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THE JAPS ARE HAPPY;
THEIR GREAT KIOTO EXPOSITION IS
A DISTINCT SUCCESS.
Colonel Cockerill Writes Interestingly of
the Great National Fair —How They
View Foreigners—The Great American
Trolley In the "Land of the Rising Sun.”
By all odds the most interesting and fas
cinating city in Japan is the ancient capi
tal, Kioto. It is absolutely the heart of
Japan, if not the soul. “What Rome is to
Europe Kioto is to Japan, ” says the guide,
who is a learned man. The foreigner is
not much seen here, and his impress is
rarely felt. The two semiforeign hotels
are under Japanese management, and there
are not ten fin de siecle structures in the
whole city. Kioto’s people are sharply dif
ferent from those of the treaty ports—hand
somer types are seen, and the politeness is
most genuine. The location is simply su
perb, the environments ever attractive.
With its horseshoe dome of verdant moun
tains, its broad reaching river Kamo in its
center, its well paved, clean streets, its
wonderful temples, its ancient castle and
palace and its grimy ages of tradition, Ki
oto is Indeed a spot well worth visiting.
Wayfarers are all delighted with it, and
the universal spontaneous expression of
foreigners is that Kioto should be today
the capital of the empire. Tokyo is vast
In area—a city of dust and distance. Ev
erybody apparently lives five miles from
everybody else. Timo is lost in visiting
places of interest. The great modern gov
ernment buildings give the city’s center a
most incongruous appearance —the squal
id acres of ancient frame structures im
pinging upon the triumphs of architec
tural art “as the toe of the peasant” might
“gall the courtier’s kibe.” On the other
hand, Kioto, sitting compactly upon a level
plain at the feet of her mountains, is ac
cessible, natural, clean, and, from an old
Japanese standpoint, a perfect city.
Always a beehive of industry, Kioto to
day is busier than ever. Her national ex
position is making her 250,000 people un
usually happy. This she calls this year
the “Heiansonto Kinensai, ” the celebra
tion of the eleven hundredth anniver
sary of the setting up of" the capital
by the fiftieth emperor, Kwanmu. The
city, as the French would say, is today
“tout pavoise.” Every house has its “ris
ing sun” flag, uniform in size and setting,
and each has in its front a protuberant
and plethoric lantern. By day one moves
along miles and miles of streets almost
arched with banners, and at night the col
ored lights fill the city with radiance.
Great crowds of ruralists flock to the
wondrous show, wearing the garb fash
ioned a thousand years ago and studying
everything with the curiosity of children.
To all such foreigners are a rarity. For a
party of Europeans to stop in front of a
shop is to draw a crowd of staring adults
and happy faced children. They stare and
smile, but there is never any rudeness.
One feels that he is giving much enjoy
ment, and he forgives all intrusion. Stop
ping yesterday in front of a bamboo shop,
I soon had an audience of as quaint look
ing beings as ever my eyes rested on. The
early Jap, with his inverted bread bowl
hat, his leggings and his straw sandals,
was there, likewise the half naked cooly,
the little child with a still smaller child
strapped t>n his back, grinning girls, half
blind old people and the ever happy, bound
ing, big eyed boys. They gazed and gab
bled and smiled and watched with pro
found interest the deal with the youthful
bamboo worker. Having been subjected
to much of this sort of thing in Japan, I
enjoyed the Inspection greatly. I studied
the faces around me with interest.
The one thing here which attracts uni
versal attention is the trolley railway line
extending from the Central railway station
to the exposition grounds. It is, of course,
an American institution, and it is well
constructed. Every car is packed from
morning till night, and crowds of people
line the track to see the cars go by. The
mysterious working of the electricity seems
to fill the ruralists with awe, and one can
well imagine here the significance of the
slang term “yap,” as applied toonr west
ern town visitors touched with timothy
and filled with inexperience. This little
railway will be immensely profitable. It
shows what the future of the trolley will
be in the densely populated cities of Ja
pan, which are fairly yearning for it. Alas
for the patient, tireless, trotting jinrlkisha
man!
Viewed from our standpoint the exposi
tion is neither great nor gorgeous, but it
is full of interest from first to last. It.,
too, is Japan. The buildings are large,
airy and clean, and the grounds through
out are perfect. All is orderly. With the
exception of a few war panoramas on the
■outskirts there arc no flaring diversions—
no disgusting Midway plalsanco shows.
In fabrics the exposition excels. The cereal
■department shows the wonderful resources
of Japan agriculturally. In machinery
the Imitative faculty of the people is thor
oughly demonstrated I saw nothing new
or suggestive, but from clothes wringer to
printing press and dynamo I saw the un
erring evidence of their skill and determi
nation to achieve.
Tlie value of this exposition ts that it
shows the steady and the marvelous ad
vancement of Japan. It is new Japan in
deed. Those who saw its national fair 15
years ago are astounded by the develop
ment and are busy wondering what the
next 15 or 20 years will show. Another
value is the educational one. The admis
sion price la only 5 sen. Everybody can
go. On the two days that I was there I
saw hundreds of companies of happy faced
uniformed schoolboys going through the
various departments, each with notebook
and pencil in hand, making careful mem
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country newspaper reporter. Their gleaned
knowledge will no doubt be disseminated.
