El Reno Daily Globe. And Evening Bell. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1903 Page: 3 of 8
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The World's Finest City*
Froud Boast of Parisians is the Literal
Truth Stately Buildings and Beautiful
P-rks in Profusion.
Germany's Noble River a
Splendid Scenery and Picturesque Ruins
Line the Banks of the Rhine Beauty cf
Cologne's Wonderful Cathedral.
(Special Clones;
probably 110 city In the i c.owned by ue
* There is
world which presents so fair an aspect
on a bright autumn day as does the
city of Paris. The first impression one
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ho did not become know n to taw.M...*
til his bid for it, in a book calledl
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gets of comes from the symmetric- j ,ijate response. Some 100 editions off
al manner in which its great thorough- jr were sold in a few weeks. In this
fares are laid out; then one notices j)00k the foes of the church were de-
the splendor and magnificence of its ; counced as Jews, foreigners or Ger
architecture, characterized throughout mans; while the lives of public men.
by harmony of style, every structure, lUch as Gambetta and Jules Simon,
through an endless succession of were held up to contempt
squares, gardens, btidges and boule* Another of the celebrities of Paris j
vards, fitting in. as it were, to every ; 1S de Blowitz, the correspondent of
other; finally comes the human inter- (tie London Times, who for the last ,
nuarter of a century, as "l Ambassa- |
I (ieur du Teems.” carried diplomacy and 1
statcsmar. ihip into journalism with a
All children dream
"i.v .... well. Th.’ii • irtW
eat years are spent in worlds creat'd
by their own imagination rather than
with what is termed the actual uni-
verse. Imagination is such u force
with them that they consider inani-
mate nature as alive as
personalities.
(Special Ci .-respondence.)
a» night and a splendid T'«,ur«n
Li places the pre-
- ipitous coast is cl«.i with dens© for-
ests. while nestling among the fir-
bearing trees rises the proud castle
of Stoizenfels, which was once a splen-
did Roman fortification, but in lato
years has served as an art gallery,
their own ' The most splendid of the Rhine pan-
I orama are the Slebengebirge, where
There was nothing 1 dreamed of more seven mountains vie with each other
than the Rhine, with its fiendish for admiration.
mouse tower and the lovely Lorelei. The only other plac e of Importance
who spent her days in song and comb along the Rhine, excepting lologne. h
ing her hair with a golden comb, i Bonn
During the reign of Constau-
•'ukagfc-
him
the
Church of St. Eustache.
Versailles.
est, and certainly, with its street
crowds, its military bands, its bril-
liant uniforms, mingling here and there
with the gay dresses of sightseers, the
outdoor life of Paris 1 not merely at-
tractive, but even fascinating.
Among the many tilings which are
characteristic of the s-.ren city is the
extent to which life is public there,
degree of success that made
known all over the world.
He begun life somewhere in
Austrian Slav countries, spent Ills I
■ outh in a way thrt enabled him to ae I
quire all the more important of the |
European languages, acted as pro- j
lessor ot literature in a lycee at Mar-
seilles. lectured in 18tiS, married a j
French wife, joined the (.aide .\’u-
tiorale. did patriotic service in the
Franco-Gerraan war, ami finally owed
his position on the Times to the fact
of being ashed in 1 s71 to represent its i
; gular correspondent, Frederick Mar-
si,all, during his temporary absence. |
During his connection with tlie
Times M. de Blowitz received 22 deco-
rations from all sorts of princes and
potentates, besides having been made
cHirer of the Legion of Honor in 187s.
ncered to |
'ng thi* congress.”
During the same period lie wrote
more than h.OOo columns of the Times
and is said to have talked with half
of the sovereigns and statesmen of
Europe. M. de Blowitz had so perfect
and especially the ease with which the , ,....
visitor who cares to toller the crowd" | a memory that he could report mu.
may come in sight of, if not into ac- i
tual contact with, the celebrities who. !
gathered from all parts of Kurope, as |
well as from many other foreign coun- j
tries, make Puris their home.
One of the first men foreigners who !
views verbatim without having a
single note. On one occasion he in
this way reproduced a speech of M.
Thiers to the extent of twenty-two
columns for the Times.
Count Boni de Cast el lane is also eel-
Early History of Japan*
Life in the Lands of the Lotus as It Used
to Be Undet the Rule of the Shoguns —
One of Her First Statesmen, j
(Rncda! Correspondence.)
n Japan Lll us that old | intolerable severity
Writ era
Japan is entirely disappearing. A |
few glimpses of the time when the ,
country was almost a hermit nation. ;
with only Oriental ideas and not a !
single interest to connect it with the j
world at large, may still be obtained
In out-of-the-way uooks ami corners;
but the invasion of railroads, the i
planting of modern schools all over I
of the ihst
Shogun, who had unjur.tiy i»nnr*»onn4
tens of thousands, and >:iid tlu.t re-
lief could be found only by a great
pardoning throughout the empire.
