- “JAPAN'S PRESS. NOVEL: FEATURES OF ORIEN- TAL NEWSPAPERS. Columns of Japanese Papers Ruan | From Right to Left—"Straw Editors "=A Japanese Composing Room. It is only eighteen years since the first newspaper was published in Japan, says | Still, 61, 000, 000 | copies of newspapers were sold in 1584, | Frank Gi. Carpenter, and the increase of 1871 was double that of 1876, At present Japan has 575 daily and weekly newspapers, and its daihes | It publishes | thir.y-five law magazines and 111 scien- | tific periodicals, It has thirty-five medi- | pe h lrty-five | five degrees in the shape of a tent. These | cases were six feet high and from fifty number ninety-seven. cal journals and an equal number of fre- ligious newspapers. Its people read eight different story papers. and 102 papers cater to the agricultural, com- | mercial and industrial classes. It hasits Pune: or Puck, and this is filled with car- | i | words of an article are gathered before toons and witticisms taking off the pub- lic men of the Mikado Empire just an Puck and Judge do those of our Repub- lic. All of these papers are published in Japanese, is done entirely by native labor, are the outgrowth of the new civiliza- tion, and they are the great educators | of the people. A Japanese newspaper looks s range | to foreign eyes. If one could take about 1,000,000 tea box letters and put them | in six-inch rows up and down four or | eight pages about the size of this news. paper he might get some idea of the general appearance of the paper. If he could know that each of these letters represented a whole word and that half ig. vm of them made a sentence, he might add to his conception, His picture however, would be far from a true one. The Japanese papers are the direct op- posites of ours. The columnsrun from right to ieft across the page instead of up and down it, and the lines are per- sendicular instead of horizontal. Yon Pe at the top of a line to read instead of at the side, and when you have read about six inches of these ideographi characters you come to the column line and go back to the top and read down again, The columus are twice as wide A JAPANESE NEWSROY. as ours, and they do not seem to have the flaming headlines that prevail in American newspapers. The periods, in- stead of being dots, are circles as big around as a pea, and there are no such thingg as capitals. The Japanese news. prperyfice uses five thousand different ch rs, and these are a mixture of the Japanese and the Chinese. The first part of a Japanese journal is made up of official notifications and oif cial reports, Then come the contents of the paper, and dire-tly after this the editorials. ‘‘This part,” said one of the leading editors as he pointed to me the hierogiyphics composing it, *‘is the brains of the paper, and the press is a great maker of public opinion and a strong factor in all governmental matters in Japan.” “But where are the editors’ said L “The names of the real editors of a» Japanese newspaper,” was the reply, ‘‘are pever published in the paper. Our nomina: editors are men of straw, whom we emp.oy for this purpose. They get from %:0 to $50 a month as salaries, and they act as proofreaders or local report. ers. We lave, as you know, a rigid cen- sorship of the press, and whenever a paper publishes auything offensive to the Government its editors and publishers are liable to be fined, imprisoned or banished. When such 1s the case the pames of these straw editors are sent In and they undergo the punishment, Of course we pay their salaries while they are in prison, but the whole thing is a farce and a shame.” names i A SCENE IN THE COMPOSING ROOM, The editors’ names do not hence ap- on the editorial page, and they are n the last column and last line of the newspaper. They stand at the end after the advertisements, Following the ed- florials come the telegrams and local pews, These sre mixed together and there are a number of columns of .them, Then comes the foreign news and then correspondence ahd letters of travel It takes about 150 men torun the Niehi Niehi Shimbun once and the They are read by the natives | of the country, and the work upon them | They | { of Sepatyr Thurman, i lished | at Yohohama and their prices form quite | newspapers | copy, or from $18 to $25 a year, and the | | mews in them is almost entirely Japanese | and of other foreign countries rather | in this direction, and one of them wants changes in newspaper work going on over the world, 1 found my remarks published in the newspaper the next morning, sod I wish I could give your readers here a quotation from them, It all looks the sume to me, however, and I would be as liable to clip a section of a love story as of my interview had I not my guide to help me. As we talked the reporters worked busily away in the next room, and I saw the exchange editor in a blue dressing.gown chipping and marking with his red ink and brush the articles intended for the chief editor's eye. On the same floor and adjacent to the editorial room I heard the trump of | many feet, and I was told the noise came from the composing-room and that it was made by the dozen boys