—John A. Cockerill in New York Herald.
STORIES OF THE DAY.
She Would Be Sister, but Drew the Line
at Being Uncle to Him.
Macallister Mcllhenny was a native
of Brooklyn.
And he was glad of , it, for he well
knew that by a mere accident of birth
he might have been a native of Phila
delphia.
Thus do we ever see the great law of
compensation getting in its equalizing
work.
In other respects Macallister Mcllhen
jy was almost a prize package.
With an ambition exceeding his envi
ronment he had fallen in love with a
New York girL
And she was such a girl as New York
might well point at with pride.
Conspicuous By her inconspicuity of
attire, she was a dream of pink and
white simplicity, a harmony of color, a
melody of sweetness, a mathematical
perfection of good form, a symphony of
loveliness, a lesson in style and a glory
in garniture.
No wonder Macallister fell In love
with her.
And she was kind to him, for a New
York girl is as full of tact as a little
dog is of fleas.
As time wore on his uncertainty of
purpose wore off, and at last he decided
in his own Mcllhennian manner to pro
pose to her.
Repairing to her palatial residence by
the nearest elevated, he passed beyond
the portals and awaited her coming as
he had so often done before, but never
with such a thumping of his heart, for
Macallister Mcllhenny had never pro
posed to any girl except a Brooklyn
girl, and he knew, this one now con
fronting him was a gray horse of an en
tirely different color.
As she entered the spacious drawing
room Macallister Mcllhenny’s heart
went down into his boots, but they
were too tight for him anyway, and the
heart soon retreated to its normal place.
For a few brief and transitory mo
ments he tripped along the primrose
path of dalliance and dabbled in the de
lights of conversation concerning the
weather.
Then he shook out his emotional top
sail to the breeze and squared away.
Going down upon his knees, as is the
custom in the place of his nativity on
such occasions, he grabbed her lily white
hand in his, and, with a beseeching look
heavenward, he thus addressed her:
“Dear one, I plight thee my troth. I
pledge thee my loyal love. I give thee
all I have and ask that thou wilt give
me in return only so much as thou wilt
With that I shall be more than satis
fied. ”
Possibly there was in his words a lack
of the tropical fervor the New York girl
had been accustomed to, or it might
have been that her native superiority
merely asserted itself. In any event,
she rose equal to the occasion and above
it, as a New York girl may always be
depended upon to do in trying moments.
“Mr. Mcllhenny,” she said, with
charming candor, “I had hoped when
this moment arrived, as I knew it was
■ bound to arrive, to say to you that I
would be a sister to you. And you have
not entirely dashed that hope to the
ground, for I do say it now, and with
the deepest Sincerity, but, Mr. Mcllhen
ny, the relationship must end there. I
cannot also be an ‘uncle’ to you, and if
you want to put up all those things
named in the invoice you have just
submitted I must ask you to go to the
small shop around the corner with three
gilded spheres over its door. This is not
the place to realize on them. ”
For a period of duration embraced in
nine ticks of the beautiful ormolu clock
on the mantel Macallister Mcllhenny
was in a bewildering bedazzlement;
then he rose slowly to his feet, and,
picking up the remnants referred to by
the young woman, he went forth into
the shadows of the great city and got on
a car going to Harlem.
But he didn’t know it until he asked
a Harlem policeman where Gates av
enue was.—New York Sun.
Billy McHale’s New Hat.
The friends of Billy McHale, who is
popular with the bankers and brokers
along Third street, are having a quiet
laugh at that young man’s expense.
One of McHale’s friends, while passing
a hat store during one of the late siz
zling hot days, noticed him inside engag
ed in negotiating for the purchase of a
straw hat Now, Billy is particularly
tidy in his dress, and like most people
possessing that characteristic is some
what sensitive regarding adverse crit
icism. Knowing thls* the waggish
friend determined to play a practical
joke. Despite the broiling hot sun the
joker visited 20 or 30 of Billy’s friends
in different parts of the city and related
the fact of the purchase of the hat. He
then arranged to have McHale at a cer
tain resort that evening and instructed
all the friends to drop in one at a time
and remark in an offhand way: “That’s
a nice hat you’ve got, Billy, but it’s too
old for you. That shape was intended
for a man 50 years old.” Billy started
l in to explain to the first six or eight
. friends that he was tired of flippant
' straw hats, as they made one look so
giddy. Then he swore at the salesman,
: but finally, when 25 friends had criticis
ed the new headpiece, Billy grew fu
-1 rious, and tearing the unlucky hat from
■ his head he dashed it to the floor and
: with a wild yell jumped upon it.
| “There’s the hat. Take it. Keep it, and
you can all go to blazes I” The next
day Billy appeared in his old hat.—
: Philadelphia Record.
Beware of It Anyway.
A supposed infernal machine at Con
' cord, N. H., proved to be nothing but a
i scentbag. But, then, some of those are
j rather deadly.—Chicago Post.
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