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COREA AND ITS POPULACE.
MINISTER FOOTE’S IMPRESSIONS OF
ALAND THAT IS LITTLE KNOWN.
Habits mol Pursuit* ot thc Ruling Classes
'of d Common People— Commercial Needs
| 1 ,00.1,000 Corenns tvbicu we Can
Satisfy
The Department of State has received
a report on Corea by Lucius H. Foote,
the United States Minister. He writes
Iroru Seoul, the capital of Corea:
“ His Majesty, the Kipg Li Fin, the reign
; D c sovereign, is line, twenty-eighth and suc¬
cessor of the present the year
1883 is the 49‘2d year of this dynasty.
“ At different times the country has
been overrun by China and Japan, and
has paid tribute to each. The country
is still paying iieen tribute to China, but the
sum has greatly modified. Each
vear an Embassy goes to Pekin with
certain gilts, and lie brings back the
Chinese calendar. To receive this cal¬
endar is au evidence is of regarded dependency, and
i: it is not used it as an act
of treason. It is necessary to report to
the Chinese Emperor the accession of
a new king to the throne, and to obtain
his sanction to tbe China same. Envoys going
i'rom Corea to are treated as
Chinese subjects. For 200 years, how¬
ever China has carefully avoided com¬
plications with Corea, and has never
materially interfered with her affairs.
“The population is estimated atll,
000,000, and the number of houses at
1,700,000. Tlie Government is an ab¬
solute monarchy, all power resting in
the sovereign. There are also six heads
of departments, and these, with three
Ministers, constitute the Council of State.
“Important officials the higher are invariably classes, ap
lointecl from the
common people The taking nobility little part in have pub¬
lic affairs. seem to a
family distinction, but their rank de¬
pends upon the grade of the highest
official position which they have occu¬
pied, and attaches to them for life. For
this" reason officials rank are be frequently
changed, that may conferred.
The result of this system is that the peo¬
ple are divided into parties, and a bitter
partisan spirit is engendered, each party
seeking to secure the offices.
“Certain special exemption privileges attach to
officials, such as from arrest;
they can only be summoned by a writ
from tlie Department of Justice.
“There are numerous private schools,
but no general school people system. read Nearly and
all the common can
write the Corean language.
“The titles to lands are derived from
the Government and are carefully regis¬
tered in local offices. The tenure de¬
pends upon the payment of taxes, which
levied in kind, and are onerous by
reason of the unrestrained exactions of
officials.
“The only coin of the country is the eop
ppr cash, 525 of which are equivalent to
one Mexican dollar.
“Tlie roadways are narrow bridle
paths, the only wheeled vehicles being
two-wlieeled carts, which in some places
are made to transport merchandise.
Bulls and Corean ponies are used as pack
animals. Persons of means and distinc¬
tion travel on horseback or in sedan
chairs. Inns are scarce and incommod¬
ious, but the people are said to be kind
and hospitable. established in the
“Post offices are
principal towns, and at some places on
the public highways the Government
maintain stations with post houses for
public use. There are 1,300,000 of en¬
rolled militia in the country, but tliey do
not drill and are without arms.
“Corea is a land of mountains. The
Shan-yan-alin range extends from north
to south along the western coast, and
from this, smaller ranges trend across
the country. Everywhere mountain
peaks are to be seen.
“Among the manufactures are silk,
cotton, and linen cloths, iron and stone
ware, pottery, hats, shoes, paper, mats,
fans, screens, combs, pipes, brushes,
tiles for roofing, certain kinds of furni¬
ture, mechanical and agricultural imple¬
ments. Some articles exhibit a degree
of excellence, hut the majority are rude
and primitive. Cloths are woven in
hand looms, and pottery is made by
use of the wheel. Specimens of old
bronze and porcelain are occasionally
found, showing that iu the past a higher
degree of skill existed.
“The majority of the houses are
simply hovels, with mud walls and floors
and thatched roofs. The better class of
houses have stone foundations, • inter¬
sected with flues for heating purposes.
Upon this foundation is a wooden build¬
ing with tile roofs, the floors, wails, and
windows of which are lined with paper.
