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groom, both from Indiana. He has been here about three
years and she has just come over and they were married on
the 13th. He told me some very interesting stories. About
midnight left car and went up Yalu River to Antung, stopping
at a Japanese hotel for the night.

October 17th.

Bright and early caught the little box-car affair on the
narrow-gauge railway and started on my two days journey
to Mukden. The country is surpassingly beautiful, the
October weather at its loveliest, the mountain sir most exhil-
arating, and I entirely forgot the discomforts of my car in
my enjoyment of the scenery. Stopped for tiffin at an engi-
neers' club, and at night reached the Nisshin Hotel, where Mr.
Hirishima of the Mitsui Co., Tokyo, also stopped. He thinks
something should be done to dissipate the misunderstanding
between Japan and America, and discussed also the "weakening
of the nation" through the drift from country to town.

October 18th.

Left in the fine mountain air just after a beautiful
sunrise, the autumn foliage in the woods and the "garnered
largess of the fields" -- kaoling, corn, millet, etc. -- looking so
beautiful that I found myself wishing the day a week long in
spite of my railway (lack of) accommodations.

Took tiffin with my Japanese friends in picnic fash-
ion: canned goods and some beef steak which they fried on a
little chafing-dish-looking heater on the table. They ate