a mans shoulder, and all
| of hair Japan in It's first enthusiasm
| rallied to the e-building; ''some had
yen and some had sen and some had
raven hair" their smooth locks were
their chef pride, and they cut them
Willingly for the work and made them
into the ropes now lying idly beneath
| the unfinished fane-black, with here
aud there a strand of gray. Pearls
-randmuther had given some Of the
rray hair. and at first crowds had
watched the great beams rising anew,
but now even the country people are
tired of it. Buddha is asleep in Mir
vana, or hunting. and cares not for his
! temple: the priests are occupied with
, the far greater question as to whether
| they are to be given the franchise or
no, and nothing more will be done Ii
a famine desolates the land or a great
earthquake shakes, and then the money
viii flow IN again.
On they go across the Kamogawa,
| foaming down in spate where the will
lows are Just bursting into lancet leaf,
and then turn up the avenue leading
10 Chionin, pausing to look at the
great gateway above the gray steps
which children-little blobs of red with
tonsure1 crowns-climb up and down,
past companies of pilgrims from the
: country, the men each one coDed with
a stiff, shallow. llmpet-shaped hat and
| clad in blue with yellow oilskin or red
; blanket hanging round his shoulder,
, each woman with her petticoats tucked
well into her obi-domo, a wisp OF blue
cotton round her head, and pulpy
straw sandals round her muddy ankles;
past pottery manufacture on the
right, and then straight up the hill
| leading to Maruyama, where The youth
Of Japan is dIspor'ing itself on ungain-
| " ponies VIII ch show their want OF
pace in sand-circle no bigger than
| the circumference of a merry-go
round; then on a few yards, and there
| they find all Kyoto making feast of
tabernacles and gazing at the pinky
| blossom which is hanging like clouds
on the trees. The road goes on up the
| hili, past the European Hotel, where
| the red nzaleas in the garden are just
beginning to break, but Peach and
Pearl turn to the right, under the
| 'rees, and there wait till nearly sun
down. No need to go home for din
| ner; the little they want Is easily got,
and they laZil, watch the blossom and
the sun, wonder at the professions of
Ijinrickshas that rattle down the hill
| illed with satisfed-looking English
men and Englishwomen, opera-glasses
over shoulder and Murray in hand,
aud followed by the regulation guide,
sip new cup of tea every quarter Of
an hour, chatter a. their friends till
tie shadows get long and the sun
| plunges into n bank of cloud, and then
turn townwards again. No need to go
| home yet, for Peach pere and Peach
mere, who rejoice in the name of
lchigoya, had spent their holiday at
the theatre, which, as in Athens of old,
begins in the morning and is not finish
ed til long after sundown. Here our
two nlUsunis find them sitting cross
leggcd in one of the chess-board di.
visions of the pit which do duty for
stalls in Japan, and near the left
tongue of the stage. As Peach and
Pearl enter the theatre the story of the
| Forty-seven Ronins is drawing to a
close; Kuranoske is lying drunk ID the
street, the Satsuma man passes and
spits at him, but the Sstsuma man Is
not perfect in his part, and the
| prom ter with open book In hand fol-
| ows him over the stage. The story
drags on, no tr dictionary detail omitted
till the time of waiting is finished and
| the forty-seven start on their last jour
ney; Kursnoske has to don armor, so
his attendant comes from behind the
scenes and dresses him on the stage.
This the audience sees not, convention
al scales blind their eyes till the armor
is hooked on and the hero ready foT
war. In the auditorium boys wander
about with oranges and green and
white shoes of custardy food. Peach's
father and mother are making their
evening meal off lobster and sakl; in
the next division sit a young couple
with their first child, who is placidly
having his dinner, while his father is
smoking in the opposite corner. There
Is little stir, aud an Englishman with
his guide enters one of the boxes over
head. This eXcites much more inter-
est than the play, and every head is
| turned from the stage while the Eng
lishman with trouble and pain squats
on the floor in stockinged-feet to show
how well he can conform to the GUS
toms OF the country. His friend and
clcerone meanwhile sits up rigid on a
chair, his muddy boots dangling some
inches from the floor, for he is a
civilized japanese. Then the scene
changes to the Temple of Sengakuji at