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(Copyright, 1909. by Frank fJ. Carpenter.)
EKINQ, UC. (Special Corra-
P epondence of Tha B.) Under
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den city, go near its yellow pal
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their lullablea, I wriu of little Pu Tl. tha
baby ruler of China. Of all the children
on earth he rank flrat In ImfKirtance. Ha
baa under him a country larger than
Europe, and hla aubjecta are one-fourth
of mankind. They worship him aa heav
en's own son, and from now on tha oldest
and highest officials will remain on their
knees In his presence. Ha Is so holy that
tha house In which he was born has been
Klven up by his parenta, and, according to
custom, it can ba ueed only aa a templa
'hereafter.
Little Pu Tl is too saored for his own
mother to have charge of him. He haa
,bn taken away from her, and given
over to the cars of tha new empress
dowager, that Is, to the wife of Kwang
Bu, who died last November. His real
mother cannot enter the palaca except
by permission, and the only way sha
can see her own baby Is by calling upon
tha dowager and asking to have him
brought Into her presenoe. If tha dowager
consents tha eunuchs will carry the mes
sage to the Imperial nurses and they will
trot in Pu Tl. - - -
I am told that Ms majesty cried much
upon his accession. He was then t years
old, as the Chinese reckon such things.
Ha was only S years by our accounting,
and like most Manchu chtldren of that
a;e, was still being nursed by his mother.
When they tore him away he howled like
a young satyr, and tha eunuohs and other
palaca officials were In despair. They
published a notice asking for twenty-five
Manchu wet nurses. Thesawera straight
way brought to tha palace. They were
examined as to their age. beauty and
health by the imperial physlolana, and aa
' ti result . the emperor's cries wera soon
drowned In milk.
How r Yl Gets Hla Job.
But let me tell you how little Pu YS
comes to be ruler of this great Chinese
empire. I call him Pu Yl, although since
hla accession his name haa been changed
to the more dignified Imperial title, Hsuan
Tung. But Pit Yl Is mora baby like, and
, It brings us closer to tha little one aa ho
Is. It Is tha name he received from hla
parents. It was his milk name given just
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New Oliver-Carnegie Library
He very beginning of library
T
aollvlty In tha town of Onawa,
la., was In a collection of books
of fictloa plaoed In a general
store and rented out to willing
patron. This undertaking by
Miss Joanna Oliver was followed up In 190S
by her father, Judge Addison Oliver, with
a cenerous gift of to.OOO for the establish
ment of a frte public library for the town
of Onawa and Monona county, on the con-
dltlon that the town purchase a suitable
building and provide an annual tux of ?
mil! fcr support conditions upon which
the women's vote helped effectually In
carrying the day.
. The Congregational church. In that year
vacated for the new building, was selected
i as suitable and purchastd for the use of
the library. A corner of the building was
partitioned off for a workroom and the
old primary room was set apart as the
. reference room, trustees' room and retiu-
lar meeting place of tha Women' club of
I th town. Wall case war t up, th en
tire floor was covered with cork carpet,
the woodwork painted a cream color and
; the walls .apeied in dull greens, alto
gether presenting a surprisingly attractive
Interior. Miss Fannie Puren. now librarian
at Ottumwa, was sent to Onawa by the
State Library commission to organize the
library. Sha was assisted by aeveral young
Progress in Public Lighting
OT 104 years ago Broadway, New
N
York, after nightfall war al
most pitch dark and infested
with roughea and thieve. It
wa not saf to travel It by
night without armed guard and
boy currying torches. Today thl great
' thoroughfare la famous aa tha "Great
White Way," because of tha brilliancy of
kits night Illumination.
T Leat than a hundred years ago street
i lighting wa opposed by th very bfkt men
' of that day on theological ground as being
! a rrw.u;nptuous thwarting of the intentions
' of Protldime. which had appointed dark
I nets for th hour of night. It wa oppoacd
i on medical ground, a gas and oil were
secUred unwholesome, and thay argued
toat It was a bad thlug to encourage peo
ple to tay outdoor bight and caieh cold.
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a month after birth. Before that ha was
known aa "tha little one" and aa "baby"
or "darling." At the age of one month
his head was shaved and ha waa known
aa Pu Yt. Tha hair has alnce grown and
it la now braided In four long plaits
which stand out Ilka tails on tha differ
ent aldea of hla head.
