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Told the Wrong Reminiscenco,

TOTO the wrong Aem1ntScenCo.
From the Boston Journal.
They were celebrating their silver we'd
ding and. of course. the couple were very
happy and affectionate.
YES" said the husband, "this Is the only
woman I ever loved. and shall never for
get the first time I proposed to her."
How did you do it?" burst out a young
man who had been squeezing q pretty girls
hand in a corner.
They all laughed. and he blushed. but the
girl carried 1t OF bravely.
well. I remember as well as II 1t were
but yesterday. It was at Richmond. We
had been out for q picnic and she and got
wandering alone. Don't you remember, my
dear, and what lovely day 1t was2'
The wife smiled.
1--WE sat on the trunk Of q tree You
haven't forgotten, love- have your"
The wife smiled again.
'She began writing in the dust with the
point Of her parasol You recall it sweet9''
The wife nodded.
"she wrote her name Mary ana I asked
her to let me put the other name to it., And
l took the parasol and wrote my name
Smith, below it And she took back the
parasol and wrote below 1t. No. won't
darling? All. I see you DO"
Then he kissed her and the company
murmured: Wasn't 1t pretty?"
The guests had all departed and the
harry pair were left alone.
Wasn't it nice, Mary, to see all our
friends around US so happyr'
Yes. 1t was; But John. that reminis-
"Ah. 1t seems as II 1t had been only yes
terday, Mary"
Yes, dear; there are only three things
you're wrong about in that story"
Wrong? oh, no."
John, I'm sorry you told that story be-
cause never went to a picnic with you be-
fore We were married. I was never In
Richmond In my life. and never refused
you"
My darling. you must b wrong: I have
a good memory"
Il am not wrong. Mr.. Smith, and my
memory Is as good as yours, and although
we have been married twenty-five years I'd
like to know who that mink was You
never told me about her before"
The husband answered nothing, and his
the past
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sand or SO as amends for his fraternal
soampishness. instead of dancing down to
Rio on a wild-goose chase after buried
diamonds that were probably ten miles
from the place in which his hare Drained
companions believed them"
And now, jack" said Evan, with a
somber look OF reprtmand. you know that
you shouldn't give this scapegoat kins-
notf' And Evan. who dearly loved and
admired his friend laid hand on Griffith's
shoulder.
Lord save u.s." was the gentle and
more dimes to send. suppose that as
long as l have any, though. I will send"
Here the young artist glanced toward the
easel that upbore his latest landscape
He was very well aware that Evan con-
sidered 1t a daub, but that knowledge did
rot alter his own conviction that 1t was a
masterpiece Of symphonic and Sym
bolic' impressionis1n.
1--WE somehow never get on, nowadays.
We need only talk with one another five
minutes to find ourselves fighting like cat
and dog"
Griffith said this in his easy. dreamy
way, several hours later amid the music
and babble of a ball at Sherry's He look
ed very handsome. though trif1e worried
and fadgued Evening dress always be-
came his olive, oval face; the white tie at
his throat seemed to deepen the soft bril-
hancy Of his peculiar, dusky eyes,
Il never saw but one man who had eyes
at all like yours" the lady to whom he
now spoke had once told him. THAT was
Edwin Booth. whose eyes were kind of
golden black. Yours are smaller and haven't
the same trick Of occasional metallic
spiendor. But you ought. nevertheless. to
be proud Of the resemblance"
She used to say things like this to him
In the early days of their intimacy. But
latterly, as Griffith put 1t. she was forever
scolding him. and getting up rows" Per-
sonally, she was very winsome and elegant,
a blonde, with the most delightful wild
rose coloring. She carried her slender fig
ure so that all its willowy curves made
the incest harmonious interplay. Her name
was Mrs. Rochester; she had married at
an early age and now. though scarcely
thirty, was a widow, rich. courted, with a
position that hundreds of her own sex en-
We'd her
You're shockingly rude" she murmured
to Griffith. IT'S lucky no one heard what
you've just said. or 1 should have been COM
PEELED to quarrel with you"
But you're always Quarreling with me"
moaned Griffith.
Il mean-seriously."
