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and the policy OF the
Empire. He had his
lords under him, who,
by the titles Of Daimios,
acted as sub Generals
and aided in the Gov
ernment. Both tn c
Shotgun aud his Dali
mios lived on the fat Of
the land. They thus
waxed weak In luxury,
and in time the Samu-
raj as their agents got
the power into their
hands. In the mean
time foreigners were
admitted, and the Sam
CTai, or soldiers, the
be ter to overthrow
them, got up a revolu-
tion and reinstatcd the
MikadO as the real
ruler Of the people.
They ousted the fat
Dajmios. burnt til {
palaces Of the Shoguns.
and brought the Nj
kado TO this city, then
known as Yeddo, and
called it Toxic, or the
Capital. Before this
the Mikado had been
AZ
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Business Policy.
rnnf-nsE L. D.. I

Dealer-Here, boy. it's beginning to rain,
and there goes old Neverpay across the street
with the new hat he got here last week. Take
him out an umbrella or he'll have it ruined
before he gets home.
Clerk-Why, sir, he'll keep the umbrella.
Dealer-NO matter-hurry up-Pd rather
lose the umbrella than trust him for another
hat.
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300 miles away, al Kiota.
This done they concluded TO overthrow the
foreigners By learning their ways They sent
IIen abroad TO study them, but these men
brought back such stories Of the wonders OF
Christendom and Of the powers Of the foreign
er5 that they saw il was hopeless. They saw
also shat the foreign ways were better than
theirs, and they concluded TO adopt them.
This was about 20 years ago, and il is from
this that Japan has now an army dressed in
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Ratified.
IPnck1

AlksH Ike (who has accepted an invitation
TO take hand at cards, under the impression
that the game is poker instead of whist, Of
which he never heard Say, gents, I'm kinder
new in your Eastern way o. playin an if
one'r you'll tell me what four mines, a straight
flush @ hearts. pair O. deuees an king an a
ten beats, I'd like ter know.
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HOuE through Lilc cdhtle-
grounds. My inter
prefer followed in a
second 'riksha, and we
swept the road until we
were brought TO a stop
by the raised sword Of
the guard at the gate.
We presented our pass
port from the Min
lister Of War, aud in
a moment everything
was open TO US. A
v.,,,,,E - - %9,o aI,;a 8
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HAVE now spent three
weeks at the Capital of
Japan. Here the Mi
kado now lives, and
here is the political,
social and military CEN
ter of the Japanese En-
pire. You meet thou
sands of soldiers in a
days sightseeing, and
there are as many men
sof prominence on the
streets as you will find
in Washington. | have
called upon various Off
cials, and have slipped
tea and smoked cigar
cts with the Ministers
of the Mikado. I have
been furnished with
English-speaking in :
terpreters by t h e m
when accepting their
Observation-Disclosures
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seldom out Of your sight. 1t is good blade,
too, and its steel ranks up with that of Damas-
Gus. 1t will cut hair, slice off head, or,
when its owner is tired or ashamed Of life, win
give him an honorable japanese ending by
aiding in ripping open his bowels, and dying
by hari-kari. Hari-kari has to a large extent
died out in Japan. 1t is no longer used
by the Government as a polite method Of
taking off, and of the 1900 suicides of 1885,
only few were committed in this way. To
the warrior of the past hgri-kari was the
death Of honor in times of trouble, and
the history Of Japan contains more instances
Of such heroic suicides than that of Rome. In
some OF the old palaces here You viii find lit
tie court, in which the ground was once cover
ed with white sand, and upon inquiry you
may learn that this was the suicide-place of the
mansion, where the lords for generations were
expected TO shuttle of this mortal coil when
they found they could not honorably continue
to bear its burdens.
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The kitchen OF these barracks we also visit
ed. Imagine a low shed open on three sides
There is no floor to speak of, and the only fur
niture is a lot of bowls and several large, fat,
box like ovens of stone slabs These ovens are
shaped like q long, fat, narrow box, about six
feet long by four feet in width At the front is
a hole for the putting in of wood, and in the
top slab are set two great boilers or kettles.
each rs big as an apple-butter kettle. These
are covered with lids of boards, and in them is
cooking the rice and soup which viii form the
dinner of the soldiers.
The japanese soldiers eat with chop-sticks.
Their food is brought TO them in little saucers,
and an American veteran would devour six
japanese dinners at a meal There is no hard
tack or bread, and rice takes the place of them.
The loved coffee of America gives place to tiny
cups of tea, and after his meal the Japanese
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TIE ARMY OF JAPAN.
japanese Soldiers and SOldier-Life.
A Visit to the EmperOr'S Guard.

