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man. "The shock to the brain from the
heavy, very heavy falling blade ought to
produce immediate coma, and before the
brain can theoretically recover the head
has lost all its blood-and possibility of
mental action"
THE man never knows what struck
him?"
The last of the guillotiners hesitated.
Father told me something. Around
1880 the celebrated Prof. Sappey and DR..
Dassy de Lignieres got permission to ex-
pertinent with the fresh-cut head OF
Languille at Orleans. They made a liga-
ture in the left carotid. firmly adapted
tube Of caoutchouc to the primitive right
carotid and branched the other end of
the tube in the central end of the left
carotid artery of large and robust liv-
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always been bitterly against capital pun
ishment and. with President Fallieres. has
just yielded only to popular clamor-thus
ferociously wrote of the guillotining Of
the cultivated young anarchist, Emile
Henry exactly hundred years after the
guillotining of Louis XVI.
The lines, written by Clemenceau in
1884 have just been reprinted all over
Paris. with immense sensation. Personal
ly,'' says the famous prime minister, my
sentiments have nowise changed
He tells how. rolling in a cab at am,
to be on time for the daybreak execution,
he passed the heroic statue of the republic
in the Place du Chateau d'Eau:
''She held out her olive branch bringing.
she says, peace among men. Why does
she not hold headsman's az In the other
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Vromant, AuguSte Pollet, 1heophlIe De-
roo and Abel Toilet.
All France shuddered.
TWENTY other accumulated victims wait
IN French tails to have their heads cut
off by this gentle young man in the next
two months.
France shudders-but is finally con-
WINGED that gu!llotining is the only means
to check the flood of killing that stains
the fair land graced by consistent presi-
Dental combinations.
Let us not kill, but show mercy"
pleaded tender-hearted Fallieres, backed
by the unexpectedly sentimental Clemen-
ceau, whose holy Indignation against capt.
tai punishment you shall read In the
past two years Fallieres committed one
hundred and two death sentences.
LET the assassins begin showing
mercy finally answered the united press,
the juries of all France and a majority
vote of parliament.
So. by night. the black wagon of the
suillotine quit its shed in the poets gar
den behind the hothouses of the daffodils,
At the corner of the Rue ST. Maur a
policeman stopped it:
where's your lanterns?" The black
clad driver whispered why he. among
millions, ought not show a white light
front and red light back-and passed on.
black into the black night At the North
railway station the guillotine wagon was
put on q truck, covered with canvas and
marked Paris to Bethune In many
places What If 1t should go wrong?
Four men waited II at Bethune in the
morning.
The four men-unconscious of their fate
were singing, smoking, drinking table
wine and playing cards with the death
watch, their boon companions six months
past.
They were ignorant of the capital pun
ishment agitation and the vote OF par
lament. convinced that nothing had
changed since their condemnation.whe
tho president. having committed Soeil-
land. the hatefuest, could not consist
entity let any head fall after. Abel Pollet,
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in the big stores: she sells you your tick
cts in the Offices of the railway stations;
she aids in the management of the no
tells at which you stay; and If You be-
come Ill, she administers your medicines
as the trained nurse of the hospitals.
She is fast taking her place in the ranks
of every industry, and as stenographer
and typewriter is now found in many of
the native factories, banks and other
financial establishments.
There are more than 100000 children
in the public schools of Japan, and at
least 5000, 600 of them are girls. They
are required to wear a school uniform.
and morning and afternoon the streets
are filled with this female educational
army going along singly or hand in hand.
with their books wrapped up in bundles.
on their way to and from school The
girls wear skirts of dark red or Plum
color, above which show out the upper
parts of their kimonos, that take the
place of our shirt waists. Most of them
carry paper umbrellas and many walk
on wooden Shoes When it rains they
have sandals about three inches high, ano
as they hold up their skirts they show
a bit of bare skin above their white
foot mittens.