who were athering type for the compositors, I cooked in. The type was arranged in long cases standing on the floor propped against each other at an angle of forty to sixty fect long, and they were packed | with type in compartments like those of | an American press-rvom. The printers do not select the type as with us, The they begin to put it together for the | paper. The typeor words, for each type represents a werd, are brought in little | boxes like cigar-boxes, arranged in the | | Riley was a resident of that place. redicted that English will eventually the language ot Japan, I saw a shorthand writer in one of the offices here take down Japanese conver- sation, and I could not see that his pot hooks looked any different from these of the reporters of Congress. It will he impossible, however, for Japan ever to use the type-writer while she sticks to the Chinese characters. In the mesn time a large part of the Empire is learn. Ing English, and Japan has the best educational system of any of the oriental nations. School attendance is compul- sory and there are three million children in the public schools. More than one million of these are females and Japan aay 142 high schools. It has sixty-five normal schools, and there are about 1800 yupils in the Imperial University here. here are 103 technical schools contain. ing 8000 students, and 1855 schools are maintained by private funds, The future of Japan it is impossible to predict, save | that with this system of education it can | not but continue to advance. Poet Riley's Signpainting Days, I have wondered a good many times how many people in Warsaw, Ind., writes 85, HB, McManus to the New York Sun, remember when James Whitcomb It { was in the spring of 1875, when I was | reading medicine there and Riley was in A JAPANESE ILLUSTRATION, order in which it is to go to the paper and the compositor sete it up in his com- | posing-stick, It thus takes much leg work to get up a Japanese ncwspaper, snd these boys have to run from one end of the room to the other many times to get the different ones of the five tho sand characters which go to make up the Japanese vocabulary of letters, ( positors are paid from $10 to 230 h, and it will be interesting here salaries of the men employed newspaper. The editor cceives $150 am and the er men connected with the editorial ym range from that down to $50 a nth Reporters receive from $15 to $20 a month, and foreign correspondents | get about $50 a month, The leading papers of Japan use illus trations only when the occasion demands nese nth nia, it. They publish pictures of noted men become prominent and when nominating conventions were held the American legation was besieged with reporters who wanted photographs of Thurman and Cleveland snd of Harrison and Morton. They found out that Mr. Dunn, one of the Secretaries of the Legation, was a cousin and they wanted as full a report about him as would be required from s gossipy American corre. | spondent The red bandana handker- chief puzzled toem, and their versions of Senator Thurman's snufl-taking were varied as their character. I doubt pot that new characters were invented to express their ideas, for there is no and the handkerchiefs the natives use are of paper. I have been nterviewed by a number of the report 1 my talks have furnished several yphics and a [ a Japauese paper would make interesting American newspaper tion, heaper papers of Japan run largely to wood-cuts and they publish great pictures of the most harrowing sceves. In One you may see a murder portrayed in which an almond eyed girl is Killed by an almond-eyed villain. In another is a love scene and in a third & scene of Japanese sorrow, and death 1s told in pen ana ink that seems to weeh Iu all | of these the Japanese dress and features are carried out and the illustration is | on the whole about as good as that you find in American newspapers. Japanese newspapers are cheap, The best dailies cost thirty cents a month or a cent and a half acopy. The papers do not make much money, still they have great influence. I was told by one of the men connected with the Government | that the newspaper couid make or over. | throw a public man or miaister in Japan, | and public opinion seems to have as much weight here as it has in America, [ find the newspaper men of Japan to be very bright men, and in fact there is no class of subjects which they do not dis cuss, Their editorial articles comprise finance, commerce, Christianity, and the thousand and one new subjects which are now interesting old Japan, The papers are taken by all classes of people from the Mikado to the coolie, the late here ns snuff in Japan, rs, an columns of printed hierog section ¢ | and the number of subscribers increases | 3 every day, Tokio has. a press club which meets once a month and which | frequently entertains foreign visitors, There are three English papers pub in Japan. These are all issued | a contrast with those of the Japanese They cost twenty cents a | than American, There is a movement going or in Japan for the throwing away of Chinese tharacters and the adoption of the same alphabet that we use. There