NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, JUNEJH^9Oa

SUCCESS! THE DOUBLE EVENTINo. 2

—The sword. (Lance in bridle hand).

SWORD EXERCISE. STANDING ON HORSE'S BACK.—Illustrated Sportin? and Dramatis Newt.

\u25a0mmethin* more than i-<- aloat to consecrat*it. has long Ago passed out of the mark"an article to be cheaply and haphazardly "fcat*tered for. This, on the contrary, seems to be afact that is anything but generally kaswa.especially to the average American abroad txwhose lack of knowledge of Buch things' j-.the security from punishment and the profits ofthe fraudulent miscellaneous antique dealer

-Thus, largely as the result of American "de-mand

—a demand that has ion* cut?rorvn th»

supply, and which has increased with the di».appearance of the genuine antique— such Irre-sistible opportunity and reward have &*»„

_fered the forger that now. thanks to his pro-ductive industry, there Is both abundance aadvariety of supply again of 'antiques* •x»cnts4.with all degrees of skill, varying from the ---,products of amateurs to others of sneh 'pre-tentious workmanship as often to puzzle th»connoisseur himself.

"Rare old-period furniture. civ»n the sjsss

and appearance of a** by constant robWrurwith bone and pumice stone; old fcaad-ronsicopper plate, which has not h<Mn mads ac,1840. a most favorite article of deception. cv»-one thousand pieces of which have been latelyexamined without finding half a dozen fenuinespecimens: Spanish ivories, skilfully -agad*

brown by acids; first-state engravings andprints; Queen Anne silver, superstructures at\u25a0which ar» built up on. th<» handle of an oldFpoon bearing genuine marks: 'old' Bristol am)

|"vv'aterford hand-cut crystal and that particular

Ikind of china which is in most momentary de-mand, whether it be Oriental MMand whit*,or Lowestoft. abound everywhere in such whole-pale lots as one would think should alone serveto excite th«» suspicions of any thoughtful per-

eon.

"In the preparation of this artlcl? visits xr»rs

paid to scores of 'antique* shops, from a f»w of

the more trustworthy ones in the !ara» cities to

those of the smaller and more cunning and lesssuspected ones In nearby villages and along

motor car highways, the latter establishmentsgenerally conducted by some 'interesting oldcharacter.' who sat smoking: his pipe indhTerrot-ly.offering his wares in tome basem*nt difficultof approach, the windows Si which were con-ventionally screened by a thick net of cobwebs.

"The first delusion to be got over is the rathei

prevalent idea that this fad si collecting, or th«actual lore for antique objects. Ib sometin? pe-

culiar t«> the people of th» United States, wh«arc supposed to put greater store upon the pos-

session of such things than •> common abroad.

! This is a misconception. On the contrary,

throughout Great Britain, and even more so on

the Continent, collecting has been a passion

since the eighteenth century. The British islet

have been searched up and down from door tadoor by experienced collector? for upward clfifty years, and not being large geographical^

the thoroughness of the search shows the re-

mote likelihood of picking up something good

for little money at this late -lay during a few

weeks of a summer sojourn abroad.•Don't look for bargains in antiques. Ifess

wants genuine things he should visit a desist

of recognized standing and reliability,for the:»

are a few such: pay him his pries which is sore

to be hieh. and purchase only upon his written

guarantee that the article is as represented, gen-

uinely old and actually of the period. One can-

not become a jurfe* of antiques by rea*ny a

few book., and ifa person has neither the meansto buy nor the experience necessary » fWtwhat m really worth purchasing, it Is fa-

- m

satisfactory to buy first class reproductions; oa

latter are what one generally finds in the aver-age 'antique' shop at more than twice theit

actual value. . .-Beware of buying Robert Burns chairs a~4

Mary Queen of Scots tables and all such things.

it is safe to say thai they are spurious. B**a»

especially of Sheffield plate; it is practically a*

modem. "or old pieces plated over, which com-pletely destroys its value as an antique. Bay

the new as such at one haM the price? asKed

for it by th» 'antique* dealer.••Beware also of engravings and print?. Many

reproductions of old prints ar*mad? by artists

of great ability,with no intention at ««*Pr«*Some of the* i have lately

—to antlqu*

shops, artfully 'aged' and nuns In old "•. »•

the unscrupulous dealer asking four or five tim »

the price the prints can v- purchased for «« tto

publishers. Crystal and china are also made

h, old si^pes and often in the actual mouldsof a hundred years ago: these are l^ltma»

!reproduction^ ItIs th, s.-cailed "antique\u25a0

i who Iays them up and offers them to the ua

.sophisticated as genuine."