'1've never known 1t to b any other way,
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bath houses. The richer people have more
servants, and a well-to-do family will gen.
orally have a man in addition to the women.
They pay their men twice as much as the
women. Nurses are very cheap in Japan
and the common people keep the smaller
children and the old men of the family
busy In taking care of the babies. A child
of six often has her baby brother tied to
her back. and children from nine to sixteen
go about with babies so fastened upon them
taking care of them. Such girls. when en-
their board and clothing and a present now
and then. They are often poor relatives of
the FAMILY. and woman who works in
tea factory will often pay a cent a day to
nave her baby thus cared for.
In the Country.
Out In the country the wages are even
lower and there are parts of Japan where
the women do not get more than ten cents
In silver a day. or about a nickel Of our
money. All members of a poor family
work, and a man and his wife will often
labor side by side in the same field. Women
dig up the ground with long spade-like mat
tocks, and / visited a tea-firing establish
ment yesterday where saw about 100 girls
bending over hot oven-like pans and rub
bling the green leaves of the tea around in
them. while the perspiration rolled down
their cheeks and now and then dropped
into the dainty mixture, which was being
prepared for American breakfast tables. 1
asked as to their hours and their wages
and was told that they worked from day.
break to sunset. and that they got the
enormous wages of from thirty to forty
cents day in silver. / see men every
where go carrying loads that the ordinary
American could not lift, and they do the
work of both horses and men. There are
few horses used and many Of the carts are
pushed and pulled by women and men. I
saw a woman breaking stones for the roads
this afternoon. and was told that she got
about ten of our cents for twelve hours
work. She sat bareheaded and barefooted
on the stones and pounded away with O
hammer breaking the rocks into pieces As
1 watched her, two Japanese men in blue
cotton gowns passed by, carrying a stone
weighing about 400 pounds. which was tied
by a rope to a pole, which rested on their
shoulders, and a third man pushed past
them with a load Of long boards on his
back.
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sawed out by hand, and It is by men that
they are carried up and put into place.
There are many queer things here in the
way Of building, and 1 understand that
there are people who make a business of
manufacturing roofs for buildings. The
roof of Japanese house is put on before
the walls are fitted in and there is big
scanolding made Of the height of the pro-
posed structure and running all around 1t
before the work of putting up the house
begins. This scaffolding is made of bamboo
poles tied together with ropes of straw, and
the men who put 1T up have nothing to do
with erecting the building itself. There is
a company in Yokohama which does moth
ing else but make scaffolding, and 1t rents
1t to the builders at so much per house.
Almost all Of the Japanese houses are of
wood They are built close together in the
towns and cities and a fire sometimes
sweeps them away by thousands. 1t is
said that Tokyo burns down every seven
years, and fires which destroy q thousand
houses are not uncommon. There are now
steam fire engines in the large cities and
all OF the smaller places have fire depart
ments and hand engines The japanese go
wild whenever there is a fire in their neigh
borhood They turn out en- masse, each
carrying a paper lantern, upon which Is
painted the name of his house or his bust
ness place, and rush toward 1t. They have
lanterns hung up in their houses ready to
run out with them to fires, and 1t is
matter of etiquette IL you have friend in
the neighborhood of the confagration to
call and leave your card and tell him that
you came to help him, thinking the house
which was burning was his, and to leave
your card with congratulations that he es-
capped. The firemen themselves carry Ian
terms and they yell as they run. Each fire
company has a leader who carries a lantern
fastened to the top of long pole and orna-
mented with streamers of paper He
climbs with this to the roof Of the building
which Is on fire and directs the men, and
he Is expected to stay at his POST until
these streamers catch fire. The fremen of
Yokohama have blue hats, like butter bowls
and on their backs are the characters
which mean Yokohama fire brigade The
country firemen tie handkerchiefs on their
heads and are more often barefooted than
otherwise
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aggs are worth from six to ten cents n
Dozen. Quail cost from six to seven cents.