The result was that thousand* were
released from prison, no such pardon-
ing having been known since the be-
ginning of the regime of the Shoguns.
At the same time, many strict rules
the empire, and tht* awakening of the | were adopted regulating the conduct
of citizens. Some of these rules in
i our day would bo regarded as very
tyrannical.
Gambling, the extortions of firemen
j who bled the people for saving prop-
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Years went by. and often I wished for
the day when I might see those splen-
did ruins. At last my wishes were
fulfilled; 1 found myself along by the
Rhine.
The water was placid and a
perfect blue, the banks were covered
with splendid vineyards and many
ruins, and still I was disappointed.
This was probably because 1 saw the
Rhine
cerne. And yet. notwithstanding that
I was disappointed, the river is lovely
GATEWAY OF COLOGNE BRIDGE.
Cathedral In Distance.
tine the Great, this city was a mighty
Roman stronghold, it is also noted
for its fine university, which was
founded in the eighteenth century and
later enriched by Napoleon I. Bonn is
also remembered as the birthplace of
Beethoven; the resting place of Schu-
twentieth century spirit of commerce
and industrial enterprise destroying
every vestige of the deeper tilings of
life that made old Japan what it
was.
Under these circumstances. Just as
the old civilization is forever passing
away, it is gratifying to say that u
| rich contribution to the literature of
i old Japan has been brought to light
and translated Into English. It is a
! manuscript that was written strictly
' for the family of the author; it was
1 never published till a few years ago.
and appeared in English only last
; month.
It was written by Aral Hakuseka. a
i scholar poet, historian, economist.
moralist and statesman, who wrote
! many books and loft many unpub*
I lishod manuscripts in his desk. It is
! an account of ids life, and gives a
I fairly complete story of his family.
! youth, education, early struggles, and
his later successes in labors in the
court of the Shoguns.
The Shoguns were the generals in-
I chief of the Japanese army. who. as
is well known, for several centuries
j practically superseded the Mikados
| of Japan in ruling the country and
continued to hold this supremacy in
the government until ISOS.
Aral’s story lias its value as giving
us perhaps the most vivid picture? of
old Jupun obtainable—a picture ot
the real Japan, and not the fancied
land of travelers and poet and for
eigners
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orty, street walking, amt private pros-
t i t ill ion were prohibited; actors were
forbidden to wear swords or to asso-
ciate with other folks; the wearing of
silk crepe and the rutting of the hair
of beggars, as well as the visiting of
temples by women going together in
considerable numbers, were prohib-
Aral’s description of his school life ited. These are only a few of
is interesting. When the boy was ii
matin, Schiller’s wife and eldest son.
This wonderful cathedral at Cologne years old a Chinese poem was taught
was not completed at one time. A
after the glorious lake of I.u- i monk, Gerhard von Kile, is supposed j
to have been the architect, and his gjv
plans are yet to be seen within the
regulations adopted during the
years of Aral’s official service.
from Biebrioh to Coblent/.. For miles church. August 15. 1248. the found.*. ;
the high hills arc covered with well- | lion stone for this magnificent edifice
arranged vineyards, broken in places was laid; its progress at this peiiod |
mins, was slow, as the church was at war
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T^BaiPGS AL&XAHDfiQ m- PARIS:- ;__j|
1,000 years, and that the family es-
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sure to meet is ‘‘Bennett of the New
York Herald.” The regular boulevard
flaneur remembers Mr. Bennett main-
ly as a wealthy American interested
in yacht races and automobillng; as
the man who sent Stanley to find Liv-
ingstone; who helped to open up Af-
rica to civilization; who organized the
Jeannette expedition to the far North,
and defrayed the cost of a dozen other tales are worth f.7.000,000.
enterprises of world wide importance. | In 1894. the count, then 2G years old,
The hotter informed of his own na- j came to this country. “ for pleasure
tionality add to this record the many j and to complete his education.” Early
less brilliant yet none the less useful in 1895 was announced his betrothal
social and political services which, j to Miss Anna Gould, second daugli-
through the instrumentality of his pa- ; ter of the late Jay Gould the multi-
ped Mr. Bennett has performed for millionaire, i he marriage took place
his community at home. on March L 1895, 1" weeks after their
i The drawing of the latest child of first meeting, the ceremony being sol-
,European bridge engineering—the (ionized in the house of George J.