are two societies in Tokio in favor of some reform to adopt the Japanese alphabet proper, which consists of forty-seven letters, There will probably be a chauge to one system or the other, aud I have heard it sensi gp | ments, painting window signs. town filling an engagement, or engage- He was handy at this sort of thing, and did 1] | some nice jobs, Later, with a very deft and cunning { hand, be made drawings for his poems, which were as full of artistic strength and quaintness as his ‘Old Swimmin’ Hole" is full of poetry. About this time the /ndianian printed some little things of mine—picturesquely little, some of them, from a literary standpoint. But out of charity or to encourage me, or to get rid of me, the rhymes were printed, and one day Riley and I were talking about them while he was painting a sign of the boss jewelry store, near Mr, Wynant's drug store, In a mild, friendly way, he was a trifie envious of my success in getting into print, and 1 posed beside him while he painted the “AY” in jewelry, AS & person whose literary standing was assured When he had made a marine blue period, he took off his apron and we went over to the Wright House to- y see a little bit of rl which Oi rayme said he had He wanted my and eriticism on it, gether t he there, and as | had more opinion and criticism to give than anything else, I was willing t even on a sign painter, Hiley read the poem, It was called “The Argonaut,’ and, inexperien ed as [ was, I knew that only a poet and a genius could have opinion 0 Lestow » is | written it. I was unstinted in my praise, and | knew the Hoosier poet was born and was only waiting the Fecognition of the public, which in a few years it so magnificently and munificentiy gave. After this episode an abiding and deep-rooted friendship was the result, I have met him since then, and have read about all that he has ever written, but nothing ever pleases me so much — no ‘“‘reading” I have ever heard of his— pleased me as well as that little poem “The Argonaut,” read one raw spring day up in a cold room by a curtainless window in the Wright House block. AAS A Drama in Two Acts, Cast A Oueer Occupation, adrift, An odd industry practised in thisecity | is that of making paste in large quanti ties, and they live in the very heart of the most bustling business portion of the | town, The old man was a bookbinder, and it was while in this business that he | learned the secret of preparing the ex cellent article that uty po him a liveli- hood in his declining years, Up three flights of stairs, with quxint little carved banisters hardly more than | an inch in diameter, are the rooms in which they live and ply their trade Everything is as clean as a pin, and | fave made your purchase and | when you seen it transferred from the huge cauldron which hangs over the fire, and that might do duty asa *‘properiy” in | ‘“Macbeth” the | compound is so clean and sweet that it | the witches’ scene in looks itively inviting. “Who buys it" Why, the paper hangers are the larg. est buyers, and they recognise its excel. lence to such an extent that the old couple live very comfortably on the ts of their odd business, — Philade . phia Press, — Logging by Stew Forest Commissioner Theodore B, Bas. selin has introduced | ng by steam into the woods of Lew Uousty, New York, He has built asteam sleigh which is capable of carrying 15,000 feet of logs, equivalent to the loads of fifteen teams of horses. The contrivance re- sembles a box car, The moti iz iti It is done by aa old eoupie each | of whom is nearly eighty years of age, | NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN Cluster rings remain fashionable, London is to have police matrons, Mrs, Cleveland's pictures still sell well, In this country the pulpit. Turquoise is a favorite stone for chil- dren's jewelry. Black, open patterned gimp remains a fashionable dress trimming, For summer wear are silk cheviots, also known as washing silks. There are 2000 women in charge of postoilices in the United States, The Queen of Madagascar has given $100 to the cause of Prohibition, Mary Anderson, the actress, has a | weakness for being photographed. ‘The key to the character of the Japan- ese woman lies in the word obedience, Lady Randolph Churchill is much affecting pale greens in her costumes, A twenty years' courtship at Girara, | Mich., has just terminated in marriage, | A young colored girl from Atlanta, Ga., has gone to the Congo as mission ary. Miss Emma Cous has been elected | Alderman of the County Council of Lon- { don, | Girls are wearing the hair combed back and falling loosely in curls at the back. The turban of the directoire period | was copied from the pictures of Beatrice Cinel. The empire and directoire gowns have taken a lease of Dame Fashion for the summer. Miss Marion Talbot hes to the Board of University. | Among 2om at the top, fashinn WCE I8s0I00, OK rs] ladies preach in elected joston been Trustees of ing styles are slecves full somewhat after the mutton- Serges, cashmeres and ean | the woolen stufls which spring dresses. | Jesides cotton fabrics, washing nes and » summer dresses, extensively IXS Are