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AIleS, BROMLEY < HOTlI|Hl
The Monticsllo Corn.r.
Our Closing Season.
Remnant Sale.
Thursday. July 18th.

We have remnant sale every
season. -four times year. Next
Thursday promises to be the
greatest yet. All short lengths
OF summer stuffs from every de-
partment will be culled out and
placed on special counters at
prices of little little inl-
portance. Percale, dimity, lawn,
batlste, gingham, pique, swiss,
organdy, silks, dress goods, dress
Innings and others will comprise
the great aggregate. Great
value. A good opportunity for
yon to save. Prices marked in
plain figures. Thursday, July
10th.
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shootIne Case to 30 Trlad.

J. NJ. O'Connor. the Ocean View h,r-
tender who shot Charles Pool in the
shoulder at Ocean View last week. win
be given preliminary hearing before
Justice Hawks i'll Huntcrsvilc this
week.
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$3.50 round trip. This will give YOU
three days in the Mountains Ii viii
improve your health and appetite.
Leave Norfolk Via n. & w. Ry. Tues
day. August l4th, 10. 80 II. IN.
j. #. HERMAN, Mgr.
July 15-1S-22- 26-29 Aug. I-5-9-l9.
UNEEDA BATH AT ocEANr-yIEw
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WEATHER REPORT.

Washington. July II.
Tor Wednesday and Thursday:
Virginia and North Carolina-Gener-
ally fair Wednesday and Thursday;
light to fresh southcrly winds.
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METEOROLOGICAL DATA.

METEOROLOGICAL DATA.
Maximum temperature .... a5
Minimum temperature ......... II
Norinal temperature .............. so
departure from normal .....plus 5
departure from normal since Jan
uary LIST NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. minus 16
Rainfall I'm past "a hours ..... Q
Rainfall since first of month. AZ
Mean relative humidity ... 63
CALENDAR.
Sun rises at 1850 Il. m. and sets at
1923 p. m.
TIDES.
High wafer at iii a. IN. and Isl p.
m. Low water at 7:2i a. m. and $40
p. m.
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Norfolk Gun Club Shoot.

The shoot for the w. n. White trophy
was won by AIr w. w. King on the
shooting grounds OF the club yesterday
afternoon. scorc as follows:
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Sorroth nna vicinity.

Fair. not so warm. light to fresh
south winds.
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Roanoke and Peaks of ottor.

uNEEDA RATH Ar OCEAN VIEW.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The marriage of Miss Annie MAY
Rowleue and Mr.. Charles Duvall Crit
nth Was soiemni5ed yesterday after
noon, at $3.50 O'Clock. at Christ Church.
KEY. DR. Carl /. Grammer officiating.
Only relatives and intimate friends
OF the contracting parties We're pres
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Mrs. 7. ]. Malbon and little son LEI
on Monday Tor the Catskills.
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Mr.. John NJ. Woodside is spending :
week ht Ocean View after which h,
will leave for Baltimore
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7.o3 n m
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groom drink cups of sake together, the
only fornlality required being the
transference of the brides name from
her fathers family to her husbands In
the government registers.
Still, as royal couples go, the en-
peror and empress are fairly contented
and happy. AS princess the empress
is said to have been very pretty, petite
of figure intelligent and animated,
even noted for her beauty, which, as
the Japanese standard differs SO much
from ours. may be accepted on trust.
When young, she was celebrated for
her proficiency in writing original
verse and playing correctly on the
native "koto," or harp of II strings. 1t
is generally agreed that all Japanese
ladies are charming, even though their
| style of beauty does not appeal to the
occidental taste, and both men and wo-
men are noted for their politeness and
captivating manners.
| Along with the change wrought in
other directions by the transformation
of Japan there was one innovation
which can hardly be regarded as COM
mendable, and this was the substitu-
ton of European garb for the pictur-
esque costumes of ancient Japan. AL
the court officials We're required by law
to wear it. and black coats. white neck.
ties and gloves, with black trousers anC
boots, have replaced the graceful robes
Formerly the empress dressed. hel
hair in the Japanese fashion, and OF
state occasions wore in a single da.
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THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF JAPAN.

