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tendants. There are something like 10000
souls in the palaces and the buildings
about and ii is their duty to DO as the
empress doWager wills There are man
servants and woman servants. as Weil as
princes and ladies in waiting. One or
the largest classes of the household as
comnosed of eunuchS. They have been
the servants of the Chinese emperor as
far back as the time of Christ. and they
are mentioned in Chinese history about
1000 b. c. There are more than three
thousand of them employed 10 serve MS
imperial majesty, and each has JOB or
his own The eunuchs belong to forty-
eight different departments. Some are
mere servants, others take care or the
imnerial silks, jewelry and all sorts Oh
reasures, and some wait on the ladies'
in the employ of the emperor. Inc eIl,
nress dowager has her own force, and
thera are also lama priests. who supply
the spiritual wants of the housenoio.
A. tho head of these eunuchs is man
who has cut big figure in the recent
history of China He was for years the
favorite of the great dowager. and 1t was
charged that he largely ruled Ihina
through her. He has committed all sorts
of extortions and has made great for-
tune by squeezing the officials "ho'
through him, got the ear of the old en-
press dowager. 1t is sure that he is no"
a man of enormous wealth. Indeed, ne
had so much money In the Chinese banks
of Peking that he created panic When
the old empress died by saying that ne
was going to withdraw his deposits.
A half dozen banks then failed on this
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and many feet high. There are huge
towers over the gates to this wall, and
officers in uniform stand just below.
They keep out all but the servants of
the palace and the highest of the Chinese
officials, and the ordinary Chinaman has
no idea of what goes on within. 1t is
only by standing upon the wall of the
Tartar City that a stranger can see any
thing, and then only the roofs All he
sees is wilderness of high, broad build
ings covered with bright yellow tiles,
which glisten like gold under the sun.
The buildings 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 last en-
peror was confined by the great dow
ager when he would not do as she COM
manded. 1t may be that as Pu "
grows older he may object to the orders
Of the present empress dowager snd
have the same prison-home for time.
The imperial baby will have many at
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sion. Some of the requirements he could
only perform by proxy, but word was sent
out over the country giving his imperial
actions. and according to the publications
he acted as young man rather than
baby. He was really carried into the
throne room in the arms of his father,
Prince Chun. who had already been made
the imperial regent. / am told he cried
when he came in and that his father
quieted him by promising to buy him
pony.
The officials wore their gorgeous court
dresses. The new empress dowager was
on the throne, and, according to the Pc
king Gazette, the baby emperor got down
before her and made three kneelings and
nine prostrations. The officials also
kneeled when they asked his majesty to
accept the throne, and after lot of other
fubdubbery they placed him on the jew
eed seat with his face to the south" If
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emperor is thus really the nephew of the
last emperor, but he is his son by adop-
tion.
X
pu vi is the great-grandson of the En-
neror Tao Kwang, who ruled China from
1921 to 1850. His grandfather by adop-
ton was Emperor Hsien Feng. who mar
ried the great empress dowager, OF whom
pu vi in his edicts now speaks of as his
..holy grandmother.
was in Pekipg when Pu VI was
crowned. The ceremonies took place IN
side the Pink Forbidden City, and only the
highest officials of China We're present.
The baby was brought forth and made to
go through the rites fixed for the occa-
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ONE OF PU yrs PALACES.

