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SHIPWRECK^
Xff entTfit iX'C t>.« *btpwr*v*k of a heart,
beneath the placid waters of disguise;
The soft, sweet voice does not betray the
smart;
’Tla burled d P from gaza ot scornful
eyes.
*Ye do not hear the Looming Run, distress.
Above the groat world's deafening crash I
and din ; j '
In miiffl 1 ton « It solfl Us bitterness,
And silently if grieves and breaks within.
Grief nnnot bo nppr.i se 1 by tears nn-n
Kb*,
For hopeless sorrow is dry-eyed in woo;
’•Vo mu»l not judge nor deem ourselves o’er
wise—
We see the not ,hf! wre -s i -low.
We ennnot see t Ipwrcek of a heart ;
We hear the merry laugh riugoutso; gey,
And see t :hs smiling fnee, bat graceful art
Con ds tho shipwreck, and the darkened
(i hy.
Emma IIo Igos.
An Electrical Elopement,
$ ARTLY ont of
u ^ pique h° and parfc- her
m Ct W J CH,lso
parents disap
; I proved of the
match Till i
v r%s cm % * promised to
d-i* o
| iIt ( >rge Webley.
1 ! i»f:? Ft wasn’t a triv
r ial elopement, ft
‘V>v«&?V A 0 r/ getting matriod
SSr* J A V. * before the Reg
_
. f, istrar in Lon
don and going
to Faris for ft few weeks, but a run
to Liverpool, n marriage there byspe
rial license and atrip by fasteststettifi
ship to New York. Arriving there
they would cross America and grad
iially work their way around the world
aud back t<» London in a year or t wo
George Webley was rich, and could
easily afford this kind of a wedding
tour. In olden times tho parents of
Tillie Markham would have boon more
anxious that their daughter should
marry George Webley rather than the
poorer, but of course more moral
young man, Tom Ban try. But times
had changed, and it was the daugh¬
ters that now looked for money with
their lovers. The girl admitted to
herself that she liked Tom Bantry
best, but ho certainly had treated her
very badly. They had had an appoint¬
ment for a picnic up the river, but
without a word 1'oni had gone away,
and worse still, lie had sent no expla¬
nation or excuse for his desertion.
So Tillie thought she would teach
him a life-long lesson, and knowing
well that her parents would oppose
the match, and especially its hurried
conclusion, she told George Wobloy if
ho would arrange for the special
licenso at Liverpool she would meet
him at Fusion station on tho 27th,
aud together they would journey to
the seaport town, be married and sail
for America in the powerful steamship
Erratic.
Tillie concluded that it was better
to bo married at Liverpool than iu
London, as there would be less chance
of tho escapade being found out until
such time as they chose to disclose it.
Tillie agreed that they would write
letters to all concerned while on tho
vo y il 8'° from Liverpool to Queens
town, and mail them there when there
xvouId bo nothing but the broad At
luutio betwoou thorn aud New York.
Tillie met tho postman on the steps
as she was going out of the house that
morning, and he handed her a bundle
of letters. She had no time to read
thorn then, nor in the cab, for there
was barely time to reach tho station,
where she found Mr. Webley imoati
cntly awaiting her. He had strongly
advised her to bring nothing with her.
Whatever was required could be
bought at Liverpool, he said.
“I was very much afraid we word 1
miss tho train, ’ lie said, as ho hurried
her out of tiro cab. “1 have reserved
u compartment.
“There’s another train, isn’t there?”
she asked.
“Oh. certainly, but a railway station
isn’t the pleasantest place in the world
to wait, ami since 1 left my hotel I
seem to have met every friend l have
in London, and all wanting to know
where 1 am going.”
“And, of course, you told them,”
said Tillie.
The young man laughed ns he held
open the door of tho railway carriage
for her to enter. He quickly followed
her, and a moment after the 10.10 a.
m. train slid out of the great station
and began its northern journey. Tilly
sut in her corner by the window and
carelessly turned over the letters in
her baud. Most of them were from
girl triends, but on the envelope of
ono of them sho recognized the line,
bold handwriting of Tom Bantry. She
stole a lurtive glance at \\ ebley as she
tore open the envelope, but he was ab
sobod in his morning paper, now that
his mind was at rest aud they were
fitnh off.