What the japanese Officers and Men are Paid
The Present Military Organization of Japan Like
that OF Germany-How Feudalism Has Given
Place to American Ways-The MikadO in Uni
form-A Japanese Guard-House. and Something
About the Japanese Navy and Japanese Modern
Civilization.
TcoPYRIGHTED DY FRANK c. cARPENTER.1
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The japanese people have for centuries been
nation Of warriors. 1T has been made up of
two great classes, the soldiers aud the farmers
The soldiers ruled. The farmers obeyed. A
feudal system existed, with its lords and its re-
taiHers. At the top was the Mikado, but
greater than him in actual power was the Com
mander-in-Chief Of the Army, the Shotgun.
The shogun used the Mikado as a puDpet
through generations, and with his two-sworded
samnrai. or seldiers. dictated the Gnvernn,ent
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A Safe Business.

Do you ever bet on the races stranger2"
he asked, as the boat approached Bay Ridge.
Il used to- but it cost me too much money"
You are business man, / suppose?"
Yes, sir; l sell tips 1 can give you a
sure ten-to-One winner, to-day-only % cents"
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In the Hands Of His Friends.

;
First Rounder-You seem to be flush.
Second Rounder - Yes; got lots o. cash
Didn't ye see by the papers that Candidate
Longpurse is in the hands Of his friends2
Yes"
''Tm one of his friends"
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Republic were fighting on Southern soil the
soldiers of Japan were waging the wars of their
feudal lords Now like our own soldiers, they
have turned from the arts of war to those of
peace, and their victories in the latter splsere
have become wonder in the history of ciyili-
cation.
The Mikado nominally or really, is at the
head of it all. From his Holy of Holes he
has come forth. He sanctions and aids the
movement toward the European civilization.
He throws aside his gorgeous silks, puts his
sacred legs into awkward European clothes
and dresses like the General of an army. He
appears at the reviews of his troops with his
sword at his side as he steps from his imperial
carriage, and his son, the Crown Prince, sports
a military cap not unlike that worn by the
late Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. / under
stand that the Mikado prides himself OF his
army and that he takes great pleasure in all
of its improvements.
The army of Japan contains $4,000 men on
peace footing 1t is now organized on the
same plan as that of Germany. The Vice Min
lister of War chatted with me in German about
it, and found that the interpreter who took
me from one corps to another. could speak bet
ter German than English. The soldiers are
dressed like the Germans, save that the pri-
Yates wear white cotton clothes in Summer.
Their arms are about the same, and their
square, brown faces do not look unlike those
of the Germans of the lower classes. They are
short in stature, and the average hight is not
over five feet two inches The contrast be-
tween them and the soldiers of the past is
striking. The flowing gowns, the sandals, the
hideous armor for men and horses and the
chained shirts of steel have gone, and | saw
little in my visit to the army that / might not
have seen in France or Germany. The Ameri-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-10-25
What 1t Means.

