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Show The Emperor of China. When the emperor of China made his pilgrimage two or three months ago to the tombs of his ancestors he allowed himself to be seen by the people, and even conversed with and received petitions peti-tions from them. This is the first time iu thousands of years that a Chinese emperor's em-peror's face has been seen by the lower of his subjects, aud formerly aa effort on the part of one of them to speak to the emperor would have been cause for exsrariating torture and final death. To pronounce the real uame of the emperor is a capital offense even now. He is known as the Son of Heaven. |