Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1894, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE: SUNRDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1894, { } 000000000000?0‘0 prices. Antique Antique Bed Suits, worth $20.00 Antique Cheffoniers, worth $1 Antique Beds, worth $3.00. Hat Racks, 5-hook, worth 75¢ Antique Extension Tables, Antique Kitchen Safes, TS $10.00 worth of Goods, $1 week or $6 5.00 worth of Good $50.00 worth of Goods, 2 week $75.00 worth of Goc $2.50 week or $100 worth of Goods, 200 worth of Good @ € €. S G & S G ¢ G O S S ¢ ¢ S G S G S S S S S S S O > > o0 0+0»§.660 Folding Beds worth #1500 orth $0.00, now Antigque Dining Chairs, worth #1. worth £6.00, Antique Oak Sideboards, worth $25.00, now Antique Ouk Hall Trees, worth $16.00, now EASY TERMS. month, $1.50 week or $6 month, $4 week or $15 month. We lead in goods, prices and terms. 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N SR SRR B R ™ following sample h 822 .now 812 65 19 00 750 3 50 375 975 now 24 50 4 65 24 10 ow now now now now now now now od. $1 week or $4 month, $1.50 week or $6 month od or $8 worth of Goods, $2.50 week or $10 month. $2 week month. 3 week or $12 month, $% week or $15 month. ® S S S G S * S ¢ S S S & S S S S S S S S S S S > S S S S > > TALK WITH JAPAN'S PREMIER QOount Tto the Brain Force Behind the Jap- anese Throne, HE DIFECTS 1HI WAR UTON CHINA Count Tnouye Moven ", tho Head of the Reform nt In Coren—Did Ito Plan the Jupan's Development— Revislon of Treatles, (Copyrighted, 1594, by Frank G. Carpenter.) The new Japanese parliament is now sit- ting at Hiroshima, and Count Ito, the Japa- nese premier, again has things all his own | way, A year ago the members of both | houses were more or less against the gov- | srnmest, and the emperor had to peremptorily | dissolve parliament last spring. The whole country was In an unsettled state. Riots had broken out in many of the election pre- | cinets, and had it not beep for the fact that | the constitution of Japan provides that.when | a parliament is dissolved the budget of ap- propriations for the year before shall be con- tinued in force without the act of parliament, the emperor would not have had the means | to run h's government., This was the condi- | tion when the war was declared. This solidified the people, and today they are, to a man, in favor of almost everything that the administra- tion proposes. Al this was largely brought about by Count Ito, who is, perhaps, the brainiest man in the whole Japanese empire, and whose master mind is directing the war against China, He is the Li Hung Chang of Japan, and he is the power behind the throne which passes upon measures of state | policy, and which, It is whispered, is, to a large extent, the cause of the present war. Still, the world knows but little about him. He is modest and retiring by nature, and he prefers to do rather than to bluster or talk. It is by no means easy for a foreigner to get accoss to him, and during my stay in Tokyo, when the war clouds were gathering over Asia, the doors to his palace were closed even more tightly than usual. Still, my let- ters from the cabinet ministers at Washing- ton and a special introduction from the Jupanese minister at our national capital gave me an appointment, and I had a chance to see something of him and to chat with | him about the condition. of the Japanese people. COUNT ITO'S ROMANTIC CAREER. But first, let me tell you gomething about | Count Ito. His history reads llke a romance, and It is closely associated with | that of Count Inouye, who has just gone to ! Corea to preside over the Introduction of western civilization into that land. The most of the history of Count Ito's life I got rom himself, and other parts were told me by an English officer connected with the Jupanese government, as we sat together one night in the Roku Meikwan club In Tokyo. It s wrapped up in the history of modern Japan, In which Tto and Inouye have been | the chief actors. They came of good families, | and their fathers were soldiers, and they ex- pected to serve in the army of the Shoguns themselves. This was In the days when i Tycoon or Shogun governed the country. He | had a swell establishment at Tokyo, and the Daimios and Samural made up his army. ed about the country with big t their sides, acting very much like | ithe “bad man of Bitter Creek,” and they consldered other people as having no rights | Which they were bound to respect. In the | meantime, the mikado was kept inside the walls of his palace at Kioto, a sort of a| sacred puppet, surrounded by his wives and his servants. Commodore Perry had made | his treaty, with gunboats to back him, and there were farelgn and anti-forelgn parties /in Japan. Among the anti-forelgners were Ito and Inouye. They thought that these le-faced barbarians would ruin the country. they did not know much about them. but they understood they were at Yoko- hama, - and they conspired to get up & party and go there and elean the forelguers from the face of Japan. Without letting their superiors and parents know it about 100 of them sneaked out one dark night and