I MOTHER OF THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN CLUNG TO THE OLD WAYS. She lilade Concession to :vLodernism by Un- ing a L..mla.u With Livericd Servaum— Her Sou Progressive and Ready fui Reforms. The 'Empress Dowager of Japan, whose death is announced, was one oi the few surviving members of the old [regime in the imperial circle. She had her separate palaces and courts at Kioto and Tokio, where the ancient systems prevailed. She seldom ap- peared at :oflicial functions, and had made but one concession to modern ways. in livery on the box. She had charge of the imperial nurseries, wherethe- children of the Emperor by his various Wives are kept until they reach the age of 5 or 6. There were rooms set apart for her at the palace of her son, but she seldom occupied them, for she visited but little, and could not reconcile herself to the change that had come over land and people. So she passes outof history, at least for the Western world, which will proba- bly never know more of her than has been recorded bythe American travel or, Mrs. Starr. The great change was no change oi her making. She had brought up her son, Mutsu Hito, in the most ortho- dox and respectable way. At the age of 16, when he came to the throne, he could read the Chinese classics, write poetry. arrangeflowers according to tile labor-ate system of the Japanese, and give a tea party with appropriate ceremony. That was about all; and the fond .mother, no doubt, thought it _ was quite enough. The 120 predeces- sorsof Mutsu Hito, in the same line. who had ruled Japan for 2,500 years, had never known more, and inost oi them had known less. The lad was worshipped as a god, like his fathers before him; and that sort of‘ rever- ence cove-rs a multitude of sins in the object of adoration. No man might look upon his face and live. He was ,never allowed to wear the same gar ments twice, nor to out off the same dish a second time, both clothing and crockery being destroyed at once. “i Sotb'ings went on until he ventured to look at the sun without a veil. liked itiland *thenceforward turned his im- pe1ial countenance on his whole peo- ple. The new man had come to town , Changes followed with startiing ra- pidity. Forty-nine superior persons, with their wives and sisters, were sent round the world to report on constitutions, manners, customs, and education for men and women. The poor Dowager Empress must have stood by, like the mother of Aladdin, with her hands in the air; but her as. tonishing boy was not to be gainsaid She lived long enough to be about the only “dowdy” in the court circle and to see haughty China on its knees before her son’s throne—London Daily News. TOPICS OF INTEREST. Golden shoes are worn by a Shet- land pony belonging. to the Shah oi Persia. This expensively-sh-od animal is only 125/2 inches high. . Japanese officers who fought in the late war against China have petitioned their Government to erect a monument to the memory of the horses that fell in battle. A Kansas City doctor who was look- ' .ing for a crazy patient whom he was to lock up in an insane asylum, found 3 the. lunatic serving on a jury in the ; Circuit Court. A canary owned by a Baltimore mu. - sician is ’said to sing, at a signal from - him given on the violin, the “Popaga- no" from Mozart‘s “Magic Flute.” He has had the bird two years. A giant sewing machine has been fin- ished at Leeds, England. The ma- chine, which is to be used for attach- ing cotton belting, weighs five and a qiiarter tons. It is believed that some of the camels imported in 1853 to run wild in Ari- zona are still in existence. Indians oc< casionally report having seen some. and lately the International Boundary Commission saw two with their spy- glasses on the Mexican border. Old age has made an end of a blood- hc‘nmd known as Old King, at B‘utte. Mont. The dog was owned by “Uncle Dick” Suttan, with whose “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company the animal had traveled all over the world. It was so thoroughly trained that if any one began to recite the lines of