lightened peace or civilization" And
this term selected to designate the
reign of Mutsu Hito was in no sense a
misnomer, for it constitutes new, a
separate, era in the history of Japan,
which within the span of less than 40
years has made an advance unparallel-
ed in the annals of any other nation.
The shogunate had not persisted with
out disturbance, for there was rebel
lion, almost anarchy, in the years 1867
and 1868; but by 1871 even the ancient
feudal system was uprooted, all titles
of the court and territorial mobiles were
eXtinguished, and the bearers of them
We're afterward known only as noble
families, or "kuazoku." That year, al
so, an embassy of 40 persons sailed
from Yokohama to visit all the coun-
tries with which Japan had treaties,
thus signifying that the government
that sent them was firmly based, abso-
lutte and supreme.
| The emperor was married in Febru-
airy, 1869, only three months after he
had attained his sixteenth birthday, tt
| the Princess Harullo, who was born il
May, 1850, and is consequently two
years and six months older than hel
| royal consort. The empress was {
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ance on the stage of public affairs at
most critical period of his country's
history. Fortunately for Japan, and
to the infinite betterment of interna-
tional relations, this descendant of a
hundred generations of imperial ances-
tors was equal to the emergency. The
product of a seclusive dynasty extend
ing through more than $500 years,
nursed among traditions of royal pre-
negatives and taught to believe himself
a heaven descended son of the gods, yet
Mutsu Hito, casting tradition and prec-
edent to the winds, condescended to
regard himself as mere mortal
The second son of Komei by his wife,
the Empress Asako, he was connected
on his mothers side with the famous
family of Fujiwara or s"wistaria mead
ow," which had furnished Japan with
innumerable statesmen since the elev-
enth century. A conservative by birth
and environed by all the forces that
make for despotism, the young en-
peror nevertheless put away the temp
tations that beset him to continue the
feudalism, the seclusiveness and the
tyranny of the ancient regime and res
olutely set his face toward civilization
| and progress. He was aided in this,
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13 different dresses, all of silk, and of
course all beautiful. The change in
court etiquette has done away with
this, but the empress dons heavy
court dress at early morning, and, no
matter what the temperature may be,
wears it without change until the time
for retiring at night. Her habits, as
we'll as those of the emperor, are of the
simplest. Both rise between and Z
O. clock in the morning, usually break
fast, lunch and dine together. and
sometimes receive guests at their Ia
bles, with whom they chat informally
on matters of mutual interest.
"L'Imperatrice Printemps," as ia
nous French author has called her
the Springtime Empress-is greatly
reverenced by her subjects, and she
seems to have earned their affection
and devotion, for much of her time is
given to charity. Her pet hobby is the
| "Peeresses' school," which she estab-
lished in Tokyo, and in which she has a
suite OF private apartments. A lady
who was at one time teacher in that
school and knew the empress well says
| of her: "She is a small. slender woman
with a face that seems sad, with pa,
! tient look about it that is pathetic
They say she is very intellectual wo
man, and one of great beauty an(
strength of character. She has je
| black hair, her face is long and thin
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1881. After this was repealed centuries
of civil war succeeded, at the end of
which the shogunate of Tokugawa was
founded and practically ruled Japan
from 1903 until 1867, during which pc
riod the country enjoyed profound
peace. Christianity was introduced in
1549, and the Portuguese We're given
permission to trade at certain ports of
Japan. They became unruly and We're
banished in 1889, when their privileges
were transferred to the Dutch, who
| held the commercial monopoly for more
| than two centuries.
| 1t was America, the country diScov-
cred by Columbus in his search for IL
pangu (mentioned by Marco Polo, the
1 first European to visit and write of ia
lpan), that first sent to open diplomatic
communication with the mikado's
country. This was the famous expedi-
! ton of 1852 under Commodore Perry,
which was successful in the double
sense that treaty was wrested from
Japan-Tthe first it ever concluded with
4 any nation-and the seed was planted
/ which terminated and has developed
i into the Japan of today. Commodore
Perry, however, and all the foreign en-
yoys who followed in his wake scram-
4 bling for their share of Japan's COM
lmercial possibilities, made the mistake
of treating with the shotgun, or the
i tycoon, as he was sometimes styled
instead of with the mikado For, while
+ the shotgun may have been the de factt
4 ruler, the only visible embodiment OF
Authority. yet the despot de jure was
; the mikado, secreted in his royal pal
lace at Kioto, without whose sanction
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daughter Of Prince lcnijo Tadaka.
member of one of the noble families of
Japan. Her name signifies springtime.
She is descended from the Fujiwara
| clan, from which the highest offices in
| the empire are always filled, and from
which the emperors are compelled to
select their wives. 1t was particularly
desirable at the time it was consum-
mated that the marriage should be ac-
cording to precedent, owing to the dis
turbed condition of the country and the
unrest among the mobiles; so it may
have been more a matter of conven-
| fence than attachment to the parties
directly concerned The silver we'd
ding, celebrated Feb. 8, 1894, with ma
tional rejoicings, was commemorated
by the issue of two postage stamps OF
unusual size and brilliancy of decora-
ton, inscribed in English: Imperial
Japanese Post. Imperial Wedding.
| Twenty fifth Anniversary" Much
amusement was created among those
cognizant of the flimsy character of the
Japanese wedding ceremony, which is
hardly more impressive or binding than
the once popular custom of jumping
over broomstick. The marriage tie is
not considered sacred, divorces are
granted on the most trivial pretexts
and the actual ceremony is neither le-
gal nor religious, consisting chiefly OF q
dinner party, at which the bride and
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even forced to it, by the unusual events
Immediately precedent to and succeed
ing his assumption of the imperial
crown. But one less advanced and en-
lightened than he might have been
moved to oppose the irresistible current
of events, as the Chinese have done,
and have gone down amid the universal
ruin of his empire.
Succeeding to the throne in 1857 at
the early age of 15, Mutsu Hito was
crowned in October, 1868, at the castle
of Milo, an ancient feudal fertilization,
and there received the three gifts said
to have been brought from heaven by
the sun goddess, Izanami, thousands OF
years before. These celestial regalia of
Japanese sovereignty are a sword, a
mirror and a crystal ball, which have
been treasured by the court from time
limmemorial.
The next year. 1869, the court and
capital We're removed from Kioto to
| Tokyo, and here the mikado-"ex exalted
gate, sublime porte"-began his 'meiji,
or chronological period signifying en-
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The Present and Future Rulers Of the Island Empire
Which Is Entitled to It's New Given Designa-
ton, "Ihe Great Britain of the Orient"