x
These girls are of all ages, from little
tots Of FIVE who are going to the kinder
gartens. up to young ladies of eighteen
or more on their way to the high schools
normal schools and academies. The COM
pulsory school age is from six to four
teen. during which the girls have until
now been compelled to attend for period
of four years. This time has been ex-
tended to six years. and the tendency is
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is japanese etiquette. The professor at
the head of this department Is an old
man of the Samurai class, who is said
to be the best of his kind in Japan. 1
watched him put about twenty young Ia
dies through the proper evolutions neces-
sary to the reception of a guest. The
girls had to bend just so. keeping their
backs perfectly straight as they bowed.
and spreading their hands out on the
mats while they bent their heads to the
floor. Their actions were wonderfully
graceful, but the old gray-haired profess
was in accord with the rules and not a
hairs breadth out Of the way.
Japan now has a university for women.
1t was founded about eight years ago by
DR.. Jinzo Naruse, who Is its president.
1t has been aided by the emperor and en-
of japan. The empress gave 1000 yen
toward it at the time of its opening and
many public men are contributing to its
support. This institution has now 1,3O9
students and there are about 800 in it's
dormitories. I have spent the greater
part of today in going through it. Sit
uated on the outskirts of Toxic. it has
from fifteen to twenty acres of beautiful
grounds. Its main buildings are of for
eign style. Some are Of brick and some
filled with magnificent trees and have a
fine outlook over hill and hollow.
X
The institution has about 100 alumnae
already, although the first class was
graduated only six years ago. The first
building I entered was the alumnae hall.
The alumnae call themselves the Cherry
and Maple Club. They are organized
and they are doing great deal to fur
Their the university. They publish a col
lege newspaper, known as the Home
Weekly, which deals altogether with col
lege subjects and school news. They run
a store, where the girls can buy any
thing they need from pins and needles
to candy. perfumery and soap and where
are sold stationery, books and other
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LOOK AT THE GYMNASIUMs AND GIRL ATH-
n LETES-HOW THE MOBILES DAUGHTERS ARE
MISUNDERSTANDING JAPANESE ETIQUETTE
THE HIGHER EDUCATION, AND HOW IT FUR
THEIRS MATRIMONY-WHAT THE ALUMNI ASSO-
CATION DOES-JAPANS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
ITS THREE MILLION GIRL PUPILS-SOME WON
DERFUL DEVELOPMENTS ALONG EDUCATIONAL
LINES
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peers and princes of Japan. This was
opened fifteen years ago. and it now has
six hundred pupils. The school Is under
the direct supervision of the imperial
household and is not in any way connect
ed with the educational department which
manages the other schools. 1t is re-
markable in that it is made up largely of
the daughters Of the highest classes, and
in that 1t includes several princesses be-
longing to branches of the royal family.
Its girls may be said to belong to the
topmost layer Of the upper crust of the
creme de la creme of Japan.
1 would like to take some of the Ameri-
can girls, who are reading this letter, on
visit to these peeresses at school. We
shall take our jinrikishas and, pulled by
our human steeds. in their scanty trousers
and butterbowl hats. go through the
streets of Toxic and climb the hill on
which the school stands. 1t is back of the
foreign office and not far from the palace.
There are beautiful gardens about it, and
its great buildings of brick and stone are
surrounded by quaint pines. trained in
japanese fashion: by brown leafed naples.
and the ferns. flowers and other conceits
of these artistic landscape gardeners.
There is no campus, but there are large
yards for exercising, and there is q great
gymnasium where a hundred or SO of the
girls go through all the evolutions of mod
ern athletics. We are met at the door by
one of the professors, for we have a letter
Of introduction from the foreign Office.
and this exclusive school is thrown open
to us. The professor speaks English and
he explains as we go.
We first visit some of the classrooms AS
we go through the halls we meet many
students. They are of all ages. from tots
in the kindergarten to young lady seniors.
and all are dressed in the common school
costume of Japan. Although they may
be the daughters of princes and mobiles
who in most cases are rich,' they all dress
the same way and wear the same cos
tune. No frills or furbelows are to be
seen anywhere, the only difference being
in the arrangement of the hair. The faces,
however, are aristocratic and refined. Most
of the girls come of long lines of high
ancestry. and many Of them are beautiful.