BAREBACK TENT PEGGING WITH BOTH "WORD AND LANCE.No. I—The1

—The lance. (Sword carried in teeth). The first rider ,3 as u,u»l. and the right arm.

"Any one who has ever attempted tent J^csinswill be awj.rv hon- easy it is t-j mips the markby ridir.K lob directly over the peg or. on theother b«nd. by Mint; ft by to© wide a margin,and the skill »nd judcm«*nt then \u25a0 necessaryon the pnit of the front rider bo to guide tliemount as to '.-c simultaneously within striking ois-..... peg requires exceptional skill of«*y« and hand. The reminder la worth niakinc.perbsps. thai <>a< ii peg shows only f=ix incli°sabove giound and is out two and a half inchesvide: !nde«-d, m a<"urate is th<> practice in manytrnt petcins tournaments that it becomes Snipes-sibi? to select I'rr- winners trtthout reducing ;ne

F?ze of Th^ peg. In tb" pcmi-finals it is quite usualto riSe at prcs of h^'.f the orfiinars" "Htii. an-1

in the Snnls the p**c Is ••\u25a0;.•\u25a0: •:\u25a0 ! on.thus grently tocreaeiEg the <?ifllciJlty of taking ;t.

SWOIB TENT PEGGING.'"Not less «'Kiiaordiiiriry is th>? feat of tent pegfrir.g wiih sunr'l and Iflnce. Hvre *.hp rider, ngninbareback, sall'ij.s dowa v.ith hir !anc« in hisrirlit iiaii-i ;>i;d his p\v<su between his clenchedteeth yu vijis. up ihe first p-^c v.ith hi« lanoe. !ie..... weapon Ir.to his brifil*hand ajul a nio-

n-.t-r.t \aur ricks v;i tlie second p*-^ viitli his sword."The troops «re iM:T<-:i witli rifi"and sworA. and.

in the case <>f man; regiments, xvitli tlie lar.eealso. The hojso.c ai*- Arabs, Persians. Australiansand country bredp. Tiie trooper on en:i.-t:ng pay;:the tcFt of his horse and equipment^ nathlng beingfound by lhe g(»vern;r.ent except his rifle.

"The lr.d!::n native cavalry is therefore thecheai'f-sT !n t!i« world to raise and equip. M- \u25a0\u25a0<=-

over, it is v°"l~-aps ihe most efficient, for n*-t onlyOops a regix&ent break and train Its own horses\in nme tas'.s the experiment has even been triedcf breeding ihemj. but in addition to mountingard equiiipinp itt-<-if it inakf-s all its o-n-n arrr.npp-

T!icn:r. for transport, supply, forage remounts, re-cr';it::ip, elf. iience its Fplendicl r<=.idir.e<is forwar. lor. habituated always t» shift for Hsplf. thenative «av?.'r>- :s se!T-«"epciidf nt to a ilefrree r.otkm1*!)1*!) in any other iiranrh of the service.

••T<> an eye accustomed to skeins Hump-pan cay-

"At the jirrsent time, when ths) periodical unrerton the Indian frontier iteetn* once more to havegathered ••> * bead. taese nojes> upon the nativeZnfilan cavalry may have Interest." pays » writerhi •The nhsstntsed Sporting and i>rnmatic News."

"The brilliant horitemant*hli» of native troopers

is a matter of common knowledge, but the amaz-ing d»cree of their fklllas rasters it not perhaps"generally realised. To « great extent this is tharavaraJ ojitoinie of oircumFJances. The men. whosre drawn from a *15!Terent 'las* from the homecav»!:y. ?re mostly ftmall landowners— yeomen, asvf shoitld oa!l them—ami are thus feucusionsisl to

the Fad^le f;om their estrt'CM youth: while theirlean. tßll ficurrs are of a physique that is Idealfor the purposes of ISplit cavalry. They have. BBS.a natural aptitude foi «=ki:i hi arras and fiorse-

mar.sl-.ir. Bad it is to this, perhaps, that they owetheir astnniships facility in those feats whichere sometime* o>nJomj>to.i Uw}T eall<'«i 'circustricks.* but are invert item only possible to ariJer trith so complete a mastery of 3iis mount asprnjiaidy no European cavalry can equal.