lilies of mobiles had arisen, and imperial
authority was weakened by the loose
ness of the succession, dependent as it
was upon the arbitrary will of the
sovereign, who could name any one he
chose as his successor. The throne
thus became the prey of rival factions
and princes. A governor general, or
generalissimo, called the Shotgun" was
therefore appointed. The first Shotgun"
was the renowned Yoritomo, who about
the end of the twelfth century became
so powerful that the mikado's author
ity was merely nominal.
The only attempted invasion of Japan
on a large scale was that Of the Mon
gous under the great kuhJai Khan in
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any foreign country was sent to the
United States in 1860; but the signing
of treaties with our government had
excited popular distrust, and the re-
gent who had dispatched the embassy
was assassinated in a public street of
Yedo in broad daylight. But the Japa-
nese, unlike their brother orientals, the
Chinese, accepted the lesson Of their
defeat at the hands of the foreigners as
evidence of the invincible power. of the
Outside barbarians" and did not need
to be thrashed again. They We're re-
ceptive and intelligent and chose to
copy the western civilization, to benefit
by it's teachings and assimilate what
they could of its progress, rather than
oppose it and be crushed At this juno
| ture the recuperative force that had
lain dormant for centuries in the impe-
rial line asserted itself, the ''shogunate"
! was abolished, the antiquated feudal
system ended, the "daimos." or territo-
rial MOBILES and their 'samurai." or mill
| tary retainers, shorn of their titles and
privileges, and all power was centered
| in the mikado.
1t was the shotgun or tycoon who had
met Commodore Perry and signed the
treaty that brought about the trans
formation of Japan, and it was the
then reigning emperor, Komei, who
practically repudiated that instrument.
Komei died in 1867, and his son and
successor, Mutsu Hito, the present en-
peror, came to the throne, to which, in
1860, he had been declared heir appar-
emit. He was born in 1852, at the very
time the Americans were entering the
ports of Japan, and made his appear"
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no treaty with a foreign power was
considered binding. The Shotgun. in
deed, was merely a very convenient
buffer between the invisible emperor
and the foreign envoy, who, while ap-
parently in absolute power, was yet
clothed with no real authority. This
policy of deception wrought it's own
downfall, however, when, acting under
orders from the imperial court at XII
OTTO, the Shotgun or tycoon of Choshiu.
in 1868, fired upon ships of the treaty
powers, in return for which the Japa-
nese were thoroughly whipped and
compelled to pay an indemnity OF
So, 000.0
The first Japanese embassy to visit
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TIE EkpEROR