= A writer in the Rochester Democrat has solved
it. He says the word "veto," as applied by
Grover Cleveland, stands for
Veterans
Everywhere
Turned
Out.
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A JApANEsE SwoRD.SnAnpENER.

can shoes aud the stiff clothes of the new civ
ilization are not relished by the common sol
diers. The shoes hurt their feet, and they
wear them without stockings. They do not
look happy, and they are the most insolent and
disagreeable class of the country.
The same law prevails here as in Germany,
making all citizens subject to military duty,
and ali of the young men of the Empire are
Army, three years n the first reserve force and
four years in a second reserve. The result will
be that in another generation Japan will have
one of the finest armies of the world. lis dis
cipline is already good, and as / watched the
Imperial Guard going through Is gymnastic
exercises yesterday, could see that such train
ing cannot fail to make the Nation stronger
physically, as the education of the troops will
make it stronger mentally. The soldiers of
japan are put through full set of exercises
every day. They swing dumb-bells, jump with
parallel bars, and go through the severest of
physical training, in addition to their regular
military exercises. They are required to bathe
all over once a day, aud they have hot baths
three times week.
| went through the barracks Of the Imperial
ment The Imperial Guard is the crack regi-
ment Of the Empire. It contains 3, 432 men, and
it is its business to guard the palace Of the
Mikado and to be ever near his person. Its
officers comprise about score of Generals aud
superior officers and several hundred subordi-
nates and these sport gorgeous uniforms and
move about with spurs ON their heels and
swords at their sides.
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Toxic has an egg-shaped space in its center,
containing enough ground upon which to found
large city. This is surrounded by three great
wide moats, with towering walls Of stone with
rivers of water running between them. In the
inside Of these moats are ali the Government
buildings, the new palace of the Mikado, and
the headquarters and barracks of the army.
Some of the troops are quartered in what were
once the palaces of the feudal mobiles, but the
Imperial Guard is in long tier Of low, two
story brick buildings running around hollow
square of perhaps eight acres. This is near the
palace of the Emperor aud not far from Sho-
konsho, one of the great Shnto temples of
japan.
In one of these two-wheeled baby-carriages,
called jinrizshas. pulled by one bare legged
cooley between the shafts and pushed by an
other behind, rode at the rate of six miles an
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IHE MIKADo, WIFE AND SoS.
foreign clothes and armed with guns and am
n.uuition as good as ours The soldier class
las become the governing and the business
class Of Japan, and they now constitute the
brains and push Of the new empire. In this
tacy aFe much Ike the soldiers Of the late war.
hleu tac soldiers OF the Grand Army of the
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The guard house of the Imperial troops, or
rather Of the brigade | last visited was differ
cut from the ones in which our soldiers arc
sometimes put. Like all japanese prisons, the
cells IN it are walled with wood, and the only
furniture in them seems TO be bucket. There
are neither chairs, table, bedstead nor stools
The bare floor of boards is the bed, and in cases
of light oficnses Il thick quilt is given for the
prisoner to lie upon. In heavy ofIenses he
sleeps on the boards. and ia some cases he lives
on diet Of salt aud rice
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Sore Throat or Cough, if suffered to progress,
often results in incurabe throat or lung trouble
:" "BTosVns Bronchial JToches give instant RELIEF
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officers appeared, and ! was led into a re-
ception-ro0m, where stood table and some
chairs. On the table was a square box con-
tanning what looked liked brass sOup-bowl
filed with ashes and bamboo tube six inches
long and as big around as the barrel Of mus
ket. In the ashes Of the bowl glowed "a few
Goals Of charcoal, aud as ! sat down the Officer
in-Chief raised the cover of lacquer box be-
side it and offered me cigar. He then lit his
weed by dropping one end upon the charcoal
and sucking at the other. ] did likewise for
had long since learned the use Of the hibachi,
as this square frebox is called. We then chat
ted, through the Interpreter, until tea was
brought in and the Imperial Guard officers
were greatly pleased when ] told them l rep
resented the greatest soldier paper of the
United States, aud that intended to tell the
soldiers of America about my visit TO them.
We then inspected the various quarters, and
looked at everything, from the ciub-roolns of
the officers TO the guard-house. At the club
rooms we had more tea and cake and in going
about among the Japs ind that your stomach
must stand tablespoonful of tea every half
hour Every new man you meet drinks tea
with you aud takes smoke before proceeding
to business, and the whole nation seems to
need four cups Of tea before il can say ohio
or, How do you dor The tea is given in the
poitcst manner, and one might like it if he
could put his American nature of hurry and
push aside and take time to enjoy it.
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Ayers Hair Vigor invigorates the scalp; cures
dandruf aud itching. An elegant dressing.
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Special Correspondence NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
To1-ro cantau,bar g 1Se3
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Mrs. B.-Ohl you
wretch, what do you
think I ought to do
with you?
Mr.. B.-Don't yer
see, my dear, Pm not
q (hic) theory. I'm a
(hic) condish'n.
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eCnDCTo FOR LOVERS book for private
OEUnE . perEsal. only 10 cents WESTERN
PUB. CO., NJ. Louis, i50.
Mention The National 1TibduE
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1888-12-22
Bakers Ridge.