Dear Miss Markham, the letter
began. ‘T was unexpectedly called
away lrom London more titan a week
ago by the sudden illne-s of niv uncle,
Sir John lrdiyan. Before departing
for Irollyan Hall I wrote a letter to
jou explaining why 1 could not be at
the picnic up the Jfcm*. Through my
own s> tupiuity aiiii^^ hurry of get
ting aw ay j find 1 left your letter on
my table in my rooms in the Temple,
I had expected a letter from you while
at Trellyau Hall, and when it did not
cornel was greatly disappointed. 1
found on my return this morning, a--
1 saul. my own letter which was not
posted, so, of course, you did not re
ceive \t. V ill you for., ve me, there
fore, for breaking an engagement with
you and your friends without explana
tion ? Aud may l call this evening, a
I have something of importance (to
myself, at least) to say to you? 7 I will
remain all day in my chambers at tli e
Temple awaiting your answer with
come anxiety. ”
He signed himself. “Yours very
truly, lorn Lantry, and theu added
in a postscript, as if an afterthought,
“1 should have told you that my uncle
died two days ago, which makes a
great deal of difference in my plan of
life, as perhaps you are aware.’
Tillie Markham was a cautious young
woman, aud always considered that a
bird in the hand was worth t\ in the
bush. She looked at Geor ce Webley,
and he smiled across at her.
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“Whero do we *top first?’* she
asked.
“Willeaden Junction, 1 believe, and
we ought to be there now.”
“How long do we stop?”
“Only a few minutes.”
“Do you think you could get me
half a dozen telegraph blanks while
we are stopping there?”
“Oh, I don't need to go out for
them,” sai l Webley, “I always carry
plenty of them with me and sixpenny
stamps also.” As ho said this he
reached down a bag from the rack over
his bead, opened it and handed. TilHe
a . number of already stamped telegraph
forms. When the tram slowed up at
Willeaden she said;
“Do get out, George, and find me a
time book, for I want to knowhow
many times this train stops before we
reach Liverpool.”
Webley had no sooner disappeared
than the young lady called the guard
to her.
“Where is the next stop, guard?”
she asked.
“At Bletcbley, miss.”
“How long before we reach there?”
“We are timed for Bletchley at
11.14.”
Bho had already written her tele¬
gram, all but the instructions where
to reach her. It ran:
“Tom Bmfry, Eoke-npoa-LiUloton Cham
bers, Temple:
“What do von wish to see mo for this
evening? the Liverpool Answer Bietehiey station, ou board
exorese. Tillie.”
“Can you send this off for me at
once?” she asked the guard, slipping
it with a sovereign into his hand.
“Certainly, mis-,” and he was mov
in o awa Y "hen Tillie said :
“I may have au answer to this when
rei ‘ cil 1} Ietcliley st ition, Will you
se0 tlmt - 1 get it quickly?”
“Certainly, certainly, miss.”
Just as tho train was leaving George
Webley sprang into tho compartment
w *th the train book in his hand.
Tillie opened it and found the number
>f stops the train made between Lon
tb)U and Liverpool. When they reached
the station slie said:
“Oh, George, I wish you would get
me a cup of tea.”
“f don’t think thero is a refresh¬
ment room here,” lie said dubiously,
i ( but I’ll go and see.”
i • Do, please.”
Tho next moment tho guard came
up. “Here’s your telegram, miss,” he
said.
Sho rapidly tore open the envelope
and read : “The matter on which I
wish to speak to you as impossible to
explain in a telegram. When do you
return?”
She took auother of the telegraph
forms aud rapidly wrote :
“If you have anything to tell me,
now is the time to tell it. I do not
know when I shall return to London. ”
Then turning to tho guard she
asked:
“Where do we stop next?”
“At Rugby, miss; 11.59.”