now on must regard 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 She 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 Mauchu, and her mother IA
Manchu lady. / was In Peking at the
time of her marriage, and saw the carts
containing the girls from whom she was
chosen on their way to the palace. Ac-
cording to law, the Emperor OF China
can marry none but a full hlooded Man
chu. 1t is also provided that when he
reaches marriageable age all the daugh-
ters of the Manchu nobility between
twelve and eighteen are to go to the
palace in order that they may be looked
over by the empress dowager. and the
best ones selected for the imperial con-
sorts This is what will occur fourteen
years from now, when little Pu VI Is
sixteen, and 1t is just what took place
in 1885, when the empress dowager was
picked out as the wife of Kwang Su.
OF the crowd which then came there
were only three who were kept, ana
the chief of these was Ye-ho-no-lah,
who now rules the palace. The other
two were his majesty's secondary wives.
and were respectively thirteen and fifteen
years Of age.
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other day an old woman was brought IN
who was literally burnt to a crisp, yet
she lived for some time"
Down the hall in one of the reception
rooms the visitor found another colored
girl wearing the uniform of nurse, but
wearing no cap.
This is my day off, she said. 1--WE
have day each week on which to rest,
and this Is mine.
II was in one of the wards on night
duty last month, and a peculiar thing
happened. Everything was quiet ana
peaceful, when all of a sudden the most
ear-splitting screams broke out. On, 1t
was awful coming in the dead of night
like that. and l was positively frightened
as / ran down to where they sounded:
One of the patients was a heart case
who couldn't sleep except on her knees;
and she had been kneeling beside her bed
with her head on chair,fast asleep, when
another patient who had typhoid had be-
come suddenly delirious. slipped out OF
bed, and began crawling down the room
under the beds When she came to the
woman on her knees, she crawled right
over her feet and it was she who had
aroused the house The typhoid patent
was taken back to bed and tied to pre-
vent any more excursions, and we thought
the other one would die for while. But
she recovered.
Il like the work in the baby ward best
I am always glad when one of the little
things cries, so that l can take 1t up and
cute and so much company. Did you no.
tice the baby baskets hanging at the foot
of the mothers beds? The nurse can take
the baby out without disturbing her, and
I used to go down the ward to see II
could find one that was awake, SO that
l could take it out of the basket. l was
a music teacher before l began to study
as a nurse. and I like it. but think
nursing is very interesting. l don't In
tend to follow 1t up, though"
Children OF every description are to be
found in the hospital devoted to their
use, and it is here that the innate moth
erhood of women is SHOWN. sweet
faced nurse was "irrigating' the eyes OF
one little mite; that is, bathing them with
absorbent cotton dipped in liquid The
child's hands were incased in sort Of
tin mitten, enameled and ventilated,
which is worn to prevent it rubbing its
eyes. One of these had been removed,
and it fretted to have it put back. while
in another bed child was worrying be-
cause 1t had to wear them.
",They are not hard to manage, said
the nurse In fact, they are lots easier
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the regular ceremonies were carried out
as is asserted this little two-year-old
monarch then changed his clothes a half
dozen times, and at the end put on somber
garments as a sign of his grief for the
deaths OF Kwang Su and the great dow
ager.
All that 1 saw OF the crowning was
from the gate of Chen Men. on the top
of the wall, opposite the tower which
rises above the gate Of the Forbidden
City. l was several hundred feet away
but 1 could see the gorgeous officials
come out of the palace and stand under
that tower waiting for the proclamation
of the crowning Of his majesty as 1t
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PEKING, 1909.
SDER the shadow
of the Pink For
hidden City, so
near its yellow
palaces that I can
almost hear the
almond-eyed nurses
singing their lul-
labies, I write Of
little Pu vi. the
baby ruler of Chi
ma. OF all the
children on earth
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Policy.

From Life.
Satan gIoomily watched the boat un-
loading at the dock.
We've got to make hell more exclusive
or the best people simply won't come here
any more" he remarked. and gave or
ders accordingly.
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of toys. The Chinese are famous for
of wood, iron. paper and cloth. They
have mechanical toys and toys which
teach certain things. The last emperor
had many foreign toys and the imperial
baby will first learn Of the new civiliza-
ton by playthings brought from abroad.
He will have railroad trains, monographs
and electrical car lines. and he may
perhaps have Teddy Bears and Billie Pos
sums He will have watches and clocks
of all kinds. Indeed. there Is already
large collection of such in the imperial
palaces, and when the last emperor was
a boy he amused himself by taking them
to pieces and trying to put them together
again. He did not always succeed. and
the old empress dowager was in constant
fear that Kwang Su would ruin the
clocks she loved most.
AS his baby majesty grows older he
should have all sorts of tutors, and 1t may
be that he will be allowed to travel over
the country and see something Of his
empire as 1t really is. Such thing has
not been possible with the emperors of
the past, but his infant majesty is no
more secluded now than the mikado was
when he was a baby. and the present
crown prince of Japan goes everywhere.
China Is SO rapidly changing that it Is
impossible to tell what the people may
allow their emperor TO do before he
grows up and takes the actual rule In his
hands If he lives, he will surely be the
master Of four hundred millions. and OF
what may then probably be the richest
and greatest manufacturing nation on
earth. FRANK g. CARPENTER
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.luIl