“The clothing of the common people
is made invariably of cotton or linen
cloth, and in winter is wadded. They
wear upon their feet straw or twine san¬
dals, with soles of rawhide, aud upon
their heads conical-shaped hats, made
of horse hah". Their breeches axe made
'’ knees er y full, and are divided below the
and fastened at the ankles. Over
this a long, loose robe is worn with flow
ln g sleeves.
“The people seem to be a hardy, vig
°rous, well formed race, of medium
stature; and while the yellow skin, al
njond-shaped Mongolian race eyes, prevails, and black hair with of light- the
hair men
and beards and blue eyes are some¬
times seen.
“The wages paid to the laboring classes
approximate the to 15 cents per day and to
artisan about 25 cents a day. Slavery
Is said to exist in a modified form, and is
even sometimes voluntary, as thus the
poor man escapes extortion aud oppres¬
sion. The artisans and many classes of
laborers, however, belong to powerful
organizations or guilds, by which means
tcey maintain a degree of independence
j ml enforce their rights. Crime is se
civil 'erely punished, and questions involving
rights are decided by the courts.
Hie women, married and unmarried, are
kept in seclusion.
will / Tbe Corean nobleman, if his means
permit, maintains a degree of state,
surrounded by his retainers, and goes
forth to make his calls of ceremony in
ms sedan chair, dresed in silken robes,
accompanied Marriage by a retinue of servants.
tween the is a matter of negotiation be¬
parents and friends of the
Pities, hood. and is often concluded in child¬
“In conclusion, I would say that
“'ere are many industries here which
might, by means of cheap labor, be suc¬
of cessfully promoted. There are mines
gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, and
coal to be developed. In the north there
are large forests of timber, for which there
should be a market near at hand. Agri¬
culture and cattle and sheep raising
could be stimulated so as to pro¬
duce a surplus for exportation, but there
are difficulties to contend with. The ex¬
tremes of heat and cold are great. There
no roads or means of transportation,
and the policy of exclusion still has
strong adherents. Corea will, however,
soon require mining machinery agri¬
cultural implements, hardware, glass¬
ware, cotton and woolen goods, coal oil,
and many products and other manufac¬
tures which we might supply.”
Every Man His Own Druggist.
When heavy rains are prevalent,
patches of fine white powder like hoar
frost may be noticed on the surface of
brick walls. Dr. Joseph Leidy, Presi¬
dent of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, says that “the efflorescence is
simply ordinary Epsom salts.” He al¬
so states that a dark fungus that is
found on mortar in damp places is sul¬
phate of potash, and he has discovered
that a fine article of bromide of some
thing or other oozes out of a tin roof
in hot weather.
Natural science is a wonderful thing!
M ho would have thought that a brick
is only another form of a dose of salts,
or that there is enough sulphate of pot¬
ash in an old chimney to physic a whole
community. If Dr.
his investigations Joseph Leidy “may goes on with
he find that
castor oil is the natural sap of an iron
gate, or that the perspiration of a
shingle roof is the article known to
commerce doctor as kidney-wort. Then the
hook can publish his discoveries in a
under the title of “Every Man
His Own Druggist,” and tlie ‘house¬
holder who has a copy won’t ever again
have to go down town in the middle of
tlie night and wake* up a sleepy drug
clerk, who is liable to poison him with
the wrong medicine. All he will have
to do will be to pry a brick out of the
chimney leisure, and gnaw the corner of it at
liis and then he can fill up his
whole inside with materia mediea with¬
out shingle, expense sucking by simply chewing a
an iron gate post, and
digesting a section of the tin gutter
from the roof. This age is great in dis¬
coveries, and Dr. Leidy is a great dis¬
coverer. We won’t he surprised to
hear of him finding some valuable gar¬
gle exuding from a door mat, a healing
poultice percolating out of an old hair
mattress, or a liver pad leaking out of
an eitrht-dav clock.—Texas Siftina s
NOT AN UNLUCKY DAY.
Events Which Have Occurred on Friday.
Perhaps tlie world will never get over
the idea that Friday is an unlucky day.