left Tokyo to go to Yokohama, They .Afl gotten balf way when they found thgm- | they would be |to a good | two to selves surrounded by soldiers. They fought their way out and returned to Tokyo. They soon learned, however, that the killing of the foreigners at Yokohama would only be the beginning of a great war with them. They went fo the seacoast and saw our warships, as they floated in the harbor beside their Japenese junks, and they saw that Japan could not successfully fight such things on the sea. Ito and Inouye were In the service of the prince of Choshiu, who was the chief of the anti-foreign fac- tion, and the question of how to get rid of the foreigners was _discussed everywhere. At last the two boys con- cluded that the only safety for the country was in her having good ships and good guns, and they went to thelr prince and told him that they wanted to go to England with three other picked youths of their band. They said that they would study English customs, would go into the gun works, and would master the great secret of naval supremacy, and bring it back to Japan. The Japanese could then build ships of their own, and these could put their guns over the country so that they could drive the hated foreigners away from their coasts. The prince was pleased with the idea, and he gave them $8000 and arranged with the British consul to ship them to Shanghai, from whencs they were to go on to England. A" MIDNIGHT ESCAPE. Now, it was contrary to the commands of the Shogun for any Japanese to leave the country without permission, and they feared detained, so they took a small boat one dark, rainy night, and were taken on a ship just about to depart for China. I took them some days to get to Shanghai, their money having been sent on, in the meantime, to one of the big English trading houses 'there, with orders to ship them to England. The orders were not very definite and as Ito and Inouye could not speak English the merchants misunder- stood them, and when they said over and over again the only two English words that they knew, “Navigation” and *London,” the merchants thought they wanted to be- come sailors and go oft to London, and in- stead of sending them to London as pas- sengers, with instructions that they be sent naval school, they were shipped as common sallors on a salling ship which | went around the Cape of Good Hope. They | had only a small amount of money with | them, the rest having been sent on by draft, and this they spent during their voyage. COUNT ITO'S ADVENTURES IN LONDON. | The English officer told me of their trou- | bles in London. “The most of them,” sald he, “oceurred on the day that they landed. And I venture the darkest day of Count Ito's life was when he found himself wandering through the slums of the city without a cent in his pocket. The way ‘it happened was this: The moment the vessel reached the docks, the officers and crew departed and left the Japanese boys to take care of them- selves. They were dazed with the din and | the sights and the confusion of the great | city. In the center of millions of people, | they knew not which way to turn, nor whither to go. The cook gone, and the locker was shut, and there was not a bit of food to be had. They waited some time, ex- | pecting that the merchants might send for | them, but after a while they grew so hun- gry that they declded to go out and buy something to eat. They had $3 left, but they did not know the value of money in England They thought, however, that this would buy them some boiled rice’ and a good meal of raw fish. Taking a paper with them, Count Inouye marked on it a diagram of the route as they went In order to find their way back | the ship, and after devious wanderings they came at last to a bakery. There were loaves of bread on the counter, and Ito, who was carrying the money, not knowing the orice, laid down his $3 and picked up a loaf He had no fdea how much it was worth, and he supposed that the baker would glve him some change. The baker faw he was a foreigner and swept the whole of the 33 into the till. The boys then started to go back to the ship, but Count Inouye found that he had lost the diagram. They walked the streets of Lon- don for hours, and it was dusk before they got to the wharves. They ate thelr bread, however, and the next day a messenger from the merchant to whom their money was con- signed, came for them and took them in eharge. They used thelr time well. They spent some time in studying English manners and customs. They looked into the army and uavy, and thely bright minds soon grasped | white | shoulders, make a sue- wealth, and about them. the fact that Japan could never cessful struggle against such such a mighty nation as that They considered it their duty to go back and tell the prince what they had learned. ATTEMPTED KILLING OF INOUYE. “The two boys had some trouble in getting back to Japan, and they finally made their way into the presence of their prince and told him their story. It was by no means well received, for he was fighting the for- eigners at the time, and his hatred of them | was great. The soldiers were exceedingly