She quickly wrote where to tele¬
graph her as she saw George approach¬
ing. She added hurriedly to the
guard as she thrust her message into
his hand:
“Bring me tho answer w’hen wo get
io Rugby.”
George swung himself into tho com
partment, saying: “Just as I thought;
not a blessed thing to cat here, but we
wait ten minutes at the next stop and
I may be able to get you anything you
wish. I say,” ho added,” you’re not
telegraphing to your Irieuds about
this, are you?”
“Oh, uot about this,” she replied
quietly, “I am only sending seme
ueccssarv y telegrams, telegrams, that that is is alb” all. ”
“You know if you aro in a hurry,”
he said, “we can send all tho tele
grams you want from Queenstown just
Aa well as from hero or Liverpool.”
“Oh, I kuow that,” answered Tillie,
demurely. “1 hope I know enough
to send messages only where they
ought to go, so don’t be afraid.”
George laughed, for he was a good
natured fellow, and the train sped on
toward Liverpool. When it slowed
up at Rugby station Tillie leaned af¬
fectionately over toward tbe young
man and said:
“Now, George, you go over to the
refreshment room and eat all you have
an appetite for. I don’t think I care
for anything until we reach Liver¬
pool.”
“May I not bring you a cup of tea?’
asked George, anxiously.
“Oh, certainly, certainly, if you
bring it two minutes before the train
is off'. ”
Another mau might have thought
this request a rather singular oue, but
George had no brains to spare, else he
would not have been ou this silly
eloping expedition, so he thought
nothing of it, but jumped out as soon
as the train came to a standstill. ”
The guard soou came to the com¬
partment with a telegram in his hand.
Tillie tore it open and read:
“Utterly impossible to telegraph
what I wish to say to you. Tell me
where you are staying at Liverpool,
and 1 will leave by first train and meet
you there.”
Tillie, with a sniff' of impatience,
seized auother of the stamped forms
and rapidly wrote:
“I may sail to-morrow with some
friends for America. There is no
chance of your seeing me if you do
come; therefore, whatever you may
have to say to me say it now ; it is
your last chance. Telegraph me at—”
She looked inquiringly at the guard,
who promptly answered: “Next stop
Creve. We reach there at 1.35.”
She gave the guard a handful of
tnouey to pay for the extra wording of
this dispatch. That good man was
rapidly becoming rich. He sighed as
he remembered that the next stop was
the last before reaching Liverpool,
ile wished that he was on a train for
Scotland with such a passenger aboard,
“Here is your tea, my dear,” said
George, as he came gingerly along
with .......... it in his hand. ~ The girl drauk it
with many expressions of gratitude
toward Her lover.
“Well, the next stop is Creve, and
after that Liverpool,” he said, as he
handed back the empty cup to a news
paper boy to take back to the refresh
meut room.
“So the guard tells me,” replied
Tillie, sweetly.
At Creve the guard came to her with
the final telegram, Its wording was
terse and to the point. It ran: “I
■
; Jove you. Will yon be my wife?”
' “Lend me another of those blanks,”
she said to George-
“I haven’t another, lmt V “ n g “
one at the telegraph office
'Die train was moving off, so sba
said .
“Never mind. I can send the tele
gram from Liverpool.”
They reached the terminus in an
hour. Turning to the guard, Tillie
said:
“Would you mind taking my things
to the telegraph office for me?” And
to George she added: “You wait here
until I send for you.”
When they reached tbe telegraph
office Tillie turned and said quickly
to the guard :
“When is the next train back to
Loudon ?”
‘'On this line therela not pno na
til 4.50, but you can get one on tlio
Midland at 3. ”
Tillie took a last telegraph blank
and wrote:
“Certainly. Whv couldn’t von
have said so at first and saved me all
this telegraphing? I return to Lon
don immediately. Call and see me
to-morrow.”
This being sent off she turned to the
man who had been her friend all thy
way through.
“Now,” she said, take me to the
Midland train.” As the guard hesi
fated, she added: “X am going to
give you ten pounds.”