That the crucifixion occurred on that
day is more than can he proved, for
even the year of that event is by no
means determined, to say nothing of the
widespread opinion that there never
was such an event. But, admitting all
that has been claimed, there have been
many events occurring on this unlucky
day that were decidedly the reverse of
unlucky. Of course, a long list might
he given, but a few, connected chiefly
with American history, will do. On
Friday, Aug. 3, 1492, Columbus sailed
from Palos on his memorable voyage of
discovery, and on Friday, Oct. the 12, island he
discovered the first land,
which he called San Salvador. On
Friday, March 5, 1496, Henry VIII.
commissioned John Cabot, and this
commission is the first English state pa¬
per on record concerning America. On
Friday, Sept. 7, 1505, St. Augustine,
Fla., was founded—the oldest town in
the United States. On Friday, Nov.
10, 1620, the Mayflower made land at
Prineetown, and on the same day the
Pilgrims signed tlie compact which was
the forerunner of our constitution. On
Friday, Dec. 22, 1020, the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth rock. On Friday,
Feb. 22, 1782, Washington was born.
O11 Friday, June 16, 1775, Bunker Hill
was seized and fortified. On Friday,
Oct. S, 1777, occurred the surrender at
Saratoga. O11 Friday, Sejit'. 22, 1780,
Arnold’s treason was discovered. On
Friday. Oct. 19, 1781, Cornwallis sur¬
rendered at Yorlitown, and the war for
independence ended in complete victo¬
ry. Other events might be named.
In the wav with Mexico the battle of
Palo Alto began on Friday. The North¬
western boundary question, which
threatened war with England, was set¬
tled on Friday of the same year. On
Friday the Confederates captured Fort the
Sumter and precipitated Royal the war forts for
Union. Tlie Port were
taken by the Union forces on Friday;
the battle of Pea Ridge closed on Fri¬
day; slavery was abolished in the Dis¬
trict of Columbia on Friday; Fort Pu¬
laski was taken, Memphis was taken,
Fredericksburg bombarded, the battle
of Gettysburg was ended, Lee defeated
at Five Forks, the Union flag restored
to Sumter—all on Fridays.___
Lincoln in Richmond.
After Richmond had fallen into the
hands of the Federal forces the Cabinet
l-ooin of the Capitol was kept iu exactly
the same condition as when occupied
bv Jeff Davis. President Lincoln, it
will be remembered, arrived the day
after tlie surrender, and while walking
through tbe building, inspecting tbe
headquarters of the Confederacy, came who
to this room. Godfiey Weitzel,
was m charge, said; ’Mr. President,
this is the chair occupied by President
Davis,” and motioned the President to
sit down. It. was a trying moment, and
those present. expected to see a look of
triumph in liis f;u-e as he performed the
act which signalizedthe complete down¬
fall of the Rebellion. Mr. Lincoln ap¬
proached wearily, sat down without a
word, and as his great bead fell into his
broad hands there was an oppressive der¬ si¬
lence. His mind seemed to be warn
ing hack through the dark years of
bloodshed and carnage. He saw visions
of death, of broken family circles, loss
of treasure, and the little mounds that
dot the South under which sleep the
Northern dead, He did not utter a
word, but heaved a deep sigh, and even
to this day the warriors who stood in
his presence at the time tell the story
with tears in their eves.— Washington
letter.
THE ODIUM OF FRIDAY.
A Day Believed by Many to Be Fated with
Ill-Fuck.
A . newspaper reporter . who , has , at
tended thirteen executions declares that
he will never attend another. It is sng
gested that lie is noweligi ileasa mem
her of the Thirteen Club, and, it he
joins that organization, lie may be ex
pected to give most zealous support to
the efforts of the club to remove ‘the
odium attaching to Friday. Ha\mg
he een greatly shocked lie and depressed by
lows spectacle witnessed at the gal
m the Tombs prison-yard last 1 ri
day, he may be supposed to be keenly
sensitive to the custom which chooses
Friday derers as the one day on which mur
must expiate their crimes. In
the peramble to their resolutions call
mg upon the President, the Governors
and Judges of courts having power to
sentence to death to consider the pro
priety of selecting other days as well as
1 nday for the hanging of murderers,
the members of the Thirteen Club ex
press the opinion that the supersti
tion connected with the day of the
week called Iuiday has been materially
aided and abetted bv its selection as
hanging day In this they are mi
doubtedly right, and there are serious
reasons why the change they advocate
is to be desired.