angry at the suggestion that the foreigners were stronger than they and equally brave, and when Inouye left the castle one night he was set upon by a mob and slashed and hacked and left for dead by the roadside. He recovered consciousness and was able to crawl to his mother's house, and it was only by careful nursing that he was brought | back to life, and he bears on his face today the scars of the wounds he recelved during the night. Shortly after the time the Sho- gun was put down, and the revolution was organized by which the mikado again became the real ruler of the people, and the western civilization gradually worked its way in: In every movement toward modern progress both 1to and Inouye have been in the front, and it is due largely to them that Japan now stands shoulder to shoulder with any modern nation on the globe. Count Ito hias long been the most influential and powerful of all the Japanest statesmen, and he is now pushing the civilization of which he got his first knowledge In this romantic way into the land of Corea, and there {s no telling but that his ambition may be the eventual revolution- izing of China itself. He is certainly a most remarkable man, and all the diplomats who have met him speak of his wonderful ability. He had an Interview with Li Hung Chang not long ago, and during it Li changed his views of Japan, which he had thought up to that time were dangerous to China, but Ito told him that Japan and China should be friends, and that it was to their interest to work together. I am told that Ito at this time really belleved this to be the case, b he has since evidently changed his opinion A TALK WITH COUNT ITO. I arranged, strange to say, for my talk with Count Ito by telephone. ~Think of it! Telephones in the land of Japan, I called up his private secretary, and was told that the count had gotten my letter, and would receilve me at 4 o'clock sharp that after- noon. In a jinriksha, with two men to haul me, 1 rode along the edge of the moats which surround the palace grounds, passed the new Parliament buildings, and on up by the American legation, into what is now the most fashionable part of the Japanese capital. 1t is made up of modern buildings surrounded by large yards, so walled in | that they look like the fashionable suburbs of a European capital. Count Ito's house | was a large one, of two stories, bullt of brick, with a great porte cochere running| out above the front door. A Japanese but- ler, in brass buttons and European clothes, recelved my card, and showed me into a| parlor as large as the Blue room of the house. It was furnished in foreign | style, and was, to my eyes, not half so pretty | as many of the pure Japanese homes. 1| waited a moment, when a dark-faced, heavy man, of perhaps 50 years, entered the room. He had a long body, but rathe' short legs, and he was dressed in a frock coat of bla and dark pantaloons, while his shoes were evidently imported from England. It was | Count Ito. He is, I judge, about five feet six inches high and he weighs about 160 pourds. He is well formed and muscular. His eyes are a bright black and not so almond in shape as the average Japanese type. His forehead Is high, his nose rather | thick, and his mouth, which shows tyrough | rather thin mustache and whiskers of black, | is strong and yet pleasing. He shook my | hand in American fashion, and addressed | me in English. He chatted with me about | the growth of Japan, and he told me that| he thought the country was just on the eve of its development, and that it had a great future. He referred to the Japanese troops which he was then sending into Corea, and when I asked him as to whether he thought that there might be a war be- tween Japan and China, he shrugged his and eald: “Who can tell? We are sending our soldiers to Corea to take care of our people, and it the Coreans should ask us to help them put down the rebel- lion, we might possibly consent. There ls one thing thac Is certain, and that is that if our soldiers are attacked they will fight, and, as It is now, China bas already been the aggressor. But, you know, I can hardly talk on this subject . The situation is critical, and no one can tell whether" there will be war or not.” DID ITO PLAN THE WAR? This was thrce weeks before the. war was declared, and there is no doubt but that Count Ito at that time had all his plans laid, and he gave me to understand during the interview that it would take very little provocation to bring his men into battle. A few days later the Japanese transports were carrying thousands of troops into Corea, and the condition of the Japanese army shows that Japan had long had war in sight. The military department was so thoroughly ~ organized ~ that 100,000 troops were shipped out of -the country without creating more than a ripple upon the waters of the soclal and business life of the Japanese empire, and the troops which were sent to Corea ‘were. thoroughly equipped, both for fighting and for reforming the country. They carried telephonic and ' telegraphic material, and, while the Chinese tried to live off of the people, they carried: all of their own