Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-02-18

'eH lOT WduU VI Wafer iOr rrlSaUlOn
pu' poses. Many generations ago a
japanese planned a tunnel under this
nnuntain to the lake for water with
hich to fertilize the barren waste.
Ie dug the tunnel and brought the
water from the lake and so enabled a
arge area Of barren land to be made
>aluable in the production of rice.
The government at that time arrest
ed this ''born civil engineer, and
bpheaded him, giving as the reason
therefor the statement that ''he was
his head to subvert the government
he would most certainly accomplish
his purpose"
To-day Japan has a good system
of public schools, not enough to &C
commodate all who can possibly at
t nd. she has employed fine teach
ers ia Europe and America to work
in her schools. From her Middle
schools, corresponding to our Acade-
mics, the government has selected
the brightest boys in large numbers,
sending them to the higher technical
schools and to the University, thence
many of them have been sem on at
government expense to Europe and
America where they have studied
Law, Medicine, and Military and
Naval Science.
To-day one can count on the fingers
of one hand, such has been the rapid
progress, the foreigners employed in
Japanese schools, and other branches
Of technical instruction, and those
that remain are specialists of world
wide fame. Her railroads, harbours,
bridges, and public buildings are de-
>igned and built by her w engi-
neers. The recent talk Of American
tunners being now on the japanese
ships originates with men who know
not what they are talking about.
From a few books printed by hand
on carved blocks Of wood, her pub
fishing business has long since grown
e up to Solomon's standard. a few
5 years ago a modern Hoe printing
press was imported into Tokyo. 1t
l Is the only n Of the kind Yer
brought into the country. To-day
Il there are a score of these wonderful
Ii machines at work in that city, and
it would take an expert to point out
the original, 80 completely has the
/ pattern been reproduced. | seated {
n college with owe n hundred anC
e fifty patent desks, as neat, strong ape
s. comfortable seats as one would wish
e to see. | saw them made in the city
: of Kobe. In the castings was The
g name in plain English letters of
/ town in Ohio, and the patentee'i
name. They cost about one tourti
y what it would have cost to bring
le them out from America.
10 Several daily papers in the city o
= Tokyo have a circulation each of sew
10 eral hundred thousand copies a day
< Along the roads and mountain path
s all over the country n constant.
meets the yubin-kata OInperial mai
. Carriers) two mail p )uches danglins
10 from a pole acros the shoulder, go
II ing at a gate that would shOrtl.
u wind the average horse. And in tn
. remotest villages one sees the peopl
intently engaged reading the news O
~ the day, cable messages from tn
} ends of the earth. Telegraph an,
% telephone wires cover the country
| There is not an important town from
81 which a message in English canno
u be dispatched and delivered accu
70 rately.
When the five ptrSs were frs
O ,ened, and for some time after
wards, a guard Of European soldier
watched every foot of the boundar,
lines of these settlements. For al
q. American or a European TO go acros
the line was to take his life in hi
own hand. There are in the GENE
=" ttry at Yokohama re graves of per