Tha Tl, or the last part of tha name, Is
that which distinguishes him from the
other children of the same generation of
tha imperial family. According to prece
dent and tha unwritten law of tha coun
try the emperors should run in one long
uninterrupted suocesslon from father to
son. If there are no aons, tha children
of other princes are adopted to take thoir
places, and this Is the case with Pu Tl,
Kwang Bu had no children, so Juat beforfl
dying the great empress dowager sent
out an edict that Pu Tl should ba regard
ed aa the adopted son of Kwang Su and
heir to the throne. This was done, not
withstanding Prince Chun, little Pu Yl's
father who was the brother of tha em
peror, Kwang Bu, was still living, and
that In any other country ha would have
been Kwang Su'a successor. The baby em
peror is thus really the nephew of the last
emperor, but he Is his son by adoption.
Pu Tl la 'the great-grandson of the Em
peror Tao Kwang, who ruled China from
1S21 to 1930. His grandfather by adop
tion was Emperor Hslen Fang, who mar
ried tha great empress dowager, of whom
Pu Yl in- hla edlcta now speak of as his
"holy grandmother."
Row Pa Yl Waa Crowned.
I was In Peking when Pu Yl waa
crowned. Tha ceremonlea took place In
side tha Pink Forbidden City, and only tha
highest offlolala of China were present.
Tha baby was brought forth and made to
go through tha rites fixed for tha occa
sion. Soma of the requirements ha oould
only perform by proxy, but word was sent
out over the country giving hi Imperial
actions, and according to the publications
he acted as a young man rather than a
baby. He was really carried Into tha
throne room In the arms of hia father,
Prince Chun, who had already been mad
tha Imperial regent. I am told ha cried
when he came In, and that his father
quieted him by promising! to buy him a
pony.
Tha officials wore their gorgeous oourt
woman volunteers, of whom Mia Mauda
Oliver, nleoe of Judge Addison Oliver, wa
unanimously chosen by th newly-appointed
board to be th librarian
Th library waa formally opened for th
circulation of book February IS, 1802, with
1,975 volume on th shelve, nearly all
eeceailoned and catalogued. Sine that
time the library ha been opened for thre
day a week for seven hour a day. Sur
passing the expectations of tha moat san
guine enthusiasts, tha circulation for tha
first year was 10,326 books, with a separate
pay collection of seventy-five book circu
lating 864 times. Six hundred dollars wa
received from th tax levy. The total ex
penditures for tha first year amounted to
12.5:4. The librarian attended the summer
school for library training at Iowa City,
and under her administration tha library
grew and prospered greatly. Upon her
resignation In 1908, Miss Stella Wiley, a
graduate of Pratt Institute library achool,
succeeded.
The people of Onawa were not content to
rest with the possession of their well
selected stock of books, but looked forward
to the time when a real library building
might ba theirs. One more Judge Addison
Oliver came forward with an offer of an
additional 110,000 toward a new building
and 110,000 endowment for the purchase
of books. It was then suggested that
pneumonia and fevers. On moral, philo
sophic grounda It was held that the peo
ple's moral standard would be lowered
by street lighting, aa tha drunkard would
feel ther waa no hurry to get home, and
late sweetheartlng would be encouraged,
w hurra black night sent people home early,
thus preserving them from a multitude of
Ins.- They also argued that lights would
make thieves .alert and that national Illu
minations would loe their effect if ther
were tret lighting rry night
Seventy-flv yeara ago streets war being
lighted with oil and ga. Twenty-rtv year
ago the electrlo lights wera introduced and
the eyateinaUo lighting of streets began;
now ther 1 scarcely a hamlet ao small It
cannot boast of lighted street. Men who
kuow aay th daw a of artificial light 1
juat breaking. Review ot Uerlewa,
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dresses. Tha new empress dowager was
on the throne, and, according to the Pe
king G a setts, the baby emperor got down
before her and mad three kneeltngs and
nine prostrations. The officials also
kneeled when they asked hla majesty to
accept the throne, and after a lot of other
flubdubbery they placed him on "the Jew
eled seat with hi face to tha south." If
tha regular caremonlea were carried out
as Is asserted this little two-year-old mon
arch then changed hla clothes a half dozen
times, and at the end put on somber gar
ments as a sign of his grief for the deaths
of Kwang Su and the great dowager.
The Golden Phoenix.