ing angels indeed.
!, They mass through scenes of suffering and
horror that would make a strong man
vince. Their fortitude Is remarkable.
The nurses in the Washington hospitals
are among the best of their profession.
and their experiences are as interesting as
they are varied.
Some of the hospitals in the city ex-
change nurses to broaden their training.
Casualty Hospital is supplied with ITS
nurses from George Washington; Emer-
gency gets its nurses from the Children's
Hospital and the Columbia and the Epis-
copal Hospitals send their nurses for GER
tain terms to the Childrens for training.
and so on until almost every hospital has
a number of its training nurses IN some
other institution learning by experience
the leases" they might not come IN con-
tact with in their own particular folo.
~
In the small room set aside for her use,
just off the ward of which she has charge,
a visitor to the Homeopathic Hospital the
other day found a nurse taking a few
moments rest. She was seated beside
little table upon which were neatly ar
ranged and labeled records of cases:
Yes, 1 am very fond Of my work." she
said in reply to a question of the visitor.
and sometimes one has case that Is
pretty difficult to manage. but If you have
a sense of humor you can always make
out. I haven't any very interesting cases
just now. and when l try to recaii any
experiences always fail utterly, so will
not be able to entertain you very well,
fear We serve a term of three years IN
this hospital. We do not do regular
first thing we do is t6 clean the wards and
do observation work-that means we look
on and learn how it is done by the others
and little by little we take charge OF cases
until we are able 10 go aneao Win tne
regular work. We are not allowed TO re-
main here after our graduation. There
are no graduated nurses, except head
nurses and we cannot all be head nurses,
so most of them dc private nursing. mat
is what / intend doing when am through.
i have finished two OF the three years
now.
IT had an experience a short time ago
that struck me as very funny There Is
q patient here. an Englishwoman, whom
we always refer to as the "old lady OF the
tea She is a heart case and unable to
sleep at night She has pot OF tea
brought to her bed and lies there and
drinks it in the middle of the night. Any
one knows that tea is very Weakening. ana
of course 1t is the worst thing she could
do: but she becomes woefuliy excited
when denied, and as she is a private
patient, she has her way. l happen TO
be English myself, SO 1 tried to reason
with her about her midnight tea.
.Humphn she retorted. you're only
three-part English, and you don't under
stand
I'VE had a patient not long ago. she
continued. "who put us all out of sorts.
She had studied to be nurse herself'
that is what made 1t SO aggravating. She
was a surgical case and, as everybody
knows who has any knowledge or nurs-
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The selection was made by the empress
dowager, and, as Ye-ho-no-lah was her
niece. the choice probably went by favor
rather than beauty. This woman Is now
between thirty and forty years of age. /
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WHO He Is and Why He

WHO He Is and Why He
w Was Chosen-His Cor
onation and His First Mes
sage to the United States
A Peep at the Imperial Pal
aces and the Baby's Attend
ants - His Education - The
Eunuchs and Their Head
Boss-Something About the
New Empress Dowager or
Pu Yi's Adopted Mother
fconvright 1909 by Frank G. Carpenter.)
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Copyright, 1909. by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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you, and she wants to know how old you
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"Oh, woman, in our hours OF ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard TO please.
When pain and anguish wiring the brow
mf1fsferipp angel fhOu" 7"
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BABY Emperor Who Rules Over Four Hundred Million Subjects

