Show MIKADO GOES TO FATHERS I End Comes After Hovering i Ten Days Between Life and Death CROWN PRINCE AT ONCE ASCENDS ASCEND THRONE M Hito Mutsu-Hito Governed tb the Is Island Island Js Is- land fo for More Than Forty Years TOKIO July 29 The The emperor of ot Japan died at 1243 o'clock this morn mom ing tug His death was due to acute tie He has haz been succeeded on Oft the throne by the Crown Prince Yo Ye Tho The announcement of the mikado's serious illness was made July 19 19 and the tue ne next t morning the ministers of or sta state were assembled at the palace The c court urt physicians diagnosed his trouble a as acute nephritis The Tho emperor had boon boen suffering from irom corn diabetes diabetes' since l 1904 which d developed loped into cu te kidney trouble in l 1909 1009 09 poisoning developed de do vel rel ped lately t news of t f th the dangerous condition of the emperor waI was WM wasa a a. I great surprise e to o Tok Tokio o. o Had Z Long ong eign t Hi o e I 1 I i 4 4 i I i 4 PRINCE YO Who Vho succeeded to the tha throne on the tho death of his father the tho emperor of ot Japan N November 3 1852 at Kioto and has bas reigned r since since 1867 1861 when he succeeded su hIS lis father Kamol Kamel He married in 11 1869 the tho dau daughter of Prince Ichijo Tho The heir apparent to the throne who has been already declared emperor is Prince Yo YoShihito YoShihito ito who was born Au August t 31 1879 1870 of Japan n Hito TeD emp emperor was the representative of oldest royal royal dynasty Ho He was tho the one hundred and first twenty emperor of his dynasty which dates back in an an unbroken line lino 25 2555 5 years He Ho was waR the time direct descendant descend nd- nd ant of ot the he It divine ine conqueror who according to Japanese mythology descended from heaven on the white bird aird of clouds douds first task in n his lis mth mythological lo ical role of divine con conqueror con con- was waR the subjugation n of the amos a savage va e warlike race whose descendants are still found in the tho northern northera north north- ern era extremity of Japan Having Havin subdued subdued sub sub- dued clued these fierce amos proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed himself to be C 1 the theion established the still son ion of heaven hea and existing dynasty in B. B C. C It is not exaggeration therefore to say uy that through the tho veins of Mutsu Hito flowed the theer verv ver bluest of blue blue blood Personally the emperor had a pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant appearance Ho He was TaS very tall for a Japanese almost six f feet cot He was waa muscular inns mus Ho lIe had bad hada bada cular an and ana well proportioned a broad hi high h forehead and andl judged by bythe bythe the he most exacting standard of manly beauty was a handsome sovereign Meaning of ot Title The term mikado is said t to mean grand palace and honor honorable ble gate sate or was was was' formerly applied to the palace of the he sovereign but for a ft lon long period Jeriod has hils been boen used to designate ate the official head of the nation of Japan Tho The mikado has hns las no family name docs does not take that and the name namo namey of mikado any previous 1 y J which he be is known in history is 15 selected elected after death He can have one ono wife and concubines and there ther ala aro aco four imperial families os from which a child chUd may be selected for succession to o the tho throne Immediately after atter Mut Ton T Ton n- n wo ascended the throne ho he abandoned the he ancient policy of seclusion received re- re various representatives of hris- hris ti ian tian n nations and in 1869 removed his residence to Yedo changing tho the name to o Tol Tokio o. o |