All that I saw of tha crowning was
from the gata of Chlen Men, on the top
of the wall, opposite the tower which rises
above the gate of tha Forbidden olty. I
was several hundred feet away, but I
could sea tha gorgeous officials come out
of the palace and stand under that tower
waiting for tha proclamtion of the crown
ing of his majesty an It came down from
heaven, In the mouth of the Phoenix.
This, according to the Chinese tradition,
Is a part of every emperor's coronation,
and the fiction waa' carried out In reality
as far as appearances went. A golden
bird with the proclamation In Its mouth
was let down by a string from the tower,
and was caught as It fell by tha proper
officials below. They took out the paper
and put It In a sedan chair, which was
covered with yellow silk, and then started
In a grand procession to lay It away In
the Imperial archives. There were soldiers
to guard the procession, and men with
whips went In advance to drive tha com
mon people out of the way. Incense ws
carried In front of tha chair bearing the
proclamation, and men with great umbrel
laa of Imperial yellow followed behind.
Tha officials who went witn it were gor
geously dressed, and tho whole was really
Imposing. i-The procession marched right
down to tha gata above whloh I waa stand
ing, and I photographed It aa It passed on
below m.
Pa Yl's First Edlets,
The baby monarch began to work im
mediately after he came to the throne.
According to law, all tha Imperial edicts
are put forth In hla name, and many have
been Issued which seem ridiculous as com
ing from the mouth of a t-year-old child.
I understand that they war written by
the great atatrsman and scholar, Chang
Chi Tung, but that th people auppoaa
that they -come from tha mouth of tha
emperor. Here is tha way In which Pu Yl
describes his feelings aa to the deaths of
tha emporer" and the old empress dow
ager: "All who have blood and breath cannot
but mourn. We weep tear of blood and
beat upon our hearts. How can we bear
to express our feelings? The late emperor
haa ascended the dragon to be a guest
on high, and wa have received tha com
mands of tha empress dowager to enter
upon tha succession. Wa havo lamenteJ
NEW
tf Andrew Carnegie could ba per
suaded to donat 810,000 for th build
ing such a library might ba built a
would do credit to a town of twice th
size of Onawa. The first appeal on the
part of tha secretary of the library board
to Mr. Carnegie was met by a courteous
reply congratulating th town of Onawa
on tha possession of such a cltlsen as
Judge Oliver and offering felicitations to
htm personally upon th opportunity of
which he had availed himself In giving to
th town a free library and declining to
add to his beneficence. Mr. Carnegie had
nut reckoned on the argumentative and
hypnotic pewer of tha dauntless secretary
of the library board, and after a third ap
peal a reply came from Mr. Carnegie's
secretary ajklng that he be privileged to
add 810.tt to th building fund with th
well-known proviso that the community
furnish a site and agree to supply an an
nual maintenance fund of at leaat 10 per
cent of tha amount of th gift condition
heretofore met In th acceptance of Judge
Oliver' donation.
Tha condition were put before th tax-'
payer for a vet an 4 war aoceptej, Two
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to earth and Heaven, and we stretch 'out
our hands walling . our Inefficiency. Wa
had hoped that her majesty would be vigor
ous and live to be 100 years old that wa
might receive her Instructions. But her
toll day and night weakened her, and on the
21st day of the moon, when the late Mir
peror ascended the dragon to ba a guest
on high, her grief was so excessive that
th end suddenly came. On tha following
day she took the fairy ride, and ascended
to tha far country. Wa shall strive to be
temperate so aa to comfort the spirit of
the late empress dogawer in Heaven."
It was at this same time that the baby
emperor sent hla first telegram to th
United States. It wa addressed to th
president and read:
"Again tha imperial family Is unfortun
ate. Again we have met great calamity.
Tha 22d day of tha present moon our holy
grandmother, the great empress dowager,
wa taken up by the fairies to th far-off
land. Our mourning and lamentations have
no limit. Prostrate, we reflect how the
gracious counsel and excellent virtues of
the great departed were revered by all be
yond tha seas. China ha long been on
terms of friendly Intimacy with the United
States and your excellency, the president,
on receiving this new will surely mourn
with us."
Where the Baby Monarch Lives.
I wish I could take you Into the home
Of little Pu YL From now on he will live
In the palaces of the Pink Forbidden City
In tha most secluded part of Peking. To
this city strangers are never admitted, ex
cept they be members of the foreign le
gations or ladies Invited to visit the em
press. Such visits have been mad only
within the last few years, and it is a ques
tion whether any but tha minister will
b admitted In tha future.