ITY within t De me widows unce the first 1 rh me right, elie Hives to | you will hit it just Twenty dollars a dozen is not an un usual price the buttons worn on the coats a la mode directoire for The regulation leagth for ¢ is four yards for a tall and a half yards for a short The newest grenadine veils are black or dark brows, and have fancy stripes of {oman atin along one edge. Paris mill rending out bonnets ma in small pulls round ners are already e entirely of si and ro Ber orgs ree N bis (3 SiRF FEE ing. dresses | bisck, I ark-colored woo the open-worked gal Mrs or trimmed with you cash street are eres Elijah Halford, wife of President Privy retary, calis her We ‘iio ors at Harrison's ale Ne Florida hot are clerks, merchar and even horse railroad presidents i ts DHRYSICIans, rectoire and empire evening silk-warp marnoiia tin Ww made fn cream and newest qued chair id, upon w hich are i nited States of dull g traced a map of the Ihe Empress of Brazil is embroidering in silk and gold a 1 which will sent to the sacred sanctuary at Lourdes Fig be A new freak of the fair is to carry a Japanese hand warmer of dark silver with a carbon pencil inside in place of a { maf, Marguerite gauntiets, the deep close | almost elbow culls, may be either of vel. vet or of stull to match the dress trim. | mings. Shirred corsages in thin summer stuffs will be much worn this sesson. The trimming will take a great variety of | shapes, A big new silver bottle for toilet water | has chasing of roses and violets over the | outside, and a silver rose leaf for | stopper. Mrs. Harrison takes great interest in sewing women, and in jodisnapolis was very active in obtaiming employment for them, Bonnet pins are larger in sire than formeriy, and are, many of them, in floral patterns, though the fly pias con- tinue popular, With white muslin any color may be worn; but yellow, old rose, tin and grees will be most used for sashes and knots thissummer, Women are being granted permission | to practice medicine in Hussia with the women and children, The newest black veil is of plain net, uemmed at the bottom, witha faint pat tern of gold thread wrought on the hem and other lines of gilt above it rize was taken bya \ienese, the second »y an Italian, the third by a Parisienne, snd the fourth by a ‘lady of Lyons.” The very latest novelty in weddin attire was at the marriage of Lady Nevi and Mr. Brassey in England, where the bridesmaids wore cricketing costumes, Black, brown, or green wool widel crossed barred with green or blue or is very much used for house and school gowns for girls from twelve to twenty, New brocaded ribbons are shown in a variety of patterns. Une design has a row of green laurel loaves running along one side of a very rich old.rose ribbon, With empire gowns the ! of the sleeve puff Repinde on A 5 of the sask, as it in desirable that the end just at A household at restriction that they shall attend only | At the Turin beauty show the first | I ——— a. the regions now possessing an Arcuic cli mate were such as now thrive ins warm, temperate zone like that of Georgia and California. Then came the glacial epoch, when snow and ice for most or all of tion us curiosity, since through bis instru. | $he year extended to the Ohio River, At mentality hundreds of thousands, in bot) | the approach of cold the trees slow! hatalspherss, b bave been restored to health | retreated southward as generation fol. . , lowed generation. As the climate again Hon, H. 1. Warner, then, is a leading and | Radius grew warmer the trees and honored resident of Hochester, not only, but : 8 prominent and influentinl citizen of the | Other plants slowly migrated northward, In a similar manner during the glacial hy Btates, On several occasions chosen | by bis party as a National delegate to nomi- | ¢ soch the plants ¢ Jurope were drive uate u President of the Republic, he has been | Po hs ol x i, Dr. Gra in i » = y . n » American Journal of Biience, is all i | ® member of the Hepublican State Commit. | | tos and of its Executive Commities, He fsa | the | member of the American Institution for the | Within the limits generally assigned to Advanounaus of Belency; President of the | severe glacial action. Most of the plants i DC Es! SAAMNDer of Commerce, a suotess- | wi | ful and upright business man. He has given gt Ha Wau lmnpsmle di on rk pas | sway fortunes in charities, The celebrated | treat Lae th oe er ou yee i © CO FE < > pe . ~ Lublie Benefactor, “Who is H, H, Warner, of Rochester, N, Y., whose Safe Remedies, especially War ner's Bale Cure, have attained such success and celebrity at homs and abroad © The question is inspired ss much by affec and Monavia, N.Y. May §, 0 want: Ihave! ig Kemp's I find it very with which 1 Pen Us) effectual in relieving a | and costly Warner Observatory of Rochestar | was conceived, endowed, and is maintained | ‘Bo our lines have been cast in pleasant | by him, His munificent prizes for the dis- | places, and the oodly heritage of forest ces 8 268, "ee Sor and delight of the sciontific void trees is oue of the consequences. New The yellow fever scourge in the South, the | | Ohio floods, the