It is a tact not to be disputed that a
vast multitude of people, even in this
land of boasted intelligence, are under
the influence of the Friday superstition.
The statistics of railway travel infallibly
indicate the dread which the day in¬
spires. It is well known to all railway
men that the amount of travel on Fri¬
day is less than on any other day of the
week. Many travelers carefully calcu¬
late so as to reach their destinations
before Friday, and still more refuse to
begin a journey on that day. It is use¬
less to attempt to convince the victims
of the Friday superstition that no day
of the week differs from another in the
amount ot misfortune it ., . brings: . they ,,
are seemingly deaf and blind to all that
liappens on Friday which is not melan
choly or at leas, they have no memory
or other events of that clay. If to d
that George M aslnngton, Daniel Web
ster President A an Buren, President
Taylor, President Pierce President
Hayes, Edward Everett, George Ban
croit, Longteliow, Charles Dickens,
Thomas Carlyle and other notable men
were born on Friday, they are likely to
reply that Jefferson Davis was also horn
on Friday, that the Southern Confeder¬
acy was formed on that day, that Col.
Ellsworth was shot, and that President
Polk, President Lincoln, President
Pierce and Horace Greeley all died on
Friday. There is no reason to believe
that Friday superstitions it are declining; thought
on the contrary, is by many
to be increasing.
If the unanimous expression of the
Thirteen Club tbat other days of the
week should hear at least tlieir share of
the odium attaching to Friday effects
the desired change in the “reprehensi¬
ble custom" which makes Friday hang¬
ing day, it is possible that it will mark
the beginning of the decline in this
country of the superstition which for
centuries has regarded the day as un¬
lucky. It is true because that F riday it was cho¬
sen for hanging was regarded
as unlucky, rather than regarded as
unlucky because it is chosen for hang¬
ing; but to change the custom as to
executions would lift from it a great
weight of gloom. Certainly it is a
public misfortune to have one day in
every seven associated with misfortune
and filled with dark foerbodings, and
Governors and J udges may wisely heed
the suggestion of the thirteen times
thirteen members of the Thirteen Club
as to making all other days hut Sunday
bear their share of the odium now
attaching to Friday as hanging day.—
Neiv York Mall and Express.
Sunburned in the Arctic Regions.
“The worst trouble that I had in my
first voyage north,” said a Maine sailor,
“was from sunburn. Yes, sir— sunburn.
I could stand the eold when she was
forty degrees below zero; I could stand
frozen noses and ears: but buss my top
rails if I didn’t suffer most terribly'
the first time I got sunburnt in the
Arctic regions. You see; it was this
way: We were laid up a few days before
the close of summer making repairs, in
about seventy-four degrees north lati¬
tude, and right early one look morning around, a
party of us went ashore to
it was pretty cold, and the consequence
was we were bundled up in half a dozen
thicknesses of underclothes, with fur
hoods over our heads, and looked like
fieas in a buffalo robe.
“Well, sir, along about noon time,
what, with the heat of the sun, and the
hard exercise that we were taking in
getting over the snow and ice-hum¬
mocks, I was hot as tarnation, and I
just slipped the hood off my head and
went along for a while with nothing on
it.
“ ‘Put on that hood, you fool,’ hol¬
lered one of the men. ‘Do you want
to get sunburnt?’ ‘A few freckles won’t
hurt me,’ says I. ‘I never was much of
a beauty. But you’re in the fool, to talk
about sun-burn such a couutry as
this.’
“I thought that settled the whole
business; so I kept right along with a
bare head, while the other boys, who
were old hands at traveling in the north,
kept covered up. The side of my face
that was next to the sun was hot as fire,
while the side that was in the shade
was froze pretty stiff; but as we kept
tacking around in going from place
to place, I showed first one side and
then the other to the sun, and the freez¬
ing and cooking was pretty evenly
divided .
“You take and stick your head clear
down to the chin in a bucket of scalding
water, anld keep it there for five minutes,
and you’l know what I felt like when I
got back to the ship tbat night. My
face was swelled up so that I couldn’t
see out of my eyes, and one of the boys
had to lead me around for three days.