••A few cf l!*e mr>r<' remarkable of tSMse feats

cf horsemanship are Illustrated in the accompany-ing tkrtcJifv*. The sport of t«»nt pegging, evenwhen prac.tij.-od und^r the simplest conditions, isnot an easy one to oxc<M in, but the difficultvariations which the nativ troopers invent andfTicoessfuUy carry out arc nmazlnj{. There is. forexample. :he l>at of double tent , • v :b. in whichtwo men motnit or? horse, disjif-nsinsr with saddleand stirrups. The front rider Barries a lance inhis right hand, according to the usual custom;

the y^cond. who encircle* his companion's waistwith his ripht band, holds a lance la hi.« leftha.n.l. The horse is then put. at full speed, at

i. couple of pegs which are driven into the groundsidf- by *i<J« a short «iistance apart, these beingtaken simultaneously by U-« pair of riders, whorecover :n The usual way.

Tent Pegging Carried to a

High Degree of Perfection.

airy the horse? Of the Indian cavalry appear very

small. But experience has proved that smallhorses are more hardy and more capable of with-standing the vicissitudes of a campaign than thoseof a larger breed, It must, however, l>e remem-bered that they have not to carry the same weightsus British cavalry, for the troopers, though oftentall ir.on. are much lighter than they look, andthe average weight of a reciment is usually underten stoat Even with such light men it has beenfound impossible to reduce the total weight car-ried by the horse a? much as would be desirable

stfine his arms, ammunition, saddlery and equip-

ment will at least weigh another four stone."As regards the training of the Indian cavalry

for war. it may be paid that they are trained toact mounted with sword or lance or dismountedwith the rifle, according to circumstances, and itmay be noted that some of them have just recent-ly been used dismounted in the operations In theEChyber Pass against the Afghan irregulars. Greatattention is paid to the thorough training of thehorses, with a view to having them under such

control that they may enable the rider to use his

As it is, regiments vary considerably a? regards

their weight in field service order According to(

the way they are equipped and horsed. Compar-

ing them to British cavalry, they are indeed light

cavalry, as their average weight in field service

order varies from about fourteen stone to flft.-"»n

tone seven pounds, while British cavalry horses

have to carry from seventeen s'.one to twenty-one

stone. To those not well acquainted with the sub-ject it no doubt appears absurd that such heavyweights should be necessary, but in practice it has

b«»n found that if a man stands in uniform ten

CONCERNING PETTICOAT RULE IN THE ORIENT.Influence of Woman in

Asia Is Underratedin the West,

I".S. Consul at Dunfcrmline, Scot-land. Warns Gullible Tourists.

Fupplementing the consular report from Bel-gium one year ago. warning American four:?f«

against the purchase in Europe of so-called"antiques," Consul Maxwell Blake sends from

Dunfermline the following advice pertaining to

Scotland and to the Old World generally:

"As the summer season approaches, in antici-pation of the usual annual influx of American?,many of whom continue under the delusion thatall things in this country are as old as its his-tory, the growing legion of so-called "antique"dealers, from cities to remote villages and unfre-quented farm houses, are now occupying them-selves in arranging for display their variousstocks of made-to-order antiquities.

•"It ought by this time to be known to eventhose of little experience thai the genuineantique, provided it has originally possessed

FRAUDS IX AXTIQVES.

arms with th» greatest effect in mounted combat.As regards rifle shooting, the Indian cavalry haveattained a very high standard of proficiency— ahigher standard even than that of the Indian in-fantry, who in turn may be said to comparemost favorably with any other troops in the worldin this respect."

EMPRESS TAOTI.Of Abyssinia.

EMPRESS HARUKO.Of Japan.