I have Information, however, from con
fidential source among the highest Chi
nese, which enables me to give you one
or two peeps at these royal quarters. Tho
palaces are surrounded by a yellow tiled
wall more than two miles In length, and
many feet high. There are huge .towers
over the gatea to this wall, and officers
In uniform stand Just below. They keep out
all but the servants of the palace and
the highest of Chinese officials, and the
ordinary Chinaman has no Idea of what
goes on within. It Is only by standing upon
the wall of tha Tartar City that a stranger
can see anything, and then only the roofs.
All he sees la a wilderness of high, broad
buildings, covered with bright, yellow
Ulfts, which, fillatea Ilk gold under tha
un. The building run up and down both
sides of a lake, upon which are boats, and
inside which on a little island Is the palace
where Kwang Su, the laxt emperor, was
confined by the great dowager, when he
would not do as she commanded. It may b
that aa Pu Yl grows older he may object
to the orders of the present empress dowa
ger and have the same prison home for
a time.
The Imperial baby will have many at
tendants. There are something like 10.000
souls In th palacea and tha buildings
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OLIVER-CARNEGIE LIBRARY, AT ONAWA.
excellent lota on th main business street
of the city were donated by Messrs. B. U.
and P. K. Holbrook. and a third lot bought
by th residents of the east side. Plans for
tha new building were submitted by vtriuiu
architects. Those of Patton A Miller of
Chicago were deemed moat satisfactory.
The, contract waa let early In the fall to
W. O. Merten of Emerson, Neb., and the
work of excavation waa soon under way.
Th idea of permanence was a funda
mental one In planning the building. It
waa Judge Oliver a wish to construct ku
edifice which might endure through the
changing years. The building has been
designed and equipped with the greatest
regard for its usefulness and artistic ap
pearance. It is an example of modern
renaissance style of architecture, built with
a high basement and two stories. The ma
terials of construction for the foundation
and bearing walla are brick and stone, with
fireproof construction for partition and
floors. Tha roof is a red tile. The
Interior woodwork la of white oak,
with art and craft finish. The wall
ar painted In plain color, tho iccll
abovt being do u oUa, Jh entlr floor
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about and It Is their duty to do as tha
empress dowager wills. There are mat
servants and woman servants, as well aa
princes and ladles In waiting. One of th
largest classes of the household Is com
posed of eunuchs. They have been tha
servants of the Chinese emperor as far
back as the time of Christ, and they ar
mentioned In Chinese history about 1.000
B. C. There are mora than 1,000 of them
employed to serv hi Imperial majetfty
and each has a Job of his own. Tha
eunuchs belong to forty-alght different de
partments. Some are mere servants, others
take care of the Imperial silks, jewelry and
all sorts of treasures, and some wait on
the ladles in the employ of the emperor.
The empress dowager ha her own fore,
and there are also lama priests, who supply
the spiritual wants of the household.
PNTalan-LI, The Sejneeaer.
At th head of these eunuchs is a man
who has cut a big figure In the recent his
tory of China. He was for year the favor
ite of th great dowager, and It wa
charged that he larpely ruled China
through her. He has committed all sort
of extortion and has made a great for
tune by squeezing th officials Who through
him got the ear of the old empress dow
ger. It is sure that he Is now a man
of enormous wealth. . Indeed, h had ao
much money In the Chinese banks of
Peking that he created a panio when the
otd empress died by saying that ha was
going to withdraw his deposit.
A half dozen banks then failed on this
account. This man's name Is LI Lien
Ylr.g, or, as he is sometimes called, Pl-Tsiau-Lt
or "Cobbler LI," because h I
the ton of a cobbler of Tung Chow, about
fourteen miles from Peking. LI wa taken
Into the palace a a boy,- and grew up
under the empress dowager. He was In
charge of her toilet and personal wants,
and later on became her business manager.
He Invested her money In pawnshops and
in loan at high rate of Interest and
organized a system by which millions of
dollars oame Into the palace. Toward th
last he wa placed in charge of all of th
servants, and at the great dowager'a death
wis the head of her Imperial household. X
understand that he holds the same position
today and that the new empress dowager
has made htm the chief of the eunuchs.