the play it would go through its part. Coasting on the Bible. A friend of the Listener has seen a . funny sight down in Maine. At a place a there. which needn’t be named, there lives a small boy named Jonathan Longfellow. who is a third or fourth cousin of the poet; and he is a great boy. too. One day this friend of the Listener was driving past Jonathan’s house ;and saw the boy engaged at a little distance in sliding downhill on the upper-2 crust on something that wm .ct s1. What could it be? Evi “fly the z.._-rui‘iny of the passer- by was observed by the boy, for he stopped his coasting and called out amiably: “I’m, sliding dewnhill on the Bible!” And it was the fact, too. He had got the smooth, leather-bound fam- ily Bible, containing' the generations of all the Longfellows, and was coast- ing on it with magnificent success.— Bosto-n Transcript. “Why do you insist upon taking your. wife out for such long walks in this rough weather?” . “The doctor has told her that she. must be very careful not to talk when - she is out in the cold air.” “Say. who’s your doctor?"—-Clcve ' land Leader. A. DOWAGER EMPRESS She used a landau, with men , gtl‘ e child/er nun dunk It. WIN.“ ux JICV at“ well ms the adult. OHIO’S new SCHOOL SYSTEM. Grad cd School Pupils Collected in Coaches for Three Mile: in Every Direction. ~ Ohio’s Western Reserve, that home of advanced ideas and institutions. is now advancing an idea that bids fail. to supplant the old time district school ~ It is called the 'Kingsville system, hav. ing originated in that place in the northern part of this country, although it is now spreading with prairie-fire celerity. It gives to every pupil in a township a graded school education, securing it by means of coaches stop- ping night and morning to collect and return pupils for and from a graded school in the centre of the township I The new plan is proving popular and it is relegatlng the little study district sc heel-house to the position in Ameri. can history of the log cabin and the ex tinct buffalo. These calls of coaches are operating to both augment attendance and pro- mote punctuality, the pupil being marked tardy if not ready when called for. The education in the teacher ser' vice secured by this process of central- ization is found to go far towards off. setting the cost of the coach service. Prof. C. A. Corbin, principal oi Kingsville high school, suggested the system five years ago, his successor, Prof. F. E. Morrison, pushed'it, and Assemblyman W'illiam S. Harris, oi this district, procured the needed legis lation which is now resulting in its general adoption. Legislative reforms in school government have accompan- ied this reform. WIT AND HU’Mb‘R." “Did you strike this man?" asked the court sternly. “I did, but he made the first as- sault.” “How was that?” “Struck me for $10.” A High Recommendation—Capital- ist: “How rapidly can your new ma- chine-gun be discharged?" inventor: “It can be fired, sir, with the rapidity with which the average stage letter is written.”—-—Pearson‘s Weekly. Moses Junior—“Fader, a shentleman in de shop vants to know if.dat all- vool non-shrinkable shirt will shrink.” Moses Senior—“Does it fid him?" Mose Junior—“No; id is too big.” Moses SenioL—j‘_‘l'31h,‘id viii shrink.” TRY !-.' KAI .‘t -0.' ‘ RY GRAIN“ U A t‘ " H' c --“-nv to Show run " '- ”ng ‘ i:.\i\-O, the new 9' .... 6 '1k in»? lo}, 1”. P’iic‘.‘ of c, 3,...) it - . All who try 1'. like it. GRAIN—O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or JuVll, but it is made from pure grams, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. 7} the. prove of coffee. 150 and 250 on package. Sold by all gro- Uci‘u. e mi: " \_ \\\ The Honorable J. F. Greer, one of the best known and most. highly respected county Judges of the State of Florida, w: “ "s of his horrible sufferings from in. grunt-cry Rheumatism: c. l-‘lCE or J. F. GREER, COUNTY JUDGE, (irccn Cove Springs, Clay C0,, Fla. G (-12“; 1-1.51 EN: Twenty-three years ago I wzz': " ' tacked with inflammatory rheumatism. '. w . amended by the most. eminent physician :1 ' “.1: land. I visited the teat Saratoga Springs, N. Y., the noted Hot ‘prings of Ar— kansas, and many other watering places, always consulting with the local ph sxcians for uir-xtions, and finally came to lorida, ten years ago. 