BAKER RIDGE. Dec Ibid you know
we now have store in sight Of our
ridge but across the river? Yes, we
have and Louis Davis is the ram rod.
He started in a room built by Jack EVERY
his brother-in-law for a granery, but ex-
poets soon to enlarge it SO he will have
room according to his size and strength.
He took in 80 lbs. of butter and %
rabbits last Monday, and sold $l2 worth
OF goods. Talk about your farmers
store, eh, Ell? 1t is called "the humble
bee," but stings nobody.
There was a certain young preacher
during the late campaign who tried to
induce IN old farmer to te for Fisk,
but he said, no he would not because he
killed Stokes.
We had spelling bee at our school
house Wednesday night; had good or
der and good time.
We do not allow our teacher to go to
see the girls as it divides their minds
and is sure to make them crankish.
Mr.. Lyming was around selling fruit
trees this week. He seems like a good
fellow.
George Darling who has been in the
west since last Spring got home this
week looking hale and hearty.
l wish / had a wedding to report, but
unfortunately have none-cruel boys.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1888-12-22
Genuine Gas.

There is probably no acquisition
which our town is likely to obtain
THAT would be of more value toit
than liberal supply of gas.
Wherever a community has come
into possession of this agency it has
given rise to business, enterprises
that were entirely unanticipated and
unthought of. 1t has made prosper
Gus and active business towns out of
those which were dead before its in
PRODUCTION.
We believe it would do as much
for Morgantown. We believe it is
the very kind of an acquisition
which we most need for the develop
ment of the town.
There seems to be some hope that
1.-THE movement now ON foot to pipe
the gas from Mt. Morris will be con
illuminated. We are glad that the
ftouncil have encouraged the movers
Rby such concessions and privileges
as are reasonable and liberal in their
erms.
We hope that by this time next
Winter we will be. enjoying the lux
Try Of gas fires, as well as witness
pig a substantial development of our
business interests through the agen-
Ycv of gas.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1888-12-22
The Free Bridge Project.

If the denizens of the West side of
the river, who are most interested in
q free bridge, have not the enterprise
to lead in the matter, it will be a
question for the people of Morgan
town to say whether they will take
it up. There is no citizen of the
county who is not interested in a
free bridge no matter whether he
ever crosses it or not. Whatever
will contribute to the general pros
perity will benefit every individual
inhabitant.
But there are almost as many To-
cal factions and jealousies in this
county rs there are natural divisions
in the territory. These factions go
upon the assumption that if any one
section Of the county gets anything
which the others don't get, that it is
good cause for war. They cannot
conceive that they, as part, of the
whole country, are certain to share
in the prosperity of any other part,
as well as in the depression and pow
erty of any other prrt. There are
many people on the west side who
would rather sacrifice any benefit
they might derive from an advance
in the prosperity of the east side than
to see the east side enjoying this
prosperity. There are many people
in the county on both sides who do
not think they have any interest
whatever in the prosperity of the
town-thar county seat. They
would rather the town would not
prosper. There are enough of these
chickering's and jealousies in the
county to1estroy a national govern
ment. W
But we must get rid of them if we
would prosper as a county. We
must get rid of them if we would
have anything in which the whole
public cal participate.
We must ignore them in this free
bridge project. We think few of
the leading citizens of our town
might get together and organize a
eompany-after ascertaining wheth-
er the bridge can be bought at rca
sonable fgure-then issue stock in
shares Of ten dollars per share to the
amount of the price of the bridge,
and agree that it shall be free to any
body holding stock enough to Offset
a reasonable toll for one year. There
will be no trouble in selling 1000
shares under such conditions. Let
somebody start the ball.
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------------------------------ - -
Morgan District Institute.

