The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20

American pillow, copying the original
to the perfection of every dot of an
and cross of a in the name. Chi
nese merchants in Japan so utterly
detest their neighbors' knavery that
they will not handle their goods.
A European hotel in Japan that EN-.
ployed native walters had a man with
a pig tail at the money box. When
asked the reason, the proprietor said:
Because we don't want to lose the
whole property, we keep John in care
of the cash." 1t might surprise some
in America to learn what fine integ-
,rity is credited to the Chinese by
those who know him best.
Japan is the only civilized govern
ment that deals in licensed social
evil'' for revenue. 1T furnishes pros
titutes for it's soldiers, and for most
of the Far East, tolerating the sale
of young girls by parents under the
guise Of bringing remuneration for
the sake of "filial piety." Count Ka-
bayama, the very minister who an
tagonized Christianity, has said that
the young men of Japan are now on
lower plane than were those of the
preceding generation. The president
of the largest private college says:
&c o1 IN
in every part of public works and ed
ucation." Japan is the one nation that
has dared to separate religion wholly
from government; and morals from
law; to make reason sole and suf-
ficient guide and Japan is paying the
penalty.
There is a fearful clinging to the
ancient and yet frantic grasping of
the modern Frequent indications of
this are seen-Eg. 1t is coming to
be the thing at social functions to
have a dress suit and hat. One gen
tleman so mixed his old and new
fashions that he presented himself
colthed in his underwear partially Gov
cred by Prince Albert coat and wear
ing "stove pipe" This was his
complete wardrobe. A man in Tokyo,
trying to duplicate our meat markets,
put up the sign: Cows retailed here"
The old superficial politeness will
lead modern bicyclist along a cOun-
try road to alight and make repeated
bows to one he has met, but dire cru
city is manifest when bit of author
ity is to be executed.
In this poverty stricken land of
barely Is per cent of the
area can be cultivated and even this
portion is not highly fertile.
1t requires subsoil working, careful
and judicious mulching, but
in the severe labor of rice cultivation
in which men wade water most of the
growing season, if the planted rows
are not almost perfectly straight the
police have been known to
add to the task Of the farmer by COM
polling him to pull up his plants and
set them again.
The diet, by an appeal for greater
efficiency, passed law relat-
ng to Japan proper that prohibits the
Use of tobacco by minors, but the au-
.horties go over into Korea and EN-
)loy, at starvation rates. hundreds of
in the manufacture of cigar.
cites which is government monOp-
by. When blind Pastor Xii, of Hell
yO, whose prayer meeting attendance
IN ordinary occasions numbers close
o eight hundred, told one of his mem
)ers that such factory was no place
or her little girl, the police warned
Tim that such talk was treason and if |
lie continued he would be dealt with
Is a traitor. He virtually replied that
lis advice was on a moral plane, and |
t that were treason they could make |
he most Of it. This is courageous,
When just now his own sOn-so pure
hat he is designated by all his friends
IS "the boy with the virgin heart"
las been unjustly condemned to penal
ervitude in the conspiracy case"
In the midst of these stern condi-
ions the recent emperor complacent-
y spent much of his time composing
poetry His passion for verse was
such that he devoted portion of
Every evening to it's writing. During
he last nine years alone he is said to
nave composed no fewer than $4,000
'des in the 81 syllable style. Once a
ear too, in January, a theme was set
n which the royal heads and other