Tho guard personally conducted her
to au empty compartment of the Lon
don train. She scribbled a note to
Webley on the back of a telegraph
form. The note read :
“Deau Geokge—I have concluded not to
go to America this trip. Our proposol
elopement was a very foolish affair, and I
hope you never thought I was in earnest
about it. Take my advice and go to Ameri¬
ca. I am told that the girls over there aro
much prettier tnau yours truly.
“Tillie JIabhuam.”
“There,” said Tillie, giving the note
to the guard with the parting tip,
“take that to the young man who is
guarding his luggage. Don’t tell him
where I have gone, nor give him any
information. He will offer you much
money, of course, because he has pleu
ty. Take the money, aud tell him I
have gone to the country. Tell him
anything you like, only not where I
have really gone.”
All of which went to show that Til¬
lie had no conscience.
The guard touched his cap and de¬
parted. After the London train had
steamed away from its station the
guard handed George the note. He
did not get the money he expected.
A look of relief passed over the young
fellow’s face. Then he whistled, and
said to himself more than to the ex¬
pectant guard:
“Sensible girl; I was getting a little
tired of it myself.”—Detroit Free
Press.
Whiskers.
Concerning beards as now worn, it
is obvious there has been a great
change latterly. Every one is now
wearing a pointed Y-shaped Vandyke
beard, while a few years ago the Van¬
dyke beard was unknown, and the
popular beard followed very much the
shape of the face. And they say the
change is all due to the Prince of
Wales. It rose in this way: The
Prince has a barber who sees to hi?
hair. The barber noticed that latterly
his Royal Highness was growing a lit¬
tle stouter, and he thought a change
in the shape of the beard would be
more becoming.
This view he communicated to the
Prince, who thoroughly acquiesced,
The die was cast and the deed was
done. That day the Prince had and
has ever since retained a Vandyke
beard.
But that day was three years ago.
In the interval fashionable men with,
circular faces discovered that the
rouuded beard added to the appear
ance of breadth, and the pointed
beard reduced it. So they took the
Prince’s hint and followed it. Grad
ually thinner men, who were also
fashionable, followed their leader,
and one saw the pointed beard every
where. Then it became a matter of
fashion, and now, of course, every
one is adopting it.
It was very much the same twenty
years ago about that lock of hair on
the forehead. Caponl made a de
but in Paul and Virginia, and looked
peculiarly fascinating with the lock
on the forehead. Other young men,
who thought themselves good-looking,
followed the example, and the coiffure
a la Caponl ran all through Paris, aud
got specially in vogue with garcons in
restaurants, who annexed it as a body.
Men’s fashions are a little more stable
than women’s. The hair a la Caponl
is still worn. Who shall say how long
we shall have the Vandyke beard?
Possibly thirty years hence it may
still be worn, wdien the cause of its in¬
troduction may be quite forgotten.—
Westminster Gazette.
Bartering in England.
“American men who travel ir
Europe,” said J. L. Margraaf, of
Pittsburg, to a St. Louis Globe-Dera
oerat reporter recently, “frequently
complain of the lack of skill on the
part of the barbers. So few men,
comparatively, depend upon barbers
to be shaved in the Old World, that
the art is not mastered by those who
practice it. When I was in England
last year I had an experience with a
barber in oue of the country districts
which indicated that he was no mora
expert in cutting hair than he was in
shaving. One day while traveling
leisurely along I came to a rather neat
looking barber shop, and, being aware
that mv hair needed cutting, I entered
and submitted myself to the shears.
“I did so with some little trepida
tion, however, for the shears were
great elumsy-looking weapons, and
looked as if they might be used more
appropriately in catting sheetiron
than on men’s hair. While the bar
ber was making preparat ons to go to
work on my hair, I noticed that his
dog, a vicious-looking bull-terrier,
had ’ taken a position just beside the
chair, and was eyeing me in a strange
sort of way. As soon as the barber
set to work the dog appeared to get
very uneasy, but still eyed me as a cat
,, ^ .
won » mouse, is t.pp,ng -n*
on one sme an en on e o er.
stood this sort of scrutiny for awhile,
and then asked the barber whv the
dog appeared to take such an interest
in me. ■"That’s easily explained,’ he.
j replied; ting gent’s ‘sometimes hair I accidentally when I am cut
a chip
off' a piece of the ear. and then you
should see Towser, that's the dog’s
name, jump for it.’”
