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Show AN INNOCENT LAW DltBAKBIt. Innocent culprlta do not always cap pnnlahment on Recount ot thtlt Ignorance. One inch offender did, however, naa tiomolented, although ahe had, all unknowingly, grievously broken the law. It waa over In Japan, and she was an American girl. UnwIttlnRly the committed the offense of looking upon royalty She bad gone to tho temple of Kevannon, the goddess of merey. The temple la on a hill, and I rallied ralli-ed by many (tejta. Aacendlng three steps, abe ut down In a little ten-hovee ten-hovee to rest. What happen ' while-she while-she thus rested, she herself narrate In the llulfalo Ktpres. She had rioted her eyea and wH taking her eae. when abe wn and-denlr and-denlr arouaed by a policeman, who came tery near and glared at her. Ille worda the etmld not understand. She turned anr. aaw a gorgeously robed prleat,- followed by an old man, who led by t le hand a little girl about eight )car old. Several ladles wero In ntletidance. The visitor waa Interested In what the mw. As fur the policeman, the Imagined that he had told her she could not enter the temple to-day be-caiiM be-caiiM of some nrlettly f unci Ion. Soon another imllcoman came up and glared at her, but a before the wa In Ignorance of ht tin meant. She n itched the party ascending tho steps, and thought what n delicate-looking delicate-looking child the little girl wat, and ndmlrrd tho flue old man who was with her. It was not until ahe reached the hotel ho-tel that sho learned what n alii the hid committed. She had had the effrontery ef-frontery to look on royalty. That wa the cause of the black looks. -Sho had not only looked on roynlty, but tho had looked donn on roynlty from her position nhoto tho step. Nothing but her Ignorance ot the language and custom of the country had carried her through. Tho two little princesses are now In Knmakura, and If they walk on the bench the whole place I cleared. No common eye I allotted to seo any ot tha family. |