Kew Rmprru Dowager,
But before I go farther let me tell you
something about the new empress dowager,
the woman whom Pu Yl from now on must
regard as his mother, and to whom, during
his childhood, he must be subservient. She
is the late empress of China, the wife of
Kwang Su, who died last November. Sha
Is the niece of the old empress dowager,
and was first cousin of the late emperor,
whom she married little more than twenty
years ago. Her father was 'Duke Chow, a
noble Manchu, and her mother a Manchu
lady. I was In Peking at tha time of nor
marriage and saw the carts containing tha
girls from whom ah waa chosen on their
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space la covered with the best quality of
cork carpet of a dark green shade that
matches the green tone in the wood finish.
The main entrance vestibule leads with
winging door Into th delivery room. To
right and left are the reading room and
the children's room and behind la the stark
room. These three rooms are really one,
being separated by wide archways. Back
of the reading room and children's room
are two smaller rooms for reference and
administration. The delivery room 1 deco
rated with Kesota marble to the height uf
seven feet. Marble bases extend about tha
lower floor walls. The reading room has
movable shelving all around the room,
three feet high, except under th windows,
where space 1 taken by radiators. The
rack for current periodicals Is built Into
the wall and paneled above to bring It on
a line with the (helve. Th tables, In arts
and crafts flrit.ih, are oblong and supplied
with branched light.
Tne children room baa th same gen
eral shape and dimensions aa th reading
room, and la located la tha opposite frout
corner of the building. Tha shelving runs
all and one-baif feat bigb, and abov it 1
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way to tha palaca. According to law, tho
emperor of China can marry none but a
full-blooded Manchu. It 1 also provided
that when he reaches marriageable age all
th daughter of th Manchu nobility be
tween 11 and 11 are to go to th palace In
order that they may be looked over by
the empress dowager, and the best ones
elected for the imperial consorts. This 1
what will occur fourteen years from now,
when little Pu Yl I It, and It 1 just what
took place In 1SS8, when the empress dow
ager was picked out as the wife of Kwang
Su. Of th crowd which then came there
were only three who were kept, and, the
ohief of these wa Ye-ho-no-lah, who now
rule tho palace. The other two were hi
majesty' secondary wives, and were re
spectively IS and IS yeara of age. '
The Selection was made by the empress
dowager, and, as Ye-ho-no-lah waa her
nleoe, tha choice probably went by favor
rather than beauty. This woman is now
between 80 and 40 years of age I am told
she la short and lean and that the haa a
yellow complexion, almond eyes, a large
mouth and a long chin. Her nose Is bigger
than that of most Chines ladles, and her
teeth are decayed. Sha 1 yald to ba a
woman of tact and ' good sehte. She has
not th force of th old empress dowager
and will probably allow herself to be ruled
by the prince regent and the other high
Chinese officials. She will, however, be
supreme In the palace and will have much
to do with the education and training of
bis Imeprlal majesty.
Pu Yl's Hdauatlon.
And this brings me" to the question of
Pu Yl's education. The officials are al
ready discussing what It shall be. and the
more progressive of them want him trained
along modern lines. They propose to hire
foreign govrnetue to teach, ,hiui tho
modern language, a Is done by the Im
perial families of Europe, and he Is to
have a knowledge of our civilization. Tho
achool books now In use In the new Chi
nese schools are being examined with a
view to preparing some special ones for
this little baby. He will be made to learn
the Chinese classics and to commit tho
wisdom of Confucius and Menclus. When
he reaches tha right age he will have man
teacher, who, according to tha old Chi
nese custom, will remain on their knes
while they Instruct him. No ordinary man
Dedicated
a fries of Elizabeth Shlppen Green pic
ture. Th picture above the dark wood
are highly decorative. Built Into the wall
are th children' catalogue, a cupboard
for the picture file, and above a bulletin
board. Four low tables are used of the
am size as In the reading room.
Tha large, semi-octagonal charging desk
stands in th center of the building. All
wltohea for lights on this floor are at
the charging desk. The reference room Is
just back of the reading room. It is fur
nished with a long table and shelving
about the wall for bound magazines and
reference book. It baa doors from the
reading room, and Into the large stack
room, which Is Just back of the delivery
desk. Stacks are to be supplied here aa
needed. Here is also a lavatory for gen
eral use. Back of the children's room
Is the librarian's room, which Is provided
with a desk, closed shelves and ruhboirls.
This room open into a small hallway,
which has an outside door leading to the
talrway to th second floor. '
The space of the second floor Is dlvtdfd
Into a large auditorium across the front
of the building covered with cork carpet
and providing a seating capacity for 200
people. This room is separated by double
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TRETCHINQ across Canada.
