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JOTTlNCS OF A
WORLD TOUR
The Passing og Mutsuhito-On'y
Those Witnessing Funeral Can
Understand Janapese.
EMPEROR GREATLY BELOVED
Preparations for Funeral Unceasing
From His Death July 30th to
Burian on September 18th.
Copyright Applied For.)

(COpyrlSnt AppleQ fOf.)
The funeral of Japans emperor is
over The reign of Meiji is at an end
Only those who witnessed that night
procession will ever understand its
deep significance to the Japanese PEG
pie.
The Emperor Mutsuhito was great
~ beloved. Coming to his inheritance
with the shogunates in power, he
pushed them aside and established
again the long lost rights of the EN-
peror.
When he was called to take the
Iejrs of government the then capital
city of Kyoto was placarded with IA
natical opposition to the foreigner
Overcoming all of this prejudice he
showed to his people the value OF cul'
tiyating western ideas and by this
means made the Meiji period truly the
age of Material Enlightenment"
With great credit to this people OF
the Sunrise Nation he had carried
them safely through the wars with
China and Russia. Little wonder then
that now he is dead they remember all
these achievements accomplished by
forty-five years of marked advance
ment and laud him as the Son OF
Heaven.
From the time of his death on July
3Oth, until the night procession OF
September 18th, unceasing prepare
lions were going on to do justice to
the sacred dead.
Every morning the empress dowag
or entered the room of the late en-
peror and observed the same etiquette
which had been her custom during
their life together.
While the gunboats of many nations
were hurrying their ENJOYS to Japan's
capital city, that they might pay due
respect to the distinguished dead, the
route from the ceremonial gate to the
Aoyama parade ground in Tokyo to
the final resting place in Momoyama
at Kyoto, was alive with Workmen
nreparing the way for the imperial
funeral. So extensive and complete
were these arrangements that the EN-
reror estimated the cost to be about
$2,OO0,OO0.
The self-restraint, so character
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the night procession should pass, glaC
for the opportunity to endure ter
hours of waiting to show respect tC
the one whom they loved.
death until after the funeral no must
cal instrument was played throughout
the city of Tokyo. During Friday
Saturday and Sunday much of the
business was suspended and even the
! licensed Red Light district stopped
its awful traffic for the time being
Then came the night of September
18th. Surely there was no western
superstition connected with the day
and date--Friday, September 18th
and at night.
From the palace grounds to Aoyama
the route of travel was marked by the
black and white drapings.
A wreath of evergreen hung from
every electric light post along the
way, the gift of a western woman.
BY 6 o'clock in the evening the U.s.
900 soldiers who stood two deep or
either side of the way had found their
places. Just back of them were the
white CARRIED police force quietly
looking after the more than 100000
people that lined the way. Street cal
service had long been suspended and
a layer Of sand completely covered
the entire line of nlarci, from the 8.
ace to the service grounds.
At S o'clock sharp the boom of the
cannon announced the departure of tho
Imperial funeral from the palace. In
stantly the scene was changed. The
soldiers hitherto at ease were ordered
to position, the quiet tread of guards
suddenly ceased. Out of the ceremOn-
ial gate came the procession headed
by portion Of the $4,000 soldiers who
had part in the pageant. A hush like
the stiffness of death fell upon the
assembled multitude. The measured
tread OF the marching soldiers could
not be heard in the loose sand. a blind
man, excepting he was told, would
not have known the procession was
going by. For two hours and half
the eager waiting crowd with uncov.
cred heads watched the passing OF
$4,000 people.
Occupying central position in the
slowly loving procession was the two.
wheeled funeral car. Three oxen, held
inreserve, walked ahead, while i'm
mediately behind them came the two
that We're drawing the imperial cas-.
ket. Completely wrapped in white
silk cloth even to the tips of the long
horns, they walked with lowered heads
between two rows of Shinto priests,
followed by twenty-five coffin bearers
who held their position on either side
of the car.
For this eventful hour the Japanese
had waited long and patiently. The
stiffness of the cloudless night, the
quiet tread of the marching thou
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sands, the silent sea OF eager faces
was too much for even the self-re
straining Japanese, they sobbed aloud
AS the procession entered the 40
yama parade grounds, that mark an
important part of the imperial capital
the long line of foreign gunboats
lighted up Yokohama bay as they
spoke their salute to the late emperor
Such sight had never before been
seen in Japanese waters.