EMPRESS DOWAGER.Of China.

breadth of the land, will bear nun rasterfruit in future generation., whs- the effects

the early instruction of clever «g»jg2the infantile mind Ims had time to man^est

itself.CHINA'S EMPRESS DOWAG~B^

\s for the Empress Dowager o* Ch'.r.a. ana '-'

undoubtedlyEmpress

"greatest jggUSgundoubted ..„*.*•- - J2

present age. and for the last fifty. >ear.™

governed the hug« Empire of China. «"

feemlPS population of OMflMOOlgggjg[absolute .way. defeating and crushing" :"P*

MUM To her Iron rule cne-fourth ". tire\u0084.

tire human race renders an almost *!«g£en-, Of humble origin. commWicUtS n- • -,nee in the imperial household in tb££ggof a slave, she has raised herself to *«£*gsupremacy by the extraordinary ™«™*

which s;displays of just what is n«~*£ £govorn Chinamen, and of precisely «X*

ne.leu to frustrate for^n greM:r.d^;-

There seem, to be but one vo «»oC

unique sagacity, experience and -t.--\u25a0 ;will, and under the circumstances UeTJn"^toward the suppression of the abuse of opu«

in China furnishes matter for «tra \u25a0\u25a0< c.-- »- \u25a0

For several centuries China. ««* ta-h;; *\

guard of civilization mmi of nro*r«.-. »•"- ,the arts of war and of peace |»? t^* asspeak, dormant, its Intellectual Jit were, arrested. There are many "^people who ascribe this condition £ tfc£*^terious effects of opium smoking s» »

throughout the mildle kingdom.

Certain it is that the radical "^T*f^~~duced during thp last few years by *m*

Dowager In conjunction with the ***Mg£for the suppression of the abuse In

already shown wonderful results to *J*

\u25a0

dlpary transformation which h.ns enrne.character of the authority and vt t«• I

who seem to have -^I.^^and to be now devoured with .n a >_rori

desire for Western progress and enlig^-;;^a progress and enl.ghtenm< nt t at £«££*£their power mmi their pwprrltj a tn_ i

vafc,fold While the policy of the Empress^ \u25a0

\u25a0

-in the matter is facile to a|>pr«ctat< and en.»'-J

Z k,ep,n< with he,- *»gM£gH^It nulv be questioned whether W^ern^thropy and Christian antipathy to "^^have been altogether wise incontrllmttns «^suppression Of the ah. of opium ami n arou

lnK the latent and wholly !»ci*»*?gg oiof long dormant China, those «*S*>«£oaelthe Orient which, according to Lord •-and other European statesmen of his

and experience, are a«stt«d to W-**»**\u25a0employed against tn^. ACHaj

RULE OF THE MOTHERIn order to understand «lilh ii must be borne

In mind that, although the young gtrlj areoften treated as of scant Importance and Hiewives as mere serfs, the mother always occu-pies a very important, not to say commanding,position in every Oriental household, In M- I-

lem countries it is not the favorite wife, butthe husband's mother who rules the entireharem and exercises supreme authority, to

which even her son defers. InChina the motherbenefits by that filial piety and profound yea-

Now while this action on the part of the

women of China Is undoubtedly calculated to

startle those who have always been taught toregard the fair sex of the Orient as a negligible

quantity, it willsurprise none who have acquirer]

through a prolonged residence In the Far East

some insight Into the conditions of native life.It is perfectly true that socially the womanoccupies an Inferior position As a general ruleher education has been restricted to the acquisi-

tion of accomplishments calculated to increase

her attractions in the eyes of the men, such asmusic, pinging, dancing, the composition ofpoetry, etc. Ithas been asserted that in china

in particular the women were held in such con-tempt thai the birth of female babies was re-garded as a cause for lamentation «nd that they

were frequently cast out to be devoured by thepigs, while marriage has been portrayed there

and elsewhere, notably in India. «<» downrightslavery tor the wife. Yet with all that womanIn the past, as in the present, has always exer-cised a considerable influence In the Orient, aninfluence all the more remarkable when thehandicap arising from her defects of educationand the inferiority of Ij>r social status Is takeninto consideration. She exercises it In spite ofth«-ee drawback", and with so much cleverness,diplomacy and tact that in nine cases oat often the men subject to her sway fall to realizethat though nominally her masters they havebecome n-r«n -r«- passive and obedient Instrumentsin her liand*.

score against Dal Nippon must be wiped out invengeance.

The meeting lasted four hours, and no man•was permitted in the huge hall where it washeld. All the women were dressed in white.as a sign of mourning, and from the platform

and the Fides of the hall were suspended bait-Han recounting bow China had "suffered

shame" at the hands of the Japanese. Themeeting was held under the. auspices of thenewly formed National Disgrace Association,

at -which Was Pun Kut Fan is the founder

and moving spirit. She presided at the Don-

PT*>fs end made the first of a number of ex-cellent speeches, during the course of whichr^je claimed that: "Our national danger is im-minent, and as women we should do our duty

toward ',•:- country. The destruction of theempire affects us equally with the men. It

therefore rests -with us to contribute our por-tion of patriotism and loyalty to our country

ar"? Emr^ror. Isay women have never lackedirtlpatriotism, and Icall upon you one and all

to show that China can rely upon such patriot-

ifm whenever there is a call for It."