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OUR KOREAN WAR.
A PI MTIYR SORTIE FOLLOWS A
MASSACRE OF AMERICANS.
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A Landing Party From the Old
Monocary Does Prodigies of
Valor—The Hermit King¬
dom Humbled.
_
I and the general opening up of
• the country to the influences of
Western civilization, observes the
Vork Herald, it is necessary to
go back to the year MM. At that
time Wea was the “Hermit King
dom” in more than name. The pres
ent King had ascended the throne a
couple of years before, but being wholly a
mere boy the Government was
» the hands of his regent father, who
was a bitter hater both of foreigners
aml of change. Some French mis
sionanes, who had braved the law of
tbe country and boldly advanced into
the native cities, were horribly mas
sacred in 1866, and a French expert!
ti° n sent to chastise the Koreans as
cended the Seoul River and attacked
several forts, but lost so heavily that
|he having expedition accomplished sailed the away end without aimed
at and having left the Korean soldiers
with the impression that the foreigner
could not fight, and that the Korean
was invincible.
In the same year an American
schooner, the General .Sherman,
chartered by a British trader, sailed
for China on an experimental voyage
of trade and discovery. The vessel
entered the Ta-tong Rivet and never
returned. It was burned by natives,
and those on board were slaughtered
to the last man. On the news of the
massacre being receive!, Commander
—new Real Admiral—R. W. Schufeldt,
visited the peninsula with the war
steamer Wachusett on a mission of in¬
quiry. No satisfaction, however, was
obtained, and a similar mission, under
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Korea’s minister of foreign affairs on his wax to council.
Commander Febiger, of the Shenan¬
doah, despatched a few months later,
proved equally barren. Finally in
1871, the Asiatic squadron, consisting
of the flag ship Colorado, the cor¬
vettes Alaska and Benicia, with the
gunboats Monocacy—now at Chemulpo
—and Palos, was despatched, under
Rear Admiral Rodgers, to Korean
waters.
Jt was intended to secure a treaty
for the protection of Americans ship
wrecked on the coast of Korea, to in
quire into the General Sherman affair
and to obtain if possible a treaty of
commerce. Peaceful negotiations,
however, proved to be impossible.
The natives garrisoned the forts along
the river and prepared to make things
hot for the foreigners should they at
tempt to ascend the river toward the
«apital. A survey expedition, under
Captain Horner Blake, consisting of
the Monocacy and Palos, with four
steam launches, was sent up the river,
When they were close to Kang-wa
Island the Korean batteries, contain
ing some eighty guns, suddenly opened
fire upon them. The redoubt was in¬
stantly wrapped in a sheet of flames,
discharging in a few seconds about
three hundred shots. One account
eays that these rasped the water like
a hailstorm. The veterans of the
Civil “War had never known such
rapid firing. Yet only one American
was wounded.
Fortunately the order to fire had
been given a few seconds late; the
American vessels were already out of
the line of fire, and as the guns of the
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natives were fastened on logs, they
could not be manipulated and were of
no further use. The answering fire
from the gunboats and launches soon
cleared the fort of its defenders, and
a week later a punitive expedition was
landed in order to teach the Koreans
a necessary lesson. The force, com
posed of six hundred and forty men,
was led by Commander L. A. Kim
berly, the Adjutant-General being
Lieutenant Commander W. Scott
Schley, who was afterward to win
fame as the rescuer of Lieutenant
Greely.
The first battery, which was at
tacked unexpeetedlv in the rear, was
taken without difficulty; the works
were completely demolished and the
cannon rolled into the river. On the
next day the next fort — “Fort Mon
oeaey,” as it was christened—was
cleared by shells from the Mouoeacy’s
guns, and was then dismantled by the
landed troops. Au advance was made
upon the citadel or principal fort,
which was perched on the crest of a
rocky hill. The Koreans were hover*
ing beyond the reach of our guns in
vastly superior numbers, and were
evidently waiting for an opportunity
to crush the little American army as
soon as it had entered the ravine lying
below the fort.