Heed birds, sixteen cents a dozen, and snipe
nve cents each. Think of 1t. A good snipe
for nickel There are no better vegetables
IN the world than those you find here and
the nsh OF Japan are far superior to those
or America All fish are sold when they
are alive or still kicking. HOLSTERS run
rom half a cent to five cents apiece
F1ne fresh mackerel bring from one to
-FOUR cents. and sole from two to ten You
can get perch as low as two cents each
and tai fish. the best fish in Japan at from
dve cents to fifty cents, according to size
oysters are worth twelve cents a gallon,
and eels bring ten cents a pound. As to
vegetables, they are sold in most cases by
the pound. ranging from half a cent up
wards. Cabbages bring from one to three
cents each. Lettuce about a quarter of a
cent a bunch, and radishes about the same
You get fine caulifiower for from eight
70 ten cents, and fresh mushrooms cost
nve cents pound Soft coal costs three
dollars ton, and hrewood sold in little
bundles about large as a bundle of
kindling for from one to three cents each
These figures, well as those following
this.are ON the gold and not the silver basis
Cost of Luxuries.
All sorts Of luxuries are cheap. You can
puy NUNS extra dry champagne for less
than dollar and a half a quart am good
Manila cigars cost from one to three cents
each Cigarettes. which are now being i'm
ported by the million from the United
states. and which are being introduced in
large quantities among both the men and
women OF Japan, are far cheaper than at
nome. and what We pay five cents and ten
cents package for sells here for from, one
70 three cents package. Servants are
very cheap and very good The foreign
housewife has nothing to do and she lives
Ike queen The japanese cooks are far
better than ours, and twenty dollars
month VIII pay the board and salaries of
the help of an eight-room house / have
TREND who lives as well here as many a
mill1onafre does in the United States and
ne does not expend more than this amount
He pays his cook five dollars a month His
butler gets two dollars and a half, and his
gardener and second girl get about the
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Evan. standing erect and handsome, with
his close-cropped blonde locks and his lin
pid blue eyes, scanned the letter, which was
by no means long.
II wouldn't give him another cent He's
always begging you to help him. And how
many times have you sent him money,
down there in Rio Janeiro2'
Lots" muttered Griffith.
'Of course. And here are YOU Jack
His friend paused. and Griffith, as 1t
were. continued for him, with a rather
weary smile on his dark, fresh, frank face:
Here am /, Evan, you mean, with ten I'M
sold pictures and nearly twice as many un-
paid debts"
It's your own fault, Jack. You will paint
these extraordinary"
Masterpieces. Thanks. take that as
a compliment Well, We were talking about
poor Jack. He's my first cousin, You know
after all. We're both Jack Griffith both
named after that misanthropic old uncle Of
ours. who went out west years ago and has
made huge fortune there, it's rumored
among the gold mines or the silver ones--I
never exactly learned which. He auarreled
with each of our dead fathers and Jack and
l, few years ago. used to compare notes
FAMILY annals, as ii were-and try to decide
which of our fathers 1t was whom Uncle
John hated the most. Jack was the eldest
son OF the eldest son, you know, and that
Always made him put on airs concerning our
opulent uncle. He used to say that his
father had once had the cool courage to
tell Uncle John he'd cheated both his
brothers in the distribution of the family
Inheritance"
perhaps he did," said Evan Mowbray,
musingly
Griffith brtdled my dear Evan, plea Sc
recollect that reserve to myself the priv
iiege OF insulting my own relations" Then.
Win orowsy irony: Il shouldn't be sur
prised, though. IL you We're right Only.
the greater wrong, I'm nearly sure, was
done to Jacks father. There was some
business partnership between Uncle Ralph
ALL Dft
that; he knows twice as much about 1t as
l do. Upon my word. I wished he'd gone
out there to Nevada, or wherever it is.
and asked Uncle John for a hundred thou
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rise IN the prices of everything At the
present writing the exchange is going up
every day and a gold dollar in Tokyo looks
rs big as the cover of japanese umbrella.