am told she Is short and lean and that
her face shows considerable character.
She has a yellow complexion. almond
eyes. a large mouth and long chin. Her
nose is bigger than that Of most Chinese
ladies, and her teeth are decayed. She Is
said to be woman of tact and good
sense. She has not the force or the 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 educa-
ton and training Of his imperial majesty.
4 4
And this brings me to the question Of
Pu Yis education. The officials are al
ready discussing what it shall be. and the
more progressive Of them want him train
ed along modern lines. They propose to
hire foreign governesses to teach him the
modern languages, as is done by the i'm
perial families of Europe. and he is to
have a knowledge OF our civilization. The
school books now In use in the new Chi
nese schools are being examined. with Q
view to preparing some special ones for
this little baby. He will be made to learn
the Chinese classics and to- commit the
wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. When
he reaches the right age he will have man
teachers, who, according to the old Chi
nese custom, will remain on their knees
while they instruct him. No ordinary man
is supposed to stand in his presence. al
though in the reformation which China is
now undertaking this may be changed.
There is one thing sure. and that is they
will never whip little Pu VI. When kwang
Su was little he had his whipping boys.
who studied with him and recited the
same lessons as he. If his majesty did
wrong the teacher was allowed to whip
one of these boys. and this was supposed
to answer the purpose. If not. the great
dowager took the matter In hand and or
dered an eunuch to punish Kwang Su. The
same will probably be the rule as to Pu
vi.
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JTSIDE of the hos
pital nurses are ex-
actly like others of
their sex 1t Is only
reasonable to sup
pose. But within
the hospital wards
they shed many of
the attributes that
make them akin to
the world, and
become minister
ing angels" indeed.
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have information, however. from con-
fidential sources among the highest Chi
nese which enables me to give you one
or two peeps at these royal quarters
The palaces are surrounded by a yellow
tiled wall more than two miles in length
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80 i
on further litigation Of similar ma
t1re. Acting on evidence which they
laid before him Collector Loeb Or
dered the reliquidation of the duties
and the increase Of 1925, 900 in as
easements SCI followed. OF this amount,
It was announced, about 500, 600 has
been paid to the government by the
American Sugar Refining company. In
addition the government claims that
It has been defrauded out of $500 600.
IN duties on sugar at the refinery of
Iiayemeyer e Elder in Brooklyn and
also of 100000 of duties on sugar
weighed at the Jersey City refinery.
prior to 1902. It was announced that
legal steps are now being taken on
behalf of the government to enforce a
collection of these duties!
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500 men At HEAD OF
WISCONSIN CENTRAL
Edmund Pennington now Presi-
dent Of Both Companies.

New York, April Edmund Pen
nington was elected president of the
Wisconsin Central Railway company,
succeeding Newman Erb, and A. H.
Bright was elected vice president in
succession to A. c. Starr. Messrs.
Pennington and Bright, with w. L.
Martin, had previously been elected
members Of the Wisconsin Central
board Of directors. All three repre-
sent the Minneapolis, ST. Paul and
sault Ste. Marie interests, which re-
Gently secured control of the Wiscon-
sin Central. It was stated that New
man Erb would, for the present, at
least, retain the craftsmanship of the
Wisconsin Central directorate.
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness. and that is by
constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused
by an infamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube
is inflamed you have rumbling sound or i'm
perfect hearing. and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition. hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out Of ten
are caused by catarrh. which is nothing but
an inf1amed condition of the mucous surfaces
s. We will give One Hundred Doll ars for any
case Of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Ca4arrh Cure, Send
for circulars, free.
81 f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, %.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
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TO NAVIGATE THE MISSOURI
Kansas City Business Men Form
Steamship Company.

