Increase Of Japanese Commerce

An Indian jownal says that the figures of her exporta modestly offered by Japan in 1883, aud again ten yeara later, speak Tvith a volee that drowna all sneers at the output of a peopls who wear grass clothing and use paper handkerchtefs. Her total exports and Importa r 1SS5 came to $77,300,000. In 1896 they reached $296,000,000. Tht lncrease, $218,700,900, is about threefold in the ten years. The contrast offered by sonio of the figures for exports alone is a'.most dramatic. TexUles rose f rom 511,900 to $2;,177,'626; matting from V9S5 to $3,461,39. In ten years the exgori of cotton urnbrellaa was multipliei' h 410, and th total Tlne #f the "SfttfronuT a-i-A Kaga vases and otlfir chean curios vtiift up from over tfro mülion to over' eloven mlllion dolíais. The secret of Japaa'a enormous strides in textiles has beea hat the greac progortion of the work Is domestic. Iast year's returns show over 1,000,000 weavers among the people, a large proportion of whom ars women, who work at home at what ia heir traditionally natural occupatlon. The employcient of chlldren has iltherto been winked at, and the littl ones are taken from soUool fo earn two ea a day at rug and mt making. ■-' -.