scope of this transformation, not only In
the Japanese government system but
in the emperor himself, it is necessary
to consider the lineage of this remark
able ruler, the traditions of his early
training and environment, and the
more than medieval darkness into
which Japan was plunged before it's
ports We're by treaties opened to for
eign nations.
According to Japanese legend. the
islands and the imperial family have
been coeXistent ever since the primal
creation. The heavenly Izanagi, TAX
ing in hand his jeweled spear, plunged
1t into the sea, and the drops which
fell from it's point crystallized into is
lands, upon which the god and his
mate, Izanami descended and took up
their abode. This historic genealogical
story is pretty and poetical, but it
does not account for the aboriginal
Amos, the hairy men of Yezo, from
whom it is believed the Japanese are
descended.
However the semimythological peri
cd is rather extensive, and it was in
about the middle of it that the Japs
were ruled by lingo Kogo. an empress
regent who conquered Korea and whose
son, deified at his death, became the
Japanese god of war. The first real
emperor, Jimmu Tenno, assembled the
throne about 600 B. c., according to the
official, but mythical, chronology. Stu
dents of Japanese history give no cree
dence to this tale of the first mikado,
who was born of dragon, and ruth
lessly cut down the record nearly a
thousand years. Whether he dates
from the year GOO B. c., or, as the mod
ern critics assert, from the fourth CEN
q tury, A. D., the present mikado has an
undoubted lineage from the latter date
and can trace his ancestry back to MIN
toku, who reigned between 313 and 800
n A. D.-that is he is either the one hun
dred and fourth or the one hundred
and twenty-third in the direct success
sion who has sat upon the throne, and
can boast a genealogical tree beside
Which that of many scion of royalty
pales into insignificance.
IIany of the reigns are authenticated
by contemporary events which are wei
known. such as the introduction OF
Buddhism into Japan in the year 552
when a prince of Korea presented the
emperor with a collection of books anC
idols The Buddhist faith was de
clared to be fully tolerated in 500, under
the first acknowledged empress of ia
pan, Suiko, and just 100 years later the
national beverage, sake, was invented
Fifty years after gold was first discov
cred and money coined, but 1t was no
until about S25 that native alphabe
was invented. BY this time great fam
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HrHE Transformation of Japan from
an obscure nation without rank
n or recognition 40 years ago to
one occupying plane with first class
powers, like Germany, Great Britain
and the United States, has been termed
the great miracle of the nineteenth
century. And the one man most con-
spicuous in this work of regeneration,
especially in latter years. by which that
nation has in sense deorientalized it,
self, is its present ruler, the emperor,
who is called the most enlightened and
progressive man in the island empire,
and worthy to rank with the greatest
men of our time.
10 understand fully the extent and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-09
GRAHAM LOSES ITS PREACHERS.
One Goes to Franklin, Virginia, Another to HiI
Old Home Chapel Hill.

Graham, n. c., Sept. S.-Rev. c. II. Row.
land, pastor OF New Providence Christian
Church, at Graham, has accepted call
to a church at Franklin, in Eastern Vir-
ginia much to the regrc; o. his congrega-
tion and the entire community.
Mrs. H. w. Scott returned from New
York yesterday much improved in health
Miss Berta Mebane, of Greensboro, is
her on visit ito her brothers, Robert s..
and Hal Mebane. "at
Rev. H. w. McCorkle, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian Church at this place,
accompanied by Mrs. McCorllle. Is taking
a months much needed rest. and visiting
the formers mother in Talladega, Ala.
Rev. j. c. Hocutt, who for years has
been pastor of the Baptist Church here,
has decided to resign and move back to
Chapel Hill, his old home. He will be
greatly missed, not only by his own con
gregation, hut by all, and the Graham
people are loath to give him UP.
Misses Bessie Scott and Nellie Norwood
returned last Wednesday to the Presby-
Gerian school at Charlotte.
The county commissioners have ordered
a new fire proof vault built in the court
house, as we'll as improvements to be
made on the grounds around the same
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-09
M|DDLE-OF ROAD
ELECTORAL TICKET
A Movement on Foot For One
in This State.
MuAT Ii M0lIl n hAEAM
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN
The Republicans Openly Aiding and
Abetting the Scheme.
PoPULIsTs SAY THEY'RE TIRED OF FUSION
Dr.. Cyrus Thompson Considers it the One Fatal
Mistake His Party in North Carolina
Has Made. He Favors Middle
of-the- Road Ticket,