CHINESE WOMEN IN BOYCOTT.A number of • ... spoke, with equal

fnrr«» and eloquence, and then the following

resolution was carried unanimously:

"That it Is considered by this mating that in

tin- rnatt'-r of the TmtsM Maru Japan has treated

China with so mix*contempt and has inflictedrueh a big national diftgrace in denying Chinathe right to a joint investigation -that ive desireIs record our **en<*«-of the national shame . Fur-ther, that in commemoration of the disgracefulemsu w willhereafter have our rings engraved

with the character* 'national .Inorder tok«-ep tl).-«-v*-nt green in our memory."

The meeting, it is said. ha« proved a £T-atIncentive to the boycott inoveinet. not merely

because of its unique character, as bringing thewomen for tlie Srat time Into prominence, butl>eeau*'' «-!! these women are now making theirantipathy to Japan «-nw-tive oy declining Japan-*->,- foodstuffs, which are very largely Importedfrom the realms of the Mikado. Moreover, seri-ously as Jaj>an is ?suffering at present in itstrade, from the enmity which it has stirred upin China, iiis estimated that she will feel thee!Te/*tts of the movement etill more later on.

\u25a0 \u25a0'\u25a0<\u25a0- women are teaching their chil-

dren that the time will come when the grave

[Copj-rifflit. j:«o>. bj- ih» Bneniwood Company.]England is by no mean*, the only power that

i? troubled just *t present with the invasion ofpublic life by women, and the suffragettes, whohave become a subject of to much ;<lar- notto say terror, to Cabinet ministers, to magis-trates, .-.Til, above \u25a0 I, to the unfortunate police

in London, have their counterpart at Cantonand in other great Chinese cities. Recent ad-vices from the Middle Kingdom bring the newsof a number of manifestations of this femininemovement, notably of a huge mass meeting atCanton, attended by no less than ten thou-sand women, drawn from all grades of society

and assembled to protest against the action ofJapan in seizing the Tatsu Mara and with theobject of strengthening the hands of the Chi-nese authorities and Emperor in resisting thedemands of the Mikado.

In Indin it i" th*. native ranees and queenswho have been the most formidable opponents

Few Eastern governments have had a greateropportunity of becoming acquainted with thepower wielded by the Oriental woman than<;reat Britain. Thus the wavering attitude of

Khedive Tewflk Immediately prior to and evenduring the Araljl rebellion of 18S1! was mainly

attributable to the influences of his woman-kind, notably <jf hi* wife, the now DowagerKhedlvlah, and of her terrible old mother, aTurkish princess. That their sympathies werenot In favor of the English was due to thefact that Haml Pacha, tiie most able and tin.-most wicked of Arabi's onsoclates, and, In fact,

the moving spirit of the Insurrection, wasclosely related to the Khedivlah and to hermother, through '•'* wife, and that, moreover,

their proclivities were wholly Turkish anil thatthey derived much of their Inspiration from the

Yildiz Kiosk at Constantinople, especially fromthe seraglio portion thereof.

Then, too. the seclusion of the women con-tributes to their influence. Their husbands areunlikely to be swayed by other men's wives,

as in the Occident. He has no feminine influ-ences to turn him from those of his ownz»"iiana. and. spending much of his time

—In

tact, all his leisure—

in his seraglio, with nobody

and nothing to divert his attentions from his

own womankind, whose interests are identifiedwith his own, he naturally yields, perhaps In-sensibly, to their sway. In using the word9'/'•nana" and "harem" it must not be Inferred

that Iam referring only to Moslem households.

