OR, Modern Japan and the Orient. BY RICHARD B. HUBBARD, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the President of the National Democratic RICHMOND, VA.: B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING CO. THE NEW YORK 203334 ASTOR, LENOX IND COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY RICHARD B. HUBbard. DEDICATORY. This volume of "UNITED STATES IN THE FAR EAST,-OR, MODERN JAPAN AND THE ORIENT," is respectfully dedicated to my life-long friends: THE HONORABLE FREDERICK H. WINSTON, LL. D., of Chicago, THE HONORABLE WILLIAM S. HERNDON, Ex-Member of Congress, of Texas. This simple tribute is neither formal nor perfunctory, but is made from the promptings of an early and constantly increasing friendship, which remains indissoluble in the evening, as it was joyous and unselfish in the morning of our lives. We, as natives of the same great commonwealth, the "Land of Oglethorpe"; comrades and class-mates in the ancient law school consecrated by the learning of Greenleaf and Parker, and Parsons and Loring; associated in after times in the political counsels of the Republic; coming together as we then did from far distant States, in the after years of our maturer manhood, represented our country, respectively, at the Courts of the ancient Kingdom of Persia and of the Empire of Japan. These associations have bound us together with chords of an unselfish friendship, which have grown stronger with the flight of years Your experience and mine in the far East, in the light of recent memor |