My head under my hair was so tender
that I couldn’t touch it to a piller, and I
took my sleep like 1 take my whisky
standing.”
Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, gets
riled whenever he is asked if he’s of
blood kin to gymnast, the athlete.
At the Old Home.
A man does love to go back and view
the scenes among which he made ids
start, even though he may not rcmem
bei . mnuh about them/ “There, see
tbel . e? That is the house your great
gl . andfath er built.” It was a swell house
i n those days evidently. Two stories;
sqTmre g . he wed logs, a porch all along
t e front And th e hands that built it,
the voiccs tha t laughed and sang in it,
t he inerrv feet that danced on its oaken
floors! Down througli the broken roof
and bl cliiaks of the tottering walls
tbe slm shines to . dav in great bars of
£ ld ' - t for au illstan t, and then the
loud s]lllt out the sunlight and the
pitiless [ rain beats down upon the old
* honae . The skies ate gray, the
tr es are leaflesS) thc bills are bare, and
tLfi risin .f wind moans and sig bs. Drip,
dri £ dl * the water falls from the
br( en e v like the monotonous tick
pf clock tbat tells the lives of four
geiieratkms> £ But for the moaning wind
nd tJ ^ water, how still, how
f ni et it all is. “Mv great-grandfather
)uil t it, then?” I wonder, if I wait, here
untn ^ d is goI10 and the evening is
« and full shadows, if he will
“ led old door, and
on e to t!le dismmlt
^ fe bostlv sileuce and O i d - timo cour
t d hit T grpa t-gran d son welcome to
th / acreg an § man01 . of bis ancestors.
“And the orchard on the hill, Robert,
your grandfather planted. And he
built the brick house on the other side
of the road.”
There is the orchard still. Year after
year the fragrant blooms and the robins
come together, but the boy who planted
tile trees? The orchard bloom and the
withered leaf of November are alike to
him, and the song of the robin does not
reach his ear.
“Your mother was born in that house. ”
Ah, ipy mother? She was a little
girl here, then? All these hills are
sacred with the touch of her pattering
feet; down this winding glen she has
plucked the wood violets and anemones;
^ birds bl the swaying branobea
b her hea d baTe sung hi wild joy
^ to hear her laugh. She was a
gchool ^ M here _ ^ m y mother. And how
l v , itll the tender
• b and tbe Ml-orbed
o{ Iul . 1 . eyes
f Wn solt and d * as the sbado ws
f a bi|I al sh was beautif!l l
h gbo was a scboo i gM j
And that night I stand in my native
village, and I look at the stars that come
out in tlie blue skv, and listen to the
low-voiced Monongahela singing at my
feet; and in tlie stars I see the soft light
of my mother’s eyes, and listening to
the song of tlie river I know where her
dear voice caught tlie low, lulled, mellow with
music that in the long-ngo
the old-time cradle songs, her little ones
to sleep.— It. J. Burdette.
The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Every once and awhile we read in
the papers that the Israelites all over
the world are going to knock off work,
sell out tlieir effects, borrow what they
can from their Gentile neighbors, as
they did when they were in Egypt, and
start for the Promised Land, Tlie
man who believes that the Jews are
such a pack of dumbed fools as to seri¬
ously entertain any such plan, should
he shut up in an asylum for tlie feeble¬
minded. We should be sorry to have
so little common sense as to believe
any such stuff. We would be afraid
that we might wake up some fine day
and find that we had been elected to
the Texas Senate.
The real sentiment of the Israelites
in regard to Jerusalem and the Holy
Land was admirably overheard illustrated by a
conversation we on Austin
avenue only a few days ago. Mose
Schaumburg met Sylvain Levy, and
the former said:
“Levy, don’t forget dot next Chews
day ve Chews must put on sackcloth
mit ashes, and veep like der teyfel.”
“Vy should ve Chews weep next
Cliewsday more den on any udder day ?”
asked Levy.
“Pecause next Chewsday vas dat day
on which Jerusalem vash destroyed py
de Romans.”
“Ish dot so?”
“It ishchust so.”
“But I don’t see vy we should veep
on dot Chewsday ven Jerusalem vash
destroyed any more den on any udder
day. Ve don’t own any houses in
dot town.”