Within the grounds the ENJOYS and
special representatives of schools and
other organizations, followed with a
curious interest the two hours service
conducted by the Shinto priests.
The service completed, the casket
was placed in a special car of the i'm
perial train of nine coaches and the
journey of two hundred miles to the
old capital of Kyoto was begun. All
along the way the crowds watched
with intense interest it's coming and
it's going. Some of the country peo-
|ple were stationed by the track as
early as noon on Friday, knowing they
could not hope to see the train until
3 o'clock the next morning.
At Momoyama the casket was re
moved from the train to pavilion
near by and the last service for his
imperial majesty was held. One hun
dred young men from Yose Village
carried the heavy casket up the hill to
the vault that was ready to receive it
At II o'clock on Saturday night, while
the rain poured in torrents, the car
was put into its final resting place by
means of an incline railway. The
"haniwa," little clay images that oc-
cupied the place formerly held by sac.
riiced human beings, were placed at
the four corners of the tomb, silent
guardians of the sacred dead.
Eighty specially selected men, after
taking a bath, proceeded to the final
work of burial. and at O'Clock on
Sunday morning the last service was
accomplished.
The funeral procession was curl.
GUS mingling of the old and the new
The plumed and full dress represent.
atives of high positions stepped in
unison with the Shinto priests and
sacred oxen, and the guarding sol.
diers with their modern uniforms were
in direct contrast to the many that
moved between their ranks.
The ending of the service by no
means ended the interest of the peo-
pie. Multitudes of the Japanese had
not been permitted to the funeral so
they flocked to see the grounds. AT
Aoyama and again at Momoyama we
witnessed the coming and going of
thousands of eager people.
The Japanese people will continue
for some time to pay their tribute OF
respect, and they will not soon forget
their great emperor, but the reign of
Meiji is passed and they must turn
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istic of the Japanese people, was hav
ing severe strain during these day:
| of waiting. In some of the christian
schools the boys and girls asked tt
be excused so intense were their feel
ings.
On September 18th the crowd thai
had been pouring into the city q
Tokyo were permitted to see the fina
preparations. AS we rode through
that vast throng OF eager and yet sc
appreciative OF the occasion, we
could but be impressed with the Sc
cret of Japan's great success. re
these intense feelings was added the
impressive sight of thousands Of
marching soldiers being modified fol-
their positions in the imperial funeral
1t was our good pleasure to receive
a very courteous letter from the Amer
lean ambassador saying: Your names
have been placed upon the list of those
American citizens for whom tickets
to view the imperial funeral process
ion will be available. Will you kindly
call at the embassy tomorrow morn
ing and receive your cards?"
In our going to the embassy on the
following morning the crowds that
everywhere prevailed, were a sight
not often witnessed. Notwithstanding
the fact that traffic was stopped as
early as two o'clock in the afternoon
the street cars of the city of Tokyo
carried for the part day 757 1000 PEG
pie.
The regulations of the funeral com
mission were very strict indeed No
one was permitted to view the funer
al procession without ticket issued
by the commission. OF necessity this
limited the number who could pos
sibly have the privilege of seeing, fol-
no one could look upon the procession
from the vantage ground of an eleva
ton. The watching from upper win.
dows, house tops, trees and like ele
vations was strictly prohibited and
carefully enforced by the police
Within the grounds of Aoyama
where the service was held, no man
was permitted who did not conform
to the regulation: High hat, white tie
and full dress. Some who wore black
ties but had all the other require
ments were turned away. AS to the
others along the line of the process
ion, black was to be the garb from
hat to shoes. Overcoats and UNI
brellas were to be left at home.
Every one was to be in place not
later than o'clock and in some places
as early as o'clock. AS the funeral
did not leave the palace until S
o'clock in the evening, many gave w
so trying an ordeal. For the Japan
csc this requirement was useless. Be
fore the noon hour crowds of these
eager people had found their places
as marked off on the hard, hot stree,
and there they We're to stay until after
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to face the coming OF the era which
if Japan but catches the vision, will
be indeed the era Of Taisho. the peri
cd OF Moral Righteousness.
kyoto. Japan.
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the best live stock is produced and
the most money made
Books by Iowa Authors.