How polite they are! They bend almost
double as they pass the professor. and
there is no sign of rudeness to be seen
anywhere.
During our stay we visit the gymnasium.
Here one hundred of these Japanese maid
ems are marching back and forth at the
direction of the teacher. She raises her
hands, and their two hundred bare arms
come up in the air. She makes a motion
and they fall again to their sides. The
girls have dumbbells with which they prac-
tice the setting-up exercises. They rise
and fall on their toes, and they go
through all the evolutions of the drill as
they march back and forth. a body of one
hundred Acknowledged, cream-coiored ANA
IONS in plum-colored skirts. Observe them
as they go. Their shoulders are well back
and they walk like soldiers. The teacher
wears a gymnasium costume which shows
the outlines of her FORM She would
make a model for statue of Diana and
the most Of her pupils are equally robust.
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HE guillotine stood
idle ten years in its
shed. Monsieur de
Paris" who looks
like a prematurely
bald young doctor.
wrote q book of
poetry, cultivated
daffodils and JON
quils under glass.
Then, suddenly, by
order, he cut of
the heads of Canut-
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W RITE of the
Japanese girl of
today; not of Yum
Yum, Nine. Chrys-
antheme or Miss
CherryblosSom. the
dainty plaything OF
the past, but of the
live. wideawake,
up-to-date, pushing
maiden of 1909
You may see her
acting as cashier
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Copyright. 1909. by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
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MONSIEUR DE PARIS" AG

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, January 90, 1909
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hand? In my heart" says Clemenceau, az
called her liar" Then we passed the
statue of Ledru-Rollins. theatrically hold
ing out the universal suffrage urn, pro-
claiming: Here's salvation Doubtless,
friend. but it's long coming
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
METZ ON SUBWAYS.
Mr. ShOnts Wants Third Track on
EIeUated Before Building, He Says.

Controller Metz said last night at meeting OF
.he East fremont Taxpayers Association, in The
Bronx that President Shonts had told him that he
was willing TO build a subway up Lexington ave
nue. and would not even ask the city for a dollar
if they would let the Interborough put third track
on the Third avenue elevated railroad. Mr.. Metz
said that this was a great secret, as he had seen
Mr. Shonts a few hours before.
Here's something not a living soul knows l
went to see Mr. Shonts yesterday he said He
told me he was glad to see me. He showed me a
letter which he said he going to send TO Com
missioner Wilcox making lot Of new propositions
about subways This letter is not signed yet, but
I have his word that Commissioner Wilcox Will
get it in a couple Of days. President Shonts told
me this Yesterday. He said: IF they viii give
a grant expire the same time as that of the
nresent subway we will build the Lexington ave-
me subway up and down IL planned origt-
nally and if they will give a third track the
Third avenue elevated line, will not ask the
citv for a dollar We will put up the money our
selves
so. you see, if you let the Interborough take
care of Manhattan and The Bronx the city will
have money TO help Brooklyn and the other bor-
ogl that need transportation facilities. The city
can't take care of all the boroughs, because it
hasn't got the money, and can't get it. The rail-
v-avs used TO make money out OF watering stock.
Under present laws they have to make their money
ont of fares Railways will therefore be built only
where they'll pay and ,where private capital can't
,,aLa money 1 don't want my money, a tax
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
YOUNG HEIRESS ELOPES
Father Furious at Marriage of
Eighteen-Y Year-OH Daughter.

When tears and pleading failed to break down
the opposition of a father who thought his eigh-
teen-year-old daughter too young marry, Miss
augusta Mapes, an heiress of West Chester eloped
on Sunday night with William D. Howell, twenty
SIX years old, who is prosperous contractor and
builder, living the old Revolutionary home
stead OF the Mapes family in West Chester Village
Inc yourg couple went to Hoboken in company with
Charles Baxter and Miss Agnes Wenninger friends,
ana were married by the Rev. c. H. Lucas. pastor
or the First Methodist Episcopal Church there.
The father of the girl Henry c. Mapes.
ragged when he learned of the marriage, and has
since been making vain search for the elopers.