“Dot’s vot I say,” was the philosophic
response .—Texas Siftings.
A Stupendous Work of Nature.
Ages ago an arm of the Gulf of Mex¬
ico extended northward probably to
where Cairo now stands. This water
varied in width from ten to sixteen
miles. Stretching for 1,000 miles
northward, and from the Alleglianies
to the Rocky mountains, was, and
still is, the land that drained its sur¬
plus waters into this arm of the sea.
Nature sought to fill up this deep tri
angular trough, the apex of which
touched the present waters of the Ohio.
Tlie work was an extensive one. The
granite flanks of the Rocky mountains,
the shales of the Alleglianies, the ter- all
tiary formation of the plains, were
plowed by rivers and the material was
pulverized by the action of strong
waters, ground m the batteries of nat
ure, until they were an impalpable
dust, capable of being held m suspen
sion by flowing water. In the work
shop of nature, on the plains and m the
mountains, this process ceaselessly con
tinued. The melting snow and
rains, causing tbe rivers to rise, carried
tlie pulp to Cairo. There the salt water
of the gulf was met; and, the flow of
the river checked, unable longer to
hold the pulp in suspension, it was
preeipitati d, forming a delta. Slowly
this delta was pushed southward,
Mountains were cut to the level of the
plains; the flanks of mighty ranges
were deeply furrowed to supply the de
mand the river made to fill the trough
below Cairo, and render it fit for the
habitation of man. The North was
devastated to answer the call. For
ages thc waters of the North and West
poured into the trough. Forages the
process of shoaling tbe salt waters
slowly continued. After tbe land river ap
peared above the surface of the
the annual overflow added to its height,
— New Orleans letter.
WASHINGTON REFUSED THE CROW N
A Patriotic Kitur at tlie Head ot a United
People*
Dwelling upon that episode of the
Revolution made particularly memor¬
able by Washington refusing to accept
royal Ik nors when tendered by his old
fellow soldiers, Hon. William M. Evarts,
in his address at the Newburg, N. Y.,
centennial, said:
‘■As the months wore away and the
situation to the apprehension patriotic of these and
sober-miuded and officers
men showed no amelioration, discour
ment gave place to despair. The great
Commander-in-Cliief had given to their
views and demands his approval. He
had approved the statements and en¬
forced the arguments, the entreaties*
the remonstrances with which they had
urged them upon the Congress the and the
country. He sympathized the worthiness to bot¬
tom of his heart in of
their claims upon the justice and the
gratitude of the government and the
people alike, and in the indignation
which filled their breasts at the slack¬
ness and indifference with which they
were treated.
“This earnest and faithful, this affec¬
tionate and intrepid support of their
rights and their resentments by tlie great
commander could not increase their love
or deepen their reverence for him, for
these were already immeasurable. But
when his great authority failed to gain
that effectual attention which the urgency
of their affairs demanded, they felt that
the faults in the frame and scheme of
government—to which alone, and not at
all to the personal indifference or fu¬
competency of its members, they at
tributed this failure of justice and duly
to the army—wore neither casual, nor
partial, nor temporary. Upon this as¬
pect and estimate they brooded and cast
about for some recourse that should meet
the necessities of the army, the interests
of the people, both instant and > erma
nent, and all the exigencies of good gov¬
ernment for the nascent nation.
“For this juncture of the general need,
for this failure of existing forces, for
this crumbling of confidence, for tliis
confusion of the old and the new, for
this dark and clouded transition from’
tlie forsaken past to tlie undiscovered
and unformed future, there seemed but
one real, one known, one adequate basis
upon which faith, justice and safety for
all—for army, government This basis and people—
could be built up. was the
name, tlie fame, the power, the char¬
acter of Washington. These were the
one possession of the new nation
about which all minds, all hearts,
could gather and add to his incom¬
parable majesty of of virtue, universal of dignity,
of personal faculty, that service
and of unbroken fortune homage
and applause of all liis countrymen,
which should sober all doubts, dispel all
fears, realize all hopes, satisfy all needs,
put to flight all theories, all schemes,
all discords, all experiments, all fancies,
all treasons, and on this new scene, tlie
fullness of time being come, present the
crowning glory, before the eyes of all
men, of what till now had been but the
vision of political enthusiasm—‘A pa¬
triot king at the head of a united people.’