Kansas City, April with a
pledge from the city officials that Kan
sas City will expend $4,000 to Inn
prove the Missouri river levee and
erect public warehouse forty lead
ing business men and shippers met
here at the Commercial club and took
the preliminary steps toward forming
a company to navigate the Missouri
river between Kansas City and St.
Louis. A capitalization close to ST..
100000, fully paid in, was pledged. A
permanent freight line is to be oper-
ated. The scheme Is a result of al.
legged discrimination on the part of
the railways in the matter of freight
rates p s-.--- .ss-s,- tr-.=s-
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after
SUGAR TRUST
Demands Payment Of ST.
10000 in Duties.
%. So ----------
GOVERNMENT DEFRAUDED.
Collector of Port Of New York I'M
poses Increased Assessments on
Allegation That Imports Were Not
Correctly Weighed at Refineries Of
Defendant-Lesal Steps Taken to
Enforce Collection Of Duties.

New York, April 3.-Reassessment
of duties amounting to total increase
of 1928, 900 on sugar imported by the
American Sugar Refining company at
the refinery of Havemeyer & Elder
between December, 1901, and Novem-
Der, 1907, have been ordered by Col
lector Loeb Of the port Of New York.
Mr.. Loeb ordered the reliquidation Of
the duties on the ground of fraud.
The imposition Of the increased as
easements is result of the trial of
the case OF the government against
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Earthquake Shock in Virginia.

Winchester, Va, April 3.-Two sep
arate and distinct shocks of earth
quake were felt here. While no re-
ports of damage have been received
many residents were awakened and
considerable alarm was felt. Reports
from Charlestown and Harpers Ferry,
W. Va, show that the quake was felt
there. The vibrations lasted about
one half minute each and were from
west to east.
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sixteen-Year-oId Boy Ends Life.

New York, April 3.-Walter He'll
shorn, a sixteen-year-old boy, shot
himself dead on the roof of his home
in Brooklyn. His body, huddled near
chimney. was found by his father.
The boy left no explanation and his
parents are at a loss to know why he
killed himself.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, April Cattle
$4.70@710; Texas steers, $440@5.50;
Western steers, $4.0O@5.5O; stockers
and feeders, $3.5O@5.5O; COWS and
heifers, $1.90@5.65; calves, $4,000
$50. Hogs-Light, $6.5507.OO; mixed,
$6.65@7127a; heavy, $675@715;
rough, $6.75@6.90; good to choice
heavy, $6.eO@715; pigs, $56O@6.45.
Sheep, $3.75@6.4O; yearlings, $1,000
7.40; lambs, S6.OO@8.3O,
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WEAK man RECEIPT FPEE

Any man who suffers with nervous debility
loss of natural power. weak back. failing
memory or deficient manhood. brought on by
excuses, dissipation. unn atural drains or the
with simple prescription that will gladly
send free. in plain sealed envelope. to any
man who will write for it, DR.. A. r.. Robin
son, 1854 Luck Building Deroit. Michigan.
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Package Of $25, 900 MISSING.

Montreal, April 33.-W. S. Stout.
general manager Of the Dominion Ex-
press company Of New York, Is here
looking clkg into the mysterious disappear
ance of $4,000 in new bills which was
being carried by the Dominion Elk
press company from Ottawa to To-
r ron for the Traders bank Of Canada
two days ago. II B
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 2.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. hard, $1.1S2l; No.
l Northern, $1.17A; No. 2 Northern,
$1.15A; May, $1.16A; July, $1.1711s;.
Sept, $1.13A. Flax-To arrive and
on track, $1.66A; May, $1.65A; July,
$1.65; Sept, $1.41A; Oct, $1.37.
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PRICES CONTINUE UPWARD
Wheat Again Touches Highest Figure
of Season. -

Chicago, April 3.--Wheat prices on
the board of trade eclipsed the high
record mark for the season estab-
lished Thursday for all deliveries, the
May option advancing to s1.21 per
.bushel and the July to $1OS5s. Crop
damage reports and an urgent demand
for the cash grain, both here and at
Kansas City and ST. Louis, were. fac.
tors contributing to the continued up
ward flight of prices.
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st. Paul Union Stock Yards,

st. Paul, April 2.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, s5.OO@600; fair: to good,
$4.50@5.00; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.O0@5.00; veals, $5.75@6.5O.
Hogs-$6.60@6.95. Sheep-Wethers,
$5.75@6.0O; yearlings, $6.00@6.25;
lambs, $725@785.