Pont du Alexander III, in Paris—gives j Gould. After an elaborate wedding
only a faint conception of the singu- ! breakfast, the happy pair, sailed on
lar beauty of this show piece of the
(Paris exposition of 1900. It spans the
#5oine at about the center of what was
•the exposition grounds, and millions
of passengers rode or walked across it
(during the gr at fair of two years ago.
I The total length of the bridge is 257
feet, and the width 130 feet. The road-
way occupies a space of 70 feet in
Iwldt’h. and the LidewalK on either side
(Is 30 feet wide.
At both entrances are two pylons,
in white marble, each feet high,
by tumble-down, picturesque
The first interesting town passed was
Mainz, best known as the birthplace
of Gutenberg, the investor of the art
of printing with movable type. Not
far away is the town of Bingen and its
adjacent island, where stands a
crumbled round tower known to
children as once having been the
home of a miser who was tormented
with mice. Close by is the town of
Rudesheitn, which is proud of its new
statin' commemorating the victories of
1871 and also is celebrated for its o\
cellent Rhine wine.
Of the several handsome ruins none
I is more lovely that the Castle of
not object to being railed a perfect
type of the Parisian dandy of the Fan- j
hourg school, a keen sportsman, and j >s inore l°^cl\
a Iovit of pleasure. ljut in* is also will- 1 Rheinstein. which was once a robbers
ji g to have it known that his name is ; den. It is situated on the eiigo of a
derived from the old castle of Castel- ; precipic e close to the Rhine. Later on
lane on the Loire, that It has descend- j boll"l» aml remodeled
i d to him in a direct line for exactly by Prince Frederick of Prussia, and is
now used as a museum. Baonarah is
another city worthy of mention, hav-
ing been a strong Roman fortifica
with itself. The saddest period in the
church history was when the soldiers
of the French republic entered the
city; many of the valuable antiquities |
were destroyed, and the bronze tombs j
of the archbishops were melted. Dur-
ing the revolution it was used as a j
garrison, and later as a prison.
The cathedral abounds ia chapels
decorated with rare paintings ami |
groups of marble figures. In the on- |
trance of the north portal Is the
great organ, built in the sixteenth cen- ,
tury, but which has been repaired ■
many times. In the chapels are splen- I
did tombstones erected to the'memory j
of the archbishops who are there laid
to rest. The high altar, though beau- i
tiful, Is not as magnificent us it used |
to lie. In the middle of the seven-
teenth century the cardinal of Straws :
burg presented the church with paint- j
! ings by Rubens and valuable tapes-
• tries. Later they were yemoved and i
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(surmounted by gilt-bronze statuary,
representing Pegasus, with Fame
about to take her flight. At the lower
end of the pylons are four pieces of
the first steamer for France.
Enormous expenditures of money
on the part of the count attended
his introduction of the countess into
French society, it being generally un-
derstood that it was the Gould fortune
— the fortune of the countess—to the
extent of $3,000,000 that was thus
squandered, the debts of the count be-
ing raised to $4,400,000.
An action followed in the French
courts, brought by George J. Gould,
trustee for the countess, his sister,
Prior to this the count had succeeded
ii, borrowing $1,000,000 from the I
Goulds, blit it was soon gone in such |
items as: Site for marble palace.
$940,000; chateau at Pan. $300,000; I
yacht Valhalla. $200,000; building
• Little Trianon,” $1,000,000; bric-a-
brac, jewels and furniture, $500,000;
lost on bourse, $000,000; living ex- j
pen.-vs. $2u0.o00; cards and race track, \
{’mimioi); ( lotlu $l"n...... charity.
$70.00“; maintaining yacht, $100,000. i
While the couple were absent in !
New. York, reports were published
in. the Paris papers that greatly an- j
noyed the count. Not only did he j
threaten vengeance, but on his return
to Europe he fought a duel with Editor
Turot of the Petit Kepublique, wound-
ing the editor twice. He also had
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statuary representing France at vari- ' others, and pave several
.0,1' epochs. : ehallenses.
' Two groups ot massive lions guard j
ithe approach to the 1,ridge, broad I Novei Advertising Scheme.
flights of stone steps lead from the*
lower quays to the floor of the bridge
each abutment, and at the top of
[these steps are groups of statuary
representing the Children of the
Vases. The cost of the bridge is esti-
mated at about JI00.000, and it is said
to be the finest of its type in exist
ence.
