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they rebelled against wearing these heavy garments, which were 

 unlike anything they ever wore before. It seems they came from 

 a part of Labrador often visited by vessels, and are used to cloth- 

 ing made of white men's cloth. The cliff dwellings are located 

 near the Maya ruins, and are the work of Mr. H. Jay Smith. They 

 appear externally like an irregular mass of reddish-brown rock, 

 with mule tracks winding up its sides. Entering it, we find our- 

 selves in a great cavern, lighted from above, in which are excel- 

 lent reproductions of the cliff dwellings of the Southwest. Sev- 

 eral of the more famous ruins are here presented, made to scale 

 sufficiently large to be truly impressive. Further in are single 

 rooms, or small clusters of them, with fireplaces, T-windows, and 

 other details reproduced in full size. A great hall cased along 

 the walls is devoted to an excellent collection of objects from the 

 ruins — stone implements, fire-sticks, fabrics, feather clothing, 

 sandals of yucca fiber, dried bodies (mummies), some still in their 

 original wrappings, pottery in many fine and rare pieces, food 

 materials, etc. The idea is a good one and the execution credit- 

 able. 



Comparatively few governments can be said to present in their 

 exhibit a complete picture of their life and thought. One land, 

 however, makes an exhibit most full and interesting — Japan. 

 Early in the history of the Exposition the Land of Sunrise showed 

 its interest. It is represented in nearly every department. Its 

 fine-arts display includes choicest treasures ; in the liberal arts 

 are marvels of work in lacquer, bronze, porcelain, and silk ; in the 

 Horticultural Building is one of the marvelous gardens of Japan, 

 with its elements grouped to form a miniature landscape — a fish- 

 pond, rustic bridge, pretty wreaths of fern roots clothed with 

 green, stone lanterns, and wonderful dwarfed aged evergreen 

 trees ; the agricultural display, showing not only the products 

 themselves, but the tasteful packing and preparation of them for 

 use — tea boxes (beautiful whether plain or elaborately decorated), 

 tea in jars with silk covers and finely tasseled cord ; sake, or rice 

 wine, in elaborately lacquered jars ; fibers, cloths, vegetable wax, 

 barley honey, candies, mattings, silks ; in the Forestry Building 

 are the various woods used for all purposes, and a set of curious 

 native pictures representing scenes in the lumber camps. Besides 

 all these beautifully complete and daintily arranged displays, the 

 Japanese have erected on the wooded island a group of three 

 buildings called collectively the Hooden. They are copies of three 

 famous buildings — a monastery of the Zen Sect, at Kioto, erected 

 in 1397 ; a structure dating from 1052, representing the phoenix ; 

 and the main building, a palace of about the time of Columbus. 

 These are of Japanese material, built by Japanese carpenters, and 

 are of exquisite workmanship. They have been presented by the 



