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THE DARK AGES OF JAPAN,
UY PEHOVAL GIBBON.
Japas of late has been prominent as a party to frostin; it is one of the symptoms of a civilisation that has ripened in less than half a century. She has now her duly defined relations with most of the independent States of the world, her obligations audi her rprivileges. all formally set out on parchment, with every thing handsone about them. England was old at the game when Kubla Khan was interesting, if not otherwise turiving it profitable, to examine what Japan was about at that period.
She was then a turbulent power, with a large contempt for foreigners, and an efficiency in war as complete as at the present time. She had practically no relations with forsiga Stater, to a degree that excited evs,
butually aggression. Kuile Khan the
1839, the then ruler of Japan expelled the Portuguess and proscribed Christianity, the province of Hizen alone furnished 30,000 nativə Christians, who rosisted the proscription, and were most terribly punished. Japanese methods were not hampered by
queamishness.
So far as can now be known, the first Englishmau to set foot is Jante morghant was William Adams, of Kent, the gate of a Dutch
on. He reached Yado about 1605-10, and lived there for several years. It is to be regretted on all accounts that this worthy mariner was no writer, for he has not left so much as a noto-book to tell what he saw and 1015 it
him. At-ruok
He had unequalled advantages for making himself acquainted with the coalitions of life in this strange laud, for with the adaptability which makes diplomats and colonisers of Englishmon, ke | established himself in ligh favour ut exnet, and eram secured an appointment of con. siderable honour as instructor in shipbuilding. Finally, he was granted the title of Hatamoto
case, und any ense particularly
-no emall honour, in for a foreigner. If only he had been able to write us well as blu could lay a conree! I can imagine nothing mom picturesque, nothing more compact of the materials of stirring romance, than the position of this stolid, deft-handlod sailor, enrrying the old civilisation of the West to the older wisdom of the East. Did he win favour by cheery good-fellowship, by hearty willingness to the what was exported of him? Hud he a a gcod-bumoured contempt that English contempt for the yellow folk about hin: What did he think of their ships, of their sailors, and their shipwrights? The fact that he left no answer to any of these. questions is a stain on the honoured name of William Adams. England is poor in her lack
equivalent for the worshipful Marco Polo, From the time of William Adams Japan oame at a canter towards what is called civilisation, and furnishes no mora material for this article. Bat the speculative mind may cast bork to the ungus ages when Nipper was the home of airy Ainus, and the unidentifiel ancestors of the Japanese to-day were mere incaders. Or it can work upon the time when inysterious "black savages landed in the south of the country, Who they worn is not kuown, though they may have paddled their canoes all the way from Papus or New Guinea, to be murdered out of band as soon as they landed. All those ura.
cables in the overgrown lanes of history, bu! they have that fascination for the dilettapte stoleat which is incking on the main thorough- fare of the world's story,—Evening Standard.
FROM CHINA TO HADES.
and aforesail, founder of the Yuen dyussty in Chinn, and builder of atatoly pleas0
A VERY COSTLY JOURNEY. having called repeatedly for her submission, and buying suffered a defeat at Tsushimas, sent By William Durban in Pall Mall Garde
In the city of Pungta is a temple which is envoys in 1273 to the Shogun, whose headquar tors were thenat Kamakura Fear nuabassadors, regarded with mspeakable ase, for under this splendidly accoutcal, and followed by a gor shrine is a passage which is supposed to lead fir geous reliune, darried his message, i diplomatic down beneath the face of the sarth. No one, and they brought many loads of gifts to naties would care to investigate this subter- render the proposals of the Khan the more ranean way. Here is the traditional avonID acceptable. One would like to know who from the Flowery Land to Hades. Of course, ultimately got those gifts, but the discreet his there are very various doctrines about this torians of the day ara silent on the poist. But Aversus, hut it is astounding how positive they ns to the envoys, it is quite clearly recorded Oustuli are. My missionary friends have riven me the Regent. Hojo no Tokimane, disposed of different versions of the Chinese beliefs con thom. They wore beheaded, all four of them, cerning the realms below. All egres in certaíu and their ratiomos suffered in the sacas way, particulars, while in different provinces details and Kubla Khau got no other answer to his diverge. From the Fungtu Temple of Hades the descent is through about twenty levels, in Way followed forthwith. The outragelach of which are many runifications leading to monarch of China despatched a forem of a subterranean cities, presided over by gods who hundred thousand Chinese Mongols and once were great, rich and good men. These Koreas to avenge this gross front, and these
wors able to buy the highest Hade dignities Mr. and Mrs. J. W. effected a landling in Kinchin, where fighting with what was paid for in by surviving
at once commenced. There were, in fact, two
relatives, to whom they left largo sums for the or three engagements, on land and on sea, but
purpose. The idea that every position of they were the mere weak prelude to the decisive
honour may be gained by bribery is, in the battle that ensued one tempestuous day, wheu Chiusso creed, applied to other works besides the little warships grappled one another in s
thie. Indead. It is evident that bribery wositor of storm, and the battalions ashore strate flourishes far more in the subterranean spheres through a screen of rain. That was a fight to
than in this sublenary region. make the life of a war correspondent worth living and the historians who reconl it not only did not see it. but show signs of a tendency to embellish meagre fact with copious fun The end of it was on a scale belitting the rest
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Mr. C. O. Tarnell
Mr. II. G. Battiscombo Licat, H. F. Bell, n.s. Mr F. Benues Mr.& Biru. J.E. Bingham
and child
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Mr. M. C.