The segregation of the women <>f the family

is common throughout the Orient, and the Em-peror* "f <'nlna and of Japan and the King ofBlam, although professing each of them wholly

different creeds, maintain huge harems. Justin the same way as the Sultan of Turkey andthe Shah of T'ershi.

eratlon for forebears which is the keynote ofthe Chinese character. Maternal influence andauthority, indeed, play a weighty rede through-

out the Orient— a fact too often ignored or for-gotten in reviewing the status of the fair sex inAsia and the Levant.

to British rule. The great Lord Dalhousie waswont to denounce the Ranee of Lahore, that

is to say the virtual queen mother of thePunjaub. as his most dangerous enemy, and illthe great Indian Mutiny the Ranee of Jhanseewas rightly considered as second only in im-portance to Nans Sahib in the leadership of thatgreat revolt, which so nearly cost England

her vast Indian empire. The Queen of

Oude. although a Moslem, was the one personwho fought bravely against the deposition ofher husband in 1556, and actually travelled allthe way to England personally to appeal toQueen Victoria in his behalf, dying In Paris onher way home after the failure of her mission.The sister-wife of Theebaw, the last ruler ofBurmah prior to its annexation by the English,during the Indian vlceroyalty of the late Mar-quis of DufTerin, was the real mistress of binkingdom throughout his reien. The Begum

of Rhopal. who reigned for more than half acentury over the Indian kingdom of Bhopal,won the lasting friendship of Queen Victoria by

her loyalty and the Invaluable assistance whichshe accorded to the English during the Sepoy

Mutiny ofiifty years ngo. She was a wonderfulwoman, who,rejecting as absurd the Mahometanrules of the Purdah, which condemned her to gov-

ern only from behind a curtain, presented herselfto her peopl* with uncovered face, dressed in thecostume of the princes, seated astride her horse.Her administrative ability was of an extraordi-nary character, and throughout her long reign

she superintended Inperson the execution of herorders, travelling over all the province* of herkingdom on horseback, living in her tent andgoing Into tin- midst of her people to seek fortin; Information that she required.

When the Gaekwnr of Baroda was In thincountry he v..is accompanied by his' wife, adainty, dusky little woman, who excited animmense amount of curiosity, especially amongthe fair sex, which regarded her as Home-

thing in the light of an exotic doll. Yetshe is credited with being at heart oneof the most insidious foes of British rule inIndia, with having influenced her husbandagainst the British, to whom he la indebted for

his throne, and with playing a very prominentrole In the anti- English movement, now ram-pant throughout India, and which, as the Pink-ertons and the English consular authoritiescan testify, has many affiliations in this coun-try, from whence arms and money have beendispatched in considerable quantities sines thebeginning of the year.

ABYSSINIA'S EMPRESS.In Abyssinia the now extremely obese Em-

press Taoti enjoys much greater authority andprestige than her husband. the Negus Menelik.who la also her cousin. Like him. she is de-scended in a direct line from the Biblical Queenof Sheba and Solomon, the wisest Kins of theJews: and white affianced as a young girl toMenelik was seen by Emperor Theodore, whoinsisted on making her his wife, giving Menelifeone of his own daughters in marriage. Theo-dore was killed at the storming of Magdala,and after no less than four other marriagesand her adoption of the TOWS of a nun in theconvent of Pehra Meni she eventually recov-ered her hold, upon the affections of her firstfiance, who had meAnwhile become King ofShoa, induced him to divorce his wife. QueenTofana. and to marry her Menelik. who after-ward succeeded Emperor John as Negus, is be-lieved, not only by his own people but also bythe English, the Italians and the Germans infact; by all foreign nations which have haddealings of a more or less pleasant nature withAbyssinia— to be entirely subject to her influ-ence and to be guided wholly by the adviceof this Queen of Queens" and of this "sun anlight of Ethiopia."

Were it not for the reluctance which theJapanese display with regard to any discussionor even mention of their reigning boas* theouter world would know more of the amazingrole which the childless Empress Haruko hasplayed in the regeneration of the Lam! of theRising Sun according to Western ideas. She.too. has been her husband's wisest councilor!and to the sagacity of this princess, who formore than forty years has been Empress ofJapan, quite as much as to the Mikado, is at-tributable the extraordinary transformationof an Oriental nation cut off from all Inter-course with the outer world- a hermit kingdom,in fact—into an up-to-date great power. In themost modern and Occidental sense of the word.While in most other natters her influence siexercised through the Emperor, she has comeprominently forward In the movement for the ;higher education and emancipation of thewomen of Japan, and the results of this goodwork which she has accomplished, while al-ready apparent throughout the length and

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BRILLIANT FEATS OF HORSEMANSHIP BY INDIAN CAVALRY