According 20 neighbors and friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Howell, the elopement the elimination Of
I a romance Of long standing. Miss Mapes lived in
a picturesque old Colonial mansion, No. 800
Silver STREET, Chester Village with her father
mother AMI brother Lambert. through her early
years, and among her childhood playmates
young Howell As the young couple grew up they
fell in love, but the age of the girl was urged
against their marriage Four yeas ago the girls
mother died leaving an estate valued at $4,000 to
be divided between Augusta and Lambert when
they should come of age Lambert is a promis-
ing young lawyer of West Chester Village 1t IS
I said that under the viii of her grandmother Miss
Mapes viii some day have property valued at more
than 81 1,00o010
/ When Miss Mapes came of age recently she
sought her father. and begged permission to marry
the she had chosen long before. The neigh
bors say that Mr.. Mapes shared the admiration Of
the of the villagers for his wculd-be son-in-
law, but that in his daughters age he saw a. in
( surmountable obstacle to early marriage.
II then that Augusta and William consulted.
and decided 10 disregard the paternal injunction.
Under cover OF darkness Miss Mapes made nightly
trips home Of a friend, each time carrying
heavily laden suitcase. In this way she was able
mobilize in the safe retreat Of her friends home
a goodly part Of her wardrobe-enough, in fact. for
a months honeymoon, as this same friend later
nounced.
After the ceremony on Sunday Miss Wennnger
hurried back to West Chester where she told the
father Of the marriage. There q scene. and the
left his lonely home, possibly to search for
the elopers although neighbors believe he is hiding
himself in the home Of friends. He has already
declared ii said that will of his daughter
I IN hi will.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
AGREE WITH GOVERNOR.
Insurance officials Say Superin-
tendent Should Conduct Liquidation.

Prominent officers of life insurance companies IN
city discussed with interest yesterday Governor
Hughes's message to the Legislature recommend
ing that power be given the Superintendent of In
surance similar 10 that given year ago TO the
banking superintendent Most Of them approved
the idea that the superintendent should be allowed
to conduct the liquidation OF insolvent companies,
but they thought that IL would be giving too much
power allow him absolutely to decide whether or
not the company was insolvent
Paul Morton president Of the Equitable Life As
surance Society, said: Il think it is all right for
the Superintendent Of Insurance to conduct the
liquidation Of insovent insurance companies after
they shall have been properly declared insolvent."
George e Ide. president Of the Home Life In
surance Company, in speaking to a Tribune re
porter, said:
Il am thoroughly in favor Of the Governors
recommendation. I don't think any plan tnat
would better satisfy the requirements Of the situa-
ton could be devised under present conditions. 1t
IS indeed step in the right direction. and I hope
that II will be adopted"
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
lG.515X-=22Zy 2 years
S34.6

-rtis means that saving the life of child dur
Ststes Ss IS as a community 222 years Of potential
worker. AS matter OF fact 70 P1cfil Per Cf. g class
III nIIl- ( per cent with extremely low blrJh
rate and tnfantiIe m2rtaHtSn I .Concentrafion of
Wesitb n Isl Therefore the saving Of children
nobsbv sfrect only the productive classes Among
those about - per cent are men me- ISar Nm az out 81
Witch group only one-quarter are actually . pro
Guctiye'' being occupied in galn1uI operations
T1oited States Census. 1900)
This means that out of o. years of possible pro
t6ere are p 2xO5OtI4 O50)-13S75l4 years OF actua
pT4dT,s'Fe ,s conpsTativey difficult to find exact
equivalent of the value of WORKER ySSt S 90 cII @
,I DhiteG 'ms9ufactures exclusive of agriculture
TRANSFORMATION and mining, we ma from tIle taL @
onded eI 1I TO each wage Garner in 1850 value II
products of 1880; in 1880 veIue ot : 6 P0o'S VI
taking the same rate Of increase we may saIeIy @
assume ii thp9 ba IN veTv lyiO near e $3.50 year
rherefore the total equivalent in money, ON the
snaPe snap ar5 .. = Of active productive work Of baby
saved during the first year OF It's lie VIII De
that the average time worker has
to support his family ana L1e Led - ~ vii he FAMILY
sinporters and considering that the ayeTage Wases
sus 1900 Cin manufacturer are S450 yeaG ar We
ard that 37520-4OE i29-St.0 o.oVV-S5V-t-V -
HIo tt et saving resulting TO the community as a
Whole from the saving of each infant under the age
OF e ore se i each year in United States about
az 000 babies under the age OF one year-a6out
81 t'UOo &C many as die from tuberculosis This
as that the possible net loss 10 the United
States from infantile deaths Is equal to EoooSVOV
coo , ,,.,,., e. sas,,s ., be ms
NJ 10 hover the infantile death rate to some
bsra near 100 in a thousand living babies labout
90 . in a thousand babies born), l. e.. to enect a
decrease in infantile mortahty OF 4o0-4-IOo-0''4'
or about 40 per cent
oi irii9 then would mean n possible net saving to
.,,l limited States as a whole through prevention
~ irfantile mortality of S26 300 000 As the total
eath Of the United States at present Is estlma ted
rear $1O6 600 O00 O00 this will mean an additional
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
NEW BLOW IN OIL TRIAL.