pro- visions and-took coolies with them by the thousand to aid them in transporting their baggage. In connection with Count Ito and the different parties of the Japanese empire, ft is curious to state that both the administration and the opposition parties delegated men to go along to report on the actual occurrences in order that they might use the same as political capital, and all of the newspapers sent corps of re- porters. ~ A few days after my interview, however, Count Ito made the censorship of the press even more rigid than it had been in the past, and the papers were warned that any comments upon or news of the war which might be published without first going through the Bands of the censors would subject the paper to immediate sus- pension, and its editors to fines and impris- onment. This has been the policy of Count Ito throughout the struggle, and the little talk that I had with him is probably the last that will be given to any newspaper man until the war closes. I have received letters from Japan . within the past few days, 'saying that no news whatever is glven out to correspondents, and that it is almost impossible to get anything authentic regarding the war. The of Count Ito and his confidential officials know practically nothing, and as for the “hineso they systematically lie in regard to such matters as reports of their battles, JAPAN'S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. During my conversation with Count Ito the question ‘of Japan's industrial develop- ment came up, and he gpoke of the growth of Osaka and of its cotton mills. He said that most foreigners! in estimating Japan's possibilities forgot toogut in the: women, | who are equal with the men in almost ali manufactures, and Who practically double the working force of ithe Japanese nation. They do a great deab of work in the cotton mills and they have a band in the making of nearly everythingn that is shipped to America. As fo cattm, Count Ito told me | that Japan had thirty years ago about 5,000 spindies at work, aad &hat this number had risen in 1883 to owep .40,000. Within five years from that it had.doubled, having then 88,000 spindles. Thdw was in 1888, and there were twenty-four millsithen at work. Four years later the spindles numbered 400,000, and there are now tarty-six great modern mills, with 600,000 spindles. It s impossi- ble to estimate the growth of Japan's modern manufactures, and thei greater part of her cotton now comes from America, though much of it first goew to London and is thence shipped to Japan. During the talk Count Ito referred very kindly to the United States, saying that he had spent some time in Washington looking into our monetary system, and that he had been awarded every facility by the Treasury department. He spoke of the financlal situation in Japan, telling me that the country was in splendid condition, notwithstanding the fall in silver, and he referred with fatisfaction to the prospect of the treaties being revised within a very short time. Since then England has made a new treaty with Japan, and it is probable that the other countries will follow within a short time. Japan every day rises higher and higher among the ranks of the nations, and the day has passed when she could be considered anything else than the equal of any of the countries of Europe. Kkl Ay Candutss ——————— Japanese outside | (F FUNERALS HE HAD FOUR The Body of w Union Soldier Dishonored and Honored in War, LOYAL CONDUCT OF A-SOUTHERN DOCTOR The Death ot Lieut. Anlmosity of Zons— Carrylng Out the Last Wishes of & Dead Oficer. nant Bradford and the Charleston (Copyright, 1894, by MecClure.) There wers but few prominent citize of South Carolina who were avowed union men after war became flagrant. The fore- most union man in the state was Dr. Al-| bert G. Mackey of Charleston. His views were well known to his fellow citizens for he had publicly declared them and predicted | the final triumph of the arms of the union. | He was the most eminent Free Mason in the United States, and his works upon Masonic sclence were recognized as of the highest authorlty throughout Europe, as well as this country, having been translated even into the Russian language. His exemption from the harsh treatment usually infiicted by the civil authorities in the south upon known unfon men was doubtless due to his Masonic character, which Invested his person with a certain degree of sanctity, and secured for him an amount of toleration that would have been otherwise denied him. He was the apostle of charity to the union sold'ers imprisoned in Charleston and his presence often cheered the gloom of their prison walls. They were generally in sore need, and to relieve their wants he con- sumed his entire estate, converting it into money, from time to time, to supply them with nourishing food and comfortable cloth- ing. On learning, the morning after an un- successful assault on Fort Sumter, by the unfon forces, on the night of September 8, 1863, that a number of wounded union soldfers had been brought to the city, he visited the riilitary hospital, and there saw Lieutenant Charles H. Bradford