Mr. A. R. Lowis
Mr. L. S. Levis
tabenre,
MrE. A Honner Mr. & Ms. Lexy Japatio wiped their adversaries" "TH
Mr. RW. Borthwick
Dr. O. Marriott and chill
3r. T. P McAran Mr. and Mr. G. L. Mr. & Mrs. John Meier
Brighton
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& Mrs. J. Douglas
Y. des Franc Mr. E. C. Gillon Capt.
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Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Hills Mr. & Mra. Hollings
worth
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Mr. R. Hunter
Eng. Capt. Hurst, N.
Jir, B. L. Peekur Mr. F. N. Lo Pun Ar. W. Parfitt
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Mrs. A. Penyiather
Perkins
Mr. A. R. Pfordten
Mr. W. A. Powell
Mr. M. Kogum
azribilated them, and only three escaped to, carry the news back to Kubla Khan.
"For a considerable period one authority
adds, "Japan was frøy from Mongol aggression. One regards it as probable.
Accordingly, if a citizen of the Middle Kingdeer is wealthy, his journey to Hades will he expensive indeed. Ho will be able to secure the everything that he wants if he can take with him the cash, He will be able to practiss graft" on z stupendous gate. He will find it way to bribe portare, gatekeniers, demon guarts, torturing finds and gods, if he can command ne a ghost the funds needed. And he
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"How much," continued the interrogaler, would it cost for an Emperor or Express?
Not less than ten million tanks.” "How much would be the passage to the
er world of a Viceroy
"About three million (aeds."
Aaa missionary from Southern Chins all to me, "There are three great-religions-in Ching but this does not mean that some of the people are distinctively Coutneinoists, others Taoists, and others Baddhists. Et means tas, that very typical Chiuiman is a Confucianist in his everyday philosophy if he is at all educat. ed; but is a Tapist n his wedding and at the the great functions of his active life and is a most earnest Buddhist at his death. The three cults are inextrically mixed,
At Li Hung Chung's death the Empress Dowager contributed munitially towards the paraphernalia of the funeral, and also towards his journey to the ether world. She gave a million tarts, a golden shovel as an euriom of the grave-digging, a gem hoe, a baton, a dragon-embroidered gown, a wonderful coffe corer, and a string of the most angust titles, Dr. Macklin, the Americau missionary from whom I have already quoted, who knows, the Chinese intimately, and is a most accomplished scholar in the language, says that the universal notion of the people is that only when money can be used in the next world are the departed happy, and accordingly only the rich can enjoy felicity there. For the poor the outlook is informal indeed. What, then, can be done on behalf of the peor with regard to their fateful joury
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray arrived in Japan, of whom Xavier was the chief, precise terms, without the slightest eu ia bers of
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money is meded there. You Lo Wang, Emperor of the whole lower world, is avaricious ough, but his tw assessors, the com-headed and the horse-headed divinities, soon seated one in rach side of him in many of the pictures the Buddhist temples, are about as covetɔus. Than there are the ten Fots who Farlathes various chief gates. All ask for money. white and black domons win not as marshals all exact fribute, And so do the many demons of of tortare, for they are all open to bribery. And as the rich on earth have generally practised the art of graft" on a very liberal scale indeed. they have thing to complain of whom they become the subjects of it in their ghostly slip There is nothing all the philosophies or religiose of the world so fantastic or grotesque
this doctrine of the main of Hedes, cherishet fonasiously by the Chinese mind. And the gounal testimony of my missionary friends is that the wonderfal idelity shown by the converts, as heroically proved during the Boxov tribulation, is largely due to the joy thay feal at their emancipation from his frightful
tradition.
