The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-07

bank. Deposits from five cents up may be made, and interest of nearly fiveper cent will be paid. To encourage saving, cards are given upon which stamps of low denomination may be pasted till an amount sufficient to go into the pass book has been reached.
 The mails are carried on train, steam
 CT and wagon, as in other countries but in addition to this, much of it is yet rushed along the roads in carts drawn by men or hurried over the mountain
 paths on the shoulders of couriers. It is not a perfect service-it could not be but 1t is a thoroughly good one, and it is remarkable the number of things it attempts to do and the number of things it really does well.
 The policeman Is ubiquitous. His functions are many. In addition to re- straining offenders, he keeps track of the registration of inhabitants of all houses, and assists in the enforcement of sanitary measures. Let ome trouble arise and you have but to apply to a policeman to have careful investiga- tion made at once. It is true that he CfllOICcS lldlly OlQ1IldllCcS that cil C quite annoying to foreigners; for in- stance, one does not like to have po- licenlan around to investigate whether you have done your house-cleaning thoroughly and properly; but, consider | ing the character and extent of the pop ulation, the rnultifarious rules, though irksonle, are more or less necessary. Abundant provision is made at the
 courthouse and at many branch offices here and there in the country for the recording of mortgages and similar pa
 pers. There is large proportion of
 rascals to the whole population in Ja- pan, and these recording offices are well partonized.
 need not say that all this is a great step over what prevailed in Japan sev- eral decades ago. But it is also abreast with much of the best in the Occident to-day The Japanese police force is made up of an honest lot of men. Even in remote districts you can speedily ob- tain their services, and the ready way they serve you is in marked contrast to ones experience if he meets with theft
 or something similar in small town in the Limited States. It is true that
 many foreigners are not ready to speak so kindly in regard to the Japanese po- 1 lice service, but, granted that man can understand the language of the country, or has good interpreter and, l in addition. has himself a genial, kindly disposition, he will find the Japanese police most helpful.
 1 Japan is a much governed country.
 SShe must be. There are many people to be governed, and they live rather closely together. The original unit is the township. This is elf-governing. It has it's office in which matters per- taining to education, collection of taxes, 1 transfer of property sanitation and a host of other things are attended to. l Some well-to-do retired gentleman gen. l orally discharges the office of president,
 and other men, younger and older, gen. erally of little property, discharge the other offices for a comparatively small 1 remuneration.
 A dozen, or two or three, or these l townships make up county, but there l is what may be called a district govern
 ment, comprising a few townsips, and l standing between the town government [ and the county government to carry out the purposes of the latter.
 l The head of this district government l is an outsider appointed by the county government, which is in turn, organ ized and conducted by representatives of the central government of Japan.
 The district government collects taxes
 for the county, supervises education
 employs teachers of agriculture, sericul-
 ture, etc., at certain seasons of the year,
 and strives in every waw to advance
 the people in the arts. Much of this in
 struction is given in the manner of far
 mers institutes.
 ! The county government generally has