One OF the most interesting fea-
lures OF The Iowa Journal of His
tory and Politics. which is published
quarterly by the State Historical So
ciety OF Iowa, is the list of books by
Iowa authors, to be found in each is
sue. In the October number there ap-
pears list of seventeen books pub
lished during the past three months
and written by Iowa authors, most of
whom are we'll known in the literary
world. The list includes Eleanor Hoyt
Brainerd, Charles Reynolds Brown,
Robert J. Burdette, Francis Perry Ell
lott, Ernest w. Fellows, Halbert P.
Gillette, Susan Glaspell, Rupert
Hughes, Ida M. Huntington, Jesse
Macy, Arthur Metcalf, Charles H.
Meyerholz, Joseph F. Newton, Edwin
l.. Sabin, Arthur Springer Emile
Blackmore Stapp and Jacob Van der
Zee.
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Improvement, like charity, should
begin at home.
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China wishes it distinctly understood
that if the six powers will come of
the perch, she may consent to borrow
few millions Of them after a while
on her own terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-29

Carolina to load for this city
Capt. Bob Rigging, master OF the
schooner Edwin and Maude, .discharginE
lumber at Baltimore. has gone TO his
home, at Laurel. Del, to spend few
days while his schooner is being I'M
loaded.
Capt. Henry Davis. master of the tug
Camilla, is with his vessel at Alexandria
experimenting the repair work being
done to her there.
Chief Engineer Fitzgerald of the Po-
tomac and Chesapeake line is sEupern-
tending the work being done to the
steamer City of Milford at the Alexandria
shipyard
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WITH WIFE IN FLYING BOAT.
Beachey Aloft for More Than an
Hour Over Kenka Lake.

HAMMONDSPORT, N. Y. October %
Lincoln Beachey made a sensational
flight yesterday in the new Curtiss Fly
ing beat with his wife as passenger.
After giving the new boat a thorough
tryout Beachey flew to the shore and
asked his wife if she would like to take
a Joy ride with him. She did not hest
tate a minute, but hurried into a rubber
coat and said she was ready for the trip.
Beachey headed straight up the lake,
staying on the water for about hundred
Yards He then tilted the control and
they were off the water in no time. After
climbing to about thousand feet
Beachey made one of his sensational
turns that made the watchers gasp with
establishment. He then made a dip at
la man in a motor boat nearly causing
that interested watcher to take a header
in the lake. He then started to climb to
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a high altitude, having no trouble in
controlling the new machine, which is far
heavier than an aeroplane.
When seen after the flight Mrs.
Beachey said: 1T is just like a trip in a
motor boat, only a great deal more ex-
citing
Beachey and his wife were in the air
an hour and five minutes.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-29
REASONS FOR DIVORCES
Statistics Show Disease and
M0therS-in-LaW Cause
Half of Them.

CHICAGO, October GA card index
kept by Judge William N. Gemmill of
the court of domestic relations was tab
ulated yesterday by the judge and shows
that men are far less reliable than wom-
en- in the married state and that disease
and mothers-in-law are equal in respon-
sibility for wrecked marriages. causing
half of them.
Following is Judge Gemmill's tabulation
of the causes Of broken marriages.:
Young and hasty marriages, Is per
cent; hidden diseases, 25 per cent; inter-
ference Of mothers-in-law, 25 per cent:
Interference Of children in second mar
riages. 10 per cent: ungovernable temper,
7 per cent: whisky and drugs, Is per
cent; miscellaneous. 3 per cent.
Surprising Fact Revealed.
'It is a surprising fact said Judge
Gemmill, but the statistics Of this court
show that an incredible number of men
have little conjunction in abandoning
their families to chance Almost M
women desert their families under pres
sure of want. They are far superior to
men as stickers. By young and hasty
marriages I mean the large number that
occure between persons under twenty
years Of age. These are likely to breai,
up I'm less than two years"
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Personal Notes of River Men.

Can't Samuel larmor, master of the
schooner Grace G., Bennett, who has
been on O visit to, his home, at Tyaskin,
Md, while his schooner was discharging
here, returned to his vessel yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-29
Surprising Fact Revealed.

Judge r. s. Ker OF the corporation
court. Staunton. Va. has decided that
there can be no election this year to fill
the vacancy In the office of police justice
filled by the council. The decision spells
the plans of those who wished Q change
In the office
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Martin gin Luck"

Lieut.. Martin is in good deal of luck
from some points Of view, though he
himself does not seem to have had any
great amount of fun out of his wounds.
He has not been in the Marine Corps
long and it was the first active service
which he had ever seen. 1t is not every
man who gets wounded in his first fight.
He is a second lieutenant and was APP
pointed from Somerville. Mass, his boy
hood home.
An ambulance from the hospital of the
Brooklyn navy yard was waiting for him
at the pier, and SO was his wife. The
hard-hearted navy surgeon parted them,
and Lieut.. Martin went away in the am
bulance.
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made him almost as angry as an at
tempt to take his picture.
who picked you up when you were
shot?'' he was asked.
Lieut.. E. P. Moses he answered. He
was loyal to his friend. please don't
call him a hero either. He wouldn't like
it. He just carried me away from the
trenches back into the woods. That's
ALL
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SHOT SCORES TWICE
Washington Officer of Marines
Wounded in Nicaragua.
COMES HOME ON CLUTCHES
Graphic Portrayal of the Battle at
Coyatepe Hill.
CAPTURE OF THE STRONGHOLD
Woman Found Among Rebel Dead
With Shell Clasped in
Her Hand.
COMES HOME ON CLUTCHES
CAPTURE OF THE STRONGHOLD