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GOSHL-KWAISHA
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
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The answer to this question throws vivid light on the curious and universal use of paper money for the dead, and of all sorts of articles MITSU as a manufactured in gold and silver tinsel, winch. immense resources needs
jare used in funeral ceremonies, Great officials leaves this world, for he has much
leave claborate directions and large sums of It took a long time to habituate Japan tone
oneomuter. The nature of his experience wo foreigners, though her own adventurers ornisci will consider presently. For the inement we money for the ometion of their temples after here and there in the Pacific, combining busi may lake special note of the grotesque but really thoir death. In these their tablets are placel, and offerings of incense and paper money are Boss with piracy. The Spaniards in the formidable fonccial side of this extraordinary burned. Dr. Matalin grys, I have can the Philippines had a good dort of trouble with phase of life throughout the whelo Chines fuerul of a Tartar General when the people which thea, particularly in the island of Luzon, Empire All the ruillions of the people, from which was a headquarters of the buccaneering the Imperial family downward, are affected by placed tables in front of their doors, with pots trade in the sixteenth century. Contemporary the considerations involved.
of incense burning. Possibly the idea is that a AI, ABC 5th Edition, Wontorn Union Codes records go to show that the spirit af
An American missionary of my acquaintance, great man has gout, and that ho may say some
All Letters Addressed- Japanese fighting.men was as good ther as who has resided many years in China, had a
thing evil against then to the devil and so. it is new. They shared with the Eng-conversation the day aftig Li Hung Chaug, they do something to secure the good wil of MANAGER, MITSU BISHT Co., with name of
plzer aodor. lish of the same period an inconquerable death with a highly educated Chinaman living the great man."
BRANCH OFFICES :- According to popular, baliof the poor cannot untipathy to the Spanish, and most accounts next door to that famous statesman's palaco. Mr. and Mrs. T. L of their collisions report success for the Japa is well known that Li lang Chang was one of gut into Hades at all unless the charitable NAGASAKI, MOJI, ROBE, KARATSO
AND HANKOW. mese. The Postuguese-then one of the first the wealthiest men in the world - The mis-supply the ueccesary wherewithal in sacrifices. sea-powers got on with them much better.sionary asked this member of the literati of paper money. They are ghosts wandering in Their ships visited Tapau as early as 1542, and how much it would cost for Li to get the gloon, and may be sont back to earth to SHANGHAI: H. J. H. Taier. for close upon a hundred years a regular trade into Hades to as to find farm with the haunt the planes where they lived, and whers by barter was carried on between Portugal and subterranean powers. The answer was
they may play all sorts of Enyon Target. Inpak. In 1849 three Portaguse inisetonuries
people in all parts of China gain their livelihood by making the paper money for the
wher use of the spirits. As the work is easy employs thousands of women and of people ara 06 strong enough for hard manual labour. The gifts of paper money are most elaborately regulated by the psychological doctrins prevail
A human being ing-
is supposed to possess three spirily, und so has a triple immortalis. The three spirits are imprisene in the body in this earthly life, hat they part company entirely at death. One remains by the grave. This is the largest spirit of the three, and is sometimes reckoned to be twelve feet tall! For its us copions quantities of the cheapest sort of the ock money are supplied at the armual family visit to the grave. These coins, sprinkled over the tomb, are merely circular bits of tissue paper. The second spirit secks hospitality in the old home, and every sonia anxious that all due courtesy should be displayed to this manent guest. The accommodation is supplied in the ancestral tablet, the little woodon structure which is regarded with such bounds Teneration. The third spirit is, of course, au exite from this world, for it gous to the lower regions. Now all three spirits exact punctil- lons respect, is it wonderful that the people are incessantly engaged in attending to the wants of their ofanet relatives
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The cost for that great and cory rich man and their success in securing converts to will be fire millions of taels." Now, 5,000,000 Christianity was extraordinary When, in
taols iroul Le about equivaksut to £600,000
INDIGESTION,
DIZZINESS, VOMITING,
DRIVEN AWAY THREE YEARS AGO BY
MOTHER SEIGEL'S
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Mr. Edward Bridler, coachbuilder for Messrs. Hamner & Thie- bent, Naauwpoort, C., wrote un November 30th last-“I had indigestion in a rather severe form. After meals a dlziness quite overcame the and I threw up the food I had eaten. There was constant dull pain in my stomach and back and I could not sleep at nights. Life seemed not worth living. This state of health continued if I went to live in Middleburg; where-1-read of Mother Seigel's Syrup, and bearil seven persons, who had used it, speak in praise of i. 1 deculed to try it and was quite cured That was some three years 220, by using only three bottles of it. and I continue in good health.”
**You mad here the experience of a man who has suffered, told in simple fashion! If you have the first symptoms of stomach trouble you should at once try Mother Seigel's Syrup-it is better to prevent misery than to cure it. Mother Seigel's Syrup does bath.
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The mock mint is abundant in its ranke beliere comunditis. Though the grave-spirit of the departed in centented with tiene coin, the ghost in the ancestral tablet must have
before silver coin
with the inconven put This is made for the most part of coarse of tiasel adorning the yellowish paper, a squsro centre of the dice. But, the spirit is not supposed to distinguish between this rubbish and real silver dollars. For the spirits in Hados gold coin must be expended, and this species of spiritual poekot-money is also a very cheap cheat, se it is made of ernetly the same stuff, varnished over with vived gumboga. It can only be conveyed to the Hadean kank by fire, so that it is burned with the incense.
Many authorities have to be propitiated in Hades, and this is the reason why so much
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Hongkong, 15th February, 1905.
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