of the Maine corps. Dr. Mackey had been the demonstrator of anatomy in the medical college of South Carolina, where he had graduated with the highest honors, and had achleved distinction as a surgeon, before retiring from practice « engage in, literary pursuits. Uson his earnest solicitation he was permitted by the | chief surgeon of the hospital, a brother | Mason, to take exclusive charge of Lieuten- | ant Bradford’s case. A careful examination satisfied him that the wounds, though serious, | were not necessarily mortal, and with skill- ful treatment, and careful dieting, aided by the patient’s’ robust physique, he felt as- | sured of his ultimate recovery. That the young soldier had fallen while upholding the flag of the union was sufficient to inspire the doctor's interest in him, but the interest was deepened by the discovery that he was the son of an old friend, a Mason of distinction, whose hospitality he had enjoyed at Bangor, Me., before the war. FORBIDDEN TO SEE HIS PATIENT. After three months of assiduous nursing Lieutenant Bradford apparently crossed the danger lime, and was rapidly convalescing But on Christmas day, when Dr. Mackey made his accustomed morning eall, intent upon_cheering up the soldfer on that saddest of all days to the prisoner and the exile, he was met at the door of the ho:pital by the surgeon in charge, who handed him an order from General Beaureguard forbidding his admittance to the hospital for any purpose whatsoever, The surgeon himself expressed deep cha grin at the fssuance of such a harsh and unwarranted order by the department com mander, and humanely permitted the doc- tor to bid his patient farewell. He also promised to send him word and admit him to the hospital, at the risk of a court mar tial, should an unfavorable change indicating & fatal termination occur in Lieutenant Brad- ford's condition Every observant physiclan koows that | 1t the body were not Wlecease mozal causes exert a potent influence on the vital forces. This was strikingly illustrated in the cate of the wounded officer, for after being separated from the friend whose presence had daily cheered him, and in whose skill as a surgeon he reposed the most per- fect faith, he steadily declined in strength, and on the night of January 12, 1864, Dr. Mackey received the promised summons and was soon at his bedside. Lieutenant Bradford was aware that he was dying and at his request the docfor drew up his will in brief form, which was duly signed and witnessed. He desired that Dr. Mackey should take charge of his body, and forward it when the war was over to his family in Maine, and he especially requested he might bo buried with the flag of the union upon his breast. He died on the fol- lowing day and his body was delivered to Dr. Mackey, who had it embalmed and dressed in the official uniform, attaching to the lapel of the coat a ‘“passion eross’ of silver, surmounted by rays of light, the jewel worn by an’ eminent commander of Knights Templar, which Masonic rank Lieutenant Bradford had attained. Then the flag w placell by the hand of the doctor's wife over the soldier’s heart. THE FIRST BURIAL, At night fall on January 15 Dr. Mackey, with his wife and two daughters, followed the hearse that bore the body to Magnolia cemetery, a mile north of the city, The next afternoon a procession composed of fifty or more citizens marched to the residence of Dr. Mackey and charged him with having outraged the feelings of the people of Charles- ton by burying the body of one of the “abo- lition army” 'In Magnolia cemetery, They were not the rabble of the city, but reputa- ble citizens, and their leader was Hon, W. D Porter, lieutenant governor of the state, a gentleman, who would have shrunk from a conscious stain upon his honor. Governor Porter, voicing the sentiment of his associates, stated that the community were very Indignant at the desecration of Magnolia cemetery by the burial of a Yankee officer's body within its precincts, and that ing it would be taken up and thrown into the sea. Ho further said that it should be burled in the Potter's field Dr. Mackey asserted his right to bury the 1 officer in his own burial plot, to which he had a title in fee simple, and then sald ntlemen, I regard your demand as abhorrent to civilization itself, but as 1 have no means of resisting it, I will exhume the body. It shall be lald in the pauper burial ground, as you require. I shall place it there in the assured faith that although it is sown In dishonor, it will, ere long, be raised in glory.” THE SECOND BURIAL That night he had the body exhumed, and with his family accompanied the hearse that bore it to the Potter's ficld, situated nearly two miles west of Magnolia cemetery. As the small funeral cortege wended its way through the darkness the sky was ever and anon kindled up by the flames bursting from the 200-pound shells fired from the gun known as the “Swamp Angel,” located at the south end of Morris Island. One of the shells completely arched the city from east 10 west with its flery curve, and passing over the road not far in tront of the hearse, burst near the Ashley