“This, I am quite sure, my couulry
men, is the true explanation of the rash
and sudden movement of tlie patriotic
army to raise up for a patriotic peopl 0 j;
patriotic king. In the brief record
this transaction, in tin character of those
engaged in it, in the circumstances sur¬
rounding them, in the motives and in¬
fluences playing upon their minds, in
the objects in view, and in the supposed
value, iu their eyes, of this last report,
I see no trace or suspicion of
any vulgar, sordid or selfish preference
of the trappings of royalty, or grades, of the
drippings of a court, classes or of or
ranks, or titles, or among the
people over tlie simple and equal insti¬
tutions which were the habit then, ns
they have since proved the glory and the
strength of the nation. No motive but
love of country, no object people, less worthy
than the safety of the suggested
this bright vision of an ideal monarchy
in which everything was days, romantic, in
the sober light of our except Washing¬ the
greatness and the goodness of
ton. ”
Tlie Advantages of Diplomatic Life,
• -
If the reports from Washington can
be believed, our new Minister had no
sooner risen from his couch after sleep
ing off the fatigues of his extraordinary
brilliant reception, than he was informed
that the master of the Shah’s stables
waited in the court. Mr. Benjamin
ordered his attendant to admit him.
When the dusky servant of royalty made
his appearance he salaamed, and, kneel
ing down and bending low, said:
“Peace he with you. ”
Mr. Benjamin had read Mr. Isaacs,
so he replied.
“And with you peace.”
Then the meniai retorted:
“You are my father and my mother,
and all my relations; you are the sun
moon, and stars.”
Mr. Benjamin saw no shorter cut to
information as to the man s desires, and
he therefore asked his attendant what
the fellow wished.
^ he ^ a donation in retn rn for
th(J borso that had beell presented to
the new American Minister from the
Shah - s stables _ Mr . Benjamin thought
it Btrange thftt an officer of the royal
household should ask alms, but he
lighted a cigar, and ordered that 10,000
d h;ars be given to the beggar. His at
tendant looked astonished, and plainly
showed that the sum was insignificant,
while tbe uncomfortable Minister
thought that he heard tiie turbaned about
stableman mutter something
“pigling.” Be called out to liis attend
ant that he would cut off his ears if he
didn’t kick the man out of his presence;
but the attendant, with many obcisan
ces, explained that it value was customary the to
bestow about the of horse,
Mr. Benjamin groaned, but complied
for the honor of the American re
public. Benjamin’s
All day long with Mr. room
was crowded salaaming darkies,
and toward evening he found himself
the father and mother and all tbe rela¬
tions of a small regiment of pagans.
He is now involved in a “cogibundity
of cogitation” as to how long $5,000 will
last with a family that daily receives
accessions of fathers and mothers, not
to mention whole astronomical collec¬
tions.— Art Interchange.
BURIED ALIVE.
Shocking Kenult of Iled-Tapisin in Russia*
The London Times’ Geneva corres¬
pondent writes: A Swiss, settle 1 in
Russia, sends to the Bund a strung®
story, taken from the Viedomosti, >.
paper published at Samara, of a man
being buried alive, for the accuracy of
which the writer says lie can personally
vouch. Thc story, beside the horror
of it, show's how helpless the Russian
system of government renders tbo peo¬
ple for whose benefit it is designed, and
bow utterly bureaucracy hs crushed in
them all spirit of initiative and inde¬
pendence. One day, so runs the ac¬
count, a man was buried alive in
Samara. His name was Tiehonoff, and
he had been employed as a writer in a
machine depot. On the fete day Tich
onoff drank heavily and had an epilep¬
tic tit. For a long time thereafter ho
lay quite .still and showed no sign of
life, which led his wife and kibsb lic to
conclude that he was dead. This Hap¬
pened on St. Sylvester’s day, and to
avoid keeping the supposed eorp e in
the house three days (for on a S,Dr.-day
preceding a festival nobody < n be
buried) it was decided to lav him in the
ground that very uight after vo-pers.
and arrangements were made accord¬
ingly. Thc body was removed to the
cemetery church,- where tlie pope
(priest) read the service for the dead.