Such foreigners as are here who get their
incomes from America are rich through the
fall of silver. and they now get two dol
lars for every one that is sent out to them
from home / made out a draft of one
hundred dollars on my New York letter of
credit at the bank this morning and got
two hundred and eight dollars for 1t and
the money 1 have brought with me has
doubled in value. This makes travelling
comparatively cheap, and though 1 have
been paying four dollars a day at the Grand
Hotel in Yokohama it really costs me only
two. Clothing here is wonderfully cheap,
and all English goods can be bought for
the same prices they bring in London. The
treaties with Japan prohibit her from
charging more than five per cent duty. md
labor Is worth 50 little that one could
come across the Pacific and save the ex-
penses Of the trip by laying in a stock of
clothing for himself and his family. The
taflors are Chinese. but they give you good
cuts and you do not need to pay If the
clothes do not fit you. You can get a good
business suit Of English goods made to
order for about ten American dollars. Pat
ent leather shoes made to order cost two
dollars and a half. and a fur-lined over
coat with beaver collar and cuffs can be
bought for about thirty dollars In gold. You
could not buy the cloth, to say nothing of
the fur Innings. for that amount in Ameri-
Ca Ladies' dresses are equally cheap and
you get wonderfully embroidered gowns
Of silk crepe for less than the ordinary
street dress costs you in the United States.
40 Low Prices.
This reduction in silver makes a won
derful profit for our missionaries and diplo-
mats A missionary who is getting a thou
sand dollars a year has now two thousand
dollars to spend The American minister
to Japan. who receives, If my memory
serves me. twelve thousand dollars annual
lars worth of value out of 1t. and the SAL
aries Of our consuls are practically doubled
by the change. An American family liv-
ing on fixed income at home could now
come to Japan and have twice the comforts
Tor half the money. and am surprised at the
wonderful cheapness Of all sorts of food and
drink from cabbage to champagne. I took
an Interpreter with me to the market this
morning ard spent some hours In finding
out the prices Of the necessaries of life.
found the articles sold fully as good and
IN most cases superior to those you find
IN America. and the prices were from one
twentieth to one-half those We pay. / have
reduced them from the silver to the gold
basis and give you a few of them. First
take the case Of meats These are very
high. as the japanese do not use them. and
they are chiefly demanded by foreigners I
found that fine rib roasts of beef cost eight
cents a pound. and was shown veal and
bacon at ten cents. Chickens are worth
from seven to twenty cents apiece You
buy teal ducks for eight cents each. and
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Until lately there was no such thing as a
nre insurance company in Japan. Now
there are several and they are doing well
There are no foreign companies and the in
surance companies of other countries con-
fine their risks here to life. chatted last
Right with the manager Of a well-known
life insurance company for Japan and
China He tells me that this American in
stitutton Is doing good business here and
that the people are insuring more every
day. The highest amount the company
tnsures for in Japan Is 100000. 1t has
taken out two such policies lately and has
written q number of $4,000 and s25OOO
policies. The most of its business however
Is In 5000 risks. and 1t insures here at the
same rates as IN America 1t does not try
to push its business among the Chinese. as
there Is more danger Of fraud from them
When Chtnaman sees that he is about
70 Ole ne wants to go to his ancestral home
rms may be thousand miles in the in
terror of China, where there are no for
eigners. and all sorts of trumped up evil
dence could be sent in as to the death
You could buy the testimony of the gov
ernor OF Chinese province for 500 or SO.
to anything. and the result would probably
De that the company would be systematic
ally defrauded.
In Japan it is impossible for one to de-
fraud as to q matter of life and death The
system Of registration of births and deaths
Is perfect. and the Gear Of Russia has not
better method of keeping track of his
subjects than that OF the mikado. There
- oV,ooV poHCtHeu IN the empire and
end OF detectives. The secret service of
Japan Is said to be the most perfect in the
world. and though this land has the shrewd-
est OF criminals. there is little wickedness
that Is allowed to go unpublished. Every
man and woman in japan must have a
passport, and this is the case with for
eisners as well as with the Japanese In
changing his residence the police call upon
man as soon as he has settled and de-
mand to know all about him. They do not
take his own statement, but write to the
city from which he says he came and II
his story Is not a true one he is arrested
He dare not leave Japan without the per
mission OF the government, and II is AL
most impossible now for Japanese woman
70 get away from Japan unless she can
prove that she is going into some Ieeiti-
mate employment abroad, and that her as
tons there are to be good
MAX Il. "o,LL.io-
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Five Cents n Dny.