Government NuSt Shoe 1t Can
PrOre STANDARD Rate.

Chicago. March s.-The governments case in the
re-trial Of the Standard on Company OF Indiana.
which so far has Jared unfortunately in Judge
AndersOns court. narrowly avoided death blow
to-day. Judge Anderson. who is following the rJi-
ings Of the Court Of Appeals with unvarying
fidelity, held that the government must prove, as
alleged in the Indictment, that there was a
standard rate for oil shipments between Whiting.
IND, and East St. Louis, at the time OF the Of
feuses with which the defendant is charged and
that the defendant knowingly accepted a lower
secret rate. The court declared that the govern
raent must convince him that il would be able TO
prove this.
Il the request Of Assistant District Attorney
TIlkerson. court unexpectedly adjourned until to-
morrow 10 ALLOW time for the preparation Of argu-
nents 10 show that the required evidence viii be
forthcoming Judge Anderson's ruling will, it is
said. compel the government TO ask for leave TO
amend the indictment. Although the government
counsel did directly state that refusal TO al
low this amendment 10 be made would be q death
bow 10 the prosecution their admissions made this
inference obvious.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
HOLD PITTsBURGERs FOR EMBRACERY
Iray Telegraph to The TrIoune1

[By Telegraph to The Tribune
Pittsburg March 9.-True bills returned to-
day by the grand jury in the cases of Charles and
John Colbert accused Of attempting to brbe jurors
In connection with the recent councilmanic graft
trials In ali there three bills, ,one charging
the two men jointly with conspiracy and one
against each of them charging embracery.
It became known to-day that Dallas c. Byers, a
rich steel man, who had been summoned to appear
before District Attorney Blakeley in the graft in
curry, has gone TO Europe. L. NJ Byers sent word
to-day that D. c. Byers had gone the trip for
his health but that he, K. M. Byers. would appear
before the District Attorney and answer all ques-
tions Mayor Guthrie spent two hours to-day with
District Attorney Blakeley.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
Ex-BUsBAND KILLS DIVORCED WIFE
She Had Enticed Their Child to Her Home
Father Demanded Return.

Baltimore March s.-Lying dead beside her bed
or which her baby daughter lay screaming. Mrs
Augusta Zacharda was found by neighbors to-day
she had been shot ana killed by her former hus-
band, Charles Zacharda a bohemian. following
quarrel over the possession Of another daughter
Aaenne, six years DID
The couple were divorced, and the court had given
ne mother possession of the children. Of whom
mere are four Three Of them, however, have
oeen living with their father and grandmother
ans Zaclarda yesterday met Etienne she was
coming from school ana took the child home with
Aef keeping her all night. The quarrel and shoot
Mg followed the fathers demand for the imme-
oale return Of Etienne, who with her baby sister,
vas The only witness % the affair Zacharda
YES arrested al his mothers house shortly after
Tie shooting