Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-13

Japnn's Flag
Soon TO Wave
On the Pacific.

Japan's Flag Japan win soon con-
Soon TO Wave troll tho trade Of tina
ON the Pacific. Pacific. Her incr-
chant fleet IS growing
with great rapidly, not only In Amer.
lean traffic but In the commerce of
Korea, Formosa, China, India, and tho
Far East generally. Certain Arleri-
can optlmists declare that the Pacific
will always be dominated by the Unit
cd States. But II IL only the optimists
who have this faith Shipping mon,
American men actually engaged In
commerce with the Far East, know
thnt japan Is fast assuming command
In that quarter of the globe: IL any
one doubts tho accuracy OF this prop
osition. lot mo ask him to consider
the organization of the Nippon kiser
Eaisha Japan Steamship company,
which Is energentlcally carrying tho
Sunrise flag halfway round the world.
A group OF the most noted bankers
and steamship men of Nippon met on
the second day OF February OF this
year in the Bankers Assembly Hall
IN Toxic. This was the first PUBLIC
meeting of the promoters of new
steamship company. At this meeting
it was chrlstened the Nippon kisen
Kaisha. A large name Yet the com-
pany has the consolation OF Knowing
that amid the cheerful summer growth
OF mushroom CTlttlpIlScS stINt tilN NN'
IL Is bigger than It's name. The com-
pany commands the capital---no wat
cred stock, by your leave-an instantly
available capital OF thirty million yen
us, 900. 900 dollars gold. Their finan-
cial program sets aside ten million yen
for the purchase Of about ore hundred
vessels of 100000 tons, which. are. Of
this present moment, actually engaged
in shipping business under tho rer-
chant flag of Nippon. The remainder
Of the sum, the twenty million yen.
is to be spent on the construction or
new ships They will have the speed,
the improvements. and other qualtrca-
tions that would please the subsidy
regulations of the country. This sum
is also meant to cover the expenditure
OF establishing new lines of traf1c.---
Adachi Kinnosuke, In Harpcr's Week.
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Looking In In all her varied
The Mirror moods, whether torn
or tho Deep. by hurricane or temp
est into an angry,
raging turmoil Of surging waters. or
whether glitteriug like diamonds or
sapphires In the rays OF the noonday
SUM- or whether calmly rejecting the
scintillating glorles of the midnight SKY,
majestic, even solemn and stately. As
the somber shades of night gradually
fade away before the advancing dawn,
and aurora.'s beams family fllumire the
eastern horizon. the murky blackness or
the rolling pillows gives place rapidly
to a glinimering opalescence, until,
when the first glintiug rays of the orb
of day strike the wind-swept foam
crests of the waves, a roseate, flaming
hue transmutes those surging breakers
into flashing cascades of fire, And
then, as the great luninary rises high
er and higher, those ruddy morning
tints melt away and, as the winds abatc,
and the heavlng swell subsidies, the
watery expanse assumes its azure or It's
emerald hue; sometimes vieing with
the sapphire of the dorned canopy of the
skies; sometimes rivailing the vernat
glories Of the woods: or sometimes
flashing In the tints Of the auuamarine
Or the beryl But It is when the sur
has sunk In the west and the heavens
are on fire. and glowing In a lustrous
splendor of mauye, and gold, and vivid
carmen that the great deep Is in her most
Respondent loneliness. For now she is
mirroring from her ripping wavelets
all the glories of the skies each tiny
wave gen,rned with sparkling Ares and
shimmering In Respondent rainbow
hues, which, Yith the deeper mauves
and violets OF the advancing twilight
soon fade and pale into a neutral. hue-
less gray. And then as night once more
asserts her sway, and the rays Of her
beauteous full-orbed queen glitter upon
the surface OF the deep. forming an
Angels Pathway from the shore right
out to the horizon. and the heavens are
gemmed In all their midnight glories.