While this was going on tC. c coffin
being uncovered) some of the 1> -stand
ers noticed what seemed to he dt ops of
sweat on the dead man’s face; but this
appearance being attributed during t a tow the
snowflakes which had fallen
passage from Tichonoff’s house to the
cemetery, lie was laid in the grave
without much ado, and, the hour being
late, very little earth was thrown over
him. When the grave-digger went
early next morning to complete his
work be beard a sound as of groaning
or struggling in Tichonoff’s grave. In¬
stead of forthwith releasing the poor
wretch, the man ran to the priest to
ask leave to disinter him. This request
the priest refused on the ground that
he dare not touch a body once buried
without the permission informed of the police.
On this the sexton Tichonoff’s
wife of what had come to pass, and
they went together to the chief of the
local police. This gentleman said it
was quite out of bis power to give the
required authorization, and referred
them to tbo archimandrite, and the
archimandrite, professing to be equally
powerless, referred them to the prose¬
cutor. In the end authorization the agonized without wife
procured tlie
which nobody would act, and returned
to the cemetery. But it was too late;
five hours had elapsed since the grave¬
digger first heard the groans, and
Tiehonoff was now dead beyond the
possibility of doubt. The poor fellow
succumbed only after a mortal struggle.
Ho had turned quite round in bis cof¬
fin, and in liis despair bitten his lingers,,
torn his flesh, and rent his Viedomosti, clothing.
“This fatality,” says the
“is due to no other cause than the
senseless formalities which prevail in
every branch of Russian administra¬
tion.”
The Use of an Enemy.
Always keep an enemy on hand, a
brisk, hearty, active enemy. Remark
the use of an enemy:
1. The having of one is proof that
you are somebody. people Wishy-washy, have
empty, worthless never
enemies. Mon who never move, never
run against any tiling; and when a man
is thoroughly dead and utterly buried,
nothing ever runs against him.
‘2. Au enemy is, to say the least, not
partial to you. Ho will not flatter. He
will not exaggerate your virtues. It is
very probable that he will slightly mag¬
nify your faults. The benefit of that
is two-fold. It permits you to know
that you have faults and are, therefore,
not a monster; and it makes them of
such size as to he visible and manage¬
able.
3. In addition your enemy keeps you
wide-awake. He does not let you sleep
at your post. There are two that al¬
ways keep watch, namely, the love: anti
the hater. Your lover watches that
you may sleep. Ho keeps off noises,
excludes light, adjusts surroundings,
that, nothing may disturb yon. Your
hater watches that you may not sleep,
He stirs you up when you are napping,
He keeps your faculties on the alert,
Even when ho does nothing, lie will
have put you in such a state of mind
that you cannot tell what ho will do
next.
4, Ho is a detective among your
friends. You need to know who your
friends are, and who are not, and who
aro yonr enemies. When your enemy
goes to one who is neither friend nor
enemy, and assails you, the indifferent
one will have nothing to say or chime
in, not because I10 is your enemy, but
because it is so much easier to assent
than to oppose, and friend especially will take than to
refute. But your up
cudgels for you on the instant. He will.
deny everything and insist on proof,
and proving is very hard work— Christ¬
ian Advocate.
ONLY ONE DIVISION.
“Third avenue Railroad,” said a West¬
ern passenger agent; “Third avenue
Railroad. I never beard of that before.
Is it a trunk line ?” and he swelled out
pompously as he awaited the reply.
“I reckon it is,” replied the New
Yorker, quietly,
“How many divisions does it have?”
inquired tbe Western passenger agent
w hli a remarkable show of interest,
“Only one,” between sighed the the conductor New Yorker,
“The division and
the driver.”
And the enlightened Western passen
ger agent turned away to think the thing
over, and wonder if the same system
c° u a< Ivantageously introduced
into his company with more satisfactory
results to himself than under the current
management.
A Knight Templar in a San Fran¬
cisco parlor described the beauties of the
eastern coast. A San Francisco man
smiled contemptuously and said:—
“I’ve been east and don’t think much of
it.” “Where were you?” “Why, east,
in Omaha. The east a’nt as big as
Frisco."