The first American military officer to
be wounded in foreign service since the
Boxer troubles in China is a Washington
man whose wife is domiciled in the
National Capital. He arrived in New
York yesterday on crutches.
Lieut. George c. Martin Of the United
State marines does not scott at the
of the revolutionists in
Nicaragua. He has only to look down
at his crippled feet to be reminded that
little coffee-colored rebel from the
comic opera section OF the continent
scored two hits with one bullet.
Mrs. Martin lives with her grand
mother, Mrs. Charles Worthington, at
1915 N street. Frustrated when the
news arrived. about month ago, Of the
casualty to her husband, she was, how
ever. at the dock in New York to meet
him yesterday.
Lieut.. Martin arrived from Nicaragua
on the steamer Cristobal of the Panama
line, and with him came Surgeon r. E.
Hoyt, who was in charge of the field
hospital at the battle of Coyatepe HILL
and Lieut.. Comdr. w. D. Leahy of the
fleet staff, who was in command Of the
base at Corinto. Martin and Hoyt were
eyewitnesses of a battle which, although
on minor scale, deserves to rank among
the most spectacular and picturesque in
the history of American warfare.
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Pursued and Slain.

Once they had been dislodged from their
position on the hill they were at the
mercy of the federal cavalry. Their
countrymen pursued them all the way to
Mesaya and into the streets Of the city.
American officers were rushed to the
spot to see that the victorious Nicarag-
uans played the game according to our
rules By the time they arrived. however,
there was no supervising to do. Prac-
ticaIly all the rebels within reach had
been killed.
''They found one woman in the trenches
,up there on the HILL" said Lieut.. Martin
II saw her before / was hit. She was
firing Remington rifle and helping load
the one-pounder gun. There was a one
pound shell in her hands when they found
her.
"a beautiful young woman" some one
suggested.
NO" answered Martin, IAN old and
homely one.
1t was intimated that perhaps Martin
himself was hero, but the suggestion
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Hill Has It's Hero,

And Coyatepe Hill had it's hero. He
did not know exactly for whom or with
whom he was fighting, but he played
his string to the end. He will not come
back to tell his story.
There was one man at Coyatepe,"
said Lieut.. Martin, "as brave as fellow
ever was. When we broke from the
| woods near the top of the hill the rebel
trenches were not more than seventy
five yards away. They knew the point
at which we would come out because
the brush was SO thick that we had to
follow the trail. They had a machine
gun and one-pounder trained at this
point, and there was barbed wire fence
slap in our faces as soon as we came
into the open.
"A lucky shot put the machine gun
out of commission and as fast as d
man jumped up to fix it, down he went
into the trenches. The one-pounder kept
blazing away and so did the rifle fire.
man named Durham. private q can't
remember his first name), scuttled out
in front of all the rest of the men and
began tearing at the fence with a pair
of clippers. A One-pound shell swept his
hat off his head. but he kept hacking
| away at the wire. The clippers didn't
work and he threw them away and used
his bayonet. He didn't even crouch, but
stood straight up to his work.
His Head Blown Off.
HE broke the wire close to the fence
post and tore it away. The One-pounder
| fired again. The range was lower this
| time. His whole head was blown off.
| They did not have a chance to fire again,
| for the whole crowd were through the
gap and over the trenches. The revo-
| lutionists scampered down the hill. Our
men didn't bother to chase them. We
| didn't want them; We wanted the hill
and we had it.
No one would ever attempt to take
a position like Coyatepe hill in sham
battle The umpires would declare the
attacking force shot to pieces long be-
| fore it ever reached the top. The hill
measured from base to summit about
| LOCO yards The first 300 yards are bare.
Then there is patch of thick brush in
accessible except by a narrow trail The
| trail ends at a narrow opening close to
| the top Of the hill, where the rebels had
| their trenches and their guns. The hill
| is at an angle Of about 45 degrees all the
way and it is considered a hard climb
| even when revolutions are not on.
| Coyatepe hill marked one wing of an
unusually strong position occupied by the
| rebel forces. The other wing of the in
| surgent army rested on Barranca hill.
| This hill is not as steep as Coyatepe.
| and the revoutionists had accordingly
| fortified it more strongly.
Between the two hills is a long wooded
ridge upon which the center OF the rebel
| army was encamped. Behind the ridge
| lay the city of Mesaya, to which the
| American troops were trying to open rail-
| way communications.