fire disasters of Fochester | i A Misfit Crown, sympathies, and in each instance his check | he we og ¥ Germs for from $500 to 85000 swelled the several re- « a Fb Emperor of Germany has lief funds. Where other wealthy men give rdered his court- jeweler to change the housands, | proved edition after the exact pattern of a yo charities are as ready and magnificent | the coronation outfit of Charlemagne. A A ls enterprises and public spirit are bound- | Prench paper suggests that the crown ot The world hiss need of more such men, y An incident lod him into the manufacture | Obie ought to be good enough for a of medicine, Beized some twelve years ago | Youngster who, thus far, has done noth- ; ing more remarkable than soubbing the Cidney disease, he was miraculously restored . lo health by what is now known as Warner's : , Sale Cire. Ab ones be Tesaivel to & ot bigots in driving his mother into exile. The Berlin wits cannot risk such out- the consequence is thet today be has im- spoken comments, but express their menses laboratories and warehouses in the , United States, Cana England, ( y : i$ 3 x ada, Fagiand, Germany, boy trying on an antiquated head-dress bis Bafe Hemedies are enormous, and thelr | 8D0UL forty sizes too small for his skull. power over disease siinjpiy marvelous we Detroit Free Press. ng with the character of its produ or. An From Republican Headqunrters, onest and reliable man himself, Mr. Warner | M87 ¥. Woop makes honest and reliable medicines a fact : Ba Sm and sflicscy and popularity Our s than any POOL | sovery of comets hes boen at once the won. York World, | and other cities awakensd his profoundest | | wns and hundreds, be gives hundreds and | *hape of his crown and model the im- on, rita 4 h | William the Victorious and Frederic the mith what the ablest physicians termed fatal German Liberals and assisting his court known the raerits of wo potent a remedy, and opinions by a caricature of a snub-nosed Austria, Australia HBurmab. Sales of | The merit of a production is in exact koep- - I - i abundantly atlested by thelr phenomena cough ag i have been a ate . 655% | droguists tell me the The Trees of America and Enrope, |. That this country once consisted large. ly of unbroken forests is well known pustican. all persons, and although | and 3. sections have been greatly denuded none | of the original spe have become ex- tinet, Few persons, however, are fully aware of the remarkable nu the mpared with other; world In a report on Mi State forestry Dr. W, J. Bea f 1 mmission, makes some i in regard f the trees nd Eu- ‘4 3 ov . Ap " r § TET e for VIET OOURH rer iy Lie 3 it. X tor Ree . 500 urs Traly, J. J. Pease, Bd At all men 10 druggists’. Large bot) intelhgent Delicate Children, Nursing o8 Mothers, Overworked Men and for all di Where WU Lissuss are wasting away fre er of arts of SPECIES AR CD ' the to A Radical Core for Epileptic Fite. i To the Editor resLeTs { hat] havea remedy for the above diseares which 1 io cure the in its vir. ple bottle and lease inform your Pos Lye { the trees compared { ¥ 1 * . ar surpnsng. Ya Sabie realise 0 az y sufl Lelt - . : f 1 { toe his P. O, and Express Main 1333 ONG specie OL mM. | "H.G. ROOT. M. 4 ood, one maple, not over twenty feet fen to twenly mp iance o Lis country as ¢ cherry, from rior 10 our and a ! oak whic sometimes grows to | About te are natives of her soil. anlf territory, has seventy species, sreat Britain bas no : d, no white or red cedar, no hickors | Michigan has sis maple of ree size, a basswood, a white wood, | joney locust, Kentucky collec tree, two | herry, a pepperidge, species of ash, L Bassa’ras, three cims =» iackberry, a mulberry, ittonwood, black walnut, butternut, twelve white pine, 419 Huron Bt, Eheboygan, Wis, Nov, 12, Ih species of trees Michigan, with ; i great size I have used Bt Jacobs Ol four chicken thelera with gresi sao- cess. Every fowl afiecied with the disease waa cured by it and recommend it as & sure cure. It hos saved H. A. KUENKE Breeder of Fine Fowis DIAMOND VERA-CURA | A POSITIVE CURE FOR INDIGENTION AXD ALL Stozuwch Troubles Arising Thorel rom, the nye Kl i: about me many Sola, hickory, dak, & chests ea four tree! r willow, of tree size, six poplar, th ne, four sp one larch, one arbor and a red cedar, n the Atlantic region of Not CA there are JUS spo {2a 1935 Tuce, ' jon species niv eghty-fiv ternd : ally the qu Your Draggist or General Dealer will pet Vera. {| Curl for gon tf nel alretdy ta slosh, or § will be pont by mail om receipt of BB oF t boxer § 00) in ela pw Sample pent on vereipl © arnl stamp has caused this great di | The Charles A, Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md, tists explain it to their « satisfaction | ; 13 2 by attributing it {0 giscial action, Away | back in the tertiary 1 the trees of | XYXUD 'PEERLESR DYER Ammeimer. Ls —eEr rem Bmiih “1 know “tis a sin to, Brown‘ Fis. fis, ny and settle down uto friend, don't good friend, ve way to your ailments so easily, and There's no excuse for such well-fnown Copyright, 188, by WORLD'S DISPERARY MEDICAL ASNOCLATION, Proprietors.
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