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' Democrats Win In Illinois Cities and ‘ Also In Missouri Outside of St. Louis, Where the Republicans Made I Almost a. Clean Sweep. Chicago, April 8.——Complete returns . of the vote cast for mayor are as fol- lows: ‘ ' Carter H. Harrison (Dem.).............. 144,828 John M. Harlan (Ind. Rep.) ............ . 67,072 Nathaniel C. Sears (Regular Rep.) ..... 57.566 W. Hesing (Business Administration).. 15,116 John Glembeck (Social-Labor).......... hfifi H. L. Parmele (Pi-o.) ........... ......... 852 ' J. I. Pierce, Jr. (Illd.).. -ouu.-acc.clcoc 686 F. Howard Collier t1nd.)..............., 88 Total....... ....... f ......... ......... 257.434 Harrison's plurality ..................... Harrison’s majority over all ............ Complete returns from all the wards show the election of 23 Democratic ai- dermen, '6 Republicans and 5 independ- ents. As a result the Democrats will have a majority of 8 over all in the next council. ‘ At: the last mayoralty election the vote for Swift (lien) was 143,407, against 102,294 for \v enter (Dem.). In the presidential elecfion McKinley had 200,747, against 144,733 for Bryan. The Democratic city ticket was led by Harrison, some of the other Demo- cratic candidates running more than 12,000 votes behind him. According to The Record, Ll-..‘ vote for the Democrat- ic ticket was increased through Re- publican strength thrown by Republic- an politicians, such as Congressman Lorimer, State Treasurer Hertz and Sheriff Pease, who in the final round up feared the election ,of Harlan, the in- dependent mayorulty candidate. The Democrats were also aided effectively by former machine politicians who quietly separated from the regular or- ganization after the recent bitter con- test for the United States senatorship. The strongholds of Martin B. Madden, who was defeated in the Republican caucus for senator, Went for Harrison for mayor, although heretofore heavily Republican. At Quincy the entire Democratic tick- et'waaeleoted by majorities ranging from 100 to 700. Steinbnci-i (Dem), for may— w-as rte-elected. Loren E. Wheeler (Rep) waselocted mayor of Springfield by 280 majority. The entire city Repub- lican ticket. with one exception, is elect- ed.- The Democrats elected five out of seven aldermen. . At Rockland the Democrat-3 elected Mediil mayor and most of the city offi- cers. At Mollne Gustaf Swenson, on the. People’s ticket, the present incumbent. defeated th-ecittzens’ candidate for may- or by over 500 majority. The Results In Kansas. . , Topeka, April 8.—-The women of Kansas were an important factor in the municipal elections, and a. large percentage of the vote everywhere was polled by women. Topeka went Repub- lican by about 1,500. In Wichita and Atchison the Republican tickets were elected by small majorities, and in Kansas City, Kan, Robert S. Mar- chan, Republican, is elected mayor by probably 500 majority, and the Repub- licans elect a majority of their candi- dates. Leavenworth elected a Demo- cratic mayor owing to a Republican split. The town of Galena. went Democrat- ic, but in a. majority bf the small cities fusionists combined against the Re- publicans under the head of “Citizens' ticket,” and as such were successful at Coffeyville, Emporia, Marysville, Great Bend, Newton and Sterling. Republic- anvictories are reported from Hutchin- son, Kingman, Wellington, Eldorado, Burlington, Eureka, Columbus, Belle- ville and Hiawatha. Mixed Results In \Visconsin. Milwaukee, April 8.