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To defeat these tacacs ; five ; ~ howitzers I
and two companies of infantry were
posted as a rear guard on rising
ground while the main body moved
forward to storm the citadel. The
Koreans attacked the howitzers m
«ge numbers, but the excellent prac
tice made by the American gunners
under Master A A. Wadhams scattered
hem effectually and prevented any
1)1 -> e )lK ° 1!e,n from £°‘ tlu ff mto
close quarters with our men.
Iresent.y, at a signal previously
agreed upon, tne bring from the
Monocacy ceased, and amid a hail ol
bullets lrom tho enemy our men
sprang up the steep incline to attack
the citadel. They swarmed over the
ram parts or througn the breaches,
and in a twinkling they were at close
.juarters with tue defending garrison.
Tne Koreans fought stubbornly to the
last without asking for quarter, and
were all of them slain. After that the
remaining subsidiary forts were soon
captured, and fifty flags and 481
pieces of artillery fell into the hands
of the conquerors. The citadel was
named Fort McKee, in honor of tlfe
young officer who was first over the
parapet.
The defeat of 1871 probably rendered
the Koreans more ready to treat
peaceably with foreigners than they
were before. Iu any case the hour
for opening up the country was at
hand. The process be^an in 1876,
when a treaty was made with Japan.
A party of Japanese sailors, while
landing for water on Kang-wa Island,
were mistaken for Americans or
Frenchmen and were fired upon by a
neighboring fort. Japan saw her
opportunity and her fleet demanded
as an indemnity that certain privileges
in trade should be granted her This
was the first step toward the opening
of the country to foreign intercourse.
The Korean-Japanese treaty of 1876—
the first entered into by the Koreans
—was concluded on the basis of free
trade, only a small amount of tonnage
dues on shipping being payable. In
a subsequent convention m 1877
Japan was granted the privilege of
opening three coaling stations on the
coast; in 1879 the harbor of Gesan,
and later Chemulpo, were thrown
open to Japanese commerce, all other
nations being excluded from the bene¬
fits granted to Japan. In the mean¬
time, China, which has always re¬
garded Korea as a dependency of hei
empire, began to grow jealous of the
increasing influence of Japan, and to
counteract this hold of her inveterate
enemy, encouraged, if not actually
instigated, foreign Powers to follow
in the footsteps of Japan in conclud¬
ing treaties with this “Hermit King¬
dom,” and it was with her help that
Admiral Shnfeldt led the way and suc¬
cessfully carried through a treaty be¬
tween the United States and Korea in
1882. Later on commercial treaties
were also negotiated by Great Britain,
Germany, France, Russia and Italy.
An interesting account of the cir¬
cumstances attending the conclusion
of the American treaty has been given
by Rear Admiral Shnfeldt, an account,
moreover, which throws an important
light upon the General Sherman affair.
The Rear Admiral’s narrative is as
follows:
“I had been in Korea some years
before to settle the trouble in regal’d
i to the massacre of the troops of oar
j ship ten Gen letter 3ral to Shermar, the King, and asking had writ
■ a an ex¬
planation of the matter. I was told
that I must wait twenty days for my
answer. It was then late in the
autumn, and I feared to be frozen up,
with few provisions, in this out of the
way and untraveled land. I had to
set sail without hearing word from the
King. Upon my arrival in America I
received orders for a three years’
cruise, and immediately left the Uni¬
ted States for the voyage. In the
meantime the King of Korea had an
swered my letter, and finding that I
had gone he sent the message overland
to our Minister at Pekin. From here
it was forwarded to the United States
without being opened, and it was sev
eral years before I received it. It was
full of friendship from the King to
ward the Amerieans, and it explained
the killing of the crew of the General
j Sherman in such a way as tc
j that the King was not to blame.
