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AN EMPEROR IN WAITING. part of the recognized order of one more buffet of outrageous' After Hsih Hsu comes things, in the vicinity of and in fortune. close touch with, the Presidential the third Tutor, Ohu I-fan, far- Mansion; and that, within the famed among the literati as a narrow limits of the Forbidden mastor of the science and art of in China.
City, the daily life of his court, caligraphy; scholar experts say
bas. the emperor with all its wonted privileges, that
under him, with To the north of the Tartar City dignities and ceremonies, pursues acquired in Peking, not far from the old the even tenor of immemorial infinite diligence, a style of pen- Drum Tower, there lies a little usage. It is true that His Ma-manship distinguished for ita Let the Rest of the Wo ld go By-Waltz-
Ferera & Franchini quartier of quiet streets where, jesty may no longer leave the classic elegance. Towards all his despite all the alarms and up- precincts to make stately progress tutors, His Majesty observes the My Isle of Goldco Dreams-Waltz
Blue & White Marimba Band heavals of the past twenty years, through the capital, and perform respectful demeanour prescribed Time seems to have stood still. the solemn sacrifices at the Tomby the Confucian code, standing| The placid stream of life that ple of Heaven. No longer may up whenever they enter or leave All Star Trio flows through this secluded back-invoke, on behalf of his people, his presence, and addressing them
water reminds one very vividly the favour of the Divine Hus with punctilious deference. of the Peking of by gone days, bandman at the Temple of their birthdays, and at certain All Star Trio the city of dreadful dust and Agriculture, or receive the hom-festivals, he sends them congra- splendid dreams, whose myster-age-bearing envoys of tributary tulatory gifts (generally scrolle with writing) ious charm lingers with such im-tribes. But within the precincts of his
ceremony perishable fragrance
of the Forbidden City, all the all the pomp and treasure-house of memory elaborate ceremonial of the Court, prescribed by Imperial usage. writes Mr. J. O. P. Bland. A its ordinances, ritual, and high- The arrival of a gift from the few children flying kites sounding titles, remain unchang Lord of Ten Thousand Years (as the shadeed. Around and about him are the citizens still call him) creates of ancient trees, & few timid-face the Iron-capped Princes and the quite a sensation in the neigh- women bargaining with the veget. hereditary chieftains of the Eight bourhood of Mr. Johnston's house. able sellers at their doors; little Banners, picturesque but parasite Within the Palace enclosure, all groups of gateman and servants survivals of a once warlike race; the tutors have the right, prescrib gathered about the entrance of aand a considerable portion of the od by ancient usage, to ride in tajen's residence; and here and Republic's four million dollar palanquine; and this, for the sake "face" Mr. there an old-fashioned springless maintenance grant goes to sup of the necessary
The Emperor mule cart, with its driver slum-port in listiese idleness the three or Johnston does. hering contentedly on the shaft. four thousand Manchu pensioners himself, after his lessons, returns Strangely quiet, these old streets; who have their homes either here to his private apartments in a there are no shops to break the in the Tartar City, or in the neigh-yellow chair, carried by twenty grey line of high windowless bour hood of the Imperial tombs. attendants. walls,
INTEREST IN THE WEST. enclose invisibleLast, but not least, the Chinese courtyards and gardens, and the anuchs of the old regime still Mr. Johnston describes His deep-eavad sloping roofs of
infeet the Palace to the number Majesty as a lad of unusual in- houses, all built to one design. of a thousand or more, by all telligence and pleasant disposit. Only from time to time the accounts fitting successors of the ion, keenly interested in his and especially in long-drawn.cry of some hawker" rata and foxes" whose evil in studies
the tinkling his rounds,
fluence contributed so greatly to geography and foreign affairs. cymbals
beancurd the demoralization of Hsuan He followed the negations of the soller, of the reedy flute Tung's ancestors. The situation Treaty of Versailles from day to with critical attention," of an itinerant chiropodist, breaks thus created, Gilbertian as it may day
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the were abode of wealth and fashiou, opposed to finality, either in English lessons have filed him businees or in politics, which with an intense desire to travel! when many of the men who deliberately leaves loopholes for abroad, and the idea is being own these houses were snug and compromise and makes probable seriously considered by those prosperous dignitaries, battening reactions.
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what THE PRINCE AND HIS TITOR. the Dragon Throne, for this was,
But despite the presence of the expedient for His Majesty. Pre- and still is essentially & Manchu eunuchs, the jealous conservation
sident Fisu favours the proposal? quarter as you may know by the of the old Manchu Shih Heu (His that be should make a tour of curious headgear of the women Majesty's guardian and tutor), Europe and Americs next year, at their doors. But to-day the and the persistent politics of incognito, escorted by Mr. John- glory of the Great Inheritance the four old ladies of theston, Li Ching-mai, and a small has faded, and with it in many late Emperor's household who suite of attendants. This, and casos, has gone the livelihood sit and scheme "behind the the question of the Emperor's of men who, bred to a birthright
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marriage, are the chief subjects of aboltered ease, are quite has made its way into the pro of discussion in the palace. incapable of earning one.
found seclusion of the palace" According to dynastic precedent, Faded, but not uttery departed, in the person of His Majes y's the time is close at hand when the glory that once was the Man-English tutor, Mr. R. F. Johnston, his betrothal must be decided, so chu dynasty. For as all the an influence which is likely to that if his wish to travel is to be world knows, the Lord of Ton have far-reaching results, if the fulfilled it cannot be much longer Thousand Years," though shorn young emperor's life is spared, delayed. of mach pomp of majesty and Mr. Johnston, a civil servant of power, still sits upon the Dragon the British leased territory" of Throne; and, as all the world Weihaiwei, is a distinguished knows also, only the hour and scholar, a recognized authority the Man are needed to restore toon the poetry and religions of the allegiance of the Son of China, and the author of several Heaven most of the men who well-known books on Buddhiem. now prudently profess and call It was my privilege to visit him themselves Republicans. They last winter at his Chinese house know, the dwellers in these quiet in one if those quiet streets near streets, that in every house the Drum Tower, and to hear throughout the city a Dragon from him many interesting flag lies folded away: were they details about the young Emperor not all unfolded to the breeze, for and his studies. Space does no ogo brief week, only three years permit of relating here how Mr. ago? They know that the Pre-Johnston came to be appointed sident of the Republic
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His Majesty is very fond of exercise, but the restricted area of the Palace enclosure afforde! but little opportunity for gratify- ing his healthy inclinations. Mr. Johnstone expressed the hope that his guardiane and advisera might be persuaded to allow him to take up his residence at the Summer Palace, where he would be less exposed to the dangerous influence of the eunuchs, and where he might learn to play tennis and row upon the lake. The lad himself longs for the freedom of wider space with all the eagerness of youth,
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To the European mind, such a to the sacred precincts, and is Consort of Tung Chib, is an ides solution of China's political prob- continually distressed by the which might be disturbing to Yaan. But the Arabian Nights typewriter may sound in the lems may seem fantastic; never-young emperor's progressive one's sense of the Etness of thingė,
Old Buddha's days is a thing of many whisperinge op the winds theless, seriously considered, it is idens, but, chastened by disaster, like the motor pars which boot atmosphere of the palace of the Forbidden City is but one of the no more fantastic than the fact he has come to accept the situa and hustle through the once the past, and the note which a of change. that the Emperor still remains tign with courteous resignation as eacred enclosure of the Tong Hus]