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I ending In the regions about the
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range of low granite hills called
tha Laurentlan Highlands.
These hills are really mountains that
are almost worn out, for they are
tha oldest land In America and, ac
cording to Agassis, the oldest in the world.
In tha daya when there was nothing but
water on the face of th globe, these moun
tanls cam up a long island of primitive
rock with universal ocean chafing against
ita shores. None of tha other continents
had put in their appearance at tha time
America wa thus looking up. Th United
State began to com to light by th grad
ual uplifting of thl land to th north and
the appearance of th top of th Alle
gheniea, which wera tha next In order.
Later th Rockies started up. Th United
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Is supposed to stand In hla presence, al
though In th reformation which China 1
now undertaking thl may ba changed.
There Is one thing sure, and that Is they
will never whip little Pu Yl. When Kwang
Su was little he had hi whipping boya,
who atudled with him and recited th
am lesson a he. If hi majesty dll
wrong th teaoher wa allowed to whip
on of these boys, and this waa supposed,
to answer th purpose. If not, th great
dowager took the matter In hand and or
dered an eunuch to punish Kwang Bu. Th
same will probably ba tha nil a to Fa
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Baby Emperor's Playthings.
This Imperial Infant will have all aorta
of toy. The Chinese ar famous for
making uch thing. They bar anlmala
of wood,, iron, paper and cloth. They,
have mechanical toy and toy which
teach certain things. Tha last mpro
had many foreign toy and tha imperial 1
baby will first learn of tha new clviUaa- II
tton by playthings brought from abroad,
He will have railroad trains, phonograph
and electrical car line, and ba may per- .
haps hava Teddy Bear and Blllla Po- j
sums. He will have watchea and clock '
of all kinds. Indeed, ther 1 already j
large collection of auch In the Imperial, J
palaces, and when th last emperor wa
a boy he amused himself by taking ther I
to pieces and trying" to put them together I
again. He did not always succeed, anot
the old empress dowager was In constant ,
fear the Kwang Su would ruin th clock" I
she loved most.
As his baby majesty grow older ho
should have all sorts of tutors and it may
be that he will be allowed to travel ove
the country and see something of his em
pire as It really Is. Such a thing ha
not been possible with th emperor of tho,
pasf. but Infant majesty la no morw"
secluded tow than the mikado was when,
he was a baby, and the present crown
prince of Japan goes everywhere. Chin,
is so rapidly changing that it Is Imposslbl
to tell what th people mayt allow their
emperor to do before he grows up and
tskes the actual Tula In his hands. If ho
lives, he will surely be the master of 400,
000 000 millions, and of what may then pro
bably be the richest and greatest manu
facturing nation on earth.
FRANK Q. CARPENTER.
at Onawa
sliding doors from a, large room to b
used by the women's club. A smaller room
for the trustees' use, a toilet room and
hall are also on this floor. The basement,
as yet unfinished, may ultimately be used
for an additional stock room and work
room. The building is lighted throughout
by electricity and heated from the power
house In the same block. Light, heat and
telephone service ar supplied gratia by
the city.
It has been sought to make th new
building a means of public comfort a well
as public education, and so to attract peo
ple as yet little accustomed to the minis
try of books. The whole building Is per
vaded with the spirit of open shelve.
There are now over 6,000 book in tho
library. Th circulation last year num
bered 14.155, of which 49 per cent war
Juvenile books. The endowment of 110,000,
furnixhlng MX additional book fund per
year, will enable the supply of book to
be constantly freshened by tha beat and
latest contributions to literature along all
lines. The llht ary spirit Is growing In and
about Onawa. Th building may go to
decay, but the animating spirit whloh re
sides in good books cannot die.
in the World
and westward from th Blue Ridge. As,
early view of the country would bavoj
showed a large Island which I now north
ern Wisconsin, and a long thin tongue of
this primitive rock sticking down from Can
ada into Minnesota, and these two growing
tatea looking out over th water at th
mere beginnings of mountain range east
and west. They were waiting for the rent
of the United Statea to appear. AUantla
Monthly.
In Those Daya.
Marc Antony turned Impatiently to tho
energetic young man who bad touched bia
elbow.
"tit. Antony," said th young man, "can
you tell me bow much money Caesar left
hi family V
"I oannot," Bald Marc, abruptly. "I cam,
to bury Caesar, not to appraise him!"
And th reporter, wno wa not very
curate, want away and misquoted Antony.!
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