river, elght miles from the gun that discharged it The body was burled in the Potter's field between two oak trees that grew not more than ten feet apart, and the exact location was carefully determined by course and dis- tance. A little more than a year later, on the 18th of February, 1865, one of Dr. Mackey's servants rushed into his presence in a great excitement, and informed him that a number of soldiers had stopped in front of the house Ten days previously he had received from a confederate soldier a friendly warning that certain civillans had formed a plot to take his life should he appear upon the streets, | and he had, therefore, remained in doors, and was not aware of the march of events Hence, he concluded that the military au thorities had ordered his arrest, and re solved to know the worst. With somewhat of the martyr spirit, he hurried out onto his plazza to answer the riug of his door bell in person On opening the the presence of a number uniforms of officers of the army and navy. One of the ward, and offering his hand, sald, “Dr. Mackey, | am Admiral Dahlgren. [ have called 10 assure you of my gratitude for your door_he found himself in persons in th United States that | removed before morn- | | over the whole globe. stepped for- | | devoted kindness to an officer of my stafr, Lieutenant Bradford. These gentlemen of the army and navy have accompanied e, and they will deem it an honor to grasp your hand.” After mutually hearty greetings, A Dahlgren “relieved the doctor of much per- | plexity by etating that the confederates had | evacuated Charleston and its defenses the | night before, and the union forces had takem | possession of the eity at daybreak. He added, with emotion, that he was aware of | the circumstances attending the death-and burial of Lieutenant Bradford, and that he | would, at an early day, have fitting honora | paid to his remains. | THE THIRD BURIAL. Three days later: a grand funeral pro- cession, composed of several thousand sol- dlers, marines and sallors, with their officers, assembled in front of the city hall and marched thence, headed by Admiral Dahlgren and General Gillmore, behind a hearse draped with the flag of the union, to the Potter's fleld, whero the body of the herofc officer was exhumed and identified, and placed in the hearse with a wreath of laurel and fm= mortelles laid upon the oak coffin that en= closed it. The solemn pageant then moved through the principal streets of Charleston and on to Magnolia cemetery. During the funeral progress numerous bands of music in the line played the dead march in Saul, while the flag of the United ates floated at half mast on the city hall d citadel and upon the vessels of war, and over Fort Sumter, and minute guns were fired by the fleet. The honored remains were finally deposited at Magnolia cemetery in the very grave from which they had beem exhumed, a detachment of marines firing the funeral salute. THE FOURTH BURIAL, They reposed there with a guard of honor posted mear them for five or six daye. Then, in accordance with the request of Lientenant Bradford's family, they were for- warded to Bangor. The dead hero was borne back to his na- tive #oil in & vessel of war, and consigned to his final rest beneath a marble column, which tells how, “He died that the Nation might live, I should add that Dr the pail bearers at the re-bu of Lieutenant Bradford in tery. He appeared at the fune official character, having been mayor of Charleston by General who commanded the military def T. J. MACKEY, of Engincers, C. 8. A. b MOODS iral Mackey was one of of the body Magnolia ceme= also in his appointed Gillmore, Late Captaln rs, BABY" Somerville Journal. rything seems dull and drear, When the baby cries Sorrow grows with ry Krom her weeping eyes. Everybody's heart s sore, Things get worse with every roar, Life eems just a horrid bore, When the baby cries. tear Jut it's vastly otherwise When _the Grabbing off the gol From her grandp: erybody’s cheerful he ‘air is full of oxygen, And the whole world smiles When the baby crows. 1ed eyes nose, then The Bricish Empire. The British Empire Is a political creas tion unparalleled in the world's history, says the Forum, not only by its extent and popu- lation, in both which respects it is slightly surpassed by China, but because, with an area of m o than 10,000,000 square miles and with 862,000,000 inhabitants, it {s scattered It embraces all zones from the lcy wilderness of Hudson bay to the tropical jungles of India and .the ma- hogany forests of Honduras; there iy scarcely a product which a British province does no§ bring forth In excellent quality, and nok less various are the degrees of civilization of its inhabitants, from the Kafirs of the cape to the highly cultivated citizens of Toronto and Sydney. We find with Chrigs tians of all confessions 200,000,000 Hindoos, about 70,000,000 Mohammedans, and 8,000+ 900 Buddh and the bible is printed in 130 languages and dialects represented in the empire, yet notwithstanding such pros miscuous elements, the government, With rare exceptions, maintains order and uo sign of dissclution is visible.