The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30

son of Empress Taruka, the widow of Mutsuhito It was the fate of the lovely and talented coflsort of Mutsu- hfto to be chlldless. Her only baby died immediately following it's birth, and the stork never again visited her. Yoshihito is the son of one of the late EmperOr's secondary wives, of whom, by custom sanctioned by centuries, he was allowed twelve It was not un- til all hope had been abandoned of the Empress becoming a mother that the present Emperor was proclaimed Kotaishi, or Crown Prince. of Japan. The Mikado was the only son, but he has four sisters. He was married, ln his twenty-first year; to Princess Sadako, daughter of Prince Kujo. She is descended, like the Dowager Elm press, from the Fujiwara clan from which the highest offices in. Nippon are filled and from which the Elm perors are compelled to choose their spouses
 It was said of the late ruler that he found Japan represented by junk and left it with the modern dread nought as the symbol of it's spoWer. No less than his father is Yoshihito committed to progress, as the word IS interpreted in Europe and America. Among the .'old school statesmen of Japan there is fear that the new ruler will be even more progressive and welded to Occidental ideas than the old, and that all the old customs and traditions that have come down through the centuries will be cast in to the discard as useless and outWQrn rubbish. AS Crown Prince, Yoshihito was little in the imeMght but such influence as he had was all for the adoption of the ways and customs of the. white devils" That he will be d strictly modern ruler there is no A4,ta1. h fT7oin ly diplomatic to avoid doing violence to the feelings of the ''elder states men group remains to be seen. Nut suhito, always progressive and even radical, yet seemed to cherish every thing ancient, and thus avoided giv- ing offense to the vsnera ole d defene- CTS of the old order who are still pow erful in Nippon. Emperor Yoshihi- to's education and training have ln- clined him to feel contempt for some of the gfosser superstitiOns and customs of the ancient regime, and this may arouse the indignation and even aIienate those to whom anything of religion it is said that the new ruler has none. A student of the science and philosophy of Europe, he has refused it's religion, and like thou sands of his subjects, has exchanged the religion of his fathers for asnos- C1ClSm. The tOlQ onlnlOA I1lSS were used, however, when YoshihitO took the solemn, oath of sovereignty The ancestral spirits were informed by the imperial ritualist Of the :iecease of Mutsuhito and the succession of his son. The Emperor's distaste for par ticipatihg in the ceremonies of re- ligion in which he does not believe led him toSs''worsf1ip'' at the sacred shrine by proxy, the imperial ritualist repre- senting him.
 The Privy Council, in accordance with custom, has designated the reign of the now sovereign as the NCn of great righteousness as that of his father had been the. reign of good workss There is little doubt that Yoshihito'ss administration of affairs will fulfill the pre- edictioa,, and that under his rule the Yankees of the Orient" will continue to make great strides in material and intellectual progress.