j “In into that the letter Korean lay the treaty, seeds and which the
j countrv grew would have been opened
:
sooner had the letter been addressed
to the diplomatic agemsof the Unired
States and not to me in my private
capacity. It would have thus been
opened by our Minister at Pekin and
Korea might have been ten years
j further with advanced world in its acquaintance
S the of to-day. As it was,
5 the letter caused my appointment as
the diplomatic agent for the bringing
ft boat of the treaty. I was sent by
the Secretary of State to Pekin, with
the rank of Naval Attache of the Le
gation there, and with full powers to
negotiate with Korea. I bore at this
time in my pocket, though no one
knew it, a commission from the Presi¬
dent of the United States appointing
me Minister to Korea, and I found
gotten my letter of nt-arly ten rear.
at the time, in response to a signal
I waved from the shore. An
American oottage now stands on the
spot-where tire treat, was si^ed, and
it is the residence ot Mrs. Sahoenioke,
the German who acts as the Chinese
Commissioner of Customs.
“The Americans also opened Japan’’ *
Admiral Shnfeldt said, ’ “and had our
people pushed their claims to that
trade> RS have the other nations who
came in later, we would now be tho
greatest foreigu Ufttion in connection
witb tbe j apane80 Empire. It is the
same with Korea. Americans are now
in the lead in that conntrv ftud they
can> if the Wlll bo tho predoTninftt .
iug power . ] t is true that Korea is
Btm wrapped in the darkness of its
thousands of years of seclusion, it3
people are, however, no further back
than were tho Japanese at the time
Commodore Perry lay at anchor in
Mississippi Bay. ‘ I have lived some
months in Kor ea aild i know some .
thing of the King and the people. I
consider them a very J bright ” race, and
j ex cet to seo a gro wth f civilization
among them which wdl develop their
country and put them upon a high
lftne araou ° tbe nation8 of Asia.”
She Was Charged With Electricity.
A Washington correspondent tells
this story : “The efficacy of a black
cat as a lightning rod has been too
frequently the subject of discussion
and assertion to be treated at length
at the present time, the drift of which
is to show tho apt manner in which
an illustration of this popular belief
can be deduced from au incident that
occurred ou the evening of the 4th of
July to the wife of a well-known busi¬
ness man of Washington, On the
evening in question the young matron
had been expending considerable time
and attention upon a handsome black
cat, which she continued to stroke,
notwithstanding the assertion of her
family that by so doing sffe was charg¬
ing herself with electricity. Finally,
after dark, the young matron decided
that a pleasant way of winding up the
evening would be to go for a ride on
the electric car to Bethesda. Accord¬
ingly, inviting two of her friends to
accompany her, she set out for the
ride in high spirits. The trio found
places together near the middle of the
car, and had gone a short distance be¬
yond the power house when their con¬
versation was interrupted by the con¬
ductor hurriedly bending over them as
■hough to avert some catastrophe be¬
neath and telling them to leave tho
ear with all speed, as it was on fire.
Scarcely had they left their seats be¬
fore a sheet of flame burst through
the floor just beneath the very spot
over which the young matron had
been sitting, the electrical apparatus
beneatli having ignited at that very
point. ”—Atlanta Constitution.
l»ltio Frogs.
A resident of the Riviera writes re¬
garding the blue frogs of that region
about which the newspapers have been
publishing somewhat exaggerated
stories. For many years frogs of a
grayish blue tint have been found iu
various ports of the Mentone district,
and sometimes one of the usual green
frogs is found to have bluish spots or
limbs. Visitors have been anxious to
see these frogs, and in consequence a
potter has contrived to have one or
two animals on show. Last winter he
had one for which he asked $40, as
some one seemed anxious for it; on
former occasions he has sold a blue
frog for $20. The man cannot explain
the cause of this special coloration,
and feeds his frogs with ordinary house
flies. The change in color does not
seem to be due to any skin affections
and the coloration, whether entire or
partial, does not seem to be modified
by time. The correspondent believes
that the statement that these frogs are
fed with fire flies is erroneous.—New
York Advertiser.
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—New York World.