japan. and he could have a coachman at
f1ve dollars more. He has no trouble about
getting good servants, and he tells me they
watch after his interests and see that he
Is not cheated by anyone else but them
selves. 1t is far easier to live well here
than in America, and I predict that the
time will come when many American fami-
lies with fixed but comparatively limited
incomes will come to Japan, instead Of
going to Europe as they are now doing. As
to the table, they can nowhere find better
eating. In some cases the cooks take con-
tracts to do all the marketing, cook the
meals and supply the table at a fixed price
per day. well-to-do family of Kobe lives
in this way, and for three yen. or about
nished by the cook. Remember. they pay
nothing more than this, and there are six
in the family. Their ordinary every day
bills of fare are as follows- The breakfast,
served when they rise, consists of fruit
porridge. fish. a fry or grill of mutton or
beef. and warm bread or cakes. At noon
they have a lunch or "tiffin," which Is
served in courses. and embraces soup, fish,
warm entree, cold meats, salad of po-
tatoes, sweets and coffee. Then there Is a
tea served at pm, and at o'clock there
is dinner, the menu Of which consists of
soup. fish. roast, some game, pota-
toes and two vegetables, with a dessert
coffee. cheese and nuts.
How the Natives Live.
AS to the living Of the japanese. they pay
still less and these forty millions Of people
could exist well on what America wastes.
Only a few of the middle classes have more
than one servant. and among the poorer
classes the wife does the cooking and the
entire work of the household. Some fam
lilies have a woman to cook and do general
housework, and such women are paid from
one to two dollars a month and are lodged
and fed They generally receive a present
of a dress from their mistress at New Year
and In midsummer, each costing from
dollar and a half to two dollars, and they
expect to get cent two or three times a
week for bath money. Every Japanese
takes hot bath from two to Twelve times
a week. and where the family Is too poor
to own bath room they 60 to the public
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He Obeyed Orders.

From Texas Siftings.
In some Texas towns 1t is impossible to
ascertain when any particular train leaves
without going to the depot and inQuiring
OF the agent how many hours behind time
the train is. Col. Yerger. who lives in
Austin, wished to go to San Antonio on
the IL o'clock train. so he said to his col
ored servant:
SAM go down to the depot and see what
time the o'clock train leaves"
~ was q O'Clock when Sam returned
well, when does the train leave?"
HITS done lef', boss. Hit ler at hat
pas two, sah."
WHAT
did Jess whut yer tole me. Yer tole me
ter see when de train lef', an / watched
side OBJ de Colorado r1bber,"
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There are no such things as stone boats
and lumber wagons in Japan, and human
labor takes the place of steam and horses
There are no lumber mills in the country
and logs are sawed into boards by hand. A
lumber yard consists of lot of boards tied
up into bundles containing about five or
SIX boards six inches wide and half an inch
thick, and usually about twelve feet in
length, and 1t Is of such lumber that the
most OF the japanese houses are made The
heaviest Of the rafters Of the temples are
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APAN IS DOING
all she can to keep
silver in the air. She
has to pay for the
goods she imports
from America in
gold. and the silver
question Is q far
more important one
here than IL has ever
been in the United
States. The country
is now on a silver
basis. and there is
sure to be a general
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III q iiuSC easy Clidltp
with a posture of
eat Incidence,
smoking a cigarette.
His pretty studio, full
of choice drapings,
odd ornaments and
unfinished sketches,
looked. through one
of it's smaller win
dows. on the Acad-
envy of Design. Grit
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same. These servants all board themselves
and the cook does the marketing. His rent
costs him less than twenty dollars a month,
though he lives in one of the best ports OF
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THIS JACK AND THE OTHER,
BY EDGAR PAWCETT.

~ ONE IN"
n Griffith, as he spoke
" these words, reclined
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TOXIC. Japan. March 9. 1894.
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iIVIN G IN JAP AN
How the Fall of Silver Affects the
Country and the People.
WHAT 1T COSTS FOREIG NERS
The Queer Fire Departments and
Fire Insurance Novelties.
THE POLICE AND DETECTIVES

spseiai Correspondents of The Evening Star.