——Wisconsin voters re-elected, without opposition, Roujet, D. Marshall an associate justice of the supreme court. Justice Goodland of the Tenth circuit and Justice Bardeen of the Sixteenth circuit were re—elected without opposition. In the Seventeenth circuit. however, Justice Bailey had an aggro-give opponent in James O’Neil. The labs-t reports show O’Neil 3,200 in the 1e? :1. and he is probably elected. All these TL-Zlcia’l candidates ran as inde- pendz. nts. ‘ . Republican mayors were elected in these citiesz'Merrill, Ripon, River Falls, Viroqua, Mineral Point, Sturgeon Bay, Black River Falls, Lake Geneva, Sparta, Tomtii‘. Merm‘mne. Plymouth, Chippe- wa Far: and New Lisbon. The row -' rats secured mayors in the following cities: W’atertown, Hudson, Medford, Prairie du Chien, Beaver Dam, Chilton and Fountain pity. The i = no In Colorado. Denver, Api'li 8. -— The weather in Colorado was pie -' mt and a large vote was east. Cuts.ue of. Denver the issues were, in most cases, local. A: Leadviile the election was one of the most ex- citing in the city's history. '1‘ 13 result was a decisive victory for the citizens’ ticket. Reports from Colorado Springs say the result is in doubt, there being a. difference of onlyr a few votes in the count. The indications at Cripple Creek are that the fusion ticket is elected. ., The mayoralty contest in this city was a warm one. It was a. victory for the present incumbent, Thomas Mc- Murray, a silver Republican. St. Louis Goes Republican. St. Louis, April 8'.——The Republicans carried the city, their mayoraity candi- date, Henry .Zeigenheim, being elected by a plurality of about 14,000. With the exception of four members of, the house of delegates, the entire Republican tick- et went through. At St. Joseph the Democrats carried six out of the eight wards and tied in the eighth. The council will be a. tie if the Democrats lose the tied ward. At Jefferson City the Democrats elected the mayor. Little Interest In Arkansas. Little Beck, April 8.——Municipa1 elec- tions were ,held in all Arkansas towns. Very little interest was aroused. There was no opposition to the Democratic ticket, headed by. J. A. Woodson, for mayor in Little Rock, and a. very light vote was p tied. TIIE '“DISORBTIOFAR‘Y POOL” HOAX. Methods of the E. S. Dean Company—“Writ of the Postal Authorities. New York, April 8.—The collapse of the E. S. Dean company has caused a good deal» of scrutiny of several simi- lar concerns that do business near the Stock Exchange. Mos. 0: them employ pretty nearly the same n.e-hods. This is the way the “Dean sure system" was introduced to the rural public: “Speculation is no longer a lottery, but a science whereby, through the me- dium of carefully formed rules and con- ditions, one can enter'the financial are- pa'and accumula.e wealth on the same mathematical principles that are fol- lowed by an aichitect who plans a. building.” . Then followed appeals to the imagi- nation of persons unfamiliar with Wall street speculation. Reputable brokers were also referred to and the an- nouncement made that all of the firm‘s transactions were on the New York Stock Exchange. As a. clincher 300 or 100 per cent was promised on sums of "$25 and upward.” Most dupes began by sending $25 to try it, and for a. time, until they were “well in,” would receive fine “dividends.” Some might write to well known brokers, but if they received any reply it would mere- ly be that the concern was unknown. Others would write to the .Stock Ex- change—the secretary has received many such letters—and learn that the firm had no connecrion with the ex- change. But thousands invested their money without any investigation. A good many persons marvel that such an enterprise was not reared in some way by the authorities, an . it is against the postoffice officials that most of the criticism is directed. Circulars adver- tising such schemes when sent through the mails bring the firms within the ju- risdiction of these an horities. The‘ir at- tention was called to several of these concerns many months ago, and an in- vestigation was had, the postoifice in- spector says, but his lips have been and are still sealed as to the results. In the fall it leaked out that the department was to institute a false order scheme whereby offenders would be brought to mstice. but nothing has come of it, so far as is known. The only other way of reaching such concerns is by the help of