An Old North Carolina House.
On Buffalo Creek, in Forsyth
County, is a house which is probably
one of the oldest, if not the oldest in
the State. It was built before tho
Revolutionary War was commenced,
but the exact year of its building is
not known. It is a log house about
eighteen by twenty in size, and is still
1 “ T
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llenr , .Y banner was a young man living . .
"I Ilei " ' b orbood his nouso was
, »»« "!= ht Kv Indians. By
stratagem he manased to escape
" lth lus ''ifo and three childien to the
woods. Here he concealed one of the
1>0 vs m a hollow log, while he .and lus
wa^e ; and otuer two children lied to a
fort which then stood on or near what
is the site of Old Town. The boy left
concealed in the hollow was rescued,
and is said to have been the one who
built the house above mentioned.
Henry Banner owned au immense area
of land, and it is said he once gave six
hundred acres of land near Walnut
Cove for a single-barreled shotgun.
In those times guns were more valua¬
ble than land. — Mount Airy (N. C.)
News. {
An Ostrich Plume Bonnet.
Ostrich plumes are in great favoi
just now and their use extends to nl*
%*ir £ 9
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most a craze, Some altogether new
combinations are worn this season,
and the effect of the novelties is de
cidedly attractive. The illustration
is of a uonnefc Avhich, of course modi¬
fied in some degree, Inis become
general favorite.—New Tork^ Adver¬
tiser.
Artesian Wells ol Warm Water.
George W. Newell is in tho city
from liis Snake River farm. Mr.
Newell has developed three artesian
wells and has a fourth down 173 feet.
Tho water from all tho wells is hot.
One of the wells is down 335 feet, an¬
other 200 feet aud the third 150 feet.
There is a splendid flow from each. Tho
pressure from ouo is so great the
water was forced through a hole in the
sand digger at tho bottom of the pipe,
past several valves and fully forty feet
above tho ground.
Mr. Newell intends to sink enough
wells to enable him to irrigate his en¬
tire farm of 640 acres with warm
water. He will make a specialty of
early vegetables, which, with tho hot
water can be raised several weeks in
advance of those produced by cold
water irrigation. Mr. Newell is now
using horse power in sinking the
wells, but he is figuring on a steam
engine.—Idaho Statesman.
Highest ami Lowest States.
Every schoolboy knows which is the
smallest and which tlio largest State
in the Union, but how many know
which is the lowest and which tho
highest? According to ihe recently
announced results of measurements
and calculations made by the United
States Geological Survey Delaware
is the lowest State, its elevation over
sea level averaging only sixty feet,
Colorado is the highest, averaging
6809 feet above the sea, while
Wyoming is a close second, only 100
feet lower than Colorado. In mini¬
mum elevation Florida and Louisiana
dispute for second place after Dela¬
ware, their average elevation being,
for each, 100 feet. Taking the United
States as a whole, our country lies
slightly above the average elevation
of the land oftheglobe.—Philadelphia
Record.
One Hundred Thousand Clippings. (
Speaking of newspaper files, they
are now so bulky that a condensation
seems preferable, and this has led to
a new and very peculiar method now
used in a prominent New York library.
A scrap book of clippings on all im¬
portant subjects is under way and an
efficient newspaper reader is employed.
His task is renewed day by day and in
this manner his scrap book is con¬
stantly increasing. Strictly speaking,
however, it is not a book, but a series
of pages of manilla paper, on which
the clippings are mounted, the sub¬
jects being kept together in boxes *
reference. Thus far the eollec
contains nearly 100,000 clippings,
it is already a favorite place for re¬
search, as one can find many facts
which are not contained in books.—•
Troy (N. Y.) Times.
A Compromise.
®SH§8 HlSlP r*i
Wv
Mrs. Homespun—“Hera! Coma
back, sir ! You said you’d saw a cord
of woo l for a good breakfast, and
you’ve only sawed one stick.”
Wandering W.dliaai—“I’m sorry,
mum, but I’ve decided to go into
liquidation, and compromise wid mo
creditors at two per cent.”—Truth,