1t now appears very likely that there
will be a Middle of the road Populist
electoral ticket put out in North Carolina.
The Populist leaders in the recent State
campaign are declaring that they are OPP
posed to either Bryan or Mckinley, and
that they will vote for Barker and Dom
nelly if there is an electoral ticket for
them in the State.
In view of these declarations, a move
ment has been started to the end that a
Mlddle-of- the-road convention shall be
called to meet in Raleigh to name electors
and appoint an executive committee who
shall have charge of the campaign.
The matter is in charge of J. p. Sossa-
mon, OF Charlotte, the provisional chair
man of the Middle -of-the-roaders for this
State. He is in correspondence with the
party leaders and others, trying to ascer-
tain their sentiments and enlist their sup
port of the movement for a Barker and
Donnelly ticket in North Carolina.
DR.. Cyrus Thompson was one of those
here to whom Sossamon wrote. He re-
piled that he was in thorough accord with
the movement and would vote the ticket
if nominated. In no event, he added,
would he vote for either Bryan or Nc
Kinley.
Asked why he would not again vote for
Bryan as ne did four years ago, DR..
Thompson replied that he would have
voted fer Bryan if Towne had been given
the second place on the ticket.
But when he was taken off ii became
a straight Democratic ticket and no Pop
ulist can vote it now and maintain either
his self-respect or his party organiza-
ticn."
DR.. Thompson added that he was tired
of fusion and thought it the one fatal
mistake his party in North Carolina has
made
Other POpulists are expressing much the
same opinion in regard to fusion, while
the Republicans are replying that If it
had not been for them no Populist in the
State would ever have got into office.
In their efforts to put out a Middle-of-
the-road ticket, however, they are being
aided and encouraged by the Republicans,
who believe that by such a movement
many votes may be given to Barker That
would otherwise go to Bryan. This, it can
De rcadlly seen, WOuld materially help VIZ
Kinley. All Populists who can be induced
to vote for Mckinley will do so anyway,
and half dozen Middle Of the-road tick
cts could not prevent it.
This Middle of thc-road scheme lis such
bold and plain one, bearing the Republi-
can stamp so Enthusiastically, that 1t is safe
to say that no honest and patriotic man
who favors the principles advocated. by
the Kansas City or Sioux City platforms
will have anything to do with it.
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THE GRAVES MONUMENT.
1t Keeps Hanging Fire, But Will be Erected
Soon.
Greensboro Record)


The monument to the late Calvin
Graves, of Caswell county, whose political
career was brought to a close i'm connec-
tion with his vote on the North Carolina
Railroad charter, has been hanging fire for
year or more The stockholders OF this
road long time ago decided to erect a
monument to his memory at this place,
at a spot near where the last spike was
driven by him.
l. W. Durham, of Charlotte was given
the contract, and was proceeding with the
work. when some hitch occurred as to
where it was to be located and as to the
style of it. The erection of the new pas
senger depot here and the changes on the
yard made 1t necessary to- defer the mat
ter for a while. 1t is likely now, how
ever, that 1T will be proceeded with and
that ct will be placed in front OF the sta
tion, facing south on Elm, on the grass
plat, where n pretty mound of flowers are
growing The idea at first was to erect 1t
between South Elm and South Davie, at
a spot near where the spike was driven.
hut 1T was contended that it would not be
seen by half the people passing on foot or
on the cars, and this is true.
If placed in front of the station the de-
sign will be different--at least not so
much in the nature of tombstone.