The institute will open promptly
at 8 a. m. on Saturday, Dec. 29th,
and will be conducted on the model
school plan.
First, a song and opening exercises
Is minutes.
Second, objects of the institute by
the conductor, 10 minutes.
Next, recitation in language les
sons; time 25 minutes. Discussion
30 minutes. Recess.
After recess, Recitation in Primary
arithmetic, time 20 minutes. Dis
cussion 25 minutes.
Next, recitation in reading class,
time 30 minutes. Discussion on
same 80 minutes, opened by S. II.
Morris. Adjourned to meet at l
o'clock.
Afternoon session, opened by sing
ing. First, recitation in geography
and history, time 80 minutes. Dis
cussion 30 minutes, opened by NJ.
ID. Breakiren. Recess Is minutes.
The subject of physiology will
next be discussed by various mem
bers of the institute. Its Importance
as branch Of study in the common
schools, and how it should be taught
Opened by r. W. Tapp.
The night session will be devoted
to the discussion of various questions
concerning the common schools.
Members of boards of education,
trustees. parents and the public gen
orally are cordially invited to attend
The teachers of other districts are
also invited to be present and partici-
pate in the exercises.
l.. ID. RUSSELL. Conductor.
w. II. german, Sec'y.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1888-12-22
Three Narrow Escapes from Fires.

A few mornings ago fire was dis
covered under one of the hearths oil
the wooden part Of the Commercial
Hotel. The occupants Of the build
ing were aroused and the fire extin-
guished before much damage was
done
On the day before John w. Ma
dera had narrow escape at the
News Store. Fire was discovered
on the second floor that had been
communicated from one of the fues
And now we hear that Rufus Wea-
ver's residence near Easson was dis
covered to be on fire one day last
week, but was put out before it had
gotten under Roadway.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1888-12-22
Laurel Point News.

LAUREL POINT, Dec. I7.-As
your other correspondent, c. L. s.,
has failed to give your readers any
thing to read from this place since
the campaign, | will try to give
you a few items.
Xmas will soon be here and
have heard OF nothing going on.
Our school is doing well. We
have too many scholars for one
teacher to do justice to all.
Ison Snider is building a grain
house.
The majority of the farmers are
done huslSing corn. Our crop is
nothing to brag of this season.
E. NJ. Potter had the best felo
Of corn around here.
We have not yet heard Of any
applications for our postofice.
J. P. Donley and David w. Nor
ris shipped a lot of cattle from here
last week.
Fleming & Brookover have strip
ped their mill and put in some
window lights which will add some
to the comfort of the propr!etors.
They are talking of putting down a
gas well. They will run the mil
with it and light our town if they
make a strike Morgantown will
have to hurry or we will get ahead
of them in light.
Ross Hall got a letter from his
Aunt Mollie Ross. who lives near
Smithfeld, stating that three mask
ed men had entered her house,
gagged her, gave her Chloroform
and then burnee her feet to make
her tell where her money was.
They. only got three dollars in
money. Ross has gone down to
see her.
Jess Snider bought over 50 head
of rabbits last Saturday.
Miss Maud Wilson will be at
home about the holidays. She
went home with her uncle George
Shultz. Her many friends will be
glad to see her.
Mrs. Jonathan Taylor still
keeps poorly.
Alex. Brand we are glad to note
is getting able to be up again.
Lena and Joe Riggs gave there
young friends a social Saturday
evening. The following persons
were present viz: Ella and Ida
Riggs, Grace and Gertrude Jami-
son, Annie Camp, Anna Miller
and Maud Fleming. and Charley
and Frank Stevens, H. c. Cole,
Marshal Martin, VIM. and T. L.
Brand, VIM. Henry, Mead Riggs
and G. W. Furman. They repor,
a good time.