their victims by criminal prosecution. The Legal Aid society. which has had some experience with these cases, finds, however, that the victims, as a. rule, want their money back mainly, and when that is recover- ed do not care to bother further with the. matter. EZEETNBSOTA. :n the Legislative Corn- ... port. rm: joint legisla— .,~..:;ng insolvent tile testirznmy 31.x. .,.Z \.i. L. ““153. tWO months. rhe- t_;,-;...;liitee investigated banks in St. Pnui‘and Minneapolis. As to the Lank of Minnesota, W. H. Lightner, one of the receivers, stated that on Oct. 7, $135,606 was due to the bank from the Fort Dearborn National bank of Chicago. This balance was incorrect. The accounts between these two banks were‘fal’sified to the extent of $100,000. At the time of the failure of the bank there was owing to it by the bank of- ficials the following sums: William Dawson, Sr., about 55910;); \Villiam Dawson, Jr.. 859.950pR. A. Smith owed, the bank $50,000, but has since paid $35,000. In addition to that William Dawson, Jr.. was guarantor of $53,000, of which $30,000 was overdrawn. As to the cause of the failure of the bank it was testified that WiLiiam Dawson, Sr., owed it $231,000. As to the Scandia. bank of Minneapolis, the committee states that its failure, according to the evidence, was honest, and it may yet pay in full. Taking up the case of the Washing- ton bank of Minneapolis, the committee ”BANK SCEUTMZS II? Sara-nus Clint-gun ..:i.‘. 1: iii. .r'aut, .‘i.-—~ l'r'h \ ‘. .l...‘. I...“ ' :lALS il-..:-\ .. .L..l"_ l...,.. Li...‘ incl-3i. says that it went under for want of' paid up capital, direct and indirect. loans to its oflicers and from a lack of supervision. As to the Allemania bank of St. Paul, the report says the assets or a. large portion of them were worthless; The directors were heavy borrowers and were guilty of misstatements. Regarding the Minnesota Savings bank of St. Paul, directly or indirectly, the committee states the officers were borrowers to an amount more than[ double the capital stock. Electric Light Plant Burned. Bellefonte, Pa... April 8.——A fire of supposed incendiary origin destroyed the large‘_plant of the Electric Illumi- nating company in this city, with all of its contents. As a. result the en— tire city will be in darkness for sever- al nights. The loss is estimated at $35,- 000, with $13,000 insurance. Swallowod a._Lizax-d and Died. Clayton. N. Y., April 8.—Mrs. Addie Shorttg Marshall, aged 17. vomited up a. dead lizard about 5 inches long. She had had stomach trouble during the past two years and could obtain“ no relief from medical treatment. Since March 18 she had taken no solid food, and she died today. - Garvie’s Remains Coming Over. Southampton, April 8.—The remains of Jeffries Garvie, the wealthy American who died here on April 5 from a com- plication of diseases, resulting in a fatal chill, have been embaimed and will be embarked for ‘New York on Saturday. Republicans Carry Lincoln. Lincoln, Neb., April 8.—Republicans made a. clean sweep in the election. Graham, for mayor, With two precincts to hear from, has a. majority of 600 over Brown. The vote for other offices is sub- stantially the same. No Dollar Gas For New York. Albany, April 8.—Senator Cantor’s 81 gas bill for New. York city has been de— feated in the senate, and the senate has passed the bill reducing the price at the rate of 5 cents per year until it is down to $1. 7 Dr. Schaefl‘er Reappolnted. Harrisburg, April 8.—Govemor Has- tings today sent to the senate the reap- pointment of Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer of Lancaster as state superintendent of public instruction. The King of Siam Starts. Bangkok, April 8.-—The king .of Siam, Chulalongkorn I. or, to give his full name, Somdetch Phra Paramindr Malia, has started on his visit to Europe and the United States. . . w EEKLY "No i. w A an GA 2 Errh ~ To Subscribe for the Will it it. Y. TRIBUNE. \. ma-.. "u‘. "“5...‘ ? Botih Pacers Sent (done A ._\ .F 1‘ ‘ ‘4 it . i /. ddress for $|.OO a Year. :.
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