The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-26

ions running under the windows They are
wei upholstered ami very comfortable
They are seldom filled. and are used largely
by the well-to-do Japanese. There are
doors at the side, near the end, ard these
open directly ON to the stations and not on
To a vestibule as with us. You find all
classes within them. and you may ride for
hours with pretty japanese girls, Buddhist
priests and the thousand and one charac-
tiers which make up the life of Japan.
Many of the japanese women squat on the
seats, tucl1ing their long gowns under their
knees ana exposing about inch or two
OF bare skin between their little foot
mittens and their kimonos. You meet
many JapS in European clothes, and now
and then one viii take off his Japanese
clothes, pull foreign suit out of his bag
ana dress in the ear right before your
eyes No one pays any attention, nor
seems to think il strange.
The Third-CIaSs Cars.
The third-class cars are uncushioned and
they are filled with the poorer classes who
trot through the stations in clogs, many o.
them having their dresses pulled up TO their
knees. They carry their baggage on their
backs and push and crowd in. They patron
lie the station restaurants. and every time
the train stops there are pcdGlers of cookies
buy all sorts of food very cheap. and you
can get - teapot of Japanese tea. with a
te2cup on top, anyv. here. 1 remember rid
ing ole day with Mir John W Thompsc
a Washington banker and When the he
for lunch came We concluded TO buy Two /
cents lie looked rather quo5r "a
thought 1 had not given him enough ans
was about to hand him OUT more. when, to
our surprise. he gave ME back cents ans
our guide told rs that We were 10 keep tn
pots and the cups. This was two teapot
two cups and about one qusrt of tea r.
the sum of cents, o. for - cents in Amer
lean money. Such teapot at home would
cost at least - cents. and the other things
We're proportionateIy cheap. There IS no
place in the world where you can trave.
better and more cheaply than in Japan. ami
there is no place where you get so much for
the money. There are good hotels every
where. and the best hotels IN Toxic, Yo-
kOhama and Kobe. The hotel rates at thu
best houses are from s. 10 $ = day III silver.
which is just half those amounts when re-
duced 10 American money. Clothes and otn-
or things are proportionately cheap and
carriages-you may ride about. you know,
in jnrikishas-cost you from 10 to - cents
an hour.
Japnn's Postal System.
Speaking Of Japan's postal system The
people arr as great letter writer's IS any
you will find in the world and they use
the postofEicc and telegraph freely. You
mist remember they had no postal system
what Yer about twenty years ago Still
they carried last year over 2-tv2.0o letters
a2d more than 100000 EewSpa perS. while
Ip00.uJl books we're sent through the mails
They have mon q order system. and they
make postal cards much cheaper than We
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and they du the postal work of The east
coast OF Asia. IT yoU wish 10 send letters
from Shanghai. China. NoU puu japanese
stamps ON thrm-or you did before the war
began-and they hai also their posJotiiceS
i'm Corea Their malls are as safe as ours.
and il is an interesting Trims 20 know that
thair postal service was mo !elcd after that
of the United States. II was founded Try
Nr. Samuel Bryan OF Washington VINO leit
the postofiice department here 10 20 10
Japan Tor that purpose He cid 2 good 5ob,
and America has reason 20 Ice proud OF the
work
The ..HeII"I GjFI>' Of Japan.
Japan mas NOW "a number Of 'heiloa
Girls and ian central" station ct Toxic /
saw about fifty of them. with black rubber
receivers about their ears. screeehing Jap
auese answers over the wire. The tele-
a-raph system is also growing. ami Japan
i. dispatches. The country is. in fact, grow
i'm. so fast that il is impossible To keep
track OF it. and IL publishes row almost a
many newspapers aS we dp, in proportion
- its peop1e There are moro than 2lm off
fers,t Journals published ia Toxic ale -.
and J2uan issues more than -CAN0,UH copies
az newspapers IA year. Every one reads
The newspapers. ana ] have seen llnrik .sha
men uuH papers ont Of their pockets and
sif down and read while | went III 10 make
= call. The newspapers pay fairly well,
and they are circulated by newsboys. who
% about with bells in their hands. which
tbev ring as they call out the names o.
their journals Nearly every paper has hac
one or more correspondents in Corea. and
nearly all of them have had illustrations
nv their special artists ON the ground some
OF their artists command very hiSn prices.
and I have had illustrations for my letters
made bv the best of them Ihey nave
tbei;. reporters everywhere, and was in
,,.,i.v-ad n dozen times during my stay
in Jannu and | met number OF the edi-
-. The government has however, had
a very rigid censorship OF the press DURING
the present war. and "a hummer OF lhe pa
ners have been warned that they Wouid ne
i,,-nendcd if they MADE premature reports.
t-,,it,r,s are now punished nearly every day,
ana the real names of the editors do not
.,oor i'm the papers. The names which
are pubIshed rs those of the editors rep
resent moor S,.rTbblers. who are paid from
500 10 $50 "A month. and who expect 10 take
the blame if the paper gets into trouble
Tbav are ready To be dragged oft TO prison
ana serve cut any sentence that the court
may impose upon them for the improper
statements published by the papers. and
provided their salaries so on, they don't
care low long their sentences last.
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