Drumont. originally a hack writer
for the Freneh pres.-, afterwards show-
ed considerable ability as an au hor -.f
historical works, one of wr.;a.i v/xs
A clever girl singer in one of the
popular New York theaters lias de
vised a brand-new scheme of adver-
tising. She goes with a party or
friends to a different cafe every
evening and sends a request to the
orchetva leader asking him to play
the song which in an hour or so she
will sing in the theater. Diners who
recognize the air remark to their
companion.-: “Ah, that’s from So
and-So You must go and hear Miss
Blank ing it.”
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The government had placed a har-
rier at Totomi which could be passed
1 only by those who bad permits, and
the penalty for passing without a per-
mit was crucifixion. The old people
know nothing of the barrier and Kibel
hired men of the neighborhood to load
thorn around it by a mountain path to
I Mitsuke. where lie rejoined them.
At this late time he told the parents
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tion. and as evidence there yet stands
a sacrificial altar.
By the time we reached Oberwesel
the hills had given place to steep
rooks, where are seen the handsome
ruins of Shonburg. Two of these steep
cliffs are called Llebenstein and
Sternberg, which were once owned by
two brothers who quarreled and killed
each other in deadly combat. A little
farther along stands a sharp, high
cliff called the Lorelei. Along th:.i
part of its windings the rive.- xnkas
A JAPAN SHOPPING STREET.
to him with its explanation and music I At one time child stealing was very
ami he was required to give his own ! prevalent, ami Aral tells of several
ideas of the poem. When he was H | instances, in 1711, Doju, the keeper
years old his education began In i of an inn at Shinagawa, gave his serv-
earnest. ant, Kibei. twenty gold ryo and sent
The written language of the Japa- him to buy some maid servants,
nese is expressed in Chinese ideog j\t. Funatsu village Kibei found a
raphs. Before. Aral had been at. | ve ry poor old couple with two daugh-
school long he was required to write | ters. He told them his master would
3,000 ideographs every day and 1,000 f make them nil comfortable if they
every evening j would go with him, and so they
When ho grew sleepy at night he started. a
put two pots of water by his side. If
he began to nod over his task lie
threw back his gown and a friend
would empty one of the pots over
him; as the boy gradually grew dry
and warm ami sleepy again he would
be doused with the other pot of
water, and so Ik* got through his
task.
From his thirteenth year he con-
ducted his father’s correspondence.
All his life Ik* was a laborious stu-
dent, and thus became one of the
most learned men of his country.
The great services that Aral rend-
| ered to his country were comprised
j in the short period of six years which
embraced the rule of two of the
Shoguns. Aral was their chief ad-
viser and he was therefore practical-
ly the ruler of the country.
When he became powerful in the
i state his country had fallen upon evil
times. The personal profligacy of the
I Shoguns, combined with administra-
I five looseness, had nearly ruined
I Japan. The public expenditures
, greatly exceeded the receipts.
Official waste and corruption were
I seen everywhere, the coinage was re-
| peatedly debased, and the taxes were
most oppressive. The whole country
I was in a demoralized and chaotic
j state w hen Arai came into power and
undertook to introduce reform. He
| insisted that the debasing of the cur-
| rency by mixing silver with gold coins
and putting copper in the silver coins
should cease.
He secured the adoption of eoono-
I mies in public expenditures, and he
I fostered the industrial interests of
the country. He quoted many pre
! cepts from Confucius, and said that.
I if they were acted upon the treasury
; would be filled in a few years and the
country would prosper.
He provided for the gradual pay-
ment of the public debts. “Let us
pay what we must, postpone what we
\ may. say a half, and we ran do all.
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the paintings were covered with a
carpet worked and «resented by tho
ladies of Cologne. The work repro
sents the Nicene creed in a number ot
tableaux.
When we said good-by to Cologne,
we bade farewell Germany, tho
country which is proudest of its splen-
did army; a nation who loves and
fosters architecture, painting and i Then let a proportion of tho late
music, and a people who a v well i Shogun’s debts be paid each year till
versed in science, as well 9v,,ry all is paid,
ether branch <>i knowledge. In
Typical Japanese.
what lie wanted of the girls, but they
refused to let them be servants in an
; inn. However, as they could not go
1 home past the barrier, they all w .-nt to
j Shinagawa together.
Doju sold the girls to a brothel and
I pocketed a large profit. The facts
l came to light and Arai decreed the
i death penalty for tho innk • *per whose
j offense came under the law inflicting
| death upon those who buy and sell
| men.
Woman Charged With Repeating.
The first arrest made in Denver on
election day was that of a woman,
Jennie Sanderson, who was charged
with repeating.
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